America is beginning to reap what we have sown. All of our nation was totally stunned by the news from Littleton, Colo. as seemingly average high school students gunned down classmates and teachers. After one feels the total pain, the suffering and the anguish and the final loss, one has to ask the inevitable question "WHY?"

There is an answer but millions of Americans don't want the answer. Millions of Americans want to continue in their "do their own thingism" at any and all costs. They continue to insist that freedom of speech and the press is license to ensure that total filth is shown over and over day in and day out on our nations' TV stations. They insist that programs like the demented "Jerry Springer Show" have a right to be aired. They want to ensure that the Internet is free to propagate pornography and that it is shown in every home in America.

We were told in the 60s and the 70s that we shouldn't have the Ten Commandments in our courtrooms and that prayer should be banned from our schools. We were later told that the draft was not needed and that young men and women should not have to give anything back to their country, but to only take all the benefits that freedom and democracy have to offer.

We were later taught by the Democrats and our President that when caught red handed, you give it your best lie and then redefine the issue and then hire the best lying lawyers you can afford. It is said that "leadership" is any thing people follow. We were further told that many of our "old values" needed a re-look and that these old fashioned ideas were not for the 90s.

Strange as it seems, I can't seem to remember any high school kids with those "old fashioned" ideas bringing guns and bombs to school and randomly killing their classmates and teachers.

There is another group of kids out there doing a very different activity. These are kids from our new small mission church whom I took to Pensacola, Fla. to the Brownsville Revival of which I wrote about earlier last month.

During their spring break while at this revival, God wonderfully touched their hearts in a miraculous way. When they returned to Fayetteville, some of the boys came to me and said, "Pastor, we want to build a bonfire and burn some of the things that we shouldn't have in our lives." I couldn't believe my ears. This was not at all prompted or suggested by anybody, but was a move of their hearts toward God.

Before I could organize the fire, I looked up and black smoke was pouring up in my back yard. They had already brought out CDs, videos, tapes, magazines, cigarettes and even a Budweiser mirror clock and had it all blazing as they burned their idols.

What we adults could all learn from this "turned on to God" youth group!!. Their name is TLC which stands for Together , Loving and Caring.

There certainly are "answers" to the Colorado tragedy but the answers are spiritual ones. Are you ready yet America to return to some "old fashioned" spiritual ideals? I certainly am and our Youth Group already has. Pray for the families that lost loved ones this week.

Dr. Knox Herndon is the Pastor of "His House Community Church" (SBC) and a

substitute school teacher in the Fayette County school system, and a former

Army Chaplain. The church is located at 193 Johnson Ave Fayetteville, Ga.

Right behind the Mask Tire Co. off Jeff Davis Dr. Fayetteville. Prayer line