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Welcome to The Word on the Webabout me
I have been a Christian since the end of 1989.
I have also been a member of the Jackson Revival Center Church in Jackson, Miss since then.
For any questions and/or queries, please send me an email by clicking here
My Hobbies and Interests: biblical and theological studies; Art {all mediums, primarily oils}; Reading, Writing, Exercise, History, Computers, member of the Mississippi Artists' Guild 1992-2005; church affiliations have been -- JRC Choir member, Children's Church Teacher, Puppet Ministry and graphic artwork upon request; but I am presently only serving in the office of instructor of Children's Church
Present Subject - Quotes and History
the quotes
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead, and the bridge is love. Thornton Wilder
Hier stehe ich; ich kann nicht anders; Gott helfe mir; Amen---
"Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise; Gold help me; Amen."
--regarded as the summation remarks of Martin Luther before the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, at the Diet of Worms after having been requested to retract the contents of his books; April 18, 1521.
"Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise; Gold help me; Amen."
--regarded as the summation remarks of Martin Luther before the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, at the Diet of Worms after having been requested to retract the contents of his books; April 18, 1521.
Virtue - even attempted virtue -- brings light {clarity};
indulgence brings fog {obscurity}.
--C. S. Lewis Mere Christianity; Book III Christian Behavior, 5. Sexual Morality.
When one sits in the mud, only looking at the stars will pacify you.
Mike Fuller
Good philosophy must exist for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.”
C. S. Lewis in sermon “Learning In War-Time”
“Oh Lord, thou knowest how busy I must be this day, if I forget thee, do not thou forget me.”
– Olive Cromwell as portrayed in the movie “Cromwell”
He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only.”
Anonymous – quoted by C. S. Lewis in sermon “The Weight of Glory"
no one man is born with a natural right to control any other man; that no one man comes into the world with a mark upon him, to designate him as possessing superior rights to any other man; that neither God nor nature recognize, in anticipation, the distinctions of bond and free, of despot and slave; but that these distinctions are artificial; are the work of man; are the result of fraud or violence.
John R. Cooke, a delegate from the trans-Appalachian west, at the Virginia Constitutional convention of 1829-30 on interpreting the Virginia Declaration of Right’s statement “that all men are, by nature, equally free”
Superstition [is] cowardice in the face of the Divine."
--Theophrastus. 300 B.C.
Tis true, my form is something odd; but blaming me is blaming God. Could I create myself anew, I would not fail in pleasing you. If I could reach from pole to pole, or grasp the ocean with a span. I would be measured by the soul. The mind ‘s the standard of the man.
Closing words of Joseph Merrick {the Elephant Man}’s short two-page auto-biography
this masterpiece of hubris in stone can blithely defy gravity and subvert the laws of physics, then there’s hope yet for folly, romance and all the other enigmas that don’t quite add up.
Richard Covington in the June 2001 issue of the Smithsonian in an article about the Leaning Tower of Pisa
my books
I just completed my next manuscript, The First Principle of Murder, in July of 2009, and I am actively sending it to literary agents.
Look for it to soon be released.
back cover text for The First Principle of Murder- It seemed like a simple thing. They were only skimming some unnoticed funds from the business accounts for their own use. It did not seem like much and did not seem to matter much.
Then, an audit began and they were panicked. They had to do something and could only conclude one option – the ultimate option. They would have to kill the auditor. It was a desperate act, but they had to do it.
Then, after they thought everything was okay, they realized they made a mistake – a terrible mistake. The auditor was not dead, but they had killed someone.
Now they must decide what to do about the audit and their embezzling and the person who was killed and the investigation which would follow. It had just been a simple thing.
Then, an audit began and they were panicked. They had to do something and could only conclude one option – the ultimate option. They would have to kill the auditor. It was a desperate act, but they had to do it.
Then, after they thought everything was okay, they realized they made a mistake – a terrible mistake. The auditor was not dead, but they had killed someone.
Now they must decide what to do about the audit and their embezzling and the person who was killed and the investigation which would follow. It had just been a simple thing.
back cover text - It is the Apocalypse; or, perhaps it only seems to be. No world-wide announcement had been made. No one had been informed about anything about the end of days.
Transients have been wandering the landscape trying to avoid capture from regulators of the new reign. They are uncertain about what has happened to their world, but they do know they are now considered criminals.
It is the world they must live in; and hope for a better tomorrow. They scrounge to survive like refugees, but no war has displaced them. They fear new words like “dheu” which are strange figures rumored not to be completely of this mortal world. They hope to avoid the soldiers who have been sent to eliminate them once and for all. They learned to fear the despair which greets them on each uncertain morning which could be their last in this reign of Armageddon.
Transients have been wandering the landscape trying to avoid capture from regulators of the new reign. They are uncertain about what has happened to their world, but they do know they are now considered criminals.
It is the world they must live in; and hope for a better tomorrow. They scrounge to survive like refugees, but no war has displaced them. They fear new words like “dheu” which are strange figures rumored not to be completely of this mortal world. They hope to avoid the soldiers who have been sent to eliminate them once and for all. They learned to fear the despair which greets them on each uncertain morning which could be their last in this reign of Armageddon.
