J. Randal Matheny

I've tried very hard to reach the people of Minnesota in real-time ways," Bachmann said. "So we've increased my presence on my official Web site to 82,000 followers on Facebook. On my campaign Web site, we had 143,000 followers on Facebook. On Twitter, I have 27,000 followers. On my campaign Web site, I have 9,300 followers. Twitter ranked me the third-most influential member of Congress on Twitter.

Michelle Bachmann counts up her Internet friends and followers. Why? Because for politics it's a RBD, a Really Big Deal. And ought to be for Christians as well, seeking to effect change in the world and transformation in the hearts of hearers.

We group children into large schools primarily for bureaucratic convenience. But teens do better when they spend more time with adults, who are civilized -- and less time interacting in cultures created by peers, who aren't yet.

It makes you wonder why anyone ever objects to home-schooling.

students are being trained at colleges to "unlearn liberty." As the definition of what constitutes "harassment" expands, the First Amendment freedoms Americans take for granted contract. It's a tyranny of protected feelings extending into ever-more-ridiculous realms.

I recently heard a statement of profound impact, "God is not about time. He is about purpose." Think about it. God is not bound by time as you and me. He created time within the space of eternity. However, God is bound by purpose, His purpose, and the purpose He set forth from eternity involves leadership.

There's talk in Hollywood about doing another 'Mad Max' movie, where gas is so expensive that people steal and kill to get it. It takes place sometime in the future -- like July." --comedian Jay Leno

The internet is a wild free for all. It is an unregulated mass of free speech. It is, for all intents and purposes, the only such unregulated mass of free speech going today. That’s why people love it so. You can put up parody. You can post your made ravings on the convergence of string theory and mozzarella cheese sticks. You can even make stuff up and email it to all your friends. It’s up to the reader to filter out the truth from fiction, just like every other source of information in the world.

The truth is out there. It’s just not the government’s job to make sure that’s what is on the internet.

Each person ought to do what he can, but nothing less than this. Each moment calls forth a different talent, and he who has today the main role, tomorrow will provide support. One day for the preacher, another for the bricklayer, to adapt an old Brazilian saying.

In this short devotional translated from the Portuguese, we can derive a positive lesson from Israel's bad example. Let's not live like them!