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This video has over half a million views in the last 24 hours on my instagram
The price of free things is your freedom
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According to Derek from Irresistible Truth, this atheist understands Calvinism's doctrine of salvation. Derek seems stunned!
@DineshDSouza @HomeAndHandy
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In Christianity there’s a doctrine that if someone leaves the faith and publicly speaks out against it we are supposed to KILL them.
No… wait…. *checks notes
That’s Islam. My bad.
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Bishop Fulton Sheen, half a century ago:
"Just think, my dear ladies, of how many mentally disturbed women we are going to have in the United States in the next 10 or 15 years when the guilt of abortion begins to attack the mind and soul.". 🤯
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What you need to understand is that culturally most women are at the point where they are ok with women killing their own children
This is the result of the massive propaganda around abortion
If you think this will stop completely at before birth then you are insane. Next in line are children born with terminal illnesses, you’ll soon be force fed the idea that it is only the humane thing to do, no child deserves a life of any suffering after all, right? They instead deserve death.
Next up, MAID for babies.
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The church does not need to choose between soul-winning and culture-warring. She is called to do both; both are aspects of discipling a nation.
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Two things can be true at the same time:
1. Our economy has systemic problems that make it more difficult than in the past few generations, especially for young men, to get ahead financially, provide for a family on one income, buy a decent home in a good area, and advance in many career fields. Our society is riddled with debt, regulation, and bias that mean young men are not playing on a level field.
2. Young men should not complain or whine about any of this. Recognize the facts on the ground and play your hand as best you can in the circumstances you were given. Change what you can, but also recognize these problems run deep and will not be fixed overnight. Give thanks you still have a better situation, more comfortable life, and greater opportunities than the vast majority of the human race over the course of history; things could be much, much worse. Identify the challenges, act wisely, seek out mentorship, develop resilience, and meet the hardships head on like a man. No excuses, no scapegoating. Get to work.
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You've probably heard this before, but it's always worth repeating. Something extremely cool about the "Star-spangled Banner," the American national anthem, is that it asks a question, and it's the question at the heart of everything in the American worldview.
"Oh, say, can you see
By the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed
At the twilight's last gleaming..."
So the anthem begins with a question and a scene. One man, a patriot, is asking another man, another patriot, "can you see it?" at sunrise after a long, dangerous night.
The "it" in question is going to be revealed to be the flag, our "star-spangled banner," which they had last fully recognized and honored as the sun set, daylight failed, and night crept over them the evening before.
Can you see it? Say! Can you see it?!
IS IT STILL THERE?!
"Whose broad stripes and bright stars
Through the perilous fight
O'er the ramparts we watched
Were so gallantly streaming..."
Here we find that the "it" is in fact the flag, our star-spangled banner, and we learn why the question is being asked.
The flag is described as having flown and streamed gallantly over ramparts of war through a perilous fight. All could have been lost. The flag, and even the fledgling country for which it stands, one nation under God and indivisible.
Say! Can you see it? Now that the light is back?
IS IT STILL THERE?!
"--And the rockets' red glare,
The bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night
That our flag was still there!--"
They could see it through the battle in the light of the rockets and bombs that threatened them, here and there in quick glimpses. But it was still there throughout! But now? At dawn?
Say! Can you see?
IS IT STILL THERE?!
"Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free
And the home of the brave?"
The urgency is palpable with every refrain. They have to know. It's the first thing they must know as the sun begins to light the sky, even before it rises.
IS IT STILL THERE?!
Say! Say!! Can you see? Can you see it?!
At the heart of every American beats the fundamental truth and reality that what we have here is precious, that it's worth fighting for, to the death if necessary, and that it's fragile. That at any moment it can be lost. That we have to remember to look for it because last night might have been the night in which it failed.
Every day, every year, every generation.
The American fight for freedom, to live in self-governance within ordered liberty, is ongoing and never-ending. The price of the land of the free is that it must be the home of the brave. We have to defend it, defend it, and defend it again, against all enemies foreign and domestic, because what we have is amazing, rare, fragile, and worth every cent of treasure, every drop of blood, and every risk to our sacred honor to protect it.
