Jeff Patton
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Your Roots Your Destiny
by CGP on May.13, 2010, under Announcements, Articles, Jeff Patton
Your Roots Your Destiny
Introduction
Does God keep His promises? Would He be willing to have and maintain a close relationship with a human like me?
I don’t kid myself about being holy or perfect. There are even those occasions when I feel rebellious or tempted. Sometimes I do my own thing and I don’t want to listen to the Divine Authority Figure who tells me what is right or wrong. I admit it! There are moments when I think I know best and I behave like a spiritual teenager who won’t pay attention to His heavenly Father’s instructions. It seems as though I have to learn some things the hard way.
When stepping on someone’s toes results in murder
by CGP on May.07, 2010, under Articles, Jeff Patton
On a pleasant late July evening in Victoria, B.C. two years ago, 16-year-old Mark Arrieta pulled out a handgun at the strident urging of his 22-year-old “friend,” Somphanvanh Chanthabouala, and shot at point-blank range three other young people, seriously injuring two while killing 20-year-old University of Victoria student Philbert Truong.
Catholic doctrinal error propagates child abuse scandals!
by CGP on Apr.09, 2010, under Articles, Jeff Patton
During the recently completed Easter/Passover season there were a great number of headlines in the various media sources I was following about the latest episode of the Roman Catholic Church and the illicit appetites of its clergy for pedophilia. This time around the scandal of Catholic priests sexually abusing children was stunning Europe. The media has been talking about incidents in Ireland and Germany where, it seems, some are questioning whether the current pope was actually involved himself in covering up some abuse cases that happened there, during the time he was in charge…
Counter-intuitive: lifetime employment makes financial sense
by COG Nanaimo on Mar.18, 2010, under Articles, Jeff Patton
If you believe mainstream economists, we are on the path leading out of “The Great Recession.” But even if this is true, there are a whole lot of jobs in North America, millions of jobs that need to be re-created just to get back to pre-2008 levels.
Reaping what we sow–gendercide and abortion
by COG Nanaimo on Mar.14, 2010, under Articles, Jeff Patton
“The right to liberty… guarantees a degree of personal autonomy over important decisions intimately affecting his or her private life. … The decision whether or not to terminate a pregnancy is essentially a moral decision and in a free and democratic society, the conscience of the individual must be paramount to that of the state.” (Morgentaler et al. v. Her Majesty The Queen, [1988] 1 S.C.R. 30 at 37)