“But the angel said to him: ‘Do not be afraid, Zechariah; your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to give him the name John.'” Luke 1:13

Dear Saintly Seed-Sowers,

Advent is here!  We have 4 Sundays ahead! Let’s start now and prepare our hearts and our homes for our holidays. I read a post the other day saying it’s okay to have a simple holiday; the first Christmas was simple.  Simply divine! Sometimes we can get lost in all the extra wrapping of what we’ve made Christmas out to be. This year, let’s go simple. You can still give all the gifts and presents but let’s remember the real meaning of Christmas: Christ.

Advent means coming!  Advent is all about preparation. Sometimes we forget that before God sent his Son into the world, God prepared the way for His one and only Son. Did you know that Jesus arrived on the scene after 400 years of silence from God? It’s true. The angel, Gabriel, appeared to a priest named Zechariah. And Jesus arrived after Gabriel visited numerous people. The idea was simple: preparation. God even saw fit to prepare the way for his Son by sending a baby named John to Zechariah and Elizabeth. This baby would call people to repentance. Even God is into preparation.  Do you believe that God is preparing us during this time of Covid-19? Let’s explore the church season of Advent.

Are you prepared for Christmas? I am not asking if you have your tree up, or if you have your shopping completed but are you personally prepared for the birth of the Savior?  Are you prepared for the arrival of God’s Son? One might wonder how to get prepared. Dr. Luke can help us; he tells us the story of an old Jewish priest and his wife.

I encourage you to read the birth announcements found in Luke 1 & 2 and Matthew 1 and 2 during this season of Advent.  I believe if we spend a little time sitting with God’s Word we will be prepared for the Advent of the Christ child in our hearts and homes for our holidays.

Zechariah was a priest–a faithful priest who was out performing his duties even though God had been silent for 400 years and had not answered his own lifetime of prayer to have a child.  We also read that Zechariah was fearful when the angel Gabriel appeared in the Holy of Holies.  Zechariah was also faithless when he did not believe what Gabriel was telling him–that Elizabeth would soon become pregnant and bear a son named John. We also read that Zechariah was favored. The Lord had, indeed, remembered Zechariah and had heard his prayer. Zechariah had to be at least 80 years old by now. I wonder if Zechariah had ever lost hope.

I wonder as we are going through this harrowing time of Covid-19 if many of us have lost hope.  Will this pandemic ever end?  Will we ever get back to our lives as we once knew them?  Has God forgotten us?  Why does God not hear our prayers?

The name Zechariah means “The Lord Remembers.”

The name Elizabeth means “My God Is Absolutely Faithful.”

The angel said to Zechariah, “Your prayer has been heard.”  What prayer? This passage does not mention a prayer.  The angel must have been talking about Zechariah’s prayer for a child. God had not forgotten Zechariah’s prayer. Here’s a good point: We need to remember that “GOD REMEMBERS”.

We are told by Gabriel that Elizabeth would soon became pregnant and stay in seclusion for five months. We do not know why she did this. Some scholars say she was afraid of losing the baby. Luke does not tell us the reason for the seclusion (sounds familiar) but he does tell us Elizabeth spent the time thanking and praising God. During this time, she was thinking and talking about how God had worked in her life to bless her and how God took away her disgrace. Elizabeth remembers that “God is absolutely FAITHFUL.”

Makes me think of all the opportunities we have during this Covid-19 to be in seclusion. While Elizabeth is secluded, she spend her time thanking and praising God.  Wow!  How would our lives be different if we took time every day during our seclusion and quarantine to thank and praise God? Every day I walk by Alexa and I say, “Play Christian music”, “Play Christian piano music”, “Play Christian hymns” and all day long our laundry room is filled with praise! (Our bedroom is next to the laundry!)

This priestly couple reminds us that it does not matter how long you have known God, or how well you’ve obeyed God, or how faithfully you’ve served God, you always have room for growth. God is committed to stretching and growing the faith of people; people like Zechariah and Elizabeth and God is committed to doing the same in people like you and me.

SO WHAT?
The “so what?” question for today is:  How do these words written so long ago about the Advent of the Christ-child change me and bring to me the hope I need?

