Saturday, March 31, 2018

EASTER: THE MIRACLE

I believe that it was Albert Einstein who said: "Either there are absolutely NO miracles in this life or EVERYTHING IS A MIRACLE."
Since Einstein was voted the man of the 20th Century in the Time Magazine contest it might be prudent to give that statement some thought.
If you are of the latter persuasion that EVERYTHING IS A MIRACLE  then you will not find it hard to believe what happened on that first Easter Sunday, 2000 years ago.
In accordance with everything that He had predicted in the preceding three years of His life, Jesus Christ was crucified on a Roman cross outside Jerusalem, buried in a borrowed tomb and, three days later, rose from the dead to be seen by many witnesses.
Now I ask you what is hard to believe about that?
If Christ had predicted that He would rise from the dead on the third day and failed to do so I would have found THAT hard to believe. Why? Because everything He had said He would do up that point He had done. Everything that had been prophesied concerning Him had come to pass. So why wouldn't He be resurrected and, for that matter, why wouldn't we also be resurrected to join Him with His Father to live eternally in Heaven?
It is time you stopped your doubting. It is time you took dominion over your puny brains and let your heart do what it wants to do and BELIEVE. Then the MIRACLE OF EASTER  2018 will happen to you.
Jubilate. He is Risen.

Ian.

P.S.  This happens to be  BWI  # 1,000.  It may be my last. Please pray for my future direction.

Wednesday, March 28, 2018

EASTER: THE MESSAGE

Easter. This is my third post of this series. Last week it was "The Man" and today we will consider The Message. Horrifying but true, the Easter Bunny and Easter eggs are far more relevant to our younger generation than the epic event of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. 
"STAT CRUX DUM ORBIS VOLVITUR" was the central statement in early church doctrine. Translated it reads "EVERYTHING CHANGES, THE CROSS REMAINS CONSTANT"
In an evanescent age and a world of a trillion tweets, absolutely nothing remains constant. The compass points of preceding generations have been obliterated in the blizzard of trivia and information that have engulfed the minds of the texter, tweeter, hash-tag masses.
JUST WHAT IS THE  MESSAGE?
Folks it has NOT CHANGED IN 2,000 YEARS.
Christ Jesus DIED FOR OUR SINS according to the scriptures, was buried and three days later, HE ROSE FROM THE DEAD according to the same scriptures.
Got any sins? Christ died for them. Got any honest doubts? The scriptures will answer them? Got any friends who are believers? Follow them to church this Easter and find out for yourselves.
"Stat crux dum orbis volivitur" In a dumbed-down generation that's the dum that really matters.
Jubilate.

Ian

Saturday, March 24, 2018

EASTER THE MAN.

I said in my last post that, leading up to Easter, I would look at four words: Easter : The Main Event. The Man, the Message and the Miracle. Today we think of Easter "The Man."
At the end of the last millenium there was a referendum in TIME Magazine on the top 1000 most influential people of all time. When the results were listed they were posted beginning at NUMBER TWO. 
Number one, it was stated, was so far ahead of the rest that they never even listed JESUS CHRIST.
This being so I would like to ask the readers if it is possible that the most influential figure in the human race could have been a liar, a madman, a charlatan or a hypnotist. I mention all four because at various times I have heard such nonsensical explanations given to describe Christ.
 Then, it being agreed that Jesus is the Person He said He was, and that He finished the work that He came to do by dying on the cross and shedding His blood as a sacrifice for the sins of mankind (which include yours) would it not be prudent to at least read one of the Gospels before you die?
When and if you do, ask God  "What would you have me do to know You and to do your Will on earth before I die and meet You face to face?" Be assured that His reply and your response will determine whether you make your home in Heaven with Jesus Christ and His people.

Jubilate.
Ian

Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Easter. The Main Event.

