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A Prayer for Life Sunday
As early as 1972 a LCMS seminary professor saw a link between the slaughter of the Bethlehem babies and abortion in this country and didn't see how pastors could preach on the former and not mention the latter (Scaer, "Abortion: A Moment for Conscientious Reflection", Springfielder, XXXXVI, 3, Dec. 1972, pp. 180-4). Concerned Women for America made the link in January 1993 (Family Voice, Vol. 15, 1, cover). I have had Life Sunday for 30 years; I only made the direct link 5 years ago. The Latin Collect for Holy Innocents, which we use, dates to at least the 11th century and it's a fitting prayer for Life Sunday.
"Put to death in us all that is in conflict with Your will," we pray. May this lead to our seeing that this public, legalized sin is personally destroying each of us. Stephen King writes of a land where every generation or so a tribe raids it and takes a way one out of every pair of twins that most every couple has. They take them away to unknown horrors and send them make "Roont". As the time for the next raid approaches one father calls a town meeting and asks them to consider, "What is this doing to us? Each time they come and take our children, they take a little more of our hearts and our souls" (Wolves of the Calla, 29-30). Just how much do you think is left of our hearts and souls after 60 million pieces have been taken from them over the last 46 years? Even Janis Joplin didn't really want to have another piece of her heart taken.
"Put to death in me O Lord the apathy I have toward this sin." How can the home of the brave be so apathetic about abortion? Abortion was legal in Russia from 1917-56. In 1921 there were 21 abortions for every 100 births by 1926 it had reached 90 out of 100 (Thielicke, Sex, 230). So how come a group of Russians was so shaken by the death of one more baby? It's 1941; Germany has invaded Russia. Russian partisans are tramped in swamps in water. "'Our radio operator was a woman who had recently given birthIt had to be nursedBut the mother herself was hungry and had no milk. The baby cried. ..If the dogs heard it, we'd all be killed. The whole group thirty of us you understand. The commander makes a decisionNobody can bring himself to give the mother his order, but she figures it our herself. She lowers the swaddled baby into the water and holds it thereThe baby doesn't cry.And we can't raise our eyes. Neither to the mother nor to each other'" (Unwomanly Face of War, xxiv). After a generation and a half of baby killing, we're more apathic then Russians.
Put to death in me O Lord the convenient fiction that abortion is a social issue and a kingdom of the left issue like gun control, Obamacare, tax rates, and border walls. In the King novel the richest guy in town doesn't want to go to war to stop the baby snatchers and he resents that the pastor' dares to speak in favor of war. He thinks, "When he kept to his church, and his rituals, he was fine. In such things, a little madness made a fine sauce. This, however, was something different" (169). In 2012 MSNBC can have a full page ad in Time displaying TV host Rachel Maddow saying, "We are not going to overturn Roe V. Wade" (Dec. 2012-Jan. 2013). This year the New York Time can a run an 8-part series championing abortion rights, and this is responsible, unbiased journalism. I'm a crazy pastor overstepping his calling, overreaching my area of concern when I speak on behalf of the dead babies and the women "roont" by abortion.
And you're kidding yourself if you don't see that the majority of our church body feels the same way. At best they take the position, "I'm personally opposed to abortion, but I don't presume to speak for others." You may say that with poltical and social issues. You may personally be for building the wall or restricting guns and leave others to their opinions. You may not do that with moral issues. Try saying, "I'm personally opposed to child abuse, but I don't presume to speak for others." Supporting actively or passively abortion rights directly conflicts with the will of Almighty God. Our church body has said this officially in conventions but start asking around. Ask pastors here and there and watch them hem and haw. Luther didn't. He branded abortion as godlessness and said aversion to one's offspring was "'inhuman and impious'" (Peters, Ten Commandments, 253, fn. 159). Not very politic, huh?
The pastors who hem and haw on abortion say to me what they do about the living together I discipline and they don't. "Abortion is the only sin to you and it alone is unforgiveable." First, abortion is not an us and them thing. Abortion is my sin, my guilt. Read the Old Testament. God holds the entire land guilty of the innocent blood shed in it. Second, if the ancient church thought the slaughter of 25 or so babies was worth commemorating each year, I don't think I'm overemphasizing 60 million dead U.S. babies by having a remembrance once a year. And Abortion almost always kills at least 2 people. Those who walk away from abortion do so as the living dead; any day the Zombie of abortion guilt may awake. Third, the only unforgiveable sin Scripture knows is unconfessed, unadmitted sin. It's not that Jesus didn't carry such sins away; it's not that Jesus didn't shed His blood to cover them. It's that the person pulls them off the back of Jesus and out of the flood of His blood because denied sin isn't sin or guilt to them and so doesn't belong there.
The prayer for Holy Innocents, "put to death in us all that is in conflict with Your will", is a fitting prayer for Life Sunday, and so is the prayer "that our lives may bear witness to the faith we profess with our lips." Each Sunday we confess, "I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth." Even in the case of sparrows life is His choice not ours. Among animals whose purpose is this life only, quality of life is certainly the proper consideration. But we've been created for eternal life. That's our purpose and we've been created in God's image, so the eternal sanctity of human life is the standard rather than quality. God only knows the how, the who, the what that will serve His eternal purposes. You're trespassing on His turf and contradicting the faith you profess with your lips when you take human life for personal reasons.
Nothing in this culture where self, personal choice, and randomness are sacrosanct, will put to death in you the things that our contrary to the faith you profess. The fact that you want to preserve your own life is no proof that you hold life sacred (Chesterton, XX, 606). It's what you think, say, and do about the life of another particularly the most helpless of all: the unborn. And if you have bought into the evolutionary assumptions that man is the product of chance and time rather than created by God in His image, then taking a life is one action among many. It is to be judged on pragmatic grounds. What are the benefits, the risks, the costs of killing or not killing (Idols for Destruction, 78) this baby in the womb.
You profess with your lips not only that God is Creator of all life, but that God the Son has redeemed you a lost and condemned person, purchased and won you from sin, death, and the power of the devil. May we bear witness to this and what 1 John 2:2 says: That Jesus is not only the wrath removing sacrifice for your sins but the sins of the whole world: the born, unborn, the abortionist, and the women having abortions.
