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
When the last day comes, it will expose and bring an end to all the wrongdoing and injustice and evildoing in the world, however secret, or open, or ineradicable it seems for now. It will also, at last, bring into the present the now-future ‘wrath which is to come.’ For these reasons that day is something that sinners dread and prefer not to think about. But for those who are sheltering in Jesus, whose guilt has been taken away by Him and who take His side in the controversy against evil and sin, it will be a day of astonishing blessing and honour. In the following updated extract, James Renwick identifies ten privileges which will be bestowed on believers in the day of judgment. His closing words are a plea to us to make sure now, while we still have opportunity, that we will share in these blessings on that day.
I will show you the excellency of the day of judgment by showing you some privileges and benefits that the believer shall partake of in that day.
Togetherness
The first privilege that the godly shall partake of at the day of judgment is that they shall be gathered from the four winds of heaven, and from the four corners of the earth, by the sound of the last trumpet.
O friends! There is a great scattering among believers now; some are killed, some banished to foreign lands, some dead in their banishment, and some dead in their imprisonment, and many drowned in the sea; in fact, some cast into the sea when dying on the journey, and some cruelly tortured, their bodies quartered and put into pieces.
But at that day, the Lord will gather, so that not one pile of that dust of theirs shall be lost, but with these bodies with which they endured these scatterings, tortures, or death, they shall appear, and be united to the soul again.
Reunion
The second privilege is that they shall be caught up from the earth to meet the Lord in the air. O friends! The King is coming! The great Judge is coming! He is on his way. O prepare for Him! Prepare to meet with Him, for if you are godly, you shall be caught up to meet the Lord in the air with joy and gladness.
We often carry the quiet worry that parts of our lives remain unseen or misunderstood.
“O LORD, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar.” Psalm 139:1–2 (ESV)
David does not begin with what he feels about God but with what God already knows about him.
Before any explanation, defense, or improvement, the Lord has searched and known. This knowledge is not partial or delayed. It reaches into the ordinary movements of the day and into thoughts we have not yet shaped into words.
We spend much of life managing impressions.
Even with people we love, there are edits and omissions. Psalm 139 invites us into into rest. The God who knows when you sit and when you rise is not gathering information. He is already acquainted with your ways.
This kind of nearness can feel unsettling at first.
Many of us fear being fully known because we assume knowledge leads to rejection. David’s confidence suggests the opposite. Being known by God is the place where honesty becomes possible. We do not have to tidy our thoughts before prayer or improve our motives before obedience.
A shared weakness most of us carry is the habit of hiding parts of ourselves even from God, as though silence could protect us.
To live with this truth is not to become self-absorbed but to become free from pretending. When the Lord already knows, we are released from managing what cannot be hidden anyway. Faith grows quieter here. It becomes less about proving devotion and more about walking openly before God.
Christ meets us in this openness.
He does not wait for a cleaned-up version of our inner life. He enters the truth of who we are and stays. The One who knows us fully is also the One who gave Himself for us fully. That union brings steadiness to ordinary days.
Today: Take a few minutes to speak honestly with God about one thought or concern you usually keep unspoken. Do not correct it. Simply let it be known.
****Our country feels like it’s coming apart at the seams.
Families argue and churches feel the strain. It’s easy for Christians to get pulled into anger, fear, or plain exhaustion.
So I’m starting a live online Bible study for my paid Substack subscribers. One hourish, Zoom-style, just for us.
We’re going to open the Bible and ask a simple question: How does a Christian live, speak, and think in 2026?
We’ll deal with the real stuff we’re all bumping into right now. The “spiritual but not Christian” wave, the constant outrage online, money worries, a restless mind, conscience questions, work and calling, mental heaviness, spiritual warfare, and how to stand for truth without turning sharp.
Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their work: If one falls down, his friend can help him up. But pity the man who falls and has no one to help him up! Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm. But how can one keep warm alone? Though one may be overpowered two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-12
Someone may well say, It’s true that people work out of a sense of ambition and a drive for admiration from others, but it is better to have companionship while doing so.
The Searcher agrees and lists four advantages: First, it will increase the reward. Two really can live cheaper than one, and many people get married on that basis. During the Depression, there was a popular song that said, Potatoes are cheaper, tomatoes are cheaper, now’s the time to fall in love. Many young people agreed with that and got married. But economics have changed. Today potatoes are dearer, tomatoes are dearer, but still, now is the time to fall in love, because you can combine your resources. Even the IRS recognizes the advantage of this by giving some tax breaks to married couples.
Second, he says, a friend will provide help in time of trouble. If you get into difficulty, your friend or roommate will be there to help you.
You have to have grown up in Montana to fully appreciate the third advantage! When the temperature is forty-below-zero outside, you understand what the Searcher means when he says, If two lie together, they are warm; but how can one be warm alone?
Fourth, the presence of one or more others in your life makes defeat unlikely: Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken. While there are advantages in companionship, nevertheless, the Searcher’s argument is that still it adds up to emptiness; it does not satisfy the sense of eternity that God has put in people’s hearts. Many couples sit in loneliness, staring at a television screen for hours at a time or seek some other diversion to fill the emptiness and misery of their lives. No, companionship, though better than loneliness, is not the answer either.
Lord, thank You for friends and family, those whom You have placed in my life to bring greater increase, help in times of trouble, and warmth in times of cold loneliness. Help me to be a friend as well as receive friendship.
Life Application
Companionship and fellowship are certainly advantageous in life. Does teamwork play an important role in our ministry or do we tend to go it alone?
9 Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their work:
10 If one falls down, his friend can help him up. But pity the man who falls and has no one to help him up!
11 Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm. But how can one keep warm alone?
12 Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.
13 Better a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to take warning. 14 The youth may have come from prison to the kingship, or he may have been born in poverty within his kingdom. 15 I saw that all who lived and walked under the sun followed the youth, the king’s successor. 16 There was no end to all the people who were before them. But those who came later were not pleased with the successor. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
The vanity of our thoughts, their neglect of those things which they ought to be conversant with and dwelling upon those things that are unworthy of them and tend to corrupt our minds.
Every intention of the thoughts of my heart is evil, only evil, and that continually, Genesis 6:5(ESV) and it has been so from my youth. Genesis 8:21(ESV)
But God is not in all my thoughts; Psalm 10:4(ESV) it is well if he is in any of them. Of the Rock that bore me, I have been unmindful and have forgotten the God who gave us birth: Deuteronomy 32:18(ESV) I have forgotten him days without number, Jeremiah 2:32(ESV) and our hearts have gone after worthlessness and become worthless. Jeremiah 2:5(ESV) My inward thought having been that my houses should continue forever; this, my way, is the path of those who have foolish confidence. Psalm 49:11-13(ESV)
The carnality of our affections, their being placed upon wrong objects and carried beyond due bounds.
I have set my mind on things beneath, which should have been set on things above, where my treasure is, Matthew 6:21(ESV) where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God; Colossians 3:1-2(ESV) these are the things which we should seek.
I have paid regard to vain idols and forsaken our hope of steadfast love; Jonah 2:8(ESV) have forsaken the fountain of living waters, for cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water. Jeremiah 2:13(ESV)
I have trampled the head of the poor into the dust of the earth, Amos 2:7(ESV) and have been anxious concerning what I shall eat and what I shall drink and what I shall wear, the things after which the Gentiles seek. Matthew 6:31-33(ESV)
I have lifted up my soul to what is false, Psalm 24:4(ESV) and set my eyes on that which is nothing; have looked at the things that are seen, which are temporal, but the things that are eternal have been forgotten and postponed. 2 Corinthians 4:18(ESV)
Matthew 27:62-64 In this week’s lessons we look at various ways Christ’s enemies opposed Him, but that He rose victoriously on the first day of the week.
Theme
Jesus’ Trial
Yesterday, we concluded by saying that during Jesus’ trial before the religious leaders, these men tried to find something they could accuse Jesus of. However, nothing they said could be established, even though many false witnesses were brought against Jesus.
