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4B Daily News ��� Saturday, February 23, 2013 Religion Faith Righteousness is... Voices of Faith Are we born sinners and unworthy of God���s love? The Kansas City Star (MCT) The Rev. Justin Hoye, St. Patrick���s Catholic Church: Yes, we are born into this world oriented away from God, a state traditionally referred to as original sin. This state is not a consequence of my personal sin, but a condition contracted from the very beginning of mankind, when humanity rejected the life God prepared. A good analogy might be that of a child who is born with an addiction because the mother used drugs during pregnancy. The child did not do anything to acquire this state, but it is a reality conveyed through another���s free act. Humanity was ��� and continues to be ��� deceived into sin, a perpetual belief that our way is better than God���s way. Even in this state, God does not forsake us. God cares for humanity even in our stubbornness to pursue a way of living that leads to self-destruction. On our own, mankind has been incapable of fixing this ongoing departure from God. In time, God restored us to life in the divine person of Jesus Christ. Jesus��� life, passion and death were completely oriented toward God���s will, and by our immersion into this life ��� celebrated in the waters of baptism ��� we, too, are saved, re-oriented into a right relationship with God. This drama, while showing our ongoing tendency to choose self-destructive patterns of living, also shows most beautifully God���s persistent and saving love for us. ��������� Duke Tufty, pastor, Unity Temple on the Plaza: Holy smokes, where on earth did you ever get such a notion? I say ���where on earth��� because that notion certainly didn���t come from heaven. Go to the maternity ward at the closest hospital, look through the window where they keep the newborn babies and point to a sinner that could be deemed unworthy in anybody���s eyes. I cannot imagine what kind of a mind made up this original sin malarkey; it doesn���t make a bit of sense. Every baby is pure, wholesome and precious. We are not born into original sin, but each of us is born an original blessing. Jesus said that we are the light of the world, and we should let our light shine. He also warned about allowing that light to be covered up by judgments that diminish one���s self worth and demonize the fine work of the divine creator. If you believe you are a born sinner and unworthy in the eyes of God, that���s the way you will live your life. If you believe you are a good person and a beneficial presence to this earth, that���s the way you will live your life. So let me ask you, are you a born sinner and unworthy in the eyes of God? The answer to that question is: whatever you think. &Worship The traditional season of Lent begins on February 13 and I want to say something meaningful about it. To do that I have to tell a story. Maybe several stories. As we spent the day in worship and prayer in a little house dedicated to that purpose in Ronkonkowa, New York, God spoke. There were seven of us ��� three from the Long Island location where we met and one from Pennsylvania with a ministry in New Jersey, representing the tri-state region; two from New England with regional ministries and representing that region; and a guy from California (me) who thinks God wants to bridge the nation with His Holy Spirit. When we asked God for a vision He showed one of us a meandering river and a road being supernaturally built upon its bank. When I wondered why an unadjusted meandering route seemed more favored than straight God spoke, and I was privileged to