Zechariah was not prepared for the Advent of Christmas because he did not believe God could step into his life and answer his long-forgotten prayers. But God.  But God did in ways old Zech had never dreamed. I wonder if some of us here today are secretly disappointed with God, but afraid to admit it. Like old Zechariah, we just do what we are supposed to do, never really believing that God is at work to bless us in ways that would totally overwhelm us and silence us. As always, put yourself into this story and don’t just put yourself into it in one character–but into as many as you can think of: Zechariah, Elizabeth, the other 17,999 priests who serve in the temple, the neighbors, the family. What can you learn this week from the first Advent candle of hope? I have a good acronym for HOPE: Heaven’s One Promise–Eternity, Emmanuel. Do you believe that? Do you believe that Jesus Christ is your one hope, your one promise? Emmanuel, God with us? I do.  I believe it with all of my heart, mind, soul.

Many of you know that this year has been hard on so many. With the quarantines, lockdowns, shut-downs and Covid-19 infecting so many of us. We have members of our church who have lost loved ones during this time.  Some have not had the opportunity to celebrate the lives of their loved ones with a memorial service because of the quarantine.  I have lost my mother-in-law, my brother and my dad this year.  My wife and I have been taking care of my 88-year-old father-in-law who has severe dementia.  We have been caring for him for 24/7 for the past 10 months.  There are times when hope seems to be elusive–even to me, an ordained pastor of 22 years and a youth pastor for another 15 years before that and 3 years of seminary where God answered my prayers almost daily with blessings through others in our community.

As I was flying home from Illinois this past week after we celebrated my dad’s life, I spent some time looking out the airplane window and reflecting and my life.  I grieve the loss of my dad and the time we had together. I am so thankful for my stepmom, mama Sue, who loved my dad into heaven. As Christians, we have a hope that will never disappoint us.  We have a hope that will sustain us through hard times, hard times exactly like Covid-19.  We have a hope that conquerors death. We have the hope and the power of the resurrection. Don’t just glance by and not see the wonder of HOPE. Yes, Christ came to earth as a helpless baby but don’t miss that Jesus Christ walked out of that tomb of death. HE IS RISEN! Talk about HOPE!

God has a way of sending signals of hope to remind us that life is stronger than death. Light is more powerful than dark. God is more powerful than Satan. Good will overcome evil. Joy is stronger than disappointment.  Hope is answered prayer—no matter how long it takes. This is the message of the first Advent candle of Christmas: just as God meticulously prepared the way for Jesus to be born, God is painstakingly at work in each of our lives—preparing our hearts, and minds, and souls for Christ’s arrival. And–not just once but Christmas comes every year. Christmas is time to marvel at the wonder of HOPE. Advent is a time to prepare. Week one of Advent:  am I prepared? Do I believe that God is at work—answering our prayers–in ways I cannot imagine?  Do I dare to trust God enough–to take away my defects, disgrace, and my disappointment? It’s been a dark year for me but hear me when I say: I HAVE HOPE!

But the angel said to (your name here), “Do not be afraid, (your name here), for your prayer has been heard.”

What prayer is it that you need to be heard? Don’t be afraid. PRAY IT! God hears you.

·     From faithful to fearful to faithless to favored.

·       Am I open to God answering my prayer in ways I have never dreamed of?

·       Am I prepared for Christmas?

This week spend some time reading the gospel story of Christ’s birth in Luke.  Tell God where you need a blessing in your life. Pray.  Maybe you need to feel forgiven.  Every night at about 7 pm, I walk my father-of-love down the hallway to his bedroom. Every night as we make that trip he says, “Thank you, David, for teaching me about forgiveness. I can forgive others because I’ve been forgiven.” Every year Christmas comes on December 25. Every year we have a STOP/GAP opportunity to STOP and take a serious look at our lives. I’m praying this is a simply divine year of Christmas for you.

