Month: November 2021

  Handel – The Messiah (HWV 56, 1754 Foundling Hospital version)   Here is a filmed performance of Handel’s epic sacred vocal work “Messiah”. Recorded from a BBC broadcast in 1982.  Handel’s Messiah is one of my most favorite sacred vocal works. Here is my favorite recording of it featuring my all time favorite soprano, the…

Historically the Reformers of the great Protestant Reformation believed the office of the pope to be the Antichrist.The Bible doesn’t say anything exactly about where the Antichrist will come from. Many Bible scholars speculate that he will come from a confederacy of ten nations and/or a reborn Roman empire (Daniel 7:24-25; Revelation 17:7). Others see…

The Doctrine of Papal Infallibility teaches that the Pope, when he teaches on matters that concern faith or morals to the whole Church with the intent that the faithful follow the opinion, is teaching infallibly. One of the biggest practical problems with this doctrine is the issue of earlier Popes contradicting later Popes. Whenever this occurs, the…

  We’ve been living with the threat of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 for the past 2 years. And even after over 5 million dead globally, and  nearly 800,000 dead here in the United States, there are still millions of people in America who either believe the coronavirus is a hoax, believe in some crazy QAnon…

The papal line of succession is riddled with political appointees, Borgias, adulterers, murderers, and power-hungry wretches who cared far more for themselves than for Christ or His flock the church. For decades there were 2 popes at the same time, and for a while even 3 popes. All of them frantically excommunicating each other and…

  I grew up in a loving Christian home. My parents were both cradle Catholics who got born again in the early 70s, during the Jesus Movement – which started in the 60s. My parents were Christian hippies. They grew out of that when we kids were born and they became regular Protestants. At a…

  This is Czesława Kwoka taken at the Auschwitz concentration camp, just minutes before she was murdered by the Nazis. Her crime was being Polish, Catholic, and 14 years old.  Her red triangle was for political prisoners, because of where she was born in Poland. After this photo was taken, she was killed in Auschwitz…

 I love eschatology, the study of the End Times. I am a futurist. I believe most of the prophecies in Scripture concerning the End Times are future. I am a Premillennial, which means I believe Christ will return before the Millennium. Christ will rule the world under a theocracy headquarted in Jerusalem. I am also…

  I wrote this poem 10 years ago, to honor the samurai of Japan!   Swords raised.  太刀は抜かれた。 Senses heightened. 五感が高ぶる。 Tempered minds 鍛精した心が command cold steel 冷たい鉄刀を操る glimmering in dawn’s light. 黄昏の光とちらめついた。 Sharpened by intention, 武士道ひとすじへの Bushido, こころ意気と the warrior’s code 武人の鉄則が restricts and defines 最終試練の a final test. 決定役を果たす時となった。 A struggle for honor.…

I slowly walk down the streetIt’s a chilly autumn dayA kaleidoscope of colorful leavesThey crunch underfoot A lone raven flies aboveCircling in the skyLooking for something to eatIt caws at me Cars whiz pastI wonder who they areWhere they are goingDo they see me? It’s a cloudy dayShafts of sunlightPeek through thick cloudsI feel tired…