share, "Righteousness is a question of alignment, not direction." When Jesus turned toward Jerusalem His friends faced a walk of several days. They spent many months on the journey, not because their leader couldn���t follow directions, but because the Son of God knows righteousness to be a question of alignment rather than of direction. During this time ��� which is chronicled in Luke 10-19 ��� the disciples have already confessed Jesus as Lord, witnessed more miracles than can be shaken at by the proverbial stick, and gone on their own first missionary journey that featured similar acts of the power to bless and heal. They have begun to see and anticipate their inheritance as heirs of God���s grace and glory, but they have a long way to go before growing into it. On the road they will learn to pray and to sustain teaching me the very same things prayer, they will comprehend that He taught the disciples way back their job as gatekeepers is to open when ��� and being unbelievably kind when it became clear I rather than close the porneeded remedial work in tals of the Kingdom, and lessons supposedly already they will discover the learned, in tests supposedly difference between relialready passed. Whenever I gion and relation to the pronounce myself now Most High. They will ready for Jerusalem He find out what is imporgives me another opportutant and what is trivial ��� nity to repent ��� to re-focus unlike the religious leadon Him ��� and so come to ers of their day ��� and see myself in a more accuthey will come to marvel rate light. The time in at the privilege of repenGalilee has turned out to be tance and sacrifice. They James the greatest privilege I can will come to know that a imagine and anything but history of sin ��� like that the irritating rehearsal for of Zaccheas ��� is no more the good stuff I once imaga barrier to Kingdom life ined it to be. I am pretty than a history of poverty sure my experience is a barrier to wealth ��� like the woman putting two pennies in mainstream in this regard. During Lent Christians traditionthe temple treasury or the man given five talents for investment in ally give up something they are likethe Kingdom. They will make ly better off without. They often take another mission trip and practice up a practice that benefits their walk the principles (Luke 10:2-9) of and others��� welfare. These are good blessing before all, followed by things, but God help us if tokens of hanging out with people, meeting sacrifice and ministry are all we take their needs (as God provides) and to advantage in Lent. It is about witnessing for the faith ��� in that intentionally seeking a closer walk moment by moment. It is about teleorder. Their journey to Jerusalem scoping our earthly pilgrimage into a turned out to be a lot more than time better idea ��� and a taste ��� of the elapsed in the covering of the heavenly one. Repentance ��� turning ground between where they began toward God and away from self as and where they arrived. The months the center of existence ��� is the greaton the road became a question of est privilege and the longest process progressive alignment rather than we will ever be given. That is true whether we begin across the land or direction. More than twenty years ago God right where we are. gave me a spoken word. He said, "I James A. Wilson is the author of want you to go to Galilee." Living As Ambassadors of Although I wanted to journey to Israel then and have been there Relationships and The Holy Spirit since, I was pretty sure at the time it and the End Times ��� available at was not all about that kind of trip. In local bookstores or by e-mailing the intervening years God has been