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10.25.10

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10.07.10Check out this blog post by Abigail Weigel, one of our ESBS students after she finished Galatians. She has come face to face with the truth of the gospel and it is changing her life!Not Guilty.

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10.07.10 Caleb is enjoying life, eating with his friends and trying to draw attention with many different faces.  This is one of our favorites!

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10.07.10

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10.01.10 Check out my latest blog post on the ESBSblog.com website. After teaching Thessalonians, these are some thoughts about heaven and our lack of anticipation for it, in general.It is challenging to me, and I hope you're challenged too.Byron Why do we not get excited about Eternity with JESUS?

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07.07.10For Caleb’s birthday, I (Byron) made a little poster for him, and although it is difficult to paste it on the blog, I’ll give you a taste of what the poster had on it. We wanted to remember what year one for Caleb is like from our experience of him. What he likes and dislikes. What his personality is becoming like. Etc... So, below is a list of things that we see in Caleb Elsay

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06.12.10So, Joy met us at the Guesthouse today at 10am, and we thought we were going to go with her to meet Tezera (his nanny & caretaker) and Elsay. But then, all of them were with her. Surprise, surprise! So we met sweet Elsay for the first time. So grateful for Tezera’s eager care for him and love for him. He loves Tezera so much. ​​ The big surprise was not that we would meet him, but

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05.29.10        We’ve really been blessed this year. Almost a year from the day we started to pursue this adoption process, we are going to get to meet our son, Elsay! Very rarely does the process take this short of a time. There was a time when in the midst of the process, we were not getting the approval we needed from USCIS, which could have made this process even shorter, but then maybe

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05.13.10 So, today Jessica at Children’s House International left a message on our phones over lunch, telling us that we’d received our court date, when we’ll get to meet our little man Elsay for the first time! June 8th! It makes sense to go over for the court date as it will save us time and money in his citizenship process, a lot of paper work hassle and $500 on this end. We are super

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05.05.10 For the first time a couple weeks ago, while in worship with the ESBS, the Lord started speaking to me about being a father and representing him as Father.  That I have such an opportunity to show Caleb Elsay who his true Father is in the Lord, and to give him a true understanding of the Lord.  It is such a privilege and opportunity to be a father, to love him and care for him like he

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04.13.10 There are so many ways that God has been shown to us as our Saviour.  He saves us from ourselves time and again, he saves us from trouble all the time, and ultimately he has saved me from the deserving punishment of death because of my sin by gracing us with the work of Jesus, who meets all the requirements of God so that we don't have to. Not only has he saved us, he continues to

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4/6/10Last night we got our first glimpse of our baby on the YWAM Ethiopia site. The emotions are overwhelming. All these cut kids, but God has one for us. I can read all the profiles, look at all the adorable pictures, and love each of them with a God given love. I already do! I love them already and could love them forever. The question is: “Who do you have for us Lord?” What child is

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04.06.10 Today we got some paper work for the adoption authenticated in Raleigh, our state capitol.  And then got our finally completed dossier in the mail.  Wow!  A ton of paper work finished!  A major bridge crossed!!! Upon the completion, YWAM Adoption ministry gave us access to a portal we can login to see the children available for adoption from the YWAM Ethiopia orphanages.  Wow!   So

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03.30.10 Thanks for your prayers! We just received an email stating that we've been approved by USCIS for adoption clearance.  We will receive the documentation in the mail shortly!  Thanks so much for your prayers again with us and standing with us in this 5 month wait. The next course of action starts now.  We will be heading to Raleigh soon to get some paper work authenticated at the state

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03.29.10 See the below response to our email requesting when we'd receive word back from USCIS regarding our adoption.  So the paper we've been waiting for since October weighs in the balances. "Your decision is currently pending supervisory concurrence.  We will do our best to get you a decision by COB tomorrow.  Thank you for you cooperation and patience." They are making the decision today

