Author Archives: dayofrepentance

By James Wilson   The testimonies at the Senate Health Committee hearing on assisted suicide (SB 128) were heartfelt and heartrending.  Leading the way was the impassioned plea of Brittany Maynard’s mother, Debbie Ziegler, that there be no more cases ...

  By James Wilson   I was recently asked to post a purported prophetic word on the National Day of Repentance web site.  It said – in view of the pattern of lawlessness in government at all levels – it ...

  By James Wilson   Christianity and Islam are often compared – unfavorably – by critics who cite travesties such as the Inquisition and the Crusades to show it is religion in general that foments violence, oppression, and terror.  Of ...

  By James Wilson   I preached my first Easter sermon thirty years ago.  Like any neophyte I wanted to say something about Easter – the most talked about event in history – that had never before been said.  I ...

  By James Wilson   My mother was in the last stages of an atypical form of tuberculosis when she asked me to show her the compassion of helping end her life and her suffering.  I told her this was ...

  By James Wilson   Our president closed out a White House summit on violent extremism refusing to name the religious perpetrators a Culture of Terror.  Instead he lectured on how Muslims have been interwoven into American Culture since our ...

  By James Wilson   Israel’s Arava Desert is a dry and salt encrusted wasteland getting about one inch of water each year.  At least, it would be a wasteland anywhere but Israel.  As things stand the region’s dairies host ...

March 17, 2015 By James Wilson A few weeks ago I watched a video of last year’s unrest in Ferguson, Missouri. I watched rioters break through a store wall before looting it. Most of the looters grabbing whatever they wanted ...

March 13, 2015 By James Wilson The Justice Department issues its long awaited report – and the New York Times reports it – in the death of Michael Brown at the hands of Officer Darren Wilson. Even Eric Holder’s biased ...

March 8, 2015 By James Wilson President Obama actually said some good things at the National Prayer Breakfast. He spoke of the many times he – as President – paused to reflect on Eleanor Roosevelt’s famous and oft repeated prayer, ...