@DBCooperTX@DavidFischer Exactly. Spending so much time on speculating on whatever isn't clearly stated is the much preferred option to obeying what *is* clearly stated.
My frustration with not getting a used HP printer to work was finally solved tonight when I took out their "instant ink" cartridges and replaced them with ones that weren't coded to stop working if the subscription to their monthly ink service is stopped.
Should be a great lesson for those considering buying a new car that can be disabled remotely by the powers that be. Because they *will* be at some point.
You know, Josh, I’m 100% ok with Muslim rapists being terrified of getting shot and killed by vigilantes.
I’m ok with their complicit families being terrified.
I’m ok with them not feeling safe in my country.
Maybe they should just NOT RAPE women.
How about that, Josh?
When a conservative SCOTUS rules that you can count ballots for months after the election and a conservative Senate refuses to pass the SAVE Act, we know for a fact the swamp is in charge and is stealing elections.
This is a wartime moment.
If Christians were placed in a quiet room and told to spend only five minutes thinking deeply upon the Lord Jesus Christ, many professing Christians would discover how little of Him truly fills their minds.
We can speak for hours about problems, politics, church issues, personal burdens, theological debates, and the failures of others. Yet when the soul is asked to behold Christ Himself, His person, His glory, His incarnation, His obedience, His cross, His resurrection, His intercession, His reign, and His return, the mind often becomes strangely empty.
“He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation” (Colossians 1:15).
This is not because Christ is small. It is because our thoughts of Him are often shallow. Scripture presents Him as the eternal Word made flesh, the radiance of the Father’s glory, the Creator and Sustainer of all things, the Lamb who takes away sin, the Great High Priest who intercedes for His people, and the King before whom every knee will bow.
“And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory” (John 1:14).
The church does not merely need more activity. It needs deeper sight of Christ. A soul that rarely beholds Him will soon grow cold, distracted, proud, anxious, and worldly. But when Christ becomes precious, everything else begins to fall into its proper place.
“But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ” (Philippians 3:7).
We must ask ourselves honestly whether we know about Christian things more than we know Christ Himself. We must not be content with a religion where Jesus is mentioned often but meditated upon little, defended in arguments but neglected in secret, praised with lips but rarely treasured in the heart.
“Fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith” (Hebrews 12:2).
The great need of the hour is not merely that Christians speak more. It is that we behold Christ more. For the more the soul sees Him, the more worship, humility, repentance, holiness, courage, and joy will follow.
Why must air traffic controllers retire at 56, FBI agents at 57, and pilots at 65—yet politicians can keep making decisions for future generations until 90?
Our government showers preferential treatment on illegals—including criminals, scammers, visa overstays, welfare fraudsters, and those who openly despise our country—treating them like protected royalty. At the same time, law-abiding native-born Americans who work hard, pay taxes, obey the rules, build businesses, and contribute to making America stronger are treated like disposable trash.