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Our Features Editor, Kim Shippey, recently interviewed Rich Williamson and Chris Womack about their ministry on the streets of the "tough" neighborhood of Roxbury, Boston. Rich and Chris are cofounders of God's Posse, a group committed to steering young men away from street hustlers and gangs, and, where necessary, drawing them out of daunting home circumstances in which good role models and mentors are as scarce as nights without emergency sirens.

When a book (or anything, for that matter) has had a tremendous impact for good on your life, how natural it is to share it. That's what the letter I'd received from The First Church of Christ, Scientist (every member got it), was all about.

Generally , gratitude is expressed for blessings received, for deliverance from difficulties, and for tasks successfully completed. There is another dimension, however, to gratitude, an aspect that initiates a joyful, constructive, helpful attitude and that leads to healing.

Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house . Matthew 5:15 My husband had attended an inspiring meeting.

Science and Health is a book that offers unlimited possibilities for study, and there is no formula or set pattern for its study. It may be read in parts or consecutively from beginning to end.

My family became acquainted with Christian Science when I was a small child, and I was enrolled in the Sunday School where I began to learn of God's love. One Christmas season my Sunday School teacher gave me an unexpected gift.

When the great patriarch Jacob was foretelling the destiny of his sons, he declared that his son Dan would be "a serpent by the way, an adder in the path. " Gen.

What age? Newborn baby? "Terrible twos?" Grade-school age? Teenage? College age? Career age? Parental age? Change-of-life age? Retirement age? Old age? Do any of these describe the man that reflects the one, everlasting, ageless God? No! As we begin to realize that the concept of age isn't valid, because man is the immortal likeness of God, not the offspring of mortals, we will cease to record age in our thoughts. The number of years one has been on earth isn't the problem.

Who doesn't want to have a feeling of dominion? The stability, freedom, and tranquillity that we associate with dominion are deeply appealing. And the thought of having dominion over evil is certainly comforting.

Luke's Gospel records a remarkable encounter between Christ Jesus and emissaries from a Roman army commander, a centurion. They conveyed his urgent request that Jesus heal his seriously ill servant.