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About a week ago I was driving on North High Street in Hillsboro lunchtime traffic and I was caught behind a large truck. This particular truck had a message on the back of it which read, “Need Change? You Must Love God More Than Sin.”

After World War I the United States retreated from global affairs. During the 1920s and the depression of the 1930s the policy approach was to isolate, in hopes of protecting the U.S. economy. Notwithstanding the huge public works programs effected by President Roosevelt, it was the production demands of a global war, World War II, that pulled the U.S. out of the depression.

I was lying in bed the other night in the little apartment my husband, Peter, and I rent in Mexico, and thinking that things were perfect. Then I wondered what that meant.

Editor’s Note — This first part of this column is the second part of a two-part column. The second part of the column is completely separate, but kind of related.

Have you ever wondered about the day after Good Friday and the day before Easter? The question is this: What happened to Jesus after He was crucified but before He was resurrected?

The Nazis were adept at using media and communications tools to twist facts, radicalize their populace and demonize targeted populations. We can only imagine how powerful that regime could have been to distract and deceive had they the digital tools available today.

We have had our adopted Mexican street cat, Felix, for a month now.

A good friend of mine who is generally very cautious and aware recently got a dose of malware on their Windows 10 PC. How did they know they got infected? The malware opened a window offering a free iPad and then began opening new tabs. Fortunately, Windows Defender blocked the content of those new tabs, but there was still the malware to deal with.

Editor’s note — This is the first part of a two-part column.

The message of the cross of Jesus Christ has never been a popular one. In the ancient world, as the early church was just starting to pick up steam, the idea of God on a cross was particularly offensive and laughable to many. Last week I wrote about the Greek word “skandalon,” a word that the Apostle Paul used to describe the Jewish reaction to his preaching about the cross. It was a scandalous idea to most Jewish minds that the Messiah would suffer in such a way. In the same letter to the Christians in Corinth, Paul describes the Gentile reaction to the cross as mostly being one of rejection as well. To Gentile minds, the message of the cross was foolish, even stupid.