A Rascally Witness

During this Lenten season each Sunday our church congregation repeats the Decalogue, The Ten Commandments:  The First Commandment  Rector: I am the Lord your God who brought you out of bondage. You shall have no other gods but me. Congregation: Amen. Lord have mercy.    Last Sunday we had the privilege of hearing The Rev.…

“We’re On A Mission From God”

Lent may be a good time for this discourse… “If you live today, you breath in nihilism … it’s the gas you breathe. If I hadn’t had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now.” ―…

The Bottom Line Truth About Social Justice

  Don’t be fooled by the advertising phrase “social justice.”  It is brandished even by ‘Christian’ groups (Sojourners) when they want to elict grandiose feelings of compassion from you or whenever they need to umbrella (hide) a host of feel good causes which will undoubtly cost you time and money, time and money that could be…

“All who are thirsty come”

“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost.” Isaiah 55:1 The eye-witness account by the apostle John (and also of a disciple named Philip) relates the true narrative of Jesus meeting a Samaritan…

Good Company

“Will to do His will” “Bridges Get Walked On” “He chooses you.” Grab some Starbucks and enjoy this incredible Interview with Rosaria Butterfield; January 11, 2013   The Collect For the Second Sunday of Lent (and my prayer):   O God, whose glory it is always to have mercy:  Be gracious to all who have…

Tear Down That Anthropocentricity

  It may have been in the later 1970s that I became aware of Alexander Solzhenitsyn.  I don’t recall exactly what brought him to my attention. It may have been news reports of the Soviet Union’s exiled dissident. Solzhenitsyn had been deported from the USSR and stripped of Soviet citizenship in 1974. He later came…