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The Sacramento Library will print you a copy of a book. They have a specialized copy machine that will print and bind a book in one operation. The library has a flat fee of $6 plus 3 cents per page. On the local news tonight we watched it print a 270 page book. This machine is thought to be one of two in the entire state.

We need to remember: Is your faith in the same proportion to that of this verse? Are we focused on the kingdom of God, or what is our focus? What kind of idea do people get of us when our message is not of the kingdom of God?

i remember the strange conversation i heard at church when a member distressfully said they sinned because they ate oriental top ramen and later they discovered it had natural shrimp flavor... with actual shrimp particles.... sigh

Three men were hiking the "back country" when they came to a river that appeared to be impassable. Faced with a necessary task that seem beyond their human ability they turned to prayer: * The first man prayed for the for the physical strength to cross the river. Immediately he was transformed into a person with very large muscles. Jumping into the water, he swam for two (2) hours before making it out on the other side. * The second man prayed for strength and tools to cross the river. Like the first, he was given the strength and a boat. Thirty (30) minutes later he had rowed to the other side. * The third man prayed for strength, tools and the wisdom/intelligence to cross the river. Immediately he was transformed into a woman and given a map. She hiked up-stream for 5-minutes, intersected a highway and walked across the bridge. With thanks to Joel Osteen for the basis of this report.

Is this the one? Book Printing

The church teaches that pork is unclean. I don't disagree with that. The church teaches that we should avoid eating unclean meats for health reasons. I do not disagree with that. I have no issue with what the church is teaching. The issue I raise is how members use the church's teaching and, in some cases, judge other members. There are many Adventists that eat Jell-O knowing that it likely has pig collagen in it. So what is the difference between eating Jell-O and beans with lard?

If we take a few verses of Deuteronomy 28 out of context, we can misconstrue those to say that the descendants of the Israelites will be wiped off the earth. But that is not what it says in context. God preserves a remnant of his people and God keeps his covenants and promises, even the promises that he made to those who have long been dead. See Romans 9-11. The covenant that God made with the Israelites has no provision for the nation of Israel to get out of that covenant, even if they wanted to. Individuals who rebelled would be cut off from Israel and loose their place in the covenant, but even after the Israelite nation rebelled and was sent into exile, God sent word through the prophets that he would not abandon the nation of Israel as long as day and night would last, and that he would be faithful to the nation of Israel not because of anything they did or didn't do, but for His own name's sake (Jeremiah and others). If the Israelites or the Jews are suffering the curses of the covenant then the covenant itself must still be valid. What you say about the Ashkenazi Jews may be true, but irrelevant. Although Jewish tradition traces genealogy through the mothers, the Bible traces genealogy primarily through the fathers. There are also a large number of Sephardic Jews, which are quite distinct from the Ashkenazi. Genesis 28 doesn't contain such a curse. Perhaps you were referring to your interpretation of Deut. 28. The Christian church has made much of the supposed "curse" that a rebellious crowd of Jewish people called out to Pilate, "His blood be on us and on our children." Yet that is not how the apostles interpreted that situation. Look at Peter's two sermons in Acts 2 and 3. The apostles don't play the "blame game" for the death of Messiah because they knew that Jesus came to earth intending to die on purpose -- it was part of God's plan. Although Peter makes it clear that the people he is talking to are guilty, Peter also makes it clear that the part they acted was part of God's plan and that forgiveness was freely available to the many tens of thousands of Jews and Israelites who accepted Jesus. Peter also makes it clear that all the things which God spoke through the prophets long ago about restoring all things would still be fulfilled. The notion that those prophetic promises to Israel were "conditional" and that the Jews failed somehow to satisfy the supposed [non-scriptural] "conditions" is not substantiated in the New Testament. God stands by his word and keeps his covenants and promises to Israel. Also, if you just look at the statement, "His blood be on us and our children," you may notice that Christians sing hymns that extol the virtues of being "washed in the blood" of Messiah. The New Testament teaches that those who are cleansed by Messiah's blood, the blood of the New Covenant, are figuratively sprinkled with that blood just as the Israelites were sprinkled by Moses with the blood of the original covenant. So having "His blood be on us and on our children" turns out to be a very good thing, once a person has properly repented, as Peter instructed the Jews from many nations in his sermon.

The Council of Jerusalem is summed up in Acts 15:28, 29. It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements: You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things. Farewell. No mention of abstaining from unclean meats. Yet we know that the gentile world ate unclean animals. The history on this is that the founders of the Adventist church did not settle the matter. It did not appear in our fundamental beliefs until after the death of Ellen White. The whole thrust of not eating unclean meats is in regard to health. It is part of the health message. That is how it is framed in the baptismal vows and in our book Seventh-day Adventists believe. Seventh-day Adventists do not believe that eating unclean meats will make a person ceremonially unclean. Abstaining from unclean meat is part of our health message. Understanding that, if given the option to eat some beans with lard in them or eat a side order of french fries, which would be the healthier choice? The beans would be. The fat content in the beans would be far less and the carbohydrates would be far superior to what is in the french fries.

I know the question wasn't addressed to me but if there was a simple answer such as the one proposed, there would be no "Fox's Book of Martyrs". God is Love!~Jesus saves!