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ANSWER KEY

1. puerile E. Displaying a lack of maturity
2. philomath H. A lover of learning; a scholar
3. galumph G. To move in a clumsy manner
4. ipseity A. Individuality
5. abeyance D. Suspension; temporary cessation
6. transmute J. To transform
7. jejune C. Insubstantial; weak, dull
8. morcellate F. To divide into small pieces
9. tenet B. Any belief or doctrine that a person
holds or maintains as true
10. benison I. Blessing; benediction



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Bible - God's Word in different languages...

http://www.scriptures.com/


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A professor at UNC asked if anyone in the class
could explain Roe vs. Wade. One student raised
his hand and said: "That's the decision George
Washington had to make when he crossed the
Delaware." G.B. - California





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Believers in Business:
Apologetics for a Free-Market Economy

At our recent BreakPoint "Christians in the Marketplace" conference,
Fr. Robert Sirico, president of Acton Institute, began his presentation
by quoting theologian Paul Tillich. "Christianity," said Tillich, "is
the religion of which socialism is the practice." After all, goes the
reasoning, isn't it all about sharing, rather than working as a result
of the "profit motive"?

But Christians, of course, work in a free-market context in this
country. And maybe that misunderstanding about socialism is why so many
of them find it hard to see their work as a calling. And yet, as Fr.
Sirico said, Tillich is wrong: The notion of "making" money and private
enterprise has a strong biblical grounding.

Fr. Sirico highlighted the story of the Creation from Genesis. In that
text, God formed man from dust -- a material substance -- and breathed
life into him -- the breath of God, a divine substance. God looked at
His creation -- a combination of corporeal and spiritual reality -- and
declared it good.

In the New Testament, Sirico went on, Jesus commanded His followers to
remember Him through the Lord's Supper. In communion, God supplies the
grain and the grapes. Man supplies the kneading and crushing -- human
effort, that is -- to make bread and wine. This material and spiritual
union of God's creation and our effort conveys dignity to human work.
God allows His creation to be molded by our effort.

This biblical understanding came under great attack from Gnostic
thinking in the early Church. The Gnostics believed that the material
world was made by a demi-god and was, therefore, evil. Although this
idea had no basis in Scripture and was rejected by the Church, it
became, according to Sirico, the most resilient of all heresies. And
today many Christians fall into the thinking that if something is
material, it is, if not inherently evil, very inferior to spiritual
things. We see this in Christian versions of Marxism, liberalism, and
socialism. It is also responsible for the notion that business is an
inferior calling to "serving the Lord." Business as a calling has been
lost in our denigration of material creation and work.

Christians need to re-affirm the goodness of material things and at the
same time emphasize our dependence on God and moral reflection on all
human action.

Only a free-market system takes the goodness of material creation and
the value of work seriously. It also takes into account the social
nature of humanity. In the market, those who produce goods and services
offer what they have made to others in order to meet the needs of
supplier and customer. This is a positive good.

There are flaws in a free market because the market reflects the
sinfulness of its users -- a subject BreakPoint listeners are familiar
with. And we've often argued that capitalism can't survive without a
conscience, without the reflection of Christian truth in the market.
Sirico stops short of declaring a free-market system "biblical," but he
argues that it is the system most compatible with biblical values and
principles when tied to religious faith.

Because material creation is good and human work and effort are good,
Christians ought to see business as a holy calling. Jesus -- Immanuel,
God-with-us -- is with us in our corporate boardrooms, our factories,
and in our stores.




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"I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man.
All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to
us through this book." -- President Abraham Lincoln

"For we must consider that we shall be as a City upon a hill.
The eyes of all people are upon us. So that if we shall deal
falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and
so cause Him to withdraw his present help from us, we
shall be made a story and a byword throughout the world."
--John Winthrop, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1630

"America was born a Christian nation. America was born
to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness,
which are derived from the revelations of Holy Scriptures.
Part of the destiny of Americans lies in their daily perusal
of this great book of revelations. That if they would see
America free and pure they will make their own spirits
free and pure by this baptism of the Holy Spirit."
--President Woodrow Wilson

"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this
great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians;
not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this
very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum,
prosperity, and freedom of worship here."
--Patrick Henry, original member of the Continental Congress


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Four important things to KNOW:

1) For ALL (Americans, Muslims, Jews, Catholics, Hindus,
Buddhist, Asians, Presbyterians, Europeans, Baptist,
Brazilians, Mormons, Methodist, French, etc.) have sinned
& fall short of the glory of God.

2) For the wages of above (see #1) are DEATH (Hell, eternal
separation from God, & damnation) but the Gift (free & at
no charge to you) of God (Creator, Jehovah, & Trinity) is
Eternal Life (Heaven) through (in union with) Jesus Christ
(God, Lord, 2nd Person of The Trinity, Messiah, Prince of
Peace & Savior of the World).

3) For God so greatly loved & dearly prized the world
(Americans, Muslims, Jews, Catholics, Hindus, Buddhist,
Asians, Presbyterians, Europeans, Baptist, Brazilians,
Mormons, Methodist, French, etc.) that He even gave up
His only begotten (unique) Son, that whosoever (anyone,
anywhere, anytime - while still living) believes (trust in,
relies on, clings to, depends completely on) Him shall
have eternal (everlasting) life (heaven).

4) Jesus said: "I am THE WAY, THE TRUTH, & THE LIFE.
No one (male/female - American, Muslim, Jew, Catholic,
Hindu, Buddhist, Asian, Presbyterian, European, Baptist,
Brazilian, Mormons, Methodist, French, etc. ) comes (arrives)
to the Father (with GOD in Heaven) EXCEPT BY (through)
ME (no other name).

This wonderful loving GOD gives you the choice - - -
(Rev. 3:20)

{Please note that church membership, baptism, doing good
things, etc. are not requirements for becoming a Christian -
however they are great afterwards!!!}

Jesus said, "Wide is the gate and broad is the road that
leads to destruction (Hell, damnation, eternal punishment),
and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow
the road that leads to life (Heaven, eternal happiness,
forever with God), and only a few find it. --Matthew 7:13-14


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Take the best medicine of all for what ails you -- laughter:
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--Arnold Glasow
"Laughter is by definition healthy."
--Doris Lessing
"If somebody makes me laugh, I'm his slave for life."
--Bette Midler
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter."
--Mark Twain
"What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul."
-- Yiddish Proverb
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