Just in case you needed proof of Calvin's ancient Christian doctrine of the total depravity of man:

Always keep the good news of Jesus redeeming love against the sad news of man's corruption, His promise will hold you fast.

Let's All Join The Stupid Parade
Max Lucado, 70, joins Joyce Meyer in getting tattooed

 Let's All Join The Stupid Parade. The Bible's direct stance on tattoos is found in Leviticus 19:28, which prohibits both making cuts on the body for mourning and tattooing.


Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias

Presidential Order... to protect the religious freedoms of Americans and end the anti-Christian weaponization of government.
Contact these leaders, demand action.


Ten reasons for  continued growth of Pentecostal Churches

In an era when many Christian denominations in the United States are experiencing rapid decline, Pentecostal and charismatic churches are defying the trend and continuing to grow..


The Christian and Jewish Israelis Protecting  West Bank Palestinians

Here is the side of the story you may never hear.


Supreme Court Blocks Trump’s Use of Alien Enemies Act to Deport Illegals — Justices Thomas and Alito Dissent

The far-left ACLU  rushed to the U.S. Supreme Court seeking an emergency injunction to block the deportations.


I’m a Gen Z Woman.
I’m Staying in Church.

 For the first time historically in the United States, more young men are religiously affiliated than their female peers. As cultural and political allegiances further solidify, 18- to 29-year-old women are fleeing churches, and young men are staying.


Big God Preaching             

Preaching the glory of God the Father is a key missing  element in the message of  the church today.  John Piper makes no such omission in his call to remember this  foundational truth.                    


Trump nominates former pastor, congressman for top religious freedom post

"As Chairman of the Republican Study Committee, Mark (Walker) helped us secure many Victories. In his new role, Mark will work incredibly hard to expose Human Rights Violations, champion Faith, and help us secure Life Saving Results."


‘State-Enabled Kidnapping

Colorado House bill would direct courts considering child custody cases to favor parents who push radical gender ideology and penalize parents who do not “affirm” their child's      confusion.  


Deportation Mania

Why American Christians Ought to Care About How Venezuelan Gang Members Are Deported -Russel Moore  &&&   Memo to White House: Habeas Corpus is due process - Andrew Mccarthy                                                            


 “Billboard Chris” fined in Brisbane ahead of online censorship court case

The move comes as Elon Musk’s “X” and Billboard Chris combine to bring a court case against Australia’s “eSafety Commissioner”


Pakistan Persecution Horror

Masked gunmen rape Christian woman, tie husband to tree. 'Both of us ... cried our hearts out, our minds numbed by the trauma and unable to think anything'


A Spiteful and Baseless Crackdown on Homeschooling in Illinois

The bill would enable the state to send homeschooling parents to jail over late paperwork.


A convicted sex offender’s identity overrides girls’ safety

 Incredibly, this was not Cox’s first time exposing himself to girls or women. In fact, he has been a registered sex offender since 1998


Golden Age of Trumpism?
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride

No doubt, the 2024 election brought a redshift among Hispanics, and hopeful Republicans and panicked Democrats envision a continuation of the trend. On the other hand, non-white voters have favored the Democratic Party since the New Deal. Which of these things do you suppose is more likely to continue? -Andrew Day


 "In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth" -with WORDS.

Words to ideas to reality:  Men create their joys and sorrows with words and fools can now destroy the entire world  with just their words.  

Tariffs

For decades US leadership has allowed other nations to prosper through tariffs at the cost of our industrial base.  Even if Trump's radical tariff restructuring plan turns out to be another of his, "Let's Make a Deal" gambits, rebalancing the ledgers needs to happen. North America’s Auto Supply Chain Took Decades to Build. Trump’s Tariffs Could Crush It - National Review

Deportation

‘Horrifying’ & ‘unlawful’: Outrage as Trump Admin admits deporting wrong person. Right back to the ones he escaped from. Trump Bobble Heads Defy Supreme Court

Dissolution

Trump, Trade, and the Tragedy of the Working Class  Moynihan’s warnings on family breakdown echo louder than ever, as cultural decay—not just trade policy—lies at the heart of America’s working-class collapse. That report, “The Negro Family: The Case for National Action,”...Dissolution of the family

Surveillance

Smart Cities: Pathway To Global Surveillance During Covid-19, the UN and the WEF came up with a slogan: "Build back better" - recycled by then US President Joe Biden. Countless national leaders, like little programmed UN/WEF bots, endlessly repeated the slogan, while most unsuspecting citizens had no idea what it meant.