Two came forward and declared, “This fellow said ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God and rebuild it in three days.’” And Mark gives another detail of it: “We heard him say, ‘I will destroy this man-made temple and in three days I will build another not made by man’” (14:58).
That was very interesting, and it was so for two reasons. First of all, it was apparently true, at least parts of it were true. The very fact that this accusation was made by two witnesses testifying presumably independently of one another indicates that it had some substance. They didn’t agree verbally word for word in what Christ had said. This is perhaps the reason why the accusation was later dismissed, but obviously He had said something along these lines.
There’s another indication that it was probably true and that is that this phrase “in three days” or “on the third day” occurs again and again throughout the gospels. Apparently it was a very dominant aspect of Christ’s teaching. The phrase “in three days” occurs ten times in the gospels. The phrase “on the third day” occurs twelve times in Matthew, Mark and Luke and twice more later on in the New Testament.
Having said that, however, I suspect that the real reason why this was so important and the evidence that it was true is that it really did point to the essence of Christ’s claim about Himself. In other words, it’s not only that it was true, it was significant. In what way was it significant? Well it was significant in terms of the trial in that it would be construed as an offense for which the death penalty had been assigned. It would be construed as sorcery, for example, because if Jesus said, “I’m going to tear down the temple and rebuild it in three days,” how could He possibly do that apart from what we would call perhaps black magic?
Or again it could be construed as sacrilege. The temple was the most holy place of Judaism. To tear the temple down would be to desecrate holy things. The penalty for both of those things was death. And yet I wonder as I read that whether even at this point of the trial Caiaphas and others didn’t understand that when Jesus spoke about the third day, what He was really saying was that on the third day, even though you put Me to death, I’m going to rise again and by that resurrection demonstrate that I am indeed the one I claim to be, the Son of God who has come to give His life a ransom for many.
I don’t know if they ever confessed that openly at the time of the trial but I suspect that there’s an indication of it in the way the trial went. First there were the false witnesses and they couldn’t establish their testimony. It was obviously vain testimony, the kind to be thrown out. Then the two witnesses came with their reference to Christ’s claim about doing something to the temple and building it up again in three days, although there was no substance to that; they couldn’t quite establish it as the Jewish law required.
But Caiaphas the high priest who was sitting there and listening to all this seemed to sense what it was about. He knew the nature of Christ’s claim and although they couldn’t establish his guilt judicially, he determined that he was going to establish it anyway. And so in his questioning, which was illegal, he went to the heart of the matter and he asked Jesus whether he was really the Christ, the Son of God.
And of course, that is what He had claimed to be and so when the question was put to Him in that way by the high priest, Christ accepted it. He said, “You’ve spoken the truth, that is precisely the case. And furthermore, you are going to see the Son of Man one day coming in the clouds of heaven with His holy angels.” And at that point Caiaphas tore his garments. He said, “What need do we have of further witnesses? You’ve heard his blasphemy. He’s worthy of death.” Thus, in this little incident that we have at the very end of Matthew 27, we obviously have an indication that these men understood what Christ had been saying.
Study Questions
What was the testimony of the two men who came forward? What was the strength of this testimony? What was the problem with their testimony?
What important point is made about the phrase “in three days” or “on the third day”?
How did Caiaphas get to the heart of the matter with his question asked of Jesus?
Application
Reflection: What do people think about Jesus today? In what ways are their answers true, and in what ways are their answers false?
Prayer: Ask God to give you the opportunity to talk with someone about who Jesus really is, and pray that the Lord would prepare that person to receive what you have to say.
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Have you ever received something in a package you didn’t expect? Occasionally a vendor will include a gift with my purchase, maybe a sticker, coupon, or a product sample. Most of the time these free gifts aren’t something I want or need, so they land in the trash.In the opening of his letter to the Ephesians, Paul details a list of good gifts that come along with the salvation Christ won for us. The best gift we receive when we believe the gospel is a relationship with the God of the universe. That would be enough. But because God is so gracious, so generous, he bestows a wealth of incredibly valuable extras.We are not just saved, we have been blessed with every spiritual blessing (v. 3). We are not just saved, we have been made holy and blameless (v. 4). We are not just saved, we have been adopted into a new family (v. 5). God has not left us in the dark, He has shown us what His plan is for this world (v. 10). All this, and so much more, comes to those who trust in Christ!Christians should be aware of their inheritance in Christ because the world offers its own alternate list of “bonus gifts.” From the world, we are offered a sense of belonging, endless enjoyment, and a self-focused way of life. But none of these comes from God who lavished His love on us by sacrificing His Son for our sins. When we fully appreciate the blessings given to us by God, the gifts of the world begin to look like those stickers you didn’t ask for, thrown into the bottom of a box and sent by someone you don’t know.
Go Deeper Do you appreciate all you have received from God in Christ? When you see this list of blessings, does your heart react with joy? Take a minute to list the benefits of salvation and rejoice in them! Extended Reading:Ephesians 1-2
Pray with Us It’s a joy to reflect on all Your gifts, Jesus, mentioned in Ephesians, and to realize that we also are the beneficiaries of these gifts. Thank You for new life and for the wonder of Your salvation!
He who gives no quarter to the wicked in the day of judgment, is the defence and refuge of his saints in the day of trouble. There are many forms of oppression; both from man and from Satan oppression come to us; and for all its forms, a refuge is provided in the Lord Jehovah. There were cities of refuge under the law, God is our refuge-city under the gospel. As the ships when vexed with tempest make for harbour, so do the oppressed hasten to the wings of a just and gracious God. He is a high tower so impregnable, that the hosts of hell cannot carry it by storm, and from its lofty heights faith looks down with scorn upon her enemies.
Spurgeon, C. H. (n.d.). The treasury of David: Psalms 1-26 (Vol. 1, p. 98). Marshall Brothers.
9:9 God’s judgment involves vindicating the oppressed, the people of Israel seen as weak and needy. This psalm grew out of an occasion in which the Gentile rulers sought to oppress them.
Crossway Bibles. (2008). The ESV Study Bible (p. 950). Crossway Bibles.
9:9 a stronghold The psalmist describes Yahweh as a place of refuge for the oppressed. The Hebrew word used here, misgav, describes high walls or a rocky fortress (Isa 25:12; 33:16). When applied to Yahweh, it emphasizes the stable protection He provides for those in need (Psa 62:6–8).
Barry, J. D., Mangum, D., Brown, D. R., Heiser, M. S., Custis, M., Ritzema, E., Whitehead, M. M., Grigoni, M. R., & Bomar, D. (2012, 2016). Faithlife Study Bible (Ps 9:9). Lexham Press.
He will be my guide even unto death. (Psalm 48:14)
We need a guide. Sometimes we would give all that we have to be told exactly what to do and where to turn. We are willing to do right, but we do not know which one of two roads we are to follow. Oh, for a guide!
The Lord our God condescends to serve us as guide. He knows the way and will pilot us along it till we reach our journey’s end in peace. Surely we do not desire more infallible direction. Let us place ourselves absolutely under His guidance, and we shall never miss our way. Let us make Him our God, and we shall find Him our guide. If we follow His law we shall not miss the right road of life, provided we first learn to lean upon Him in every step that we take.
Our comfort is that as He is our God forever and ever, He will never cease to be with us as our guide. “Even unto death” will He lead us, and then we shall dwell with Him eternally and go no more out forever. This promise of divine guidance involves lifelong security: salvation at once, guidance unto our last hour, and then endless blessedness. Should not each one seek this in youth, rejoice in it in middle life, and repose in it in old age? This day let us look up for guidance before we trust ourselves out-of-doors.
I believe deeply in prayer, but for a long time I didn’t feel very “good” at it. I want to pray prayers that reach into heaven and help bring it to earth, right here and now. But way too often as I pray I have felt distracted, inconsistent, ineffective. For years, prayer was full of “shoulds” that I never quite reached. I once made a free online resource called “I Stink at Prayer.” It was very popular — apparently I wasn’t alone in my experience with prayer!
