As I was listening to Issues Etc. this morning, they were talking about judgment day, actually I'm still listening and riding in to work on BART right now, it came to me that many people, me included, tend to say things like "I'm doing my best for God." or "I'm doing the best I can with what I have." or whatever. It came to me that this is quite simply a lie, always and for everyone! If anyone actually did do their best they would be perfect and thus not in need of Christ's salvation. We all act out of selfishness, we all fail to put God first in all things, none of us loves our neighbor as ourselves, and if we think we do we deceive ourselves. (1 John 1:8-9) So, that is yet one more sin we need to repent of, the idea that "I'm doing the best I can." It is a lie.
I didn't make our local Tea Party , but it pulled hundreds of people as well... Tea, anyone? from Father Hollywood by Father Hollywood Like hundreds of thousands of other Americans, the Hollywoods enjoyed a tea party this past Wednesday. "Tea party" (wink wink). Nothing subversive about sipping a little Darjeeling, eh wot? Nothing to see here, Miss Napolitano. Anyway, our local festivities were held at Veterans Memorial Boulevard in Metairie. There were literally thousands of people crammed into the neutral ground (though on that day, the ground was anything but...), as cars and trucks poured by the busy boulevard laing on their horns in support. Here are pictures. And like every such gathering in our environs, there was even a brass band and an improptu "second line" parade. It was a "party" after all. But it was a party with a serious reason. The crowds were so overwhelming that it was hard to hear the speakers, and unfortunately, we did have a fe...
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