Rest in peace, Matty.
Eternal rest, grant unto him, O Lord…
Matty’s last writing.
Hurricane Katrina
Being on retreat kept me a bit out of the loop of the disaster in the south at the hands of Hurricane Katrina. They did tell us about it and we kept the people of the south in prayer. It’s just hard to imagine all the death and destruction one storm can create. All we can try to do is help and pray.
Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us.
Lord Jesus, hear our prayer.
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Being a pastor doesn’t mean you can be an ass.
http://headlines.agapepre…ve/9/22005b.asp
“New Orleans now is abortion free. New Orleans now is Mardi Gras free. New Orleans now is free of Southern Decadence and the sodomites, the witchcraft workers, false religion — it’s free of all of those things now,” Shanks says. “God simply, I believe, in His mercy purged all of that stuff out of there — and now we’re going to start over again.”
Rev. Bill Shanks, pastor of New Covenant Fellowship of New Orleans
Shame on him.
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I don’t plan on this blog having a lot of political stuff in it. But today I’m making an exception. I went to Wal-Mart today to pick up the stuff I need to go back to school. Usually a trip like this costs me $80ish. Today’s tab: $105 … and our friends at Wal-Mart didn’t even have everything I needed.
It feels like our economy today is worse than it felt under President Reagan, which I remember as not being particularly good. Well, except for those with money to burn. This is making me yearn for the days of the elder President Bush, and that just freaks me out.
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On the other hand, this scares the hell out of me. Pat Robertson encouraging the assassination of anyone seems a little out of place for a religious leader. We don’t have to condone Chavez’s politics or actions, but calling for assassination is unconscienable:
From the August 22 broadcast of The 700 Club:
ROBERTSON: There was a popular coup that overthrew him [Chavez]. And what did the United States State Department do about it? Virtually nothing. And as a result, within about 48 hours that coup was broken; Chavez was back in power, but we had a chance to move in. He has destroyed the Venezuelan economy, and he’s going to make that a launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism all over the continent.
You know, I don’t know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he thinks we’re trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it. It’s a whole lot cheaper than starting a war. And I don’t think any oil shipments will stop. But this man is a terrific danger and the United … This is in our sphere of influence, so we can’t let this happen. We have the Monroe Doctrine, we have other doctrines that we have announced. And without question, this is a dangerous enemy to our south, controlling a huge pool of oil, that could hurt us very badly. We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability. We don’t need another $200 billion war to get rid of one, you know, strong-arm dictator. It’s a whole lot easier to have some of the covert operatives do the job and then get it over with.
From Media Matters via Holy Weblog.
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This is pretty funny. Not that I’m for scientific theories that exclude God’s work in the world, mind you. But I think even God would find some of this stuff humorous.
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