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Editorial
Altus Times
4A Sunday, May 14,2017
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THEIR VIEW
Take time to win, save and partake
and wailing and the that he truly is a Christ
lived with a keen sense of confessed, selfishness
weak I became weak, that about growing the
warning neighbors to flee discipleship.
9:19-23
Music: William H. Wal- deny his preferences, in
and become concerned
THEIR VIEW: OKLAHOMA EDITORIAL ROUNDUP
See BIRDS 17A
EDITORIAL POLICY
grace of God.
Many of our churches
5:17-19). He understands Paul’s day or John Wes-
that in Christ he has been ley's day.
follower and a partaker of
the Gospel.
I urge all to make sure
they are in Christ. Sins
I might win the weak; I
have become all things
to all men, that I may
by all means save some.
Bring in the day
of brotherhood and
end the night of
wrong.
Rise up, O
saints of God! The
Church for you
doth wait,
her strength
unequal to her
task; rise up, and
make her great!
Lift high the
Kingdom of Christ. The
Apostle Paul writes with
speak of judgment or of
God’s wrath, however,
rest assured it is as real
and certain as it was in
Rise Up, 0 Saints of God
The United Methodist
Hymnal Number 576
Text: William P. Mer-
rill, 1867-1954
cross of Christ! Tread
where his feet have trod.
As brothers of the Son
of Man, rise up, 0 saints
of God!
This week I have
thought long and hard
passion and commitment the wrath to come. Today
about saving people from we seldom hear anyone
forgiven of sin and set
free for abundant living
(John 10:10). Never-
theless, he chooses to
restrict his freedom and
for the purpose of
being Good News
in their lives.
I must pause
here and ask three
questions:
• How real is
God’s wrath?
• Do we fear fall-
ing into the hands
of the living God?
• Does weeping
MEANT
BEFORE|
We must be filled daily
with the Holy Spirit,
become sanctified for
the purposes of God,
and grow more and more
Christ-like in our charac-
ter and conduct. Enjoying
the Gospel and sharing
the Gospel will soon
become our top priority,
just like it did for Paul.
Please join me in being
done with lesser things
and committing the rest
of our earthly lives to
honor Christ and help
save others from God’s
wrath and win them for
those he meets, because
his deepest desire and
purpose in life is to win
persons for Christ. He is
willing to extend himself,
I believe winning peo-
ple for Christ demands
a strong conviction of
God’s coming wrath and
deep appreciation for
God’s grace expressed in
just minor
distraction
THEIR VIEW
Birds above
David
Player
Contributing
columnist
For though 1 am free
from all men, 1 have
made myself a slave to
all, that I might win the
more. And to the Jews
I became as a Jew, that
I might win Jews; to
those who are under the
Law, as under the Law,
though not being myself
under the Law, that I
might win those who are
under the Law; to those
who are without law,
as without law, though
not being without the
law of God but under
the law of Christ, that
I might win those who
are without law. To the
gnashing teeth for eter-
nity without God strike
terror in our hearts?
The early Methodists
I ter, 1825-1893
Rise up, 0 saints of
I God! Have done with
lesser things.
Give heart and mind
J and soul and strength to
1 serve the King of kings.
Rise up, 0 saints of
God! The Kingdom tar
ries long.
The Journal Record
Gas tax overdue, as is
gross production tax
■ Finally, there is some level of agreement that Okla
I homa has to pay its way. There are no free roads, no
free schools, no free prisons.
The remaining question is who will pick up the
tab. Legislators and the governor will figure that out
this month, and Oklahomans should be encouraged
that even the most ardent of the smaller-government
crusaders has come around to the idea that the state
can’t afford to keep cutting taxes.
The response so far has been a long way from per-
fect. Leadership has declined to give criminal justice
reform proposals the serious, urgent attention they
the certainty and conse-
quences of God’s wrath.
They prayed daily and
shared the Gospel often,
only one option: Increase state revenue, which is a
nice way of saying, “Raise taxes."
The best effort put forth to date would have cut
some oil and gas incentives and raised taxes on motor
fuel and cigarettes. Those three proposals would
combine to improve the state’s economic picture by
$675.4 million, more than two-thirds of what’s needed
to close the budget gap.
Democrats should be ashamed of themselves for
refusing to budge on the gasoline tax increase; yes,
it’s a bigger proportion of the poor's income as are
all sales taxes, but that's an increase that’s long, long
overdue.
Republicans have refused to consider any adjustment
to the gross production tax rate and they should be
equally ashamed. A small increase would leave the state
repented of and lives
surrendered to Christ as
Savior and Lord. This
however is not the end of
Christ-followers today
are willing and able to
be slaves for the Gospel.
