Contributed by Clark Tanner on Mar 23, 2009
                
                
                
                    “Who will bring a charge against God’s elect?”
  
Here is where we have to back up just a step and remember who Paul is talking about and who he is talking to.  When he says that God will, with Christ, freely give us all things, the 'us' consists of all those who are referred to in verse 28 and in
                    
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                    Contributed by Clark Tanner on Aug 26, 2010
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    GOD'S ELECT
There is no indication anywhere in Scripture that when a man or woman first believes in Jesus for salvation, God says something like, "Oh, look!  We hooked another one!  Get out the book and write his name down!"
    
God is not taken by surprise, God is not waiting for people to
                    
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                    THE BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY: PREDESTINATION
A few years ago, a movie came out about a boy in Vietnam who’s father had been an American GI (The Beautiful Country).  His life was miserable because no one in Vietnam accepted him. He was a half-breed.  His mother wanted him to try to escape to America to
                    
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                    Contributed by Chuck Sligh on Mar 19, 2012
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    PREDESTINATION
Rather than predetermining a person’s FATE, predestination predetermines a believer’s FOCUS—that is, God’s eternal purposes, goals and privileges for him. Every instance of the word “predestinate” in the New Testament refers to some purpose, goal or privilege that God has
                    
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                    Peter Johnson related this story in the April 14, 1988, issue of USA TODAY.
“Have you ever noticed that sometimes we get angry and remain bitter with people and actually forget why we’re so upset?  Take, for example, the notorious Hatfield-McCoy feud.
	“It hit newspaper front pages in the 1880’s,
                    
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                    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Nov 11, 2008
                
                
                
                    SUPPORT YOUR LEADERSHIP
Doing what is right means that we give our leaders support. This does not mean we have to agree with them all the time. In our governmental structure, it also does not mean that we should not criticize their decisions if they are bad ones. We are allowed that freedom.
                    
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                    Contributed by Luis Marquez on Dec 3, 2008
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Dos políticos están debatiendo, uno exasperado grita al otro: ¿“Dime cual es ese gran poder que te controla"? El  otro airado responde: “A  mi esposa la dejas fuera de todo esto.”
En un año de elecciones cosa así pasan. Pero no nos damos cuenta que cada día es un día de elección. Elegimos ante cada
                    
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                    "The American people and their elected leaders will continue to be faced with hard choices and difficult moments, for resolve is continually being tested by those who envy us our prosperity and begrudge us our freedom. America will remain great and act responsibly so long
                    
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                    I asked God for the election of godly candidates to public office–exactly in those words–and after Mass one of our good parishioners criticized me for praying for the election of Republicans.  Let’s
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    "Elections are a good deal like marriages, theres no accounting for anyones taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever
                    
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                    ‘I believe the doctrine of election, because I am quite certain that, if God had not chosen me, I should never have chosen Him; and I am sure He chose me before I was born, or else He never would have chosen me afterwards; and He must have elected me for reasons unknown to me, for I never could
                    
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                    Contributed by Tony Miano on Dec 8, 2000
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    With the dust settling from our recent elections, I had an opportunity to review some sound bites that were overlooked by mainstream media.  One reporter asked the presidential and vice-presidential candidates a very simple question.  “Why did the chicken cross the road?”  After some thoughtful
                    
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