| Show Commentary Many doors open Couple retreats get high rating with promise key’ Many husbands wives can’t resolve communication problems In Bunyan's great allegory “Pilgrim's Progress" the incident is related of how Christian decides to leave the Main Highway and follow another which seemed easier ing Now a little before it was day good Christian as one half amazed broke out in passionate speech “What a fool am I thus to lie in a stinking Dungeon when I may as well be at liberty I have a key in my bosom called Promise that will I am persuaded open any lock in Doubting Castle" From the Pulpit path But this path leads him into the territory of Giant Despair who owns Doubting Castle Eventually he is captured by Giant Despair and kept in a dungeon He is adised to kill himself The Giant said there was no use trying to keep on with his journey For the time it seemed as if Despair had really conquered Christian But then Hope Christian’s companion reminds him of previous victories So it came about that on Saturday about midnight they began to pray and continued in prayer until almost morn- By TOM SCHAEFER Newspaper A major survey — are Krognt-HiOd- David Duncan bept st CrjtLt lalti sons of God even to them that believe on his name" Someone has said there are more than 700 promises in the Bible That indicates to me we have a promise key that will open more than 700 doors A promise key for love salvation forgiveness freedom provisions guidance strength blessings encouragement Some tim ago an elderly man living in New Jersey made an unusual discovery as he leafed through an old family Bible Many years earlier his aunt had died and left it to him Part of her will read: “To my beloved nephew Steven I bequeath my family Bible and all it contains along with the residue of my estate after my funeral expenses and just and lawful debts are paid" When everything had been Then said Hopeful “That’s good news Good Brother pluck settled the nephew got a few it out of thy bosom and try” hundred dollars plus the old volAnd the prison gates flew open ume mentioned in the will We also have a key called After the money was used up Promise This “promise key" his only support was a small will open doors that we never pension and for more than 30 thought possible From a room years he lived in poverty Then one day he cleaned out his attic of guilt to a room of forgiveness in preparation for a move to his from a room of worry and unrest to a room of peace from a son’s home where he hoped to room of doubt to a room of as- spend his old age surance from a room of anger to There in a trunk was the famia room of love ly Bible he had inherited You ask “Where do I get such Opening it he was amazed to a key and if I can get it what is scattered banknotes find the cost?” its pages He counted throughout W'ell my friend you get the more than $5000 in cash Withkey through faith and it is free in his reach were riches he could Jesus Christ paid the price have been enjoying all along and the key is ours through faith There are riches within our in his finished work on the cross John 1:12 says “But as reach God bless you as you by many as received him to them faith avail yourself of the gave he power to become the “promise key” there ever any minor ones? — commissioned by Worldwide Marriage Encounter found that its weekend marriage retreats are rated highly effective by 90 percent of the couples surveyed The survey which was distributed to 4000 couples examined their attitudes over the past 20 years The Rev Donald Conroy director of the National Institute for the Family in Washington DC said he was pleased with the results especially how fears by some participants before the weekend started turned out to be unfounded “Women worried unnecessarily about stirring up problems w ith their husbands because of the weekend’s emphasis on communications” he said “Men were especially relieved to find they didn't have to participate in group discussions" d Excuse me? Aren’t those the problems many husbands and wives have had and don’t seem to solve: women reluctant to discuss problems with their husbands and husbands reluctant to talk at all with their wives? age-ol- Philadelphia’s public school teachers are warned: Wear a religious accessory to school and you can be fired include Christian crosses Religious no-n- f Moslem head coverings and Jewibh yarmulkes Teachers have been told they could be suspended without pay for up to one year and fired after a second v lolation Some teachers insist the ban v iolates their First Amendment rights The dress-cod- e holy war started when a Moslem teacher was prohibited from wearing a head scarf to school School officials insist that they are preserving “an atmosphere of religious neutrality” A federal appeals court last year agreed with them No doubt running shoes and dewill pass the muster of these signer clothing misguided censors top-doll- ar Despite a belief in the nearness of The End some believers are cautious about having blind faith The Rev Puck Blackwood a Baptist pastor in North Carolina was quoted in the Charlotte Observer about events in the Middle East and religious prophecy: “I don’t want to be one of those guvs who says: ’Sell everything get y our jammies on get up on the roof and get ready to go’ But the scripture is accurate and we need to it" Funny I never thought about meeting my maker on a rooftop in my jammies FREE i'll FIT? ? 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