Tish Bowling 🇺🇸🌵🏜

Born-again Christian; Jeremy's beloved; Joshua's mom; Carly's mother-in-law; Nana to my Little Man; Constitution-loving American; pro-Israel; pro-India.

[Tish Bowling 🇺🇸🌵🏜 @TishBowling]

At 4:56 p.m. on 11/23/2020, Jeremy went to be with our Lord Jesus Christ. He was ready to leave his earthly tent behind & dwell with Christ forever. With my son and daughter-in-law on his right and me on his left, he said, "I love you guys." Then he peacefully breathed his last.

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@D_B_Harrison @KeeblerUS Reminds me of being at my grandma's house when I was young. I can remember the taste of these cookies just looking at the photo!

[Tish Bowling 🇺🇸🌵🏜 @TishBowling]

@MichelleDLesley We've used AIG every year that our church has offered VBS. It's so great!

[Melissa the Hopeful🏠Homemaker @BiblicalBeauty]

You know what I would love as a Christian woman constantly searching for answers to my health questions?

Some committed and skilled Christian doctors providing high quality books or podcasts on the topic of women’s health so that I can learn what I need to know about my physical changes and challenges without hearing about feminism, abortion, sexual immorality, or gender perversion being promoted in the process. 🤦🏻‍♀️

[Freddy🇩🇪 @FreddyLA7]

Hello again.

We’re currently in Clemson, South Carolina. I’ve decided to come back here to document the final part of our road trip.

The main reason I deactivated my account two weeks ago was that things became increasingly toxic. For some people, it’s unfortunately unfathomable that a good story can exist without some kind of hidden agenda behind it. There was even a Reddit group going through my entire account trying to find anything they could use to reveal my identity.

I know this was only a small percentage of people, but after a while it became exhausting. During the last two weeks, I received so many kind messages on Instagram, and they really made me realize how many people genuinely enjoyed following the trip. Some people even told me that their grandparents regularly ask them, “What are the Germans up to today?” I think that’s really cool.

I decided to continue because I realized that the overwhelming majority of people loved following along. A small group of very loud people shouldn’t be able to ruin something that brought so many others joy.

I also want to clear something up, as people who follow me on Instagram already know.

I’ve been to the United States before. This is not my first visit, and I’ve never claimed that it was. The last time I was here was in January 2022, when I visited New York and Philadelphia.

A lot of people shared my Raising Cane’s post from November 2025 to make it look like I was secretly American. That post wasn’t from the United States, it was from my trip to Saudi Arabia.

This is my first time back in the U.S. in more than four years, and apart from Boston, I’d never visited any of the places we’ve been to on this trip before. That’s probably why many people assumed it was our first time in America, because for all of these places, it actually was.

And let me tell you, Ohio and Alabama are very different from New York City or Los Angeles.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask.

Thanks for reading.

[Wes Huff @WesleyLHuff]

If you love Jesus you should love what Jesus loves, and that ultimately means you should be an official, active, and serving member of your local church (Eph. 5:25).

Church membership should be normal for Christians. Lives lived in regular accountability demonstrate the gospel’s reality to the world, particularly through the mutual love that Jesus identified as the mark of his followers. This is both biblical and strengthens evangelistic witness. Weaker and newer Christians gain feeding and accountability through membership, and mature and seasoned believers demonstrate authentic Christian living.

Hebrews calls believers to “consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works,” explicitly warning against forsaking assembly “as the manner of some is” (Heb. 10:24–25). This suggests participation isn’t optional but essential to spiritual health.

Church membership preserves biblical truth by establishing who bears responsibility for rooting out false teaching and protecting the gospel when leadership itself becomes compromised. Paul’s letter to the Galatians exemplifies this. I say this as a positional elder in my church — Paul appealed to the whole congregation rather than leadership alone to address doctrinal corruption. Think about it: how are you to “bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ” (Gal 6:2), which positions mutual care as a central Christian obligation, if you’re not actively in a membership role? Thessalonians similarly exhorts believers to “encourage one another and build one another up” (1 Thess 5:11), framing encouragement as a reciprocal responsibility that requires presence and investment.

Healthy membership equips believers to recognize heresy when taught or communicated and transforms them from passive consumers into active defenders of the faith.

Acts depicts the early church persevering in apostolic teaching, communion, and gathering daily, with believers holding possessions in common (Acts 2:42–47), a portrait of intensive communal engagement rather than individual isolated devotion or nominal affiliation.

Ultimately, practicing membership glorifies God as Christians gather to form his body, living under the life giving words of scripture, fellowshipping with one another sacrificially, and reflecting his character.

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

We hold these views to be self-evident...

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Why is it ‘cancelled’ in the U.K. but ‘canceled’ in the U.S.?

Because we gave them that L in 1776.

[HeCheated.org @hecheateddotorg]

If Will "Lia" Thomas hadn't pretended to be a woman, he wouldn't have even qualified for nationals and no one would know his name.

A real woman would have won the national title in the 500 Free.

Another woman would have qualified for the finals in the 200 free and had the opportunity to compete for a medal.

Yet another woman would have qualified for the 100 free and had the opportunity to compete for a medal.

Three different women would have won Ivy League conference titles in the 100, 200, and 500 free.

Four other women would have gotten to be members of the 400 free, 200 free, 800 free, and 400 medley relay teams at the Ivy League championships.

A real woman would have taken 1st place in 21 other events.