I don’t feel this way anymore, and it’s thanks to a simple practice I’ve adopted. There’s a way I pray now that is not only powerful and effective but also feels fresh and adaptable every day. It’s a type of prayer led by the Holy Spirit that starts inside the pages of the Bible. Prayer has become less about talking God through my daily list and more about speaking God’s own words over the people, places, and things in my life and the world around me. I not only feel more aligned with the heart of God — but actually experience more answers to prayer.
It happened when I started taking my prayers straight from the pages of the Bible.
Praying From the Word of God
When you open your Bible, you’re not just reading ancient words — you’re entering into a story that God spoke long before you arrived on the scene. The events of this story are still unfolding, and He is the author. This makes the Word of God the perfect birthplace for your prayers, because what God determines will come to pass. He knows the beginning, the middle — and already foresees the end. The Holy Spirit uses the Bible to align your heart and mouth with the things God is already doing.
The Bible itself describes this connection beautifully:
“As the rain and the snow come down from heaven… so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire.” — Isaiah 55:10–11 (NIV)
When you take God’s words and speak them back to Him in prayer, you are participating in that work. His words are seeds, and your prayers are the watering. They don’t return empty. They accomplish something as you speak the things God cares about over your people, places, and plans.
Prayer like this goes way beyond personal comfort or requests — it’s powerful kingdom participation. When you pray through Scripture, you’re joining God’s mission to bring heaven to earth. You’re praying His priorities, not just your own.
Prayer as Part of Your Bible Study
Too often we treat prayer as something separate from reading Scripture — something that comes before or after we close our Bibles. But what if prayer is the continuation of your Bible reading — the way you respond, process, and partner with God as you read?
When you start to pray directly from Scripture, it changes how you study it. You begin to notice not only what God is saying, but what He cares about. You see His priorities, His character, His plans. His personality. You start asking, “What matters to God in this passage?” instead of just, “What does this mean for me?”
That shift — from self-centered to God-centered prayer — will transform your relationship with Him. And ironically, as you focus more on God’s priorities, your personal concerns will find their rightful place. You’ll start to see them through His eyes.
The Spirit’s Role in Your Prayers
Sometimes my prayers are structured and written. Sometimes they’re spontaneous or whispered in the car. Other times I sing, or sit in silence, comforted by Hebrews 4:12, which says God knows the thoughts and desires inside me even before I form them into words. God never grows tired of hearing from you. Not once. You could pray continually — as 1 Thessalonians 5:17 encourages — and He’d still delight in every word.
But there’s a deeper potency to the prayers that are born in Scripture. These are not just the “Lord, help me find a parking spot!” kind of prayers (though you can keep those, too). These are prayers rooted in His eternal truth, anchored in His voice.
Here’s the best part: you’re not doing this alone. Romans 8:26 reminds us that even when we don’t know what to pray, the Spirit intercedes for us. That means the same Spirit who inspired the Word of God is at work inside you, helping you speak His very words back to the Father.
Join God in His Work
When we pray through Scripture, we step into the ongoing work of God’s kingdom. Jesus gave His followers a mission — to spread the gospel and make disciples in His name — and He gave us prayer as one of the ways to join Him in that mission.
You may never step foot in certain nations or meet certain people, but your prayers can reach them. The Word of God spoken from your lips releases His power into places you cannot go.
When you pray Scripture, you’re not just asking for things — you’re declaring His promises, releasing His purposes, and aligning your heart with His will.
How to Start
So how do you actually do this? Begin simply. When you read your Bible, ask:
What matters to God in this passage?
What is He doing or revealing about Himself?
How can I pray in agreement with what He’s already said?
Then, turn those insights into prayer. If you are reading Psalm 103 you might say:
“Lord, You are slow to anger and abounding in love (Psalm 103:8). As I interact with ____ today help me not to take the bait and get offended but take a breath and remember your love for me.”
Or if you are reading Colossians or 1 Timothy you might say,
“Father, Your Word says I need to put off my old self today (Col. 3:9). Help me not to be corrupted by my desire for wealth. Reveal the opportunities you are putting in my path to give generously and give me the courage to admit and fight off my love of money (1 Tim. 6:10).”
That’s it — you’re praying Scripture! Over time, it will start to feel natural to focus on God’s heart and work in a passage of Scripture searching for things to pray. You will still get to talk to God about whatever is on your “list” (and much more!) — but you’ll do it with His plans and priorities at the forefront.
A Call to Action
God has spoken and His Word is alive. He invites you to speak His words back to Him in faith, counting on their trustworthiness and love. Don’t let your prayer life stay stuck in dry, dull routine or check-the-box religion.
Open your Bible this week, and instead of just reading it, start praying it. Let the Word of God shape your words as you confidently “approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace…” (Heb. 4:16, NIV).
When you do, you’ll find that prayer isn’t something you “stink at.” It’s something you were made for. And your quiet whispers might just start moving mountains.
Discover a whole new approach to reading your Bible.
Whether you’re opening the Bible for the first time or have been studying it for years, the Holy Spirit can bring fresh insights every time — if you ask Him.
I found this article because I am a Christian single 37 year old woman. I have yet to meet a man that would be a suitable partner. And by that I mean everyone I’ve dated over the last two decades has shown major red flags I can not in good conscience ignore. Impossibly entitled/self oriented, pushing for sex without commitment/marriage, all taking no giving, general apathy, not marriage minded, secret addiction issues… You name it. I’ve seen it. And as soon as I do see it I don’t stick around long. I really have done everything I can think of and stayed out of trouble.
In any case, the church has no great answers for single women who are running out of time and followed all the rules so to speak. What is life even supposed to look like without a family… without a husband? Are we to marry bad men if good ones aren’t available? Are we to forgo the joys and meaning of rearing our children and creating life? The highest and most sacred calling the church asks of women? I feel quite powerless, and I’m beginning to get twinges of resentment towards men in general for failing me and many other great women. All the families and children that will never be. Life’s natural and beautiful progressions and chapters cannot take place without a good husband. The enormity of the grief I’m beginning to feel if I don’t meet someone in time is beyond comprehension. If you were to get a call one day and learn your husband and children all died… It’s like that. Except you didn’t even get to have any time with them in your life at all. Let that sink in before you judge or talk someone out of making the best out of a less than ideal situation to make a family. Get mad at the men. No one wants to do it alone. I’m sure this wasn’t her preferred plan. Or start speaking to what God’s plan is for single women. Cause mathematically there’s more single Christian ladies than single men and this outcome is quite inevitable and predictable. Yet the church stays quiet or rails on about getting married which causes a great silent pain in many hearts like mine… To whom shall I marry?
My dear sister, my heart goes out to you in your pain. Although I felt much the same way before I met my husband, I was much younger than you are, and I was not single as long as you have been. So, I won’t say I know how you feel, because I don’t. But I do sympathize. I understand that your pain is very real, and though I wish there were something I could do to alleviate it, I can’t.
But Jesus can.
I don’t mean that in some trite, Pollyanna way. I mean that in the way Scripture means it. You must find your contentment, your completeness, your satisfaction, in Christ, despite your circumstances. And that goes for all of us, because all of us suffer in one way or another. So let’s all take a look at God’s way of working through these types of difficult situations.
You must find your contentment, your completeness, your satisfaction, in Christ, *despite* your circumstances.Tweet
You must be born again.
I’m not accusing you of not being a Christian because of your question or the way you expressed yourself. But I don’t know you. And on the internet: anyone can claim to be anything, a lot of people don’t have a biblical definition of the word “Christian,” and there are a lot of false converts out there. So I never assume that someone who says she’s a Christian has actually been born again. Besides that, I just like sharing the gospel.
If, for some reason, you (or anyone reading this) have never heard the biblical gospel and responded to it in repentance and faith in Christ, you must do that today. Immediately. Your eternity is at stake. Additionally, you will never find the peace and contentment you seek if you are not in Christ.
