I bet there are some sore arms in Washington. It is a good thing that a three-day weekend was just around the corner. Those who sat in on Roger Clemens' hearing before Congress regarding steroid use in baseball could use some steroids themselves.

Wrestling makes one sore and I am not sure that there is enough Ben Gay ( I’m going to resist the urge to joke about Still Gay) for all of the soreness that wrestling for media attention during the Clemens' hearing has caused. I don’t know if you watched it or not but every seat on the committee was filled. I’m not talking about the audience; I’m talking about the committee members. If you ever have insomnia and you turn on C-SPAN you will notice that most committee meetings are very poorly attended by our elected officials...

My perky little girlfriend (wife) and I had the opportunity to attend some Gospel-training in Charlotte, N.C., which included a morning at a local abortion mill. We have done this many times, but this past weekend the Lord allowed me to see something differently. Now, I’m not talking about “seeing” with my natural eyes, but rather the ability to “see” things with the Spirit. Helen Keller is purported to have said, “there is nothing as tragic as one who has sight but cannot see.”

The parking lot was flooded with cars on this crisp, sparkling Saturday morning...

If you are like me, one of the least favorite comments that your spouse can say to you is “I told you so.” Well, I don’t want to rub it in, but…

“I told you so.”

Super Tuesday is over and all across America our Christian-leadership is probably waking up with a bad taste in their mouths. You know what I mean, the kind of pasty taste that a night of smoking and drinking leaves you when you first bat your eye-lids in the morning. I never smoked, but I drank enough beer to keep them working overtime at the local Budweiser plant in Columbus...

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. ~1st Amendment to the US Constitution

Look for the period. In our English language a period is very significant. It marks the end of a thought. Go back and look for the period. The entire 1st Amendment is one compound sentence; it is not a collection of un-related thoughts.

"America, America, God shed His Grace on Thee...." America the Beautiful

Has there ever been a nation like America?  I mean, in all of history has there ever been a place like the good ole U.S. of A.?

I'm not talking about the gasping-for-air nation that is a mere penumbra of her once-great self.  No, I'm talking about the "land of the free" and the "home of the brave" that used to occupy the area between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.  What a marvel was "A shining city set on a hill" as President Reagan once called her.

As the old United Negro College Fund commercial used to tell us, "the mind is a terrible thing to waste."  Losing one's mind is even worse. 

America has lost her mind.

What is the mind?   It is "the element, part, substance, or process that reasons, thinks, feels, wills, perceives, judges, etc.  In most Americans this part of the brain no longer functions.  For many the loss of our mind is a result of the "mind blowing" experience of the sixties, or from sitting at the feet of the radical Humanists who permeate our nation's universities, or perhaps from a life filled with Oprah, Dr. Phil, Jerry Springer and the Cable News outlets.

America is dying from malnutrition.  How long can a people survive eating junk-food? 

I turn on the TV or radio and listen to the sugar being fed to the listeners and I nearly fall into a diabetic coma. 

Yesterday as I took a rare trip to the mall I passed by the Walden's Book Store and I was shocked to see that the featured book displayed at the entrance of the store was Joel Osteen's "Becoming a Better You", Christian cotton-candy for the masses.

"Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation." Romans 13:1-2

This kind of question makes many folks nervous.  I don't do it to cause anyone to get theological-hives.  It is just that sometimes these crazy issues pop into my head.  As I often tell readers, I am not a theologian.  I am currently enrolled in the "school of the wilderness."  I try to follow the model of the Berean Christians who "searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so."

"Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world."  I John 4:4

We can still win, you know?   In this battle for America, we Christians can win.  I know that flies in the face of most folks' theology, but we would fight harder if we weren't so committed to living out pre-written history.

"Well, Coach, you see I have read the end of the Book and WE WIN!"  I hear Christians mimic that line all of the time.  It gets me looking for the duct tape.

"Oh, yeah?"  I usually respond.  "Well, you better read it again.  HE wins, not us.  We just get to be part of the team."

I turned fifty-five last Monday.   It's hard to believe.  I always hated double-nickels.  That goes back to the days where they made us drive 55 mph on the Interstate in a government-mandated hoax to save gasoline.  Seventy was so much better.  It got me there faster. 

I think I can see seventy off in the horizon.....

Where did my life go?  I was doing the math the other day.  Fifty five is as close to eighty-five as it is to twenty-five.  Man, twenty-five, now those were the days.  I could run without aching, talk without thinking, and spend without earning.