The last four posts of my career as a postal worker will focus on Easter. The Main Event; The Man; the Message and the Miracle.
Think with me. I have studied history for most of my life and I can confidently say that the Main Event in the narrative of Human Kind upon the Earth is what happened in the three days of the first Easter recorded in the Gospels of the Bible.
This is the date from which our calendar registers Two thousand and eighteen.
This is the date that measures the minting of the coins of the realm.
This is the date accepted by all mankind as the beginning of the New Era.
This is the date when everything changed in this benighted world in which we live.
THE FIRST EASTER.
The events went by almost unnoticed when Jesus Christ was arrested, falsely accused, fraudulently tried, brutally crucified and was buried in a borrowed tomb. For a brief three days the glorious music of His life's symphony ceased. Then on EASTER SUNDAY  it started once more never to be stopped again. Count this post as just a few more bars played in God's overture to mankind.
In my next post the string section will be playing along with a little percussion. Stay tuned.
Jubilate 
Ian

Saturday, March 17, 2018

BWI # 996


Breakfast with Ian. The last lap to Easter. In two weeks time I will be writing BWI # 1000. 
I got started when Pauline and I were visiting old friends, John and Sue Cowgill in Cyprus. For the ten days we were with them I would give a brief message from the Bible to begin the day. "Sue called them "Breakfasts with Ian." The title stuck and when we returned to Canada I continued with these thoughts under the same heading  "Breakfast with Ian" Now, some seven years later I am writing # 996. Will I continue posting after Easter? I don't know, but I feel that I should give some credits where they are due at this time.
To John and Sue Cowgill, a heartfelt word of gratitude from Pauline and myself for a most memorable time in Cyprus and for getting me started on "Breakfast with Ian."
My thanks also to my son, Mark, who set up my original web site and who has tinkered several times since to keep me "on air".
To my friend Ken Skinner, my original 'techy' man who launched BWI to a wider audience around the world, my appreciation.
My acknowledgement also to Donna Morris, my present and most excellent secretary who unfailing presses the right buttons and who sends BWI "on 'er way" several times each month.
Finally, to my wife Pauline, my love and deepest appreciation. She has cast her eye over hundreds of posts, spotted typos, made valuable suggestions and exercised great patience when I have been AWOL banging keys behind closed doors. 
Will more of her patience be called upon in coming days? We shall wait and see.
That's it for BWI 996 folks.

Jubilate .
Ian

Thursday, March 15, 2018

HAWKINS IS GONE : POOF!

Yesterday came news that Stephen Hawkins, the celebrated theoretical physicist,  had died. As I said in my title "Stephen Hawkins is gone. Poof" Surely no one would find such a title offensive for, after all, that is what Hawkins himself believed. When a person dies its just "Poof", they go back to the universe and that's all there is and that's all there was and that's all there ever will be.
So when a U.S congress man, Briscoe Cain, tweeted this morning the following words:
"Stephen Hawkins now knows the truth about how the universe was actually made. My condolences to his family." there was a storm of social media protest.
Some called Briscoe Cain a jerk and others were outraged that he had not shown more sympathy to his relatives. 
But the congress man has held his ground. In reply he stated that: "while many see Hawkins as one of the greatest of public intellectuals and no one denies that he was brilliant, the fact remains that GOD EXISTS. Hawkins denied this. He was a vocal atheist who openly mocked God. My tweet was to show the gravity of the gospel and what happens when we die. Namely that we must all meet the Creator of the Universe face to face." 
To which I, Ian Wilson, add my ready "Amen." Well spoken Briscoe.
Jubilate.
Ian  
P.S. Two weeks ago this man died.      
Who was telling the truth?

  

Saturday, March 10, 2018

Bureaucracy Gone Mad.

Like all organizations that are founded to protect, control or check human behaviour the INEVITABLE will take place. They become bureaucratic, then autocratic and then TYRANNICAL unless they themselves are checked. This week a Canadian judge did just that and handed down a stinging rebuke to the Children's Aid Society.
Two years ago in their relentless war on Christian foster parents, they removed two sisters from the care of godly presbyterian parents. The reason? These two good people, Derek and Frances Baar had refused to go along with the fake story of the Easter Bunny, insisting on telling the real story of the death and resurrection of Jesus.
This was too much for the C.A.S who considered this a crime against the happy little world of fantasia enjoyed by the children. They were promptly removed for their parent's care.
Two years later the judge has ruled in favour of the parents and rebuked the C.A.S. saying that their over reach amounted to tyranny.
Good. At least we have one sane verdict in the ongoing war against christian values and the rights of christians in the work place.
Further more I hope the Baars get to eat the ears off their own Easter Bunny by way of financial compensation for their trouble.
Jubilate.
Ian

