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My Sermon slides for New You, based on Ephesians 4 and delivered January 8, 2023, is now available. Look for the name of the file or the word "FEATURED" in Sermon Powerpoints.

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Words of Wisdom Articles are mini articles that have been printed in the Oneida, TN, Independent Herald newspaper since September 2019. “Words of Wisdom” is published online weekly and available on: www.ihoneida.com/words-of-wisdom . Last week’s contribution was The Influence of Jesus Christ for December 26, 2023. This week’s contribution is What’s New for 2024? for January 2, 2024.

Have a blessed, safe, and spiritually successful 2024.

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My QA: What Happened to Columbus Day? released October 8, 2023, is now available in Questions Answered.

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My Words of Wisdom Audios are 1-minute radio lessons which are studies from the Bible for our current times. They are broadcast on www.wecoradio.com/ FM 101.3 after the 12 noon news and after the 3pm news. Transcripts are available at Words of Wisdom Radio Transcripts, for lessons 2014 till now. This week’s lessons are:
- 12/26/2022    Jesus, More Than Meets The Eye   
- 12/27/2022    Another Year Of Darkness 
- 12/28/2022    Labels Are Not Arguments   
- 12/29/2022    Insane New Year                  
- 12/30/2022    What’s New For 2023      

Older Words of Wisdom radio minutes from 2014 onwards are found in Words of Wisdom Archive. 

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Israel’s Promised Land was “a land for which the LORD your God cares; the eyes of the LORD your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year to the very end of the year” (Deuteronomy 11:12).  The “end of the year” was as important as “the beginning of the year,” to God. The beginning is filled with anticipation, hope, and promise. Paul told the Corinthian Christians: “It is to your advantage not only to be doing what you began and were desiring to do a year ago; but now you also must complete the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to desire it, so there also may be a completion out of what you have” (2 Corinthians 8:10-11).  It does no good to still want to do what we wanted to do a year ago. We must do it! - 12/27/2021

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Ronald Bartanen's The Value of Time, addressing the holiday season and New Year's, is now available in Publications from Guest Authors.

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Under the Law of Moses, God began each Jewish New Year with the Day of Atonement (Leviticus 16). With a special, once a year ceremony, the sins of the people were pronounced on a “scapegoat” and a sacrificial sin offering and a burnt offering were also offered. The nation was to begin their yearly planning by making things right with God. Under the Law of Jesus Christ, God “now commands all men everywhere to repent” (Acts 17:30), and, if you haven’t, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins”          (Acts 2:38). Only then will the Lord add “to the church daily those who were being saved” (Acts 2:47). There is no other, or better, way to begin a truly New Year for 2021! - December 28, 2020

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“But they also have erred through wine, And through intoxicating drink are out of the way; The priest and the prophet have erred through intoxicating drink, They are swallowed up by wine, They are out of the way through intoxicating drink; They err in vision, they stumble in judgment. For all tables are full of vomit and filth; so that no place is clean” (Isaiah 28:7-8).   Is that a good New Year’s Party, or the same sickening vomit of old year’s drunkenness?  Have you noticed the beer commercials don’t show anyone throwing up their beer? The liquor ads don’t show the blurred, distorted vision of the drivers who kill, maim, and destroy innocent people! The bad effects of “intoxicating drink” supposedly “rings out the old, and rings in the new year.”  It’s sickeningly the same, isn’t it? What’s “new?”       - December 30, 2019

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My revised sermon What's "New" In "Happy New Year"? is now available in Sermon Powerpoints.

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