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03.28.10 Ok, so we've started the prophets with the ESBS, and I just can't help but have some corny Bible joke from the prophets in this post, so this will be an enacted symbol.  No, I am not going to walk long distances with a pair of old underwear, or play GI Joe with Jerusalem, or cook over poop.  But this blog post is an enacted symbol in that in the same way that you've all been waiting and

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02.08.10 With the book of Leviticus what I would love for people to see as they study through this book is what a beautiful and wondrous thing it was for God to make a way for His presence to dwell among his people. Because that is the heart behind the book, we saw in Exodus that God has redeemed his people for relationship and now in Leviticus we begin to get a more full and beautiful picture

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01.28.10 Its been a week since we checked in and updated our you, blog readers, regarding the adoption process. We still have not heard back from USCIS clearing us for the adoption.  Daily, we make our trek down to the mailbox at 3pm (about when the mail arrives), and come back empty handed on the USCIS approval we are waiting and praying for.  However, the other day, the trek to the mailbox did

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I've been studying Numbers to teach in the ESBS right now, just getting into it today actually, and already God is speaking things to me about placing my faith in him.  Numbers shows two generations of people, the first generation which saw the mighty acts of God in Egypt, the Exodus, and the Red Sea parting, but then failed to have faith when the land promised to them seemed to difficult to take

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Eileen has been fairly aggressive in providing some audio lectures for SBS International, the umbrella of YWAM that we are still connected to.  They are working at putting up mp3 files of every single book of the Bible up for anyone to listen to and get an introduction and overview for each book of the Bible.  They've asked a select few SBS teachers from around the world to teach for them, hoping

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01.12.10 We are so grateful for the words and encouragements of others towards us in this process.  We have received two prophetic words from dear friends that have really brought hope and encouragement in this tenuous process.  Upon receiving a denial from USCIS and feeling hopeless, a friend, Amy, wrote an email that she had prayed for us and felt like God was wanting to tell us the words, "

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01.11.10 I recently taught Song of Songs in the ESBS, and here is a copy of my blog posted on www.esbsblog.com.  Byron. We have a serious problem in our churches as it becomes more and more like the society in which we live in.  The problem is in relation to our sex ethic as believers.  Before the 1900’s, most Christians were not willing to entertain the idea that Song of Songs was a love

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01.11.10 Eileen and I went out yesterday and watched that new movie called "The Blindside" with Sandra Bullock in it.  The storyline is that her family is an upper class white family in Memphis, who sent their kids to an upper class Christian private school.  A poor African-American young homeless youth named Michael Oher was walking in the rain one night, and this family picked him up, cared

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01.02.10We are really looking forward to the year of 2010! We are stoked to be starting our family. I am reminded of how some of our best friends, the Brauns, were faced with an impossibility and God blessed them graciosly with the birth of their miraculous beautiful little girl Charis. We are in a similar position and we have reason to be confident in our powerful God who is with us always!

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01.01.10We worked really hard to answer clearly and decisively for USCIS all of their questions. We feel confident that our letter that they'll receive on Monday will clarify our financial capability for adoption. Please pray that they would understand and grant us permission.We are blessed to have the prayers of our friends and the power of God with us. We've also been encouaged thru timely

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12.15.09 Thanks for heeding our call to prayer.  We greatly appreciate you as our friends and supporters getting behind us in prayer and walking through this with us.  We value your place in the body on our behalf, and hope we can serve you as you serve us. This week we've got a lot of work to do to make sure we answer all of their questions.  We are meeting with a tax accountant on Wednesday

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12.12.09 We just received a letter from USCIS stating that we've been denied approval to adopt based on financial grounds. We've been given 30 days to submit a rebuttal, 14 of which we'll be in Canada for, thus making it that much more difficult.   All the questions they have, we have already answered, but I don't think they are looking over our information closely enough to see that we have

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12.06.09 I recently studied to teach James for the ESBS class.  James is addressing a bunch of believers who have slowly started to walk away from the type of generosity and equality that was indicative of the early church in Jerusalem.  His readers had probably been saved in this vibrant and growing community in Jerusalem, but when persecution hit and they were scattered, these people were

