Samona Joy Yentes

Christian wife, mother of 3. grandmother of 9!

[Tara LaRosa @TaraLaRosa]

Greatest new song to come out of the World Cup! ⚽️❤️🇺🇸 Welcome To The Land Of The Free!🇺🇸❤️⚽️

[Phil Johnson @Phil_Johnson_]

John MacArthur would have loved this:

[Samona Joy Yentes @SamonaJoyYentes]

@SteveDeaceShow I’ve long listened to Tucker with both interest and discernment. I have recently disengaged as he has gone off the rails. Now I’m wondering if he has only lost his way or if he has always been a psyop.

[Samona Joy Yentes @SamonaJoyYentes]

@mkhammer What a beautiful testimony of Gods grace- including the gift of faith He has given you!
Eph 2:8-10

[Samona Joy Yentes @SamonaJoyYentes]

I love this... and Welcome to Westkirk in Urbandale, IA

[Tim Carney @TPCarney]

A church in York Pa has issued a "Loud Kid Policy."

[Glenn Beck @glennbeck]

This morning, no matter how we vote or what banner we stand under, we should be on our knees.

Our sons and daughters are in harm’s way.

Today is not a day for argument or political advantage. It is a day for prayer — for the protection of heaven over our troops, for courage in the field, for clarity in the fog of war. And for wisdom — deep, steady wisdom — for our leaders and for our President as they carry burdens few of us can fully comprehend.

When a nation takes bold action, the cost is never abstract. It is borne by families, by service members, by generations yet to come. So we pray that every decision is guided not by pride or anger, but by discernment, restraint, and a sincere desire for peace.

May those entrusted with planning and command be led by conscience and by a spirit greater than themselves. And may the people of Iran — the Persian people with their ancient and noble heritage — one day be free to stand, to rebuild, and to chart their own course toward liberty and human dignity.

God protect our troops.
God guide our leaders.
And may peace, rooted in justice, be the final outcome. @SecRubio @DeptofWar @realDonaldTrump #IranRevoIution2026 #prayforpeace #godsavetherepublic

[Lila Rose @LilaGraceRose]

God uniquely knit you together in the womb, knowing every single strand on your head. From the moment you were conceived, you were fully known and loved by God, designed with purpose.

The human body is the most beautifully complex design, deserving protection.

[Steve Deace @SteveDeaceShow]

In January 1977 Jesse Jackson wrote the below column about state-sanctioned child killer, criticizing it as "a minister of the Gospel" while noting he himself could've been a candidate for abortion as a black child born out of wedlock. He described life as "the highest good" as well as biologically why he believed life begins at conception. Jackson would also note that abortion was just the latest social contagion targeting blacks in America. This is among the finest takedowns of abortion I have ever read.

So what happened to him? How come this isn't the Jesse Jackson being remembered today? And instead he largely became a tool of the very Spirit of the Age he's confronting below? That is a conversation Jackson likely (and sadly) had in eternity today.

By Jesse Jackson
The question of "life" is The Question of the 20th century. Race and poverty are dimensions of the life question, but discussions about abortion have brought the issue into focus in a much sharper way. How we will respect and understand the nature of life itself is the over-riding moral issue, not of the Black race, but of the human race.

The question of abortion confronts me in several different ways. First, although I do not profess to be a biologist, I have studied biology and know something about life from the point of view of the natural sciences. Second, I am a minister of the Gospel and therefore, feel that abortion has a religious and moral dimension that I must consider.

Third, I was born out of wedlock (and against the advice that my mother received from her doctor) and therefore abortion is a personal issue for me. From my perspective, human life is the highest good, the summum bonum . Human life itself is the highest human good and God is the supreme good because He is the giver of life. That is my philosophy. Everything I do proceeds from that religious and philosophical premise.

Life is the highest good and therefore you fight for life, using means consistent with that end. Ufe is the highest human good not on its own naturalistic merits, but because life is supernatural, a gift from God. Therefore, life is the highest human good because life is sacred. Biologically speaking, thousands of male sperms are ejaculated into the female reproductive tract during sexual intercourse, but only once in a while do the egg and sperm bring about fertilization. Some call that connection accidental, but I choose to call it providential. It takes three to make a baby: a man, a woman and the Holy Spirit.

