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"When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers." -John Calvin.
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Something to Ponder
To pray "Thy will be done" is the death of self. Christ taught us to pray it, "Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven" (Matthew 6:10), and that is a prayer that God's will would be carried out on this earth the way the angels carry it out above, without argument, without delay, and without exception. The moment you pray it honestly you have prayed against everything on earth that resists Him, and one of those things is you. It means laying every plan and every demand at the feet of God and accepting that His will may undo yours. Jesus showed us what that costs in Gethsemane when He prayed, "Not my will, but yours be done" (Luke 22:42), and that prayer led Him straight to the cross.
Most prayers today sound more like "my will be done." We treat God as though He exists to bless our plans and secure our comfort. But Scripture says, "The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps" (Proverbs 16:9). To truly pray "Thy will be done" is to hand over our rights and our lives, believing His will is wiser and better than our own, "for as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways" (Isaiah 55:9).
Submitting like that takes faith, because only the one who trusts His goodness can hand Him the pen. And the surrender always ends in life, because the God who undoes our will is the same God who raised His Son from the dead.
So let me ask you, dear reader, when you pray "Thy will be done," are you ready for God to undo yours?
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Korea was one people until 1945. Today the men of the South stand up to three inches taller than the men of the North.
Same ancestry, same language, the same height at the start. The border is 160 miles long and 2.5 miles wide.
In the North, food comes through the state ration. Rice when there is rice, maize when there is not, and meat on a few holidays a year. In 2012 the army cut its minimum height for a recruit to 4ft 8in, because too few 17 year olds could reach the old one.
In the South, meat consumption rose about tenfold in 50 years. Beef, pork, eggs and milk went from luxuries to every day.
South Korean women gained 8 inches in height over the 20th century. It is the largest increase recorded for any population on earth.
Children who escape from the North are visibly smaller than Southern children of the same age. Fed in the South, the young ones catch up. The older ones are too late.
Nobody designed the experiment. But it has 75 million subjects, a genetic control and a hard border, and it has run for 80 years.
One side of the wire was fed grain by a government, and the other side ate meat.
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"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."
- George Orwell, Animal Farm
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Trump mounted a successful hostile takeover of the GOP.
He broke the party and redirected it to his own corrupt ends.
The sycophant along for the anti American ride are and will always be big mad at those who didn't go along.
Speak truth. Everything depends on it – at Arlington, VA
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Kelly flew 39 combat missions as a U.S. Navy pilot during Operation Desert Storm while Trump's Taj Mahal casino filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
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As I said in this speech in the Senate Chamber in 2018: “The President has it precisely backward - despotism is the enemy of the people. The free press is the despot's enemy, which makes the free press the guardian of democracy.”youtube.com/watch?v=F478MIFu…
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𝗖𝗢𝗟𝗨𝗠𝗡: ESPN, Nick Saban turn 'College GameDay' into political propaganda.
'GameDay' isn't covering the Protect College Sports Act. It's selling it.
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Pastor Jeffress, The Democratic Party does not have a monopoly on sin and evil.
To cover up The Epstein Files is wicked and diabolical. It’s being an accessory to the crime of child abuse, and the objectification and exploitation of women and children. Pure evil. One party is actively covering up the Epstein files.
To refuse to launch a federal investigation into the death of Nolan Wells, and 15 recent cases of Black men and women who’ve recently been lynched, is diabolical, wicked, and evil.
To remove legal Haitian immigrants from the USA, and to falsely accuse them of eating dogs and cats, is diabolical and evil.
To post memes, or caricatures of former President Barak Obama and First Lady, Michelle Obama as apes, is evil, wicked, and racist.
To post pictures of the current president in the image of Jesus, and representing some kind of Christ-like figure is demonic and reflective of the anti-Christ spirit.
I share your belief that advocating, or even allowing for the removal of innocent unborn life in the womb, unless the life of the mother is at stake, or the pregnancy is a result of rape or incest, is an act that I believe God is not pleased with, and should be outlawed. That’s why I’m baffled that 3 times across the past 40 years when Republicans were in charge of all 3 branches of government, they did not outlaw abortion. That makes Republicans just as complicit as Democrats in refusing to provide legal protection for innocent, unborn life in the womb.
I agree with you that God only sanctions marriage between a man and woman. Yet, the current GOP president sanctions gay marriage.
My point is neither party has a monopoly on evil. It’s unfortunate that you would advocate this easily refutable lie, in order to advocate a partisan political agenda.
To cover up The Epstein Files is wicked and diabolical.
In Tarrant County to remove polling places disproportionately in Black, Brown, and lower income communities is wicked and diabolical.
“There is a difference between falling into sin, which we all do from time to time, and being an advocate for sin and for evil. And the Democrat Party are advocates for evil and sin. And we need to call it that way."
SBC pastor @robertjeffress at @RNC midterm convention
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This is very personal for me to share.
My biological mother was a stripper working at a club in downtown Seattle. My biological father was one of her clients. She became pregnant with me while struggling with addiction and used drugs throughout her pregnancy. When I was born, I was immediately taken to the ICU to detox and was eventually placed for adoption.
By God’s grace, I was adopted by two wonderful parents who loved me deeply. I was four months old when they picked me up from the orphanage, and they are the only parents I’ve ever known. I never grew up feeling like something was missing. I never felt some deep longing to find my biological parents. I had a mom and dad who loved me, cared for me, sacrificed for me, and gave me a wonderful home.