Distrust

Uncovering Good Reporting amid Troubled Times for Journalists- Marvin Olasky  A Gallup survey last month showed seven in ten people had zero or little trust in mass media to report news “fully, accurately, and fairly.” ... only 13 percent of self-defined “white evangelical Protestants” in six swing states trusted journalists to be fair reporting on politics.

Disremember

Former Columbia University president Katrina Armstrong told the federal government on Tuesday that she could not recall students calling for the destruction of the state of Israel. Nor could she recall hearing of allegations that students spit on their Jewish counterparts.

Lawfare

Targeting the leader rather than the crime.:
-Netanyahu arrest warrant. Targeted by the (ICC) world court.
-French socialists target conservative Le Pen.
-Trump revenge targets Democrat judges, law firms, prosecutors and the press.  RIP rule of law. 

Trinity

An overwhelming majority of Christians reject the basic Christian teaching of the Trinity, prompting new concerns that Americans are living without the influence of “the truths and life principles of God.”   Too complicated for a dumbed down world? 

Transgender

California Democrats Reject Bills to Ban Male Athletes from Girls’ Sports, Spaces.  So what if he's just faking it?

 Greenland

JD Vance Conquers Greenland- In a display of power Roman emperor Caligula turned his imperial might against the ocean, declaring war on the sea.  We have the bully pulpit cause we're bullys.

Bigotry

Anti-Christian incidents in Israel rose in 2024: Spitting on clergy, damage to church properties - There were 111 attacks against Christians.  They did it to us, let's do it to them.

Euthanasia

Nearly 10,000 in Netherlands euthanized in 2024, including 219 for 'psychological disorders'.  I'm crazy, please kill me.  Ok, no problem.

After the finger wagging dog and pony show of Trump and Vance brow beating Zelensky in the oval office and their bobble headed cabinet sycophants nodding their outrage over Zelensky's failure to properly grovel: has America surrendered the moral high ground of world leadership to Putin's nuclear blackmail?    

Essay: This is why America will never be great again. 


What about Estonia, Belarus, Armenia and Georgia? Will Serbia and even NATO members Lithuania and Poland join Putin's hit list?  Bible scholars are asking about the spiritual linkage between Russia's aggression in Ukraine and their military ally Iran's aggression toward Israel.  What does the Bible say about these end times coalitions?  READ MORE 

Falling for Putin
Jay Nordlinger in National Review

A Psychopath Jamboree
Steve Witkoff is a U.S. presidential envoy. Describing a recent phone call between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, Witkoff said, “It was these two great leaders coming together for the betterment of mankind." !?!?

Among the dead were a father and his young daughter. The youngest casualty was 11 months old.

Before 1973 the  American Psychiatric Association defined homosexuality as a mental illness. In 2003 the last state laws criminalizing sodomy were overturned in the US..  Today those quoting what the Bible says about homosexuality are prosecuted as criminals.   

Finland Watches as a Respected Leader Heads to Court for her Faith

Appealed to Finland's supreme court, the decision here will determine not only the fate of Päivi Räsänen but serve as a landmark precedent for Europe and the United States . Please support the Alliance Defending Freedom and their support of freedom of speech.  

Buy the truth, and sell it not, Proverbs 23:23

 Joni Eareckson Tada Shares Her Thoughts About Healing  
I began to pray for a contented heart, settled thoughts, a mouth that refused to complain, eyes that refused to envy others, and ears that refused to listen to the devilish lie that often said to me, Joni,  "You really would be better off dead than disabled."

Jesus prayed that holiness should mark the lives of true believers.   Alistair Begg believes that truly sanctified and committed believers are becoming rare. Where do you stand?    

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In the crosshairs - God and the Family, 
“If the world hates you, remember that it hated me first" Jesus

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FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS
Europe has become a dangerous place for both Jews and Christians.  Dietrich Bonhoeffer anticipated,
 "a world come of age" where simple faith would be a hard sell.  Although he lived in the time of Hitler's insane hate propaganda; I don't think he could have anticipated just how wide spread antisemitism would become.  Remembering Corrie ten Boom and the Jews &
REPORT - 2,400 anti-Christian hate crimes reported in Europe

In our era of anything goes, hands off, permissiveness J.T. Tarter points us to the biblical lesson of a horribly unsuccessful father. Learn the lesson of Eli the passive priest.

Demonic delusion of antisemitism: 4 critical tests for every Christian  A call to be a Bonhoeffer He boldly stood against Hitler and called the church to awaken to the evil of antisemitism.. Metaxas on Bonhoeffer w/ Glen Beck on YouTube


Joni's Corner: Finding Peace in Pain  I never really know when the pain in my hip and back will start growling, but when it does… it can hit hard.

