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Blood and Sacrifice

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What about the Galileans whose blood Pilate mixed with their sacrifices? Luke 13:1 While driving to work this morning my wife called me, “Troy, did you hear about the shooting in the Church in South Carolina? Almost insensitively  to the shock of murder especially in the south, I responded “There is always a shooting in the south” It wasn’t as if I thought the north was any safer, it’s just that redundancy of hearing bad news across the airways had driven me into a sort of current event seclusion. I had stop reading the news, stop watching the news, and even when news came on my favorite gospel music station I would turn away from the news. I had resolved within myself that the only good new I would hear in this lifetime was the good news of Jesus Christ. “No” my wife continued, “I heard there were like 9 people that were killed d even the pastor” At that moment the very reason I stop watching news, resurfaced. My body began to quiver uncontrollable as if I was about...