A 20th century Catholic theologian said that "'only where God becomes person (namely in Christ), will anybody be treated as a person'" (Balthasar, Church from Age to Age, 861). And where has the Church always professed that happened? Not when Jesus was born of Mary but conceived in her. The 20th century LCMS professor I referred to earlier said that historically "the moment of genuflection in the Mass, happened when the Son of God entered' the womb of Mary, not when He was born" (Springfielder, 181). And we leave it to a 4th century church father and a 16th century Lutheran farther to flesh' our confession out completely. Gregory of Nazianzus said, "For that which He has not assumed He has not healed; but that which is united to His Godhead is also saved" (NPNF2-07, 440). Martin Chemnitz completes the beautiful confession: "Thus the Son of God in assuming His own flesh, but without sin, also endured those things which commonly befall man in conception, pregnancy, and birth, so that from His very beginning, rise and, as it were root, He might first restore in Himself our depraved nature and so cleanse and sanctify our contaminated conception and birth that we might know that Christ's salvation applies even to man's fetus in conception, gestation, and birth' (The Two Natures in Christ, 102).
We profess with these lips to believe in not only the God who creates and has redeemed all life but who sanctifies all life. May my life bear witness to this faith, particularly the last. When we speak of sanctifying we think first of God the Holy Spirit. Fittingly when a group was formed in Rome about 1160 to care for abandoned infants and stop the great number of dead babies cast into the Tiber River, it was called "'The Order of the Holy Spirit" (Asimov's Book of Facts, 226-7).
I was surprised to learn some years ago that some of my leaders were bothered because they had no idea how to argue life issues. I was surprised because for the last 15 years this is not what I thought I had been preaching for anyone to do. I was preaching first to get an ouch'. A father is having a bad day, his 5 year-old comes in crying, "Daddy I hurt my finger." "What do you want me to do about it," he snarls. The little girl pauses and says, "You could say, Ouch.'" Start there. Start there you who've been created by the hand of God, you who've been redeemed by the blood of His Son, you who the Holy Spirit has sanctified for everlasting life, start by saying, "Ouch."
"Ouch" our faith says for sinners caught up in their sins; "ouch" our faith says for the unborn being murdered in the womb; "ouch" our faith says for a hell bound world that God sent His only Son to redeem. And with every Lord's Prayer you are saying ouch' because we never turn those "us" and "our" petitions into me' and my" ones. It's always give us our daily bread, forgive us our trespasses, lead us not into temptation, deliver us from evil. Now that's a prayer not only for everyday life but for Life Sunday. Amen
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Breaking the gridlock: a tale of two cities
For decades, the Swedish cities of Stockholm and Gothenburg suffered under rising levels of bumper-to-bumper traffic. That is, until congestion charging was introduced in the mid-2000s. They've since made great strides in unclogging roads and improving air quality. With congestion charging a likely prospect for at least one major centre in Aotearoa New Zealand in the not-too-distant future, there's plenty we can learn from the Swedish experience.
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Paying for passage
With a population much the same as Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland's, the Swedish capital first trialled congestion charging in 2006. Ringed with charging cordons, motorists pay between NZD$2.29 - $6.86 to travel into Stockholm's central business district – capped at $20.58 a day.
In 2013, Gothenburg used legislation already in place from Stockholm's rollout to introduce its own congestion charging scheme. The city of 500,000 people is similar in area to Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington. Its congestion charge is much lower – ranging from NZD$1.50 to $3.50 per trip - capped at $10.
In both cities, there's no charge during the July summer holiday period. The only major pricing difference is that Gothenburg has a multi-passage exemption – meaning motorists can pass as many charging cordons as they like in one hour and only pay once.
A report from the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute found that when congestion charging was introduced, the effect was immediate. In Stockholm, traffic volumes fell by 20 percent. Gothenburg saw a 12 percent reduction, with commuters in both cities switching to public transport and benefiting from drops in queue and travel times.
There have also been environmental benefits. Estimates show that carbon emissions in Stockholm and Gothenburg reduced by 3 percent. This may seem like a small number but, for a single measure, is not to be sneezed at. Nitrogen oxide emissions from cars and trucks – a major contributor to air pollution - fell by around 8 percent.
Expect initial public opposition
Before Stockholm's 2006 trial, the public were against having to pay to drive into the city. But with a significant decrease in traffic volume during the trial, people quickly began to see the benefits. Travel times improved and queues decreased. People travelling on buses also benefited from less time sitting in traffic.
After Stockholm's trial, a referendum was held asking if people wanted congestion charging made permanent. The 'yes' vote won. In contrast, after being introduced in Gothenburg, a non-binding referendum was held. The answer was 'no,' but local politicians forged ahead anyway.
Today, most road users in Sweden accept the congestion charging schemes.
Revenues are a means to an end
In Stockholm, congestion revenues were initially used to pay for road improvements in and around the city. They're now used to fund new public transport infrastructure, including an extension of the metro system. It's the same story in Gothenburg, with one of its original objectives to raise 14 billion krona ($2.1 billion NZD) for infrastructure investments over 25 years - including a rail tunnel under the city to benefit commuters travelling into the city from surrounding municipalities.
Geography informs design
When it comes to designing a congestion charging scheme, geography matters. Stockholm, for instance, is built on fourteen islands. To get anywhere you drive over bridges, which, before the congestion charge, acted as traffic choke points.
Transport planners were able to take advantage of Stockholm's natural water barriers when deciding where to locate charging cordons. The same approach wasn't possible in Gothenburg, which is bisected by the Göta älv River and has over twice the land area of the Swedish capital.
Test, learn and adapt
There's been some changes to congestion charging in Stockholm and Gothenburg over the years. In Stockholm, low emissions vehicles were initially exempt but are now included. In 2016, the city's network of charging cordons was extended to include motorways. Charges have been hiked twice – in 2016 and 2020.
What we can learn from the Swedish experience is that congestion charges, while not initially popular, are effective in meeting their objectives and come to be accepted by the public - not just as a way of reducing congestion, but in fighting climate change, financing new infrastructure and reducing local air pollution. The big question for Aotearoa now is just where, when and how do we go ahead and break our gridlock?
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Q: AWS-SDK-CPP: How to use multiple configurations of aws-sdk-cpp in one project? I need to use AWS SDK in a project that has four configurations "Debug, RelWithDebInfo, MinSizeRel, and Release"
If I follow the instructions to build and install the SDK from source, it seems I can only have one configuration installed at a time.
The docs say:

