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John13:35 "By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another."
@KurtisCarman@xTheGoodNews I have found that every time I am lured into sin/transgression/disobedience it always goes like this..
God: Don't
Me: Now I want to.
Also Me: I don't think he really meant that and so I will use my reasoning to justify this to myself.
Also Also Me: Sins and is now proud of sin.
Croatia has stormed the Eurovision final with a historic anthem that denounces the Ottoman occupation and revives the ancient Christian tattoo tradition to protect young girls from rape
Performed entirely in Croatian, the song slams centuries of Islamic Turkish occupation of their lands and recalls how Catholic girls were tattooed with Christian motifs to stop them from being abducted, converted to Islam, and forced into sexual slavery
"That’s why many chose the grave, our mothers did not birth slaves”
Turkey is already attacking the group for performing the song
“If you were a better Christian, you wouldn’t be depressed.”
It made me cringe to type that, even though I’ve sadly heard such ignorance spoken to another person.
It’s easy to tell someone that their sin gave them their ailment, but it places us in God’s role, and assumes power and knowledge we neither possess nor deserve.
“As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?””
John 9:1-2 ESV
This attitude is older than time itself, and revealed when Jesus healed the blind man in John’s gospel. Society was fixated upon the sin in his life and that of his family, for surely this explained his condition!
Simple minds seek simple answers, even if the truth is far more complicated.
We know from the gospels that neither the man nor his family had sinned. His blindness was nothing more than a disability he was born with, one that Jesus corrected, and that his blindness was meant only so that God would be glorified upon his healing.
But frankly, we know this because Jesus decided to explain it.
99% of the time, we will never know the mind of God. But there will always be someone who “surely knows the answer”.
Try to imagine the pain this man and his family felt, with constant harassment from society. Instead of having pure hearts that asked “how can I help you?” the people appointed themselves as God and judged accordingly.
How often have we seen the same?
“You wouldn’t be depressed if you prayed more.”
“Your schizophrenia comes from a lack of faith.”
How arrogant must we be to presume that we know what God does?
Mind you, I understand that a life of obedience to Christ does indeed make us happier and healthier. Jesus gives us blessings which make life easier and He enables us to do more than we ever could alone.
But none of that means we will be perfect in this life.
Paul had a thorn in the flesh. Read the psalms and Lamentations and try telling me that David and Jeremiah never suffered from depression. And these were dearly beloved men of God!
Our emotions are not diseases, but rather things we must work through. The bible is full of passages we love to ignore which express sorrow, disappointment with God, loss, anger, and despair. They’re biblical truths meant to teach us that sadness is a part of life and that we must work through these emotions with God.
And we do ourselves a disservice by shaming negative emotions with cheap words.
The UK just deployed a political weapon it's only used once before in modern history.
And nobody is talking about what it just backfired into.
🚨 🚨 🚨 KEIR STARMER BANNED FOREIGN JOURNALISTS FROM ENGLAND TO STOP A RALLY → IT PRODUCED THE LARGEST ANTI-GOVERNMENT MARCH IN YEARS 🚨 🚨 🚨
The Home Office issued entry bans on 11 foreign nationals ahead of the 16 May 'Unite the Kingdom' rally in central London. Rebel News founder Ezra Levant. Multiple journalists. Commentators. Banned from the country. To stop a march.
Metropolitan Police deployed 4,000+ officers. Live facial recognition. Drones. Dogs. Horses.
The result: tens of thousands — some estimates reaching hundreds of thousands — flooding the streets of London anyway.
THE WEAPON:
→ UK Home Office entry bans — 11 foreign nationals barred from the country
→ Prime Minister publicly labeled the rally "extremist" and "hatred and division"
→ Starmer framed it as "a battle for the soul of our nation" in direct pre-rally statements
→ Police mobilized at a scale typically reserved for state visits or terror threats
→ Live facial recognition deployed across central London
→ Rival pro-Palestine march simultaneously permitted on the same day
→ Metropolitan Police prepared for 50,000 — the actual crowd exceeded preparation
→ Government rhetoric amplified international media attention across the US and Europe
THE TARGET:
→ A march organized around "national unity, free speech, and Christian values"
→ Organized weeks after Reform UK seized 1,350+ council seats and control of 13 councils in the 8 May local elections
→ Reform's gains came primarily at Labour's direct expense — Essex, Sunderland, council after council
THE MATH:
→ Reform UK: 1,350+ seats gained in a single election cycle
→ 13 councils flipped — including Essex with 42 seats
→ Starmer's response: ban journalists, deploy 4,000 officers, call the march extremist
→ Outcome: the bans became the story, the march became a symbol, and the streets filled anyway
Read that again.
