Belief vs Unbelief

21 Therefore the LORD heard and was full of wrath; And a fire was kindled against Jacob And anger also mounted against Israel, 22 Because they did not believe in God And did not trust in His salvation. Psalms 78:21-22 (NASB) 

There are only two groups of people in the world. There are Christians, the elect, and everyone else, the non-elect. What separates them? What is the difference? It is not different streams of faith, as New Agers and the liberals” say, which are all equal and going to the same place and color people in different ways…. Continue reading

E-MASK-ulation: How we have been lied to so dramatically about masks

“Nothing about the biology of the virus or our discovery of it has changed in the past few months that would lead us to believe that masks are somehow more effective against it than they are against the spread of other respiratory viruses. What has changed is the politics. Governments could no longer control our lives through wholesale lockdowns, because it was logistically untenable, so they created the mask mandate as a way of permanently controlling our movement.”

(Daniel Horowitz – Patriots4Life) If you are looking for the scientific rationale behind universal mask-wearing, you certainly won’t find it now that the issue has become as political as guns, abortion, and taxes…. Continue reading

Cop Shoots Latino Man in Self-Defense. BLM Rioters’ Response: ‘Death to Cops’

“Bodycam footage clearly shows Munoz running after the officer, holding a knife in his hand, after leaving the house following an angry confrontation with a woman.”

(Tyler O’Neil – PJ Media)  Black Lives Matter riots came to Lancaster, Pa., on Sunday night after a police officer shot a Latino man who was charging him with a knife, according to police. Rioters looted local businesses, built a barricade, set up a massive bonfire, smashed windows at the police station and post office, and spray-painted “Death to cops!” on a nearby wall. Continue reading

California School District Adapts Radical Sex Ed Curriculum for Middle School: Gender Identity, Condom Demos

(Penny Starr – Breitbart) Despite a huge pushback from parents, the Santa Barbara Unified School District in California has adopted a radical sex education curriculum for middle schoolers that includes lessons on choosing one’s gender, finding birth control and abortion providers, and “condom demonstrations.”

A local news outlet, Noozhawk, in Santa Barbara reported on the controversy: Continue reading

Biblical Humility What It Is and What It Is Not

3 Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves; Philippians 2:3 (NASB) 

One of the main contentions of all those who are in one or another are “liberal Christians” or “professing nominal Christians” is that it is an arrogant thing to teach from the Bible as if it is absolute truth…. Continue reading

Saving Faith is a Gift From God by His Grace

8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; 9 not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. Ephesians 2:8-9 (NASB) 

Back in the late 1980’s I enlisted in our church’s Evangelism Explosion program. It required a great deal of scripture memorization, a lot more than I was actually prepared for. Those of us who were trainees were teamed up with a trainer and after learning to share the Gospel in class the day came when we were taken out to make visits to people who had checked a box on some form somewhere that they would be interested in “a visit” from someone from our church…. Continue reading

Former Christianity Today Editor and Trump Critic Mark Galli Converts to Roman Catholicism

“The Mass is a perfect Mark Galli service. There’s no singing. There are no hymns. The homily is five minutes. The whole service is 25 minutes. They give you a single thought, a single illustration, a quote, and you’re done. Wow.”

(Protestia) The former Editor-in-Chief of Christianity Today, Mark Galli, perhaps best known for a parting editorial in the flagship magazine where he blasted Donald Trump for being “profoundly immoral” and called for his impeachment, has left the Christian faith and become a Roman Catholic. Continue reading

A Culture Radically Transformed By the Adoption of Pagan Religions and Jungian Psychology

“Jungian spirituality has seduced the masses. Jung’s personal practice of occultism and sexual freedom, presented as a “scientific” method, gave vast authority to the subconscious. People today justify all kinds of pagan spiritualities and sexual fantasies in the name of self-expression and spiritual health. Not the Bible but my subconscious “tells me so.”

(Peter Jones – truthxchange) According to recent polls, most young people “have graded Christianity, and so far, the grades aren’t looking good.” Young believers do not want the name “Christian” because of “the baggage that accompanies the label.” Continue reading

The ‘diabolical’ China virus is worse than 9/11

“The responses from readers demonstrate that people are extremely skeptical of what they see, read, and hear. They can’t understand why the paper went out of its way to absolve the Chinese communist authorities. The comments also reveal that readers have access to other sources of information and they compare and contrast that information with what the Journal is reporting as fact. This is all good news.”

