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Metra Hikes Start Today [Feb. 1st, 2010|01:12 pm]
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 Metra fare increases
Metra conductor Joseph Velazquez checking for and punching tickets on a northbound Metra train Thursday late afternoon. While most Metra users won't notice a difference, riders who buy one-way tickets or use the commuter rail system's weekend passes will be paying more starting Monday, Feb. 1. (Phil Velasquez, Chicago Tribune / January 27, 2010)

Metra riders who buy one-way tickets or use weekend passes will pay a little more starting today. So will passengers who don't get a ticket at the station and end up buying a ticket from the conductor. Most Metra users won't see a difference in what they pay. About 79% of riders use 10-ride tickets and monthly passes, officials said, and those prices will not increase. One-way tickets will cost an average of 6% more, depending on distance. The per-ticket increase will range from 10 cents to 45 cents for the farthest zone. The cost of weekend passes will rise from $5 to $7. This is the first time Metra has increased that fare since 1991.
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10 Reasons Why We Should Love Jesus [Jan. 28th, 2010|06:28 pm]
 

1.) He Loved us first

2.) He Died for US

3.) He is our Provider

4.) He is our Strong Tower

5.) He is our Friend and a Friend to all

6.) He makes our enemies our footstool

7.) He said He would never leave us nor forsake us

8.) We can do all things through Christ

9.) He is our Strength

10.) Be Cause we were all set Free

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Isaiah 40:28 [Jan. 17th, 2010|04:40 pm]
Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the Lord, The Creator of the ends of the earth, neither faints nor is weary. His understanding is unsearchable.
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Isaiah 40:21-24 [Jan. 17th, 2010|04:39 pm]
Have you not known? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth? It is He who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like a grasshoppers, who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in. He brings the princes to nothing: He makes the judges of the earth useless. Scarcely shall they be planted, scarcely shall they be sown, scarcely shall take root in the earth, when He will also blow on them, and they will wither, and the whirlwind will take them away like stubble.
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1 Peter 5:7 [Jan. 12th, 2010|07:21 pm]
Casting all your anxiety upon him, because he careth for you.
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1 Peter 3:13-14 [Jan. 12th, 2010|07:20 pm]
And who is he that will harm you, if ye be zealous of that which is good? But even if ye should suffer for righteousness' sake, blessed `are ye:' and fear not their fear, neither be troubled;
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Romans 8:31 [Jan. 12th, 2010|07:19 pm]
What then shall we say to these things? If God `is' for us, who `is' against us?
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Romans 2:28 [Jan. 12th, 2010|07:18 pm]
And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, `even' to them that are called according to `his' purpose.
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Matthew 22:15-22 [Jan. 12th, 2010|07:16 pm]
Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might ensnare him in `his' talk. And they send to him their disciples, with the Herodians, saying, Teacher, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, and carest not for any one: for thou regardest not the person of men. Tell us therefore, What thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar, or not? But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why make ye trial of me, ye hypocrites? Show me the tribute money. And they brought unto him a denarius. And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription? They say unto him, Caesar's. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's. And when they heard it, they marvelled, and left him, and went away.
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John 10:10 [Jan. 12th, 2010|07:13 pm]
The thief cometh not, but that he may steal, and kill, and destroy: I came that they may have life, and may have `it' abundantly.
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John 9:26 [Jan. 12th, 2010|07:12 pm]
They said therefore unto him, What did he to thee? How opened he thine eyes?
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John 9:1 [Jan. 12th, 2010|07:11 pm]
And as he passed by, he saw a man blind from his birth.
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Hebrews 4:14-16 [Dec. 27th, 2009|05:26 pm]
Having then a great high priest, who hath passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we have not a high priest that cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but one that hath been in all points tempted like as `we are, yet' without sin. Let us therefore draw near with boldness unto the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace to help `us' in time of need.
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Romans 10:6-9 [Dec. 27th, 2009|05:24 pm]
But the righteousness which is of faith saith thus, Say not in thy heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down:) or, Who shall descend into the abyss? (That is, to bring Christ up from the dead.) But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach: because if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus `as' Lord, and shalt believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved:
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Hebrews 10:19-25 [Dec. 27th, 2009|05:20 pm]
Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus, by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; and `having' a great priest over the house of God; let us draw near with a true heart in fulness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience: and having our body washed with pure water, let us hold fast the confession of our hope that it waver not; for he is faithful that promised: and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and good works; not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting `one another'; and so much the more, as ye see the day drawing nigh.
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Mark 13:32-37 [Dec. 27th, 2009|05:16 pm]
But of that day or that hour knoweth no one, not even the angels in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father. Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is. `It is' as `when' a man, sojourning in another country, having left his house, and given authority to his servants, to each one his work, commanded also the porter to watch. Watch therefore: for ye know not when the lord of the house cometh, whether at even, or at midnight, or at cockcrowing, or in the morning; lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.
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West Side Pastors Preach Against Violence On Sunday [Dec. 11th, 2009|03:51 pm]
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West Side Pastors Preach Against Violence on Sunday

