Of Angels, pins and research.

[keross]

I like research.  Saying this is rather like Deanna Trio saying she likes chocolate or a member of the Blue Angels saying they like to fly.

At times I think I can stop breathing before I can stop doing research.  Of course not all of my research has a point, sometimes it is just weird things that catch my attention, and it doesn’t always follow a

Comments

[torakiyoshi]

I studied this genocide as a discussion of the Letter to the Church of Smyrna, that the Smyrnan church would suffer persecution for ten days. After World War I, as part of the Armenian Genocide, Ataturk ordered the Christians in Izmir (modern day Smyrna) be destroyed. A million believers were trapped in the Christian quarter. They were hunted down, and those who were not found died when the entire quarter was burnt to the ground. There were more than a million Christians killed there. They were a scapegoat for the losses that Ottoman Turkey suffered in the war.

[keross]

It is sad that we have not yet grown beyond killing others for the crime of being different, not of our kind.

Makes a sane person wonder if any of us will see that mansion.

[torakiyoshi]

Unfortunately, the drive where I kept that sermon was damaged and is in America pending repairs. The sermon is intended to be an encouragement, as it is a reminder of Jesus' promise to the people of Smyrna: "Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to cast some of you into prison, so that you will be tested, and you will have tribulation for ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who overcomes will not be hurt by the second death."

[keross]

If you manage to recover this sermon, I would be most interested in reading it.