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"Take up your cross daily."
People use this phrase for:
— a difficult marriage
— a health problem
— a demanding job
— a difficult personality
That is not what Jesus meant.
When His audience heard "take up your cross," they had one immediate image in their minds.
And it had nothing to do with inconvenience.
Here's what Jesus actually meant and why it changes everything about how you follow Him. 🧵
What carrying your cross actually looks like daily:
— Choosing forgiveness when your flesh demands retaliation
— Serving when no one will notice or reward you
— Speaking truth when silence is safer and more comfortable
— Surrendering an ambition that competes with God's call
— Staying in a hard place because God has not released you yet
— Loving the person who has given you every reason not to
None of these feels like victory in the moment.
All of them are the road that leads through death to resurrection.
🚨 WOW! Dr. ALVEDA KING just said it PERFECTLY on Capitol Hill
"I still have a dream. I dream that one day we will move beyond black power and white power and embrace GOD'S power and human dignity!"
"I reject the notion that Americans who hold traditional Christian beliefs should be treated as THREATS or TERRORISTS simply because we disagree with a prevailing political thought!" 🙏🏻
"I dream that Americans will one day see each other, not as enemies, but as neighbors. I dream that we will hear each other, see each other, and recognize that every human life has value from the womb to the tomb and beyond."
"We are as scripture teaches, one blood, one human race. And if we remember that truth, we can build a future worthy of the sacrifices made by those who came before us."
"We must speak out for truth and against the forces that would manufacture hate, fear, division, and violence simply to line their pockets and further their political ambitions."
"God bless America, God bless you!"
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Ok, let's take these one by one...
❌"Public setting, not trespassing"
He sat in another team's tent. Memorial's coach testified team tents are like a team bench. You don't go in uninvited. He was told to leave. He refused.
❌"Was NOT the aggressor"
Witness after witness testified Anthony was the aggressor. Before anyone touched him, he reached into his bag and said "Touch me and see what happens." That's not defense.
❌"Knife was legal per Texas law" (irrelevant)
Owning a knife is legal. Stabbing it through an unarmed 17-year-old's heart is not. Nobody was charged with possession. He was charged with MURDER. The jury agreed. Even his OWN COACH testified there's no reason an athlete has a knife at a track meet.
❌"Was attacked by two low IQ thugs"
Nobody testified to that. The one defense witness who claimed Anthony was surrounded admitted under cross it happened AFTER the stabbing. Surveillance showed he wasn't even looking when it happened. And the "thug" was an unarmed honor student, by the way.
❌"Karmelo Anthony is 100% innocent"
A unanimous jury heard 21 witnesses, watched five camera angles, and needed only 3 hours to say otherwise: guilty of murder.
Austin Metcalf got a hole in his heart for asking someone to leave a tent... justice was served.
Hey Jasmine…
Black pilot here.
I think you missed the plot.
Then again, that’s becoming a pattern.
I graduated from West Point.
I went through Army flight school.
I learned to fly the AH-64 Apache.
I deployed to combat and flew 55 combat missions over Baghdad.
Nobody handed me a cockpit because of my skin color.
Nobody lowered the standards for me.
Nobody looked at me and said, “Let’s check a diversity box.”
That’s what people like you don’t seem to understand.
Suggesting that Black pilots, Black engineers, Black doctors, or Black leaders need special preferences to succeed is not empowering, it’s insulting.
I didn’t want a different standard.
I wanted the same standard.
And when you’re flying into combat, the American people don’t care what race the pilot is.
They care whether the pilot is qualified.
Merit isn’t racist.
Excellence isn’t discriminatory.
And reducing every achievement to skin color says far more about your worldview than it does about mine.
WATCH: Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX): Your organization said that restricting and banning abortion is a tool that the far right uses to maintain white supremacy. Do you believe that pro-lifers are white supremacist?”
SPLC CEO Bryan Fair: “Ummm, I believe that reproductive liberty is... I can’t answer that question yes or no.”
Brandon Gill: “How many babies that are in the United States that are aborted are black?”
