"Those who hate me love death"

Life, Life cried Christian when leaving the city of destruction.  "Pilgrim's Progress"

Proverbs 8:36  

But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

In our day, death is a constant subject of entertainment.

  I love that we were able to watch that episode of Sherlock, while you were 16.

That is my favorite age of memory.  I am sorry that I haven’t any more children to keep me remembering 16 years old.

I had many responsibilities at 16 and much cumbersome emotional baggage.  I knew a lot about Jesus, but not yet did I know Him, whom to know is life eternal.  I often asked Him to show Himself to me, but I really didn’t know Him.  I prayed a lot, then.  I talked about Jesus and taught classes about Jesus and had memorized the documents of Vatican II and I still didn’t know Jesus.

Hell had a great hold on my soul.  I meditated on death, as much as on Jesus.  Bitterness and sullenness was the continued condition of my life.  I couldn’t even find happiness in the greatest victories of my teens.  Death seemed always to loom over my mind and emotion.

I think that the imagination of Sherlock entering into a locked room with his arch-nemesis, is one of the best human depictions of Hell, that I can imagine.  It is eternal! And yet, he escaped that dark sentence!  What should he have done? And yet there was no shock that He had missed an eternal flame, by a hair.  Praise is in order, even if you don't know Him.  Delay of the sentence, is no real and lasting comfort.  To some, it emboldens them.  Don't be one of them!  The sentence of death is coming to us all, in some form or another, but the sentence of Hell is reserved for some.  Don't be one of them!

God owes us Hell, if we don't make our calling and election sure on this earth!  Jesus is the remedy!

Hell is the complete darkness and pain, mental and physical that anyone can imagine, and it is worse than that.  We must remember that we have enjoyed the mercies of God for a lifetime, without any payment.  So if we leave this life, having repudiated that greatness, we deserve every bit of it.  That is what makes the pain of that Hell all the more excruciating.  You could have taken the hand of the Good God that was right in front of you, your entire life.  

But God was merciful and waiting.  And God was amazingly gracious and we have been blessed with air and food and raiment and all good things and we despised it.

Our enemy had deceived us to make us think we deserved all of that.  And if we believe him, we will be locked with him for eternity with no merciful hand of God to stand between us and his taunts and torments.

God has given the remedy.  Jesus paid that price already!  We need only trust in Him!  Halleluia, for redemption by grace through faith in Jesus’ Name!

Multitasking and thinking at the same time. Are you walking and chewing gum?

Freire Jacque,

Are you sleeping?  Tweeting? Searching? Twisting? Listening? Or thinking during the debate?

Morning bells are ringing,  as the song goes...

Ding ding ding...that is how our hearing has dulled in recent times...  The picture of yesteryears family sitting in front of the radio or TV set and listening intently to points and reasoning seems all but gone to a tweeting and interactive multitaskers who were certain that they were engaged in listening to last nights debate with relish.   Seriously?

The stats on who was the most searched and who was the most comments on is telling!  The lack of substance and substantive belittling of any real directive approaches seems the order of the day. 

The song should go

ARE YOU THINKING BROTHER JOHN?

Perhaps you heard what was said, but impossible dreams are more palatable, than real achievable ambitions.  Sooooooo sad!

opening night?

the best concert ever

The Fight against the Zombies!

I had a delightful conversation with a 6 year old about Zombies yesterday. I remember my own fascination with Zombies as a young person. I was a realist as a child, for the most part; but I did have a bit of a time looking into Zombies, when I discovered the Thriller video, a couple of years ago...

I was fascinated, just like my little friend and I was in my mid forties in age. Not anywhere near a child and you would think that I would have outgrown the Zombie stage, but I could really get into what Michael Jackson had captured in our imaginations of Zombies.

I think that there should be a Christian version of a zombie game and I think there should be a way that you could incorporate the way that we do spiritual battle, in a game that would help these children know how to keep from becoming the prey of such real spiritual darkness. I don't think we do enough to prepare our children for the battle for their own souls that they need to fight. We are talking about alot of grown people stuff, all the time and we forget to stoop to the level where the real fight for the future is...

think about it!