(Betsy McCaughey – Newsmax) Columbia University President Minouche Shafik is urging university leaders across the country to do some “serious soul searching.”
Good advice.
She should start with her own soul.
Shafik has the wrong idea about the purpose of a university. Continue reading
“Our military has been caught unprepared before. At the start of the Korean War, American forces lacked both anti-tank guns and effective infantry anti-tank weapons and had been equipped with obsolete 2.36-inch (60 mm) rocket launchers and a few 57 mm recoilless rifles. Americans died needlessly, and we nearly lost that war in its opening days.”
(Christian Josi – PJ Media) Fightin’ Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) was on fire once again recently, turning the screws on the Secretary of the Air Force to procure aircraft that actually work. You read that right — we are spending a ridiculous amount of cash on planes that don’t work…. Continue reading
“Francis Collins stated that Anthony Fauci invited him to the infamous February 1, 2020 conference call, which “prompted” the public narrative suppressing and vilifying the lab leak hypothesis. This statement directly contradicts Dr. Fauci’s previous statements.”
(Ray Fava – Evangelical Dark Web) Francis Collins was hailed as a hero of science and Christianity for decades by Big Eva. Tim Keller compared him to Daniel. Yet nothing could be further from the truth as Francis Collins was subversive to both Christianity and science the entire time…. Continue reading
“Watch this insane trailer of NBC’s “Queer Planet” that demonstrates just how unhinged the LGBTQ movement is, that they would go to such deranged lengths to deaden their consciences and justify their sin and love of self.”
(The Dissenter) When I saw this, I literally couldn’t believe what I was seeing. I mean, homosexuals have always argued that homosexuality is normal and natural because, well, there are animals that do it. But I always thought the argument was so dumb that no serious person would ever give it a second thought. Continue reading
8 He came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king. 9 For on the first of the first month he began to go up from Babylon; and on the first of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, because the good hand of his God was upon him. 10 For Ezra had set his heart to study the law of Yahweh and to practice it, and to teach His statute and judgment in Israel. Ezra 7:8-10 (LSB)
If we study God’s Word from cover to cover we will find that only God is perfect. He is Sovereign. He is Holy. He is complete and perfectly righteous. On the other hand, people are none of the above. We are a fallen race who, even after God’s gracious regeneration of our hearts, must continually work out our salvation with fear and trembling…. Continue reading
(Sinclair Ferguson – Ligonier Ministries) Modern Bible translations are in the news these days, sometimes for controversial reasons. But one universal benefit of them is that the Holy Spirit is no longer referred to as “it.” Curiously a chief culprit here is the much-loved King James Version (for example, Romans 8:26: “the Spirit itself”).
In fact, pneuma (the Greek word for “spirit” or “wind”) is a neuter gender noun and therefore attracted a neuter pronoun, “it.” Still, John 14:26 and 15:26, which refer to the Spirit by the masculine pronoun “he” (ekeinos), left older Bible readers in no doubt about his personal nature: “he” not “it.” Whatever it means for human spirits, created as the image of God to be personal is rooted in the very being of their Creator…. Continue reading
“Garland refused to comment on Biden’s executive action Thursday when reporters asked about it.”
(Wendell Husebo – Breitbart) President Joe Biden asserted executive privilege on Thursday over his interview with special counsel Robert Hur to prevent Congress from obtaining his audio recordings.
The House Oversight Committee scheduled a markup on Thursday to begin the process of holding Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for his refusal to hand over the recording. Continue reading
(Mary Dowling) Federal law only allows citizens to vote in federal elections, but it prohibits requiring documentary proof of citizenship in elections.
The SAVE Act would close loopholes to prevent illegals from voting. It passed the House, but every Democrat voted against it. Democrats have control of the Senate.
