Free-for-All Friday

ROAD TRIP

After literally waiting months, Lois & I are leaving on a road trip tomorrow. We're heading to Eagan, MN, to visit our son Nathan, his wife Laura, & our grand-children Calvin (4 yrs old) & Clair (4months old). We last visited them in January, when we visited for Calvin's birthday & Claire's baptism. To say that we're looking forward to this trip would be an understatement.

TRUE PRAYER

"True prayer is an encounter with the Holy in which we realize not ony our creatureliness & guilt but also the joy of knowing that our sins are forgiven through the atoning death of the divine Savor, Jesus Christ. In such an encounter, we are impelled not only to bow before God & seek His mercy but also to offer thanksgiving for grae that gos out to undeserving sinners."  Donald Bloesch, Men's Devotional Bible

TRENDING *

* Compliments of The Babylon Bee

• "Mastercard changes name to Equalitycard"
• "With statues gone, pigeons forced to poop on rioters

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

"File it under pizza toppings only offered in Florida. State inspectors found an 80-lb iguana stashed in the freezer at a local pizza joint."  Norfolk Daily News, 6/24

MT. RUSHMORE

"A majority of very liberal respondents agreed that Mount Rushmore should be destroyed. 80 percent of very liberal and 71 percent of liberal respondents agreed they’d like to see the national anthem changed. What we see overall is a stunning defection of liberal and very liberal Americans from symbolic attachments to the nation itself that promises to get worse."  Michael Brendan Doughterty, National Review Online

POLITICAL POTPOURRI

"How long can this nation survive when its main cultural and educational institutions preach a relentless, unchallenged stream of anti-Americanism to young people (and others) who lack the background to resist this toxicity? . . . I respectfully appeal to reasonable people on both sides of the political aisle to recognize what's happening to the greatest nation in history and oppose it before it's too late. These kinds of revolutions don't end well for anyone -- including the nihilists who engineer them." David Limbaugh, Townhall

ELECTION 2020

"Some polls now have Joe Biden running ahead of Donald Trump by 10 points and sweeping the battleground states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. This vindicates the strategy Biden's advisers have adopted:  Confine Joe to his basement, no press conferences. Trot him out to recite carefully scripted messages for the cameras. Then lead him back to his stall. This enables Biden to avoid the blazing questions that are dividing not only Democrats and Republicans but liberals and leftists. And most of these issues touch on the explosive subject of race."  Patrick Buchanan, Townhall

THE STRUGGLE

"The struggle for churches and Christians right now is wanting to tell those groaning and those yearning for justice that they should adopt Christianity. "Our system," we say, "is better, because we see no color. We see neither Jew nor Greek nor male nor female nor slave nor free." We treat our faith as an alternative morality. But it is hard to argue with a group of sinners that a system followed by other sinners is the better alternative.

"Instead, Christians need to argue Jesus. The souls of those marching in the street groan like creation itself because they are moving closer to a great revelation. That groan is not because of a moral system upended but because all the world can feel the return of the King approaching.

"Christians need to be preaching Jesus, not Christianity. We need to preach about the end and the return and the world made new. It is fantastical and supernatural and unbelievable for so many. But it is real and true and will give the hopeless hope. The world groans and cries out for justice. No protestor or rioter will get or give true justice. But if they will just listen again to that voice they heard as a child, they will hear the faint whisper that there is something and someone better coming."  Erick Ericson, Townhall