What If I Honestly Doubt Jesus Christ Is Real? Ray says “Reverend Clovis Chapelle died a few years before I was even born. Yet his message is so alive it is as fresh as if it were brand-new. Every honest Christian will admit there have been moments when we wondered where our life was going, why things had to be so hard, felt the harsh sting of rejection, etc. etc. etc. if Jesus Christ loves us so much, why does He seem to be so distant especially during times like these?” I marveled at this great message that has the answers to that. And what if you don’t believe in Jesus Christ at all? What do you do then?” Listen now, and Ray will tell you exactly what to do. He’s been there too.
Donald Trump holds a double-digit lead in the Republican presidential race in Indiana with 49 percent support among likely voters, according to a Wall Street Journal/NBC News/Marist poll out yesterday.
Ted Cruz sits 15 percentage points behind, with 34 percent support, and John Kasich notched just 13 percent.
On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton holds a narrow lead over Bernie Sanders, 50 percent to 46 percent, ahead of Tuesday’s primaries.
Cruz has said if he loses in Indiana, Trump will be nominated on the first ballot at the convention.
“May Day!” “May Day!”
From Moscow to Madrid, May Day marchers grew angrier each step they took as labor and union activists marched for jobs and higher wages. Paris and Istanbul were the scenes of protesters attacked police with water cannons, teargas, Molotov cocktails, fireworks, and hand grenades.
And Istanbul man in his 50s was killed during the melee when police ran over him with a water cannon vehicle.
Angry marches also took place in Cuba where hundreds of thousands marched; 80,000 marched in Austria, and tens of thousands marched in South Korea, all protesting their governments decisions affecting them.
Not to be left out, there were plenty of May Day protesters clashing with police in Seattle and several other large cities across America. Not to be left out, still another riot broke out in front of a Donald Trump rally in Los Angeles.
Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, leader of the Church of England and the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican denomination has had the shock of his life. For sixty years he believed his father was Gavin Welby, an alcoholic who died when the Archbishop was twenty years old.
The Archbishop’s father was actually Sir Anthony Montague Browne, Winston Churchill’s private secretary. His mother has now explained that she was drunk most all of the time that lead up to and followed her wedding to Mister Welby. She said she vaguely remembers having sex with Sir Anthony Montague Browne. She said “it appears that the precautions taken at the time didn’t work, and my wonderful son was conceived as a result of this liaison.
After this discovery, the leader of the Church of England said this wasn’t the worst revelation he had had in his life because “I know that I find who I am in Jesus Christ, not in genetics, and my identity in Him never changes.”
President Obama proved once again last night at the White House Correspondents dinner that if he wants a new career after he leaves the presidency, he would be highly successful as a standup comedian. He made great jokes about himself and about almost everybody else and he kept his audience rolling with laughter.
Sadly, the same couldn’t be said for comedian Larry Wilmore. His jokes were barbed and unfunny. The crowd that had just been roaring with laughter went nearly silent as Wilmore started badly and continually grew worse. It was embarrassing.
One thing for sure, Wilmore proved that following funnyman Obama and trying to be funny yourself is a near hopeless situation.
If anyone thinks Donald Trump is crude and rude, they are read some of the emails sent out by Los Angeles Sheriff Jim McDonnell’s chief of staff. His name is Tom Angel, but according to those who have read his emails, he is now Angel at all.
Although the emails were sent by the now resigned Chief of Staff, while he was with the Burbank Police Department he had sent out a host of emails that mocked women, Muslims, Blacks, Latinos, and people he just didn’t like. Rather than fire him, Sheriff McDonnell accepted his resignation.
Getting a head start on the May Day protests, Hundreds of activists stormed Iraq’s parliament building Saturday in support of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. al Sader is accusing Iraqi politicians of corruption.
The demonstrators climbed over blast walls in Baghdad’s Green Zone, which houses most of the country’s ministries and foreign embassies, after parliament couldn’t reach quorum to hold a session.
For months, protesters have been demanding Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi take more steps against blatant government crime. For the past four months, al –Abadi has been unable to call his cabinet together.
The capital announced a state of emergency in the midst of the Saturday’s protests.
Thousands of Greek Orthodox Christians are flocking to a church in Southwest Chicago where they believe they are seeing a miracle and some report receiving miracles of their own.
The Chicago Tribune reports there are tiny drops of a sweet smelling oil that are trickling down an icon of John the Baptist at Assumption Greek Orthodox Church in Homer Glen, Illinois.
The parish priest of the church, a man lovingly known by his parishioners as Father Sam, told the newspaper “It’s so powerful to see such an act of God before your eyes.”
The oil exudes from the icons halo, wings, hands and beard and collects in a reservoir of cotton at its base. Father Sam saturates the cotton balls with the oil and hands them to visitors and parishioners alike. The result? Reports of physical healing among many.
A few of the reports include a blocked artery being cleared and cancer completely disappearing. The Father himself had been experiencing blackouts because of the nerve condition. He confessed “I haven’t had one attack since the oil began. And I have stopped taking my medicine entirely.”
