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05/29/2026

*Jeannette’s and my gravestone (along with our three children’s “amazing grace stones”)

Jeannette faces a choice after being diagnosed with metastatic pancreatic cancer. Will the rest of her days on earth be death denying or life giving?

I wonder if we all face the same choice…

Reading through the Bible…2 Chronicles 7-9/John 11:1-29

…then he said to his disciples, “Let us go back to Judea. ”But Rabbi,” they said, “a short while ago the Jews there tried to stone you, and yet you are going back?” (John 11:7-8)

After a Sabbath healing in John 5, the authorities seek to kill Jesus because He calls God his own Father.

At the Feast of Tabernacles in John 7 after Jesus goes to Jerusalem and teaches in the Temple, the crowd and authorities attempt to arrest him, but fail because his time had not yet come.

At the Feast of Dedication in John 10, after Jesus claims that He is one with the Father, the leaders in Judea pick up stones to stone him for blasphemy.

Jesus could understandably want to deny His own imminent death out of fear. He chooses, instead, to give life out of faith. He goes back to Judea, even though He knows that is where Lazarus has died and where Jesus soon will die as well.

The disciples think that Jesus is denying Lazarus’ death. Instead, Jesus is defying it. Rather than giving in to Lazarus’ demise, He chooses to give life to him, instead.

Why? You tell me.

Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. (John 11:5)

Jesus’ love for Mary, Martha and Lazarus brings Him back to Judea, to Lazarus’ tomb. Jesus love for the rest of us brings Him all the way to the cross. He risks his life for Lazarus, He sacrifices His life for us…out of love.

Greater love has no man than this, that he would lay down his life for his friends. (John 15:13).

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My late wife Jeannette endures four different clinical (read experimental) trials. She chooses them when other standard of care treatments are no longer effective in slowing down her cancer.

She chooses those trials not out of fear. She chooses experimental treatments out of love for us, her family. She wants more time with us.

She also chooses to endure grueling treatments out of love for others. She hopes that the treatments, even if they don’t give life to her, may perhaps give life to someone else in the future.

*She has that hope, as do all the amazing doctors who treat her at NIH. She does not, they do not, deny death. They simply seek to give life (when given the funding to be able to do that. Who knows? Maybe some of that billion dollars a day we are spending on fighting Iran could be redirected towards fighting cancer).

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Jeannette finishes her last clinical trial, just a few days prior to her death. She is, in a clinical trial sense, potentially giving life to others up to the very point of her death.

I hope that the same will be said of me when I die.

My name is already written in gravestone. The date, however, remains to be inscribed. Right up until that day, which I do not deny will come. Right up until that day, I want to give my life for others while here on earth. I want to do so, in the hopes that the One who claims to be the Resurrection and the Life (John 11:25), will grant life to me in Heaven.

I have a choice every day until I die, whether to deny my death out of fear or give life to others out of faith.

So do you…

05/28/2026

*Kilmar Abrego Garcia speaks during a rally and prayer vigil for him before he enters a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office on August 25, 2025 in Baltimore, Maryland.
Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

I wonder if King Solomon would be happy. I wonder if he would be pleased that last Friday a federal judge in Tennessee dismissed criminal charges against Kilmar Abrego García, an immigrant who was wrongfully deported to El Salvador.

Reading through the Bible…II Chronicles 4-6/John 10:24-42

And don’t forget the foreigner who is not a member of your people Israel but has come from a far country because of your reputation…Listen from your home in heaven and honor the prayers of the foreigner, So that people all over the world will know who you are and what you’re like, And live in reverent obedience before you, just as your own people Israel do….(II Chronicles 6:32-33)

King Solomon asks God to listen to his own prayers. He also asks God to Listen to the Prayers of the Foreigner.

The word translated as foreigner is No-kree from neker. It can mean foreign, non-relative, adulterous, different, wonderful, alien or even outlandish. Solomon uses the word here specifically to refer to those who come from a far country.

Solomon wants God to Listen to the Prayers of the Foreigner for God’s sake….So that people all over the world will know who you are and what you are like.

He also wants God to listen for Solomon’s sake, so that the inhabitants of his country will live in reverent obedience before you, just as your own people Israel do.

Solomon believes that if God Listens to the Prayers of the Foreigner it will be good for God and for Country.