Become a faithful, active, member of a doctrinally sound local church.
Not just any church. A doctrinally sound church.
If I had to guess from some of the thoughts and phraseology in your comment, I would guess you’re either not in church right now or not in a doctrinally sound church. Why?
In a doctrinally sound church, you don’t find that “everyone” of the single men are “impossibly entitled/self oriented, pushing for sex without commitment/marriage, all taking no giving, general apathy, not marriage minded, secret addiction issues…”. Generally speaking, men like that aren’t saved and don’t hang around doctrinally sound churches.
Additionally, if you were in a doctrinally sound church, you would have been taught and discipled not to date men like that because they’re most likely not saved, and Scripture commands you not to be unequally yoked in marriage with an unbeliever.
Furthermore, this: Let that sink in before you judge or talk someone out of making the best out of a less than ideal situation to make a family. Get mad at the men... is patently unbiblical. I realize you may have just been venting and didn’t really mean it, but you did not learn this line of thinking in a doctrinally sound church. This is pragmatism and bitterness. Christians do not “make the best out of” anything by sinning. Christians obey God even when their flesh wants to do something else. And my telling a Christian that is not “judging,” it’s biblical instruction.
You need to immerse yourself in a doctrinally sound local church immediately.
I want to be very clear that I am not telling you to join a good church in order to catch a good husband (although you certainly have a much better chance of that if you’re in a good church).
I’m telling you to join a good church a) because it is every Christian’s obligation and privilege to be joined to a doctrinally sound church, and b) because a solid church will train you, help you, encourage you to learn to be content in Christ, and will comfort you in your pain when you’re having a rough day.
Click on Searching for a new church? in the blue menu bar at the top of this page. If you’re already a member of a church, start reading the resources in the What to look for in a church section, and see if your church matches up. If it doesn’t, or if you’re currently disobeying God’s command not to forsake the assembly, repent and scroll back up to the church search engines section. (I’d recommend starting with Founders first, then G3, then The Master’s Seminary, then the others.)
Pursue Christ, not a husband.
…The highest and most sacred calling the church asks of women?
The highest and most sacred calling a doctrinally sound church will call women and men to is to pursue Christ. For a church or an individual to put anything ahead of pursuing Christ is idolatry.
I know what you’re going through grieves you, but you’re going to be even more miserable if you continually focus on what you don’t have – a husband and children – than what you do have as a Believer – Christ. Discontent – in any circumstance – only makes things worse. Believe me, I’ve been there.
You’re going to be even more miserable if you continually focus on what you don’t have -a husband and children- than what you do have as a Believer- Christ. Discontent -in any circumstance- only makes things worse.Tweet
Focus your life on pursuing Christ. Get up every day and study the Word. Spend copious amounts of time in prayer. Faithfully attend and serve your church. Share the gospel. Disciple younger women. Be consumed with Christ and you won’t be consumed by discontent.
Be consumed with Christ and you won’t be consumed by discontent.Tweet
RSVP to the Pity Party: ☑️ Will Not Attend
Brace yourself. It’s time for a little tough love. For all of us:
Suck it up, buttercup. Yes, your suffering is real and not unimportant. Yes, it’s excruciating at times. But nowhere in Scripture will you find God saying that self-pity is a godly pastime. And you’re not the only one out there who’s suffering. Look to Christ. He suffered far more than any of us, yet He didn’t feel sorry for Himself. In His season of greatest suffering, He served.
…Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps. He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth. When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly.
Therefore, let those who suffer according to God’s will entrust their souls to a faithful Creator while doing good.
1 Peter 2:21b-23, 4:19
Recently, I was reading several related psalms, and I noticed the repeated phrase, “I will lift up my eyes”. Stop the narcissistic navel gazing and lift your eyes up to Christ crucified for your sins, raised for your justification, ascended into Heaven, and seated at the right hand of God. And then look around you at the people He would have you serve, following in His steps.
Self-pity leads to bitterness. Just say no.
You can’t always get what you want.
We all have to face up to the fact that just because we want something doesn’t mean that’s what God wants for us. You may never get married. Some women are unable to bear children. I have a friend who has been disabled all his life. There are lots of things he wanted to be able to do, physically, that he’s never been able to do. I have another friend who will never have grandchildren because of the choices her children have made. God is denying me something in my own life right now -maybe permanently- and it’s extraordinarily painful.
We all have to face up to the fact that just because we want something doesn’t mean that’s what God wants for us. And He is still good.Tweet
And He is still good. Everything He does in our lives is for His glory and our good. He knows what’s best for us. The question is,
will we submit to what He wants rather than insisting on what we want?
will we trust that He knows, far better than we do, what’s best for us?
do we want Him more than we want that thing we’re so desperate for?
Being a Christian means surrendering everything we are, and everything we want, to Christ to do with as He pleases. What do we get in return? We get Him. And He is far more than enough.
Being a Christian means surrendering everything we are, and everything we want, to Christ to do with as He pleases. What do we get in return? We get Him. And He is far more than enough.Tweet
Let’s get specific…
What is life even supposed to look like without a family… without a husband?
It is supposed to look like a godly single woman pursuing Christ, being content in Christ, and loving and serving her family, friends, and church.
Are we to marry bad men if good ones aren’t available?
Of course not. Even pagans know better than that, and certainly no doctrinally sound Christian or church would suggest such a thing, especially when the Bible commands otherwise.
Are we to forgo the joys and meaning of rearing our children and creating life?
Yes. If God doesn’t see fit for you to marry, you are absolutely to forgo those joys and meanings. You are to joyfully open your hand, let go, and sacrifice those things to Him knowing that He has something different for your life. Something that will bring more glory to Him and will consequently be better for you.
I’m beginning to get twinges of resentment towards men in general for failing me and many other great women.
Stop that right now. That is, indeed, sinful resentment. Repent of that. You also need to examine your heart and consider whether or not your desire for marriage has risen to the level of coveteousness. Demanding, idolizing, and fretting over something God has told you “no” about right now is coveting. If that’s what’s happening, repent.
“Men in general” have not failed you or anyone else. Stop blaming them. God is sovereign over every atom of this universe. If He wanted you to be married right now, you would be.
All the families and children that will never be.
There are precisely the number of families and children God wants there to be. God decides that, not people.
Life’s natural and beautiful progressions and chapters cannot take place without a good husband.
No, marriage’s natural and beautiful progressions and chapters cannot take place without a good husband. Just because you don’t have a husband doesn’t mean you don’t have a life. You have a life that, right now, is to be lived for the glory of God as a single woman. And that life is not devoid of beauty. God don’t make ugly, honey.
The enormity of the grief I’m beginning to feel if I don’t meet someone in time is beyond comprehension.
Yes, your grief is valid and real. It is also to come under the lordship of Christ and not consume you. When grief overwhelms you, praise Him. Worship Him. Thank Him. Remember His promises. Ask Him to get that grief under control and put it where it belongs: at His nail-pierced feet.
Ask God to get that grief under control and put it where it belongs: at His nail-pierced feet.Tweet
I would encourage you to read through and pray through the Psalms, especially the ones in which the psalmist cries out to God in the dark night of his soul. Nearly all of them end with him praising God. And so many of those psalms, and others, encourage us to “wait upon the Lord”.
Waiting upon the Lord is not running ten miles down the road from what He’s currently doing in your life and hollering after Him to hurry up and catch up with you, while you impatiently tap your foot and drum your fingers. Waiting upon the Lord is what we see Israel doing during their forty years in the wilderness. When the pillar of cloud set out, they would follow it to their next destination. When it stopped, they set up camp and waited for it to move again. A day. A couple of weeks. A few months. Whatever length of time it took.
“In time” is God’s time. Trusting Him includes trusting His timing.
If you were to get a call one day and learn your husband and children all died… It’s like that. Except you didn’t even get to have any time with them in your life at all.
