My generation had the distinct honor of sitting at the feet of the men who faced the worst dragons of recent history on battle fronts around the world in WWII. My dad and six uncles fought in those battles. Some on land, some in the sea, some in the air. Some against Germans; some against Japanese. Dad and every one of my uncles came home. Last week we observed the 75th anniversary of first day (D-Day) of the invasion to liberate France. Of the battles fought in that war, the beaches of Normandy were to the war in Europe, what the atomic bomb was in the Pacific war. It was beginning of the end of Axis rule. My best friend’s dad was there on the beach, June 6th, 1944. He was a Landing Craft pilot. 20 years later he cried as he told me, a haughty High-School kid with hair…

I hope I am wrong in what I am about to say. I prayed to be wrong. I want you to pray I am wrong. For the past several weeks I have felt that an attack on an American church is coming soon that will be of, if not beyond, the scale of some of the worst we have seen. And we’ve seen some bad ones. While praying to be wrong, we must be ready. The response to our annual security summit announcement has been so overwhelming I am repeating it before the early discount ends tomorrow. Make sure to register by midnight Monday 6/3/19 to save $26.00 off the registration costs. The 2nd annual Faith-Based SOS (Security Operations Summit) will be on the 26th(Friday) and 27th(Saturday) of July in Colorado Springs. Last year we had people from 27 states. By the end of the 2nd week of registrations this…

My wife and I spent some time in Kansas this last week. We were there during the familiar Spring storms. One thing certain in Kansas, is there will be rolling thunderstorms. It happens every year. Every year there are tornadoes. It’s just a fact of life in Kansas. While tornadoes can be very dangerous, the biggest killers in a storm are flooding and lightning, and a common source of injury (to man, building, beast and crop) is hail. The beasts of the prairie have unique responses to storms. Perhaps none more so than cattle and buffalo. When a storm comes, cattle are primarily oblivious to it. They may even seek shelter from the rain by getting under a tree – the most dangerous place to be during a lightning storm. On the open ground they will often just stand there waiting to get struck. I hear some talk of how…