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If Solomon were alive today, he might be happy for Kilmar Abrego Garcia. He might be pleased to see Kilmar come from the far country of El Salvador to the U.S. He might be enthused to see him participate in a prayer vigil on August 25, 2025. He might even be happy to hear that some of Kilmar’s prayers are answered last Friday.

The King of Israel might be glad about Kilmar. The President of the United States might not. What’s the difference?

I’m just speculating, and it’s just me, but I think that Solomon might be more concerned about God’s reputation with people all over the world, than the other guy. The King of Israel wants all people to know who God is and what God is like. He wants to Make God Great Again (MGGA if you are following along in your program)

Solomon prays to God for God. Solomon also prays to God for Solomon’s Country. Solomon believes that foreigners can and will live in his country in reverent obedience.

Maybe he knows what we know. Foreigners (read immigrants) tend to be more religious than citizens whose families have lived in the U.S. for years.

Data shows that immigrants in the U.S. are generally more likely to have a religious identity than the native-born population. While over a quarter of foreign-born adults identify as religiously unaffiliated, U.S. immigrants as a whole report higher rates of religious affiliation and hold a greater share of Christians, Muslims, and Jews than the American-born population (Religion News Service)

Solomon prays for foreigners, for the sake of God and Country. Solomon also prays with foreigners. He constructs in the Temple a special place for foreigners to pray.

Solomon makes room for non-Jews to pray in the Temple, kind of like Jesus makes room for foreigners when He clears out the money changers. Matthew 21:12-17,Mark 11:15-19,Luke 19:45-48,John 2:13 ...

I don’t remember Jesus saying…do you…that “My House will be a house of prayer…for U.S. citizens”. I think He said, “My house will be a house of prayer for (and with) ALL people.”

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I don’t know about you, but I’m glad Solomon and Jesus make room for the foreigners in the Temple.

Why? Because I am one.

Unlike Solomon and Jesus, I am a non-Jewish person, I’m one of those foreigners for whom they advocate.

I’d like to believe that their prayers have helped, and continue to help, me know who God is. I’d like to think that partly because of their prayers, I now am able to live in reverent obedience to God.

What Solomon and Jesus do for me, I’d like to do for others…I’d like to bless God, and ask God to bless America, by Listening to the Prayers of the Foreigner.

I don’t know about a King or a President, but I think that might make God happy….

05/27/2026

I’ve earned some titles. Roughly 12 years of post graduate study will do that for you. M.Div. at WTS. Th.M at LSTC. D.Min back at WTS. I’ve Mastered Divinity and Theology. I’ve even Doctored up some Ministry.

I’ve earned some titles with my education. The title I treasure most, however, is one I’m still working on. It’s one that I would like you to work on too…

Reading through the Bible…2 Chronicles 4-6/John 10

A thief is only there to steal and kill and destroy. I came so they can have real and eternal life, more and better life than they ever dreamed of. “I am the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd puts the sheep before himself, sacrifices himself if necessary. A hired man is not a real shepherd. The sheep mean nothing to him. He sees a wolf come and runs for it, leaving the sheep to be ravaged and scattered by the wolf. He’s only in it for the money. The sheep don’t matter to him. (John 10:-10-13)

Jesus self identifies, He ego eimies in John 10, as a Good Shepherd. This is just one of seven I AM statements that Jesus uses to describe His purpose and mission.

Jesus first contrasts Himself with a sheep stealer. Sheep stealers are not concerned with nurturing, only capturing and destroying.

Jesus is no Sheep stealer. Nor is he a hired hand. He’s not in it for the money. He is willing to sacrifice His own life to protect His sheep from wolves.

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People who call themselves Christians believe that we have a Good Shepherd in Jesus. We seem to have forgotten, however, our responsibility as undersheperds.

We seem to be substituting televangelists and influencers for undershepherds. Mega church leaders steal parishioners from small congregations which can’t afford big facilities and extensive staff. Small churches get smaller. Big screens get bigger.

We think that we get the leaders we pay for. We forget that we actually get the leaders for whom we pray. As a result we hire televangelists and influencers who are in it for the money and for whom us sheep don’t matter.

Us sheep need to listen more closely to voice of the Good Shepherd, so we can find the right leaders, rather than settling for sheep stealers and hired hands.

We need to find and follow good undershepherds. Better yet, we might need to fill that role ourselves.

