Lionel Chetwynd contextualizes

That is the teaching opportunity I hoped you would evoke: not explaining Wright’s outrage to me, but explaining his outrageousness to him. That’s how we’ll reach the postracial era: by no longer justifying...

You can help bring him back to Christ.
Be Presidential.

Typical White Person

An interesting read by Chritopher Hitchens:

You often hear it said, of some political or other opportunist, that he would sell his own grandmother if it would suit his interests. But you seldom, if ever, see this notorious transaction actually being performed,...

...an 85-year-old lady named Madelyn Dunham, who spent a good deal of her youth helping to raise him and who now lives alone and unwell in a condo in Honolulu.

why are you weeping?

He is not here, for he has risen, as he said. Come, see...

Matt 28:6

this is your hour

for a hanged man is cursed by God

Deut 21:23

Victimless Crime

I lay down my life that I may take it up again. No one takes it from me...

John 10:17,18

Kakou at Easter

Jesus was 'tried' for blasphemy, but executed for sedition, but the irony is that anyone in the mob could be more legitimately charged rather than the accused. And the double irony is they had released a prisoner who was guilty of sedition. They may have had leave to have a guilty man released at the feast, but no such leave to have an innocent man tried. And so the substitution begins. “We found this man misleading our nation and forbidding us to give tribute to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king.” Lies! Lies! Lies!

1. Capital cases were to be tried during the daytime, and the verdict had to also be reached during the day. The Gospels are clear that Jesus was taken from the Garden of Gesthemane, tried and sentenced during the night.

2. Trials were not to be held on the day before a Sabbath or the day before a Holy Day or Festival. We also know from the Gospels that Jesus was tried during the Passover.

3. ...the Jewish system of law required that a trial begin with reasons why the accused was innocent, not reasons why the accused was guilty. There is no record of Jesus' innocence ever being discussed. Instead, His trial was full of false-witnesses. No effort was ever made to find witnesses to testify for the defense.

4. Innocent verdicts could be reached on the same day a trial began. However, guilty verdicts had to be rendered after a "night's sleep". You could not simply do a quick trial, sentence the accused to death and then carry out the sentence. There had to be time to think through the evidence.

5. A guilty verdict could only be reached if two witnesses' testimony agreed. The Bible is clear that when the false witnesses came, no two testimonies matched up. According to Jewish law (stated in the Old Testament) if two reliable witnesses could not be found, the case must be thrown out.

6. The Sanhedrin (Jewish court system) was to meet in an inner court of the temple to try cases. Not so with Jesus. His trial took place in the high priest's home.

Deborah Meredith

Last night Art asked me how I thought the CPC would do in yesterday's four by-elections. Although I predicted the results, I'm pleasantly surprised how close Deborah Meredith came in Vancouver Quadra. It says alot for a candidate that is willing to put the effort needed in going door to door as well as the fact that Conservative support is alot stronger than any poll is able to forecast. Meredith might have won this riding if she had received more support from the national office. PMSH was here recently and didn't visit the riding. That little show of support might have swung the 76 votes needed to win. I apperceive that headquarters were backing the 'star candidate' Mary McNeil for the nomination which might explain their lack of support.