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Are you Lonely or Rejected? Come to Immanuel – God With Us!

Why did God allow my child to die? Why did I lose my job? Why did my husband leave? Why am I childless? Why do people reject me? Why am I sick? Why did I lose my home? Why, why, why!

These days when you try to witness to or counsel women and men alike, you are  usually confronted with a barrage of questions as to why negative things happen to them. These questions come not  only from unbelievers but from born again children of God too. The explanations that are given from the word of God is usually not easy for people to receive because their reasoning is that if God is with me...

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Be Not Dismayed

It seems like barely a few months have passed since we were celebrating the initiation of a brand new year. With this year almost over, it is unbelievable that we are about to begin the process again. And, yet while the days, weeks and months of 2013 sped by, they did not go by without leaving their bruises and scars.  In the midst of our traditional yearly celebrations of birthdays, baby arrivals, weddings, promotions, graduations etc. we have each had to face dark days of personal grief and discouragement. Besides our personal highs and lows we have also had to deal with the relentless fluctuations of a world filled with religious, political, and social dichotomies and turmoil.

2013 brought us:

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ASK LISA-ANNE November 2013

What happened to the movement to make Ebonics a language?

Q. I remember years ago there was a movement to make Ebonics a language for African-American children especially.  What happened to that movement and do you think it should become a separate language?

A. My quick answer would be ‘NO’ because I am not a supporter of Ebonics.   However, let’s explore the history.  According to the Linguistic Society of America,   Ebonics simply means 'black speech' (a blend of the words ebony 'black' and phonics 'sounds'). The term was created in 1973 by a group of black scholars who disliked the negative connotations of terms like 'Nonstandard Negro English' that had been coined in the 1960s when the first modern large-scale linguistic studies of...

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ASK LISA-ANNE November 2013

What happened to the movement to make Ebonics a language?

Q. I remember years ago there was a movement to make Ebonics a language for African-American children especially.  What happened to that movement and do you think it should become a separate language?

A. My quick answer would be ‘NO’ because I am not a supporter of Ebonics.   However, let’s explore the history.  According to the Linguistic Society of America,   Ebonics simply means 'black speech' (a blend of the words ebony 'black' and phonics 'sounds'). The term was created in 1973 by a group of black scholars who disliked the negative connotations of terms like 'Nonstandard Negro English' that had been coined in the 1960s when the first modern large-scale linguistic studies of...

Read more: ASK LISA-ANNE November 2013

   

ASK LISA-ANNE November 2013

What happened to the movement to make Ebonics a language?

Q. I remember years ago there was a movement to make Ebonics a language for African-American children especially.  What happened to that movement and do you think it should become a separate language?

A. My quick answer would be ‘NO’ because I am not a supporter of Ebonics.   However, let’s explore the history.  According to the Linguistic Society of America,   Ebonics simply means 'black speech' (a blend of the words ebony 'black' and phonics 'sounds'). The term was created in 1973 by a group of black scholars who disliked the negative connotations of terms like 'Nonstandard Negro English' that had been coined in the 1960s when the first modern large-scale linguistic studies of...

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