Jeremy Ponds

[Jeremy Ponds @PondsJerem75121]

@CELKIN29196821 @DefiyantlyFree I don't see any conflict in what she said and what you are saying. Actions flow from a changed life. That is what we are called to and that is what is guaranteed in us if we in fact have been saved on the holy Spirit dwells in US. That's the main impetus of Romans 7-8

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨WOW!!!

A foster mom caring for THREE special-needs kids couldn't afford the parts to fix her van's broken AC.

So a total stranger bought the parts himself, fixed it for free, and had it running before she got there.

When she reached in and felt cold air for the first time… she broke down crying. ❤️

The strangers name is Michael Kuba.

And that story? It's just one of thousands.

About 11 years ago, Michael's own van AC died and the car shop quoted him almost $4,000.

He had 3 little kids crying in the back seat in the Arizona heat… and no way to pay it.

So he did the only thing he could do.

He bought some tools. Watched YouTube. And through pure trial and error, he taught himself to fix it.

Then he had a thought: how many other families are stuck in this exact spot?

That was the birth of The Junkie Garage, a nonprofit in Glendale, Arizona.

The rules are almost unbelievable.

No income checks.
No paperwork.
No questions about your money or your past.

You bring the parts. Y
ou donate whatever you can afford for the labor.

That's it.

"I don't ask you for your income. I don't ask you who you are, where you came from, or anything like that. I just wanna help people get their cars working right."

An AC job that runs $2,000 to $4,000 at a normal shop? His average customer pays less than $300, donations included.

...but Michael doesn't do it alone.

His son Matthew has been right there beside him, wrench in hand, since he was EIGHT years old.

He's a teenager now, and he's still there every week, fixing cars for strangers in his community.

"It's an amazing bonding experience, and it gives me an opportunity most kids don't get."

A dad teaching his boy how to fix an alternator… and how to be a man.

Michael puts it like this:

"You haven't lived until you've done something for someone that can never repay you."

He's got dreams of a bigger shop, more volunteers, more cars, more families kept on the road to work and school and church.

"If you have the ability to help people, just do it."

GOD BLESS Michael and Matthew Kuba. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Mr Piccolo @iamchrizten]

She's making a lot sense. Do you agree? Let me know in the comments section.

[Christian Emergency Alliance @ChristianEmerg1]

Nigeria: The body of Pastor Hills Emmanuel, who was abducted yesterday, was found today in Plateau State.

He and another pastor, Gabriel Joseph Dipak, were kidnapped by Fulani Muslims while traveling from Jos to Bokkos.

The Fulani reportedly abducted them by setting up a roadblock less than a mile from military checkpoints.

That same night, Fulani Muslims carried out four other separate attacks against Christians, all within 20 miles – at least three other believers were killed.

The Fulani Muslims are now trying to extort the family of Pastor Dipak with ransom demands.

A war is being carried out against the Christians of Nigeria's Middle Belt - it is past time for them to be defended.

Pray for these suffering families - they and their communities need immediate help.

H/T - @masskeemz

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

It is nearly an impossible task to convey just how amazing kids are to someone who doesn’t have any.

The best way I can describe it is this:

You spend your whole life thinking you understand love.

Then one night, you’ll find yourself standing in a room at 2 a.m., just watching your newborn baby breathe, just to make sure they are still alive.

And you realize in that moment that you would burn the entire world to the ground for the slow rise and fall of that tiny chest.

You become braver and absolutely terrified at the same time.

You start looking for exits in restaurants and worrying about that weird stranger in the parking lot.

You discover a capacity for anger and violence you never knew lived in you until you think you might need it because someone might hurt your kid.

The first time you see your kid, the entire world changes.

You realize you are meant to live for them… not for you.

And it feels good. It feels right.

Like a key to a door you have always been looking at but could never open.

And one ordinary afternoon probably while you’re folding socks or something dumb, it will hit you…

This is how your parents loved you.

This is what she felt watching you sleep.
This is what your dad felt every time he watched you walk out the door.

And you had no idea.

You spent your entire childhood with no idea.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

It’s so beautiful, words fail to describe it.

It’s just right, it was always meant to be this way. ❤️

[Jeremiah Knight @iamrjknight]

Worry is not always the result of thinking too much. Often it grows because our thoughts have become trapped inside the problem and have stopped rising high enough to consider the God who rules over it.

