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Like sheep led to slaughter. Tragic and horrible. We MUST get loud.

There is a book called "Ordinary Men" available in paperback, on Amzon, that tells the story of a group of mid-level business owners in Germany who joined a 'special police group' just after the invasion of Poland. These men volunteered thinking to avoid the brutality of war by simply 'policing' the captive civilian population. They were tasked, to their initial horror, with cleaning the Jews out of villages (men women children) and taking them out to a secluded area together, then separating t…

Amen, and Amen. Antisemites aren’t the only ones denying the Holocaust. Every murderous despot on the planet prefers us ignorant to the horrors of self-centered centralized control. In a previous lifetime, I took a bunch of 8th graders through DC’s Holocaust Museum. I’m sure the bus trip back to the hotel was the first time in their lives they were speechless. It’s not like they hadn’t learned about it, but seeing is believing. I hope you’re praying with me that our nation will believe before i…

You echo my sentiments with great intimacy. Feeling less alone by way of your words, we work out our salvation with fear and trembling. And lastly: Death-the final wake-up-call. With Awe and Dread do I look with joy to the awesome nearness.

Amen, and thank you. You point straight to the heart of our hope. “For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain” (Philippians 1:21). The overtly unstable emotions, temper tantrums, and hyperventilation of those who resist the Spirit “show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them” (Romans 2:15). If I may paraphrase Christ when He knocked Saul down a notch on the road to Damascus, “…