For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this not of yourselves, it is God’s gift

13 But the Publican standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes to heaven, but smote his breast, saying, O God, be merciful to me a sinner. Luke 18:13 (1599 Geneva Bible) 

In our day it is not unusual to hear a man-centered version of the Gospel message that has everything turned around backward and is presented in such a way that is meant to appeal emotionally to unbelievers with a statement such as, “Christ’s crucifixion is proof of our worth to God!” The appeal is meant to show that if Christ was willing to go to Cross to save sinners like us then that proves we are of value to God…. Continue reading

This is a hard saying who can listen to it?

59 These things spake he in the Synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum. 60 Many therefore of his disciples (when they heard this) said, This is an hard saying: who can hear it? 61 But Jesus knowing in himself, that his disciples murmured at this, said unto them, Doth this offend you? John 6:59-61 (1599 Geneva Bible) 

One theologian that has helped me a great deal in my journey into the truth, out of darkness into light, is Dr. C. Matthew McMahon at A Puritan’s Mind. He was the pastor of Christ Covenant Reformed Presbyterian Church in South Florida…. Continue reading

The Legacy Media Won’t Touch These Explosive mRNA Vaccine Study Findings

“Shocked? You shouldn’t be. The same experts who demanded we blindly trust mRNA technology were also the ones insisting it made sense to vaccinate children against COVID—a claim that never held water.” 

Earlier this month, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. canceled nearly $500 million worth of grants and contracts tied to mRNA vaccine development, and announced the creation of a vaccine safety task force—an effort to address decades of alleged violations of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act.  The legacy media immediately went on the offensive, slamming the move…. Continue reading

What We Know So Far About the Trump-Putin Concessions

“Putin said if Donald Trump was President at the time of the invasion, there would have been no war, no invasion. While media says it’s Kremlin propaganda, it is likely true. Democrats put a dementia patient in the presidency who allowed it to happen.”

(Mary Dowling) President Trump, who works very hard for this country, believes a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine is in the works but with an important sticking point which he didn’t name. We can guess it’s over land. Continue reading

The Church’s Open Border Crisis

We have sleeper agents in the Church, and I don’t mean tin-foil hat conspiracy theories. I’m talking about Tim Keller’s proteges who’ll preach justification by faith on Sunday and “find common ground” with Catholic cardinals on Monday. I’m talking about The Gospel Coalition’s endless parade of unity-at-all-costs articles, where defending the Reformation is treated like an optional elective for cranky old white guys.”

(The Dissenter) I’ve always said a nation without borders isn’t a nation, it’s a yard sale. Anyone can stroll in, grab what they want, and stroll back out. Hang all the flags you want, blast the national anthem on repeat, but if the gates are open and there’s no one at the checkpoint, it’s not your country anymore—it’s a tourist destination for opportunists. Continue reading

Humility, The Mark of a Genuine Disciple

17 Wherefore, be ye not unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is. 18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess: but be fulfilled with the Spirit, 19 Speaking unto yourselves in Psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord in your hearts, 20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God even the Father, in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, 21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. Ephesians 5:17-21 (1599 Geneva Bible) 

Arrogance, boasting, retaliation, and self-protection are just a few of the fruits of Human pride. The natural mind exalts pride while demeaning humility. Timidity is often confused with humility. Timidity is actually a fruit of pride and is a form of fear…. Continue reading

The Modern Day Pharisee

(John Goodell – TruthScript) When we read our Bibles as Christians, we are often looking for what God wants us to believe, commands to guide our lives, and examples to follow. As we read, we should also be learning what not to be like. The Pharisees were a group of people that Jesus was the hardest on, and so we want to learn from them what not to be like. In fact, Jesus exhorted His disciples in Matthew 23:3 to not do “the works they do, for they preach but do not practice.” Jesus’ instruction here reveals to us his main concern with the Pharisees—hypocrisy.

