Mike, Sanitized For Your Protection

Husband, father, photographer & unfinished human working to lose myself and serve God. His Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

[Mike, Sanitized For Your Protection @manimal316]

"There is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God, and counterclaimed by Satan." ― C. S. Lewis

[Mike, Sanitized For Your Protection @manimal316]

@bradleybirzer Amazing! This is the first time anyone has agreed with me on this.

[Lila Rose @LilaGraceRose]

In a world that destroys children with Down syndrome, listen to this brave girl:

“You can try to kill off everyone with Down syndrome by using abortion, but you won’t be any closer to a perfect society. You will just be closer to a cruel, heartless one."  

Charlotte Helene Fien speaks before the United Nations

[Josh Howerton @howertonjosh]

The grandpa you laughed at behind his back for letting you watch violent war movies as a kid, but who freaked out about the Disney show where the kid had 2 Dads... that guy was right.

There was evil in the war movie, but it was generally evil depicted AS EVIL in a great struggle between good and evil, and it trained the consciences of a generation to value things like...

- Valor
- Self-sacrifice
- Courage
- Integrity
- Honor
- Patriotism (yes, patriotism IS a good thing)

My Dad used to say, "The worst kind person is the guy who was born on third and acts like he hit a triple."

Be wise, but watch a war movie with your kids today and help your American kid understand they were born on third base because a bunch of people died to get them three bases ahead.

[WWUTT? @WWUTTcom]

Happy May 4th!

[LifeNews.com @LifeNewsHQ]

Happy World Down Syndrome Day!

This child, with an extra chromosome, is valuable and worthy of life.

[Joe Rigney @joe_rigney]

The attitude of small church pastors in blue states should be, “We may be little, but we found these five smooth stones…”

[Mike, Sanitized For Your Protection @manimal316]

Praise God! The tide is turning.

[Robby Starbuck @robbystarbuck]

Wow. The American Medical Association is now backing off their support of sex changes for kids.

Now they agree "surgical interventions in minors should be generally deferred to adulthood."

They previously supported sex change surgeries for minors. Never forget what they did.

[Ben Zeisloft @BenZeisloft]

If you are attending the March for Life...

Thank you for your sincere passion to oppose abortion and save babies from murder!

But as you probably know, the fight to end abortion is far from over. Here are five hard truths that anti-abortion Christians and conservatives should know about where we are today in the battle against abortion...

1. There are more babies murdered today than during the final years of Roe, including in red states.

Dobbs was far from the death knell to abortion. After the Supreme Court overturned Roe, many blue states passed more permissive abortion laws. But the increased use of abortion pills generally caused the nationwide murder of preborn babies to rise, even in red states with pro-life laws.

2. The laws in pro-life states, including those with so-called abortion bans, keep abortion legal for women.

Some pro-life groups claim that more than a dozen red states have effectively banned abortion. But in all of those states, there are loopholes keeping self-induced abortions by women completely legal, under the claim that all women are categorically victims of abortion. This is a major reason why abortion pills continue to flow into red states.

3. The only way to abolish abortion is making the murder of anyone illegal for everyone.

There is a place for compassion and mercy ministry toward women who are considering abortion, and nobody wants to penalize women who were truly forced into abortions. But if we actually want to end abortion once and for all, we have to treat abortion as murder in our laws, ensuring that anyone who willfully murders a preborn baby faces criminal penalties.

4. The leading pro-life groups in our country are a significant obstacle toward abolishing abortion.

When grassroots conservatives and Christians propose equal protection bills to safeguard preborn babies with the same laws already protecting born people, pro-life establishment groups often emerge as a primary source of opposition. This especially occurs in red states that should be able to truly abolish abortion.

5. Those who want to end abortion must only support anti-abortion groups that seek full abolition.

The path toward abolishing abortion involves defunding weak pro-life groups that refuse to treat abortion like murder until they either repent or lose their influence. Christians and conservatives should instead direct their resources toward groups that are serious about abolishing abortion for the glory of God.

[Michael Foster @thisisfoster]

A life ordered by spiritual discipline is not a cramped life. It’s a free one. Jocko Willink is famous for saying, “discipline is freedom.” That’s true enough. But it’s even more true when you add the word spiritual. Spiritual discipline is freedom. A God-centered life brings a kind of steadiness and clarity that chaos can’t touch.

