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    Knowing Eternal Life

    by TerryLema February 24, 2021

    As Christians, we have eternal life now. When we came to God through Christ Jesus our LORD and Savior, our souls and spirits were made alive in Him. Our bodies, unfortunately, are still subject to the results of rebellion and sin, but we have the promise that they too will one day be reborn into eternal life.  That is something that as I age, I desire more and more.

    Jesus, shortly before His death, prayed for His own. That prayer was not just for those who were gathered around Him at the time, that prayer was for all those who would come after them in faith believing.

    “This is eternal life: that they may know You, the only true God, and the One You have sent—Jesus Christ.” [John 17:3 HCSB]

    It is our great and wonderful privilege to know the “Only True God.” Jesus says that by knowing God we have eternal life. Knowing God means that eternal life is now … not just some promise for the distant future. We are made eternally alive right now!  What a blessing to live in the realization of that truth.

    But there is another truth that blesses my heart even more.  Paul reminds us that not only do we know the “Only True God,” but the Only True God knows us! 

    “But if anyone loves God, he is known by Him.” [1 Corinthians 8:3 HCSB]

    God knows us, our name, our weaknesses, our failures, our delights, our passions, our desires. He knows what we need. He knows what we are going through. In spite of all my faults, He not only knows me, He loves me.

    What on earth can compare with that?

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    Safety!

    by TerryLema February 23, 2021
    February 23, 2021

    I apologize for getting all maudlin yesterday as I wrestled with God about my abundant hatred of death. I know that for those who place their faith in Almighty God…

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    The Valley of the Shadow

    by TerryLema February 22, 2021
    February 22, 2021

    Last week was a tough week.  I spent some time with God telling Him how much I really hate death. I am all too familiar with death. I was seven…

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    Keep Ablaze!

    by TerryLema February 21, 2021
    February 21, 2021

    Yesterday I thought about the fact that as Christians, we are not to quit. “There is no quitting in Christianity.” Paul in one of his last letters reminded young Timothy…

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    There’s no quitting

    by TerryLema February 20, 2021
    February 20, 2021

    One of my favorite movie lines comes from “A League of Their Own.” When one of the female baseball players starts to cry, their manager played by Tom Hanks whines,…

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    From the Rising of the Sun …

    by TerryLema February 19, 2021
    February 19, 2021

    The days are getting longer now. The Winter Solstice 2020 happened on December 21, marking the shortest day / longest night of the year. Since then we have added a…

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    The Increase

    by TerryLema February 18, 2021
    February 18, 2021

    Our daughter and son-in-love came over last week to take down the Christmas lights that decorated the front of our house. We had taken down and put away most of…

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    Daily Bread

    by TerryLema February 17, 2021
    February 17, 2021

    We had our first real snow this past week. It began Thursday night and we woke up to about four inches where we live in Caldwell. It stayed cold so…

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    Really?

    by TerryLema February 16, 2021
    February 16, 2021

    When I got up Saturday morning the world around me was white! It had been snowing for a couple days and staying cold, so snow blanketed the ground, the road,…

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    Don’t Worry, Be Happy!

    by TerryLema February 15, 2021
    February 15, 2021

    February 15 Don’t Worry, Be Happy! “Don’t Worry, Be Happy ” is a song by American musician Bobby McFerrin released in 1988. It was the first a cappella song to reach number one on the Billboard Hot…

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Pastor Terry Lema

Pastor Terry Lema has been married for 53 years, and has 3 children and 3 grandsons. Terry graduated from Trinity Bible College, and currently serves as Lead Pastor at The Way Church in Middleton, Idaho.

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