him at praynorthstate@charter.net. Wilson GodTalk Free concert A free concert featuring Addison Road lead singer Jenny Simmons and Jacob Thomas will be given at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 7, at Inglesia Nueva Vida Church, 11841 Highway 99W, in Red Bluff. Tickets are available at itickets.com, at the door or by calling (775) 750-4431. Tehama County Church Directory HOYT-COLE CHAPEL OF THE FLOWERS 816 Walnut St. - Red Bluff FD 652 Red Bluff.... This directory sponsored by: Red Bluff.... RED BLUFF AUTO ELECTRIC INC. 1055 Main St. - Red Bluff 527-5170 Los Molinos.... Cottonwood... ABUNDANT LIFE FELLOWSHIP ��� 21080 Luther Rd. ��� Pastor J.E. Heitman 528-2499 ��� WORSHIP ��� Sunday 11AM & 6PM OPEN VISTAS AWARENESS CENTER ��� 900 Walnut St. ��� 529-9285 Rv. Tresha Wing ��� SERVICE ��� Sunday 10:00AM ANTELOPE HOME FELLOWSHIP(SBC) ��� Berrendos School ��� 401 Chestnut St 200-4112 ��� Pastor John Bohrer ��� WORSHIP ��� Sunday 10:45AM OUT OF THE BOX MINISTRIES-COWBOY CHURCH ��� 585-3070 22812 Antelope Blvd. ������ Wednesday 7:00PM ������ Sunday 10:00AM COMMUNITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH ��� Sherwood & Josephine ��� 384-2656 Coordinating Pastor Nancy Pharis-Curie���CLayM Pastor Ray Watkins ��� WORSHIP 11AM FOURSQUARE CHURCH ��� 2400 Rhonda Rd. Rev. Paul Shrum ��� WORSHIP ��� Sunday 10:30AM & 6PM MILL CREEK BAPTIST CHURCH ��� HWY 99E and Taft St., 384-1564 Pastor Carl DeBiase ��� WORSHIP ��� Sunday 11AM & 6PM APOSTOLIC ASSEMBLY ��� 1321 Nelson Dr., Red Bluff. ��� 527-8541 Pastor Rudy Cepeda ��� WORSHIP ��� Sunday 1:00PM & Friday 7PM PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ��� Jefferson & Hickory St. ��� 527-0372 The Rev. Beth Hoyt ��� Worship Service 11:00 AM, Sunday School 9:30 AM, Child Care Available SPIRIT OF LIFE PENTECOSTAL CHURCH OF GOD ��� 25235 Orange St. ��� 384-0100 Pastor Richard Tucker ��� WORSHIP ��� Sunday 10:30AM & 6PM BETHEL ASSEMBLY OF GOD ��� 625 Luther Rd. ��� 527-0445 Pastor - David Blythe ��� WORSHIP ��� Sunday 10AM & 6PM PENTECOSTAL CHURCH OF GOD ��� 370 Kimball Rd. ��� 527-6346 Pastor Mike Cox ��� WORSHIP ��� Sunday 11:00AM Corning... CALVARY CHAPEL ��� 12375 Paskenta Rd. ��� 527-8219 Pastor Gilbert DeLao Jr. ��� WORSHIP ��� Sunday 9:00 & 11:00 am RED BLUFF COMMUNITY CHURCH ��� 1920 Park St. Pastor Stan Kolbert ��� SERVICES ��� Sunday 9:30AM ��� 282-2248 BELIEVERS CHURCH OF GOD ��� 783 Solano St. ��� 824-6502 Pastor Dan Steigmn ��� WORSHIP ��� Sunday 10:00AM BETHEL CHURCH ��� 1520 East St. ��� 824-0175 Ron Cottingham, Pastor ��� WORSHIP ��� Sunday 11AM CHURCH OF CHRIST ��� 1605 Park Ave ��� 529-3063 Evangelist Gary Dent ��� WORSHIP ��� Sunday 11:00 AM & 6:30 PM Bible Study ��� Sunday 10AM ��� Wed 7:00 PM RED BLUFF GOSPEL ASSEMBLY ��� 836 Washington St. ��� 529-9909 Pastor John A. Partsch ��� WORSHIP ��� Sunday 1:30PM - Wednesday 7PM CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS ��� Antelope-545 Berrendos 529-2506 ��� Bishop James Beeman ��� SERVICES Begin Sunday 11:00AM SABBATH COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN ��� 705 So. Jackson St. ��� 529-1890 Pastor Ron Largent ��� WORSHIP ��� Saturday 10:45AM CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS ��� Red Bluff-545 Berrendos 527-7012 ��� Bishop Earl Wintle ��� SERVICES Begin Sunday 9:00AM SACRED HEART CATHOLIC CHURCH ��� 515 Main St. ��� Father Joyle T. Martinez MASS ��� Saturday 5:15, Spanish 7PM ��� Sunday 8:30AM, 10:30AM, Spanish 12PM COMMUNITY BAPTIST CHURCH ��� 598 Round -Up Ave. 527-4203 Pastor Dr. Paul Wright ��� WORSHIP ��� Sunday 9AM & 6PM THE SALVATION ARMY ��� 944 Walnut St. ��� 527-8530 Major Kit Wetter, Pastor ��� SERVICES ��� Sunday 10AM & 