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HEY ALL this JUNE 16 , 2019 is Father's Day dgrimm60

Moishe and Miriam were having some problems at home and were giving each other the silent treatment. The next week, Moishe realized that he would need Miriam to wake him at 5:00 AM for an early morning business flight to Chicago. Not wanting to be the first to break the silence (AND LOSE), Moishe wrote on a piece of paper, "Please wake me at 5:00 AM." The next morning Moishe woke up, only to discover it was 9:00 AM and that he had missed his flight. Furious, he was about to go and see why his wife hadn't woken him when he noticed a piece of paper by the bed. The paper said, "It is 5:00 AM. Wake up!"

Marvin and Shirley Applebaum were childhood sweethearts who had married and settled down in the same neighborhood where they grew up. They were celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary and decided to walk down the street to their old school. There, they hold hands as they find the old desk they 'd shared and where he had carved "I love you, Shirley." On their way back home, a bag of money falls out of an armored car and lands practically at their feet. Shirley quickly picks it up and decides to take it home until they decide what to do with it. There, she counts the money, and it's fifty thousand dollars. Marvin says, "We've got to give it back." Shirley says, "Finders keepers" and puts the money back in the bag and hides it up in their attic. The next day, two FBI men are going door-to-door in the neighborhood looking for the money and show up at their home. They say, "Pardon me, but did either of you find or know about some money that fell out of an armored car yesterday?" Shirley says, "No." Marvin quickly interjects, "She's lying!! She hid it up in the attic." Shirley says, "Don't believe him, he's getting senile." However, the agents sit Marvin down and begin to question him. "Sir, please tell us the story from the beginning." Marvin says, "Well, when Shirley and I were walking home from school yesterday..." The FBI agents immediately look at each other and say, "Let's get out of here!!"

Shuli and Itzik Smadar make their first doctor visit at Shaarei Tzedek hospital in Jerusalem prior to the birth of their first child. After everything checked out, Dr. Cohen took a small stamp and stamped Shuli’s stomach with indelible ink. The Smadars were curious about what the stamp was for, so when they got home, Itzik dug out his magnifying glass to try to see what it was. In very tiny letters, the stamp said, "When you can read this, come back and see me."

Shira Brown used to hate going to weddings. After the wedding and during the reception, her aunts and all of the other older women would come up to her and say “Im yirtzeh Hashem by you” which means – God willing, you should be next. But Shira got them to stop. Know how? At funerals she started approaching the older women saying, “Im yirtzeh Hashem by you”!

The children at the Talmud Torah had all been photographed, and their teacher Mrs. Crohn was trying to persuade them each to buy a copy of the group picture. "Just think how nice it will be to look at it when you are all grown up and say, 'There's Sarah; she's a lawyer,' or 'That's Michael, he's a doctor.'" Little Moishie Meisleman shouted from the back of the room, "And there's the teacher Mrs. Crohn; she's at Pardes Shalom Cemetery."

Miriam was reading a newspaper while her husband Moishe was watching the ball game on TV. Suddenly, she burst out laughing. "Listen to this," Miriam said. "There's a classified ad here where a guy is offering to swap his wife for a season ticket to the stadium." "Hmmm," Moishe said, not looking away from the game. Teasing him, Miriam said, "Would you swap me for a season ticket?" "Absolutely not," Moishe said. "How sweet," Miriam said. "Tell me why not." "Season's almost half over.”

I would have thought that she would haVe wanted him out of the house and therefore arranged for some other method to wake him, like dropping a lot of pots and pans on the floor of the bedroom. Or a glass of cold water in the face--I did that once, when I was a kid, and it ruined a good friendship.