I believe in family planning. I do not believe that families ought to have children, as some people did where I was growing up, by the dozens. I believe in methods of contraception -- prophylactics, pills, rhythm, etc. I believe in sex education. We ought to teach' it in the home, the school, the church, and on the television. I think that if people are properly educated sexually they will appreciate the act and know its ultimate function, purpose and significance.

In the abortion debate one of the crucial questions is when does life begin. Anything growing is living. Therefore human life begins when the sperm and egg join and drop into the fallopian tube and the pulsation of life take place. From that point, life may be described differently (as an egg, embryo, fetus, baby, child, teenager, adult), but the essence is the same. The name has changed but the game remains the same.
Human beings cannot give or create life by themselves, it is really a gift from God. Therefore, one does not have the right to take away (through abortion) that which he does not have the ability to give.

Some argue, suppose the woman does not. want to have the baby. They say the very fact that she does not want the baby means that the psychological damage to the child is reason enough to abort the baby'. I disagree. The solution to that problem is not to kill the innocent baby, but to deal with her values and her attitude toward lie that which has allowed her not to want the baby. Deal with the attitude that would allow her to take away that which she cannot give.

Some women argue that the man does not have the baby and will not be responsible for the baby after it is born, therefore it is all right to kill the baby. Again the logic is off. The premise is that the man is irresponsible.

If that is the problem, then deal with making him responsible. Deal with what you are dealing with, not with the weak, innocent and unprotected baby. The essence of Jesus' message dealt with this very problem -- the problem of the inner attitude and motivation of a person. "If in your heart . . ." was his central message. The actual abortion (effect) is merely the logical conclusion of a prior attitude (cause) that one has toward life itself. Deal with the cause not merely the effect when abortion is the issue.

Some of the most dangerous arguments for abortion stem from popular judgments about life's ultimate meaning, but the logical conclusion of their position is never pursued. Some people may, unconsciously, operate their lives as if pleasure is life's highest good, and pain and suffering man's greatest enemy. That position, if followed to its logical conclusion, means that that which prohibits pleasure should be done away with by whatever means are necessary. By the same rationale, whatever means are necessary should be used to prevent suffering and pain. My position is not to negate pleasure nor elevate suffering, but merely to argue against their being elevated to an ultimate end of life. Because if they are so elevated, anything, including murder and genocide, canbe carried out in their name.

Often people who analyze and operate In the public sphere (some sociologists, doctors, politicians, etc.) are especially prone to argue in these ways. Sociologists argue for - population control on the basis of a shortage of housing, food, space, etc. I raise two issues at this point: (1) It is strange that they choose to start talking about population control at the same time that Black people in America and people of color around the world are demanding their rightful place as human citizens and their rightful share of the material wealth in the world. (2) People of color are for the most part powerless with regard to decisions made about population control. Given the history of people of color in the modern world we have no reason to assume that whites are going to look out for our best interests.

Politicians argue for abortion largely because they do not want to spend the necessary money to feed, clothe and educate more people. Here arguments for in-convenience and economic savings take precedence over arguments for human value and human life. I read recently where a politician from New York was justifying abortion because they had prevented 10,000 welfare babies from being born and saved the state $15 million. In my mind serious moral questions arise when politicians are willing to pay welfare mothers between $300 to $1000 to have an abortion, but will not pay $30 for a hot school lunch program to the already born children of these same mothers.

I think the economic objections are not valid today because we are confronted with a whole new economic problem. The basic and historic economic problem has been the inability to feed everyone in the world even If the will were there to do so. They could not produce enough to do the job even if they wanted to. An agrarian and disconnected world did not possess the ability to solve the basic economic problem. That was tragic, but hardly morally reprehensible. Today. however, we do not have the same economic problem. Our world is basically urban, industrial, interconnected, and technological so that we now, generally speaking, have the ability to feed the peoples of the world but lack the political and economic will to do so. That would require basic shifts of economic and political power in the world and. we are not willing to pay that price -- the price of justice. The problem now is not the ability to produce but the ability to distribute justly.

