Wednesday, December 7, 2016

Trump's New Team. Ben Carson.

It is a total refreshment to see committed and vocal Christians being appointed to President Elect, Donald Trump's new cabinet.
We have waited in vain for such appointments in Canada, but instead, have a spectrum of every creed and colour as part of Justin Trudeau's pledge to diversify our government.
Hope arises South of the border.
If you know your Bible history you will recall several occasions when God raised up His people to positions of great power and influence: an influence that changed world events.
 I speak of Joseph as chancellor of Egypt, Daniel as Nebuchadnezzar's advisor in chief, Queen Esther, wife to King of Chaldea and, of course, Moses in the court of Pharaoh.
In our own era there have been men and women of God without number who have been unique gifts to the nations as they advised their kings and presidents.
Ben Carson is one of the latest. An erstwhile rival of Trump for the presidency he has now been selected as a member of the inner circle. As outspoken as he was for Christ during the election campaign you can guarantee he will be just as vocal behind the closed door of the council room.
Yippee. It is turning out to be a wonderful Christmas.
Jubilate.

Ian

Sunday, December 4, 2016

Trump's New Team

A couple of weeks ago I posed the question "In the courts of Pharaoh and Nebuchadnezzar, who held the most power, the king or his council of wise men? I then suggested that it was a about a fifty-fifty balance.
We are now getting a clearer picture of the counsel of wise men around Donald Trump.
One of these is actually a wise woman, Betsy De Vos.
She is even more wealthy than Trump himself with an estimated worth of about five billion dollars. All of this accumulated through the smart business administration of various companies one of which is  the well known AMWAY corporation.
But don't be fooled. This lady is more than cash rich. She is rich in wisdom, rich in conviction, rich in experience and rich in her Christian faith.
She is determined to increase the number of charter schools in America and support parent's right to choose faith-based eduction for their children.
Her opinion, and well based, is that millions of children are pretty well 'dead on arrival' in the public school system. She is determined to give them "an escape route out from low-wattage, inferior tax-payer owned schools"
Perhaps her greatest accolade has come from the head of the Chicago Teachers Union who has called her a "nightmare."
Get ready folks. For parents who have longed for a new day to dawn in the schooling of their children( in morals as well as mathematics) a dream has just come true.
Jubilate.

Ian