It is an ancient story Yet is it ever new.
Where are you looking at blessing as bondage, something you GET to do as something you've GOT to do?
We should be more concerned with reaching the lost than pampering the saved.
A large oak tree is just a little nut that refused to give up.
What we spend, we lose. What we keep will be left for others. What we give away will be ours forever.
Getting offended is the bait of Satan for the believer.
If you need all the answers to trust God, you are not really trusting God.
Unequal group rights, the politics of redistribution and a Constitution whose meaning varies with changeable coalitions are a recipe for civil war.
The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution.
There has to be a consequence to failure. Schools in the inner cities cannot be told, 'Oh, we want you to teach every child to learn how to read and, incidentally, if you fail to do that there's no consequence,'. . There has to be a consequence to failure, and the Title I money needs to follow the child.
I didn't plan to be the rude middle-class comedian. You write a certain type of joke that you find funny, and mine happen to be often rude. Yes, it's juvenile, but that's me.