There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. —Soren Kierkegaard. "…truth is true even if nobody believes it, and falsehood is false even if everybody believes it. That is why truth does not yield to opinion, fashion, numbers, office, or sincerity–it is simply true and that is the end of it" – Os Guinness, Time for Truth, pg.39. “He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.” – Blaise Pascal. "There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily" – George Washington letter to Edmund Randolph — 1795. We live in a “post-truth” world. According to the dictionary, “post-truth” means, “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.” Simply put, we now live in a culture that seems to value experience and emotion more than truth. Truth will never go away no matter how hard one might wish. Going beyond the MSM idealogical opinion/bias and their low information tabloid reality show news with a distractional superficial focus on entertainment, sensationalism, emotionalism and activist reporting – this blogs goal is to, in some small way, put a plug in the broken dam of truth and save as many as possible from the consequences—temporal and eternal. "The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it." – George Orwell “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” ― Soren Kierkegaard
Our Sodom-like society continues to rage toward the Judgment-producing moment in which Jesus said He will be “revealed” (Luke 17: 28). There will be at that future time, the Lord foretold, things going on which will look exactly like things that were happening as the vexed Lot observed his surroundings in the doomed city of Sodom.
We won’t look again in-depth at all the other prophetic signs Jesus and the prophets foretold. Suffice it to say, as we always do, that all signs given in God’s prophetic Word are in a state of convergence. All are coming at this generation with increased frequency and intensity.
In consideration of the one signal Jesus gave, likening His future moment of Intervention into the perverted affairs of mankind to the time when Lot and his family were removed to Zoar, the similarity is, of course, striking.
Even though most Americans aren’t paying much attention at this point, the way that the war in Ukraine is evolving should greatly concern all of us. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his generals very clearly understand that they are in very big trouble unless they can draw the U.S. and other NATO powers directly into the conflict. All of Bakhmut is now under Russian control, and the Ukrainians continue to lose troops at a staggering pace. They are holding a losing hand, but if Ukrainian leaders can find a way to get the Russians to use tactical nukes or other weapons of mass destruction, that would change everything. Western powers would feel compelled to respond in kind, and then we really would have a truly apocalyptic conflict on our hands.
In recent days, there has been a tremendous amount of hype about the coming “counter-offensive” that the Ukrainians have supposedly been planning…
Kyiv renewed its plea for operational silence around the long-awaited counter-offensive against Russian forces with a clip of heavily-armed soldiers pressing their fingers to their lips.
The sleekly-produced footage features masked front-line troops gesturing for silence amid the distant rumble of artillery and gunfire.
It ends with images of soaring F-16 fighter jets – long coveted by Kyiv as it seeks to boost its air defence against Russian missiles and drones.
But instead of trying to retake Bakhmut or any of the other areas of Ukraine that the Russians have captured, the Ukrainians have been focusing their attacks on Russia itself.
Long-range drones have been hitting targets very deep inside Russia, and on one occasion that even included the Kremlin.
And Ukrainian artillery has been relentlessly pounding Russian territory. The shelling has been particularly brutal in the Belgorod region…
Ukrainian forces continued to shell Russia’s border region of Belgorod overnight into Sunday after two people were killed the previous night and hundreds of children were evacuated away from the border, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said.
“Overnight, it was quite restless,” Gladkov said on the Telegram channel, adding that the Shebekino and Volokonovsky districts had suffered “lots” of damage from the latest shelling.
Shelling civilian targets in Russian territory is going to do nothing to help the Ukrainians regain lost territory.
But it is putting enormous pressure on Russian leaders.
Just imagine how we would feel if U.S. territory was being shelled. We would be calling on the White House to nuke the living daylights out of whoever was shelling us.
Well, that is exactly how millions upon millions of Russian citizens feel right now.
The New York Timeswrote on Saturday that “Shebekino, a town of 40,000 six miles from the border, has effectively become a new part of the front line as Ukraine has intensified attacks inside Russia, including on residential areas near its own borders.” This is all upending the lives of residents in the border region, akin to what already happened long ago on the Ukrainian side of the border. “The spate of assaults, most recently by militia groups aligned against Moscow, has sparked the largest military evacuation effort in Russia in decades,” the report underscored. The past days have witnessed area residents move into temporary shelters, including the large Belgorod arena in the oblast capital.
The “militia groups” that are performing these raids are actually using equipment that has been provided by the U.S. and Poland…
The Russian fighters aligned against Moscow who launched a cross-border raid from Ukraine into the Belgorod region of Russia last week used at least four tactical vehicles originally given to Ukraine by the United States and Poland, U.S. officials said, raising questions about the unintended use of NATO-provided equipment and Kyiv’s commitments to secure materiel supplied by its supporters.
