Chuck Franks

pastor, Calvinist but not mad about it, SBC, purported southern gentleman, SEBTS grad

[Chuck Franks @FranksNet]

@PawgeUA Yep!

[Chuck Franks @FranksNet]

@ChrisHohnholz I see it

[Southern Seminary @SBTS]

The final matchup. One book takes the title.

SBTS Madness Giveaway Matchup:
• Augustine of Hippo by Bradley G. Green — @Christian_Focus
• The Justice & Goodness of God by Thomas R. Schreiner — @Crossway

To enter: Repost this tweet.

Want a shot at the full Faculty Library giveaway? Go to https://t.co/aJ61ZPW5AO

[Chuck Franks @FranksNet]

He has risen indeed

[Chuck Franks @FranksNet]

@PawgeUA Yep. He got the maximum-it was the least that could have been done for the victims

[Chuck Franks @FranksNet]

@MargoinWNC Same here

[Chuck Franks @FranksNet]

@PawgeUA Figures

[Eric Schwalm @Schwalm5132]

As a former Special Forces Warrant Officer with multiple rotations running counterinsurgency ops—both hunting insurgents and trying to separate them from sympathetic populations—I’ve seen organized resistance up close. From Anbar to Helmand, the pattern is familiar: spotters, cutouts, dead drops (or modern equivalents), disciplined comms, role specialization, and a willingness to absorb casualties while bleeding the stronger force slowly.

What’s unfolding in Minneapolis right now isn’t “protest.” It’s low-level insurgency infrastructure, built by people who’ve clearly studied the playbook.

Signal groups at 1,000-member cap per zone. Dedicated roles: mobile chasers, plate checkers logging vehicle data into shared databases, 24/7 dispatch nodes vectoring assets, SALUTE-style reporting (Size, Activity, Location, Unit, Time, Equipment) on suspected federal vehicles. Daily chat rotations and timed deletions to frustrate forensic recovery. Vetting processes for new joiners. Mutual aid from sympathetic locals (teachers providing cover, possible PD tip-offs on license plate lookups). Home-base coordination points. Rapid escalation from observation to physical obstruction—or worse.

This isn’t spontaneous outrage. This is C2 (command and control) with redundancy, OPSEC hygiene, and task organization that would make a SF team sergeant nod in recognition. Replace “ICE agents” with “occupying coalition forces” and the structure maps almost 1:1 to early-stage urban cells we hunted in the mid-2000s.

The most sobering part? It’s domestic. Funded, trained (somewhere), and directed by people who live in the same country they’re trying to paralyze law enforcement in. When your own citizens build and operate this level of parallel intelligence and rapid-response network against federal officers—complete with doxxing, vehicle pursuits, and harassment that’s already turned lethal—you’re no longer dealing with civil disobedience. You’re facing a distributed resistance that’s learned the lessons of successful insurgencies: stay below the kinetic threshold most of the time, force over-reaction when possible, maintain popular support through narrative, and never present a single center of gravity.

I spent years training partner forces to dismantle exactly this kind of apparatus. Now pieces of it are standing up in American cities, enabled by elements of local government and civil society. That should keep every thinking American awake at night.

Not because I want escalation. But because history shows these things don’t de-escalate on their own once the infrastructure exists and the cadre believe they’re winning the information war.

We either recognize what we’re actually looking at—or we pretend it’s still just “activism” until the structures harden and spread.

Your call, America. But from where I sit, this isn’t January 2026 politics anymore.
It’s phase one of something we’ve spent decades trying to keep off our own soil.

[YFI 𝕏 @YFIHQ]

10/10

[Melissa the Hopeful🏠Homemaker @BiblicalBeauty]

If you profess to be a Christian, but your hermeneutical approach or eschatological stance prevents you from presenting the Gospel to a Jew with the sort of clarity, respect, and kindness that John MacArthur displays in this conversation with Ben Shapiro, you need to rethink everything.

"I want to say this to you personally. You are a testimony to the glory of God in man. I see the beauty of God's creation in you. I see the use of reason and compassion and care...but I'm saying, you either believe Jesus is the Savior or you don't, and that's the distinction."

[Owen Strachan @ostrachan]

There is no "Next John MacArthur."

There is no "Next Voddie Baucham."

There is no "Next Charlie Kirk."

God has never sent us duplicates of faithful Christians.

We get one of each.

This is God showing us that we do not depend on men.

We depend on Jesus.

And we have him!

[Lloyd Legalist @LloydLegalist]

Are there any original thoughts these days?

[Mikhaila Peterson @MikhailaFuller]

Guess EVERYONE forgot about this. Free speech is one thing. Banning a person off of social media is censorship. Removing a TV show because nobody watches it and your entire audience is mad for lying about something extremely evil is different. 🤷‍♀️ There are people I follow and respect who have different views and view Jimmy Kimmel’s dismissal as censorship of free speech… I disagree. People have been getting cancelled since 2016 for speaking the truth. Jimmy Kimmel lost his ABC network TV show that was already losing views because he blatantly lied about something (under ideological possession that brainwashes young people). That’s different from a comedy routine. There’s nuance here and the “cancellations” are not the same. My dad basically lost his job as a university professor for saying that the trans phenomenon was not good for people. Which was true. That’s why he was “cancelled”. This is not the same. Good riddance to people contributing to evil in the world. I don’t understand how people don’t see this. Welcome to reality. You asked for this. And voted for it and cheered when others lost their jobs for telling the truth. Now you’re losing your jobs for lying. Good. It’s about time. It has been for a decade.

[Seth Dillon @SethDillon]

15 million views on this. Make it 100 million.

[Darwin to Jesus @darwintojesus]

Without God the truth becomes nothing but an opinion.

[Chuck Franks @FranksNet]

@megbasham I’ve been praying for you. Praise God for this good news

[Puritan Gold @PuritanGold]

Adoption gives us the privilege of sons—regeneration gives us the nature of sons.

—Stephen Charnock

[Darwin to Jesus @darwintojesus]

Jesus Christ is God

[Chuck Franks @FranksNet]

@PawgeUA 🙄

[Chuck Franks @FranksNet]

Do any you have any suggestions for a good commentary on Ezekiel?