John W. Bechtel II

[John W. Bechtel II @JohnWBechtel_2]

@ksorbs 2 Cor 4:4 (NLT)

Satan, who is the god of this world, has blinded the minds of those who don’t believe. They are unable to see the glorious light of the Good News. They don’t understand this message about the glory of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God.

[Yossi BenYakar @YossiBenYakar]

Qatar has spent $65 million over the past 17 years funding more than 220 education programs across the United States from K-12 schools to universities and teacher training.
According to a new report by the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy, much of this funding has been used to promote anti-Israel content in American classrooms.

This isn’t random charity. It’s a long-term, strategic effort to shape how young Americans view Israel and the Middle East. The report is now calling for a federal investigation into Qatar’s influence operations inside the U.S. education system.

How much longer will America allow foreign regimes to buy influence in its schools and universities?

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

They are not rationalizing violence against Jews because they believe Israel is doing evil; they are accusing Israel of evil in order to rationalize violence against Jews.

The accusation itself becomes psychological license by which ancient resentment can masquerade as virtue.

[Ken Blackwell @kenblackwell]

Thomas Sowell is 95 years old.

Let that number sit with you.

Ninety-five years on this earth, and in all of them, he has never held public office, never had a viral moment, never begged for anyone’s attention.

What he has done is write 30 books and spend 50 years of patient research building a body of work that has outlasted every fashionable idea his critics tried to bury him with.

While the loudest voices in Washington were chasing polls and the cleverest minds on campus were chasing grants, Sowell was in the library reading the data, tracking the outcomes, and dismantling one bad idea after another.

He doesn’t argue feelings.

He measures results.

He isn’t selling anything.

His whole approach boils down to one line that every politician and activist in this country should be forced to recite before they open their mouths:

“There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.”

Sit with that, too.

Every federal program, every mandate, every well-meaning crusade carries a cost, and somebody pays it.

Sowell’s life work has been the simple act of asking who.

Listen to him on the “help” our communities have been promised for two generations:

“I’ve been doing studies now for 20 years of programs designed to increase equality. They increase inequality.”

“Even when the programs are designed for disadvantaged groups, they help the affluent members of the disadvantaged groups, while the lower members of those groups fall further behind than ever before.”

That is the whole affirmative action racket laid out in two sentences.

The kids from the same zip codes as the Harvard faculty get the slot, while the kids from the neighborhoods that actually need a ladder are told to wait their turn.

Sowell says it plain:

“The vast majority of blacks who go to places like Harvard, Cornell, and Stanford are not blacks from the ghetto. They’re from the same neighborhoods as the whites there.”

The race hustlers don’t want you to know that, because they need the grievance to stay in business.

Sowell’s advice to young people cuts right through the hustle:

“Stay away from the race hustlers.”

“Equip yourself with skills that people are willing to pay for.”

That is the whole ball game right there, a matter of skills, work, and accountability rather than slogans, hashtags, or another federal program designed to pad a consultant’s salary while leaving the South Side worse off than before.

Here is the line I want every young person in Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, and every other corner of America to read tonight:

“Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.”

That one sentence explains our schools, our cities, and why the neighborhoods the War on Poverty was supposed to save are in worse shape now than they were before the checks started flowing.

Sowell has pushed a whole generation of us to stop reacting and start asking harder questions.

What are the incentives?

Who actually benefits from this policy?

What do the numbers look like five, ten, twenty years later?

Ask those questions honestly, and the illusion falls apart.

The most dangerous man in America right now isn’t the one shouting on television.

He is the 95-year-old professor in Palo Alto who doesn’t need you to agree with him, because he has the data on his side.

Ninety-five years of telling the truth.

Thank you, Dr. Sowell.

[Amos Yadlin @YadlinAmos]

Stephen Walt is wrong again. His latest article in @ForeignPolicy, blaming the “Israel lobby” for the U.S. war with Iran is lazy analysis masquerading as realism. This was not a war fought for Israel; it was a war driven by clear American interests: confronting a brutal, anti-American regime, supporting the Iranian people, and preventing a dangerous power from going nuclear. Israel was not the cause. It was the partner.

Walt once again reduces American strategy to an Israeli conspiracy. That is not serious analysis. He ignores the fact that Iran has declared war on the United States (the "Great Satan") and on Israel ("Little Satan") from its very first day, beginning with the seizure of the U.S. Embassy and the hostage crisis in 1979, continuing with the killing of hundreds U.S. Marines in Beirut in 1983, and extending to Iranian-made roadside bombs that caused hundreds of American deaths and injuries in Iraq. And the list goes on. The United States did not call “death to Iran”.; rather, it finally confronted Tehran seriously after years in which diplomacy failed to curb the regime’s aggressive behavior.

