Welcome to Politics by Faith.

Thanks for being here.

Sorry I missed yesterday's episode.

My phone broke.

So I had to go to the phone repair store.

We had a flat tire.

So I had to go to the tire store.

Something else happened.

Oh, we had to go to the dump.

The garbage was overflowing out of the garage. So we had to make a dump run as well. So didn't have time for podcast. Sorry, tomorrow we'll do the episode that I was going to do yesterday. I wanted to talk about the trade deal with the European Union, which is just incredible. And I wanted to run that through a biblical filter. And I think I have a story that will be pretty good for that. So we'll do that one tomorrow, but I want to do the more urgent story today, and that is the shooting out of New York

City yesterday. A man carrying or wearing body armor, high-powered rifle killed four people,

including an off-duty police officer, NYPD, who was working security at this

office building, is on 52nd in Park. Midtown man at 6.30 p.m. last night. Still no motive. I've heard

some stuff, but I think it's pretty early to tell for sure. The male who did this is from Las Vegas, and he first killed the

NYPD officer, then shot another security guard, shot a male in a man in the lobby,

then called for an elevator, a woman walked out, but he let her live. He then went to the 33rd floor, started shooting there, and then

ended up shooting himself in the chest. So as I'm speaking right now, four people are dead,

and then the murderer as well. And that NYPD officer was 36 years old. He had two sons and a pregnant wife.

So it's a horrible story. What can one say? But a couple things came to mind. We'll see if any of this

works. So then first came to mind was Jonathan Edwards, the greatest mind that our country ever produced.

He said the ruin that the fall brought, because that's the root of it.

It's the root of everything.

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