“The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.” John 3:8 – Many of you young bloods never had to experience the energy shortage we did back in the 1970s. It was truly a pain in the ass to wait in line and you slept with one eye open praying that you had enough gas to get to work in the morning and that no one in the night siphoned your tank. I prayed…
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“Lends at interest, and takes profit; shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon himself.” -Ezekiel 18:13- I remember when my son was looking at going to college back in the early 90’s. I reviewed what course he could take and it looked like it would be a good option. He was really excited until we got to the tuition for a year. I was shocked at how expensive it was for four year. I explained to him how I didn’t think it would be…
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“For because of this you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing. Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.” -Romans 13:6-7- I spent most of my early youth trying to earn a dollar by doing yard work for people in my neighborhood in the summer or shoveling driveways in the winter. When I finally got my first real job I was excited for my first paycheck, I…
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“You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.” -Deuteronomy 11:19- The idea of American education, to loosely paraphrase is to create a population of people just smart enough to work the machine and just dumb enough to accept their situation so they don’t take their guns into the street. In my years of schooling, having taken civics and government classes (when they still existed before those traitors politicians cut their funding) neither I or…
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“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money. Money and politics is as American as apple pie. But the thing is you know that your momma or grandmama made the pie when you go to a pot luck or church bake sale. Thats kind of similar to how I like money and politics to be. If you are running to be my governor or congressman I like to know who made you. I…
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“Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations.” -Isaiah 42:1- When I was first married my beautiful wife and I would go camping by the lake with a large groups of our friends in the summer. Early in the afternoon we would all throw our money together so that we could buy a couple of cases of beer for the weekend. We would all decide what brand of beer we wanted and would send one person to go get it.…
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Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.” -Proverbs 14:34- There was a time way back in my life when men had honor and we felt that politicians looked out for their constituents like a shepherd did for its flock; Looking after their health, wellbeing, and security. They kept the proverbial wolves at bay. I sadly guess that time has gone the way of my beloved vinyl record of Leonard Skynyrd. I have voted for more Republican Presidents, Senators, Representatives, and even the occasional school board member then I can count at this time. The reason…