My dog has a problem with always chasing cars.

I decided to get him a law degree.

Now he chases Ambulances!

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Articles of Interest in Today's Hugh's News
1.Lighten Up with Laughter
2.Finishing Strong in 2022
3.Hugh Morgan Will Be 90 Years Old on December 15
4.Hugh Morgan ia moving to St. Mary's Highland Hills Village in January 2023
5.Essays on Advent & The Twelve Days of Christmas leading to Epiphany
6.Next Step Leadership - Learning from Warren Maye
7.2023 EVUSA Leadeship Gathering - Less than 45 days away!
8.Advent 2022 Week Two
9.A Day of Celebration with Air Force Chaplain, 
Colonel, Chad Bellamy
10.The Birth of Jesus - Lesson 1
11.Free at Last!
12.Emmanuel College President's Prayer Group
13.Will You Receive the Benediction

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Hugh Morgan will be 90 Years Old on December 15

​Author: Hugh H. Morgan

I will be 90 years old on Thursday, December 15. I was born in Birmingham, Alabama, at the Hillman Hospital. My parents were Hugh Henry Morgan and Julia Payne Morgan. I have an older sister, Mary Evelyn Morgan McDuff, who is deceased. I dearly loved her and she loved me. I love her five children and their families. Two of her adult children have died and gone on to be with the Lord.

Greg, our son, lives in a home near where I live. He has brain damage as a result of bacteria going to his brain. That is from a medical report. I see and talk with him often. He comes to my home to spend time with me and eat supper. It's nice to have someone to dine with me. I normally eat alone.

However, I will be moving to assisted living at St. Mary's Highland Hills Village in January 2023. Melvine will be gone to heaven on January 17, 2020. That's three years being separted from Melvine by her death in our home. I was able to keep her in our home until she died. Her oncologist prescribed Hospice Care. St. Mary's Hospice Care people who are professionals took excellent care of my dear wife. I long to see her again in heaven.

Should you wish to write and send a birthday card, I would be most grateful. 

My mailing address is:

Hugh H. Morgan
17 Sweet Apple Lane
Winder, GA 30680

My email address is: hugh@hughsnews.com

I want to thank you for your love and prayers and for being a subscriber/reader of Hugh's News.

Have a blessed Advent season and a Merry Christmas.

​Essays on Advent & The Twelve Days of Christmas Leading to Epiphany

Advent is the beginning or the Church Calendar.

I learned about Advent and Epiphany when I was a resident student at Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, KY. Melvine and I learned together. We were newly weds when we moved to Wilmore after our honeymoon. What an amazing three years that was for us of learning and meeting new people and listening to lectures from outstanding professors, and reading extensively in the library.

Let me inform you that Russell Board and Bishop Doug Beacham wrote a series of essays on Advent and the Twelve Days of Christmas leading to Epiphany.

I was overjoyed to get a telephone call from Air Force Chaplain, Colonel, Chad Bellamy on Saturday afternoon, December 3, 2022.

He reminded me that it was exactly 20 years ago, on December 2, that I administered the oath of office for him to become an officer in the Air Force as a chaplain with the rank of Captain. I remember it well since he reminded me of the historic event which occured at the recruitment office in Athens, Georgia. From that initial rank and nineteen years later Chad was promoted full colonel while he was a resident student in the Air War College. I was honored to recruit, endorse and administer the oath of office to Chad Bellamy.

God has certainly blessed Chad and his wife, Jeri. They have three outstanding children who are growing up rapidly. They are the Mighty Parker, Sweet Daisy, and Adorable Asher. Asher is a fifth grader and is playing basketball. Chad has the privilege to coach Asher in basketball. Chad told me that Asher has a tender heart toward God.

Chad and Jeri Bellamy are right where God wants them to be. They are at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois. Chad is              the Deputy Command Chaplan of Air Mobility Command.

