The Last Election
by
John Haines
Suppose there are no returns,
and the candidates, one
by one, drop off in the polls,
as the voters turn away,
each to his inner persuasion.
The frontrunners, the dark horses,
begin to look elsewhere,
and even the President admits
he has nothing new to say;
it is best to be silent now.
No more conventions, no donors,
no more hats in the [...]
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Men crucified for treason against Rome forfeited the honor of burial. While Pilate suspected Jewish treachery in the Sanhedrin’s charges against Jesus, Pilate nonetheless had Jesus crucified as “King of the Jews.” Roman law prohibited the burial of those crucified and the bodies were normally left on the crosses to rot and be eaten [...]
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WOULD JESUS USE LOTTERY MONEY?
YES___3___ NO___1___ MAYBE___1___
(see comments for tally)
Pastor David Tarkington votes “No.”
What’s your vote?
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I am stunned that some Christians still defend a sound byte gospel. You know, the 4 steps, the “bridge over troubled waters” packaged presentation. Shrimpy little things. The wondrous, thunderous, mind-boggling, heart-stopping gospel of the Bible and of Jesus himself is horribly reduced to bumper sticker phrases.
With what other literature or great story do we [...]
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn, age 89, died Sunday at his home on the outskirts of Moscow. Solzhenitsyn, through his writings, made known to the world the horrors and tortures of Stalin’s regime against the Russian people. His little book “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich,” at first banned from publication, was published by permission from Khrushchev [...]
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Posted in Culture, Friends, Ministry, Poems on Jul 31st, 2008
When Old People Speak
by
John W Frye
When old people speak
listen for the ages in their words.
They say “I remember” and we skip
back over Viet Nam, over Churchill and World War II,
landing somewhere in the Great Depression,
feeling the hot dust and deprivation.
When old people speak
honor the silences that carry time,
fragile yet weighted with life;
the silences from which [...]
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