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“Between Palm Sunday and Good Friday, Jerusalem experienced a dramatic transformation in the popular attitude to Christ. The crowd heralded Him as the coming King when He entered the city on a donkey. Days later the mob called for His crucifixion even when offered a chance to have Him released by the Roman governor. My suspicion is that a significant number of the adoring crowd became the murderous mob. Today we call that a vibe shift.”
(Carl Trueman) With the second coming of Donald Trump, the phrase “vibe shift” has become a staple of current cultural commentary. The expression captures not so much the shift in the kind of policies that the Trump administration will implement as a shift in the ethos of America. The hectoring scolds of the progressive left have dominated public rhetoric for years. Now suddenly conservatives once despised as either stupid, evil, or both are starting to feel that this age might belong to them. Continue reading
(Associated Press) A vaccine to fight dementia? It turns out there may already be one – shots that prevent painful shingles also appear to protect aging brains.
A new study found that shingles vaccination cut older adults’ risk of developing dementia over the next seven years by 20%.
The research, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, is part of growing understanding about how many factors influence brain health as we age – and what we can do about it. Continue reading
“Dropping Asperger’s was a political decision, not a scientific one. The “autism spectrum” serves a numbers-boosting political purpose, like the mash-up “LGBTQ.” That a group of extremely prevalent, incurable neurological abnormalities remain in the politicized Play-Doh psychiatric nomenclature is disgraceful.”
(Deborah C. Tyler – American Thinker) At my 50th high school reunion, a classmate came bounding up to me like a kid on Christmas morning. “Debby! Debby! I have Asperger’s, I have Asperger’s!”
In junior high, Bobby was the acknowledged “math brain.” Back then, decades before the internet or social media, girls did not bully in the current sense, or physically fight…. Continue reading
“Democrats want us to believe the opposite, and still do despite the evidence that their little scheme got busted. Their clowns at the FBI got exposed, their operatives in the intelligence community burned, and their allies in the liberal media self-immolated the last shred of their credibility…”
(Matt Vespa – Townhall) This story isn’t over. Heads should roll over this elaborate plot to muzzle the Hunter Biden laptop story, which the FBI knew was authentic from day one. Michael Shellenberger, Alex Gutentag, and Catherine Herridge wrote in Public about the now-released, though heavily redacted chats, the bureau had among top officials and the agent who acted like the liaison between the FBI and Silicon Valley…. Continue reading
“The FBI campaign to discredit the Post story continued even after its October 14, 2020, publication. That morning, one FBI analyst tried telling Twitter the laptop was real—until his bosses silenced him.”
(Mary Dowling) The Republican House Judiciary Committee reported that the FBI mandated a gag order on the Hunter Biden laptop story the day it came out, as shown by chat logs.
The FBI had Hunter Biden’s laptop. However, on the day the NY Post story came out, the FBI refused to tell Big Tech the truth. They actually told them the opposite of the truth. Continue reading
“The comparison between Rick Warren and Tim Keller seems farfetched at first, but both pioneered separate seeker-sensitive methods for their respective markets. Tim Keller was simply more erudite about it.”
(Ray Fava – Evangelical Dark Web) Andrew Isker is a thought leader in the Christian Nationalist movement. The announcement that he was to be interviewed on Tucker Carlson made a lot of the right people mad and ultimately envious. Andrew Isker wrote The Boniface Option, which aims to help identify what he calls Trashworld and offer solutions to specific problems facing Christians. Tucker Carlson interviewing Isker is an optimistic development for the movement. Continue reading
(Revolver) The reality is this: diversity hires don’t belong on the battlefield. Yet that’s exactly what the Pentagon has been pushing under the left’s phony banner of inclusion. Thanks to Obama-era policies, the military has lowered physical standards to allow women into combat roles—not because they’re physically qualified, but because they check some random left-wing diversity box. These are roles that demand elite strength, grit, and life-or-death readiness—lowering the bar puts everyone at risk, and yes, even the women…. Continue reading
(John Carney – Breitbart) President Trump is set to step into the Rose Garden tomorrow for what may be the most consequential economic announcement of his second term. Markets are bracing. Diplomats are dialing. Pundits are speculating wildly. But no one—not Wall Street, not foreign governments, not even some inside the West Wing—seems to know exactly what will be announced.
This, as it turns out, is part of the design.
