A Pastor's Thoughts

For the purpose of this discussion, a regulation is a rule produced and enforced by a non-elected body.  For example the FDA is an unelected group of people and they produce rules and fines that are enforced by the power of the federal government.  The criminal code is not part of the regulations. All regulations are bad.  All regulations need to be repealed. All unelected agencies need to be disbanded and their employees fired.  When President Trump talks about the swamp and the deep state he is talking about all the organizations in the executive branch with all their millions of regulations. One reason, and perhaps the most important reason to do away with regulations is that they cost so much.  There have been studies which show that 1/2 of the cost of your food is paying for regulation.  So milk that is $4 would be $2 if there were no regulation.  Every regulation has an average cost increase of 2% over the base cost of an item.  Addition...

On Mission Blvd, in Hayward there is a church that seems to occupy the top floor of a small office and commercial building.  The name of the church is the “Apostolic Nation of Jesus Christ.”   Their tag line is, “Making disciples to change the world.”  I don’t think that their mission statement or tag line is biblical. Nowhere in the Bible are Christians commanded to “change the world” and nowhere in the New Testament does Christ say he is going to “change the world.”  In fact, the world is not redeemable, according to Christ and he is going to destroy it with fire and build a new one at the end of time. I think the motivation of trying to change the world is also misplaced.  Jesus himself said that if the world hated him, the world will hate his followers.  We see this today with persecution against Christians all over the world.  In reading the material from this church, it seems that they want to minimize this persecution.  If they get ever...

9 / 3 = 3.  That is good division.  What I am watching on the TV this morning is sinful and evil division.  I am not taking sides, but this is what I saw and heard.  Last night a tax bill was passed and was sent to the president's desk for signing.  A normal thing that has happened millions of times during the life of this country.  No Democrats voted for it.  It was passed by Republican vote only.  Probably based on this, the Republicans held a party last night and this morning, expressing how proud they were of their vote. This morning, Democrats got on TV and said things like, 10,000 people were going to die because of this bill.  Tiny Tim was going to have his crutch taken away and all children would get coal in their stocking this Christmas, because of this bill.  In other words, one group is having a party celebrating this bill and the other group is saying that crutches will be taken away from crippled children.  That is a ...

I got hit with a red light camera ticket the other day.  The traffic light was green.  I did not slow down, and entered the intersection.  The yellow lasted 2 seconds, then the traffic light turned red and SNAP my picture was taken.  I got the first of two mailings which told me to confirm that it was me driving.  The camera takes a picture of the driver and of my rear license plate.  The camera does not take a picture of the intersection and there is no video to prove what I am saying is true. I called the court to find the law on red light cameras.  I was told that ever since June 1 of 2017, if one inch of a car is in the intersection when the light turns read, a traffic violation occurs.  In other words people cannot enter the intersection under green and have it turn yellow then red very quickly.  That is a traffic violation. I hate red light cameras.  The primary reason I hate them is that there is no human to see the big pictur...