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The rural crossroad is only a mile long. Yet two tornados struck this road in one day. I have never seen separate tornados hit the same spot within a matter of hours. Yet here we were. We responded after the first tornado destroyed a mobile home. While we checked for victims, another tornado arrived. After…
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Being off duty doesn’t always exempt me from strange encounters. One night while driving in a light rain, I noticed an old lady in front of me having difficulty keeping her car in the lane. As we continued down the highway, her driving became progressively worse. Suddenly, her car veered onto the median. She drove right…
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Some police events are more memorable than others, sometimes for all the wrong reasons. Swat calls don’t always work like they do on TV. Some even make us wonder how we survived. This was that call. We were sent to search a guy’s house for drugs. He was well-armed, so we tried to arrive by…
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In the 1990s, during the crack epidemic, we often searched vacant buildings in high-crime areas for users and dealers. One night, three of us stopped at an empty two-story apartment. The door was open so we searched it room by room. Once we cleared the apartment, we ended up on the second floor. We lingered…
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“Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the LORD understand it completely.” (Proverbs 28:5) Patrolling in the County late one night, I saw a car sitting in a cotton field. When I turned in to check it, its headlights came on. I activated the blue lights and a guy stepped out of…
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Sunday is the day everything changed. The risen Son of God walked out of the grave. He left behind an empty tomb. Angels asked those who sought Him, “Why do you seek the living among the dead?” The grave was not an appropriate place to find Him. “He is not here, He has risen.” (Matthew…
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As a kid, I attended a very old church. The floors were made of old wood that creaked when you walked on them. One morning after Sunday School, my friend Richard (maybe his real name, maybe it’s not) and I were coming down the stairs from the loft. Just as we were about to take…
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Friday is the day the sin debt was paid. Soldiers led Jesus to the place of crucifixion. They nailed Him to a wooden cross as a public display of Rome’s wrath. God, however, was working out something much bigger. This was planned “before the foundation of the world.” (Ephesians 1:4) Seven hundred years before the…
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It’s Thursday. Jesus ate His final Passover meal with His followers. When He broke the matzoh, the unleavened bread, He said, “This is My body which is given for you…” Then He lifted a cup, choosing the third cup of the Passover Seder, called the Redemption Cup. He said, “This cup that is poured out…
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“Why must they all be naked?” I thought. Dispatch gave out a call involving a large, muscular man standing naked in a busy roadway threatening motorists. He was covered in his own blood and suffering a drug-induced mental health crisis. Law enforcement responded to remove him from the road, restrain him, and get him the…