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My late wife Jeannette and I have a friend. Let’s call him Mario. He crosses the border from Mexico as a teenager some forty to fifty years ago now.

He is looking for a better life. He finds, instead, a less than better wife. His esposa is a citizen. Mario is not. After a few years of marriage and before Mario is able to gain his citizenship, she leaves him, taking almost everything he owns except a table cloth handmade by Mario’s mother.

Mario carries that table cloth with him for years as he travels up and down the country harvesting our food in farmers’ fields. Somehow, he ends up in Holland. Somehow, he becomes friends with mi esposa Jeannette.

At one Thanksgiving meal, years before Jeannette is diagnosed and later dies from pancreatic cancer, Mario gives my late wife that hand made tablecloth from his mother!

Mario calls me Pastor (the Spanish word for Shepherd). He gives the table cloth to Jeannette, however because, in the over ten years that Mario attends our church, Jeannette pastors him more than I do.

You may not have the same titles that I do. That doesn’t prevent you from doing what Jeannette does. There just may be a Mario out there who needs a Pastor, an undershepherd. That person just could be you. And…you just might get a cherished tablecloth out of the deal.

05/26/2026

*Taken on Jeannette’s phone of a young friend while we are celebrating our 35th anniversary in Paris on July of 2015

We tend to focus a lot on, Who sinned (myself included). Today’s passage begs for a different question, Who sees?

Reading…I Chronicles 28-29/John 9:24-41

Walking down the street, Jesus saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked, “Rabbi, who sinned: this man or his parents, causing him to be born blind?”Jesus said, “You’re asking the wrong question. You’re looking for someone to blame. There is no such cause-effect here. Look instead for what God can do. (John 9:1-5)

The disciples ask the wrong question. They are blind to the right question. They are looking for someone to blame, rather than looking for God to act.

So, Jesus provides for them a visual aid. Jesus heals the blind man on the street. Problem is, Jesus does this on the Sabbath.

Not only are the disciples looking for someone to blame. So are some of the Pharisees, “This man is not from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath.” (John 9:16) The Pharisees are so focused on what Jesus is doing wrong that they can’t see what God is doing right.

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Guilty as charged.

I confess that in this section of my articles, I often find someone to blame. He’s a hard to miss target. “Whose fault is it”, I ask, “that our country seems so divided”?

It’s easy to hang the blame on the one who wants to reward, with $1.776 billion in the "Anti-Weaponization Fund”, those who want to hang Mike Pence.

Sometimes, it is easier to blame than to believe.

So, for today, at least, let’s consider not just what our President can do to hurt others. Let’s consider what God, through Jesus, can do to heal.

Our passage records a man who is blind from birth. We know today that children can be blind from birth due to genetic mutations, developmental eye malformations, maternal infections during pregnancy, or premature birth complications. [1, 2]

Whatever the cause for the man’s blindness, Jesus provides the cure.

As I mention yesterday, Jesus toasts the man with the words and actions, “Here’s mud in your eye”. The man, who has been blind his entire life, can finally see!

*The healing, however, doesn’t happen until the man washes in the pool of siloam (see a modern rendering based on archeology below).

The Pharisees can’t believe the blind man is healed. The blind man can hardly believe it himself. One thing I know. he says, I was blind and now I see.

The Pharisees want to keep playing the blame game, so they throw the now seeing man out on the street. Jesus seeks him out and asks, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”

“Who is he, sir?” the man asks. “Tell me so that I may believe in him.” Since Jesus sends him to the pool, the blind man never actually sees who heals him. When the blind man finally sees the face of Jesus, he worships Him. (John 9:35-38)

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What can God do? God can, through Jesus, heal blind people!

For the blind man, however, as is true for most of us, it takes a willingness for us to move from blindness, through blame to belief.

I want to make that move myself. You too?

I realize that I have my blind spots. I see the speck in my brother’s eye while failing to see the log in my own (Matthew 7:3-5). I want God to remove that blaming log, so that I can see what God can do with the speck in my neighbor’s eyes.

I want to not only hear Jesus’ voice. I want to see His face as I reach out to those who are hungry, thirsty, strangers, naked, sick, or in prison? (Matthew 25:39-41)

I want to stop asking the wrong questions and start working towards healing answers.

Still, I need your help. Show me the sin that I can’t see in my own life…Better yet, help me open my eyes to the saving works that God can do.

