H. Lamar Smith

Retired Nazarene minister, speaker, writer, explore his devotional website.

[Epoch Health @epochhealth]

Alcohol is a known carcinogen, just like tobacco and asbestos.

It damages DNA, disrupts hormones, and raises cancer risk—even at low doses.

So why do so many people still think it’s safe?

One woman thought her nightly glass of wine was healthy—until her diagnosis proved otherwise.

🧵 THREAD

[Zach W. Lambert @ZachWLambert]

Russell Moore told NPR that evangelical pastors he works with are facing pushback when preaching the words and ethics of Jesus. He said, “Multiple pastors tell me, essentially, the same story about quoting Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount [and] to have someone come up after to say, ‘Where did you get those liberal talking points?’ … What was alarming to me is that in most of these scenarios, when the pastor would say, I’m literally quoting Jesus Christ, the response would be, ‘Yes, but that doesn’t work anymore. That’s weak.’”

When Christians are quick to publicly proclaim that the teachings of Jesus are antiquated and weak, we have a crisis on our hands. As my friend @Brcremer always says, “when you worship power, things like mercy, empathy, and compassion sound like weakness.”

[Andrea C. Love, PhD @dr_andrealove]

To close out 2024:

Vaccines save millions of lives every year.
Raw milk still isn’t safe.
Podcasts aren’t fact-checked.
Seed oils don’t cause cancer.
Everything is chemicals.
The dose makes the poison.
Using the word “toxic” without context is a red flag of pseudoscience.

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[60 Minutes @60Minutes]

“I don't want to live my life and to spend my life every day thinking about if they kidnap me today or tomorrow, if they are going to poison me today or tomorrow,” says Yulia Navalnaya, the exiled widow of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. https://t.co/n0UVjTfFuP

[Liza Rosen @LizaRosen0000]

This Iranian woman who lives in exile, is fed up with the anti-Israel useful idiots in the west who unknowingly promote their own destruction.

Every pro-Palestinian in the west must see this, so please retweet this thread and follow @MaralSalmassi

[Liza Rosen @LizaRosen0000]

The Islamic persecution of Christians in Nigeria has reached the level of genocide!

Every year thousands of Christians including women and children are displaced or murdered if they refuse to convert to Islam.
Sadly, no one in the international community seems to care. The media and the UN are silent about this to prevent damage to the image of Islam as a "religion of peace" in the west.

Just like this video, there are countless reports regarding the persecution of Christians in Nigeria. Please don’t look away when you see them.
We must speak up and rise our voices for the voiceless victims of Islamic persecution all over the world!
By raising awareness we can force world leaders to take action and protect the persecuted non-Muslim minorities in Asia and Africa.

So please share this video and keep the persecuted Christians of Nigeria in your prayers.

[Kosher @koshercockney]

“It didn’t start on October 7th.”

No.
You’re right.
No it didn’t.

Here is a list of Arab attacks and massacres on the Jews since 622 AD

Educate people.
Bookmark this.

[Liza Rosen @LizaRosen0000]

https://t.co/YQ5VGiJB1p
Top British attorney Natasha Hausdorff stunned the audience by completely destroying the Palestinian narrative about the conflict.

Palestine never existed as a sovereign Arab state. The British Mandate of Palestine was a British regime that gained control of the land of Israel due to the fall of the Ottoman Empire after 1917.

Jews lived in the Holy Land (ie, the Old Yishuv) for centuries. Including under the control of the Ottoman Empire, when Jews were the majority of residents in Jerusalem.

Before 1909, Tel Aviv was a desert land. The empty land was bought legally by the Jews who turned it over the years into a prosperous city. Not a single Arab was thrown out of his home or cave by the Jews, who again, bought desert lands in the Land of Israel legally and built the kibbutzim (agricultural towns).

After the British government turned the mandate back to the U.N., the Arab-Muslim world rejected the UN partition plan and declared war not only against Israel, but also against their own Jewish population. The Arab states ethnically cleansed most of their Jewish population. Most of the Jewish refugees moved to Israel where the armies of Jordan, Syria, Iraq and Egypt joined forces and declared war along with the local Arab population with the public goal of "pushing all the Jews into the sea".
During the war of independence the Arab armies who started this war, ordered the local Arabs to leave the combat zones and allow them to annihilate the Jews living there. Some Arabs were also forcibly evacuated during the fighting and moved to nearby territories under the control of Egypt and Jordan (Gaza and the West Bank).

Israel has never committed and never will commit genocide. In fact by defending itself Israel is preventing another genocide of Jews.

Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran’s regime are the obstacles to peace in the Middle East!

Please retweet this post and follow me if you support Israel’s right to exist and its right to defend itself 🙏

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

Disinformation harms people.

It did during Covid.

It fueled January 6th.

It did in Springfield OH.

And it currently is in South Carolina.

It’s a bankrupt political movement that sees this harm and spreads disinformation anyway.

It’s a bankrupt Christianity that supports it.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

“I've been in this business 40 years. I've never seen something like this."

Steve Rattner on Jared Kushner's business dealings with the Saudis.

#TrumpCrimeFamily

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

There are now 16 “centibillionaires” worth $100 billion or more.

These individuals have grown $414 billion richer this year alone, and are worth a collective $2.4 trillion.

16 people...

Once again: It's not radical to tax the rich. It's radical to allow this level of extreme wealth concentration to continue.

[Brigitte Gabriel @ACTBrigitte]

Learn your history!

The Palestinians have been slaughtering Christians and Jews in the most heinous ways for DECADES, including in 1976 in my home country of Lebanon.

This is the truth everyone must understand.

[Fifty Shades of Whey @davenewworld_2]

Every single person in the US needs to watch this speech about food from @thefoodbabe

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

“The wicked man” as described in Psalm 10:2-7.

[Art Candee 🍿🥤 @ArtCandee]

Lev Parnas sitting down with Hunter Biden to apologize in MSNBC’s From Russia With Lev was powerful.

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[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

Beware of any Christian movement that needs a president in order to survive.