The moment Charlie Kirk got through to Bill Maher and made him realize how “generous” Jesus Christ is.
KIRK: “Judgment is getting what you deserve. Mercy is getting less than what you deserve. Grace—”
MAHER: “Wait, wait. Mercy is getting less than what you deserve?”
KIRK: “Yeah, so we believe Jesus gives us grace. So you get a prison sentence, you get judgment, you get mercy, you get less of a prison sentence. Grace would be Jesus serving that prison sentence for you so you could live life eternal.”
MAHER: “Well, how is he serving that? Oh, you mean like in the big picture?”
KIRK: “Well, because we believe him living a perfect life and then suffering the death that he did on the cross was him atoning for our sins. The sins of humanity. Which is a big claim, albeit a very compelling one, which we also believe to be true. Because it redeems all of humanity of our short-falling of the glory of God.”
MAHER: “I gotta say, it’s really picking up the check for the whole table. I mean, you gotta give it to your boy. For all of our sins? It’s a very generous thing. Very generous!”
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In medical school, we are taught a golden rule: "When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras." It is a reminder to look for the common explanation before the exotic one. But after decades in cardiology, I’ve learned that if a patient is still suffering after the "horses" have been ruled out, a doctor must have the courage—and the curiosity—to go hunting for the zebra.
Sarah was a thirty-four-year-old marathon runner and a devoted mother who came to me after six months of being told she was "fine." She had been bounced from one specialist to another, each one pointing to her normal EKG and standard blood tests as proof that her crushing fatigue and racing heart were simply the result of "new mom stress." By the time she reached my office, she didn't just look tired; she looked invisible, as if the medical system had stopped seeing the woman and only saw the data.
Instead of re-reading the normal test results that had already failed her, I asked Sarah to walk me through her life. We talked about her training and her family, eventually landing on a backpacking trip she took to the Mendoza province of rural Argentina. She described staying in a charming, rustic cottage made of sun-dried mud bricks. She mentioned waking up one morning with a strangely swollen, purple eyelid that she assumed was a simple spider bite.
As she spoke, a memory surfaced from a biography I had read years ago about Charles Darwin. Most people know Darwin for his theories on evolution, but medical historians have long puzzled over the mysterious, debilitating illness that plagued him for decades after he returned from his voyage on the HMS Beagle. Darwin had written in his journals about being bitten by the "great black bug of the Pampas" while sleeping in mud-walled huts in South America. He spent the rest of his life suffering from heart palpitations and exhaustion that the Victorian doctors of his time could never explain.
I realized then that Sarah wasn't suffering from stress; she was likely hosting the same "silent killer" that may have haunted Darwin: Chagas Disease.
The "Kissing Bug" lives in the cracks of those mud-brick walls. It bites its victims—often near the eyes or mouth—while they sleep, passing a parasite called Trypanosoma cruzi into the blood. The danger of Chagas is that the initial symptoms disappear quickly, but the parasite can hide in the body for years, slowly weaving itself into the muscle and electrical "wiring" of the heart.
To confirm this, I moved beyond the standard tests. I ordered a specialized "Strain Rate" ultrasound, which doesn't just look at whether the heart is pumping, but at how the individual muscle fibers are stretching. We saw that while her heart looked strong to the naked eye, the fibers were "stuttering," a sign of early parasite-induced scarring. A specific blood test for the parasite's antibodies confirmed the diagnosis.
Treatment required a difficult, sixty-day course of anti-parasitic medication to stop the infection, paired with a protective heart regimen to keep her electrical system stable while the inflammation settled. Because we caught it before her heart was physically damaged or enlarged, the recovery was a success.
Months later, Sarah returned to my office, her vibrant energy restored. She brought me a leather-bound copy of The Voyage of the Beagle with a note tucked inside. She wrote that while other doctors had looked at her charts, I had looked at her. This case remains a vital reminder for my memoir: in a world of high-tech scans and AI, the most sophisticated diagnostic tool we possess is still the human story. When we truly listen, we don't just find the disease—we find the patient.
Good morning.
If you watch one thing today, let it be this…
Elon Musk goes on Joe Rogan and tears the mask off, exposing exactly why Democrats are prolonging the government shutdown and fighting to keep the money flowing to criminal aliens:
“The Democratic Party wants to destroy democracy by importing voters.”
