Ken Casey

Christian | Veteran | Husband | Father

[Ken Casey @KenCasey6]

The Ichthys - Jesus Christ, God's Son, Savior

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

The gun is the most misunderstood object in Western civilization. Not a weapon. A technology. The technology that made the idea of equality physically real.

1. The longbow democratized warfare – a peasant could kill a knight with a stick and a string, and Agincourt proved it. The gun completed the process. The armored warrior class whose claim to social dominance rested on physical superiority became obsolete. The aristocratic monopoly on violence ended not with a philosophy but with a mechanism. The gun is the physical enforcement of the idea that all men are created equal. Which is why the American founders put it in the second amendment – not as an afterthought, but as the guarantee of everything else.

2. The Roman citizen had the right to bear arms. The Greek citizen had it. The English yeoman had it. The Swiss canton built its entire civilization on it. The disarming of the population has always been, in every civilization, in every century, the first act of the government that intends to stop being answerable to that population. Show me a disarmed population and I will show you a population that lost something else shortly after.

3. The Second Amendment is not about hunting. It is not about sport. It is about the relationship between the armed citizen and the state – the explicit constitutional acknowledgment that the citizen’s right to defend himself, his family, and his civilization against any threat, including the government itself, is not granted by the state and cannot be revoked by it. Power flows upward from the armed citizen, not downward from the armed state.

4. The gun defends the family. The woman alone with her children. The farmer on the edge of civilization. The shopkeeper in the neighborhood the police no longer patrol. The gun is the equalizer – the technology that makes the physical difference between a large man and a small woman irrelevant. Every argument for disarmament is, at its core, an argument that the state will protect you better than you can protect yourself. The evidence for this proposition is not encouraging.

5. In Europe, the disarmament is now nearly complete – and it happened precisely as the state’s ability and willingness to protect its citizens began to decline. The timing is not coincidental. A population that cannot defend itself must trust the state to defend it – which is a population that cannot effectively question whether the state is doing so. The dependency is the design.

6. The gun is a civilizational technology in the deepest sense: it requires responsibility, judgment, and the willingness to accept the consequences of your decisions. You cannot outsource it. You cannot have a committee fire it. It is the most anti-bureaucratic object ever invented – a direct, personal, consequential instrument that puts the full weight of the decision on the individual holding it. Which is precisely why the administrative state finds it intolerable. Not because it is dangerous. Because it is sovereign.

7. The family that can defend itself does not depend on the state for its most fundamental security. The civilization that can defend itself has not yet outsourced its survival to an institution that will negotiate the terms of that survival on its own behalf. The gun determines who controls violence – and therefore who controls everything that violence can threaten. Which is everything. The Sobieski who rode down the hill had a sword and sixty thousand horsemen. The equivalent today is the armed citizen who understands what he is defending and why. Every civilization that forgot this discovered it the hard way. The ones that remembered it are still here.

[Jeremiah Knight @iamrjknight]

The church does not need more Christians who borrow their convictions from the culture, shape their beliefs around popular opinion, and then search for a verse to support what they have already decided.

We need believers whose minds, consciences, homes, work, relationships, worship, and public witness are governed by the Word of God. Scripture is not merely a book we consult for comfort or religious instruction. It is the final authority by which every thought, desire, doctrine, and decision must be judged.

“All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness” (2 Timothy 3:16).

A Christian cannot divide life into sacred and ordinary parts. Christ does not rule only over Sunday worship, prayer, and Bible reading. He rules over how we speak, spend, work, suffer, vote, forgive, marry, raise children, use our bodies, and respond when obedience becomes costly.

“Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus” (Colossians 3:17).

This is what it means to live before the face of God. We live with the settled knowledge that nothing is hidden from Him. Every private thought, secret habit, public action, and hidden motive stands open before His eyes.

“There is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do” (Hebrews 4:13).

The courage the church needs will not come from stronger personalities, louder platforms, political influence, or confidence in ourselves. It will come from minds renewed by Scripture and hearts that fear God more than men.

“And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind” (Romans 12:2).

