Friends: The Bible presents a book of loving faith while mankind searches for Godly scientific proof. I’m saying relationship beats evidence. Blessings, Bob

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Spirituality Column #1022

June 16, 2026

Common Christianity / Uncommon Commentary

Proof or Faith?

By Bob Walters

“The heavens declare the glory of God…” – Psalms 19:1

“The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God.’” – Psalms 14:1

Well, which is it?  Let’s go with the “God is real” line of thinking, because that is the only sure avenue of truth. I spent a big chunk of my life not really caring whether God was real or important or optional or a population-wide figment of imagination.

And, I wasn’t really interested, one way or the other, in “proof.” “Proof” is a very human appetite, but it can also be a philosophical trap. Things we can’t prove – love and beauty come to mind – enrich life but cannot be studied or created in a laboratory.

Then, once faith came into my life – meaning, when I came to appreciate the person and reality of Jesus – “proof” took a back seat to relationship. I realized in a big way it was more important to know God, Jesus, the Spirit, the Bible, and the communion of the saints – i.e., the church – than to define it, prove it, or to simply know “about” Christianity. I can’t explain how it happened, but reason achieved a new dimension in faith.

Granted, I’ve learned a lot about Christ, and I love sharing what I know.  But the life I live in Christ isn’t about proving God; it is about knowing reality can be trusted because God is already real.  My faith or lack of faith has – and never has had – any bearing on the heavens declaring the glory of God. Or His existence, or His truth.

God is there, and here, whether we like it – or understand it – or not.

Space aliens are a hot topic these days because of the government’s recent, massive public data dumps on nearly 80 years of UFO and UAP (Unexplained Anomalous Phenomena) lore. But I don’t interpret that as the point of Psalms 19, saying the heavens declare the glory of God because God is a space alien.

The creation, rhythms, and infinity of the heavens declare the glory of God. The fact that infinity goes in both directions – to the largest things and to the smallest things – tells us God is indeed operating in a realm we cannot comprehend. I’m not depending on alien life forms to either prove or disprove God.  Jesus has already done that.

I have a lifelong friend, a Catholic, who spends his Sunday mornings debating / discussing / studying with his atheist son about the merits (on his side) and seeming impossibility (his son’s side) of God’s reality, Christ’s truth, the Spirit’s indwelling, and the Bible and Church’s authority. My friend is a Mensa caliber genius, and his son is a highly placed attorney whom I would never call a fool.  But I pray for them both.

I’ve just finished reading Jeremiah J. Johnston’s book, published this spring, The Jesus Discoveries. In only 180 pages it is a fascinating look at 10 archeological evidences of Jesus’s life on earth, including updated studies on the Shroud of Turin and several proofs of New Testament historical and cultural facts. Johnston’s website, ChristianThinkers.com, is well worth investigating. It has interesting, thoughtful grist for Christian intellectual life.

I’ve attempted reading classics like William Lane Craig’s A Reasonable Response, Josh McDowell’s Evidence that Demands a Verdict, and John Polkinghorne’s Faith in the Living God. All present intellectually deep, masterful apologetics, but I lost interest because they each presented copious evidence for ringings of faith I already possessed.

To me it is ironic, if that is the right word, that the Bible is so clear about the necessity and efficacy of faith when so much of educated humanity demands and accepts only proof. That is a worldly bug, not a feature. It is how Satan convinces us to deny the obvious truth of the heavens, and to doubt the obvious hope and peace of a divine savior.

I am quite used to doubting myself; my comfort is in knowing I needn’t doubt God.

Walters (rlwcom@aol.com) spends no time trying to prove he loves his wife, nor seeking inviolable evidence she loves him.  Faith in love is its own proof. God is with us.

Friends: Childhood melts away and life’s challenges and opportunities beckon as high school graduates contemplate the places they’ll go. 

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Spirituality Column #1021

June 9, 2026

Common Christianity / Uncommon Commentary

‘Off and Away!’

By Pamela Walters

“Congratulations! Today is your day. You’re off to great places! You’re off and away!” – Theodor Gesiel, aka Dr. Seuss, from “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!”