Three of the Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles, also known as MRAPs, taken into Russia by the fighters were provided by the United States and the fourth was from Poland, according to people familiar with the U.S. intelligence finding, which has not previously been reported. Those people spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive issue.
And it is being reported that Polish fighters are among those that have been going across the border during these raids…
The Polish Volunteer Corps has published pictures, confirming it participated in the first armed raid into the Belgorod region, Russia, together with the Russian Volunteer Corps
Russian soldiers claimed earlier they heard some of the enemies communicating in Polish
This war has reached such a dangerous stage.
The Russians aren’t stupid. They know that foreign fighters now make up a very significant percentage of the forces that they are facing.
And if Russian cities continue to get shelled and raided, it is only a matter of time before Russian leaders lose their temper.
If the Russians decide to use tactical nukes, it really will be the beginning of the end.
So let us pray that cooler heads will prevail.
Meanwhile, things with China continue to get even more tense.
This is the astonishing moment a Chinese warship comes within 150 yards of an American destroyer in Taiwan Strait, just days after the Pentagon said it would not stand for ‘bullying’ by Beijing.
Footage obtained by Global News, shows a People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) warship cut across the bow of a U.S. guided-missile destroyer on Saturday while it was transiting the Taiwan Strait.
USS Chung Hoon and HMCS Montreal had also been transiting the strait on a rare joint mission when a PLAN warhsip cut across the bow of Chung-Hoon.
We really are living during a time of “wars and rumors of wars”, but most of us in the western world are focused on other things.
Even though our leaders have clearly demonstrated how incompetent they are over and over again, most of us just assume that they will be able to keep us out of a nuclear war.
Unfortunately, both sides just continue to escalate matters, and it appears that it is just a matter of time before someone crosses a line that will never be able to be uncrossed.
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The cultural environment that we live in has become insanely oppressive, and I am about to share an example with you that perfectly demonstrates this. A few days ago, a high school student in a rural area of Idaho told his fellow students that “guys are guys and girls are girls”, and the fallout from that statement proceeded to create a firestorm of controversy that is making headlines all over the nation. Sadly, the truth is that we now live in a society where anyone that tries to resist the new culture that is being imposed on all of us must be severely punished. Dissent is simply not allowed, and Kellogg High School senior Travis Lohr found that out the hard way…
On Thursday, Kellogg High School senior Travis Lohr took part in an activity where seniors share advice for lowerclassmen. In a departure from his preapproved remarks, Lohr spoke from his heart, saying, “Guys are guys and girls are girls. There is no in-between.”
Despite the fact that this simple statement has been a truism for all of human history, the leadership of Kellogg High School seemed to think it was unacceptable. Principal Dan Davidian informed Lohr that he would not be allowed to walk in his graduation ceremony on Saturday.
This didn’t take place in California.
Kellogg High School is located in one of the most conservative areas of one of the most conservative states in the entire nation.
If this can happen in Idaho, it can happen anywhere.
When the community learned what had happened, a peaceful protest was quickly organized, and that is when things started getting really crazy.
The following is how a member of the Idaho legislature named Heather Scott summarized what we have witnessed so far…
UNACCEPTABLE! The Shoshone County Kellogg High school graduation is canceled for all students! So how I am understanding this is:
1. A student speaks scientific truth at a school assembly (“Guys are guys and girls are girls. There is no in-between.”) 2. Science denier “adult” teachers were offended. 3. The student was punished and is now forbidden to participate in graduation. 4. Parents, students, and community members voiced their concerns in a peaceful protest. 5. The school then fired an off-duty bus driver for joining the peaceful protest! 6. The Shoshone County Sheriff’s Office informed the school of concerns about “safety” 7. The school will now punish the entire student body and community by postponing graduation for all students.
Why in the world would a bus driver be fired on the spot for simply joining a peaceful protest?
Shoshone County Sheriff Holly Lindsey cited “Safety Concerns.”
Sheriff Lindsey is “married” to Kellogg HS Art Teacher Rachel Krusemark, one of the 3 teachers offended by Travis Lohr’s statements.
If those teachers had not made such a fuss, this controversy never would have erupted.
Why can’t they just let people say things that they disagree with?
People say things that deeply offend me all the time, but I am not trying to shut down their right to say those things.
