Gifts of the Spirit

There are different gifts but the same Spirit; there are different ministries but the same Lord; there are different works but the same God who accomplishes all of them in everyone. To each person the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. To one the Spirit gives wisdom in discourse, to another the power to express knowledge. Through the Spirit one receives faith; by the same Spirit another is given the gift of healing, and still another miraculous powers. Prophecy is given to one; to another power to distinguish one spirit from another. One receives the gift of tongues, another that of interpreting the tongues. But it is one and the same Spirit
who produces all these gifts distributing them to each as he wills.
1 Corinthians 12:4-11
May we all live the gifts that we have been given in humble service to God and others.











Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Is the world going bonkers?

I believe that abortion is a terrible evil that we need to combat. How we should do that, I am not really sure. But what we need, I believe, is to have a mentality that ALL LIFE IS SACRED, and unfortunately when it comes to the abortion debate, apparently this is not the case.
In a story that I first saw on the “ticker” of Fox News this morning, and you can read here, the AP reports that judge Warren Wilbert will allow accused murderer, Scott Roeder,(who btw, does not deny that he is guilty) to argue that he should not be convicted of pre-meditated, first degree murder, but of voluntary manslaughter in connection with the death of Dr. George Tiller.
Kansas law defines voluntary manslaughter as "an unreasonable but honest belief that circumstances existed that justified deadly force."
How exactly can one believe that this madman, who walked into a church, pointed a gun at the head of a parishioner and pulled the trigger  was justified in his use of "deadly force"?  Maybe (and I am saying maybe only as a hypothetical, I believe what Mr. Roeder did is murder, plain and simple, the same thing he was accusing Dr. Tiller of), I might buy this so-called defense if Mr. Roeder was at Dr. Tiller’s clinic, but in his church?!
You have got to be f****** kidding me!
Murder is murder is murder.
None of us have any right what so ever to play judge and jury and take away someone’s life. I do not agree with some of the things that Dr. Tiller did in the scope of his medical practice, but the man did not deserve to have his face blown off, in his church, during Sunday services.
How anyone can justify killing someone, and claim to be a Christian is beyond me.

Mr. Roeder should be convicted of 1st degree, pre-meditated murder, and should be punished for what he did. Case closed!

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