Jen Wilkin Sets Herself Up as a Preaching Coach for Men

(The Dissenter) Jen Wilkin, a female preacher at Matt Chandler’s church—a Southern Baptist church—who has also publicly described menstruation as a “parable of the cross” is now being presented as a preaching coach for pastors. Not for women’s Bible study leaders. Not for curriculum writers. For pastors. For men charged by God to stand before the church and preach Christ with authority.

There’s an event promo posted on the site, then…

That alone should stop people in their tracks. Continue reading

Nick Shirley Drops Another Video, and It Will Blow Your Mind

(Matt Margolis – PJ Media) Independent journalist Nick Shirley’s back at it, and his second Minnesota fraud video packs the same explosive punch as the first.

That original 42-minute bombshell ripped the lid off Somali-run daycares that are raking in millions from taxpayers while sitting empty, while the Walz administration did nothing to stop it.

The legacy media have been aggressively trying to discredit Shirley and his reporting, but he’s not backing down…. Continue reading

Warning: Tara Leigh Cobble, The Bible Recap, & D-Group

(Michelle Lesley) First, Michelle explains her criteria for doing research on authors, pastors, and Bible teachers that she receives a lot of questions about asking if she recommends them. Not long ago a number of readers asked about Tara-Leigh Cobble, host of The Bible Recap, a daily podcast, The God Shot, a daily radio show, as well as D Group. Here’s Michelle’s recommendation (scroll down until you see the article).

Tara-Leigh Cobble, or “TLC” as she likes to be called, “began her ministry as a singer-songwriter, performing her own songs and leading worship around the globe. After her first book was published, she added speaking to her repertoire. As a musician, writer and speaker, she spent more than a decade touring internationally before creating D-Groups and finding a home and community for herself in Dallas, Texas.” Continue reading

The PR Fallout of Tim Walz’s Political Demise: The Somalia Scandal Is About to EXPLODE

“The mainstream media won’t be able to cover for the Dems. More than anything else, that’ll be the ultimate PR fallout of Tim Walz’s political demise: The Somali fraud scandal is going to explode BIG TIME.”

(Scott Pinsker – PJ Media) The article starts off with a short, quick pirate joke that you can read on the site.

It’s the perfect segue to a PR analysis of Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.), who went from a 2028 presidential frontrunner to political roadkill over the last 10 months. As recently as early March, mainstream media outlets like The New Yorker published such fawning fluff-pieces as “Tim Walz Might Run for President in 2028 If You Ask Him Nicely.” Continue reading

Adios, Maduro

“Ironically, at the same time the US Special Forces were physically removing Nicolas Maduro and his awful wife from their supposedly secure Caracas compound, the 34-year-old daughter of actor Tommy Lee Jones collapsed in San Francisco’s Fairmont Hotel.  Dead. Fentanyl-laced narcotics.”

(Bill O’Reilly) Over the years, I’ve discussed America’s drug problem with President Trump.  In his first term, I had dinner with him at Mar-a-Lago and asked whether he was considering military action against the Mexican drug cartels, which have damaged the USA big time.  Mr. Trump hesitated, saying the blowback would be considerable. Continue reading

Now We Know Why Democrats Are Defending Somali Fraud

“Make no mistake, Democrats’ resistance to federal investigations into the Somali fraud points to a corrupt, mutually beneficial arrangement. Somali-run childcare centers and meal programs siphon off taxpayer money, then recycle some of it back into Democratic campaigns. Appeasing a reliable voting bloc plays a role, but the real payoff is money and power for the Democratic Party. Democrats have spent years building an elaborate ecosystem that turns public programs into campaign-funding pipelines, all at taxpayer expense.”