Moreover, President Trump’s decision to engage militarily after the massacre of 30,000 brave Iranians should be recognized as a moment of courage in contrast to the West’s reliance on diplomatic condemnations and even disturbing silence from Western campuses.
The U.S. confronted Iran because of its repression, aggression, nuclear ambitions, and direct threat to American interests. Calling that a war “on Israel’s behalf” is not just misleading. It is intellectually dishonest.

[Assemblies of God US @AG_USA]

What began as a scheduled conference for students of @seuniversity has become an extended time of worship, repentance, and renewal that leaders say reflects what they have been praying for in the next generation. https://t.co/qdbKaf9luJ

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

For those unaware, SpaceX has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon, as we can potentially achieve that in less than 10 years, whereas Mars would take 20+ years.

The mission of SpaceX remains the same: extend consciousness and life as we know it to the stars.

It is only possible to travel to Mars when the planets align every 26 months (six month trip time), whereas we can launch to the Moon every 10 days (2 day trip time). This means we can iterate much faster to complete a Moon city than a Mars city.

That said, SpaceX will also strive to build a Mars city and begin doing so in about 5 to 7 years, but the overriding priority is securing the future of civilization and the Moon is faster.

[John W. Bechtel II @JohnWBechtel_2]

@AwakenWithJP You are the latest Trojan Horse (joining Tucker and Candace among others), and I will faithfully warn those within my circle of influence against you!

[John Bevere @JohnBevere]

Many of Jesus’ words about His return sound confusing to us because we hear them through a modern lens. But He wasn’t speaking to a Western audience. He was speaking within Jewish covenant culture.

In an ancient Jewish wedding, the bridegroom would leave to prepare a place for his bride, then return for her at a time she did not know in advance. When Jesus spoke this way, He wasn’t creating mystery. He was using a familiar picture to communicate promise, faithfulness, and readiness.

Understanding how He spoke helps us understand how He wants us to live as we wait.

Follow this link to learn more about my new book, The King Is Coming.
https://t.co/ncPfqYBWZA

[John W. Bechtel II @JohnWBechtel_2]

@WellsJorda89710 Not sure yet. Halftime show at a minimum. Looking forward to the Turning Point USA halftime show.

[Assemblies of God US @AG_USA]

Recent events in Minneapolis have been marked by significant tension around immigration enforcement, disruptions to worship services, debates over religious liberty, and compassion for migrants.

Local AG leaders share ways to pray for Minneapolis.

https://t.co/77RhMGeNQg

[New York Post @nypost]

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reveals up to 10% of US budget stolen each year. Read today's cover here: https://t.co/e2577OWta9

[Nancy Pearcey @NancyRPearcey]

Communism entails atheism:

"It was Dostoevsky who drew from the French Revolution and its seething hatred for the Church the lesson that ‘revolution must necessarily begin with atheism.’

That is absolutely true.

But the world had never before known a godlessness as organized, militarized, and tenaciously malevolent as that preached by Marxism. Within the philosophical system of Marx and Lenin and at the heart of their psychology, hatred of God is the principal driving force, more fundamental than all their political and economic pretensions.

Militant atheism is not merely incidental or marginal to communist policy; it is not a side effect, but the central pivot. To achieve its diabolic ends, communism needs to control a population devoid of religious and national feeling, and this entails a destruction of faith and nationhood.

Communists proclaim both of these objectives openly, and just as openly put them into practice."

--Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

[Nancy Pearcey @NancyRPearcey]

The impact of Christianity on women globally:

"Sociological studies find that, even today, evangelicalism has the effect of raising the status of women in countries around the globe.

An anthropologist named Elizabeth Brusco conducted a study in Colombia. As a feminist trained in Marxist thought, she expected to find that Christianity would be “a powerful tool of patriarchy.” Instead, she discovered that when a man converts to evangelical Protestantism, he stops drinking, smoking, gambling, and visiting prostitutes. Instead, he directs his money to his family. As a result, the household income goes up and the family’s standard of living increases.

In Latin America, Brusco explains, “the machismo role” calls for “aggression, violence, pride, self-indulgence, and an individualistic orientation in the public sphere.” But when a man becomes an evangelical Christian, those toxic qualities “are replaced by peace seeking, humility, self-restraint, and a collective orientation within the church and the home.”