It’s nothing like that. Refusing to be content in Christ in the season of life in which He has currently placed you is not comparable to grieving the loss of my husband and children. Now, if, after I had lost them, I refused to be content in that new season of my life, that would be comparable.
Let that sink in before you judge or talk someone out of making the best out of a less than ideal situation to make a family.
Again, this is not biblical. You are speaking from fleshly grief and self pity, not from the mind of Christ or the Word of God. You’re lashing out at me because you’re hurting.
When I tell someone that the Bible says something is sin and she can’t do it, I’m not offering my biased, subjective personal opinion and pragmatic advice, nor am I “judging” her. I’m telling her what God says because I love her.
You can’t make the best out of a bad situation by sinning. You can only make the best out of a bad situation by obeying God’s Word. Sinning just makes a bad situation worse.
You can’t make the best out of a bad situation by sinning. You can only make the best out of a bad situation by obeying God’s Word. Sinning just makes a bad situation worse.Tweet
Get mad at the men.
No. It is not “the men’s” fault that you’re single or that the woman in the IVF article defied God’s plan for the family or chose to abuse a child by intentionally denying him a father. Stop blaming other people for the season of life God has sovereignly put you in, bow the knee to Him, and find your contentment in Christ.
No one wants to do it alone. I’m sure this wasn’t her preferred plan.
Is that what she’s going to say when she stands before God on Judgment Day? “So what if I defied You? I didn’t want to do it alone. This wasn’t my preferred plan.”.
This is pragmatism and excuse making.
Or start speaking to what God’s plan is for single women.
Honey, I’m one of the few doctrinally sound voices out there who is speaking to what God’s plan is for single women. And married women. And divorced women. And widowed women. And childless women. And women with children. And disabled women. And able bodied women. And women who stay home. And women who work outside the home. And…
Single women aren’t a special class of Christian, and neither are any of the other categories I just named. God’s plan for all of us is to wake up every day and live in obedience to His Word in whatever circumstances He has sovereignly placed us in. Period. That’s God’s plan for you, single woman.
And furthermore, I did speak specifically to what God’s plan was for the single woman in the IVF article and you didn’t like it. You accused me of being unsympathetic and judgmental. You can’t have it both ways.
Cause mathematically there’s more single Christian ladies than single men and this outcome is quite inevitable and predictable.
Sin. God’s will. Obedience to Scripture. None of these things are determined by statistics, by the ends justifying the means, or by pragmatism. They’re determined by God’s written Word.
Yet the church stays quiet or rails on about getting married which causes a great silent pain in many hearts like mine.
Forget what “the church” is or isn’t doing. You don’t have to listen to “the church,” you only need to concern yourself with your church. If your church is either unbiblically staying quiet or unbiblically railing on about getting married, talk to your pastor about your concerns and, if nothing changes, find a doctrinally sound church.
If your church is teaching biblically about marriage, you’re the one who needs to change. Ask God to help you. Stay in the Word and in prayer. Set up an appointment for counsel with your pastor. Find a godly older woman in your church – preferably one who’s single, if possible – to disciple you.
If you’re currently forsaking the assembly, sweep around your own front door, stop blaming “the church,” repent, and join a doctrinally sound church.
To whom shall I marry?
You’re asking the wrong question. Stop coveting a husband and start asking God how you can bloom where He has planted you. How you can glorify Him by submitting your will to His. How you can honor Him by your obedience to Scripture.
God never promised us a bed of roses on this earth. He told us to count the cost.
Now let’s all pick up our crosses and get moving. There’s Kingdom work to be done.
Only let each person lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him, and to which God has called him.
1 Corinthians 7:17a
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Paul’s declaration of being poured out as a drink offering points believers to Christ, the Chief Cornerstone. From Bethel to New Jerusalem, God builds His dwelling with living stones who steadily give themselves in faith, emptied in joyful response to His finished work.
Think about the foundation stones of the city of New Jerusalem inscribed with the names of the 12 Apostles, and Jesus being the chief cornerstone (Revelation 21:14). Think on the verse from Ephesians 2:19-21-
“So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God’s household, having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the corner stone, in whom the whole building, being fitted together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord,”
Jesus is the chief cornerstone, the apostles are the foundation, the 12 tribes are the gates, and you and I are each a stone that fits together building the city walls surrounding the glory of the LORD Who dwells there. We are not only His church, His bride, but we are His temple.
Today I want to turn to the cornerstone and talk about the drink offering.
I was thinking about Paul’s wonderful final words: “For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith;” (2 Timothy 4:6-7).
Paul said four wonderful things here. In the second verse, the trio of things Paul says He did for the Lord are a model for us: fight the good fight, finish the course, and keep the faith. Good principles for all of us today. But curiously in the first part of the verse, Paul declares he has “poured himself out as a drink offering.” Hmmm. What is a drink offering, anyway?
The first time a drink offering is mentioned in the Bible is in Genesis 35:14. It is only one of two offerings to be given before the Law was delivered, the other being the burnt offering. We hear a lot about the sacrificial offerings and the sin offerings and the trespass offerings, but not a lot about the drink offering.
In the Genesis verse, God descends and speaks to Jacob. It is in this verse that God changes Jacob’s name to Israel and promises certain blessings over him and his descendants. (Genesis 35: 9-14). Then God ascends.
In verse 15, Jacob/Israel then sets up a pillar. The Hebrew word for pillar is “something stationary, i.e. A monumental stone.”
“Jacob set up a pillar in the place where He had spoken with him, a pillar of stone, and he poured out a drink offering on it; he also poured oil on it. So Jacob named the place where God had spoken with him, ‘Bethel’.”
Bethel means “house of God”. So not only the geographical location was named House of God, but Jacob laid the cornerstone of the house of God that is referred to in Revelation, which shows us the completed house, the City of God- New Jerusalem. The first stone was laid at this moment, actually and metaphorically, and so the cornerstone is our Savior.
Jacob next poured out wine as a drink offering. As mentioned, the drink offering was one sacrifice given prior to the Law. And except for this one time, the drink offering was not meant to be given alone, it always accompanied other offerings.
“In contrast to the Levitical offerings, which all speak of the work of Christ each in a different aspect, the drink offering speaks of the joy in the complement of that work. This explains why the drink offering is not mentioned in the opening up of the book of Leviticus which speaks of man’s approach to God. This approach can only be on the basis of the death of Christ, and so there we have detailed all the offerings except the drink offering, which speaks not of the work or the death of Christ, but the joy of God in the completed work.”
The Chief Cornerstone being laid is the beginning of that work, the Apostles who continued that work are the foundation stones, and each believer is a temple stone fitted together building up His New Jerusalem. When the full number of believers has been reached, (Romans 11:25) the City will be finished and we will be resurrected to it.
There is much more to the drink offering of course, I am only scratching the surface. Paul’s reference to pouring himself out is a good reminder to us, that we need to pour ourselves out. Pouring indicates a steady stream. Not meted out in discrete chunks at a slow pace, with gaps. But a steady stream of continual offering of our life’s blood to Jesus. At your life’s end, will you be able to say you are emptied, having fought the good fight, finished the course, and kept the faith? Have you flung yourself on the Chief Cornerstone? Are you pouring yourself out to the Lord daily in a steady stream?
We kiss the Blarney Stone, we touch the Temple stone, we step on Plymouth Rock, kings are crowned on the Stone of Scone, Muslims pray before the Black Stone of the Kaaba, but they are all pretender stones. In each of those stones only a part of the body and soul is given. The Chief Cornerstone is Jesus and the only way to approach Him is by pouring your entire self upon it. It is the least we can do, because He first poured Himself out for us.
The Winter/Spring 2026 ‘Change My Mind’ college tour kicks off TUES. 2/10 at Elon University in Elon, NC as we continue Charlie Kirk’s mission to make heaven crowded! Come join Dr. Frank Turek at 7:00 PM ET in the Whitley Auditorium as we continue honest, open conversations about truth, God, Jesus, morality, identity, justice, science, current events, and so much more. Skeptics, Christians, and everyone in between are invited to the mic to ask Frank questions, examine the evidence for Christianity, and join discussions that truly matter.