By TERRY DEAN
Editor


Joseph Walker, grandfather of Derrion Albert, receiving award this morning.
Photos by TERRY DEAN/Staff


Willie Williams holds up a picture of his son, Willie Williams III. Joseph Walker looks down at his grandson, Derrion Albert.

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The beating death of 16-year-old Derrion Albert, caught on video Sept. 24, continues to affect communities throughout Chicago and the nation.

West Side pastors today announced an effort to try to bring something positive out of that tragedy and, at the same time, recognizing an important man in Derrion's life.

The LEADER's Network of West Side pastors announced that 20 of its member churches will launch new mentoring programs for youth, or strengthen existing programs, by partnering with community service organizations. The pastors were joined by members of Austin Safety Net Works, an anti-violence youth advocacy group, as well as other community activists. About a dozen pastors hosted a press conference this morning at Rising Sun Baptist Church, 820 N. Central.

In addition, they presented the first ever Joseph Award to Derrion's grandfather, Joseph Walker, and also to Willie Williams III, father of Willie Williams Jr., the 17-year-old high school basketball star shot to death in 2006. The 20 pastors, this coming Sunday, will also devote their sermons to stopping violence against the city's youth.

"Children need options and other opportunities," said Rev. Ira Acree, pastor of Greater St. John Bible Church, 1256 N. Waller.

Williams and Walker will also visit a handful of the churches on Sunday, starting with Acree's congregation. In accepting the award - named after Joseph, Jacob's son in the Old Testament - Walker talked about how his grandson continues to inspire him.

"It's a hard time for me right now, but I'm trying to uphold myself from what I learned from Derrion," he said. "Derrion had a purpose. What happened to him woke up the world."

Walker also wanted to share the award with Derrion's late grandmother, Phyllis Golliday. Williams, who works as a youth counselor at Mt. Vernon Baptist Church, 2600 W. Jackson, encouraged the community to work together to save its kids.

"It's about helping one another," said Williams, who started a foundation in his son's name shortly after his death. "What the ministers are doing is so important, but we need to spread this to everyone. If we can get every person to mentor these kids, that's the only cure."

Rev. Marshall Hatch, pastor of New Mt. Pilgrim Church, 4301 W. Washington in East Garfield, explained that the mentorship programs will vary by church, including the age levels of the participating youth. He noted that state funding for such community initiatives has become scarce in recent years.

"We're not going to wait on more resources but strengthen what we have," he said.
Concerning the awards and the honorees, Hatch said, "These fathers represent fatherhood at its best."

CONTACT: tdean@wjinc.com
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Ephesians 2:1-4 - By Grace Through Faith [Nov. 30th, 2009|01:05 pm]
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And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others. But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us.
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Ephesians 2:14-8 - Christ Our Peace [Nov. 23rd, 2009|01:02 pm]
For he is our peace, who made both one, and brake down the middle wall of partition, having abolished in the flesh the enmity, `even' the law of commandments `contained' in ordinances; that he might create in himself of the two one new man, `so' making peace; and might reconcile them both in one body unto God through the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: and he came and preached peace to you that were far off, and peace to them that were nigh: for through him we both have our access in one Spirit unto the Father.
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Ephesians 2:11-3 - Brought Near By His Head [Nov. 23rd, 2009|01:00 pm]
Wherefore remember, that once ye, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called Circumcision, in the flesh, made by hands; that ye were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus ye that once were far off are made nigh in the blood of Christ.
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