Small Parts

Posted on July 14, 2018 by ehurst

Stuff is happening, but much of it is behind the scenes.

We are in a time of winnowing on the blog here. Some of it isn’t voluntary, I suppose. I suspect the search engines aren’t entirely favorable to the content and placing us progressively lower on search listings. Either way, I’m not upset with anyone if they decide this isn’t for them. We don’t want everyone and we surely cannot help those whom the Lord has not drawn. There is always a mass of people just hanging around for the sake of entertainment.

As always, the one thing I want most for you is that not need me. I feel certain that the hand of fascism is already slowly tightening its grip on the Internet. It doesn’t matter if you imagine it as right or left fascism; it’s all the same to us because it all seeks to silence our message. If your faith rests on my blather, then it’s not faith. Calling it Radix Fidem is just a label we’ve plastered on it for the sake convenience. There’s nothing sacred about this online parish except you, the followers of Christ.

That said, the desire to be with you burns brightly. That’s how the Holy Spirit works, drawing us together as one people. And I could use a little more feedback and fellowship from some of you, to know how you are faring early in our tribulation. Don’t throw flowers and tell me how great this blog is; tell me how great your faith is. Tell me of the miracles you’ve been granted. Those of you who participate in the forum are already a huge blessing to me. Let’s hear from some other folks.

If you do join the forum, perhaps you’ll find out that we are praying specifically that we can join hands with other folks out there who have found the heart-led way of Christ. Not so we can boast in our traffic on the forum or this blog, but we want that fellowship of folks who know the power of communion with Creation. It doesn’t matter if you need us — we need you. Even if you don’t invest the time it takes to chat on the forum, a word in the comments from time to time here would help us handful of active participants realize we aren’t alone.

In other words, we want to be a part of your church, and participate in your religion. Maybe just a small part, but our God is the One who deserves all the attention in the first place. And just because this is my blog, don’t think I’m the only one paying attention here. I’m the one with the most time to devote to making noise and trying to formulate ways we can subject our flesh to our hearts. And as for me being an elder, it really boils down to being elder of my own household and little more. If you like the idea of having me as virtual elder, fine, but there’s nothing stopping anyone from being elder in their own domain in the real world. Either way, if you make some noise here or on the forum, it’s not a question of feeding my ego.

The question is whether you are ready to pull in the harness and bless others. Let’s take advantage of this moment to offer our gifts to each other, because there may not be any warning before someone pulls the plug. And, Lord willing, if we get the right kind of attention, we may be protected from the worst of it. Pray with us, and let us know you are praying.

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Don’t Lay up Treasures in This World

Posted on July 13, 2018 by ehurst

Of course, globalists are not the only problem we have to deal with here in the US. Having an empire in the first place is a major issue, even without the hijacking.

I’ve already discussed here on this blog God’s laws for empire specifically, and how the Covenant of Noah applies to all governments in general. The point here is that our current ruling regime is serving another false god, though a different one from the globalists: Zionism. This is pretty much the same false image of Jehovah that arose from the Hellenized perversion called the Talmud. It’s why they could murder their Messiah: They didn’t know their own God and couldn’t recognize His Son.

For now, most of the imperialist energy is absorbed in cracking down on the globalists. This is no small task, but the regime expects to be mostly finished breaking the globalists by the end of this calendar year. This is in part because the globalists remain a threat until they are completely broken. Please, forget about Republican and Democrat; there are some of each party in both globalists and imperialists. D versus R is just a misdirection to hide the real game. God is using the Zionists to crush the globalists.

As that task winds down, more and more resources will be aimed at the ultimate goals of Zionism. Those goals include things like dispossession and displacement of the previous inhabitants of Palestine. Along with this is the weakening and destabilizing every neighboring government that doesn’t also serve Zionism. But even those who are currently friendly or tolerant toward Israel will someday be expected to prostrate themselves before the altar of Zionism or likewise be broken up. Israel is entirely untrustworthy.

You should consider this the official religion of the US military leadership and some of the agencies that aren’t currently run by the globalists. But there is a surprise coming: By the time the globalists are no longer a problem, a functional majority of US military and civilian folks may refuse to fully subject themselves to Zionism’s demands. Thus, the turmoil of choking out the globalist threat will continue as Zionism becomes an even bigger threat for abuse and slavery in the US. It will provoke resistance. This is likely what will destroy the US government. The pig-headed Zionists among the government elite will not listen to the voice of the people. Thus, God will also break down the imperialists/Zionists.