I'm having some trouble lately feeling sincere compassion for every cause that requires compassion - be it time or money. Every time I contribute online or via an appeal at church or through the community, I become an eternal recipient of snail mail and email to give more. Every busy intersection has one or more people with a sign wanting help, usually ending with "God Bless You". I'd guess half of them or more are "self-medicating". Most of the other half is mentally ill or have too little education or intelligence to hold down steady employment. Church needs money for this or that cause. ASPCA needs contributions for abandoned animals. Several organizations make appeals on behalf of veterans. Children's hospitals beg for money so kids can get affordable treatment. On top of that, the government is considering forcing you and me to finance abortions through Medicaid and feed, clothe, house, and provide medical services for millions of illegal immigrants through taxes. I'm getting tired of being asked to give to everyone all the time; and being "guilted" if I don't. I call it compassion fatigue. When I pick and choose who to give to, I wonder if I'm "discriminating somehow by giving to one worthy cause and not another. Then I look at Jesus. I don't see Him ever suffering from compassion fatigue. Every time He tried to get away by Himself, when the crowds found Him, He had compassion on them all; healed everyone, and cared deeply about all with whom he came in contact. I justify my compassion fatigue with the excuse that Jesus had infinite resources at His disposal. I do not. Do any of you feel the same way? How do you deal with it?

Trying to be compassionate with all the worthy causes out there is in addition to trying to provide compassionate care for aging or disabled family members - some of whom don't appreciate (or even want) the care and concern.

In a time of crisis, why do some people to put their life on the line and become a hero? Each of the persons mentioned below did exactly that. Why? https://www.mic.com/articles/87211/12-portraits-of-heroic-rwandans-who-stood-up-to-their-country-s-genocide NOTE: The above was written April 9, 2014. For a current report of a SDA hero see: https://ktpress.rw/2019/04/carl-wilkens-the-only-american-who-stayed-in-rwanda-during-the-genocide/

Not any different than you! Actually a lot of times I feel bad I don't have any money in my pockets to give!!

All major denominations have faced issues of sexual abuse, to include the SDA denomination. The following website is an informative discussion of such a case that did not occur in a SDA congregation. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/her-evangelical-megachurch-was-her-world-then-her-daughter-said-she-was-molested-by-a-minister/ar-AACEPNX?ocid=spartandhp

5 Things You Didn't Know About Mount McKinley On this day in 1913, Hudson Stuck, an Alaskan missionary, led the first successful ascent of Denali (formerly known as Mt. McKinley) the highest point on the American continent at 20,320 feet. Here are five things you didn't know about the tallest mountain in the North America... The Mountain Finally Has One of Its Old Names Back -- for Now Mt. McKinley has had that name for what is really only a short time -- and in fact, as of 2015, it wasn't named Mt. McKinley anymore. That name was first used in 1897 by a gold prospector who was simply a fan of President McKinley. The national park surrounding the mountain was also named after President McKinley until 1980, when it was renamed Denali National Park and Preserve. The mountain has had several names both in various Athabascan languages and in English, but "Denali" is the one that people have tried to use over the past century. Alaskan representatives continually petitioned to have the mountain itself renamed Denali, but their efforts were blocked every single year because Ohio's representatives wanted the mountain to continue to be named after McKinley, who was from Ohio. Finally, in 2015, President Barack Obama approved the name change. President Donald Trump asked Alaskan senators if they wanted the McKinley name back, and both refused, stating that they wanted the mountain to remain "Denali." Want to Climb Denali? You'll Have to Climb More Than You Would if You Were on Mt. Everest. People tend to think of mountain heights as one general measurement, but "highest" and "tallest" are actually two different measurements. "Highest," in terms of mountains, runs from sea level to the top peak of the mountain. "Tallest" runs from the base of the mountain to the top peak. So even though Mt. Everest is the highest mountain because of its massive 29,000+ elevation above sea level, it's not the tallest. From base to summit, it spans only 12,000 feet, while Denali spans 18,000 feet from its base to its peak. (Mauna Kea is the tallest on the planet, spanning over 33,000 feet from its base on the ocean floor to its summit.) Climbers on Denali Also Have to Deal With Lower Barometric Pressure and Worse Temperatures Than on Everest Adding to the difficulty is Denali's latitude. Being so far north on the continent means that the atmosphere around the peak is very thin and has a much lower barometric pressure than that around peaks at more moderate latitudes. Low temperatures and wind chills can be worse on Denali, too; for example, Mt. Washington in Vermont, often said to have some of the worst weather on the planet, had a wind chill of nearly -103F in 2004, while Denali has seen wind chills of -118F at its peak. Denali Has Had "Volcano-Like" Earthquakes, Even Though It Is Not Considered a Volcano Denali is not considered volcanic despite its proximity to volcanoes in Alaska. However, in 2016, the Anchorage Daily News reported that a slow, volcanic-like quake was observed at the mountain in 2015. The quake was very light but lasted a long time, and it was centered at a part of the interior of the mountain that you would expect to see in a volcano. However, the Alaska Earthquake Center has stated that Denali is not about to turn into a volcano or erupt. Measuring the Mountain's Actual Height Has Been Kind of a Problem Finding the actual height to the foot for mountains is getting easier with technology, but it's still rather difficult overall. Denali is no exception; its official height has changed slightly over the years. The latest measurement is 20,310 feet as of 2015, although the mountain is growing ever so slightly each year.