In politics in the late 80s, the term “race card” was born. It was used to weaponize people against their political foes to discredit them…. Continue reading

New Age Doctor Shamans

By Marcia Montenegro, Christian Answers for the New Age

This is an updated post on some New Age doctors that CANA has warned about in the past (see the many resources listed at the end). What I and others have observed over the years is that health care has become infected with New Age and occult practices that initially were seen as alien but have now mainstreamed. Some practices are outright energy healing, like Reiki, while others are based on belief in these energies but appear more conventional. Shamanism has come to the health field, both in the culture and in the church, and the doctors examined here are part of that influence.

The Doctors

One of these doctors is Dr. Mehmet Oz who admits he is a follower of Emmanuel Swedenborg, grandfather of the New Thought movement, which was foundational to the New Age as well as propping up much of the pseudo-scientific healing practices today.

Another doctor is Dr. Daniel Amen who promotes and teaches an esoteric Hindu mediation technique and what is known in Hinduism as tantric sex.

A third doctor is Mark Hyman who works with Deepak Chopra and embraced a form of non-medicine called Functional Medicine based on spiritual beliefs and pseudo-science.

There is also Dr. Mercola, promoter of New Age practices and his own supplements, follower of conspiracy theories, and slavish fan of a spirit that comes via a psychic-channeler.

The last one is Dr. Andrew Weil, a New Age enthusiast of psychotropic plants.

These doctors are New Agers or embrace and promote New Age concepts. There are many more, not to mention the non-medical practitioners such as chiropractors, the naturopaths, and “natural healers” who are rooted in New Age thinking. Continue reading

The Era of ‘Defining Deviancy Down’ Is Over

“Media coverage of Trump’s National Guard call-out has all but ignored these incidents; they have become an unremarkable part of America’s urban fabric that now includes flash mobs, vicious and gratuitous pedestrian assaults, and mass looting.” 

(Rick Moran – PJ Media) The late Democratic Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York was a radical liberal with an independent streak.

Before being elected senator in 1976 (he also served as UN ambassador), Moynihan worked as a special assistant to Labor Secretaries Arthur J. Goldberg and W. Willard Wirtz in 1961-62, where he wrote a revolutionary report on federal architecture. Continue reading

Gavin Newsom Calls Special Election November 4 to Save Democracy by Eliminating Republican Seats

“Newsom is hoping other Democrat-run states will follow. But many, like Illinois, have already gerrymandered their congressional maps to hurt Republicans, and so there are not many Republican seats left to seize.”

(Joel B. Pollak – Breitbart) California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced Thursday that he is calling a special election November 4 to tear up the state’s congressional map in favor of a gerrymandered map to eliminate Republican seats.

Newsom claims that by doing so, he is saving democracy. Continue reading

Oh, NOW the Dems Are Worried About ‘Rewriting History’

(Stephen Kruiser) Another day, another veritable trainload of projection from the Democrats. The political party whose theme movie is “The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” continues to infuriate and amaze with its inability to have any historical frame of reference whatsoever. It’s an ignorance that is fueled by a chronic lack of self-awareness and an institutional tendency towards pathological lying. That toxic combination makes them “bagful of cats” crazy.

In recent weeks, Dem higher-ups and their flying monkeys in the mainstream media have been caterwauling about President Trump’s “retribution” against his political enemies…. Continue reading

What’s With the NFL’s Queerleaders? Let Me Explain

“Why are they doing this? Why take the most masculine sport in America and put it in heels and lip gloss? The answer is as gross as it is simple. Because corporate elites are so far removed from reality, they’re practically orbiting another planet. They’ve been catechized into the cult of social idealism—a new religion where the high priests preach that real masculinity is a disease and the cure is the modern sexual revolution.”

