Panic in the Year 2024

“There is no sympathy here for adults who cannot absorb perspective and who relish propaganda like a fine wine.  However, I am worried about the kids.  Mouth-foaming liberal teachers are legion in this country and some parents live in panic mode round the clock.  Tough on the urchins.”

(Bill O’Reilly) In 1962, a movie called “Panic in the Year Zero” scared the buttered popcorn out of me, a preteen who loved scary stuff.

The film starred Ray Milland and teen idol Frankie Avalon and chronicled a Los Angeles family trying to survive two hydrogen bombs being dropped on California…. Continue reading

The Lord Tests the Righteous

4 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

Evangelicals For Kamala?

“My goal here is not to discuss all of the political issues surrounding this presidential election.  If you have not made up your mind on these issues, then you are probably sinking in spiritual quicksand. I simply want to remind the reader of two things—how critical this election is, and what part evangelicals must play in it. Elections have consequences.”

(Larry E. Ball – Aquila Report) David French is at it again.  In the New York Times he recently pinned an opinion piece entitled To Save Conservativism from Itself, I Am Voting for Harris. Now he is making his rounds on anti-Christian platforms like MSNBC.  He is also part of a movement called “Evangelicals for Kamala.”… Continue reading

Preliminary Report Finds Thomas Matthew Crooks Was ‘Fragged,’ Rifle Likely Disabled After SWAT Operator’s Incredible Shot

The American public didn’t have a picture of a local law enforcement SWAT team officer taking one shot — from the ground — at Thomas Crooks and his murderous weapon.”

(Joe Saunders – The Western Journal) It was a shot from above that killed would-be assassin Thomas Crooks at a July campaign rally where he almost murdered former President Donald Trump.

But it was a shot from below that took Crooks out of action first, according to a congressional report made public Thursday. Continue reading

God is Sovereign

19 But Peter and John answered and said to them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to give heed to you rather than to God, you be the judge; 20 for we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.” 21 When they had threatened them further, they let them go (finding no basis on which to punish them) on account of the people, because they were all glorifying God for what had happened; 22 for the man was more than forty years old on whom this miracle of healing had been performed. Acts 4:19-28 (NASB) Read verses 23-28 on the site.

When we make statements like, “God is Sovereign.” we sometimes include a qualifier in that statement like this, “God is Sovereign over ‘something.” That is a fallacious statement though meant well. God is Sovereign…. Continue reading

Missouri to Place ‘Right to Abortion at Any Time of a Pregnancy’ on Ballot for Constitutional Amendment

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“Missourians, are you going to let them pull the wool over your eyes yet again? Or will you see through the deception and stand up for the real rights—the rights of the unborn, the rights of parents, and the right to a society that values life over convenience?”

Missouri’s Amendment 3—the latest brainchild of the so-called “champions of freedom,” who seem to have mistaken a graveyard for the land of the free and the home of the brave. Here we go again, with the same old song and dance, where “reproductive rights” apparently means the right to extinguish innocent lives. Continue reading

The Weird, Creepy, Surreal — and Dangerous — 2024 Campaign

(Victor Davis Hanson) The already-long 2024 presidential campaign has become the strangest in modern history.

Here are 10 unanswered questions that illustrate how and why we’ve entered this bizarro world:

1.) How can Kamala Harris merely promise us fixes to come in 2025 for inflation and an open border when she is still vice president for another six months? Why can’t she enact her proposed solutions to these problems (which she helped create) right now? Continue reading

The WHO’s MPox Emergency, They Want $$$ & Vaccines to Start

“Vaccination plus behavioral change among gay and bisexual men. That is the group most affected in the United States in the 2022 outbreak. It has caused U.S. cases of MPox to fall from more than 30,000 in 2022 to 1,700 in 2023. The behavioral change is they cut out most orgies.”

