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My beloved brethren, I greet you all in the precious name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
Today, I write with tears in my eyes and a pain in my heart that words cannot fully explain.
I have buried people I loved. Members of my own family have been killed. Church members who worshipped with us, prayed with us and served God with us have been taken away from this world. People who woke up in the morning expecting to return to their families never came home.
And I keep asking myself...
What is our crime?
What have we done to deserve this?
Who have we offended?
What is the gain in all these killings?
Why should a child lose a father simply because that father professed Christ? Why should a mother bury her children? Why should widows and orphans be created again and again while the world watches?
My beloved, Christians are not asking for the death of anyone. We are asking for the right to live. We are asking for the right to worship God without fear. We are asking for our children to grow up, go to school, return home safely and praise God.
Jesus said in Matthew 5:10, “Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”
If our faith is the reason we are hated, then we will continue to hold on to Christ.
But I ask those who are killing innocent people: What do you gain when you destroy a family? What do you gain when you turn children into orphans? What do you gain when you make a mother cry over the body of her son?
Can blood build a better nation?
Can the tears of widows bring peace?
Can the graves of innocent people give anyone victory?
The Bible says in Romans 12:15, “Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn.”
So I mourn.
I mourn for my family.
I mourn for my church members.
I mourn for every innocent Christian who has been killed.
I mourn for every widow who now sleeps alone.
I mourn for every child who asks, “Where is my father?”
And I mourn for Nigeria.
But even through my tears, I will not abandon Christ.
The Bible says in Psalm 34:18, “The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.”
Lord, draw near to every broken family.
Lord, comfort every widow.
Lord, wipe the tears of every orphan.
Lord, protect those who are still living in fear.
And Lord, give wisdom and courage to those entrusted with protecting innocent lives.
We do not want revenge. We want justice. We want peace. We want a Nigeria where Christians and Muslims can live together, worship God according to their conscience, raise their children and sleep without fear.
My beloved Nigerians, how many more graves must we see before our hearts are broken enough to cry out together?
How many more mothers must we comfort?
How many more children must become orphans?
How many more churches must bury their members?
How many more families must disappear before we say, “Enough”?
I may be tired, I may be wounded, and I may have lost people I love, but I will continue to speak for the innocent.
Because silence cannot bring back the dead.
And fear will not make me deny my Lord.
As Jesus said in John 16:33, “In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”
May God remember every family that has lost someone.
May God heal Nigeria.
May God protect His people.
May God bring an end to the bloodshed.
And may the day come when Nigerian children no longer grow up knowing the sound of gunfire, but only the sound of laughter, worship and peace.
I remain your brother in Christ,
Rev. Ezekiel Dachomo
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God bless this courageous American Michael Desronvil.
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Jury Unable To Decide If Strangling Your Kids Is Okay buff.ly/4ZBn7ot
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John Battaglia killed his 2 daughters in what forensic psychologists said was psychosis, stemming from a bipolar disorder
The jury deliberated for 19 minutes
He was executed in 2018
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If the father had committed this horrendous crime- under any circumstances- he’d get the d*ath penalty. No hung juries, no debates.
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Postpartum depression IS NOT an
excuse to kill your babies! 📣
Say it loud for those in the back!!
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Jury Still Trying To Decide If Strangling Your Kids Is Okay buff.ly/4ZBn7ot
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I keep getting messages from Lindsay Clancy supporters telling me to stop posting pictures of the three Clancy children.
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I’ve let my kids stay up late the last two nights so we could play board games. On Saturday we played Scrabble until it was an hour past their bedtime and then I decided that we’d have ice cream and watch TV for a while. They were thrilled. This time I spent with my kids wasn’t a “sacrifice” or a burden I heroically shouldered for their sake. I like hanging out with them. They’re smart and funny and fun to be around. Sure they can be annoying sometimes, but anyone can be annoying. I’ve annoyed countless people in my day. Including my kids.
If you hate being a parent and actively resent your children, it’s either because you categorically refuse to get out of your own head and put in the minimal effort it requires to develop a real relationship with them, or it’s because you’ve done a really crappy job raising them so now they’re hard to be around. Either way, it’s a you problem. It’s your fault. Not theirs. It’s your responsibility, then, to pretend you don’t hate it.
