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If someone comes to you in distress to share their troubles with you they often complain about some person who has wronged them. If you decline to enter into unrighteous judgment against this person are you accused of being uncaring?

            The Obama Administration recently opened a can of worms by insisting that Catholic institutions provide birth control services to women despite the official doctrine of the Church against birth control. Can the government tell the church that it must violate its own doctrine? Does a liberal interpretation of "women's rights" trump a longstanding church polity?

Debt can be a form of bondage but I would have you to be free and unencumbered, owing no man anything but your debt of love.

Has your mind ever wandered in daydreams? This is a means of escape, a way to disengage and be absent in mind even as you are present in body.

Have you ever heard stories of kidnapped children? These are heart-rending and inevitably traumatic for the children, but no matter how much they have suffered, the parents always want them back.

The Apostolic Council of Prophetic Elders met in late November to seek a word of the Lord for the coming year, as they have since 1999. Due to world-wide shaking, this was probably the most sobering council gathering to date. Many prophets around the world believe that the United States must make a major shift toward reformation in 2012 and that it will be a "do-or-die" year for the country to be re-established on the course of becoming the "city set on a hill" envisioned by our Founders. Compiled by Cindy Jacobs

Do you look for satisfaction in everything you do? If you are hungry you can eat until you are satisfied, and this is a good place to stop, but not everyone does. There are many areas of your life in which the right amount is necessary and beneficial but to continue is detrimental.

Is there an ending for every beginning? Yet endings are usually followed by another beginning. Does this seem like an endless cycle to you, in which one lesson follows another, and one grade follows another, and the same is true for trials and character refinement?

It is one of my greatest pet peeves to hear someone call America a democracy. We are a republic, not a democracy. Many will say that it's the same thing, or no big deal. Let me explain why it is not the same so that you can assume this pet peeve as well!