Today, we remember a legend.
On this day in history, Harambe would have celebrated another birthday. An icon that became part of internet history, American culture, and an entire generation’s timeline.
Tomorrow marks 10 years since we lost him. Ten years since the moment the world stopped scrolling and collectively mourned something bigger than a meme.
He became a symbol of loyalty, strength, chaos, unity, and the strange beauty of the internet bringing millions of people together for one cause: never forgetting Harambe.
Everyone remembers where they were when they heard the news. And somehow, a decade later, his legacy still lives on.
Gone, but never forgotten.
Rest easy to a true patriot. 🕊️🇺🇸
May 27, 1999 — May 28, 2016
Forever in our hearts.
God doesn’t “just forgive.” God “forgives justly.”
This is why the crucifixion of Jesus was necessary.
“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and JUST to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
1 John 1:9
For more context see 1 John 2:1-2.
You're going to see Jesus selectively-edited for political purposes like this a lot in the coming days. Few things to remember...
1. Jesus never broke immigration laws
2. Jesus did not “immigrate”: He left Nazareth (in the Roman Empire) to go to Egypt (also in the Roman Empire)
3. When they traveled, his family *legally registered* themselves (Luke 2:1-5)
4. Jesus commanded obedience to laws (Rom 13:1), and commanded governments to enforce their laws (Romans 13:3-4)
5. People like to selectively-edit Jesus to turn him into a mascot for their cause. You can equally say things like...
- “Jesus was a part of the majority culture in his region"
- "Jesus came from a patriarchal traditional family"
- "Jesus was unvaccinated"
- "Jesus fed the poor without raising taxes"
- "Jesus told people to buy weapons", etc
Jesus is a Lord, not a mascot.
6. Yes, individual Christians ARE commanded to love all people, including immigrants, and that cannot be disregarded. No, the Biblical command to "love the foreigner among you" does not mean it is wrong for a nation to enforce its immigration laws.
Fellow Pastors,
Now is your moment to disavow any hint of moral equivocation between the modern Left and the modern Right. Presidential assassination attempts, Catholic school shootings, Ukrainian girl race-hate-murders... and now open assassinations (on top of the other ocean of openly stated rebellion).
If the "seers" refuse to see, the nation perishes.
"Where there is no (prophetic) vision, the people perish."
–– Proverbs 29:18
Further and higher, our only hope against the rising darkness is national repentance into the love of the Father.
This is a problem so deep, we cannot (simply) vote our way out of it. We will have to repent our way out of it.
There are two choices before us: Christ or chaos.
Need help urgently. Please post the best examples of lib meltdowns in the thread below. I'm deeply concerned that I may be missing some of the best ones. I don't want to miss any because they make me very happy. Thank you.
“You don’t have to abandon your faith” (to endorse termination of life in the womb). Kamala Harris
Yes, Madam Vice President, you do.
[13] For you formed my inward parts;
you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
[14] I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works;
my soul knows it very well.
Psalm 139:13-14
TRUTH.
1. God is real.
2. There are two genders.
3. Human flourishing requires fossil fuels.
4. Reverse racism is racism.
5. An open border is no border.
6. Parents determine the education of their children.
7. The nuclear family is the greatest form of governance known to mankind.
8. Capitalism lifts people up from poverty.
9. There are three branches of the U.S. government, not four.
10. The U.S. Constitution is the strongest guarantor of freedoms in history.
“There are only two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, ‘All right, then, have it your way.’” - C.S. Lewis
Jeremy Reaves played at South Alabama.
He went undrafted in 2018, and eventually signed with the Eagles.
He has been a final roster cut each of the last four season, but finally made Washington’s 53-man roster this year.
And now he’s in the Pro Bowl 🙏
More and more, I see unvarnished moral madness coming from the mainstream Left and it concerns me that the moral universes we occupy have so little in common except for an appreciation for oxygen that lets us both breathe. We can’t have a nation around such widening moral chasms.