(We’re turning over the column this week to my wife Pam, taken from her commencement address May 22 to the Mission Christian Academy class of 2026: 29 strong! – Bob)

“In the past four years in my English classes – and for a few of you, five years – we have read pieces by a wide assortment of authors, from Shakespeare to C.S. Lewis, Dickens, Agatha Christie, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Mary Shelley.  The names of the greatest writers the world has known have surrounded you each day in class.  But there is one very well-known and well-loved writer whom we did not study: Dr. Seuss.

“So … a bit of Seuss-ism on this auspicious day.

“‘Congratulations!  Today is your day.  You’re off to Great Places!  You’re off and away!  You have brains in your head.  You have feet in your shoes.  You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.  You’re on your own.  And you know what you know.  And YOU are the guy who’ll decide where to go.”

“While we can agree with some of what Dr. Seuss wrote, as Christians, we have a different mindset when we look to the future.  True: this is your day.  Many of you have worked hard to achieve this goal.  You have persevered and finished well.  “You all ‘have brains in your head,’ and we hope that educationally you are prepared for whatever path you travel from here.  But more importantly, we pray that you keep your mind on Christ and that His Word is written on your hearts. ‘In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will direct your path.’ Most of you have made your first big decision: it’s college or technical school, the military or the work force. While you can ‘steer yourself in any direction you choose,’ we pray that you are allowing Jesus to guide your steps, that you are seeking His will for your life. 

“‘Oh, the places you’ll go!  You’ll be on your way up!  You’ll be seeing great sights! You’ll join the high fliers who soar to great heights.  Wherever ‘you fly, you’ll be best of the best.  Wherever you go, you’ll top all the rest.  Except when you don’t.  Because sometimes you won’t.  I’m sorry to say so but, sadly, its true that Bang-ups and Hang-Ups can happen to you.’

“Those of us who have spent so much time with you here and have come to love and care for you wish we could tell you that as long as you stay close to Jesus and attempt in every way to do His will, life will be nothing but joy and happiness and success.  But that isn’t how life goes in this fallen world.  There will be ‘bang ups and hang ups.’ challenges, disappointments, and failures. 

“The Bible tells us there will be trials.  But the big difference between facing trials on your own and facing them with Jesus is that He promised He would always be with you; Jesus will never leave you or forsake you.  You know my story; you know life has not been a cake walk.  But in the disappointments, Jesus was hope. In the darkness, He was light. When I didn’t think I could take any more, He was my strength. Let Jesus be your hope, your light, your strength. ‘For with Him, you can do all things.’

“‘Oh, the places you’ll go!  There is fun to be done!  There are points to be scored.  There are games to be won.  Fame!  You’ll be famous as famous can be, with the whole wide world watching you win on TV.  Except when you don’t.  Because, sometimes, you won’t.  I’m afraid that sometimes you’ll play lonely games too.  All alone!  Whether you like it or not, Alone will be something you’ll be quite a lot.  And when you’re alone, there’s a very good chance you’ll meet things that scare you right out of your pants.  There are some, down the road between hither and yon, that can scare you so much you won’t want to go on.  But on you will go though the weather be foul.  On you will go, though your enemies prowl.’

“On you will be able to go as long as you put your trust in Jesus, for with Him, you will never be alone.  You need to remember that you have never been alone.  While this is a time of beginning – that’s why it’s called commencement – please look back at where you’ve been.  You have families who have surrounded you with their love and support.  Here at MCA you have had teachers and staff who have encouraged you and prayed for you and have come to love you.  And we will all still be here for you should you ever need us.

“‘On and on you will hike, and I know you’ll hike far and face up to your problems whatever they are.  You’ll get mixed up, of course, as you already know. So be sure where you step; step with care and great tact.”  The world will try to trip you up; Satan loves to cause confusion and fear.  But remember that “our God is not a God of confusion but of peace.”  So ‘let us lay aside every weight and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith.’

“Congratulations! Today is the Lord’s day. You’re off to great places. You’re off and away.”  We love you, we’re excited for you, and we will be praying for you. 

“God bless.”

The Faculty and Staff of Mission Christian Academy

Mr. Walters (rlwcom@aol.com) notes that Mrs. Walters’ “Charge to Seniors” (which also appears in MCA’s 2025-26 Yearbook) is an annual graduation send-off, this year to MCA’s fourth graduating class. Mission Christian Academy in Fishers, Indiana, a K-12 private school, begins its seventh school year this August. MCA’s inaugural enrollment was 38 in 2020-21; enrollment this fall exceeds 750.

