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There are twenty beggars in the street and I determine to give one of them a shilling. But will anyone say that I determined to give that one a shilling, that I elected him to have the shilling, because I foresaw that he would have it? That would be talking nonsense. In like manner, to say that God elected…

Imagine a river, full of sandbanks, with a channel that twists and turns in a tortuous fashion. There is a vessel on it with an experienced pilot on board. Even he is very anxious, and is constantly heaving the lead and frequently going at half-speed or stopping altogether. Now if a steamer with a good…

I suppose that when the stones for the temple were quarried in the mountains, each one received a special mark from Solomon’s seal, marking it as a temple stone and perhaps denoting its place in the sacred edifice. This would be like the first inscription, “The Lord knows those who are his.” But the…

A month and a half after Election Day in 2016, Joe Chandler, from Georgia, is refusing to find out who won the presidential election. He says that on the day after the vote he woke up feeling happy and relaxed and decided not to ruin the mood by seeing the election result. So, for 6 weeks he has avoided…

A young woman entered Heartbeat of Miami Pregnancy Help Medical Clinic seeking help with an unwanted pregnancy. She was having an ultrasound done when she saw the little flutter of the heartbeat and then she heard it. She asked, “Is that, like, my heartbeat?” Lourdes McMinns, the Clinic supervisor said,…

Adopted as a child and with no knowledge of her biological family Abbey Donohoe met Paula O’Brien at a party in Davenport Iowa. Despite their 11-year difference in age people said they looked like sisters. They became Facebook friends and when O’Brien made a post about her brother’s child who was given…

An election season calls forth charges and then countercharges. An army of fact checkers head for the news to verify, fact or lie. “Daniel Patrick Moynihan once said, ‘Everyone is entitled to his own opinion but not to his own facts.” As believers we ought to value truth very highly. After all, it is…

THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD – THAT’S ENOUGH *“There is an old story of two men hiking in Wales. They came across a boy in the mountains keeping his sheep. The travelers talked with him about shepherding, and the conversation went to Psalm 23. One of the men told the boy, “Think of the five fingers of your…

FUTURE What if you looked into the future and caught a glimpse of yourself like you would be then? This is the premise of the television drama, Flash Forward. The whole world passes out for 2 minutes and 17 seconds during which they see themselves exactly seven months into the future. --World, October…

Behold, I set before you a way, and ways, and a way. And the high soul goes the high way, And the low soul gropes the low. And in between, on the misty flats, The rest drift to and fro. But to each is opened a high road and a low, And each one must determine The way his soul would go. Bulletin 945 –…

"Heresy is not so much rejecting as selecting. The heretic simply selects the parts of the Scripture he wants to emphasize and lets the rest go. This is shown by the etymology of the word heresy and by the practice of the heretic. "Beware," an editorial scribe of the fourteenth century warned his readers…