Psychiatrists, social workers and doctors often argue for abortion on the basis that the child will grow up mentally and emotionally scared. But who of us is complete? If incompleteness were the criteria for taking life we would all be dead. If you can justify abortion on the basis of emotional incompleteness then your logic could also lead you to killing for other forms of incompleteness -- blindness, crippleness, old age.

There are those who argue that the right to privacy is of higher order than the right to life. I do not share that view. I believe that life is not private, but rather it is public and universal. If one accepts the position that life is private, and therefore you have the right to do with it as you please, one must also accept the conclusion of that logic. That was the premise of slavery. You could not protest the existence or treatment of slaves on the plantation because that was private and therefore outside of your right to concerned.

Another area that concerns me greatly, namely because I know how it has been used with regard to race, is the psycholinguistics involved in this whole issue of abortion. If something can be dehumanized through the rhetoric used to describe it, then the major battle has been won. So when American soldiers can drop bombs on Vietnam and melt the faces and hands of children into a hunk of rolling protoplasm and in their minds say they have not maimed or killed a fellow human being something terribly wrong and sick has gone on in that mind. That is why the Constitution called us three-fifths human and then whites further dehumanized us by calling us "niggers." It was part of the dehumanizing process. The first step was to distort the image of us as human beings in. order to justify that which they wanted to do and not even feel like they had done anything wrong. Those advocates of taking. life prior to birth do not call it killing or murder; they call it abortion. They further never talk about aborting a baby because that would imply something human. Rather they talk about aborting the fetus. Fetus sounds less than human and therefore can be justified.

In conclusion, even if one does take life by aborting the baby, as a minister of Jesus Christ I must also inform and-or remind you that there is a doctrine of forgiveness. The God I serve is a forgiving God. The men who killed President John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. can be forgiven. Everyone can come to the mercy seat and find forgiveness and acceptance. But, and this may be the essence of my argument, suppose one is so hard-hearted and so in-different to life until he assumes that there is nothing for which to be forgiven. What happens to the mind of a person, and the moral fabric of a nation, that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience? What kind of a person, and what kind of a society will we have 20 years hence if life can be taken so casually?

It is that question, the question of our attitude, our value system, and our mind-set with regard to the nature and worth of life itself that is the central question confronting mankind. Failure to answer that question affirmatively may leave us with a hell right here on earth.

[Faithfulness Okom @AttorneyF_]

I became a father yesterday.

My wife did this without an epidural. I watched her suffer in ways I will never fully comprehend, carrying a weight I could not share no matter how I tried. For nine months, I was present but powerless.

Pregnancy forced me to confront something modern life constantly tries to erase: you must wait. Painfully. Excruciatingly. There are no shortcuts to life. No hacks. No optimizations. Just time, and flesh, and blood.

Women bear the disproportionate burden of bringing life into the world. I still don’t fully understand why. Only that it’s true, and profound, and humbling beyond words.

I witnessed pain in its rawest form. À suffering that creates. That’s the poetry of it. Imperfect, brutal, but so precisely orchestrated that it cannot be coincidence. I saw Eden play out; the curse and the promise, together in one body.

There is no way you witness how life begins and conclude this is random. No way you watch a body break itself open to bring forth another person and think we are here by accident, that existence is a cosmic joke. The process is too terrible, too sacred, too exactly what it needs to be.

If everyone began life by witnessing a full pregnancy and labour, we would understand the weight of human existence differently. We participate in it, but we do so as children and forget. This is the passage. The one that strips away pretense and forces you to reckon with the fact that we are here for something.

I always assumed fatherhood would arrive in my thirties, after I’d figured myself out as robustly as I imagined I’d want, after life had settled. Instead, it showed up at 27. No warning. No badge of readiness. Just reality.

Two things haunted me throughout these nine months.

The first: What is a father?

For nine months, you wait for someone you do not know. You count weeks, feel kicks, watch your wife’s body transform and suffer, but the person at the center remains a mystery. I kept asking my wife, half-joking: Who the hell is this guy? He could be anyone.

That realization struck me harder than expected: the sheer nothingness of human fatherhood at the start. You don’t author a child. You don’t summon him by will. You are present, but not primary.

And that’s when it became clear.

There is a greater Father.

