Posts By: Carol Dietz

“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.” — Mark Twain   Yesterday a man posted a picture of his fuel bill after filling up his truck. It cost him over $200 just to put gas in his tank so he could continue going to work, provide for his… Read more »

I was asked why Jerusalem is so important and why so many people have died fighting over it. The answer is much deeper than politics, land, or religion alone. Jerusalem is important because it is the city connected to the throne of God. The fight over Jerusalem has never truly been about land. It has… Read more »

Since I am a builder, I understand something very clearly: no structure can stand for long if it is built on sand instead of a solid foundation. A building may look impressive from a distance. It may appear strong for a season. But if the foundation underneath it is weak, unstable, or poorly designed, eventually… Read more »

“Honesty guides good people; dishonesty destroys treacherous people.” — Proverbs 11:3 (NLT)   At 75 years old, I sometimes sit quietly and wonder what my mother and father would think if they could see America today. My father was born in 1906. My mother in 1909. They lived through world wars, the Great Depression, hard… Read more »

When celebrities like Jane Fonda, Bette Midler, and Patti Smith gather to warn America about authoritarianism, the first question should be simple: what do they actually mean by that word? Authoritarianism once described governments that imprisoned dissidents, silenced opposition, controlled information, and ruled through fear. It described nations where citizens could not speak freely, challenge… Read more »

At a golf tournament, I met a man who changed the way I see life. At first, he seemed like anyone else—enjoying the day, talking about the game, moving through the rhythm of the event. But as we talked more, he shared something that shifted everything. He told me he had been given news that… Read more »

“He who rejects the truth will never find peace in the lie.”   This morning I was thinking about a moment in John 4 where a woman says, “I know the Messiah is coming… when He comes, He will explain everything.” That sounds like us. We think answers are coming, clarity is coming, one day… Read more »

“The enemy of truth is silence.” — Charles de Gaulle   “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” — Martin Luther King Jr.   We live in a time where the answer to every problem seems to be more laws, more rules, and more control, but laws do… Read more »

“Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.” — Helen Keller   The word hope, what does that mean? Yesterday I played golf with a man who has been fighting cancer for the last fifteen years. He has gone through treatments, setbacks, and uncertainty that most people will never fully understand. For… Read more »

I watched a movie about the Civil War, and one line stayed with me. A southern landowner said he knew they had lost when he saw how the North built their cities, not around churches, but around schoolhouses, because they understood that whoever shapes the minds of the next generation controls the future. That was… Read more »