Jesus does not answer anxiety in Matthew 6 by telling us to empty our minds. He tells us to think about God correctly. Look at the birds. Consider the lilies. Remember that your heavenly Father knows what you need before you ask Him (Matthew 6:26–32).

Then He brings the issue to its centre: “Seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you” (Matthew 6:33).

That is the divine priority worry so easily reverses. Anxiety says, “First secure tomorrow, then trust God.” Christ says, “Seek God first and entrust tomorrow to Him.”

This does not mean every struggle with anxiety is simply a lack of faith. Our bodies can become exhausted, our minds can become overwhelmed, and suffering can weigh heavily upon us. But spiritually, worry becomes dangerous when we begin living as though tomorrow depends entirely upon our ability to control it.

Jesus asks, “Who of you by being worried can add a single hour to his life?” (Matthew 6:27). We cannot control tomorrow by rehearsing it repeatedly in our minds.

Faith does not deny tomorrow’s trouble. Christ plainly says, “Each day has enough trouble of its own” (Matthew 6:34).

Faith simply refuses to make tomorrow sovereign.

The answer to worry is not ignorance. It is better theology. Know the Father. Remember His providence. Trust His promises. Seek His kingdom. Leave tomorrow where it has always belonged.

In His hands.

[Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFree]

In America the common good operates underneath the covenant. The Declaration of Independence was modeled after the Abrahamic Covenant. It cannot be revoked. It’s secured by God. He sits above the covenant. Our rights come from our Creator. That is a royal grant.

The Constitution is modeled after the Sinai covenant. It’s about rights and responsibilities. The Constitution is the practical instrument that organizes government under the principles already declared. It’s the operational covenant / frame of government under that grant.

God sits on the throne. Ultimate sovereignty is not located in the people, the state, or an abstract “will of the majority.” Rights are not absolute individual entitlements that stand free of any higher standard; they are held under covenant and are limited by the terms of that covenant.

Israel is chosen by God’s initiative and remains unique in the biblical covenants. America is not Israel and does not inherit those specific promises of land, people, or election.

What America has is a people who, at the founding, deliberately placed themselves under a higher law patterned on the Hebrew scriptural understanding of covenant. They chose to order the political community so that God sits above the state, rights are held under that higher standard, and the Declaration functions as the fixed grant that the Constitution serves. It was not forced upon them by blood or by divine decree in the same sense; it was a conscious political-theological choice.

They chose freedom of conscious. They chose to give to Caesar what is Caesars and to God what is Gods. They were a product of the Protestant Reformation and religious liberty was everything to them.

That uniquely Christian idea gave us a country where everyone can worship freely because in the words of Roger Williams: “Forced worship stinks in God’s nostrils.”

So no the common good doesn’t work in America. It is limited by covenant. It is limited by our God given rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It is limited by free conscious and freedom of worship. It is limited by the enumerated powers in the Constitution.

[Adam | Faithful Messenger @Adam_FaithfulM]

The Bible was written on three continents.

Asia.
Africa.
Europe.

In three languages.

Hebrew.
Aramaic.
Greek.

By over 40 different men:

Shepherds.
Kings.
Prophets.
Fishermen.
A tax collector.
A doctor.
A tentmaker.

Written in palaces and prisons.
In deserts and cities.
In freedom and in exile.

Across roughly 1,500 years.

66 books.
One continuous story:

Creation.
Fall.
Redemption.
Christ.

Most of these writers never met.
No committee planned it.
No editor stitched it together.

Yet it opens in a garden with the Tree of Life
and closes in a garden with the Tree of Life.

Different writers.
Different centuries.
Different cultures.

One voice.

Because behind the human hands was a divine Author.

Men held the pens.

But God wrote the story.

[Jeremy Ponds @PondsJerem75121]

@WesleyWood67475 @DefiyantlyFree It's a moot point. Paul called ALL the tribes "my brothers according to the flesh"

[Jeremy Ponds @PondsJerem75121]

@MrFrank9f @DefiyantlyFree My friend, I implore you to actually take the Bible and read the New Covenant Scriptures and really ask yourself about the things you are saying. These statements are incredibly misleading and shortsighted

[Tanya @tanyaelisabethh]

