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No King? No King.

“In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes .” [1] God’s heart is b r e a k i n g and His Spirit is grieved over the tragedy and chaos this nation has experienced just in 2018. Some say from January 1 st to February 14 th there has been eighteen school shootings. Snopes website, quoting The Washington Post says, “No, only five” [2] . But even one is too many. My heart also breaks, not merely for the Parkland, Florida school shooting victims and their families, but for every school shooting victim since the first, Columbine. Last week this insanity came closer to home. A Jackson Middle School student shot himself in the school restroom and he has now succumbed to his wounds. At first the shooting was thought to be accidental, but later being labeled a suicide. Sadly, it seems the panic arising from the Jackson Middle School shooting may have spurred a social media threat to at least one of our local schools causing severa...