Bill O’Reilly’s Message of the Day – short and sweet.
No rest for a weary America on Easter Sunday. The war in Iran is still going full blast, but President Trump knows he has to end it. The collateral economic damage is adding enormous urgency to the conflict.
Therefore, the President is signaling massive destruction similar to what President Truman did to the Japanese in 1945. Surrender or else. The high command selected “or else,” which led to the atom bombs. Continue reading
“Remember the poor metaphorical frog that was placed in a pot of lukewarm water until brought to a boil, unaware of the progressive heat until it was too late? The frog, which is the endless stream of young men and women herded like cattle through slaughterhouses of woke universities peddling cultural marxism and leftist ideologies, is completely clueless. The frog is toast. I’m mixing metaphors, but you get the point–in the end, neither the frog nor the cow makes it.”
(Zack Carter – TruthScript) Remember the hero scene from the 90s film Independence Day? Deep in the alien mother ship – having stealthily flown their Trojan Horse inside – the heroes upload the computer virus, disabling the ship, rendering defenseless smaller ships on Earth, wreaking untold carnage, chaos, and catastrophe. Humanity finally had a fighting chance to send its alien agenda into the abyss. Continue reading
“The U.S. Air Force then set up a landing strip near the city. There, two U.S. transport planes became stuck and were demolished in place so as not to fall into Iranian hands. But those on the Left who are inclined to caterwaul about the expense of the operation might want to shut their lousy soup coolers — lest we remind them that Joe Biden abandoned some $7 billion worth of American military equipment and the superbly strategic Bagram Air Base when he high-tailed it out of Afghanistan.”
(Douglas Andrews – Patriot Post)
What no one knew was the Taliban had some sort of bunker back there, and as the MH-47 tilted back for the insert and the ropes fell away for the climb-down, the Taliban fired a rocket-propelled grenade straight through the open ramp.
It shot clean past the heads of the lead group and blew with a shattering blast against the fuel tanks, turning the helo into an inferno, stern and midships. Several of the guys were blown out and fell, some of them burning, to their deaths, from around 30 feet. …
The helicopter pilot fought for control, unaware of the carnage behind him but certainly aware of the raging fires around and above him. Of course, there was nothing he could do. The big MH-47 just fell out of the sky and crashed with thunderous impact onto the mountainside, swayed, and then rolled with brutal force over and over, smashing itself to pieces on a long 200-yard downward trail to extinction. Continue reading
38 Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered and said to Him, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from You.” 39 But He answered and said to them, “An evil and adulterous generation eagerly seeks for a sign; and yet no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah the prophet; 40 for just as JONAH WAS THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS IN THE BELLY OF THE SEA MONSTER, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. 41 The men of Nineveh will stand up with this generation at the judgment, and will condemn it because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.Matthew 12:38-41 (LSB)
Good Friday. Passover was a feast instituted by God to be held on Nisan 14 every year. Also, the Jewish day always began at sunset. Therefore, Nisan 14 began at sunset on Thursday and ran until sunset on Friday. At sunset Nisan 15 would begin. The next festival or feast after Passover was Unleavened Bread. This feast was eaten in the afternoon following the Seder, which was the Passover meal. Notice that this feast was held prior to sunset on Nisan 15 so it would still be Nisan 14. Continue reading
By Dr. John Gerstner
“Repent or Perish” forces people to ponder seriously the popular slogan, “God hates the sin and loves the sinner.” Is a necessary repentance consistent with “God loves the sinner?” If God loves the sinner while he is alive, it is strange that God sends him to hell as soon as he dies. God loves the sinner to death? Loves him to everlasting torment?
There is something wrong here. Either God loves the sinner and will not send him into the furnace of His eternal wrath; or He sends him into His eternal wrath and does not love him. Either “you are going to hell unless” because God hates you, as you are. Or, God loves you and “you are going to hell unless” is false.
What leads almost everyone to believe that God loves the sinner is that God does the sinner so much good. He bestows so many favors including letting him continue to live. How can God let the sinner live and give him so many blessings, unless He loves him? There is a kind of love between God and sinners. We call it the “love of benevolence.” That means the love of good will. Benevolens — willing well. Doing well. God can do well to the sinner without loving him with the other kind of love. “Complacent love,” a pleasure in, affection for, admiration of. It exists in perfection between the Father and the Son, “in whom I am well pleased” (Matthew 3:17; Mark 1:11). Continue reading
(Rusty Rabon – The Fellowship of Ailbe) Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which was brought upon me, which the Lord inflicted on the day of his fierce anger.