Join me in praying for Chaplain Chad Bellamy, Jeri, and their children. Jeri also accepted a call from God to be a chapain's wife and help him in his ministry. Jeri is gifted in music and is a good singer. She calls me "the Reverend Doc." She is a good mother. She has imparted to her children the eternal truths about God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit. Her father was a Pentecostal Holiness pastor.

The Birth of Baby Jesus - Lesson 1

Author: Frank Tunstall

"The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So, the Holy One to be born will be called the Son of God” (Luke 1:35-36; John 1:29, 36).

King David is the prophet who foretold the Heavenly Father has a Son (Psalm 2:7). A thousand years after David’s prophecy, the process is both fascinating and mind boggling that brought about the birth of God’s Son and moved Him in flesh and blood into the neighborhood of human need (John 1:14, 29, 36, MSG). The angel Gabriel told Mary, possibly a 15-year-old teenager, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So, the Holy One to be born will be called the Son of God” (Luke 1:35; Isaiah 7:14; Matthew 1:23).   This included, of course, sending an angel to Joseph, who was engaged to marry Mary. The angel’s mission was to tell Joseph not to be afraid to take Mary as his wife, because her pregnancy was of God.

The Holy Spirit and DNA
The incarnation of Jesus, defined as God becoming a man, a human being, without question is one of the greatest miracles of all time as this study will illustrate. Jesus is the heir of all things and holds the entire universe together (Hebrews 1:2; John 1:3; Colossians 1:15-17). The modern discovery of DNA arguably will show how it might have happened. 

Joseph had “no union with [Mary] until after she gave birth” to Baby Jesus (Matthew 1:5, 18, 20). Mary conceived because of this “overshadowing” that Luke described. It refers to the Holy Spirit hovering over the waters in the creation (Genesis 1:2). In contemporary language it can be pictured as the genetic structure – the DNA supplied by a father in conception. In Baby Jesus’ case, Mary was a virgin. This meant the father’s contribution to Jesus’ DNA had to be miraculously created for Baby Jesus to come into the world both as truly a human being and as God’s Son.

Johannes Kepler (1571 – 1630), was a German scientist, astronomer, mathematician, and a trained Lutheran theologian. He understood his work as thinking the thoughts of God after Him.

DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is the term that describes the billions of microscopic-size molecules that hold in their nuclei the instructions an infant must have to develop fully, live healthily, and reproduce. In this sense, DNA is the discovery of the building blocks of life. These directives are found inside every human molecule and are handed down from parents to children. A full set of genes, known as the genome, includes some 3.2 billion base pairs of DNA. Said another way, the DNA formed by the union of a man’s and a woman’s cells contains the commands for a lifetime of orderly growth for their children. If Kepler were living today, he would surely revel thinking about DNA and imagining the thoughts of God after Him. The same is true about the plant and animal world. Even the little microscopic creatures have their DNA. 

For Baby Jesus to come into the world as truly a man, it was the role of the Holy Spirit to create His genetic system. Then Baby Jesus could be born without sin, grow up, and move into the neighborhood of Adam’s seed as one of us, sin only excepted. God alone could do it!

As you ponder the grand miracle and mystery of the incarnation of Jesus, let yourself consider the sovereign dominion of the Holy Spirit that was required to make it all happen. When you have absorbed the miraculous power and divine genius God revealed in the incarnation, you will have no trouble believing all the other miracles in the Bible. Yes, Gabriel had it right: “Nothing is impossible with God.”

A person cannot be a Christian without believing in miracles, and the birth of Jesus lives to this day as one of the greatest miracles in human history.

The angel Gabriel made the announcement to Mary and she sought more information, giving Gabriel a lesson in Biology 101: “How will this be since I am a virgin?” (Isaiah 7:14). Gabriel responded with his own lesson in Theology 101: “Nothing is impossible with God!” (Luke 1:34-38).

What an Ahh! moment. Like Mary, we too are to release our impossibilities to the Lord. We can only begin to imagine the power and divine genius required to conceive a child without a sexual union.