Generate the build files by running cmake. Specify on the cmake command line whether to build a Debug or Release version. Choose Debug throughout this procedure to run a debug configuration of your application code. Choose Release throughout this procedure to run a release configuration of your application code.

What is the intended usage in situations where I need to run both debug and release configurations of my application code? My project is currently in development I am frequently switching between debug and release configurations. This seems like it would be a common use case but I'm having some difficulty getting this set up.
If I just go with release config of the sdk, then when I try to build my project in debug I get:
error LNK2038: mismatch detected for '_ITERATOR_DEBUG_LEVEL': value '0' doesn't match value '2' in AWSTest3.hello-world.obj

If I go with the debug sdk, when I try to build my project in release I get the reverse.  That all make makes sense and is what I would expect under those conditions.
I tried installing both release and debug versions in separate directories, but linking them both in my project's cmakelists.txt is a challenge.
When I put into cmakelists.txt:
find_package(AWSSDK)
find_package(AWSSDKdebug)

Cmake finds the first one and skips the second one.  The reason for this it turns out is because when it finds the package in the suggested folder the next thing it does is runs AWSSDKconfig.cmake in that folder.  The first thing that file does is:
if(AWSSDK_FOUND)
    return()
endif()

When the second package hits that line is quits immediately.
So it's very clear they don't intend you to have two separation installations of the SDK and link to each of them independently.
If I comment out that condition in the second library and it will find both packages.  Next step is to link them.
AWS recommends linking with:
target_link_libraries(${PROJECT_NAME} PUBLIC ${AWSSDK_LINK_LIBRARIES})

${AWSSDK_LINK_LIBRARIES} is a variable that is set in AWSSDKconfig.cmake.  Although whenever I try to print it it seems empty.  It would seem like I need to link with something like:
find_package(AWSSDK)
target_link_libraries(${PROJECT_NAME} PUBLIC optimized ${AWSSDK_LINK_LIBRARIES})
find_package(AWSSDKdebug)
target_link_libraries(${PROJECT_NAME} PUBLIC debug ${AWSSDK_LINK_LIBRARIES})

When I use the above code I get:
CMake Error at source/projects/AWSTest3.hello-world/CMakeLists.txt:59 (target_link_libraries):
  The "optimized" argument must be followed by a library.

If I leave "optimized" or "debug" out, it all links just fine.  But the functionality of those specifiers is exactly what I need.
I've tried hacking AWSSDKconfig.cmake in different ways to force it to work, but the further I go in that direction clearer it becomes that this is not the right way to go about it.
Any input would be much appreciated.  Thank you!

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Rivard Report (https://therivardreport.com/press-coffee-to-reopen-on-broadway-this-summer/)
Press Coffee Reopens on Broadway
By Jeffrey Sullivan | June 11, 2018
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Natalie and Bronson Holbrook stand in front of the future location of Press Coffee set to open in August of this year.
After a more than nine-month hiatus, a former Alta Vista coffee shop has revived its business about three miles northeast of its original location.
Press Coffee this week reopened shop in a glass-and-wood location at 4035 Broadway St. After initially considering a move into a mobile trailer, co-owners Natalie and Bronson Holbrook decided to restore the space that once served as a hair salon.
Following three years of service, Press' original location at 606 W. French Pl. closed its doors in October 2017. The closure came after what they called "exorbitant" rent increases, according to a Press Coffee Facebook post written at the time.
The new 892-square-foot space situated at the back of the Boardwalk on Broadway complex features a glass wall that exposes the building's interior, giving it a "sort of greenhouse feel," Bronson Holbrook said, but the wood-paneled wall at the back of the structure keeps the shop from being flooded by sunlight.
"We'll have the coolest shop in Texas," Natalie Holbrook said while touring the site with the Rivard Report in June.
Large glass panels make up the north-facing exterior of Press' new space.
The interior will be renovated to accommodate nearly 30 customers.
The coffee bar is on the ground floor next to a smaller, lofted section of the building that features bar seating overlooking the main floor. The Holbrooks estimate the shop seats 28 to 32 guests and employs six staff members. The interior's furnishings are a combination of old pieces and new, decorative additions, Bronson Holbrook said.
Seating isn't limited to inside, either: A narrow patch of land next to the building offers some outdoor seating, with trees around the complex giving the shop a sort of "neighborhood" feel, Bronson Holbrook said.
The Boardwalk on Broadway is located between the Witte Museum and the AT&T Advertising Solutions office, the latter of which stands above the coffee shop.
Despite not being in their neighborhood anymore, the Holbrooks hope that some of their regulars from Alta Vista and Monte Vista will make their way over to the new location.
"We were part of some people's everyday routine," Natalie Holbrook said.
Press Coffee's new location will feature an outdoor seating area.
Not all of Press' staples will carry over to the new location. The new space is not conducive to movie nights, Natalie Holbrook said, and while she and her husband expect most of the menu to remain the same, they're not sure whether they'll continue serving Taco Riendo's tacos in the morning.
But customers who earned reward points through purchases at the Alta Vista location will be able to redeem them in the new spot, she said.
"We had no intention of leaving [the original location]," she explained, so "we're just picking up [where] we left off."
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Laura Enrione on June 17, 2018 at 12:15 PM said:
Wonderful news for Press! The Boardwalk is a fabulous location for their new home. Keep in mind some of your 'regulars' were known to drive in from 1604 for a cappuccino. Initially it was nostalgia having grown up in that old neighborhood. It quickly became about the coffee and the ambience.


