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  Looking at the Truth Isaiah 51:1 The Lord says, “Listen to me, those of you who try to live right and follow the Lord. Look at the rock from which you were cut; look at the stone quarry from which you were dug. We named the church we started Grace because the grace of God is one of the most remarkable things about God. Grace means unmerited favor with the idea that God would give us what we have not earned or do not deserve. The idea here is that instead of God punishing us for our sin God gives us grace and allows us to figure out that we need the hope that Jesus Christ gives us. That God wants to forgive our sin at all should astound us to the deepest parts of our soul. But that God does not force us to obey Him and instead God gives us space to choose Him over sin is not like anything we can think of by ourselves. I do find that I have a problem with grace and it is a struggle that many people of faith have had over the millennia. Because we swim in this ocean of grace...
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Old School Sci-fi

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 FRIENDLY TABLE GAME CLUB! Tonight a fun game of Starguard! My Space Commies against Nescher's Hammer's Slammers, run by Jeffrey A Russ . Despite my dice rolls living down to my dice rolling reputation, I almost pulled this fight off. Yet again, I had some truly tragically bad rolls. Lowell, roll a 10 or less. I roll an 11. Lowell, roll an 11 or less. I roll a 12. Lowell, roll on a d6 a 5 or less. I roll a 6. We had a lot of fun with our units. Nescher had a couple machine gun arned ATVs. They used frustrating shoot and scoot tactics. It took Nescher most of his units to take out my one light infantry team holed up in four story building. I had a blast at one point where I had heavy infantry on the roof of a building and Nescher had an infantry unit enter the ground floor. My answer, I had a heavy infantry team leader open the back door and fry the ground floor with a plasma pistol destroying the enemy. It also set the building on fire. Space Commie heavy infantry in power armo...
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Sunday Sermon

 Real Truth Isaiah 50:11 But instead, some of you want to light your own fires and make your own light.  So, go, walk in the light of your fires, and trust your own light to guide you.  But this is what you will receive from me: You will lie down in a place of pain.     We just finished Halloween and to be honest I am glad it is over.  For me the focus on the demonic and the things of the dead troubles me.  As a minister of the living God I have encountered more evil and hellish things then I care to think about and to take such things so lightly afflicts my soul in a way that I cannot even describe.  Most people believe that either those kinds of things are not real or that they are so far from them that they are not very scary and they are so wrong. But the evil that is behind the images is not like what people see on TV.  Yes, there are demons and they inhabit people but God tells us that the real evil does not need that.  Our God tel...
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Old School Sci-fi

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 Preparations for our regular 2nd Tuesday night of the month Friendly Game Table Club meeting are in place.  We will be running and old set of rules called Star Guard.  
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Sunday Sermon

  Helping God Isaiah 50:7 The Lord God helps me, so I will not be ashamed. I will be determined, and I know I will not be disgraced. Five years ago I lost my mother and in those five years there has not been a day I did not think about her. My mother was a remarkable woman. A lot of people say that about their mothers but it is true for me. First and foremost children loved her. To my memory I think she was happiest when she was in the middle of teaching little children about the living God. Next is the fact that whatever my mother put her hand to she did it well. But the thing that stands out to me as I have gotten older is how generous she was. This is a big deal because my mother grew up poor and could have been stingy but that was not her nature. Thinking about this it now makes me think about how my mother taught me to be a man who is generous. To be truthful I have not always been a generous man but the legacy of my mother has had an effect on me. My mother was a ...
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Chainmail

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 One of the clubs I play in does a table crusher game of Chainmail each November.  That is a 26 foot by 8 foot table filled with some where around 4000 troops.    
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  Learning Isaiah 50:4 The Lord God gave me the ability to teach so that I know what to say to make the weak strong. Every morning he wakes me. He teaches me to listen like a student. Aircraft amaze me and not because they are these great big machines that look cool or that they go fast but because of how they work. The basic concept of powered flight is that the speed of the air flowing around the wing keeps the aircraft aloft. For me the science and the math that is involved just captivates me. Objects that weight as much as some planes do should not be up in the sky and yet they are because the math tells us they can. Because we have learned a truth about how the universe works we can use it to make things fly in the sky and that amazes me. What is more fascinating to me is that this math and science directs me to the God who created the universe. By learning truths about the how the universe works we also learn there is this God who is the truth of all things and that i...
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