Thursday, July 7, 2011


I wrote this poem this evening. I spent a great deal of time watching Jesus movies. It suddenly hit me what a nasty little place the Messiah was born in. Imagine, a cowshed or a stable....for the king of kings!Surely even we have had better birth places.What a shame that this is all we offered him when he came into our world, His world.

Even I, when I was born
Had a clean bed upon which to lay my head
How is it that you, maker of all things
through whom all things were made
and for whom all things were made
had nothing but a manger
covered in the glory of hay,
a cacophony of animal sounds
and, the smell of animal waste:urine and faeces.
Even I when I was born
Had a nurse at my mothers beck&call
You had a room swarming with flies
You could have chosen fine linens, the best of doctors, the highest of wealth 
yet you chose the lowest of all places
smelly,ugly,equated the birthplace of beasts
to the birthplace of kings.
How many might have laughed when your mother 
mentioned her son's birth in humble pride
as the women swapped maternity stories by the fireside
"My son is a king, he was born in a manger!"
"A king?Born in a manger?!Why Mary, you must be out of your mind!"
She knew in her heart that kings honor kings
the memory she held close of the three kings who came to honor you
that night in a manger.
When I was born no stars paid me homage
But you had your own star bowing at the sight of its master
enshrined in this piteous little place
My most humble King.
There is no other God 
There is none like you.

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Can Man live without Morality.

I love listening to Ravi Zacharias. He reminds me that Christianity is not illogical, though that is what many claim it to be. He reminds me that when we follow all arguments that have been leveled against Christianity through, we can find answers and defend our faith not just by saying "I believe it, that settles it." but by giving real answers that leave no other door to walk out of. Men should have no excuse as to why they dishonor God other than, "I know he exists, I just choose to disobey." I listened to one of his older debates where he tackles the question of evil. The question of the evening was;

Can an all powerful all loving God allow so much evil to flourish in the world? If Evil exists surely God doesn't exist.

Response:

To claim there is evil is to claim there is good. The claim to good and evil assumes a moral law by which one can determine what is evil and what is good. To assume a moral law, is to assume moral law giver...because if there is no moral law giver where do we get our concept of what is good or evil?

Some interesting readings he pointed out in his debate were the Atheists creed...notice the irony.

Atheist’s Creed
We believe in Marx Freud and Darwin.
We believe everything is OK
as long as you don't hurt anyone,
to the best of your definition of hurt,
and to the best of your definition of knowledge.

We believe in sex before during
and after marriage.
We believe in the therapy of sin.
We believe that adultery is fun.
We believe that taboos are taboo.

We believe that everything's getting better
despite evidence to the contrary.
The evidence must be investigated and
you can prove anything with evidence.

We believe there's something in horoscopes,
UFO's and bent spoons;
Jesus was a good man
just like Buddha Mohammed and ourselves.
He was a good moral teacher
although we think some
of his morals were basically bad.

We believe that all religions are basically the same,
at least the ones that we read were.
They all believe in love and goodness.
They only differ on matters of
creation, sin, heaven hell God and salvation.

We believe that after death comes The Nothing
because when you ask the dead what happens
they say Nothing.
If death is not the end, if the dead have lied,
then it's compulsory heaven for all
excepting perhaps Hitler, Stalin and Genghis Khan.

We believe in Masters and Johnson.
What's selected is average.
What's average is normal.
What's normal is good.
We believe that man is essentially good.
It's only his behavior that lets him down.

We believe that each man must
find the truth that is right for him
and reality will adapt accordingly.
The universe will readjust. History will alter.

We believe that there is no absolute truth
excepting the truth that there is no absolute truth.
We believe in the rejection of creeds.
And the flowering of individual thought.

If chance be the Father of all flesh,
disaster is his rainbow in the sky,
and when you hear

State of Emergency!
Sniper Kills Ten!
Troops on Rampage!
Whites go Looting!
Bomb Blasts School!

It is but the sound of man worshiping his maker.

Ravi also uses a wonderful quote by G.K. Chesterton on what nihilism does to men. We become a society of double standards when we assume that life and morality are meaningless.

But the new rebel is a skeptic, and will not entirely trust anything. He has no loyalty; therefore he can never be really a revolutionist. And the fact that he doubts everything really gets in his way when he wants to denounce anything.For all denunciation implies a moral doctrine of some kind; and the modern revolutionist doubts not only the institution he denounces, but the doctrine by which he denounces it. Thus he writes one book complaining that imperial oppression insults the purity of women, and then he writes another book in which he insults it himself... As a politician, he will cry out that war is a waste of life, and then, as a philosopher, that all life is waste of time. A Russian pessimist will denounce a policeman for killing a peasant, and then prove by the highest philosophical principles that the peasant ought to have killed himself. A man denounces marriage as a lie, and then denounces aristocratic profligates for treating it as a lie. He calls a flag a bauble, and then blames the oppressors of Poland or Ireland because they take away that bauble. The man of this school goes first to a political meeting, where he complains that savages are treated as if they were beasts; then he takes his hat and umbrella and goes on to a scientific meeting, where he proves that they practically are beasts. In short, the modern revolutionist, being an infinite skeptic, is always engaged in undermining his own mines. In his book on politics he attacks men for trampling on morality; in his book on ethics he attacks morality for trampling on men. Therefore the modern man in revolt has become practically useless for all purposes of revolt. By rebelling against everything he has lost his right to rebel against anything.”

G K Chesterton, Orthordoxy

Saturday, January 8, 2011

Goodbye 2010

Goodbye 2010
With all your heart break and pain,
Wife and child abuse,
Corruption in high places that refused to protect the innocent,
With all your tears and fears,
All your fires that threatened to destroy a home,
All your deaths that brought us to our knees grieving.

Goodbye 2010,
With all your cancer and diseases,
Your bad grades and hard work unappreciated,
With all your worry filled sleepless nights,
With all your doubt, I almost walked away from my one true love,
All those other things that I cannot think of
That made you the worst year EVER.

Welcome 2011!I will live as if this is my last year on earth.

Friday, January 7, 2011

There is a praise on the inside!

Oh!There is a praise on the inside I surely cannot keep to myself!See I have done the Lord wrong, so much wrong in a couple of days I thought, "My God!You will never forgive me for this!" I completely broke someone's spirit down in my anger and I just wasn't sorry for it. I had no apologies. But, God, In his infinite mercies sent his ambassadors to remind me that THEY WILL KNOW US BY OUR LOVE!!!They will know us by our love!The world wallowing in sin will only identify us by our love. I fell on my face spiritually and repented wholeheartedly. I realized just how much damage I had done and I was crushed. I kept asking God, will you ever forgive me?

Him who the son sets free is free indeed!God free me from my anger problem!Free me from these chains that bond me to making me want to be a people pleaser instead of a God pleaser!Help me keep my eyes on you oh lord!This is my prayer. Teach me everyday that you are the great I AM that you are not bound by time or circumstances!Remind me that you walked on water, calmed storms, raised the dead!Oh Lord!Remind me of your power and might that spoke the world into existence but, chose to use your hands to create ME!Oh father!

Today I understand, I understand what they mean when they say better is one day in your courts.Just to be in your presence fills me with me with a heart of gratitude and worship. Anoint my head oh lord. Anoint me so that my lips shall always speak of your goodness. Teach me humility oh Lord that my pride may never cause me to stumble. Help me put my trust in you and my eyes on you.And should I forget your teaching lord place Godly people on my path that shall hold my hand and take me back to the path.AMEN & AMEN.

I AM forgiven.