Reflections of An Uncommon Common Man

  Luke 12 : 51 Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division. 52 From now on there will be five in one family divided against each other, three against two and two against three. 53 They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”    I lived in East Nashville after my parents died and my wife lived there her entire life until we married. Our ties to East Nashville run deep. East Nashville has always been a heavily Democrat district but sadly I do not recognize the East Nashville of my youth. It has literally been taken over by Communist thinking and whenever I go back there I feel like I am in little Hanoi or little Havana. I see Black Lives Matter signs everywhere and so many other crazy signs. Unfortunately I was there the night the AP took it upon itself to announce Biden the winner of 2020 presidential ele

Daniel 3:16–18 16 Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego replied to him, “King Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to defend ourselves before you in this matter. 17 If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to deliver us from it, and he will deliver us from Your Majesty’s hand. 18 But even if he does not, we want you to know, Your Majesty, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up.” Patrick Henry Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! I love these verses from Daniel and the words of Patrick Henry. Fear is something that I have struggled with all of my life. Looking back at my life I was a coward until about the age of 14. My mother drummed it into my head that you didn't have to fight to be a man. She told me that it took a bigger man to avoid a fight. This was no proble