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Having our very own app for the live station has been a blessing. Recently the app was rebuilt and the QR code changed. Imagine my excitement at having to change the QR code on every piece of documentation. Let me tell you about the sound in Allecia's voice when I explained to her that the qr code had changed.

She proceeded to tell me that we had just gotten down to 8,000 business cards with the old QR code on it. So, now we're ordering stickers assuming we can get the stickers cheap enough to add them to the business cards and justify not just buying new business cards.

This is sometimes how great blessings work. You have a great blessing and you are enjoying it immensely and then suddenly in order to keep that great blessing you have to incur additional costs in other ways. Then there is always the question do you incur the additional costs or do you let the blessing go. Is it God's intention for us to continue to have the blessing even at the new higher cost?

Fortunately, we have access to the throne room of God via prayer and we can simply ask Him. That makes a lot of sense because only God knows the future and even this current circumstance He knew was coming.

Business cards or stickers? Either way we're sharing the gospel, poverty fighting resources, and wraparound services with thousands of people per week. So, don't hear me complaining. As difficult as it is sometimes, I realize we have the best job in the world - ambassador for the Lord.

Btw, does anyone want to stick some stickers on some cards?

Fw: Sermon Slide for Sunday February 8th 2026

On Fri, 6 Feb, 2026 at 5:25 PM, me <afamilyofgod@buckeye-express.com> wrote:

 

To: afamilyofgod@bexnet

LP: This chapter speaks to us of an interval in the period of judges where the Israelites took a king. Unity was at question but it definitely resulted in a war within and a delay to the Savior who would be coming. 

P. Dan

It's not easy being a Christian

Galatians 5:22, Matthew 28:20

To me, these are calling us to the enduring character of God, against that there is no law. I think as we act in obedience being fit for the kingdom is a result primarily of the things we go through and dealing with them the way He would have us to. Stuff that comes against us can't really effect us if we are sealed by the Holy Spirit. It is that which comes out of a man that makes him unclean because He should not produce the unclean and doing so gives access to the enemy to our internals. Don't do it. Don't be a responder, rather originate-out of God, God-like character. So many Christians use the phrase, it isn't easy. It's up to God, impossible to be done by men. If God is the one doing it then saying it isn't easy isn't exactly true. We let Him do it. He does the work. Thinking the path is ours to navigate makes us out to be more important in the whole process than we are. God can. We cannot. Letting God is not hard. It's necessary and all necessary ache. Rebels we were but no longer.

About John

What would God say about me?

FWM

1 John 1:15-17

"This is a great list of things that God says about John before he is born. He talks about John being filled with the Holy Spirit which is different than most of the ways that people knew the Holy Spirit leading up to this point. He certainly talks about John being faithful and doing what it is that God is calling him to do. I don't know that there is any reason to believe that God speaks a declarative word over the lives of every individual before they are born. That's probably fanciful thinking. However, if God were going to speak a word over my life, say at my rebirth, these are the kinds of things I hope He would say. It's clear that God has a set of parameters that he considers to be holy living and we should be making certain choices to be the kind of man that God made us to be and of course God wants us to make those choices out of a regenerated heart which honors Him daily. Let's desire that. Let's desire that God's observations of who we are and who we will be are not just encouraging so that we get what we want but declarative in a way that we can be what he wants us to be. Lord, help us be men of God. In Jesus name, amen."

Overtime: 

This is a pretty awesome list of signs of greatness. I notice that they differ from each other. First, God will take notice and see John as great. He will never have wine or liquor presumably for his whole life. He would be filled with the Holy Spirit-filled. It's like he would be a Christian from the womb which is even more significant because their were no Christians yet. Mostly, the Holy Spirit would settle on people but that they should be filled was unheard of and in John's case it would be from the womb! God was making a really significant pronouncement. We can see from this side that John was foretold as the forerunner of Jesus which means it's like far less odds than winning the lottery and for that reason totally unexpected. This is a pronouncement of God's grace, not only as it would be seen directed towards John the Baptist but also as it would be seen directed toward the entire Earth. Because John would be proclaiming the coming of Jesus Christ he would be offering an amazing opportunity to come back into relationship with God even before the crucifixion. In theory,

John's "gospel" would be a preparatory one. It would be a little incomplete because it did not include the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus. However, it called for faith and repentance which, to this point were the ingredients of salvation. They would continue to be more

His grace would become clearer as the final piece-the death, burial, and resurrection were accomplished. We know that even after years of ministry John's understanding would not be complete and somehow the Holy Spirit's identifying Jesus word be less clear because while in jail he would ask. Unless, of course his question was for others not for him. When he first met Jesus, both of them still in the womb, he leapt for joy. Also, they were cousins which was a close familial relationship for two men so connected to God.