You wake up
Your husband looks young, the same mustache he used to have over twenty years ago
There are voices in the kitchen
You sit and listen, you can make out one, two… three, three little voices all the way in the kitchen
There is the smell of pancakes in the air, along with some bacon, you are hungry
You look down, your hands, so young
As soon as you walk into the kitchen little voices all cry out your name “mama, mama!!” Hugs filled the air along with sticky syrup hands, but you do not care
By the sink there he stands, your husband
Tall, full head of blonde hair, and you cannot help but hug him. His body feels so strong, filled with youth, you take his smell in, and you stand there taking in the warmth, listening to the children arguing over who gets the last piece of bacon, watching their little feet run across the kitchen floor, memorizing everything, because this ordinary so unimportant Saturday is what you wish you could go back to the most

And then you wake up, life has gone by, you are old, the house is empty, the children are grown, your body aches

And you finally know, you finally understand that at the end of life you will not wish to have had more promotions, to have gone back for one more day of work, to of had more time to clean the house, for one more day of school, for errands, for anything else besides a slow Saturday morning where the air smells like pancakes, and the house is filled with little voices, and you are woken up to the small bodies and the smell of the little heads you love most in the entire world.

An extraordinary life is made up of ordinary days. Of a summer breeze, and small hands, of cold cheeks you kiss in the autumn afternoons, of a steady hand that holds yours, of the wonderful miracle that is having everyone you love, all with you under the same roof.

[Fox News @FoxNews]

An unborn baby girl appears to smile the moment she hears her father's voice during an ultrasound.

The sweet moment was caught on video as the dad spoke to his daughter and kissed her mother's belly, prompting smiles from everyone in the room.

"I was completely overwhelmed with emotion and immediately started crying happy tears," mom Lia Oliveira said.

She called it a "core memory" for their family and says she's grateful the moment has brought "a little sunshine" to millions of people around the world.

[Robert F. Kennedy Jr @RobertKennedyJr]

The Real Anthony Fauci became the #1 non-fiction hardcover bestseller despite being the most censored book of the decade. Bookstores, including national chains, refused to carry it. Libraries refused to carry it. Every major newspaper declined to review it. The New York Times refused to publish a paid advertisement for the book and made it #7 on its bestseller list, even though it outsold any other book by thousands of copies.

YouTube took down videos of a book signing. Amazon shadow banned it. Twitter wouldn’t let the publisher promote it.

Despite all of that, 1.4 million Americans bought the book because they were tired of the lies and they wanted their freedom back.

Then today, with hundreds of millions of Americans demanding the truth, Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment 111 times at his Senate hearing. The American people waited six years for answers. Today, they got silence. But that silence told us all we needed to know.

Thank you, @SenRandPaul, for your relentless pursuit of truth, transparency, and accountability. 🇺🇸

[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.

[Tironianae 🍊🍊 Z. - Ultra Verbum Vincet @Tironianae]

🚨 HOLY HELL Minnesota is way DARKER than anyone thought.

A Somali refugee just blew the entire welfare racket wide open.

He says they TOLD him to refuse assimilation and jump straight onto Section 8 and government benefits. That’s the “system.”

“I was told to go find discounted housing, get on Section 8, sign up for community benefits.”

And when he suggested actually integrating?

His own community ATTACKED him.

“The community treated welfare like a way of life. I said we can do better. They said no.”

He came here at 29, fully aware of what he escaped in Somalia. And even HE is shocked at the fraud and rot in Minnesota.

Massive respect to Abdi Iftin for exposing what Democrats desperately try to hide.

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

While the world watches the war, the Islamic Republic of Iran hanged a 19-year-old boy today.

His name is Erfan Esfandiari and he was his parents' only child.

He did not kill anyone. He did not carry a weapon. His crime, according to the Islamic Republic, was opening a door. Sheltering protesters who were running from security forces. That was enough to send him to the gallows.

Erfan was one of 12 young men in the Alikhani Square case in Isfahan, arrested during the January 2026 uprising. Yesterday, all 12 were moved to quarantine. Today, the Islamic Republic hanged him.

This is a government that is so terrified of a generation that refuses to be silent, that it executes teenagers for the act of compassion.

Say his name. Because the regime is already trying to erase him. Because his mother and father are left with nothing, not even the right to grieve loudly.