(Mary Dowling) The World Health Organization (WHO) declared MonkeyPox, which WHO now calls MPox, a global health emergency. The most common way it has spread in the past is via gay orgies. However, it can spread without sexual contact and has been. The new strain is more dangerous. The WHO wants money and vaccines. Continue reading

All in Christ are so according to the Sovereign Grace of God

11 Yours, O Yahweh, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, indeed everything that is in the heavens and the earth; Yours is the kingdom, O Yahweh, and You exalt Yourself as head over all. 1 Chronicles 29:11 (LSB) 

I was involved in a theological “discussion” quite some time ago in which one who disagreed with the Doctrines of Grace attempted to say that his belief that Man’s Free Will was sacrosanct and God could not violate it was Biblical Christianity. After much consternation and prayer on how to respond to that that I simply told him that he was in unbelief…. Continue reading

Let the billionaires spend their millions: A review of Shepherds For Sale

“The details of each chapter vary. In the case of COVID, for example, evangelical leaders platformed a guy (Francis Collins) who was literally paid by the government to message their political agenda, and then those same leaders turned around and called evangelicals ‘conspiracy theorists’ if they didn’t accept what Collins (and, by extension, the government) was saying. That is the most direct case of evangelical leaders being misled by political money.”

(Jesse Johnson – The Cripplegate) Inside of American evangelicalism is a paradox: many of the most respected leaders use their influence to steer denominations and institutions in a direction that is significantly more liberal than the people those leaders ostensibly represent. Continue reading

Four Unintended Consequences of the Megachurch Movement – And How To Solve Them

“The future of the church, and our country, depends on us employing a different model and equipping the saints while also reaching the lost. There are practicalities that we can take from the megachurch movement, but the next era of church in this nation must correct the errors above.”

(Steven Whitlow – Clear Truth Media) When I was a seventeen-year-old high school senior, I had to write a senior paper. My family had left our Assemblies of God Church a few years prior, and found ourselves at the up-and-coming local megachurch. I fell in love with it, so much so that my paper’s thesis statement was the following: Continue reading

What Should Suzanne Hinn’s Forensic Accountant Look for During Divorce Case Against Benny Hinn?

“Hinn has regularly preached that people reap what they sow. Now is his time for reaping.”

(Barry Bowen – Trinity Foundation) In a divorce petition filed on July 26, 2024, in Florida, televangelist Benny Hinn’s wife Suzanne Hinn reported, “The marriage between the Wife and Husband is irretrievably broken.”

Suzanne requested spousal support and asked the court, “Require the Husband to contribute to the Wife’s attorney’s fees and costs, including forensic accountant fees, both temporarily and permanently …” Continue reading

Ruslan KD Defends Preston Sprinkle’s Side B Theology

“I point out a distinction between associations and alliances. Ruslan speaking at Preston Sprinkle’s conference is an association. It doesn’t make him a false teacher but it’s a glaring red flag. However, Immanuel Church has Gavin Ortlund, Sam Allberry, and Russell Moore in leadership. This isn’t mere association. Their wagons are hitched.”

(Ray Fava – Evangelical Dark Web) “Christian” YouTubers have been circling the wagons to defend Gavin Ortlund and his liberalism, including Jordan Cooper and Redeemed Zoomer, after it was broadcasted in Megan Basham’s bestselling book, Shepherds For Sale. Also included in the wagon circling is Ruslan KD, a YouTuber with 613K subs, which is quite large in the niche. Continue reading

Iran is Helping the Kamala Campaign

(Daniel Greenfield – Front Page) With headlines like “Harris Surges Ahead: A New Era of Democratic Enthusiasm and Opportunity” and “Former Friend Exposes JD Vance’s Radical Transformation: A Study in Political Opportunism”, you might mistake NioThinker for another mainstream media outlet.

Only the occasional odd word choice and convoluted bit of grammar hints that the digital media site flowing with enthusiasm for Kamala and contempt for Trump isn’t really American.

Classified as part of Iran’s ‘Storm-2035’ network: NioThinker is an enemy operation. Continue reading

It is Finished!

28 After this, Jesus, knowing that all things had already been finished, in order to finish the Scripture, *said, “I am thirsty.” 29 A jar full of sour wine was standing there; so they put a sponge full of the sour wine upon a branch of hyssop and brought it up to His mouth. 30 Therefore when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit. John 19:28-30 (LSB) 

Sometimes God brings things into our lives that seem devastating. Others may also see these things in our lives and question that God even exists. They cannot conceive of a loving God who would cause or allow debilitating diseases that are always fatal into the fragile bodies of those who profess faith in the Saviour…. Continue reading

Why Church Leaders Act Like Cowards

(Joe Boot – Clear Truth Media) The man who is content to sit ignorantly by his own fireside, wrapped up in his own private affairs, and has no public eye for what is going on in the Church and the world, is a miserable patriot, and a poor style of Christian. Next to our Bibles and our own hearts, our Lord would have us study our own times. – J. C. Ryle

