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2B Daily News ��� Saturday, March 30, 2013 Religion Faith Voices of Faith: Franklin said, ���The way to see faith is to shut the eye of reason��� VOICES OF FAITH: HOW WOULD YOU RESPOND TO BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, WHO SAID, ���THE WAY TO SEE BY FAITH IS TO SHUT THE EYE OF REASON���? Rev. Marcia Cope Fleischman, Broadway Church, Kansas City, Mo.: Two things were going on behind Ben���s statement about faith and reason. First he was seeing the two human capacities, faith and reason, as mutually exclusive from each other. Second, he was having a reaction to embracing the stage of reasoning, which is to reject the previous stage of understanding, which was faith. In studying integral Christianity today, we see humanity as having several capacities that do not work exclusively but together: faith, a spiritual capacity, reasoning, a mental capacity, physical capacity and emotional capacity. Since Ben Franklin���s time, we have witnessed people achieving several stages of consciousness: his, which became known as the modern stage, then the post-modern stage. Now we are seeing another stage of consciousness arising, the integral stage. This stage will be the one in which faith and reason work in complementary fashion to deepen the human spiritual experience. Faith in earlier stages has been expressed as assent to doctrines and rules, and as the practice of church ritual treating reasoning as suspect. Reason, applied to faith, takes us deeper into life���s questions and demands more than rules and doctrines. The experience of God, or the Divine, is vital to stand up to the demands of reason, to carry one into a vibrant faith and connection with God. If Ben were alive today, he would be looking for a faith community that encourages the best reasoning and would train him in the mystical, connecting, experiential aspects of faith in God, just as Jesus practiced them. RABBI SHMULY YANKLOWITZ, SENIOR RABBI AT KEHILATH ISRAEL SYNAGOGUE: In Judaism, there is no contradiction between faith and reason. Every day, we work to understand our texts, other people in our world, and our hearts and souls. Rabbi Saadia Gaon, the 10th-century Jewish philosopher, explained that if we find a contradiction between faith and reason, then we have made a mistake, and we must re-examine the textual tradition and analyze our reason until they are consistent. The text is our starting place, but we never neglect our crucial human faculty of moral reasoning. Rabbi Kook, the first Chief Rabbi of Israel, said it well: ���It is forbidden for religious behavior to compromise a personal, natural, moral sensibility. If it does, our fear of heaven is no longer pure. An indication of its purity is that our nature and moral sense becomes more exalted as a consequence of religious inspiration. But if these opposites occur, then the moral character of the individual or group is dismissed by religious observance, and we have certainly been mistaken in our faith.��� Faith is about believing in oneself in the moment one has the most clarity, theologian C.S. Lewis explained. If my alarm clock goes off at 4 a.m. for work, I have faith in myself (not my 4 a.m. sense of reason) that I had good clarity when I set the alarm and should follow that path. We live in a dark world with occasional lightning bolts that elucidate the world, and we must rely upon those lightning-bolt moments to get us through the darkness. We look to faith and reason to improve our world. &Worship Tears of the prophets Oh, that you would rend the heavens. That you would come down. Such was the clamor of the prophet Isaiah in his days of frustration. Calling on a people that should know better, but chose to live in a sinful, arrogant, proud lifestyle and remain insensible to the words of the prophet. As we see our world today we are not much different. We also have been led astray by the feel good, do as we please, the force is with you mentality. We as Americans boast so much about our freedom, but freedom is never free. It cost someone his life for us to be free. The occupy wall street movement could only happen because we have soldiers fighting terrorism abroad so no one can drop a bomb and kill the protestors in these tent gatherings. The God of this age is tolerance; even the preaching of the Word will be forbidden and called hate speech, as in some countries this already occurs. Will you stay silent? I will not! It is the Word that changed this world when He came to incarnate. The world was changed by Jesus Christ the Word of God. When God comes in your heart through the Holy Spirit, light manifests itself and you are no longer darkness; but when man rules over people and establishes a religion, darkness follows. If you studied history, remember the dark ages; religion and tyrants ruled, then enlightenment came, new birth, renaissance, and the living word was available to many people. America was born with these lessons being learned by our founding fathers. This country welcomed its immigrants with the promise of life, liberty, and the pur- is being proposed these days, we can suit of happiness. What a concept; no easily feel the heart of Isaiah crying other country could ever conceive ��� forth "Oh that you would come down from heaven to the earth much less offer ��� the yearnand chastise the wicked so ing of the human heart that justice would be done, evil America espoused. would stop laughing in What happened? We took scorn, and the mountains, God for granted. We forsook the powerful, the false relihis ways and implemented gions, all creation would our own, we changed the shake." But just like Isaiah commandments and categothe prophet, you can only rized them as see what God opens your suggestions���slowly shifteyes to see. Only for what ing���floating away from the you see will you be called strong Godly foundation. to give an account. What In Genesis, the story of Fred did you do with that revelaAbraham and Lot, his tion? Keep on preaching, nephew, went separate ways keep on praying, and keep because they had too many on sharing, hoping, and sheep and animals to dwell loving. together. Lot chooses the And remember that green grass of the valley of Sodom and before he knew it, he was tomorrow is Easter. Yesterday the Son smack in the middle of the city, being of God gave His life on the Cross for part of it. Such is our condition today, our redemption, that when He comes living in Sodom and not being aware in glory He need not find a people in of it. All you know is that things have rebellion against Him because the debt sure changed and they are not getting is paid and we have the privilege of repenting. Tomorrow He rose from the better. These last elections sure have dead ��� I mix the tenses deliberately caused a feeling of despair. As evil here ��� that we too might rise from the prevails upon the land and wickedness dead. We have only to choose Him ��� doesn���t get punished, the cry of the even now ��� and keep on choosing. prophets comes forth and we cry out, Pastor Fred Villasenor is ��� like the "Why, oh Lord? When will justice prevail? When will you answer and act late John Wimber ��� just a rock-n-roll with a mighty hand. As we see the musician seeking the Lord His God. destruction of marriage, destruction of With his wife, Maria, he has pastured the family, the killing of babies, the La Nueva Vida Church for many years denial of God in the democratic plat- in Red Bluff ��� and lifted his voice for form, and all the other evil agenda that justice. Villasenor GodTalk Holy Land explorer speaking on Easter Sunday Prof. Tom Meyer, who has climbed the pyramids in Egypt, explored Petra, walked around the Sea of Galilee and explored the entire Holy Land, will be presenting a message at 10 a.m. on Easter at Sunrise Bible Fellowship, 956 Jackson St. Meyer an author on the culture and religion of the Middle East, will speak from the book of Isaiah on Hebrew thought and practice with an emphasis on the culture and mannerisms of the Holy Land and archaeological evidences for the crucifixion and ressurection of Jesus Christ. Educated in Jerusalem, Meyer will deliver a feast for the ears as he comments on his recent four year stint in the Middle East, as well as presenting a Hebrew reading on the ancient prophecy of Isaiah chapter 53. For more information visit www.thescripturecannotbebroken.com. Photo by Sarah Meyer Professor Tom Meyer in the Seat of Moses in an ancient synagogue (Korazin) and overlooking the Sea of Galilee. 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 Scott Camp ��� 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