5 Surprising Facts You Didn't Know About D-Day On June 6, 1944, Allied forces landed on Normandy Beach in what became known as D-Day. Here are 5 shocking facts you didn’t know about this turning point in World War II... There Has Never Been a Larger Military Operation Than the Normandy Landing Initially, three divisions were planned to land at Normandy, but that number eventually grew to be much larger, with 39 Allied divisions committing to the invasion at the beach in France. By the close of the invasion on June 11, 326,547 Allied troops had landed, along with 104,328 tons of supplies and 54,186 vehicles. This made it the biggest single operation in history. The Plans For the Invasion Were Almost Leaked to the Public Secrecy was important during the planning of the D-Day invasion, so word would not get back to the Germans, but the news almost leaked out, not once but twice. During the summer before the invasion, a copy of the early plan sailed out an open window in Westminster, England, but was fortunately found by a passing man and returned. On June 3, only three days before the invasion, a London teletype operator wrote up a fake invasion news release as practice for the real thing, and it was picked up by AP and announced over 500 U.S. radio stations, but the news was corrected two minutes later. One American Paratrooper Got Stuck on a Church Spire for Two Hours One unlucky paratrooper, among the 15,000 who landed at Sainte-Mere-Eglise around midnight on the first day, became stuck when his parachute got caught on the spire of a church. The paratrooper, John Steele, hung from the spire for about two hours and pretended to be dead so the Germans would not capture him. He was rescued by Allied forces about two hours later, and since then, a dummy paratrooper has been a permanent decoration on that church’s spire. A Pigeon Named Gustav Brought the First Report of the Landing Gustav was the name of one of the homing pigeons used by the RAF to transmit messages during the Normandy invasion, and he carried the first landing report. While this might sound a little primitive, homing pigeons were so important to the war effort that predator birds were culled to make the skies safer for them. For his service, Gustav was awarded the PDSA Dickin Medal, along with three other pigeons and Brian the dog, for their devotion to duty and conspicuous gallantry. A Ghost Army Was Used to Deceive the Germans The Germans knew that an invasion was planned, but they didn’t know where, and an elaborate ruse was put into operation so they would think the attack would be at Calais. A ghost army of rubber airplanes, inflatable tanks, vehicles and camps was built in Essex and Kent to throw them off, somewhat like the Trojan horse. It worked so well that the Ghost Army ruse was used more than 20 times between 1944 and 1945.

5 Things You Didn't Know About Bobby Kennedy_2 On June 5, 1968, Bobby Kennedy was assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan at the Ambassador Hotel. Despite his premature death, he remains a major figure in U.S. culture and politics. Here are five surprising facts you probably didn't know about Bobby Kennedy... He Failed Third Grade Robert Francis Kennedy, the seventh child of Joseph P. and Rose Kennedy, was constantly changing schools, partially because his father was a U.S. ambassador. He went to 12 different schools during primary and secondary, both in London and the United States. He failed third grade, but eventually got on track academically. After he graduated from secondary school, he attended Harvard and graduated from law school at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Kennedy Was Involved in Several Bar Brawls Kennedy may have been referred to as the runt of the family, but he got into his first bar fight at 21 when he hit someone over the head with a beer bottle. When working as a Senate lawyer at age 30, he got into a fistfight with a drunk at a bar. After asking the man to take it outside, he struck him in the face and broke the man’s nose. He Reached the 14,000-Foot Summit of Mount Kennedy Kennedy was not an avid rock climber, but he was the first to climb the 14,000-foot Mt. Kennedy in the Canadian Yukon, which had been named for his assassinated brother. During the 1965 ascent, he left the climbing team he was with, including his brother, Ted; he reached the top first, planting a flag there. Brother Ted, who months before had survived a plane crash, pointed out that he himself had scaled the Matterhorn. Kennedy’s Hobby Was Stamp Collecting When Kennedy was 11, he began collecting stamps and received a gift of stamps in an album from then-President Franklin Roosevelt. Roosevelt also sent him a letter, which invited Kennedy to see his stamp collection if he came to Washington. Kennedy responded to the gift by saying that he liked both the stamps and album and would like to see FDR’s collection. Both of the letters are preserved at the National Archives. Kennedy Debated With Ronald Reagan and Lost Kennedy was a seasoned debater and Reagan a rookie when they debated about America’s image and the world’s youth on May 15, 1967 on CBS News. However, Reagan’s knowledge and personable way of speaking made him the clear winner, which Kennedy himself acknowledged. He reportedly told his aides to never schedule him to debate Reagan again.

