Jesus and Nicodemus

I. REGENERATION

“There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:

“The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.

“Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

“Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born? Continue reading

Headline News…you may have missed

(The Patriot Post’s Friday: Below the Fold) More Democrats love socialism, RFK’s panel makes measles vax recommendation, some of Biden’s missing border kids found, Trump nominees confirmed, and more.

Democrats love socialism, hate capitalism: A recent Gallup poll provided a piece of not-news for those who follow politics: Democrats support socialism and hate capitalism. Some 66% of Democrats have a positive view of socialism compared to 38% of Independents and 14% of Republicans (which might be the real headline)…. Continue reading

Candace Owens Is Under Fire for Suggesting Charlie Kirk’s Assassination Was Not a Random Act of Violence

“She was with Turning Point USA when she started out and they were friends after she left. However, they operated independently in their own spheres. Her claim that he was her “best friend” and like her “brother” is not totally accurate.”

(Mary Dowling) Conservative commentator Candace Owens is under fire after using her YouTube channel to suggest that Charlie Kirk’s killing last week in Utah was not a random act of violence. Continue reading

The Insanity That Created Kirk’s Killer: Lefty Says Dating ‘Trans’ Male Doesn’t Equal ‘Gay’

“This whole lie is at the crux of the ongoing debate about Robinson, since he is, according to authorities, in a romantic relationship with a man who identifies as a woman. That does, in fact, make him homosexual, because no matter how much cross-dressing or how many hormones and surgeries Robinson’s former partner utilizes, he will still always be a biological male.

(Catherine Salgado – PJ Media) Instead of recognizing that their ideology helped inspire accused murderer Tyler Robinson to kill Charlie Kirk, many LGBTQ activists are doubling down on insanity. But it is their lies that spur violence like Kirk’s assassination. For instance, one nutcase was fixated on telling people that a man in a romantic relationship with a man who identifies as a woman makes the first man heterosexual? Continue reading

Was the Current Madness Birthed in the University?

“If a General Milley (“now I realize he’s a total fascist”) or a General Kelly (“certainly falls into the general definition of fascist, for sure”) calls a current or ex-president a fascist, and presidential candidate Kamala Harris agrees (“a president…who admires dictators and is a fascist”), then does an unhinged 22-year-old “anti-fascist” college student feel the popular culture might approve of his own efforts in dealing with “fascist” Trump supporters?”

(Victor Davis Hanson) America is currently sick.

The young conservative organizer and media personality Charlie Kirk was just murdered in a political assassination by a 22-year-old ‘anti-fascist’ and trans advocate, Tyler Robinson. As planned, he eliminated the most astute and successful political activist in a generation. Indeed, Kirk may well have ensured that Donald Trump won the 2024 election by not just increasing his youth vote by 6 percent since 2020 but, more importantly, by margins in the swing states of 15-24 percent, ensuring Trump’s victory.

No sooner was he killed than thousands on left-wing social media erupted in celebration—among them scores of teachers and professors. Their venom was eerily reminiscent of their earlier canonization of left-wing murderer Luigi Mangione. Recall, Mangione was the spoiled nepo baby who lethally ambushed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Thereby, he became an icon to the Left as a social justice warrior fighting the evil capitalist system, which had so enriched himself and his own family. Continue reading

The Left Isn’t Debating Anymore, They’re Hunting

“For Christians, this is the world we are going to have to live in. The cost of proclaiming Christ, a biblical worldview, and biblical sexual ethics is going up. The cost of saying “Jesus is Lord” is going up.”

(The Dissenter) There’s really no way to whitewash this—the radical left has declared war on us. Not a metaphorical war, not just a battle of ideas ungraciously waged in op-eds at the NYT or WaPo, but a war with literal, physical casualties.