James Skedros, the Dean of Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, told the Tribune the similar episodes have been taking place across the United States.
You know the term “tickling the ivories”, but have you heard the term “burning the ivories?” That’s happened in Kenya.
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta had $172 million dollars of ivory and other illegal wildlife goods burned into a gigantic pile of ashes on Saturday. The burning was done in an attempt to put a halt the illicit practice of rhino and elephant hunting.
Included in the burn were 105 tons of elephant ivory, nearly as many rhino horns, and other exotic animal skins.
President Kenyatta explained “The rising value of elephant ivory trade, illegally on the international market, has resulted in a massacre in the rainforest of Africa
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta burned more than $172 million in illicit wildlife goods Saturday, the nation’s fourth such burn. The event, meant to combat poaching, included 105 tons of elephant ivory, 1.35 tons of rhino horn, and exotic animal skins.,” Kenyatta said.
The Jesuit priest who was a powerful force in gathering large protests against the United States involvement in the Vietnam War, activist Reverend Daniel Berrigan, died yesterday at the age of 94. A Jesuit priest influential in forming U.S. opposition to the Vietnam War, died Saturday at age 94.
In 1968, Berrigan and his brother led other activists in seizing hundreds of local draft records in Catonsville, Maryland, and setting them on fire with homemade napalm. Berrigan was imprisoned. His activism and subsequent arrests continued in his later years. “The day after I’m embalmed, that’s when I’ll give it up,” he said in 2001.
And speaking of funny…
Be on the lookout for a 46-year-old man whose smile lights up a room.
In Columbus, Ohio, a male thief has been accused of stealing more than $2500 in teeth whitening kits. So far, the man has made a clean getaway.
The man didn’t take them all from one place. He took them from stores all over Columbus. His largest one store hall amounted to $420 worth of teeth whitening strips. But the man was very particular. He has only taken Crest brand strips.
Coppers are on the lookout for a bright pair of choppers.
This is Ray Mossholder. Remember, I always aim to tell the tooth, er I mean truth.
4 What Caspian Did There, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader – The Chronicles of Narnia – by C.S. Lewis. Read aloud by Ray Mossholder
Ray’s teaching and entertaining readings of books like “The Chronicles of Narnia” are now available to be viewed and heard all over the world on YouTube. Ray says about these readings, “I love kids of every age and reading Christian novels to anyone who enjoys them makes them far more enjoyable to me.” Ray’s final words about all he’s lived through is: “I know that my Redeemer lives.” – See more at: http://reachmorenow.com
Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 — 22 November 1963), commonly called C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as “Jack”, was a novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, and Christian apologist born in Belfast, Ireland. He held academic positions at both Oxford University (Magdalen College), 1925–1954, and Cambridge University (Magdalene College), 1954–1963. He is best known both for his fictional work, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Space Trilogy, and for his non-fiction Christian apologetics, such as Mere Christianity, Miracles, and The Problem of Pain.
Lewis and fellow novelist J. R. R. Tolkien were close friends. Both authors served on the English faculty at Oxford University, and both were active in the informal Oxford literary group known as the “Inklings”. According to his memoir Surprised by Joy, Lewis had been baptized in the Church of Ireland (part of the Anglican Communion) at birth, but fell away from his faith during his adolescence. Owing to the influence of Tolkien and other friends, at the age of 32 Lewis returned to the Anglican Communion, becoming “a very ordinary layman of the Church of England”.[1] His faith had a profound effect on his work, and his wartime radio broadcasts on the subject of Christianity brought him wide acclaim.
In 1956, he married the American writer Joy Davidman, 17 years his junior, who died four years later of cancer at the age of 45. Lewis died three years after his wife, from renal failure, one week before his 65th birthday. Media coverage of his death was minimal; he died on 22 November 1963—the same day that U.S. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and the same day another famous author, Aldous Huxley, died. In 2013, on the 50th anniversary of his death, Lewis will be honoured with a memorial in Poets’ Corner, Westminster Abbey.
Lewis’s works have been translated into more than 30 languages and have sold millions of copies. The books that make up The Chronicles of Narnia have sold the most and have been popularized on stage, TV, radio, and cinema.
The Grand Weaver by Ravi Zacharias: Intro and Ch 1 Your DNA Matters The first paragraph of Ravi’s introduction is so true it’s painful. He writes “Out of the thousands of letters that I receive each year, many from skeptics, a recent one stands out. The writer asks simply “Why has God made it so difficult to believe in Him? If I love somebody and had infinite power, I would use that power to show myself more obviously. Why has God made it so difficult to see His presence and His plan?” Ravi then admits “This is a fair and haunting question.” The rest of the chapters in this book, including this one, give real answers for hard questions just like this. Join Ray now to hear Ravi.
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The Grand Weaver by Ravi Zacharias: Intro and Ch 1 Your DNA Matters
Left Behind THE REGIME Chapters 1 thru 3Satan has taken Nicolae Carpathia through the same wilderness experience that Jesus went through with him. Forty days later he finds himself back in his own room. He has begun the devilish training he will need as the Antichrist. Ray picks the story up here.
