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Letters to the Editor
January 9, 2006
Abundant Life Christian Center brought a taste of game show glitz to its annual New Year’s Eve services, using the lure of a $120,0000 house as a door prize to put wayward souls in the seats. The story made news nationwide.
Church Should Be A Spiritual Matter
An open letter to the Rev. Walter Hallam:
I read about your church’s raffling off a house and other sundry goods, and I was shocked by such a heavy involvement in materialism. If such tactics are needed to bring the people into your fold, perhaps they don’t belong in the fold.
To me it seems tasteless, trivial and immoral. After all, Christ himself owned no property, and the early church was communalistic. And “it’s harder for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to inherit he kingdom of God.”
Please reconsider and refocus your energies toward the spiritual side of religion.
Roger Fransson
Bethel, Conn.
To Fish, You Need Bait
In regard to the story (The Daily News, Jan. 2) about the house giveaway at Abundant Life Christian Center, while the story had some good things to say, it left out the most important fact, and that’s the 50 or more souls that were saved that night.
The reason the church does these special events is to win more souls for God’s kingdom.
I’m very happy for Tammy Wood and her family. They were truly blessed, but the real winners are the ones who said yes to Jesus.
Jesus said he would make us fishers of men, and to fish you need bait.
Pastor Hallam will use whatever bait he can to reach people with the Gospel. I’m proud to be a member of Abundant Life Christian Center.
Sharon Murillo
La Marque
Florida teenager Farris Hassan ran off to Iraq last month. He said he wanted to practice immersion journalism, something he had read about in school.
What Should Be Done With Teen Who Went To Iraq?
Remember the runaway bride? Wasn’t she fined for sending the authorities on a wild goose chase trying to find her and bring her back home safely?
Well, I wonder if the same thing is going to happen (being fined) to the 16-year-old from Florida who went snooping around in Iraq and putting himself in danger of being killed or being held hostage?
What a stupid thing to do. Our military had to bring him back safely to the U.S.A.
I guess our tax dollars will have to foot his bill, huh? What do your readers think should happen to him?
D.J. Thomas
Texas City
The county has $144 million in construction work either completed or under way. The budget for the new justice center is $129.8 million, a figure county officials say they have not exceeded. The $144 million total includes $7.1 million for renovations to the existing courthouse, $1 million for work on that building’s central plant and $6.3 million to build the new emergency management building on FM 646. The latter two projects are already complete. Work on the courthouse will begin as soon as county offices move to the justice center this spring.
It’s Time To Change Management At Courthouse
The March 7 primaries will allow the voters to change the unsuccessful way our local government has been run for too many years.
It is time for voters to give Republican candidates an opportunity to right many wrongs. Since the early ’90s, there have been numerous scandals, theft and lawsuits caused under Democratic leadership. All of these fiascos have been paid for in full by the taxpayers.
The island has seen a boom in construction for the past decade, and there is no need for property values to increase a full 10 percent every year. Republican leadership advocates the control of county spending.
County Judge Jim Yarbrough justifies excessive spending by promoting $208,000 for two fountains in front of the justice center.
Yarbrough said that, “It’s not a lot, though, in the context of the overall project.” The overall project of the justice center has exceeded the $93.6 million approved by the voters and is now $144 million and still climbing.
Voters have the opportunity to elect new leaders and replace the elected officials that have overstayed their welcome in county government and have become too comfortable in their leadership roles.
J.B. Jones
Galveston
Shakespeare Describes Bush's Leadership Best
The front page article (The Daily News, Dec. 27) evaluating George Bush’s 2005 presidency reminded me that William Shakespeare 400 years ago seemed to describe Bush’s leadership style very eloquently:
“But man, proud man,
Drest in a little brief authority,
Most ignorant of what he’s most assur’d,
His glassy essence, like an angry ape,
Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven
As make the angels weep.”
— “Measure for Measure.”
Apparently we must endure Bush’s “proudly claimed mandate to pursue an aggressive agenda.” Happy New Year.
Peggy Walters
Friendswood
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