Buried at the Normandy American Cemetery are 9,380 men who gave the last full measure of devotion to the cause of liberty.

Even when silent, the stones in Jerusalem offer a loud testimony.

Too many pastors won’t risk offending the sensibilities of the soft leftists in their congregations… or the hard leftists in government bureaucracies.

Even as establishment politicians try to keep us paralyzed under the weight of rules and regulations, we must move boldly in the “pursuit of happiness” for which God designed us.

We must not allow our politics, positions, philosophies, ideals, and candidates to become idols we relentlessly serve, but rather tools in the work of honoring God and loving our fellow man.

Remember those darlings of the Tea Party, elected officials whose heads were quickly turned by the establishment elite? The Maccabees can relate.

Gehenna was once a picture of hell. Now it can be a model of God’s loving redemption.

We go to laughable lengths to hide from God.

While intellectually fascinating to discuss where Jesus was buried, it misses the bigger point: we are talking about looking at an empty tomb.