Look, if you’ve been listening to people who told you Tyler Robinson did not shoot Charlie, it’s not too late to stop. A lot of people get caught up in dumb conspiracies sometimes. But you do not have to continue down this road just because you’ve followed it for awhile.
The greater part of wisdom is acknowledging real evidence now and learning from the experience not to listen to people who exploited your grief over Charlie to feed you slop and make money off you.
You CAN stop and turn around. You can stop participating in the evil attacks on Charlie’s widow today.
75 year old Luke Appling hits a HR. Unbelievable
He then gets interviewed and it’s just like he hit his first career home run. He was so happy.
Highly recommend to watch this.
If you love Jesus you should love what Jesus loves, and that ultimately means you should be an official, active, and serving member of your local church (Eph. 5:25).
Church membership should be normal for Christians. Lives lived in regular accountability demonstrate the gospel’s reality to the world, particularly through the mutual love that Jesus identified as the mark of his followers. This is both biblical and strengthens evangelistic witness. Weaker and newer Christians gain feeding and accountability through membership, and mature and seasoned believers demonstrate authentic Christian living.
Hebrews calls believers to “consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works,” explicitly warning against forsaking assembly “as the manner of some is” (Heb. 10:24–25). This suggests participation isn’t optional but essential to spiritual health.
Church membership preserves biblical truth by establishing who bears responsibility for rooting out false teaching and protecting the gospel when leadership itself becomes compromised. Paul’s letter to the Galatians exemplifies this. I say this as a positional elder in my church — Paul appealed to the whole congregation rather than leadership alone to address doctrinal corruption. Think about it: how are you to “bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ” (Gal 6:2), which positions mutual care as a central Christian obligation, if you’re not actively in a membership role? Thessalonians similarly exhorts believers to “encourage one another and build one another up” (1 Thess 5:11), framing encouragement as a reciprocal responsibility that requires presence and investment.
Healthy membership equips believers to recognize heresy when taught or communicated and transforms them from passive consumers into active defenders of the faith.
Acts depicts the early church persevering in apostolic teaching, communion, and gathering daily, with believers holding possessions in common (Acts 2:42–47), a portrait of intensive communal engagement rather than individual isolated devotion or nominal affiliation.
Ultimately, practicing membership glorifies God as Christians gather to form his body, living under the life giving words of scripture, fellowshipping with one another sacrificially, and reflecting his character.
USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.
Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.
I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."
"They just come with the table, man."
They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.
This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.
I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.
"Did we…?"
"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."
Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.
My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."
Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.
I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.
Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.
I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.
Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.
Parenting hack: Stop counting to 3.
1) You’re embarrassing yourself.
2) You’re telling kids the line doesn’t matter and you don’t mean what you say. Devastating.
3) You’re teaching kids that obedience is on their timeline not yours. Which is disobedience.
Discipline immediately, consistently.
.@BenSasse delivers a beautiful response to @DouthatNYT asking him if he’s ready to die.
When Ben makes Ross cry, he laughs and says, “happy to get him to open up a can of pansy ass.”
This is the beauty of male friendship. Dudes rock.
I've seen a lot of crazy things...
But truly one of the the craziest things I've ever seen is watching the Iranian people celebrate freedom, while simultaneously watching Leftists protest in favor of the Iranian Ayatollah.
I can hardly believe what I'm seeing.