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Iain Duncan Smith: Hire unemployed Brits, not foreign workers
Businesses working in shared offices and other buildings should hire unemployed British people rather than people from abroad, according to the work and pensions secretary.
Iain Duncan Smith believes that by hiring Brits over migrant workers, and thereby cutting the number of people coming into the country, unemployment will be slashed drastically.
To support his argument, Mr Duncan Smith quotes official figures that claim 90 per cent of the 400,000 jobs created in the UK in the last year went to foreign workers.
At a speech in Madrid, the former leader of the Conservative Party said that the government was looking to modify the current immigration system so that it gives unemployed people in the country a "level playing field".
He said: "Good immigration is managed immigration – it should not be an excuse to import labour to take up posts which could be filled by people already in Britain."
"Controlling immigration is critical or we will risk losing another generation to dependency and hopelessness."
He also spoke about the government's efforts to transform the welfare system to incentivise people to get back into work and move them away from benefit dependency.


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The Kia Spectra is a mid-range car from the South Korean manufacturer Kia Motors Corporation. Cars, since 2000, have been manufactured in South Korea for 4 years in body modifications of a sedan and a 5-door hatchback. From 2004 to 2009, the sedan was assembled by the industrial assembly method at the Russian car plant in Izhevsk. In total, about 105 thousand copies were collected. In 2011, a limited series of machines was also created in the amount of 1,700 pieces. The Spectra is a modified version of its predecessor, the Kia Sephia.
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The 1.5-liter 16-valve Kia S5D engine was produced in South Korea from 2000 to 2004 and was installed on the Asian version of the Spectra model, a similar A5D was installed on the first Rio. This motor was a hybrid of two Mazda units: a block from a Z5-DE, a head from a B5-DE. Continue reading Engine Kia S5D
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The 1.8-liter gasoline engine Kia T8D was assembled at a factory in Korea from 1995 to 2006 and was installed on such mass models as Carens, Sephia, Shuma and the American version of the Spectra. This motor and its variants T8, TB, TE, TED are clones of the Mazda BP power unit. Continue reading Engine Kia T8D
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The 2.0-liter 16-valve Mazda FE-DE or FE-DOHC engine was assembled from 1987 to 2004 and installed on various versions of the 626 in the GD body and on the Kia Sportage crossover under the FED index. Modifications of this motor in other markets are also known as FE3 or FE-ZE. Continue reading Engine Mazda FE-DE
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Vespers includes music, prayer, scripture and reflection for the over 60 million children who have been aborted since 1973.
Please join us at 3:30 pm for a Rosary for Life, followed by Vespers. Bishop Donald Kettler will be presiding.
Monetary donations accepted to Mother Mary's Fund to assist crisis pregnancy centers in the Diocese of St Cloud.


David Conger, formerly a Professor of Computer Science and Business Computer Programming at the Albuquerque Technical-Vocational Institute, has developed software for a wide range of applications. These applications include military aircraft, games, a variety of specialized business applications, and programs for interactive TV. He currently produces custom software and technical documentation. His clients include Microsoft Corporation, for whom he has written developer documentation for the Windows Platform Software Development Kit (PSDK). The Windows subsystems he documented, in whole or in part, include DirectX, OpenGL, Extensible Scene Graph (XSG), Image Color Management (ICM), Still Image (STI), Windows Image Acquisition (WIA), Remote Procedure Calls (RPC), the Microsoft Interface Definition Language (MIDL) compiler, and the Mobile Internet Toolkit (MIT).


There have been several lawsuits against a particular Swedish furniture company for their defective products. Their defective products which can tip over easily causes a lot of harm and damage. There have been reports of critical injuries and around seven deaths because of its ease to tip over and pound small children. They have failed to meet the safety standards of the furniture industry. Hence, families filed several product liability lawsuits. They have settled a few families for a certain amount of compensation and have since recalled the defective furniture.


The rules are in /lib/udev/rules.d/ but these are read only. You could use a post boot script that change the the modem device automatically.
Would I not be able to create a udev with a lower number as to load it first?
Would the installed ZS make them writeable? Or do they remain RO?


Is it possible to link to a Document Library with a search query executed (in a similar way to linking to a filtered library).
I carry out a specific search and display results in the library regularly and would prefer to have a shortcut to this, but looking at the URL the query doesn't seem to be shown, it just adds a "#InplviewHash" parameter with a hex value, i.e. not readable!
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        [JsonProperty("H")]
		public string Hub { get; set; }

        [JsonProperty("M")]
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        [JsonProperty("A")]
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        [JsonProperty("S", NullValueHandling = NullValueHandling.Ignore)]
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Hi Red0210, Thank you so much for pointing that out. Lots of egg dripping off my face....I simply didn't scroll down the page far enough to see the download links for the "Traditional Win32". That just makes perfect sense....I was racking my brain trying to figure out why it was only going through the MS Store, and subsequently only available for Win10. Again, thanks so much for pointing that out. I really like Enpass, and glad that I will be able continue to use it on refurbed computers that I pick up that have Win 7 on them.... cheers!


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\section{Introduction}

One of the open challenges of lattice gauge theory is the \textit{ab
initio} treatment of full quantum chromodynamics (QCD) at finite density
and low temperature. The fermion determinant is rendered complex and
rapidly oscillating after the introduction of a finite chemical potential
$\mu$. The same holds for a wide spectrum of theories at nonzero
density. The resulting near-cancellations make an evaluation of expectation
values extremely challenging. Several methods for meeting the sign
problem have been advanced, but are either limited in their applicability
or are about to be tested for QCD, see e.g.~Refs.~\cite{deForcrand:2010ys,Lombardo:2005gj,Aarts:2009yj,Aarts:2013uxa,Aarts:2013bla,Schmidt:2012uy,Mercado:2013yta,Alexandru:2005ix,Alexandru:2010yb,Langfeld:2012ah,Langfeld:2013xbf}.

In the past, studies of models of QCD have been proved insightful
\cite{Bilic:1987fn,Bilic:1988rw,Splittorff:2006fu,Splittorff:2007ck,Splittorff:2007zh,Ravagli:2007rw,Bloch:2013ara,Bloch:2013qva},
including in the special case of heavy quarks
\cite{DePietri:2007ak,Aarts:2008rr,Fromm:2012eb}. The interest
in the present and many other models discussed in the literature is
that they provide a testing ground for new simulation algorithms to
be applied to the full theory. Examples can be found in
Refs.~\cite{Aarts:2008rr,Seiler:2012wz,Bloch:2013ara,Bloch:2013qva}.