This event is FREE and open to the public, but if you can’t make it in-person, be sure to watch online!
For God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline. (1:7)
A second means for guarding against being ashamed of Christ is to consider our divine resources. The Greek verb (didōmi) behind has not given is in the aorist active indicative tense, showing past completed action. God already has provided for us the resources. The Lord may withhold special help until we have special need. Jesus told the Twelve, “When they deliver you up, do not become anxious about how or what you will speak; for it shall be given you in that hour what you are to speak. For it is not you who speak, but it is the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you” (Matt. 10:19–20). But God provided everything we need for everyday faithful living and service when we first believed. From a negative perspective, we can be sure that any spirit of timidity we might have is not from God. Both testaments speak of a fitting and proper fear of God, in the sense of awe and reverence. But deilia is a timid, cowardly, shameful fear that is generated by weak, selfish character. The Lord is never responsible for our cowardice, our lack of confidence, or our being shameful of Him. The noun deilia (timidity) is used only here in the New Testament and, unlike the more common term for fear (phobos), carries a generally negative meaning. The resources we have from our heavenly Father are power and love and discipline. When we are vacillating and apprehensive, we can be sure it is because our focus is on ourselves and our own human resources rather than on the Lord and His available divine resources. Dunamis (power) denotes great force, or energy, and is the term from which we get dynamic and dynamite. It also carries the connotation of effective, productive energy, rather than that which is raw and unbridled. God provides us with His power in order for us to be effective in His service. Paul did not pray that believers in Ephesus might be given divine power but that they might be aware of the divine power they already possessed. “I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened,” he wrote, “so that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of the strength of His might which He brought about in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead, and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places” (Eph. 1:18–20). Through Christ we have the resource of God’s own supernatural power, the very power He used to raise Christ from the dead. Although Old Testament saints were not indwelt by the Holy Spirit in the same degree of fullness that New Testament believers are (cf. John 14:17), they did have the resource of God’s Spirit providing divine help as they lived and served Him. They understood, as Zechariah declared to Zerubbabel, that their strength was not by human “ ‘might nor … power, but by My Spirit,’ says the Lord of hosts” (Zech. 4:6). It is of utmost importance to understand that God does not provide His power for us to misappropriate for our own purposes. He provides His power to accomplish His purposes through us. When our trust is only in Him, and our desire is only to serve Him, He is both willing and “able to do exceeding abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us” (Eph. 3:20). God also has given every believer the resource of His own divine love, which, like His power, we received at the time of our new birth. In his letter to the church at Rome, Paul exulted, “The love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us” (Rom. 5:5). The love we have from God is agapē, the volitional and selfless love that desires and works for the best interests of the one loved. It is not emotional and conditional, as philos love often is, and has nothing in common with erōs love, which is sensual and selfish. The love we have from God is constant. It does not share the ebb and flow or the unpredictability of those other loves. It is a self-denying grace that says to others, in effect, “I will give myself away on your behalf.” Directed back to God, from whom it came, it says, “I will give my life and everything I have to serve you.” It is the believer’s “love in the Spirit” (Col. 1:8), the divinely-bestowed love of the one who will “lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:13). It is the “sincere love of the brethren” by which we “fervently love one another from the heart” (1 Peter 1:22), the “perfect love [that] casts out fear” (1 John 4:18). It is the love that affirms without reservation or hesitation: “If we live, we live for the Lord, or if we die, we die for the Lord; therefore whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s” (Rom. 14:8). Above all, it is “the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge” (Eph. 3:19). Our spiritual lives are measured accurately by our love. If our first love is for self, our life will center on seeking our own welfare, our own objectives, our own comfort and success. We will not sacrifice ourselves for others or even for the Lord. But if we love with the love God provides, our life will center on pleasing Him and on seeking the welfare of others, especially other Christians. Godly love is the first fruit of the Spirit, and it is manifested when we “live by the Spirit [and] … walk by the Spirit” (Gal. 5:22, 25). Sōphronismos (discipline) has the literal meaning of a secure and sound mind, but it also carries the additional idea of a self-controlled, disciplined, and properly prioritized mind. God-given discipline allows believers to control every element of their lives, whether positive or negative. It allows them to experience success without becoming proud and to suffer failure without becoming bitter or hopeless. The disciplined life is the divinely ordered life, in which godly wisdom is applied to every situation. In his letter to the church at Rome, Paul uses the verb form of the term, admonishing, “I say to every man among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think; but to think so as to have sound judgment [sōphrone], as God has allotted to each a measure of faith” (Rom. 12:3). In his first letter to Timothy (3:2) and in his letter to Titus (1:8; cf. 2:2), he used the adjective form to describe a key quality that should characterize overseers, namely, that of being prudent and sensible. When we live by the godly discipline that our gracious Lord supplies, our priorities are placed in the right order, and every aspect of our lives is devoted to advancing the cause of Christ. Because of his Spirit-empowered discipline, Paul could say, “I run in such a way, as not without aim; I box in such a way, as not beating the air; but I buffet my body and make it my slave, lest possibly, after I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified” (1 Cor. 9:26–27). The great spiritual triumvirate of power, love, and discipline belong to every believer. These are not natural endowments. We are not born with them, and they cannot be learned in a classroom or developed from experience. They are not the result of heritage or environment or instruction. But all believers possess these marvelous, God-given endowments: power, to be effective in His service; love, to have the right attitude toward Him and others; and discipline, to focus and apply every part of our lives according to His will. When those endowments are all present, marvelous results occur. No better statement affirming this reality can be found than in Paul’s letter to the church at Ephesus, to whom he said,
For this reason, I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man; so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God. Now to Him who is able to do exceeding abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen. (Eph. 3:14–21; emphasis added)
MacArthur, J. F., Jr. (1995). 2 Timothy (pp. 17–20). Moody Press.
Ghislaine Maxwell invokes the Fifth: Jeffrey Epstein co-conspirator and convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell invoked her Fifth Amendment right to avoid self-incrimination during her deposition before the House yesterday. Maxwell appeared before the House Oversight Committee following months of negotiations, so her refusal to testify is unfortunate, said Committee Chairman James Comer. Maxwell’s attorney made clear that she wants to leverage her potential testimony to secure clemency from the White House. She claims she can clear the names of both President Donald Trump and former President Bill Clinton. Trump has not been credibly named in connection with any of Epstein and Maxwell’s criminal activities.
House passes housing bill: On Monday, the House overwhelmingly passed the Housing for the 21st Century Act, bipartisan legislation that aims to make housing more affordable for Americans. As House Financial Committee Chairman French Hill explained, “This bill represents that consensus of both Democrat and Republican members in the House who want at the federal level to take some steps that we believe will lower the marginal cost of constructing housing, making [Department of Housing and Urban Development] programs more efficient, more effective, more accountable to taxpayers.” The bill would loosen some federal housing regulations and land-use rules to ease constraints on home construction. The question is whether the Senate will take up the House version after previously passing its own Road to Housing Act.
California swipes entire bonus from Super Bowl champs: NFL teams may want to decide if they make a run at the Super Bowl if the championship game is scheduled to be played in California. That’s because the Golden State’s tax code fleeces the players from their hard-earned cash. Thanks to the state’s highest income taxes in the nation, many of the Super Bowl-winning Seattle Seahawks players, as well as the runner-up New England Patriots, are seeing their bonus payments sucked up by California taxes. For example, winning quarterback Sam Darnold, along with all his teammates, received a $188,000 bonus for the victory; however, under California’s tax laws, Darnold owes the state an estimated $202,102 in taxes for the 10 days he worked in the state. To put this in perspective, two years ago, the Super Bowl was played in Las Vegas, Nevada, where there is no state income tax, and the players got to keep their full bonuses.
