29 Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification according to the need of the moment, so that it will give grace to those who hear. 30 Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. 31 Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. 32 Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you. Ephesians 4:29-32 (NASB)
Steel is made through the smelting of iron ore. Iron becomes steel as carbon is added while the iron is very hot. What makes steel much harder than iron was not really understood by the ancients who created it. All they knew was that at a certain point in the shaping of a sword they would lay the red-hot blade into the coals for a few minutes then resume the process of hammering, cooling in water, re-heating, hammering, cooling in water, et cetera. The finished product was a sword that would not bend in battle and could be sharpened over and over. The blade was actually made up of many pieces of iron rods that were heated, flattened, and folded upon itself over and over. It was hard work, but that was what it took to create a fine, usable steel sword. Continue reading
“The Dem establishment may still harbor fantasies about pitching the idea that moderates still exist in the party and El-Sayed, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and their Democratic Socialists of America ilk are outliers. That’s a lot tougher to do now that El-Sayed spent the weekend chilling with Barack Obama.” 
“Our enemy, in his savagery, is doing us a favour. If he terrorizes us, he also sharpens our understanding of adversity, reawakens our spirit of resistance. In spite of himself, the enemy has restored our flag and patriotism to us. He has restored fervourand flesh to the old European nations.…”
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(Stephen Moore – Hot Air) Every few months, a young 19-year-old woman from South Carolina boards a plane to London. She isn’t going sightseeing. She’s going to get her next dose of a cancer treatment that was invented in the United States, developed by an American company, and credited by her doctors with clearing a brain tumor other surgeons had refused to touch.
“Someone posted that they asked AI to create a list of the top 20 false teachers of our time. We didn’t see the list, but we thought it might be an interesting exercise to see what AI would come up with. Of course, much of the result depends on the way the query is written, and the information isn’t the final authority on the issue. Our query outline was…”
“Republicans have tried to attack these candidates on this basis by claiming they are “woke” or “fake” Christian leaders who fail to support the religion they claim membership in, yet the polls still seem to favor them. They rarely, if ever, respond to critics, but set their sights on the problems facing the voters they wish to reach, things like affordability. For a generation spending hours in the mire of online attention-grabbing, insults, and sensationalism, I imagine this gives them the perception of maturity and focus.”
“DataRepublican says she’s got her hands on thousands of transcripts and hundreds of recordings that point to an elaborate, coordinated effort to provoke a constitutional crisis right after the 2026 midterms.”
“The 764 cult lives on Discord, gaming, and dark web chat sites. The group has the objective of “seeking to destroy civilized society through the corruption and exploitation of vulnerable populations, which often include minors…” 
Rowling believes that if a man is entitled to be treated as a woman, it follows that “No breast-feeding or rape support group should be allowed to exclude him. If he’s sexually orientated towards women, lesbians should include him in their dating pool. If convicted of a crime, even rape, he should be locked up with women.”
(Pulpit & Pen) Following is a thread about a recent interview with Carl and Laura Lentz to promote their new book ‘Overcome Infidelity.’ When asked about his time at Hillsong NY, Carl calls that church ‘the most beautiful thing in their life’ which produced ‘a real revival’ and where God moved, and that there won’t be anything like it again.
“All of this is, of course, a direct assault on the Constitution and the Madisonian system of checks and balances, and the current crop of plotters are also quite explicit about reordering our society and laws after they kick Trump out of office and jail his supporters.” 
(Bill O’Reilly) First, a couple of general points. There is far too much political hatred in the USA. It’s foolish. We should be far beyond the Alexander Hamilton-Aaron Burr cycle. But we’re not.
Matthew 7:27 could describe the fall of Heritage USA and PTL Network. “And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.”
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(Protestia) Andy Stanley, 68, announced this morning that he is stepping down as senior pastor of North Point Ministries and as lead pastor of North Point Community Church.
“The offending material? Approximately 17 seconds of a documentary that used Angell’s own publicly available statements as evidence of the theological problems being examined.”
(Matt Margolis – PJ Media) 
(The Dissenter) This is the problem with mixing religion with politics, and it’s the problem I’ve always had with Turning Point USA.
“Married and unmarried women alike need to understand that they have been tasked with some of the most important areas of Christian life: instructing younger women and, frequently, children. These are gravely important things that require excellent, theologically sound, discerning women who have the maturity to recognize sin and error. Imagining that this is a feminist invention does not serve the church or the home well.”
“With the Jesus Calling foundation giving more than half a million dollars to the group tasked with investigating it, it’s difficult to imagine a more clear 
At a private fundraiser last week for Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, AOC reached a startling conclusion. “If Abdul can win in Michigan, anybody can win anywhere,” she said. “We are going to break the electoral map everywhere, everywhere, because that is what it is going to take to guarantee health care to every American.”