According to
The American Research Group, in 2008 the average American spent $431 on Christmas shopping. In 2007 they spent double that amount. In fact, the average Christmas spending over the past 10 years is about $1,004 per year. How much do you spend?
How much is the stress of dealing with the crowds, finding parking spaces at your local malls and department stores? How much time do you waste standing in line to get to…
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Magnify the Lord
By Rev. Dean Beaty 10/29/09
Psalm 34:3 “O magnify the LORD with me,
and let us exalt his name together.” (KJV)
John 15:13 “Greater love hath no man than this,
that a man lay down his life for his friends.” (KJV)
“O magnify the Lord with me...exalt His name together.”
Praise the Lord with thankful hearts in clear and cloudy weather.
This is the task of all His own; to lift God's name on high.
In all we do and all we say the Lord we magnify.
To magnify means make larger that al…
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It is Depressing
By Rev. Dean Beaty 10/25/09
How depressing it must be
to go through life and never see
that there's a plan purposed for me
to live with God eternally.
By Christ's blood the way's been made.
Redemption's price by Him was paid.
I could never make the grade.
God did it all without my aid.
If you're not sure of eternity
then turn to Christ and bow your knee.
If you will ask His child you'll be,
for God's grace to you is free.
In God's Word these truths are clear
and that's the g…
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God's Love or the Devil's Hell?
By Rev. Dean Beaty 10/21/09
II Corinthians 5:14-15&21 “For the love of Christ constraineth us;
because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live
unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might
be made the righteousness of God in him.”(KJV)
Some people preach on hell to get folk to…
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Christ the Only Way
By Rev. Dean Beaty 10/18/09
John 14:6 “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life:
no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” (KJV)
There's a place for tolerance but the truth we must proclaim.
There's no other way to God except through Jesus' name.
Do all roads lead to Rome? Even maps shows that's not so.
You will never see the Father unless Jesus Christ you know.
Christ said this of Himself; that He's the only way.
How could He make it clearer? What more…
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The Light at the End of the Tunnel
(God's Way is Best)
By Rev. Dean Beaty 9/25/09
Does the light at the end of your tunnel
Seem like a million or more miles away?
Is the light that is flickering yonder
Like a candle for a child's birthday?
Sometimes the tunnel seems forever
And the end seems to reach eternity.
You know that with God all things are possible
But there's no hope for a change that you can see.
Even if your trial lasts a life time.
Don't despair for our God is on the throne.
We wil…
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The Whole Purpose of God's Plan
By Rev. Dean Beaty 10/28/09
John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son,
that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
John 14:6 “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life:
no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” (KJV)
Can the God of all creation, who with words created space,
With the act of merely speaking put the universe in space,
Have the power to save a sinner with His love…
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Zoloft and Me
By Dean Beaty 9/27/09
Hezekiah 4:12 "If thou takest not thy medicine strange things
might happen." (DBV)
When I run out of my Zoloft and I’m prone to be a grouch.
No longer I’m content to lie quiet on the couch.
Little things can set me off and make me like a bear.
And often I am stormy to the one whose life I share.
It really is amazing what a little pill can do.
Just let me do without it and I might snap at you.
It’s called anti-depressant but that’s not what I see.
It helps de…
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You Are Not Forgotten
By Rev. Dean Beaty 10/5/09
II Corinthians 4:17 “For our light affliction, which is but for a moment,
worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;” (KJV)
I Peter 1:7 “That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of
gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise
and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:” (KJV)
Do we need reminding that God has not forgot?
Especially when our life is tied up in a kn…
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The Black Hole of the Internet
By Dean Beaty 8/22/09
One day I wrote a poem, for that is what I do.
I put it on a web site and away my poem flew.
I hoped someone would read it, that’s why the thing was sent.
But I haven’t any knowledge of where the poem went.
For a moment it was there, then “poof” it went away.
Into cyber space, I guess that’s what you’d say.
But that’s an ire feeling for I don’t know where it went.
All that I can tell you is I know the thing was sent.
