Prodigal Son in the Key of F

Feeling footloose and frisky, a featherbrained fellow forced his fond father to fork over the farthings and flew to foreign fields and frittered his fortune, feasting fabulously with faint friends. Fleeced by his fellows in folly, and facing famine, he found himself a feed flinger in a filthy farmyard. Fairly famishing, he fain would have filled his frame with foraged food from fodder fragments.
"Fooey! My father's flunkies fare far finer, " the frazzled fugitive forlornly fumbled, frankly facing the facts. Frustrated by failure and filled with foreboding, he fled forthwith to his family. Falling at his father's feet, he forlornly fumbled, "Father, I've flunked and fruitlessly forfeited family favor."
The farsighted father, forestalling further flinching, frantically flagged the flunkies to fetch a fatling from the flock and fix a feast. The fugitive's fault-finding brother frowned on fickle forgiveness of former folderol. But the faithful father figured, "Filial fidelity is fine, but the fugitive is found! What forbids fervent festivity? Let flags be unfurled. Let fanfares flare." And the father's forgiveness formed the foundation for the former fugitive's future fortitude.

The Church is a Whore but She is Still My Mother!"

Unfortunately these words spoken by St. Augustine seem to echo in my heart when I percieve the Church these days. Here in the Western world it seems that many churches are looking for the next cool gimmick or cutting edge technology to sell themselves and be better than the church on the next corner. Instead of unifying the church we seem to be segregating ourselves!

Why? If we all serve the same master then why are we trying so hard to compete against one another like we are a football team in the NFL. We should be sharing ideas and plans and working together as one body to care for the needs of the poor, feed the hungry and share our relationship with Christ. It should be all about sharing and serving together yet it seems that the enemy has decieved us into believing that, " We are right and they are wrong or don't really know what they are doing. We do things better than they do!"

The Church is not a buisness it is the bride of Christ who has called for unity!

When was the last time you sold your mother out in the name of padding numbers and filling up the money bag? Our focus must be on unifying His church and discipleship. Cool music, and technolgy is a great tool but that is what they are...a tool. This is not a 12:00 kickoff on Sunday its CHURCH!

NEW WORLD ORDER!

Has it occured to anyone that what we are witnessing in the global economic crisis is clearly being manipulated by the World Bank and Federal Reserve in order to creat a global economy centered around one currency. Do not believe for a second that what we are witnessing is an accident or the result of mistakes.

Within 4-8 years the U.S., Canada and Mexico plan on developing one currency. This is what the powers that be want and will get. Americans will invite this with open arms because they will feel desperate enough for help out of the rapidly developing economic crisis. One would like to believe otherwise but the sad truth is we haven't begun to see how bad things will get!

We are witnessing history. The world is moving toward one economy and one governing body and it will happen in our lifetime!