“The reason you have this standoff is because if the hundreds of billions of dollars to create a financial incentive to like to have this giant magnet to attract illegals from every part of Earth to these states, if that is turned off, the illegals will leave because they're no longer being paid to come to the United States and stay here.”
“They will lose a lot of voters. The Democratic Party will lose a lot of voters.
“Charlie, right now, is in heaven. Not because he was a great husband & father…. Not because he sacrificed himself for his Savior. Charlie Kirk is in heaven, because his Savior sacrificed himself for Charlie Kirk” 🔥
- Apologist/Mentor Dr. Frank Turek
My dear American friends,
We British Christians would get excited when, once a year, Queen Elizabeth would make a mild but sincere reference to the love of Jesus Christ in her Christmas address.
In Charlie Kirks' Memorial service, watched by tens of millions, I just heard:
- Multiple clear presentations of the gospel from men like @robmccoyus and @DrFrankTurek with clear calls to repentance and faith
- Worship songs full of Scripture sung by tens of thousands live and millions at home
- Personal testimonies of lives transformed by the work of Christ and the witness of believers
- Demonstration and explanation of the value of marriage, child-rearing and family
- Calls to Romans 13 for the government to bear the sword for the protection of good and punishment of the wicked
- Declarations of spiritual warfare on the forces of evil and promises to endure no matter the cost
- Calls to be prophets and call the nation to repent
- More Scripture references and Bible readings than I can count
- And a widow publicly forgiving her husband's killer because Christ forgave his killers on the cross.
All of it done before, and by, the most powerful people in your nation and the world.
You guys should be on your knees thanking God for your country. It is a light to the world.
Never stop fighting for it.
Most translations will render Psalm 37:23 like this: “The steps of a man are established by the LORD.” That is a correct translation, but in the Hebrew [מֵ֭יְהוָה], the order of the line is reversed, “By [or ‘from’] the LORD the steps of a man are established.”
The change is slight, but it emphasizes those opening words, “By the LORD ….”
By the LORD, we take our first steps of the day, rolling out of bed, pouring a cup of coffee, and taking stock of what God has called us to do. Caring for our children. Checking up on friends. Serving others in our respective jobs. Interceding for those in need.
By the LORD, we walk into this day “that the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it” (Ps. 118:24).
By the LORD, we also take our steps into places where none of us want to be. The hospital where our mom or dad is undergoing chemo. The courtroom where marriages end. The cemetery where we stand before headstones upon which are engraved a month, day, and year when our lives were radically altered.
By the LORD, we walk—or limp, or crawl—into that day, too, knowing that Jesus is no fair-weather friend, but one who sticks by us in good times as well as the very worst of times.
By the LORD, we take steps onto the jagged ground of this world, riddled with potholes of temptation, knowing his promise that even though we may fall, we shall not be cast headlong, for the LORD upholds our hands (37:24).
Holding on to our hands is the one whose wrists were held fast to the cross. Hand-in-hand with our crucified Lord, we journey up both mountains of delight and down into chasms of grief, borne along by his strength, his love, his ironclad will to see us through this life, no matter what.
“By the LORD the steps of a man are established.” And by that Lord, Jesus the Messiah, we will one day step from earthly life into this glorious presence.
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This is a sample devotion from my next book, Untamed Prayers: 365 Daily Devotions on Christ in the Book of Psalms. Preorder your copy at https://t.co/zU9d46Pdah
Nancy Pelosi can back tariffs, but Trump can't.
Barack Obama can back tariffs, but Trump can't.
Joe Biden can back tariffs, but Trump can't.
Bernie Sanders can back tariffs, but Trump can't.
Am I understanding this correctly?
BREAKING:
This makes me physically ILL.
This also why the left is losing it over Elon Musk auditing their grift.
Aaron Heitke, the U.S. Border Chief with experience spanning five administrations, has unequivocally confirmed that the Biden-Harris administration directed him to suppress, hide, and alter data related to the border crisis.
He claims he was instructed to intentionally reduce detention capacity across the country while simultaneously issuing new Social Security numbers to undocumented immigrants.
According to Heitke, this enabled them to access full Social Security benefits and Medicaid, facilitated their voter registration, and ultimately PERMITTED them to CAST VOTES in U.S. ELECTIONS.
And there it is.
A random assortment of state expenditures for non-government organizations (NGOs) jumps off the page. Louisiana's legislators have appropriated money for these organizations but have not filed any paperwork stating what the money is for.
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