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Part of God's will is for you to love Him as He loves you. God revealed His desire for your love when he created you with a free will. There is no love without choice.

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Gracious God, you deserve our total adoration. May we do your will and love you as we eagerly await your return. Help us live gratefully now and forevermore.

You are struck by several of the Bible verses on our SoAmazing Cards. You Clickle the NE quadrant of each Card to get the page that allows you to print out multiple copies. You print them off. You stick a copy of each Card in one pocket and put the copies in another pocket to give to others. During the day you pull out your little pile of Cards from time-to-time and study them. Pretty soon you have them memorized and are able to mull over them in your mind. You are in line for a blessing! The Bible says God will bless those who delight in his words and meditate on them regularly.

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Redesign Your Ministry Now!

Leonard Sweet, The Dawn Mistaken for Dusk, If God So Loved The Word, Why Can't We?, Zondervan Publishing House, 2000, [Digital E-Book: Microsoft Reader], pp. 24, 25. SoAmazing.com

Category: Christian Living
Keywords: Internet, radically new, connecting, knowledge source, global, renaissance, innovation, invention, redesign, delivery system, learning, communication, faith development, Zondervan Publishing House, Sweet, Leonard Sweet

"What the Internet is doing that is radically new, however, is twofold. First, it is connecting knowledge sources to one another at speeds that defy imagination. Hence the global renaissance of innovation and invention. The number of patents issued in USAmerica alone is nearly twice the level of a decade ago. Second, the Internet is connecting people with similar interests to one another on a global scale in a shared communication structure that is open not closed. Some are calling the new economy the 'nude economy' because the Internet makes everything more distinct, more diaphanous. With the WWW, we are coming into a world where Luke 12:2 is literally true: 'Whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered behind closed doors shall be proclaimed from the housetops' (NRSV).

Any leader, any church, that fails to come to terms with the web is putting its future service at risk. It's not enough to add a Website to your church or business, to dump stuff online (called 'shovelware'), or to turn the Internet into a new switchboard. Your whole ministry, your whole business needs to be redesigned around this new delivery system for learning, communication, and faith development.

Why have mainline denominations in USAmerica been so slow to respond to the Web? For the same reason that 'legacy businesses' like Wal-Mart and Borders were so slow to respond. Those who invested the most in the previous model are the most likely to resist change. Once a heady brew, the mainline brand has now lost its flavor."

SoAmazing Review: A radical redesign of your whole ministry should be considered. The Internet enables a revolution in connectedness.

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Tamar Persists

Francine Rivers, Unveiled, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 2000, pp. 55, 56. This is the first of five books of historical fiction on women in the lineage of Jesus Christ. SoAmazing.com

Category: Fiction
ISBN: 0842319476
Keywords: Onan, Er, Judah, Tamar, God, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Rivers, Francine Rivers

" 'I'm giving Onan to you as your husband so that you can bear a son for Er.'

'My Lord,' she said and bowed down to him.

Judah wanted to say something, anything that might give the poor girl comfort and hope. But what could he say that wouldn't demean Er? No matter how bent upon evil his eldest son had been, Er was still the first fruit of Judah's loins, the first show of his strength as a man. He couldn't speak against Er without speaking against himself.

A blessing would ease his conscience. 'May you be fruitful and multiply my house, Tamar.' She would not suffer with Onan. As far as Judah knew, his second son took no pleasure in tormenting the helpless.

When Tamar rose to her feet, she lifted her head and looked at him. He was discomfited by the warmth in her eyes. He nodded. 'You may go.'

She turned away and then turned back again. 'May I speak with you, my lord?' Something plagued her deeply.

He raised his brows.

'Since I am to bear children for your household, will you instruct me in the ways of your God?'

He stiffened. 'When the time comes, I will speak to Onan about it.'

'Surely the time is long past.'

He clenched his fists. 'Do you dare reprimand me?'

'No, my lord,' she said in confusion. She paled. 'I beg your pardon. I only meant . . .'

He saw the tears well in her eyes but ignored her appeal. 'Leave me.' Closing his eyes, he jerked his head in command. He heard her quick retreating footsteps.

Why did Tamar always have to ask about God? What could he tell her? God had stuck Er for his cruel arrogance and taken vengeance upon Judah as well. An eye for an eye, a life for a life. Er for Joseph.

Judah raked his fingers through his hair, then held his head. Perhaps now the past could be laid to rest.

'This is what he requires: to do what is right, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.' His father's words came to him as though Jacob had leaned close and whispered them.

Agitated, Judah rose and left the house."

SoAmazing Review: In Unveiled, Francine Rivers' fictionalized account of the Biblical story of Tamar, the characters and story come alive!

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