In his 1951 farewell address to the United States Congress, General Douglas MacArthur grimly stated his thoughts about the global conflicts in which he had played a major role. Speaking as a life-long military man—a commander in some of modern history’s fiercest battles—he put the entire weight of his experience into his observation that, although mankind has from the beginning of time sought peace, all efforts for international peace have ultimately failed. Chillingly, he warned: “If we will not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door.”

Last Friday the German parliament symbolically voted to continue supporting European debt relief.  Internally, the parliament was split, with representatives refusing to further support EU debt by giving up German sovereignty through a fiscal union.  A Bavarian representative warned that “…the Free State of Bavaria will not take one step further towards an EMU fiscal union or debt pool.”  According to a seasoned journalist, “Germans have begun to sense that the preservation of their own democracy and rule of law is in conflict with demands from Europe.

There is an old proverb that “You don’t miss the water until the well goes dry.” We are often taken by surprise by some occurrence, event or development that should have been obvious, but which was somehow overlooked or simply not acknowledged until it befalls us.

“The fungus, Candida albicans, is widespread among humans.  It is relatively harmless to healthy people but can be fatal to hospital patients with weak immune systems.”  It causes 25% of hospital blood infections and is an opportunistic infection that moves from the gut to the blood stream when body defenses are low.  Like MRSA and C. difficil (“C. dif”), this fungus has the ability to develop resistance to treatment.  At the recent Society for General Microbiology conference, Dr. Carol Munro of Aberdeen University acknowledged, “C.

The true Gospel is the most vital message this world has ever received. It is the message Jesus and the Apostles preached. It is the message the faithful Church of God proclaims today. It is also a message that is often misunderstood and even shamefully attacked!