When God wanted to make David a king, He didn't give him a crown, He gave him a Goliath.
A lot of times when you feel like God's "breaking" you, He's actually BUILDING you for a specific purpose.
I just know there is someone who desperately needs to hear this today.
🚨 Complicit or Complacent
The American Revolution began over a 2% tax on tea—and today, you’re funding fraud.
As you pay your taxes, ask yourself: where is your money really going?
For far too long, Californians have accepted the misuse of their hard-earned dollars.
Your government is either complicit or complacent—and neither is acceptable.
Join us this Tax Day in demanding a special session and standing up for your tax dollars.
🚨 “Ban Nick Shirley Bill” — AB 2624
A government that moves to limit transparency is a government that has something to hide.
AB 2624: the “Ban Nick Shirley Bill” raises serious concerns about the future of investigative journalism in California.
This bill would expand restrictions around recording and documenting inside certain facilities, including organizations that receive government funding. In practice, that means journalists and independent investigators could face legal penalties simply for documenting what’s happening inside taxpayer-funded operations.
Think about that.
The very people trying to expose fraud, abuse, or mismanagement could be the ones punished.
This bill is backed by CHIRLA—an organization that has received millions in taxpayer funding over the years while also taking strong and often controversial positions on immigration policy and enforcement.
Now the same ecosystem benefiting from public dollars is supporting legislation that could limit scrutiny and reduce transparency.
Californians deserve the opposite.
If taxpayer money is being spent, the public has a right to know how it’s being used. Journalists should be protected for exposing the truth—not threatened with penalties.
Transparency isn’t optional
The Bible was written on three continents:
- Europe
- Asia
- Africa
In three languages:
- Hebrew
- Aramaic
- Greek
By over 40 different men:
- Kings
- Prophets
- Fishermen
- A doctor
Yet it tells one unified story:
- Creation
- Fall
- Redemption
- Christ
God is incredible.
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.
Wise people get your time, resources & energy — because they’ll multiply it for good.
Fools? You give them boundaries and consequences.
The evil? You cut them off completely. No time. No resources. No energy.
Protect your peace.
Guard your circle.
Love wisely.
Win the man, win the family.
Win the family, win the community.
Win the community, win the state.
Win the state, win the nation.
Win the nation, win the world.
This is the way.
We gave up fighting the battles of doctrine under the onslaught of the Charismatic Movement. We lost the war there. That’s where evangelicalism should have taken its stand.
Strange Fire Q&A with John MacArthur // June 30, 2013
PHIL: Well, the Evangelical Movement is changing and embracing more and more of the Charismatic Movement. At the same time, evangelicalism is losing its historic evangelical distinctives. Do you think there’s a connection? Do you think there’s a cause and effect relationship?
JOHN: Oh, that’s a great question, There is a cause and effect I think. We gave up fighting the battles of doctrine under the onslaught of the Charismatic Movement. We lost the war there. That’s where evangelicalism should have taken its stand. It should have taken its stand against these bizarre unbiblical aberrations. We refuse to do that in the name of love. So love trumped everything, a pseudo love, a kind of undiscerning sentimentality. And anybody who takes issue with that is considered divisive.
So the push for tolerance won the day, so watch carefully what happens. The evangelical church has become tolerant. Tolerant of what? You name it and I will tell you what the next one will be—homosexuality. We have been softened up. We have given up the fight. We have basically rolled over in the name of love and now I pick up an article and it says, and I’m sure Jerry Falwell would roll over in his grave, that a student at Liberty Seminary is an open homosexual, that there are gay groups on Christian college campuses, that the church needs to accept homosexuals and accept even homosexual marriage. This is going to come like a flood. It’s going to come in the culture, but we would expect that, wouldn’t we? What…people said to me, “What about the Supreme Court decision?” Well what you expect them to say? There is no standard of morality, what are they going to say? The Bible says it’s a sin. They’re not going to say that. That’s the state, that’s the secular world.
All they’re going to say in a democracy is, “Whatever the people want?” That’s even going to be gone very soon and the courts are going to decide everything that’s moral. The Congress can make laws and the President can make executive orders. But only courts rule in ethics and morality. And so all moral decision is going to fall to the courts. There won’t even be popular referendums anymore like Proposition 8 because one judge in Northern California throws it out. So why are people going to spend a fortune. By the way, Prop 8 was an effort of the Mormon church and they spent millions and millions of dollars to get the marriage act passed. One judge threw it out. In the future, judges will make moral decisions. And judges will be the appointees of the people in power. This is going down fast. How do I feel about that? I expect the world to act like the world. What I don’t expect is the church to act like the world. I don’t really care what the government does, that’s the world. And if it’s a democracy, then whatever the people want is what they’re going to do. And if it’s a monarchy, whatever the King wants is what they’re going to do. So…but that’s the world. Whatever they want to do, they will do.
What I’m concerned about is what the church does. What we do in the name of Jesus Christ. And when we so hurriedly abandon the biblical pattern and when a Christian institution with tens of thousands of students says we want to work with the students here who have gender identity issues. The church is caving in.