The world is discipling people every day. It teaches us what to love, what to hate, what to celebrate, and what to call evil. Unless the Word of God is shaping us more deeply than the world, we will eventually speak its language, adopt its values, and still imagine that we are following Christ.

We do not need Christians who merely know verses. We need Christians who bow before them.

To live Coram Deo is to live every moment under the authority of God, before the eyes of God, for the glory of God.

[Jeremiah Knight @iamrjknight]

The modern rejection of God’s wrath is not an isolated doctrinal mistake. It is part of a deeper refusal to receive God as He has revealed Himself.

Many are willing to speak of divine love, mercy, patience, and kindness, but they become offended when Scripture speaks of holiness, judgment, vengeance, and eternal punishment. They do not want the living God. They want a god shaped by modern feelings, one who comforts sinners without confronting them and forgives rebellion without demanding repentance.

“You thought that I was just like you; I will reprove you and state the case in order before your eyes” (Psalm 50:21).

God’s wrath is not a flaw in His character. It is His holy and settled opposition to evil. A god who watches cruelty, idolatry, murder, oppression, and unbelief without righteous anger would not be loving. He would be morally corrupt.

“God is a righteous judge, and a God who has indignation every day” (Psalm 7:11).

The denial of wrath also destroys the meaning of the cross. If there is no judgment to bear, no curse to endure, and no righteous anger to satisfy, then Christ did not die as our substitute. Calvary becomes little more than an example of love rather than the place where justice and mercy met.

“Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us” (Galatians 3:13).

This is why the wrath of God is hated. It tells us that sin is not weakness, brokenness, or poor self esteem. It is rebellion against a holy Creator. It tells us that we are not basically good people in need of encouragement, but guilty sinners who need reconciliation through the blood of Christ.

“He who believes in the Son has eternal life; but he who does not obey the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him” (John 3:36).

A church that hides divine wrath will eventually preach another gospel. It will offer grace without guilt, salvation without judgment, a cross without substitution, and a Christ who saves people from unhappiness rather than from the righteous anger of God.

We do not make God loving by denying His wrath. We make His love meaningless.

The wonder of the gospel is not that God ignored His justice. It is that the Son willingly stood in the place of His people, bore what they deserved, and brought them safely into mercy. Only when wrath is understood does grace recover its weight.

[Ryan Saavedra @RyanSaavedra]

Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-MT) delivers an incredibly powerful speech about Iran.

Watch every second of this.

"Yesterday we saw the president of the United States and many others at Dover Air Force Base presiding over a ceremony that is very sacred to those of us who served, and that is a dignified return of remains from the war zone.

That process happens beginning in the war zone through Dover to the hometown of our fallen heroes. I participated in many of those ceremonies myself to include carrying friends of mine off the plane.

One of those is on this bracelet. He was cut in half by an Iranian EFP.

This regime that we are fighting does not care about our partisan politics. They don't care who you voted for, who you pray to, or where you live. They want to kill all of us. And they don't just say it, they actually do it, and they've been doing it for forty-seven years.

This is a war of choice. The Democrats are correct. It's a war of choice that was begun by a radical lunatic band of terrorists that took over a beautiful nation 47 years ago, took it over with brutality, force, and savagery. And the second they took it over, they didn't free their people, they didn't unleash the largest oil reserves in the world to build schools and bridges.

They took it over to murder their own people and to spread their disgusting ideology across the world, and that is exactly what they have been doing. They don't just say it and talk about it. You don't have to believe what they say. You can simply watch what they've done.

They have attacked families, women, children, innocent people. They don't just attack them and kill them, they rape them. They skin them alive on camera. They celebrate it. They honor those people who do disgusting things that we would put in jail for the rest of their lives in this country, and they do it for fun, and they pay them money to do it, and they're heroes to that nation.

They've done it to friends of mine. They've done it to families who've been in this chamber. And the fact that we sit here and listen to elected officials of this country defend these lunatics who want us all dead. They want all of you dead. They want all of us dead.

