God bless America and America, bless God

The story is told about a group of college “mathletes” who were returning to their residence hall after an evening of intoxicated pleasure. Suddenly, their drunken leader noticed on the steeple of a church a large cross illuminated by the moon. “Ye mathematicians, look at God’s plus sign!” he yelled for all to hear. The group burst into spontaneous laughter.

One of the students from that prestigious group couldn’t sleep that night. Toward morning he stepped into the leader’s room and shared that the luminous vision of the cross as God’s plus sign (the symbol of His love for mankind) had made him decide to uphold that cross. Seven others from that group followed him and gave their lives to the One who had died on the cross, God’s plus sign. Read the rest of this entry »

Tetrahydrocannabinol. THC for short.  The truth is, if marijuana didn’t contain THC, nobody would be smoking it, much less trying to legalize  or medicalize it.  After all, the real purpose in smoking pot is not to treat the symptoms of a serious illness, but to get high.

The overwhelming majority of young people don’t have terminally-advanced AIDS or cancer. There is not one medically sound reason for a normal and healthy individual to smoke marijuana for medicinal purposes. Again, the real reason for smoking pot is to get high because the individual simply doesn’t want to cope with or experience the mental and psychological discomfort of what are really normal and everyday problems and situations. Read the rest of this entry »

Just like adults, young people “pack,” or carry, guns or other weapons for four primary reasons: PROTECTION, REVENGE, NOTORIETY, or CRIMINALITY. It can be very scary when a bully threatens to harm you. Getting even may seem to be the only way to save face. Carrying a gun to make others respect you might seem sensible to a youth who isn’t popular. Using a gun to commit a crime and obtain what you do not have might seem to be the only solution. But, are these really good reasons to carry a gun or other weapon? Is this what your parents really want you to do? Here are ten alternative things to carry instead of a gun or other weapon. Read the rest of this entry »

Coming soon: daily “Good News” sermonettes on Jesus Christ.

Check out the Dodge Dakota Sport truck recently donated to Cross Walk Bakersfield and Cross Walk California ministries. Because of this donation, Street Evangelist Tom Alexander will be able to take the large 10-foot, 60-pound cross to many California cities in 2009.

Praise the Lord for a new go-ye-mobile and the opportunity to present the cross of Jesus Christ as God’s Plus Sign to men, women and children living in California cities and towns.

Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom He has redeemed out of the hand of the enemy.

(Psalm 107:2).

I am a born-again Christian, a third day believer.  This wasn’t always the case for me. Like the majority of religious and nonreligious people, I had no clue whatsoever that I was completely selfish and self-absorbed, The purpose of my life was to be the purpose of everyone else’s life. I was totally caught up in the “me, myself and I” syndrome.

Then came prison.

At age 22 and as I sat in  a crowded jail cell, I felt no remorse at all that I had gone on a state-to-state rampage, first robbing a bank in my hometown of Texas City, Texas  and escaping by the skin of my teeth, and then robbing people at gunpoint in their homes throughout California cities and towns, until finally being busted in the northern coastal city of Monterrey. Read the rest of this entry »

In Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears  a Who (both the 1954 book and 2008 movie adaptation) and on the 15th of May in the Nool Jungle, Horton the elephant hears a small speck of dust talking to him. Turns out the speck is actually a tiny world and home to a city called Who-ville, which is inhabited by microscopic-sized inhabitants known as Whos.

The Whos ask Horton to protect them from harm. Though he can’t see them, the goodhearted pachyderm is able to hear the tiny people quite well and agrees to protect them, proclaiming throughout the book and the movie that “even though you can’t hear them at all, a person’s a person, no matter how small.” Read the rest of this entry »