Our anthem is not a declaration. It is not a proclamation. It is not a statement.
It is a question.
Every time we sing our wholly unique national anthem, we as American ask the question again. IS IT STILL THERE?! Are we still America? Does that star-spangled banner yet wave?
Because it's a question, the answer is not known. It is not a guarantee. It cannot be taken for granted and isn't. And what an honor to ask and take up our part in the story, in the American Experiment, in the greatest country the world has ever known.
For tonight, the last night of our first 250 years, as the sun gave way to twilight's last gleaming and darkness overtook our land once again, the answer was still yes. We can see it even tonight in the red glare of rockets, with small bombs bursting in air, fill the sky with the noble tribute of fireworks once again.
And we all ask ourselves, will it still be flying at dawn?
This is what it means to be an American.
Happy 250th, America! Now for many happy returns!
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Consider these words from 1920, written by French author Hilaire Belloc:
“The modern world imagines that it has outgrown religion. It has done nothing of the kind. It has merely forgotten it. And because it has forgotten it, it no longer understands itself. Men do not realize that the whole framework of their moral judgments, their political habits, and even their intellectual methods were formed within a Christian society and cannot exist long outside it. When that framework breaks, they will not find themselves enlightened, but bewildered; not free, but enslaved; not rational, but confused.”
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If you love Jesus you should love what Jesus loves, and that ultimately means you should be an official, active, and serving member of your local church (Eph. 5:25).
Church membership should be normal for Christians. Lives lived in regular accountability demonstrate the gospel’s reality to the world, particularly through the mutual love that Jesus identified as the mark of his followers. This is both biblical and strengthens evangelistic witness. Weaker and newer Christians gain feeding and accountability through membership, and mature and seasoned believers demonstrate authentic Christian living.
Hebrews calls believers to “consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works,” explicitly warning against forsaking assembly “as the manner of some is” (Heb. 10:24–25). This suggests participation isn’t optional but essential to spiritual health.
Church membership preserves biblical truth by establishing who bears responsibility for rooting out false teaching and protecting the gospel when leadership itself becomes compromised. Paul’s letter to the Galatians exemplifies this. I say this as a positional elder in my church — Paul appealed to the whole congregation rather than leadership alone to address doctrinal corruption. Think about it: how are you to “bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ” (Gal 6:2), which positions mutual care as a central Christian obligation, if you’re not actively in a membership role? Thessalonians similarly exhorts believers to “encourage one another and build one another up” (1 Thess 5:11), framing encouragement as a reciprocal responsibility that requires presence and investment.
Healthy membership equips believers to recognize heresy when taught or communicated and transforms them from passive consumers into active defenders of the faith.
Acts depicts the early church persevering in apostolic teaching, communion, and gathering daily, with believers holding possessions in common (Acts 2:42–47), a portrait of intensive communal engagement rather than individual isolated devotion or nominal affiliation.
Ultimately, practicing membership glorifies God as Christians gather to form his body, living under the life giving words of scripture, fellowshipping with one another sacrificially, and reflecting his character.
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The Christian worldview is the only worldview that can justify and will maintain the human rights and freedoms upon which our nation was founded 250 years ago today. Islam won’t (sharia law), Hinduism won’t (caste system), Atheism won’t (no one is higher than the dictator, which led to 100 million murdered by atheistic regimes in the 20th Century).
Those other worldviews do not believe,“that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”
Our founders knew that rights can only come from God—not governments—but that good governments are supposed to secure those rights. That’s what Christianity teaches.
Reflecting back on the founding of our country, John Adams wrote to Thomas Jefferson in 1813, “The general Principles on which the Fathers achieved Independence, where the only Principles in which that beautiful Assembly of young Gentlemen could Unite. . . And what were these general Principles? I answer, the general Principles of Christianity. . . ”
So whether you are a Christian or not, you should appreciate the principles that come from Christianity, including inalienable rights, and that governments are temporary institutions that are to protect the lives and liberties of beings that are eternal and made in the image of God—you and me.
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My testimony (the one fit for public consumption):
January 13, 2021 was supposed to be the day I died. The night before, my husband held me close, trying to help me slow his breathing as he pressed his chest against my back. I was having one panic attack after another. Thirty minutes of terror followed a few minutes of drop, and then the panic would flood in again.