Bryan Fair: *Speechless*
Brandon Gill: “About 40% of abortions nationwide are of black babies—blacks represent about 13% of the population. Does that sound like something a white supremacist would oppose?”
I love this guy!
Much of what is called Christian leadership today looks nothing like slavery to Christ.
The modern church has often borrowed its idea of leadership from the world. Platform, personality, branding, influence, applause, image, control, and visibility have become the marks of success. But Christ did not train His servants to build their own name. He called them to die to themselves, carry the cross, feed His sheep, and serve His people.
“But it is not this way among you, but whoever wishes to become great among you shall be your servant” (Matthew 20:26).
That one sentence exposes the spirit of much modern ministry. The world climbs. Christ’s servant bows. The world builds a name. Christ’s servant points away from himself. The world uses people to protect the platform. Christ’s servant spends himself for the good of the flock.
“The greatest among you shall be your servant” (Matthew 23:11).
A true servant of Christ does not see the church as an audience, a business, a brand, or a ladder for personal importance. He sees it as the blood bought people of God. That makes him careful. That makes him tremble. That makes him watch his motives.
“Shepherd the flock of God among you, exercising oversight not under compulsion, but voluntarily, according to the will of God” (1 Peter 5:2).
The danger is not leadership itself. Scripture gives leaders to the church. The danger is leadership shaped by pride instead of the cross. When a man loves the stage more than the sheep, he is not leading like Christ. When he guards his image more than the truth, he is not serving Christ. When he demands honour but refuses humility, he has forgotten the Master he claims to represent.
“Nor yet as lording it over those allotted to your charge, but proving to be examples to the flock” (1 Peter 5:3).
Christ’s servants are not called to perform greatness. They are called to faithfulness. The mark of true ministry is not how many people admire the man, but whether Christ is exalted, the Word is preached, the sheep are fed, and the servant is willing to become nothing so that the Lord is seen as everything.
Without God, America could not have come into being 250 years ago. And without God, we cannot continue. https://t.co/LAJou0fHbN
Here it is:
A hidden-camera 🔥🔥 bombshell:
This is Democrat operative Joel Caldwell of the “Coalition for the People’s Agenda,” a Fulton County ballot-harvesting NGO chief—caught on tape admitting it all.
Democrats are stuffing ballot drop boxes with fraudulent votes, and it’s all caught on videotape. He also admits this is how they rigged the 2020 election and why Democrats fight to the death against voter ID.
• They pay people to illegally ballot-harvest.
• They bribe ballot counters and election officials.
• They forge and falsify ballots.
And the Atlanta mayor straight-up stole the election.
He says it all himself—on tape.
Joel Caldwell:
“That’s what happened in 2020, ’cause that’s when the ballots—they started stuffing them ballots and people stuffing them ballots, and they got videotape of them, but nobody talks about it. That’s why Trump was making that big deal about it, because you see it on videotape. It’s like, come on. We see the man pull up and put a hundred ballots in this box. You know? You can’t do that sh*t.
So groups were paying people to do just that—drop off ballots.”
He continues: That’s why Democrats fight to the death against voter ID laws.
Joel Caldwell:
“That’s why the Republicans are always trying to fight the ballot—you know, that’s the whole argument, because Republicans are the ones who put out that kind of stuff, so they want voter IDs and stuff. Democrats are fighting voter ID laws. It’s a two-sided thing. That’s what they’re fighting over. Republicans are trying to say, ‘Hey, look, we got proof of this sh*t.’
And the Democrats are like, well, we don’t want voter ID laws, and we want to make it where you can just drop your ballot off—online voting and different things they try to come up with.”
📝 This is the type of stuff happening across blue cities, right before an election, including Los Angeles as we speak—good God, they’re bribing the LA homeless with drugs for votes.
My friend Da Yu left communist China for the USA twenty years ago. Last week, his American employer gave him one hour to delete his comment on a friend’s social media post or lose his job.
Da was an atheist when he first moved to Cincinnati for college. And he was excited to get away from the suffocating regime of communist China.
When he arrived here, it wasn’t long before he encountered a group of Christians who shared the gospel with him. God opened his heart to the truth of the gospel and he believed.
