These past two weeks have been very challenging. And, in fact, left me a bit perplexed and bewildered as to when and from where will some kind of salvation come for my besieged country. And then I was reminded that I serve a Sovereign God and so I am to push ahead in faith.

It began when I went to visit with an old lady who lives in a ghetto area. And on returning to my car, I heard the most filthy lyrics coming from the house next door, and witnessed some young children, age four-eight, gyrating to the music. So I called the young lady, aged about 14, who was playing the music, and was told that in order to get the song she wished to hear, she had to purchase a CD with these other songs on it. This is the kind of garbage to which our young people are listening and are absorbing day by day.

Then later this week came the bombshell that the governing party had accepted a 'gift' from Trafigura, a multinational company, to run an upcoming campaign, who when pressed, denied giving money to the party but suggests that it was part of the 'business transaction'.

But in the midst of this, the amazing and never-ending love of a God who created heaven and earth and all who inhabit the world continues to call us back to him, again and again, in and through the death of Christ on a Cross at Calvary.

- Dr. Lucien Jones