[PaulsCorner-VerseQuest @TNTJohn1717]

🚨‼️Biblical repentance is not religious sadness, public embarrassment, or a sinner trying to punish himself until God feels sorry for him. Judas felt remorse and still went to hell. Pharaoh admitted he had sinned and went right back to rebellion. Tears can run down a face while pride still sits on the throne. Repentance begins when a man stops defending himself, agrees with what God said, and changes his mind about his sin, his righteousness, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Religion has spent centuries turning repentance into penance because men would rather perform a sentence than surrender an argument. Penance says, “Pay for what you did.” The gospel says, “Christ already paid for what you did.” Biblical repentance does not add human suffering to the blood of Christ; it brings the sinner to the end of self-justification so he can believe the finished work. The man who thinks he can help pay for his salvation has not repented of trusting himself yet.

Repentance is also more than cleaning up bad habits. A drunk can become sober and remain lost. A thief can stop stealing and remain condemned. A religious hypocrite can reform his manners, join a church, carry a Bible, and still reject the Saviour. Paul preached “repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ” (Acts 20:21). Repentance turns from the lie; faith lays hold of the truth. One clears the courtroom of excuses, and the other receives the pardon purchased at Calvary.

So stop measuring repentance by how dramatic it looks. Real repentance may weep, but tears are not its foundation. It may produce changed conduct, but conduct is its fruit, not its price. Repentance is the proud heart finally admitting that God is right, man is wrong, sin is deadly, self-righteousness is filthy, and Jesus Christ is the only Saviour. God does not save men because they feel bad enough. He saves the man who quits arguing with the verdict and believes on the One who paid the debt.

[Jeremiah Knight @iamrjknight]

A crowd is not a church simply because it uses Christian language.

A building is not a church because it has worship music, religious activity, emotional sermons, charity work, and people who say the name of Jesus. If the gospel is absent, Christ is not being truly proclaimed, and where Christ is not truly proclaimed, the people may be gathered, but the church has been emptied of its heart.

“Now I make known to you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you” (1 Corinthians 15:1).

The church is not built on human excitement, cultural relevance, leadership charisma, or spiritual entertainment. The church is built on Christ, revealed in the apostolic Word, crucified for sinners, risen from the dead, reigning as Lord, and coming again as Judge and King.

“For no man can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ” (1 Corinthians 3:11).

This is why a gospel less gathering can still look alive while being spiritually dead. It may have crowds, programs, lights, noise, money, influence and reputation, but if sin is not exposed, repentance is not preached, Christ is not exalted and salvation by grace through faith is not clear, then something far more serious than weakness has happened.

The lampstand may still look golden while the light has gone out.

“They were continually devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer” (Acts 2:42).

The true church is not perfect, but it is gospel shaped. It hears the Word of God, confesses Christ, guards the truth, administers the ordinances rightly, calls sinners to repentance, disciplines sin, loves the brethren, and worships under the authority of Scripture.

“The church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth” (1 Timothy 3:15).

Remove the gospel, and we do not have a church in need of improvement. We have a religious gathering in need of repentance.

Christ does not build His church around man’s preferences.

He builds His church upon Himself.

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

Requiring an ID and proof of citizenship to vote is common sense.

It’s time to pass the SAVE America Act. RT if you agree.

[Jeremiah Knight @iamrjknight]

I am weary of seeing Christ presented as though He is standing outside the sinner’s life, helplessly hoping someone will give Him permission to matter.

That is not the Jesus of Scripture. The Lord Jesus is not a desperate salesman trying to make the gospel attractive enough for rebels to accept. He is the eternal Son of God, the crucified Lamb, the risen King, the appointed Judge, and the only Saviour of sinners.

“All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth” (Matthew 28:18).

The gospel is good news, but it is not a casual suggestion. It comes with divine authority. God does not politely ask sinners to consider repentance as one life option among many. He commands all people everywhere to repent because the day of judgment is fixed and Christ is the Judge.

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

This does not remove the tenderness of Christ. He truly invites the weary to come. He truly receives every sinner who comes to Him in repentance and faith. But His invitation is not weakness. It is royal mercy from the One who has the right to condemn and the power to save.

“The one who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out” (John 6:37).

We must stop preaching a Christ who needs man’s approval. We must preach the Christ before whom every knee will bow. The question is not whether sinners will kindly allow Jesus into their lives. The question is whether they will bow now in mercy or later in judgment.

“At the name of Jesus every knee will bow” (Philippians 2:10).

Christ is not weak. His gospel is not fragile. His throne is not vacant. His blood actually saves. His resurrection actually conquered death. His command actually binds every conscience under heaven.

The church must recover the sound of apostolic preaching. Repent. Believe. Flee from the wrath to come. Bow to the risen Christ. There is salvation in no one else.