Episode 10 - Bev and Laura

Hello Oak Ridge friends and family. This is David

here with Bev and Laura today and they're gonna

read us some scriptures to help point us towards

Jesus. But what's something that you look forward

to in the holiday season? I look forward to being

with family and we always sing Christmas carols

since I was very young and my grandparents and

now when we all get together and my sisters or

one of my nieces and we always sing Christmas

carols and that's something that I really enjoy

and probably my favorite is Silent Night. I'm

Bev and I look forward to seeing my brother.

My parents are gone now and we don't get together

a lot but we do on holidays. So I'll look forward

to fixing a little lunch for him and having a

good time with him and sending him on his way

after that. I'll be reading Isaiah 41, 14 -20.

People of Israel, descendants of Jacob, you may

be weak and worthless, but do not be afraid.

I myself will help you. This is what the Lord

Himself says, I am the Holy One of Israel, the

One who saves you. Look, I have made you like

a new threshing board with many short teeth.

You will trample mountains and crush them. You

will make the hills like chaff. You will throw

them into the air, and the wind will blow them

away and scatter them. Then you will be happy

in the Lord. You will be proud of the Holy One

of Israel. The poor and needy look for water,

but they cannot find any. Their tongues are dry

with thirst. I, the Lord, will answer their prayers.

I, the God of Israel, will not leave them to

die. I will make rivers flow on dry hills. I

will make springs of water flow through the valleys.

I will change the desert into a lake filled with

water. There will be springs of water in that

dry land. I will make trees grow in the desert.

There will be cedar, olive trees, cypress, fir

trees, and pines. I will do this so that people

will see it and know who did it. They will notice

what happened. Then they will understand that

the Lord's hand made it happen, that the Holy

One of Israel created it all. I will be reading

Romans 15, 14 through 21. I'm fully convinced,

my dear brothers and sisters, that you are full

of goodness. You know these things so well, you

can teach each other all about them. Even so,

I've been bold enough to write about some of

these points, knowing that all you need is this

reminder. For by God's grace, I am a special

messenger from Christ Jesus to you Gentiles.

I bring you the good news, so that I might present

you as an acceptable offering to God made holy

by the Holy Spirit. So I have reason to be enthusiastic

about all Christ has done through me and my service

to God, yet I dare not boast about anything except

what Christ has done through me, bringing the

Gentiles to God by my message and by the way

I worked among them. They were convinced by the

power of miraculous signs and wonders and by

the power of God's Spirit. In this way, I've

fully presented the Good News of Christ from

Jerusalem all the way to Illyrica. My ambition

has always been to preach the Good News where

the name of Christ has never been heard rather

than where a church has already been started

by someone else. I've been following the plan

spoken of in the scriptures where it says those

who have never been told about him will see and

those who have never heard of him will understand.