Let us pray:
O God of HOPE, you come into our lives in such amazing ways.  We ask and pray that You will come again this Advent season.  Come and fill the hopeless situations in our lives with hope, touch the hurting parts of our life with Your healing presence.  Remove our disgrace.  Answer our prayers.  Bless us, O God of Hope.  Prepare in each of us, a heart with room to spare for the birth of the Christ child, the living Savior come into our world to redeem, restore, and reconcile—do this in me this Advent Season.  In the precious name of Jesus, I pray. And, just like Zechariah, let me know you hear my prayer! Amen.

See you Sunday!

God loves you and so do I,
Pastor Dave
www.theseedchristianfellowship.com

“Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.” John 4:23

Dear Faithful Seed Sowers,

We have looked at the place of worship and the place of worship. Jesus surprised the woman at the well, “You will not just worship here or at the temple in Jerusalem. The place of worship is your heart” (My translation).  We have learned the that position of worship is to bow down, to humble ourselves, to fall flat on our faces. “Proskyneo” worshipers are those who are prostrate on their faces. We have learned that the purpose of worship is to ascribe worth to someone or something. Last week we were challenged to think about where we spend our time, our money and what we think about the most. What, or who, do we idolize and worship?

This week we will look at the person of worship.  We need to be careful what our idols are and what we worship because we become like what we worship.  That is a profound thought. The place of worship — is our hearts.  The position of worship — is bowing in surrender and humility. The purpose of worship — is to ascribe worth to someone or something —where do we invest most of our time, talents, and treasures for what we idolize, we become like.

I would like to flip the statement when Jesus speaks to the surprised woman at the well written above.  I would like to talk about worshiping in truth.

When we honestly worship in truth, we worship the person of Jesus.

Stop and think about the Old Testament people who followed God for 40 years in the wilderness.  We have only been in the wilderness of this Covid-19 shutdown over eight months now–for 40 years, we’d need another 400 months of covid.  I do know that if we keep our eyes on Jesus, we are going to make it through this season. 

When I think of worshiping in the truth, I think of the Tent of Meeting that Moses set up. Do you realize that the Tent of meeting was called the tabernacle? The Tent of Meeting was a tent, it was put up and taken down every time the cloud moved. I wonder how many times in 40 years that tent was taken down and put up? (The Seed Christian Fellowship is a portable church.  We rent a city room; we have rented it for almost ten years! 51 Sundays a year, plus Holy Week and Christmas Eve, we bring our trailer and we unload and set up and then tear down and store our portable TENT of a church.  Let me tell you, after ten years, it is a real sacrifice of the heart to oversee this enormous project called CHURCH. 40 years?)  Moses and company set up and tore down their tabernacle tent for not ten, but 40, years.

What was the original tabernacle, what did it look like? Was it a beautiful edifice or a building of great beauty? Were there stained-glass windows, great arches, fancy carpet, or wood flooring complete with paintings, ornate sanctuaries, and beautiful pipe organs? Not at all, not even close—the tabernacle of the Israelites was made of wood and animal skin. Nevertheless, every part of the old tabernacle was significant. Think of it this way, the tabernacle taught the way to God. First, the tabernacle had an altar for sacrifice that contained a laver, or a bronze wash basin, where the priests cleaned their hands. The traveling tabernacle, and even the magnificent tabernacle that Solomon built, had these items in the courtyard and in the Holy Place, and in the Holy of Holies.

I think the tabernacle is a perfect illustration of how a person must approach God.

The altar, which is the first thing we come to, is the cross of Christ. The cross was given to teach us that without the shedding of blood, there is no remission (no cancellation of our debt, no penalty) of our sins. First, we need the cross in order to direct our attention to the Lamb of God who came to take away the sins of the world.

Next, we find the laver — the bronze wash basin which is a picture of cleansing. Christ provides our cleansing when we confess our sins and enter fellowship with him. Next we find the table of shewbread or manna — bread of presence, within the Holy Place. This bread speaks of Christ as the bread of life. Now we come to the altar of incense. The altar is a picture of prayer, we grow by prayer as well as by feeding on Christ, the bread of life. Behind the altar of incense was the great veil, dividing the Holy Place from the Holy of Holies. This was the veil that was torn in two at the moment of Christ’s death! It demonstrated that Christ’s death was the fulfillment of all these figures and the basis of the fullness of our ability to now approach our Almighty God directly because of what Jesus Christ did for us once and for all.

