Posts Categorized: Franks Blog

Frank Dietz passed on to be with the Lord Monday January 11, 2021.  For the past 3 years he tended to his invalid wife 24/7 learning to cook, clean, do laundry as well as take her on walks and working with her to get better. But Anneli is not any better, and their two daughters… Read more »

Proverbs 18:21 “The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.”   In his essay called “Politics and the English Language,” George Orwell shared a crucial insight about the decline of language: “A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure,… Read more »

There is no doubt that this has been a year of great turmoil and one that seems to invite fear, anxiety, and a mixture of despair regarding the future. We have had a pandemic that has caused lockdowns, as well as destruction coming from storms, not just here in the States, but in other parts… Read more »

WORDS   Proverbs 13:3 “Those who guard their lips preserve their lives, but those who speak rashly will come to ruin.”   Lord Jim: “There is a weird power in the spoken word, and a word carries very far, and can give destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space. We are to re-talk… Read more »

Three years ago, last month (October of 2017), the life of my wife and I changed. Anneli had a brain aneurysm and October 8, 2017 she went through a five-hour operation where the aneurysm was secured with coils. However, one slipped and went to another part of the brain that caused a stroke affecting her… Read more »

Only Limited and Carefully Defined Powers Should Be Delegated to Government – All Others Be Retained in the People   This goes along with the 10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people…. Read more »

A System of Checks and Balances Should be Adopted to Prevent the Abuse of Power   In the early days of our Constitution many people wanted the separation of powers to be absolute, but in his Federalist Papers (numbers 47 to 51) James Madison explained the separation of powers between the executive, legislative and the… Read more »

The Government Should Be Separated into Three Branches Legislative, Executive, and Judicial   Isaiah 33:22 “For the Lord is our judge (judicial), the Lord is our lawgiver (legislative), the Lord is our king (executive); it is He who will save us.”   It is interesting that in ancient times political writers often debated on what… Read more »

The Highest Level of Prosperity Occurs When There is a Free Market Economy and a Minimum of Government Regulations   This is a question the Founding Fathers had: “Are there natural laws for the marketplace?” They saw that there was a possibility of a political and social structure based on natural law, but what about… Read more »

Life and Liberty Are Secure Only so Long As the Right to Property Is Secure   Leviticus 25:13 “In this year of Jubilee everyone is to return to their own property.   Psalm 115:16 “The highest heavens belong to the Lord, but the earth he has given to mankind.”   The one unalienable right that… Read more »