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An area of thought that challenges and disturbs many people today concerns the great advances being made in physical science and technology, especially in the field of medicine. Two developments that are receiving particular attention involve genetic engineering and organ transplants.

It is recorded in the fifth chapter of Mark's Gospel that Jesus on one occasion approached a man possessed of "an unclean spirit. " And the man, perceiving Jesus afar off, ran and worshiped him.

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I remember thinking, when I was ten, that growth was a wonderful thing. However, I was not so thrilled when I found a growth on my hand a number of years ago; it seemed to leap there overnight.

Returning from the airport, having put the last of my visiting children on a plane, I was overwhelmed by a deep sense of depression. This didn't stem from the family's leaving, for it had been a wonderful gathering of all the relatives for Christmas.

When Jesus was betrayed and arrested, he said to his accusers, "This is your hour, and the power of darkness. " Luke 22:53.

Several years ago our family was waiting for a new arrival. One child had been born to us, and we'd been led to apply to adopt another.

Often in seeking healing we ask, "How long, Lord, how long?" But how fervent is our desire for grace? Our willingness to let God do His beautiful work in all of us is directly related to how pliable our hearts are. None of us are humanly perfect, and we have, in some ways, all fallen short of the righteousness of God.

How, indeed, could one study for hours and hours that holiest of all books, the Bible, and its companion, the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, without experiencing healing? Christ Jesus tells us, "If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Jesus pictured the Kingdom of God as the dimension of the spirit into which we are called to enter, where the axioms are not the usual ones of the physical world, although the imagery seems to give to the Kingdom a sense of space. As we have seen and must always keep in mind, most basically for Jesus, the Kingdom is a description of the presence of God as spirit and power.