Paul loved Christ and
treasured the Gospel.
He found great meaning
and joy in seeing sinners
saved from God’s wrath
and won for the King-
dom. He ends the passage
above by stating that this
mission brings assurance
The Oklahoman
()bamacare is collapsing,
now time for real reform
Reach the Rev David Player. First
United Methodist Church senior
pastor, at 580 482 0795 or
davidpaltusfumc@c ableone net
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order to grow God’s King- Christ’s life, death and
dom. He goes so far as resurrection. Being will-
making himself a slave to ing to deny our interests
and involved in the inter- God’s Kingdom,
ests of others takes the Be encouraged.
board members and the Legislature seem to think
there’s no problem there, and they’re dead wrong.
Teachers need raises. Publicly funded education is
critical to maintaining first-world standards, and good
teachers are critical to good educations. After fits and starts, the U.S. House of Representa-
There are many other needs that have reached criti- tives has advanced legislation substantially altering
cal status, and there’s no fat left to trim. That leaves .
3 ’ EdyES See ROUNDUP 17A
. . . in a strongly competitive position while inching Okla-
require. Critical repairs alone will cost $123.5 million, homa closer to the rates Texas and North Dakota collect,
and the overcrowded, under-supervised, dilapidated We applaud the Legislature for preventing any fur-
facilities will only worsen with time. Prosecutors, they income tax cuts, but they must quickly move off
public defenders, mental health experts, the governor their ideological turf and lead,
and the public have all called for an end to harsh pris-
on terms for nonviolent offenders. Only some parole
And I do all things for the God’s wrath (Romans
sake of the gospel, that 1 1:18-32) and winning
may become a fellow par- people for eternity with
taker of it. — Corinthians Christ (2nd Corinthians
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deny himself and adapt to in America are declin-
the needs of others... all ing rapidly, because few
One year when I was stationed in Japan and I
managed to get some time off a very hectic sched-
ule to spend some well-deserved leave in Hawaii.
It was everything that you can imagine, except
triple the cost, crowds and traffic.
Instead of leaving 15 minutes early to get across
town in Altus, you had to expect almost an hour.
-------- 1 had the opportunity to go deep-
s sea fishing while I was there and
w discovered that all the boat captains
■ radio each other as they scour the
A A ocean looking for birds.
W ■ We aren’t bird hunting, I thought,
@1 but later learned the winged crea-
- . tures are just a sign of what lies
ETC L 4 underneath.
Stemkopn Apparently, the flocks of birds
Managing swarming over the water far from
land are feeding on small fish boil-
ing to the surface because there are
much larger predator fish below.
As the deep-water predators skimmed off the
bottoms of the schools of smaller fish, the little
ones are forced to the surface where other winged
hunters are circling in the air to pluck them off the
top.
There are probably dozens of analogies you
can make from this example, but it reminds me
that the things you see obviously swarming above
aren’t always the most important things that lie
unseen beneath the surface.
That is where my opinion lies in the recent dis-
missal of former FBI director James Comey.
While I don’t entirely swallow the proposition
that something last July by itself caused his cur-
rent dilemma, I also don’t think it has anything at
all to do with Russian intervention and collusion.
The first would be something similar to the
small bait fish at the surface of the water in my
example above and the latter is likely akin to those
birds circling overhead — easy to see and identify,
but not the real cause of the situation — just a
byproduct of a feeding frenzy.
My observation is this — when 1 speak with
local law enforcement about ongoing investiga-
tions, they are not allowed to talk about them
because preliminary information must be verified
and evaluated.
It also is important to maintain an unbiased
opinion in the public for any potential jury pool so
that any accused who might be charged out of the
investigation can get a fair trial.
There also are concerns about sensitive sources
and investigative methods that could be dimin-
ished and make future probes more difficult if
everyone knew how they did them.
Those under investigation might be entirely
innocent, so to brand them with such talk also can
hurt their reputations.
So, for Comey to come out and confirm that
multiple investigations are underway and later
proclaim innocence was a major departure from
standard practice.
It is my humble opinion that a lack of leader-
ship, or lack of authority to act as a leader, led
or contributed to his actions. Nature doesn't like
a vacuum and things will move in to fill a blank
space — typically with negative stuff.
If the Obama or Trump administrations did not
or could not rein in Comey as he talked about
things outside of standard practice and then gave
advice about prosecution that is not in his job
description, then it’s easy to understand how he
strayed from standard practice.
I humbly believe that his most recent interview
about Anthony Weiner’s classified emails from
his estranged wife and Hillary Clinton aide Huma
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