In this paper, we construct and study models that exhibit certain
characteristic properties of quantum electrodynamics (QED) and quantum
chromodynamics at nonzero $\mu$ and temperature $T$. These models
are formulated on a one-dimensional lattice using staggered fermions
\cite{Kogut:1974ag,Banks:1975gq,Banks:1976ia,Susskind:1976jm}. In
comparison to the full theories these models have several
simplifications. In particular, as it is not possible to define a
plaquette variable in one dimension, there is no Yang-Mills action and
the models can only respect a global
gauge symmetry. Nonetheless, the introduction of a bosonic field
allows us to go beyond models with only fermionic degrees of freedom.
Moreover, by the introduction of a suitable bosonic action $S_{\textrm{g}}$
we can mimic some features of Yang-Mills theory, which cannot
be directly translated to one dimension.

We note that our models generalize the one-link models presented in
Ref.~\cite{Aarts:2008rr}. With an explicit incorporation of bosonic degrees
of freedom with a corresponding action, a particular
form of the fermion matrix and an integration
over conjugacy classes we are able to construct a novel low-dimensional
QCD-like model,
which extends and cross-checks previous work.

As a result these models allow us to investigate some universal phenomena
also found in other models from a different perspective. In particular
our findings presented in Sec.~\ref{sec:QCD} shine new light on
the behavior of the Polyakov loop at large densities.

The resulting partition function can be fully integrated for a U(1)
gauge group. In the case of SU(3) we are left with an integral expression,
whose sign problem is manageable and which can be numerically evaluated.
We discuss some observables and investigate the Silver Blaze phenomenon
\cite{Cohen:2003kd} in these models. A theory exhibits Silver Blaze
behavior, if in the zero-temperature limit $T\to0$ observables become
independent of the chemical potential for $\mu\leq\mu_{\textrm{crit}}$,
where $\mu_{\textrm{crit}}$ is some critical onset value of the chemical
potential. In realistic models $\mu_{\textrm{crit}}=m_{q}^{\textrm{phys}}$
corresponds to the physical fermion mass, or, more generally, the
mass of the lowest excitation with nonvanishing quark number.

We organize the paper as follows: first we introduce a QED-like model
in Sec.~\ref{sec:QED}. We derive a closed expression for the partition
function and discuss the dependence of some observables on chemical
potential and temperature. In Sec.~\ref{sec:QCD} we deal with the
case of QCD and derive an integral expression, which can be numerically
evaluated. In Sec.~\ref{sec:Conclusions} we discuss and summarize
our findings.

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\section{A soluble, QED-like model at nonzero density \label{sec:QED}}

For the construction of a QED-like model we formulate an Abelian U(1)
lattice gauge theory on a finite one-dimensional lattice with staggered
fermions and couple them to a chemical potential, following a similar
ansatz as employed in previous works.

\subsection{Partition function}

\begin{figure*}[t]
\subfloat[Density, condensate and normalized susceptibility.]{\begin{centering}
\includegraphics[clip,angle=-90,width=0.99\columnwidth]{U1-Obs-N10-b6-m1}
\par\end{centering}

}\hfill{}\subfloat[Polyakov loop and conjugate Polyakov loop.]{\begin{centering}
\includegraphics[clip,angle=-90,width=0.99\columnwidth]{U1-PL-N10-b6-m1}
\par\end{centering}

}

\protect\caption{Observables in the U(1) model. \label{fig:Observables-U1}}
\end{figure*}

The action we employ mimics the usual compact lattice QED in one dimension.
The lattice is assumed to have a lattice spacing of $a$ and an extension
of $N$ sites, where $N$ is assumed to be even. We set $a=1$, i.e.,
we measure all dimensionful quantities in appropriate powers of $a$.
We consider a single staggered fermion field and couple it to a chemical
potential $\mu$. The temperature is identified with the inverse of
the lattice extension $T=N^{-1}$. The action $S=S_{\textrm{f}}+S_{\textrm{g}}$
consists of the fermionic part
\begin{equation}
S_{\textrm{f}}=\sum_{t,\tau=1}^{N}\overline{\chi}\left(t\right)K\left(t,\tau\right)\chi\left(\tau\right)\,,
\end{equation}
and the pure bosonic part
\begin{equation}
S_{\textrm{g}}=\beta\sum_{t=1}^{N}\left[1-\frac{1}{2}\left(U_{t}+U_{t}^{\dagger}\right)\right]\,.\label{eq:GaugeActionQED}
\end{equation}
Here $\overline{\chi}$ and $\chi$ denote the staggered fermion field,
$K\left(t,\tau\right)$ the fermion matrix, $\beta=1/e^{2}$ the inverse
coupling constant and $U_{t}\in\textrm{U(1)}$ the link variables.
The fermion matrix reads
\begin{equation}
K\left(t,\tau\right)=\frac{1}{2}\left(U_{t}e^{\mu}\delta_{t+1,\tau}-U_{\tau}^{\dagger}e^{-\mu}\delta_{t-1,\tau}\right)+m\delta_{t\tau}\,,
\end{equation}
with $m$ denoting the mass of the fermion. The introduction of the
chemical potential $\mu$ follows the prescription by Hasenfratz and
Karsch \cite{Hasenfratz:1983ba}. Furthermore we impose an antiperiodic
boundary condition for the fermionic field. After integrating out
the fermionic degrees of freedom, the partition function reads
\begin{equation}
Z=\intop\prod_{t=1}^{N}\textrm{d}U_{t}\,\det K\, e^{-S_{\textrm{G}}}\,.\label{eq:PartFunc}
\end{equation}
In this case the fermion determinant can be evaluated analytically
using identity (1) derived in Ref.~\cite{Molinari20082221}. We find
\begin{equation}
2^{N}\det K=e^{N\mu}\prod_{t}U_{t}+e^{-N\mu}\prod_{\tau}U_{\tau}^{\dagger}+2\rho_{+}\,,\label{eq:DetQED}
\end{equation}
where we have introduced
\begin{equation}
\rho_{\pm}=\lambda_{+}\pm\lambda_{-}\,,\qquad\lambda_{\pm}=\frac{1}{2}\left(m\pm\sqrt{1+m^{2}}\right)^{N}\,.
\end{equation}
Note that Eq.~\eqref{eq:DetQED}, like full QED, satisfies the identity
\begin{equation}
\det K\left(\mu\right)=\left[\det K\left(-\mu^{\star}\right)\right]^{\star}\,,\label{eq:DetSymmetry}
\end{equation}
which shows that in general the fermion determinant is complex for
$\mu>0$. We parametrize the link variables as $U_{t}=\exp\left(\textrm{i}\phi_{t}\right)$
in terms of algebra-valued fields $\phi_{t}\in\left[0,2\pi\right)$.
The corresponding U(1)-Haar measure reads
\begin{equation}
\intop\textrm{d}U_{t}=\int_{0}^{2\pi}\frac{\textrm{d}\phi_{t}}{2\pi}\,.
\end{equation}
With this parametrization, the action in Eq.~\eqref{eq:GaugeActionQED}
takes the form
\begin{equation}
S_{\textrm{g}}=\beta\sum_{t=1}^{N}\left(1-\cos\phi_{t}\right)\,.
\end{equation}
This allows us to integrate the partition function given in Eq.~\eqref{eq:PartFunc}
by using the expression we derived for the fermion determinant in
Eq.~\eqref{eq:DetQED}, to find
\begin{equation}
Z=\frac{e^{-\beta N}}{2^{N-1}}\left[\rho_{+}I_{0}^{N}\left(\beta\right)+\cosh\left(N\mu\right)I_{1}^{N}\left(\beta\right)\right]\,.\label{eq:QEDPartFunc}
\end{equation}
Here $I_{n}$ denotes the modified Bessel functions of the first kind.
As a cross-check we verified that $Z$ reduces to the previously
derived partition function in Ref.~\cite{Aarts:2008rr} for $N=1$ up to a
normalization constant, which depends on $m$ and $\beta$.

