Anxiety/Depression: Sin or Not?

Do you feel weighed down by circumstances? Jesus has overcome it all. “I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world, you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world (John 16:33).” We will struggle, Jesus tells us.

(Aislinn Heuer – TruthScript) Recently, I was prompted to consider the nature of depression: Is it a sin, or is it just a medical/neurological condition? As someone who has struggled with depression myself and abided by our culture’s common wisdom regarding it, I’ve given the subject a lot of thought over the years. Knowing how touchy a subject this can be, I aim to approach this with as much grace, sympathy, and love as I can, while also seeking out the truth. Continue reading

The Cult of Mormonism is an Invention of the Masonic Lodge

“Here’s where the overlap gets too obvious to ignore. Mormon temples and Masonic lodges share the same toolkit of symbolism. The All-Seeing Eye? You know it from the dollar bill—God’s supposed cosmic surveillance camera. Both camps use it. The square and compass? A Masonic staple, proudly embroidered on early Mormon temple garments.”

(The Dissenter) The connections between Mormonism and Freemasonry are about as subtle as a neon sign in a pitch-black desert. Some people act like it’s some deep, conspiratorial discovery that Joseph Smith, the so-called “prophet,” borrowed heavily from the secret handshakes and goofy rituals of the Masonic lodge. Continue reading

America First! US-EU Trade Deal Is Shockingly Great for the US

“This colossal deal will enable U.S. farmers, ranchers, fishermen, and manufacturers to increase U.S. exports, expand business opportunities, and help reduce the goods trade deficit with the European Union.”

(Mary Dowling) President Trump keeps winning. He secured a $20 trillion economy with 450 million people that is now providing historic market access to American industrial and agriculture exports. The dollar rose in the markets but EU stocks soured.

Some EU members were unhappy and others were relieved. They didn’t want to pay any tariffs. The French were unhappy, but they always are lately. Continue reading

Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour

1 “Then the kingdom of heaven may be compared to ten virgins, who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. 2 Now five of them were foolish, and five were prudent. 3 For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them, 4 but the prudent took oil in flasks along with their lamps. Matthew 25:1-4 (LSB) 

Jesus is coming back soon. If that statement brought a surge of joy into your heart then more than likely, you are actively preparing for His return and are looking forward to it with eagerness…. Continue reading

The National Emergency Nobody Will Name

Drag queen story hours, gender “transitions” for children, public school indoctrination…it is all one war. One rebellion. One satanic assault on the image of God. The faces change, the costumes change, the hashtags change, but the goal is the same. The goal is to deface the Creator’s design and call the destruction “good.”

(The Dissenter) The pictures of that child—they are almost too much to stomach. The poor kid is wide-eyed, bewildered, and smothered in counterfeit affection. These are not accidents of fate, they are the fruit of a poisoned tree.

And the name of that tree is Obergefell v. Hodges. Continue reading

CIA Director Ratcliffe Names Those Who Are Most Likely to Be Charged in Russian Collusion Hoax

(Matt Vespa – Townhall) In a very professional tone, CIA Director John Ratcliffe told Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo that no one should be surprised if James Comey, John Brennan, and Hillary Clinton are charged for their role in the Russian collusion hoax. He’s made criminal referrals, as has Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who confirmed that Barack Obama was cited in a criminal referral she made to the Justice Department.

Watch the interview… Continue reading

‘I’ll Never Be the Same’: Bongino Dishes on FBI Secrets That Shook Him

“Bongino’s cryptic post bears the signature of a man who has glimpsed truths that will shake the nation’s confidence in its governing institutions. The question is not whether heads will roll, but how deep the rot goes and whether the rot can be cut out before it destroys what those institutions are supposed to protect….” 

(Matt Margolis – PJ Media) In a political era addicted to facades and orchestrated outrage, some moments cut through the noise with a force that startles even seasoned observers. Enter Dan Bongino. The former radio firebrand turned deputy director of the FBI has become a lightning rod within Donald Trump’s second-term administration. Continue reading

Do You have an ungodly focus?

6 Then Israel said, “Why did you treat me so badly by telling the man whether you still had another brother?” Genesis 43:6 (LSB) 

Unforgiveness is poison for the Soul as it ensnares those who refuse to forgive by binding them into the prison of bitterness. This world is not a peaceful, easy, benign place. It is fallen. The world system is the product of Man’s rebellion against God. There is war. There is crime. There is oppression. People wrong other people. They place their wants and desires and perceived needs ahead of the wants and desires of others…. Continue reading

Trump Goes There: Calls Out Bill Clinton in Epstein Scandal

“The press keeps hounding [Trump], while running cover for Democrats. Working-class Americans see the double standard. Clinton flew with a known predator, whet to his island, and is seen in photographs with Epstein victims… yet the press won’t ask why. There’s no outrage, no wall-to-wall coverage—just more selective silence, buried like the Hunter Biden laptop.”

