(Reformation Charlotte) While it has been like pulling teeth trying to get Southern Baptist leaders to break the 11th Commandment–thou shalt not speak out against other SBC leaders–some leaders are sensing the growing frustration among laypeople who are quickly tiring of the repeated failure of the leadership to take action when action is necessary. I’m speaking, of course, in the context of the Southern Baptist president, Ed Litton’s, plagiarism and lying scandal. Continue reading
Companies Stand to Make Billions Off Coronavirus Booster Shots
(Paul Bois – Breitbart) The advent of coronavirus booster shots could rake in billions of dollars in profits for companies like Pfizer and Moderna, according to the Associated Press (AP).
“Billions more in profits are at stake for some vaccine makers as the U.S. moves toward dispensing COVID-19 booster shots to shore up Americans’ protection against the virus,” reported the AP. “How much the manufacturers stand to gain depends on how big the rollout proves to be.” Continue reading
What is Reformed Theology?
My good friend Stuart said recently on Facebook when asked if he was Reformed, “Calvinist, not Reformed.” I put a big like on his response. However, there is a great deal of things that those of us who are Baptists, but also Calvinists, have in common with our Reformed brethren. Stuart has asked me to write a commentary on Paul’s Epistle to the Colossians. I agreed to do that if he would handle the “book” part. However, I will be 70 years old in a couple of weeks and as Dr. James White said the other day on Twitter, “Age must have something to do with my stamina on writing. I am getting so tired when I have to write a lot, but it has to be done…”…. Continue reading
Justification by faith alone demonstrates God’s righteousness
21 But now apart from the Law the righteousness of God has been manifested, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, 22 even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all those who believe; for there is no distinction; 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus; Romans 3:21-26 (NASB) Read verses 25-26 on the site.
The passage above (Romans 3:21-26) is loaded with doctrinal truth. I could write a paper just on Romans 3 and it would probably take me quite some time to get all the cross-references tied in and all the explanations set just right so those who read it would be edified…. Continue reading
New emails reveal Hunter Biden asked for $2 million plus ‘success fees’ to help unfreeze Libyan assets
(Mattathias Schwartz – Business Insider) Two previously unpublished emails sent by business contacts of Hunter Biden indicate that the president’s son requested an annual retainer of $2 million to help recover billions in Libyan assets frozen by the Obama administration.
The emails, obtained by Insider during reporting on an unrelated matter, are not connected to the controversial emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop, which his supporters have claimed were distributed as part of a disinformation campaign…. Continue reading
Sodom And Gomorrah: Researchers Find Stunning Evidence Of The Ancient Cities Destroyed By God
(FaithPot) Researchers have found evidence to prove the story of God’s wrath on the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to be true in the Bible. “Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the Lord out of the heavens” (Genesis 19:24).
The only explanation for this discovery is that burning debris fell on the buildings from the air. But how could such a thing happen? Continue reading
Asking the Right Questions
Sometimes it is less important to have the right answers than to have the right questions. A man named Saul thought he did not need to ask any questions. He had all the answers. The most important question, according to Saul, was “How can I be good enough for God?” He thought he had that answer down cold.
The only problem was, he was wrong. American humorist Will Rogers could have told Saul, “It’s not what you don’t know that will get you in trouble, but what you know for certain that just ain’t so.” Saul’s problem lay in the question “How can I be good enough?” Continue reading
How Will the People in Heaven View Hell?
When the seals are broken, judgments against the sinful world are released. But who is worthy of bringing about this judgment? John is told, “Stop weeping; behold, the Lion that is from the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome so as to open the book and its seven seals” (Rev. 5:5).
(Amy K Hall – Stand To Reason) I fairly regularly get asked this question in various forms: How will the people in Heaven view Hell?… Continue reading
Voting With Their Feet: Parents Taking Their Kids Out of Traditional Public Schools in Astounding Numbers
(Stacey Lennox – PJ Media) A new report from the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools shows what a great advertisement American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President Randi Weingarten and her more radical members provided for school choice. After more than a year of school closures, Zoom classes, and battles over critical race theory, parents are increasingly taking their children out of public schools. The study looked at enrollment shifts between the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 school years. Continue reading
Watch: This 83-Second Video Is Absolutely Devastating for Joe Biden’s Presidency
“If you examine the actual content of Biden’s speech, you will see that his foreign policy priorities are almost as disturbing as his poor mental state.”
