“Pray without ceasing on behalf of other men, for there is in them hope of repentance that they may attain to God.”
“Pray without ceasing on behalf of other men, for there is in them hope of repentance that they may attain to God.”
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George Washington (1743-1799), known to have chopped down his father’s cherry tree, as legend would have it, would become the United States’ first president. Serving two terms as president from 1789 until 1797, he managed the United States with energetic, organized, and efficient candor. Washington refused serving a third term in office, even though he had unanimously been voted by the electoral college his last two terms, believing that no president should serve more than two terms lest he be looked upon as a king. “It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.” A handsome, charming and educated young man, he spent his early life leading young nobles to parties. He dreamed of knighthood and longed for the adventurous life of chivalry. In pursuit of that dream, he joined in the war between Assisi and Perugia at the age of 20. One night a mysterious voice asked him, "Who do you think can best reward you, the Master or the servant?" Francis Answered, "The Master." The voice continued, "Why do you leave the Master for the servant?" Francis realized the servant was Count Walter. He left Spoleto convinced God had spoken to him. From that moment on, Francis began to care for the sick and the poor -- especially the lepers -- convinced that this was what God had called him to do.
EFC (The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada) President Bruce J. Clemenger extended condolences upon the recent death of Elijah Harper. "Elijah Harper was a courageous man. While Mr. Harper is best known for defeating the Meech Lake Accord (1990), he was the driving force behind the Sacred Assembly held in 1995. Having attended several residential schools and knowing first hand the need for healing between peoples among different heritages and experiences, he called upon aboriginal and non-aboriginal religious leaders together for an Assembly to hear one another and to establish the call for reconciliation and the principles that guide us. The resulting statement of the Sacred Assembly affirmed that the "Creator God reigns supreme over all things," that "the starting point for healing and reconciliation lies in personal communion with the Creator God," and that "reconciliation between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians must be rooted in a spiritual understanding of land as a gift from the Creator God." My thoughts and prayers are extended to his family and community." Sir Isaac Newton, mathematician and physicist, one of the foremost scientific intellects of all time. Born at Woolsthorpe, near Grantham in Lincolnshire, where he attended school, he entered Cambridge University in 1661; he was elected a Fellow of Trinity College in 1667, and Lucasian Professor of Mathematics in 1669. He remained at the university, lecturing in most years, until 1696. Of these Cambridge years, in which Newton was at the height of his creative power, he singled out 1665-1666 (spent largely in Lincolnshire because of plague in Cambridge) as "the prime of my age for invention". “No being exists or can exist which is not related to space in some way. God is everywhere, created minds are somewhere, and body is in the space that it occupies” Born Fred McFeely Rogers in 1928, in the western Pennsylvania town of Latrobe near Pittsburgh, Rogers' television career began in 1951 when he was hired as an assistant producer at NBC. In 1953 he moved back to Pittsburgh to co-produce a program called The Children's Corner, the show where several several of the famous Mister Rogers' characters made their first appearance - among them Daniel Striped Tiger, King Friday XIII, Lady Elaine Fairchilde and X the Owl. “I can't imagine more surprising places for God to appear than a manger or a cross. Yet all through his life and resurrection, Jesus demonstrates the power of showing and sharing God's love. Every time I write a script or a song or walk into the studio, I pray 'Let some word that is heard be Thine.' That's really all that matters.” |
Walter Blackwood
Associate Pastor with The Bridge Community of Faith in Kelowna BC Canada. Archives
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