If you’ll help me. I’ll help you…

Who sees? Maybe you and me as we BBC.

05/25/2026

"Here's Mud in Your Eye"
(A Memorial Day “Repost Toast” from last year)

Some claim the phrase originates in the muddy trenches of WWI. Others trace it all the way back to taverns in the 1890s. What do you think this informal substitute for the toast “cheers” means?

Reading…I Chronicles 26-29/John 9

Jesus spit in the dust, made a clay paste with the saliva, rubbed the paste on the blind man’s eyes, and said, “Go, wash at the Pool of Siloam” (Siloam means “Sent”). The man went and washed—and saw. (John 9:6-7)

Jesus sees a blind man, probably begging for a hand out. He says and signs, Here’s mud in your eye.

Jesus heals others with just a word. Why mix his own saliva with dirt and smear it on the man’s eyelids?

Is he making a point with the onlooking religious leaders, working on the Sabbath when he knows they will object? Is it some kind of medical treatment. Is he trying to train his disciples in giving partial facials?

I don’t imagine Jesus looking at the religious leaders, or even at his disciples when he performs this miracle. I see him looking at the blind man…through his eyes, into his heart.

The blind and the lame in Jesus’ day are considered unclean, exiled socially and spiritually. Saliva and dirt in his eyes gives the man a visual aid to what he already feels. Washing that mud out of his eyes, however, billboards the blind man’s transformation from unclean to clean. “I was blind, now I see. I was unclean, now I’m clean.”

The encounter with Jesus transforms the blind man, not only physically, but comprehensively. We see a similar transformation happen with Saul.

Then Ananias went to the house and entered it. Placing his hands on Saul, he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord—Jesus, who appeared to you on the road as you were coming here—has sent me so that you may see again and be filled with the Holy Spirit.” 18 Immediately, something like scales fell from Saul’s eyes, and he could see again. He got up and was baptized… (Acts 9:17-18)

Ananias is the only one I could find in the Bible, other than Jesus, who restores someone’s sight. For Saul, as with the blind man, the miracle is more than physical…His body changes. His life changes.

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According to a Washington Post article, over 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers are blinded by Russian troops in just the first two years of their invasion of Ukraine. On this Memorial Day, I re-member those brave soldiers.

I raise a glass to say, Here’s Mud in Your Eye. May every brave soldier who seeks to serve and protect find transformational healing on this day.

On this Memorial Day, I honor those who face the physical challenges of war. I also honor those who overcome other wounds from conflict. Below, I repost a portion of Kristin Du Mez’ interview today with Neal Rickner.

*Neal serves 12 years on active duty in the US Marine Corps as an F/A-18 pilot and forward air controller. Having served three tours in Iraq, he is the recipient of the Bronze Star and 13 Air Medals.

I was trained to be a quiet warrior. I did some bad things. I did a lot of things that I don't want to talk about ever again, in combat. The folks who do the most, talk the least.

Neal isn’t blinded physically during his three tours in Iraq. He does, however, do some bad things. I wonder if anyone can escape combat without doing some bad things, War has a way of giving Neal, like the blind man, a little mud in his eyes. Still, after being sent to Siloam service, Neal does some good things.

Neal launches, with Ken Harbaugh, the VALOR Media Network. Its mission: to empower voices that resonate with men, fostering a culture of authenticity, strength, and civic responsibility.

For Neal Rickner (and for Jesus with the blind man) it’s not a matter of who sins, but who sees. Neal puts it this way…There is nothing more invigorating to me than to be a protector, to be somebody who looks out for somebody who is weaker in whatever way that means: disadvantaged, fewer resources, or vulnerable in some way. That's why I went into the military. That's my version of masculinity.

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That’s my version too. In fact, that’s my version of being a Patriot…to be somebody who looks out for somebody who is weaker in whatever way that means: disadvantaged, fewer resources, or vulnerable in some way.

To each and all who feel the same way, here is my Memorial Day version of “cheers”.

"Here’s mud in your eye."

05/23/2026

*Sunrise in Space…Credit: NASA / Nichole Ayers

Solar scientists tell us that the Sun is the Light of our World. Jesus, who claims to be the Son of God tells us that He wants to be the light of our lives?

We might do well to listen to them both.

Reading…I Chronicles 19-21/John 8

When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” (John 8:12)

Jesus, as recorded in the Gospel of John, makes some extraordinary I AM statements.

