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April 2005

Fame Seekers

4/30/2005

 
And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there. 
Ecclesiastes 3:16


When I think of the people who came into my life, told their lies, took what they wanted, and then moved on to write their articles and publish their books in the quest for fifteen minutes of fame, what vanity...


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Missing Alan

4/29/2005

 
A few weeks ago my best friend Alan was summoned to court. He's doing time for a conviction under the harsh Rockefeller Drug Law... 

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Being There

4/25/2005

 
In spite of my own struggles and the difficult and disappointing situations I seem to be encountering these days, the Lord has been granting me precious opportunities to touch the lives of my peers...

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Being Lied To

4/16/2005

 
Several days ago I received a letter from a young man by the name of Jake*. He was boasting to me about his big collection of serial killer cards and his fascination with such individuals...

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Teens and Guns

4/13/2005

 
Because my heart has been heavy over the recent acts of senseless violence involving young persons, and because of my own experience and mistakes at a time in my life when I was younger, troubled and vulnerable, I have felt compelled to write these pages on youth violence...

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What is Violence?

4/12/2005

 
Violence is selfishness in action. It is an attitude which says, "You hurt me, so now I am going to hurt you..."

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Looking at Teen Violence

4/10/2005

 

Violence is an outward display of pent-up anger, rage, and frustration. And a lot of young persons are very angry these days; but so are many adults...

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Caring

4/9/2005

 
We must all learn to live together,
or we will be forced to die together.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.


Jesus said that we should love our neighbors as we love ourselves. This was the second of the two greatest commandments He gave us, according to the Bible...

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Asking Why

4/8/2005

 
Learning of these senseless tragedies and the loss of lives touches a nerve inside me...

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"The Invisible Kid" (The Headlines from a local newspaper)

4/7/2005

 
On February 13th a twenty-four year old man walked into a mall crowded with Sunday afternoon shoppers and began to open fire with his Hesse model AK-47 Soviet assault rifle... 

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Red Lake III

4/6/2005

 
It's been a couple of weeks since the Red Lake tragedy. Of no surprise, as the world and the media move on to the other things, this event will probably fade from the memories of most Americans...

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Red Lake II

4/5/2005

 
Everyone is asking "WHY?" Family members, neighbors, school officials and law enforcement personnel all want to know why this young man, Jeff Weise, who should have been dating girls and playing ball, instead became a lonely brooder who suffered from severe depression, made attempts at suicide, talked and wrote a lot about Hitler and death, and then shot to death nine people and also turned the gun on himself...

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The Red Lake Massacre I

4/4/2005

 
I vividly remember the Columbine High School shootings which left fifteen people dead, most of them students, including the two young gunmen and an heroic teacher...

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The Spirit of Violence

4/1/2005

 
The earth was also corrupt before God,
and the earth was filled with violence. 
Genesis 6:11


Many are wondering what is going on in the world. Acts of senseless violence have left us numb. And people are asking the experts why...

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