And we just saw this with the assassination of Charlie Kirk…. Continue reading

Dems Are the Sad, Ugly Chicks Who Marry Imprisoned Killers

This is a sickness akin to the pathetic women who strike up “romances” with convicted, incarcerated murderers by becoming pen pals with them. Sometimes the happy couple ends up having a prison wedding. There’s something fundamentally broken in these women, just like there is in the enemy of the people ABC “journalist” who found Tyler Robinson’s explanation for murdering Charlie Kirk “touching.” 

(Stephen Kruiser – PJ Media) It’s obvious at this point that it is too much to ask that the Democrats will undergo a massive course correction and stop being clinically insane. The majority of the Democrats, that is. I would just like to find a few who don’t need a straitjacket and electroshock therapy. There have to be some out there somewhere. Continue reading

From Grief to Grit: A Christian Roadmap After Kirk’s Assassination

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“…it is incumbent on Christian men to possess the inner virtue to know the dictates of wisdom and to bravely use force when it is called for. We ought to be the stabilizing element in society, the people others turn to when chaos ensues, the calm and steady hand that guides others, because we ourselves are being guided by God.” 

(Jon Harris – TruthScript) I have received more questions about “What can I do?” in the past two days than I have since the contested presidential election in 2020. Multiple friends have called to ask what the next steps are in light of Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Let me get right to the point. There are three things. Continue reading

The Counterfeit Church

4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, so that you will not participate in her sins and receive of her plagues; 5 for her sins have piled up as high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities. Revelation 18:4-5 (LSB) 

The world system, for the most part, is extremely tolerant of religion as long as it is not evangelical Christianity. However, it has no problem with that version of Christianity that is politically correct. Many countries in this world have imposed anti-hatred and anti-conversion laws specifically directed against Christianity…. Continue reading

Tyler Robinson Has Been Formally Charged in the Assassination of Charlie Kirk

(Matt Vespa – Townhall) Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was assassinated on September 10 at Utah Valley University in Orem. His suspected assassin, Tyler Robinson, a devoted leftist who engraved ‘Hey Fascist, catch’ on the ammunition, was apprehended two days later in St. George, some 250 miles from the scene of the crime. He is not cooperating with the police, invoking his Fifth Amendment rights.

The killing has been determined to be politically motivated, which we knew, but it’s now official. Continue reading

Trump Will Smash ‘Vast Domestic Terror Movement’

…[Stephen] Miller said Kirk’s final message to him emphasized the need to confront radical organizations that “foment violence.” Miller vowed that any response would be carried out “in Charlie’s name.”

(Newsmax) White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller on Monday called for an expansive federal response to what he described as organized networks contributing to political violence, invoking the death of conservative leader Charlie Kirk as the impetus for his remarks. Continue reading

Terrible Timing for Charlie Kirk Memorial Service

“We must be careful not to treat him as a Christian martyr in the biblical sense. Charlie died as a political martyr—targeted for his conservative message, yes—but he was not killed for refusing to deny Christ.”

(The Dissenter) Charlie Kirk’s life was cut short on September 10, when a far-left, Antifa-aligned radical walked into a university event and gunned him down in cold blood. It was an assassination, not an accident. A man was killed for speaking truth to the cultural rot in one of the few places still trying to resist it. Continue reading

When did Goliath wound David with a spear?

“A person watching this episode sees Goliath harming David, but God in his Word keeps David from all harm. The House of David version changes the arc of the David vs. Goliath story.”

(John Lanagan – The Word Like Fire) Okay, so when did Goliath wound David with a spear? Well, biblically speaking, never. In the Bible we see the all powerful God completely and utterly protect David as he faced the giant with nothing but sling and stone. (1 Samuel 17:32-51)

But in the epic, eight episode House of David television series, seen on Prime, this fictional spearing and wounding of David is featured prominently. So prominently, in fact, that Episode 1 of House of David includes the spear piercing scene–even though the David vs. Goliath conflict does not take place until Episode 8, the final episode of the season. Continue reading

Okay, Now Leftists Are Posting Hit Lists of the People They Want to Murder Next

“A lot of concerned people are sending me these screenshots (and dozens more). I appreciate their concern. But I’m not surprised and I won’t be going into hiding. We have to be louder and bolder now than ever. Or else the demons who killed Charlie win. And they cannot win.” 