I AM the bread of life 6:35, 48, 51.

I AM the light of the world John 8:12.

I AM the door of the sheep10:7.

I AM the good shepherd10:11, 14.

I AM the resurrection and the life11:25.

I AM the way, the truth, and the life14:6.

I AM the true vine15:1.

By using seven times the phrase “I AM,” Jesus builds on Moses’ encounter with God at the burning bush in Exodus 3:14.

God wants Moses to know who God is. So, God offers the phrase, I AM who I AM. Jesus wants His disciples to know who He is, so Jesus adds to the I AMs seven metaphors.

There remains what I would call a tetragrammatonic mystery for Moses about God. There remains a metaphoric mystery for Jesus’ followers as well.

Still, followers of Jesus believe that not only is God the Light of our World. God also wants, through a personal relationship with Jesus, to be the Light of our Lives.

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Jesus, of course, does not claim to literally be the Light of our World. That honor goes, not to the Son of God, but to the Sun of our Solar System.

That light, just in case the present administration forgets, that light produces about 650,000 times more energy in a single second than the entire Earth consumes in an entire year….The energy the Sun radiates into space every single hour is enough to power all of humanity’s needs for a year…Earth intercepts less than one billionth of the Sun’s total energy output, yet this still translates to 173,000 terawatts of power hitting our atmosphere at any given second…Humanity uses about ≈6×1020 Joules of energy globally each year. In comparison, the Sun produces that exact amount of energy in just one millionth of a second. In fact, the Sun generates more energy in a single second than humanity has used in its entire history (Google AI)

We would do well to listen to what solar scientists tell us about the Light of our World. Maybe, it would get our politicians to stop fighting wars and digging in the dirt for oil. Perhaps, it would encourage them, and all of us, to stop polluting our world and start investing in renewable sources of energy like Solar.

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We might do better, politically, were we to listen to our solar scientists. We might also benefit personally, were we to listen to Jesus’ addendum to His I AM. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.

Jesus wants to be the Light of Life for His followers, for those who consider themselves Christians, like me. He does not claim to be the Sun in our solar system. He does, however, want to operate like the Son of God might in our lives.

Jesus wants His love to be the gravitational pull which holds us in orbit. As we orbit in His love, He wants to provide enough light for us see a clear path and purpose for our lives. Better yet, He wants to provide not only purpose, but enough solar energy to live out and into that purpose for the rest of our lives and the life to come.

We might do well to listen to the solar scientists and start harnassing the more than enough energy that the Light of Our World provides. We might also do well to listen to the One who wants to be the Light of Our Lives…

…with this final promise

05/22/2026

‘I speak with Kathleen yesterday. She is a paid subscriber for three years now (who incidentally doesn’t like my using the present tense all the time). Sorry Kathy!

Kathleen and I attend the same CFHZ annual luncheon yesterday. Before lunch we talk together about how we want to self identify. We are not sure if we want to call ourselves Christians anymore, given the present associations of that term.

Reading…I Chronicles 16-18/John 7:28-53

There was a man of the Pharisee sect, Nicodemus, a prominent leader among the Jews. Late one night he visited Jesus (John 3:1)

Nicodemus, has a similar dilema. He is known as a Pharisee, a prominent leader among the Jews. Does he really want to be associated with Jesus whom they call Christ (the anointed)?

When Nicodemus first meets Jesus, he’s not sure he wants to be called a Christian. In fact, no one associated with Jesus wants to be called a Christian until Antioch. (Acts 11:26)

Nicodemus comes to Jesus initially at night because he is embarrassed of the associations, of his possible association, with Jesus.

Nicodemus chooses to start his search in secret. However, when his fellow Pharisees call for Jesus’ arrest, he is forced, perhaps haltingly, to come out of his Christ closet.

Nicodemus, the man who had come to Jesus earlier and was both a ruler and a Pharisee, spoke up. “Does our Law decide about a man’s guilt without first listening to him and finding out what he is doing?” (John 7:50-51)

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Nicodemus is not alone in being hesitant to identify himself with Jesus. There are many today who visit Jesus only under cover of darkness.

