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Dec. 25 – Three Christmas Presents

Little children, make sure no one deceives you; the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous; the one who practices sin is of the devil; for the devil has sinned fom the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil. —1 John 3:7–8 Ponder this remarkable situation with me. […]

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Dec. 24 – The Son of God Appeared

Little children, make sure no one deceives you; the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous; the one who practices sin is of the devil; for the devil has sinned fom the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil. —1 John 3:7–8 When verse 8 says, “The Son

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Dec. 23 – God’s Indescribable Gift

If while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation. —Romans 5:10–11 How do we practically receive reconciliation and exult in God?

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Dec. 22 – That You May Believe

Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name. —John 20:30–31 I feel so strongly that among those of us who

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Dec. 20 – Christmas Solidarity

The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil. —1 John 3:8 The assembly line of Satan turns out millions of sins every day. He packs them into huge cargo planes and flies them to heaven and spreads them out before God and laughs and laughs and laughs. Some people work full-time on the assembly

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Carrying Me

Pastor Michelle Paxton, Vineyard Church of Federal Way This pandemic has brought a lot of things to the surface for me personally. I can only imagine it has done the same in you. I am pretty good at sustaining a “good” surface when all is well. But when pressure is put on a women that is

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Come to Jesus

Pastor Michelle Paxton – March 27, 2020 (Pandemic 2020) After Jesus says “come” to Peter, he steps out of the boat and begins to walk on the water to Jesus. I pause there and think about that simple, yet not so simple miracle. Peter climbed over the boat onto the water to not swim, but

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Conflict Anyone?

Pastor Michelle Paxton, Aug. 2017 Dealing with conflict is probably the hardest thing to do, in any situation. As you know, I am blogging in response to our Pastor’s sermons through this risky topic of sex in the bible based off of the Song of Solomon. Pastor Gary preached about conflict over a week ago,

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