(Grant Atkinson – Western Journal) President Joe Biden delivered an address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday amid his many international failures. Whether it was embarrassment for his actions or just his general cognitive decline, he was unable to coherently portray his thoughts. Continue reading
In Christ
9 For this reason also, since the day we heard of it, we have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, 10 so that you will walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; 11 strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, for the attaining of all steadfastness and patience; joyously 12 giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in Light. Colossians 1:9-14 (NASB) See verses 13-14 on the site.
We live in a time of deep deception. Even genuine Christians can be deceived if they are not exceedingly careful. It is imperative that, even though we must remain in the world for a time, we must not be of it. The Church has been under heavy attack since Acts 2…. Continue reading
Latest Durham Indictment May Make Russiagate the Most Corrupt Scandal in U.S. History
“These players were all in on the hoax. They were all on the same side. They were all willing to use their sensitive positions of power to exact political damage because they didn’t like Trump and his voters.”
(Victoria Taft – PJ Media) That loud clunk you hear is another shoe dropping in the John Durham investigation of the “Russia! Russia! Russia!” conspiracy to Get Trump. We already know about Hillary Clinton’s attempted takedown of the Donald Trump candidacy and presidency in the Russia hoax. We know a government lawyer lied to the FISA court in order to get a warrant to spy on the Trump campaign…. Continue reading
A Better Enemy of America Than the Taliban: Tyrannical Biden Takes Out One Quarter of Our SEALS with Vaccine Mandate
“He lets Antifa and BLM terrorists roam the streets. He doesn’t speak out against his party’s war on the police which has decimated police departments and been the cause of rising crime across the country. He lets third world countries invade our borders with crime and COVID-19.”
(Steve Gruber – LefeZette) So the vaccines have proven to have less efficacy than advertised and the Biden administration doesn’t seem to want to look at natural immunity, religious exemptions or any kind of body autonomy when it comes to making everyone get the vaccines. Continue reading
Politico confirms Hunter Biden laptop emails after media declared story ‘Russian disinformation’ amid election
“The pre-election joint censorship campaign by the media, Big Tech & CIA was always a gigantic story. The CIA spun an outright lie about these docs that helped these platforms censor the docs while journalists cheered that. Again, however much you despise these media outlets, it’s not enough.”
(Joseph A. Wulfsohn – Fox News) Nearly one year after the Hunter Biden laptop story sparked a political firestorm, Politico confirmed some of the material first reported by the New York Post in the final weeks of the presidential election. Continue reading
Salvation Garments
1 Awake, awake,
Clothe yourself in your strength, O Zion;
Clothe yourself in your beautiful garments,
O Jerusalem, the holy city;
For the uncircumcised and the unclean
Will no longer come into you.
2 Shake yourself from the dust, rise up,
O captive Jerusalem;
Loose yourself from the chains around your neck,
O captive daughter of Zion.
3 For thus says the LORD, “You were sold for nothing and you will be redeemed without money.” Isaiah 52:1-3 (NASB)
The way many look at our salvation it is as if they believe that it is a work of some kind. The cry to put on strength and beautiful garments is seen as a new believer putting on something they already have…. Continue reading
Anti-Semites Get Their Wish: Democrats Yank Money for Israel Defense
“To comprehend just how much contemporary progressives detest Israel, let’s remember that the Iron Dome is a defensive weapon. It has not only saved thousands of Jewish lives from missiles attacks emanating from Islamic terror groups but countless Palestinian lives.”
(A. J. Kaufman – PJ Media) The left finally found a spending measure they dislike. Continue reading
Federal Whistleblower Alleges Coverup of Reporting Adverse Reactions to COVID-19 Vaccines
(James Murphy – The New American) A registered nurse working undercover with Project Veritas is claiming that doctors are not reporting cases of adverse reactions to the COVID-19 vaccines. Jodi O’Malley, who works for the federal government at the Phoenix Indian Medical Center (PIMC) in Arizona, made the allegations in a video released Monday evening.