As his faith grew, Da became a strong Christian leader and committed evangelist. Now, many years later, he leads a small group at my church and organizes regular evangelistic outreaches for college students.
Da is a kind, smart, and godly Christian man. And he’s among the most committed members of our church. He’s an ordinary Christian who believes the Bible and has a spine. He and his wife have two young children, and she is eight months pregnant with their third.
That’s all background for what I’m about to say.
Last week, he called me out of the blue because he was faced with a difficult decision. One of his friends had just become a Christian and posted on LinkedIn about her baptism (see screenshots).
She wasn’t accustomed to making Linked In posts about Jesus, feeling as though it might be unprofessional. She wondered openly if she should keep her posts secular. But she was excited about her new life in Christ and wanted to share it.
That’s when Da chimed in with a comment on her post that there is no such thing as a purely neutral, “secular” culture. He pointed out that many companies are promoting cultural sins such as homosexuality, transgenderism, and fornication during pride month. If companies can promote those morally regressive “values,” then certainly this woman should not be embarrassed to talk about her Christian faith in public. He was simply encouraging her to be bold for Christ.
WIthin minutes, he got a message from HR. He was called to a meeting with the HR rep and the CEO where he was told he needed to take his comment on her post down immediately. Feeling put on the spot, he said he’d needed to think it over first. He asked, “what if I do not take it down?”
They said, “you have one hour to take it down or lose your job.” So he took a walk outside to gather his thoughts and pray. He spoke to his wife about it, and she told him the man she married was a man of courage, and she would stand by him. He also sought counsel from some men in our church.
Finally, he made his decision. He would not take his comment down. So they fired him. Right there, on the spot. No sooner had the call ended that his laptop was locked and he was unable to access it at all.
This whole episode is tragically ironic, given the fact that he’d moved here from China to get away from these sorts of draconian practices. But that’s the way it is with the LGBTQ regime. If you do not comply and bow the knee to their gods you will be severely punished.
In short, a good man was fired from his job for refusing to cave. He took a stand and paid a price for it. His former employers didn’t care that he’s a responsible, hard working man with a family to provide for. They didn’t care that his wife is eight months pregnant.
None of that matters. Their ideology is everything. They will crush anyone who opposes it.
I asked Da’s permission to tell his story, promising to keep him anonymous. But he responded, “Actually I think using my real name maybe better. A story becomes a lot more real with a name. I want to take a stand for it and encourage others.”
Da took a stand. You can too.
🚨Los Angeles Election Fraud Caught on Hidden Camera
LA election petitioners were caught on tape giving homeless individuals other voters' information, instructing them to forge voter names and signatures, and offering cash and drugs as incentives to register to vote.
Israel has never once attacked unprovoked.
Israel doesn’t marry 9 year olds off to old men.
Israel doesn’t blow up buses and embassies.
Israel doesn’t knife people or drive into parades screaming Allah Ahkbar.
Israel doesn’t throw gay people off of buildings.
Israel doesn’t stone women to death for not wearing a Hijab.
Israel doesn’t have Pakistani gangs running around sexually assaulting women.
Israel allows Christians and Arab Israelis to be citizens and have full rights including serving in government. It’s the only country in the Middle East to do so.
Israel didn’t launch 26,500 rockets just from 10/7. That was Hamas and Hezbollah.
Israel didn’t misappropriate $40 billion dollars in aide to use for terrorism. The U.S. alone provided over $7.6 billion in bilateral assistance since 1993.  Billions more came from Qatar, the EU, the UN, and Arab states and that’s before counting the massive post-October 7 emergency aid.
Israel didn’t collected taxes from Gaza’s 2.2 million residents while letting international aid agencies, the Palestinian Authority, and Qatar pay for all the civilian services it was supposed to provide as a governing body.
Israel didn’t use Palestinians as human shields or put weapons in every school and hospital.
Israel didn’t collect a 15–25% tax on every truckload of private sector aid entering Gaza, and as recently as early 2026.
Israel didn’t force 2/3rd of Palestinians to live in abject poverty despite receiving the most aid per capita.
