There's a lie we believe: behavior reform will fix what is broken.
We tend to think that all our world needs is a harsher justice system, a little faster police response, and a new election to replace corrupt politicians.
Yes, God established law and order for the benefit of society, but the Bible never once proposes that the lasting solution for the human condition is more law.
On the contrary, the Bible teaches that what humanity needs is radical heart change.
Genesis 6:5 and the rest of Scripture teaches that "the heart" is inherently evil and needs replacing. You and I can't change our own heart, nor can any law or institution put in place by man.
The only way you and I will be rescued is by a transformed heart, created in us by God (Psalm 51:10).
Japan Warns Bill Gates His "Days Are Numbered" After Abortion Drugs Found in Vaccines
Japan has sent a clear message to Bill Gates - his time is running out. With the government's Covid Task Force swiftly uncovering his crimes, the walls are closing in on the globalist kingpin.
Japanese scientists are now taking a stand, urging international prosecutors to bring a case of crimes against humanity against Gates. Among them, world-renowned experts like Dr. Fukushima are raising the alarm, revealing shocking discoveries that some vaccines contain abortion drugs designed for depopulation.
They warn that there is overwhelming evidence suggesting Gates isn’t finished yet - he has plans to inflict even more harm in the near future. It’s time for the world to unite and bring him to justice!
I was listening to this Nick Shirley interview about Somalians being imported by the Lutheran Church, so I started researching
🚨 It was Barack Obama who paid the Lutheran church NGO and additional NGOs over $100 million to bring in the Somalians and dump them in Minnesota
Obama funded it, here’s a list of all the NGOs Barack Obama paid to bring Somalians into America
- Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service
- Church World Service
- Episcopal Migration Ministries
- Ethiopian Community Development Council
- HIAS (formerly Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society)
- International Rescue Committee
- U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants
- United States Conference of Catholic Bishops/Migration and Refugee Services
- World Relief Corporation
Roughly $108 million total funding specifically tied to Somali arrivals
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Most of us begin life thinking through categories we never consciously chose. Family, culture, education, religion, politics, and the spirit of the age quietly teach us what is normal, believable, moral, and true long before we learn to examine those assumptions for ourselves.
That is why Scripture repeatedly calls us to discernment. “The naive believes everything, but the sensible man considers his steps” (Proverbs 14:15). Paul warns us to see that no one takes us captive through “philosophy and empty deception” according to human tradition rather than according to Christ (Colossians 2:8). Ideas become dangerous when they are inherited so deeply that we no longer realize they need to be tested.
The Christian cannot simply say, “This is what my family taught me,” or “This is what everyone around me believes.” The Bereans were praised because they examined even apostolic preaching against the Scriptures to see whether these things were so (Acts 17:11). Truth has authority because it is true, and ultimately because the God of truth has spoken.
This also means we must examine our own worldview with humility. None of us approaches life with a perfectly neutral mind. We all carry assumptions about God, man, morality, knowledge, freedom, meaning, and authority. Romans 12:2 calls us to be “transformed by the renewing of your mind,” because fallen thinking must be brought under the rule of God’s revelation.
Maturity begins when we stop treating inherited beliefs as untouchable and begin asking whether they can stand before Scripture. Paul says we are to take “every thought captive to the obedience of Christ” (2 Corinthians 10:5). That includes the ideas we inherited from people we love, the beliefs our culture celebrates, and even convictions we have held for years.
A worldview worth keeping must survive serious examination. The Christian does not fear that process because truth belongs to God. If something we have believed cannot stand under the light of Scripture, then faithfulness requires us to let it go, however familiar or comfortable it may be.
Comfort is a wonderful place to rest and a terrible place to grow. The seasons we'd erase from our history are usually the ones that made us who we are.
What season shaped you most — and would you have chosen it?
Most Idahoans are not demanding legalized abortion, but big left-wing interests from New York and Washington DC are trying to impose it anyway.
Reject this agenda and vote no on Prop 1!
Well, essentially there are two choices: 1) either God did it, or 2) something came from nothing. Which is more plausible? Which is more likely? Which is utterly impossible? Next, study the evidence for the resurrection -- and the historicity and accuracy of the Bible. Talk later
Toxic empathy got us here: bending over backwards to accept hoards of migrant men who sacrifice their children to strangers.