Sadly, it isn’t just the school that has taken action. According to Travis Lohr, he has also just had a job offer rescinded…
A student barred from his high school graduation ceremony after stating there are only two genders said in a Sunday interview on “Fox & Friends” that a firefighting job offer has now been rescinded.
He was supposed to work on Sunday, but when he showed up to complete his paperwork he was given the bad news…
Lohr told Campos-Duffy he was slated to start work Sunday, but when he went in to complete the final paperwork, his boss informed him he was rescinding the offer. He described the job as “fighting wildland forest fires.”
“That’s part of life, as I am learning, and I am going to continue to grow from here. I’m not going to dwell on it.”
Yes, this has actually happened in the deep-red state of Idaho.
LGBTQ radicals reportedly deluged Target with bomb threats in retaliation to the retail giant pulling back on some of its Pride Month merchandise after significant backlash.
The bomb threats were allegedly made against several Target stores in at least three states: Utah, Pennsylvania, and Ohio.
Our nation is being ripped in two, and there are no quick fixes on the horizon.
Of course a similar revolution is currently underway in Europe. This week, we learned that a “topless pregnant transgender man” is on the cover of Glamour U.K.’s June issue…
A topless pregnant transgender man featured on the cover of Glamour U.K.’s June issue ignited a fierce reaction from online critics Thursday.
Author Logan Brown, a 27-year-old who was born female but now identifies as a transgender man, posed as the cover star of British Glamour Magazine’s digital issue celebrating Pride Month in a painted-on suit, showcasing a large baby bump. Brown unexpectedly became pregnant with partner Bailey J Mills, a non-binary drag performer in the U.K., while taking a break from testosterone treatments due to health reasons, the fashion magazine said.
Everywhere around us, we are being bombarded by propaganda that has been carefully designed to promote the new culture that is relentlessly being imposed upon us.
If you dare to stand in the way of this agenda, you will be punished.
If things are this bad now, just imagine what our culture would look like if we were given another 40 or 50 years…
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People with mental illness — just like people with physical illness — are beloved creations of the Lord, each created in the image of God. We have an obligation to love each other and care for each other.
Award-winning Christian Novelist and Journalist
Jun 02, 2023
Look around you in the pews at church. Chances are good that you are standing near someone with mental illness — or perhaps that someone is you.
The National Institute of Mental Health estimates that one in five adults in the United States is living with a mental illness — nearly 58 million men and women in every state in the nation. The World Health Organization estimates 970 million people around the world are living with a mental disorder.
The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the problem, particularly in young people. A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey revealed a third of American high schoolers reported poor mental health during the pandemic, much of it because of pandemic-related shutdowns and isolation.
Suicide is the eleventh leading cause of death in the United States, with 1.7 million suicide attempts in 2021, according to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
Most suicides are related to psychiatric disease, with depression, substance use disorders, and psychosis being the highest risk factors.
Jesus said our first commandment is to love God with all our hearts, minds, and souls, but second to love our neighbor as our ourselves (Matthew 22:36-40).
Part of loving our neighbor is caring for them in their pain and doing what we can to alleviate the problem.
With so many people living with mental illness, it is crucial that the church understand a number of key things about mental illness.
Here then, are 18 things the church should know about mental illness.
1. It’s a Disorder
Mental illness can be any mental, behavioral, or emotional disorder. Some people are officially diagnosed with a disorder, while others are not. Some experience no impairment, while others experience mild, moderate, and even severe impairment.
2. It Can Interfere with Someone’s Life
Some people have a mental illness so severe that it causes serious functional impairment, which substantially interferes with major life activities, such as distress or problems functioning in social, work, or family activities.
3. From OCD to PTSD and More
Mental illness can range from anxiety to schizophrenia, and some people mask their illness so well no one has a clue they suffer in silence.
Illnesses include post-traumatic stress disorder, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression, anxiety, eating disorders, suicide, addiction, and more. There is not one type of mental illness, and symptoms vary.
4. A Diagnosis Helps
Treatments for mental illness vary by diagnosis and by person. Getting a diagnosis is an important first step. Sometimes, people have a few disorders, which can complicate the diagnosis.
5. Treatment Varies
Treatment for mental illness can cover a range of options. Some see a mental health counselor, such as a therapist. Some see a psychiatrist.
Others cope through support groups or informal circles of encouragement. Some take medicine, while others rely on holistic medicine, diet, and exercise. Some do all of this, and some do none.
6. People with Mental Illness Are Not Crazy
Nor are they a “lost cause” or broken beyond repair. Mental illness is much like physical illness — only with mental illness, it’s a problem in the brain. And it’s not someone’s fault.
