Just in case you needed proof of Calvin's 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.

Dear President Trump, what if you picked up some stupid Hispanic kid from New Jersey by mistake?  Would he get shuffled off to your Gulag without a hearing?!?

Why American Christians Ought to Care About How Venezuelan Gang Members Are Deported Russel Moore

University of Richmond religious studies course teaches students how to 'queer' the Bible

Professor previously authored papers on ‘biblical rape stories,’ suggested Elisha molested child

Hegseth Preaches ‘Merit-Based’ Military While Cleaning Up His Own Security Mess

Pete's knee jerk lie - another show of Trump's cadre of incompetent yes men. 

Victor Davis Hanson tries to  put reasonable words in Trump's mouth?!  Good Luck Victor.

"Given the radical nature of the Trump counter revolution we need to be very careful how we speak."  

Primary school faces backlash for canceling Easter to ‘respect diversity’

One commenter questioned whether Christmas celebrations would be next.

Is revival spreading among secular college campuses?

With so much bad news coming from college campuses in recent years, reports of students open to the Gospel and interested in spiritual conversations are encouraging.

The End Times are Upon Us

Video: Prophecy Update End-Time News Headlines (3/17/25 – 3/18/25)

Chinese Influence at Voice of America

A whistleblower exposes deep Chinese influence at Voice of America, detailing censorship, retaliation, and high-level ties between VOA leadership and Beijing.

Goodbye Shakespeare Goodbye Western Civilization

The Shakespeare trust said that some of Shakespeare’s works contain “language or depictions that are racist, sexist, homophobic, or otherwise harmful.”

Court Rules School Can Hide Student’s ‘Gender Transition’ From Parents

In a case that could reach the Supreme Court, a federal appeals court sided with a Massachusetts school that secretly facilitated a child’s social transition at school from female to male without parental consent.

Laurel Libby Fights for Girl's Sports

..a year ago, when he played in the men’s division, he placed 5th in a regional meet and later placed 10th in state.  This year in the girl’s category, he won the state championship

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

Faith groups claim legal victories on refugees, ICE raids at houses of worship

Is Trump squandering political capitol with his typical sledgehammer approach . An open letter to Pres. Trump.

Jesus Met Us There

Revival Sweeping Through College Campuses Impacting Tens of Thousands: 'It's a Movement'

Trump's pick to run White House Faith Office sparks theological turf war

Just what confused Americans need, an:   'erratic woman preacher who has been all over the map.'

Britain’s Long-Overdue Reckoning With ‘Grooming (RAPE) Gangs’

What do you do when the police, the politicians, and the press conspire to cover up (1500+) atrocities?

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.