Merciful God, we confess that we have betrayed, denied, and forsaken You. We have failed to love as You have loved us. As we remember the cross, forgive us. Restore us. Strengthen us to follow in the way of Jesus, even to the foot of the cross. Amen.
Lamentations 3:1-9, 19-24 NRSV I am one who has seen affliction under the rod of God’s wrath; he has driven and brought me into darkness without any light; against me alone he turns his hand, again and again, all day long. He has made my flesh and my skin waste away, and broken my bones; he has besieged and enveloped me with bitterness and tribulation; he has made me sit in darkness like the dead of long ago. He has walled me about so that I cannot escape; he has put heavy chains on me; though I call and cry for help, he shuts out my prayer; he has blocked my ways with hewn stones, he has made my paths crooked. The thought of my affliction and my homelessness is wormwood and gall! My soul continually thinks of it and is bowed down within me. But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. “The Lord is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in him.” Continue reading
“God always had a plan. On the third day, He rose, He defeated evil, He conquered death, Hell and the grave. And because He rose, we all know that we can rise. And, sir, because of His resurrection, you rose up. Because He was victorious, you were victorious.”
(Christian Post) Televangelist Paula White-Cain stoked a firestorm of backlash for likening President Donald Trump to Jesus Christ during a private Easter lunch at the White House with other Christian leaders on Wednesday. Continue reading
12 “If you hear in one of your cities, which Yahweh your God is giving you to live in, anyone saying that 13 some vile men have gone out from among you and have driven the inhabitants of their city astray, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods’ (whom you have not known), 14 then you shall inquire and search out and ask thoroughly. Behold, if it is true and the matter is confirmed, that this abomination has been done among you, 15 you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, devoting it to destruction and all that is in it and its cattle with the edge of the sword. Deuteronomy 13:12-15 (LSB)
Read Hebrews 3:1-13 on the site.
It must have been about four or five years ago that I was in a discussion on this blog after I had written a piece about some of the confusing things coming from the ministry of Dr. John Piper and others. I made the comment to one of my friends that I thought that Dr. Piper needed to show the fruits of repentance for some of the things he had said and done or he would eventually be considered an apostate. Someone not in that conversation (a bottom feeder or troll??) jumped all over that statement and condemned me for calling Dr. Piper an apostate which he refused to consider because (according to him) an apostate is one who drops all pretense of Christianity and walks away from his faith…. Continue reading
(Jeff Charles – Townhall) Attorney General Pam Bondi has reportedly been fired.
Two sources told Fox News Digital that Trump had already fired Bondi on Wednesday before he gave his speech on Iran.
President Donald Trump reportedly has already fired Attorney General Pam Bondi, according to two sources familiar with the matter who spoke with Fox News Digital.
Bondi met with Trump in the Oval Office Wednesday night ahead of his speech to the nation on the war in Iran, where she reportedly was informed of her ouster, according to two sources familiar with the meeting. Continue reading
Mike Riccardi of The Cripplegate lays out some of the problems that can result from trying to mix oil with water, as you will see in the case of trying to mix liberalism and historic orthodox Christianity. The result is that the Person and work of Jesus Christ has been compromised for the sake of unity. And what we now have is a liberal/progressive “social justice gospel” that saves no one. Those pushing for ecumenicism may have started out with good intentions, but as the saying goes, “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.” Continue reading
(Don & Joy Veinot – Midwest Christian Outreach) The celebration of the resurrection of Jesus will take place for many this Sunday. For most people these days, it is more-or-less a cultural event. I don’t necessarily mean they deny that the resurrection happened, but that they believe it based on their family and church affiliations, rather than as a result of their own serious consideration of the issue. Sometimes those who do contemplate and ask the hard questions are simply told to accept the claims of the celebration “by faith.” Faith then becomes little more than a blind leap of faith or a wistful hope. But faith is not supposed to be a “blind leap.” It really is a step taken based on what we know from the past to be true. We have faith the “sun will rise” tomorrow, based on it having done so every day in the past…. Continue reading
“The argument proceeds as follows: The greatest good is knowing God through Christ (John 17:3). In the forgiveness of the sinner, God reveals more of his gracious character. Therefore, we should sin more so that even more of God’s grace is revealed. Let us commit evil so that a greater good will come of it…”
(Justin Craft – With All Wisdom) There is a common sentiment that, “the ends justify the means.” We often hear it in movies or books where the hero or the villain is doing something that is morally wrong but justifies their actions by saying that their actions will bring about a greater good. Continue reading
“The people at the top built a culture of non-stop political hate, creative slop, and audience disrespect, and now the people underneath are paying for all that. And the reality now is that we could be watching the end of Hollywood.”