Wednesday, March 7, 2018

CALIFORNIA DREAMING



This morning, Jeff Sessions, Attorney General of the United States, took the unprecedented step of suing the State of California. The charge? Obstruction of Justice.
What were the specifics in this case? Last week the mayor of San Fransisco, Libby Schaaf, informed by public announcement, that ICE police were coming to town in order to arrest illegal immigrants. There were some 800 on the police books with outstanding warrants for just about everything. None were American citizens. All were undocumented and all were in trouble with the authorities.
Mayor Schaaf, deluded and with a bleeding heart for all the oppressed under-dogs in her city, blew the whistle on the raid and thus the majority of these criminal elements escaped the drag net.
About 150 WERE arrested and have since been dropped of south of the border.
Now Mayor Schaaf aided and abetted by the aging hippy Governor, Jerry Brown, are facing the wrath of the Federal Justice Department.
This should be interesting because maximum sentences for the offence of obstruction of justice involve heavy fines and jail terms.
What I have said before in previous posts is coming to pass. America is headed for civil war and these are like the first shots at Fort Sumpter in 1862. Stay tuned on this one and keep your powder dry.

Jubilate 
Ian

Thursday, March 1, 2018

DEATH OF THE DISTRACTED WALKERS


Oh the joy of those texting devices.
Not only has there been increased carnage among America's drivers but now death by distraction has come upon America's WALKERS.
Last year, in 2017, there were 6,000 pedestrians killed using their phones while walking across busy inter-sections.
Amazing video clips were seen on a recent documentary showing near misses from cars, buses and trucks as oblivious jay-walkers stepped off curbs and ignored "DONT WALK" signs with their texting machines.
Bodies have been recovered from under vehicles with head-phones still in place and  phones still in hands, but all other life departed.
What is the warning in all of this?
Peril and sudden death lurk everywhere: we don't want to increase the odds by giving the Grim Reaper a new toolset to do his job.
After all, what what could be more earth-changing than the famous last words of a texter saying:
"I'll see U in 10 mins in StrBks"      and then fail to arrive?

Jubilate.

Ian

Monday, February 26, 2018

AMERICA'S CAMPERS


Even in Ronald Reagan's day the problem was observable.
As Governor of California he called the homeless who flocked to his state: "America's Campers"
Of the 500,000 destitute in the USA a full 50% are in California colonizing the cities of Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco and Santa Monica.
These are favoured places to set up camp since the winter temperature rarely drops below 20 C.
So much for the demographics of the homeless. 
Change is coming. This week Mayor Spitzer declared a halt to further colonization in Orange County. He called in the medics, the police, the social workers, the HazMat auxilliaries and the garbage men. They had orders to tear down the tent cities that had built up around the pricey homes by the Santa Ana river.
The operation has taken several days and involved loading 250 tons of tents and makeshift lean-tos, nearly a ton of human excrement,  drug syringes and needles innumerable. 
The liberal types who happily voted for the legalization of dope, and followed the hopeful message of Jesus to give shelter to the homeless, have now said "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH."
Charity only goes so far and has now reached its limits with thousands of vagrants commandeering their prestigious city and fouling their perfect So-Cal beaches. They are now calling for the hammer of the law, not the soft touch of welfare. Ah those hard hearted republicans who have held to the doctrine of St Paul who said that "if a man shall not work neither shall he eat."
Maybe they were not so uncharitable after all.
Now a new political wing is forming called the NIMBY's (NOT IN MY BACK YARD.)
Extreme situations sure make strange bed-fellows.
Jubilate.

Ian

Wednesday, February 21, 2018

BILLY GRAHAM GOES HOME.


Billy Graham is dead. Don't believe it. He is more alive than any of us. He has simply gone home to Heaven, the destination of all who have placed their faith in the Jesus Christ.
Could there be any other way? Jesus Himself spelled it out in John 14 vs 1-3.
"Let not your heart be troubled, ye believe in God believe also in Me.
In my Father's house are many mansions. If it were not so I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you , I WILL COME AGAIN and receive you unto myself that where I am ye may be also."
Well, Billy Graham preached those words thousands of times and thousands of people heard them and believed them. Many were waiting at the doors of the Father's house for Billy to arrive yesterday.
Now the waiting is over.
Were there ever more true, heart warming and comforting words spoken to men and women? And was there ever a better man than Billy Graham to preach them?
I think the time has come to stop THINKING about placing your faith in Jesus Christ and just DO IT.
What were the words of the hymn that Billy would often close his meetings with?
"JUST AS I AM WITHOUT ONE PLEA, BUT THAT THY BLOOD WAS SHED FOR ME AND THAT THOU BID'ST ME COME TO THEE, O LAMD OF GOD I COME, I COME."
If you do that today you will be with millions of others in the grand, heavenly re-union in a short time to come."

