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In his brief, useful book Can We Trust the Old Testament? Bible scholar William Neil writes, "The first thing .

"When the time was come that he should be received up, he stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem. " Luke 9:51.

The healing office of Christ is eloquently stated in Luke 4 (which echoes Isa. 61:1,2) : "[The Lord] hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.

The question a fellow member asked me about going to church surprised me. Of course we were going! We made a practice of going, and our week would seem empty without church—without the spiritual inspiration, substance, and joy it always supplied.

God was revealed to Moses as the great I am and as the Lawgiver. He was felt by the people of Israel to be their guide and their protector, as the King of kings, the Almighty.

Have you ever thought about Joseph of Arimathea? If you have, you probably didn't see him as playing a great role in history or as being an outstanding disciple of Christ Jesus. Yet the qualities Joseph manifested, the spirit that impelled him to a brave, unselfish deed, linked him to our Master's triumph over death—an event of stupendous import in human history.

Vital to the education of all are what are often referred to as the three R's: reading, 'riting, and 'rithmetic; and vital to our spiritual progress are another three R's: remorse, repentance, and regeneration. As God is All and the only Being, whatever exists in reality must be identifiable with Him.

I remember an instance some years ago when a biography of Mrs. Eddy that was quite critical had been published in a newspaper.

Would you resign from a committee of one? I nearly did. I felt I had received too much criticism and too little appreciation.

The answer to the question "How big is your ego?" would probably vary according to each individual's experience. Some may have an oversized sense of ego due to a history of success and achievement.