Let’s assume you are a loving father or mother, and let’s say you have a disobedient child. But try as you might, that child is determined to go his own way, oblivious to your warnings. Would you cast him away like so much garbage?
The news yesterday was that a twenty-year-old “Shooter” killed two students and injured several others with a high-powered rifle on the campus of the University of Florida in Tallahassee. His mother was a cop. Where did he go wrong and why? We’ll know more and why in the coming days.
The Bible tells us that we ALL like sheep have gone astray, and that there is NONE righteous, no, not one, but God has laid on Christ Jesus the iniquity of us all.
My younger brother K.C. and I were on Pensacola Beach fishing one day and decided to get something to eat at a 7-Eleven store nearby. We had decided to get a chilly cheese dog and sit at a picnic table alongside the store. We got our heaping chili hotdogs with cheese and onions, and I couldn’t wait to dig in. As we made our way to the picnic table, there was a young man about K.C.’s age – say 35, 40. He sat alone in one corner of the big, weathered picnic table.
“Mind if we sit with you?” I queried. “Sure, help yourself,” the pitiful man replied.
After giving thanks, I began chomping down on that big juicy baby, but I couldn’t help but notice that the man across from me was eyeing my hot dog with hungry eyes.
“Do you want one, I asked.”
“I don’t have no money,” he replied.”
“My treat.”
So, I got up, took one last bite, and re-entered the store. I got the hot dog and a Coke for the hungry guy. He chomped on it like a hungry lumberjack and scoffed that big bugger down.
“Thanks, man, thanks; I haven’t eaten for two days,” he mumbled as he wiped the juices from his mouth with the back of his hand and took a big swallow of his large Coke.
By this time, K.C. and I had finished too. “Why haven’t you eaten?” I probed.
“Well, my wife threw me out of the house a couple of days ago.”
“But why?”
Tears began forming in his eyes, then he began his tale of woe, “I’m a sorry sumb…h – that’s why!” The man began sobbing, his chest heaving. K.C. was beginning to take note; it sounded all too familiar. “I’m one sorry, drunken bas…d,” the man continued. “Can’t quit the bottle; I’m a complete mess.”
Long story short, I asked if I could pray for him, and he raised his head, which was now hanging in defeat. “Please do!”
KC, being a new Christian, got up and scurried away as if he had seen a ghost, knowing what I was about to do. I watched him leave and then began my prayer while holding the young man’s hand, “Father in heaven, please help this man find his way and to be able to have the peace and strength to overcome his addiction to alcohol, that only Jesus can give, etc.”
I never pray long, pious prayers to make me seem like a paragon of faith. Short and sweet does the trick. The man’s shoulder quit quaking, and his sobbing subsided as if the tremendous guilt had left him. And wiping his eyes with the back of his hands, he thanked me profusely. There was even a glow on his face as we said our goodbyes. He was going home a new man, resolved to be the man he should be.
3/28/2025
This is an update on Tucker Carlson, an honest man who doesn’t take himself too seriously – a guy I respect and like. Tucker says this about Christians in general, while I encapsulate in parentheses (real) in the article about Christians because, as he has yet to find out, there are many fake ones, even some pastors.
By Author: Abby Trivett
Tucker Carlson is taking note of the spiritual realm working in America today. The media commentator and journalist has best been known for his unashamed conservative values. However, ever since leaving Fox News, Carlson’s insight into the supernatural and faith has grown as he speaks out about it even more. On a podcast with the Shawn Ryan Show, Carlson pointed out that the depth and amount of discussion about spiritual forces today is much more than it was just five years ago.
“All of a sudden, in the last few years, just random sort of normal secular American people are like, ‘You know, I was praying about that,’ or ‘I think God’s doing this,’” Carlson says. “There’s something going on, and of course, that’s the way God works…. Clearly, we’re under oppression of evil. Not just the Biden administration, which is just a manifestation of it, but there’s something way bigger trying to hurt people for the sake of hurting people.”
Carlson says that Christians are the ones who are not surprised by the chaos happening in our world today. On the contrary, it is Christians who are less shocked about the direction that America is currently heading toward. “I will say this about the (real) Christians: to their credit, they’re not shocked at all,” Carlson says.
Carlson also believes that our reliance on artificial intelligence for our future is leading to an unsustainable place for both our power grid and for a self-sufficient people. “Personally, I think it’s spiritual,” Carlson says. “The real struggles are unseen. That is absolutely a part of Christian theology,” he continues.
Carlson further says that while many of the rich and famous in America may be opposed to Christianity, he believes it is Christians who truly can decipher what is happening in the world around us. “What I didn’t know was that they’re only wise people. They’re the only ones who know what’s up, and that they’re just like way smarter than everybody,” says Carlson.
Carlson also believes that although we have seen all kinds of church secrets and scandals break out, the truth of Christianity is growing “in power.”
As we celebrate our freedom in America, let’s also cling tight to the truth of the Gospel as our nation continues to battle with spiritual darkness. Pray for revival and for the Holy Spirit to overflow all across the United States. – Abby Trivett is content development editor for Charisma Media.
So, after reading this, I will write an open letter to Tucker on my own website in the Open Letter section, where I write to other notables on www.propheticsignsandwonders.com with the hope that he somehow reads it and responds, knowing we both had the very same experiences, and the hope that Tucker would have me on his podcast to promote my latest book.
YBIC
Jim Towers
You can write me at jt.filmmaker@yahoo.com or visit me at www.dropzonedelta.com. You can also find me on my newly restructured website www.propheticsignsandwonders.com, which now features videos of worldwide events taking place in the present time, as well as proof of God’s existence and the reality of Biblical places, and Moses himself.