I Eavesdropped On An ‘Evangelicals For Harris’ Zoom Call. Here’s What I Learned.

“I would hope that the Southern Baptist Convention leadership, from those like Brent Leatherwood at the ERLC to the SBC President Clint Presley, will publicly question why an SBC pastor like Dwight McKissic is involved with a group that explicitly condemns white evangelicals…The gospel is about unity, not division along racial lines. Any evangelical should be deeply troubled by the failure to address and correct such harmful rhetoric.” 

(Matt Vroman – Clear Truth Media) Last week, I joined a Zoom call hosted by a group calling themselves “Evangelicals for Harris.” For those who don’t know, this group aims to swing the votes of “on-the-fence” conservative evangelicals in swing states, and includes such figures as Rev Jim Ball, Jemar Tisby, Jerushah Duford (granddaughter of Bill Graham), Ekemini Uwan and Dwight McKissic. They’ve gathered over 200,000 ‘evangelical’ signatures so far pledging to vote for Harris in November. Continue reading

Trump Honors Kabul Victims, Blames Biden-Harris

(Catherine Salgado – PJ Media) Donald Trump paid tribute to the U.S. military victims of the Kabul terrorist attack who died during the disastrous 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal. This comes after he rightly blamed Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for the catastrophe that included the deadly bombing.

Trump addressed a National Guard Association conference on Aug. 25, and vowed that, if elected again, he will fire every single senior military and diplomatic official responsible for the Afghanistan withdrawal that left thousands of Americans and Afghani allies stranded in the hellish, Taliban-controlled country. Continue reading

The Storm Center of the Protestant Reformation

1 Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom also we have obtained our introduction by faith into this grace in which we stand; and we boast in hope of the glory of God. Romans 5:1-2 (LSB) 

I shared in a previous post how I had in an incident in a Bible Study class while attempting to teach about the Doctrine of Election back in 2006 by a couple of men who were dead set on stopping me from simply reading certain texts from Sacred Scripture. I have had similar experiences when teaching on the Doctrine of Justification, which is what this post is about…. Continue reading

When to Rebuke Sharply (and Gently)

“When Jesus confronted the hypocrisy of the Pharisees in their false teaching, he rebuked them sharply with seven woes, saying, “But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves”

(Dan Crabtree – The Cripplegate) In Titus 1:13, the apostle Paul tells his apostolic legate, Titus, that because the false teachers in Crete match the vile reputation of the island, “Therefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith.” Continue reading

RFK Jr.’s Speech Wasn’t Republican Or Democrat But American

“These complaints are not Republican or Democrat: indeed, every American should be horrified by the weaponization of our government and the censorship-industrial complex that converted the press from a check on our government to a co-conspirator….Whether peddling the Russia collusion hoax against Trump, censoring information about Covid-19 vaccines, or hiding Joe Biden’s mental incapacity from the public, the press’s complicity in interfering in both elections and governance leaves Americans with one choice: an electoral revolt against the party responsible for the government’s corruption.”

(Margot Cleveland – The Federalist) Robert F. Kennedy Jr. excoriated the Democrat Party, U.S. government, and our supposedly free press during his Friday press conference. Kennedy’s announcement that he will remove his name as a candidate for president in swing states and endorses Donald Trump brought cheers from Trump supporters and derision from Democrat die-hards. Continue reading

It’s My Party and I’ll Lie If I Want To

“We could go on.  But why bother?  In politics today, there is no such thing as truth.  Therefore, the American public is the victim of continuous deceit.”

(Bill O’Reilly) There are times when Donald Trump gives an opinion while at the same proclaiming his belief to be true.  Two vivid examples. The former President has stated almost all “legal experts” wanted Roe v. Wade overturned.

No. Millions in the legal world are angry the Supreme Court kicked the abortion situation back to the states. Continue reading

The First Shall be Last and the Last Shall be First

27 Then Peter answered and said to Him, “Behold, we have left everything and followed You; what then will there be for us?” 28 And Jesus said to them, “Truly I say to you, that you who have followed Me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man will sit on His glorious throne, you also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. 29 And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or farms for My name’s sake, will receive one hundred times as much, and will inherit eternal life. 30 But many who are first will be last; and the last, first. Matthew 19:27-30 (LSB) 

God awoke this believer from a spiritual stupor in 2004. From my rebirth in January 1986 through the end of 2003 I rode a roller coaster of faithfulness and backsliding to the point that I despaired of ever being able to be consistent in my walk…. Continue reading

Steve Deace Show Cohost Calls James White A False Teacher

“The attack on James White was rightly seen as an anathematizing of all Protestants. And so many Evangelicals, even those who have had disagreements with White on key issues, have circled the wagons in his defense.”