7. Staying Quiet Makes it Worse
Staying quiet about mental illness doesn’t help the problem — it makes it worse. It’s okay to talk about suicide, depression, and other issues.
It doesn’t plant the idea in their mind but rather lets them know you care about them and care enough to have an uncomfortable conversation.
8. People Can’t Just ‘Get Over It’
When it comes to mental illness, it’s not a perspective shift or a mind game. You can’t “fake it ‘til you make it.”
Among kids aged 10-14, suicide is the second leading cause of death, yet many of them say adults in their lives often ask them, “What do you have to be depressed about? You’re just a kid.” It’s valid and very real.
9. Loving People with Mental Illness Is a Way to Love Jesus
In Matthew 25:40, Jesus said, “Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.” He said when we welcome a stranger, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, or visit those in prison, we’re actually doing that for him.
So, when we love someone with mental illness, when we welcome them or care for them or urge them to share their story, it’s yet another way of loving the Lord and caring for “the least of these.”
10. Lots of Bible Heroes Battled Depression
Moses, Job, King David, Elijah, Jonah, and many, many others throughout Scripture struggled with bouts of intense depression. Yet God used them. God can use people with depression and other mental illnesses today, too.
11. Prayer Helps
Prayer really does help people fighting mental illness. Often, people with mental illness can feel like they are fighting an invisible battle. Prayer is an added layer of armor in that battle.
12. The Church Can Help
Churches can play an excellent role in the mental health of their communities. Pastors and others, such as Stephen Ministers, can offer counseling or a supportive ear. Churches can host support groups or foster small groups or Bible studies.
13. Body Care Can Help with Mental Health
Proper nutrition and exercise can be a huge help for people with mental illness. Exercise particularly releases feel-good endorphins and other natural brain chemicals that powerfully combat the effects of depression.
Churches can encourage this with exercise groups, nutrition education, and other creative and fun ways.
14. You’re Not Alone
One of the biggest ways churches can support people with mental illness is by reminding them and others they are not alone. Satan likes to isolate his victims and make them feel they are powerless. But together, with the Lord at our helm, we are mighty and can conquer our enemy.
The church can and should speak about mental illness and educate people about it. We can help remove the stigma or shame. The church can and should preach about this. Talk openly about this. Host seminars and workshops. Speak up.
15. Professional Expertise
Sometimes, pastoral counseling is not enough. Churches should be comfortable referring people with mental illness to psychiatrists, psychologists, and other therapists for outside counseling, particularly if there are few trained counselors on-staff at the church.
16. Being Christian Doesn’t Make Us Immune to Mental Illness
Nor does mental illness indicate we are weak, “bad,” or faithless Christians. Mental illnesses are often genetically inherited diseases. People with great faith live with everything from anxiety to schizophrenia.
17. Taking Medicine Isn’t a Bad Thing
Many Christians feel like they aren’t “allowed” to take medicine for mental illness because prayer should heal them.
Yet these same Christians think it’s perfectly fine for someone with cancer to take chemotherapy or for someone with diabetes to take insulin. Medicine is a personal choice, and it isn’t wrong to take it if it helps.
18. The Church Is on the Front Lines
Many people come to church for answers. It’s up to church members and church staff to understand and be able to serve as a sort of triage for people with mental illness — to recognize mental illness symptoms and be able to steer someone to appropriate help if needed.
People with mental illness — just like people with physical illness — are beloved creations of the Lord, each created in the image of God. We have an obligation to love each other and care for each other.
Fostering a culture of compassion in your church is a wonderful way to help people with mental illness while fulfilling Jesus’s commandment to care.
Let’s all pray about new and different ways we, God’s church, can serve and grow together as we battle mental illness.
In life there is little doubt that it can be cruel and quite unfair. Take for example someone who is born with no arms. That person will have to face many incredible challenges growing up. Or take a young man in his twenties that loses his eyesight in a car accident. And what about the millions of children that go to bed hungry every night around the world today. Clearly for these individuals, life seems quite unfair. But my contention is that while life can be unfair, Jesus is more than fair. Just how can this be?
Well, first, it is important to understand why life is unfair. It is basically because of sin. When sin entered the world through Adam and Eve’s disobedience to God, our world became cursed and everything since then has gone haywire. From sickness and crime, to natural disasters and death, our world is riddled with inequities that effect countless millions of people. Sin has clearly marred the beautiful world that existed in the Garden of Eden. Death will take all of us one day – the only question is when. Whether we live to be twenty or ninety, whether we are rich or poor, and whether we are healthy or sickly, death will one day take all of us, whether we like it or not.