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12.05.09 We have been so blessed by the Lord through the generosity of some of our friends, those who have felt led to contribute toward our great financial need.  We have about half of our adoption expenses taken care of so far.  But yesterday we received a gift of $1100, from an anonymous donor.  We are so grateful for generosity like this, and those who have done what they can, be it $50,

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11.26.09 Eileen and I went for a walk today on Thanksgiving and just shared a lot of things that we are thankful for.  We truly have so much to be grateful for in each other, in the Lord's involvement in our lives, in the character of the Lord, in our wealth of relationships, in where he has led us and our growing family.  In each other - Eileen and I are blessed with such a great

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For those of you who know me well, you'll know that I am not the biggest money man, that I don't know a whole lot, but because of that and because of our low income, I've been vigilant with budgeting and keeping on top of what finances we do have.  I have set up my personal budgeting spreadsheets that have been really helpful, and have set up several friends with what I use.  There is a new

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11.22.09 There is a new show coming out on ABC this year made by the producers of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.  You know, the show that appeals to the emotions while meeting not only the needs but the desires of families who would be so blessed to receive a home that suits their needs.  Well the same producers, are making a show that connects adopted children with their biological parents.  

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11.17.09 PLEASE PRAY We are waiting right now for USCIS approval before we can move on. As I mentioned earlier, we had received the unfortunate news of coming under further review by the USCIS, even though our home study social worker had approved us (which very rarely happens).  So, we got together some more detailed documentation of our finances and pictures of our apartment, per their

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11.06.09 It is true, we are expecting, but unlike most, our sickness is not in vomiting or getting cravings - although Eileen would like to blame her recent diet Coke addiction on something! Our sickness is in the long hours of paperwork that exhaust even the most mentally equipped. So, I thought I would show you a little bit of the pains of "expecting" that we go through in the adoption

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11.01.09A friend introduced us to a way to raise money for our adoption, and it involves YOU drinking good COFFEE. Just Love Coffee is a roaster of fair trade coffee out of Nashville, and after the family roasting for 30 years, one of the family members adopted from Ethiopia. In the process, they decided to mix their love of coffee with their love of Ethiopia and adoption by donating a

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10.24.09PLEASE PRAYWe received some disconcerting news tonight. After having done a lot of work on adoption paper work, and being approved by two organizations for our homestudy, the USCIS has requested us to have a lot of information in and submitted in an almost unrealistic time frame. Because of our living situation, receiving free rent and food from the camp, it makes our situation look

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Eileen has officially stated that the paperwork has been winning the battle against her. It is getting overwhelming. Eileen works at something with such a quick pace, and the people who she is getting info for, as their jobs are sending stuff back quicker than Eileen can keep up with them, which they should be able to since, they are doing this as their job, full time!Eileen's been such a

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So, Eileen is interested in blogging what she is learning too. So for anyone who's interested, keep an eye open for her great insights and wisdom.

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In my absence, Eileen has been a machine on the paperwork, figuring out all the ins and outs of this adoption process, and dealing with stacks of paperwork that all needs to get notarized. We are just about to finalize our home study, and we've just been accepted to our adoption agency, Children's House International (CHI). Once the home study is complete, we can work on applying for adoption

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We are nearing the end of our homestudy process. We've been working with Christian World Adoption, based out of Flat Rock, NC and they've served as social workers for us to complete the Home Study. Basically what the Home Study process does is evaluates us and where we live, making sure that we are fit to be parents. It is a long and arduous process, but it makes sure that we understand the

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We are trying to do as many things as possible this summer to make money to put towards the adoption process. Here is a visual sampling of different things we've been up to. Can you guess what it is that we've been doing? Boat Driving for the camp. Life Guarding for the camp. Baking brownies to sell in the snack shop at camp. And of course preaching the gospel to a hundred plus kids at camp

