have plenty of money in the bank, our health and that of our family is excellent and no one is criticizing us? Or are we likely to be happier when life is not so easy? When all seems to be going well, Christians should not become self-satisfied and careless in their devotion to the Lord. It is then that pride of position and achievements is in danger of taking precedence over all other matters and we are in danger of behaving as though we can manage without God. Before August 2005 the city of New
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