The primary victims of toxic empathy are always children. Here’s what I mean:
Empathy turns toxic when you feel so deeply for one person on one side of the equation (in this case, the illegal migrant) that you forget about the plight of everyone else (in this case, a child). Toxic empathy makes you lose sight of true victims and causes you to obscure objective morality and reality.
When it comes to abortion, toxic empathy feels so deeply for the mother that it justifies the murder of her baby.
On transgenderism, toxic empathy relates so profoundly to the pain of the gender-deceived person that it ignores the well-being of children and women.
On immigration, toxic empathy is so focused on the hard journey of the migrant that it belittles the effect of the chaos of illegal immigration on children, innocent citizens, and victims of illegal immigrant crime.
That’s why being *led* by empathy is dangerous. Empathy that isn’t reigned in by objective morality will always lead to destructive, lopsided, unjust policies — the main victims of which are always vulnerable kids.
Being so empathetic toward one set of people that you’re blinded to everyone and everything else isn’t just misguided, it’s evil.
Manly fortitude means contending with difficulty, facing every enemy, meeting the enemy head on, bearing the pain, maintaining self-discipline, upholding truth, pressing on to the goal. That’s what defines a man.
Act Like Men — John MacArthur // June 24, 2020
Psalm 27:14 says, “Be strong and let your heart take courage.”Men don’t give in to fear. Men don’t give in to pressure. Men don’t give in to intimidation, and they don’t give in to temptation. They don’t seek the easy way. They will take the pain, they will invite the risk, they will confront the challenge, and they will not bow to the pressure to compromise the commandments of God.
Strength of a man is that he lives on principle, that he lives on conviction, that he has the courage of those convictions, stands strong against everything that comes at those convictions, bravely faces the challenges in a fortified way. Manly fortitude means contending with difficulty, facing every enemy, meeting the enemy head on, bearing the pain, maintaining self-discipline, upholding truth, pressing on to the goal. That’s what defines a man.
I want to show you another passage back in Joshua, right at the beginning of Joshua. Moses gives this speech again as he passes the baton, as it were, to Joshua. He says to him in chapter 1 of Joshua, verse 5, “No man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I have been with Moses, I will be with you.” This is God now speaking; God is the one speaking. “Just as I have been with Moses, I will be with you.”
So here it comes not from Moses to Joshua, but from God to Joshua in the presence of Moses. And here’s what God says to Joshua, verse 6: “Be strong and courageous, for you shall give this people possession of the land which I swore to their fathers to give them. Only be strong and very courageous; be careful to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, so that you may have success wherever you go.”
And here comes the key to that. How do you live like that? How do you live with that strength and courage? How do you live without ever compromising? Verse 8: “This book of the law” – the Word of God – “shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it; for then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have success. Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous! Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.” It's an incredible speech from God.
“Be strong,” verse 5, “because God will be with you,” verse 6, “because you’re fulfilling a divine cause, a promise from God.” Verses 7-8, “The only way you can do this is to submit to the Word of God so that it constantly is in your mind and you live out its truths.” You will be able to be obedient if you’re saturated by the Word of God empowered by the Spirit of God.
Can you see why this speech is repeated so many, many times? This is the mark of a man. It takes a father like that to raise a son like that. Spiritual men are courageous, strong, principled, uncompromising, and bold. This is God’s role for men to play in a society, but it is also God’s role for the men to play who are the leaders of His people Israel. And this is God’s standard for the men who lead His church.
When we come into the New Testament, and we are introduced to the kind of men that the Lord commands to lead His church, this is how He describes them in 1 Timothy 3: “This man must be above reproach, a one-woman man, temperate, prudent, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not addicted to wine or pugnacious, but gentle, peaceable, free from the love of money. He must be one who manages his own household well, keeping his children under control with all dignity (if a man doesn’t know how to manage his own children, how will he take care of the church of God?)
What if worship is more than an expression of praise? In the middle of spiritual battles, turning our attention to God reminds us of who He is, what is true, and where our confidence belongs. Discover how worship can strengthen your heart and help you stand firm in the battle.
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Click here to read the full article by Dr. David Jeremiah: https://t.co/NgXI5Z89oY