http://www.youbeginhere.com Your Online Pastor Mon, 24 Dec 2012 19:53:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 http://www.youbeginhere.com/2012/12/remembering-the-god-with-us-merry-jesusmas/ http://www.youbeginhere.com/2012/12/remembering-the-god-with-us-merry-jesusmas/#comments Mon, 24 Dec 2012 19:49:59 +0000 Paul Luna http://www.youbeginhere.com/?p=1593 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel. – Is 7:14  “The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel” (which means “God with us”). – Mt 1:23 There is no other name like, “God with us.” Our [...]

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