Brusco concludes that “Colombian evangelicalism can be seen as a ‘strategic’ women’s movement because it serves to reform gender roles in a way that enhances female status.”

A larger study, covering Asia and Africa, was conducted by sociologist Bernice Martin of the University of London. She writes that evangelical churches help men put the needs of the household above their own pleasure; thus they have done far more to improve the lives of poor women around the globe than Western aid societies.

Martin, too, calls evangelicalism a women’s movement among the poor of the developing world. In her words, Christianity presents a “gender paradox” because its impact is so contrary to the expectations of secular people.

A New York Times columnist named Nicholas Kristof, together with his wife, wrote a bestselling book titled Half the Sky. After investigating the status of women around the globe, the authors agree that Christian churches have “a positive impact on the role of women” in developing countries. Why? Because they address the most widespread male vices that destroy marriages and families — like alcoholism and adultery — which, they say, have caused tremendous hardship to women.

Just like in the days of the early church, Christianity teaches men to treat their wives with dignity as individuals who share equally in reflecting the divine image."

[A Gene Robinson @AlBuffalo2nite]

🚨You cannot hate mainstream media enough…there are no adjectives sharp enough for their malevolence or their insidious lies.

Here’s a clean example of how they manipulate the public.

The headline says a man was charged in Sioux Falls. Fine. But the image they lead with shows a white man being arrested and walked to a police vehicle.

That image does the psychological work.
The brain locks it in instantly. Perception laundering is complete..

Then elsewhere…the actual suspect appears. A completely different person.

Two men. Two images. The man on the left is who they show you the man on the right is who committed the crime.

One story.

One intentional deception.

That is not an error. That is narrative laundering.

They know most people never read past the headline.

They know images anchor belief faster than facts.
By the time the truth appears, the lie has already done its job.

This is not journalism. It’s perception engineering.

If accuracy mattered, the image would always match the suspect. It didn’t…because accuracy wasn’t the goal.

Protecting a narrative was.

Once you see this trick, you’ll see it everywhere.

And they’re counting on you not noticing.@EndWokeness @mrddmia

#SilentMajoritySpeaks #AStoneGroove

[John Bevere @JohnBevere]

Many people confuse forgiveness with full access, but Scripture shows a very different pattern. God forgave us long before we repented. He showed kindness. He protected us. He extended mercy even when our hearts were far from Him. That is forgiveness.

But He did not entrust us with the intimate things of His heart until we surrendered our lives and began to walk in obedience. That is a boundary. Forgiveness removes walls, but wisdom establishes healthy limits.

True forgiveness blesses, prays, and releases the offense. It refuses to repay evil for evil. Yet it also guards the heart and protects what is sacred. This is how God treats us, and it is the model He calls us to follow with others.

The new episode of The John Bevere Podcast is out now. I believe it will bring clarity and freedom as you navigate relationships and walk in true forgiveness.

Watch the episode at the link here: https://t.co/LfKAv9ApxN

[John Bevere @JohnBevere]

Offense has become one of the enemy’s most effective strategies because he does not even need truth to fuel it. Perceived injustice can imprison us just as deeply as real injustice. In an age of instant reactions and incomplete information, many people are carrying burdens that were never theirs to carry.

When we take on offense, whether personal or on behalf of others, we enlarge the trap. We step into a prison the enemy hopes we will not recognize. Offense clouds discernment. It hardens the heart. It separates us from the freedom and clarity God intends for us.

Jesus invites us to a different way of living. He calls us to forgive, to stay tender, and to guard our hearts with wisdom and truth. If you feel weighed down or stirred up, this episode will help you see what is really happening and how to walk free.

Watch the full episode here: https://t.co/zVEpNPpMmU

[John W. Bechtel II @JohnWBechtel_2]

@JohnBevere As a pastor, I can confirm that perceived injustice is as prevalent as real injustice, if not more than. May the word about this the Lord has given you speed ahead and be honored.

[Speaker Mike Johnson @SpeakerJohnson]

The facts in this story are truly disgusting:

Millions in stolen Minnesota welfare dollars have been funneled to Al-Shabaab — an ISIS-aligned TERROR group.

This happened because Democrats built a system so loose, so corrupt, and so politically timid that fraudsters exploited it to bankroll terrorists abroad. This is a national security problem.

America deserves answers and accountability, NOW.

https://t.co/L3F4ov8ACL

[John W. Bechtel II @JohnWBechtel_2]

@WellsJorda89710 It turns out she was a Trojan horse, like Tucker was. Not sure whether it was premeditated, but the result is the same either way. I'm so grieved.