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The next section of Old Testament Biblical books are the histories, starting with the book of Joshua. According to the New Oxford Annotated Study Bible, Joshua describes the Israelite’s conquest […]

The book of Numbers continues the story of the Israelite people, book four of the Torah, with an orderly account of the preparing to enter the Promised Land. There are

The forming of a people, Israel into God’s people, the covenant’s laws, and instructions and first their liberation from oppression in Egypt are the stories found within the second book

The Gospel book of Matthew opens the New Testament because of four reasons as noted in The New Oxford Annotated Bible (NRSV). The first is its deep roots in Jewish

Psalm 111 His Precepts are Trustworthy “1Praise the Lord! I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart, in the company of the upright, in the congregation. 2Great are the works

Thank you for joining your pastoral staff at these extraordinary gifts telling the Christmas story: a Lenox Nativity Set (from the Tackett family) and Lenox Nativity Plates (from the Eelman

Matthew 2:1-12 The Visit of the Magi 2 In the time of King Herod, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, magi from the east came to Jerusalem, 2 asking, “Where is the

Luke 2:15-20 15 When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let us go now to Bethlehem and see this thing that has

Luke 1:26-38 The Birth of Jesus Foretold 26 In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, 27 to a virgin engaged to a

Lenox Excerpt The tradition of including a standing camel—alone or with a camel driver—in a Nativity scene goes back hundreds of years. Originally, tableaus depicting the birth of Jesus were