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Father, as we look together at your word, I pray for what we talk about to actually happen in the students and in the

faculty and in the administration in the parents, the family that are here.

Don't leave me to my own resources right now, but come.

We are living in a day when what needs to happen in the world

and in the church and in us is supernatural not natural.

We want everything we do here at this school,

natural as it is to be permeated by the work and power of the Holy Spirit so that

supernatural effects that cannot be done without you would come to pass.

And I pray that about this moment right now.

In Jesus' name, amen.

Noel and I were watching on Tuesday night a PBS documentary on the great stock market crash of October 29, 1929.

And you probably know the story.

For about eight years preceding, the stock market had relentlessly climbed. By

1929 one of the commenters said it seemed that it had no upper limits in the world of paper numbers and dreams.

For the first time in history the little man could participate.

The stock market had been around for a while for the big players and now the shopkeeper and

the carpenter and the teacher could jump in because they learned

this wonderful secret called margin.

You can borrow money to invest in the stock market.

You can come up with a thousand.

They'll loan you 9,000.

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