“Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood.” John Adams, 1765
Happy Birthday, America 🇺🇸
In the Old Testament, we are told of good kings who “did what was right in the eyes of the Lord,” but who did not tear down the high places. These were places of idolatrous worship. And even though Israel would go back to mostly serving the true God under the leadership of these kings, they were still willing to allow this little bit of culturally destructive compromise to stand.
So when the good king died, the mechanism for the gross idolatry was still there, and the idol worship would come roaring back with a vengeance.
But the best kings in the Old Testament were those like Hezekiah and Josiah, who completely dismantled these high places. Who tore out every vestige of idolatry root and branch.
And that is what needs to be done with this demon god of the rainbow flag. Because we know now the level of depravity to which it inevitably leads.
-It represents the buying and selling of human babies for homosexual couples who can never create a child on their own.
-It represents dressing little boys up as girls so they can perform sexualized movements for grown men in ritual dances.
-It represents cutting off the breasts of healthy young girls, mutilating and defacing their natural beauty.
-It represents giving puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to boys who will never be fathers and who will lose all sexual function.
-It represents stocking gay pornography in school libraries for even the tiniest kids and adult men engaging in sexual fetish performances for children.
-it represents placing women in danger by requiring the admittance of predatory men to their private, vulnerable spaces.
Right now, we learn from scripture, is the moment where good people following the true God will be tempted to think, we’ve had enough victories. Who cares about these June pride posts. The LGBTQ movement has lost so many battles recently, we can rest on our laurels, knowing that we have turned back the tide on the worst excesses of this movement.
But that is exactly the opposite of what we need to do. Tearing down high places is hard work. Especially when the high place is manifested as a Supreme Court ruling. But it can be achieved with patience, diligence, and strength of purpose.
We have had some significant victories in the last few years. But clearly, we are not done. So let’s grab a virtual ax and refuse to allow them any peace on these demonic celebrations.
Like Hezekiah and Josiah, we need to tear it out root and branch.
One of the greatest gifts God has given me is killing the part of my nature that seeks man’s approval.
When you stand on the Word, A LOT of people are going to call you a lot of terrible names. Trust me.
When you’re only playing to an audience of One, you couldn’t care less.
@DrFrankTurek 1 time in middle school, and most recently was the week between Palm Sunday and Easter. First time was a hand on my shoulder, yet no one was around me at school. 2nd time was the Holy Spirit confessing out of me my sin, so I could confess that Jesus is Christ, my Lord and Savior.
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.
Galatians 4:4 looks like a transition verse.
“But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth His Son.”
If you read it fast, it sounds like a timestamp. But if read slowly, it is the most staggering sentence in the Bible.
‘Fullness of time’. Paul isn't saying God picked a convenient moment. He is saying God declared a moment complete. “The preparation is finished and everything I have been building across centuries is exactly where I need it to be”. God looked at human history and said: now.
Which forces the question. Why then? Why not a thousand years earlier, when Moses was fresh? Why not a thousand years later? What was so perfect about the first century?
I started looking into it and I have not recovered.
God needed a people with the theology. He spent 2000 years forming Israel; the covenant, the sacrificial system, the prophets, Isaiah 53 written seven centuries before Calvary, the framework of a coming Messiah who would bear the sin of the world. The Jews were shaped by wilderness, exile, and divine discipline, until the theological infrastructure for substitutionary atonement was fully in place.
But theology alone could not travel. God needed a language. Not a tribal dialect, but a universal tongue. So five hundred years before the Gospel, He let the Greek philosophers begin.
Heraclitus sat in Ephesus and concluded the universe was governed by an invisible rational principle. He called it the Logos.
The Stoics built on it. Philo of Alexandria stood at the intersection of Greek thought and Hebrew scripture and said the Logos was the mind of God in creation. For five hundred years, philosophy built a conceptual category it could not fill.
Then God sent a conqueror with no interest in theology. Alexander the Great wanted glory and empire. God let him want it. In satisfying his ego across three continents, Alexander Hellenized the ancient world and forged Koine Greek, the common tongue of the docks, markets, soldiers, and slaves. A language stripped of complexity, simple enough for anyone, universal enough for everyone.
The Hebrew scriptures were translated into it. The Septuagint was born. God used a pagan conqueror’s ambition to translate His own Word.
Then Rome came and paved the road. The Pax Romana. Piracy cleared. Stone highways stretching from Spain to Syria. A framework for movement the ancient world had never seen.
None of them knew they were collaborating.
Heraclitus thought he was doing philosophy. Alexander thought he was building a monument to himself. Rome thought it was building an empire for Rome. Not one of them understood they were stagehands. God was with Heraclitus in his pondering, with Alexander in his conquest, with Roman engineers laying stone, quietly requisitioning their work for a purpose none of them could see.
And then, when the covenant people were in place, the language primed, the roads built, and the category ready, when everything He had been quietly assembling was finally set, God stepped into the room they had unknowingly prepared.
John picked up his pen and wrote: “In the beginning was the Logos.”
Every Greek philosopher in the Mediterranean felt the ground shift. “And the Logos became flesh.” The category they spent five centuries constructing was not a principle. It was a Person.
The ‘fullness of time is not a timestamp’. It is God’s signature on a completed work. And the humbling thing is that this work was not built by saints. It was built by conquerors, philosophers, and emperors who thought they were writing their own story. God let them think that. And used every word. If this is not amazing then I don’t know what is.
Can a Christian be "possessed" by a demon?
First, we have to define the term to answer this question in a biblically accurate way. If you hang around for the conclusion, there is some great news for followers of Jesus Christ.
A US soldier shared a testimony from her time overseas.
She said her team used to laugh at her and call her "church girl" because she prayed before every mission. Some told her they did not want to hear her prayers. She prayed anyway.
Later, she was pulled off the road as punishment.
She said her team started getting hit by bombs every time she was not with them. Then her team leader came to her and asked her to come back.
He told her, "We keep getting hit and we need your protection. Whatever you're praying, it's working."
She said she went back out, and they were never hit again.
Maya Johnson brought home 300 people, and nobody from her group died.
This is a powerful reminder that prayer is not weak. This testimony shows that the one true God hears, protects, and still answers prayer.
My core memory was getting my great aunt with a water gun when I was young. We would recount it over and over again every time we spoke over the years, and laugh hysterically at the thought. How I wish I could hear her laugh again. Rest in peace Aunt Erma 🥹🕊️