If you walk with me in my rejection of Zionism, you will risk taking some significant persecution until things settle down in the new regional governments that arise from the ashes of US defiance of God. Zionism’s obscene demands will divide families, churches, businesses, schools and clubs — every thing we do will be polarized in the extreme. But Our Lord always provides a way for us to keep His message alive in this world until He’s ready to bring us Home.

So our shalom depends on us learning how to rebuild our earthly lives into heart-led covenant families. We’ll need to be willing to let go of a lot of things dear to us because this world will simply take them away. Don’t lose heart; all of this is merely temporal and disposable compared to the Kingdom of Heaven. This otherworldly focus is what distinguishes us from most of the mainstream churches in the US. Let God handle the big stuff in this world; our existence is His glory.

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Don’t Go Along with It

Posted on July 12, 2018 by ehurst

Isn’t this Internet thing just dandy? All of us living all over the world and we can openly share as if we were just next door. Okay, it’s not the same as face-to-face, but it’s a whole lot better than just a couple of decades ago when most people had no access to the Net. Now I can make friends and even develop a pretty close fellowship with people I may never see in the flesh.

One of the main problems with using the Internet like that is how it can bend our thinking out of shape. It provokes a tendency to believe that we could all just move into the same neighborhood and feel right at home with each other. I’m not saying it won’t work at all, but there is a high probability it won’t work well. There is really so very much about each of us that simply doesn’t come across in virtual space.

Biblical Law says that a cosmopolitan society is an abomination. Not directly, but it points this out in subtle ways. Start with the Tower of Babel. In the end, God clearly demands that we all spread out and live in our little enclaves with different languages, cultures and customs. We are supposed to find the place on this earth to which God calls us, then live there and adapt our lives to the conditions there. If the customs we bring with us hinder that process, we drop them and make new ones. And once we get a stable situation, we pass that on to our children.

All throughout the Bible there is this very solid expectation that you would expect to live with folks a whole lot like you. It’s a vital necessity for keeping a stable society, which is part of shalom. God’s promise of blessings assumes a stable, close knit extended family setting. It also assumes a covenant binding everyone together, a tribal feudal structure of government.

That is utterly hostile to a cosmopolitan society. In a mixed society of that sort, one culture will be favored against the others. Otherwise it will be chaos and warfare. That’s human nature, and you cannot educate it out of us. It’s hard-wired. One group will always prey on another based on differences that are regarded as weaknesses. The situation cannot remain cosmopolitan without a pretty firm and harsh government that sides with no group. But then that government is poking its nose into things God forbids.

We’ve been lied to about this. The lies have been so huge and now so old that most simply don’t question them. Here in the US, we should have been multiple independent states all along, but we have been herded into an empire that sticks its fingers in place where no imperial government has any business touching our lives. That imperial government has morphed over the years. Truly evil groups of people have taken advantage of this massive power.

One particular bunch has developed a hideous idolatry about keeping us under the lies and taking total control. They tried to seize the empire only so they could destroy it and build their own Utopian dreams of power over the whole world. There is evidence this cabal was plotting to set off nuclear devices in a false flag operation to provoke a nuclear exchange with Russia, and perhaps China. Their communications were leaked and talked of seizing control in the ensuing power vacuum. It was all for the good of humanity, of course.

We call that religion “globalism.” Whatever it might have been, and whatever it is now hiding under that label, it has become a complete abomination to God, perhaps even worse than the original Babylon of Nimrod and his ziggurat. Of course, they would have ensured their own lives would be spared and safe in bunkers and such, but they wanted hundreds of millions dead so they could enslave the rest of humanity. This current Babylon will fall just like the ancient one.

This doesn’t mean you can’t be friendly to folks who are different, folks who aren’t a part of your covenant. The Old Testament refers to such folks as “strangers.” And Jesus answered the question, “Who is my neighbor?” He described someone belonging to a different, and even somewhat hostile national covenant, but not a direct threat. If they act neighborly, treat them accordingly. Don’t assume the worst. But by the same token, don’t hesitate to defend your own mission and covenant blessings.

