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Tim Maas
Retired Quality Assurance Specialist with the U.S. Army
I was raised as a Lutheran, but now consider myself a non-denominational Christian. I have been married for 38 years, and have two married children -- a son who is an attorney, and a daughter who is a mathematics teacher -- as well as a granddaughter who was born in April, 2019, and another granddaughter who was born in February, 2020. I retired in 2013 after 35 years as a Quality Assurance Specialist (Ammunition Surveillance), which is a civilian (Civil Service) career program that inspects and classifies the Army's stockpile of conventional, guided missile, and toxic chemical munitions, so that the Army has an accurate picture of the serviceability and safety of its ammunition stockpile at any given time.
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What does it mean when it says, "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me"?
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What exactly is meant by "in the abundance of your trade"? Was this referencing Lucifer's trade or the King of Tyre?
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Why did God engrave them on his hands (Isaiah 49:16)?
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Does God expect us to be happy (Psalm 100:2)?
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