David may have been a mighty man. But, the following rock was too big for his sling. https://time.com/5602210/colorado-boulder-highway/

See: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/southern-baptists-are-supposed-to-talk-about-sexual-abuse-but-right-now-theyre-discussing-whether-one-woman-can-preach/ar-AACCs0A?ocid=spartandhp

The Lord could have come err this. May I recommend the chapter in the SDA Bible Commentary "The Role of Israel in Old Testament History." This is a very important article we were encouraged to read in Academy, but at college it was required reading with a paper for every semester you took a Bible class (which meant that religion and theology students had to do it every semester).We have been so influenced by Fundamentalists that has such a narrow view of inspiration that we miss a lot of the message of the Bible. There are three ways we find the Bible used by other Bible writers and prophets. The first is exegesis, or it's immediate context including how God was giving that generation either the chance to finish the work (by spreading the Gospel) or to prepare things so that a generation or two later could have finished and the Lord could have set up the kingdom. For example we have in Isaiah 7 God trying to encourage the king to trust in him. He was worried about two kings. Isaiah gave a promise of a child. Matthew said that this was a prediction of Jesus. But it sounds a little crazy for Isaiah to say to the king "I know you are worried about these two kings, but in about 500 years a child will be born and before he knows right from wrong those two kings will no longer be an issue, so all you need to do is trust God and wait 500 years." Isaiah was talking about a child born in his day (but even so he was applying the child of promise that was given to Abraham, and which we can reapply to Jesus). There is a second principle of analogy, applying the principles to another similar situation. This is what Matthew is doing. This is what we do when we apply Daniel 8:14 to 1844, or when Ezekiel applies it to the end of time (and describing the end of time to how it could have ended had Jesus been accepted). Or even those involved in producing the book of Daniel to move it from the end of Babylonian about 2300 days later to applying it to the 70 weeks of years. A third way we find the Bible writers and Mrs. White using scripture is a homiletical or linguistic application. Where it is not the immediate context of exegesis or a reapplication to a similar situation, but where the words still fit. (an example is Mrs. White saying that we are preaching the law the law the law until we are as dry as the hills of Gilboah. ) Deuteronomy 4 predicted that the exile could have been the last days. The original setting of the 2300 days was about 2300 literal days from the end of Babylon. Daniel 9 re-applies it to the 70 week of years prophecy. Ezekiel has a 2310 day prophecy that shows how it could have been fulfilled when Jesus came. Yes, there could still be another application, but the evening-morning points to the cycles that we find in Leviticus, and 1844 was the fulfillment of the day-year application.

The following is "A Sabbath Sermon." the author is John McLarty, pastor of the Green Lake congregation in Washington State. https://atoday.org/wrench-ministers/

IMHO, sex was given to humans because God knew they would need to populate the earth and replace themselves due to death. I doubt that we will have or need a sex drive in heaven, because we will be immortal with no need to reproduce ourselves. "At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven." (Matt. 22:30; also see Mark 12:25). For many people, the "special bond of sex" is also known as "lust" - not always; but frequently. If we have no sex drive in heaven , lust will be a thing of the past. That being said, I only infer that "not marrying" means "no sex"; but it is a strong inference. But IMHO the Bible never explicitly says there will be no sex in heaven.

