Ever had a word come from God from a place you didn't expect? God does that -- He even used a donkey once.
He probably wants to use you, too, to share His love and comfort with someone else.
2 Corinthians 1:3-4 -- "Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, SO THAT we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God."
Pretty great to turn on @glennbeck's radio show and hear my buddy @BillyHallowell talking Angels and Demons stuff.
Powerful discussion. If you missed it, go listen to the podcast.
Pretty incredible that when I see and acknowledge that God is doing an amazing work, I'm still dumb enough to tell Him He's doing it wrong.
Something I learned from the great theologian Archie Bunker many moons ago: "God don't make no mistakes. That's how he got to be God."
Why is it that being made new can be so painful?
Asking God tear off the old and build something new, might hurt. Rest assured that He's not the source of the pain. He's just taking off the stuff you've put on.
"Un-dragoning" isn't pleasant, but it's necessary.
There's an antidote to the poison you've let slip into your life.
It's really easy to get anxious, to let worry get a foothold. The good news is that Paul identified the remedy.
And it works.
It's worse than you think: Campus lefties sabotage UC San Diego @YAF chapter's event with threatening violent imagery and other tactics. And it's not the first hate-fest by leftist students at the school. https://t.co/aVrFQg9lis via @DailyCaller@Jaryn_Crouson
A few recent interviews with John Yep ( @USAYep ) are circulating the claim that Charlie Kirk ( @charliekirk11 ) was in the process of converting to Catholicism. That claim is not accurate, and it needs to be corrected.
As the Senior Director of TPUSA’s Faith division and someone who served directly under Charlie’s leadership during the final year and a half of his life, I am in a position to speak plainly about this.
I have personally communicated with Charlie’s wife, @MrsErikaKirk, and I also spoke directly with Father Kline, the priest referenced in these discussions. After those conversations, the facts are straightforward:
• Charlie was not in the process of converting to Catholicism
• He never took Catholic conversion classes (OCIA)
• His marriage was never convalidated in the Catholic Church
• He was baptized Presbyterian and remained a Bible believing evangelical throughout his life
Father Kline indicated concern that his prior comments have been misconstrued and that the current public narrative is not accurately representing his conversations with Charlie’s intentions.
Let me be clear, respect for Catholicism is not the same thing as moving toward conversion. Charlie respected many people across denominational lines. Like many evangelicals, including myself, he read widely, including Augustine and Aquinas. None of that constitutes a conversion trajectory.
In my own conversations with Charlie, he was firm on justification by grace and did not believe he could biblically reconcile certain Catholic doctrines, including Mariology and the invocation of the Saints. In the few instances he was present at mass, he found it peaceful and beautiful. Charlie enjoyed sitting inside the empty sanctuary to worship in peace without being asked for selfies etc. That is a long way from entering OCIA.
If there had been an active conversion process, there would be documentation. There is none.
Charlie loved all true Christians, whether Catholic, Orthodox, or Evangelical. Again, that is a long way from entering OCIA.
That this even has to be addressed is bizarre.
An occasional “fist bump” does not equate to intimate friendship nor give @USAYep the authority to speak on behalf of the dead. I would caution him to take care not to overstate what the facts simply do not support. This is not about scoring theological points. It is about honoring Charlie’s actual life and faith with accuracy and refusing to let speculation rewrite his story.
A 10-day air traffic lockdown was issued in West Texas overnight and just as suddenly lifted hours later, all due to a breach of U.S. airspace by Mexican drug cartels, officials confirmed to the DCNF on Wednesday: https://t.co/SBj5s0Roc0 via @DailyCaller@melissa_newsham
Our former @theblaze colleague @ChrisCPandolfo and his wife are going through a very tough time. If you feel led, please consider giving:
https://t.co/8eX2QbnjLK