Finally, within the Holy of Holies was the ark of the covenant with its mercy seat upon which the high priest placed the blood of the lamb once a year on the Day of Atonement. And in the Holy of Holies there was symbolized–by the space above the mercy seat—the magnificent presence of God into whose presence we can now come because of the great mercy of God revealed in the death of Christ for us.

We all come to God through Christ.  The cross is the altar in which Jesus Christ became the sacrifice and it is only through this sacrifice on the cross that we can enter the Holy of Holies.  I can only imagine Christ with the wash basin.  Can you see Christ with the wash basin? Can you enter the story and see Jesus pick up the wash basin and wash the feet of His disciples?  Can you place yourself into the story? Imagine Jesus washing YOUR feet. Remember this amazing fact: Jesus washed the feet of all the disciples, even Judas’ feet–who would quickly betray Him, a pretty humbling act of worship. What a powerful illustration of worship: before Jesus shared the breaking of the bread and remembering the cup of salvation, He washed feet.

Jesus is the bread of presence, Jesus is the incense, Jesus is the prayers of the people.  It was Jesus’ death that tore the veil. The veil was torn in two so that we can come straight to the mercy seat. We can worship in spirit and truth. We can go right to God.

When Jesus stood before Pilate and was questioned, Pilate asked Jesus, “What is truth?”   I think that is the question that we are all asking now.  What is truth?

After Jesus picked up the basin and towel, He washed the disciple’s feet. Then He shared the bread of presence and He told them of His soon-coming sacrifice: Jesus must be lifted up so all who believe in Him would have eternal life. Then in John 14 Jesus shared those comforting and challenging words …

“Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. ² In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. ³ And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. ⁴ You know the way to the place where I am going.” ⁵ Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?” ⁶ Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. ⁷ If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.” John 14:1-7

So What?
God truly has a sense of humor. With the COVID 19 upon us, some of us cannot even enter our churches! What in the world is God doing?

Could God be teaching us to learn how to worship Him in truth?

Have you ever stopped and pondered the room that Jesus has prepared for you and me? I have.  It’s been a hard year of loss for our family. My dad died two days ago as did my cousin. I’ve also lost my mother-of-love, and my older brother. My wife and I have moved her 88 year-old dad into our home. Life is very different these days.

In our church, I have brothers and sisters who have lost loved ones, too. Many have had no opportunity to grieve with their family over their losses. “God, what are you doing?” I trust that God is sovereign. I must trust that God will be with us. For me, there is no other way.

God is doing something new in our worship.  God wants our true place of worship to be in our hearts.  God wants our position of worship to be on our faces in humility and adoration.  God wants our purpose of worship to be about the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. There is no room for any other idol of our making.  God wants our worship to be about the truth, the way, and the life. No one can come to the Father unless they come through Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross, His humble servanthood of the wash basin, His cleansing us of our sins, and of our partaking of the bread of life—His body and of the cup of forgiveness, His shed blood.

Listen — Jesus says, “God is spirit, and his worshipers MUST worship in spirit and in truth.”

Here’s your homework for the week, so what?

What is the most magnificent church building I have ever been to?
What was so magnificent about it?
Describe that church…
Now ask yourself:
Is my heart anywhere near as beautiful a place for me to worship God?

I think of visiting the Vatican City, the Sistine Chapel, the Cathedral of St. Peter. I can see the tall, arched ceilings. I can see the statues, the magnificent pipe organ. I can see the candles and the altar. I can smell the incense. I see the Bible sitting on the altar. And I wonder, what does the chapel of my heart look like?

Have you ever seen a picture of the Pieta?  It is the picture in our opening for this SEED OF FAITH for today.  It is found in Old St. Peters Basilica in Rome. Michelangelo sculpted this beautiful work saying it was the most perfect block of marble he ever worked with.  “In her utter sadness and devastation, Mary seems resigned to what has happened, and becomes enveloped in graceful acceptance.” All these years later, I still remember standing there. There was a large crowd with me, I do not recall that at all.  What I recall is being moved by love.

