Toni V. Lee

Easter Sunday is the day Christians celebrate the resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Easter Sunday is the first Sunday after the first full moon that occurs after the Spring equinox.  That means Easter Sunday can be anytime between March 22 and April 25 on the calendar. Listen, the date of Easter Sunday is not what's important to Christians for that date is a moving target on the calendar. What occurred on Easter Sunday means EVERYTHING to us. We celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ on Easter Sunday WHENEVER that date is on the calendar. This year, it's celebrated on March 31st. Next year, we'll celebrate it on April 20th. Why are some Christians in an uproar about events that are occurring on March 31st when the date itself is not important to Christians?  We can't allow political wrangling to distract us from what's REALLY important: Celebrating the resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! Hallelujah! He is risen! 🙌🏾🙌🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Jus...

My bluntness may seem harsh to some folk. I hope they also understand that my heart is soft. Having said that, I'm absolutely fed up with the blatant hypocrisy that's going on in the Church (the body).  I used to have no problem whatsoever with recognizing hypocrisy and keepin' it movin'. My attitude was, "It's not me, not my problem...oh well." Now, it's like a switch flipped and the dissatisfaction and indignation burns deep; especially, when folk TRY to cloak it under the cover of "The Lord told me or the Lord said". If I feel this way about hypocrisy, can you imagine how the Lord feels about it? If I can see it, don't you know those who don't know Christ can see it as well? If you don’t know it, they do and jeer about it. It's like folk have become numb, anything goes, and everything gets a pass. Things the Church use to call out and rebuke are now being reasoned and excused away. We no longer call a spade a spade. Self-procla...

There's no way you could have made me believe folk would be fighting tooth and nail to make a criminal, corrupt, and bigoted individual the leader of this Nation. I would have thought you were under demonic influence and in error if you had told me Christians would also vigorously support this person. In addition, that they would worship him--or any man for that matter. NO WAY! Just no... This is why I felt like I'd been blindsided during the 2020 election. I felt like I'd woken up from a deep sleep and my world had shifted into something unfamiliar, strange, and...dark. Family ties and friendships were being severed, anger and hate hovered over this Nation like a cloud, folk (Christians, too) were committing murder with their tongues, Christians were calling their brothers/sisters-in-Christ demons and condemning them to Hell for daring to have different views and not falling in step, and nastiness had become the norm. How in the world did we get there? How did the Church b...

Genesis 2:7 KJV 7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Isn't it something how so many folk who call themselves Pro-life actually stop caring about people after they take their first breath? That living soul that was "fearfully and wonderfully made" then becomes... * Someone they hate and fear just because...  * Someone they wish didn't exist. * Someone they look down upon. * Someone they find unacceptable because they are not like them. * A N-word and other derogatory names for different races. * "You people". * "Blood poison". * Someone to keep under their foot. Sounds ugly? It should...because it is. These folk are NOT Pro-life. They are Pro-birth for they couldn't care less about that baby after it leaves the birth canal and takes its first breath... It is for that very reason Pro-lifers are viewed with contempt, disgust, and labeled hypocrites...

I just want to drop a little forgotten (ignored may be a better word) history nugget.  The Star-Spangled Banner was written by Francis Scott Key, a slave owner, in 1814 during the War of 1812. He owned human beings when he wrote the song and still owned them when he died.  When he wrote the line that's sung with gusto and pride, "O’er the land of the free...", it did NOT include every person--human being--in America. Certainly not the enslaved folk he held in bondage. His song was adopted as the anthem of the United States of America in 1931. When your lips tremble to rebuke and low-rate folk who object to the song being considered their anthem, please remember this little nugget of history...because they do. All I'm sayin' is exactly what I said. Just keepin' it real...

✔ Filthy communication...acceptable.  ✔ Lying? That's ok too. ✔ Adultery...It's in the past so no problem. ✔ Stealing? It's ok...they meant well. ✔ Cheating?  Nobody was hurt...it's ok. ✔ Grifting? Nobody made them give so it's ok. ✔ Bribery? Where's the problem...it's ok. ✔ Nudity/porn? Classy and beautiful. ✔ Unrepentantly living in a sinful state...Well, we have all sinned...it's ok. ✔ This one truly baffles me: Rape is now ok, too... When we choose to turn a blind eye and endorse someone--who has unrepentantly done or is doing these kinds of things--with excuses and justifications, we are putting a stamp of approval on every action.  You know what? We can excuse and justify sin all we want to but the Word of God does not, can not, and will NEVER back us up. That's just us marching to the beat of our flesh... Just keepin' it real...

"We're not a racist country...We've never been a racist country."                     - Nikki Haley                       Republican Presidential Candidate So...slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, the Civil Rights Movement, the KKK, the Civil War, police brutality against non-whites, discrimination (in the work place, education, and housing)...all of that must have happened in an alternate universe and not America. 😮 You know...this lady just keeps on saying offensive stuff. Does she really believe what she's saying or is she just trying to win the vote of the racist bigots of this country? One thing for sure is she needs to start thinking before she speaks for these highly offensive statements dismiss, disregard, and discount the real life experience a whole sector of this Nation has endured for generations. Just keepin' it real...