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No right to judge the homeless
Recently, I have been hearing complaints about homeless
people being allowed to sleep in the parks in Victoria.
Have any of these complainers ever been homeless? How
dare they make such sharp assumptions about all homeless people?
Yes, some of them make awful messes in parks or on city
streets; but so do people who drive expensive cars, or own houses, or live
in apartments.
I see home-owners or renters who intentionally break
city bylaws, and run their dogs without a leash – and then fail
to pick up their dogs’ feces.
Until governments, churches and society in
general step up and provide affordable housing, the homeless will need
places to live.
It is better that they live in a city park, than
at the backdoor of a business or the provincial courthouse – or in
crowded and dangerous shelters.
We Canadians failed our country by allowing the
Conservatives, Liberals and Bloc Quebecois to dominate Parliament. We soon
will have an opportunity to make up for that mistake in B.C.
Patrick Longworth, Surrey
Lakeland outpouring is not over
I’m writing in response to ‘Lakeland ends
as Bentley quits’ (September). I beg to differ.
Lakeland has certainly not ended. This is most assuredly a work of God, and
it continues, unabated and global. Praise God.
And concerning Todd Bentley: I find the unbiblical
criticism, persecution and cursing of our brother – coming from
professing believers and leaders – unbecoming at best, and disgusting
at worst.
Proverbs 24:15–16 states:
“Don’t lurk like an outlaw near the home of the
righteous, don’t raid the place where he lives. For though he
falls seven times, he will get up again.” Hallelujah!
Christ, in Matthew 16:18, assures us: “I will
build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”
The Lord Jesus has everything well in hand.
Bless his name forever.
Daphne White, North
Vancouver
Re: Walter Rachinski’s letter (‘Readers
polarized over Lakeland’): Perhaps he is correct when he admits to
“lack of spiritual depth.”
Peter’s sermon in Acts 2:17-18 quotes the prophet
Joel: “I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh. Your sons and your
daughters shall prophesy, your young men shall see visions, your old men
shall dream dreams.”
To borrow Rachinski’s phrasing: Since Joel and
Peter had no trouble “reconciling this brand of sensationalism with
the transparency of scripture,” it should be our earnest hope to
possibly experience that which “is in explicit harmony with Holy
Scripture.”
Also: must we always have to be reminded of
David’s sins of adultery and murder, and the severe consequences he
suffered?
Do we remember what followed? Repentance (Psalm 51) and
restoration. And God called him “a man after his own heart.”
Cherryl Katnich, Maple
Ridge
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Global warming is a huge hoax
It never ceases to amaze me when Christians blindly
jump on a bandwagon and ignore the plain teaching of scripture. Clearly,
global warming fanatics don’t want to acknowledge the biggest hoax of
this century.
Consider the prophets who lead this movement: David
Suzuki, whose background specialty is the study of fruit flies; and Al
Gore, who was vice president in one of the most corrupt administrations of
our time. Neither has any background in climatology.
Earlier this year, there was a major conference in New
York – featuring real scientists who disagree with the global warming crowd. You
didn’t hear about it, because most of the biased, liberal
agenda-driven media promote only one side of the argument.
In a BC Christian News article some time ago, a gentlemen named Kobia was
quoted as saying: “Working on global warming is a matter of
faith.”
That’s exactly right – because it sure
isn’t scientific. This movement is a religion – and an
anti-Christ religion at that.
Let me ask all Christians a simple question: Do you
really think a sovereign God is going to let humans wreck this planet?
Nowhere in the Bible is this idea even hinted at.
The scriptures show that God, not humanity, is in
complete control of the environment. Global warming climate hysteria is
grounded in idolatry –
because it denies the sovereignty of God over this planet.
Earl Banks, North Vancouver
November 2008
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