They don't want us to disappear with a snap of a finger. They want us to be raped, burned alive, and cut into pieces. Watch the video from October 7. That's what they want to happen from Maine to San Diego, from Seattle to Miami. They want this country turned into a burning husk of its former self, and you don't have to theorize that.

That's what they do. From the 1983 barracks bombing, where 280 Marines were vaporized in a morning, from USS Cole to the Achille Lauro, to every terrorist attack, from the Houthis, Hezbollah, Hamas. These are not humanitarian freedom organizations. They are death-dealing cults, and they want all of us to die brutal deaths.

William Buckley was abducted in 1985, an American military officer. He was skinned alive on camera by the Iranians. American prisoners of war who were captured. They were never called prisoners of war because they were captured by lunatic terrorists, so they were not subject to the Geneva Convention. They were captured and murdered, power drills through their brains. This is in Iraq. These are families that have dealt with this, and they've never gotten a single dime.

These families have never gotten restitution, and not a single president has ever stood up to them. Love Donald Trump or hate him, love his policies, hate ICE, love ICE, whatever. There's never been a single president who has stood up to Iran and hit back. For 47 years, our troops and our families have been absorbing attack after attack after attack all over the world.

And their radical ideology does not stop at the Persian Gulf. It doesn't stop at Tel Aviv. They want to do this everywhere. It's a global radical ideology, and we've been fighting it for half a century.

We didn't start this war. We did not, but we will finish it. And forever wars are not popular with anybody these days. Both sides of the love to attack our forever wars. And I can promise you, being someone overseas wearing the uniform, when you're fighting for your country, you don't care what party's in office, but you're fighting to defend your country, and you turn on the news and see your elected officials stabbing you in the back, telling you that you're failing, that you've failed every goal of the war, is what I just heard.

Last time I checked, we've wiped these bastards out. An occasional missile strike and boats in the straits, that's not military strength. Those are the flailings of a failing empire. Those are the flailings of a nation in collapse because they deserve it. So I encourage our colleagues on both sides of the aisle, whatever's politically convenient, whatever plays well on Twitter or Facebook, think about the people who are deployed right now, standing on that wall with a loaded weapon, who have volunteered to defend our country and our way of life.

Because they are there defending us in a just war, because we did not start a war with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. They started it with us 47 years ago, and their attacks have gone unanswered for half a century. It's time to fix this problem and make sure another generations of Americans does not have to fight this murderous, savage adversary."

[Jeremiah Knight @iamrjknight]

The return of Christ was never given to the church as an excuse to neglect the duties God has placed before us.

Yet many believers have turned the blessed hope into an escape from ordinary faithfulness. They spend more time matching headlines to charts, calculating prophetic sequences, watching borders, wars, political alliances, and the affairs of one earthly nation than preaching the crucified and risen Christ.

Prophecy has become a system to master rather than truth meant to produce holiness, endurance, worship, and obedience. People can explain their preferred order of future events while remaining shallow in Scripture, careless about sin, silent about the gospel, and unprepared to suffer for Christ.

The apostles did not travel through the world proclaiming timelines. They proclaimed a Person.

“For I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified” (1 Corinthians 2:2).

Scripture certainly speaks about Israel, the nations, judgment, resurrection and the return of Christ. But every promise, shadow, covenant and future hope finds its meaning and fulfilment in Him. When our preaching produces experts in charts but leaves people ignorant of Christ, we have missed the centre of divine revelation.

“We proclaim Him, admonishing every man and teaching every man with all wisdom, so that we may present every man complete in Christ” (Colossians 1:28).

When the disciples stood looking into heaven after Christ ascended, the angels did not praise them for staring upward. Christ had already told them what they were to do. They were to receive power from the Holy Spirit and bear witness to Him throughout the earth.

“You shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth” (Acts 1:8).

Then came the question that should still search the church today.

“Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky?” (Acts 1:11).

There is a way of speaking about the return of Christ that sounds spiritual while producing idleness. Some watch the sky while neglecting the neighbour beside them. They study the movements of nations while refusing to put sin to death, make disciples, care for the weak, confront error, or speak the gospel to the lost.

