GUN VIOLENCE IN AMERICA: FOR WHO THE BELL TOLLS NEXT.

Just five people shy of Sandy Hook elementary school mass shooting incident that claimed 26 lives, the Uvalde Texas Robb elementary school mass shooting at 21 victims, now ranks among the highest grossing gun carnage in America. It is sad that such frequent blood spilling has tragically become part of our culture as a society. May the souls of the killed now rest.

25th AMENDMENT: ITS NOW ALL CRICKET.

Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi once questioned former President Donald John Trump's fitness to remain in office due to what she claimed was his declining mental capacity. Does anyone know what Madam Speaker presently thinks about the incontrovertible case which America is now saddled with? Just curious!

WHO WILL REBUILD UKRAINE?

The West should convert frozen Russian assets, both state's and oligarchs' owned, into a full seizure and set them aside for the future rebuilding of Ukraine. Like the Marshal Plan, call it the Putin Plan.

A HERO IS BORN.

I am staying put. I will not run away and abandon my people. The fight is here in Ukraine. What I need are weapons and ammunitions, not a ride out of town like former Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani - President Volodymyr Zelensky.

IT IS WHAT IT IS.

"There is too much hate in America because there is too much anger in America." - Trevor Noah.

WORD!

A life without challenges is not a life lived at all. A life lived is a life that has problems, confronts problems, solves problems and then learns from problems. - Tunde Fashola.

NOW, YOU KNOW.

When fishing for love, bait with your heart and not your brain, because you cannot rationalize love. - Mark Twain.

JUST THE FACT.

In our country, you can shoot and kill a nigger, but you better not hurt a gay person’s feelings - Dave Chappelle

DO YOU?.

“What you believe in can only be defined by what you’re willing to risk for it." - Stuart Scheller.

HEDGE YOUR CRISIS.

Never get in bed with a woman whose problems are worse than yours. - Chicago PD.

PROBLEM SOLVED.

'The best way to keep peace is to be ready to destroy evil. If you Pearl Harbor me, I Nagasaki you.' - Ted Nugent.

OUR SHARED HUMANITY.

Empathy is at the heart of who we are as human beings. - Cardinal Matthew Kukah.

WORDS ON MARBLE.

"Birth is agony. Life is hard. Death is cruel." - Japanese pithy.

REPENT OR PERISH - POPE.

Homosexuality is a sin. It is not ordained by God, therefore same sex marriage cannot be blessed by the church - Pope Francis.

CANCEL CULTURE IS CORROSIVE.


FOR SAKE OF COUNTRY.


MAGA LIVES ON: NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER!

TWITTER IS BORING WITHOUT HIS TWEETS. #RestorePresidentTrump'sTwitterHandle.


WORD.

"If you cannot speak the truth when it matters, then nothing else you says matters.” - Tucker Carlson.

#MeToo MOVEMENT: A BAD NEWS GONE CRAZY.

"To all the women who testified, we may have different truth, but I have a great remorse for all of you. I have great remorse for all of the men and women going through this crisis right now in our country. You know, the movement started basically with me, and I think what happened, you know, I was the first example, and now there are thousands of men who are being accused and a regeneration of things that I think none of us understood. I’m not going to say these aren’t great people. I had wonderful times with these people. I’m just genuinely confused. Men are confused about this issue. We are going through this #MeToo movement crisis right now in this country." - Harvey Weinstein.


RON DELLUMS: UNAPOLOGETICALLY RADICAL.

"If it’s radical to oppose the insanity and cruelty of the Vietnam War, if it’s radical to oppose racism and sexism and all other forms of oppression, if it’s radical to want to alleviate poverty, hunger, disease, homelessness, and other forms of human misery, then I’m proud to be called a radical.” - Ron Vernie Dellums.