Jubilate 
Ian

Sunday, February 18, 2018

PARKLAND HIGH. THE BACKLASH

I believe that we have reached a defining moment in America's
 war against its children. The massacre last week in Parkland, Florida, suddenly galvanized the people who can REALLY make the difference. I speak of the students themselves. Not the politicians, not the FBI, not the security guards, not the teachers, not even the parents but the children of those parents.
I have long believed that if there was to be a change in the gun laws of America it would have to be accomplished by the new generation of Americans who repudiate completely the ethos of their parents when it comes to the second amendment.
No longer are these kids going to tolerate being sitting ducks in the schools where they have been sent to learn. They have suddenly found a voice; a LOUD VOICE and this voice is not demanding a change in their school curriculum but a change in the mind-set of the politicians and law makers. Spontaneously this week, rallies and protest marches have been taking place all over the United States led by the students themselves telling the adults of the land that they  HAVE HAD ENOUGH. Enough of their blood has been shed, enough of the excuses that have been made, enough of the security barriers that they have to pass through every day en-route to their class rooms, enough of the flim flam and the hand wringing. It hasn't worked and these kids, the next generation, are going to come up with their own solutions that WILL WORK.
Wait for it. The first demand, I hear, is to return prayer to the classrooms.
Well if that doesn't  confirm what the Bible says:  "That a little child shall lead them."
Hallelujah. America, there is hope yet and it won't come from Congress.

Jubilate.

Ian




Thursday, February 15, 2018

Let's Go To Mars.Yeah Right.

It was a staggering documentary of human capability that I saw last week. This film was titled "Making the Impossible Possible" and show-cased everything that was going on in the American "Reach for the Stars" space programme.
By the year 2035 NASA is expecting to have landed men on Mars and returned them to Earth with future colonization of the Red Planet in mind.
But before this mighty Mars Rocket takes off from Cape Canaveral would it not be in keeping to ask what happened yesterday two hours drive down the coast from the launch site?
Here, in the district of Parkland south of Miami, a horrendous massacre took place in the local high school. About twenty students were shot to death and multiple others were injured. The shooter: an aggrieved student.
This is the great contradiction of the American State. While there is the brain power to put a man on planet Mars there is no collective wisdom to solve the human condition here on EARTH.
This brain power that I am speaking about bans prayer and Bible reading in the public school systems of the land and then stands aghast when students devoid of hope, purpose or sense of self worth gun down their classmates in bloody rage.
America, forget "Reaching for the Stars" and reach out to your own children on earth with the gospel of the love of God for all mankind in the person of Jesus Christ.
Jubilate. 
Ian

Monday, February 12, 2018

The "Victoria' Series

Probably my favourite period of British history is the Victorian Era.
Numerous of my relatives were born at the end of the 19th century and I still remember their stories. It was a great time to live when the British Empire was at the zenith of its power and when Edward Elgar quite rightly penned the words "Land of Hope and Glory Mother of the Free."
You can imagine therefore, that Pauline and I were looking forward to the BBC series "VICTORIA". We watched the first episodes with satisfaction and a few weeks ago began season 2.
Suddenly this wholesome, historical documentary was used to infuse a pair of prominent characters ( Lord Alfred Paget and Edward Drummond) in a homo-sexual relationship.
This had absolutely no connection to the truth since Lord Alfred Paget was a happily married man with 14 children and Edward Drummond, Parliamentary secretary, was twenty years his senior and assassinated before ever the two had built even a political partnership.
How dare this Daisy Goodwin, the director of this historical series do something that is so patently false. She taints the name of the famous Paget family and also the worthy Edward Drummond a distinguished public servant. She should be ashamed.
Next week I will be watching the final episode with a channel changer in my hand!
Jubilate.
Ian


Thursday, February 8, 2018

TRUMP AT THE PRAYER BREAKFAST

You will have no report of the National Prayer Breakfast given by mainstream media.
It was held today in Washington. President Donald Trump was the invited speaker.

