Word: worshiped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Every Christian is expected to gather with others "...to praise God, to hear his Word for mankind, to baptize and to join in the Lord's Supper, to pray for and present the world to him in worship, to enjoy fellowship, to receive instruction, strength, and comfort, to order and organize (the church's) corporate life, to be tested, renewed, and reformed, and to speak and act in the world's affairs as may be appropriate to the needs of the time...
...cause of God denies the Lordship of Christ and betrays its calling...A church that is indifferent to poverty, or evades responsibility in economic affairs, or is open to one social class only, or expects gratitude for its beneficence makes a mockery of reconciliation and offers no acceptable worship to God...The church comes under the judgment of God and invites rejection by man when it fails to lead men and women into the full meaning of life together, or withholds the compassion of Christ from those caught in the moral confusion of our time...
Everyone to his own religion, Levin seems to say, and worship of the Devil is one. Ultimately, there are two tests for any thriller or piece of horror fiction: 1) does the author play fair, yet come up with a shocker of a denouement? and 2) is the reader's willing suspension of disbelief rewarded with a final close-the-book aspiration of relief as he returns to his own world? Author Levin bats fifty-fifty. On the one hand, the ending of Rosemary's Baby, though inevitable, is flat; on the other hand, it is as unsettling...
...Thank you for helping me justify the addition of a name to my dormant-since-Lincoln list of "Politicians Worthy of Hero Worship." It is a delight to find that not everyone in politics suffers from acute atrophy of the intellect. My only regret is being unable to vote for the remarkable Senator Scott of Pennsylvania [June...
...organized in small groups, conducted their own prayer services even in the midst of the battle. The war over, Cosby borrowed money from friends to buy a dilapidated Washington rooming house that was the Church of the Saviour's first quarters; since 1950, the church's worship center has been a stately red brick Victorian mansion on Massachusetts Avenue...