\subsection{Observables}

Given the final expression for the partition function in Eq.~\eqref{eq:QEDPartFunc},
we can easily calculate any observable of interest. The density follows
from $\left\langle n\right\rangle =N^{-1}\partial_{\mu}\log Z$, the
respective susceptibility is defined as $\left\langle \chi_{n}\right\rangle =\partial_{\mu}\left\langle n\right\rangle $
and the fermion condensate is given by $\left\langle \overline{\chi}\chi\right\rangle =N^{-1}\partial_{m}\log Z$.
For the density we then find,
\begin{equation}
\left\langle n\right\rangle =\frac{\sinh\left(N\mu\right)I_{1}^{N}\left(\beta\right)}{\rho_{+}I_{0}^{N}\left(\beta\right)+\cosh\left(N\mu\right)I_{1}^{N}\left(\beta\right)}\,.\label{eq:QEDDensity}
\end{equation}
Again this expression reduces to the known result in Ref.~\cite{Aarts:2008rr} for $N=1$. The fermion condensate follows as,
\begin{equation}
\left\langle \overline{\chi}\chi\right\rangle =\frac{\left(1+m^{2}\right)^{-1/2}\rho_{-}I_{0}^{N}\left(\beta\right)}{\rho_{+}I_{0}^{N}\left(\beta\right)+\cosh\left(N\mu\right)I_{1}^{N}\left(\beta\right)}\,.\label{eq:QEDFermCond}
\end{equation}
By directly evaluating the respective path integral expression, we
find for the Polyakov loop $\mathcal{P}=\prod_{t}U_{t}$ the expectation
value
\begin{equation}
\left\langle \mathcal{P}\right\rangle =\frac{e^{-\beta N}}{2^{N}Z}\left[2\rho_{+}I_{1}^{N}\left(\beta\right)+e^{N\mu}I_{2}^{N}\left(\beta\right)+e^{-N\mu}I_{0}^{N}\left(\beta\right)\right]\,.\label{eq:QEDPolyLoop}
\end{equation}
The conjugate Polyakov loop $\mathcal{P}^{\dagger}=\prod_{t}U_{t}^{\dagger}$
follows from a simple symmetry argument as $\left\langle \mathcal{P}^{\dagger}\right\rangle _{\mu}=\left\langle \mathcal{P}\right\rangle _{-\mu}$,
cf.~Ref.~\cite{Bloch:2013ara}.

In Fig.~\ref{fig:Observables-U1} we show the density given by Eq.~\eqref{eq:QEDDensity},
the fermion condensate by Eq.~\eqref{eq:QEDFermCond} and the Polyakov
loop by Eq.~\eqref{eq:QEDPolyLoop} as functions of the chemical
potential $\mu$. We see that already for $T=1/N=1/10$ the observables
only show a weak dependence on the chemical potential below some critical
value $\mu_{\textrm{crit}}$. This shows how the Silver Blaze behavior
\cite{Cohen:2003kd} becomes apparent in this model, which holds strictly
in the limit $T\to0$.

Close to $\mu\approx\mu_{\textrm{crit}}$ we also observe a fast increase
or decrease of the observables before reaching the saturation regime.
Note that the limits $\mu\rightarrow\infty$ and $\beta\rightarrow0$
do not commute. Density and condensate behave as one would expect.
The expectation values of $\mathcal{P}$ and $\mathcal{P}^{\dagger}$
approach
\begin{equation}
\left\langle \mathcal{P}\right\rangle \to\left[\frac{I_{2}\left(\beta\right)}{I_{1}\left(\beta\right)}\right]^{N}\,,\qquad\left\langle \mathcal{P}^{\dagger}\right\rangle \to\left[\frac{I_{0}\left(\beta\right)}{I_{1}\left(\beta\right)}\right]^{N}\,,
\end{equation}
for $\mu\to\infty$. The Polyakov loop quickly drops to a typically
small value with increasing $\mu$ while the conjugate Polyakov loop
grows to a saturation value which diverges when $\beta\rightarrow0$.

\section{A QCD-like model at nonzero density \label{sec:QCD}}

Now we extend the previous model to the non-Abelian gauge group SU(3).
By restricting the integration over the full gauge group to the respective
conjugacy classes of SU(3), we will be able to reduce the partition
function to an integral expression with a manageable sign problem.

