Digging in Deeper: Acts 10:36

“He sent the message to the Israelites, proclaiming the good news of peace through Jesus Christ – he is Lord of all.” (CSB – Read the chapter)

While I have ours down pretty well, I don’t really understand the governing system of any other nation very well. From what little I do understand, though, in nations like England, while they have regular elections, they can also have snap elections. This is where the Prime Minister declares that it’s time to have an election. This could be for his own position or the various positions of Parliament. When this happens, the whole “election season” lasts for only about six weeks. Then everything goes back to normal. There are times something like that sounds pretty nice, especially when we have been slowly lumbering toward a presidential election season this coming November for months and it’s still only January. There are ten more months of campaigning ahead of us during which time things are probably only going to get uglier and uglier with national tensions rising more and more along the way. And, in the end, if things stay on the course they have been riding this whole time, we are going to wind up with an essentially binary choice between two options that at least by survey, most of the country doesn’t want either of. What fun. With the first round of primary voting officially behind us this week, I thought we would reflect together for a few minutes today on this whole scene and how we should be thinking about it. Let’s talk some politics.

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