If you’ve ever read detective novels or watched television crime dramas, you probably know that complex or frenzied crime scenes can be overwhelming and even mentally disorienting to the casual observer or even a seasoned detective. It can be an assault on one’s senses. The bigger or more complex the crime, the more difficult it usually is to untangle the web of people, events, and motives. In situations involving multiple crimes committed by the same person or group of people, it can be even more difficult to connect the proverbial dots to the perpetrators.
As Christians with morals and people of normal sensibilities, it is often difficult to understand, or even accept, the depravity and disregard for humanity possessed by some people. We don’t think like people who are consumed by evil, and therefore, have a difficult time recognizing their crimes and motives. Until we dig deeper, that is.
Firepocalypse
Over the last decade we’ve witnessed numerous incidents of death and destruction, from the train derailment in East Palestine, OH, the devastating fires in Maui, Hurricane Helene that destroyed large areas of Appalachia, and most recently, the fires consuming prime areas of the greater Los Angeles area.
The most recent Los Angeles fires have destroye ...
