FEBRUARY
28
Keyword:
REPENT by:
Rev. Victor Robert Farrell
Proverbs 23:21:
For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, And drowsiness will clothe a man with rags.
We may be well into the movable season of lent by now and I remember growing up, attending Roman Catholic schools and being tutored under the watchful eyes of the Jesuits. In particular, I well remember the preparations made for the 40 days of lent.
In those days of my youth and long, long before, this purely man made tradition would be a time of austerity and serious contemplation prior to the celebration of ...
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FEBRUARY
26
Keyword:
MAVERICK by:
Rev. Victor Robert Farrell
Exodus 3:1-2:
Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb. KJV.
Even though they are rarely wanted by the rest of the herd, there has always been a need for the unorthodox, the unconventional and the non-conformist. The banding together of cattle in herd mentality, might for many, lead to safety, acceptance, corporate fellowship and copulation but for the unbranded bull, all the mooing hides, the hoofed up dust and the half eaten grass by muddy and well trampled waters, ...
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FEBRUARY
26
Keyword:
PROCLAIM by:
Rev. Victor Robert Farrell
Matt 3:7:
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
James Hilton's ‘Lost Horizon’ is assured a place in the annals of publishing history, not necessarily for its literary value, but for the simple fact that it was the first novel published in paperback in 1939 by Ian Ballantine. This story of ‘Lost Horizon’ is simple: a group of travellers are stranded in the Himalayas and they encounter a remote monastery named ‘Shangri-La’ and the wonderful people who live there. ...
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FEBRUARY
18
Keyword:
AWARE by:
Rev. Victor Robert Farrell
2 Corinthians 4:3, 4:
But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them. NKJV
The Afro-Caribbean spiritual belief system and Hollywood, have given us the scary pictures if reanimated flesh eating corpses, or as they are more better known, Zombies! I bet you didn’t know it but there are in fact two types of Zombies in our world. Yes and this is good to know for I am concerned that I find myself increasingly surrounded by Zombies.
The first type is the C.N.C. Zombie, that is, the Consumer ...
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FEBRUARY
18
Keyword:
DANGER by:
Rev. Victor Robert Farrell
Acts 2: 7:
Then they were all amazed and marveled, saying to one another, “Look, are not all these who speak Galileans?
Around this time in 1653, Milton recorded the appointment of Andrew Marvell as his assistant in his secretary-ship for foreign tongues. How very apt! Marvell, son of a vicar, is one of the worlds finest Metaphysical Poets. One of his most famous lyric verse is entitled ‘To His Coy Mistress’. The first half of the poem flatters his lover by setting out the proper time it would take for him to properly adore her ...
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