(Matt Margolis – PJ Media) Have you ever wondered why Democrats are so aggressively defending rampant fraud in Minnesota? Why Gov. Tim Walz so desperately wants to handle the investigation on his own? There’s a simple explanation: it has nothing to do with protecting vulnerable communities or fighting discrimination. Democrats are shielding these schemes because they profit directly from them. Continue reading

SBC’s Thom Rainer lists the 20 most influential evangelicals (Repost)

Eleven years ago, Ken Silva warned about the cult of celebrity in a piece he penned for Apprising Ministries. He revealed that the idol of evangelicalism erected by influential evangelical leaders is really not the Christianity of the New Testament. According to Ken, discerning Christians would recognize what was happening in the visible Church and as a result of his reporting were in the “proper vantage point upon the battlefield in order to better discern just how sad a list of the cult of celebrity evangelicals you’re about to witness.” The list Ken revealed includes Emergent/Emerging Church leaders and some important leaders in what he referred to as “the openly charismatic New Calvinism.”

Now to the article I came across while doing research on the once powerful New Calvinism, i.e. the Young Restless and Reformed movement that was influential in 2006. In less than two decades the YRR movement “has nearly wholly been torn apart”:

By Ken Silva

Now when the Pharisees gathered to [Jesus], with some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem, they saw that some of his disciples ate with hands that were defiled, that is, unwashed. (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands properly, holding to the tradition of the elders, and when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other traditions that they observe, such as the washing of cups and pots and copper vessels and dining couches). 

And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?” And he said to them,” Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, “‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men. ’You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men.” And he said to them, “You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition!” (Mark 7:1-9)

Worshiping The Way They Want To By Making God Be Who They Want Him To Be

As I monitor the rapid apostatizing of mainstream evangelicalism, and document it here at Apprising Ministries, I’ve told you that a major root cause for all of this has been evangelicalism never fully repented of its inherent humanism. That’s an important reason why it so quickly embraced the Church Growth Movement (CGM). Continue reading

‘Ten-year stain:’ Bondi asks prosecutors to probe Obama-Biden lawfare as criminal conspiracy

(John Solomon – Just the News) Attorney General Pam Bondi told Just the News that she has asked prosecutors to investigate the Obama-Biden era of lawfare as an ongoing election-meddling conspiracy that protected Democrats from criminal investigation and infringed the civil rights of Republicans like President Donald Trump and his supporters.

Recovering from eye surgery, Bondi made the revelation in written answers Sunday to questions submitted by Just the News, signaling she agrees with FBI Director Kash Patel, who earlier this year penned a memo predicating an investigation looking at the weaponization of intelligence of law-enforcement powers dating to the Russia collusion case as an ongoing conspiracy. Continue reading

Bank It

“The press extinguished due process a long time ago, headlining anything lurid with little perspective or restraint. The evil lawyers understand that no fact-finding will take place as they hawk their blackmail techniques on television. You people know who you are.  Have fun spending the blood money.  But remember, the reaper will have something very special in store for you.”

(Bill O’Reilly) As I get older, my predictions get better. Why? Because, as Gloria Estefan sings, there is a rhythm of the night. A pattern of behavior.  A balance in the universe. So, let’s take a look at 2026.

Up top, no human being can accurately assess what President Trump will do…. Continue reading

Recovering Civilizational Protestantism

“Civilizational Protestantism rested on a confidence that Christian faith was no mere private consolation or a sectarian preference, but a moral inheritance capable of ordering the common life. Its builders believed that Christianity could produce better leaders, more humane institutions, and a more just society. This confidence did not require perfection or coercion. It required the conviction that Christianity, rightly lived, was a blessing to the nation—and therefore something that ought to be publicly expressed, publicly defended, and publicly institutionalized.”

(Josh Abbotoy – American Reformer) On a recent visit to the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, it struck me that it would be impossible for any branch of American Christianity to reproduce such a thing today. American Christianity—the soul of our nation—is fractured and insecure about its place in public life. Continue reading

The Ruins of New Calvinism: How a Theological Movement Lost Its Center

“Through a series of personal scandals and the broader collapse of credibility surrounding social justice and Covid narratives, the second generation lost much of its authority. I do not want to overstate this. The Gospel Coalition still hosts a well attended biannual conference. But the momentum has shifted. The third generation of the Young, Restless, and Reformed effectively marks the end of the movement as a movement.”