Trump has dubbed it Liberation Day—a piece of branding with more substance than cynicism…. Continue reading
“So Congress could act and say, ‘Look, federal judges, you render a decision to a plaintiff or a defendant, but you can’t impact people outside of your courtroom other than through a class action.’ That’s why God created class actions, isn’t it?”
(Matt Margolis – PJ Media) By now, you know that I’m a big fan of Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) and his unmatched ability to dismantle weak arguments with his signature Southern wit. On Monday, during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, he was at the top of his game, systematically exposing the complete lack of legal authority for district judges to issue universal injunctions — a favorite tactic of the left to block President Trump’s agenda. Continue reading
“Practically speaking, therefore, a healthy, vibrant prayer life depends to a large extent upon a good understanding of trinitarian doctrine. Only then will we both understand what it is we are doing and have confidence that it will be effective and powerful…”
(Jonathan Landry Cruse – Beautiful Christian Life) Prayer is an essential means by which we can commune (fellowship) with God—and not just God as an abstract being, but God as a personal Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Each member of the Trinity gives himself to us in the work of prayer. Indeed, prayer wouldn’t even be possible if not for the Trinity. Continue reading
“That’s Milley for you, though — he got us into deep involvement in a war Joe Biden was unwilling to ask the public to go along with because he suspected the answer would be ‘no,’ but he wouldn’t take ‘no’ for an answer. One day he’s sneaking around with the Chinese, telling them to trust him on keeping Trump engaging in any military action, the next day, he’s making the U.S. a bigger target.”
(Monica Showalter – American Thinker) The first casualty in war is the truth, and now the New York Times has revealed how true that was.
While the U.S. public under the Biden administration was told, via Congress, that the U.S. was supplying arms to Ukraine, actually, the U.S. was pretty much running the whole show. Continue reading
(Revolver) It’s time for everybody—especially the propaganda media—to stop pretending that the trans movement isn’t a very confused and violent group. And no, that’s not hyperbole. We’ve watched a disturbing rise in politically motivated violence from this very tiny but unhinged group of activists. From school shootings to attacks on Christians, Tesla vandalism, and now outright religious hate crimes—they’ve been allowed to operate with total impunity while the media and the left turn a blind eye. They’re far too busy peddling the tired lie that “Trump supporters are the real threat.” Continue reading
“Maybe DOGE employees prefer to work behind the scenes because leftist wackos are terrorizing Tesla.”
(Nate Jackson – The Patriot Post) Elon Musk has his work cut out for him at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). “Our goal is to reduce the deficit by a trillion dollars,” he began last night in his interview with Fox News’s Bret Baier, along with seven other key leaders of DOGE. A key method for reaching that goal is eliminating waste and fraud, he explained, estimating that it “can be done without affecting any of the critical government services — in fact, making it better.” All inside his 130-day window. What manner of wizardry is this? Continue reading
(Protestia) In a new nationwide survey released by George Barna for the Arizona Christian University, only 16% of self-proclaimed Christians believe in the Trinity.
While impossible to fully comprehend, simply put, Christians believe in the “one living and true God, eternally existing in perfect unity as three equally and fully divine Persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Each member of the Godhead, while executing distinct but complementary roles in redemptive history, has precisely the same nature, attributes, and being, and is equally worthy of the same glory and honor and obedience.” Continue reading
“Trump admin fires 50 prosecutors and deputies in DOJ overhaul…”
(Matt Vespa – Townhall) President Donald J. Trump is taking a chainsaw to the Department of Justice. The unsavory elements are being cut away, and, again, this shouldn’t be a shock to anyone paying attention to the 2024 campaign. The cancerous elements that infected this institution under Joe Biden, which were weaponized to go after Trump, pro-life activists, and the January 6 defendants, will be excised. Two prosecutors were fired, with at least 50 US attorneys and their associates also being given pink slips…. Continue reading
A persistent tradition claims that upon being mocked by a skeptic with regard to his doctrine of creation, Saint Augustine was cynically asked, “What was God doing before He created the world?” Augustine’s alleged reply was: “Creating hell for curious souls.”
The reply was, of course, tongue-in-cheek. The Bible doesn’t speak of such a special work of divine creation before creation itself. But Augustine’s bon mot had a serious point that warned against idle speculation of God’s activity in eternity. Continue reading
“All these lies have divided the country and permanently damaged the U.S. The perpetrators have neither apologized for their lies nor tried to either deny or substantiate them.”
(Victor Davis Hanson) For years, the left has advanced utter untruths for cheap partisan purposes that it knew at the time were all false. And now when caught, they just shrug and say they were lying all along.