Hi JoeMo: You are correct that Daniel 8:14 does not say "Day but "evening-morning." But may I say that this does NOT suggest a reference to the sacrifices and be equivalent to 1,150 days, but is actually a stronger argument for the Adventist application than if it did use the word "day". First of all, the term for the sacrifice is NOT "evening-morning", but a very technical "morning and evening". I actually read in a couple of commentaries that support the 1150 days that the author of Daniel was clearly Dyslexic because he meant to write "mornings and evenings" but he switched around the words "morning"and the word "evening" and he forgot to include the word "and" but that we have to be careful to recognize his dyslexia and not read the text as it stands but to change the text to what he meant to say. However, others recognizing that the term "evenings-morning" is very similar to the "evenings and mornings" of Genesis 1 and is thus related to the daily cycle, but that it is also emphasis to the daily cycle and should be compared to the weekly cycles that we find in Leviticus 23 and in the book of Deuteronomy. In Leviticus 23 a Hebrew week is 6 days and the weekly Sabbath, 6 months and either Passover or Yom Kippur, 6 years and the Sabbatical year, and 6 Sabbatical years and the Jubilee. Thus an evening-morning is a reference to the daily cycle of this and can be a literal day, month, year or sabbatical year. However Daniel is based on Deuteronomy which does not have the Jubilee as it is in Leviticus. Everything that happens in the Jubilee in Leviticus occurs in the Sabbatical year of Deuteronomy, thus while it can relate to the Jubilee it would not allow for 2300 sabbatical years. Anyway, another reason why we can say that it should not be 1150 days is by looking at the text. The vision was given in the 3rd year of Belshazzar. Now it was not until the 20th century that we learned that Belshazzar was indeed a real person. The 1150 days comes from the theory that Daniel did not exist and the book was written to deal with the issue of Antiochus Epiphanes and the wrong but wishful thinking that he would only have power for 1150 days. (they see the 2300 days as too long, the 1150 days are actually too short, but fit a little bit better than the 2300, and they can point out that it was only wishful thinking.) But now we know that Belshazzar was indeed a real person and we know what years he ruled. Now we only have the year to go by, but if you start with the third year of Belshazzar and add 1150 literal days to it you come to a year of business as usual. However if you start with the third year of Belshazzar and add 2300 days to it you come to the year that includes Medio-Persia approaching Babylon, Behshazzar's feast, and the early days of the Medio-Persia empire. Also, if you hold the early date of the exodus, Yom Kippur 1844 ends a cycle of 7 Sabbatical years and the start of a Jubilee. And what was happening on the earth at this time was that the Rosetta stone had recently been translated opening up ancient languages, and Edward Robinson just completed his first trip to the Holy Land and had just published his book of the trip. This was the first serious study in Bible Geography which opened the door to Biblical Geography and archaeology, it was the dawning of the age of exegesis. A time where we get to investigate the pages of scripture like never before.

See: https://www.portland.va.gov/PORTLAND/features/The_MISSION_Act_is_now_implemented_across_the_VA.asp Yesterday, June 6, 2019, a new law went into effect that established new health-care options and procedures for veterans of the U.S. military. The URL above takes you to a site that explains this along with links that provide further information.

First edition of the Magazine published in cooperation with the General Conference, Office of Adventist Mission and the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Canada. For information on subscribing to this please email MessengerSA@adventist.ca http://issues.adventistmessenger.ca/books/clae/

Ah, your recent post give credence to your selection of "Aliensanctuary" as the name under which you post.

As many of you know, I participate in Quora, an International Internet question and answer site. The majority of the questions asked there are valid questions. However, the following is an example of a question and answer given today: Q: How many feet are in 20 square feet? R: Count the number of bilegged people standing in the 20 square feet and multiply by 2.

Who would have thought that tickets to a Pathfinder event might be fraudulent? https://atoday.org/fraud-alert-ahead-of-oshkosh-pathfinder-camporee/ NOTE : All official tickets have been sold. No more official tickets are available from the official site.