(The Dissenter) Many years ago, I was a football fan — a diehard, even. I stuck with the Panthers through seasons so bad they should’ve been classified as disaster zones, and I relished the rare payoff of seeing them claw their way to a Super Bowl. Continue reading

Christians must learn to bear with patience the cross that God gives them to bear

33 These things have I spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace: in the world ye shall have affliction, but be of good comfort: I have overcome the world. John 16:33 (1599 Geneva Bible) 

The natural man in each of us wants to paint God as a combination of a spiritual Santa Claus and the Genie from Aladdin’s Lamp or at least a lesser deity whose will is subject to his. We tie our good works into how well our lives go. If we do good things then God will surely see to it that we don’t lose our jobs or we get a great raise each year or our health is good…. Continue reading

Smoking Gun Docs Show Barack Obama Approved Ultimate Cover-Up of Russiagate

“After he left office, Obama continued to lie on multiple occasions that the Russians had hacked the 2016 election and influenced the outcome. Hillary Clinton did the same. Both know their claims are lies. Soon, they will know they did it in furtherance of a conspiracy when they get subpoenaed to speak to a grand jury in Florida, God willing.” 

(Victorie Taft – PJ Media) Barack Obama ordered the ultimate cover-up of the Russiagate affair from the Oval Office to deny Donald Trump his civil rights and ruin his presidency in pursuit of one of the biggest lies ever told to the American people.

It wasn’t too long ago that would have been called a news story, hence that Watergate-era throwback headline. Continue reading

Rejuvenating the Protestant Mind

“For some reason Protestants in recent decades have ceded much of the public space to Catholics. Right-wing Catholic political commentators like Jack Posobiec, Matt Walsh, and Michael Knowles have no trouble openly proselytizing for their denomination. Meanwhile, their Protestant peers are more reticent to talk about their Protestant faith in public…”

(Mike Sabo – American Reformer) Online Pop-Catholic Apologists Need to Be Confronted. With all the discussion over Matthew Barrett’s exit from the SBC, you’d think he converted to Rome—but fortunately, he stayed within Protestantism. Barrett’s very public break has understandably come under fire by Baptists for the way he went about it, and for some of the unfair claims he leveled at the SBC. But one positive outcome for Protestants is that he declined to convert to the Roman Catholic Church. Continue reading

Black woman reveals secret EBT card scams, including how they’re used to buy wigs…

…people are really outraged about food stamps because they’ve been selling them, and that’s how they “normally buy weed, wigs, bundles (of drugs), get your nails done”…“And don’t say I’m lying because when y’all were receiving food stamps, you were selling the food stamps. You weren’t worried about feeding your children”

(Revolver) For years now, the left has treated welfare programs like EBT as freebies to lure in illegals and untouchable sacred cows. They’ve painted any criticism of these bloated, abused programs as cruel, racist, or anti-poor. But behind the curtain, there’s a side of this system that reeks to high heaven, and not enough people are willing to talk about what is really going on…. Continue reading

The Holiness of God

1 In the year of the death of king Uzziah, I saw also the Lord sitting upon an high throne, and lifted up, and the lower parts thereof filled the Temple. 2 The Seraphims stood upon it, every one had six wings: with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. 3 And one cried to another, and said, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts: the whole world is full of his glory. Isaiah 6:1-3 (1599 Geneva Bible) 

In most English translations of the Old Testament when we encounter the word “Lord” we are actually reading the Hebrew word “Adhōnāy.” On the other hand, when we read the word “LORD,” it is a completely different Hebrew word, “Yehōwāh.” “Adhōnāy” is actually a title for God meaning “sovereign one.”… Continue reading

John Mark Comer Denies Penal Substitutionary Atonement

Update below

(Ray Fava – Evangelical Dark Web) John Mark Comer was leading a Portland megachurch called Solid Rock, which experienced tremendous growth. Amidst the growth, he became burnt out and Solid Rock dissolved as a megachurch, choosing for each franchise to become an independent church. John Mark Comer chose to pastor the Bridgetown location, which was not the largest. But then he got burnt out as a pastor and is now a motivational speaker and author. Continue reading

How to Choose Music for a Worship Service

“Selecting songs for corporate worship is a profound privilege that deepens the connection between believers, both themselves and their Savior. This task requires careful adherence to biblical principles guiding music’s purpose and boundaries, while considering the congregation’s specific context and traditions…”

(Jon Harris – TruthScript) I have been involved in music ministry for the past two decades. Serving in various ministries, regions, and contexts has exposed me to different approaches to arranging worship musical selections. One of my consistent observations is that music often sparks controversy in churches, with congregants holding strong preferences and artists known for their particularities. These experiences, coupled with my commitment to excellence as a minister of music, have inspired me to develop a specific approach to musical selection. Here are some insights I have gained to help craft worship services that honor God, foster unity, and ensure that corporate music effectively fulfills its sacred purpose. Continue reading

Democrat whistleblower told FBI that Schiff okayed leaking classified intel to hurt Trump

“FBI Director Kash Patel releases bombshell documents to Congress showing how agents traced classified leaks to sources but DOJ didn’t act.”

