Saturday, December 30, 2017

BASHING THE CHRISTMAS BASHERS.

It has been subtle but pervasive. For nigh on two decades war has been waged on Christmas. That is, Christmas as a uniquely Christian celebration. From "Happy Holidays" to the banning of nativity scenes in public places, and no carol singing in schools the assault on Christmas has been incessant. 
But there was radical shift in America this year. Let me tell you about it for you will not have heard of it from any left wing media source.
One of Donald Trumps campaign promises was to bring back 
"MERRY CHRISTMAS" to America.
This was but a small symbolic gesture you may think 
WRONG.
This issue between a "Happy Holidays" versus "Merry Christmas" is a battle line between the secularists, who have been slowly and systematically been waging war on the Christianity for years, and those who are determined to stop the move to de-christaianize America.
Once again the political set have underestimated the strength of feeling from 'christian' Americans. Trump, with his uncanny sense for how Main Street U.S.A. feels, has made "Christmas", the word, and "Christmas", the celebration, A BIG THING.
Melania has hosted a Christmas special with children singing carols and has decorated the White House in full seasonal splendour, including a giant nativity scene.
Meantime Donald has given every member of Congress a super-size christmas card with scripture verses inside.
Let the secularists mock and ridicule but they may be singing carols of a different sort in 2020 when the election delivers Trump a gift of another four years in the White House.

Jubilate.

Ian

Thursday, December 21, 2017

CHRISTMAS GREETINGS FROM THE WILSONS IN CANADA.



I will be off line for a couple of weeks so if the world should come to a sudden end before New Year, I will hope to see you all in a much better one.
Meantime, Pauline and I wish all our friends, family and readers a most joyful and happy Christmas and may 2018 bring bring you the best of God's blessings.
Jubilate 
Ian

Monday, December 18, 2017

The Great Thomas Fire.


Now possibly the most destructive fire ever to ravage the coastal mountains of California, "Thomas" rages on.
How did this monster ever receive it's name?
Because it started in a clearing near the college of St Thomas Aquinas. 
It was here that some homeless Californians had set up their make-shift camp and were cooking up their evening scraps.
Horror of horrors, the surrounding bush suddenly caught fire and, driven by a brisk Santa Ana wind, it was on its way to an unstoppable fury.
Suddenly vanished were the vagrants and within an hour there were a lot of other homeless Californians, running for their lives before a scorching inferno. As of tonight  the fire has scorched two hundred and seventy square miles of coastal lands, gobbling up thousands of structures including the homes of some of America's rich and famous. The damage is incalculable.
But pause for a moment. As Christmas time approaches we remember the Saviour of the World was numbered among the homeless. He was born in a stable because there was no room for Him at the inn; in His later years He was to say: "The birds of the air have nests but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head"
Now in California the vagrants who began the fire "Thomas" and the hundreds who are now homeless because of it bear a common suffering.
Perhaps in their affliction the super-rich will understand they have a shared humanity with the super-poor and a salutary lesson may yet emerge from this calamity.
Jubilate.

Ian

Tuesday, December 12, 2017

The Aliens are Coming.


The Aliens might be sending a Christmas message to us. Staggeringly stupid but true, a project is on to check out a cigar-shaped asteroid in the deep solar system to see whether it carries alien technology. It's name is "Oumuamus", Hawaiian for, "Distant Messenger"
Of course, the whole thing is funded by a billionaire with too much time and money on his hands. He is hiring a team of astronomers to focus a super-sized ear into space to detect whether there are radio signals coming from this rock as it enters an orbit around the sun. 
What is worth noting is that it is going to be with us around Christmas.
How interesting! These buffoons and billionaires cannot hear the message shouted by God, loud and clear to all men, and sung by angels that first Noel when He sent His Son to the earth. However, they WILL zero in on a lifeless rock hoping it might  be carrying an encrypted echo from little green men in outer space.
All of this will cost millions of dollars to come up with another blank.
Instead of fake news why not get the REAL message this Christmas by reading the opening chapters of Luke's gospel. It's true and it's FREE.

Jubilate 

Ian

Friday, December 8, 2017

The BIG BITCOIN BUBBLE


If you have not already heard of BITCOINS you will be reading about them shortly.
Although there are just a few thousand physical coins, the vast majority exist ONLY in cyber world. They are a form of digitalized currency with encryptions to prevent forgery and are independent of the centralized banking system.
They burst onto the market less than ten years ago as the new way of doing business in cyber world. They can be used for many sorts of transaction mainly through the internet and, in the last five years, have become the hottest commodity in the financial and investment world.
The first coins released were valued in the region of a hundred dollars: as of this morning they were trading at seventeen thousand dollars apiece.
Before you rush out and buy two or three, be cautioned.
What goes up vertically often comes down vertically. We experienced such an event in the sale of BreX gold shares in the 1980's when penny stock ballooned to two hundred dollars a share and then burst after the whole thing turned out to be a scam.
This could well turn out to be the case with BITCOINS but, at the moment, hot air continues to be pumped into the bubble.

