Luke 4:1-7 (NASB)

Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led around by the Spirit in the wilderness for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And He ate nothing during those days, and when they had ended, He became hungry. And the devil said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread.” And Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live on bread alone.’”

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So a long time ago, Eric in our church told me about this old British Science Fiction show called Doctor Who.

I managed to find a few reruns on PBC and enjoyed them after church back when I lived in Hector...

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Thought it might be interesting to dig into some phrases, that I doubt people know the meaning of. 

Let’s start with: "goodbye", it turns out this phrase comes from: " God Be With You".  Nice to know this one has a great origin and a better meaning than I knew.

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You might have heard about Art imitating life.  I have  some video clips that an expert in the art-world believes are a representation of modern art…

Take a look at this normal looking glass.  In fact, go grab a normal drinking glass.

For your glass, or the one in the picture, would you say it is taller than its circumference?

The circumference is the distance around the circle, in this case the circle made by the top of the glass.

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Notice the always blind man said: “When I dream I don’t see anything, because my subconscious doesn’t know how to see, I don’t see in my dreams…”

This kind of leads you in to what some call Jesus’s double miracle:

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ICE/ISEE-3 was launched in 1978.

It was the first spacecraft to be placed at the L1 point in orbit of Earth which let us measure solar and geomagnetic phenomena,

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Proverbs 1:7 (NASB)

Just by being interested enough to read this devotion, I would believe you fear the lord and are looking for knowledge.  

I thought it might be interesting to look at the quadrant of knowledge and how we can match up scripture.

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We see a beautiful view of the planets.  However, I think most of us know that the distances there are not realistic, but did you know HOW unrealistic?

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I was doing some reading online and ran across Pyramids.
OK, I knew Pyramids were in Egypt...

and I remembered they were also in Mexico, though more of the step pyramid version...

But what I didn't know was that there were pyramids in...

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So Bluetooth is named for uniting nations under Jesus…. Though today we don’t go into forcible conversions….

However, whenever you see this symbol, let’s think about being unified as Paul said in Ephesians 4:11-13:

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A recent court case in Italy is interesting.

Italy's top appeals court overturned a conviction against a homeless man from the Ukrane, who stole cheese and hot dogs worth $4.50, becuase he was starving.

Their judgement is that if you are starving, theft of a small amount of food is not a crime.

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I am sure many of you have heard of American Sign Language, or ASL.  How deaf people in the United States, Canada, and many more talk with each other using their hands.  But, did you know it had a connection to Martha's Vineyard?  How about a strong French connection?

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