Mormons are often very personally offended when Christians say that Mormonism isn’t Christian. This is dumb.
Joseph Smith’s first “encounter” with God involves God telling Smith that every creed Christians profess is an abomination to God.
Every creed.
That includes the Nicene Creed. They reject who God is, who Jesus is, the nature of salvation, the nature of exaltation, the clear teaching of Scripture, etc..
Mormonism rejects the very core of the Christian faith in all its essentials. Joseph Smith knew this but nowadays they are playing mind games with their own people and with real Christians.
Either THEY are Christians or WE are. It’s one or the other. Not both.
When asked “Will all be damned but Mormons?” Smith replied, “Yes, and a great portion of them unless they repent and work righteousness” (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, pg. 119)
The Doctrine and Covenants (1:30) leaves no doubt to the Mormon teaching of exclusivity when it says the LDS Church is “the only true and living church upon the face of the whole earth, with which I, the Lord, am well pleased ….”
Brigham Young, second only to Joseph Smith in Mormonism said…
“Should you ask why we differ from other Christians, as they are called, it is simply because they are not Christians as the New Testament defines Christianity” (Journal of Discourses 10:230).
“The Christian world, so-called, are heathens as to the knowledge of the salvation of God” (Journal of Discourses 8:171).
I could easily give you pages of them saying they are the only true Christians and how we are all ignorant beasts and our doctrines are wrong. They knew at the time they had a different God, gospel, Scripture, and system of belief. But now it has become expedient to pretend otherwise while still preaching all those false and unchristian things.
Mormons, your leaders are gaslighting you and you are gaslighting us. You aren’t Christian but we want you to be. Flee from Mormonism. Flee from Joseph Smith.
Gay marriage did that.
It regards the exaltation of the natural family as “unconstitutional.”
Now the mere mention of biological reality is evidence of “bullying” and “discrimination.”
You cannot enshrine a biological distortion (that a child can have two same-sex parents) without re-ordering all of society.
Once the law declares fiction to be fact, schools will advance that fiction… in the name of civil rights.
Property taxes on primary residences are a tax on unrealized gains, and the double standard around it is glaring.
You buy a house for $300k with your after-tax dollars. Years later the market rises and the assessor says it’s now worth $600k. Your tax bill goes up—even though you didn’t sell, didn’t refinance, didn’t pull out a dime of equity. You’re paying higher taxes every single year on “wealth” that exists only on paper. That is the literal definition of taxing unrealized appreciation.
Politicians and pundits scream bloody murder when anyone suggests doing the exact same thing to billionaires’ unrealized stock gains. “It’s unfair! They’ll be forced to sell assets!” Yet the same logic is applied to your family home without a second thought. If the principle is wrong for Elon Musk’s Tesla shares, it’s wrong for grandma’s paid-off house.
The common defense—“It pays for schools and roads”—doesn’t hold up as justification for this specific mechanism. Those services are valuable, but tying their funding to the fluctuating paper value of your home creates a system where success (a nicer neighborhood, inflation, or simple supply and demand) is punished with a higher bill. Once the mortgage is gone, you still don’t truly own it. You’re a tenant with extra paperwork, paying annual rent to the government based on an assessment you don’t control.
This isn’t about hating government services. It’s about honest funding. Tax actual economic activity—consumption via a broad sales tax, realized capital gains, or user fees for specific services. Shift the burden to people who are actively spending or transacting in the economy instead of penalizing ownership itself. Other countries and even some U.S. localities have shown you can fund local government without treating primary homes like perpetual leaseholds from the state.
Ownership should mean ownership. Not “you own it until the county decides your paper equity went up.” Abolish property taxes on primary residences. The current system is a wealth tax dressed up as a service fee, and it’s long past time we called it what it is.
A Nazi commander loaded his pistol, pressed the cold metal barrel directly against the forehead of an American soldier, and gave a chilling ultimatum: "Order the Jewish soldiers to step forward, or I will shoot you right now."
What happened next in that frozen prisoner-of-war camp changed history forever, yet the man who stared down death kept it a secret for the rest of his life.