The Syndicated news reporters were there but you will not be hearing from them. Why not? Because President Trump spoke with great passion and sincerity of his faith and spoke largely about the grace of God that has abounded at every level of American life. The abundance, affluence, freedoms and benefits that The United States have enjoyed he placed fully upon the favour of the Lord who has so "richly blessed the nation"
Why would these observations not be widely reported? Because they are politically incorrect and anathema to the liberal mindset who attribute the prosperity and freedoms of America to human ingenuity and brains ALONE.
"Leave the Lord and all that religious stuff out of it. We did this ourselves and the credit belongs to no one else but us."
Yeah right! In 2016 the forgotten people put Trump into the White House: in 2020 the FORGOTTEN GOD will keep him there.
Jubilate.
Ian

Wednesday, February 7, 2018

THE MEMO


The memo is out. I am referring to the secret dossier that has been finally released that will probably blow up the on-going Russia investigation led by Robert Mueller.
This investigation got started, we now know, because of a file compiled by an anti-Trump journalist in London, England.
Supposedly he had assembled incontrovertible evidence proving Donald Trump and his team had colluded with the Russians to rig the outcome of the 2016 election.
The only problem was that it was full of lies, distortions, innuendo and fakery.
It was partly funded by the Clintons and handed to the FBI as the real deal.
Using this file as a basis for action the FBI began an illegal wire-tap on Carter Page the head of Trump's election campaign, thus violating American law and political protocol.
It has all come to light in the last week. Great roaring is now heard in the corridors of Congress and beyond.
You can count on it folks, the phoney Mueller investigation is about to come to an abrupt end and the Democratic blame-game is about to get started.
Couldn't happen to nicer people.

Jubilate.
Ian

Wednesday, January 31, 2018

State of the Union. A House Divided

With a flourish and all the confidence that only Donald Trump could convey, we heard last night that the state of the Union was strong.
The President then proceeded over the next hour to tell us why.
However, it was clear from this marvellous piece of theatre that the "Union" was anything but strong. Sat on  their respective sides of the aisle the lawmakers presented a house divided: deeply divided.
On the right there were numerous standing ovations and ethusuiastic cheers from the Republicans. On the left, their Democratic counterparts sat in stony, slab-faced silence.
Nancy Pelosi, looked as if she had severe indigestion while Chuck Schumer almost disappeared into his shirt collar as he shrunk into his chair.
Such was the scene for all America and the world to see as the drama played itself out.
The need to re-build the infra-structure, to defeat terrorism, to control immigration, to contain Iran or to prevent a nuclear North Korea. It did not matter what the issue was: still the same dogged silence and malevolent expressions from the left side of the house.
There is deep trouble ahead for America. Not economic, for the stock market is at an all time high and unemployment at an all time low. No, the looming crisis is the social and moral divide that has opened like the Grand Canyon through the nation and was plain for all to see last night.
Time to pray folks; really pray, for the United States is United no longer.
Ian

Friday, January 26, 2018

Latest Cabinet Post. A Minister for Lonliness.

Yes, you heard it right. The British Parliament has just created a new portfolio in their cabinet. It is the Ministry for Loneliness.
The position has been given to Tracey Crouch who has been allocated the task of making life a lot happier for the 10 million or so Britons who are feeling shut in, shut out and generally left out of life.
The problem has been known to exist for a long time in Britain whose society, like many others, has been broken down by the relentless assault of technology. 
Groups have been springing up in the last thirty years with names like "Men in Sheds", "Pies and Pints". "Knit and Natter": all the result of concerned citizens taking initiative to combat the problem of isolation.
The result of special studies and focus groups (as if we didn't already know) have told us that citizens have been turned into consumers by technology and T.V. and that "we are no longer bowling together"
A special government paper states that individuals are living increasingly unconnected lives behind closed doors and gated communities. Delivered meals, groceries, box-sets and gadgets have destroyed society and replaced it with virtual reality.
Well, well, well. Since the first major disconnect in the human heart is a separation from God through sin, is it not surprising that this separation should then spread from man to fellow man?
The name of the church where I pastor is intentionally chosen.
We call ourselves "The Barrie Christian Fellowship" .
Barrie, the city where we live. "Christian" our relationship with God through Christ His Son. "Fellowship" our friendship with each other
"Fellowship"
We enjoy it NOW and confidently expect to enjoy it through eternity. No more "Guys in Sheds"

Jubilate.