This week I want you to think about the church of your heart and what it looks like.  Maybe it is time to clear out the old and bring in the new. Maybe it is time to worship in truth. Is Jesus Christ your truth? Do you believe his words to the woman at the well?

Take a long drink from the wellspring of our Lord and Savior. I am now imagining my heart’s chapel in a whole new way. Does it matter how many songs I sing? Is there even such a thing as too many times of prayer? Does it matter if I sing hymns or praise songs? Kind of thinking we humans may have this whole thing backwards a bit. Start with your heart. Start there. Worship God in truth.

I think the Old Testament Israelites had a great start: a tabernacle that moved where they moved.

My heart…moves where I move.

May this scripture be true of you and of me: …a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers MUST worship in spirit and in truth.”

See you Sunday. Stay safe out there. I will be flying alone to my dad’s funeral this week. Please cover me in prayer.  I will be wearing my mask, face guard, gloves and social distancing. I will wash my hands and spray colloidal silver spray everywhere I go. I covet your prayers. Prayers for my wife as she stays behind and does the caregiving for her dad. God is at work in us recreating the PIETA in our hearts. If you’ve stayed with me until now, I’m guessing God is at work in you, too. I’m praying for you.

God loves you and so do I,
Pastor Dave
www.theseedchristianfellowship.com

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Jesus declared, “Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth.” John 4:21-24

Dear Faithful Seed-Sowers,

It is my prayer that we all come to know the deep, deep love of God and that we grow in the outrageous grace of Jesus Christ as we persevere through the pandemic and the delay of our election results. What a year 2020 has been!

We are still sitting with Jesus and with the woman at the well.  I encourage you to take some time and read the story of the woman at the well found in John 4:1-26.

Last week, I talked about how blessed I’ve been to travel the world and visit many different places of worship. I have seen idols ranging from crudely carved pieces of wood worshiped in the open air to elegant statues housed in beautiful cathedrals. One time on a church mission trip, we were in Peru. We had gone to build a church in a city in the mountains. I noticed a bull and a cross on the top of a farmhouse.  I asked our guide what that meant.  He laughed. “Oh, Pastor Dave, they are covering their bases.  They have the bull which is the pagan God for fertility for their home and crops.  They have the cross for the Christian faith.  They are covering all of their bases.”

I wonder if sometimes we are like the owners of the farmhouse in Peru.  We cover our bases. We hedge our bet.

You may think you have never made an idol other than God, neither have you worshiped one but….

Are you ready for me to step on your toes?

What exactly do you worship?

Who exactly do you worship?

Stop and think about these two questions for a moment. 

Our intelligence and intellect can become an idol as we sit in judgment upon God, His Word, and His purposes in history. We may also look down on others who are not as smart as we are.  Maybe we worship our education. (Ouch.)

Could your body be an idol? Are you are more concerned about physical appearance and health than you are about your inner, spiritual nature? Do you spend way more time working out than opening up your bible?  (Ouch.)

Could your business, or workplace, or your net worth come before God and be an idol of worship? (Ouch.)

Even another person could be your idol. Do you pattern your life after them rather than after God and His will? Do you worry more about pleasing them than pleasing God? (Ouch.)

Achieving your own goals can become your god if those goals are more important than following God’s plan for your life. Maybe popularity is your idol. Are you more interested in being accepted by other people than by God? Do you work hard to achieve the look, have the house, car, kids and family that would make you look successful? (Ouch.)

Could our phones and electronics become our idols and become what we worship?  I am sure that you get those weekly reminders from your phone that tells you your screen time was up or down 3 or 4 hours this week over last week? (Ouch.)

What is that we worship?  Why do we worship?

To worship is to ascribe worth to someone or something.  Today I want us to take an honest look at what is the thing or person that you ascribe worth to? On all of those grace retreats that I’ve served on since 1987, the first talk, no matter what kind of grace retreat it is, is  a talk about your priorities. You are asked to take a look at your life.  Look at your bank accounts—they might be a reflection of what you worship. Think about this question: What do you think about the most? Where do you spend the most time? What do you spend the most of your money on? Look, there’s no judgment here just thought-provoking questions. The answers might actually help you.