It wasn't any one thing that pushed me past my limit. It was a lifetime of severe trauma and childhood neglect that brought me to that point. I'd been raped, choked nearly to death, had 28 different 'dads' living in our home from age 8-15. My father killed himself and involved me in his suicide. My first husband died robbing a bank. I was exploited and pimped out. On and on and on.
I was no angel. I wasn't only a victim. All of that pain twisted me into a broken shell. The pain I caused to others was just as bad as the things that were done to me over the course of my life.
That night in January 2021, after hours of panic attacks, a wonderful escape plan presented itself to me. I realized I could just kill myself. Lights out. As a lifelong atheist I believed I would die and then .... nothing.
In that moment, 'nothing' sounded better than 'anything' else I could imagine.
I sat up in bed with relief. I could breathe. I started planning. I only had to make it until the next day, and I could kill myself while my husband was at work. I decided to go to a hotel so he wouldn't come home and find me.
The next morning I woke up to the sound of my mother in law, Tina, at the door. My husband was deeply worried about me and he'd asked her to come to the house and stay in visual range of me until he got home.
Tina was a born again Christian and I was instantly ticked off. I wanted to kill myself. The last thing I wanted was another sermon about her 'sky daddy'.
She sat on the couch with me (I wasn't going to be rude and kick her out) and told me her own story. One she'd never told before. She shared the gospel. She listened to me for hours, telling her about my pain.
When she arrived she said she had a nail appointment at one so we needed to keep track of the time. I counted the minutes, but when it was time to go, and I tried to get rid of her, she said she'd cancelled the appointment and was going to stay with me until Jack got home.
In an absolute fit of panic and childish anger over my foiled suicide plan, I cried and shouted at her, "I DON'T DESERVE THIS."
Tina calmly replied, "Dear, if you and I got what we deserve, we'd both be in hell right now." Then she smiled and took a sip of her coffee.
It felt like I got the wind knocked out of me. It was her non-chalance, her perfect red-lipstick smile. In that moment, I instantly knew it was true. All of it.
I instinctively repented through tears, and asked Jesus to be my savior and to lead me. (I'm pretty yackity so I said a bunch of stuff. I don't remember everything but I prayed for a few minutes). Suddenly, all the panic and pain was gone. In it's place was a joy I'd never experienced before. I jumped up delight and surprise, knowing without doubt that He was the love of my life and I would NEVER leave Him.
Three hours later Jack came home from work and I was so excited I was jumping up and down, smiling, and saying, "I'm saved! I can't believe it's real! I'm saved!"
Jack saw me go from active suicide planning, to pure joy in a matter of hours.
He came to the Lord the next day.
I should be in hell right this minute. So should you. There is no one who is good, no, not one.
But God, in His patient loving kindness gives us time. He gives us chance after chance. He shows himself to us while we still hate him. And in the moment of our submission, He is there to heal our broken hearts.
Because He loved me first. Because he died for me. Because he rose again. Because He is Holy Holy Holy. Because He is all that matters: I will worship Him until my last breath.
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The older I get, the more I realize we have the strongest military protecting the most precarious and delicate idea: liberty.
That word didn’t mean much to me earlier in life. But with the resurgence of communism, it crashes into my soul like a wrecking ball.
Liberty or death.
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Atheists really need to pick a lane.
Without God, the gods return.
And nobody sane wants that.
God renders the gods null.
It's not even hard to see why. If God is, then gods are merely creatures, perhaps powerful and splendid ones, but they don't merit worship, ever, nor are they intrinsically holy — that depends solely on their disposition toward God, whether they, the gods, properly worship God.
Since God truly is, the gods are truly null.
But a waning of the sense of the reality of God, a dark and atheistic time like ours, "the eclipse of God" one philosopher put it, will cause us to lose our sense of the nullity of gods, and many new idols will be erected.
The "New Atheists" thought that if you could remove God, you'd get an age of reason. But that isn't what happens. When you remove God, you remove any ultimate reason for things. And if you do that, you poison reason at the root, which renders it delirious.
The delirium of reason breeds monsters.
