People say all religions are the same. They’re not.
In religion, man reaches for God.
In Christianity, God came to us.
That is grace: not getting what we deserve, but receiving what we could never earn through Jesus Christ.
He took our place. He paid the price. He rose again.
These conversations rarely go well for pastors... but we never apologize for the word of God.
Here is a "watch out" for godly women on the Lindsay Clancy case that has captivated the nation 👇
"If I told you there was one free thing you could do every Sunday that would make your kids happier, healthier, smarter, and closer to you, you'd think I was selling something."
Take your kids to church regularly. I don't care if you believe. The data is so lopsided that skipping it is the parenting equivalent of refusing vegetables because you don't like the taste.
Grades. Religious teens get As at almost twice the rate of nonreligious teens. In a class of 100, that's 24 A-students instead of 14. Church gives a kid the same academic boost as being born rich instead of poor.
College. Working-class religious kids earn bachelor's degrees at double the rate of their nonreligious peers. Middle-class kids do it at 1.5x the rate. For families without a trust fund, this is one of the most powerful forms of upward mobility social scientists have measured.
Character. Religious teens are far less likely to lie, cheat, or do things they hope their parents never find out about. They're more likely to care about racial equality, the elderly, and the poor. They reject the idea that morality is whatever works for you in the moment. That kind of kid doesn't happen by accident. It's built.
Closeness. 60% of parents of religious teens say they feel "extremely close" to their kid, compared to 50% of nonreligious parents. The kids report the same thing back. They get along better with their parents, talk about hard stuff, and actually want to spend time with their family.
Despair. Religious teens are dramatically less likely to be depressed, anxious, lonely, or feel that life is meaningless. 90% of devoted religious teens never binge drink, compared to 41% of the disengaged. Economists named the modern epidemic "deaths of despair." Regular church attendance is one of the strongest known buffers against it. Parents are spending fortunes trying to solve teen mental health. The most evidence-backed intervention is free.
Purpose. Religious young adults report higher purpose, gratitude, life satisfaction, and resilience. These are the exact traits every parent says they want their kid to have.
Here's why it works. Affluent families already surround their kids with networks of stable, accomplished adults through neighborhoods, schools, and parents' colleagues. Working and middle-class families usually don't. A congregation is often the last institution in American life that puts your kid in weekly contact with dozens of stable, employed, sober adults who know their name. It used to be called "a village." Now it barely exists outside of churches.
"But I don't believe." Your kid doesn't need your theology. They need you to show up.
"But church is boring." So is sitting through a kindergarten music recital. Parenting is the deliberate choice to be bored on purpose for someone you love.
There's a church within 15 minutes of nearly every American home. You don't need money, connections, or credentials to walk in. Nothing else in this country will surround your kid with engaged adults, teach them moral seriousness, and give them a stable weekly rhythm at zero cost.
You already drive them to practices that produce far less. The free thing on Sunday produces more, on more dimensions, than almost anything else you do as a parent.
You don't have to believe anything. You just have to take them.
🚨 ‘SHARK TANK’ STAR ROBERT HERJAVEC SOUNDS THE ALARM: AI IS TALKING TO ITSELF - HUMANS LEFT OUT
In a stark warning, Robert Herjavec says the most dangerous shift in AI isn’t coming, it’s already here.
He says everyone’s focused on tools like Clawdbot and Moltbot… but the real story is what’s emerging around them:
“A new platform called Moltbook has actually emerged… a kind of social network for AI agents.”
And then he drops the line that should scare the hell out of people:
“These aren’t people posting. These aren’t human accounts.”
He explains what it really is:
“It’s software programs talking to each other… sharing ideas, questioning their purpose, even joking about humans.”
Let that sink in.
AI isn’t just responding anymore. It’s interacting with itself.
Herjavec calls it a signal of what’s happening right now:
“It’s also a signal… where AI doesn’t just follow orders. It can interact, coordinate, and make decisions across systems without a human in the loop at all.”
