I was moved to teach on the doxology and the benedictions first of all because of

what they mean to me in my own devotional life. I turned to them in my own private

meditations for refocus, for worship, for self-examination, for building up a

faith and then as a result of that I've been looking for opportunities to

teach them to our church because I believe they aid the people of God in looking

up and seeing the greatness of God in these succinct statements of blessing and

or doxology that are memorable and meaningful. We take them for granted but they are

there for our blessed and in benefit. Blessing and praise by HB Charles Jr.

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The Gospels tell of a man who before he died long to see the Messiah and God

granted his desire. That's our topic today on renewing your mind.

Welcome to renewing your mind with a founder and chairman of liganyear ministries RC Sprole.

Today we wrap up our Christmas series with one final lesson. The series is titled The

Messiah is Born. All week we've been highlighting some of the more overlooked aspects of Christ's

birth. During the next half hour we'll hear the story of Simeon. He appears just once

in the Gospels. Yet his enthusiasm, his incredible anticipation of the coming Messiah, inspire

us to imitate him in his faith. Here's Dr. RC Sprole.

Anybody that knows me knows that one of my all-time favorite biblical characters is a man

by the name of Simeon. Simeon appears very briefly in the New Testament

record. He plays almost a cameo role. But the role that he plays I believe is significant

to our total understanding of Christ's coming to this world. One of the benefits of Luke's

gospel is that Luke records for us more information about the birth and the infancy of

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