“Ask not” was Kennedy’s call to Revolution.
Fifty years ago today John F. Kennedy spoke for 16 minutes and with 1355 words inspired thousands to enter politics, government or the Peace Corps. He said that America continued to fight for “the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the Hand of God.” The speech […]
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Anglicans ordained as Roman Catholics
Since the Protestant Reformation, when the Church of England broke away from Rome, it has been a sometimes uneasy coalition between its Catholic and Protestant members. It’s the huge achievement of the Church that it has kept these two wings together through numerous crises – that over homosexuality being only one of the most recent. […]
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Presidents and Prophets
President Obama ascended the mountain to Rev. Billy Graham’s log cabin Sunday afternoon en-route to a memorial service for miners. There was a time a man of God descended from the mountain with a word of the Lord. So Obama came to a mountain to be prayed for. There will come a time when all […]
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Last Sermon
He waited among the trees In prayer alone with fear No peace among those Olive leaves His final sermon drawing near His pulpit was a rough-cut tree His cloak bloody and bare His final words choked free Below a mob only stared He preached pardon to a thief Then […]
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Haiti Earthquake, Christians and “Acts of God
We will serve you, if you’ll get us free from the French. And so, the devil said, okay it’s a deal” The so-called deal with the devil to which Robertson refers is the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804). Nobody taught more about judgment and Hell than Jesus. Most of His condemnation and Woes were directed to the […]
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“Christian Right” or “Moral Majority”
The media is full of the Conservative political hand wringing and the Evangelical “crocodile tears” over the wickedness of this nation. Blogs proclaim it and the Fox media covers it. Does God buy it? Should He buy it? Our recent interest in abortion, the hand wringing over homosexual “marriage” are motivated by our own self-interest. […]
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Reformation Day – Rebellious Catholics Return
VATICAN CITY — Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, spiritual leader of the world’s Anglicans, will meet Pope Benedict XVI on November 21, Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi confirmed Friday. The Vatican announced last week that Pope Benedict XVI has approved a new structure to ease the way for Anglicans — including married priests — to join […]
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The Hypocrisy of “Standing with Israel”
And while Christians “stand with Israel” – one should not forget they are a people described as cut off and dead in sin – For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to show their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.” Rom. 10:1-4. Yeshua poured Woe’s on their […]
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Peace in our time – 70th Anniversary of W.W.2
“Today marks the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the most terrible of wars. We are in Westerplatte, the symbol of heroic resistance against the stronger enemy,” Poland’s President Lech Kaczynski said while opening the international part of the ceremonies. The shelling of Westerplatte by the German Schleswig-Holstein warship started at 4:45 a.m. on Sept. […]
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Letter to the editor
Dear Sir /Madam I am now a US citizen who came here from Africa. In various African churches, we sang about America the beautiful and “amber waves of grain” from donated American hymnals. Relief agencies would fly in Mielie Meel (Corn Flour) and other staples while bare foot Africans stood in line waiting. Women carrying […]
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Road to Emmaus
We find our destiny On the road we take away Far from Seattle To where Inverness lay Left behind are all our losses Dead dreams on empty crosses We walk away forever?. To that place “Love” finds us. And shares the road beside us. That “Stranger” with a […]
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