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  Good God Psalm 118:1 Thank the Lord because he is good. His love continues forever. A friend of our family lost her husband this year and the grief she feels is over whelming. When I think about the grief, she is suffering with I wonder why anyone would get that close to another person that they would have to deal with the pain of that loss. If you ask her why she would willingly endure such a fate, she would tell you the price of losing the man she loved was worth it because of the love she experienced for forty years. One of the side effects of love is sorrow and there is no avoiding it. Because of sin there can never be real love without the down side of heartache. That is what makes our God so amazing. God loves us and cares deeply for us. We are so blessed to have a God who loves us like He does. The lengths that our God will go to should make us weep with hope and joy. We need wisdom so God fills pages and pages of wisdom for us to learn from. But the most powerf...
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Family Fighting

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 My son is up from Tennessee with his family and so we had a chance to play a game of Chain of Command. February 42 Soviets vs Germans Germans had a standard infantry platoon of 3 squads. Each with a junior leader, five rifles and a 4 man light machine gun team. Support units were a Flame Thrower, Panzerjager I, a medium machine gun team and a Pak 38. The Soviets had a platoon of Tank riders. The platoon had three squads made up of a junior leader with an smg, six men with smgs, and a 3 man LMG. As support they has a platoon of 3 T70's and a 13 man ski squad with rifles. The Germans were dug in and the Soviets were attacking. The Soviets got their tanks on quickly but they took to long to get into action. The German Pak 38 did not do much early on and finally the Soviets killed the German senior leader and made the Pak 38 useless because of shock.   The Soviets started with a Force Morale of 8 and the ski unit showed up in the wrong place and just got driven off the board...
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Sunday Sermon

  God the Teacher Isaiah 51:4 “My people, listen to me; my nation, pay attention to me. I will give the people my teachings, and my decisions will be like a light to all people. Have you ever had a bad experience dealing with a store or restaurant? If you have not experienced that then you are one of the most blessed people. There are a lot of reasons for bad interactions with people that have been employed to serve the public. All most all those issues boil down to the simple fact that people lack an understanding of what their purpose for being there is. Many people think they are being paid to be some place and do some work but they are wrong and this leads to the problems we have. All work is actually about serving other people. We are employed because another person wants part of our labor and the result is that they trade their money for our service, whatever that maybe. If we do not treat the person who is trading their money for our labor well we have missed the p...
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Sunday Sermon

  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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