A young preacher, a long time ago….
A new website, www.FrankBecker.com is up and running.
Apart from information about me and the books I’ve written, this website enables me to comment on current events and how they may correlate with the living Scriptures, much as I did for years on Teletalk, the radio talk-show I co-hosted with Larry Foss in New York’s capital region.
More importantly, it enables you to post your own comments on any subject that concerns you.
To state an opinion or make an observation, just look for the “Your Comments” tab at the top right corner of the webpage, and click it.
You’ll be asked to provide a name that will be published along with your comments, but if you are shy, it doesn’t have to be your real name. It may be a nickname or even a silly substitute, such as “Popeye.” You will also have to enter your email address, but that will not be published with your comments, and is only required to help prevent “bad guys” from spamming or posting objectionable material. Then you simply enter your thoughts.
It’s my prayer that this blog will serve you and me as a point of contact, as well as a platform from which you may express your serious thoughts. In this, my 75th year, I want more than ever to make a difference. We all need to make a difference.
The Lord Jesus Christ revealed the importance of this attitude when he said: “We must work the works of Him who sent Me as long as it is day; night is coming when no one can work” (John 9:4).
What has made America great, after her original hunger for freedom, was our adherence to the rule of law. It was the rule of law that enabled Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. It was the rule of law that finally permitted and protected people to sit down and eat at a formerly all-white lunch counter.
When I was a kid attending elementary school in Port Tampa City, Florida, I started chatting with a friendly African American boy. A big man walked up to me and told me that I could be badly hurt if I became familiar with “his kind.” It’s the rule of law that ultimately allowed me to labor side-by-side with a brother that is equal in every way to me, and certainly superior in many.
When we try to pick and choose what laws we will obey, and which we will not, when we will, or will not work within the law to change the laws, then we have overturned the very system that has promoted and protected our interests. And when we harm our innocent neighbors and destroy their means to live, then we have become part of the problem, not part of the solution.
The 2nd stanza of “America the Beautiful,” published over 100 years ago, expresses the author’s opinion that America is not perfect, but — with God’s help — we’re moving in the right direction. Then the author points out the necessity of restraint and lawful action. Note especially the last three lines. It’s as though the writer was somehow looking forward to the events in Ferguson today.
O beautiful for pilgrim feet
Whose stern impassioned stress
A thoroughfare of freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America!
God mend thine every flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law!
This from Jonathan Kellis:
Submitted on 2014/11/27 at 8:56 am
The joyful Christian fears no evil, and is emboldened by adversity. If your desire is to be an effective witness for the gospel of Christ, your words and life should be challenging, encouraging and inspiring. You cannot engage in spiritual battle from your comfort zone, so get out of your slippers and pjs, and get in to the armor. Metal on metal we sharpen each other as we pass through the refiners fire in prayer and in the word. We are called to be overcomers, not downtrodden, so bear the cross with confidence and go forth with praise in the Spirit! May this day of Thanksgiving be an opportunity for you to begin anew.
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Submitted on 2014/11/27 at 8:56 am
The joyful Christian fears no evil, and is emboldened by adversity. If your desire is to be an effective witness for the gospel of Christ, your words and life should be challenging, encouraging and inspiring. You cannot engage in spiritual battle from your comfort zone, so get out of your slippers and pjs, and get in to the armor. Metal on metal we sharpen each other as we pass through the refiners fire in prayer and in the word. We are called to be overcomers, not downtrodden, so bear the cross with confidence and go forth with praise in the Spirit! May this day of Thanksgiving be an opportunity for you to begin anew.
This from Jonathan Kellis:
Submitted on 2014/11/27 at 8:56 am
The joyful Christian fears no evil, and is emboldened by adversity. If your desire is to be an effective witness for the gospel of Christ, your words and life should be challenging, encouraging and inspiring. You cannot engage in spiritual battle from your comfort zone, so get out of your slippers and pjs, and get in to the armor. Metal on metal we sharpen each other as we pass through the refiners fire in prayer and in the word. We are called to be overcomers, not downtrodden, so bear the cross with confidence and go forth with praise in the Spirit! May this day of Thanksgiving be an opportunity for you to begin anew.