The Story of a lost young man
And the God who finds him
back cover text for The Bishop of Souls - Jonsie Brown is a troubled foster child who spends most of his free time defying adults in supervisory positions and in various forms of reprimand and discipline. The few redeeming qualities of his life (which could indicate an avoidance of him becoming an adult habitual criminal offender) would be his lovely girlfriend, who has such a pleasant personality most people are dumbfounded as to what she sees in him as a suitor, and another foster child who considers Jonsie his older brother and is summarily devoted to him. Jonise’s rambunctious life would have probably continued along a history of behavior problems except for an incredible encounter he experiences one night when he was supposed to have been in a form of solitary confinement. He meets a man who, although he does not openly state it, behaves like the contemporary interpretation of the Jesus Christ of traditional Judaic/Christian theology.
For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your Souls I Peter 2:25
the history
FORMATION/ORIGINS of CHRISTIANITY (a brief history)
29AD, approximate year of Jesus' crucifixion. 40AD, One of earliest Christian churches at Corinth. circa 300 AD, Bowling is considered part of religious ritual in Ger. monasteries. 325AD, The First General Council of Nicea called to deal with Arian controversy. -------340AD-364AD, empire split-------
Western Roman Empire Eastern Byzantine Empire
Roman Catholic Greek Orthodox
732AD, Moslem expansion halted at Battle of Tours against the Franks; Charles Martel victorious over Arabs. 904AD, Pope Sergius III (era of pornocracy). 1054, Communication cleft between Roman (Western) and Byzantine (Eastern) churches becomes permanent. 1096, Pope Urban II proclaims 1st Crusade. 1113, Order of St. John (or Hospitallers) founded 1116, Order of the Temple founded 1123, Agreement between pope and emperor at Worms 1170, Thomas á Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, murdered by Norman knights of Henry II. 1203, Constantinople taken by Crusaders from Eastern Christendom 1229, Inquisition in Toulous forbids Bible reading by all laymen. 1302, Papal bull "Unan Sanctam" pronounces highest papal claims of supremacy. 1312. Council of Vienne--The Templars dissolved 1378, Beginning of the Great Schism of the West: Urban VI at Rome. Clement VII at Avignon. 1417, Counsel of Constance deposes Pope Benedict XIII (pretender until death). Election of Pope Martin V; end of great schism. 1418, Religious war of Bohemia breaks out 1455, Invention of Printing 1480, Spanish Inquisition established between Portugal (western Spain) and a united Castile (central Spain) & Aragon (eastern Spain). Age of Reformation 1500's, Christian Humansists 1517, Martin Luther, Anabaptist movement in Germany under Thomas Münzer. 1522, Polyglot Bible - in Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Aramic at University of Acala. 1528, Reformation in Scotland. Anabaptist, Balthasar Hubmair, burned at stake in Vienna. 1530, Schmalkaldic League of Protestant Princes formed against Emperor Charles V and his Catholic allies. 1532, Luther's German Bible. Reformation in France. English clergy submit to Henry VIII. 1536, John Calvin publishes first edition of Institutes. Act of Parliment declares authority of pope void in England. William Tyndale, English reformer (translated Bible into English), burned at the stake. 1543, First Protestants burned at the stake by Span. Inquisition. 1562, 1,200 French Huguenots slain at massacre of Vassy. First war of religion begins. 1570, Consensus of Sendomir: Calvinists, Lutherans and Moravian Brothers (Anabaptists, 1526) of Poland ally against Jesuits. Pope Pius V issues bull excommunicating Elizabeth I. 1572, Fourth war of religion in France. 2,000 Huguenots massacred on St. Bartholomew's Day, Paris. 1574, Fifth war of religion in France. 1577, Sixth war of religion in France. 1580, Jesuits in England. Seventh war of religion in France. 1581, Pope Gregory XIII attempts to reconcile Roman Catholic and Russian Orthodox churches. Edmund Campion, English Jesuit, tried for treason & executed. 1585-1589, War of Three Henry’s - Eighth religious war. 1599, James VI of Scotland; "Basilikondoron" -divine right of kings. 1611, King James version of the Bible published. 1633, Galileo forced by Inquisition to abjure the theories of Copernicus. First Baptist Church, Southwark London. 1637, Extermination of Christianity in Japan. 1648, George Fox founds society of Friends (Quakers) 1649, Charles I is beheaded after Civil War over "Divine right of Kings". Oliver Cromwell Lord Protector. 1653, James Naylor (English Quaker) recognized by some as new Messiah. 1692, Salem witch trials prosecuted by Cotton Mather. 1693, Secret Society, Knights of the Apocalypse, founded in Italy to defend the church against the coming of the anti-Christ. 1732, Conrad Biessel founds Seventh Day Baptists in Germantown, PA. 1736, Pope Clement XII condemns freemasonry. 1808, Napoleon abolishes Inquisition in Spain and Italy. 1814, Pope Pius VII restores Inquisition. 1830, Religious Society of Mormons or Latter Day Saints founded by Joseph Smith. 1835, Charles Finney revival. 1846, Bringham Young and Mormons found Salt Lake City, Utah. 1848, Spiritualism in U.S. 1858, Bernadette Soubirous spotting of Virgin Mary (1844-1879). Restoration Movement 1871, Jehovah witness founded. 1879, Mary Baker Eddy, pastor of Church of Christian Scientist. 1900~, Church of Christ 1931, Jehovah Witnesses form International Bible Students Association. 1942, C. S. Lewis, Christian apologetic. 1954, Billy Graham Crusades - World Council Churches Convened at Evanston, IL. 1976, Fifth Assembly of World Council of Churches rejects membership application of Unification Church of Reverend Sun Myung Moon. Kathryn Kuhlman, American Evangelist and Faith-Healer, dies. 1978, Pope John Paul I (dies). Pope John Paul II. 2000, Y2K and apocalyptic fears stir revitalizing interest in church.
. . . . . and it goes on . . . .