An Open Letter to Pastors Who ‘Don’t Do Politics’

“I would never presume to tell you what you should preach. You have been called and anointed into leadership. How you choose to fulfill that anointing is entirely between you and God. But you are not called to silence. About anything.”

(Jason Anderson – Clear Truth Media)

Dear Faithful Shepherds,

Goodness knows, it’s hard out there nowadays for church leadership in America. Tensions are high, and the air is thick with opinions. Nobody has a polite disagreement anymore; every conversation about current events has the potential to devolve into a 3 AM Waffle House fight. Continue reading

Kamala Harris to Snub First Debate – Trump Announces Alternate Plans

(Jack Davis – Western Journal)  Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris has pulled out of a proposed Sept. 4 debate on Fox News, according to former President Donald Trump.

“Comrade Kamala Harris has just informed us that she will NOT do the Fox News Debate on September 4th,” Trump posted on Truth Social.

“I am not surprised by this development because I feel that she knows it is very difficult, at best, for her to defend her record setting Flip-Flopping on absolutely everything she once believed in,” Trump wrote. Continue reading

Biden Leaves As He Came In: With Lies, Hate & Divisiveness

(Mary Dowling) Joe Biden raged at one point during his farewell address last night. He claimed democracy prevails, has delivered, and must be preserved after the Democrat Party bosses nominated a woman who never won a vote for the position.

Chants of “We Love Joe” broke out.

President Joe Biden started screaming in rage during the DNC speech and smeared Donald Trump once again with the Charlottesville ‘Very Fine People’ lie that has been repeatedly debunked, even by some of the legacy media, including CNN and Snopes.

He does it to spread hate and division. Continue reading

Democrats’ Abortion Van At The DNC Offers A Glimpse Of America’s Future

“…the rationale used in the gay marriage debates of the 2010s is exactly the rationale deployed today in the transgender debate, which will in turn eventually be successfully deployed on behalf of plural marriage, polyamory, and pedophilia and things we have yet to imagine.”

(John Daniel Davidson – The Federalist) Did you hear about the free abortions and sterilizations on offer at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this week? Incredibly, the news is real. Abortion-inducing drugs (mifepristone and Plan B) will be doled out from the back of a Planned Parenthood RV, along with vasectomies, just a few blocks from a convention that will embrace a radical abortion-until-birth policy that would have been unthinkable, even for Democrats, just a decade ago. Continue reading

Are you abiding in Christ?

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. 8 My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be My disciples. 9 Just as the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love. 10 If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love. John 15:4-10 (LSB) 

For the first 20 or so years of my Christian pilgrimage 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…my righteousness…. Continue reading

This NYT Headline Captures the Larger Liberal Media Reaction to the Biden Impeachment Report

“This is the story that Trump wanted to know more in better detail during his presidency and got impeached for it. It’s now in The New York Times; he’s vindicated again.”

(Mat Vespa – Townhall) President Joe Biden has been cited for committing impeachable offenses that defrauded the United States and the American public stemming from his operations with his son, Hunter, regarding their government access for cash scheme. Millions of dollars were funneled to the Biden family or through family members and other associates in the form of a network of shell companies…. Continue reading

Panic in the Year 2024

“There is no sympathy here for adults who cannot absorb perspective and who relish propaganda like a fine wine.  However, I am worried about the kids.  Mouth-foaming liberal teachers are legion in this country and some parents live in panic mode round the clock.  Tough on the urchins.”

(Bill O’Reilly) In 1962, a movie called “Panic in the Year Zero” scared the buttered popcorn out of me, a preteen who loved scary stuff.

The film starred Ray Milland and teen idol Frankie Avalon and chronicled a Los Angeles family trying to survive two hydrogen bombs being dropped on California…. Continue reading

The Lord Tests the Righteous

4 Yahweh is in His holy temple; Yahweh’s throne is in heaven; His eyes behold, His eyelids test the sons of men. 5 Yahweh tests the righteous, But the wicked and the one who loves violence His soul hates. Psalms 11:4-5 (LSB) 

According to some professing Christians, if anything unpleasant comes into their lives then it proves that God is displeased with them. They say it proves that God is punishing them. Also, they proclaim that the ones suffering are simply victims in the ongoing battle between God and Satan. Is there another explanation? Let’s see! Continue reading

Evangelicals For Kamala?

