Tag: Isa al Masih

This week , the 4th week of Advent centers on Love. God’s Love for us through the advent of Jesus Christ, Y’eshua, Isa al Masih, is the act by which our lives and this world can be transformed to something new, lovely, joyous and whole.  December 7th this year, would have been my brothers’ 66th…
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There is nothing better than good news! It does not matter how it comes, snail mail, telephone, face to face, television, text or even instant messaging… we love good news. Better still, is getting good news when it’s unexpected. We love surprises even more; if it is good news, that is. Take for example, the…
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Advent 2025 Week 2 This week, week 2, of Advent  we light the candle of peace. In honor of this week, God brought an early, morning visitor. While drinking coffee, and sleepily staring out our window at the misty meadow engulfed in fogginess, I noticed a dove. A dove! He sat in a nearby tree…
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Advent is more than the light of burning luminaries… Advent is here! Tomorrow, Sunday, November 30, 2025 Sunday, the season of Advent begins. I think Advent has to be my favorite time of year. When leaves burnt scarlet flutter earthward and the temperature drops low, I find myself being drawn to candles. Candles fascinate… Remember…
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As with any oldster, I miss the past. I miss a different time, perhaps a different world. I miss it terribly! In retrospect, I think more than anything, I miss the blessed naïve ignorance of youth, when life seemed simple and good, without threat or risk or life-altering challenges. The world I remember was full…
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Advent began yesterday, Sunday November 29 and I had some thoughts…. We frequently pray for God’s Kingdom to come; “Yes, Come Lord Jesus, Messiah, Come…” as we should. But it is odd that if this is our desire, our call, our hope, why do we struggle with actually living out these words every day moment-by-moment.…
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James has been a Follower of Isa’ al Masih for about 18 months. He first heard about Jesus, God in flesh, sent for rescue, at his wife’s funeral. James lives a life described in Colossians 1: 5b-6, “You have already heard about this hope in the message of Truth, the Gospel that has come to…
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Our Father God is at work in the North Africa – Middle East region. He uses many different tools such as dreams and visions to draw people to Himself, but His most prevalent tools are Jesus Followers who live and share their lives amongst the people groups or work in locales, such as colleges, sharing…
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What are you cooking for Ramadan meal? That question always makes Fatima uncomfortable. How should she answer her neighbors since she no longer cooks big Ramadan meals? Her discomfort with those conversations prompts the memory of the horror she felt on the day her new husband, Yusif told her he was a Follower of Isa…
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Mary is a beautiful young girl who is searching for Truth. She is studying engineering at a local university, has high hopes for the future, and contrary to the norm, is not being pushed by her family to marry. Her father died when she was only a few months old and her brother has left…
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