WHAT REALLY MATTERS IN LIFE - STEVE JOBS

“I reached the pinnacle of success in the business world. In others’ eyes, my life is an epitome of success. However, aside from work, I have little joy. Non-stop pursuing of wealth will only turn a person into a twisted being, just like me. God gave us the senses to let us feel the love in everyone’s heart, not the illusions brought about by wealth. Memories precipitated by love is the only true riches which will follow you, accompany you, giving you strength and light to go on. The most expensive bed in the world is the sick bed. You can employ someone to drive the car for you, make money for you but you cannot have someone to bear sickness for you. Material things lost can be found. But there is one thing that can never be found when it is lost – Life. Treasure Love for your family, love for your spouse, love for your friends. Treat yourself well. Cherish others.” - SJ

EVIL CANNOT BE TRULY DESTROYED.

"The threat of evil is ever present. We can contain it as long as we stay vigilant, but it can never truly be destroyed. - Lorraine Warren (Annabelle, the movie)


ONLY THE POOR WISH THEY HAD STUFF?

“I’m not that interested in material things. As long as I find a good bed that I can sleep in, that’s enough.” - Nicolas Berggruem, the homeless billionaire.

Thursday, August 13, 2009

END TIMES, AS CHURCH TURNS TO GAMBLING?

And Jesus Christ said in Mark 11:17, "My house shall be called of all nations, the house of prayer"!
The instruction is very clear, my house shall not be turned into a den of thieves, gamblers, moneychangers or otherwise, including lottery-stakers which the Covenant Life Worship Center now qualifies as. Icheoku asks, was the Covenant Life Worship Center in Haslett Michigan doing God's will when their membership converted to gamblers? Does the fact that they were handsomely rewarded with a $70,000 dollar win make their transgression, less sinful? We do not know the answer and nobody out there knows; but one fact is clear, they violated one cannon of spirituality - thou shall not gamble! It is a vice according to the teachings of both Jesus Christ and the Bible, so what over-took these Christians if not lust for earthly, material things, MONEY?
The love of which is the root of all evil?
Call it what you like, a Divine intervention? A plain luck? A Demonic intervention, may be; after-all, all things material belong to Satan (recall the last temptation of Christ, if you will fall down and worship me)? But nomenclatures aside, when did the church turn away from its principal function of winning and keeping souls for Jesus and become a band of gamblers, who stake lotteries and possibly blackjacks etc? Who knows if their gambling enterprise includes horse-race betting, bookkeeping and funding casino trips by their gambling-members? Who knows how much they have lost over the years, trying to hook the proverbial whopper? No matter the explanation, Icheoku says, $70,000 lottery win by 'The Covenant Life Worship Center' Haslett, Michigan cannot and will not wash away the sins committed by these congregation for engaging in acts considered immoral by the church of which they are a signatory, being a church.
Further, Icheoku says, it does not matter whether Pastor Marilyn Parmelee's church will spend the prize money toward the church building fund, setting up a missionary fund and supporting local community service projects etc? Simply put, it just ain't right for a church to engage in gambling activities. It runs contrary to their preaching and counter to all that Christianity teaches and represents. Our recommended solution is for the church to donate the entire $70,000 proceeds to a charity as they should not have engaged in such activity in the first place. It is highly immoral and sinful for them to do so.
According to our findings, the Covenant Life Worship Center exists to preach the Gospel of the Kingdom, equip and empower the believer to do the work of ministry, while aiming to better the total man all to the glory of God. It is clear from their mission statement, that gambling is not part of what they do or stand for or represent; which begs the question, through which member did Satan enter the church to tempt them with his earthly things? Also why did they forget to command as Jesus did, "go behind us, Satan"?
Finally, Icheoku asks, 'what would Jesus Christ do to these gals and guys of 'The Covenant Life Worship Center' Haslet Michigan, who have turned his church into a den of gamblers?

1 comment:

  1. it is anti-christianity for a church to engage in gambling! it does not matter that they won, they should not have engaged in such act. well done icheoku for braving this aspect of the lottery windfall.

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