Today is my birthday!  Yeah!. . .Although the title of this post, is not so cheery.  I’m going to meditate some more to be sure of my direction.

*proofreading STILL NOT completed! Yesterday, after reading this HuffingtonPost headline, “Religion Among Americans Hits Low Point, As More People Say They Have No Religious Affiliation: Report,” I thought to myself: DUH!  That was my resigned reaction, but not my true reaction.  As a licensed Christian minister (and someone with a heartfor God, despite my shortcomings), [...]

**PROOFREADING INCOMPLETE I barely understood my brother’s words as we were speaking via long distance telephone.  He was crying  because our mother is severely ill (only she can make him cry!), and a decision needs to be made about “hospice.”  John’s wife answered when I’d placed a ‘keeping in touch’ phone call.  In response to [...]

REVISED on December 5th *If you’re new to my website, you might’ve missed the INFO note about my very willing / very busy, not paid proofreader’s editing, when time permits.  So, when you see *&!#@$%?!/  errors, please overlook them.  By the same token, from horrible public criticism of books being published by publishing companies (with [...]

CHARACTERISTICS: 2 Thessalonians 2:7-12 7.  For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. 8.  And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his [...]

I never understood why, even prior to his being elected, President Obama’s religious affiliation was a big deal.  And all this time, after his repeated declaration that he is a Christian, some people are still debating the president’s being a Muslim. Tweet It’s not as though I am indifferent about which religious choice I’d prefer [...]

UPDATED -October 14, 2012 The older I get, the less I am able to renounce the secular and religious convictions I have –even if they make sense only to me.  Many of them are my irreplaceable life standards –like this one from 1 John 5:11 “And this is the record, that God hath given to [...]

Former New Orleans Councilwoman Renee Gill Pratt faces feds alone in racketeering trial “. . . Federal authorities began investigating the case after a 2006 Times-Picayune story traced. . . defendants raided nonprofits they created to help disadvantaged people. . .”  http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2011/01/former_new_orleans_councilwoma.html Witness Betty Jefferson describes ‘sinful act’ of looting charities, during Gill Pratt trial [...]

REVISED October 6, 2012 I was licensed as a “Gospel Preacher and Evangelist” by the late Rev. Dr. Marshall Truehill, Jr. (He was probably responsible for my interest in attending and later acquiring my BGS from the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.  Additionally, Dr. Truehill received a doctorate of ministry from NOBTS, and a second [...]

Some Are Sick, Yet Lack Medical Records; Impoverished; Lonely; Angry; Troubled; Grieving; HIV Infected; Domestically Embittered; Child Molesters; Scared; Unskilled; Suicidal; Drug or Substance Abusive; and Crime Prone Hurricane Katrina Migrants (originally written January 2006) Tweet Introduction My opinion is based on facts, but I don’t consider myself as knowing it all. I am a [...]