Posts Categorized: Mikes Blog

This morning, while talking with my wife, our conversation turned to history and the world around us—Russia and Ukraine, Venezuela, and other nations shaped by socialist or communist rule. As we talked, my thoughts kept circling back to one of the clearest lessons history has ever given us: Germany after the Second World War. Few… Read more »

As the years pass, life has a way of slowing down. Not to take something from us, but to help us see more clearly. With time, we begin to understand that life was never measured by how busy we were or how much we accomplished. It was measured by love. By faithfulness. By the people… Read more »

Liberal policies begin the same way. They sound compassionate. They sound reasonable. They sound moral. They promise fairness, protection, and help for the vulnerable. On paper, they make sense. In speeches, they feel right. But governing is not about intentions—it’s about outcomes. And time and again, when liberal ideas are put into practice, they collapse… Read more »

Turn on the news, scroll through your phone, or listen to the noise of the day, and one message rises above the rest: you don’t have enough. Not enough money, not enough opportunity, not enough security. What’s missing dominates the conversation, while what we already possess goes largely unnoticed. Discontent has become the language of… Read more »

Today we hear a lot of noise—voices, headlines, opinions, and repetition—all claiming to tell us what is true. The real question is not what is loud, but how we know what is true. Recently, I had a conversation with some of my granddaughters about how to tell the difference between right and wrong, and that… Read more »

Yesterday, I listened to a liberal commentator on talk television claim that President Trump’s promises “aren’t taking place.” The statement wasn’t just misleading—it was laughable. It ignored a basic truth that anyone paying attention can see: the problems she listed didn’t begin under Trump. They were created, fed, and multiplied over years of liberal leadership…. Read more »

Every December, I find myself returning to the same Christmas movie. Last night, Carol and I watched It’s a Wonderful Life. I’ve seen it more times than I can count, yet it still reaches a place in me that few stories can. It’s about a man who becomes so overwhelmed by the pressures and disappointments… Read more »

I keep hearing people on the left say they “don’t want to go back,” as if returning to the values that built this country would somehow hold us back. They insist that only going forward—on their terms—will save America. But before anyone accepts that idea, we need to understand what their version of moving forward… Read more »

As I think about America, I often wonder whether we are truly as divided as we are told. Everywhere we turn, someone is shouting, arguing, accusing, or demanding to be heard. But when people stop talking long enough to listen, something surprising happens—walls fall, truth rises, and unity becomes possible. In a nation drowning in… Read more »

Life presses in on us from every side. We move through our days surrounded by noise, pressure, distraction, and constant pursuit. Yet one question pierces through all of it with unrelenting force: Why am I here, why did God place me in this exact moment, in this generation, in this time in history? This is… Read more »