11AM CORNING FOURSQUARE ��� 404 5th Street ��� 824-5776 ��� Sr. Pastor John Gehrung WORSHIP ��� Sunday: adults 9:15, 10:30 AM ��� Tues.10AM prayer meeting CORNERSTONE CHURCH OF GOD ��� Hwy. 36, Jorgenson 527-9210 ��� Pastor Roy Duggins ��� WORSHIP ��� Sunday 10AM & 5PM SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHRUCH ��� 720 S. Jackson ��� 527-3733 Pastor Jon Spoolman ��� WORSHIP ��� Saturday 10:45AM FAMILY BIBLE CHURCH ��� Marin & Pear Sts. ��� 824-0989 Pastor Joycel ��� WORSHIP ��� Sunday 10:45AM & 6PM SHEPHERD HOUSE OF PRAYER ��� 601 Monroe St. 529-5350 ��� Pastor Brent Kohler ��� WORSHIP ��� Sunday 10:00AM FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH ��� 506 Colusa St. ��� 824-3490 Pastor Chris Fissori ��� WORSHIP ��� Sunday 10:15AM ��� Sunday School 9AM ST. PETER���S EPISCOPAL CHURCH ��� Jefferson & Elm ��� 527-5205 Rev. Maryly Adair ��� Sunday 9:30AM, Holy Eucharist Rite II FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH ��� 1421 Marin St. ��� 824-5739 WORSHIP ��� Sunday 11AM FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH ��� 501 Pine St. ��� 527-4361 Pastor Bruce Cloutier ��� WORSHIP ��� Sunday 10:15AM FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH ��� Hickory & Madison ��� 527-4688 Pastor Dan Woolery ��� WORSHIP ��� Sunday 10:30AM FIRST CHURCH OF GOD ��� Jackson & Luther ��� 527-5717 Pastor Rod Thompson ��� WORSHIP ��� Sunday 10:15AM FIRST CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE ��� Johnson & Hickory ��� 527-3361 Pastor Jesse Morris ��� WORSHIP ��� 10:30 AM FIRST SOUTHERN BAPTIST CHURCH ��� 585 Kimball Rd. ��� 527-5083 Clyde Brandt ��� WORSHIP ��� Sunday 11AM FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH ��� 525 David Ave. ��� 527-5754 Pastor Nancy Pharis-Cure ��� WORSHIP ��� Sunday 11:00AM GATEWAY BAPTIST CHURCH, IND. FUND. ��� 12830 Glasgow Dr. ��� 527-2964 Pastor Jeff Eldred ��� WORSHIP ��� Sunday 11AM & 6PM GRACE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF RED BLUFF ��� 22630 Antelope Blvd. ���530-727-7344 Pastor Carl Miller ��� WORSHIP ��� Sunday 10:30am AM at Antelope School LAKE CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY CHURCH ��� Lake Club ��� 347 6970 Jim Bredow, Pastor ��� WORSHIP ��� Sunday 8:30AM-10:15AM LUTHERAN CHURCH, ST. PAUL ��� Jefferson & Elm ��� 527-3414 Pastor Dallas D. Dubke ��� WORSHIP ��� Sunday 8:30AM & 11AM NEIGHBORHOOD CHURCH ��� 1625 Johnson St. ��� 527-8134 Pastor Vern Milliken ��� SERVICE ��� 10:00AM NEW HOPE FOURSQUARE CHURCH ��� 925 Walnut St. ��� 528-0642 Pastors Christopher and Sheena Officer ��� WORSHIP ��� Sunday 10AM ��� Youth, Thurs. 6 PM NORTH VALLEY BAPTIST CHURCH (Ind.) ��� 345 David Ave ��� 527-0543 WORSHIP ��� Sunday 10:50AM NUEVA VIDA ��� 11841 Hyw 99W ��� Red Bluff ��� Spanish-speaking Pastor Freddie Villasenor ��� WORSHIP ��� Sunday 11:00AM SUNRISE BIBLE FELLOWSHIP ��� C.B.A. ��� The corner of Cedar & Jackson ��� 527-6818 Pastor Byron Shaw, Pat Hurton ��� WORSHIP ��� 10:50AM ��� Bible Study 9:30AM TEMPLE BETH ISRAEL ��� 8529 Placer Rd., Redding 243-5726 ��� For service dates & times ��� 529-9246 TRINITY MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH ��� 20920 Hampton Rhodes Drive ��� 528-8668 Pastor Loren Browning ��� WORSHIP ��� Sunday 10:45AM - Wednesday 7:00PM THE ROCK CHURCH OF RED BLUFF��� 285 Gilmore Road ��� 527-7234 Pastor Vik Hylen ���WORSHIP ��� Sunday 10AM & 6:30PM - Wed. 7:30PM - Mens Prayer Saturday 9AM CHURCH OF CHRIST ��� 1418 South St. ��� 824-3603 WORSHIP ��� Sunday ��� 10:30AM CHURCH OF CHRIST ��� 1440 Yolo St. ��� 824-4333 David King, Minister ��� WORSHIP ��� Sunday 11AM & 6PM CHURCH OFJESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS ��� Marguerite & Blackburn ��� Bishop A. Daniel Drum ��� WORSHIP ��� Sunday 10AM FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ��� 824-5535 ��� Marguerite & McLane Pastor Howard Sanborn��� WORSHIP ��� Sunday 11AM GOOD NEWS LIGHTHOUSE ��� 1520 East St. Pastor Ben Rorie ��� WORSHIP ��� Sunday 11 AM ��� 824-0175 HARVEST CHRISTIAN CENTER CHURCH OF GOD ��� 1006 6th St. Corning 824-2091 ��� Pastor Michael Sharp ��� WORSHIP ��� Sunday 10:00AM IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CATHOLIC CHURCH ��� 824-5879 ��� 814 Solano St. Father Juan Manuel Ponce ��� MASS ��� Sunday 10AM, 12:00PM - Spanish Dairyville... CONE COMMUNITY METHODIST CHURCH ��� 11220 Hwy. 99E ��� 527-2329 Coordinating Pastor Nancy Pharis-Cure ��� CLayM Pastor Chris Bauer ���WORSHIP ��� Sunday 9AM El Camino... COMMUNITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH ��� Hwy. 99W ��� 385-2314 Pastor Nancy Pharis-Cure ��� WORSHIP ��� Sunday 9:30AM SHADY REST FULL GOSPEL CHURCH ��� 7211 Hwy. 99W 385-2155 ��� Pastor Andrew Dalson ��� WORSHIP ��� Saturday 7PM Gerber... BAHA���I FAITH OF TEHAMA COUNTY ��� 385-1091 Prayer meetings Fridays 7:30PM Brickyard Creek Apartments FAITH HOPE LOVE MINISTRIES ��� 21941 Chard Ave. 385-1431 ��� Pastor Ina Driggers ��� WORSHIP ��� Sunday 10:30AM GERBER BIBLE FELLOWSHIP ��� 301 Samson @ Ventura 385-1718 ��� WORSHIP ��� Sunday 10AM Manton... MANTON COMMUNITY CHURCH ��� Forward Rd. ��� 474-5156 Pastor Michael Stiener ���WORSHIP ��� Sunday School 9:30 Sun. 10:45 Paskenta... PASKENTA FLOURNOY BIBLE CHURCH ��� 13140 Round Valley Rd. Pastor Doug Maitia ��� Sunday 10:30AM ��� 833-0557 Platina... ST. HERMAN OF ALASKA MONASTERY ��� Begum Gorge Rd. Abbot Herman ��� LITURGY ��� Sunday 8:30AM Rancho Tehama... MT. OLIVE LUTHERAN CHURCH ��� 341 Solano St. ��� 824-5530 Pastor Dallas D. Dubke ��� WORSHIP ��� Sunday 9AM COMMUNITY CHURCH (Non-Den.) ��� 585-2526 WORSHIP ��� Sunday 11AM NEIGHBORHOOD FULL GOSPEL CHURCH ��� 901 South St. ��� 824-2323 Pastor Ken Killinger ��� WORSHIP ��� Sunday 10:50AM & 6PM CHRISTIAN LIFE MINISTRIES ��� 585-2975 Pastor Don Luke ��� WORSHIP ��� Sunday 10:30AM/6:00PM NEW LIFE ASSEMBLY CHURCH ��� 824-3426 Pastor J.R. Gonzales ��� WORSHIP ��� Sunday 10:00AM - Sunday School 9AM WALNUT GROVE CHRISTIAN CENTER ��� RHEMA Bible Church 435 Round Up Ave. ��� 527-9065 ��� Pastor Michael Ragsdale ��� WORSHIP ��� Sunday 10:30AM Tehama... OLIVE BRANCH BAPTIST FELLOWSHIP ��� 565 1st St. ��� 824-3661 ��� SERVICE ��� Sunday 10:30 AM ASSEMBLY OF GOD ��� Third St. ��� 384-2603 Pastor Walter Bright ��� WORSHIP ��� Sunday 10:30AM ZION CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES ��� 836 Washington St. 529-1836 ��� Pastor Joshua John McKim ��� WORSHIP ��� Sunday 10:15AM SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH ��� West & Butte ��� 824-2153 Pastor Jose Torres ��� WORSHIP ��� Saturday 11AM ST. STANISLAUS CATHOLIC CHURCH ��� 824-5879 Corner of 4th & D ��� MASS ��� Sunday 8:00AM - English ST. ANDREW���S EPISCOPAL CHURCH ��� 820 Marin St. ��� 680-0353 Rev. Diana Lueckert ��� CHURCH ��� Sunday 11AM Vina... UNITED CHURCH OF GOD ��� 645 Antelope Blvd. Suite 13 ��� 824-3657 Pastor Herb Vierra ��� WORSHIP ��� Saturday 11:30 AM VINEYARD CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP ��� 738 Walnut St. ��� 527-2449 Pastor Steve Igarta ��� WORSHIP ��� Sunday 10:30AM Bowman... COMMUNITY CHURCH ��� Bowman Rd. & Landes ��� 347-6130 Pastor Mark Lugg ��� WORSHIP ��� Sunday 10AM Capay... COMMUNITY FRIENDS CHURCH ��� 4TH & MOLLER AVE. ��� 865-2806 Pastor TONI BROWN ��� WORSHIP ��� Sunday 9:30AM VINA COMMUNITY CHURCH ��� 5th & D Street ��� 839-2340 Pastor Larry Peterson ��� WORSHIP ��� Sunday 10:30AM & 6PM