... of a father’s love; the scandal of a father’s forgiveness. Scandal is nothing new. Scandal is as old as Eve and familiar as the next-door-neighbor’s indiscretions, or the hottest new 2013 show “Scandal” featuring the scandalously beautiful Kerry Washington. Try doing good and ending up on “Hard Copy” or “Entertainment Tonight.” Shame and Scandal rule the airwaves. Well, Salvation and Scandal rule the church. Or should. The message of Lent is that we have a Scandalous God. The scandal of ...
... overwhelmingly supported George W. Bush, but polls now indicate that this year they are likely to vote in large numbers for John Kerry and Ralph Nader. This may constitute one of the most dramatic changes of heart on the part of any major voting bloc ever ... two in this nation should not be surprising. After all, we came into being because religious people were seeking political freedom. George Washington ad-libbed the line "So help me God" at the end of his swearing-in, and Thomas Jefferson extolled Jesus as ...
... started a sentence with: "In my humble opinion...." Shortly after Senator Bob Kerrey of Nebraska announced his availability for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1991, he made an appearance at the National Press Club in Washington, where he was questioned by members of the press. One ink-stained wretch asked Kerry, "How do you compare yourself to the late William Jennings Bryan?" Bryan, who also was from Nebraska, was the Democratic presidential candidate in 1896, 1900 and 1908. After a short pause ...
... London, it's Parliament Houses, Big Ben, and one of its many bridges over the Thymes. Washington, D.C., its Lincoln statue, the Capitol dome, and the Washington monument spire piercing a blue sky, and cherry trees all in bloom. I thought I was ... side of the aircraft. Nine persons perished when pressurized air inside blew them into the thin, rarified air of 24,000 feet altitude." Kerry Lappan, age 31, sitting by the fateful hole, said to reporters, "the whole plane was falling to pieces, and I thought, 'This is ...
... waited. We know the rest. Truth be told, in this post-9/11 world, an inordinate value is placed on security. These days in Washington, the phrase "a matter of national security" is enough to shake loose congressional appropriations — no questions asked. On occasion you hear it when someone ... an almost anonymous disciple named Ananias took changed the whole wide world. 1. Kerry Walters, in Jacob's Hip: Finding God in an Anxious Age, quoted by Carlos Wilton on The Immediate Word, an internet service for preaching ...
