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The end is coming. IT IS CERTAIN.

Last New Year’s Eve I looked ahead to 2020. I thought it might be interesting today to look back at my prognostications.

Will I get that promotion this year? (turns ball over) WITHOUT A DOUBT Yes!

Will my boyfriend and I still be together next Christmas? (turns ball) MY SOURCES SAY NO Hmm. What do these sources know that I don’t?

Will Trump get reelected? (gives ball a good spin) BETTER…

Abortion, homosexuality, human rights, etc. cannot be properly and rightly evaluated if this factor is ignored.

I’m mating elephants with this post. I’ve led the elephant from the famous parable to the metaphorical elephant in the room with the goal of conceiving a better understanding of something very important. That is, the willful avoidance of the biggest, most consequential factor before us when dealing with and discussing the issues that divide us. Abortion, homosexuality, human rights, etc.…

Well-known pastor and author @JohnPiper believes President Trump's boastfulness is deadlier than a culture of baby-killing and other proudly promoted sins. Here's why I disagree. #election2020 #BidenHarris2020 #Trump2020 #Democrats #Christianity

I respect and admire author and pastor John Piper, but his recent column “pondering the implications of the 2020 election” has not persuaded me against voting for Donald Trump next week. As I read it, his argument is that the ungodly traits in a president’s character are more deadly for a nation than any ungodly policies because they breed ungodly traits in the citizenry. And God has said…

Biden and Harris believe in abortion on demand. I rage against that, as every decent person should. #BidenHarris2020 #abortion #Democrats

My sixth grandchild is expected to make her exit from the womb within a few weeks, right around election day. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, and almost every other Democrat, believe my daughter-in-law has the right to have her daughter killed even today if she so chooses. I vehemently disagree. Here’s what I had to say about that when my first granddaughter was born.

My granddaughter was…

If Jesus called out the Pharisees of his day, and proclaimed woe after woe on them for their hypocrisy and willful blindness, his followers are right in calling out the Pharisees of our day.

A primary divide in American politics separates according to perceived goodness. Democrats see themselves as the virtuous ones and charge Republicans with bigotry and hypocrisy. Republicans have a similar but opposite perspective. Both sides claim the mantle of moral superiority but both can’t be right. (Because one of them is left.)

Since the division centers on morality, the best way to…

The voices and the Voice

Boy, there are a lot of voices out there…in the blogosphere and on social media, from the news-gatherers and pundits, from politicians, protesters, and pulpits. Is anyone really being heard over the cacophony?

Lately all the noise has inclined me to tune in to one, still, small voice that says to my mind and heart, “Shhh. Be at peace, my child. I know everything that’s going on and I am still…

I respect @DavidAFrench but am not persuaded by his argument. We cannot adequately evaluate the wisdom of giving Trump another 4 years in office based on his behavior alone. We must give equal consideration to the alternative. #Trump2020 #JoeBiden

In February 2020 BC (Before Covid), columnist David French penned an essay titled, Will Somebody Please Hate My Enemies for Me? In it he argued that Christians who support President Trump and know they are not to hate their enemies are, in defending the president, happy to let him hate their enemies for them. He concluded with, “…by God’s grace, I will love my enemies, and I will not hire…

There is one sin that Jesus's death did not cover but that we must pay for ourselves.

Imagine you’ve been justly convicted and imprisoned for life in a foreign country for various acts of cruelty and lawlessness. I know…you’re a good person and would never find yourself in such a scenario, but just go with me here. Now imagine also that a good king of a very prosperous and more powerful country makes a deal to purchase your freedom and bring you into his kingdom…a provision which…

We are suffering as individuals and as a nation because truth has not only stumbled in the public squares but has summarily been stomped on and suppressed. #BlackLivesMatter #PortlandRiots #Truth

Black lives matter. Of course. You know what else matters? TRUTH. I question whether those loudly and proudly condemning the police, certain politicians, and virtually all whites as racists believe that truth matters. If they did, America in 2020 would be a lot more peaceful and united than it currently is.

The facts surrounding the deaths of Breonna Taylor, Jacob Blake, Rayshard Brooks, Michael…

The fascists masquerading as Antifa-scists and the Marxist BLM protesters have nothing to objectively undergird their assumed righteous demands. #BLM #AntiFascist #Marxists #riots

WHAT DO WE NEED?   

OBJECTIVE TRUTH!

WHEN DO WE NEED IT?   

RIGHT NOW!!

I doubt we’ll be hearing any responsorial protest chants like this anywhere anytime soon…even though this commodity essential for daily living is increasingly being questioned, but definitely what we need. Right now.

Seventy-seven years ago a young, genuine anti-Fascist activist named Sophie Scholl was beheaded by the Nazis…

Liberty is a natural right given to us by God, not by man. Any man who attempts to take away this gift will have to answer to the Giver.

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it. –  Daniel Webster (1)

What’s not to love about liberty? Isn’t it the desire of every human heart to be free?

I used to think that, but lately I’ve come to realize that in this greatest and freest of all countries there is a contingent that does not love liberty…much less are ready to guard and defend it.…

A lot of criticism has been leveled against Christians who support President Trump because he doesn’t conform to what a good Christian should be. And after four years of it I just want to say, so what? #election2020 #JoeBiden #DonaldTrump

It is always better to be vulgarly right than politely wrong.

So said statesman and lexicographer Noah Webster. For me, this pithy saying encapsulates our choices in the 2020 presidential election. It shouldn’t be about personality but about policy. Does my candidate promote policies that are good for the country and its citizens even if he is sometimes boorish and brash? Or does my candidate…

"To the influence of this Book are we indebted for all the progress made in true civilization, and to this must we look as our guide in the future.”

I have always said, I always will say, that the studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands. (1)

So said our third president, Thomas Jefferson, about the bountiful benefits of Bible study. The converse is also true: Ignorance and dismissal of the Bible will make violent anarchists; self-centered, ill-equipped parents; and hypocritical…

If we would only heed the wisdom of the wise. Abraham Lincoln was one of the wisest, and he has much to say regarding our present conflict. #riots2020 #freedom #slavery #racism

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. (1)

This one, short quip conveys well how Abraham Lincoln felt about the forced subjugation of a whole race of human beings by another race. His strong conviction in the inherent, God-given right to freedom for all people stayed him through four long years of the Civil War, and compelled him…

I don't think we fully appreciate the value of freedom, nor the risk of losing it if we fail to nurture this most necessary of its foundations. #Election2020 #riots2020

Ask the average man or woman on the street what’s the one thing most necessary for securing freedom and you’ll likely get one of two answers:

less government control

more government control

But according to our Founding Fathers and others with knowledge and wisdom, the answer is not in the government of a nation at all but in the government of oneself. Virtueis that one thing most necessary for…

"When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty - to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.” - A. Lincoln #riots2020 #liberty #freedom #election2020

The leftists currently pushing America on a path to self-destruction insist that this country was built on racism and slavery. Statues of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson have been vandalized or torn down because they were slaveholders and thereby despicable racists who don’t deserve to be honored, according to these revisionists.

I suspect nary a one of these vandals knows anything more…

“Let the religious element in man’s nature be neglected...and he becomes the creature of selfish passion or blind fanaticism." #riots2020

“It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage…Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.” (1)

The violent and destructive BLM rioters and Antifa fascist mobs are not members of Civil Society, according to James Madison. Not even they would deny that, I suspect. And their “incivility” can…