 

Friends: We started a summer sermon series on Deuteronomy at our church. It reminds us Jesus is all over the Old Testament, too. Blessings, Bob

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Spirituality Column #1020

June 2, 2026

Common Christianity / Uncommon Commentary

Shadows and Reality

By Bob Walters

“These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ.” – Colossians 2:17 NIV

The Old Testament is a catalogue of God’s Creation, God’s character, God’s righteousness, and God’s plan. It is the tale of man’s possibilities in God but also man’s failures in sin. It is a tale of nations, of Satan, of rulers, of the faithful, of the deceitful, of prophets, and if you know how to look, one can find shadows and types and hints of Jesus on every page. He is the One to Come.

But the Old Testament is a story without a climax, a resolution, or a moral ending. It just … stops.  It is Jesus Christ, and the Gospel, and the New Testament writers who pull God’s Word all together: the Old story of God’s creation and man’s sin, and the New story of God’s grace and human salvation.  Salvation that is promised in the Old but delivered in the New. We need both Testaments to understand the full story; we need Jesus to understand God’s reality.

I like to say that the Old Testament describes the problem and the New Testament describes the solution. The problem? Our sin, our distance from God, and our human pride of sufficiency. The Solution?  Well, the solution is Jesus Christ and our renewed divine and eternal relationship in God’s Kingdom. That is what we celebrate with communion. It is a small meal that nourishes our souls and cements our fellowship in Christ.

As we enter into this new sermon series anchored in the Old Testament book of Deuteronomy, let’s use today’s communion time to mention various places in the Old Testament that suggest communion in the coming Messiah Christ.  In the cup is represented the blood of Jesus’s sacrifice and life, and in the bread, Jesus’s body and fellowship. With these, we remember the body and blood of Christ.

In Genesis, the apple of “the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil” is the opposite of communion. The “apple” separated us from God; communion in Christ restores us to God.

The other tree in the garden, routinely overlooked, the “Tree of Life” (Genesis 3:22), calls us to “eat of it and live forever.” In Revelation 2:7, Jesus says, “to the victor I will give the right to eat from the Tree of Life that is in the Garden of God.”  In this communion is Christ’s promise of eternal life. In His sacrifice we are forgiven, and in our faith, restored to God’s Kingdom. In Genesis 4 we see Abel’s blood spilled by Cain, then Hebrews 12:24 declares the blood of Jesus “speaks more eloquently than that of Abel.”

Before there was the Jewish Law, there was Melchizedek, the mysterious, eternal king and priest, “made to resemble the Son of God” (Hebrews 7:3), who in Genesis 14:18 offered a sacrifice of bread and wine, foreshadowing communion.

In Exodus there are of course the blood of the Passover and the manna, or bread, of the desert.  There is the “hearth cake and jug of water” for Elijah in the desert (1 Kings 19), the Temple’s “Bread of the Presence” (Lev 24:7), and the Fiery Coal of Isaiah (Isaiah 7:6-7).  In Ezekial 2:8, the prophet has a vision, when God and the Spirit of the Lord enter him, saying, “open your mouth, and eat what I give you.” All these are shadows of communion with the coming King of Kings.

The Jesus we know has given us this communion to share. As we consume this small meal, let us consume and remember the Word of God in scripture, and remember the Word Who was made flesh, died for our salvation, and rose again in promise of eternal life.

Walters (rlwcom@aol.com) delivered this communion homily Sunday, May 31, 2026 at E91 Christian Church in Indianapolis where he and Pam are longtime members.

Friends: What is the best way to fight for Christ? Fight like John the Baptist, or “fight” like Jesus?  Peter Heck’s new book Rebellious has some good perspective.

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Spirituality Column #1019

May 26, 2026

Common Christianity / Uncommon Commentary

Warrior for Christ?

By Bob Walters

“We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors …” – 2 Corinthians 5:20

Some years ago, “Rob” was a wonderful Christian guy at our large church, active in Bible studies, the greeting team, traffic control, whatever … and always ready to cheerfully lend a hand with anything that needed to be done.

His full name escapes me now (though I remember his face), and once he remarked that he wanted to be “a warrior for Christ.” I thought that was a laudable goal, and I know he meant it in the best way possible. On the one hand, it is: forceful! 