The best deal on this earth is still the one that Jesus told us about, namely shares in Heaven, where rust and moths do not chew away your investments and your stock appreciates throughout eternity!
Jubilate.

Ian

Tuesday, December 5, 2017

THIS YEAR in Jerusalem

There has been a major storm brewing for several months. Tomorrow there will be a flash of lightning and an instant peal of thunder.
The flash of lighting will originate in the White House:  the peal of thunder will reverberate throughout the Middle East.
Tomorrow President Trump will announce that the United States of America will recognize the city of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
Instantaneously the United Nations, including most of the countries in Europe, will cry "FOUL" and accuse Trump of endangering the Middle East peace process. The whole world will have suddenly become a more perilous place. Trump and his far right supporters will be to blame. Terrorism will increase, Radical Islam will be given another cause to vent their hatred of the West, oil prices will soar and, wait for it, the SKY will fall.
Or will it.
If we believe the narrative laid out in the Bible this has all been planned for over two thousand years. God Himself decreed that His people would return to their homeland after been scattered among the nations for millennia. In 1948 their arrival home was sanctioned, when Israel became an independent nation. And would it not seem fitting that His Chosen People be given the ancient city of Jerusalem as their capital?
If you dislike that thought don't blame the President of America take the matter up with the High King of the Universe. If you listen He will tell you the reason.

Jubilate.

Ian

Saturday, December 2, 2017

THE LATEST APOSTASY FROM THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND

Just who is the VERY reverend Kelvin Holdsworth? Nobody that you or I would know about until he hit the headlines last week.
Was he jailed for preaching the Gospel or fed to the lions for refusing to recant his faith in Christ? Absolutely not. This wretched apostate, who hides in the upper echelons of the Scottish Episcopalian church, has urged his flock to pray that Prince George become a homosexual when he grows up.
Thus, his twisted and perverse reasoning goes, Prince George will become Head of the Church of England when he is king and LGBT inclusiveness will be complete.
The cowardly response of The VERY HIGH bishop Gregor (Kelvin Holdsworth's boss) is almost as nauseating as Holdsworth's comments.
He is quoted as saying:
"The reverend Holdworth's comments were made on his own blog and do not reflect the official position of the church. I will be discussing the matter with him in private."
My view (and I am sure that of millions of others who began their spiritual journey in the Anglican church) is that both should be fired  and sent to a re-education camp in the Shetlands.
Any comments are welcome.

Ian


Wednesday, November 29, 2017

More Executions. Zimmerman, Rose, Matt Lauer ,WHO NEXT?

The latest revelation of beastly conduct by the moguls of the media came with this morning's headlines.
Matt Lauer, one of NBC's untouchables, was dramatically felled by an allegation made by a co-worker that he had sexually harassed her. Within a day he was gone. Gone from the TODAY show; gone from the breakfast screens of ten million Americans, gone from the Hall of Fame of media Celebrities. Gone also was his twenty million a year contract and perks attached thereto.
All for what? Wandering hands, a fling in the back stage office, a mad surge of his gonads that this most polished impresario could not contain?
Madness indeed, but somehow or other God was involved in this. This Matt Lauer, along with Charlie Rose, carried with them (and conveyed)  a sickening air of moral superiority. These were the people who were put on earth to give politically correct lectures to uninitiated humanity and to sneer at those who actually believed the Bible to be the Word of God.
Well, at this moment in time, I must add a Bible verse of my own, given by Jesus:
"Every loose word spoken shall be made known and that which is done in secret shall be shouted from the roof tops."
Yes, and those of us who have those little T.V. receiving dishes well know where the roof tops are!


Jubilate.

Ian 

Monday, November 27, 2017

Civil Libertarians ... The New Tyrants of Political Correctness.

It happened this week in the state of Oklahoma. Prayer was made before a football game at the Norman High School.
The spies were out with their cameras and there was an immediate transmission to the Civil Liberty Headquarters of America based in Wisconsin.
Howls of indignation erupted from these self righteous hypocrites claiming that the first amendment rights of the students had been violated. Now a law suit is threatened.
Here is the wording:
"We ask that the Norman High School commence an immediate investigation into the complaint alleged and take action to stop any and all staff-led prayers.
Please inform us in writing the steps that the district is taking to remedy this serious violation of the first amendment."
Now if this was the only instance of threats and law suits being visited upon student bodies for praying at football games, it would be an egregious thing. However, these minions of the devil are intending to stamp out prayer in any form by students both in and out of school premises.
Have these angels of wrath spoken out against the trafficking of opioids, or the free use of marijuana, or the sky-high rate of student suicides, or student pregnancy?  Not a word as far as I know, but let these same students be involved in public prayer on a school playing field, then the school board should be hanged from the highest tree for violating their first amendment rights.
Mark it down folks. The devil is alive and well on planet earth and he has a branch office in Wisconsin.

