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Where were you, Sinema? The proposed bipartisan independent commission to investigate the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol failed on Friday morning after the first Republican filibuster of 2021. Only six Senate Republicans crossed party lines to vote for the bill, after Senators Sinema and Manchin “implored” colleagues to vote for the bill—highlighting the importance of eliminating the arbitrary 10 vote threshold to overcome the filibuster rule. Sinema skipped the failed cloture vote, to the anger of many Arizonans.
Ducey’s veto pen. Gov. Doug Ducey vowed to veto any bills, including the 22 that were awaiting his signature, until the Arizona legislature passes a budget. The budget deadline is one month away, and the Legislature has adjourned till June 10th after failing to pass Ducey’s preferred budget last week, which includes a contentious flat tax that would reduce the state’s coffers by almost $2 trillion per year. Ducey even went as far as to veto a bill that would have ensured people who are pregnant while incarcerated have better prenatal care and aren’t physically restrained.
The Biden budget. Pres. Biden unveiled his $6 trillion 2022 fiscal year budget plan on Friday. The budget proposal has received mixed feedback. While it would reinvest in infrastructure and education, it further increases the already bloated military budget. This article breaks down some of the key proposals in the Biden Budget Plan.
Sinema’s personal assistant. Watch this comedic interpretation of the excuses from Sinema and staffers on her absence on Friday during the Jan. 6th Commission vote.
Call Sinema. Senator Sinema missed the Jan. 6th commission vote and failed to obtain the necessary 10 Republican votes to clear the filibuster. It couldn’t be clearer – it’s time to end the filibuster. Let her know that as a constituent, you are disappointed with the Friday vote and want her to eliminate the arbitrary filibuster rule.
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(6) Do not eat the bread of a miser,
Nor desire his delicacies;
(7) For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.
” Eat and drink!” he says to you,
But his heart is not with you.
(8) The morsel you have eaten, you will vomit up,
And waste your pleasant words.
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This idea, “As he thinks in his heart, so is he” applies both to the righteous and the evil. Here, the subject is evil. We can translate its first half in a more modern way as, “As he calculates in his soul.” “Calculate” puts a twist on the word “thinks,” making it a bit stronger and providing a sense of deceit—that the person is considering the odds of a scheme.
In all three verses, Solomon warns against exploitative people, against those who are slick controllers who manipulate others through charm or beguiling words. God is telling us that we need to have enough discernment to look on the heart, as the proverb says, “As he thinks in his heart, so is he.”
There is an inseparable connection between teaching and practice: We cannot practice truth until we are taught it. We pick up some things from our culture because people do not do everything wrong; from time to time, they hit upon things that are right. Thus, in Romans 2, Paul writes about the conscience of the unconverted. There may be little or much in a given culture in harmony with God and His way.
So, as a person thinks in his heart—as he has been educated to think—is the way he really is. Doctrine – teaching – becomes important because, within the framework of His purpose, we really cannot walk in way of God until He teaches us the truth. He must feed the mind with the right knowledge if the person is going to do right as a way of life. This is what God is after, which is why doctrine is so important.
Thus, God says, “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it” (Proverbs 22:6). This verse does not mean that the child will do everything right but that the child’s basic training will never completely leave him, and if his parents start him off in the right way, “as the twig is bent, so grows the tree.” It is a generality, but a true one. What people need is truth. We need the doctrines put together in the correct way so they lead in the right direction—toward God’s purpose.
What matters is the thinking material that the person works with because the knowledge that his mind, his heart, assimilates will form the basis from which he calculates. If a person lacks truth, he will not come to proper decisions and produce the right actions.
— John W. Ritenbaugh
MAY 31, 2021 |
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