(Jon Harris) Bob the Baptist put out a video recently that is making the private message rounds in my circles. Essentially, his thesis is that baked into the young, restless, and reformed movement, otherwise known as the New Calvinism, was a particular weakness that made it susceptible to the manosphere and the Pagan Right. It is a thoughtful and well documented take, and worth your time if you are interested in understanding how many people who bought into The Gospel Coalition or Acts 29 started prioritizing things like race essentialism, overturning women’s suffrage, and questioning the validity of the Holocaust narrative. Continue reading

Are you praying to the only true God?

(Marsha West – Christian Research Network) Christianity holds to the view that prayer is of the leading of the Holy Spirit. Octavius Winslow put it in these words:

It must be acknowledged by the spiritual mind that all true prayer is of the leading of the Spirit; that He is the author of all real approach of the soul to God. All true prayer is put into words by the Spirit. He is the Author of prayer in the soul.

The scriptures speak of God the Holy Spirit residing within all who believe in the Son of God. The Spirit guides, instructs and empowers believers. (John 14:16-17) As well, the “Spirit of truth” confirms everything about Jesus. (John 15:26) The unregenerate (unsaved) person is not Spirit filled. God does not hear anyone’s prayer unless it is put into words by the Holy Spirit. So if we want our prayers to be heard and answered we must pray to the right God.

“This is life eternal, that they might know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent” (John 17:3).

Before I move on it is necessary to briefly explain what other world religions believe about God. Continue reading

The Silent Epidemic of Christian Parents Who Are Losing Their Children

(Virgil Walker – Sola Veritas) And every once in a while I see an expression on a parent’s face that makes me pause. It usually happens after a sermon, or while we’re walking to the parking lot, or in the back of a quiet corner of the church where they think no one notices their eyes. It’s a cocktail of confusion, and sadness, and something that feels like fear. Parents of adult kids who have that look on their face I’ve seen people have in front of a grave.

Except that their children are still alive.

Still texting them.

Continuing to turn up at birthdays and holidays.

But something has changed. Continue reading

The Reason for the Season!

(Roger Helle – The Patriot Post) It’s easy to get distracted this time of year — if not by the rush of holiday shopping and looking for the perfect gift, then by the horrible news that seems to get darker and darker every year. Recently, though, it seems to get darker and darker every week!

We have witnessed terrorist attacks here at home and around the globe. Crime seems out of control. Hate flourishes everywhere we look. Politics gets uglier and uglier.

How did we get here? I believe it’s because we have forgotten the real reason we celebrate Christmas — to remember the birth of a child who would grow up to be the savior of the world.

There is no gift that could ever be as valuable as receiving Jesus as your Lord and Savior. Who was Jesus, and why should we care? This Proclamation says it all (source unknown): Continue reading

Mike Benz just examined Epstein files and he’s got a telltale theory…

SALTY LANGUAGE WARNING

“What Mike Benz is laying out forces people to really think about what Epstein was doing and how totally unusual his role was. The story we’ve been told about some wealthy creep with a lot of time on his hands was clearly a cover-up. When you look at the contracts, the access, and the specific government activity that Benz points to, it becomes harder to wave this away as coincidence or exaggeration.”

(Revolver) When President Trump agreed to release the Epstein files, the reaction from the left was rapid and telling. The left-wing media had been blabbering nonstop about “accountability,” and then it suddenly went quiet. The typical voices on the left who recently pretended to care so deeply about the Epstein files once Trump was back in office also got strangely silent.

Rest assured, that silence wasn’t accidental. Continue reading

Epstein Files Have Been Released, And Democrats Won’t Like These Photos

Yikes. “Never in American history has a President or the Department of Justice been this transparent with the American people about such a sensitive law enforcement matter,” Blanche added. “Democrat administrations in the past have refused to provide full details of the Jeffrey Epstein saga. But President Trump, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and FBI Director Patel are committed to providing full transparency consistent with the law.”