It was January 1945, and the bitter winter of World War II was at its peak. Inside Stalag IX-A, a notorious German prison camp near Ziegenhain, thousands of American soldiers were trapped behind barbed wire. Among them was Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds, a twenty-five-year-old from Knoxville, Tennessee. As the highest-ranking non-commissioned officer in his section, Edmonds was responsible for the lives of 1,275 men.
One day, the camp commander, a fanatical Nazi major named Siegmann, issued a terrifying directive.
He ordered that the following morning, all American prisoners of Jewish faith must step out of the ranks during roll call. Everyone knew what this meant. Separating the Jewish soldiers was the first step toward sending them to extermination camps.
Inside the dark, freezing barracks, the prisoners panicked. Some of the Jewish soldiers considered stepping forward willingly to protect their Christian brothers from Nazi wrath. But Edmonds refused to let that happen. He looked at his men and gave a clear, definitive order: "Tomorrow, everyone steps forward. Everyone."
The next morning, the ground was thick with snow. Major Siegmann walked out onto the parade ground, expecting to see a small, isolated group of Jewish soldiers standing apart from the rest. Instead, he stopped dead in his tracks. All 1,275 American soldiers had stepped forward together in perfect unison.
The commander turned red with anger and stormed over to Edmonds. "They cannot all be Jews!" Siegmann screamed.
Edmonds stood completely still, looked the Nazi straight in the eyes, and replied: "We are all Jews here."
Enraged, Siegmann drew his Luger pistol and pressed it against Edmonds' forehead. The tension was suffocating. Hundreds of men held their breath, waiting for the gunshot. But Edmonds did not blink.
"According to the Geneva Convention, we only have to give our name, rank, and serial number," Edmonds said, his voice steady and calm. "If you shoot me, you will have to shoot all of us. And when the war ends, you will be tried for war crimes."
Edmonds knew the German army was collapsing and the Allies were advancing. Siegmann knew it too. The Nazi commander looked at the wall of unified men, realized he could not break their spirit, and slowly lowered his gun. He turned around and walked away without saying another word.
Because of that moment of defiance, two hundred Jewish-American soldiers survived the Holocaust. When the war ended, Edmonds returned to Tennessee, married his sweetheart, and raised a family. He never bragged about his actions, never looked for medals, and never even told his own children what he had done. To him, protecting his men was simply his duty.
Decades after his death in 1985, his son uncovered the truth by talking to the survivors. In 2015, Edmonds was officially recognized as Righteous Among the Nations, the highest honor Israel bestows upon non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. He remains the only American soldier to ever receive this recognition.
True heroism does not look for applause, and love will always be louder than hatred.
By standing together in the snow, those soldiers proved that when we refuse to abandon each other, ordinary human beings can become absolutely invincible.
On election night, no-name, no support Nithya Raman sobbed & conceded the race
She apologized to her family for failing
This made sense. She polled in the single digits & bombed in the debate. Now a historically insurmountable 3rd place
This was before “the machine” took over
Top British attorney Natasha Hausdorff dismantled the Palestinian narrative with cold historical facts.
There was never a sovereign Arab state called “Palestine.” The British Mandate of Palestine was simply British administration over the historic Land of Israel after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.
Jews lived continuously in the land for centuries — including under Ottoman rule, when they formed the majority in Jerusalem. Before 1909, Tel Aviv was empty desert legally purchased by Jews, who built it from nothing. No Arabs were displaced.
After the British handed the mandate to the UN, the Arab world rejected the partition plan and launched a war to destroy the Jewish state. Arab armies and local militias tried to “push the Jews into the sea.” At the same time, Arab countries ethnically cleansed their ancient Jewish communities, forcing nearly a million Jews to flee to Israel.
During the war, Arab leaders ordered local Arabs to evacuate combat zones so their armies could annihilate the Jews. Many of those who left later became permanent “refugees” under Egyptian and Jordanian control.
Israel has never committed genocide — and never will. By defending itself, it prevents another holocaust.
Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Islamic regime of Iran are the real obstacles to peace in the Middle East.
Retweet if you support Israel’s right to exist and defend itself.
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