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Don’t play for the name on the back of your jersey
“So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature. For the sinful nature desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the sinful nature. They are in conflict with each other, so that you do not do what you want.” -Galatians 5:16-17 (NIV) While watching an Atlanta Falcons football game this past season I saw something that made me scream out. I hollered a saying that ever...
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Political illusions and cheap tricks: The wrong medicine for Kentucky’s Medicaid malady
More than 324 years after architect Sir Christopher Wren constructed fake pillars at Windsor Town Hall near London to satisfy building inspectors, tourists remain fascinated with the good-for-nothing posts. The story goes that in 1689, local inspectors warned that the town hall would crumble without additional support. Rather than fight City Hall, Wren, England’s greatest architect – who disagreed with the inspectors – fooled them by buildi...
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Happiness cannot be measured by wealth
There’s a lot of talk on the news and so forth about “Homeless Folk.” There does seem to be several people with no place to call home now a’days. But once many years ago, as a child, I became acquainted with what might be classified as a homeless person today. I don’t know where he came from exactly: Everyone called him “Thomas” and he did odd jobs around the neighborhood to earn a few dollars, a bite to eat or maybe a barn to sleep in. ...
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Kentucky to the EPA: ‘Man up’ or shut up
During recent stops in Pikeville and Hazard, Sen. Mitch McConnell took aim at the Environmental Protection Agency’s rope-a-dope policy that Kentucky’s senior senator rightly describes as an “illegitimate” and “back-door means” to permanently destroy eastern Kentucky’s economic lifeline, which - like 93 percent of the commonwealth’s electricity - is powered by coal. The EPA’s policies have resulted in more than 40 applications for new coal m...
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Self-control is important for all Christians
“But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, gentleness, self-control.” - Galatians 5:22-23 Football is a physical game and requires self-control by coaches and players. There are consequences when someone loses the ability to control himself. When a coach or a player loses the ability to control his or her emotions, everybody loses. Not only is the one who lost control penalized, but so is the team....
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Fighting for Kentuckians’ freedom to fish
For decades, Kentuckians and fishing enthusiasts from faraway have enjoyed the pleasure of fishing the tailwaters below Lake Barkley and Wolf Creek dams below the Cumberland River. For many in this area, it’s become a rite of passage. So you can imagine the irritation at a recent decision by the Obama Administration to end this proud tradition in the name of big-government-certified safety and security. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, wit...
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How politics has changed
When two senators recently got into a spat over whether the Boston Marathon bombings were being politicized, the news was everywhere within minutes. Reams of commentary quickly followed. In the maneuvering over gun-control legislation, every twist and turn was instantly reported and then endlessly debated. As the effects of the federal sequester start to make themselves felt, outlets in every medium — print, television, online — are carrying ...
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Flying over an act of monumental stupidity
I knew that Congress would come to its senses eventually, that it would realize that the ham-handed budget cuts ordered by the so-called “sequester” weren’t going to work, that some government functions were too important to be cut. And I was right, kind of. Last week it restored funds to the Federal Aviation Administration. There had been big lines and flight delays at airports around the country, you see, and we can’t have that. Congr...
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The marvel of instinctual behavior
Who among us could choose a just-right cluster of branches high in a tree and build a nest as the squirrels do that would withstand the storms and protect our brood? When the trees are bare in winter, those nests show up, and I wonder how they managed to stay intact through the spring and summer swaying in the wind and rain. Sticks and leaves were laid together in a way that worked, guided only by the instinct of the squirrel who never read...
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The nation is still at risk – and the public is still in the dark
Thirty years ago, the Nation at Risk report declared that the nation was threatened by a “rising tide of mediocrity” in education. Today, it’s a tsunami and the underlying reason is the same. Children are still not learning to read and everyone thinks the problem is in someone else’s school or district. The recent teacher cheating scandal in Atlanta illustrates the problem. How could a scam this massive take place right under the nose of pa...
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What does economic freedom have to do with poverty?
Out of the 50 U.S. states and 10 Canadian provinces, Kentucky ranks No. 56 in economic freedom, as measured by the Frasier Institute’s Economic Freedom of North America Index. Among Kentucky’s surrounding states, only West Virginia ranks lower. The index is a measurement of the size of government, amount of taxation and freedom of workers to engage in labor contracts. Less economic freedom yields many less-than-desirable incomes: · Acco...
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God allows us to finish the race
“Therefore, since we also have such a large cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us lay aside every weight and the sin that so easily ensnares us. Let us run with endurance the race that lies before us.” – (Hebrews 12:1) For an athlete, there is nothing like competing in front of a home crowd. Nothing is more inspiring than hearing the cheers, feeling the energy and responding to the wave of encouragement. In the summer of 2012, US decath...
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God has never lost and never will
Jake was at a crossroads in his sport. He didn’t know what to do. Should he continue to strive every day and work hard only to sit the bench? Was it worth it? He was at a point in his career in which he needed to make a decision. Does this sound familiar? Many athletes face similar situations in their careers, and they wrestle with what to do. In the Old Testament, Jacob faced a similar decision. His brother Esau was coming to meet him, a...
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‘Political courage’ should be more than a cheesy catch-phrase
Several years ago I found myself at a cheese-making operation in Wisconsin. While I had not traveled to the Badger State explicitly to observe Asiago delicacies being turned from fusty, amorphous gook into firm, fresh cuisine, the side visit to the cheese-producing facility somehow ended up being the most captivating part of the whole trip. It was almost as fascinating as watching how political leaders from state to state and even differe...
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