Baby Jesus was truly Mary’s flesh-and-blood babe of Bethlehem. He was also King David’s greater Son. At the same time, He was the  Heavenly Father’s sinless Son. We honor Jesus as having two natures in one Person, God and Man, with both natures blended so perfectly the Lord did not have a split personality. He is the God-Man and the last Adam. Never again will there be a need for another Adam; Jesus’ death and resurrection settled that. This understanding gives fresh meaning to Paul’s teaching that Jesus Christ is the last Adam, a life-giving Spirit (1 Corinthians 15:45).

At the great rapture of the church the redeemed will rise from their graves. They will have glorified bodies like Jesus manifested at His resurrection, having become the firstfruits of them that slept (1 Corinthians 15:20; 1 Thessalonians 4:17, KJV). This body will be immortal and incorruptible.

Modern science opened the door to consider the what, DNA  as the building blocks of life – but not the who, the divine genius who was the first to create DNA and make it work (Colossians 1:15-20; Hebrews 1:3). This process has been true in the birth of billions of babies, generation after generation, millennium after millennium, amid all ethnicities and peoples around the world. It is also true of nature. All creatures have their own DNA, every living creature. This includes every plant, from the largest to the smallest, and the creatures that are microscopic, and yes, the fish of the sea and the birds of the air. The list goes on, and on, and on.

Understanding this illustrates the divine genius behind God’s creation. But this comprehension of what God did, great as it is, remains a far cry greater from modern science having the ability to create the whole of the natural order.    

Indeed, if it were possible to get the world’s top 100 scientists into the world’s best equipped lab and give them the assignment to create the building blocks of life that are compressed into each of a person’s invisible billions of cell nuclei, they would surely be like King Nebuchadnezzar’s wise men: “What the king asks is too difficult. No one can reveal it to the king except the gods, and they do not live among men” (Daniel 2:11).    
 
The Babylonian wise men were partly right; they were also very wrong. Not gods, but one God, Jehovah, existing in a Trinity. He held the power and divine genius to accomplish the incarnation of Jesus. The Holy Spirit, the third Person in the Trinity, was the power source to make it happen.

The implications are far reaching. God created Adam, then Eve, making each of them compatible as male and female. When Eve gave birth to baby Cain, their first-born child, Eve understood enough to give God the honor. “With the help of the Lord,” she said, “I have brought forth a man” (Genesis 4:1).

Every mother and dad should see the births of their children as gifts from God. 

Without question, the incarnation of Jesus is one of the greatest miracles of all time.
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    Would you like to know more about DNA? Consider Anne Wanjie’s, The Basics of Genetics: Core Concepts, New York: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc., 2014. To begin learning the history of DNA’s discovery, consider Jenny J. Chen’s DNA and RNA, New York: Cavendish Square Publishing, 2017. You might also consider Beth Swarecki, Genetics 101, Adam’s Media, New York, 2018.

[Editor's Comment: There is no doubt about it  . . . Frank Tunstall is God's gift to the body of Christ and to the International Pentecostal Holiness Church. You can count on it . . . Frank is sound in Biblical Theology. Notice that he says it correctly . . . Jesus is the last Adam. That word in the Greek is escatos, the last of a kind. There will not be a second, third or fourth Adam. We get the word escatology from this root word, meaning the doctrine of last things. The virgin birth of Jesus is the greatest miracle in all the world. It is a joy to sit at the feet of Frank Tunstall and learn from him. It is important to hear the Word of God as it is taught or as we hear sermons or messages proclaimed by anointed men of God. We all tend to forget, and therefore we need to hear the Bible being taught over and over again. Several years ago Frank and I were in Hong Kong and Beijing, China. While the younger folks climbed the Great Wall of China, Frank and I spent that time talking about the great themes of holy Scripture. He remined me of Dr. Paul F. Beacham. In my opinion, Dr. Beacham was the greatest Bible teacher I ever heard. He knew the Author of the Bible and the Holy Spirit taught him what he taught us. I am a blessed man by my relationship with Paul F. Beacham. I attended his funeral and grave side services. I was privileged to drive Carl Campbell and Freeman Mashburn in my new Oldmobile Cutlass from Franklin Springs at the King Memorial Lectures to Holmes Memorial Church in Greenville, SC. At that time in history, I was president of Southwestern College, now Southwestern Christian University. May God bless Frank and Lu Tunstall. They are treasured friends of mine. I hope you will discover what a great Bible teacher and scholar Frank Tunstall is.]

