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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

Consider the irony. At a certain point in time the One who was creator, would actually become part of His creation. The sustainer of the world would be killed by the hands He was sustaining. The One who was loved by the Father, would be predetermined to be rejected by the Father. The One who knew no sin, would become sin. And the One predestined to die for sinners, would be predestined before there ever was sin. First Peter 1:20, says He “has appeared in these last times for the sake of you.” The One who needs nothing, would come to the aid of those who hated Him and purchase a people for Himself.
Randy Smith

Recently I read again of a woman who simply decided one day to make such a commitment to pray, and my conscience was pricked. But I knew myself well enough to know that something other than resolve was being called for. I began to pray about praying. I expressed to God my frustrated longings, my jaded sense of caution about trying again, my sense of failure over working at being more disciplined and regular. I discovered something surprising happening from such simple praying: I was drawn into the presence of One who had, far more than I did, the power to keep me close. I found my focus subtly shifting away from my efforts to God’s, from rigor to grace, from rigidity to relationship. I soon realized that this was happening regularly. I was praying much more. I became less worried about the mechanics and methods, and in turn I was more motivated. And God so cares for us, I realized anew, that He Himself helps us pray. When we “do not know what we ought to pray for… the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express” (Rom. 8:26) (Timothy Jones).
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    Pagan Influences

    PAGAN INFLUENCES

    BASIC R.C. BELIEF From Knights of Ciolumbus Correspondence Course, Lesson 10, page 16. “Plato, for example, established an outlook on life that lasted hundreds of years and which, in many aspects, influenced the thinking of the early Christian Church. . . Some of (Aristotle’s) principles are followed even today.”

    POST VATICAN II Richard McBrien, Notre Dame theologian, “The conversion of Constantine also allowed the Church to be less defensive about pagan culture, to learn from it and be enriched by it.”

    CHRISTIAN COMMENT All one has to do is to study the history of the sacramentals of the Roman Catholic Church to see evidence of this pagan influence. See articles concerning the sacramentals.

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