’storms of faith and fury’

August 30.2008
Déjà vu… those living along the Gulf Coast are watching very closely a formidable storm that is positioned just south of Cuba. Hurricane Gustav a category 4 storm with wind in excess of 150 mph will make landfall somewhere along the Gulf of Mexico within 48-60 hours. Just yesterday was the 3rd year anniversary [...]

For The Proverbial Palate- 08.30.2008

   Photo: CSIRO- www.smh.com.au/…/2007/12/28/1198778703379.html
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? Yet a little sleep, a [...]

‘ignorance personified’

Ever wondered what ignorance looks like? Here’s what it sounds like…
Excerpts Democratic + Catholic + Senate = pro-abortion  OneNewsNow
Nancy Pelosi was interviewed by Tom Brokaw on Meet The Press this past Sunday. Question from Mr. Brokaw to Speaker Pelosi..
“If he [Obama] were to come to you and say, ‘Help me out here, Madame Speaker. When [...]

For The Proverbial Palate- 08.23.2008

Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud. Proverbs 16:18-19
Now must of us will detest a bragger. Personally, I would rather see someone give their all and when they gain the victory, [...]

‘the city of perpetual ‘moral’ decadence’

  
If one ever has the opportunity to visit ‘The Golden Gate City’- San Francisco, they would definitely want to visit the Golden Gate Bridge in all of its splendor, especially during the night time hours. It truly does take on it’s ‘golden’ ascription, in all of it’s glory.
One could not visit the city and [...]

‘it shall never die, believest thou this?’

 

Photo Used by Permission – Christian Photos.net                   
Information about the Photographer                                             Name: Jouni Paavilainen  – Finland|fi
 
I was looking around WordPress and ran across an article by Micah Mayo that was posted on 06.24.2008. The title of the article was…
 
Is Christianity Dying, and Is That A Bad Thing?
As a pastor of a small community church, [...]

For The Proverbial Palate- 08.15.2008

Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel. Proverbs 20:17
For this weeks consideration in the Proverbs we will travel back to the Old Testament Kings when Ahab was king over Israel. For the details of the story please consider 1 Kings chapter 21.
There was a [...]

‘the religious police…. worse than the vilest criminal’

Saudi Arabia: Muslim Father Kills Daughter for Converting to Christianity. The article was posted on 08/13/2008 on Persecution.org International Christian Concern.
The article states that the father worked for the mutaween (Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice).
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The Mutaween (Arabic: مطوعين‎ muṭawiʿiyn; variant English spellings: mutawwain, muttawa, mutawallees, mutawa’ah, mutawi’, mutawwa’) means “volunteer” in [...]

Oh Christendom! by William Penn

 

Over 10,000 panes of glass cover Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, home of Robert Schuller’s Hour of Power.
Oh Christendom!by William Penn
It is at that day proud and luxurious Christians shall learn that Godis no respecter of persons; that all sects and names shall beswallowed up in these two kinds, sheep and goats, just and unjust; [...]

‘a man of like passions?’

                    
 
Such hatred for a man and those who have decided to follow His gospel. 
These things I command you, that ye love one another. If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye [...]