TORRANCE TRIBUNE July 5, 2012 Page 3 Calendar Thursday, July 5 saTurday, July 28 • Free Art Exhibition: Kit and Caboodle, • 26th Annual “Evening Under the 4:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m., Creative Arts Center, Stars,” Gourmet Food & Wine Festival to 1560 Manhattan Beach Blvd. Exhibition raise funds for Torrance Memorial Medical Dates: June 8 to July 12, 2012. Center. 6:00 p.m.-9:30 p.m., at American saTurday July 7 Honda, 700 Van Ness Ave. Advanced tickets • Recycling at the Church, 9:00 a.m.- purchase required. For tickets and informa- 10:30 a.m., Torrance First United Methodist tion call the chamber at (310) 540-5858, the Church, 1551 El Prado. For more informa- Torrance Memorial Health Care Foundation This column serves as a community forum and orators of the Bible. I might add, in tioin call (310) 328-3242. at (310) 517-4703 or visiting www.Tor- where local leaders volunteer to respond particularly Jesus. • Free Saturday Nights Summer Concerts: ranceMemorial.org to faith and religious questions submitted Salvation is found when we regain Retros , 6:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m., The Courtyard, Tuesday, July 31 by readers. (assumed lost) our conscious possession of 1261 Cabrillo Ave. For more information • Artful Days: Artists Who Laid the What is salvation? God-given attributes. It comes as a result call (310) 320-2332. Groundwork for Leonardo and Michaelan- The concept of salvation is central of going FROM God TO God. The story of sunday, July 8 gelo, 12:10 p.m.-1:00 p.m., George Nakano • Bridge USA Japanese Summer Festival, Theatre, 3330 Civic Center Drive. For more to the Christian faith. We believe that we the prodigal son is an example. Salvation is 10:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m., Torrance Cultural Arts information call (310) 618-2326. are saved from the power of sin and death a not a thing, not an end but a Way for our Center, 3330 Civic Center Drive. OngOing and given new life. This means that we salvation is through our unity with God. Sal- Friday, July 13 • Diabetes Support Group meets the are forgiven our sins, restored to a right vation comes to all of us as a free gift from • Free Shakespeare by the Sea: Romeo second and fourth Tuesday of the month, relationship with God and our fellow human God. It is a gift which is total Love and and Juliet, 7:00 p.m., Polliwog Park Amphi- 7:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m., Torrance Memorial beings, and given a new life here and now frees ourselves from all limitation. A belief theater, 1601 Manhattan Beach Blvd. Bring Health Conference Center, Rm 1. For more and eternal life after death. that Jesus in some outer was atoned for our picnics, blankets and low back beach chairs. information call (310) 370-3228. We also believe that salvation comes sins is not salvation. Salvation is an inner Sat., July 14 - Two Gentleman of Verona. • Caregivers Support Group meets every to us as a gift from a loving God. We can’t understanding and overcoming which comes aT• Rollin’ South Traffic Style Car Show morial Conference Center, Rm 5. For more-Tuesday, 6:30 p.m.- 8:00 p.m., Torrance Me 14uly, Jurdays earn salvation by doing good things; it is a individually as a change in consciousness.We & Traffic Safety Fair, 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m., information call (310) 517-4666. gift that comes to us through faith in the life, use the Christ consciousness (separate from LAPD Ahmanson Recruit Training Center, • Overeaters Anonymous, 7:30 p.m. every death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ—and the man, Jesus) to cleanse the mind and free 5651 W. Manchester Blvd. For information Tuesday, First Christian Church, Room 8, even that faith is a gift! In other words, us from wrong doing. This consciousness call (323) 421-2588. Maple & El Dorado. Free. salvation is given to us when we put our gives us that “strength and salvation”. Now, saTurday, July 21 • “Retired Guys Only” Join fellow re- trust in God’s love in Christ. It is also a whether my grandmother would agree or • Celebrity Lecture Series: Back from tirees the first Wednesday of each month, Combat, 11:00 a.m., Western Museum of 9:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m., Torrance First United life-long process in which God continues to disagree, I will probably never know! Flight, 3315 Airport Drive. For more infor- Methodist Church, 1551 El Prado. For more help us grow in faith and love through the —Rev. Bonnie S. Wulff, Living the Inner mation call (310) 326-9544. information call (310) 328-3242. work of the Holy Spirit. Light Church and Science Of Mind Center, We are savedfrom a life of struggle El Segundo with guilt and fear. We are also saved for The most basic question that we need to a life of love, joy, peace, and hope: love answer in addressing this topic is simply this: that results in joyful service, peace within Do we even need to be saved at all? The ourselves and with others, the hope of God’s clear testimony of Scripture is an unflinching guidance and life eternal. To be saved does “Yes”. We – as humans – need to be delivered not mean we will not suffer. Rather, it gives and emancipated from the just penalty due us assurance that God will help us when for all our offenses against God’s righteous suffering comes to us. laws. And because the penalty for breaking God’s salvation is not just for in- such laws is unending banishment from God’s dividuals. God is also working to save the presence (in a terrible place called Hell) the whole world from hatred, pain, and death, stakes simply could not be higher. and we are partners in that work. And here’s the Great News: GodHimself —Rev. Lee Carlile, El Segundo United has undertaken to suffer that punishment and Methodist Church pay that penalty for all who will commit their Growing up in Pennsylvania Dutch coun- lives to Him as Savior and Lord. try, when my grandmother was exasperated He didHis work (taking sin’s penalty) when, with something, she would say: “Give me in the person of Jesus, the dreadful debt for strength and salvation”! human sin was fully paid by Him upon the Asking ourselves questions such as cross. We makeour response (committing “What is salvation?” is a good thing for we our lives to Him) when we: (1) Admit that many times use terms and think we know we have broken God’s commands; (2) Believe exactly what they are but have really never that Jesus has paid sin’s debt; and (3) Come questioned them as adults. to Him as our only Savior and rightful Lord. Whatever salvation meant to my grand- It is when we make that simple three-fold mother, I will never know for I never knew (A.B.C.) response that God will cancel our a a child but I did know it had something debt, wipe clean our slate, adopt us into His to do with religion! family, walk with us through life, and take Many people would most likely us, one-day, to live with Him forever. define salvation as a saving from wrong Who would want to pass up such an offer doing/”sin” or a deliverance from wrong of free and full salvation? Make Jesus Christ doing/”evil”. Sin, evil, hell then creep into your personal Savior and Lord today – and Go Metro Expo Line To Culver City The Metro Expo Line’s Culver City and Farmdale stations are now open, making it our definitions and light on their meaning that salvation will be yours! easier to go Metro to more attractions. Discover Culver City’s dining scene along with must be given as well. Sin is an archery —John Svendsen, First Baptist Church the museums of Expo Park, Downtown nightlife and more. For more information, go term meaning you have missed the target of El Segundo tometro.net/expo. or bull’s eye and hell is Sheol in the Bible Any person interested in responding to Construction Begins On Wilshire I-405 Ramps which meant you burn in hell when you miss or submitting a question may email us As part of the I-405 Sepulveda Pass Improvements Project, crews will demolish and the mark. It was an idiom which meant at management@heraldpublications.com. pair of ramps at Wilshire Boulevard is now underway. 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