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Food is inflating and becoming scarce (there was little milk and white bread at my local grocery store last night). For all our problems, we should be glad we live here the U.S. where food shortages triggering unrest would hit last.
Update on Friday: All the 20 lbs. bags of rice were sold out at my local Ralphs Supermarket. I don't live in an area with a large Asian population.

I remember back in my seminary days with all the FV stuff blowing up and how some out West thought not focusing on a meritorious Covenant of Works would lead to a denial of the Gospel. Well, after almost two years of pastoring a growing new church, guess how many times I have preached on the Covenant of Works, meritorious or not? Yep, not once! Of course Adam and his relationship to God lies underneath THE STORY but I'm so busy teaching people about the life of Christ and the Kingdom he established that I don't have time to sweat systematic minutiae. If your church spends a lot of time on stuff like this you probably look like that dude in M. Night Shyamalan’s “Lady in the Water” who has a puny body but a huge, muscular right arm.
Do you really think your congregation wants to spend time categorizing condign, congruous and pactum merit?
Here is our own Christ Church Chamber Choir rehearsing Thomas Tallis' "If Ye Love Me" before the Divine Service this morning.