(Revolver) Hollywood is in big trouble, and everybody can feel it now. The panic is real, and it’s setting in. Jobs are drying up, and the people inside the Tinsel Town machine are finally having to admit that something really big is going very wrong. Yes, some of this panic is about streaming, economics, COVID fallout, and production fleeing to other states and countries, thanks to Gavin Newsom. But let’s not play dumb here. Hollywood also did this to itself. Continue reading
(Marsha West – Christian Research Network) Easter evokes images of decorative baskets filled with all sorts of goodies, cool new clothes, church services, the annual Easter egg hunt, families and friends gathering together to enjoy a sumptuous meal. Doesn’t it seem a bit odd that people will spend an entire day celebrating a make-believe rabbit?
Today when Easter Sunday rolls around a good many Christians spend more time participating in secular events than celebrating the Resurrection of their Savior. Before I move on, I should point out that “Easter” is now passé. Wanting to remove the Christian origins of our language, secularists managed to change Resurrection Sunday to Easter Sunday and Easter break to spring break – all in the name of tolerance. Fortunately a large number of believers have caught on to their shenanigans and have gone back to using Resurrection Sunday instead of Easter. Continue reading
4 Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit from itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me. 5 I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing. 6 If anyone does not abide in Me, he is thrown away as a branch and dries up; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire and they are burned. 7 If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. John 15:4-10 (LSB) Read verses 8-10 on the site.
For the first 20 or so years of this walk I was in a very immature spiritual state. I was utterly convinced during that time that my worth as a disciple depended upon my performance, my learning, my obedience…. Continue reading
“Since many of my beloved churches and pastors failed to address politics and the worldviews that inherently lay underneath them, they were also unwilling to address and confront the many unbelieving worldviews and thought systems of their parishioners. This has led directly to where we’re at today, where many who bear the name of Christ now, often without even knowing it, have fully embraced secular ideologies of Marxism, Critical Theory, and are supportive of practices such as abortion or gender ideology, or at least are apathetic about these practices in favor of supporting the values of Leftism.”
(Brooks Waldron – TruthScript) I remember first being exposed to the writings of the late Tim Keller back during my sophomore year, in the college ministry of John Piper’s Bethlehem Baptist Church. At that time, Keller’s writings and sermons supplemented the ministry of John Piper wonderfully to help shape my understanding of God, the gospel, and the Christian life. From John Piper, I gained a “big-God theology,” coming to understand the centrality of the glory of God and the total sovereignty of God in the world and in salvation. From Tim Keller, I came to understand the centrality of the gospel. As Keller said, the gospel is not the A, B, Cs of the Christian life but rather the A to Z of the Christian life. This was revolutionary for me at the time. Continue reading
UPDATE to the story that the bullet that killed Charlie Kirk may not have come from the Robinson rifle. Tyler Robinson is the man accused of murdering Charlie Kirk. He has admitted to killing him. Click on the link below to read Mary Dowling’s report. The new information seeks to debunk the claim that the bullet that killed Charlie Kirk doesn’t match the alleged murder weapon. The truth appears to be that the bullet was so fragmented it couldn’t be tested.
(Mary Dowling) The bullet that killed Charlie Kirk may not match the rifle used by the prime suspect, Tyler Robinson, according to a bombshell new court filing. We heard this from a number of people, but, without proof, I stayed away from it. However, now we have some evidence.