Ian



Friday, November 24, 2017

LIFE IN THE WORLD'S BEST PRISON.

O.K. You broke the law.You are going to prison. Saudi Arabia is the place to be.

The Crown Prince has gone on a purge of high profile offenders ( or suspected offenders) and has turned one of the ritziest of the nation's hotels into the county jail.
Here are several hundred top business men, politicians, goat herders turned millionaires and oil sheiks all jostled together in five- star-luxury, awaiting trial. They are huddled with their lawyers while they are fed gourmet meals, given access to all sorts of entertainment and, at any time, can retire to their cells which are high quality suites.
This is a different sort of world folks. When I stopped off in the Gulf for an overnight stay, I found the place reeking with money. Late model cars, high rise towers, restaurants that would put the best eateries in America in the shade.
Here is an area where a hundred years ago there were Bedouin Arabs grazing their goats on scrub land.
Ah, but under all that sand was black gold: the stuff that a petrol hungry world needed to fuel their economy and power their war machines.
And so in 2017,as we start our engines and drive to work, spare a thought for the sheiks in prison, enjoying their gourmet meals and tipping their servants with your petro-dollars.
Jubilate.

Ian

Monday, November 20, 2017

MUGABE: GOING, GOING,GOING ... GONE!



Like a scene from an old Western Movie, Robert Mugabe, hit from all side by bullets still staggers around occasionally firing off a round from his own pistol. Those characters never seemed to die, did they?

But, this time the old fox has run out of tricks and time: his 37 year old reign is over (we think).
Still couching the situation in diplomatic language, a newspaper declared that the "Thirty seven year old ERROR has finally come to an end"
Error indeed! This megalomaniac in his tenure as tribal chief over Zimbabwe saw white farmers stripped illegally of their lands and holdings, superintended the raping of the nation's wealth, the  destruction of its economy, the impoverishing of its people and the aggrandizement of his family and their cronies.
Some error. What happened in Zimbabwe was a modern social disaster that took the Pearl of Africa out of the hands of Britain's colonial rule and made it the world's number one banana republic.
I have in my wallet a $100,000,000 bill issued by the bank of Zimbabwe. It was given me by one of my friends who was a missionary in Harare. It wouldn't even buy a loaf of bread.
Pray for this nation for it is home to many wonderful pastors and their congregations. The danger is that, as Mugabe hobbles back to his village in the bush, Mnangagwa, his vice president will continue where he left off and push his nation even further into the stone age.

Jubilate.

Ian

Saturday, November 18, 2017

Australia: The Latest in the Slouch Towards Gomorrah.

The celebrations were loud, long and raucous. No, Australia had not won the Ashes cricket trophy: they had just voted to introduce homosexual marriage into their brave new nation.
Wow, how they have grown up in the last hundred years.
But while the beer flowed and the rainbow flags waved, the darker side of the affair is now being assessed.
Across the country churches were defaced and slogans smeared, spewing hatred against any and all that may object to the depravity of same-sex marriage (as if such an unnatural institution could ever exist in the first place)
Count on it, this matter is not yet over. The emboldening of homosexuals KNOWS NO END. Their demands will be INSATIABLE.
In two months time the Australian Open Tennis tournament will  begin and the opening round will be the Margaret Court Arena versus the LGBT lobby of Australia calling for her name to be removed from the stadium. Why?
Because this lady, the greatest among the female tennis greats, is a pastor who has openly countered the rush towards Sodom in the sport.
Now wait and see. 
By the way isn't the game of tennis played within boundaries and with long established rules of refereeing and etiquette?
Well, my Australian friends, the latest referendum has removed the moral boundaries from your nation and trashed a centuries old rule book.
 Silence!        I hear the sound of approaching hoof beats!

Jubilate 

Ian

Thursday, November 16, 2017

Madman Manson is Done and Almost Dusted




Charles Manson, leader of the notorious killing cult called the Manson family is currently clinging to life in a California hospital, not expected to live out the week. When he is gone he really will be dusted, in a crematorium and the ashes will be scattered where they cannot be collected and made into a shrine by the crazoids out there.
In the late 1960's Manson had gathered around him a band of groupies who came under his evil, hypnotic influence. These stooges were sent out on killing expeditions under the name of "Helter Skelter",  a term taken from one of the Beatles songs. The most ghastly of the family's executions was the murder of the actress Sharon Tate, who at the time was eight months pregnant, and four others who were with her in the house.
Since no mercy was granted to the victims of the crimes and no remorse shown when the gang were arrested and tried, there was no mercy granted when they were sentenced. The verdict of guilty was followed by life imprisonment without our parole.
Manson, himself, in later interviews showed not a tinge of regret for sending his followers on their death errands.
"I laid down the rails and they ran on them" He boasted. "I piped the music and they danced to the tunes."
How complete can a cult leader's control be?  With only a couple of exceptions, the members of the 'family' remain in custody to this day. Thankfully one of them, Tex Watson, has made his peace with God and founded a prison ministry called " Love Abounding".
As for the rest, we trust that they will avail themselves of God's offer of forgiveness through His Son Jesus. There is room in His "Forever " Family even for them.

