Did he ponder Isaac Whilst hanging on the cross A last second substitute Before all was lost? Is this why he cried out ‘My God, My God’ so loud Showing disappointment Before a hostile crowd? Would God not intervene, Offer another lamb Or would he be passed over A dangling great I AM? Abandoned but…

Frank Lucas was a native son of Greensboro North Carolina, only fifteen minutes from where I grew up. It amazes me that I may well have crossed his path half a century ago, and of course not known it. He was the eldest of many brothers, and the one his younger brothers all looked up…

In the ‘it’s about time department’ a series of mostly Prosperity TV Evangelists are going to have to face financial accountability at the hands of a Republican Senator! Truly, the eschaton is at hand. Here is the link to Laurie Goodstein’s article in the NY Times this morning— http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/07/us/07ministers.html?th&emc=th Charles Grassley is the Chair of…

I am not a person that is much in favor of banning things. For one thing it usually backfires (although the banning of the ‘Da Vinci Code’ movie after a brief release in China, seems to have accomplished some of the government’s aims to avoid religious upheaval). Plus I do indeed believe in those amendments,…

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