Elizabeth Staton

Jesus Christ is Lord and I am His slave.

[Elizabeth Staton @Talmida07]

@TaylorRMarshall @nosoup4knowles There was a very softly articulated (but important!) “If” at the beginning of his sentence—he was saying, as an example, IF his wife had left him what would the alternative be, to date guys? Meaning: of course not, you don’t change who you are because of a major setback. 👍🏻

[Elizabeth Staton @Talmida07]

@brionhickey @elonmusk Our family got to visit Lauterbrunnen summer. We walked that path through the valley, surrounded by waterfalls and snowcapped peaks…it was surreal and breathtaking!

[Elizabeth Staton @Talmida07]

@erosbrousson Right?! As a fellow debt free family, we commiserate. It’s beyond ridiculous that these places want proof of debt instead of real money.

[Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey @RelatablewABS]

Therapist @TTuck10 came on Relatable to talk about anxiety. I asked him, "If you could define anxiety, how would you define it?"

Tucker: "Fear of the future. Fear of the unknown. The verse, 'Be still and know that I am God' used to make me so angry.

I'm like, God, what do you mean be still? Like, I got a real problem here. I'm in a storm. Why do you want me to just be still?

And what I realized is that the word, and I believe it's "Rapha" in the Hebrew, it doesn’t mean just ‘don’t move.’ It means ‘release your grip.’

The idea that I thought that I had control, that was a lie anyway. If I can start to realize like, yes, the circumstances might happen that are negative or I might be in the middle of a battle right now, but if I can loosen my grip and stop white knuckling it, then I can realize that like oh—God is God, not me, and He’s going to take care of me no matter what happens.

That really is the solution to anxiety. It’s not changing your circumstances or slapping meds on it.”

[Allie Beth Stuckey @conservmillen]

Remember that children are always the unconsenting subjects of progressive social experiments

Again and again, progressives experiment with putting adult desire over children’s rights and needs

- abortion
- gay marriage
- surrogacy, sperm/egg-selling
- puberty blockers
- COVID education

Once you see it, you can’t unsee it. Children are the vector through which progressives try to prove the legitimacy and righteousness of their reconfiguration of the natural order of things

Christians have always been on the front lines against the objectification and exploitation of kids. This fight is just as needed now as it was in the ancient pagan days of child sacrifice. Our culture still sacrifices children on the altar of our gods: the gods of “progress,” of convenience, of pleasure, of power, and of self. Christians have to relentlessly, for the sake of children, point us to a better way.

[Lloyd Legalist @LloydLegalist]

Word.

[Melissa the Hopeful🏠Homemaker @BiblicalBeauty]

Helen Roseveare, a missionary who faced intense suffering and persecution during her 20 years of service in the Congo, shares one of the times that she saw God answer prayer in a most unexpected way:

"I went to have prayers with our orphanage children as I did every day, and any of the children wanted gathered around me for prayer time, and I'd give them different things to pray about. And this particular day, I told the children of this tiny baby and asked them to pray for the nurses that they would stay awake all night to keep that baby warm. If the baby got cold, it would die. I mentioned that the baby had a 2-year-old sister who was crying because her mommy had died. I mentioned the burst hot water bottle.

During prayer time, different children prayed for different things, and then one little 10-year-old girl, Ruth, she prayed in the usual blunt way of our African children, 'Please, God, send us a hot water bottle. Now, God, it'll be no good tomorrow. Send it this afternoon. Now, if it comes tomorrow, the baby will be dead.'

I'm sort of swallowing hard, and she said, 'While you're about it, God, would you send a dolly for the little 2-year-old sister, so she'll know that Jesus really loves her?'

And that afternoon, the parcel came. It was the first parcel I ever, I've been out there four years, I'd never had a parcel from home. And despite the fact I live on the equator, somebody packing that parcel had been prompted by God to put in a hot water bottle, and a child from my Bible class at home had put in a dolly for a little girl.

And it came that afternoon in answer to a 10 year-old child's prayer, and the amazing thing was, you know, that parcel had been on the way five months to get to us. It had left England in July, and it came that afternoon, cause a child prayed."

[Allie Beth Stuckey @conservmillen]

The gaslighting starts early. I see this kind of thing over and over again on social media. Two dads laughing at the fact that “somehow” their baby keeps asking for mama even though they don’t have one, and they’re always told “no.”

Babies instinctively want and need their moms. It’s beyond cruel - more cruelty than we allow for animals - that we purposely take them away from their mothers as infants in order to satisfy the desires of adult men.

[Megan Basham @megbasham]

There is not a single Muslim controlled nation in the world that recognizes free speech, freedom of religion, or basic human rights.

There is not a single Muslim controlled region that respects your precious pluralism. Wherever they hold power, they oppress women and persecute Christians.

Yet we have both Protestant and Catholic leadership trying to tell the rank-and-file that we should have some sort of communion with Islam and that we worship the same God.