GREGORY thank you for posting this article===== it seems like some people === mostly out side of the church and maybe some people inside of the church are trying to take advantage of a fun time for the youth dgrimm60

I disagree. Programmed obedience is not obedience at all - it's either slavery or a computer program. Love and obedience must always a free-choice option if we are indeed made in the image of our Creator. I don't want to be an immortal robot. If I have no sense of self, what do I have a sense of? satan thinks that the only way to truly express free will is through rebellion. God thinks the only way to truly express free will is by voluntarily putting aside self out of love for Him and those around us. Some think satan was trying to prove to Jesus that He didn't even have a free will. He dared Jesus to jump off of a high precipice to commit suicide. satan claimed that God's angels would immediately intervene to ensure that Jesus would NOT kill Himself. satan ultimately lost that debate.

June 2019 Signs of the Times Email Newsletter The Signs of the Times newsletter is a collection of stories and quotes from past issues of Signs and These Times. *************************** “There is one thing that I can’t understand,” said my friend with a questioning mind. “What is that, Hanson?” I asked. “About old man Jones, down there at the foot of the hill. If there are any Christians in this country, he is one. He has prayed twice a day for forty years, and proved his faith by his works. He has worked hard, and has been ambitious to lay up something for his family, yet he is exceedingly poor, and always been poor. Often his family lack the bare necessities of life. That little cabin with the rocky patch of ground around it is all he has to show for a life of drudgery. Yet the Bible says that all things work together for good of those who love the Lord, and to him that asketh it shall be given. How do you explain it?” “Let us go down and talk with him about it,” I replied. The old man warmly welcomed us into his simple cabin, and set chairs for us by the open fireplace, for it was a frosty November day. “I’m glad to see you, Will.” He always called me Will. “I have been wanting to tell you about a letter I got two weeks ago from Dave. Dave has professed religion, and joined the church.” The old man’s eyes grew bright, but his voice shook a little. “I’ve been praying for that boy for many years, and I knew the Lord would save him.” The light on the face furrowed by care and toil and age was good to see. “I’m perfectly happy now,” he continued. “Mary married a good man, and they have a good home. Sam is preaching the Gospel, and now Dave has chosen that better part. The Lord is wondrous good to His servants, and I can say with David, ‘The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.’” And he repeated the whole Psalm. “But haven’t you often needed things that you did not get?” inquired my friend. “Oh, yes! Certainly there have been many times in our lives when we did not have all the worldly goods we wanted, but some way we pulled through,” replied the old man cheerfully. “Perhaps it was the result of bad management, perhaps it was best so, but that matters little. The Lord has made us so rich in everything else we do not mind a little poverty.” As we climbed the hill my friend was silent. When we reached the summit we looked back at the little cabin at the foot. “I understand now,” said my friend.—By William H. Hamby, Signs of the Times, January 21, 1903. Quote: “I came to town and offered them Christ.”—By Jon Wesley in his “Journal”, These Times, September 1967. *************************** Don't miss the July 2019 issue of Signs of the Times: To order Signs, call: 1-800-765-6955 or CLICK HERE to order online. *************************** There are many like the young princess who had been praised by her subjects for her beauty. She was made to believe that her beauty was unsurpassed. She had no means of verifying the truth of these statements until a trader sold her a looking glass. She is said to have smashed the mirror when she beheld her ugliness. So the law of God is a mirror in which we are able to see our own imperfections. Many react as did the African princess when they see what the law reveals. They say that the law need not be taken too seriously. When the law reveals our impurity we are not to destroy the law, but we are to come to Christ for cleansing from impurity.—By Arthur L. Bietz, Present Truth, Vol. 26, No. 13. Quote: “It costs a good deal to pay the tithe to the Lord, but it costs a good deal more not to pay it.”