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 2 Peter 1:5-7 Make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, virtue with knowledge, knowledge with self-control, self-control with endurance, endurance with devotion, devotion with mutual affection, mutual affection with love. - "Whenever we find ourselves bombarded with accusations over past sins, with demeaning reminders of our weakness, unworthiness, or uselessness, we can turn to the blood of Jesus for protection and Satan must flee! His temptations, his accusations lose their grip, and we are restored to the truth once more of who we are in Christ. Deliverance is ours, even as Jesus rejoices over us all because we have called upon the power of his blood!" (from the Word Among Us)

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    If you're spiritually alive, you're going to love this!
    If you're spiritually dead, you won't want to read it.
    If you're spiritually curious, there is still hope!
    Why Go To Church?

    A Church goer wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper and complained
    that it made no sense to go to church every Sunday.  "I've gone for 30
    years now," he wrote, "and in that time I have heard something like 3,000
    sermons.  But for the life of me, I can't remember a single one of them.
    So, I think I'm wasting my time and the pastors are wasting theirs by
    giving sermons at all."

    This started a real controversy in the "Letters to the Editor" column,
    much to the delight of the editor.  It went on for weeks until someone
    wrote this clincher:

    "I've been married for 30 years now.  In that time my wife has cooked some
    32,000 meals.  But, for the life of me, I cannot recall the entire menu
    for a single one of those meals.  But I do know this.. They all  nourished me and gave me the strength I needed to do my work.  If my wife had not given me these meals, I would be physically dead today.  Likewise, if I had not gone to church for nourishment, I would be spiritually dead today!" 
 
    When you are DOWN to nothing.... God is UP to something!  Faith
    sees the invisible, believes the incredible and receives the impossible!
    Thank God for our physical AND our spiritual nourishment!
Submitted by: Ramon H. MacFarlane, Sr. RC Thiensville-Mequon RD 6270 (SE Wisconsin, USA)
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