Author of A Time To Kill
Who you Momma?Your Mom is the oneWho looks after your life.Like a wifeShe cares for you over all.She is the one who broughtYou into the world and soughtTo make you all you might be.Oh that you could seeWhat a wonder she be!There will come a dayWhen she will go awayNever to be seen againThat place […]
The ancient word for what we now call a gymnasium or a stadium where public sporting events took place in ancient Greece. Nice. The oldest of these panhellenic games organized as a quadrennial event was put together in 776 B.C. It consisted of five contests, a “pentathlon,” all in which all athletes participated. “To promote […]
The Corona Judgment Who will explain it? A foretaste of the judgment to come The calamity which befalls A nation of baby-killers And tolerators of the same. Only the beginning! Repent or see a calamity You would never have imagined possible From a God so kind and generous. Oh how He has blessed and indulged […]
I adjure you to abjure asinine jesting And jocularly to join with Jesus. Jettison juvenile joys and jump on the Bandwagon as we bust balls And break wind without whining While we wind our way through days of Dreary drudgery dreadfully facing Fearful foes and friends forsaking Foolish ways while we wander wistfully Wither we […]
You shall have no other gods but Me, Before no idol bow the knee; Take not the name of God in vain, Nor dare the Sabbath day profane; Give both your parents honor due; Take heed that you no murder do; Abstain from words and deeds unclean; Nor steal, though you be poor and mean; […]
On the nature of the Church, comprehending each local church as “The Church” as well – compositely – as each in unity as a singular Church inclusive of but not under the Bishop of Rome, I offer some early liturgies and other witnesses taken from The Ante-Nicene Fathers (Roberts and Donaldson, T.T & Clark, Vol. […]
28 April, 2020 “Empathy is our lifeline here. It’s what will get us to the other side. Let’s use it to redirect our attention toward what matters most, reconsider our priorities, and find ways to better remake the world in the image of our hopes.” So says Michelle Obama. https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-documentary-becoming-premiere-170014157.html . Yeah, she got herself […]
(Written on Thursday 30 January, 2020, two days after Matt’s death on Tuesday) We are all on the same path And we all fall from it And so meet death At some time and some place. We don’t know when or where But death is, indeed, there. Matt met him unexpectedly In the middle of […]
24 April, 2020 What is it about an offensive expression that makes it such? Is “nigger” not a disdainful word? A word of disparagement? Insult? Even hatred? Whenever we denigrate someone or something unjustly (yes, there are times or occasions for just denunciations or denigrations), we are “offensive” to standards – to acceptable behavior. Accordingly, […]
14 April, 2020 To the extent that we might (yea without special claim to prophetic insights) interpret this Corona Virus – albeit by the help of sound theological outlook – to be a genuine plague brought to us personally by the Almighty, it would behoove us to take stock of our national self and consider […]