“Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee. 39 But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas: 40 For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

“And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering” Genesis 22:8. There are many blessed passages in scripture that prophecy of the sacrifice of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. This April we rejoice when we consider the events of Good Friday and Easter, not just as history, but as a personal confirmation of the work that our Savior performed for each one of us. We can read of the many times that our Savior reminded his disciples, and those that

“37 The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones, 2 And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry. 3 And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord God, thou knowest. 4 Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word

There were twelve disciples Jesus called to help him: Simon Peter, Andrew, James, his brother John, Philip, Thomas, Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Thaddeus, Simon, Judas, and Bartholomew. He has called us, too. He has called us, too. We are His disciples, I am one and you! This little Sunday school song has been a go-to song for many of us for many years. A very cute little picture, or at least list, of the Men that Jesus called to be “fishers of men”. I used to say “if

God’s Peace to you all: I pray that each of you will have fulness of blessings in this New Year to come. We had a lot of on our church calendar these past few weeks and weeks to come. We had the time of celebration to the birth of Jesus, We had the preparation of our hearts for that time of his second coming. If we look in the days after Christmas, which is considered the 12 days of Christmas there is the circumcision of the baby Jesus which we can read in Luke 2/21-38. We ca