20 Years After the LA Riots, 5-4-12 Commentary

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Twenty years ago, Los Angeles erupted in riots after four cops were acquitted in the videotaped beating of Rodney King.
I recall the LA riots because my brother had just moved out to Los Angeles to start a job with NBC at Jay Leno's tonight show.

Here are some thougts I have twenty years after the riots...
First off too many on the left and so called civil rights leaders condoned the riots by saying young blacks are tired of not being treated right instead of saying we are a nation of laws.
Those who condemned the police in Los Angeles where are they when cops are shot or abused.
Above all the riots happened because the break down of the family and value free education. In too many homes and schools and even in some churches young people are not being taught the right values. The jury ruling was just an excuse for the riots but the main reason the riots took place was the break down of values.
What do you think?
Until next time,
I'm Billy David Dickson

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Faithful Chuck Colson,4-27-12 commentary

A lot of people and much of the media will remember Chuck Colson who died last Saturday for his crimes to do with Watergate but I will remember him for being faithful.Chuck was committed to what the Bible taught about visiting those in prison as if you were visiting Jesus himself. When Chuck Colson left prison, he promised to remember the men who remained behind bars. “I will never forget you guys!” he told them.
And for 36 years, Chuck faithfully kept his word.In 1976, he founded Prison Fellowship, a ministry dedicated to living out Jesus’ command to remember the incarcerated and share the transformational love of Jesus Christ with them and their families.
“I could never, ever have left prison and accomplished what has been accomplished but for God doing it through me,” Chuck once said.
God Bless Chuck Colson, and God Bless his family.
What do you think?
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I'm Billy David Dickson

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Holocaust Remembrance , 4-20-12 commentary

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Don't you think we need to recall evil events so that we don't see evil history repeated.
I am writing this commentary on Thursday, April 19th. In 1951, Israel's parliament established this day April 19 as Holocaust Remembrance Day, so as to never forget the evil genocide of two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population at the hands of Adolph Hitler's Nazi regime. Later, U.S. Congress established the Days of Remembrance, scheduled this year from April 15-22, We must remember the more than six million Jews who were killed during the Nazi Holocaust between 1938 and 1945. don’t you think.

What do you think?

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I’m Billy David Dickson

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School board member wants coach fired for his views, 4-13-12 commentary

Regardless who you are here in America don't you have the freedom to speak your mind? Don't you? A school board member in Lincoln, Nebraska wants a football coach fired. What did he do abuse some child?
Nope he spoke his mind.
The coach is Ron Brown and he works for the University of Nebraska. As I told you in another commentary Coach Brown awhile back spoke out against a special ordinance to give special rights to gays and lesbians. The openly gay member of the Lincoln school board wrote a letter asking the university to fire Brown. Brown is not backing down "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever," he said "I have no fear of any man or any thing."
Good for Coach Brown.
Doesn't Brown as an American have a right to speak his mind.Oh I forgot Brown stands for Bible based values so some want to limit his freedoms.
What do you think.
Until Next Time,
I'm Billy David Dickson

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Modern America., and a Wasted Life, 3-30-12 Commentary

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Don’t you think some of the things we read in the Bible could apply to America in our day? I am attending Bible College and awhile back I completed the class in the book of Judges. So if you don’t mind I thought for this week’s commentary I would outline some of the things I have learned by taking that class. In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes. Says Judges 21:25.

Kings in the Bible means authority. So Judges 21:25 not only tells us what happened in the day of Judges but do I dare say it might also apply to modern America. In our land today many souls have forgotten God and are doing whatever feels good. Also one of the souls in the book of Judges was a guy named Samson who God used but he also did some sinful things. He was right with the Lord but his life was wasted. You can be saved and have a wasted life. We all should want to not have lives which are wasted. God not only wants to save our souls but he wants to do Godly things through and in us after we are saved. Don’t you think.

What do you think.

Until Next Time,

I’m Billy David Dickson

Free Condoms, 3-23-12 Commentary

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Don’t you think adults should help young people do what is right instead of encouraging  behavior that is wrong and might be a risk to the good health of a child.

A Massachusetts school system is considering giving free condoms to students to help prevent sexually transmitted diseases, the Springfield School Committee has decided to enforce the "Comprehensive Reproductive Health Policy," which would provide free condoms for high school and junior high students sit down for this  as young as 12 years old.  MassResistance! says Springfield has had a comprehensive sex ed program in place for a long time. I guess the school’s program of teaching kids safe sex is working because  young people are  still getting pregnant. If you live in  Massachusetts this just  might be another reason to remove your child from the government schools.

What do you think?

Until Next Time,

I’m Billy David Dickson 

Methodist Church decline, 3-16-12 Commentary

   Don’t you think churches should mostly put their focus on preaching the message of salvation in Jesus and teaching what the word of God says.

 Membership at the United Methodist Church, once the largest Protestant denomination in the U.S., and other mainline denominations continues to decline. Mark Tooley, president of The Institute on Religion & Democracy (IRD) and author of Methodism in the 20th Century, attributes the decay to the church's position on political matters.

"As the church moved left theologically starting with the early 20th century, especially in the 1920s, it also moved left politically," he explains. "And on that journey, much of Methodism seemed to forget the original recipe of its success in early America, which was not involvement with the details of politics, but of course was focused on proclamation of the gospel … the preaching of salvation, and the transformation of individual lives.

All I can say is Amen Mark.

What do you think?
 Until Next Time I'm Billy David Dickson