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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 2004
Page
4
Guest editorial recounts a 92 year old, legally blind widow moving to a nursing home. She chooses happiness each morning, sharing five rules for joy and a family acronym, highlighting memory deposits and simple living as life principles.
A Shafter reader asks the community to pray for Jeff May, 39, critically ill after brain tumor surgery and recurring seizures. Jeff served 15 years with the City of Shafter before illness.
A Fresno family thanks Victor Jaime of Shafter for finding and safely delivering a lost wallet with travel documents from a Bakersfield restaurant to their relatives in Bakersfield and then onward to Fresno. The gesture is praised as honest and courteous.
An opinion notice explains the writer forgot last week's Que Pasa column due to excitement over the arrival of their oldest son. The piece mentions Earl and his wife Lorie and references three grandchildren.
Deanna Rodriguez writes of visiting family from Atlanta with grandsons Dante Andre and Julian, their father Earl a football trainer in Duluth, memories of Earl’s Shafter High days, and a holiday filled with tamales, gifts, and football. The piece notes Dante’s full scholarship to Sanford University, the athletic path of the younger brothers, and hopes for the New Year 2001 and beyond.
Margaret urges readers to turn from sin and accept Christ for forgiveness and eternal life. She contrasts materialism with spiritual urgency, notes 2004 sorrows, and warns that rejecting the Holy Spirit leads to judgment. The piece calls for repentance now and a renewed life in Christ.
Rex M. Rogers argues that the Bible does not endorse slavery while noting historical Christian complicity and racism. He cites Ephesians 6, 1 Timothy, and Philemon to discuss slavery and manumission, concluding that true biblical revelation condemns slavery as sin and affirms universal human dignity. He is president of Cornerstone University and writes this column carried in 89 newspapers.
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