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Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000185 EndHTML:0000004671 StartFragment:0000002367 EndFragment:0000004635 SourceURL:file://localhost/Users/computer/Desktop/obits/Rural%20Viewpoints.doc A preacher began his sermon by saying, “Brethren and sisters, here you are, coming to pray for rain. I’d just like to ask you one question. Where are your umbrellas?” Today’s Americans, including some who have embraced Christianity, could very well be asked, “Where is your faith?” I found…

Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000182 EndHTML:0000002943 StartFragment:0000002363 EndFragment:0000002907 SourceURL:file://localhost/Users/computer/Desktop/obits/ruralviewpoints.doc One would have to have his head in the sand not to take note of how much the news media slants stories. If you are pro-abortion, you are called pro-choice. If you are pro-life, and I am, you are called anti-abortion. Then the unborn baby is called a fetus.…

Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000176 EndHTML:0000003080 StartFragment:0000002357 EndFragment:0000003044 SourceURL:file://localhost/Users/computer/Desktop/ruralviewpoints.doc I protest! This country was built upon the freedom to protest. I’m not thinking of riots, but of honest protesting because over Nation’s stability s at risk. When protesting is outlawed, then our liberties and freedoms will be gone. When there gone, they will never be regained. Freedom of…

Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000182 EndHTML:0000002637 StartFragment:0000002363 EndFragment:0000002601 SourceURL:file://localhost/Users/computer/Desktop/onits/ruralviewpoints.doc The wise King Solomon wrote, “Buy the truth and sell it not…Proverbs 23:23), but most seem more interested in selling the truth than buying it. Our times desperately need the truth, but they need it in love.

Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000191 EndHTML:0000003447 StartFragment:0000002373 EndFragment:0000003411 SourceURL:file://localhost/Users/computer/Desktop/obits/Jimmy%E2%80%99s%20column.doc Wanted: caring people who view fellow humans as having worth, as having been made in the image of God. The sick, the young, the elderly, the handicapped, the dying are too often viewed as a nuisance in our selfish and uncaring society. Recently a lady by the name of…

Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000172 EndHTML:0000002620 StartFragment:0000002353 EndFragment:0000002584 SourceURL:file://localhost/Users/computer/Desktop/obits/Jimmy.doc Poor old Bugs Bunny, his enemies were forever dangling carrots before him in an effort to trap him. This is what the progressives in D.C. are doing to us. Only they caught Bart Gordon instead.

Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000191 EndHTML:0000003456 StartFragment:0000002373 EndFragment:0000003420 SourceURL:file://localhost/Users/computer/Desktop/obits/Jimmy%E2%80%99s%20column.doc It is difficult to believe and hard to swallow, but it is true-the politicians in Washington are seriously considering stopping payments for therapy from Medicare. This is another way of saying, “Let the senior citizens die, they’ve outlived their usefulness.” Let me share with my readers a true story.…

Anonymous A young and successful executive was traveling down a neighborhood street, going a bit too fast in his new Jaguar. He was watching for kids darting out from between parked cars and slowed down when he thought he saw something. As his car passed, no children appeared. Instead, a brick smashed into the Jag’s…

Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000182 EndHTML:0000003213 StartFragment:0000002364 EndFragment:0000003177 SourceURL:file://localhost/Users/computer/Desktop/obits/ruralviewpoints.doc Corruption and immorality are twins whose destructive power has spread like wildfire in recent years thoughout America’s towns and communities. In an effort explains the havoc caused by these twin demons, men have laid the blame at the feet of town and community leadership. The truth is, bad leadership…

Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000181 EndHTML:0000002874 StartFragment:0000002362 EndFragment:0000002838 SourceURL:file://localhost/Users/computer/Desktop/obits/ruralviewpoint.doc Normally we think of the downtrodden as individuals who are forced by those in power to live in poverty. Many children today have been born into downtrodden families. If their parents are downtrodden, then can they expect to rise above the economics, educational and social levels of their family?…