Jubilate 

Ian


Sunday, November 12, 2017

ISIS Bring 'em All Home and We Will Look After Them

The hand wringing and introspection has all begun. This week the last ISIS bastions in Iraq and Syria have fallen and the Caliphate of tyranny and terror has collapsed.
Now what to do about the hundreds of prisoners that are rounded up in camps across Iraq and Syria.
Since these are the thugs and monsters that have beheaded, burned, raped and pillaged over the last four years, the Iraqis and Kurds,(who hold the most P.O.W. s) seem to have no problem. Summary executions are taking place with little or no examination or trial.
Pretty much the way in which the victims of the Caliphate were treated.
But now the United Nations Human and Civil Rights Council have gotten involved. Don't forget,  these are the people who know better than the rest of us.
Here is a quote from the lead advocate. "It is important to remember that these misguided Islamists still have a part in our "shared humanity". We should never exclude them from the common inter-national family. Justice must prevail and they must have their due rights given them as with all the other members of our race."
In other words, bring the four hundred British born Jihadists back home and house them in her Majesty's Prisons at $100,000 a year, until we figure out what to do with them.
Two weeks ago, when the British Foreign Secretary mused that it would be better for everybody if these Jihadists were killed on the battle field, he was branded as Neanderthal.
Maybe he is, and maybe you and I and people like us are the real cavemen in this Age of New Enlightenment.

Jubilate.

Ian




Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Planet Hollywood and the Liberals of America,

We have some sort of fantasy play-land in my fair city. They call it Planet Hollywood. 
Actually this is named after another vastly more populated place that hovers over America just above the Van Halen layer. In this ethereal and heady place the liberals, the beautiful people, the rich and the famous, the celebrities and the media types, the funky folk, the "greenies" and  the rainbow coalition plus many others have formed their happy club house.
They peep over the parapets of their elevated nirvana and look down with a degree of pity on poor fools like you and me; people who believe the Bible, believe that marriage is a life long covenant between man and woman, believe that this planet earth belongs to the Creator God and that He controls the wind, the waves and the atmospheric temperatures, these things and a lot more besides. In a word we are "the common folk".
Last year "the common folk" on this very day, spoke in a national election and had the temerity to elect Donald Trump as President of the United States.
Planet Hollywood suddenly developed a huge tilt that has left many of its citizens hanging on for dear life. Screams of fear and anger filter down to the population still on the ground and the most persistent cry is "Join us and help take our country back again in 2020".
Well those pollsters are at it again and are predicting that the nightmare will be over in three years time and we can all get back to normal with a freshly minted Democrat in the White House.
Don't bet on it. The Irish Bookmakers lost their shirt when their favourite horse "Hell-for-leather Hillary" stumbled and broke her leg. Now, a little chastened, they are giving "Dynamite Donald " evens that he will be in his residence for another four years.

Jubilate

Ian


Monday, November 6, 2017

BALFOUR 100 YEARS LATER.


Big celebrations in London and in Israel.
Prime-minister, Teresa May, hosted Benjamin Netanyhu to a state banquet last night to commemorate the declaration of Lord Balfour made in London one hundred years ago.
His few words, issued as acting foreign secretary, changed the course of history.
The phrase, embraced with joy by the Jewish people and cursed as anathema by the Palestinian Arabs read as follows:
"His majesty's Government views with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home land for the Jews"
From that moment onwards to the end of the British Mandate in 1948 there was a huge immigration of Jews from different parts of the earth, particularly from Russia and Europe.
Despite Arab accusations of an illegal Jewish occupation of their land, history shows that most of it was sold by Arab landowners to the new immigrants. They were quite happy to take their money at inflated prices. 
Since 1948 there have been a succession of wars in which the Palestinians have lost even more territory as they have blindly pursued their hateful goal of the extermination of the nation of Israel.
Will this ever end? Not until the return of the Lord Jesus Christ with power to this Earth when, the Bible says, He shall rule the nations with a rod of iron.
Sounds good to me, since all other forms of government have failed.
"Even so Lord Jesus come quickly"

Jubilate.
Ian

Friday, November 3, 2017

Bergdahl. Martyr or Traitor

The sentence upon U.S army sergeant Bo Bergdahl was finally handed down today by the military court before whom he was summoned to stand.
The verdict. Guilty of desertion from his army unit. The maximum sentence for this cowardly defection... life imprisonment.
Actual sentence .. dishonourable discharge, demotion and loss of pay.
Conclusion:
There is simply no justice to be found in a cock-eyed system that court martial's soldiers for battlefield excesses such as failing to give wounded prisoners proper care and sustenance and exonerates deserters on the ground of psychological impairment.
In my own country the courts have just awarded  Omar Khadr ten million dollars for unusual pain and suffering while in Guantanamo Bay detention centre. This is the man who blew up a U.S. marine with a hand grenade while fighting in Afghanistan.
Now he lives in luxury in Canada while a widow grieves for her husband in Idaho.
May God help us. Surely the lunatics are running the asylum!