(Robert Spencer – PJ Media) The left is evil. The left is a gang of terrorists. If you have any lingering doubt about that, consider this: first they were celebrating the murder of Charlie Kirk, but now leftists are making those celebrations look practically innocent. Hit lists have begun to appear on social media…. Continue reading

Mortification of sin

12 Therefore brethren, we are debtors not to the flesh, to live after the flesh: 13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye mortify the deeds of the body by the Spirit, ye shall live. Romans 8:12-13 (1599 Geneva Bible) 

God is Holy. God is Righteous. God is Just. God is Sovereign. Yehōwāh (יהוה) our Adhōnāy (אדן אדון), God our sovereign one, our Lord, our Kurios (κύριος), is also Love, Mercy, and Grace. We must not have a view of God that emphasizes His love, mercy, or grace over His Holiness…. Continue reading

Standing firm amidst famine of the Word of God

13 ¶ Watch ye: stand fast in the faith: quit you like men, and be strong. 14 Let all your things be done in love. 1 Corinthians 16:13-14 (1599 Geneva Bible) 

The growing apostasy in the visible Church seems to be accelerating. The spiritual blindness of so many professing believers and their leaders is truly astounding. My brethren, the sad state of the visible Church is both the product of the famine of the Word of God and the cause of it. When the Word of God is seldom heard or read or taught then its purifying power is muted…. Continue reading

Charlie Kirk Assassin Lived With Transgender Partner

“This situation highlights broader concerns on the right about rising political violence, particularly toward conservative figures. Whether motivated by ideology, personal instability, or a mix of both, the murder of Kirk is already fueling calls for a serious look into the social radicalization that appears to be intensifying among certain fringe elements.”

(Sarah Arnold – Townhall) In a disturbing development following the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, sources now reveal that alleged shooter Tyler Robinson was living with a transgender partner at the time of the attack. According to individuals familiar with the investigation, the partner — a biological male transitioning to female — has been cooperating fully with federal authorities. Continue reading

‘This Is a One-Way Civil War, and the Right Is Being Hunted in Daylight’

We’re in the civil war. It’s not coming — it’s here. And it’s one-sided. The left is killing the right. The left is silencing the right. People are terrified to even speak their views in public, afraid of being attacked. It’s a one-way civil war.”

(Joshua Klein – Breitbart) In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News on Friday, bestselling author and national radio host Michael Savage warned that the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk is not an isolated act of violence but a grim marker of a society unraveling, declaring that “we’re already in the civil war” he first cautioned against more than a decade ago. Continue reading

The Left Doesn’t Want You to Know the Truth About Charlie Kirk’s Killer

Some on the left may be so desperate to believe the narrative that they’ve convinced themselves it’s real. But most know better. They spread it anyway because it serves their political agenda. This is deliberate misinformation, poisoning public discourse right before our eyes.”

(Matt Margolis – PJ Media)  Whenever a crime hits the national headlines, the left seems to leap straight to politicizing it. A mass shooting? Must be a white Christian nationalist. When Trayvon Martin attacked George Zimmerman and was shot, the media literally called Zimmerman a “white Hispanic.” Why? Continue reading

BREAKING: Charlie Kirk’s Widow Addresses the Nation

“They should all know this: If you thought that my husband’s mission was powerful before, you have no idea. You have no idea what you just have unleashed across this entire country and this world. You have no idea.”

(Sarah Anderson – PJ Media) Charlie Kirk’s widow, Erika, made a brave and stunning decision to address the nation that is mourning her husband on Friday night.