(John Solomon – Just the News) A career intelligence officer who worked for Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee for more than a decade repeatedly warned the FBI beginning in 2017 that then-Rep. Adam Schiff had approved leaking classified information to smear then-President Donald Trump over the now-debunked Russiagate scandal, according to bombshell FBI memos that Director Kash Patel has turned over to Congress. Continue reading

Everything Evolution Can’t Explain in Genesis 1:1

(John MacArthur) If we want to understand creation, if we want to understand origins, if we want to understand how the universe came into existence and everything that is in it, we have to look at theology, not science. And the source of theology is the Word of God in which God speaks. The Bible is not theory, the Bible is fact. The Bible is reality. The Bible is truth no matter what subject it addresses, but particularly with regard to origins since no one was here when God created, we have only His eyewitness account.

And when the Bible speaks with regard to creation, or when it speaks with regard to origins, it speaks truly, it speaks factually. And Scripture begins in Genesis 1 and 2 with a very straightforward account of the origin of the universe and the earth and everything on the earth. Scripture opens with one very clear unmistakable statement, it is this, Genesis 1:1, “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” That is not an ambiguous statement. That is not an unclear statement. That is frankly not a statement that needs any explanation…. Continue reading

How Marxism Became So Pervasive in the Evangelical Church

“Reformed Theological Seminary brought in John Perkins to talk about “redistribution and reconciliation.” Tim Keller, planting Redeemer in New York City, championed “mercy and justice”—not the biblical kind, but the Marxist, social kind—as central to the gospel mission…The language shifted, and with it, the theology bent like a reed in the wind.”

(The Dissenter) Marxism didn’t storm the gates of Evangelicalism with tanks and bayonets—it rolled in quietly, like termites in the woodwork, and by the time anyone noticed, the beams were already hollow. Like the Scriptures warn of false ideologies, it “crept in unawares,” and hardly anyone noticed. Continue reading

JD Vance Delivers a Masterclass on How Democrats Rig Elections

(Lifezette) Vice President J.D. Vance is urging Republican-led states to push back against what he describes as “aggressive” gerrymandering in blue states such as California, New York, and Illinois, saying the current system unfairly benefits Democrats due to the inclusion of illegal aliens in congressional apportionment.

Speaking Sunday on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo, Vance said the nation’s electoral system has been skewed for years in ways that distort representation in Congress. Continue reading

Take a Break, Mr. President

“Travel agents in San Francisco are suggesting Mr. Trump go to hell, but that’s not nice.  No Napa, either.  Newsom hangs there.”

(Bill O’Reilly) After President Trump meets with bad Vlad Putin next Friday in Alaska, he needs some downtime.  Even if you don’t approve of Mr. Trump, the guy is the hardest-working chief executive in modern history.  Joe Biden would collapse just looking at Trump’s schedule.

JD Vance is in England, the Cotswolds. Don’t know why. Maybe he’ll buy Ellen’s house.  Apparently, she wants to move already….

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The Orthodox Christian view of sin

1 In the beginning was that Word, and that Word was with God, and that Word was God. 2 This same was in the beginning with God. 3 ,All things were made by it, and without it was made nothing that was made. 4 In it was life, and that life was the light of men. 5 And that light shineth in the wilderness, and the darkness comprehendeth it not. John 1:1-5 (1599 Geneva Bible) 

Those who have a problem with the Doctrine of Original Sin and the Wrath of God against all sin attempt to paint the God of Reformation Theology as some sort of ogre full of anger with very little love manifest except in the case of a chosen few. In their examples of how God operates in saving people, sin is never the issue…. Continue reading