In 2014, the academic journal Electoral Studies published a groundbreaking study by three scholars who estimated how frequently non-citizens were illegally voting. Continue reading
(The Dissenter) A few days ago, the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA), for once, made a commendable decision that deserves our attention and applause. The PCA’s Administrative Committee announced the cancellation of an assembly-wide panel discussion that was to feature left-wing activist David French. French, who masquerades as a Christian while promoting godless ideals like drag queen story hour as a “blessing of liberty,” was set to speak at the upcoming General Assembly in Richmond, Virginia. Thankfully, amid pushback, the PCA saw the light and took decisive action to protect the integrity and unity of the church. Continue reading
7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? 8 Therefore bear fruit in keeping with repentance; 9 and do not suppose that you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father’; for I say to you that from these stones God is able to raise up children to Abraham.” Matthew 3:7-12 (LSB) Read verses 10-12 on the site.
In the passage above John the Baptist was addressing a form of spiritual blindness that was afflicting the Pharisees and Sadducees. Is there the same sort of stubborn blindness pertaining to Christianity? Yes, sadly there is…. Continue reading
(Greg Piper – Just the News) Republican nominee Glenn Youngkin’s gubernatorial victory in Virginia in November 2021, widely credited to his promise to restore parental rights in public schools in the Democratic-leaning state, set off panic in the national education establishment.
Newly disclosed records reveal the American Federation of Teachers hired a prominent Democratic pollster the following month to survey parents and devise messaging to shore up AFT’s weaknesses – particularly by tarring dissenting parents as racists – and shared it with a senior Department of Education official. Continue reading
“They further recommend that the tax code be rewritten to raise taxes on white people. This would be an underhanded way for the government to take money from one racial group and give it to another. This is horrible, and this paper should have no place in government.”
(Mary Dowling) You have to watch the video to truly understand how horrific the upcoming taxes will be for the middle class, not billionaires. White people will pay more because they are white, and investment will dry up. If you’re retired, an heir, or an investor, you’re damned…. Continue reading
(Ray Fava – Evangelical Dark Web) Jason Whitlock is a Christian podcaster at Blaze TV, the host of the show Fearless. He actively wears his faith on his sleeve and acknowledges his previous sinful lifestyle. Last year he hosted his first ever Roll Call, a Christian men’s conference. However, this year, the conference is controversial due to its inclusion of Glenn Beck as a headline speaker. Voddie Baucham is also a headliner at the conference. Continue reading
(The Dissenter) Oneness Pentecostalism, a growing movement within the broader Pentecostal tradition, has ensnared many in a web of theological errors and heresies. While it might present itself as a vibrant expression of Christian faith, it is, in truth, a radical departure from biblical orthodoxy. This movement, with its roots in early 20th-century revivalism, champions a distorted view of God and Christ that stands condemned according to the clear teachings of Scripture and the historic creeds of the Christian faith. Continue reading
“There is nothing illegal here. What Cohen was describing is not a crime. The prosecutors are making great fanfare over proving non-criminal acts and non-contested allegations. Yeah, there was an NDA. Yeah, money was paid. That happens all the time, and so we’re still left with this bizarre situation of a trial over something that none of us have yet been told what the crime is.”
(Matt Margolis – PJ Media) Alvin Bragg’s case against Trump has been in trouble as witness after witness for the prosecution seems to undermine it. Michael Cohen’s testimony proved to be no different. Continue reading
14 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
“…we may find when the Lord gives it to us that what we were pursuing, and the reasons we pursued it, do not live up to expectation. We may even find the role causes us such great grief and difficulties that we did not reckon with that it may prove to be a real problem to us in our walk with Jesus.”
(Stephen Kneale – Building Jerusalem) I am convinced that there are times God gives us exactly what we want, not because it is a good thing for us, but because he is giving us over to that thing as a judgment. There can be times we ask, push and go after things that God would keep us from…. Continue reading
“It’s not just the Times, though. Remember CNN’s disgraced Chris Cuomo? Remember his nightly comedy schtick with his even-more-disgraced older brother, Andrew? And remember the nightly sneer-fests with Don Lemon? It turns out that Chris is now an Ivermectin fan.”
(Douglas Andrews – The Patriot Post) But the virus is worse.