Everything, however, depends on the perspective we view life from. A Christian, who had a severe degenerative muscle disease, once said, that though his condition was permanent and terminal, it was only temporary. For you see he knew that no matter how bad a shake he got in this life, because he knew Jesus, one day when he succumbed to death, he would again live forever, and this time with a perfectly healthy body. And that’s why Jesus is the great equalizer. You see, because of sin, life will always be filled with unfairness. But because Jesus promises to make right every bad situation, one day at death, life takes on a special fairness when we consider that we will be made wonderfully whole on the other side of eternity. No matter how much suffering you may have to go through in this life, Christ promises at death, you will be fully restored and resurrected to newness of life, where the reality of (Revelation 21:4) will become the great equalizer, because of what Jesus did on the cross for you: “And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.”
20:13 I will give it into your hand this day. This is the form of assurance given before battles when the Lord is about to fight on Israel’s side (Josh. 6:2, 16; 8:1, 18; Judg. 7:2; 18:10; 2 Chr. 13:16; 16:8). God defends the cause of His people against oppressors and enemies (Ex. 15:1–21; Judg. 5; Hab. 3:3–19; Rev. 18).[1]
20:13 I will deliver them into your hand today. These were the words of assurance given before battles when the Lord was about to fight on Israel’s side (Jos 6:2, 16; 8:1, 18; Jdg 7:2; 18:10; 1Sa 23:4; 24:4). Further, the victory would show Ahab that the Lord was in every respect the mighty God He claimed to be. Though the people and king of Israel had dishonored God, He would not utterly cast them off (vv. 14, 15).[2]
20:13 This prophet is not named. We are reminded that there were many true prophets of the Lord at that time (18:13; 20:35). I will deliver … you shall know: Just as God had demonstrated His person and power on Mount Carmel (ch. 18), He would now make Himself known to Ahab in the coming battle.[3]
20:13. Meanwhile, as Ben-Hadad was preparing to attack, a prophet, whose name is not given, went to Ahab with a message from the Lord. God, he said, was going to deliver the huge Aramean army into Ahab’s hand so Ahab would know that He is the Lord. God’s goodness on this occasion obviously was prompted not by Ahab’s godliness but by God’s own grace. This was another step in His seeking to get His people to acknowledge that He is the Lord.[4]
Ver. 13.—And, behold, there came a prophet [Heb. one prophet. Cf. ch. 13:11. According to Jewish writers, this was Micaiah, son of Imlah, but ch. 22:8 negatives this supposition. This is another proof that all the prophets had not been exterminated. Where Elijah was at this time, or why be was not employed, we have no means of determining. Bätar says that he was “least of all suited for such a message,” but not if he had learned the lesson of ch. 19:12. At the same time, it is to be remembered that he invariably appears as the minister of wrath. It may also be reasonably asked why this gracious interposition was granted to the kingdom of Samaria at all. Was not this invasion, and would not the sack of the city have been, a just recompense for the gross corruption of the age, for the persecution of the prophets, &c.? But to this it may be replied that Ben-hadad was not then the instrument which God had designed for the correction of Israel (see ch. 19:17; 22:31; 2 Kings 10:32), and furthermore that by his brutal tyranny and despotic demands, he had himself merited a chastisement. The city, too, may have been delivered for the sake of the seven thousand (ch. 19:18; 2 Kings 19:34. Cf. Gen. 18:26 sqq.). But this gracious help in the time of extremity was primarily designed as a proof of Jehovah’s power over the gods of Syria (cf. vers. 13, 28; ch. 18:39; 2 Kings 19:22 sqq.), and so as an instrument for the conversion of Israel. His supremacy over the idols of Phoenicia had already been established] unto Ahab king of Israel, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Hast thou seen all this great multitude? [cf. ver. 10. “In Ben-hadad’s wars with the Assyrians, we sometimes find him at the head of nearly 100,000 men” (Rawlinson).] Behold, I will deliver it into thine hand this day; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord. [This explains to us the motif of this great deliverance.][5]
[4] Constable, T. L. (1985). 1 Kings. In J. F. Walvoord & R. B. Zuck (Eds.), The Bible Knowledge Commentary: An Exposition of the Scriptures (Vol. 1, p. 530). Victor Books.
[5] Spence-Jones, H. D. M., ed. (1909). 1 Kings (p. 485). Funk & Wagnalls Company.
Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favor her, yea, the set time, is come. For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favor the dust thereof. (Psalm 102:13-14)
Yes, our prayers for the church will be heard. The set time is come. We love the prayer meetings, and the Sunday school, and all the services of the Lord’s house. We are bound in heart to all the people of God and can truly say,
There’s not a lamb in all thy flock
I would disdain to feed
There’s not a foe before whose face
I’d fear thy cause to plead.