—By Whalon, Present Truth, Vol. 27, No. 20. *************************** NEW from Pacific Press—Secrets to Wellness by Ernestine “Teenie” Finley. Around the world, Teenie Finley has shared health material in conjunction with her husband’s evangelist meetings. The material she has shared in workshops and seminars is now available in this attractive book. Great for personal study, use in seminars and giving as a gift. Read the first chapter FREE online. CLICK HERE! Order ONLINE or call your local Adventist Book Center--1-800-765-6955. *************************** During the waning years of the Depression, I used to stop by Mr. Miller’s roadside stand in a small southeastern Idaho community for farm-fresh produce as the season made it available. Food and money were still extremely scarce, and bartering was a common way of doing business. One particular day as Mr. Miller was bagging some new potatoes for me, I noticed a small boy—delicate of bone and feature, ragged but clean—hungrily apprising a basket of freshly picked green peas. I paid for my potatoes but was also drawn to the display of fresh peas – I’m a pushover for creamed peas and new potatoes. Pondering the peas, I couldn’t help overhearing the conversation between Mr. Miller and the ragged boy. “Hello, Barry, how are you today?” “H’lo, Mr. Miller. Fine, thank ya’. Jus’ admirin’ them peas. Sure look good.” “They are good, Barry. How’s your Ma?” “Fine. Gittin’ stronger alla’ time.” “Good. Anything I can help you with?” “No sir, Jus’ admirin’ them peas.” “Would you like to take some home?” “No sir. Got nuthin’ to pay for ‘em with.” “Well, what have you to trade me for some of those peas?” “All I got’s my prize marble here.” “Here ‘tis. She’s a dandy.” “I can see that. Hmmmm, only thing is, this one is blue and I sort of go for red. Do you have a red one like this at home?” “Not zackley… but almost.” “Tell you what. Take this sack of peas home with you, and next trip this way let me look at that red marble.” “Sure will. Thanks Mr. Miller.” Mrs. Miller, who had been standing nearby, came over to help me. With a smile she said, “There are two other boys like him in our community; all three are in very poor circumstances. Jim just loves to bargain with them for peas, apples, tomatoes, or whatever. When they come back with their red marbles – and they always do – he decides he doesn’t like red after all, and he sends them home with a bag of produce for a green marble, or an orange one perhaps.” I left the stand, smiling to myself, impressed with this man. I soon moved to Utah, but I never forgot the story of this man, the boys, and their bartering. Several years later I had occasion to visit some old friends in that Idaho community. While I was there I learned that Mr. Miller had died. His viewing was to be that evening, and knowing my friends wanted to go, I agreed to accompany them. Upon our arrival at the mortuary we fell into line to meet the relatives of the deceased and to offer whatever words of comfort we could. Ahead of us in line were three young men, one in an army uniform and the other two with nice haircuts, dark suits, and white shirts—very professional looking. The young men approached Mrs. Miller, who was standing smiling and composed by her husband’s casket. Each of them hugged her, kissed her on the cheek, spoke briefly with her, and moved on to the casket. Her misty light blue eyes followed them as, one by one, each young man stopped briefly and placed his own warm hand over the cold, pale hand in the casket. Each was awkwardly wiping his eyes as he left the mortuary. Then it was our turn to speak to Mrs. Miller. I told her who I was and mentioned the story she had told me about the marbles. Eyes glistening, she took my hand and led me to the casket. “Those three young men who just left were the boys I told you about. Just now they told me how much they appreciated the things Jim ‘traded’ them. Now, at last, when Jim couldn’t change his mind about color or size, they came to pay their debt. We’ve never had a great deal of the wealth of this world,” Mrs. Miller confided, “but right now, Jim would consider himself the richest man in Idaho.” With loving gentleness she lifted the lifeless fingers of her deceased husband. Resting underneath were three magnificently shiny red marbles.—By Glenn Harrison, Signs of the Times, November 2002. Quote: “Most men and women would rather be assured of eternal life than of anything else. If the privilege of living forever were marketable, it would sell at the highest figure of anything offered to mankind.”—By American Statistician Roger W. Babson, These Times, October 1983. *************************** Place this notice in your church bulletin or newsletter: Signs of the Times® makes it easy to share your faith. Sending a Signs subscription to a friend or neighbor is the perfect way to share Jesus. Order from your Adventist Book Center today. To order call: 1-800-765-6955 or online at: http://www.adventistbookcenter.com/signs-of-the-times-magazine-yearly-us-subscription.html *************************** A very remarkable story is told by a captain of a passenger steamer and is vouched for by the editor of the Hiemlands Postn, a prominent Norwegian paper published at Horten, Norway. At the time mentioned, the narrator was first mate on a large Norwegian passenger steamer. The voyage had been prosperous and pleasant, and up to