That’s the intellectually lazy fallback response folks often get when they raise questions about the safety of the COVID-19 vaccines. Continue reading
(Mary Dowling) In a conversation on The Watchman, VDH discussed some of the points he makes in his new book, The End of Everything. When they talked about the protests and riots on college campuses, he torched the Ivies that he no longer sees as exceptional.
They’re antisemitic:
“One, I think we’ve dispelled the liberal myth that there was a difference between anti-Semitism and being anti-Israel. They don’t make a difference. When they [chase] Jews into the Cooper Union library, they don’t ask them whether they support Israel. Continue reading
“I’m convinced that people like McGuire and other climate catastrophists are actually rooting for the end of the world. They dream of melting glaciers, rivers flooding across the land, oceans covering skyscrapers, and Middle America becoming a desert.”
(Rick Moran – PJ Media) Professor Bill McGuire is a well-known vulcanologist and climate scientist who doesn’t care much for humanity. He tweeted out a scathingly brilliant idea if you’re in the mortuary business or work as a grave digger. Continue reading
I solemnly charge you before God and Christ Jesus, the one who is about to judge the living and dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom; 2 preach the word. Be ready in season, out of season, expose, rebuke, encourage, with all longsuffering and teaching. 3 For there will be a time when they will not bear sound doctrine; but lusting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers who do that very thing, 4 and turning their ears away from the truth they will be turned instead unto fables. (2 Timothy 4:1-4 translated from the NA28 Greek text)
One of the major reasons why the uncompromised preaching of God’s truth is so important is because there will come a time when people “will not (οὐκ) bear (ἀνέξονται)” [i.e. “put up with”] sound doctrine or as the Greek literally says, ὑγιαινούσης διδασκαλίας or “healthy teaching.” What that means is teaching that is uncompromisingly God-centered and Biblically correct not watered down and or man-centered in order to be man pleasing or “culturally relevant.”… Continue reading
In the air are Satan and his evil host. On earth are his servants–the masses of demons–and his innumerable worldwide human slaves. Throughout the once Christian West and America Satan’s slaves are all of the ungodly souls who have rejected our Lord Jesus Christ in favor of darkness, rebellion, autonomy, power, materialism, and a life of sin.
(Linda Kimball – RenewAmerica) “And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of disobedience. All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.
“But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved! And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages He might display the surpassing riches of His grace, demonstrated by His kindness to us in Christ Jesus.
“For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God, not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life” (Ephesians 2: 1-10).
In these passages Paul seeks to demonstrate to his readers that there are two kingdoms in which people exist. One is the kingdom of Satan. The other is the kingdom of our Lord: Continue reading
“The rot spread into the Democrat Party. They threw moderation out the window. Democrat politicians competed with the colleges to see who could go farthest Left in the least amount of time. The sane, decent, normal Democrats, one by one, disappeared from center stage. In their place we’ve got Soros-funded radicals.”
(Lee Duigon – News With Views) What have been the biggest changes in America during my adult life?
For much of that time, I was either a news reporter or a writer of fantasy novels. Go ahead—say “What’s the difference?” And I reply, “That’s too unfair to fantasy novelists.” Continue reading
“They want amnesty for all these people to give them a permanent electoral majority. They don’t care if they’re terrorists or criminals.”(Mary Dowling) After three-and-a-half years of unlimited migration of unvetted foreigners coming illegally from around the world, Biden will tighten the border in time for the elections six months from now. Democrats are trying to blame Republicans for the open borders as an election ploy. Continue reading
Do not be mismated with unbelievers. For what partnership have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? 2 Corinthians 6:14 RSV
Mismated is literally a term that means unequally yoked.
A yoke is a wooden frame or bar with loops at either end, fitted around the necks of two animals, which tied them together and forced them to function as one. That is what Paul speaks of here. He is thinking of Deuteronomy 22, where the Law says, Do not plow with an ox and a donkey yoked together
(Deuteronomy 22:10). That may seem strange to us, but God was concerned that the Israelites not tie together two animals of a different nature. Continue reading