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February 19, 2011

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2B – Daily News – Saturday, February 19, 2011 Religion Faith&Worship Church news Voices of Faith: How could a good person and a bad person end up in the same place after death? JESUS MUST TRANSFORM OUR LIVES The Rev. Justin Hoye, pastor of St. Mary's Catholic Church, Nevada, Mo., and St. Bridget's in Rich Hill, Mo.: Rephrased, your question asks: Isn't there some justice when it comes to final things? What does it say about God if everyone — the good, the bad and the ugly — is just grouped together in the end, regardless of how they lived? Christianity professes that one is saved through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Explicitly, one is saved from sin, that turning away from God that isolates us. Serious sin, in a permanent embrace, leads to eternal separation from God, called hell. Those whose lives are transformed by the saving work of Jesus are offered permanent freedom from sin in heav- en. Jesus uses imagery like the separation of chaff and wheat, or sheep and goats to make this point. A Catholic understanding says that one cannot take sinful, dehumanizing attitudes and behaviors into heav- en. So even if I do bad things, they must be purged from me to enter the sinless reality of heaven. The saving work of Jesus must transform my life into one that actively seeks the good and rejects evil. While God alone will judge our detachment from sin and embrace of his will, we hope that all might be saved, trans- formed in contrition to turn away from sin and embrace the freedom from evil offered through Jesus Christ. NEGATIVE ENVIRONMENTS CREATE BAD BEHAVIOR The Rev. Duke Tufty, Unity Temple on the Plaza, Kansas City, Mo.: If there were two places to go when we left this world, one good and one bad, and a higher power decided who went where, that would give us a judgmental God. In essence the very creative power that brought us into this world would condemn us to a hellish existence when we left this world. Why should one be punished for his creator's imperfection? For the most part, we all come into this world good people. In the early years our minds are like a comput- er that has never been programmed. The people around us, our culture and society program our minds with thoughts, feelings, attitudes and perceptions that dictate the way we see the world and the values we hold. Unfortunately, some people grow up in environ- ments that are extremely negative, abusive and uncon- scionable. They are deprived of ethics, morals and good direction. The world they are exposed to teaches them how to be and what to do by example. Through condi- tioning they become a good person who does bad things. It is very difficult to turn one's life around if one has never experienced or been taught how to live a good life. Should this person be deprived of a good afterlife simply because he had the great misfortune to be born at the wrong time and in the wrong place? Send your questions for one of our panels of religion columnists to Helen Gray at The Star, 1729 Grand Blvd., Kansas City, MO. 64108. Send e-mail to hgray@kcstar.com. Our Christian heritage: It’s a calling The war of words heats up when- ever we ask, "Does America have a Christian identity from her begin- nings?" I am familiar with a num- ber of ministries – most boasting good scholarly credentials – whose principal mission is to prove the pervasive grounding of our republic in the tenets and revelation of the Christian faith. Opposing voices would have us believe our most cherished political and social insti- tutions owe their parentage to everything from Enlightenment thinkers like John Locke and Jean Jacques Rousseau to the constitu- tion of the Iroquois Confederation. The principal point of contact between a Native American consti- tution and our national constitution is that we have one at all. Although the Iroquois provided themselves with a unicameral legislature (ours is bi-cameral with a house and sen- ate) and an opportunity for popular referenda, reality is that theirs is essentially a constitutional oli- garchy rather than an elected gov- ernment. That fact that Benjamin Franklin – one of the framers of our constitution – visited and admired the Iroquois is slim evidence that their document somehow shaped ours. As to the Enlightenment, Rousseau believed in a pure democ- racy as a compact emanating from