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Kairos Winn #29 Went Wonderfully

Some spiritual warfare on Friday and Saturday, but the fruits of the weekend were plentiful.  Many men came to know the Lord, Jesus Christ, and the love of a Christian community.  One man in particular who was a member of a racist hate group laid down his sin of racism after counselling with an Episcopal priest and a Methodist layman, who ultimately led him in the salvation prayer.    The group of men was interesting – they had either been locked up for a long time and trying to get in to Kairos for years and then a group of younger men who had just arrived at the prison and were put on the list to attend Kairos by someone else and weren’t sure why they were there. I was personally blessed to give a man a hug who hadn’t had a hug for the thirty-five years he has been in prison.  Other men had known church before in their lives but had never understood Christianity until the weekend.  A lot of tears were shed during Agape and the Wall mediation on Saturday afternoon.

I just can’t begin to describe how wonderful this ministry is.  It is amazing what Christians can do when they are truly focused on Jesus and his command to visit those in prison.

A Press Release On Soul Force Q From Louisiana College Where I Teach As An Adjunct

Press Release – From October 23, 2008

As of this writing, Soul Force Q has indicated that they will endeavor to hold a candlelight vigil in Pineville tonight but will not trespass on our campus property. We appreciate that commitment. Our position on such activities is listed below.

Louisiana College has long stood as a proponent of learning and free inquiry. The foundation for the college’s mission and policies is a shared set of beliefs and values that reflect our commitment to biblical authority and our deep respect for our Louisiana Baptist heritage. Our living faith is established upon sacred eternal truths, including the sacred relationship between a man and woman in marriage, and not on the winds of societal changes and the shifting sands of political social mores. Discussion of ideologies that are antithetical to our doctrinal beliefs is common on our campus and is appropriate under the wise teaching of committed Christian faculty. Discussion of competing views does not constitute endorsement of them.

Organizations such as the Minnesota-based Soul Force Q, a lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender group who wish to force their ideological framework upon our private campus, represent an infringement upon the personal privacy of students, faculty, and staff and are not allowed to choose our private campus as a public forum to express their antithetical views. While their cause will be the subject of much discussion at our College in the days to come, we will not allow the disruption they would bring by forcing their personal agenda on the day-to-day orderly pursuit of our educational mission.

We compassionately pray for them and we also stand firm upon our decision not to allow their anti-biblical worldview to be promoted as “acceptable” at Louisiana College. We further believe that this is highly instructive for our students in a day and age where a country once founded upon a set of diverse yet united beliefs has been rendered unrecognizable from those early days. We hold fast to the words attributed to James Madison, primary author of the constitution of the United States reported from the report, Forsaken Roots, “We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked the future of all our political constitutions upon the capacity of each of ourselves to govern ourselves according to the moral principles of the Ten Commandments.” Those commandments and our position in regard to them have not changed.

Joe Aguillard

President, Louisiana College

Episcopal Church Spent Two Million Dollars Suing Other Christians Last Year

Read it all. Maybe more folks in Western Louisiana might like their funds redirected from 815, as our Bishop currently allows.

My Nephew, or Larry the Cable Guy

This is my six month old nephew, Larry, er, Max. Yes, Uncle Brad and Aunt Carrie got him that shirt, but his Mom or Dad bought the cammo hat and shorts…

Kairos Winn #29 Prayer Update

Here is the current schedule; thanks to everyone for helping!!!

11-11:10 – Dan Edwards
11:10-11:20 – Cindy S.
11:20-11:30 – Stu Howe
11:40-11:50 – Matthew
11:50 – 12:00 – Jeff
12:00 – 12:10 – Rob Eaton
12:10 – 12:20 – Meg Houk
12:20- 12:30 – Scott
12:30- 12:40 – Phil Snyder

Thanks again for everyone’s help, especially Rob, in getting this organized.

Are My Readers Truly Christian Or Full of Bologna

Go to the post below and PLEASE before noon Thursday pledge ten minutes of your time to pray for this Kairos Winn #29. Heck, prove that your faith means something more than complaining about liberals in the Episcopal Church and say, sure, Brad, I’ll pray ten minutes for a prison ministry whose teams compromise Christians from every denomination who do not buy into the liberal agenda but are dutifully following Christ in visiting those in prison.

