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Acts 1:1-11We'd...
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Acts 1:1-11
We'd lived in Miles City, Montana, a few months when a man in Billings (two hours drive away) spoke to me as I got out of my car, "How are things in Miles City?" I'd lived there long enough to learn about half the names of people I should know. I asked myself if he'd attended worship once, or I'd buried his uncle, or performed a wedding for his niece. He pointed to my license plate, "14 is Custer County." I began to learn Montana shorthand.
Christianity also has shorthand. We say Jesus "ascended into heaven and sits on the right
We'd lived in Miles City, Montana, a few months when a man in Billings (two hours drive away) spoke to me as I got out of my car, "How are things in Miles City?" I'd lived there long enough to learn about half the names of people I should know. I asked myself if he'd attended worship once, or I'd buried his uncle, or performed a wedding for his niece. He pointed to my license plate, "14 is Custer County." I began to learn Montana shorthand.
Christianity also has shorthand. We say Jesus "ascended into heaven and sits on the right