April 11th, 2012
The great classic author Charles Dickens began “A Tale of Two Cities” with this – “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”! Dickens lived in the Victorian age of proper living among the upper class, but poverty and despair among the masses. Yet, the
hoi polloi(or the many) looked up and almost worshiped Queen Victoria of England.
Mortal man always has to have something or somebody to look up to fix our adoration because God has put His Law in our hearts and the desire to worship something, we think is better than us. You and I know, that object of our worship and total commitment is the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. But over the last 150 years or so, the total depravity of man has shown itself in the way he has lied to many millions, under the power of another god, in order to make him and not God the center of that worship.
Another CD from England – Charles Darwin let something out of a bottle which continues to twist the minds of many. While Darwin may have meant it as a theory, his evolution writings became the basis of Hitler’s extermination of six million Jews. His devotee Margaret Sanger and her Planned Parenthood, now protected by governments, have killed almost ten times what Hitler did, through abortion. Karl Marx and his satanic studies and philosophy led to Socialism and marxist dictatorships which have killed over 100 million in the past century….and the oppression of countless others, still in progress…..these are the WORST of times, alright!
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April 6th, 2012
BEYOND THE CROSS…..
My good friend from work, Joe C., was stationed in Germany, while serving in the United States Air Force during the 1970’s, when he was led to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ by the famed Navigators. One summer, on the way to the coast of France for some vacation with some other Air Force buddies, he came across this man carrying a Cross just outside of Madrid, Spain!
Stopping to talk to him, Joe found it this man was Arthur Blessitt, a wonderful American who has walked and talked the Cross in every nation of the world, over 44 years! Blessitt was already well known in Christian circles during the Jesus Movement of the 1970s, during which even pop singer Bob Dylan claimed to be “born again”. Of course, Dylan was never really saved, but caught up in the emotion of the moment. Arthur is listed in the Guinness World Records for the world’s longest walk over 39,671 miles, through 319 countries & major island groups in those 44 years*. He began to carry the Cross in 1968, after hearing the Call of God, from his Hollywood, California church!
Joe followed Blessitt into Madrid where he was welcomed by small evangelical churches. Joe was at one of these services. Blessitt mentioned this visit in his book and movie “The Cross” because it was here a religious mob attacked and roughed up! Some 30 years later, Joe would make me a Cross like the one he saw Arthur carrying.
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The great classic author Charles Dickens began “A Tale of Two Cities” with this – “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”! Dickens lived in the Victorian age of proper living among the upper class, but poverty and despair among the masses. Yet, the hoi polloi(or the many) looked up and almost worshiped Queen Victoria of England.