So What?
Jeremiah 33.3 says — “Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.” Jeremiah 33:3

After my wife and I made our first grace-based weekend in 1987, we stopped and spent time together looking at the answers to these thought-provoking questions. Before this season of grace in our lives, we gave to God what we thought we could afford but first…we paid our mortgage, bought our food, provided for our children, and had our two separate, weekly FUN-money accounts for Jac and me. It was clear to us that God was not truly number one. We had not made God our number one priority. Attending the grace-based weekend didn’t make us better people, it made us think. What or who do we worship? Where do we spend our time? Where do we spend our money? Jac and I flipped our priorities upside down after that weekend in 1987. We decided we loved God and we wanted to worship God alone. We started to pray together every day. We became better givers to our home church, the first fruits of our weekly income went to God—we didn’t make 10% tithing right away but we improved on our giving. You know what? Since we put God first in our lives, God has told us great and unsearchable things!

Jeremiah 3:33! Show us great and mighty things.

I have a friend who was on vacation with his wife. They were at a gas station and Wal Mart when my friend heard, “See that guy over there? Go give him $80.” My friend was like, “Really? $80—not $5 or $10 or hey $20??” My friend went over to share with his wife what he was hearing. She said, “Do what you think you should do.” Hey, we’ve all been on vacation. Vacation is ME TIME—the money we’ve saved we are all too happy to blow on ourselves! YOLO—you only live once! And here was God, whom my friend worships with all of his heart, pulling at my buddy’s heartstrings. My friend walked over, struck up a conversation with the man and found out he was trying to get to a sick family member miles away. My friend blessed this man with….$80! Today when he tells the story, we all laugh! $80? Really? You know what I know? My friend and his wife are blessed knowing they did what was asked of them.

Brilliance at the well this week.  The unnamed woman at the well asks Jesus, “Where should I worship? Should I worship here or there?” Jesus replies, “You should worship everywhere!” I think what Christ is saying to the woman, and to us today, “Get your priorities straight. Put God first. Worship God with a humble, surrendered heart. Love God. Love others as you love yourself.”

What Covid-19/2020 has taught me this pandemic is that worship is not somewhere I go. I don’t go to worship at my home church. I don’t go to worship in a building. The church is not a building, the church is the BODY OF CHRIST…and it’s more important to worship GOD in my heart. Period.

Your SO WHAT? Homework questions this week are not easy but they will prove to be worthwhile. Sit down and take an honest look at yourself. Look at what you worship. Look at who you worship. What would happen if you were to put GOD at the number one position of worship? How would this one decision change your life?

Two closing stories. Our amazing naturopath prints out every SEED OF FAITH and ponders it all week long.  She journals on the ideas and “so what?” questions. When I stop in to pick something up, she loves to say, “So what? Pastor Dave!” The second story just happened to my wife. After teaching preschool, and having a magnificent day with their volcano pumpkins, one of the little boys broke away from his mom and said, “I have to tell my teacher!” He ran back and said, “I have Jesus in my heart!” Can you only imagine the party that happened in heaven when that little child asked Jesus into his heart? He’s only 4. I imagine it’s kind of like when you or I decide to topple our self-made idols and put GOD back on the throne of our heart. Listen, worship God everywhere. No matter what you do, no matter where you go, no matter who you are: WORSHIP GOD.

I’m praying for you this week. November is the month when we give thanks. In all honesty, we have so very much to be thankful for:
pumpkin volcanoes, guys at gas stations, and all who put God on the throne of their heart. Have a great week.

Let’s pray:
“Jesus, you are the wellspring of my life. Only You can satisfy the deepest needs of my life. If I don’t have you as my number one priority, today I place you there and I worship—I bow down, I humble myself and I surrender to You. Give me my daily bread. I call out to You today. Show me great and mighty things. Amen.”

See you Sunday!

God loves you and so do I,
Pastor Dave
www.theseedchristianfellowship.com

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