Biblical hope does not make us spectators. It makes us servants who know that the Master is returning and that every hour belongs to Him.

“Do business with this until I come back” (Luke 19:13).

The hope of His appearing is not an escape from holiness. It is one of the strongest reasons Scripture gives for pursuing holiness. Anyone who claims to long for Christ while making peace with sin has misunderstood what His return means.

“Everyone who has this hope fixed on Him purifies himself, just as He is pure” (1 John 3:3).

Christ is not returning merely to remove His people from difficulty. He is returning as King and Judge. Every false refuge will fall, every hidden work will be exposed, and every servant will answer for how he handled the truth, gifts, time, and responsibilities entrusted to him.

That truth should not produce laziness, endless speculation, or an obsession with dates. It should produce sobriety, courage, repentance, and careful obedience.

“Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, what sort of people ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness” (2 Peter 3:11).

We may rightly long for the day when suffering ends, sin is removed, and Christ is seen in His glory. But longing for that day does not release us from the responsibilities of this one. The believer who truly waits for Christ does not abandon the field while studying the map. He remains at his post and does the work his Lord commanded.

The blessed hope was not given to make the church obsessed with dates, borders, wars, and political alliances. It was given to fix our eyes upon Christ, purify our lives, strengthen our hands for obedience, and prepare us to stand before Him.

Christ is not returning to congratulate us for having the correct chart. He is returning to judge the living and the dead. Therefore we must work while it is day, suffer without surrender, resist sin, preach Christ and be found faithful when He appears.

[Jeremiah Knight @iamrjknight]

One of the strange witnesses to the truth of Christianity is how desperately men labour to silence it.

If Christ were only a myth, why does His name still trouble the conscience? If the gospel were only a human story, why does it still provoke such hatred, mockery, resistance, and endless attempts to explain it away?

The world does not rage against fairy tales. It rages against the truth that exposes it.

“This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light” (John 3:19).

Many reject Christianity not because the evidence is weak, but because the claims of Christ are absolute. He does not come as one religious option among many. He comes as Lord. He does not ask the sinner to admire Him from a distance. He commands repentance, exposes sin, and demands the surrender of the whole life.

“God is now declaring to men that all people everywhere should repent” (Acts 17:30).

This is why unbelief is never morally neutral. Scripture says men suppress the truth in unrighteousness. The problem is not only intellectual confusion. The problem is a heart that does not want God to be God.

“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth” (Romans 1:18).

The cross remains offensive because it destroys human pride. It says we are not basically good people needing improvement, but guilty sinners needing a Substitute. It says salvation is not earned by morality, intelligence, religion, or sincerity, but received by grace through faith in Christ alone.

“For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God” (1 Corinthians 1:18).

So when men spend their strength trying to disprove Christ, it does not make Him smaller. It often reveals how deeply His truth has struck the conscience.

[Jeremiah Knight @iamrjknight]

Every Christian must be a good theologian.

Theology is not only for scholars, pastors, or people who enjoy hard books. Theology is the knowledge of God. If we love God, we must desire to know who He is, what He has spoken, what He has done, what He loves, what He hates, and how He saves sinners through Christ.

“Let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me” (Jeremiah 9:24).

We do not need to go to a seminary to be a theologian. Seminary may help some, but it does not create the Christian duty to know God. Every believer with an open Bible, a humbled heart, and the help of the Holy Spirit is called to grow in the truth.

“Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” (2 Peter 3:18).

A Christian who refuses theology is not becoming simple. He is becoming vulnerable. A heart without truth will soon be shaped by feelings, culture, false teachers, and personal imagination. Many people say they love God, but the god they love is only the one they created in their own mind.

“This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent” (John 17:3).

Good theology does not make a believer proud. Sin does that. True theology humbles us because it shows us the holiness of God, the corruption of man, the glory of Christ, the power of grace, and the seriousness of eternity.

“The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge” (Proverbs 1:7).

A good Christian does not need to know every argument, every system, or every debate. But we must know the God of Scripture. We must know the gospel clearly. We must know truth well enough to worship rightly, discern error, resist deception, comfort the suffering, correct sin, and speak of Christ faithfully.

“Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth” (John 17:17).

The church does not need less theology. The church needs theology that bows before Scripture, trembles before God, exalts Christ, produces holiness, and teaches believers to love the truth with all their heart.

A Christian who knows God rightly will worship more deeply, repent more honestly, pray more biblically, suffer more steadily, and speak more faithfully.

That is why every Christian must be a theologian.

Not a proud expert.

A humbled worshiper who knows the God he claims to love.

[Scott Roberts @ScottRoberts]

Three reminders for every Christian this morning:

- God is still on His throne.
- His Word is still true.
- The gospel is still the power of God for salvation.

Go live like you believe it.

[Jeremiah Knight @iamrjknight]

We have never had more information in our hands, yet we have rarely looked more foolish before God.

Man can build machines, cross oceans, map the stars, split atoms, design systems, and speak confidently about almost everything under heaven. But if he does not fear the Lord, all his brilliance becomes a polished form of blindness.

“The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction” (Proverbs 1:7).

Our age is not lacking intelligence. It is lacking wisdom. We know how to make life faster, louder, easier, and more connected, but we do not know how to bow. We can send our words across the world in seconds, but we cannot cleanse our own hearts from sin.

“Professing to be wise, they became fools” (Romans 1:22).

That is the tragedy of human pride. The more man learns while rejecting God, the more dangerous his knowledge becomes. Technology without holiness only gives sin better tools. Intelligence without humility only makes rebellion sound educated.

“For the wisdom of this world is foolishness before God” (1 Corinthians 3:19).

The problem is not learning. The problem is learning without worship. The problem is not knowledge. The problem is knowledge severed from the fear of God.

A generation can be advanced, informed, skilled, and still be spiritually insane. Without God, we do not become wise. We only become very clever fools.

[Jeremiah Knight @iamrjknight]

The world is very generous with religious tolerance until a Christian actually believes Christ.

It will tell us to respect every path, honour every belief, affirm every spiritual claim, and never speak as though one religion is false. But the moment we say Jesus Christ is the only way to the Father, the mask slips. Suddenly conviction becomes arrogance, truth becomes hate, and faithfulness becomes narrowness.

Jesus did not leave that door open.

“I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me” (John 14:6).

Christianity cannot be reduced to one spiritual option among many. If Christ is truly the eternal Son of God, if He truly died for sinners, if He truly rose from the dead, then He is not asking for a seat at the table of world religions. He is Lord over all.

“And there is salvation in no one else” (Acts 4:12).

We are not called to be cruel, proud, or disrespectful. We must speak with gentleness and reverence. But gentleness does not mean surrendering the truth, and love does not mean pretending souls are safe apart from Christ.

“Sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense” (1 Peter 3:15).

The world wants Christians to clap for every belief system while quietly apologizing for our own. But we cannot deny the only Saviour in the name of being accepted by those who reject Him.

If Christ is offensive to the age, then let the offense rest where Scripture places it. We are not ashamed of the gospel, because it alone is the power of God for salvation.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

A must-read. Great article.

[Jeremiah Knight @iamrjknight]

Being filled with the Holy Spirit is not some vague mystical experience where the mind is emptied and emotions take over.

To be filled with the Holy Spirit is to live under the rule, influence, power, and presence of Christ. The Holy Spirit does not draw attention away from Jesus. He glorifies Christ, makes His Word precious, exposes sin, strengthens obedience, and shapes the life of the believer around the Lordship of Jesus.

“He will glorify Me, for He will take of Mine and will disclose it to you” (John 16:14).

This is why Paul connects being filled with the Holy Spirit to worship, gratitude, submission, holiness, and a life ordered before God. It is not spiritual chaos. It is Christ centered obedience flowing from a heart governed by God.

“Be filled with the Spirit” (Ephesians 5:18).

A person filled with the Holy Spirit will not become less biblical, less humble, less self controlled, or less obedient. The Holy Spirit produces the likeness of Christ, not spiritual performance for attention.