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Some big news!  Eileen and I are starting the process of adopting from Ethiopia!  We've both really been interested in adopting, feeling both the desire as well as the call from the Lord for it.  We both have a heart for other nations, and we have a heart to adopt, meeting the needs of orphans, so we thought we should go with what God has given us a heart for, in adopting internationally.  We've

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Just an update on how things are going with the school.  We are 4 weeks into our last term, ending with graduation on May 24th.  That is the only calendar date that is in our minds.  Our calendar has become what book is next and when it is due.  The prophets are some of the most unread and unpreached books of the Bible, except for a few restoration passages that make us feel warm and fuzzy inside

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Eileen and I are looking forward to this next week together.  We have our spring break for the school, and we only have a little bit of work to do on our break.  The director of the Camp is generously letting us use their great beach condo for the week at Ocean Isle Beach on the NC coast.  We've been there before with the whole school, and it is brilliant!  We are craving the rest and relaxation.

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The busyness of life this past year has forced some things to take a back seat.  Unfortunately the blog has taken a hit.  I have been secretly working on a .mac website to replace the blog, but it is still a while off from going online. So I feel compelled to update the blog.  Sorry to those who check it and see that it has been months since the last post.  We are in the busiest year of our lives

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We are on the brink of the 2nd quarter of the ESBS. It has been a very full first quarter. We have a total of 11 students - 5 guys and 6 girls. They are overall a great group who are serious about knowing Jesus. You can continue to pray for them, that their desire for Jesus and desire and openness to change will welcome the Holy Spirit into their lives. If you want to read what they are

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Here we are on the brink of another school year, our 2nd School of Biblical Studies. We come out of an action-packed, somewhat exciting, and somewhat relaxing summer helping out at camp. The summer at Camp Lurecrest is a very different pace…150 campers, 80 staff. A dream for extroverts! Eileen and I filled in the gaps this summer at camp, doing lots of random things. Here are a list of a few

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We had an excellent vacation time in Canada. These pictures are one of the reasons I miss being at home. Being at home is not only family and friends, but the brilliant rockies which I never tire of. We made sure to get at least one good hike in. For those who know the area, this is the Ribbon Falls & Lake trail in Kananaskis, right by the entrance to Nakiska ski resort. Part of Ribbon Falls. The

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And more...This is the valley we hiked up...10 miles each way!!! Ribbon Lake at the top of the falls, still mostly frozen...in June!

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Immediately after the school, we took off for the North Carolina coast, on the Outer Banks, a string of islands off the coast of our great state. Our destination was Ocracoke island, where we camped just a stones throw from the crashing waves of the Atlantic. This is our tent setup at night under the full moon at the State Park Campground we stayed at. Just to show you what kind of traffic we

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So I tried my hand at fishing for the first time since I went fishing with my friend Tim in college, like 8 years ago. It is amazing how well you do when you don't know what you're doing. At my friend Bryan's house, there is a golf course, and we go fish their pond in the evening when golfing is winding down. My friend Tom caught an 11 lb. bass the other day, which is huge (14 lbs is the NC

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So this is it. The first ESBS class is done! The accomplishment is huge for the students, to come out knowing the Bible like they do, growing along the way, still loving each other after a long year with such few people.At the same time, it is a huge accomplishment for us. To lead and staff our first SBS, doing it together, in our first year of marriage. A lot has come our way this year, but

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Attn. MySpacers!Not that I like it or want to promote it in any way, but we have been able to connect with lots of people recently through the Myspace Revolution. So if you want to check us out, visit www.myspace.com/discoblue. There is a lot on myspace that I don't like, but the ability to connect has been great! Also, please do not hesitate to comment on this blog. We love to get your

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Adventures with Mom & Dad (Part III)One more adventure with Mom & Dad. We made a trip over the Smoky mountains and into Tennessee. The Smokies are the most visited national park in the whole USA. We followed part of the southern portion of the Blue Ridge Parkway to the pass through the Smokies. These are probably the nicest mountains east of the Rockies, which if you are coming from the