In our case now, it’s not as if we could go to war with globalists. It’s enough to expose their evil. It’s enough to awaken people to lies by speaking the truth. That’s because the globalist plans require us to go along with their lies. It’s the primary weakness in their plans; we don’t have to go along with it.

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Your Living Treasure

Posted on July 11, 2018 by ehurst

This business of following Jesus is all about breaking apart the false assumptions this world has fed you.

Here’s one false assumption: The basic purpose of a business is to make a profit. That’s so obvious that most people take it for granted. It’s also completely evil. In Christ, the whole purpose of a business is to provide for human existence. Don’t assume that wealth is inherently good (Luke 12:15). Material possessions are merely tools for the glory of Christ.

So the revolutionary radical truth here is that, in Christ, you start a business with the goal of employing as many people as possible and providing them a living wage. People always have priority over profit. A business has to make a profit in order to grow, not in terms of revenue itself, but revenue as the means to adding staff.

And the way to do that is to serve human need on the other side of the business: the customer. Seek to meet human needs and God will be inclined to prosper your business. The whole point is making things better for as many people as possible.

Of course, “making things better” does have a distinct definition that is also radically different from what this world wants you to believe. That’s the whole business of understanding the otherworldly goals of our faith in the first place. God calls us and awakens our awareness to the higher realm so that we can recognize what it’s all about. Nothing in this world is a goal unto itself — nothing. We aren’t trying to make this world better; we are trying to show why this world is so awful. We are trying to highlight the difference between sin and righteousness, to clarify for folks what makes our Creator happy.

So you want to serve the customer first, and that means you fatten your lower staff first, not the management. You add management when the staff gets unwieldy — and you prefer promotion from within the staff. Invest in the people. If your company seems to serve the purpose of training people only to lose them to other businesses, fine. It’s all about the people, not your profits. If they won’t stay to enjoy your people-oriented atmosphere, you didn’t need them in the first place. Bless them as best you can and send them off.

But the bottom line is people, not property. Make those employees your family. Their welfare is your welfare. Make sure your accountants understand that you don’t worship Mammon. The whole purpose is to have a place where people can grow and prosper, to become strong enough that they managed to do well even if you someday have to shut it all down. View the survival of the business as something beyond your control and handle well the things you do control. Do what’s right and trust the Lord.

This is a part of the wider context of what it means to follow Christ.

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Draper Summer Flowers

Posted on July 10, 2018 by ehurst

Just a few flower shots from Draper Lake today. It was highly humid even during the morning hours of my early ride. Oddly enough, if you could have seen the tall grass in high spots, you would see it starting to sunburn and lose color.

The bikeway is coming along slowly and there was nothing new to shoot, so I just went after the flowers. Most of the spring crop is gone now and these are the midsummer blossoms. This second image is a collection of tiny little things that grow in shady areas. The spot was cool and damp, yet right next to the sunny hot road.

These tiny blues also appeared only in shaded areas, but in soil that was less sandy, more red clay. I noted previously that the bikeway crews are building up the low sandy spots with deep layers of packed red clay because it’s slightly more stable. Our sand here by the lake is mostly brown dusty silt.

These lavender stalks were visible only on the eastern side of the lake. The west side is higher and drier, while the east has far more wooded areas.

I caught this tiny yellow puff on the west side. It grows on a vine and the blossoms are spread out. There were some purple ones, too, but they were too far out in the wild foliage where I would have been eaten by ticks. This time of year is really bad for ticks and they carry diseases. I was dressed for riding, not tromping in the brush.

It was a hot ride and I emptied all four of my water bottles before I got home.

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Urban Archeology

Posted on July 9, 2018 by ehurst

There’s nothing to see in this picture except lots of mowed green grass and vast open space between the road where I’m standing and the river in the far background. That’s the whole point; this was once a sand and gravel mine owned by Dolese. Now OKC owns it along with my long often-muddy trail along the river. The initial clean up is finished. Vast piles of sand and gravel are gone, along with the huge machines that moved and processed all of it. From what I have been told, this will all become recreational space, though I’m sure the City will likely use it for some kind of storage, as well. Things change.

I rode the Midwest Boulevard-Wilshire-Katy Trail loop today. The hills along Wilshire are a brutal workout; I lost count, but had to shift down into A-3 multiple times. The hills end at Kelly Avenue, featured in this second image. Take a good look at it.

