Posted on 03/01/2005 8:11:46 AM PST by gopwinsin04
We've just gotten word that Tony Snow's cancer surgery has been a complete success and he is on the road to recovery.
Tony said last week that he could actually feel your prayers and it made him feel better.
Wonderful news!! May you rest quietly in your recovery, Tony! Looking forward to your return!
Good to hear the surg went OK.....here's hoping he is back in fine fettle---and soon!
Thank you for this good news.
Best wishes, Tony, for a full recovery and prayers as well for you and your family.
I'm so sorry your family had to experience this ordeal, mariabush! And I do join with the others here in lifting up Tony Snow's wife also for God's peace and blessing during Tony's recover and thereafter.
Thank you, Great and Mighty God, for your wonderful care and healing for Your servant, Tony Snow! We praise You for Your faithfulness and we bless Your Holy Name, through Jesus Christ, our Great Physician. Amen.
Excellent news......!!!
And continued prayers for Tony Snow's full recovery! Sir, you are one of my heroes.
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit..... Romans 15:13
What good news this is. We will continue to pray for a complete recovery.
Prayers for you husband and family as well, JulieRNR21. Blessings and best wishes to all here who are in need of healing and strength.
I can't wait to hear from Tony.
Yes, I will keep Tony in my prayers as well.
Whew! The scary part's over, but you still have a bit of a hard road to hoe recovering, don't you? Hang in there, sweetie - you'll be back to your old gorgeous self sooner than it seems right now. Speaking of, when you're up to it,do you think you could post a topless snap so the women of freeperland can see your scar? Purely in the interest of medical science, of course. And we'll be sure to send up more prayers that your pain will be easier to bear, ok? (we don't want you to develop one of those nasty ol' furrow lines to muck up that perfect mug of yours!). Congratulations! And pass along our thanks to the surgeon & OR staff for taking such good care of you.
Good News!
I've been listening to Tony's radio show since it aired here a year ago(?) now...always liked him on FoxNews too...We're Praying for ya in the heartland Tony!!!
Wonderful news! Prayers answered. God Bless you and yours, Tony.
Keep on getting better! We love you Tony and are praying for your continued post-op recovery!!!!!!
Yay! Prayers for Tony and his family!
Thankly, God works through surgeons!
I am so glad to hear about Tony Snow. I had the chance to meet him when I lived in Washington, DC. This entry contains one of the most powerful articles Tony Snow ever wrote regarding his Lord, Jesus Christ.
God bless you, Tony!
Pastor Jim Line
Smethport Bible Fellowship of the Assemblies of God
read on:
December 22, 2000
Spiritualism for dummies
WASHINGTON -- If you walk into just about any chain bookstore in this nation and stroll to the "religion" section, you'll find some Bibles and commentaries -- but you'll also find volume after volume of new-age froth, including a title of striking redundancy: "Spiritualism for dummies."
We in America have shaved religion down to "spiritualism," which is shorthand for "wistful emptiness." Spiritualism is the latest attempt to transform man into a god. It asks nothing, demands nothing and means nothing. It reaches out to lost souls by acknowledging some central, disturbing facts -- that we're lust-laced thinking beings living on a dust mote of a planet, painfully aware of death's ubiquity and desperate to discover the meaning of things. But then it maroons us in a sea of august verbiage.
Spiritualism insists that we are unguided and feral, propelled by urges that can't satisfy our cravings; doomed to mistaking resignation for contentment. Its animating force is as impersonal, distant and chilly as an aurora borealis. So is its creed: It talks not about how we ought to treat others, but how we should become therapists to ourselves.
Such idiocy explains why we have Christmas. Christianity, like Judaism and Islam, suggests that life's meaning issues not from a wispy emanation, but from a living God. But unlike its religious cousins, it adds an audacious wrinkle. Jesus is the only great religious figure ever to claim that he was not just sent by God, inspired by God or used as God's stenographer, but was in fact God.
So was he? This is the key question. It won't do to venerate him as a saintly guy with a penchant for performing miracles. Jesus insisted that we make a choice: acknowledge him as God -- in which case, his gospel teaches us profound, difficult and comforting things about reality -- or dismiss him as a lunatic who deserved crucifixion. Christianity is the easiest of all religions to dismiss because it offers no middle ground: Either Jesus was God or a charlatan.
This accounts for the astonishing power of Christmas. Christians commemorate the appearance on earth of the universe's very Creator, followed by execution and resurrection. The story is straightforward, but it beggars the imagination. As C.S. Lewis noted, the narrative produced by church fathers was unlike anything that had ever appeared on earth -- notable not merely for the artistry of its parables, but the specificity of its account.
The Bible doesn't resort to "spirits" that let us play god; it introduces God, the father, the maker of heaven and earth -- of all that is, seen and unseen. It pelts us with commandments -- to love one another, to pay special attention to the poor and infirm, to worship God rather than oneself. It supplies practical advice. It illustrates the power of faith.
That is what many of us celebrate now. We all know, somewhere in our heart of hearts, that we didn't pop into this world randomly. Everything we have learned of our world and the worlds around us teaches us that actions incline toward a purpose and the universe follows simple, elegant and powerful laws.
Everything, that is, but human history. People excel in stupidity and cupidity. As we mature, our illusions pop like soap bubbles. We see good men suffer, and bad men earn fortune and praise. It is difficult to make sense of the world and tougher yet not to become bitter. Only religion confronts us with stark requirements -- shalt nots and Golden Rules -- that gratify our need for direction. It tells us not merely that a mountaintop exists, but that one may find reliable guides to get there.
For many, the path to the peak begins in Bethlehem, where beasts of burden yowled as a baby greeted the world. In time, that baby would deliver a revolutionary message about the superiority of love over power, faith over pride, charity over affluence and hope over despair.
We keep that message alive in a host of ways. We buy presents, jam into malls, hop into cars to visit people we love. We sing carols and perform good deeds. In short, we participate in an ongoing miracle: After 2,000 years, hundreds of millions of people prefer the hard morals of the Bible to the facile crooning of the spiritualists; still see God in the faces of an infant born two millenniums ago and a poor man seeking a warm meal today; still swell with joy each year -- not because Jesus was, but because Jesus is.
©2000 Creators Syndicate, Inc.
That is what many of us celebrate now. We all know, somewhere in our heart of hearts, that we didn't pop into this world randomly. Everything we have learned of our world and the worlds around us teaches us that actions incline toward a purpose and the universe follows simple, elegant and powerful laws.
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Powerful words, beautifully said. Thanks for posting this.
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