“My goal here is not to discuss all of the political issues surrounding this presidential election.  If you have not made up your mind on these issues, then you are probably sinking in spiritual quicksand. I simply want to remind the reader of two things—how critical this election is, and what part evangelicals must play in it. Elections have consequences.”

(Larry E. Ball – Aquila Report) David French is at it again.  In the New York Times he recently pinned an opinion piece entitled To Save Conservativism from Itself, I Am Voting for Harris. Now he is making his rounds on anti-Christian platforms like MSNBC.  He is also part of a movement called “Evangelicals for Kamala.”… Continue reading

Preliminary Report Finds Thomas Matthew Crooks Was ‘Fragged,’ Rifle Likely Disabled After SWAT Operator’s Incredible Shot

The American public didn’t have a picture of a local law enforcement SWAT team officer taking one shot — from the ground — at Thomas Crooks and his murderous weapon.”

(Joe Saunders – The Western Journal) It was a shot from above that killed would-be assassin Thomas Crooks at a July campaign rally where he almost murdered former President Donald Trump.

But it was a shot from below that took Crooks out of action first, according to a congressional report made public Thursday. Continue reading

God is Sovereign

19 But Peter and John answered and said to them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to give heed to you rather than to God, you be the judge; 20 for we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.” 21 When they had threatened them further, they let them go (finding no basis on which to punish them) on account of the people, because they were all glorifying God for what had happened; 22 for the man was more than forty years old on whom this miracle of healing had been performed. Acts 4:19-28 (NASB) Read verses 23-28 on the site.

When we make statements like, “God is Sovereign.” we sometimes include a qualifier in that statement like this, “God is Sovereign over ‘something.” That is a fallacious statement though meant well. God is Sovereign…. Continue reading

Missouri to Place ‘Right to Abortion at Any Time of a Pregnancy’ on Ballot for Constitutional Amendment

Baby at 15 weeks. babycenter screenshot

“Missourians, are you going to let them pull the wool over your eyes yet again? Or will you see through the deception and stand up for the real rights—the rights of the unborn, the rights of parents, and the right to a society that values life over convenience?”

Missouri’s Amendment 3—the latest brainchild of the so-called “champions of freedom,” who seem to have mistaken a graveyard for the land of the free and the home of the brave. Here we go again, with the same old song and dance, where “reproductive rights” apparently means the right to extinguish innocent lives. Continue reading

The Weird, Creepy, Surreal — and Dangerous — 2024 Campaign

(Victor Davis Hanson) The already-long 2024 presidential campaign has become the strangest in modern history.

Here are 10 unanswered questions that illustrate how and why we’ve entered this bizarro world:

1.) How can Kamala Harris merely promise us fixes to come in 2025 for inflation and an open border when she is still vice president for another six months? Why can’t she enact her proposed solutions to these problems (which she helped create) right now? Continue reading

The WHO’s MPox Emergency, They Want $$$ & Vaccines to Start

“Vaccination plus behavioral change among gay and bisexual men. That is the group most affected in the United States in the 2022 outbreak. It has caused U.S. cases of MPox to fall from more than 30,000 in 2022 to 1,700 in 2023. The behavioral change is they cut out most orgies.”