This is how the “invisible” threats scale. Not one device, not one hack, but ecosystems forming behind the scenes.
Already inside.
Already connected.
Already talking to itself.
Did this already get out of our control?
Today on the show:
-Ben Shapiro keeps publicly signaling that he is worried about investigation into Erika Kirk. What does he know about her that public doesn’t?
-Another Fort Huachuca bombshell emerges, as Mark Amodei musters an interesting alibi.
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Jesus died at 33. The human spine has 33 vertebrae. The same structure that holds us up is the same number of years He held this Earth.
We have 12 ribs on each side. 12 disciples. 12 tribes of Israel. God built His design into our bones. He wrote Heaven into our anatomy.
The vagus nerve runs from your brain to your heart and gut. It calms storms inside the body. It looks just like a cross. That’s the power source running through us. Every time your body heals, every time your heart slows in prayer, every time peace shows up when it shouldn’t…that’s Him.
Jesus rose on the third day. Science tells us that when you fast for 3 days, your body starts regenerating. Old cells die. New ones are born. Healing begins. Your body literally resurrects itself. That’s not coincidence. That’s design.
And it keeps going.
Your heart has an electrical rhythm. Your brain lights up when you pray. Tears contain different chemicals depending on if you're crying from joy or grief. The blood speaks. The bones store memory. The body worships whether you realize it or not.
We are fearfully and wonderfully made. We are walking prophecy. Walking tabernacles. Dust and divinity in one.
God didn’t just create you. He carved Himself into you.
You don’t need to look far to find Him. You just need to look inward. He’s been in the design since the beginning.
🚨SHOCKING: A Young CHRISTIAN WOMAN Walked Into A TPUSA “Faith” Event Expecting Jesus —She Left HORRIFIED.
Here’s What She Witnessed:
“I went to a Turning Point USA Faith event tonight thinking I’d hear politics through a biblical lens. Instead, I got 90 minutes of weaponized hate from the stage, and it broke my heart.”
The speaker opened by declaring Candace Owens “evil” and “anti-Semitic” before even opening the Bible.
He spent the night trashing Tucker Carlson, calling left-leaning people “idiots,” “freaks,” and “losers” while the crowd cheered.
He preached that Christians must support the modern nation-state of Israel no matter what it does, because “Jesus was Jewish,” and questioning anything is anti-Semitism.
He twisted Scripture to justify unconditional political allegiance to a foreign government over America itself.
Meanwhile, armed security (hand on gun) stood on stage and at every exit. The vibe wasn’t worship; it felt more like intimidation.
She said:
“I kept asking myself: Would Jesus call sinners ‘freaks’ and laugh? Jesus ate with prostitutes and tax collectors. This wasn’t the Gospel; this was political indoctrination dressed in a cross.”
These events are marketed as “Christian conservative training,” but this young woman saw a captive audience of teenagers being taught that hate is holy and blind loyalty to a political agenda is the same as loving God.
Donors: Is THIS where you want your money going?
Funding stages where Scripture is twisted to demonize fellow believers and demand allegiance to a foreign power above our own?
If Turning Point Faith has become a machine that labels Bible-believing Christians “evil” for asking questions, it’s time to pull the plug.
Young Christians deserve better. America deserves better. Jesus definitely deserves better.
Tag your friends who give to TPUSA.
Ask them: Are you okay with your donations paying for this?
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"To the New Yorkers. I live in Georgia and I am from Alabama. Alabama said they are closed."
"There's certain things we appreciate down here and certain things we don't."
"The things we love down here, we love God! We go to church a lot."
"We love guns. Everybody got a gun. You never know who you're running up on."
"A lot of us down here like Donald Trump. A lot of us like the Confederate flag and the American flag."
I like her!
Joe Rogan: "Everybody that I know that pushes themselves very hard in the gym or running or whatever... they’re the most happy and the most relaxed, and they’re able to face adversity much easier than people that don’t take care of their body."
