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I am hesitant to box God in, to put him in a corner when it comes to saying what He will do. He may choose to limit himself, but I believe in a can do God who has no limitations in what he can do, including his choice on his will. Scripture does give us some instances where he changed his mind, or what he said he would do. He seems to have changed his method or strategy in response to mankind a number of times. His will and purpose didn't change. In fact it shows his will to not be thwarted in achieving what he wills to do - save to the uttermost. He can out smart the devil and certainly can outsmart us. I don't think he will drag anyone into heaven against their free will. But it is like a little child that throws a temper tantrum and refuses to eat his supper - I really am not going to force feed him, although I might actually be able to do so against that little guy's free will to refuse food. But that is not my only option. I can wait until he is hungry enough. I can change the food for something more palatable so he doesn't starve. I can use my powers of persuasion and invent a new way to "thwart" his obstinate little temper. Nor is force or destruction of wickedness God's only option. If I can outwit, outlast and outperform a toddler, I think God can do so with his children. We seem to limit God in what choices he has based on what choices we see that we have. Obey or not. Accept or not. But what God can create, he can recreate. He can fix what is broken. He can convince the hardest hearted person to change and if they can't or won't, he can do a heart transplant. Can God outwit, outlast, outdo even the worst temper tantrum of his children? Think of a God who can take dust and dirt and make a man. What difference is it to take the dust and dirt to which the dead become and recreate them new and without spot or blemish, inside and out. No limitation on what he can do.

Come January 24, 2015, all eyes will be on Jamaica. That is the sentiment expressed by The Seventh Day Adventist community, which will be hosting the first-ever Religious Liberty Festival at which they see all religious organisations and civic leaders coming together to celebrate freedom. View the full article

As I have often said; The Biblical issue is the role that women should have in spirituality. In is not ordination. Look closely at the texts often cited which are believed written by Paul. Those texts do no mention ordination. Speaking and remaining silent in services does not relate to ordination. Speaking and remaining silent related to a role. When Paul wrote about speaking and remaining silent he did not list an exception. E.G. He did not write that women should remain silent in church unless they exercised the gift of prophecy. Whatever he meant, he did not qualify what he wrote with an exception. I am reminded by a clergyman of another denomination who once said to me: I cannot understand how a denomination that had a woman, Ellen White, as an early leader is having this debate. I agree.

I've always been rather intrigued by God dragging that shady character, Lot, kicking and screaming out of the path of destruction.

Concentration camps were organized after Hitler came to power with the help of local police, citizens, deeming what would be the "Final solution of the Jewish question." By 1939 Germany invaded neighboring Poland created ghettos in cities where thousands of Jews worked and lived in cramped spaces, with their resources cut. It was the costliest war in human lives. There are many accounts of people risking their own lives to save others. German housewives, businessmen, people of different faiths, and countless others worked to help people during WWII. Read more at http://www.beliefnet.com/Inspiration/Galleries/Heroes-of-the-Holocaust.aspx#ymxgrDzqQhZ1lUdd.99

Keep My Mind Focused on Good Health O Lord, I find it hard to remember what it was like to be healthy. Help me keep my mind focused on good health and strength. Let me be positive about the course of treatment I am undergoing. And let me always have faith, great faith, in your presence in my life and your glory in my health.