the illustrations<\/a> you have. That has helped me so much in my Bible class teaching the last few weeks since I found your site. It is nice to find scriptural and appropriate illustrations to use. We even use illustrations like that to make their little attendance ‘stickers’ so everything has to do with the lesson. Thank you for taking the time to put those online.<\/p>\nI look forward to reading more of the study notes you have on this site as well. Thank you for all the work you do. I hope that many people find your site and write to you with questions and study with you. I hope one day we can do something like this website. I looked up our own name on the Internet to see what if our elders had set up a site and found another congregation that I didn’t know existed by the same name, and they do appear to be very denominational. As a matter of fact, their site flashes several different pictures of tempting-looking breakfast foods. Almost says, “We have the best food around, and when we are full and have had lots of fun, maybe we will have time to do a sermon or something….” That isn’t us. We teach what you do on the website – at least, what I have read so far from what you have written. It is so nice to know that we have brethren all over the country<\/p>\n\t
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Thank you for your kind note. It is nice to know the work is helpful to others. I think I visited your congregation once, but it was about 25 or 30 years ago.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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