Samson's Jawbone

  Just before Labor Day of 2012 my wife, youngest son, and I completed our move from Vestal, NY to Indianapolis IN. After a long day of unloading a truck and unpacking things I sat down to watch our first local news broadcast. The first complete news item we saw was of a raging house fire where a young mother and her infant had been trapped. A neighbor walking the street saw the fire, knowing that both mother and child were in the house, she rushed into the inferno to rescue the victims. She successfully saved the infant, but the blaze was too intense for her to return to aid the mother. The local media focused their story on her heroic action. The correspondent asked, "What caused you to rush into that blazing fire?"  The woman responded, "I was walking down the street and God said, 'You run in there and rescue that baby!' I'm a Christian, and Christians need to hear God when he speaks. People die when we don't obey God's voice."  While I agree ...

Have you ever had someone tell you that God had given them a message for you? Have you ever had someone tell you that God had told them to do something that seemed questionable or at odds with scripture (such as cohabitate with a member of the opposite sex)? Or have you ever had someone justify something that seemed to be blatantly unbiblical (like divorcing a spouse on unbiblical grounds) with the claim "God gave me a peace about it." When I was a college student the staff member of one of the Christian organizations on campus would often counsel students saying, "God impressed me today." If you ask questions or raise challenges, you were admonished for challenging God. Oh.  certainly, these folk would say that God speaks to us through his Word, the Bible, but they would say that we should also expect him to give us individual private revelation (or at least confirmation) through experiences and impressions. Having a relationship with God implies that we have an on...

One thing the January 6th hearing proved was that the Demonrat party is still very much afraid of Donald Trump. Unsurprisingly, the committee has spoken, accusing Donald Trump of insurrection and filing criminal indictments against him in the matter of the Jan 6th capitol disturbances. Their intent has been to punish him for his victory in 2016 and prevent him from ever running again. It was a predetermined outcome. But it has apparently hurt Donald Trump effectively, and combined with the disappointing midterm, it is almost certain that if Joe Biden and Donald Trump were on the ballot today Trump would lose resoundingly.  I say this as an unapologetic Trump supporter who wants nothing more than for him to get the nomination and return to the White House in 2025. Here's what I think Trump needs to do to win in 2024: 1. Trump needs to acknowledge the failure of the COVID 19 vaccine program.  This can be done carefully. Trump can acknowledge the many things he did to fight COVID...