\subsection{Partition function}

\begin{figure*}[t]
\subfloat[Density and condensate.]{\begin{centering}
\includegraphics[clip,angle=-90,width=0.99\columnwidth]{SU3-Obs-N6-b6-m15}
\par\end{centering}

}\hfill{}\subfloat[Polyakov loop and conjugate Polyakov loop.]{\begin{centering}
\includegraphics[clip,angle=-90,width=0.99\columnwidth]{SU3-PL-N6-b6-m15}
\par\end{centering}

}

\protect\caption{Observables in the SU(3) model. \label{fig:Observables-SU3}}
\end{figure*}

Our starting point is again the path integral expression for the partition
function in Eq.~\eqref{eq:PartFunc}, where now the pure bosonic
part of the action reads
\begin{equation}
S_{\textrm{g}}=\beta\sum_{t=1}^{N}\left[1-\frac{1}{6}\operatorname{Tr}_{\mathsf{c}}\left(U_{t}+U_{t}^{\dagger}\right)\right]\,.
\end{equation}
Here $\beta=6/g^{2}$ denotes the inverse coupling, $U_{t}\in\textrm{SU}\left(3\right)$
the link variables and $\operatorname{Tr}_{\mathsf{c}}$ a trace in color space.
Furthermore we replace the fermion matrix by
\begin{equation}
K\left(t,\tau\right)=\frac{1}{2}\left(\sigma_{+}U_{t}e^{\mu}\delta_{t+1,\tau}-\sigma_{-}U_{\tau}^{\dagger}e^{-\mu}\delta_{t-1,\tau}\right)+m\delta_{t\tau}\,,\label{eq:FermionMatrixQCD}
\end{equation}
with $\sigma_{\pm}=\frac{1}{2}\left(\mathbbm{1}\pm\sigma_{3}\right)$
and the third Pauli matrix $\sigma_{3}=\operatorname{diag}\left(1,-1\right)$. In
the loop expansion this suppresses back steps, thus simulating a special
feature of Wilson fermions. This choice results in a factorization
of the fermion determinant of the form
\begin{equation}
\det K=\det\nolimits _{\mathsf{t,c}}\mathcal{K}_{f}\cdot\det\nolimits _{\mathsf{t,c}}\mathcal{K}_{b}\,,\label{eq:DetFactorQCD}
\end{equation}
where we introduced
\begin{align}
\det\nolimits _{\mathsf{t,c}}\mathcal{K}_{f} & =\det\nolimits _{\mathsf{t,c}}\left(m\delta_{t\tau}+\frac{1}{2}U_{t}^{\vphantom{\dagger}}e^{\mu}\delta_{t+1,\tau}\right)\,,\nonumber \\
\det\nolimits _{\mathsf{t,c}}\mathcal{K}_{b} & =\det\nolimits _{\mathsf{t,c}}\left(m\delta_{t\tau}-\frac{1}{2}U_{\tau}^{\dagger}e^{-\mu}\delta_{t-1,\tau}\right)\,.
\end{align}
Here $U_{N+1}=-U_{1}$ and $\det\nolimits _{\mathsf{t,c}}$ refers
to a determinant in position and color space.

In the following we restrict ourselves to observables which only depend
on the conjugacy class of the link variables. We then replace the
integration over the full gauge group SU(3) with an integration over
these conjugacy classes. This idea and the factorization given in
Eq.~\eqref{eq:DetFactorQCD} were also previously exploited in a
one link model in Ref.~\cite{Aarts:2008rr}. We thus parametrize
the links by
\begin{equation}
U_{t}=\operatorname{diag}\left(e^{\textrm{i}\phi_{t}},e^{\textrm{i}\vartheta_{t}},e^{-\textrm{i}\left(\phi_{t}+\vartheta_{t}\right)}\right)\,,\label{eq:ParametrizationSU3}
\end{equation}
with $\phi_{t},\vartheta_{t}\in\left(-\pi,\pi\right]$. Ignoring a
normalization constant, the Haar measure is given by $\textrm{d}U_{t}\propto J\left(\phi_{t},\vartheta_{t}\right)\,\textrm{d}\phi_{t}\,\textrm{d}\vartheta_{t}$
with
\begin{multline}
J\left(\phi_{t},\vartheta_{t}\right)=\sin^{2}\left(\frac{\phi_{t}-\vartheta_{t}}{2}\right)\\
\times\sin^{2}\left(\frac{\phi_{t}+2\vartheta_{t}}{2}\right)\sin^{2}\left(\frac{2\phi_{t}+\vartheta_{t}}{2}\right)\,,\label{eq:RedHaarMeas}
\end{multline}
while the bosonic part of the action takes the form
\begin{equation}
S_{\textrm{g}}=\beta\sum_{t=1}^{N}\left[1-\frac{1}{3}\left(\cos\phi_{t}+\cos\vartheta_{t}+\cos\left(\phi_{t}+\vartheta_{t}\right)\right)\right]\,.\label{eq:GaugeActionQCD}
\end{equation}
The determinant in position space has a simple structure and can be
analytically evaluated, e.g.~directly or by resummation of the loop
expansion for Eq.~\eqref{eq:FermionMatrixQCD}. For the remaining
determinant in color space we use the identity
\begin{equation}
\det\nolimits _{\mathsf{c}}\left(\mathbbm{1}+\alpha U_{t}\right)=1+\alpha\operatorname{Tr}_{\mathsf{c}}U_{t}+\alpha^{2}\operatorname{Tr}_{\mathsf{c}}U_{t}^{-1}+\alpha^{3}\,,
\end{equation}
valid for all $A\in\textrm{SL}_{3}\left(\mathbb{C}\right)$, see Ref.~\cite{Aarts:2008rr}.
We can express the result in terms of the (conjugate) Polyakov loop
\begin{align}
\det\nolimits _{\mathsf{t,c}}\mathcal{K}_{f} & =m^{3N}\det\nolimits _{\mathsf{c}}\left(\mathbbm{1}+\xi_{f}\prod_{t}U_{t}\right)\nonumber \\
 & =m^{3N}\left(1+\xi_{f}\mathcal{P}+\xi_{f}^{2}\mathcal{P}^{\dagger}+\xi_{f}^{3}\right)\,,
\end{align}
with $\xi_{f}=\left[\kappa\exp\left(\mu\right)\right]^{N}$ and hopping
parameter $\kappa=1/\left(2m\right)$. The Polyakov loop $\mathcal{P}$
and conjugate Polyakov loop $\mathcal{P}^{\dagger}$ are defined by
\begin{equation}
\mathcal{P}=\operatorname{Tr}_{\mathsf{c}}\prod_{t=1}^{N}U_{t}\,,\qquad\mathcal{P}^{\dagger}=\operatorname{Tr}_{\mathsf{c}}\prod_{t=1}^{N}U_{t}^{\dagger}\,.
\end{equation}
Analogously, we find
\begin{equation}
\det\nolimits _{\mathsf{t,c}}\mathcal{K}_{b}=m^{3N}\left(1+\xi_{b}\mathcal{P}^{\dagger}+\xi_{b}^{2}\mathcal{P}+\xi_{b}^{3}\right)\,,
\end{equation}
with $\xi_{b}=\left[\kappa\exp\left(-\mu\right)\right]^{N}$. We observe
that, as in the QED-like model, the fermion determinant in Eq.~\eqref{eq:DetFactorQCD}
satisfies the relation in Eq.~\eqref{eq:DetSymmetry}.