Jubilate anyway.

Ian


Thursday, November 2, 2017

HOLLYWOOD EXPOSED.

Since  Hollywood has specialized, promoted and exported sex in all its most sordid and vulgar forms; since this film industry has long since pushed the limits on nudity and perversity; since this California Babylon has brazenly bragged that they are not subject to the morals, standards and restraints that define human decency and morality, it seems most fitting that they have now been found totally naked before the courts of public opinion.
The wraps came off with the revelations of Harvey Weinberger's sick predations on young actresses seeking parts in his movies. Now in quick succession come accusations against Kevin Spacey for forced homo sexual encounters with young men, Dustin Hoffman and his sexual harassment of young women and Brett Ratner, another deviated film director, who has a line up of women plaintiffs. Now, a few hours ago, Jeremy Piven has been dropped from the Late Show, to face similar charges.
When will it all end? 
Probably never, but what is particularly odious is that this tainted industry stands in judgement against President Trump and other high members of congress to continually censor their behaviour.
Now these strainers of gnats have been found swallowing whole camels and don't they look handsome with hooves and hair sticking out of their mouths.
Send the whole lot to Mars and let them begin a new colony there, open to all who approve of and indulge in their rotten lifestyle.

Jubilate.
Ian



Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Reformation Day! Freedom from Tyranny and Religious Nonesense.

It shook the world. The day is marked as Reformation Day, when a Roman Catholic monk called Martin Luther nailed his 99 point thesis on the door of Wittenberg university and turned to face the consequences. There were plenty, as is true for anyone who knows what he believes and loves what he knows, concerning the plain text of the Bible.
 Of course you must READ it first and then ponder and pray as to how the text, its promises, warnings and commandments apply to YOU.
In the case of Martin Luther, when he stood with his life in jeopardy before the papal council, it was expressed in the following words.
"Unless I am convicted by scripture and plain reason, I will not accept the authority of Popes and councils. For they have contradicted each other; my conscience is captive to the word of God.
I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen."
And may God help us all, in days of defection from the simple faith of Christ and easy compromise concerning His call to discipleship.
Folks, we only have ONE life to live. This  Reformation Day let us all renew our vows to God and change our own world thereafter by the help of Christ. 
Jubilate.

Ian

Sunday, October 29, 2017

Disney and the Devil.

Word is out! Disney Channel is making their first film to promote homosexuality among America's youth. Make that the YOUTH OF THE WORLD.
Their agenda is clear and self evident although couched in sweet, neutral, culturally acceptable language:
 "To promote INCLUSIVENESS among the new generation."
The story line is simple: four teenage friends having fun together as they gaily trip through life. Two girls, two boys just hanging out. No  problems apart from the twist that has one of the females and one of males fighting for the affection of the other boy. So the whole lousy and lurid story unfolds.
This is a light year away from Mickey Mouse, Snow White and Donald Duck folks. Instead of INCLUSIVENESS, it is a thinly veiled attempt at recruitment into a life style of sodomy aimed at the most impressionable of our population.
The T.V series  is called "Andi Mack" My short comment is 
"Don't watch it"
It is the latest piece of garbage from the LGBT community, cooked up and served to look delicious in order to ensnare our kids.
Just letting you know in case you are sitting down to watch your favourite channel with your family.
Jubilate.
Ian


Tuesday, October 24, 2017

King Bhut's Funeral

Unless you actually spend an hour of practice with his name you will not be able to pronounce it. But King Bhutiubol Adulyadei won't mind: he has been dead for over a year. The posthumous king of Thailand has been waiting for his funeral. Embalmed in state he is about to be transferred to the crematorium.
This is no ordinary fire box. It has been a year in the making. Thousands of workers have constructed a mighty pagoda with associated  minarets. There are statues of Bhudda,  painted clay lions  and arrays of dragons and other surreal creatures. In their own minds they are constructing heaven. 
The costs runs into multiplied millions. To top off the event, as the king goes into the flames on his golden chariot, will be teams of dancing girls and a professional puppeteer with a cast that would put Sesame Street to shame.
All for what? 
A funeral extravaganza that has depleted the national coffers of Thailand by hundreds of millions all to go up in smoke in a matter of minutes.
But, there again folks, if you believe in pagan nonsense that says we will all be absorbed back into the universe to be recycled in a higher state, that's the sort of money you have to pay.
My wife Pauline and I have $500.00 plots in a country grave yard where we will spend a few quiet years before the resurrection of the dead. John 14:16 tells us that we are headed for a wonderful place where we will be spending eternity with a lot of our friends.... and best of all there is room for more.
Why don't you book your own place today by believing in Jesus Christ?
Jubilate.
ian

Sunday, October 22, 2017

Heirloom Lost in Local Supermarket.