💀 Every ban Starmer issued handed organizers a government-censorship narrative
💀 Every officer deployed turned a political rally into a national confrontation
💀 The suppression didn't shrink the movement — it advertised it
⚠️ Reform just proved it can win elections. The march proved it can also fill streets.
⚠️ Starmer called it "a battle for the soul of our nation" — and then lost the visual battle on live television
⚠️ This isn't a fringe moment. This is what a political realignment looks like in the streets.
They're showing you the arrests and the police lines.
They're NOT showing you what this sequence actually means — a government that just lost 1,350 council seats in one night responded to the aftermath by banning journalists and calling a march extremist, and the streets answered with the largest visible opposition mobilization in years.
You don't ban foreign journalists to stop a fringe event. You ban foreign journalists when you're afraid of what the footage will show. And you only deploy 4,000 officers with drones and facial recognition when you already know the crowd is going to be too large to ignore.
Process that.
Most people won't see this. RT to change that. 🔥
I'll keep you updated as this unfolds, turn on notifications this is EXTREMELY important.
Ok, I asked the question.
Here’s my take: Rick Warren exposed the fact that most evangelicals have a deep hunger for something beyond the Bible. For all we say about scripture alone, many people want and need something more.
Now it’s easy to dismiss all of this and say “If you want more than the Bible, you’re wrong!”
Some people really ARE wrong. Some have tickling ears.
But others have a deep hunger for obedience to God in a gray world and are looking for more direct information.
For example: yes, we know gay marriage is wrong thanks to scripture. But what does that mean to me? Does Jesus want me to make it illegal? Does she want me only to avoid gay weddings? Should I merely not officiate gay weddings? Should I never consider one valid?
The Bible doesn’t tell us this. It only tells us the moral reason why such a practice is wrong. And this doesn’t help a Christian who isn’t sure how to respond. What should I do? A custom tailored Bible study is more helpful to average Joe.
When EO have these questions, they read the lives of the saints and early tradition. When Catholics feel the same, they get statements from the magisterium.
When Protestants do, we’re told “read the Bible more”.
That isn’t going to help anyone struggling with what they need to do personally. Some will read Romans 1 and say we must vote against gay marriage. Others say we only need to avoid participation in it. We all interpret things differently because we agree on the morals but not on our response.
Rick Warren gave a lot of hungry souls a purpose, if you’ll pardon the intentional pun. He made evangelicals feel that there was action to take, that we could bring in the lost, be seeker sensitive, and thrive!
My mom had to leave her collapsed home church that tried all of these things and fell apart, rudderless, without theology or strong faith.
I strongly feel that this hunger exists in many evangelicals to this day, and that’s why we fall for each book fad.
Yes, the Bible should be enough, but it’s not wrong to want true direction in what stands we should take in life, also. People need an answer to “So what now?” and far too many pastors happily hide behind “read the Bible” as an excuse not to teach what they need to do in real life.
“I know gay marriage is wrong, but so what now? What must I do about it, Pastor? Reading the Bible only told me gay sex is wrong. Great, I knew that. But what do I DO about it?”
Rick Warren meant well and was ultimately wrong, but he gave PURPOSE to people lacking it. Evangelicals must understand that this very purpose is what their congregations are starving for. They will run to the first person who will give it to them.
We can laugh at the Joel Webbons of the world, and we should, but we must not miss that he gives purpose to an audience that finds it lacking in church. Yes, they’re wrong to follow Webbon. But they are NOT wrong about noticing a lack of meaning or purpose in their churches.
This is the explanation:
Modern historical revisionists absolutely love to romanticize ancient south american empires as peaceful, enlightened utopias that were tragically ruined by European arrival.
Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto shows you how delusional those people are,
He forces the audience to confront the brutal, undeniable reality of a society in terminal moral decay, an empire entirely propped up by mass human sacrifice and the ruthless slaughter of innocent.
They were already collapsing under the sheer weight of their own darkness.
The final shot of the film is spiritual and civilizational symbolism.
After a relentless, agonizing fight for his life against a demonic death cult, the protagonist reaches the shore and the pursuit instantly halts.
The Spanish galleons appearing through the fog on the horizon brought a total paradigm shift. The priests standing at the bow holding the Cross signaled the definitive end of the obsidian knife.
A horrific religion that constantly demanded human blood to appease its false gods was met by the one true Faith, completely anchored by a God who willingly shed His own blood to save His people.
I just heard a missionary give testimony that a large funder of Cuban house churches (where thousands have been saved) is none other than rock legend @alicecooper. Much respect, brother.
You don’t need to like TPUSA.
You don’t need to like Charlie Kirk.
You don’t need to like Trump.
You don’t need to like Erika Kirk.
But the level of blind hatred it takes to mock a traumatized, grieving widow who watched her husband’s murder is truly demonic.