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Adventures with Mom & Dad (Part II)We got in some good sight seeing of the local area, almost all of which were things we had not seen or done before. This time, they wanted to see more of the local area, where we live, so they can have a frame of reference. Maybe next time, we will go to the beach!!!BILTMORE ESTATE in AshevilleThis house is the largest privately owned home in North America,

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Adventures with Mom & DadMy (Byron's) parents came to visit us over our spring break. They got in on some class action. I taught on the book of Hosea, where we had a skit showing the enacted symbol of Hosea marrying a whore, Gomer. Eileen played Gomer, so that explains those crazy pictures of her in those sick clothes. I figure Eileen's gotta be comfortable with her inlaws if she can dress

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I have not updated in awhile. We have been swamped with work though, in a good way. School is busy, we've had guests to host and such. This past month we've had 3 guest speakers (Scott Pitts is local, and JD Goding and Erik Williamson from Montana). The school is cruising along well though, and we are looking forward to a break at the end of next week. My (Byron's) parents are visiting for a

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to meet with GodThis last weekend, we took the ESBS class on a spiritual retreat, to a place relaxing and condusive to meeting with God...the beach! It is for the book of Numbers, which I taught for the students on Friday. In this book, it picks up a year after the Israelites' Exodus out of Egypt, how God delivered them miraculously out of 400 years of slavery to lead them to a land he

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Holding on to my Roots!Since I have moved down to America, I have realized one very great thing about American culture: Everyone knows their history, or at least all the main points. I couldn't even tell you any main points, except who our first Prime Minister was (John A. MacDonald) and when we became a nation (1867). The only other notable thing I really know is that the War of 1812 is the

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A BIG DAY! Eileen's First Post on the Blog!So I just taught the book of Leviticus. And before I even got started one of our students asked, “So is this officially like the most boring book of the Bible?” I had to laugh because I mean at first glance, sure I can see how she would think that. But I answered her with an excited, “no way, I think you’ll find that this book is incredibly exciting!

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This is a Sick New Year!Maybe it was the lack of sleep...maybe the lack of nutrition over the holidays...or maybe it was 6 hours of flights with other people who were doing the same thing...at any rate, Eileen and I returned to North Carolina with sickness, just minor colds, but not the way you want to start off another term of SBS. At the start of last term, I had Strep throat and she Pink Eye,

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Home for ChristmasEileen and I are travelling back to Canada for Christmas for 10 days. It will be a jam-packed 10 days as a lot of my family will be there. All but one cousin from both sides of the family will be around, and all of my immediate family: My brother Devin and his wife Marya, son Anson, and daughter Sariahna; My sister Shari and her husband Dave, daughters Ally, Kierra, & Kourtney

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One Term down, Two to GoIt is now the end of our first ESBS term. It is the longest of the three terms, being 19 weeks, with each of the next two terms being 11 weeks. So, really, we are almost half way through. Thus far, the 6 students have studied through the whole New Testament (except Hebrews, which we do alongside Leviticus; and Matthew, which we do after the prophets, to show Jesus, the

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I have the means to love others and bless the heart of Jesus 1 John 3:17-18 – How does God’s love abide in anyone who has the world’s goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet refuses to help? …let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action. I have been meditating on this verse mainly because I just taught the book of 1 John in ESBS, but God started speaking to ME about

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the fall appalachian colours

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To identify with Christ – we choose Christ initially because we want to identify with him, but when the suffering that he incurred comes, the walk that he walked comes, we don’t want to identify with him anymore; we want to get out of it, and think anything in hard times is attacks from the devil, and the goal is to get out of them. In actuality though, the goal in suffering should not be to get

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esbs has begun The inaugural ESBS is well under way. There are 6 students from across the USA, and 1 from Germany. For being the first year, we are delighted with the students the Lord has brought to come and study Him and his rich word. We have already been through Philemon, Titus (Byron taught), Philippians (Eileen taught), Galatians, Mark, Luke (Eileen taught), and Acts (Eileen taught). As you

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