If this is the general feeling, we shall soon enjoy times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord. Our assemblies will be filled, saints will be revived, and sinners will be converted. This can only come of the Lord’s mercy; but it will come, and we are called upon to expect it. The time, the set time, is come. Let us bestir ourselves. Let us love every stone of our Zion, even though it may be fallen down. Let us treasure up the least truth, the least ordinance, the least believer, even though some may despise them as only so much dust. When we favor Zion, God is about to favor her. When we take pleasure in the Lord’s work, the Lord Himself will take pleasure in it.
“God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.” Genesis 1:27
Someday, my soul will go to heaven, but my body will remain, being properly lowered into the earth where all but the bones will decompose over time.
Generations will come and go and over time, no one on earth will even remember that I existed. Perhaps someday, an archaeologist will dig up the cemetery and find my bones. They will find nothing to identify me, but one thing they will find is that my bones have male DNA. Beside me will be my wife and her bones will reveal female DNA.
Male and female….. there is no other!
The man gave names to all the cattle, and to the birds of the sky, and to every beast of the field, but for Adam there was not found a helper suitable for him. So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place. The Lord God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh. Genesis 2:20-24
In this day and time, where “gender identity” is in vogue, advocates of such thoughts should consult the Bible. People can’t select their gender. The God who created them selected their gender for them.
If a body is left out in the sun and rain, its DNA will be useful for testing for only a few weeks. If it’s buried a few feet below the ground, the DNA will last about 1,000 to 10,000 years. And when the DNA is analyzed, gender will be identified as either male or female. There are no others.
Remember that no matter what modern society tells us …. Male and female…. There are no others!!
Trans Activists, Anti-Child Castration Groups Draw Battle Lines Around Definition Of ‘Child Abuse’ A new battle line has emerged between transgender activists and those who oppose sex change procedures for minors. The winner will get to decide what constitutes “child abuse.” Should the term become codified according to either side’s definitions, doctors could end up in jail and kids from parents on either side could end up in state care, some experts tell the Daily Caller.
Prigozhin says Kremlin factions are destroying the Russian state Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin said on Saturday that Kremlin factions were destroying the state by trying to sow discord between him and Chechen fighters. That row had now been settled but infighting in the Kremlin had opened a Pandora’s Box of rifts, he said. Prigozhin, a 62-year-old former restauranteur who founded the Wagner mercenary group and is a member of President Vladimir Putin’s wider circle, has gained widespread notoriety during the 15-month war in Ukraine.
Franklin Graham: The Gospel Must Be Preached Until The Very End It is the power of God unto salvation. When the message is proclaimed and preached, the power of God works in the hearts of those who hear and believe. That power is the regenerating and saving work of the Holy Spirit, who is convicting people of sin and righteousness. The Holy Spirit opens the hearts and eyes of those who have been blind and dead in their sins, and gives them everlasting life through repentance and faith.
Bird flu outbreak more virulent than ever recorded “We haven’t seen a virus quite like this one,” said corresponding author Richard Webby of St. Jude’s Department of Infectious Diseases in a press release. “In 24 years of tracing this particular H5N1 flu lineage, we haven’t seen this ability to cause disease but also be maintained in these wild bird populations.”
Three IDF soldiers killed in shooting at southern border by Egyptian policeman A security incident on the Israel-Egypt border this morning led to the killing of two Israeli soldiers, while a third soldier died in a firefight with the assailant. The event triggered a joint investigation by the two countries to determine the circumstances surrounding the incident. Officials from the Israeli Defense Forces emphasized the need for cooperation, however, questions remain about whether the Egyptian policeman who carried out the shooting, acted independently or in connection with terror organizations.
US Navy changes all social media graphics to LGBTQ+ images then removes them The United States Navy changed its social media profile photos and header images on Thursday to reflect the first day of the LGBTQ+ community’s Pride Month before changing them back to generic logos and military images by Friday morning. While the Navy briefly focused on the start of Pride Month, other U.S. military branches turned their attention to issues like PTSD Awareness Month, recruitment and education.
Over 1,000-acre wildfire closes part of I-75 in Michigan, forces evacuations GRAYLING, Mich. – A wildfire that quickly grew Saturday in northern Michigan is a direct result of a recent stretch of hot and dry weather across the region, officials said. At last report, the Crawford County wildfire had burned more than 1,000 acres, and its proximity to homes and businesses has forced some evacuations.