Endless Harassment Continues: Pastor Terrorized, Arrested For 'Reading the Bible Aloud' Scores 'Complete Victory' AND Canada Targeted Churches, Jailed Multiple Pastors

'All I did was pray to God'
Court finds Christian man guilty of 'disapproval of abortion' for silently praying for son Read More

 INSANITY TODAY  - Bill Lami

This is why America will never be great again, unless.  History is littered with the remains of ambitious dictators surrounding themselves with equally ambitious empty suit hangers-on.  From the Bibles ancient accounts of Ahasuerus in the book of Esther and Nebuchadnezzar in the book of Daniel through Stalin and Mao Zedong, Hitler and Putin; dictators surround themselves with sycophants. Little gods demand worshipers.  Watching video of Trump and sycophant Vance brow beat Zelensky in the Oval Office last week confirmed for many the dark side of Trumpism.   Trump, Zelensky Putin, the Biden crime family: the West has  forgotten God and reaped a rat's nest of corrupt psychopathic leadership. 
    After the finger wagging dog and pony show poll numbers seem to have paid off.  Red-meat Republicans and fearful isolationists cheered the  bobble headed nods from sycophants, Mike Johnson,
Tulsi Gabbard, Marco Rubio and other newly minted cabinet picks. They were almost unanimous in condemning Zelensky's failure to properly grovel.  Even Victor Hanson joined the castrato choir.  Victor did you leave your moral compass with the hat check girl?  The only ones they lost were independent voters,  the European Union and America's belief in the values of freedom, independence and godliness.  Interesting word, 'godliness': pardon the anachronism (no longer applies).  Oh, and the other losers are the Ukrainian people being slaughtered en mass daily.
"But so far in his second term, regarding the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Trump has offered to Vladimir Putin that Ukraine will not retake all its annexed and occupied sovereign territory, that Ukraine will not join NATO, that there will be no U.S. troops on Ukrainian soil after the war, and that the U.S. will lift sanctions on Russia. And Trump might even throw in a withdrawal of the extra 20,000 U.S. troops that Joe Biden sent to NATO’s eastern flank after the invasion of Ukraine. And in exchange, Putin offered  well, nothing, really". The American Betrayal of Ukraine Begins   National Review

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Counterfeit Love

Subtlety is the name of the devil’s game when it comes to corrupting God’s word.   One of his tried and true techniques, daily operative in pop religion,  is to emphasize Christ's forgiveness to the exclusion of His judgment of sin and evil. Read More

  It's ok to kill for their gods but Christians: Shut-Up!
  
Meanwhile around the world the message is: Islam is the religion of peace and Christians just stir up trouble. "Virtually every contemporary Western leader has expressed the view that Islam is a peaceful religion and that those who commit violence in its name are fanatics who misinterpret its tenets. This widely circulated claim is false. Relying primarily on Islam's own sources." G.M. Davis.  Link to his  book 
   Radicalized Christians however: need to be put down. Read More


Generous Americans will give more than $550 billion dollars to nonprofit charities this year. How much of that money will actually go to meet the needs the givers intended and how much will line the pockets of  avaricious pretenders? Here are the deceivers and  how to focus your giving more effectively. 
       

“Palestine will be free!” chant the protesters. “From the river to the sea." Some say that’s a call for genocide — another holocaust — elimination of Israel and all Jews.

Censorship: A Global Pandemic 
- John Stossel


So, should the chant be illegal? The House of Representatives just voted to make it illegal at universities. Both Republicans and Democrats voted for the bill. Canadian politicians go further.  Orwellian Canada wants to put you in prison BEFORE you commit a thoughtcrime “We’re a laboratory of bad ideas.”
X suspends business in Brazil over censorship row - BBC 

George Soros Fueled $80M Into Groups Calling for Big Tech Censorship in Lead-Up to 2024 Elections Then Biden presented him with an award. 

Will Increasing Government Censorship Lead To A Fragmented Web? -Forbes

Lawsuit Alleges More Government Censorship by Proxy—State Department Funds Blacklisting of US Media? - Cato Institute 

The Infodemic,  How Censorship and Lies Made the World Sicker and Less Free - Columbia University

Index to: Issues & Articles

Adrain Rogers heard all the excuses:  Why Christians stay home on election day. It's just dirty politics.

Demonic Strategy Series: Cheap grace, a discount ticket to heaven.

Walk the isle, say a little prayer, raise you hand, come to the Christmas show and you're off to paradise.  "Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace." D. Bonhoeffer"

Archaic concepts like the wrath of God, sin and hell no longer have a place in American pop religion. 

The WWll generation has mostly died off and the baby boomer generation isn't far behind.  Here's the best advice of 3 cutting edge researchers on keeping your mind.