One who was with him in the womb when I was not.
One who willed him, shaped him, knit him together before I ever felt useful.
One who knew him before he was visible, before he was named, before he was handed to me.

Pregnancy made that impossible to ignore. It stripped me of the illusion of control.

A child is not a possession. He is a gift. And like all real gifts, he comes from Someone higher.

I’ve been able to slowly understand that parenting is not ownership. It’s stewardship. Helping this little man discover his real Father. The One who loved him before the foundations of the world.

And more than that, parenting is trust.

Trusting that the same God who found me in my confusion and chaos will find him too.
Trusting that I don’t have to be the savior to be a good father.
Trusting that my role is presence, love, discipline, humility. Not replacement.

I understand I am not the source. I am a signpost.

And strangely, that is very freeing. Because it means I don’t have to pretend to be God. I just have to be faithful.

So help me God.

[Nancy Pearcey @NancyRPearcey]

Os Guinness:

"People quote Abraham Lincoln, “Government of the people, by the people, for the people.”

They forget he’s quoting Theodore Parker in the 19th century, who was quoting of all people, John Wycliffe in the 13th century.

And Wycliffe is saying, when we put the Bible in the hands of ordinary people, then you have a chance of government, of the people, by the people, for the people, because the Bible will be the foundation for self-government and self-rule."

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[Justin Peters @JustinPetersMin]

Well done, @chevrolet. Well done.

[Samona Joy Yentes @SamonaJoyYentes]

@JebHBarnett @EricLDaugh No. He ministered i Judea, Samaria, Capurnaum, and nearby areas. He clearly stated, "I am the way, the truth and the life, No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6

[Samona Joy Yentes @SamonaJoyYentes]

@RobertKennedyJc “Classical Stretch” https://t.co/g2fZvL8OvB

[Samona Joy Yentes @SamonaJoyYentes]

@RobertKennedyJc BUTTER! Margarine is always a wrong answer!

[Samona Joy Yentes @SamonaJoyYentes]

@gatorgar You can walk into church. Pray that the Holy Spirit will lead you to a Bible-believing church.
You don’t have to “change” to become a Christian. Surrender your life to Christ and HE will change you.
He will answer your simple prayer, “Jesus, help me.”
God bless you.

[IA Christian Schools @IA_IACS]

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[Samona Joy Yentes @SamonaJoyYentes]

@WHLeavitt @SpeakerJohnson @LeaderJohnThune Do it! 👍

[Samona Joy Yentes @SamonaJoyYentes]

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[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

I've HAD IT.

I am so sick of the media lying right to my face, hoping that I won't read the fine print.

I am seeing it EVERYWHERE, but especially amongst friends who repeat headlines without any further investigation.

"Can you believe Trump denied Western North Carolina disaster relief aid?!"

What the hell are you talking about?

He just approved $1.4 BILLION to rebuild/restore homes here.

Billions with a B.

They had no idea.

But somewhere they read a headline that President Trump straight up denied disaster relief and never found the article about the Trump administration giving us billions for home rebuilding...

...because CNN, NYTimes, Washington Post, MSNBC, the Wall Street Journal, NONE OF THEM decided to cover it!

I'm seeing this EVERYWHERE I LOOK.

The "Maryland man"

The "deported 2 year old American citizen"

The "DOGE cuts are slowing down Western North Carolina recovery!!!"

It's incessant, insidious, WEAPONIZED EMPATHY.

I can't even IMAGINE the number of stories I must have believed over the years that left out a key detail for the exact purpose of weaponizing something good, my own empathy and kindness, against me.

I don't know how they get away with it!

...and I don't know how I never saw it before.

I'm left wondering...

...what other stories did I believe that were lies, twisted into making me angry, instead of making me THINK?

Because as soon as you start thinking, researching, learning...

The gig is up.

Headline: "Trump denies disaster aid"

Truth: "Oh FEMA dropped the debris removal reimbursement rate in Western North Carolina from 100% to 90% because all the right-of-ways and major waterways no longer have debris in them!"

It was examples, just like this over the past 8 months, that slowly, over time, woke me up to one simple truth:

I was just a puppet, and the media held the strings to my own empathy and used it against me.

Once you see it, you can't unsee it...