(Cliff Kincaid – Renew America)  A Wall Street Journal article about coronavirus carries the fascinating headline “‘Really Diabolical’: Inside the Coronavirus That Outsmarted Science.” The subtitle is equally intriguing and says in part: “SARS-CoV-2 is a wily virus, with mysterious origins and a powerful ability to infect and spread….” But the authors spend most of their time trying, unsuccessfully, to trace the virus to a natural outbreak from bats. Continue reading

AG Barr Rips National Media as a ‘Collection of Liars’ Over Riot Coverage

“It’s funny that you had record numbers of police being injured during ‘peaceful’ protests. You know usually in protests, you have large numbers of injured rioters and a modest number of injured law enforcement. I’m talking about back in the…60s to the 90s, nowadays very few rioters get injured, very few and hundreds, even thousands of officers have been injured.”

(Katie Pavlich – Townhall)  Wrapping up a three-day tour in Chicago, Phoenix and Cleveland Friday, Attorney General Bill Barr took on the media during an exclusive interview with Townhall. Continue reading

Weather Underground Terrorist Bill Ayers Suggests the Civil War Has Already Begun

“The Portland antifa ally suspected of shooting a Trump supporter said a civil war was “right around the corner.” Former Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta war-gamed the 2020 election and suggested that Joe Biden may cry foul if he loses, starting off a chain reaction resulting in secession and a civil war. Far-left groups recently came together to prepare for a civil war.”

(Tyler O’Neil – PJ Media)  As violent and destructive antifa and Black Lives Matter riots continue to ravage American cities like Portland and Kenosha, a self-described communist who plotted to blow up the U.S. Capitol in the 1970s suggested that America’s second Civil War has already started. Continue reading

Firefighters Create 9/11 Tribute with 2,978 Flags: ‘Simply Beautiful’

(Amy Furr – Breitbart)  A fire department recently unveiled a stunning 9/11 tribute in Stanford, New York, featuring American flags to honor the lives lost during the terrorist attacks.

“This is simply beautiful. Created by the Stanford Fire Company at Stanford Town Hall Hill, the Twin Towers in red firefighter flags surround police flags. They’re flanked by USA civilian flags,” Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro wrote in a Facebook post on Saturday:  Continue reading

‘This Is Legitimate Child Porn’: Netflix Under Fire for Explicit ‘Cuties’ Film

“This is a movie for Pedophiles disguised as an advocacy piece. It’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing.”

(Tré Goins-Phillips – Faithwire) The streaming service Netflix is facing a mountain of intense backlash after releasing the controversial film “Cuties.”

Initially, the company was criticized for publishing artwork depicting the French film’s characters — all underage girls — in sexually suggestive poses and revealing outfits. Netflix pulled the poster in late August, claiming at the time its depiction wasn’t representative of the film’s content. Continue reading

If We Live in the Spirit Let Us Also Walk in the Spirit

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. 24 Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit. 26 Let us not become boastful, challenging one another, envying one another. Galatians 5:22-26 (NASB) 

This walk in the Spirit, this genuine Christian walk is one of humility and self-denial. It is not marked by an insistence on having one’s fleshly desires met…. Continue reading

California Judge Issues Order Allowing LA County to Ban Worship for MacArthur and Church

Pastor John MacArthur said, “In an inexplicable ruling, the judge said the ‘scale tipped in favor of the county.’ 1/100th of 1% of Californians with a virus apparently wins over the U.S. Constitution and religious freedom for all? That is not what our founders said. Nor is that what God says, who gave us our rights that our government—including the judicial branch—is supposed to protect. The scale should always tip in favor of liberty, especially for churches.”    Continue reading

Vindman, Not Whistleblower, Was Driving Force Behind Impeachment

“Both Vindman and Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., who led the impeachment proceedings, strenuously resisted any attempt by investigators to discuss who the other individual was, admitting only that it was a member of the “intelligence community,” the same nebulous descriptor used for the whistleblower”.

