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SPIRITUAL SHORT COURSES

Continuing education: it’s a constant in many people’s lives. We all try to educate our bodies, though mine is currently sitting in the corner wearing a dunce cap eating dark chocolate, but anyway, we know we should go to exercise classes. There are all kinds of inservices and training workshops to fine-tune occupational prowess, and all kinds of classes to enjoy new leisure-time pursuits. But whoever thinks about continuing spiritual education?

Thousands of people! And two of the neatest opportunities for faith growth are being offered in eastern Nebraska soon:

-- Stonecroft Ministries, a Christian women’s group, has a national conference tour at the Cornhusker Hotel in downtown Lincoln next Friday through Sunday, Feb. 25-27. Around 400 people are expected, and the music is expected to be fabulous. There’s a Saturday night dinner for friends and husbands featuring a Texas rancher/bull rider said to be a fabulous speaker. Saturday workshops center on friendship, family life, prayer, evangelism and more. It’s kind of last-minute, but if you’d like to go and would like information on rates and so forth, call Valerie Jantzen in Lincoln, (402) 423-3227.

-- A marriage conference I’ve heard great things about will be going on in downtown Omaha the same weekend, and also March 4-6. It’s the “Weekend to Remember” event put on by Family Life Today at the DoubleTree Hotel, 16th and Dodge. You’re supposed to stay in the hotel and have a date night and so forth, but I suppose if you live in Omaha you could skip that part of it, and go sit in a corner TOGETHER and eat dark chocolate. It’s $99 per person. Visit their website, www.familylifetoday.com

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Prayer request: Father, we are sad to hear of the death of Officer James Feltis, the Washington, D.C., police officer we’ve been praying for, the friend of a friend who was struck by a car driven by a fleeing felon. He leaves his wife Mary and daughter Mary Elizabeth, 6. We praise You for this fine man’s life and sacrifice, but we are troubled by the purpose here. Nevertheless, not our will, but Thine, be done. We trust You, Lord, and know that one day, all sin and crime will be arrested . . . and we will be able to thank James in person for protecting us while he was here on Earth. (Revelation 21:7)