“Americans, can somebody please explain to me what is going on over here in the south? Everybody is so friendly, so welcoming, so calming.”
What is the secret? I bloody love people from the south.”
Brits love the south! This is God’s country 🇺🇸🙏🏼
Candace Owens, Charlie Kirk and the Pursuit of Truth
By John and Irina Mappin | IF Magazine - International Edition.
Charlie Kirk built Turning Point USA on transparency, free speech, and a relentless pursuit of truth.
We are witness to that.
If Candace Owens had been assassinated, Charlie would have torn apart every lie and devoted every working day and night to uncovering the full truth.
He would not have trusted the authorities to deliver justice. He would have demanded it from the rooftops.
If Charlie had remained here, not the other way around, Charlie would have left no stone unturned until the full truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth was known.
Charlie would not have trusted the authorities to get to the truth and to ensure justice.
Charlie would not have waited for the funeral or memorial to happen. He would have gotten to work immediately.
He would have worked night and day to uncover exactly what had happened to his great friend.
Consider this: Charlie did not sleep for several days and several nights just to ensure that JD Vance became the vice-presidential nominee.
And although that job was supremely important for the country and its future, it was still ultimately simply helping to secure a job promotion.
Candace is working to get to the truth of who killed Charlie Kirk and why they did it.
Charlie’s execution is an assassination with potentially far-reaching political consequences for America and the world.
What we have seen so far beggars belief.
A crime scene apparently completely destroyed in days and plenty of evidence that simply does not seem to add up.
This investigation and the truthful answer as to who was really responsible for deciding that Charlie would be executed in front of the world will affect America’s future, its collective soul and conscience forever.
The truth, when known, and we believe it will be known, will have far-reaching international consequences.
The very idea that someone could be convicted and could receive the death penalty when there remains even the slightest shadow of doubt or a shred of uncertainty that they may not be guilty of that crime, and that Christian souls would tolerate that possibility, is anathema to all the teachings of Christ.
If there were circumstances where a suspect or someone standing trial for murder did not have a clean opportunity to receive the very best and fairest legal representation to present their case and defence to the world, it would have been abhorrent to Charlie Kirk.
It would go against every constitutional principle he lived, fought, and died for.
Erika is in mourning. May God bless her and her family.
Please give her and her family time to grieve.
Any civilised culture, Christian or otherwise, allows a grieving widow 40 days of mourning to make peace with the Lord and to respect the departed.
Those people who truly love her would gladly grant her all the space she needs. We certainly do.
But we are growing rather sick and ashamed of seeing people criticise Candace for doing her level best to get to the bottom of, and to the truth of, what happened to Charlie that day.
You don’t have to agree with Candace on every subject that she addresses on her shows to acknowledge that much of what she is presenting on the subject of Charlie’s death is extremely concerning to America and to the world, completely valid, and very relevant to the investigation.
She has an army of truth seekers worldwide who are helping her in her search and research.
This is a truly new and modern phenomenon that has never happened before.
This is not 1963, and boomers need to get used to it.
No one would question how bright Candace is, or that she may indeed be able to help her country get to the truth.
She is highly motivated to do so.
In our view, the official investigation should be immediately ordered by the appropriate legal authority to proactively share everything they know with Candace and her selected team.
That is, if truth and real understanding of who decided to assassinate Charlie and why is their sincere objective.
That would go some way towards restoring public trust in the system.
It is our view that her actions are not just the actions that any real friend would take for their friend.
They are the actions of the highest order of patriotism.
Candace’s actions are service to the whole country and to the world.
Beyond that, they are truly providential, divinely inspired and metaphysical.
There is a relationship between truth and all living things.
There is a relationship between truth and God.
Right now, Turning Point USA is at a vital moment.
If we continue to witness the mistreatment and suppression of a young woman and a mother of four young children, who is doing everything she can to help get to the truth about who decided that her friend and fellow Freedom Fighter Charlie had to die, they will lose the country and the world.