Big Brother’s Ring? Does having a camera on your property that anyone in your neighborhood can activate and access sound like a good idea? That seems to be what the Amazon Ring doorbell camera Super Bowl ad was selling. Pitched as a way to find lost dogs, the ad proudly proclaims, “One post of a dog’s photo to the Ring app starts outdoor cameras looking for a match.” The ad goes on to explain that AI then matches that photo to images of dogs in the area. Viewers were somewhat disturbed by the idea that AI might be using their personal cameras to surveil their neighborhood. Finding lost dogs is a harmless and beneficial use of this technology, but many fear it could easily be used to track individuals’ private actions.
California’s ICE mask ban blocked by court: Federal Judge Christina Snyder blocked California from enforcing its recently enacted law that bars ICE officers from wearing masks. Snyder ruled that the state illegally targeted federal officers with its anti-masking law, writing, “Because such discrimination violates the Supremacy Clause, the Court is constrained to enjoin the facial covering prohibition.” Attorney General Pam Bondi heralded the decision as a “key court victory,” noting, “These federal agents are harassed, doxxed, obstructed, and attacked on a regular basis just for doing their jobs. We have no tolerance for it.” Snyder, however, did uphold the state requirement that federal officers wear visible identifying information.
Biden’s parole program legally quashed: The Trump administration has garnered a legal settlement to end Joe Biden’s mass illegal alien parole program, which could prevent future presidents from reviving it. Biden’s parole program was designed as a legal loophole to allow migrants into the U.S. without securing a legal visa. Former immigration judge Andrew Arthur observed, “This consent decree will prevent a future administration from abusing DHS’s limited parole authority in the way that the Biden administration did.” According to The Washington Times, “It also binds the national government not to attempt any repeats for 15 years.” Florida AG’s press secretary Jae Williams welcomed the development, stating, “We thank the Trump administration for working with our office to obtain this result, which ensures that the next Democratic administration cannot abuse the parole system to allow another invasion of illegal aliens into our country.”
Meta, YouTube sued for addicting children: In what is likely to be the first of many addiction lawsuits brought against social media companies, plaintiff attorney Mark Lanier argued that the case was “easy as ABC,” which stands for “addicting the brains of children” but may also be a reference to YouTube’s parent company, Alphabet. Lanier argued that the companies knew that children experienced “adverse events” from their platforms and were vulnerable to addiction, and that parental supervision did little to help. One plaintiff identified as KGM is an alleged victim of social media addiction, having started using YouTube at age six and Instagram at age nine, and uploading 284 videos to YouTube before reaching middle school. Meta’s representation argued that KGM’s mental health issues stem from interpersonal relationships, not social media. Conservatives might wonder how parents might better act in their children’s best interests.
Jimmy Lai gets 20 years: After spending the last five years in solitary confinement, Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai has been sentenced without a jury to 20 years in prison. The 78-year-old founder of the Apple Daily newspaper, who has long fought for freedom for Hong Kong, was convicted of “conspiracy to collude with a foreign country to endanger national security and conspiracy to publish seditious publications,” reports National Review. Lai, a British citizen, represented himself during the 156-day trial and pleaded not guilty to violating Chinese national security laws. Six of his former employees at the Apple Daily were sentenced to 10 years in jail. Chairman John Moolenaar of the Select Committee on China called this another “stain on the human rights record of the Chinese Communist Party” and said he plans to “lead efforts to sanction those responsible for the repression of Lai and his colleagues.”
Olympic medals are falling apart: One thing Olympians probably don’t expect as they celebrate winning a medal is for the medal itself to break. Unfortunately, at least four Olympians have suffered minor breakages of their medals so far. The affected medals include two golds, one silver, and one bronze. “I was jumping in excitement, and it broke,” said Team USA gold medalist Breezy Johnson. The 2026 Winter Olympics Organizing Committee says it is aware of “an issue affecting a small number of medals” and is investigating. Since the Olympic Games have just gotten started and significantly fewer than 100 medals have been awarded so far, the fact that all three metals — gold, silver, and bronze — have already been affected indicates that this issue is more widespread than the committee may want to admit.
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Trump DOJ seeks to dismiss Steve Bannon’s J6 conviction and indictment (Just the News)
ObamaCare sign-ups drop, but the extent won’t be clear for months (CBS News)
Japan’s right-wing party wins supermajority in mass rejection of migration and liberalism (Not the Bee)
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The 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina, Italy, officially got underway on Friday, February 6. Unfortunately, this time-honored tradition of the world’s best athletes competing against one another has already been marred by a few American athletes.
To be fair, most of the athletes were prompted into speaking by hounding “reporters.” Nevertheless, a handful of them decided to use their platform to display a troubling lack of patriotism.
Freestyle skier Hunter Hess is making his Olympic debut, and he chose to talk about this significant moment by saying, “It brings up mixed emotions to represent the U.S. right now, I think. It’s a little hard. There’s obviously a lot going on that I’m not the biggest fan of, and I think a lot of people aren’t.” Hess clarified, “If it aligns with my moral values, I feel like I’m representing it. Just because I’m wearing the flag doesn’t mean I represent everything that’s going on in the U.S. I just kinda want to do it for my friends and my family and the people who supported me getting here.”
Figure skater Amber Glenn decided that her platform would be best used by talking about how President Donald Trump is “erasing rights” from the LGBTQ cohort. To which I ask: What rights? If Glenn is talking about the right of a gender-confused man to enter a women’s locker room, that’s not a right he is entitled to because it infringes on the already established rights of safety and privacy for women. If she’s referring to the rights of doctors to mutilate little girls who have been manipulated to believe they are boys, that’s also a nonstarter. Doctors are to do no harm, and “gender-affirming care” is active harm. Perhaps Glenn is referring to the slaying of Renee Good, who was a lesbian — only Good was shot because she hit an ICE officer with her vehicle after blocking traffic to agitate and impede the work of immigration agents. Her sexual preference was not a factor in her death whatsoever.
The most hypocritical athlete might be dual citizen and freestyle skier Gus Kenworthy, who competed for the U.S. at the 2014 Sochi Games but has since been competing for the UK. Kenworthy posted a very crude picture with the words “F*** ICE” written in the snow using urine. This is rich considering he is representing a country that, like the U.S., has been overrun by illegal aliens, and where foreigner-run rape gangs operate with impunity, and free speech has become a thing of the past.
It is very troubling that these American athletes have decided the best way to represent their country (or spite it, in Kenworthy’s case) is to bash it. Frankly, we don’t really want to hear what athletes think about politics. It’s not because they can’t have an opinion. Of course they can. But when we are competing against other countries, our internal political differences should take a back seat, and our national interests should be front and center.
Pope Leo XIV issued a warning about turning the Olympics into propaganda, though it was aimed more at world leaders who used the Games to heighten political narratives. What is happening here is the opposite.
The media are actually the main driver of divisiveness. Another perfect example of their manipulation in action is outfits like The Daily Beast and The Washington Post insisting that Vice President JD Vance and his wife, Usha, were booed after appearing on screen when the American athletes entered the arena at the Opening Ceremony. However, others posted videos that seem to disprove this. No one was booing.
Podcaster Brett Cooper pointed out that reporters are trying to push athletes to comment on politics at every major sporting event. Tennis stars at the Australian Open had to shut that down, saying they were there to talk about tennis, not politics, because they didn’t want their words to get twisted and start a media firestorm.
Reporters know what they are doing. On the contrary, many athletes naively believe that their political opinions will change hearts and minds. Their excellent performances may influence young people to try their sport, but their political stances won’t move the needle at all.
And that’s just it. People tune in to the Olympics to see the world’s best exhibit their athletic prowess. The Games are supposed to be about peace and brotherhood. How is bringing up U.S. political divides doing any of these things? Also, how come only the U.S. athletes seem to be having to put up with this nonsense from the media? Reporters aren’t out there asking Iranian athletes about their country’s terrorist regime, or Nigerian athletes about their nation’s Islamic genocide of Christians, or Chinese athletes about their communist government’s concentration camps.