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness” (Galatians 5:22).

The fullness of the Holy Spirit is not measured by noise, emotion, or claims of power. It is seen when Christ becomes precious, sin becomes hateful, Scripture becomes living, worship becomes sincere, and obedience becomes the desire of the heart.

To be filled with the Holy Spirit is to have the life increasingly dominated by the presence, truth, and glory of Christ.

[Jeremiah Knight @iamrjknight]

A silent church has no right to sound surprised when darkness becomes louder.

We grieve over the condition of our nations, families, schools, governments, and culture, and rightly so. But we must also ask whether we have hidden the very message God has given for the salvation of sinners.

The answer to a dying world is not moral outrage alone. It is not political frustration alone. It is not complaining about decay while keeping Christ locked inside our private devotion. The world needs the gospel of Jesus Christ, and the church has been commanded to proclaim it.

“Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations” (Matthew 28:19).

Not every Christian will preach from a pulpit, and not every believer has the same platform or gifting. But every Christian is called to bear witness to Christ with courage, clarity, love, and faithfulness.

“You will be My witnesses” (Acts 1:8).

If we are ashamed to speak of sin, judgment, the cross, repentance, forgiveness, and the risen Christ, then we should not act shocked when lies fill the silence we left behind. Empty spaces do not stay empty for long. If truth is not spoken, deception will gladly preach.

“For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes” (Romans 1:16).

The church does not help the world by sounding respectable while staying quiet about Christ. We help the world by lifting up the only name under heaven by which sinners must be saved.

“And there is salvation in no one else” (Acts 4:12).

So yes, we should mourn the darkness. But we must also repent of our silence. A Christianity that complains about the world but refuses to proclaim Christ has misunderstood both the problem and the cure.

[Jeremiah Knight @iamrjknight]

A man can sit in church for years and still never know the Lord.

He can hear sermons, sing hymns, attend meetings, learn Christian language, quote verses, defend doctrine, serve in ministries, and still remain a stranger to the new birth. Church attendance can surround a man with truth, but it cannot raise a dead soul to life. Only God can do that.

“Unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God” (John 3:3).

This is one of the most terrifying realities in the visible church. Many have become comfortable around holy things without being made holy by God. They are familiar with sermons but unfamiliar with repentance. They know the sound of prayer but not the poverty of spirit. They speak of Christ but do not bow to Him. They have religion in their habits but no resurrection in their hearts.

“Having a form of godliness, although they have denied its power” (2 Timothy 3:5).

The danger is not merely outside the church. The danger is inside the pew, inside the choir, inside the ministry team, inside the pulpit, inside the home that calls itself Christian while the heart remains unchanged. A man may be known by the church and still be unknown by Christ.

“Not everyone who says to Me, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 7:21).

That should make us tremble. Jesus did not warn atheists only. He warned religious people who used His name, claimed spiritual activity, and yet never belonged to Him. Their mouths were full of ministry, but their lives were full of lawlessness. Their confidence was in what they did for Christ, not in whether they had truly been brought to Christ.

“And then I will declare to them, I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness” (Matthew 7:23).

The new birth is not a mood. It is not a decision card. It is not church culture. It is not being raised in a Christian family. It is not agreeing with Christian morals. It is the supernatural work of God by which a sinner is made alive, given a new heart, brought to repentance, granted faith in Christ, and turned from darkness to light.

“Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you” (Ezekiel 36:26).

Do not comfort yourself merely because you are near the things of God. Judas was near Christ and perished. The Pharisees searched the Scriptures and rejected the One to whom the Scriptures testified. The Israelites saw mighty works and still hardened their hearts.

“Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves” (2 Corinthians 13:5).

The question is not, “Have I been in church?” The question is, “Have I been born again?” Do I hate the sin I once protected? Do I love the Christ I once resisted? Do I bow to the Word I once ignored? Do I grieve over my corruption? Do I run to the cross? Do I bear fruit that only grace can produce?

“By this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments” (1 John 2:3).