It's not usual for a Lord's wife to go shopping in the local super market but lady Somerleyton did so last week.
 She went to the grocery store called Morrison's and picked up a few things for lunch.
I suppose in England she would be recognized by a few of the locals, after all she and her husband live at Somerleyton Hall and own 5,000 acres of land just west of Lowestoft in Norfolk. 
It would appear that the good lady was not only spotted but her necklace was also appreciated. She happened to be wearing a 2 million dollar diamond and emerald pendant around her neck while she picked up her eggs and milk.
Horror of horrors! When she got home the pendant, a priceless family heirloom was gone!
Where could it be? She might well ask the question because those of us used to wearing bling could provide some ready answers.
Any one who trips out in public with baubles around their neck worth two million dollars needs a lesson in how the rest of humanity think. 
Now the employees at Morrison's have been told to keep their"eyes peeled" while Lord and Lady Somerleyton keep their "fingers crossed" and, to add  to the anatomy, while the thieves keep their "lips sealed."
Well, we might all smile as we read this but let me end on a sombre note. Concerning things precious Jesus said:
"What shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul, or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?" This is not bling we are speaking of here and, concerning our soul, it is a question that the folly of Lady Somerleyton  should bring to the forefront of all our minds.

Jubilate 

Ian



Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Bye Bye UNESCO and Good Riddance.


UNESCO is paying for its biased treatment of Israel in more ways than one.
Today, the United States, announced that it would no longer be a part of an "Educational Body" that has persistently harassed the nation of Israel and allowed its bigotry to be show-cased at the United Nation Assembly.
For this thinly disguised hatred of God's Chosen People they will now lose about 30% of their funding, which is the portion given by America each year. They will have to look else where for their money or severely scale back on their staff.
We welcome this news and also the announcement from Tel Aviv this morning that they have also given UNESCO the boot.
Why, Israel asks, would they donate money to an organization that has consistently voted against them in the world council and done what it could to inflame their quarrel with the  Palestinians.
What is true for UNESCO can also be said of the United Nations itself. It is a bloated, bigoted body filled with haters of Christian values, shot through with croneyism and mired in unpaid dues owed to the United States.
Founded to bring peace to the earth I cannot recall that it has stopped ONE war since its inception, but it has managed to siphon untold billions of dollars into the pockets of the people with fancy suits and name tags by the Hudson River.
What did Cromwell say to the useless parliament of his day?
"You have sat too long for any good that you have been doing lately. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God GO!"
Please say it again Oliver.
Jubilate.

Ian





Sunday, October 15, 2017

California's Inferno.


Floods in Houston, hurricanes everywhere in the South East, earth quakes in Mexico and now a raging inferno in California.
Fires have rampaged through whole districts in Northern California driven by strong winds and fed by the dead under brush of four years of drought. Unstoppable has been the fury and indiscriminate the destruction as whole communities have been razed to the ground.
Can there possible be any good come from such a calamity? Well, all according to how you look at it, the answer is yes.
In the path of the inferno were fields of cannabis that had been planted in the spring and were ready for harvest.
Because of a federal law that prohibits the growth of the narcotic, insurers will not cover the farming and processing of marijuana nor its distribution. Consequently dozens of businesses that jumped on the band wagon of selling pot now find that their facilities are burned out with no insurance to cover their loss.
To use an American expression "Golly Gee! We are all broke up to hear the news"
No doubt come Spring of next year there will be another crop planted, but in the meantime large numbers of opportunists will be declaring bankruptcy and may even be joining some of their customers in the flop house to smoke a few joints by way of consolation.
Too bad.

Jubilate 

Ian

Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Hollywood Babylon.

Did we ever believe that an industry built upon the packaging, promotion and slick presentation of SEX would fail to have sexual predators in the head office?
This week, Harvey Weinstein, one of Hollywood's icons of power and prestige, was exposed in full frontal as one of the worst perpetrators in Sin City.
After the New York Times broke news of his sexual predations of young starlets under his patronage, a whole line up of women have come forward to tell their stories: accounts of the most sordid and salacious type of abuse that have finished Weinstein's career, led to his firing from the company he founded and to the departure of Georgina Chapman, his wife of ten years.
These revelations should not surprise us. Two weeks ago Hugh Hefner, pornographer-in-chief was put in a crypt next to Marylyn Monroe, the sex symbol of the sixties.
Now another living incarnation arises to take his place.
I have chosen the fallen statues of the mighty moguls of Mount Nimrod  as my lead picture for this post.
Why? Two thousand years ago these were the giants that walked the earth; proud, unchallenged and monopolistic. They are now no more than headless relics with sightless eyes and broken feet, mouldering on a mountain top in Turkey. So it will be for all the godless, vain-glorious and arrogant who set themselves against the standards and rule of Almighty God.
Don't believe me? Ask Joseph Stalin. They just sold his bronze statue for scrap in Moscow. 
Jubilate.

Ian


Sunday, October 8, 2017

A Nation on Overdose.

