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    Good News! At What Cost?

    by TerryLema May 7, 2023

    The word “Gospel” means good news. That good news is for everyone. Everyone means every one, all, none left out. It does not matter the condition of the “every one.” It only matters the totality of the Gospel.

    Charles Spurgeon summarized what this Gospel [good news] is, “The heart of the gospel is redemption and the essence of redemption, is the substitutionary sacrifice of Christ” (1886).

    “He made the One [Christ Jesus] who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.” [2 Corinthians 5:21 HCSB]

    We are the recipient of God’s good news. We rejoice in that. We acknowledge that God loves us. We celebrate His love. But we must never forget at what cost that love came to us. It came by God sacrificing His Son for us. It is the death of Christ Jesus that brought us life.

    The Gospel is good news for every one of us. That means that no one is beyond the Gospel. No one is beyond its reach. No sin is too big (if repented of) to be forgiven.

    Read it again, treasure it eternally … “[God the Father] made [Christ Jesus] who did not know sin to be sin for [me], so that [I] might become the righteousness of God in Him.”

    Praise His Holy Name!

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    Nuggets

    by TerryLema May 6, 2023
    May 6, 2023

    I am a firm believer that we can walk away from every Sunday service with a nugget of truth that ministers to our soul and spirit. We might glean it…

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    Silence

    by TerryLema May 5, 2023
    May 5, 2023

    It is Saturday morning as I write this. Bob is off to breakfast with some men from the church. The television is quiet, no news broadcasts, no Price is Right…

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    A Wow Chapter

    by TerryLema May 4, 2023
    May 4, 2023

    Luke Chapter 9 is a long chapter. It has 62 verses. Luke Chapter 9 is also a “wow” chapter. It contains some of the best-known events in the life of…

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    Sons and Daughters in the Faith

    by TerryLema May 3, 2023
    May 3, 2023

    One of the beautiful qualities of the Apostle Paul is that he invested his life in young people. “To Timothy, my true son in the faith,” and “To Titus, my…

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    Where’s Your Focus?

    by TerryLema May 2, 2023
    May 2, 2023

    “For I have often told you, and now say again with tears, that many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their end is destruction; their god is their…

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    Created All Things

    by TerryLema May 1, 2023
    May 1, 2023

    When I was a child, I learned the answers to questions found in the old Baltimore Catechism. The only one I remember is the question, “Why did God make you?”…

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    Joy

    by TerryLema April 30, 2023
    April 30, 2023

    Decades ago, the church I was going to joined others for a praise and worship service. (If you know me you know I love praise and worship!) As we entered…

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    I Am!

    by TerryLema April 29, 2023
    April 29, 2023

    Last Saturday I went for a walk later in the day. It had been a lovely day, with a bridal shower open house and then lunch with my daughter. I…

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    Right Hands

    by TerryLema April 28, 2023
    April 28, 2023

    There is war in the Sudan. Two generals are fighting to rule the country and destroying much of it and killing many of its people as they do so. There…

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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 and recently retired as Lead Pastor at The Way Church in Middleton, Idaho.

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