MAY
23
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Rev. Victor Robert Farrell
1 Kings 1:13,14:
Go immediately to King David and say to him, 'Did you not, my lord, O king, swear to your maidservant, saying, "Assuredly your son Solomon shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne"? Why then has Adonijah become king?' Then, while you are still talking there with the king, I also will come in after you and confirm your words."
It was British Comedian Ken Dodd who I remember saying that "a husband is a man with the nerve taken out!" I think what he was alluding to is the much caricatured 'hen pecked husband,' you know, cowering and subservient, frightened to put a foot wrong, fearful to be wild. Now friends in the same vein, it has been my observation that one of those horrible peculiarities that we in the Christian church seem to have is ...
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MARCH
04
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AUTHENTIC by:
Rev. Victor Robert Farrell
Matthew 10:24-26:
“A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master. It is enough for a disciple that he be like his teacher, and a servant like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more will they call those of his household! Therefore do not fear them. For there is nothing covered that will not be revealed, and hidden that will not be known.”
“I am: obnoxious, overbearing, heavy-handed, fat, bald, ugly, sometimes rude. I like the sound of my own voice. I am so pro-war I've run people off the blog. I'm paranoid. I think I am right all the time. I over-react. I whine. I feel sorry for myself. I sometimes get angry. I sound too intense sometimes. I have a persecution complex. I make insincere apologies. I am a rank hypocrite. I live to frustrate and ...
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FEBRUARY
22
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AUTHENTIC by:
Rev. Victor Robert Farrell
2 Tim 4:2:
Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.
“The contemporary pastorate is a mess. With hundreds of books, conferences and seminars touting the benefits of changing the traditional church into the purpose-driven, seeker-sensitive, post-modern church, there has been little honest reporting on the resulting awkward evolution of the pastor. In my lifetime, this evolution has swept over the pastorate, replacing what was a recognizable consensus with a maze of ...
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FEBRUARY
21
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AUTHENTIC by:
Rev. Victor Robert Farrell
Acts 8:18,19:
And when Simon saw that through the laying on of the apostles' hands the Holy Spirit was given, he offered them money, saying, “Give me this power also, that anyone on whom I lay hands may receive the Holy Spirit.”
After her husband went bankrupt, in 1875 Lydia Estes Pinkham started what was probably the first widely successful business run by a woman in America. Her product was a medicine for “all those painful Complaints and Weaknesses so common to our best female population.” It claimed to remove among other things, “faintness, flatulence, bloating, headaches, nervous prostration, debility, depression, back-ache, kidney ...
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FEBRUARY
17
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AUTHENTIC by:
Rev. Victor Robert Farrell
Acts 2: 3,4:
Then there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
The Motto of the British submarine service is “We come unseen.” Some while ago now, I served on board two of Her Majesty’s submarines, HMSM Renown and HMSM Revenge. As machines of stealth and destruction, I still remember them to be then, strangely beautiful, akin to a panther, sleek dark and invisible, that is, until they bare their teeth and growl.
Today in 1864, the first successful submarine torpedo attack took ...
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