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During the days of Jesus’ life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the one who could save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission. Although he was a son, he learned obedience from what he suffered...
THRIVING IN THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
One of my most rewarding resources during this pandemic is HEALTHY FAITH AND THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS, edited by Kristi Mair and Luke Cawley. It contains 29 chapters by Christian authors and specialists on different aspects of the present challenges. The contributors...
THE LAUGHTER OF GOD
The Course of Empire: Desolation, Thomas Cole (1801-1848). In 2012 I visited the Columbia, South Carolina Museum of Art to view 45 paintings of the Hudson River School of Painters on loan from the New York Historical Society. The magnificent landscapes of Thomas Cole,...
THE DEFEAT OF DEATH
Psalm 16 is the third psalm used by Handel in Messiah. It is also used in the New Testament book of the Acts of the Apostles by St. Peter (Acts 2) and St. Paul (Acts 13) to present the Gospel to their contemporaries. Why did they use this psalm? Jesus himself used...
THE BROKEN HEARTED
On Tuesday, December 6, 2011, Antoinette and I walked past St. James’s Church, Spanish Place, next to our hotel in the West End of London, and noticed that there would be a performance of Handel’s Messiah that evening, by the choir of the Cardinal Vaughan Memorial...
THE TEARS OF GOD
Handel uses four psalms in his oratorio The Messiah. Psalm 22:7,8 is used to describe the religious leaders’ ridicule of Jesus during his agony on the Cross as quoted in the Gospels. “All they that see him laugh him to scorn: they shoot out their lips, and shake their...
FORGIVENESS OR REVENGE
Anglican Bishop Hassan Dequani-Tafti’s son Bahram was murdered by Islamic revolutionaries in Iran in 1989. He wrote “A Father’s Prayer on the Martyrdom of his Son”. It has become known world-wide, translated into many languages and made available in numerous books. O...
MARTIN LUTHER KING ON FORGIVENESS
Martin Luther King answered the question, “How do we love our enemies?” First, we must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. The degree to which we are able to forgive determines the...
THE MIRACLE OF FORGIVENESS
Corrie ten Boom was the means God used to challenge me to give my life to Christ when she spoke in my home church in 1956. Her story of being imprisoned in Ravensbruck concentration camp with her sister for helping Jews to escape the Nazis during World War II, and...
THE SECOND COMING
A common American Southern farewell is “Y’all come back and see us, you hear!”. It is an invitation to return and visit. But it is not expected that you will. The sentiment expressed is that we enjoyed your visit, and you are always welcome, but we realize that it is...
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