Far beyond the numbers of deaths by gunshot or traffic accidents are the gruesome figures now listed for 2016: death by drug overdose.
An estimated 60,000, many coming from over-the-counter or prescription pain killers called opioids.
No longer does the packaged-poison have to be smuggled over the border from Mexico; the cursed stuff is manufactured and sold right here in the United States. 
I am talking about medications like fentanyl, morphine, methadone, palladone, hydrocodone, oxycodone and a whole lot more. Basically they have the same ingredients as cocaine with a slightly different D.N.A.  but all, when the user becomes addicted, have the same deadly effect.
Entire communities, especially in the Mid West and the North East are being decimated by hundreds of over-dose cases that have stretched hospitals and care facilities to the limit. AND THERE IS NO END IN SIGHT.
Last week 60 souls departed this life in the Las Vegas massacre. The whole nation is still in shock, but the far more frightening story is that TWICE that number (mainly young people) died of opioid overdoses in that seven day period.
A whole generation has lost it's way folks. Taught in public schools that they are no more than a cosmic-coincidence and little higher than the apes that swing in trees. Told that this life is all that there is  and that the saving Gospel of Jesus Christ is a fairy story  millions of young people have lost hope and direction.
Their response is "To hell with it. We will seek solace and solutions  in our own way even if it means dying in a back alley in Dayton or crack-house in Columbus"
Tonight I would ask you to remember America in your prayers.
She needs them.

Ian



Tuesday, October 3, 2017

Death on the Strip

Last night all hell broke loose in America......AGAIN.
This time the carnage was on the Las Vegas Strip where a single, crazed gun-man dispatched the lives of over sixty fellow citizens.
Above five hundred are in hospital with wounds registering from acute to critical.
All incurred within the space of a five minute death spree directed from the 30th floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel.
The shooter, Stephen Paddock, had no previous criminal record. No arrests, no violations, no connection with the police for any form of crime. Clean. And yet this is the man who is now classified as the worst mass murderer in American history.
So the speeches, the hand-wringing, the second guessing, the search for motive, the psycho-analysis, the expert's opinions, the yada-yada are now in full spate. However, you can guarantee one thing..the root cause and the real reason for this previously normal and sane human-being turning into a killer will NEVER be mentioned. And, we may ask, what might that cause be?
The most simple of answers my friend. He was TAKEN OVER BY DEMONIC SPIRITS that directed and drove him to kill.
To be a christian means that we not only believe in Christ the Lord, but that we also believe in the devil, the Lord of Darkness.
Bring the work of the devil into this equation of horror and evil and suddenly it all makes sense..... spiritual sense.
If you will take the trouble to read Mark chapter 16 you will see that the first order of business in the Great Commission is to cast out devils. DEVILS  folks. They are as real today as they were in Bible days. Don't believe me? Then instead of Mark 16 read the New York Times and tell us your version of why 60 people tonight are lying dead in a Las Vegas morgue.

Ian

Monday, October 2, 2017

The Death of David Mainse.

I recall a factoid worth repeating: on the day that President  Kennedy was shot, on that same day a great Christian statesmen passed to his reward in heaven. In all the storm of media attention surrounding John Kennedy's assassination, the death of C.S. Lewis passed unnoticed. So much for earthly acclaim. 
But, I am heartened by the scripture in Psalms that says "The death of His saints is precious in the sight of God."
To bring the matter up to date. Last week Hugh Hefner died in California whilst here in Canada David Mainse passed on to his reward from the Lord. You will not have heard a peep of this event through your local media, it being drowned out in the roars of acclaim from the South.
David was a pioneer in Christian Broadcasting. He founded a daily T.V. programme called 100 Huntley Street where his studio was based in Toronto. The name was later changed to CROSSROADS, the large Headquarters from where the Gospel was daily broadcast across the world.
As a Canadian writer and preacher I must honour the passing of this great man of God.
Heaven is surely a richer place today, not only with the arrival of David but the the thousands of souls that made heaven their home because of his life and ministry.
Well done David, good and faithful servant.

Jubilate.

Ian

Thursday, September 28, 2017

Play Boy in Chief is Gonzo.

The old profligate did not leave this world with a bang. He departed  with a prolonged whimper. Hugh Hefner, prince of the playboys, died yesterday in California in a hired room of his old mansion and alone. After 91 years on earth the end could be be delayed no longer and he obeyed the summons of God.
Suddenly the play bunnies and the bright lights, the glamour and the glitz, the chimera of fame, the parties and the popularity mean nothing. When a man dies he leaves this earth on his own and, on his own, he must answer for the legacy of his deeds, good or bad.
Far be it for me to pass a final judgment on this peddler of sex and sleaze. That is the sole prerogative of the Almighty Himself. Let me remark, however, on the death of Voltaire. He was the French Hugh Hefner of his day nearly three centuries ago,
As the grim reaper approached his bed he reportedly cried out in terror saying.
"In my lifetime I have mocked God and spurned the idea of hell. Now I fear that both are all too real."
I was not present to hear his last words when Hugh departed on his final journey, but let us hope that they were penitential enough to be printed in a better magazine than the one he founded.