(Ray Fava – Evangelical Dark Web) Earlier this week, Evangelical Dark Web reported on the rising wokeness and theological chaos of the Steve Deace Show, one of the premier conservative media podcasts, one that specifically promotes a Christian worldview. In the process, the show’s war with the audience was mentioned, specifically the increasingly antagonistic cohost Todd Erzen who has been attacking Protestants for believing basic distinctives of the Reformation…. Continue reading

Six Signs You Trust The Media Too Much

(Jamie Bambrick – Clear Truth Media) If you were duped by any of the following things and still trust the media, you trust them too much. You believed in…

1 – Russian Collusion

Remember how Donald Trump swept to power in 2016, backed by huge Russian bot farms pumping out endless pro-Trump propaganda, clearly empowered by Vladimir Putin? At least, that’s what we were told, repeatedly, for years, by the mainstream media, and even his presidential opponent Hillary Clinton pushed the theme. Continue reading

‘No Peace With Progressives’ Should Be the New Rallying Cry of the Church

“They want you to believe that standing for life, for biblical truth, for the principles of limited government, somehow marks you as a monster. But this is no mere misunderstanding—it is a calculated attempt to incite hatred and violence against anyone who dares oppose their radical agenda. They seek to turn the world upside down, to call evil good and good evil, to make darkness the new light.”

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Revenge of the Kennedys: RFK Jr. Takes a Flame Thrower to the Entire System

“Now, in an honest system, I believe that I would have won the election, in a system that my father and my uncles thrived in. A system with open debates with fair primaries… and with a truly independent media untainted by government propaganda and censorship, in a system of nonpartisan courts and election boards, everything would be different.”

(Kevin Downey Jr. – PJ Media) Robert Kennedy Jr.’s highly anticipated speech on Friday was much more than the third-party candidate bowing out of the race and endorsing Trump. Continue reading

Secret Service Puts 5 on Leave in Trump Shooting Probe

“One Secret Service agent who requested anonymity to speak candidly blamed the security failures at Trump’s Butler rally on Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe and other top agency leaders, saying their decisions prior to the July 13 event set the agents in the field up for failure.”

(Nicole Wells – Newsmax) At least five members of the U.S. Secret Service have been placed on administrative leave as a result of the agency’s investigation into the security failures that led to the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump last month in Butler, Pennsylvania, according to multiple media reports. Continue reading

The modern evangelical movement has embraced a gospel message of cheap grace

Pastor, author, and, dare I say, prophet A. W. Tozer cautions us about the danger of cheap grace: “To offer a sinner the gift of salvation based upon the work of Christ, while at the same time allowing him to retain the idea that the gift carries with it no moral implications, is to do him untold injury where it hurts him worst.”

(Ron Helle – Patriot Post) “Time to get our flu shot,” Lynne said as we drove past our local pharmacy. We blow hot and cold on getting the flu shot. Flu vaccines are developed based on the most likely variants expected the following flu season. Sometimes they work and sometimes they don’t…. Continue reading

Who Is ‘Destroying Democracy in Darkness?’

“The Party that had proclaimed democracy dies in darkness now favors the shadows as the preferable means to obtain and retain power—whether by ignoring primary voters, open conventions, or transparent venues with the voters.”

(Victor Davis Hanson – American Greatness) The 2023-2024 campaign season is not just the strangest on record, it’s also arguably the most anti-democratic.

Ostensibly, the Democratic Party has claimed over the last decade that Donald Trump posed a continued and existential threat to the republic. Continue reading

Heresy presented as mercy

“Be not confused. The Widening of God’s Mercy is a call for a new religion to replace Biblical Christianity. What it calls for is not a revised vision of Christian morality. This is a call for complete theological surrender.”

(Albert Mohler) In case you haven’t caught on, here’s how the world now works. If you want major attention and applause from the cultural left and its influencers, offer a loud and apologetic shift to a more liberal position on an issue of cultural obsession—especially an issue related to LGBTQ priorities. If you have ever affirmed a Biblical vision of human sexuality, you had better apologize profusely. If you ever put your more Biblical convictions into print as a book, you better be ready with another book that explains your newfangled beliefs. Continue reading

What Must I Do To Inherit Eternal Life?