This is a very old street being rebuilt in order to widen it into four lanes. I’m standing on a concrete driveway apron. In the immediate foreground you can see the new lanes on the eastern side. In the middle ground is a concrete road bed which previously was covered in bricks. Those are now piled in the background on top of the temporary asphalt laid while the near lanes were put into place. The bricks were hidden under one or more old layers of asphalt. The brickwork is very old, but not quite ancient in terms of OKC history. Ancient bricks would not have had a concrete layer underneath. This was something intended as decoration, with specially made bricks. The ancient brick streets were made from common sized bricks planted directly into gravel and dirt. There’s very little of that left in Oklahoma. But what we see here is still very old brickwork.

There wasn’t much else that caught my eye today, but I keep carrying my newer camera on these long rides just in case.

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Keep Watch for Turmoil

Posted on July 8, 2018 by ehurst

If you are heart-led, if you really buy into this Radix Fidem Christian Mysticism stuff, you are a threat to the system. I can tell you from working within the clergy of several evangelical denominations that what holds them together is the money and power.

You can surely find faith within the institutional churches. The Lord will not let His voice be silenced. However, the system keeps running in spite of faith. Once a denomination finds a way to establish the flow of money and the levers of power, the leadership will fight to prevent changes that would threaten that. Very few of their congregations could function without the facilities and production activities. A great many their members would simply go somewhere else looking for that worldly footprint.

So you can work in any churches that you feel called to deal with, but you cannot take seriously the claim to faith as soul of the community. It’s all about control, not trusting the Lord to run things. They keep defining “church” down to whatever suits them, trying to put God in a box. If you don’t see God in their terms, they declare that you don’t know Him. Their words are a thin cover over their failures.

We aren’t building a competing empire. We have no intention of threatening the system, but we would love to see some of those members find the heart-led walk in Christ. The leadership will feel threatened by our work. I found that out the hard way. Be careful how you walk among them if that’s where God calls you. It’s possible they may seek to engage government power to shut us down, so we try to remain a difficult target. Trying to harm us should be like trying to grab wind. They can feel us, but there’s nothing that gives a handle for control.

On a related note, I wanted to explain a few more things about the current political situation, because the churches will panic when things starts to come apart and it will affect our mission.

Were you aware just how close we came to a military coup in the US? I often wondered about that, but reading Q’s archives, I found a frank confession that it very nearly came during Obama’s term. And had Clinton won the election, there surely would have been one. But the military found an ally in Trump and, so far as I can tell, did some things that helped him win. It’s more complicated than that, but that’s part of the story; some of the damaging leaks were aided by the military.

Whoever Q is, he/she/they are likely part of Military Intelligence. The CIA has been at war with those folks for quite some time. It’s restricted warfare behind the scenes, but I can assure you the CIA operates independently and sometimes in defiance of the US military. The CIA has quite often done things that got our troops killed in foreign countries.

It’s possible that Trump can cleanse the FBI of Clinton loyalists, but the CIA is a much bigger problem. I’m not sure anyone knows just how deep the globalist rot goes, because there are several other intelligence agencies involved that you seldom hear about.

To be honest, I think there could still be a coup of sorts, but at this point it would be more like Trump declaring martial law. I believe that option remains part of the ongoing plan. Every high tension turning point holds the potential for it, and we are currently on one of those points. But as long as the administration can whittle away at the globalists, there’s no need to take any shortcuts on the system of government. Let us pray that they succeed.

None of this is secret; it’s there in plain sight for those who choose to examine the situation. Lots of people in the military can tell you about the double-crossing from the CIA protecting our battlefield enemies for insane spying purposes. It’s as if their snooping is far more important than simply defeating the enemy. The CIA has completely forgotten their true mission. And they aren’t all that competent at the mission they have chosen for themselves.

Right now the CIA and FBI are fighting congressional oversight, and that may be enough leverage to root out the source of trouble. Not that Congress is likely to actually do anything, but this serves to expose the depth of the problem and will help to justify more severe actions against the traitors in the system.

Keep your eyes open. Something so small as the recent mass discharge of immigrants from the military can tell you a lot. Why would the military suddenly close a traditional path to citizenship that way? It means operational security in the military is being tightened in preparation for something risky. And when something does happen, you can bet the established church leaders will be drafted into supporting whatever it is. It won’t be just ICE sniffing out undocumented immigrants; all kinds of loyalty checks will be implemented in all kinds of ways.

