The following is from December 20th:
What do you think.....would it be best to know or not to know of impending disasters? The Apostle Paul thought it better while visiting the Thessalonians to advise them of the persecution that was about to occur... even some of our more prescient politicians today go boldly in this where our ministers fear to tread. The following post is from December 22, 2015:
There are a succession of scenes from David Mamet's 1999 film The Winslow Boy that show how affluence can vanish in a family's life. The film is great but its not the topic here, rather the message from the original play written by Terence Rattigan in the 1940s. Arthur Winslow's youngest son is accused of a crime and the entire film resolves around his father's accumulating legal bills for the son's defense. Furniture might disappear here or a painting there as items are sold off. See this film if you get the opportunity.
American lifestyles are about to change. Whether it be that the return of Jesus Christ is near or not, we cannot continue as we are. We are an inglorious mess here in the United States. When you have tens of millions of voters ready to vote for Hillary Clinton....you are an inglorious mess. When your colleges and universities have billion dollar endowments but not two nickels of wisdom to rub together you are an inglorious mess.
Our Congress just passed a 1.1 trillion dollar pork-filled omnibus spending bill and they could not possibility have read the 2242 pages let alone analyzed them, and this with us barely able to keep the lights on as it is! You can kick the can down the road only so far for the road has to eventually end. Our economic system is going to implode, and this not in the distant future. Our television has become an electronic replica of the Weimar cabaret where you can get anything that you want. We no longer have the will to defend ourselves anymore for there has to be some kind of unity and we don't have it. The only kind of unity that we are close to is in stupidity.
We have no vision as a people. I don't mean a vision for the future but rather vision of the present. If we did we would be sitting right now with our face in our hands, praying to God for mercy. If we did, church sanctuaries on a Sunday morning would be as quiet as a hospital emergency room. If we did pastors would be entering their pulpits thinking that this might be their last sermon for the congregation may refuse to let them give another with so bleak a picture of America's future.
We would be a laughing stock to all, but those who see the consequences of what we have become are far more likely to shed tears of sorrow than of laughter. God help us... for we have fallen so far. This present insanity cannot go on. Morning follows every New Year's Eve party and the reality that will face the revelers this year will be at the very least stark, the months ahead treacherous and the seasons fraught with instability.
What do you think.....would it be best to know or not to know of impending disasters? The Apostle Paul thought it better while visiting the Thessalonians to advise them of the persecution that was about to occur... even some of our more prescient politicians today go boldly in this where our ministers fear to tread. The following post is from December 22, 2015:
There are a succession of scenes from David Mamet's 1999 film The Winslow Boy that show how affluence can vanish in a family's life. The film is great but its not the topic here, rather the message from the original play written by Terence Rattigan in the 1940s. Arthur Winslow's youngest son is accused of a crime and the entire film resolves around his father's accumulating legal bills for the son's defense. Furniture might disappear here or a painting there as items are sold off. See this film if you get the opportunity.
American lifestyles are about to change. Whether it be that the return of Jesus Christ is near or not, we cannot continue as we are. We are an inglorious mess here in the United States. When you have tens of millions of voters ready to vote for Hillary Clinton....you are an inglorious mess. When your colleges and universities have billion dollar endowments but not two nickels of wisdom to rub together you are an inglorious mess.
Our Congress just passed a 1.1 trillion dollar pork-filled omnibus spending bill and they could not possibility have read the 2242 pages let alone analyzed them, and this with us barely able to keep the lights on as it is! You can kick the can down the road only so far for the road has to eventually end. Our economic system is going to implode, and this not in the distant future. Our television has become an electronic replica of the Weimar cabaret where you can get anything that you want. We no longer have the will to defend ourselves anymore for there has to be some kind of unity and we don't have it. The only kind of unity that we are close to is in stupidity.
We have no vision as a people. I don't mean a vision for the future but rather vision of the present. If we did we would be sitting right now with our face in our hands, praying to God for mercy. If we did, church sanctuaries on a Sunday morning would be as quiet as a hospital emergency room. If we did pastors would be entering their pulpits thinking that this might be their last sermon for the congregation may refuse to let them give another with so bleak a picture of America's future.
We would be a laughing stock to all, but those who see the consequences of what we have become are far more likely to shed tears of sorrow than of laughter. God help us... for we have fallen so far. This present insanity cannot go on. Morning follows every New Year's Eve party and the reality that will face the revelers this year will be at the very least stark, the months ahead treacherous and the seasons fraught with instability.
