Wilmington Ohio
December 2, 2019, michaelbray Family Matters, Poetry, Sanctity of Human Beings, Wilmington Ohio,
2 Dec. 2019 Here I sit in my own templeMusic pouring about my earsTo the right travel my feet on waterOver lands and cities distantMidway are the books of recordHistory, family, things to knowAnd to the side is Mercy’s treeRed and black with faces adornedThey smile at me, I thinkAnd I think some moreEver glad […]
May 7, 2019, michaelbray Bowie Maryland, Character - or not, Family Matters, Wilmington Ohio,
Battered by the U.S. Government, NOW, and PP But Unbowed 7 May, 2019 Jayne Bray has long suffered for righteousness’ sake. When her husband lost is job on a church staff in 1984 for exposing the then-American Lutheran Church apostasy, she had to tighten the belt of the family as Reformation Lutheran Church was born. […]
December 7, 2018, michaelbray Civil Disobedience, Political Ministry of the Churches of God, Wilmington Ohio,
7 Dec., 2018 Wilmington: Abortion-Free Zone (Redux) When ought cities and towns resist, even defy, the authority of the higher (case-in-point, federal) power? Is it possible that cities and towns can be spared the righteous wrath of God when it falls upon a nation? Let us hope so. We have solid grounds for such a hope. […]
November 10, 2018, michaelbray Position Papers, Wilmington Ohio,
31 July, 2017 Dear Dale, I am offering you some thoughts regarding your “Baptism Sermon” as we might call it – on Sunday. I enclose an essay I wrote a long time ago for my SS class at a Lutheran Church; nothing has changed since then. I appreciate your continued faithfulness in preaching from the […]
November 10, 2018, michaelbray Political Ministry of the Churches of God, Wilmington Ohio,
Following Sunday morning class at the Church of Christ back in 2010 Anno Domini, I wrote a fellow church member and SS class participant. 24 September 2010 Dave, Some after thoughts regarding my cursory reply to your broad question on Sunday morning: “What is the will of God?” To say it is the “Law of […]
June 28, 2018, michaelbray Actors in the Kingdom: selections, Civil Disobedience, Political Ministry of the Churches of God, Position Papers, Wilmington Ohio,
Wilmington, Ohio AFZ Abortion Free Zone (No innocent blood shed in our town!) Is the city of Wilmington ruled by 9 D.C. jackasses (a.k.a. SCOTUS?) Or is the city of Wilmington free to uphold justice regardless of the decisions of “the Court”? Is it in the name of “law and order” or “democracy” that we […]
February 27, 2018, michaelbray Apostasy Cowardice or Buffoonery, Family Matters, Political Ministry of the Churches of God, Wilmington News Journal, Wilmington Ohio,
To the Wilmington News Journal Wilmington, Ohio Re: (1 April, 2017) 3 April, 2017 Haters and Losers I think it was the curious title which drew my attention to the editorial: “Anger and Cowardice Fester Hate” (Wilmington News Journal, 1 April, 2017). I am not sure of his meaning, but I infer from the rest […]
December 7, 2017, michaelbray Political Ministry of the Churches of God, Polytheistic Statism v. Christocracy, Wilmington Ohio,
How might our United (Pagan) States of America resist continued paganization? How about by means of “Sanctuary Cities”? And, let it begin with Wilmington, Ohio. For how many generations have parents taught their children by means of a simple principle: Do the right thing? And there was always an unequivocal reply to the child who […]
March 31, 2017, michaelbray Wilmington News Journal, Wilmington Ohio, Wrestling,
Posted on 31 March, 2017 (Amended on 30 May 2017) 4 March, 2011 Wrestling season comes to a close. My last high school wrestler has finished his course. Both my sons have gotten from the sport what I had hoped they would get. The sport is a wonderful means of character development. Mack Remington, writing […]
March 31, 2017, michaelbray Bowie Maryland, Character - or not, Wilmington Ohio, Wrestling,
31 March, 2017 Revised 22 July, 2017 Distinctive Features of the Sport One of the great blessing of wrestling is instruction in humility. Everyone takes a beating sometime. Thinking back, I believe I also learned through wrestling about the value of volunteer work: those coaches who put so much time and patience into my efforts […]