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Comment on APOCALYPTIC (YES OR NO)

Nancy — 2010-01-30T05:37:18Z

Very good points! I had heard something about 2012, but have not looked it up. "If God is for us, who can be against us?"

Comment on 2 Timothy 3:7...always trying to learn but never able to reach a knowledge of the truth.

Nancy — 2010-01-01T21:35:54Z

" And the only way we can survive, is to know Him."

Amen!

I think in this world, we are "...always trying to learn but never able to reach a knowledge of the truth." I believe in one of the Corinthian letters, it says that it will be revealed to us in heaven. "Now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face."

Anyhow, as the hymn say, we know He holds the future! (Because He Lives, Gaither)

Comment on Sola Scriptura

Website Development in London — 2009-12-21T14:35:06Z

Humm... interesting,

Keep up the good work,

Anyway, thanks for the post

Comment on Pharaoh's Government

Blog With Jim Holmes — 2009-11-24T20:54:32Z

Thanks for your comments. God Bless and I pray your Lighthouse business is going well.
Jim

Comment on Pharaoh's Government

Betsy Bowser — 2009-11-24T16:30:21Z

A splendid piece on where we are headed as a nation unless we as Christians turn back to God and not relay on our goverment, or ourselves. I had not thought about the similarity between the Egyptians and us. God protect and strengthen us.

Comment on Tragedy at Fort Bliss

Dr. Jerry M. Fay — 2009-11-11T12:53:56Z

The Blame Game

Lady Nancy Astor, a 20th century member of the British Parliament said, “I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.” Mankind has been in the “blaming business” since Eden.

Thus, we use this psychological tool to rationalize, defend, manipulate, or to explain the thinking and behavior of ourselves, and others.

Major Nidal Malik Hasan was apparently angry over the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Then in a matter of minutes 13 people were dead and 29 others were wounded. Hasan had commented that the war on terror was "a war on Islam."

Blame friends and coworkers. Osman Danquah , a retired Army first sergeant, had told the shooter that Muslims were fighting each other in Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Palestinian territories.

Blame the Army. Dr. Val Finnell said of Hasan that he should have been confronted about his radical beliefs. "In retrospect, I'm not surprised he did it," Finnell said of the shootings. "I had real questions about what his priorities were, what his beliefs were."

Blame the Islamic Community. "I told him, `There's something wrong with you,'" Danquah, co-founder of the Islamic Community of Greater Killeen, told The Associated Press on Saturday. "I didn't get the feeling he was talking for himself, but something just didn't seem right."

In a sense, blaming is pointless; it will not justify the shootings nor change the reality of the tragedy.

Blame Terrorism. Hasan is said to have jumped on a desk and shouted "Allah akbar!" ("God is great!"). The Catechism of the Catholic Church (2297) says, “Terrorism threatens, wounds, and kills indiscriminately is gravely against justice and charity.”

Blame the wickedness of the human heart. Jeremiah 17:7 says “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?”

History is filled with episodes of misguided violence in the name of Religion.

What can we learn from this tragedy? Perhaps Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor and philosopher, (121-180 A.D.) gives the best answer when he said, “The best part of revenge is not to be like him who did the injury.”

The Persecuted One said, “. . . Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you . . .”

Comment on Obama and Health Care At His Town Hall Meeting 6/24/2009

vino biodinamico — 2009-10-28T11:01:29Z

I was just thinking about Obama and Health Care and you’ve really helped out. Thanks!

Comment on Signs of a Stroke

vino biodinamico — 2009-10-27T07:51:53Z

Good post, but have you thought about Signs of a Stroke before?

Comment on Pray and Use Clergy Converts To the Catholic Church

Dr Jerry M Fay — 2009-10-19T23:11:31Z

Dear Jimmy:

I don't think this topic can be overemphasized. There is a goldmine of "converted" talent out there ready and willing to serve Christ and his Church.

A comment on four points of emphasis from the bog:

I. "I do not believe any of my converted brothers feel that their ministry was wrong or “Spiritual Illegal.”

Before we were Catholic we did the best we could do with what we knew about Christ, the Bible, and ministry. Most of us have respectable academic credentials and field experience.

II. "And do not believe that the people we left behind are not saved. There is Salvation outside the Catholic Church."

Many Catholics and Protestants have misunderstandings about Salvation.
Some Catholics believe Protestants are not saved. Some Protestants believe Catholics are not saved. This is not necessarily true.

For example, baptism outside of the Church is considered valid. In reality, there are people on both sides of the fence that "don't get it" when it comes to the Gospel.

III. "We miss fellowship with clergy."
And how! We miss preaching and teaching as well as the camaraderie among pastors. We have sacrificed much but none of us regret our allegiance to the Bishop of Rome.

IV. "That truth is “Real Presence” of the Lord, in the Eucharist."
As a convert we now realize that nothing is as important as the fullness of Jesus in the Eucharist.

This and other apostolic truths have become for us the "pearl of great price." There is nothing in this life as exciting and satisfying as being part of the Church that has prevailed for almost 2,000 years!

Comment on JOY IN THE LORD

Blog With Jim Holmes — 2009-10-02T20:16:47Z

Thanks Jerry. I always appreciate your insights. I need you to write a whole blog one day. Just do it an email it to me. I will post it the next day.