“This is evil at the highest level,” O’Malley told Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe. Continue reading
John MacArthur’s Church Publishes ‘COVID-19 Without Fear’ Manifesto
“Western evangelicals now need to have that same resolve—and prepare ourselves for more pressure from the government and more persecution from the rest of society.”
(Reformation Charlotte) While most of the world, particularly the lost and dying world, is living in extreme fear of a disease that carries with it the possibility of death, John MacArthur, pastor of Grace Church in Los Angeles wants us to know that born again believers have nothing to fear. Continue reading
Federal health authorities scorn ivermectin for COVID, despite findings of benefits, safety
“Dr. Tess Lawrie, director of Evidence-Based Medicine Consultancy Ltd., who consults with the World Health Organization, said, “We have an incredibly positive and uplifting message to share: ivermectin treats and prevents COVID and it is the key to unlocking the never-ending cycle of pandemic peaks and personal restrictions and will help restart economies.”
(Bethany Blankley – Just the News) In an effort to dissuade people from taking Ivermectin to treat COVID-19, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been running public service announcements and radio ads nationwide…. Continue reading
Proclaiming Christ Crucified
1 And when I came to you, brethren, I did not come with superiority of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. 2 For I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified. 3 I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling, 4 and my message and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, 5 so that your faith would not rest on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God. 1 Corinthians 2:1-5 (NASB)
We preach to men as if they were conscious of being dying sinners; they are not; they are having a good time, and our talk about being born again is from a domain of which they know nothing. The natural man does not want to be born again. – Oswald Chambers from The Psychology of Redemption, 1062 R.
Border Patrol chief canned by Biden lobs a truth grenade at the president, says Biden is ‘laser-focused on expediting the flow of migrants into the U.S.’
“The experienced civil service staff within CBP, ICE and DHS have provided multiple options to reduce the illegal entries and reestablish some semblance of border security through proven programs and consequences, yet every recommendation has been summarily rejected.”
(Joel Abbott – Not the Bee) The former chief of U.S. Border Patrol absolutely eviscerated Joe Biden in a new letter that accuses the president of purposely creating a border crisis in order to flood the U.S. with illegal immigrants. Continue reading
The Afghanistization of America
“Is our new freelancing and partisan military also in the process of becoming Afghanized—too many of its leadership electively appealing to pseudo-higher principles to contextualize violating the Constitution of the United States and, sadly, too many trying to reflect the general woke landscape of the corporate board to which so many have retired? Like tribal warlords, our top brass simply do as they please, and then message to us “so what are you going to do about it?”
(Victor Davis Hanson – American Greatness) The United States should be at its pinnacle of strength. It still produces more goods and services than any other nation—China included, which has a population over four times as large…. Continue reading
FDA Panel Member on COVID ‘Vaccines’: ‘Heart Attacks Happen 71 Times More Often….’
“The VAERS shows heart attacks happen 71 times more often following these vaccines compared to any other vaccine.”
(Selwyn Duke) A bit more than a month ago I wrote about “My troubling COVID vaccine story experiences.” Aside from citing a friend who developed heart inflammation after taking a coronavirus genetic-therapy agent (GTA, a.k.a. a “vaccine”; more on this later), I mentioned that I’d had some unusual experiences:… Continue reading
Former FDA Commissioner: Six Foot Social Distancing Rule Was ‘Arbitrary … Nobody Knows Where It Came From’
(Hanna Bleau – Breitbart) Scott Gottlieb, the former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), admitted during an interview on Face the Nation that the six foot social distancing rule recommended by public health officials for months on end was actually “arbitrary in and of itself,” and he noted that “nobody knows where it came from.”
Speaking with Face the Nation’s Margaret Brennan, Gottlieb discussed the rules and risks early in the pandemic, explaining that the Trump administration shifted its focus to the impact lockdowns and rules would have on the economy and children. Continue reading
Finishing the Marathon
In 1978 I decided to become a runner. I was 26-27 at that time. I began running a mile or so out from my apartment in Forestville, Maryland then running back. As I was able, I added distance to that run in half-mile increments on the outbound route. That would add a mile to my run. By late 1979 I was able to run 5 miles in about 30 minutes or so. In 1980 I moved from the Washington, DC area to the Oklahoma City area. By this time my Dad had taken up running. He could not run the distance at my speed, but he could run all day. He ran marathons. Continue reading