You see, folks, I post a piece about the PB trying to block the Anglican covenant, I get ten comments. I ask for prayer support for prison ministry, I get two (three since I started writing this piece). Houston, we have a problem. All I am asking for is the time in takes to read a piece on this blog and comment on it to pray for Kairos #29 at Winn Correctional. Priorities, people.

If this is what it takes, realize that Gene Robinson killed my prison ministry resolution at GC2006 in committee, even though the budget committee allocated money for it. Realize that Kairos is not about a bunch of liberal wackadoos standing outside of a prison protesting the criminal justice system. It is people who cooperate with that system in order to go inside the prison walls to bring residents of correctional institutions to Christ so that they have something (ie. someone, ie. HIM) to live for and they might not offend in the future precisely because of Jesus Christ. I’m not asking for money, I’m not asking for you to take a political position, I’m asking for ten minutes of prayer. Ten minutes. Ten minutes on a Friday. During your lunch hour, more than likely. This isn’t like the times I’ve asked my readers to pray at 2 a.m. or some crazy time like that. It’s Friday…during the day. You are awake. I’m asking you take a whole ten minutes and pray for Kairos Winn #29, that the residents of Winn Correctional will come to know Jesus as their Lord and Savior.

You tellin’ me you can’t do that? If you can’t, well, I don’t know what to tell you, other than you will have to stand before the judgment seat of God, and Jesus will ask when He was in prison where were you. See Matthew 25.

I get emails from folks all the time stressing about going into this meeting or convention or whatever with revisionist liberals or what have you asking for prayer and people respond saying oh, how tough that has to be engaging in such a battle of rhetoric, and my prayers are with you. I go into a prison and shake the gates of hell to rescue folks from the enemy’s camp, realizing that I’m the son of the Federal Judge that sits over their habeas corpus petitions and the husband of a prison classification officer who may have sent one of the candidates back to Winn Correctional from her minimum security prison and therefore have a big giant target on my back, and y’all seem to care less. You know what? I have a problem with that. And I’m hoping I don’t get shanked this weekend. Hey, maybe if you can’t pray for the prisoners because of whatever moral objections you might have about that, how about praying for ten minutes that Brad doesn’t get shanked this weekend. How about it? Just pray “Lord, Brad is an idiot, but I pray for him anyway,” for a whole ten minutes.

Just post a comment here for a ten minute block.

Yes, some folks will be offended by this rant. Tough. Most of my readers tell me to go to various meetings and take stand for the Christian faith in the Episcopal Church, or start my own non-TEC Anglican Church here in Central Louisiana, or attempt to take on other gargantuan tasks in the name of the faith once delivered. However, I ask for ten minutes of prayer and I get two comments and one email saying they will take a prayer time. Sorry for feeling the way I do. But, try to see things from my perspective, for ten minutes, tell me you are doing it, and that will count as your prayer time and you will be on a prayer chain that prays for every minute of a Kairos weekend.

Presiding Bishop Wants To Stifle GC2009’s Consideration Of The Convenant

Read it all. It is a terribly good thing to note, however, that the PB has absolutely no control about what resolutions are presented to the convention. As a deputy, I have the right to propose three resolutions myself. My standing committee also would have the right to propose such a resolution before GC2009, and I think it is a safe bet that we would propose one. Will it get out of committee? Who knows, but the deputies can pass a resolution to recall a resolution from committee and bring it to the floor. Any such “nay” actions on the resolution will constitute a rejection of the covenant, then opening the door to Dioceses affirming the same.

It will be an interesting convention, to be sure.

Need Prayer Support For Kairos Winn #29

I need prayer warriors for ten minute blocks on Friday, from 11 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. Please let me know in the comments what ten minute block you would like. Thanks for your support of this important ministry.

Punch drunk law

With the economy tanking (and yes, it is tanking) I’m busier than ever. That is the problem with being a commercial litigator and a business bankruptcy guy. I hate to say it, but in twelve years of practice, I’ve never seen banks call PERFORMING loans. I emphasize performing, meaning that all payments have been made on a timely basis.

What I also didn’t realize is that economic desperation actually causes more litigation. Where folks once would have put up some money to make a problem go away, they have no money to put up and therefore pay the lawyers instead.

To top it all off, I think everyone is just an emotional wreck with everything going on nowadays. My family, people I work with, people at church, you name it.

I don’t think the election is helping much either.

I feel like Al Pacino did in the move “And Justice For All.” Saw this clip tonight as part of an Inn of Court seminar tonight.

It is tough trying to be a finder of the truth that gets so obscured.