A real woman would have taken 2nd or 3rd in four other events.

Hundreds of women would have been able to use the locker room in safety and comfort without feeling humiliated and worrying about the gross man getting naked in the same room and having the ability to watch them do the same.

And men like Zach "Ari" Drennen who haven't won a single championship title in their lives wouldn't be ridiculing a All-American female athlete online.

[Jason Howerton @jason_howerton]

This is a cautionary tale:

1. Marriage is a LIFELONG covenant with God. Fight for your family. Almost nothing you do will be as consequential.

2. When you get married, you create dreams TOGETHER. A wife’s dream should be the same as the dream of the head of the family. If you are not building together, you’re cooked.

3. Your child should never be the “center” of your world. A man’s proper priorities: God > Wife > Children > family > community > nation.

4. If you make the dishonoring decision to get divorced, absolutely do not celebrate it as if it’s a good thing — like you’re leaving a job you enjoyed or something.

5. The quality of a man’s headship in a marriage impacts all of these things greatly. The Bible has the formula for a thriving, long-lasting marriage. If you go against the design of the living God, it’s not going to go well.

6. “Co-parenting” is a disaster for a child. Every kid needs a functioning family, including the HEAD and the loving helper. I wish them the best and I’ll definitely be praying for their kid.

[Jennifer Sey @JenniferSey]

Finally, someone mentions the girls!!

Thank you thank you.

I'm not crying you're crying. 😭😭😭

The girls matter! Listen up!

"But in conducting the equal protection inquiry, we must also account for the effects on girls who are forced to compete against biological males in sports.”

-- Justice Kavanaugh.

[Alisa Childers @alisa_childers]

At a bare minimum, biblically qualified church elders should have no problem marking and avoiding:

1. Prosperity Gospel Preachers
2. Progressive Christian Teachers
4. Abusive Pastors
5. False prophets who data mine on social media
6. Nazis

They should be crystal clear on:

1. Abortion
2. Sexuality and Marriage

"For an overseer, as God's steward, must be above reproach. He must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or a drunkard or violent or greedy for gain, but hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined. He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it." Titus 1:7-9

None of this should be controversial.

[Allie Beth Stuckey @conservmillen]

When my oldest was born, they refused to let me hold her because her oxygen levels were low. But I was persistent, and they eventually relented, allowing her to lay on my chest until the NICU nurse came to roll her away. When the nurse arrived, I asked that they check her oxygen levels one more time before taking her. They did. Oxygen: 100%. Perfect. The nurse shrugged and left. Our baby girl was healthy. She just needed me. My heartbeat, my warmth, my touch. She needed her mom.

Stories like this aren’t rare. Newborns need their moms to regulate their oxygen and heart rate. That’s why, when at all possible, most doctors and hospitals give baby to mom right away.

We know this when it comes to normal births, but when it comes to surrogacy - especially the kind when two men are purchasing a baby from a woman - the baby is immediately and intentionally taken away from his or her mom and given to two strangers. It is not surprising that these babies often undergo complications post-birth. Beyond that, we don’t fully know the physiological and psychological effect of robbing babies of their mothers at birth.

It’s worse treatment than we give puppies and kittens, but when it’s for “inclusion,” it’s celebrated.

Adoption is one thing - it redeems a broken situation. But surrogacy is another - it intentionally creates the broken situation.

Babies’ needs will always matter more than adults’ wants.

[Tish Bowling 🇺🇸🌵🏜 @TishBowling]

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@BiblicalBeauty A friend of mine said the same thing is happening on Instagram. Such a pleasant surprise.

[Melissa the Hopeful🏠Homemaker @BiblicalBeauty]

Steven Bartlett, host of the podcast, The Diary of a CEO, released an interview with Christian apologist, John Lennox, this week, and his closing comments to him were fascinating:

"One of the most compelling arguments for God that you've presented (and your way of seeing the world and being) is not actually necessarily anything you've written in your books or not not necessarily anything you've said. It is actually you.

You have a certain peace and contentment that I rarely see in people that I interview, but I often see, and I've almost always seen, in the Christians that I've interviewed, and this is a interesting phenomenon for me...it seems to be a trend that a lot of the Christian apologists that I've interviewed have that anchoring that so many of us are looking for."

What a great witness.

Link to interview below

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@BiblicalBeauty Oh my goodness 😂😂😂

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@virgilwalker I love this. Thank you for showing great humility, my brother in Christ. May everyone extend to you the grace that we ALL need 💙🙏🏻🙌🏻

[Tish Bowling 🇺🇸🌵🏜 @TishBowling]

@SharrellAnne2 From one widow to another, this is beautiful. Thank you for your family's sacrifice. God bless you & your family 💙🙏🏻

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@portilloshotdog @VegasCasinoGuy My little brother would like a Portillo's in Las Vegas. Please and thank you!

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@megbasham @Phil_Johnson_ Prayers lifted for you, Meg! May the Lord continue to fill your heart with the peace that only He can give as you look to Him and His strength, seeking His face always 💙🙏🏻

[Tish Bowling 🇺🇸🌵🏜 @TishBowling]

@megbasham @Phil_Johnson_ My husband & I faced his Stage 4 intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma dx w/shock & the peace that transcends all understanding. His cancer journey was 25 days long. I faced my Stage 1A adult granulosa cell tumor diagnosis as a widow 3.5 yrs. later. The Lord is indeed sovereign 💙🙏🏻🙌🏻