A church seat cannot save you. A Christian family cannot save you. Baptism cannot save you. Ministry cannot save you. Knowledge cannot save you. Morality cannot save you. Only Christ can save sinners, and the man who belongs to Christ will not remain dead in the very sins from which Christ came to deliver him.

“They profess to know God, but by their deeds they deny Him” (Titus 1:16).

So let every churchgoer tremble kindly before God. Let every professing Christian examine himself in the light of Scripture. Let no one hide behind years of attendance while the soul remains untouched by grace.

It is better to be disturbed now than damned later.

It is better to question false peace than to hear Christ say, “I never knew you.”

Religion can place you among the people of God.

Only the new birth can place you in Christ.

[Jeremiah Knight @iamrjknight]

The pulpit was never given to men so they could display cleverness, charm, personality, or polished speech.

A preacher is not called to entertain minds while consciences sleep. He is sent to bring the Word of God before men with such faithfulness that sinners are exposed, saints are awakened, Christ is exalted, and eternity is made weighty again.

“And when I came to you, brethren, I did not come with superiority of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God” (1 Corinthians 2:1).

The preacher who is more concerned with being admired than being faithful has already lost sight of his calling. God does not send men to the pulpit to make people impressed with the servant. He sends them to proclaim Christ, confront sin, announce mercy, warn of judgment, and call men to repentance and faith.

“For I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified” (1 Corinthians 2:2).

The Word of God is not a stage tool. It is fire. It is a hammer. It is a sword. It searches the heart, wounds pride, tears away excuses, and drives the guilty to the only Saviour who can cleanse them.

“Is not My word like fire?” declares the LORD, “and like a hammer which shatters a rock?” (Jeremiah 23:29).

So let the preacher tremble. Let him pray. Let him die to the praise of men. Let him speak as one who must give an account before Christ. The pulpit is not a platform for performance. It is a place where truth must be proclaimed in the sight of God.

“Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction” (2 Timothy 4:2).

The goal is not applause. The goal is awakened consciences, humbled sinners, strengthened saints, and the glory of Christ.

[Scott Roberts @ScottRoberts]

Life is short. Eternity is long.

One day your career, possessions, accomplishments, and earthly pursuits will come to an end. You will stand before God.

Jesus Christ is not one option among many. He is the only Savior, the only Mediator, and the only way to the Father (John 14:6).

Turn to Christ. Trust in Him. Follow Him.

Life is short. Jesus is the only way.

[Colorado State Shooting Association @CSSA1926]

Violent criminals don't follow gun laws.

Yet Governor Polis responded to violent crime by signing SB3—the Polis Gun Ban—placing new barriers on law-abiding Coloradans while criminals continue to prey on our communities.

CSSA is fighting back in court and in the elections.

This is just the beginning.

@GovofCO, we will see you in court!

#COPolitics #2A #Guns #Colorado

[Scott Roberts @ScottRoberts]

The illogical beliefs of atheism.

[Jeremiah Knight @iamrjknight]

The wrath of God is not an uncontrolled outburst. It is not heaven losing patience the way sinners lose patience. God’s wrath is His holy opposition to evil, flowing from the purity of His own nature.

Men often want a god who smiles at sin, excuses rebellion, and calls darkness harmless. But such a god would not be holy. If God looked upon wickedness with indifference, He would not be righteous. He would be corrupt. Scripture does not give us that kind of God.

“Your eyes are too pure to approve evil, and You can not look on wickedness with favor” (Habakkuk 1:13).

This is why the wrath of God is terrifying. It is not random anger. It is perfect justice. It is holiness responding to everything that defiles His creation, insults His name, rejects His law, and tramples His glory.

“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men” (Romans 1:18).

The modern world hates this because it wants love without holiness, mercy without repentance, forgiveness without blood, and heaven without bowing before Christ. But the cross itself proves that God does not treat sin lightly. If sin could be ignored, Christ did not need to bleed.

“He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him” (2 Corinthians 5:21).

The wrath of God is the fire of His holiness against all that is evil. And the only safe place from that wrath is not religion, not morality, not sincerity, but Christ Himself.

“Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus” (Romans 8:1).