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March 2022

Spring is in the air (somedays) and lots of great things are going on or coming up here at Victory! We’re halfway through Every Sole Counts and Corrie is halfway through…

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August Newsletter 2021

Elul 2021 by Ray Haynes When August arrives, the month of Elul arrives on the Biblical Calendar and that means the Fall Feasts are approaching. Elul is about romance. It…

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Where Are You Hanukkah?

Hanukkah or Chanukah is not a Biblical feast, and its deeper meanings are rarely revealed, but there’s a lot more to it than lighting candles, kid’s games, and terrible chocolate….

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Second Chances

“To live without hope is to cease to live.” Fyodor Dostoevsky I wonder if we will look back on 2020 and tell those too young to remember it, “To live…

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Weak Like an Eyelash

JoJo: “You are weak…like an eyelash. I am born of Aryan ancestry.” Elsa: “Break free, great Aryan” [Elsa twists JoJo’s arm behind his back and pushes him down]. “There are…

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A 500 Foot Lie

A 500 Foot Lie by Ray Haynes Take a trip to Wichita Falls, Texas and you could see the “World’s Littlest Skyscraper.” It’s a 40-foot-tall brick oddity that brings to…

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When Christian Leaders Fall How Do We Respond?

  I was so moved by John Cooper, lead singer for the Christian rock band Skillet, who recently responded on social media to several disclosures of young Christian leaders renouncing…

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Too Blind To See

Have you ever wanted to walk where Jesus walked? Fifteen years ago, in southeast Jerusalem a sewage pipe burst in the middle of a neighborhood. A crew of construction workers…

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When Mercy Can’t Triumph Over Judgment

Things don’t always go the way we think they will. In 1485 at the Battle of Bosworth Field between King Richard III and Henry Tudor during the War of the…

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Teach Us To Number Our Days

“So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom…Let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish the work of…