Putting all pieces together, we find that the partition function of
the model reads
\begin{align}
Z=m^{6N}\intop_{-\pi}^{\pi}&\left[\prod_{t}\textrm{d}\phi_{t}\,\textrm{d}\vartheta_{t}\, J\left(\phi_{t},\vartheta_{t}\right)\right]\nonumber\\
&\times\left(1+\xi_{f}\mathcal{P}+\xi_{f}^{2}\mathcal{P}^{\dagger}+\xi_{f}^{3}\right)\nonumber\\
&\times\left(1+\xi_{b}\mathcal{P}^{\dagger}+\xi_{b}^{2}\mathcal{P}+\xi_{b}^{3}\right)e^{-S_{\textrm{g}}}\,,\label{eq:PartFuncQCD}
\end{align}
where an irrelevant numerical normalization constant has been dropped.
The measure term $J\left(\phi_{t},\vartheta_{t}\right)$ was given
in Eq.~\eqref{eq:RedHaarMeas}, $S_{\textrm{g}}$ was introduced
in Eq.~\eqref{eq:GaugeActionQCD}.

\subsection{Observables}

Considering Eq.~\eqref{eq:PartFuncQCD} as a partition function for a
model of QCD, we can derive integral expressions for the
density, the susceptibility and the fermion condensate by taking corresponding
derivatives of $\log Z$. For the Polyakov loop and the conjugate
Polyakov loop we insert a $\frac{1}{Z}\mathcal{P}$ or a $\frac{1}{Z}\mathcal{P}^{\dagger}$
term in Eq.~\eqref{eq:PartFuncQCD}.

The resulting integral expressions are numerically evaluated. Typical
examples of these observables can be found in Fig.~\ref{fig:Observables-SU3}.
The density and the condensate show similar qualitative behavior to
the corresponding observables in the U(1) model, where we now find
$\left\langle n\right\rangle \to3$ for $\mu\to\infty$.

The Polyakov loop and conjugate Polyakov loop show some nontrivial
behavior. Close to the critical onset $\mu_{\textrm{crit}}$, we find
peaks in $\left\langle \mathcal{P}\right\rangle $ and $\left\langle \mathcal{P}^{\dagger}\right\rangle $
with the peak in the conjugate Polyakov loop appearing at smaller
$\mu$. Similar behavior was previously observed in a simulation of
a gauge theory with exceptional group $G_{2}$ \cite{Maas:2012wr},
a strong coupling limit in HQCD \cite{Seiler:2012wz}, a three-dimensional
effective theory of nuclear matter \cite{Fromm:2012eb} and in recent
studies of one-dimensional QCD \cite{Bloch:2013ara,Bloch:2013qva}.
The drop of the Polyakov loop at high density is easily understood
as an effect of saturation, while the displacement of the peaks has
a dynamical basis, see, e.g.~Ref.~\cite{Seiler:2012wz}.

Despite making use of a different approach, in general we find good qualitative
agreement with the results reported in Refs.~\cite{Bloch:2013ara,Bloch:2013qva}
after dropping $S_{\textrm{g}}$, i.e.\,for $\beta=0$.

\section{Conclusions \label{sec:Conclusions}}

In this paper we have constructed one-dimensional lattice models resembling
QED and QCD to investigate the finite density and finite temperature
regime. Despite the drastic simplifications in these models, they
capture some essential physical properties expected from the full
theory and show an interesting behavior of the Polyakov loop. We found
that they---like their four-dimensional continuous counterparts---exhibit
the Silver Blaze property in the zero temperature limit $N\to\infty$.
The $\mu$-dependence of the SU(3) (conjugate) Polyakov loop $\mathcal{P}$
($\mathcal{P}^{\dagger}$) shows the peculiar $\mu$-dependence also
found in other approximations of QCD. The models presented here can
also serve as a starting point for the construction of more elaborated
models.

\section{Acknowledgments}

This work is supported by the Helmholtz Alliance HA216/EMMI and by
ERC-AdG-290623. J.M.P. thanks the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics,
Kyoto University, where this work was completed during the YITP-T-13-05
on 'New Frontiers in QCD'. I.-O.S. thanks the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
by STA 283/16-1 and C.Z. thanks Nanyang Technological University for support.

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Do I see this as a failure of the government? No. Not at all. I never thought it was the government's responsibility to feed hungry families.
Jesus called his followers to provide for the poor and hungry. He did not command the government to develop programs from the tax base, He charged his church to love on their communities by providing for the sick and hungry.
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Disagree with me if you will, but I do not believe Jesus called the church to construct majestic cathedrals and turn a blind eye on the hurting and hungry around us. I believe He charged the church and his followers to do good and feed the hungry.
John 21:17 The third time he said to him, "Simon son of John, do you love me?" Peter was hurt because Jesus asked him the third time, "Do you love me?" He said, "Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you." Jesus said, "Feed my sheep".