Some of you, my dear parish folk, will come under pressure. Trust the Lord and be faithful.

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Teachings of Jesus — Matthew 18:21-35

Posted on July 7, 2018 by ehurst

The concept of social stability as a primary feature of shalom goes back centuries in the Ancient Near East, long before Abraham. A primary element in a ruler’s customary duty to keep that peace was to declare debt forgiveness at special times. We recognize this in the Old Testament Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur). The whole idea was to restore things to what they were by default, the natural order. It was well known that some minority of people of power and wealth would often engage in predatory lending so as to profit by seizing property and enslaving the peasantry. These royal declarations of amnesty were popular with the peasants and were often celebrated as festivals.

The concept of debt amnesty often included many types of civil and criminal offense. Modern law tends to draw distinctions that are totally different from the Ancient Near East. Justice then was a different concept with a different aim. There was no State, so there could be no offenses against the State. Everything was personal, and justice was a matter of restoring social balance. Virtually every sin was a sin against some person, and it was typically viewed as carrying penalties of redress and restoration.

Thus, both Jesus and Peter were following the Covenant when discussing forgiveness in terms of debt. The underlying assumption is redress in kind; what one owed depended on the nature of the transgression so as to restore the default order of things prior to the sin. Even the Talmud recognized that one should be quick to forgive and slow to anger. The day before the Day of Atonement was celebrated by reaching out to others and seeking to reduce tensions and restore shalom, or to declare such forgiveness before God in their absence.

So when Jesus mentioned binding and dissolving and seeking redress, it brought to Peter’s mind the Pharisaical teaching of forgiving three times unconditionally for certain minor offenses. Peter thought he was being generous by upping the ante to seven. Jesus said that we should be ready to forgive without counting. Then He told the Parable of the Unforgiving Servant.

In the narrative, we see someone who rules a substantial domain holding a periodic audit of accounts. This is not family members, but people already bound to him by debt or other forms of servitude. A typical element in this scenario is declaring amnesty for debts relatively close to discharge, which is the primary focus on such audits. In the process he comes across a servant with an impossible debt worth 100 million days of labor. There’s no way anyone is going to repay that, and the king was tired of dealing with it. The man and his family and household possessions would be sold and the debt written off.

This servant did the only thing possible at this point and prostrated himself before the king with his hands upraised in abject surrender, also considered an act of worship. He declared his intention to repay this monstrous debt somehow. Instead, the king simply forgave the debt and set him free.

Anyone could see this was just like God forgiving sin. The Curse of the Fall saddled us with an impossible debt of sin against God, and only He can forgive. He does so on terms that include declaring Him Lord with an unlimited claim on our lives. The forgiveness restores us to peace with Him and shalom.

But this same servant was not so gracious when he encountered someone who owed him a substantial amount — 100 days’ wages — but virtually nothing compared to what he was forgiven that very day. He insisted on taking advantage of this debt contract to have the debtor thrown into debtor’s prison. There was in that world no distinction between prison and slavery. This meant that the debtor no longer had the freedom to try to earn a living and squeeze out some extra to repay the debt. He would be forced to lose all his freedom and live on a very poor diet while all of the proceeds of his labor were passed back to his creditor, minus a portion for the professional jailer. This situation continued until the full debt was paid.

When the king found out about this ungrateful act, he castigated the wretch and reinstated the massive debt. And instead of selling the man and his household, he turned the servant over to the very worst form of debt prison, from which he would surely never escape alive.

The lesson was obvious. God expects us to embrace His divine moral character for ourselves. It requires a heart-led commitment to passing on the same forgiveness that He granted us. An awful lot of shalom and cosmic moral balance can be restored by simple tolerance of human fallen nature. Even if you can’t do much for the moral balance of others, you can certainly claim your own shalom by refusing to register a sense of grievance. If someone wants forgiveness, that’s a huge improvement over refusing to ask your pardon. We need to encourage that by making it work well.

The Covenant is not a bludgeon to oppress your brothers and sisters. It’s a frame of reference for seeking God’s divine moral character and demonstrating His mercy. Divine justice is not extracting the last degree of penalty; it is restoring moral order.