17 And as He was setting out on a journey, a man ran up to Him and knelt before Him, and began asking Him, “Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” Mark 10:17

The natural man cannot conceive of eternal life coming to anyone who does not “earn” or somehow “deserve” it. Jesus’ teaching set the record straight, but many today still do not regard what He said. Even preachers and religious leaders have bent the truth and twisted it in such a way so as to provide a way for professing believers to have a “work” they could point back to that marks them as having done that one thing that enables them to inherit eternal life…. Continue reading

Untested. Unprepared. Ready to Do As She’s Told on Day One

“The Democrat hive mind knows exactly what Harris would do as president: anything the hive mind wants. More taxes? More DEI? More regulation? More Green New Deal? More Woke? More support for terrorists in Gaza and Iran?  Let’s go crazy!”

(Stephen Green – PJ Media) At long last, on Wednesday the world got to read Kamala “The Cypher™” Harris’s policy page but there’s just one catch — it was published by the Donald Trump campaign.

Kamala2024Policies attempts to fill in the blanks of Harris’ nearly content-free run at the White House…. Continue reading

Tucker: Biden-Harris Administration Allowed Trump to Get Shot

(Mary Dowling) Tucker explained to Jesse Kelly on The First that the Secret Service and the Biden-Harris administration let him get shot. They withheld adequate protection from Donald Trump, and they did the same with Bobby Kennedy, who fortunately didn’t get hurt.

Tucker said that it doesn’t matter what the intent is. The point is they let it happen. They gave phony doctor Jill more security than Donald Trump.

The message is they didn’t care if they got shot. No one has paid the price. Continue reading

Oprah at DNC: Without Abortion, There is No American Dream

(The Dissenter) In a performance worthy of her self-anointed status as America’s spiritual guide, Oprah Winfrey took to the stage at the DNC to deliver what can only be described as a sermon on the sanctity of abortion. With the gravitas of a high priestess delivering her divine revelation, she proclaimed,

“If you do not have autonomy over this, over this, if you cannot control when and how you choose to bring your children into this world and how they are, [gestures to herself], there is no American dream.” Continue reading

Do genuine Christians need to confess their sins and seek forgiveness and cleansing?

14 Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us take hold of our confession. 15 For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things like we are, yet without sin. 16 Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. Hebrews 4:14-16 (LSB) 

I am a firm believer in the Biblical Doctrine of Justification by Faith. Within that Justification is the Doctrine of Imputation of the Righteousness of Christ to the account of the believer. The Righteousness that God sees on our account is that of our Lord Jesus Christ which means we are forever in Him and will be for eternity…. Continue reading

Five Things To Know About The Democratic Party Today

(Clear Truth Media) Here are five key things Christians need to know about the Democratic Party this week.

1 – DNC Offers Vasectomies & Abortions

With the 2024 Democratic National Convention (DNC) currently taking place in Chicago, Planned Parenthood Great Rivers set up a mobile health clinic near the United Center, offering free vasectomies and medication abortions. Though not directly organized by the DNC, it was strategically placed to coincide with the convention, and marks something of a point of emphasis for the party, especially in light of recent legislative changes across the U.S. following the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Continue reading

Christianity Today Hires Cussing, N-word Using, Marijuana Promoter as “Big Tent” Director

“This man, who’s so comfortable blurring the lines between the world and the ekklesia, the called-out ones, is being lauded by Christianity Today as the perfect fit to “catalyze the important work” of their Big Tent Initiative.”

(The Dissenter) You know it’s time to grab the nearest wall to bang your head against when you hear the latest news from Christianity Today. In a move that makes you question whether they’ve completely lost their minds—or perhaps their Bibles—the once-somewhat respected, somewhat conservative publication has hired Sho Baraka as the editorial director of its Big Tent Initiative. Continue reading

The Stakes Have Never Been Higher: Schumer Outlines Democratic Agenda ‘With the Guardrails Off.’

Budgets are irrelevant. Taxes are irrelevant. What matters is shoveling money to favored Democratic constituencies and billionaires so that the Democrats can, in the immortal words of FDR’s pal Harry Hopkins, “tax and tax and spend and spend…”

(Rick Moran – PJ Media) Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y) is a dreamer. And the dream he’s having this week during the Democratic National Convention isn’t of sugar plums and dancing fairies. Continue reading