Hello,

FATHERS DAY-Next Sunday. The saying is that you become a replica of your 
parents. 
I aspire to that height.

JUNE 6-Did the date pass you by? My ninety year old neighbor was in my home 
this week. She talked of rationing, rubber drives, buying savings stamps 
etc. Mostly she recalled the horror when the blue star in a neighbor's 
window was replaced with a gold one.

PRAYER NEEDS-A very special lady to Jeanene and I has learned this week that 
she has Hodgkins Disease. This strain of cancer is severe in her case.
The man who had the long hospital stay, had heart surgery. Long rehab days 
ahead.

7-11 MUSIC-Is how one lady describes much of today's music. "You take seven 
words and sing them eleven times". I am happy to have learned "The Solid 
Rock" and "It Is Well With My Soul". 

TRIVIA-It disturbs me that transgression of God's law is regarded as such. 
"Everybody else is doing it" NEVER worked at my house.

HISTORY-Are you a "buff"? Go to christianity.net and follow down a couple of 
screens. You can ask for a weekly e-mail on "church history". I have just 
given you a source that I sometimes use here.

HEALING-It is evident that I believe in healing. I share needs and praises 
on a weekly basis. I need to have us thinking on the same channel. I 
realize the risks involved in transparency; but let us just chat.

I clearly separate "faith" healing from "divine" healing. "Faith" healing 
speaks to me of an earthly energy, while "divine" healing carries the idea of 
sovereignty and strength on a heavenly level. "Faith" healing leads to at 
best a production, and at worst to a sideshow atmosphere.

When at all possible, we are on the most stable footing in James 5:14. The 
church operates with the elders praying the prayer of faith, and the Lord 
doing the healing.

I Corinthians 12:28 teaches us that there are "gifts of healings" available 
in the church. Please note the plural usages. The wise pastor will 
recognize and utilize those individuals who possess any of these gifts.

My goal in writing to you each week is bound up in 1 Corinthians 14:1 in 
NKJV. "Pursue love and desire spiritual gifts......" Let's also look at 
verse 12. "Even so you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, let it 
be for the edification of the church that you seek to excel".

The word "desire" in verse 1 is "zeloo" in N.T. Greek.--zealous.

The header list of recipients to this letter includes a wide variety of 
persons. Many of them are strangers to each other and are separated by 
oceans and continents. May I assure each of you that I compiled and added to 
this list with an eye to including what is spiritually the "best" 
(1Corinthians 12:31) gifts for the purposes that I felt would please the 
Lord. I added a person this week that possesses "gifts of healings".

There are gifts of faith, governments, mercy, helps, miracles, prophecy and 
discerning of spirits that I have personal knowledge concerning. There may 
be others.

These should raise each person's level of confidece as we communicate and 
care.

His,
Ron Krantz