(Mary Dowling) The World Health Organization (WHO) declared MonkeyPox, which WHO now calls MPox, a global health emergency. The most common way it has spread in the past is via gay orgies. However, it can spread without sexual contact and has been. The new strain is more dangerous. The WHO wants money and vaccines. Continue reading

All in Christ are so according to the Sovereign Grace of God

11 Yours, O Yahweh, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, indeed everything that is in the heavens and the earth; Yours is the kingdom, O Yahweh, and You exalt Yourself as head over all. 1 Chronicles 29:11 (LSB) 

I was involved in a theological “discussion” quite some time ago in which one who disagreed with the Doctrines of Grace attempted to say that his belief that Man’s Free Will was sacrosanct and God could not violate it was Biblical Christianity. After much consternation and prayer on how to respond to that that I simply told him that he was in unbelief…. Continue reading

Let the billionaires spend their millions: A review of Shepherds For Sale

“The details of each chapter vary. In the case of COVID, for example, evangelical leaders platformed a guy (Francis Collins) who was literally paid by the government to message their political agenda, and then those same leaders turned around and called evangelicals ‘conspiracy theorists’ if they didn’t accept what Collins (and, by extension, the government) was saying. That is the most direct case of evangelical leaders being misled by political money.”

(Jesse Johnson – The Cripplegate) Inside of American evangelicalism is a paradox: many of the most respected leaders use their influence to steer denominations and institutions in a direction that is significantly more liberal than the people those leaders ostensibly represent. Continue reading

Four Unintended Consequences of the Megachurch Movement – And How To Solve Them

“The future of the church, and our country, depends on us employing a different model and equipping the saints while also reaching the lost. There are practicalities that we can take from the megachurch movement, but the next era of church in this nation must correct the errors above.”

(Steven Whitlow – Clear Truth Media) When I was a seventeen-year-old high school senior, I had to write a senior paper. My family had left our Assemblies of God Church a few years prior, and found ourselves at the up-and-coming local megachurch. I fell in love with it, so much so that my paper’s thesis statement was the following: Continue reading

What Should Suzanne Hinn’s Forensic Accountant Look for During Divorce Case Against Benny Hinn?

“Hinn has regularly preached that people reap what they sow. Now is his time for reaping.”

(Barry Bowen – Trinity Foundation) In a divorce petition filed on July 26, 2024, in Florida, televangelist Benny Hinn’s wife Suzanne Hinn reported, “The marriage between the Wife and Husband is irretrievably broken.”

Suzanne requested spousal support and asked the court, “Require the Husband to contribute to the Wife’s attorney’s fees and costs, including forensic accountant fees, both temporarily and permanently …” Continue reading

Ruslan KD Defends Preston Sprinkle’s Side B Theology

“I point out a distinction between associations and alliances. Ruslan speaking at Preston Sprinkle’s conference is an association. It doesn’t make him a false teacher but it’s a glaring red flag. However, Immanuel Church has Gavin Ortlund, Sam Allberry, and Russell Moore in leadership. This isn’t mere association. Their wagons are hitched.”

(Ray Fava – Evangelical Dark Web) “Christian” YouTubers have been circling the wagons to defend Gavin Ortlund and his liberalism, including Jordan Cooper and Redeemed Zoomer, after it was broadcasted in Megan Basham’s bestselling book, Shepherds For Sale. Also included in the wagon circling is Ruslan KD, a YouTuber with 613K subs, which is quite large in the niche. Continue reading

Iran is Helping the Kamala Campaign

(Daniel Greenfield – Front Page) With headlines like “Harris Surges Ahead: A New Era of Democratic Enthusiasm and Opportunity” and “Former Friend Exposes JD Vance’s Radical Transformation: A Study in Political Opportunism”, you might mistake NioThinker for another mainstream media outlet.

Only the occasional odd word choice and convoluted bit of grammar hints that the digital media site flowing with enthusiasm for Kamala and contempt for Trump isn’t really American.

Classified as part of Iran’s ‘Storm-2035’ network: NioThinker is an enemy operation. Continue reading

It is Finished!

28 After this, Jesus, knowing that all things had already been finished, in order to finish the Scripture, *said, “I am thirsty.” 29 A jar full of sour wine was standing there; so they put a sponge full of the sour wine upon a branch of hyssop and brought it up to His mouth. 30 Therefore when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit. John 19:28-30 (LSB) 

Sometimes God brings things into our lives that seem devastating. Others may also see these things in our lives and question that God even exists. They cannot conceive of a loving God who would cause or allow debilitating diseases that are always fatal into the fragile bodies of those who profess faith in the Saviour…. Continue reading