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December 14. 2024 Perhaps in your area also, but definitely in New York City, it’s amazing to watch delivery workers on the job. I recently saw one in the middle of his deliveries working in a very congested area. He double parked his 18-wheeler so close to the parked cars on his left that anyone in the cars’ passenger seats would panicked.He moved quickly with just the right amount of weight and speed on the lift. Then he would roll his dolly full of food onto the street and into the restaurant, and he was back at the truck with…

This blog continues a discussion from this week’s Wisdom Wednesday video. We can find countless lessons in Genesis 19. There, God sent angels to lead Lot and his family out of the Sodom and Gomorrah area before God destroyed those cities and everything in them. Here are a couple of pearls of wisdom from that story. God’s plans can make us want to hide under the covers because they are always bigger and bolder than what we think we are capable of. We “righteously” hesitate and call it building on what we have established, being humble, being cautious to make…

Paul had dual citizenship, a citizen of the Jewish nation of Israel and also a citizen of the Roman Empire.  When facing “false” serious charges by the Jewish chief priests and leaders, Paul defended himself before Festus, the Roman official in charge of Jerusalem (Jerusalem was under Roman governmental control).  While Paul faced false charges, Festus faced a political decision to either show favor to the chief priests and leaders and perhaps make his job easier in ruling them, or stand up for Paul and justice.  Politics won, “Festus, wishing to do the Jews a favor, said to Paul, ‘Are you willing to…