Robinson, 22, is facing capital murder charges and a potential death sentence for Kirk’s murder at Utah Valley University on September 10. Continue reading
“When it comes to treating gender dysphoria, so-called conversion therapy simply means helping a person — particularly a child — accept the body that God gave him rather than attempting the impossible feat of altering biological sex.”
(Catherine Salgado – PJ Media) The U.S. Supreme Court just made a decision crucial for scientific and moral sanity, striking down a ban on “conversion therapy” for minors as unconstitutional. Continue reading
(John MacArthur – Sermon topic, What Is Sin) We alone…as Christians who understand the Bible and believe the Bible, we get it. We got all these people trying — all the politicians, and all the moralists, and all the educators and all the university people and all the sociologists and everybody — trying to fix society. And it can’t ever be done by these people, because they don’t ever deal with the reality of what is in the heart. All humanity, all humanity — nobody escapes — has a vile, rebellious, corrupt nature. The thought life is corrupt; the emotions are corrupt; the will is corrupt; and the behavior is corrupt. And Genesis 3 is crucial to understanding that…
Scripture clearly indicates this is where evil began. And it is the New Testament that is most definitive. And again, you have to know that verse, Romans 5:12. That’s the key verse. When Adam sinned, everybody sinned in Adam. And when Adam received the penalty of death, we were all then sentenced to die…
“Republicans have consistently slammed Sen. Thune for failing to advance President Trump’s legislative priorities. That includes not only his inability to secure funding for immigration authorities, but also his failure to pass the SAVE Act, which proponents say is a necessary step to protect elections in the United States.”
(Dmitri Bolt – Townhall) Representative Tim Burchett (R-TN) called for the replacement of Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) after Senate Republicans passed a bill early Friday morning aimed at ending a more than 40-day partial government shutdown centered on funding for the Department of Homeland Security. Continue reading
“He then suggested that the concept of aliens was a human attempt to explain the unexplainable, saying that he believes it’s a different force behind the phenomena. “I don’t think they’re aliens, I think they’re demons anyway, but that’s a longer discussion,” Vance said, prompting Johnson to seek clarification.”
(Scott Pinsker – PJ Media) Arguing to death over what happens after we die is almost always a waste of time, because the God’s honest truth is, nobody knows the answer.
I don’t know. You don’t know. Shirley MacLaine, the Dalai Lama, and Bill Nye the Science Guy don’t know either. Continue reading
1 I Beseech you therefore brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye give up your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable serving of God.
2 And fashion not yourselves like unto this world, but be ye changed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what that good, and acceptable and perfect will of God is. Romans 12:1-2 (1599 Geneva Bible)
One of the markers of genuineness in a Christian is separation from the World. This isn’t a physical removal from planet Earth or a disintegration of the body of a Christian. A genuine Christian’s character should be in a continual upgrade unto Christlikeness. That means that as he or she cooperates with God in their sanctification, working out their salvation with fear and trembling, their character will take on more and more of Christ’s character. They will love what He loves and hate what he hates. God is love, but He hates a certain type of love. Continue reading
(Jonathan Landry Cruse – Beautiful Christian Life) To understand the importance of the statement “faith alone,” we need to remember why the Reformers sought to recover the doctrine of God’s grace. They wanted to emphasize the fact that we are made right with God not through any merit of our own but rather through God’s own free grace. In Christ, we receive unmerited favor from God.
The Roman Catholics in the sixteenth century would have agreed with this to some extent. They indeed believed we needed God’s grace to get to heaven…. Continue reading
5 They are from the world; therefore they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them. 6 We are from God; he who knows God listens to us; he who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error. 1 John 4:5-6 (NASB)
Several years ago, when I still worked in an office, a fellow with whom I worked, when he found out that I was a Christian, demanded that I listen to his “reasoning” why “everything is relative.”….
I told him I would listen to him if he could refute the following statement, “Aren’t you making an ‘absolute statement’ when you say, ‘there are no absolutes’?” He chuckled nervously and left my cubicle. I still pray that God will save him. My brethren, the scourge of relativism is a blight within the visible Church. It causes people to flee from the absolute. When truth is seen as relative then in what or whom can anyone have faith and trust? Do we read the words of our Lord in Sacred Scripture ever saying, “Well, it depends?” <Continue reading post>