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Religion versus Faith

Posted on July 7, 2018 by ehurst

Again: We cannot ape the ancient Hebrew society. We can learn from their ways and their covenant how to discern God’s moral character woven into Creation. Your own personal heart-led wisdom, and your sense of mission and calling for divine glory is what determines how you should act in this world. But we build from the foundation of Christ, the living Law of God. It’s all about the Covenant.

If you feel called to it, go ahead and jump in on this fight against child trafficking. It is the defining evil of our time. But we know beyond all doubt that pedophilia is a social construct, not a fundamental sin of fallen human nature. The hysteria that makes people wretch at child sexual abuse is but one face of the idolatry of childhood that causes pedophilia. This in turn is caused by the rejection of the Fall, and the assumption that this fallen world is all there is, and that it can and should be saved. It’s the burning yearning to live forever in this fallen realm that causes the idolatry of childhood. The sexual attraction to children will fade when Western culture does.

It is our otherworldly orientation that kills the West. The West will not go away quickly or quietly. It will drag on seemingly without end, trying every way possible to infest other cultures. For us, it’s a matter of nailing it to the Cross (Galatians 2:20). You can kill the West for yourself, and only for yourself. It’s one of the worst manifestations of the cursed fallen nature. For us, it is the quintessence of why Christ died and rose again. We cannot remain Western and pretend to follow Jesus.

But the false Western brand of Christianity will be around for a very long time to come. We know this instinctively in our hearts. No one should pretend that we can engage a crusade to banish it from the earth. All we can do is distinguish our religion from that mess. But our faith roots are in Heaven, not on this earth. We need no institution to preserve our way of doing religion. Our religion is natural and grows out of a genuine calling from Heaven. If this virtual parish disappears and our teaching of Radix Fidem is forgotten, we know beyond all doubt that Our Father will keep true faith alive for His own glory.

Don’t rest on the structure; let the structure grow out of the real foundation — a genuine sense of calling and a heart-led commitment to Christ. Every time you take a moment to pray, stop and reconnect. In your soul, take a moment to reorder things once more to ensure genuine conviction is the root of your existence. Don’t get locked into your religion as an expression of faith. Be ready at any moment to discard elements of religion that don’t fit the moment. Religion is a construct, not the truth itself.

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Draper Bikeway for Early July

Posted on July 6, 2018 by ehurst

Got some sunburn today. I’ve been wearing a tank top about half the time riding, but with clouds it hasn’t been too bad. This was the first ride in the full sun with the summer heat. I left the house around 8 AM, but it still got pretty warm before I returned. This first shot shows the dirt work just before laying the asphalt. I’ll tell you this isn’t high enough; it needs another foot or two of elevation and lots of gravel to avoid being a weak spot.

All along the northern end of the loop they workers are completing the dirt work and it’s looking okay. They are piling a foot or two of red clay on top of the very loose sandy soil up this way. A couple of years ago I took a picture of a nice little prairie spot off the eastern side of the loop road. Then it was all carved out and I never knew why. Today I saw they were dumping the trees and grinding them up, with a huge off-road dump truck ferrying loads through a cut in the woods at the back of the photo. This part of the trail is progressing slowly and it’s virtually inaccessible from any of the existing old lake roads. I’m unable to track their progress visually.

Farther around on the western shore, most of the bikeway is already paved, but the section along the old lake road between Points 4 and 5 is still almost nothing but sand. It runs tightly along the shore and really needs a meter or so of elevation, but this is the only place where they did it right. At that, it’s still too sandy. When it rains, this is pure muck up to your knees or higher. Again, they were just entirely too cheap and thrifty with the gravel. By the way, the culvert is underwater here.

Just beyond that shore section you can see the concrete has been run on both sides of the path now. I’m convinced they are going to add one more thin topcoat of asphalt approximately level with these raised concrete curbs. It looks like this over half of the westerns side of the loop, from the dam up to the series of large gullies that still aren’t solid enough for my taste. Someone appeared to be spreading a paltry bit of gravel over one of those washout areas today. In this image you can see how the left side had been more or less graded neatly, but the right is still raw.

On my way back, I took the new bikeway along SE 29th toward the shopping malls across from Tinker AFB. This bridge is now in its third month and still very little progress. You get the impression a handful of guys are doing it in their spare time with borrowed equipment. It has looked just like this for more than a week now. This bridge crosses Kuhlman Creek, a major tributary that runs across Tinker AFB golf course and into Crutcho Creek.

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