His Way Forward

By Rev. Angelo Frazier

Angelo Frazier, born in a neighborhood of Washington, D.C., was heading for his dream--with physical ability, outstanding at his six-foot-eight appearance, a young man from "D.C." had the same nickname when the college fans cheered, "DC! DC! DC!"

Coming from an all-black school in Washington, D.C., he had chosen an all-white parochial high school that had been offered to him for his final year in basketball, where he was bound to be spotted for his leaping and blocking ability.

Sure enough, colleges came recruiting, and he chose Mount St. Mary's, in Frederick, Maryland. After graduation with a business and finance degree, he found jobs waiting for him in the banking institutions and retail. But that cold room with calculators and computers didn't last. He was longing for something else. Maybe a basketball career was for him? Playing with a team from France, then in Germany, helped hone his skills until that disastrous day came when the Achilles' tendon snapped!

"What now?" he bemoaned as he sat in the German hospital bed, told by doctors he may never even walk again, let alone play basketball. Then, the "little did he know" moment was starting to expand. God was leading him away from the glitz and glamor to the real world of where he had been given talent for God's glory. No, it wasn't the great leaping ability now, but the gift of sight into where people are hurting that was beginning to form.

What this book brings is the insights and nature of God stepping into humanity by His saving grace for one, Angelo Frazier. He offers poems, prose, published works, and general phrases that developed over a lifetime of physical pain, agonizing heartbreak, and crushing spiritual insight given now by His Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

You will laugh, cry, and be amazed by how God works through this man from the streets of D.C. to the "Streets of Bakersfield."

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Mar 21, 2024
• ISBN: 9781685708955

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His Way Forward

Rev. Angelo Frazier

ISBN 978-1-68570-894-8 (paperback)

ISBN 978-1-68570-895-5 (digital)

Copyright © 2024 by Rev. Angelo Frazier

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Table of Contents

Critical Bait Theory

Freedom of Speech Includes Freedom of Conscience

A Mustard Seed–Like Faith

Antibodies or No Antibodies? That Is the Question

Political Toxicity

Triggered

No Matter What We Do

The Death of Decorum

Open Letter to My Mom

Critical Race Theory

Regarding the Topic of Religious Freedom during This Pandemic

Spiritual Silos?

For Those Who Step Out in Faith

Blaming and Shaming

All Lives Matter

Can We Handle the Truth?

The Perfect Sermon

The Perfect Sinner

Why Christmas Matters

Politicial Toxicity 2

My Prayer for This and Every Political Season!

About the Author

Remember the vanity license plates that were issued to put on our cars? Decorative, catchy, and certainly creative, those plates sought to speak to our community, our society, and ultimately our identity.

Maybe those small rectangular metal canvases were simply a preview of what was to come.

I believe the new vanity plates come in the form of critical race theory along with gender fluidity. No longer to be posted on motor vehicles, these plates must hang from our hearts, representing national pride as well as our individualized and sexualized identity. Why? Because the insatiable appetite for self-expression fueled from the perpetual drumbeat of societal disillusionment is springing from daily polls and politicized focus groups.

Biology and science must take a back seat to this newest form of historical revisionism and opinion-based speculation infused with intellectual rationalization. This is to be trumpeted as the means of our modus operandi. They are a proposed spiritual oneness, which will bring about our national healing and free us to explore and expand our individual sexual identity. Critical race theory and gender fluidity are now positioned as the new standards of historical validation, self-realization, or ideological manipulation.

This massive and progressive effort is not only what can be reimagined, but worse than that, how we as a nation can redefine our very identity.

For instance, the issue of bullying, which is wrong in any form, is simply no longer about threats and harm but about the potential threats and harm perceived or imagined.

Names of football teams, the American flag, the In God We Trust script on our money, and even historical statues may now be classified as a form of harming our collective conscience, and so they must be removed.

We must face the spiritual fact and reality of sin! Yes, it has reversed the intentionality of purpose, design, and function of God's greatest creation which He had given us the definition of from the very beginning of time in His Word. It has clearly defined good vs. evil on this earth and the sin that leads to our destruction.

Sin has stained us beyond repair, and no created institution can change that.

Only a Savior, sent from God, who died on a cross, was buried and rose from the dead has been designated for our redemption.

By ourselves, we will dig deeper the hole into the cesspool of misery and destruction. We refuse to see that up can't be down, wrong can't be right, and truth can never be a lie. Starting within the human heart, saturating the mind, numbing the soul, and quenching the spirit, this begins the solo journey of unleashed resentment, delusional misery, and unapologetic anger.

The deep dive into depravity is anchored first in the slow fade of selfish ambitions. This is where sin has its roots, wanting what I want is the anthem call of self-realization. One small step away from the original purpose of God is met with the giant leap into the abyss. For without Him, all is vanity and striving after the wind.

Critical Bait Theory

The Reverend Angelo Frazier (contributed photo)

Bowing the symbolic knee to wokism is the most progressive mandate in this hypersensitive and litigious cancel-culture environment. Racially on its veneer, this is ultimately about absolute power, class warfare, and dominating control.

Critical race theory is a classic example of this. While appearing educational in its unveiling of historical racial injustices regarding the systemic and inherent nature of not only people and cultures, in reality, it is nothing more than Marxism on steroids, soaked lavishly in the vacuous cauldron of identity politics, fast-tracked for political expediency, that is, the bait and switch. The blind don't have to see; it is all about how they feel emotionally.

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