Target Marketing VP Holds Senior Position at Org Pushing Trans Policies in K-12 Schools A major U.S. retailer targeted for boycott for carrying clothing for transgender children faces further backlash for association with GLSEN. The advocacy group GLSEN stated it has been “Championing LGBTQ issues in K-12 education since 1990,” according to its website.
Michigan Economics Professor: Boycotting Target is “Literal Terrorism” In New York, a pro-life display was declared by a professor to be an act of “violence.” In Colorado, a university site warned that misgendering is violence. It is part of a national pattern on campuses where opposing views are declared “harmful” or “violent” as a justification for censorship or even violence. Now, University of Michigan economics professor Justin Wolfers has declared some of those boycotting the store Target over its line of LGBTQ+ “Pride” clothing are guilty of “literal terrorism.”
UN objects to Ugandan anti-LGBTQ law The United Nations has urged Uganda to rethink its new Anti-Homosexuality Act, which imposes harsh penalties for citizens who “promote” gay lifestyles, as well as capital punishment for certain offenses. The UN secretary-general pointed out that the measure conflicts with key international treaties and violates the rights of Ugandan citizens.
Elon Musk Lands in China to Hang Out with Communist Officials Tesla CEO Elon Musk has touched down in Beijing, marking his first visit to China in three years, amidst intensifying competition in the electric vehicle market and speculation over Tesla’s expansion plans in the country.
The Taliban Is Fighting Iran With American Weapons The Taliban clashed with Iranian border guards over the weekend, and it used American equipment to do it. The fight took place in the Nimroz province of Afghanistan, on its south western border with Iran. At least three people died, and others were wounded in a dispute about water rights in the region.
Germany Is Officially In A Recession Consumers in Germany are spending less. That means Europe’s largest economy is officially in a recession. Output in Germany dropped 0.3% in the first three months of the year, following a 0.5% contraction at the end of 2022, official data showed Thursday
WHO poses a bigger threat to the world than a pandemic of any disease At a conference held in Norway, Swiss Attorney at Law Philipp Kruse spoke about the World Health Organisation’s (“WHO’s”) ambition to establish new rules for its own nefarious purposes. For his presentation, he selected critical aspects of WHO’s power grab through the amendments to International Health Regulations (“IHRs”) and the proposed new Pandemic Treaty.
Scary Truths Did you know that the IMF won’t give loans to African countries if they use fossil fuels? Or that the BBC has suggested that planting trees can do more harm than good?
Walt Disney World employee arrested on child porn charge A Walt Disney World employee arrested on a child pornography charge Thursday said he posted photos of his coworkers to a porn social networking website as well as their private contact information, according to court records.
Entire Disney World Land Will Remain Closed Indefinitely If you’ve been keeping up with the updates and construction happening at Disney World, you know that there are more than a handful of projects happening simultaneously, and these refurbishments and updates can lead to closures in the theme parks.
WEF Accelerates Plan To Engineer Global Famine: 13 Nations Agree To Abolish Farming 13 WEF-infiltrated countries have recently announced plans to abolish farming as part of the ‘Great Reset’ agenda for humanity…The nations signing onto this pledge to transform their farm policies are the United States, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Chile, Czech Republic, Ecuador, Germany, Panama, Peru and Spain.
Hohmann: Death by Injection – Top insurance researcher provides data showing staggering numbers Using data from the United Kingdom, a top insurance industry analyst estimates 600,000 Americans per year are dying from the Covid shots. The United States has become one of the worst countries in the world when it comes to medical transparency. But one smart analyst has found an end-run around the U.S. system that places a dark shroud of secrecy over common statistics.
The Babylon Bee sat down with Elon Musk for a wide-ranging interview discussing free speech, his purchase of Twitter to free The Bee, and – most importantly – what video games he’s playing right now.
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Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Saturday that he would join Elon Musk for an interview on Twitter Spaces.
“I am. I think I’m going on Tuesday at, I believe, it’s three o’clock,” Kennedy said on Newsmax’s “Saturday Agenda.” Kennedy’s campaign has been banned from Instagram, the presidential candidate tweeted on Thursday, prompting Musk to issue an invitation to appear on Twitter, an invitation Kennedy accepted.
“Interesting… when we use our TeamKennedy email address to set up @instagram accounts we get an automatic 180-day ban. Can anyone guess why that’s happening?” Kennedy said in the tweet on Thursday.
Kennedy would be the second presidential candidate to appear on Twitter Spaces, following Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, who launched his campaign in a glitch-filled May 24 appearance on the social media site.
