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My Church

My Letter To Another Murderer

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There are few things in this world that are more exhilarating than seeing your thoughts come together when you write a letter to a murderer.

What should I say to someone who murdered another man? This guy killed a 22 year old when he would not return the car he lent him for some drugs. He shot him 6 times in the back. Now he is in in prison and been there for nearly 2 years. He just finished his 15th Bible Study. I’ve read his answers and believe God changed his life. Now he begins a new series called Survey of the Bible and I have to grade his first lesson.

As I sat down to write my thoughts filled with important questions, but none to help me write. Is he sincere? Is he genuine? I think of the victim and his family and their losses. How are they doing? I pray for them; I pray for this student. I don’t know what to say to this man.

My job is to simply grade the lesson and write a letter. The task is not difficult, but I sure am! How do I escape my own preconceptions that block my pen?

With a blank sheet of paper still in front of me, I pray. I prayed with a heavy heart asking God to direct me in what to say. After a time of feeling lost, I began to write. Once I start, I keep moving. I watch my thoughts get organized. I watch ideas flood my head. Soon, I finish a 4 page letter that encouraged even me! It contained the richness of God’s Word mixed with everyday experiences; it was life giving. It gave life to me! And seeing the living God answer my prayer like this is exhilarating!

Heb 13:3 Remember the prisoners, as though in prison with them…

Will you consider…

My Government

“A Baby born with male genitals is a male.” you’re fired!

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There is a 26 page explanation for the termination of employment on why the firing is justifiable for those to whom the concept of a baby born with male genitals is a male is not intuitive. I just ask that you apply the same interpretive consistency with every word in that 26 page document beginning with the word “The.” Meanwhile the rest of us to whom it is intuitive will go about building and maintaining a nation that provides you with enough protection, peace, and tranquility so that you can think through the issue in a degree of comfort.

A British court ruled this week that a woman was properly dismissed from her job after she posted several messages about transgenderism on Twitter, including the statement that “male people are not women.”
Maya Forstater, 45, lost her position at the Center for Global Development following a series of tweets in 2018
Forstater argued that even if a biological man has a “Gender Recognition Certificate” that states he’s a woman, he remains a biological man.
“The Claimant’s position is that even if a trans woman has a Gender Recognition Certificate, she cannot honestly describe herself as a woman,” Tayler wrote. “That belief is not worthy of respect in a democratic society. It is incompatible with the human rights of others that have been identified and defined by the [European Court of Human Rights] and put into effect through the Gender Recognition Act.”
Forstater tweeted on Sept. 2, 2018: “I share the concerns of @fairplaywomen that radically expanding the legal definition of ‘women’ so that it can include both males and females makes it a meaningless concept, and will undermine women’s rights & protections for vulnerable women & girls.
“Some transgender people have cosmetic surgery. But most retain their birth genitals. Everyone’s equality and safety should be protected, but women and girls lose out on privacy, safety and fairness if males are allowed into changing rooms, dormitories, prisons, sports teams.”

Court: Employee Can Be Fired for Tweeting, ‘Male People Are Not Women’ – Michael Foust