Word: luke
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...Witnesses also teach that the Second Coming occurred secretly in 1914, a date reached by complex historical and biblical rationales; the end of the world system must occur during the present generation (an interpretation of Luke 21: 32: "This generation will not pass away till all has taken place"). The dissidents have come to believe that Christ's kingdom and the "last days" were inaugurated at about A.D. 33, and that Christ's Second Coming is a future event...
...Washington Bullets' first home game of the basketball season, playmaking Guard John Lucas missed a morning physical and an afternoon "shoot around." He came late for the game. Lucas had been undependable for some time, and his teammates would not have been surprised by anything Luke said when he finally arrived-except by what...
...Luke came right in the door," recalls Kevin Grevey, the other starting guard, "and in front of everyone, said, 'I've got a drug problem; I did too much cocaine last night.' You could hear a pin drop. 'Gene,' he turned to Gene Shue [the Bullets' head coach], 'help me. Kevin, help me.' He went around the room. 'Don, help me. Rick, please help me.' Nobody could say a word. We were stunned...
Lucas played that night. Remarkably, word of the locker-room confession did not leak out for two months, but when it did, Lucas and his lawyer met with a Washington Post reporter, and Luke confessed anew. "It started last year when I was depressed about a lot of things," he said. "It's not affecting my play at all. There are a lot of guys who go out on the court all messed up. I'd never do that...
...Luke, in the Acts of the Apostles, makes it sound as though Christ's first followers practiced a form of Communism: "Not a man of them claimed any of his possessions as his own, "Not a man of them claimed any of his possessions as his own, but everything was held in common .. . They had never a needy person among them, because all who had property in land or houses sold it, brought the proceeds of the sale and laid the money at the feet of the Apostles; it was then distributed to any who stood in need...