(Matt Margolis – PJ Media) In a political world where Democrats are scrambling to memory-hole every scrap of the Jeffrey Epstein disaster that is damaging to their own party, and trying to make it a Donald Trump scandal, the media is more than happy to help them rewrite history. Continue reading

20 CIA and FBI agents CONFIRM Obama was behind Russia Hoax and reveal his hiding place…

“Not only was Putin not trying to help Trump win in 2016, our own intelligence showed he assumed Hillary was going to win, and was preparing to blackmail her with intel he’d collected, that included material suggesting she was a drugged-up, bipolar mess, doped up on tranquilizers and unfit to lead.”

(Revolver) Nothing we’re about to tell you is shocking, at least not for anyone who’s been paying attention. From the very beginning, it was obvious the Russia Hoax wasn’t some organic intelligence concern…. Continue reading

I Got Invited to a Beth Moore Bible Study, Should I Go?

“In today’s world, the better question is, “Have they publicly stood strong against the spirit of the age?” What’s the easiest way to discern this? Watch them, read their tweets, see who they associate with, and see what they champion.”

(Steven Whitlow – Clear Truth Media) A few weeks ago, I was asked this question by a sincere member of our congregation. Her question was not vindictive or angry; she isn’t spending a lot of time on X trying to figure out which Christian celebrity to crucify next. She simply wanted to make sure that her limited time was spent studying the word of God from a trusted, reliable source. Continue reading

Are Christians Perfect? Yes…and No

(West Bredenhof – Abounding Grace) Atheists and agnostics love to discredit God’s Word by trotting out Bible contradictions. You can easily find lists of them online. We shouldn’t be afraid of these “contradictions.”  The vast majority of them have simple explanations which easily defang them.  Let’s briefly look at one of these alleged contradictions. It involves these two passages:

Philippians 3:12, “Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own.” Continue reading

Other Biden Aides Have Invoked the Fifth, but One Spoke Candidly to Lawmakers This Week

“Americans want to know, was Joe Biden in fact aware of what the autopen was being used to sign his name on, or was in fact some family members or high-level officials in the Biden administration just acting unilaterally as president of the United States and using the autopen?”

(Leah Barkoukis – Townhall) Ron Klain, former President Biden’s chief of staff, told the House Oversight Committee that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan expressed concerns in 2023 and 2024 that the 46th president was “not politically viable.” Continue reading

Decades-Long Epstein Coverup Was Mainly for ‘Hollywood CEOs’

“And I find it funny that, while we’re talking about Epstein right now, what about the previous four years under Biden? Nothing. What about Obama? Nothing… For those that think that President Trump was on that flight or on Epstein Island, let me tell you, we would already know about it,” he said. “We would have known about it before the first time that he ran.”

(Breitbart) As a member of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX) has some background with the purported files of the late Jeffrey Epstein and wants to see them released to the public, once the identities of his victims are protected. Continue reading

Andrew Klavan Uses John MacArthur To Promote Gay Agenda

“This incident underscores the continuing battle between the more mainstream Con Inc voices and the dissident right that desires to be a distinctly Christian movement.”

(Evangelical Dark Web) On July 22, 2025, The Daily Wire host Andrew Klavan posted a 9-minute video discussing what John MacArthur said about his gay son Spencer. We were interested in what Klavan had to say because he has been taking heat lately regarding his son’s sinful lifestyle. What we found was absolutely disgusting, and a clip was posted on 𝕏 in order to bring attention to this travesty…. Continue reading

The Rise of Technocratic Religion

“We were never called to relevance. We were always called to risk. The Church was born in the heat of Pentecost, not the glow of stage lights. She was fed by martyrs, not marketers. Built on prophets, not brand managers….She is a holy mess. A muddy, blood-stained bride. And she is glorious because her Lord is glorious.”

(Donovan Riley – The Ragged Word) In the age of platforms and protocols, the Church is tempted to forget she has a soul.

Power is shifting. Not to kings or parliaments. Not to priests or poets. But to the unelected minds behind code and control. Men and women who do not govern with swords or ballots, but with data, dashboards, and the soft leash of convenience. Continue reading

Living in the Spirit rather than according to the Flesh

9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit since the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. Romans 8:9 (translated from the NA28 Greek text)

When we talk about “the flesh” in this life, we are not always talking about these living breathing bodies we all have though the context does mean that in some cases as we shall see. Here in Romans 8, the root word of what is translated in English as “flesh” is σάρξ (sarx). Continue reading

Revenge or Justice?

“They bushwhacked the 2017 presidential transition. They hamstrung the Trump presidency.  And they may well have hurt Trump’s 2020 election bid. Summed up, here is the damage caused by the Trump-Putin collusion lies.”

(Victor Davis Hanson – American Greatness) Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard just released a trove of apparently once-classified documents—with promises of much more to follow.