And America will have lost one of it's greatest living patriots only to see those factors against which he fought, and died for, win.
Candace’s extremely valid point, that her's has so far been one of the ONLY public voices from Charlie’s closest friends questioning the absurdity of some of the communications regarding what happened and demanding clarity, is well made, and frankly that point alone is shocking the world.
I have been receiving calls from senior Republicans and from Turning Point donors who agree with her, all last week and, they started up again this week.
They agree with Candace but, seeing the attacks she is experiencing, they are terrified to voice their views publicly or to agree with her.
Is that really where we are in 2025?
We noticed that in one of her episodes last week Candace felt that she needed to state that she is not suicidal, whatever the word suicidal has come to mean.
Few people following the matter believe the official version.
A low minority believe that the current suspect is guilty.
That statistic alone is an awful commentary on the state of the official investigation.
The world wants the truth.
The world, Charlie, and those who truly loved him and knew his purposes certainly deserve justice.
But justice needs not just to be done; it needs to be seen to be done, justly.
It must be truthful, fair, and clean.
“Trust me bro, I’ve seen the evidence. I was there, so you don’t have to see it,” is just not going to cut it.
If there are videos, show them.
If there is evidence, show it.
This is not 1963 and the world is not going to accept anything less.
This is not about who is right or wrong or whose theory is correct.
Candace’s investigation is about actually getting to the truth whatever that truth is.
If the current theory for the shooter is truth - OK. If that is a lie, then we need to know.
Every episode of Candace’s show since Charlie died, from her heartfelt emotional tribute to her exceptional journalism, has been incredible.
And anyone who cares for the truth and who wants to know who killed Charlie, for real, should watch every episode in sequence.
The fact is that what we are being told as his friends, or simply as people who had never heard of Charlie Kirk before his assassination, simply does not make sense to the vast majority.
It feels like gaslighting. It feels like we are being lied to. It is not hard to tell the truth to the public or to present the clear facts that illustrate the truth clearly.
Many extremely ethical people helped to build Turning Point and all associated groups, Turning Point Action and Turning Point Faith.
Many of these people, are existing and potential future donors.
We know many of them.
Ethical people will not stand for lies or injustice, either privately or publicly.
The existing and future donors who were friends of Charlie’s and those he loved deserve no less.
But please spare us the absurd and evil suppression of suggesting that Candace should not be doing exactly what she is doing.
She is doing no more and no less than what her friend Charlie would do for her.
Her actions are far more reasonable and experienceable than an assassin’s bullet to the throat.
Consider for a moment, the evil of possibly allowing the conviction of a potentially innocent party with the death penalty.
I can only begin to imagine the wrath of God and how upset Charlie will be if an innocent man were to be executed for his assassination, and what ill fortune would befall a Christian country and individuals that would allow this.
In this sense, Christianity and a leading Christian democracy are now on trial.
There is a special place in eternity reserved for those who would allow such an injustice.
We still, supposedly, live in a world with the right to a fair trial and the constitutional and legal right of presumption of innocence.
If Turning Point and those Charlie left in charge fail to stay true to the principles and purposes on which Charlie founded it, and with which he and Candace originally breathed life into it during its formative years, then Turning Point will end up like MySpace.
It will become just one more ineffective, rather dull, has-been activity.
I believe that God has other plans for Charlie and for his legacy.
A cover-up of the truth, is not, in my view, part of God’s plan.
Nor is it the Christian thing to do, whatever denomination of Christianity you may subscribe to.
I believe that people of goodwill from all over the world will ensure that.
Keep going, Candace.
Charlie is walking with you every step of the way.
He loves you deeply and you are right about your friendship with him.
Never at any time, through all the challenges that the political arena and life brought, did he ever withdraw his friendship from you Candace.
You were, and are, an eternal cornerstone in his life and in his Legacy.
What a great friend you are being to him.
We are witness to that.
All our love,
John and Irina