Steve Burnett

Christian, husband of the most beautiful woman in the world, finally a seminary grad, Disneyland fan

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@DouglasVitrano @DisneyParks @Disneyland From Wookiepedia: “Po’acksters were creatures with four eyes that produced pink milk.”

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@DouglasVitrano @DisneyParks @Disneyland I asked Grok about this, and it replied: “In Star Wars lore (expanded universe/Legends), there is a mention of pink milk from a creature called a po'ackster, but it has never appeared in the main films or been tied to Galaxy's Edge offerings.” Is this true?

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Santa is experimenting with an additional distribution method during surge periods of Christmas Eve. The Porg sled is proving to have great flight characteristics.

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@scottrswain @KaiBElliott Dr. Swain, could the family also be considered as a ministerial agent of the kingdom? The family could be an instrumental structure for the kingdom of power, and in Christian families, an instrument of the kingdom of grace.

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@nicksortor @grok is this true

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"Christ is Lord over all the world but head of the church. All things are under His feet, but not all things are His members... He is over the whole church--that part on earth as well as that part in heaven who are already completed." -- Stephen Charnock

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A Christmas-time sunset in Cars Land.

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Then, we have reason to look ahead to the coming year, and say with David, “Your steadfast love and your faithfulness will ever preserve me.” 11/11

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At the new year, we tend to do two things. We look back at the year gone by, and we set our minds on the year to come. 1/11

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When we think about how God works in us, both of these time frames are important, the history of God’s work in us in the past, and our anticipation of how God will work in us going forward. 2/11

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With this new year, we should look back, and look forward. All of us here this morning have reason to look back at last year, and say with David, “I have not concealed your steadfast love and your faithfulness from the great congregation.” 10/11

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As for you, O LORD, you will not restrain
your mercy from me;
your steadfast love and your faithfulness will
ever preserve me!
Psalm 40:11
9/11

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Then, in the next verse, David draws upon his history of God’s mercy toward him, with a declaration of faith for the future. 8/11

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I have not hidden your deliverance within my heart;
I have spoken of your faithfulness and your salvation;
I have not concealed your steadfast love and your faithfulness
from the great congregation.
Psalm 40:10
7/11

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In these verses, Scripture gives us examples of looking back at the history of God relating to us with His steadfast love and faithfulness. In Psalm 40, David looks back at God’s deliverance. 6/11

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I did a search through Scripture of every verse that has the words steadfast love and faithfulness in the same verse. In the ESV, there are 39 of those verses. When God relates to His people, His steadfast love and His faithfulness go hand-in-hand. 5/11

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God’s steadfast love is His covenant love that He pours out on His people. God’s faithfulness is His consistent and constant provision of His divine promises and grace. 4/11

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In thinking about the new year, two aspects of God’s relationship to us came to my mind: His steadfast love, and His faithfulness. 3/11

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“The plan of God’s providence was to prepare the way for Christ’s coming into the world, and all the prophecies of the Old Testament were to make it known.” --Stephen Charnock, Divine Providence

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An insight from a Dutch theologian: Our inheritance as Christians is called eternal, because the promise of the inheritance was given by the Father to the Son in eternity past, and the inheritance will be enjoyed by Christ's fellow heirs through all eternity.