Standing next to Charlie’s chair in his studio at the Turning Point USA headquarters in Phoenix, Ariz., Erika spoke from a podium with a sign attached that read: “May Charlie be received into the merciful arms of Jesus, our loving Savior.” Continue reading

FBI, Utah Gov Hold Presser: How Charlie Kirk’s Killer Was Caught

“Investigators interviewed a family member of Robinson, who stated that Robinson had become more political in recent years,” Cox said. That family member recalled a dinner prior to Sept. 10 in which Robinson had discussed Kirk’s visit to UVU, criticizing the conservative commentator’s views. “The family member also stated Kirk was full of hate and spreading hate,” Cox added.”

(Matt Margolis) Utah Gov. Spencer Cox announced Friday morning during a joint press conference with the FBI that law enforcement had taken Tyler Robinson into custody in connection with the assassination of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk. The arrest comes 33 hours after the deadly shooting at Utah Valley University, where Kirk was shot during a public appearance. Continue reading

Persecution and the spread of the Gospel

14 You are My friends if you do what I command you. 15 No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would abide, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you. 17 This I command you, that you love one another. 18 “If the world hates you, know that it has hated Me before it hated you. 19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you. John 15:14-19 (LSB) 

I have been reading through the book of Acts over the last few weeks and I followed it up with a documentary about the Book of Acts in which every verse was read and acted out on the screen. It is very interesting to see the spread of Christianity as the Apostles obediently made disciples wherever they went…. Continue reading

‘Their Inward Part is Destruction Itself’

“When I was a younger man, I tended to skim over imprecatory Psalms because I felt like I couldn’t identify with them. After all, I didn’t have any real “enemies” in 2009. The secular college students around me were just “misinformed.” If anything, I internally felt like they didn’t quite fit with the rest of the Bible. But God has a way of orchestrating things so that His Word makes perfect sense.”

(David Harris – TruthScript) Yesterday afternoon, while preparing to administer a quiz at one of the Tennessee schools where I work, my phone began to buzz incessantly. With a glance at my notifications, I experienced immediate deja vu, remembering all the buzzing that my phone received the evening of July 13, 2024, after President Trump was nearly assassinated at Butler, PA. Charlie Kirk had been shot at a campus event in Utah. Over the next hour, I stole glances at my phone, begging God to speed up the class so I could find out what was going on. Continue reading

A tribute to Charlie Kirk: A friend, ally and martyr for truth…

“Charlie was the kind of man we should all aspire to be… a stand-up guy who treated everyone with respect. And that’s exactly why they assassinated him: because he calmly, peacefully, and honestly spoke the truth. The truth about transgenderism, about abortion, about the left, about Jesus Christ, and about Donald Trump. And that’s exactly why that bullet wasn’t just aimed at Charlie… it was aimed at the very idea that America can resolve its differences with kindness, respect, and peaceful disagreement.”

(Revolver) It’s almost impossible to comprehend that Charlie Kirk, a voice of peace and calm in the storm of hate and violence, is gone. On September 10, he was assassinated. Revolver News, like so many of you, has lost not only a friend but also a champion of truth. This is our tribute to a man, a husband, a father, and a warrior who changed the game. He became a target of the violent left, who may have silenced his voice but never his mission. Continue reading

A Good Soldier of Christ Jesus

12 Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. 13 But evil men and impostors will advance from bad to worse, misleading and being mislead. 2 Timothy 3:12-13 (translated from the NA28 Greek text to English) 

The Christian has been called by God to serve the Lord Jesus as His bondservant or slave (δοῦλος). This role of bondservant also includes being His obedient disciple and valiant warrior. I grew up in an era in which there just was not much turmoil in the churches I was part of. The Pastor was considered the one who should take moral stands on issues and proclaim the truth to those in darkness, but the rest of the folks in the church did not consider themselves soldiers of Christ Jesus except when they sang songs such as Onward Christian Soldiers. However, times have changed. There are some preachers these days that deserve a proclamation of “woe” such as this one from the Prophet Isaiah. Continue reading