I pray for every single Muslim to come to Christ. But in the inimitable words of Jack Nicholson in As Good as It Gets, sell crazy somewhere else. We’re all stocked up here.

[Wes Huff @WesleyLHuff]

This Easter, I invite you to look at Jesus, consider what he said and did, and ask for yourself what I believe is the most important question you will ever answer: Did he really leave behind an empty tomb? And if he did, what does that mean for you?

This video was made possible and in collaboration with my friends at @ChildlikeMedia.

[Wes Huff @WesleyLHuff]

The term "theological liberalism" is thrown around a lot.
When push comes to shove though, it still boils down to Richard Niebuhr's summation of what theological liberalism truly is: "A God without wrath brought men without sin into a kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross" (Kingdom of God in America, 193).

Liberal/progressive Christianity is more than that but it is no less than that, and it will always come down to it. Niebuhr's words 89 years ago are just as applicable in 1937 as they are today.

[Allie Beth Stuckey @conservmillen]

On the contrary, I am for the death penalty for the same reason I’m against abortion: I value innocent life.

In Genesis 9:6, which is pre-Israel and pre-law, God demands the death penalty for murder, and He roots the command in a reason that is still true today: man is made in His image.

It is because humans are so uniquely valuable that God says the only proportionate punishment for murdering one of us is death. It is out of his great love and care for people—not cruelty—that God gives this dictate.

Even if one disagrees with the death penalty being applied in America today, saying that it is “not pro-life” is calling God not pro-life, since, at the very least, He commanded it in the Old Testament. (Romans 13 also gives the government this authority). He doesn’t change or evolve; He was just as just then as He is today.

Remember, Christian, we are not nicer than God. The most loving thing we can always do is agree with Him.

[Megan Basham @megbasham]

If ICE is so untrained and out of control, how come Minneapolis is the only city in which we are seeing these tragedies? Maybe it’s because the leadership of Minnesota is encouraging miscreants to break the law, terrorize the city, and impede law-enforcement.

[Elizabeth Staton @Talmida07]

@Breaking911 I listened and he said there are Minneapolis residents who want them to fight in the streets, he did not say that he wants them to do so.

[Katy Faust @Katy_Faust]

I get a lot of questions about how we are going to overturn #Obergefell.

Here's how:

Same-sex marriage flattened legal distinctions in the family- erasing sex of parents, degrading the importance of a biological parent/child connection, and rejecting a procreative foundation for the union.

The way forward isn’t rage. It’s restoration.
- Reassert child-centric familial distinctions
- Recognize biology (and adoption) for parentage, not "intent"
- Insist on using the words "mother" and "father" not "parents"
- Reward and promote procreative relationships

Obergefell only works if biology doesn't matter. As child-protecting reality returns to family law, gay marriage collapses. #GreaterThan

[Nick Freitas @NickJFreitas]

I'm entirely done with popular fictions of the left.

Statements like "America is a nation of immigrants" or "America was built by immigrants" ignores important context by suggesting that all immigration is "beneficial" because certain forms of immigration are beneficial. It also ignores and diminishes the reality that America was primarily built by Americans. People born and raised here. We weren't all sitting around wondering how to do things and then *POOF* the third world showed up to instruct us on how to build, create, innovate and be productive.

To say "America was built by immigrants" is an over generalization that ignores important context...

First of all, let's distinguish between "build" and "create"...America was not created by "immigrants." It was created primarily by English protestant settlers.

Over time, immigrants (overwhelmingly but not exclusively from Europe) contributed significantly to its advancement and expansion from the 1700's through the 1960's.

That immigration was successful in large part because it came from places that were not entirely foreign to our customs and traditions and because assimilation was mandatory for success since there wasn't an elaborate welfare state to exploit. Because of this, the motivation to come to the United States was political freedom combined with economic opportunity. Not a desire to live off American taxpayers.

Culture matters and mass migration from places with not only entirely different, but in many cases openly hostile, social, religious, political and economic traditions is a recipe for disaster. And while VERY limited immigration from such places can work under unique circumstances, it REQUIRES that the limited refugees you take in are fully aware of what they are fleeing, why they are fleeing and adopt a sense of gratitude toward the United States and an eagerness to become Americans and contribute to its success...not to fundamentally change America into the places they fled from while using our tax dollars to do it.

To suggest otherwise is intellectually dishonest at best and subversive at worst. And quite frankly, the behavior and attitudes of people like Ilhan Omar, Rashida Talib and Pramila Jayapal suggest that "subversion" is the far more likely motivation.

[Megan Basham @megbasham]

Patriot

[Josh Howerton @howertonjosh]

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.

[Elizabeth Staton @Talmida07]

@SlowToWrite I should clarify; from a proper understanding of the holiness of God and the sinfulness of sin (and hating our sin more every day), we should more easily believe we deserve eternal conscious punishment than that we will actually get to enjoy eternal bliss instead.

[Elizabeth Staton @Talmida07]

@SlowToWrite It should be easier for the Christian to believe that hell is eternal conscious punishment than that heaven is eternal conscious bliss.