(Mollie Hemingway – The Federalist)  The most interesting thing about Byron York’s exhaustively reported and richly detailed new impeachment book, “Obsession: Inside the Washington Establishment’s Never-Ending War on Trump,” is that the whistleblower who filed the official complaint that got impeachment rolling isn’t ever identified. Continue reading

Pure Flix Founder David AR White Announces Divorce from Wife

“We made the most difficult decision to end our marriage years ago — a decision that came after a great deal of prayer and counseling over many years. Divorce is an unbearable grief and is being reminded of the death of a family dream every single day.”

(Protestia) David A.R. White and Andrea Logan announced on Saturday that the couple was divorcing, after revealing that marriage ended years ago, but that it was only being formalized now. Continue reading

Christ’s Example of Humility

43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR and hate your enemy.’ 44 But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. Matthew 5:43-45 (NASB) 

If an enemy attacks we will respond one of three ways. We may choose to fight or we may choose to not react or we may choose to respond in love…. Continue reading

California Leads Nation in Systemic Sexualization of Children

“It seems cynical, but given the amount of time and funding devoted to selling this to America, one cannot help but conclude that there are big donors in the “LGBTQ” community fond of the idea of males (dressed as females or males) with easy access to little boys or little girls. All the barriers come down if they get their way.”

(Linda Harvey – Mission: America)  Sure, let’s make it easier for adults to homosexually molest young teens. This makes lots of sense.

And ignores thousands of years in the track record of child corruption. Continue reading

Mask comes off: Right for me but not for thee

“Open, shameless hypocrisy, on the other hand, abounds on the Left. They spew hate while decrying as “haters” anyone who disagrees with them. They loudly praise “free speech” while erecting a cancel culture that silences dissent. They say they love America while trashing our country as uniquely evil.” 

(Robert Knight – OneNewsNow)  If a picture is worth a thousand words, the video of a mask-less Nancy Pelosi caught having her hair done at a shut-down San Francisco salon this past week is worth an entire dictionary. Continue reading

Understanding What Is Happening in America: A Christian Response

Reposted from a few months ago.

“If we are to properly interpret modern events, we must understand how the thought of Saul Alinsky is driving them, because his writings have been enormously influential on the radical Left. His influence on Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama has been well documented. But now a new generation seeks to put into practice the play this dead maniac drew up on the chalkboard.”

(Larry Alex Taunton) Part 1 of 2 – Last week I gave a keynote address at a gathering of conservative Christian Americans in a Birmingham, Alabama hotel.Although social distancing regulations dictated the grand ballroom’s capacity be greatly reduced, it was a sold-out crowd. Continue reading

Watch Out for Those Who Cause Divisions

17 Now I urge you, brethren, keep your eye on those who cause dissensions and hindrances contrary to the teaching which you learned, and turn away from them. 18 For such men are slaves, not of our Lord Christ but of their own appetites; and by their smooth and flattering speech they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting. Romans 16:17-18 (NASB) 

God calls all genuine Christians into His service at their salvation. They are given gifts in order to fulfill their ministries given to them by Him. We are all called to be good soldiers who participate in the suffering of our Lord (2 Timothy 2:3)…. Continue reading

Christians, Come Back

“In the estrogen-soaked La La Land that is the contemporary Christian church, this rotten, anti-black, anti-God, anti-American, anti-human organization is now being promoted on church billboards; its talking points are being trumpeted from pulpits; and pathetic caucasian “Christians” who have never committed a single act of racial discrimination in their entire lives are publicly confessing sins they’ve never committed, and never would.”

(Tal Bachman – Steyn Online)  I remember when Christians used to actually believe in Christianity. Those were the days. (Some still do, but their numbers are shrinking.) Continue reading

The church must not be afraid to condemn BLM and Antifa racism

“How surprising is it then that such churches would fall all over themselves to ride the latest societal wave? Like ambulance-chasing lawyers, when racial strife began roiling the country, churches and Christian “leaders” felt the insatiable need to provide the agitated precisely what their itching ears demanded.”

(Peter Heck – Disrn)  The last several months have provided a disquieting window into the soul of myriad churches and prominent Christian individuals in America, revealing the startling degree to which so many are motivated by the applause of men rather than the glory of God. Continue reading