But Peter Heck’s new book, Rebellious: What if Christians Were Actually Different? offers a sobering op-ed to that “warrior” ministerial objective, an objective Peter previously held most of his life. He possessed the well-researched and well-rehearsed scriptural kill shots to silence critics, heretics, atheists, or anyone looking at Christianity and getting it wrong. Since being baptized 26 years ago and digging deeply into scripture, I had always wanted to be that guy, too.

Peter was that guy, with successful decades of Christian but also cultural and political commentary.  Peter was a warrior for the right side of God and history.

He had a Sunday morning radio show on Indy’s WIBC, frequently made national guest appearances on Fox News and Glenn Beck’s show, wrote copious online commentary for Not the Bee and other platforms (Substack, etc.), travels as a speaker at conferences, conventions, and youth rallies, and preaches at Jerome Church near Greentown, Indiana, where he teaches history and government at Eastern High School.

Oh, and he recently rebranded his four-times weekly podcast to “Dashboard Jesus,” which has been heavily refocused from his earlier online offerings, lessening political content and emphasizing his heart for Christian life and scriptural truth.

I’ve followed Pete online for years and yes, he is a busy guy. He mentioned in a post a while back that he was easing off the political commentary to focus on preaching, but retains a great perspective on American history and the current state of our political and cultural dissonance. It is his approach to engaging the world that has changed.

Peter had an awakening three or so years ago that led to writing Rebellious, which he lays out in chapter 12, titled “Grace.”  It came when a college friend gently told Peter he couldn’t finish listening to one of Peter’s recorded sermons because of its harsh tone (pp155-157 in the book). The friend said it sounded “angry and mean.”

After a brief bout of defensiveness, Peter re-listened to the sermon and had to agree.  And then came (what I think is) the brilliant self-diagnosed revelation of his whole approach to witness. Peter had always styled himself after John the Baptist, “preparing the way for Christ” (Matthew 3:3). After all, “Among those born of woman … none is greater than John the Baptist (Matthew 11:11). So, be like John the Baptist!

Wrong. Peter realized that his job in faith was to be an ambassador for Christ (2 Corinthians 5:20), and to be Christlike, i.e. gentle and forgiving. John the Baptist was commissioned to be the more blunt-force warrior, not fearing to be offensive.

“Offensive” is not what we are told to be. “We do not make war as the world does” (2 Corinthians 10:3). Jesus will make war in his own way when the time comes (Revelation 19:10-11). Christlikeness now should look like love, peace, and patience.

So, be like Jesus, not like John the Baptist. Be different, and read Rebellious.

Walters (rlwcom@aol.com) recommends Heck’s website, PeterHeck.com, and offers these book links: About Rebellious, Buy Rebellious.

Friends: What the Jews expected as salvation and what Jesus actually delivered were two very different things.  Special note down at the bottom. Blessings, Bob

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Spirituality Column #1017

May 19, 2026

Common Christianity / Uncommon Commentary

In the Name of Jesus

By Bob Walters

“Salvation is found in no one else …” – Peter, Acts 4:12

What I notice most about the Gospels, especially the cross and resurrection, is that at the time of Jesus, no one but Jesus understood what was going on.

The Jews certainly had faith in God and worshipped Him piously in obedience to the Law, but “salvation” was misunderstood and remained shortsighted.  What the Jews expected and what God had in mind were wildly different. Nobody saw it coming.

Early Jews, as a culture and race, were of low consideration to the surrounding and much bigger cultures.  The Egyptians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, and Romans aggressively built and lost empires, while the Jews were regularly the object of conquering armies. They were picked on, held in low esteem, and their God mocked.

God had chosen Israel as “His People,” frequently informing Jewish prophets of their leaders’ missteps, even loosing armies on the Jews for their lack of obedience and misdirected faith. Disobedience began early: Moses descended the mountain with God’s laws only to find the Jews had fashioned a golden calf, an idol, that commandments one and two plainly forbade.

Did the Jewish leaders listen and learn from the prophets? No, they killed them.

Remember, at that time, God’s laws pertained to the Jews and no one else. On the “global” scene, Israel was small potatoes, a backwater religion and culture in a small area of the lands at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea. The Jews, I think, understood they had a monopoly on the One True God, but did not see His long game.