a fundamentally (morally) good pop- ulace, while our approach presup- poses the potential for tyranny from just such a compact – because our founders were Calvinist in outlook and distrusted human institutions erected by sinful men. Locke’s ideas simply post-date and confirm their counterparts that came decades earlier from New England preachers in their pulpits. Yet the proof that most of our early leaders were staunch in their Christian faith, while overwhelm- ing, does not define us as a God- breathed community of faith. Washington knelt in daily prayer for his troops and his country; his personal writings describe a man ANAHEIM (AP) — Diana Gonzalez lives a life far apart from the fairy tales at Disneyland three miles away. Part of her life in the Southern California city of Anaheim is spent in an ever zealous to become the man God had called him to be, and ever disappointed in his own efforts in that arena. Lincoln was very public in calling on God, and calling the nation to prayer (as did Washington) during our great internal struggle from 1861-5. He clearly saw himself as an unwor- thy vessel in the hands of a worthy God. Yet what is needed is a sense of the degree to which these men’s personal faith was a sense of the shaping of the nation by that faith. The evidence for that too is overwhelming. William Bradford led the Pilgrims to stake their lives on the unprecedented – except in Ancient Israel – idea that government represented a covenant between God and man. John Winthrop led the Puritans to estab- lish a "city on a hill" in the Ameri- can wilderness in order to demon- strate that mankind was capable of living out that covenant. Preachers such as Cotton and Increase Math- er first advanced ideas such as a separation of powers, a bi-cameral legislature, and a system of checks and balances – including a bill of rights – as essential to this sort of government under God. The Great Awakening of the 1730s through ‘40s brought so many thousands to a shared faith born of a personal encounter with the Jesus these Puritan divines preached that it lit- erally shaped our people into a coherent community capable of standing together against the mightiest empire of all time to win independence from her. The Sec- ond Great Awakening began on the American frontier and resulted in even greater spread of the Gospel in terms of people reached. More importantly, it birthed so many charitable and para-church min- istries that it truly shaped our self- alley filled with grimy tents and overstuffed shopping carts. She won- ders when the public restrooms will close at a nearby park or how she will bathe. A new interfaith understanding as a people designed to make opportunity available to all and to imagine a truly moral and faithful society. James Wilson GodTalk The landmark two-vol- ume series The Light and the Glory and From Sea to Shining Sea by Peter Mar- shall and David Manuel is a great place to begin for those wanting a compre- hensive understanding of our Christian identity. There are plenty of other blots on our record, not the least of which are our toler- ation of slavery for nearly a century, the robber barons, genocide against Native Americans, and the holo- caust of abortion in our midst. But we have contin- ued to struggle with these national character flaws; no nation in history has ever been as open as we in our determination to bless others and to confront our own sins. Supreme Court Justice David Brewer once wrote that he knew America to be a Christian nation not by the numbers of Christians who compose our country, but by the so obvious fact that we are shaped by that revelation. Our chal- lenge today is to recover our self- understanding while struggling to live up to what has always been our birthright. We are not yet a Christ- ian nation, but we are surely called to be one. James A. Wilson is the author of Living As Ambassadors of Rela- tionships and The Holy Spirit and the End Times – available at local bookstores or by e-mailing him at praynorthstate@charter.net The Rev. James Wilson wrote this piece especially for President's Day. Hear his weekly broadcasts on KBLF AM 1490, Red Bluff on Saturdays at 8 AM and Sundays at 6 PM. He and his wife, Diana, have led PrayNorthState since 2001. Group fights homelessness in Disney’s backyard group with members from the diverse region’s houses of worship aims to tackle the city’s grow- ing homeless problem. Some statistics esti- mate that the city’s