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“To silence a major political candidate is profoundly undemocratic. Social media is the modern equivalent of the town square,” Kennedy posted on Thursday. “How can democracy function if only some candidates have access to it?”
Kennedy, an environmental lawyer, has been banned by Instagram for posting about his views on vaccines, which the social media site labeled “misinformation.” ABC News also censored his views during an April 27 interview.
Kennedy is drawing 16.8% support in the Democratic primary race, according to the RealClearPolitics average, trailing President Joe Biden by 42.5%. The Democratic National Committee announced it would not hold debates during the 2024 presidential primaries, drawing criticism from author Marianne Williamson and Kennedy, both of whom are challenging Biden for the Democratic nomination, according to Fox News.
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America is the land of liberty. And that’s for a very good reason. As the Bible tells us, “Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” America’s freedom was built upon a Christian foundation, and our Founders deliberately protected that foundation in the First Amendment. But there are now those who wish to cast aside the First Amendment and criminalize Christianity.
On today’s program you’ll discover how only Christianity can be the true basis for your freedom.
Last Monday Evangelical Dark Web was among the first to cover The Chosen allowing and then glamorizing pride flags on its set. Late to the part on this is predictably, The Christian Post which featured an interview with Dallas Jenkins defending the pride flags on set. The article itself reads like a press release/ rebuttal written on behalf of The Chosen rather than accurate reporting.
The article titled ‘The Chosen’ director doesn’t impose on crews’ beliefs, is happy to be a witness of Christ contains in the permalink “the-chosen-creator-explains-why-he-hires-non-believers” which implies that this may have been the original title. This denotes that Christian Post views this as an issue of hiring unbelievers on a supposedly Christian project. Yet this is a grossly incomplete view of the issue. The issue is that The Chosen tolerates anti-Christian material on set and then glamorized it in a behind the scenes video.
Christian Post has a recorded interview with Dallas Jenkins, the showrunner for The Chosen, which predates the article they did run. However, they aborted the article Dallas Jenkins responds to controversy over LGBT ‘Pride’ flag on ‘The Chosen’ set in an apparent effort to reframe the issue on behalf of The Chosen. From the article they did run, they begin:
Amid reports over the appearance of an LGBT pride flag on the set of the Christian series “The Chosen,” creator and director Dallas Jenkins says he is willing to hire individuals who do not share his spiritual views and doesn’t enact tight restrictions on how they can express themselves.
According to Dallas Jenkins the hiring practices at The Chosen are merit based
Jenkins clarified that the knowledge that God knows he is a sinner does not mean he is exempt from continuing to strive for righteousness. Going off of that point, the Evangelical Christian stated that there is no “religious or political litmus test” the cast and crew must undergo to assist in telling the story of Jesus and his disciples.
“We are not a church in which all of our employees are going to fit under one particular mission statement, one particular belief system,” he said. “We are a for-profit company; we’re a media company; we’re a public company. We have investors and all of that.”
He said the people hired to work on “The Chosen” often come from a “broad spectrum of beliefs” and an individual’s qualifications and willingness to work are considered when hiring someone for the project.
“When we hire someone to work for us, our No. 1 objective is who is the best person for this job?” he said. “We made a decision from the beginning that our standards is going to be ‘will you work hard?’”
Yet despite claiming to not be a church rather a for-profit company, The Chosen puts out devotional material that would emphasize its profession of faith as a venture. The issue is not that The Chosen hires nonbelievers, giving relatively no-name actors a break to play Bible figures. The issue is that as a company, they practice secular neutrality.
The director and co-writer clarified that if someone is vulgar or harming someone else, that’s not appropriate in a professional environment. However, Jenkins said he does not discriminate against people regarding their personal belief systems.
“When it comes to their personal belief systems or what they wear, we’re not going to do what we’ve seen other people do, where sometimes you’ll see a Christian not allowed to wear a hat or express themselves or put a sticker on their desk that expresses their beliefs,” he said, commenting that it’s “unfortunate” when employers engage in that type of behavior.
The neutral workplace has given way to being a gay workplace because neutrality is a myth. Christian Post, then denounces the controversy citing Jeremy Boreing.
This week, media reports highlighted how a photograph recently surfaced of an LGBT pride flag attached to a camera during the filming of the fourth season of “The Chosen.” On Wednesday, Daily Wire CEO Jeremy Boreing took to Twitter to apologize for an article his outlet published about the incident.
Christian Post was entirely unprofessional in their handling of The Chosen, which is unsurprising given that they have heavily promoted the series for years to the detriment of their credibility.
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