Word: redeeming
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...Guides can be hired in Hatu Buliko for $10, though the path to the peak is not difficult to find on your own. Climbing it is another matter. The three-hour hike is strictly for masochists or the blindly devout. The views from the summit, however, redeem the effort. Pony trails snake along mountain ridges, terraced rice paddies tumble down steep slopes, wisps of smoke rise from straw huts, and eagles hover on thermals far below. Those who undertake the climb midweek will, more likely than not, have the summit to themselves. Few experiences can match sitting aloft and alone...
...premillennium rapture teachings remind me of '60s guru Timothy Leary's aphorism, "Tune in, turn on, drop out." Only now the opiate of bad theology has replaced drugs. Why work to redeem the culture for Christ if you believe it is only going to get worse and that will hasten the Rapture? Wake up! We do not know when Christ will return, so let's get back to the work at hand. ERIC LAHR Atlanta...
...food, the whole Left Behind phenomenon, because it says to people, in a popularized way, it's all going to pan out in the end," he says. "It assures them, in the midst of a general cultural breakdown and a time of growing danger, that God is going to redeem the time." Evangelicals who had felt somehow left behind in secular terms, by a coarse culture and a fear of general moral decay, welcome arguments that even the most tragic events may be evidence of God's larger plan. In fact, you don't have to be religious...
...Brazil, the World Cup is not only the biggest showcase for their national passion, but also a vehicle to redeem themselves from their sense of underachievement in world affairs. After all, Brazil is a country with the resources, economic potential and the sheer size to be a global power. But it isn't, and until such time as that moment arrives, futebol provides the proud Brazilians with their best chance to be taken seriously as undisputed world leaders. That's why failure to bring home the cup is almost akin to treason. Less so for the Germans, who take their...
...redeem herself, she needed her teammates to come through with the first four hits of the rally. Her teammates needed her to make the clutch hit in the end. It worked...