Once it was known that the first COVID-19 case originated in or near a Chinese communist virology lab engineering gain-in-function deadly viruses—with help from Western agencies—the left went into full persecution mode. Continue reading
“The so-called COVID “experts” were either dangerously stupid or deeply compromised—maybe both. Was it stupidity, politics, or profit driving their decisions? Either way, the results were the same: silence in the face of a horrific health crisis that’s now targeting our most vulnerable—children.”
(Revolver) There’s a terrifying trend happening right now—and most of the so-called “experts” who have let us down in every way imaginable are pretending not to see it.
So, what’s happening?
Well, cancer is exploding.
And not just in adults. Continue reading
“Altogether, hundreds of NIH grants on “gender” or DEI topics have already been canceled, including research on “multilevel and multidimensional structural racism” (whatever that means), “gender-affirming hormone therapy in mice”, and “microaggressions.” I think I lost brain cells just reading those inanities, and yet supposedly serious researchers were receiving taxpayer money for this.”
(Catherine Salgado – PJ Media) Do you want your taxpayer dollars funding studies on preventing pregnancy in “transgender boys” or HIV stigma in Thailand? Fortunately, Trump’s Health and Human Services secretary also considers that a waste, so he’s cutting numerous idiotic woke studies. Continue reading
(Eric Utter – American Thinker) Here’s my 2025 version of ‘You just might be a Democrat.”
*If you believe that Fox News is crazily biased but NPR and MSNBC are trusted sources of unbiased journalism … you just might be a Democrat.
*If you think an inanimate object can be racist … you just might be a Democrat.
*If you think Elon Musk is out to steal your identity and your money, but that the people in the Deep State would never do that … you just may be a Democrat. Continue reading
“Humans are endowed with intelligence. Machines are not. This is the great fakery. Here is the ignorant fallacy: Microsoft CEO says that “will unlock enormous amounts of economic growth, but they are fundamentally labor replacing.” First, human work is the source of all economic activity; second, if “wages crash,” as Marc Andreessen thinks, it will crash the economy. Are they really this stupid, or are they just gaslighting the world?” ⁃ Patrick Wood, Technocracy Editor.
(Tom Huddleston – CNBC) Over the next decade, advances in artificial intelligence will mean that humans will no longer be needed “for most things” in the world, says Bill Gates.
That’s what the Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist told comedian Jimmy Fallon during an interview on NBC’s “The Tonight Show” in February. Continue reading
(Protestia) A leaked small group training video from North Point Community Church shows a church ministry director instructing small group leaders to use affirming language with transgender tweens and teens, advising them to use their new names and personal pronouns because if everyone else in that child’s life is affirming them, “we cannot be the last place a (trans) student feels comfortable.”
Britt Kitchen is the multi-campus director for Transit. In this environment, middle school students (6th–8th grades) “gather to explore their relationship with Christ and others” through the use of “games, music, teaching, and guided small group discussion.” Continue reading
(Matt Margolis – PJ Media) While we’ve all witnessed Joe Biden’s countless gaffes, confused wanderings, and incoherent ramblings over the past three years, what’s been happening behind the scenes is far more disturbing than anyone imagined. A bombshell new book reveals that while the White House was busy assuring Americans that Biden was a “vigorous” leader fully capable of executing his duties, Kamala Harris’s team was secretly planning for his potential departure — or death — as early as January 2023. Continue reading
By John MacArthur – Grace to You
Is Pragmatism Really a Serious Threat?
I am convinced that pragmatism poses precisely the same subtle threat to the church in our age that modernism represented nearly a century ago.
Modernism was a movement that embraced higher criticism and liberal theology while denying nearly all the supernatural aspects of Christianity.
But modernism did not first surface as an overt attack on orthodox doctrine. The earliest modernists seemed concerned primarily with interdenominational unity.
They were willing to downplay doctrine for that goal, because they believed doctrine was inherently divisive and a fragmented church would become irrelevant in the modern age. To heighten Christianity’s relevance, modernists sought to synthesize Christian teachings with the latest insights from science, philosophy, and literary criticism.
Modernists viewed doctrine as a secondary issue. They emphasized brotherhood and experience and de-emphasized doctrinal differences. Doctrine, they believed, should be fluid and adaptable—certainly not something worth fighting for. In 1935, John Murray gave this assessment of the typical modernist: Continue reading