As you probably know, next Sabbath weekend the world will be celebrating Halloween. You have probably seen displays of jack-o-lanterns and skeletons, ghosts and ghouls, spider's webs and whatever, all over in store displays, schools, …
Many professing Christians have considered Halloween to be innocuous, an evening of innocent fun. However, there is a great deal more to this holiday than darling children dressed in cute costumes shouting for candy at the neighbors' …
Howls of protest arose when the mayor of Fort Worth, Texas, advised residents not to allow their children to trick-or-treat from door to door this year, due to the recent terror attacks on the U.S. His critics prated on several "how dare …

(9) And so it was, when they had crossed over, that Elijah said to Elisha, “Ask! What may I do for you, before I am taken away from you?” Elisha said, “Please let a double portion of your spirit be upon me.” (10) So he said, “You have asked a hard thing. Nevertheless, if you see me when I am taken from you, it shall be so for you; but if not, it shall not be so.”
From all indications, Elisha was a farmer. When Elijah found him after his encounter with God on Mount Horeb, the younger man "was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen" (I Kings 19:19). There is no indication that Elisha had an extensive …
At the hospital where I work, management often talks about productivity. Productivity is “the measure of what is produced—output—divided by what resources are used in its production—input.” Productivity percentage measures how efficiently something is produced compared to a predefined standard. At the hospital, managers speak about productivity in terms of human resource hours and other equipment or supplies used to evaluate, care for, and discharge a patient or transfer one to another unit. My boss is happy that she only has to input the numbers, and a computer program spits out the …
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