From the very beginning, God shows us that order is not the enemy of life, it’s the condition for it. In Genesis, He doesn’t leave the world a formless mess. He separates, names, and structures. Light and dark. Land and sea. Days and seasons. Boundaries and rhythms. And then He builds human life inside those rhythms. Work and rest. Six days and one day. We are not designed to drift. We are designed to live inside patterns that carry us.

When those patterns disappear, life starts to fray. We’ve all tasted that. The fog of the COVID years. The stupidity of staying up all night. The way disordered days slowly produce disordered souls. But when prayer, Scripture, worship, and rest are built into a man’s week, things start to settle. Not because life gets easy, but because life gets clear.

Spiritual disciplines don’t make you religious. They line you back up with reality. We were made for Christ. Colossians 1 says everything exists by Him and for Him. When your life is structured around Him, you stop fighting the grain of the universe. And that’s where freedom actually is.

[Troy Brewer @pstroybrewer]

Today over 800 pastors and otherwise “political prisoners” were let out of dungeons in Venezuela and set free. The govt bowed their knee to the demands of the USA govt but actually it was a bow to King #Jesus as he answers the prayers of his bride.

[Mike, Sanitized For Your Protection @manimal316]

@JoshDaws Don't Blink - Kenny Chesney

[Nick Freitas @NickJFreitas]

Question for pastors…

[LifeNews.com @LifeNewsHQ]

Amount spent in 2024 on goods and services to support pregnant and parenting women:

Pro-Life Centers: $452 million
Planned Parenthood: $0

[Mike, Sanitized For Your Protection @manimal316]

+No stopping now. Foot on the gas!

[Greg Laurie @greglaurie]

“We felt like, ‘Let’s go to this place where an unspeakable act of darkness took place and shine the radiant light of the Gospel,'” Laurie said. “Charlie really cared about the Gospel, and when he would go into these campuses like UVU and others, he would always talk about Christ. People would ask him about his beliefs; that’s what motivated them. That’s what gave him his worldview.”
He continued, “Charlie’s in heaven.”
Laurie, like other faith leaders, believes God has moved mightily even after Kirk’s tragic death, turning evil on its head and using it for good.

https://t.co/upwWO0AFyl

[Dustin Benge @DustinBenge]

Happy Veterans Day to the countless brave men and women who served in our armed forces. We honor you!

[Trad West @trad_west_]

Christ is King

[LifeNews.com @LifeNewsHQ]

The Houston Planned Parenthood was the largest abortion facility in North America.

It killed over 110,000 babies in abortions.

But thanks to the Texas abortion ban and defunding Planned Parenthood, it is CLOSING TODAY!

Praise the Lord!

[Stop Abortion Now @LifeNewsToo]

99.9% of babies diagnosed with Down syndrome in the womb are aborted in Iceland. 98% in Denmark, 77% in France, and over 65% in the United States.

The discrimination against children with Down syndrome must end.

[Mike, Sanitized For Your Protection @manimal316]

The church of Laodicea takes one to the chin. Let's go!

[Megan Basham @megbasham]

This memorial is the nail in the coffin of third-wayism. Praise God. No more lukewarm, inoffensive Christianity.

[Center for Baptist Leadership @BaptistLeaders]

Pastor @ErikReed boldly putting an end to the "both sides" arguments we've seen from many Christians over the last few weeks and calling out the Democrats for being at war with "creational reality."

"We are living in a world where there are two different visions for what kind of society we want to live in.

And if Christ is not in the foundations of what we're doing with our vision for the future, if the Christian foundation and worldview that made our country great to begin with is not there, and everybody's just doing what's right in their own eyes, you can guarantee chaos will ensue.

We are choosing between two distinct futures. They are not the same. Our two political parties in our country are not morally equivalent to each other...

I am not baptizing the Republican Party. They did not come from Mount Sinai on high from God to say 'Thus saith the Lord.'

But the current state of the Democratic Party, as they are...they are a party at war with creational realities every day. Creational realities.

They are at war about what it means to be a man or a woman, about marriage, about sexuality, about who has the right to live in a womb. They are at war with life and prosperity.

There is one side in particular with a progressive ideology that not only tried to suppress the story of the young woman in Charlotte, but who celebrated, both in the media and with college professors and many others, the death of a man whose beliefs they did not hold...

And if you're more concerned with what I've just said in the last two or three minutes, about sounding partisan, than you are concerned about the reality of what's actually happening in our society right now, you have lost the plot."