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DISILLUSIONMENT VS OVEREMPHASIS

The New York Times recently published this story about how miserable people are about our political state of being. At the same time, I'm noticing some evangelicals are into politics more than ever. I have a word of caution on that with help from a clip of a Tim Keller sermon.

Everything is the Lord's -- including politics and governments. Where we are right now, though, we need to penetrate more hearts with the truth. AFTER you win the people, you'll win elections.

BEING INFORMED IS KEY

This recent story confirms what we all suspect: we are a woefully uninformed people about our government and civic organization. The world needs us to be a people informed on our rules, origins, and laws.

REALITY ALWAYS WINS

I have some thoughts here on how we've moved into a multipolar world instead of the bi-polar (US vs. Soviet Union) of my parents generation or the unipolar (The US) world in which I grew up. American weakness is inviting aggression elsewhere -- because reality always wins. Weakness brings aggression.

That brought to mind some other ways that's happening:

-A border wall is being partially built because reality wins.

-San Francisco is requiring drug tests for able-bodied adults before they get government assistance because reality wins.

-Big cities are getting tougher on crime because reality wins.