“Come! Let’s sing for joy to the LORD! Let’s shout out praises to our protector who delivers us! Let’s enter his presence with thanksgiving!” (Psalm 95:1–2a, NET) Wayne Jacobson in his book The Journey Begins, comments: “Worship isn’t singing songs in a room full of people; worship is how we live our lives in God’s…
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“Whatever you are doing, work at it with enthusiasm, as to the Lord and not for people,” (Colossians 3:23, NET) We certainly worked with enthusiasm last week, perhaps with a bit too much! We’re ready for a break! Bruce has remarked several times that this project is the most physically taxing of all our projects…
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“He covers himself with light as if it were a garment. He stretches out the skies like a tent curtain, and lays the beams of the upper rooms of his palace on the rain clouds. He makes the clouds his chariot, and travels along on the wings of the wind.” (Psalm 104:2–3, NET) “He makes…
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“Oil and perfume make the heart glad, So a man’s counsel is sweet to his friend.” (Proverbs 27:9, NASB95) Thankfully, the weather and temperatures cooperated and allowed primer and final paint coats to dry in time to install the bookshelf units at Hope House. Getting shelf space for the girls was a high-priority job…
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“Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation.” (Psalm 68:5, ESV) Thankfully, we got away the first of last week for some hiking (see the link to images below). We took a five-mile walk along Lake Lowell in the Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge. We watched coyotes hunting small…
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“Let us not lose heart in doing good, for in due time we will reap if we do not grow weary.” (Galatians 6:9, NASB95) The Quonset hut at the top of the picture is The Barn (see image below for an inside look). Instead of a garage sale, Hope house has several “Barn Sales” each…
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“What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.” (Ecclesiastes 1:9, ESV) As we wind down our last week of work here at Youth Haven Desert Ranch, we seem to have accomplished much for the camp. We’ve fixed many…
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“In the same way, let your light shine before people, so that they can see your good deeds and give honor to your Father in heaven.” (Matthew 5:16, NET) One of my (Bruce) life verses is “In the same way, let your light shine before people, so that they can see your good deeds and…
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“Therefore I exhort you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a sacrifice—alive, holy, and pleasing to God— which is your reasonable service.” (Romans 12:1, NET) Ninety-eight bulls, 29 rams, and 1037 lambs were to be sacrificed annually according to Num 28:1ff: These verses start with the daily sacrifice…
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“And from the age of fifty years they shall withdraw from the duty of the service and serve no more. They minister to their brothers in the tent of meeting by keeping guard, but they shall do no service. Thus shall you do to the Levites in assigning their duties.” (Numbers 8:25–26, ESV) Twenty-one years…
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