Old gods and monsters stir and wake, old cracked idols ponderously rise as golems.
Belief in God is one of the greatest goods in the world, and one of the many reasons is that it keeps the gods in check.
It also has the great advantage of being true, but even if you don't believe in God, for some strange reason, you should most definitely want to live in a society that does.
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If you're in the wrong, your feelings don't matter and should be discarded.
I was asked, "What do you do when you're angry with someone?" And I responded, "Depends. If I'm in the wrong, I don't get angry with them. That makes no sense. Why would you get angry with someone who you know is right?"
We all inherently know this is foolish, but applying it to ourselves is where it becomes a discipline.
For example, if a woman is pregnant, but she really doesn't feel like having a baby so she takes her child's life via abortion, her genuine feelings of "rightness" do not matter at all. What she did was wrong.
If your neighbor feels like taking you car because they really like it and want it, their feelings don't matter. Their feeling is wrong, and what they did was wrong. They have no right to be angry with you for having a car they feel like they should have. The realness or strong pull of a desire cannot make the desire right.
And similarly, if you are angry with someone but you are in the wrong, your anger is foolish and doesn't matter. Throw it in the trash.
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I’ve heard so many people insist there has to be more than one way to God, as though a single path is inherently unfair and multiple options are self-evidently just.
But this argument almost never engages the actual question. It skips straight to fairness and never asks: fair given what? Fair given which diagnosis?
Jesus Christ is not a preference. He is a prescription. And prescriptions are exclusive because diseases are specific.
The Christian claim is not that God is stingy with salvation. It is that sin carries a documented consequence which is death and separation from God, and that consequence requires a specific solution. You cannot treat a debt by being a better person going forward. The debt still exists. You cannot treat it by praying in a certain direction or performing symbolic acts. Those things do not touch the penalty but only demonstrate that you have underestimated it.
So when someone says there must be another way, they are making one of two arguments without realising it: either sin is not serious enough to require the cross, or God was too dramatic when he said the consequence was death. Both positions require you to call God a liar. That is your right. But it is not a generous theology, it is a pretentious contradiction.
And perhaps more importantly, the message of Christ is not only about eternity. Accepting the resurrection means accepting your nature. It means living with the knowledge that every time you sin, you are crucifying him again. That image does not automatically stop sin, but it creates friction. It creates gravity, and it makes repentance something you pursue, not something you schedule.
A judge cannot pardon an offense the defendant refuses to acknowledge. But the deeper problem is not even guilt, it is jurisdiction. When you reject Christ, you are not simply saying “I am innocent.” You are saying “this court has no authority over me.” You are contesting God’s right to declare the consequence in the first place.
But God has already entered the record. 1 John 1 says you have sinned. Romans 6 says the wage of that sin is death. These are not opinions. They are the charges, filed and documented. Every other religious path; Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, however sincere and however demanding, hands you a program for self-improvement. They say: do this, abstain from that, accumulate enough, and you can close the gap yourself. They make you the solution to your own problem. Christianity alone says the gap cannot be closed from your side, and then points to the only one who closed it from his.
So the question “why can’t there be many ways to God?” is really the question “why can’t I negotiate the terms of my own pardon?” And the answer is that you are not the judge. You did not set the penalty. You do not get to revise it because you find it inconvenient. The court is already in session, and the evidence is already submitted. The only remaining question is whether you will accept what has already been done on your behalf, or insist that a crime you committed in a court you refuse to recognise deserves a sentence you are willing to serve.
Grace is not the absence of consequence. It is consequence fully met, by someone else, on your behalf. Rejecting that is the most expensive pride a person can carry.
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Every parent needs to watch this. This mother called me in hysterics after the police showed up at her door in the middle of the night. The dad had to escape with their daughter in the middle of the night to keep the trans cult from stealing her. This is a good family. @AffirmReal helped this family managed this situation. These parents are so brave to save their baby girl the way that they did.
See the story of a WA family who moved out of state in the middle of the night to protect their youngest daughter from her school forcing its agenda on her. The family remains anonymous, but speaks out against policy that put their child's life in danger. youtu.be/dMz2awAvGIQ?si=mBZG…