Yes, pretend. Yes, suppress your true feelings. Yes, put on an act. Maintain the facade for your kids, because it’s deeply scarring and unfair to saddle them with your personal issues. And maintain the facade for the public, because frankly we don’t want to have to deal with your narcissistic nonsense either. Your “true self” is unsightly and off putting, and you shouldn’t force anyone to bear witness to it.
So fake it til you make it. Act like the kind of parent you should be, until you actually become that parent. Shoulder the burden of your own narcissism silently and with dignity. If you do that, after a while, and by definition, you will no longer be a narcissist. One day you’ll look up and realize that you’re actually not faking it anymore. You really do enjoy giving your time and yourself to those you love.
At least that’s how it often works. I don’t know if it will for you or not. But either way, whatever you do, don’t take your failures out on your children.
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Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. - 1 John 4:8
God’s love is not a single, undifferentiated emotion but a multifaceted divine attribute that must be held in tension with other aspects of God’s character, particularly His sovereignty and justice.
There are distinct expressions of divine love: the love within the Trinity itself (Father and Son in perfect relationship), God’s providential care over creation, His redemptive love toward sinners, His particular love for the elect, and love connected to obedience. Each operates within its own proper context rather than being collapsed into a single meaning. The intra-Trinitarian love, for instance, exists in a relationship of perfection untouched by sin, whereas God’s love toward rebellious humanity manifests through wrath, redemption, and the Cross. Crucially, within the Reformed tradition I find myself within, a distinguishing between God’s love for all creatures in some general sense and His unconditional love specifically for those who are His children in Christ exists. This distinction proves essential to maintaining both divine love and divine sovereignty. While it’s accurate to say God loves the elect and passes over the reprobate, this truth requires complementary biblical affirmations to avoid drifting toward an imbalanced understanding of God’s sovereignty.
The classical Reformed position resists the logic that affirming God’s universal salvific will alongside the claim that “God is love” necessarily leads to universalism. Rather, God’s love is grounded in His sovereignty. God would commit no injustice in condemning all sinners, yet in His love He sent His Son and grants saving faith to some through the preaching of the gospel. God’s love is therefore real and genuine, but it operates within the framework of His just governance and free election, not in opposition to them. This integrated understanding of Scripture’s full testimony on God’s love proves doctrinally and pastorally essential.
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I was recently told that presenting the case for Christianity is counter to “having faith.” Is that true?
Jude calls believers to “contend earnestly for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints” (Jude 3), establishing a foundational principle. Peter instructs Christians to “always be ready to give a reason for the hope that is in you” (1 Pet 3:15), framing defense of faith as a responsibility rooted in Christian conviction. Philippians describes believers “striving together for the faith of the gospel” (Phil 1:27), emphasizing the collective nature of this effort.
The apostolic practice demonstrates this principle in action. Paul regularly “reasoned from the Scriptures” in synagogues, “explaining and proving that the Messiah had to suffer and rise from the dead” (Acts 17:2–3). During his ministry, Paul “spoke boldly in the synagogue, reasoning and persuading about the kingdom of God” (Acts 19:8). Early in his conversion, Saul “grew more powerful and confounded the Jews by proving that Jesus is the Messiah” (Acts 9:22). Stephen, in a like manner, engaged opponents through discussion, and “they could not resist the wisdom and the Spirit by which he spoke” (Acts 6:9–10).
Beyond direct confrontation, Scripture emphasizes intellectual discernment. Believers are instructed to “test all things and hold fast to what is good” (1 Thess 5:21), suggesting an active evaluative responsibility. Paul warns against being “taken captive by hollow and deceptive philosophy,” (Col 2:8) implying the need for reasoned resistance to false teaching. Church leaders should be “holding firmly to the trustworthy message as it has been taught, so that they can encourage others by sound doctrine and refute those who oppose it” (Titus 1:9).
Simultaneously and not to be forgotten, Paul instructs Timothy that “the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but must be kind to everyone, able to teach, not resentful, instructing his opponents with gentleness” (2 Tim 2:24–25), pointing out that reasoned defence must be paired with humility and compassion rather than combativeness.
Faith is not the opposite of presenting evidence. If anything, the trust I have within the context of my faith merits that I have no choice but to clearly and respectfully present the evidence
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Don’t get it twisted.
Killing a 34-week-old baby in the womb is not “reproductive rights.”
It’s murder in the first degree.