Christianity Today, in a well researched article, lists the ten most dangerous places to be a Christian in 2025 (notably the U.S. is absent from the list)

1 North Korea

2 Somalia

3 Yemen

4 Libya

5 Sudan

6 Eritrea

7 Nigeria

8 Pakistan

9 Iran

10 Afghanistan

https://www.christianitytoday.com/2025/01/christian-persecution-2025-countries-open-doors-watch-list/

There are many around the world who fear for their life. For that reason, they hesitate to call themselves Christians. Here in the U.S. at our worst, we fear for our reputation. At our best, we seek to honor Jesus’.

I personally feel like political and religious leaders today have arrested Jesus and taken Him into their political custody. They don’t want to really “listen to him”. They don’t want to “find out what He is doing”. They just want to prooftext his words to justify their voracious appetites for power and wealth.

For thirty five years as a pastor of several smaller churches, I didn’t feel the need to publicly endorse or oppose any particular political candidates. However, when I see my President AI generate himself as Jesus. When I hear him suggesting that Jesus would and should confirm election fraud for himself and all his followers. Then, I, like Nicodemus, feel compelled to speak up.

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I feel compelled to say today that I am a Christian. I feel compelled to say that I follow my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ (even though our secretary of Defense-War says the same thing).

I follow Jesus willingly. I hope to follow Jesus extravagantly.

Nicodemus, who had first come to Jesus at night, came now in broad daylight carrying a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds. (John 19:39)

With seventy-five pounds of myrrh and aloes, I worship Jesus in broad daylight. I confess Christ at the risk of my reputation, in the hopes of salvaging His.

That’s who I am. Who are you?

Latest report on Christian persecution exposes the role of wars and internal conflicts against churches.

05/21/2026

https://youtu.be/w1qz6W35Bi4?si=b_TLK4REZYqFf-u3

Jesus, in His longest recorded sermon, tells us that we can determine whether someone is speaking from God, by examining their fruit (Matthew 7:15-20/Galatians 5:22-23). In our passage today, however, He suggests that we might also want to examine their focus.

Reading through the Bible: I Chronicles 13-15/John 7:1-27

Anyone who wants to do his will can test this teaching and know whether it’s from God or whether I’m making it up. A person making things up tries to make himself look good. But someone trying to honor the one who sent him sticks to the facts and doesn’t tamper with reality. (John 7:17-18)

Jesus recommends that we test someone’s teaching by asking who they seek to honor. Are they trying to make themselves look good or honor God?

If, according to Jesus, our focus rests on ourselves, we will make thing up. If, however, we shine the spotlight on God, we will stick to the facts and not tamper with reality.

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Four people appear in the video above that is prepared for the 250 rededicate event: The President, Vice President, Secretary of State and Director of National Intelligence. They all claim that their words come from God.

How do we know?

Scripture suggests that we first find fruit: Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Gentleness, Faithfulness and Self Control. Do we see it in the lives of the speakers?

Then, we must ferret out focus. Who are they seeking to honor with their words?

In the case of POTUS, there is little wiggle room for doubt. Can anyone dispute the claim that Donald’s investments normally comes with the price tag of making himself look good?

How about for the others? The other three are all appointed by our President.

We don’t know for sure, what their focus used to be. We can be confident, however, on whom they must focus now.

The Cabinet are beholden to only one person. They are not elected by the people. They are appointed by the President. They answer to him only. He is the one who sends them. They occupy their positions of power solely at his disgression.

Perhaps that explains their changes of heart. Vance, Rubio and Gabbard all oppose Donald initially. Before they are appointed by him, they speak out against him.

However, after their appointments, they all change their tune. They abandon facts. They tamper with reality. In order to honor the one, the Donald, who appoints them, they change their focus.

They speak for Donald. They are rewarded accordingly. If and when they might choose to do otherwise, they will be summarily punished.

Their job is to make Donald look good. In so doing, they hope that they can also make themselves look good.

To paraphrase Matthew 15:8-9, These people honor me (Donald) with their lips, but their hearts are far from me (God). They worship me (God) in vain; their teachings are merely human rules.' (Matthew 15:8-9)

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We have a Cabinet full of people who change their focus because they are chosen by a President. We need a Congress full of people (all of whom are elected by us, many of whom confess to be Christians) who will change their focus (i.e. Trump’s Weaponization Fund) because they are chosen by God.

You did not choose me. I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last… (John 15:16)

It happens in Minneapolis. It now needs to happen in D.C.…

“It’s OK to change our focus…”

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