At the top of Google news just now is the headline, "Long-term Unemployment Benefit Expires for 1 Million."
Good. What a horrible existence to be paid not to work.
No one should benefit from unemployment. The fact such a headline can top the Google news page is an indication our nation is deep into her dotage. We're talking "long-term unemployment" here, good buddies. Long, long periods of time when men get paid not to work.
There are so many commands of Scripture we are ashamed of today. For instance:
For even when we were with you, we gave you this command: If any one will not work, let him not eat. For we hear that some of you are living in idleness, mere busybodies, not doing any work. Now such persons we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work in quietness and to earn their own living. (2Thessalonians 3:10-12)
"But the men and women getting unemployment benefits want to work; they just can't find a job," you say?
Right now there are 1.3 million men and women you and I have been paying for 26 weeks for not working, and in the next couple of months...
Our long-lost friend, BikeBubba, just 
Yesterday, our family got texted this pic of son Taylor cutting grass with his own son, Jackson. The caption was "suburban version of the farmer and son with pails."
We've now gone over 400 registrants, adults and children, for our Clearnote Summer Conference July 11th & 12th here in Bloomington, Indiana. The conference is titled,"Salt and Light: Confessing Christ in the Public Square." Are you coming?