Years later, after I got married and we had our first child, my wife encouraged me to learn more about my biological history. If for no other reason, she thought it might be good for the sake of our daughter to know whether there was anything medically or genetically significant in my family history.
So I eventually submitted my DNA to Ancestry. Through that, I discovered a half brother, aunts, cousins, and eventually was put in contact with my biological mother.
We were able to meet.
And when I met her, I got to tell her something I’d wanted to tell her for as long as I could remember: thank you.
Thank you for giving me life.
I got to tell her about the wonderful parents who adopted me. I got to tell her that I’d had a good life. I got to tell her about my wife and my children. I wanted her to know that the baby she carried in the middle of all that chaos became a man with a family, a calling, people he loves, people who love him, and a life for which he is profoundly grateful.
I’ve never been angry with her. Never. Not once.
For years I told my wife and children that if my biological mother ever found me, I knew exactly what I would say. I wouldn’t condemn her. I wouldn’t demand explanations. I’d simply thank her for allowing me to live.
Because without that decision, I wouldn’t have the extraordinary wife I have today. I wouldn’t know the indescribable joy of my children. I wouldn’t have experienced the friendships, ministry, laughter, sorrow, beauty, failures, victories, and ordinary moments that have made up my life. There are people I love who wouldn’t know me, children who wouldn’t exist, and a story that never would’ve been written.
She gave me the chance to live it.
We still stay in contact. We speak every few months, and I genuinely enjoy hearing her stories and learning about her life. Since the day I met her, I’ve prayed that the Lord would bring her to Himself. I still pray that.
I share all of this because lately I’ve been thinking a great deal about the choices parents make. About life and death. About how much hangs in the balance of decisions made in moments of fear, desperation, darkness, or confusion.
And yes, I’ve been thinking about those three little children whose lives were taken by the very person entrusted with protecting them. It’s difficult for me not to think about my own story alongside theirs. Their lives mattered. Their futures mattered. Everything they might’ve become, everyone they might’ve loved, every ordinary Tuesday morning and Christmas morning and wedding and child and friendship that might’ve filled the decades ahead of them mattered.
And it makes me profoundly grateful that my mother chose differently.
So if there’s a mother or father reading this who’s in a dark place and wondering whether your presence matters, whether your decisions matter, or whether the people who depend on you would somehow be better off without you, please hear me: your choices matter more than you can see from where you’re standing.
Choose life.
Don’t make an irreversible decision in the middle of a season that will pass. Don’t allow a moment of darkness to make a permanent decision about a future you can’t yet see.
Trust the Lord. Ask for help.
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If you look closer, some of these medals are for service in the Vietnam war. The war he dodged. 5 times.
This stolen valor should infuriate every service member, especially those who actually fought in Vietnam.
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"Tom Holland isn’t a preacher. He isn’t a pastor. He isn’t even a Christian apologist. He’s a secular historian—and that’s what makes his admission so unsettling.
Holland argues that Christianity didn’t merely influence Western ethics; it rewired them. Ideas we now treat as obvious—human dignity, the value of the weak, moral equality, compassion as virtue—were not moral defaults of the ancient world. They were revolutionary claims born at the foot of the cross.
In Rome, power defined goodness. Strength justified rule. Mercy was weakness. Victims were disposable. Into that world stepped a crucified God—defeated, shamed, executed—and Christianity had the audacity to call Him Lord. The moral universe inverted. The weak mattered. The poor were seen. Suffering had meaning. Love became a command.
What makes Holland’s conclusion so disruptive is that it exposes a contradiction: modern secular ethics fiercely reject Christianity while quietly living off its moral capital. Concepts like “human rights,” “equality,” and “care for the marginalized” did not emerge from atheism or pagan philosophy. They are Christian claims, stripped of their source and rebranded as self-evident truths.
That admission angers atheists because it undermines the idea that morality can float free from Christ. And it unsettles progressive Christians because it suggests you can’t keep Christian ethics while discarding Christian theology. The fruit grows from a tree—and if you cut the tree down, the fruit doesn’t survive forever.
You don’t have to worship Jesus to live in a world shaped by Him.
But you can’t pretend that world wasn’t built on His cross.
Christianity didn’t just change beliefs.
It changed what humans mean by good."
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Putin thought he could fight a colonial war from a comfortable distance. Now his troops dig for water, his citizens ration gas, and the generals who bombed children are bleeding out in driveways 400 miles from the front.
The Full Report: 11/
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When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace becomes a circus.
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The same people that supported Trump when back in 2016 he said that he wouldn't support the GOP nominee if he lost are now uber mad that a primary election loser said he won't support the nominee in the General.
It's hilarious to watch.
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The Supreme Court didn’t give him that power.
The Supreme Court ruled that you don’t have the power to stop him just because you don’t like what he’s doing.
The Constitution gave Congress the power to stop him though… if they wanted to.
Apparently they don’t want to.
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If Democrats win control of the U.S. House, as I’ve long predicted they will, they’ll have an opportunity to advance policy ideas that can help many Americans. And if they approach it the right way, they can bring some Republicans along and build bipartisan support.
For example, Congress reclaiming its power from the executive branch is a no-brainer that should draw broad bipartisan support.