a certain morning nothing of an unusual character had taken place. The second mate had charge of the deck, it being the captain’s watch, when, at the dog-watch, at 2:00 A.M., the first mate turned out to relieve him. As he came on deck, the chill air caused him to shiver and exclaim, “Why, how cold it is!” “No, it’s not cold. You have just come from a warm cabin and feel the chill.” “Possibly that’s so, but it seems to me it’s very cold.” After the second mate had gone below, the first mate paced the deck slowly, as officers on watch are accustomed to do. As he did so, a peculiar tenderness of feeling stole over him. Visions of home, the wife and children, came to his mind. What if he should never see them, or home again? The thought stirred and chilled him. He stopped nervously, but resumed his walk as the cold struck him more forcibly. Once more the subdued feeling crept over him, thoughts of home returned, and mentally he again asked himself the question, What if I should never see them, or home again? Suddenly, and as naturally as though someone stood beside him and were talking, he heard the command, “Stop the ship!” Startled, he peered about him into the darkness, but no one was near. Bewildered and half ashamed of himself, for sailors are often accused of being superstitious and this man had no foolishness in his makeup, he resumed his walk, only to have the same tender feelings again take possession of him. This time he thought not only of his family and home but of the hundreds of sleeping passengers below whose safety rested in his hands and who depended upon his faithfulness and vigilance. What, he thought, if none of these should ever see their homes again? Hardly had the thought been born than he heard the voice call for the second time, and in a more imperative manner, ”Stop the ship!” At once he turned to the wheelhouse, for he was on the bridge, and passed back to telegraph to the engineer to slow down – but hesitated. It was an unpardonable offense to stop a steamer at sea without a just cause, and what excuse could he use with the captain should he do so? In perplexity, he hailed the lookout at the bow – “Is all well there?” “All well here, sir,” came the answer. So he tried to shake off the feeling of dread that was slowly possessing him, buttoned his coat more closely, and resumed his walk, shivering now more from nervousness than the cold. But again the voice halted him, clearer and more decisive: “Stop the ship!” Hesitating no longer, the mate flashed the signal to the engineer to slow down, and as the vibrations from the propellers ceased, the alarmed passengers, with the captain at their head, came up on the deck, asking what was the trouble. An inspiration seemed to seize the mate. In a tone that forbade dispute, he ordered the helmsman to put the ship hard aport and took hold of the wheel to help hurry the act, then sprang to the rear and signaled for full speed. The great ship responded with a quiver, and her bow turned off as she slowly forged ahead and away from her course, just as a huge leviathan of an iceberg grazed her bow, dipping and rising with the rolling sea that dashed in fury at its sides, and slid past like a black, gaunt demon roaring in anger at the loss of its prey.—From My Favorite Angel Stories by Joe Wheeler. To order this book, packed with inspiring stories, CLICK HERE! Quote: “Few have the courage to be as critical of themselves as they are of others.”—Unknown, These Times, April 1967. *************************** Looking for GREAT Adventist eBooks? Go to www.AdventisteBooks.com for the largest selection available, on multiple e-reader platforms! *************************** An Infallible Recipe All people upon probation, Differ in their formation, Differ in their relation, Differ in their vocation, Differ in their life-station, Yet if all of each nation, And every occupation, Would seek, through Christ, salvation, Then each would love his neighbor, Then Capital and Labor, Would never come to strife, Because God’s Law of Life, Would govern every brother. “By Love Serve One Another.”—By H. A. St. John, Signs of the Times, December 23, 1903. *************************** Compiled by Dale Galusha. Please pass this newsletter on to others.

? Wash His feet ? Luk 7:38 And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.

The Wednesday Crucifixion is very popular among those who want to find the bazaar and show that others are wrong, they also tend to be anti education. Herbert W. Armstrong was one of the major pushers of this view. A lot of this (as well as views of perfection that plague our church) is reading the words of the Bible but through speculation instead of education, and being westerners we tend to filter our speculations through Greek thinking as opposed to Eastern/Hebrew thinking.

? The blind see ? Luk 7:22 Then Jesus answering said unto them, Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached.

I miss this man. He died about a month after coming to our Campmeeting