John Hammer

Husband to Grace and Dad of 4
Lead Pastor Sonrise Christian Center
Author of Altars Over Thrones and More

[John Hammer @Johnandhammer]

@bryan_johnson Seek the life, beauty & meaning in Jesus. The One who abolished death waits with open arms to share His life and immortality for all who believe. “Our Savior, Christ Jesus, who has destroyed death and has brought life and immortality to light through the gospel (2 Tim. 1:10).

[John Hammer @Johnandhammer]

@howertonjosh Amen! From the fire comes the voice!

[John Hammer @Johnandhammer]

This Candace Owens stuff is so crazy. But here’s some facts from someone who truly cares if you need em.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Hello Mrs. Owens,

You told millions of people that Tyler Robinson "wasn't even there." That you felt "confident stating that Tyler Robinson did not kill murder Charlie Kirk."

He was on camera. Prone on the Losi rooftop at 12:22. Shot at 12:23:28. DNA on the screwdriver at 30 quintillion to one. DNA on the rifle at 1.7 octillion to one. He told his family what he did. His parents helped him surrender. He texted his roommate: "I am, I'm sorry." He engraved "Hey Fascist! Catch!" on the ammunition a month before he used it.

You said police "didn't even question" Lance Twiggs. He was interviewed twice. FBI the morning after. Joint state-federal team seven months later. His own attorney. Voluntary phone surrender. You laughed when you said it.

You told Shawn Ryan a shaped charge killed Charlie. That PETN was in his microphone. The medical examiner says gunshot wound. Bullet fragments were recovered from his body. A .30-06 Mauser with Robinson's DNA was found in the woods. Neither side — not prosecution, not defense — has mentioned explosives. Not once in four days.

You said the shot came from below. The Losi building is above the amphitheater.

You called Erika Kirk a "clinical psychopath" to an audience of millions. You said the assassination was "an occult ritual." You said Charlie was "sitting in a pentagram." You told people Israel killed him because he refused Netanyahu.

You made over a hundred episodes. You built a franchise on a dead man's name.

And the hardest fact of all: Tyler Robinson's own defense lawyers — the people whose entire career is on the line to get him acquitted — have refused to make a single one of your arguments. Not one. They're challenging DNA methodology. They are doing their jobs. You were doing something else entirely.

Charlie Kirk changed my life. He platformed my work when nobody knew who I was. He had my back when I was doxxed. I was the ten-thousandth most important person in his world and I will never be able to repay him.

So I did what I know how to do. I read every transcript. I watched every hour of testimony. I cataloged your claims and I held them up against what was said under oath.

Every single one failed.

I don't know why you did this. I'm not going to speculate on your motives, because that would make me exactly the kind of analyst I've spent my career refusing to be. But I know what you did. You told people confident lies about a dead man's murder, and millions of them believed you, and some of them turned that belief into threats against his widow.

The trial continues. And every day of sworn testimony is another day your words get tested against reality... under oath, on the record, where it counts.

I'll be here for all of it... because just as Charlie defended me, I will do what little I can to defend his legacy and @TPUSA and @MrsErikaKirk from evil.

[John Hammer @Johnandhammer]

"The world, through mere time,
might grow black like an old picture, or white like an old coat; but if it is turned into a a particular piece of black and white art-then there is an artist."

Chesterton - Orthodoxy

[John Hammer @Johnandhammer]

@TerriGreenUSA She’s quoting Psalm 127:4, “like arrows in the hands of a warrior are children born in one’s youth.” The metaphor is Biblical.

[John Hammer @Johnandhammer]

@michaelwhittle How about you do it with AI bots that mimic who you want to invite?

[John Hammer @Johnandhammer]

@Joel7Richardson It feels more like classic debate and you presenting more plainly the Scriptures and countering ideas directly. Thank you!

[John Hammer @Johnandhammer]

@Joel7Richardson Good point, I do see partial preterists bashing on pre-millers quite a bit but I also see it the other way too by dismissing and mocking amillers as heretics. As a historic pre-mill. guy myself, I’ve appreciated more of your content lately dealing directly with the clash of ideas

[Kristen Waggoner @KristenWaggoner]

I’ve been thinking this week about Brian Tingley: a Christian counselor who challenged Washington state’s viewpoint-based counseling ban in 2021.