(Matt Margolis – PJ Media) The massive tranche of Jeffrey Epstein documents released Friday runs hundreds of thousands of pages. It includes the names of more than a dozen politically exposed figures and government officials, according to sources familiar with the material. Continue reading

Erika Kirk: TPUSA and I Will Ensure A Vance 48 Presidency

“This has the aroma of a master strategy to settle the succession even before a primary fight can take place. That doesn’t mean other Republicans may not challenge for the nomination, nor does it suggest that the GOP will make the Democrats’ 2024 mistake of cooking the rules to prevent a serious challenge to the preferred nominee. What it will do is disincentivize those challengers from coming forward at the risk of (a) futility and (b) alienating the MAGA base for interfering in the mission.” 

(Ed Morrissey – Hot Air) First, Donald Trump hints at the 2028 ticket in a Cabinet meeting. Next, Marco Rubio endorses J.D. Vance, “If [he] runs for president,” all but clearing the field for the next primary cycle. And now, the key activist group for younger Republicans and the woman who has taken the reins for her martyred husband has unequivocally declared Vance 48 to be their mission. Continue reading

Santa is Competing With Christ for the Worship of Your Children

“Some children even pray to him, clasping their hands and whispering requests, because Santa—let’s not forget—has become their benevolent giver of gifts. And while all of this unfolds, parents stand by, chuckling at the “adorable” display, never once considering the spiritual implications.”

(The Dissenter) Every December, a rotund figure clad in red velvet descends upon the collective conscience of Western civilization, not through chimneys as legend would have us believe, but through malls, movies, and mantelpieces. His name is Santa Claus—a jolly old saint, they call him. Continue reading

The Madness of Trans Justice & Loss of Parental Rights

(Mary Dowling) We have a horrifying story out of Canada, the once Democratic country. Only City Journal is reporting it here in the USA, but we need to know about it. Eventually, it will come here.

This incident sets a terrifying precedent for parents in the Western World. We have seen the same process unfold here in America as well, but parents haven’t been imprisoned yet. In Canada, a father was banned from protecting his child from trans justice. He now sits in prison in British Columbia. Continue reading

Christians, Hanukkah, and Judaizers

“Christians best be aware of the threat of the modern Judaizer, and where it ultimately leads.”

(Ray Fava – Evangelical Dark Web) For many Millennial Christians, we were inundated in public schools with multicultural propaganda, and one area where this is clear is during the Christmas season, where (fake) holidays celebrated by less than 2% of the population, respectively, are given equal footing to Christmas. But this was always unnatural and superimposed. Continue reading

The Long Knives Come Out for Candace Owens

“The paradox here is that a “conservative” who couldn’t hold a job with Charlie Kirk or Jeremy Boreing still amassed more than five million YouTube subscribers and over a billion views.”

(Stephen Green – PJ Media) Anonymous sources at two major conservative outlets did a massive oppo dump on Candace Owens, telling the New York Post all about a “sadistic and dangerous” personality out to “destroy Charlie [Kirk]’s legacy and the organization he built” and her “sensationalism in pursuit of audience and self-aggrandizement.” Continue reading

FBI Disrupts ‘Credible, Imminent Terrorist Threat’: Four Members of Radical Pro-Palestinian Group Arrested, Accused of Plotting Attack on L.A. New Year’s Eve Celebration

“According to the FBI, they were allegedly planning coordinated bombing attacks on New Year’s Eve using improvised explosive devices, targeting five separate locations across Los Angeles.”

(Margaret Flavin – Gateway Pundit) FBI Director Kash Patel announced that a credible, imminent terrorist threat targeting the Los Angeles New Year’s celebration has been disrupted, and four members of a radical pro-Palestinian group have been arrested. Patel shared on X, “Over the weekend, the @FBI disrupted a credible, imminent terrorist threat and arrested FOUR individuals connected to the Los Angeles area.” Continue reading