GUEST POST from Don – Murder & Salvation

Part 1:  MURDER EXODUS 20:2-17 The sixth commandment is often written incorrectly in English. You may have it memorized?  In any case, it says “Thou shalt not kill.” (KJV, for example), but some newer translations, such as the English Standard Version (ESV) acknowledge the Hebrew meaning of the word by saying, “You shall not murder.”  (In a footnote …
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GUEST POST from Don – Comments on News

COMMENTS ON NEWS Fox reports:  “MSNBC’s Jen Psaki turns church school shooting into attack on prayer, Trump’s DC crime crackdown” Psaki intoned the long-used rhetoric that “prayer is not enough.”  She thinks (wrongly) that more legislation is needed.  In my experience (50 years of watching politics), it is clear that legislation is not enough either.  There have been at …
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GUEST POST from Don – Violence and Women

VIOLENCE AND WOMEN I still am unsettled.  Last summer a beautiful young woman attended church to observe her sister’s baptism.  She heard something in that Sunday’s message which touched a need in her life.  She started attending more or less regularly and found even more which touched her needs.  In fact, she found everything she had been missing (purpose …
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