I ended last weeks’ “Blessings” article with the words, “That’s the good news”, because blessings have a flip side: responsibility. There’s another, darker side to blessings, which we’ll get to also. For now, the responsibility […]
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Luke Part 9: Bitterness and Reaction
51 And it came to pass, when the time was come that he should be received up, he stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem, 52 And sent messengers before his face: and they […]
Oceans of Blessings
I want to emphasize that the blessings described here are only part of the incredible miracle that is America. I haven’t forgotten other important areas. It’s just that I’ve run out of space. “God bless […]
An Epidemic of Human Nature
43 And they were all amazed at the mighty power of God. But while they wondered every one at all things which Jesus did, he said unto his disciples, 44 Let these sayings sink down […]
Luke 9 Part 6: A Fumble on the 50
37 And it came to pass, that on the next day, when they were come down from the hill, much people met him. 38 And, behold, a man of the company cried out, saying, Master, […]
Highway Patrol
“A Committee of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology defines State Police in this manner: ‘A state police is a specially organized and highly trained body, acting under state rather than local authority, […]
Luke Chapter 9-Part 5
An interesting side note before we get too far past it: God had “cloaking capability” millennia before Gene Roddenberry imagined the Starship Enterprise: “Now Herod the tetrarch heard about all that was going on. And […]
US Military and World Sitrep
I wrote recently that one of our major budget problems is that we are attempting to be a global police force on a national budget. Here’s an April 25th (2019) Gatestone article, “The Difficult Road […]
Law Enforcement Nightmares
Years ago, an officer speaking at a police-only seminar on crime, a lieutenant I believe, said from the podium, “We’re not killing enough people who need to be killed.” That sounds barbaric, bloodthirsty, psycho. Until […]
Luke 9 Part 4: The Good, the Bad, and the Scary
The restrictions Jesus put on this first mission of the disciples are puzzling: make no common-sense preparations. “Take nothing for the journey—no staff, no bag, no bread, no money, no extra shirt.” What? Again, why? […]