Jubilate.

Ian

Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Forsaking All Others I Married Myself.

Laura Messi from Rome attended a wonderful wedding ceremony yesterday. It was her own. She had decided to forsake all others and marry herself.
She was now forty years old and, having experienced a failed relationship with a male partner, she decided that from now on she would enter into SOLOGAMY: a life long relationship with herself.
The ceremony of this new marriage covenant was attended by 70 guests. There was a large three layer wedding cake and the bride and bridesmaids were resplendent in striking silk dresses.
Great joy was exhibited by all present where wine flowed feely and speeches were given for Laura's long and happy union WITH HERSELF.
Many have been the congratulations on social media and, it would appear, that Laura may be starting a trend for the future. Others are now lined up to enter into nuptials with themselves.
There is always a little rain on every parade, however.
Some of the more unfeeling have posted comments such as
"There is something wrong with your brain lady"
"Are you out of your mind?"
"You are one sad feminist.!"
"A pointless submission to a patriarchal institution."
"Sick indeed."
Naturally we shall have to check in with Laura's story.
Perhaps when she goes through her first imaginary pregnancy and her new book telling us how it happened.
Jubilate.

Ian


Sunday, September 24, 2017

THE FLAG. Do We Stand or Not?

I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY OF JUSTICE FOR ALL.
So reads the pledge of allegiance, which is obligatory learning in all the public schools of America.
Sounds simple doesn't it?  And why, may we ask, would any patriotic, true blooded American object to standing with hand upon heart when the pledge is called for?
Until last year it appeared that there was no reason, that is until the black quarter-back of the San Fransisco 49 rs defied the call and chose to drop on one knee instead. His particular resentment? The treatment of black people at the hands of "White Injustice" in America.
Now to add to the bonfire of grievances, real or perceived, President Trump has called such acts of defiance "A disrespect of the American Flag and the Republic for which it stands."
I can safely say that this is a conflict that will only continue to grow, along side the one that I wrote of last week, namely the pulling down of civil war statues.
Freedom to ignore the flag or respect and patriotism to be shown by all who shelter under the security of the Stars and Stripes?
Seems to me that the choice is clear but, there again, I came from a generation where the whole game would have been lost had it not been for the men who provided the red of the stripes with their own life blood.

Jubilate.

Ian

Tuesday, September 19, 2017

WHEN PARANOIA TURNS TO MADNESS.

No one would argue that every nation and state has a responsibility to protect its citizens. But to what extent should they go to exercise their guardian ship? 
Today in England we saw the NANNY STATE in total overdrive.
What happened?
Why, a suspicious package was spotted under a bridge on a major motorway leading out of London.
Was some one sent to examine this bucket, or barrel, or box or what ever it was?
Absolutely not. 
Instead the WHOLE MOTOR WAY WAS SHUT DOWN FOR OVER FIVE HOURS IN BOTH DIRECTIONS.
 Robots and remote controlled sniffers were brought to the scene. Helicopters flew over head. Special police units were flown in. The army bomb squad was put on stand-by and all the experts studied the situation from long distance cameras. And what, may we ask, was in the barrel?  Nothing but corrosive chemicals that some truck driver had dumped to avoid going to the HazMat section in the local landfill.
Give us a break!
Two hundred thousand vehicles and some four hundred thousand people were held up for five hours. This amounts to the loss of two million man hours over a barrel of waste oil.
Surely Shakespeare has a play written about such nonsense. Yes, It is "Much ado about nothing."
Perhaps the terrorists are not the only people we need to protected from. The national nannies have become just as great a pain.
Jubilate 

Ian


Sunday, September 17, 2017

THE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING RING.

If this had been an oversight or a loss by a privately run firm, heads would have rolled and a huge dragnet would have been set in motion. Not so when the institution happens to be the British Museum. Entrusted to their care was the priceless Cartier Ring. This irreplaceable piece of Jewelry had been a centre piece in their display until 2011. Then, in a general rearrangement within the museum, the ring went missing.
The police were not informed because, as was presumed, it had been simply MISLAID. However, after SIX YEARS of sorting through drawers and boxes the staff  have finally reported the ring as missing and PRESUMED STOLEN.
Well, well!
As one police spokesman drily remarked, it was probably an inside job and the chances of recovery after six years are slim to none.
Such a blasé attitude. Such incompetence. Such lack of professionalism, and we must add, such chicanery.
But in case your mind is boggled, just think of the words of Jesus Christ concerning the universal human neglect of something exceedingly more precious then the Cartier Ring. 
 Marks Gospel reads thus:
"What shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?"
Two questions to which only we ourselves can supply the answer.
Breakfast with Ian. Maybe you can think about this simple post while you are enjoying your tea and toast this morning!
Jubilate.

Ian