January, 2020
January 31, 2020, michaelbray Family Matters, Poetry,
30 Jan., 2020 We are all on the same path Yet we all fall from it And so meet death At some time and some placeWe don’t know when or where But death is, indeed, there He met him unexpectedly In the middle of the night That enemy came for him And he thought he […]
January 30, 2020, michaelbray Character - or not,
30 January, 2020 How deceitful pleasure can be! When we put our own comfort and joys and situations ahead of right and truth and suffering. All the discomfort and pain which might have served to correct and strengthen our souls is avoided and shunned in preference for pleasure and comfort. Lactantius, a church father of […]
January 25, 2020, michaelbray Character - or not, Defending the Defenders, Elections,
25 Jan., 2020 Oh Mercy! Got to Take a Schiff! Adam Schiff’s disgraceful whining against our President makes me want to apply his name in memorial fashion in “honor” of his baseless, political machinations – as in “I need to take a schiff right now! We are inspired to defecate. Yes, let us relieve ourselves […]
January 23, 2020, michaelbray Political Ministry of the Churches of God, Position Papers,
23 January, 2020 I get a newsletter in the mail occasionally, titled Faith in Action, edited by one Ralph Reed. The publication is devoted to advancing morality in government for which I commend it. But it subverts this goal but undermining itself with non-sense support for the contemporary state of Israel. Millenarian fantasies – doctrinal […]
January 21, 2020, michaelbray Character - or not, Civil Disobedience, Political Ministry of the Churches of God, Position Papers,
21 January, 2020 This tyranny is such that the nation sits on its firearms rather than raise them in defense of the innocents? How long? Kick SCOTUS in the buttocks and save the babies! What tyranny is this that the Congress and the Executive and all the fifty governors of the states in this union […]
January 20, 2020, michaelbray Apologetics, Apostasy Cowardice or Buffoonery,
20 Jan., 2020 He is the well-known Director of the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden and an author and the host of “The 90-Second Naturalist.” Maynard presumes the origin and otherwise obvious design of the world to be “natural” rather than divinely orchestrated. Such a presumption – that the world is Godlessly “natural” – is the […]
January 20, 2020, michaelbray Actors in the Kingdom: selections, Poetry, Position Papers, Terrorism - of God and Men, Wars, Just and Unjust,
20 January, 2020 Sometimes (blow ’em up) we need to make our messages less direct (blow ’em up). People cannot handle the truth unabashedly proclaimed. They need (blow ’em up) sometimes encouragement by indirect summons (blow ’em up) or exhortation. The call directly (blow ’em up) to a particular corrective or reformatory action is just […]
January 10, 2020, michaelbray Actors in the Kingdom: selections, Character - or not, Poetry,
(cir. Jan. 2020) FiremenPolicemenPastorsTeachersPolitical office holdersMissionariesCoachesMartyrs (“over there”)ParentsHusbandWifeEmployersEmployeesCaregiversLobbyists (Whoops! Forgot those”clinic bombers”! Ah. If you neglect to do your duty, you deny yourself blessings from God. And when the churches of God give respect due them, revival will come. You get blessed in your OBEDIENCE.)
January 7, 2020, michaelbray Actors in the Kingdom: selections, Character - or not, Defending the Defenders, Poetry, Wilmington Ohio,
7 Jan., 2020 ‘Twas a time when the gates Were down No where to be found Were the people of mercy Of God Fled by the Fed Oh the dread That someone might be caught For naught! They hid themselves from the chore They closed the door No more for the poor In Spirit and […]
January 3, 2020, michaelbray Actors in the Kingdom: selections, Defending the Defenders,
Honorable Mike Kehoe Office of Lieutenant Governor State Capitol Building – Room 224Jefferson City, MO 65101 3 January, 2019 I am the father of 11 children, the grandfather of thirteen and counting, the husband of one wife, a convict (1980s) regarding anti-abortion action which, of course, saves the lives of innocents. I am writing you […]