At the time, challenging a counseling ban felt like a cultural “third rail”—especially for a blue state counselor with a reputation to uphold. But Brian knew the harm that would come to families if these bans were upheld. So he sued.

Tingley lost at the district court, then at the 9th Circuit. When @ADFLegal appealed to the Supreme Court, three justices favored taking Brian’s case—just one vote shy of a cert grant. Justices Thomas and Alito wrote dissents from the cert denial, noting the importance of the issue—and the fact that it wasn’t going away.

They were right. Two years later, we appealed a near-identical case from Colorado: Chiles v. Salazar. This time, the Supreme Court took the case.

And just this week, the Court referenced Tingley in its Chiles opinion, ruling 8-1 that Colorado’s counseling ban was an “egregious assault” on First Amendment principles. “The Constitution does not protect the right of some to speak freely; it protects the right of all.”

Sometimes—oftentimes—you have to lose before you can win. And no one can predict when the win will come. It’s a matter of simply stepping out in boldness and faith to do what’s right, come what may.

I’m deeply grateful to every ADF client who makes that choice—whether they walk the path of Brian Tingley or Kaley Chiles. Win or lose, they stand up. They set their comfort aside. They challenge injustice.

It’s people like this who will keep America free.

[John Hammer @Johnandhammer]

@JDShuttlesworth Yes, It’s a misnomer that Christianity thrives in persecution. The church is purified in persecution, but it’s not until an opporessive government starts to loosen its hold a little and people aren’t being killed for their faith that the church begins to thrive.

[Mark Chironna @markchironna]

Pentecost wasn’t just about tongues of fire.

It was about the fulfillment of a promise: I will not leave you orphaned.

The Spirit came as the answer to the deepest human dread: abandonment. Every person in that Upper Room had watched their world collapse. And into that collapse, He came.

He still does.

[Mark Chironna @markchironna]

There’s a reason the early Pentecostals wept at the altar.

Not performance.

Not manipulation.

They had found, or been found, by a Friend unlike any other.

One who didn’t require them to be composed.

One who received the unraveling.

The Spirit is still that Friend.

You don’t have to have it together to come.

[Joseph Mattera @JosephMattera]

“When the spirit that is at work operates against the interests of Satan’s kingdom… and leads men to esteem Jesus Christ… it is a sure sign that it is the Spirit of God.” Jonathan Edwards

[John Hammer @Johnandhammer]

@GovBobFerguson We don’t need the government to redistribute wealth. Our taxes just keep piling up and it’s not only crushing millionaires but many job creators and small business owners. How about we manage our money and cut spending?

[John Hammer @Johnandhammer]

Why Speak in Tongues? My new article is up with 10 reasons Christians ought to pursue this glorious gift. https://t.co/ixWz76T7vF

[John Hammer @Johnandhammer]

LOL! We keep winning with the Holy Ghost!

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Pentecostal Wins At Scrabble Again By Spelling All Words In Tongues https://t.co/x4TkkveCWo

[John Hammer @Johnandhammer]

Some updates on my writing journey. It’s been 20 years of blogging and writing articles and now begins a new chapter. https://t.co/je4i3Kyk5g

[John Hammer @Johnandhammer]

New article with a trigger warning for Christians and politics. Happy Saturday everyone! But seriously here are some of my thoughts for political engagement for Christians: https://t.co/YxDbvEZUIy

[Mark Chironna @markchironna]

Our Pentecostal forebears took doctrine seriously. They debated it, wrote about it, and held one another accountable to it. Somewhere along the way we traded theological substance for platform metrics. We can do better because they showed us how.

[Dr. Michael J. Svigel @Svigel]

Theology 101:

Them: “Baptism isn’t that important. The thief on the cross was saved and didn’t have to be baptized!”

Me: “Okay, you got me. If you become a believer while dying on a cross, you’re excused from following Christ in baptism.”