The USA needs therapy?
We read of the life changing after effects of a brutal rape and we see the victims predictable efforts to cope with the trauma. 1) Her feelings are hurt, anger and there is always fear. 2) Her relationships with men, former friends are now strained as the trauma cast shadows on […]
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“Thanksgiving” or “Feeding Frenzy”
This nation has a new holiday called Black Friday. It has slowly supplanted Thanksgiving much as the lifestyle of “Get” has replaced the lifestyle of “Give.” The holidays have been traditionally been associated with “Giving” living out that eternal truth – “it is more blessed to give than to receive” (Acts 20:35) Giving comes with […]
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What Thanksgiving once was…
By the President of the United States of America. A Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln 1789 WHEREAS it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor; and whereas both Houses of […]
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Jesus’ unanswered prayers.
John 17:20-23 “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21 that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have […]
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Revival is the Answer
There are similarities between the dark times we live in now and the dawn of the First Great Awakening. The choices we see now are the same inequalities facing the workers of France and England. France dissolved into chaos and violence…while England had a moral and spiritual revival. A corrupt and even dead church darkened […]
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Undoing of the Reformation
Thousands of Anglicans are expected to defect to the Roman Catholic Church in time for Lent 2011. This started with the Campaign of Father Kieth Newton to leave the church in protest to its stance on the ordination of women and gay clergy. Father Newton has encouraged the return of Anglicans to the Ordinariate – […]
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Thou anointest our beaches with oil
We have gone from begging God for a Detroit bailout to now wanting the Gulfs Oil Tap of “blessing” turned off. RESOLUTION To recognise and declare Sunday, June 20, 2010, as a Statewide Day of Prayer for Louisiana and for the population and region surrounding the Gulf of Mexico, in particular, those people affected by […]
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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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God is not mocked — O.J. Simpson
He was convicted of an armed robbery that happened on Sept. 13 and was found guilty on the 13th anniversary of his Los Angeles murder acquittal. The Las Vegas jury deliberated for 13 hours after a 13-day trial. 12 Jurors deliberated 13 hours before reaching a verdict, of guilty on all 12 counts, which comes […]
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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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