​Free at Last!

Author: Anne Graham Lotz

"Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to death - even death on a cross!" (Philippians 2:8, NIV).

Christ “made Himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled himself and became obedient to death – even death on a cross!” (Phil. 2:7-8). How awesome to consider that the Creator of the universe, unbound in time and space for all eternity, chose to be bound

by a woman’s womb for nine months,

by the body of a man that knew weariness and hunger,

by a Roman cross, with His hands and feet pinned by spikes,

by a borrowed tomb . . .

Why? So that you and I might be set free from the problems that threaten to bind us and keep us from fulfilling God’s intended purpose for our lives.

Praise God! We can be free, truly free at last, from all that binds us, because the One Who is gloriously eternal, unbound by time and space, was willing to be bound!

Blessings,

Anne Graham Lotz

Copyright © 2022 Anne Graham Lotz (AnGeL Ministries) Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. Used by permission. All rights reserved www.annegrahamlotz.org.  

Emmanuel College President's Prayer Group 

​Author: Ron White

"Blessed are those who trust in the Lord and have made the Lord their hope and confidence . . . they never stop producing fruit" (Jeremiah 17:7-8, NLT).

Sunday – Pray for the employees of Emmanuel College to work together to fulfill God's vision for our future.
Monday – Pray for courage to take a stand for Christ in a wicked and selfish world.
Tuesday – Pray for a way forward that differentiates Emmanuel College as a unique place of faith and learning that attracts students who will be world-changers.
Wednesday – Pray for the leadership of Emmanuel College to be strong and have courage to follow where the Holy Spirits leads.
Thursday – Pray for abundant resources to expand our recruiting and marketing initiatives and to implement the enrollment plan.
Friday – Pray for a significant infusion of funding to strengthen our fundraising initiatives and to implement the advancement plan.
Saturday – Pray for other initiatives and plans, some yet to be developed, that will energize our mission and enable our vision.

​Thank you for praying.

Emmanuel College
181 Spring Street
Franklin Springs, GA 30639
706-245-2803

Luke 2:8-20     Glory in the Highest
 Now there were in the same country shepherds living out in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. 9 And behold, an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were greatly afraid. 10 Then the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people. 11 For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, Who is Christ the Lord. 12 And this will be the sign to you: You will find a Babe wrapped in swaddling cloths, lying in a manger." 

13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying: 

14 "Glory to God in the highest,
And on earth peace, goodwill toward men!" 

15 So it was, when the angels had gone away from them into heaven, that the shepherds said to one another, "Let us now go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has come to pass, which the Lord has made known to us." 16 And they came with haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the Babe lying in a manger. 17 Now when they had seen Him, they made widely known the saying which was told them concerning this Child. 18 And all those who heard it marveled at those things which were told them by the shepherds. 19 But Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart. 20 Then the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told them. 
NKJV

The story has been told that there are 66 Books in the Bible. There are 39 Books in the Old Testament; and 27 Books in the New Testment. That is a fact.

What is little known is that J. B. Phillips translated the New Testament from the Greek text. He started translating the Old Testament, but never completed it.

That is a tragedy. If he had done that, today we would have Phillips 66.

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Articles of Interest in Today's Hugh's News
1.Lighten Up with Laughter
2.Christmas at the Billy Graham Library
3.Advent 2022 Week Two
4.2023 EVUSA Leadeship Gathering - Less than 45 days away!
5.Things That Make a Pastor Weep
6.Next Step Leadership - Learning from Warren Maye
7.Essays on Advent & The Twelve Days of Christmas leading to Epiphany
8.Hugh Morgan Will Be 90 Years Old on December 15
9.Hugh Morgan ia moving to St. Mary's Highland Hills Village in January 2023
10.Seven Words of Christmas
11.When There Are No Answers
12.Emmanuel College President's Prayer Group
13.Will You Receive the Benediction

You are invited to come and see the Christmas experience at the Billy Graham Library in Charlotte, NC

​A beautiful sight at the Billy Graham Library in Charlotte, North Carolina

Come celebrate the Savior’s birth at the Billy Graham Library in Charlotte, North Carolina. Bring your family and friends for Christ-centered festivities, light displays, and inspiring exhibits.
 