Ian


Wednesday, January 24, 2018

When Old Friends Die.


I lost an old friend recently. He was a man that I spent some of my early days with serving God in my home town and later, preaching  in the city of Liverpool. His name was Richard Gibson. You likely will never have heard of him but that is not important. Sufficient to say that God knew him and that his name is recorded in the Book of Life.
Richard and I preached together in many places both in the North of England and on Merseyside. 
We were preaching at the Pier Head in Liverpool when the Beatles were just getting started in the Cavern Night Club. They were at one end of Dale Street while we were at the other.
The Beatles were telling us that "We all live in a Yellow Submarine"
Richard and I were telling our audiences that they could all make their home in Heaven if they believed in the Lord Jesus Christ.
After we were married in 1968, Richard to his wife Moyra and  me to my dear wife Pauline, we parted company. I emigrated to Canada and Richard stayed to raise his family in his home town in England.
For over forty years we were separated by 3,500 miles of ocean but we were never divided as friends and stayed in regular contact.
Richard went to be with the Lord a few weeks ago. Before long I will be seeing him again in a better place than this old earth.
Our friendship will continue there for all eternity.
That, my friends, is the hope of all Christians.

Jubilate.
Ian

Saturday, January 20, 2018

Global Warming? Yeah. Right!

Reported last week from Russia. The coldest ever temperatures recorded.
-87 degrees Farenheit in the town of Yakutz, Siberia. (You need to check this out on google, folks.)
This temperature is so low that it literally freezes the mind to think about it.
What would you do if you lived in Yakutz? Probably sit inside and cry.
Here in Canada we have just emerged from a bone-chilling cold snap. With the mercury down at -30 C and a wind that would freeze your blood. Pauline and I stayed in and did some work to prepare our house for sale in March.
But the point that I make is about this fake science of Global Warming.  Global Warming, are you kidding me? 
Come up to Canada you climatologists, or better still, hop on a plane to Yakutz and see how your doctrines hold up while you are chipping the ice off your vodkas.
I have a little advice to share with you dear folks who want me to install solar panels on my roof and invest in wind farms near my city.
Leave the running of the planet to God who made it, and ready your souls to meet Him at the appointed day. I read in my Bible that the temperatures are really going to rise for a certain section of the population in the world to come.
Jubilate.
Ian

Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Chelsea Manning for the U.S. Senate?

Convicted and found guilty of Treason. Jailed for the same offence. Pardoned by President Obama. The recipient of a sex change operation at tax payers expense, the darling of the Democratic left. Now announcing a bid to run for the Senate in Maryland.
All was well on Fantasy Island until the latest announcement by Chelsea Manning. He was the poster child of everything the modern democrats stand for. The newly minted, anything goes, everything-is (with special add ons) modern man; a parody of the true creation of God. An out-there, in-your-face hermaphrodite: a model for the brave new millennial generation: UNTIL the possibility of he/she running for the Senate of the United States of America. Suddenly the Democrats don't know what to do with their mutated child. It has turned into a Tar Baby.
Shall they support and put their money where their mouth is and risk being a laughing stock of Main Street America? Or shall they drop this thing like a hot potato and take the criticism of being hypocrites  and bigots.
Well, we will have to wait and see but while we are are waiting we will hear President Trump, in a refrain from the White House, saying "I TOLD YOU SO!" " COULDN'T HAPPEN TO NICER PEOPLE."

Jubilate.

Ian

Sunday, January 14, 2018

PANIC IN HAWAII.