Throughout the Old Testament, salvation for the Jews, briefly stated, would rid them of their outside tormentors, provide forgiveness for their mistakes and sins, elevate their status in the world, and make life easier. Theirs was a very hard life.

The Messiah, they believed and hoped, would both kill their outside enemies and lift the Jews up from their humble state to world power. Forgiveness, on the list of what they expected the Messiah to accomplish, appears to have remained an afterthought.

It was a tight and worldly view of salvation. Christ’s healing of sin, eternal forgiveness, restored divine relationship with God, a forever home in heaven, and an earthly Kingdom in Christ offered to the whole world, was on nobody’s radar. 

Hence, when Jesus arrived, He would fulfil the truth of what God had told the prophets, not what the Jews told themselves.  They wanted the Messiah to kill Romans.  The Cross looked like a failure; anything but salvation. The Resurrection? A mystery. The aftermath? It would take years for some Jews, then the world, to see the truth.

As Luke records in Acts 4:12, Peter preaches to a “greatly disturbed” (Acts 4:2) Sanhedrin: “Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.” Truth? It is God’s Son who saves.

The Law, it turns out, would save no one. The name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth was the exclusive eternal avenue to the One True God. What the Jews cried for as salvation was not the gift God had in mind. Christian understanding came slowly.

The disciples and earliest Christians came to firm belief that Jesus was the Son of God, the Messiah. The resurrection, following all Jesus said, accomplished that. Then the full fruit of what God provided to us through the sacrifice of Jesus blossomed.

I praise God for the gift of nearly 2,000 years of scripture scholarship and faithful wisdom that we can grasp the grace, mercy, love, and truth Jesus delivered to humanity.

Walters (rlwcom@aol.com), because Jesus lives, believes good and evil exist and are easier to tell apart.

BTW, big week ahead! It’s the last week of school, MCA graduation is Friday night (Pam is commencement speaker), Saturday is my 72^nd birthday, and both of my sons and their families, plus my sister Linda (and Bill) and brother Joe will all be in town for the 500. I won’t be attending the race (which is sold out and will be on live TV in Indianapolis), but everyone will be at our house Saturday for our annual Night Before the Race pregame meal. Blessings abound.

Friends: Those who think they need evidence instead of faith to find God don’t quite get the real picture. See the column below ... Blessings, Bob

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Spirituality Column #1017

May 12, 2026

Common Christianity / Uncommon Commentary

Evidence of Faith

By Bob Walters

“… the fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God.’” – Psalm 14:1

All those years I spent not knowing Jesus, thinking back on them, I don’t remember thinking, “There is no God.”

To me, God seemed to be an easy “given.” Somebody or something must have created everything. “Nothing” couldn’t be the Creator. So … God? Sure. It was Jesus and the Bible that remained outside my belief or comprehension or whatever you call it when the most important component of life eludes one’s sense of being and purpose.

Modern political correctness – some would call it “restrictions on voicing sensible observations” – would argue it is not nice to call someone a “fool.” But it is perfectly okay to vociferously deny the existence of God, the truth of Jesus, the indwelling of the Holy Spirit and the authority of the Bible. That denial, to me, now, is foolishness on parade.

This double standard, I think, has to do with a general, elite non-tolerance for accepting the existence of a higher, nay, “highest” authority. As our culture has leaned more and more toward the collective, i.e. socialism, Marx, etc., the more people in charge resist being supplanted by a God who has more authority than they do.

Those “in charge” are not only elected government officials and bureaucrats. They are educators and pundits who shape not just social views and public opinion but shape minds and souls.  It is so ironic to me that liberals striving for a collective, homogeneous, and obedient population first destroy, through fear of rejection, individual freedoms of speech and self-determination. It is the least liberal thing they could do.

Limit what people can say and do, and tribes will form around protecting common but flawed ideas. This tribalism leads to broad but intense social separation, which reduces the power and influence of the overall population. Control language, limit God, and keep power among those who feel they are enough like god not to need the real God.

Anyway, it’s not nice to call someone a fool even if one’s foolishness limits one’s embrace of life’s purpose and meaning.  That’s where Jesus comes into play.