We have The Holy Spirit in us and are free to choose to follow Christ however He would have us to. Let's do the best we can to make sure whatever Jesus would say about us would sound good

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ICANRAY: Please pray for Client Eva Doyle recently evicted, She says she needs rent and a deposit for new place, please pray for Pastor Dan as he prepares to be interviews on a local program on WLMB-will air in late February, Pray for $31,000 budget shortfall by September, pray for people who have recently accept Christ to follow through on their decision, Pray for AS-back pain, JK addiction recovery, Several others who have text about health concerns, mental health concerns, and life circumstance. God knows every person's genuine need and we can trust Him, Pray His will be done. Thank you. Any person can be added to receive these prayer prompts by telling them to text ICANPRAY to 419-419-0095. Don't forget to pray for your neighbors by name or however you can. We win in Jesus. If you want to be removed respond STOP ICANPRAY. Responding SETTINGS will allow you to update your profile and choose from other free services. God Bless, P. Dan

A Reasonable Request

A Reasonable Request

We've been working through a number of apologetics texts again at New Heights on the Tuesday nights opposite Faith Force which is our new children's program. During our time together I have been reminded vividly of exactly how reasonable our faith is.

What strikes me hard is this: why did I spend 25 years of my life not recognizing the plain and simple fact that the creation in which we live is so organized as to be undeniably created by an intelligent being? Why did I not make that very logical realization to its next to most logical conclusion? I guess I can understand why I failed to connect Jesus clearly to the God of the universe who must exist. I didn't know much about him or what people were claiming he had done.

As a 25-year-old man I literally only knew one person who was professing to be a Christian and trying to live the way they thought Christ would want them to. If that was so in 1995 imagine how many 25-year-olds now have no living witness in their circle? Don't think about it too long though. It will break your heart.

The teleological argument for an intelligent designer is also called the pocketwatch argument. It basically says that if a person were walking along in the desert and stumbled upon a pocketwatch they would naturally assume by virtue of its intricate design that it was put together by a designer. There's no way the various parts that make up a pocket watch fell together on their own or by the impact of chaotic forces.

Our world shows incredible attributes of intelligent design. There are so many factors necessary for sustaining life and making our planet habitable that if they did not exist we would not exist. Yet, these factors do apply And we do exist.

DNA contains information and everyone who studies DNA recognizes it as essentially a programming language. It's a programming language that exists in every organic thing. Trees have DNA, dogs have DNA, and people have DNA. DNA which is intricate and essentially submicroscopic controls the operations of every living thing like incredibly well-built HTML code. However, DNA is infinitely more complex than HTML.

Someone put it together. I could have figured that out. Maybe I did.

In retrospect, I think I was like a fish in a fish tank. I was considering that the things that I could see were all of the things that I would ever have to deal with. I never considered that the glass walls that surrounded me and contained my life were temporary. That is, I never considered it until 25 years in.

Graciously, God led me to Himself. I don't know how many people encounter God because they take a long and deliberating look. It seems to me like most encounter Him because as Paul says in Acts 17 their life has been organized in such a way that they will look around for him. Then in the looking they find him and realize he was never far away in the first place.

I think we should let our light shine before men. Jesus commanded it of course. But, what I'm saying is that I think it makes sense. We must entreat everyone that we know to accept that the incessant, very clear, merciful pleading of the God of heaven should no longer be dismissed.

This is why we don't save people. Jesus saves people. We can only add our witness. We certainly should. That's the pathway to people glorifying God at the coming of Jesus. Jesus said it this way: So let your light shine before men...

I don't live in regret now. I don't regret the first 25 years of my life that didn't glorify God the way they might have. I don't regret pushing off my decision to be saved two weeks even when I knew with absolute certainty that I was taking a risk he wouldn't call me again. Would I do it again? No way.

Even though I don't live in regret now I know that one day, looking back at my life, I'm going to get a clear view of all the waste. It seems like that will be a sad day, a day when I will need to be comforted by the Lord. As I have been looking at the very logical reasons to believe in a living God, who sent his son Jesus to die for us, came in the flesh was God the Son and took on the sins of men to take them to the cross, and rose again on the third day, I prayerfully desire that I'll find more souls who will join me in the pursuit of representing Him well for as long as we have left.

Tell them. Shine before them. Seek them out. Overcome evil with good. Do not be ashamed of the gospel. Those who hear you and see you will one day wonder why it took you and such a concerted effort for them to see what was right in front of their face.