![]() By doing so, she also gets the memories and personalities of these people, which helps her solve the crimes for the police. To survive, she has to feast on the brains of recently deceased crime victims and perpetrators in the morgue. This brings me to my second important point.Īpparently, there’s a new TV series being made where the protagonist is a young female doctor who becomes a zombie cannibal and helps the police solve crimes with her forensics expertise. ![]() They’ve just grown up in an increasingly secular country where evolutionary humanists, socialists and revenge-minded, hate-filled perverts have doubled down on their attacks against the freeing Grace of the Christian, biblical heritage that made America into the economic powerhouse that defeated Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, but that now seems trapped in impotence in the face of Muslim terrorists, illegal immigrants and the new Russian tsar, Vladimir Putin.Ĭlearly, we need a new Great Awakening in the United States, a new revival based on the Gospel of Jesus Christ, who sets the captives free from tyranny, corruption, deprivation, and depravity. The young people probably don’t really believe the pagan signs they hold. Interestingly, the pagan sign-holders seem even younger than the nice young Christian folks preaching the Gospel.Īs one young Christian lady told me, however, the young pagans holding signs near her (they were gone by the time I talked to her) were just misguided young people who need to be told the Good News. I wish I could say no, but when I look at the signs of today, I don’t know.The first two days of Comic-Con 2014 may go down as a watershed sign of major new trends in American culture.įirst, and perhaps most important, the Christian groups holding signs preaching the Gospel on the street corners here at the San Diego Convention Center have been met with even more pagan signs mocking them, saying things like “Bow down to Zod” and “Zeus is Lord.” Though the song is over forty years old, have signs of the times changed that much?Īnd there are times when the signs lead us to a pre-conceived notion?ĭo we still judge people on how they look? I'm alive and doing fine," the protagonist sings as he puts a sign, not money in the offering plate. The last verse of the song "Signs" starts with an organ and a church setting. Some shared with him, despite his appearance. Some judged him, simply by his appearance. The rejection he suffered was humbling, especially from other "street people." The acceptance he received from a few was refreshing. He lived homeless on the streets of Clarksville for four days, from June 17 until June 21, 2013. Pastor Willie Lyle followed a message he had from a dream. Recently, I read an article about a United Methodist Pastor from Clarksville, Tennessee. We are lyrically led to believe his long hair lost that freaky young man a job for which he was qualified. So I took off my hat and said, 'Imagine that, huh, me working for you.'"Īt first, the employer was impressed by the qualifications of the young man. ![]() He said, 'You look like a fine upstanding young man, I think you'll do." So I tucked my hair up under my hat and I went in to ask him why. "And the sign said long haired freaky people need not apply. The first verse catches you right off the bat on the theme of the song: Breaking my mind.ĭo this! Don't do that! Can't you read the signs? " The refrain lyrics from the 1971 hit go something like this:īlocking out the scenery. It could just as easily been named "Labels," but more things rhyme with "Signs." (Besides, we would never get the double entendre without the signs.) One might call them a One-Hit-Wonder band.Īlthough they did have a few other lesser known songs, "Signs" is the song they are best known for, their big hit. There once was a band from Canada called the Five Man Electrical Band. If you're interested, he writes weekly on various topics here. I've decided this week to relinquish my blog writing responsibilities to my brother, Jeff Howard. Being a one-woman show is challenging, but I love it.
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