After my youthful time as an Episcopal altar boy (acolyte), age 11-14, I definitely knew the Jesus story but definitely not Jesus himself and not the Bible. I really had no handle, then, on the divine meaning of anything I was doing in life other than what was good or bad in the moment, reaping rewards or punishment or fleeting satisfactions.

If Jesus or the Bible came up in conversation, I had developed my own unremarkable practical theology of Jesus being a good teacher and the Bible being a good book. And sure, some “spirit” had to be floating around animating thought and life.

My own lack of faith didn’t feel like emptiness because I didn’t know what I didn’t know. I realize now a lot of people are like that, but I don’t want to call them fools. My own experience tells me that insults don’t work when it comes to Christian witness. My experience when faith came – and since – also introduced me to the God I never knew.

That truly is what Jesus did, and does. I understand not believing in Jesus …  because I didn’t, for 47 years. What Jesus delivered into my life was the enormity of God’s purpose, glory, and the meaning of our place in his eternal and glowing life. 

What gets me is that all his understanding and love came not by hard evidence, as the world needs, but by a faith so deeply embedded, implanted, or arrived at (I may never know how and why) that, I dare say, I find evidentiary arguments tiresome.

The best proof is in one’s heart and mind, and how Jesus introduced me to God.

Walters (rlwcom@aol.com) is plenty curious, but mainly thankful.

Friends: American Christians caught a break last week with the correction of various Federal discriminations against Christian faith.  It is a welcome step in the right direction. Blessings, Bob

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Spirituality Column #1016

May 5, 2026

Common Christianity / Uncommon Commentary

'… But Not of the World'

By Bob Walters

“I have given them your word and the world has hated them…” – Jesus, praying to God for the disciples shortly before his arrest. John 17:14

We are all familiar with the phrase that Christians are “in the world but not of the world.” While not precisely scriptural, it is sound doctrine and a worthy posture.

But it is “in the world” that we currently are, and with which we must contend.

American Christians caught a break this past week when the United States Department of Justice issued a 535-page report cataloguing and in many cases reversing or easing purported systematic discriminations against Christian faith.

On the one hand I hesitate to bring this up because two lines will immediately form, neither having to do with religious freedom, philosophy, or practice. The lines will have everything to do, pro or con, with one’s opinion of the current U.S. president.

On the other hand, Christians who recognize various and ongoing governmental inconsistencies and outright invasions of our faith can breathe a short sigh of relief. While the overall American political landscape remains a conflicted cesspool, traditional Christian belief is, for now, only at the mercy of the culture, not the U.S. government.

I say “short” breath because these freedoms – supposedly our divine rights – are sadly, today, a fleeting function of partisan politics at the mercy of who gets elected.

On that subject, elections, Paul in Romans 13:1-7, says – and I’m paraphrasing – we get the government we deserve, we should obey the government, civil government exists outside the church, and that government rightly provides order for society.

Islam is a theocracy, Judaism is too, though Israel is not. Christianity is not. God ordains government to serve the people’s interests, not to dictate a person’s faith.

The Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution further establish the divine existence and supremacy of individual rights. James Madison presciently noted long ago that those rights will work only for a “moral and religious people.”

He meant it, and was absolutely not talking about “my truth” and “your truth.” Our founding documents were authored on the understanding of Christian ethic, human sin, and eternal judgment, and on the divine truth of God, Jesus Christ, and the Bible.

Freedom of religion? Sure. But not freedom from truth, which is our current and abiding political problem. God is more merciful than man, yet His truth and judgment are eternal; they are the same for everyone all the time whether one believes in God or not.

That, by the way, is how one can identify “real” truth: It is true all the time.

I’ve corralled a couple of – trigger warning – conservative resources (Here and Here) that flesh out what the Department of Justice came up with in its investigation over the past 14 months.  Yes, the report cites criticism (wokeness, DEI, abortion, etc.) of the last administration and does a predictable bit of cheerleading for the current one.

The Democrats say it is the end of democracy; the Republicans say it is about time. I’m on the side thankful for the disparities to be aired and, hopefully, cleaned up.

The Pharisees hated Jesus because He replaced their power, prestige, and, really, obviated their existence.  Unlike Jesus, Christians are merely sinners whose faith, properly lived and applied in the Word, point us to a world of love, not hate.

Walters (rlwcom@aol.com) qualifies for God’s grace only because he is a sinner.