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Hold Fast To His Dear Hand I’m working on my sleep. I started tracking it about a month ago to determine what wakes me in the night and what whispers in my ears, keeping me from going back to sleep. Early this morning, I awoke, the usual cause being a sixty-six-year-old man needing to take a restroom break. You, younger men, may laugh, but your time is coming.  As I tried to go back to sleep, worries of tomorrow and months down the road flooded my mind. I said in a whisper, G

The Ultimate Scapegoat, ICE You never used to hear much about ICE. Now, it seems, every social issue, every wrong that needs to be righted, is caused by ICE. One of the techniques I see the extreme left using a lot is repetition. They’re great at saying on message, even when there is no truth in what they say. They hammer and claw, despite facts and figures, knowing the general public isn’t paying attention and is easily swayed by rhetoric and repetition. We all know that if

Underground Movement About To Explode There’s a huge shift in our nation. Once again, truth matters. Our election system is a mess. A recent poll on CNN shows more than 80% of those polled said we need to go back to using I.D. to vote. That’s a huge win for those of us who care about election integrity and scares the holy hell out of those using the system for fraud. Oregon was ordered to remove 800,000 inactive names from the voter rolls. The Democrats are putting the usual

Don’t Run, Face Trouble Head-On When a bird spots trouble approaching, it doesn’t turn away; instead, it faces into the wind, using its strength to lift itself higher. Airplanes use the wind, which hits them directly, to rise to greater heights. Life works similarly. When difficulty confronts us directly, we aren’t meant to run or turn away. Never turn your back on a threat; instead, plant your feet firmly and confront it head-on. Never run from trouble. When God gives you th

Everything Is On The Table. For too long, we’ve allowed a narrow cultural narrative to determine what we can or cannot talk about. We tiptoe, skirt around, and shut up when the conversation leans into uncomfortable territory. What if we didn’t have to do that? Actually, we don’t. No rule says we can’t ask questions. There should be no topic on the off-limits list. I’m watching the unrest back in Oregon. I see it in places like Helena and Bozeman, Montana. I think a lot of the

If You Could See The Numbers Kathy and I were out yesterday. Didn’t pay much attention to social media. Needed a break. When I checked in last night, I was shocked by over half a million views on an article, hundreds of new follows and thousands of comments to an article I wrote in the morning titled “ Warning To The Extreme.” If you pay attention to the headlines and the legacy media, it’s easy to get discouraged and believe the whole world has gone mad. It’s not true. But r

The Noise of Oppression A storm falls upon our nation. Chaos erupts in the streets of our cities and small towns. We find ourselves at odds with our neighbors, even our extended families. To us, it makes no sense. The puppet master pulls his strings. Society dances uncontrollably as it follows each tug of the string, making movements that cause us to scratch our heads in wonder. Words no longer have meaning. Accusations abound. Proof is no longer needed to make a claim. Tell

National Shutdown? A lot of you are sending me information on this so-called “National Shutdown” movement to protest ICE. I’m a big supporter of people who want to protest when things aren’t going their way. Does it work? No It makes the protesters feel like they are doing something, but in terms of impacting the lives of everyday people, the answer is no. Do not stand in their way. I wouldn’t show up at an actual protest. But if you want to do a counter protest, go for it. G

Rather than doing things the right way, the hard way, or the sustainable way, there’s a group of people looking to use chaos to bring about change. They don’t seem to care about casualties, but use them to gain more attention, more power, and more destruction. They cry out words like humane and compassion, but those are lies because they have none when it comes to victims of illegal immigrant crime, not even when it’s a child who is raped, tortured, and murdered. They’ll put

Division Intensifies As we’ve witnessed over the last few years, division is the easy road to destruction. You don’t need a master plan; for centuries, those in charge understood that if you divide, you can conquer. Our nation is divided, and to the casual observer, it might look as though the separation is unrepairable. Perhaps repair is not what our creator intends? Maybe He has a plan to separate the sheep from the goats, what is good from what is evil. I don’t know. I can

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What’s the Bottom Line Right behind the unopened door is the question most of us are asking. Few seem to have the will to turn the doorknob but skirt the question that could bring clarity. It’s so easy for the basic question facing America right now to be clouded over with emotion, side issues, and blame. ICE agents have now killed two protesters; details are still coming forward, and we all have questions, lots of questions. You say you want the bloodshed to end, but refuse

The pastor who founded the church in Minnesota that was attacked by rioters last Sunday was on a podcast this past week. He was profound in what he had to say about the church, the parishioners, and the attackers. Christianity is under attack in this country. That is the bottomline This is not left or right, this is about the same thing we’ve watched throughout history: the attack on Christ. If those protesters had done what they chose to do, at a mosque or synagogue, they wo

Remembering Life Through Our Kids My son Jess turns 36 today. It feels like yesterday, Kathy and I woke up and knew January 23rd, 1990, was the day. He started at 10 pounds, and today he’s 6’5” and towers over everyone in the family. We love both our boys. The funny thing about parenting is that each child fills a special spot in your world, a place in your heart, hollowed out by God, designed to be filled by that one special person. Jess was the kid I could ask to do anythin

Kotek, Democrats, Scared To Death Oh, those trickly, slimy little Democrats in Salem. Do not be fooled by their trickery.  Yesterday, just as another Republican announced he would run against Tina Kotek and get her out of the governor’s office, the dastardly Democrats announced a plan to put parts of the gas tax on the May ballot so that it won’t be on the November ballot. They say they heard Oregon voters, when in fact the wax is still clogging their ears. All they heard was

2026, The Year of the Takeback Do you scratch your head and wonder how we got to the place where American citizens are fighting to keep illegal immigrants, many of whom are rapists, murderers, and child molesters, in our country? According to Homeland Security, 70% of those they deport are violent criminals. Over the weekend, rioters interrupted a church service, screaming, cursing, and harassing parishioners, and you have people in our country supporting this sort of domesti

Stop Engaging With Crazy We had an Oregon veteran on our podcast last night who supports ICE and was willing to talk about it. I told him to disguise himself because I know how low those on the other side of this issue will stoop to silence their critics. During our conversation, a few trolls showed up at the party and did what they normally do: harass and badger, ask for sources, but had none to offer on their end, and try to turn the conversation their way. It didn’t work.

The Cry For Unity I see where Oregon’s Governor Tina Kotek and other “leaders”, mostly on the left, are crying for unity. What falls flat for me is that their unity seems to have strings attached and draws lines; they themselves refuse to cross to come to the middle. Kotek quoted Dr Martin Luther King in her speech, “‘Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity.’ It causes someone to ‘describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as bea

Face The Battle Head On A video clip of an angry older woman screaming FU over and over at duck hunters while they laugh at her. Another clip of a guy encouraging people to use violence to stop ICE agents from doing what many Americans quietly support, cracking down on illegal immigrants in our country. A podcast I follow played half a dozen clips the other day, of vile comments calling for death and destruction to people like you and me. I was running along Canyon Ferry Lake

An A.G. legal opinion from 1935 states: “The right of the people to a referendum vote on a statute enacted by the Legislature cannot be defeated by a subsequent repeal of the act referred.” The best part is that when Oregon voters get their ballots, every Democrat who passed the 4.3 billion dollar tax hike, and Tina will also be on the ballot. A great reminder to just hit, No, No, No all the way down the ballot. That's what she's afraid of.