Panic struck the island of Hawaii yesterday. The ballistic missile that was supposedly on its way never arrived but panic found the target. A warning had gone out over the whole island that a warhead was on its way. "THIS IS NOT A REHEARSAL"  was preluded by "Take cover" "Find shelter" and other such warnings. Across Hawaii people ran hither and thither to find a shield from the coming nuclear blast (presumably originating from North Korea).
In the end, thirty four minutes after the first siren, the all clear was given. The whole thing was a false alarm that originated from the military itself, after someone PUSHED THE WRONG BUTTON.
Ah this species called "homo-sapiens" which, roughly translated, means "wise-one".
Wisdom has been in short supply among this human race for too, too long.
Think of the words of the Bible where we read "If any among you lack wisdom ask God, who giveth liberally to all men and upbraideth not."
Yesterday was a false alarm but, rest assured my friends, the real deal will shortly be on its way and, for that day, you will find that faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the only sure refuge.

Jubilate.

Ian

Wednesday, January 10, 2018

OPRAH WINFREY FOR PRESIDENT!

We really do live in a messed up world. After her rousing speech to her female devotees, a fever of speculation suddenly fell upon the gathering of the Hollywood elite. Could it be possible that Oprah could be the next President of the United States?
Yes! Yes! YES!!! Of course she could, and on this sacred ground of Show Business at the Golden Globe Awards the chant went up 
"Oprah for our next President."
Well let the dreamers dream and let the Beautiful People spend their millions to make it happen, but what is a matter of concern is the response of the media. 
Let us take NBC for example. This is a corporate broadcasting organization which, in their own words is "Committed to fair and balanced reporting."
These very people, the 'fair and balanced ones', went positively giddy at the prospect of their darling diva entering the race for election 2020. Gone were any pretensions of balance, impartiality or fairness. Their hatred and malice for President Trump, which for the past two years has been their daily bread, was replaced by a cornucopia of joy and laudation as they hailed his female successor: the one and only Oprah.
Not so fast. There are three more years to be lived on this planet before the next election and, as the last Democratic hopeful, Hilary Clinton, can attest, surprises do happen.
Jubilate.

Ian.

Monday, January 8, 2018

Golden Globes and the Not-so-Golden Moments


Well the annual Golden Globe Awards night has been and gone. It was refreshing in so far as Trump Bashing was out. However male bashing was in.
Oprah Winfrey led the charge proclaiming a "New Day" had dawned. Her sisters could  now walk free, unashamed, heads held high and without fear. The Day of Dignity had arrived when women would no longer tolerate being bullied and molested by brutal male over-lords.
 She failed to mention that these "brutal overlords" were mostly to be be found in the fiefdoms of Hollywood, the Media and the California film industry where she herself has held court for three decades!
While we agree that every woman should be afforded dignity in the work place and walk unashamed and free from fear at all times, they themselves can help their cause by dressing with modesty while they work and walk among men.
The "Me Too" and "Times Up" movements seem oblivious to certain laws of nature that, if a woman wears provocative clothes, douses herself with perfume called "provocation", involves herself in provocative conversation then her male counterparts may just possibly be PROVOKED to lust after her.
If I have not spoken clearly enough, you can always contact me by phone and speak to my wife Pauline who will give the point of view of a godly woman.
Jubilate.

Ian

Thursday, January 4, 2018

Manchester Bombing. Hero to Zero overnight.

Chris Parker, 31 years old and of no fixed address was hailed as  a hero after the Manchester Arena bombing three months ago.
Parker was seen in the immediate aftermath of the explosion visiting various injured patrons, apparently giving words of comfort and solace with no regard to his own safety. 
He was instantly dubbed as a hero and a "crowd fund" was launched to recognize his selfless acts: $ 78,000:00 were raised.
But there is not  a happy ending to this story.
It turns out that Parker, while he was giving support and ministration to the injured, was also helping himself to their belongings.
One lady, a certain Pauline Healy, was badly hurt with her grand daughter lying dead a few feet away.
Parker took her hand bag and within hours had used her bank card at a local restaurant.
All of this "too-good-to-true-story" has now made headlines in the British press and Parker has been arrested. He was found hiding in a loft in the town of Halifax some sixty miles away.
He is heading back to jail (having been there before) but this time not only as a felon but as a caitiff and a poltroon. They are old english words to describe the lowest of the low.
What is the moral of the story?
Draw your own conclusion. But isn't the Bible true when it says of the human heart: "It is desperately wicked and who can know it." One man kills indiscriminately; another pillages the victims.
Such is life on planet Earth until the New One comes.

Jubilate anyway.
Ian