The new material describes the role of the Obama administration’s intelligence and investigatory directors—purportedly along with President Obama himself—in undermining the 2016 Trump presidential campaign…. Continue reading

William Lane Craig Enters the Realm of Open Theism, Paints Blasphemous Picture of God Subservient to Time

This is not just a theological misfire—it’s a full-scale doctrinal demolition. This is Open Theism in its purest, most uncut form, wrapped in a lab coat and served with a smug grin. Craig has essentially looked the God of Scripture in the face and said, “You’re not actually omniscient—you’re just up-to-date.”

(Dissenter) It takes a certain kind of brainpower to stumble headfirst into heresy while thinking you’ve just unlocked the deepest philosophical vault in heaven. But that’s exactly what William Lane Craig does with his recent theological gymnastics. Craig is so smart, he’s stupid—literally, because this one’s a doozy. Continue reading

Tranquilizers, mood swings and rage: House Intel chair dishes dirt Russia dug up on Hillary

“I think it was on January 6, 2017, that’s when things really started to accelerate with regard to what the deep state was engaged in. I say deep state because, before I got on the Intelligence Committee, I was not inclined to entertain the notion of this deep state until I saw it for myself.”

(Charlotte Hazard – Just the News) House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rick Crawford, R-Ark., is confirming that Russia gathered dirt on Hillary Clinton worthy of a hard rock song — including tranquilizers, mood swings and outbursts — but withheld it during the 2016 election in hopes of using it against her if she were elected president. Continue reading

Analysis Conclusively Confirms Study Finding Same-sex Parenting Bad for Kids

“Young and Cumberworth found something unexpected and remarkable: not one of the two million significant alternatives resulted in positive outcomes for LGBT-parented children. Although often with smaller effects, every analysis confirmed the Regnerus study’s central finding that children turned out better with intact biological parents than with LGBT parents….”

(Michael Tennant – New American) Using a new method they developed for analyzing social-science data, a pair of sociologists was “surprised” to discover that, no matter how they sliced the data, they could not refute a 2012 study finding that children of same-sex “parents” fare much worse than those of married heterosexual parents. Continue reading

Tulsi Gabbard Just Made Obama Eat It on the Russian Collusion Hoax

“Gabbard’s office released a declassified 2020 House Intelligence Committee report that showed that the Obama intelligence team had ZERO evidence of collusion between Donald Trump and Moscow, which tilted the 2016 race, but Obama ordered it to be published anyway.”  

(Matt Vespa – Townhall) President Trump was on the warpath yesterday, accusing former President Barack Obama of treason for his role in the Russian Collusion hoax. His office issued a weak sauce statement, the media did their party trying to dismiss this story, and the liberal pundit class tried to claim that this was conspiracy talk and a distraction from the Epstein files…. Continue reading

The Dilemma of False Dilemmas in the Church

Another hallmark example exists of a false dilemma being used in the church. In her book, Shepherds for Sale, Megan Basham points out how many stances—on everything from immigration to taking Covid-19 vaccines to transgender issues—are dependent on a love your neighbor principle. As Basham points out, the argument goes something like this: “Why should the United States reward tens of millions of illegal immigrants with citizenship despite the fact they broke our laws, and immigration drives down wages for blue-collar workers? Simple: love your neighbor.”

(Joshua Parcha – American Reformer) Chip and Joanna Gaines have a new show out on their Magnolia Network titled, “Back to the Frontier.” The show “is facing backlash from conservatives evangelicals because the show features a same-sex couple” and “their 10-year-old twin sons who were born via a surrogate,” according to AL.com and The Daily Beast. Responding to this controversy, Chip Gaines posted the following on X: Continue reading

Forgiveness of the Saints

7 “BLESSED ARE THOSE WHOSE LAWLESS DEEDS HAVE BEEN FORGIVEN, AND WHOSE SINS HAVE BEEN COVERED. 8 BLESSED IS THE MAN WHOSE SIN THE LORD WILL NOT TAKE INTO ACCOUNT.” Romans 4:7-8 (LSB) 

The Church, the genuine Church that is, is made up of people whose sins have been forgiven by our merciful God. What is the basis for this forgiveness? Are these God has forgiven more worthy than those outside the Church? Let us look at the paradox of our Holy, Righteous, and Just God who proclaims that He will not forgive those who have sinned against Him, but who does show mercy to some. Continue reading

That Escalated Quickly — Obama Russia Hoax Edition

“I’m too jaded to believe that we’ll ever see an Obama or a Clinton face charges, but how about a Christopher Steele, a James Comey, an Andrew McCabe, a John Brennan, or any of the many other high-level underlings who made Russiagate happen?”

(Stephen Kruiser – PJ Media) Way back in the first week of 2023 — long before the 2024 Republican primary slog got underway — I wrote that I wanted President Trump to go scorched-earth if he got a second term in office. We were only two years into the Joe Biden nightmare and I needed something positive to focus on to keep myself from ending up as a functionally alcoholic groomer in a Tijuana Donkey Show. Continue reading