Every age of the church has people happy to stay ignorant. They will sit by their firesides, or these days in front of their screens, unwilling to bother with careful Christian thinking about culture and what that would actually require of them as believers in the world. Continue reading

A Response to JD Greear’s Response to Megan Basham: ‘Whispering About Homosexuality’

“Greear’s entire sermon was constructed to soften the perception of homosexuality by lumping it together with other, less shocking sins. Sure, homosexuality is sin, Greear concedes, but so is greed, so is pride, so is lying—so why not stop making such a big deal out of it? Why not downplay its severity so we can win a few more brownie points with the secular culture?”

(The Dissenter) JD Greear has stepped up to the plate in an attempt to defend his reputation against Megan Basham’s allegations in Shepherds for Sale, but his response is more akin to a magician’s sleight of hand than a genuine rebuttal. In an article titled “An Open Response to Megan Basham’s Shepherd’s for Sale,” he takes a desperate stab at defending himself. Continue reading

Musk Interviews Trump and Riles Harris

(Douglas Andrews – The Patriot Post) Elon Musk is one guy. Let’s remember that.

Admittedly, he’s a remarkably rich and powerful guy, but he’s still one guy. So when Kamala Harris complains to her supporters that the world’s most influential African American is “a lackey for Team MAGA” and that he’s “using his vast fortune and broad reach to try to control our democracy,” well, wethinks she doth protest too much. How dare a tech titan turn his back on her, huh?

After all, Donald Trump may have Elon Musk on his side, but Kamala Harris has everyone else: the mainstream media, Hollywood, the unions, the schools, the colleges and universities, the foundations, the increasingly woke mega-corporations like Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta, and the list goes on. Continue reading

Praying at All Times

17 also receive THE HELMET OF SALVATION, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, 18 praying at all times with all prayer and petition in the Spirit, and to this end, being on the alert with all perseverance and petition for all the saints, 19 as well as on my behalf, that words may be given to me in the opening of my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel— 20 for which I am an ambassador in chains—so that in proclaiming it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak. Ephesians 6:17-20 (LSB) 

Ungodly focus is the focus that everyone has except for the Spirit-filled believer. This focus is oriented to self. Believers who are self-focused are either baby Christians or they have succumbed to Satan’s attacks against them. These attacks are designed specifically to render each believer powerless and without a Christlike testimony…. Continue reading

The Truth About Candidate Harris

“Perhaps the biggest “tell” about Kamala is that she believes all Americans should be in “an equal place.”  She said that at a Democratic Party event on September 30, 2022.  Of course, that’s precisely what Stalin, Mao, Castro, and Xi spout.  And it is preposterous because every human being is different, some far more capable than others.”

(Bill O’Reilly) No ideology discussion today.  Not needed in assessing Vice President Harris.  No honest person can dispute her ardent liberalism.  No past presidential candidate from a front-line political party has ever even approached Ms. Harris’ leftist beliefs.

Senator Bernie Sanders, an admitted “democratic socialist” who honeymooned in Moscow, loves Kamala Harris…. Continue reading

The Dismantling of Our Country in Real Time

“All the hate and vitriol towards half the country comes from one party and their media. their alliances with the globalists who sit in organizations like the World Health Organization, the World Economic Forum, the World Bank, etc. should terrify us.”

(Mary Dowling) Do we really know the truth about what our government has been doing for the past several decades? We’re beginning to find out.

We now have an administration fully empowered to destroy our borders, our economy, and our culture while implementing authoritarian rules, mandating we close businesses, remain in our homes, don’t go to church, and accept forced untested vaccines.

This happening, and it’s real. Continue reading

Defense Sec. Austin Rushes USS Abraham Lincoln, Missile Submarine to Mideast

(Newsmax) Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin reiterated the U.S. commitment to “take every possible step to defend Israel” on Sunday, in the seventh call with his Israeli counterpart, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, in recent weeks.

“Reinforcing this commitment, Secretary Austin has ordered the USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN Carrier Strike Group, equipped with F-35C fighters, to accelerate its transit to the Central Command area of responsibility, adding to the capabilities already provided by the USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT Carrier Strike Group,” the Defense Department said. Continue reading