homeless population has Tehama County Church Directory HOYT-COLE CHAPEL OF THE FLOWERS 816 Walnut St. - Red Bluff Red Bluff.... ABUNDANT LIFE FELLOWSHIP — 21080 Luther Rd. — Pastor J.E. Heitman 528-2499 — WORSHIP — Sunday 11AM & 6PM ANTELOPE HOME FELLOWSHIP(SBC) — Berrendos School — 401 Chestnut St 200-4112 — Pastor John Bohrer — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:45AM APOSTOLIC ASSEMBLY — 1321 Nelson Dr., Red Bluff. — 527-8541 Pastor Rudy Cepeda — WORSHIP — Sunday 1:00PM & Friday 7PM BETHEL ASSEMBLY OF GOD — 625 Luther Rd. — 527-0445 Pastor John Christenson — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:30AM & 6PM CALVARY CHAPEL — 12375 Paskenta Rd. — 527-8219 Pastor Gilbert DeLao Jr. — WORSHIP — Sunday 9:00 & 11:00 am CHURCH OF CHRIST — 1605 Park Ave. — 527-3036 Evangelist Gary Dent — WORSHIP — Sunday 11AM & 6:30PM CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS — Antelope-545 Berrendos 529-2506 — Bishop James Beeman — SERVICES Begin Sunday 11:00AM CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS — Red Bluff-545 Berrendos 527-7012 — Bishop Earl Wintle — SERVICES Begin Sunday 9:00AM COMMUNITY BAPTIST CHURCH — 598 Round -Up Ave. 527-4203 Pastor Dr. Paul Wright — WORSHIP — Sunday 9AM & 6PM CORNERSTONE CHURCH OF GOD — Hwy. 36, Jorgenson 527-9210 — Pastor Roy Duggins — WORSHIP — Sunday 10AM & 5PM 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 — Saturday 6PM & 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 Pastor Stan Kolbert— WORSHIP — Sunday 11AM FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 525 David Ave. — 527-5754 Rev. Kate O’Leary— 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. —227-3630 Pastor David T. Stark — WORSHIP — Sunday 5PM 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 Steve and Linda Priest — WORSHIP — Sunday 10AM — Youth, Thurs. 6:00 PM NORTH VALLEY BAPTIST CHURCH (Ind.) — 345 David Ave — 527-0543 Pastor Mark Roberts — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:50AM NUEVA VIDA — 11841 Hyw 99W — Red Bluff — Spanish-speaking Pastor Freddie Villasenor — WORSHIP — Sunday 11:00AM Red Bluff.... OPEN VISTAS AWARENESS CENTER — 900 Walnut St. — 529-9285 Rv. Tresha Wing — SERVICE — Sunday 10:00AM PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — Jefferson & Hickory St. — 527-0372 The Rev. Beth Whittier, Pastor — SERVICES 11:00AM —Sunday School 9:30AM PENTECOSTAL CHURCH OF GOD — 370 Kimball Rd. — 527-6346 Pastor Mike Cox — WORSHIP — Sunday 11:00AM RED BLUFF COWBOY CHURCH — Hampton Inn, Round-Up Room Pastor Coy Huffman — For infomation call 209-559-9965 RED BLUFF GOSPEL ASSEMBLY — 836 Washington St. — 529-9909 Pastor John A. Partsch — WORSHIP — Sunday 1:30PM - Wednesday 7PM SABBATH COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN — 705 So. Jackson St. — 529-1890 Pastor Ron Largent — WORSHIP — Saturday 10:45AM SACRED HEART CATHOLIC CHURCH — 515 Main St. — Father Joyle T. Martinez MASS — Saturday 5:15, Spanish 7PM — Sunday 8:30AM, 10:30AM, Spanish 12PM THE SALVATION ARMY — 944 Walnut St. — 527-8530 Majors Frank & Susan Severs, Pastors — SERVICES — Sunday 10AM & 11AM SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHRUCH — 720 S. Jackson — 527-3733 Pastor Jon Spoolman — WORSHIP — Saturday 10:45AM SHEPHERD HOUSE OF PRAYER — 601 Monroe St. 529-5350 — Pastor Brent Kohler — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:00AM ST. PETER’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH — Jefferson & Elm — 527-5205 Rev. Maryly Adair — Sunday 9:30AM, Holy Eucharist Rite II 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 — Cell:925-980-5396 Pastor Jim Williams — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:45AM - Wednesday 7:00PM TRUTH TABERNACLE — 285 Gilmore Road, Red Bluff — 527-5533 Pastor Sam Howard — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:30AM - Sunday School 9:30AM UNION SOUTHERN BAPTIST CHURCH — 1256 Walnut St. Bidwell School Cafeteria — 840-6177 Pastor Robert M. Wheatley — WORSHIP — Sunday 3PM only UNITED CHURCH OF GOD — 645 Antelope Blvd. Suite 13 — 824-3657 Elder Dick King — WORSHIP — Saturday 12:30PM VINEYARD CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP — 738 Walnut St. — 527-2449 Pastor Steve Igarta — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:30AM WALNUT GROVE CHRISTIAN CENTER — RHEMA Bible Church 435 Round Up Ave. — 527-9065 — Pastor Michael Ragsdale — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:30AM ZION CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES — 836 Washington St. 529-1836 — Pastor Joshua John McKim — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:15AM Bowman... COMMUNITY CHURCH — Bowman Rd. & Landes — 347-6130 Pastor Mark Lugg — WORSHIP — Sunday 10AM This directory sponsored by: Los Molinos.... COMMUNITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — Sherwood & Josephine 527-3490 — Pastor Kathleen Smith — WORSHIP 11AM MILL CREEK BAPTIST CHURCH — HWY 99E and Taft St., 384-1564 — Pastor Carl DeBiase — WORSHIP — Sunday 11AM & 6PM SPIRIT OF LIFE PENTECOSTAL CHURCH OF GOD — 25235 Orange St. — 384-0100 Pastor Richard Tucker — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:30AM & 6PM Corning... 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 — 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 CORNING FOURSQUARE — 404 5th Street — 824-5776 Rev. Sue Duffy WORSHIP — Sunday: adults 9:15, 10:30 AM — Tues.10AM prayer meeting FAMILY BIBLE CHURCH — Marin & Pear Sts. — 824-0989 Pastor Joycel — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:45AM & 6PM FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH — 506 Colusa St. — 824-3490 Pastor Chris Fissori — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:15AM — Sunday School 9AM FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH — 1421 Marin St. — 824-5739 WORSHIP — Sunday 11AM FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — 824-5535 — Marguerite & McLane Pastor Howard Sanborn— WORSHIP — Sunday 11AM 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 MT. OLIVE LUTHERAN CHURCH — 341 Solano St. — 824-5530 Pastor Dallas D. Dubke — WORSHIP — Sunday 9AM NEIGHBORHOOD FULL GOSPEL CHURCH — 901 South St. — 824-2323 Pastor Ken Killinger — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:50AM & 6PM NEW LIFE ASSEMBLY CHURCH — 824-3426 Pastor J.R. Gonzales — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:00AM - Sunday School 9AM OLIVE BRANCH BAPTIST FELLOWSHIP — 565 1st St. — 824-3661 — SERVICE — Sunday 10:30 AM SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH — West & Butte — 824-2153 Pastor Jose Torres — WORSHIP — Saturday 11AM ST. ANDREW’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH — First & Marin Sts. — 824-4979 Pastor Maryly Adair — CHURCH — Sunday 11AM TRUTH TABERNACLE — 1308 Solano. — 824-4586 Pastor Ed Schaefer — WORSHIP — Sunday 2PM UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 824-5841 — East & Solano Pastor Ray Watkins — WORSHIP — Sunday 9AM AUTO ELECTRIC INC. 1055 Main St. - Red Bluff 527-5170 Vina... VINA COMMUNITY CHURCH — 5th & D Street — 839-2340 Pastor Larry Peterson — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:30AM & 6PM Cottonwood... ABUNDANT LIFE CHRISTIAN CENTER — 19019 Gaspoint Road — 347-9208 Pastor Doug Hamblin — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:30AM ASSEMBLY OF GOD — Gaspoint Road — 347-3313 Pastor Bob Whitman — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:45AM & 6PM FOURSQUARE CHURCH — 2400 Rhonda Rd. Rev. Paul Shrum — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:30AM & 6PM Dairyville... CONE COMMUNITY METHODIST CHURCH — 11220 Hwy. 99E — 527-2329 Pastor Kathleen Smith —WORSHIP — Sunday 9AM El Camino... COMMUNITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — Hwy. 99W — 385-2314 Pastor Nancy Pharis-Curie — 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 — 22870 Reno Ave., Gerber 385-1091 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 Las Flores... LAS FLORES FULL GOSPEL — 9662 San Benito Pastor Rev. Elroy & Martha Lake — WORSHIP — 10:00AM Wed. 6PM Manton... MANTON COMMUNITY CHURCH — Forward Rd. — 474-5156 Pastor Michael Stiener —WORSHIP — Sunday School 9:30 Sun. 10:45 Platina... ST. HERMAN OF ALASKA MONASTERY — Begum Gorge Rd. Abbot Herman — LITURGY — Sunday 8:30AM Rancho Tehama... COMMUNITY CHURCH (Non-Den.) — 585-2526 WORSHIP — Sunday 11AM CHRISTIAN LIFE MINISTRIES — 585-2975 Pastor Don Luke — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:30AM/6:00PM Tehama... ASSEMBLY OF GOD — Third St. — 384-2603 Pastor Walter Bright — WORSHIP — Sunday 10:30AM 11:15 AM & 6PM ST. STANISLAUS CATHOLIC CHURCH — 824-5879 Corner of 4th & D — MASS — Sunday 8:00AM - English RED BLUFF jumped 600 percent since 1989. One advo- cate blames the area’s heavy reliance on low- wage jobs that puts many residents one surgery or car crash away from los- ing their homes.

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