Maybe someone read it a…
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The Beam In My Eye
By Rev. Dean Beaty 8/30/09
Luke 6:41-42 “And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye,
but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Either how canst thou say
to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou
thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out
first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the
mote that is in thy brother's eye.” (KJV)
I’m no…
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Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled
By Rev. Dean Beaty 9/11/09
John 14:1-2 “Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God,
believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it
were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.” (KJV)
Let not your heart be troubled in the midst of world decay.
The Savior gave this promise that He would return someday.
“I'm going to the Father to prepare a place for you.
And there you're going to join me when your life on earth is th…
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Forward Gears But No Reverse
By Rev. Dean Beaty 10/03/09
Choices that we make last far beyond today.
And there is no reverse along our life's highway.
That doesn't mean to say we can't go left or right.
But reversing what's been done is an idiot's delight.
Now we can make amends for bad choices that we made.
But they are not erased it only makes them fade.
Water poured upon the sand can't be put back in the cup.
Can a wrong that we have done ever truly be made up?
Be careful what you sow for…
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Fear of Man and the Fear of God
By Rev. Dean Beaty 9/03/09
Psalm 27:1 “The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?
The LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?” (KJV)
Isaiah 41:10 “Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am
thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee
with the right hand of my righteousness.” (KJV)
There is no peace for the fearful, for fear is like water on fire.
These two will not go togethe…
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The Lord’s Day
By Rev. Dean Beaty 9/26/09
Hebrews 10:25 “Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together,
as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the
more, as ye see the day approaching.” (KJV)
The Lord’s Day is approaching; the day for Christian rest.
Will you join in worship and have your heart be blest?
So many other interests vie for our leisure time.
To pursue them in the week is not a mortal crime.
But let me illustrate it in away you can critique.
How strong…
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Trusting God
By Rev. Dean Beaty 10/7/09
Genesis 18:25 “Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?”(KJV)
When the answer does not come in the way you think it should.
Does your faith grow old and cold, you give up on doing good?
Our time is not God's time and our ways are not His ways.
Let the waiting grow your faith. You will find it always pays.
God's ear has not gone deaf nor His hand a little weak.
It's time to trust Him more and His perfect will to seek.
His eyes have not grown dim tha…
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Christ the Only Way
By Rev. Dean Beaty 10/18/09
John 14:6 “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life:
no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” (KJV)
There's a place for tolerance but the truth we must proclaim.
There's no other way to God except through Jesus' name.
Do all roads lead to Rome? Even maps shows that's not so.
You will never see the Father unless Jesus Christ you know.
Christ said this of Himself; that He's the only way.
How could He make it clearer? What more…
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God Given Gifts
By Rev. Dean Beaty 9/24/09
I Corinthians 9:27 “But I keep under my body, and bring
it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached
to others, I myself should be a castaway.” (KJV)
Each talent that I have is given from the Lord.
On each one of His servants these gifts have been outpoured.
They will be empowered to fulfill our Lord’s design.
The power is all from God and none of it is mine.
Just take a look at Moses who in his own flesh tried.
But all that he acc…
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God’s Great Gifts
By Rev. Dean Beaty 9/23/09
James 1:17 “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above,
and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no
variableness, neither shadow of turning.” (KJV)
In God’s Word the story is told.
When Christ was born they brought Him gold.
For most today the same is true.
Great gifts are given, all thanks to You.
Minds to think and eyes to see,
A voice to speak to men of Thee.
But how it must make God’s Heart ache,
When men use these His l…
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I Am Not a Nobody
By Rev. Dean Beaty 9/16/09
I Corinthians 2:9 “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard,
neither have entered into the heart of man, the things
which God hath prepared for them that love him.” (KJV)
I am not a nobody, for Jesus died for me.
He shed His blood on Calvary from sin to set me free.
I trusted in His saving grace and became a child of God.
My Father is the King of Kings. Now a different path I trod.
I am not a nobody, I’m made in God’s image.
You can find it written right th…
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Are you going to fight with the crowds this holiday season?
Magnify the Lord