Nov. 28–Dec. 23
FREE admission and parking
Reservations required
5-9 p.m. Monday-Thursday
5-10 p.m. Friday-Saturday

Live nativity offering a glimpse into the first Christmas including shepherds, a camel, donkey, lambs, and other animals.

Storytime for kids of all ages on the Billy Graham Library’s patio. Occurs every 30 minutes beginning at 5 p.m.

Joyful carolers and festive Christmas music.

The Journey of Faith tour (newly updated!) retraces the inspiring journey of Billy Graham using state-of-the-art exhibits and historical retrospectives. The last tour starts 1 1/2 hours prior to closing. Reservations are required.

Holiday treats including Mother Graham’s pound cake, cinnamon rolls, hot apple cider, hot chocolate, and much more, available all day for purchase.

Christmas shopping at Ruth’s Attic bookstore with unique and inspirational gifts, including exclusive Library ornaments.

Horse-drawn carriage rides through the beautiful lights displayed across the property. $11 per adult, $5 per child (under 12).

RESERVE YOUR SPOT
 
“She will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.”
—Matthew 1:21, NKJV 

​2023 EVUSA Leadership Gathering - Less than 45 days away!

Please Click Here to see the video promoting the 2023 EVUSA Leadership Gathering

Now is the time to plan to attend this exciting leadership gathering.

​You will be glad you did.
This year's Leadership Gathering will carry a strong emphasis on furthering the Gospel and increasing our harvest capacity. We will target personal witnessing, local church evangelism, engaging our culture, ministry multiplication and more.

Onsite check-in begins Monday, January 16th at 5:30 pm and we will conclude on Wednesday, January 18th at 2:00 pm. Please book your hotel and travel accordingly.

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Things That Make a Pastor Weep

Author: Hugh Hoyle

2 Cor 2:3-5 
3 I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling. 4 And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, 5 that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.

1. Immaturity of The Saints.  (1 Cor 3:1-3)
And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to carnal, as to babes in Christ. 2 I fed you with milk and not with solid food; for until now you were not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able; 3 for you are still carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and [a]behaving like mere men?

  2. Indifference Toward sin.  (1 Cor 5:1-5)
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles—that a man has his father’s wife! 2 And you are [b]puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he who has done this deed might be taken away from among you. 3 For I indeed, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged (as though I were present) him who has so done this deed. 4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, along with my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, 5 deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

  3. Irreverence in the services.  (1 Cor 11:17-22)
17 Now in giving these instructions I do not praise you, since you come together not for the better but for the worse. 18 For first of all, when you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it. 19 For there must also be factions among you, that those who are approved may be recognized among you. 20 Therefore when you come together in one place, it is not to eat the Lord’s Supper. 21 For in eating, each one takes his own supper ahead of others; and one is hungry and another is drunk. 22 What! Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God and shame those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I do not praise you.

  4. Ignorance Concerning The Spiritual Gifts.  (1 Cor 12:1)
Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not want you to be ignorant:

  5. Insensitivity Toward Sinners.  (1 Cor 15:34)
Awake to righteousness, and do not sin; for some do not have the knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame.

All Scripture references are from the New King James Version

[Editor's comment: Hugh Hoyle has agreed to be a contributing writer for Hugh's News. Hugh, having  earned a  Doctor of Ministry Degree  and  Lois a Master of Arts in Biblical Studies, teach in ministers retreats, conferences, and training seminars as well as minister in medical clinics.  Lois computerized the library in Hyderabad Bible College. ]