President Trump responded to Hess’s comments, posting, “U.S. Olympic Skier, Hunter Hess, a real Loser, says he doesn’t represent his Country in the current Winter Olympics. If that’s the case, he shouldn’t have tried out for the Team, and it’s too bad he’s on it. Very hard to root for someone like this. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
Hess eventually backed down from his earlier comments. “I love my country,” he clarified. “There is so much that is great about America, but there are always things that could be better. One of the many things that makes this country so amazing is that we have the right and the freedom to point that out. The best part of the Olympics is that it brings people together, and when so many of us are divided we need that more than ever. I cannot wait to represent Team USA … when I compete.”
As a counterpoint to the unpatriotic comments, other athletes are proud to represent the U.S. Downhill skier Breezy Johnson, who won gold for her amazing performance, humbly sang the national anthem as she was able. She was choked up with emotion and pride.
As Wall Street Journal editor Matthew Hennessey points out, “The Olympics aren’t red versus blue. They’re red, white and blue versus the world.”
So, athletes, don’t fall for the temptation to give hack reporters the time of day. Tell us about the sport you love and be a steward for the next generation. Also, please earn more gold medals and make the Canadians even more sick of hearing our national anthem — particularly in hockey.
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Hillary Chastises ‘Divisive Christians’ — Nick Freitas and Pastor Joe Rigney discuss the way empathy is weaponized by the Left to manipulate emotions and gain political power.
SHORT CUTS
Cultural Icon?
“I don’t know no Bad Bunny song.”
“I have no idea.”
“I don’t listen to Bad Bunny like that but she, she got some good stuff.”
“I don’t listen to Bad Bunny so I really don’t even have one.”
—NFL players after being asked to name their favorite Bad Bunny song
Touché
“Nothing is more pathetic than a bunch of sportswriters in their 40s and 50s pretending to like Bad Bunny in the hopes of annoying the Trump voters.” —Laura Ingraham
Oof
Q: “This was not where I was anticipating getting stuck. Are you aware of how many branches of government there are?” —North Carolina State Rep. Allen Chesser (R)
A: “No.” —Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, Sheriff Garry McFadden
Non Compos Mentis
“When I’ve taken actions, like vetoing the nastiest piece of anti-LGBTQ legislation that ever came through my state … I said my faith teaches me that all children are children of God.” —Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) regarding child bodily mutilation
Delusions of Grandeur
“I’ve always been someone who has been intellectual.” —Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX)
Straight Shooter
“I’ve heard a lot of generals say a lot of things. The dumbest thing I’ve heard a general say is that ‘our diversity is our strength.’ It’s the single dumbest phrase in military history.” —Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
Upright
“The Trump Administration is proud to stand with students, parents, and faculty who wish to exercise their First Amendment rights in schools across our great nation. Our Constitution safeguards the free exercise of religion as one of the guiding principles of our republic, and we will vigorously protect that right in America’s public schools.” —Secretary of Education Linda McMahon on new DOE guidance to protect religious freedom
Political Futures
“The map is not just a partisan power play, but a means of giving Northern Virginia hugely disproportionate sway over the state’s congressional delegation.” —Rich Lowry on the proposed Democrat gerrymander of Virginia
For the Record
“[Last] week, the [American Medical Association] acknowledged that there is insufficient evidence to continue supporting surgical interventions on minors under the banner of ‘gender-affirming care.’ … It appears the prospect of accountability — not compassion — finally prompted the AMA’s concession.” —Tony Perkins
“Focusing solely on the sexual dimension of [Jeffrey] Epstein’s crimes, while emotionally understandable, ultimately obscures the full truth. People did not simply pay for women. They paid for access to Epstein himself and to the doors he claimed he could open.” —Armstrong Williams
And Last…
“It is time we stop acquiescing, compromising, and submitting to the world’s most intolerant system of belief. Always remember that any Muslim who departs Islam is considered an apostate, punishable by death.” —Allen West
ON THIS DAY in 1967, the nation ratified the 25th Amendment, which details the presidential succession and stipulates the process for handling a president who becomes “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.”
BRENTWOOD, Tenn. — Most churchgoers place a high value on the Bible, but only about a third commit to reading it every day.
The Lifeway Research State of Discipleship study found Bible engagement to be one among eight signposts measuring distinct characteristics for believers progressing in their spiritual maturity. On a scale of 0 to 100, the average churchgoer scores 69.8 on Bible engagement, placing it fifth among the signposts.
Among U.S. Protestant churchgoers, most say they read Scripture regularly, but just 31% say Bible reading is a daily habit.
“Protestant churchgoers overall report they are engaging the Bible, but on any specific question, as many as 1 in 5 say they are not following Jesus Christ in that way,” said Scott McConnell, executive director of Lifeway Research. “This reflects an overall pattern in assessments of churchgoers where the direction is often good but far from the standard seen in Scripture.”
Bible reading levels
According to the State of Discipleship study, around 3 in 5 Americans who attend religious services at least once a month (61%) regularly read the Bible, including 31% who read every day and 30% who do so a few times a week. Some engage once a week (14%) or a few times a month (11%). Few say they read Scripture only once a month (5%), while 1 in 10 (9%) do so rarely or never.
“The portion of churchgoers reading the Bible a few times a week or more on their own has leveled off recently after rising dramatically since 2007, but the churchgoer population was also changing during this period,” said McConnell, “A lower percentage of Americans attend a Protestant church once a month today than when this series of studies began. Clearly, the remnant of Americans attending church each month are more willing to regularly read the Bible on their own than when churches were more populated.”
A recent Lifeway Research study found 9 in 10 Americans have read at least some of the Bible, but just 22% have finished the book at least once. Churchgoers were more likely than others to have read larger percentages of the Bible. Even among those who attend church services more than once a week, around 3 in 5 (59%) say they’ve read the entire Bible at least once.
While the State of Discipleship found Bible engagement to be a positive factor for adults’ spiritual growth, previous Lifeway Research studies have shown the importance of Bible reading for the next generation. The biggest predictor of whether a child becomes a faithful believer as a young adult is whether or not they regularly read the Bible growing up.
When U.S. Protestant churchgoers miss time in their Bible, many say it has a negative impact, but not everyone feels the absence in the same way.
Three in 5 (62%) say they desperately miss the time with God if they go several days without reading the Bible, while 21% are unsure and 17% disagree. Similarly, 3 in 5 (58%) say they find themselves unfulfilled if they go several days without reading their Bible, while 21% aren’t sure and 21% disagree.
Yet even among those who say they notice when they aren’t engaged with the Bible, that sentiment isn’t always strong. Three in 10 (30%) strongly agree they desperately miss personal time with God when they go several days without reading the Bible, and 26% strongly agree they find themselves unfulfilled in that situation.
“Most of those engaging the Bible regularly are doing so because they enjoy what the practice brings to their lives,” said McConnell. “Movement toward more Bible engagement requires intentionality, but movement away from this devotion can start out as a slow drift. However, a moment of reflection among those who have experienced the value of engaging the Bible reminds them of what they are missing.”
Compared to 2019, churchgoers have similar overall attitudes. Seven years ago, almost 3 in 5 (58%) said they desperately missed the time with God when they went several days without reading the Bible, while 22% weren’t sure and 20% disagreed. At that time, however, 33% strongly agreed and 25% somewhat agreed.
Attitudes toward the Bible
As expected, U.S. Protestant churchgoers hold Scripture in high regard, but not always in the highest regard.
Around 3 in 4 (74%) say the Bible has authority over every area of their lives, with 15% unsure and 11% disagreeing. However, only 40% strongly agree, leaving 3 in 5 with at least some doubts about the authority of Scripture.
Similarly, more than 7 in 10 (72%) find themselves thinking about biblical truths throughout the day, while 19% aren’t sure and 10% disagree. Yet just 31% strongly agree that’s regularly the case for them. Those percentages are similar to 2019, when 69% agreed, 20% weren’t sure and 12% disagreed.
“The Bible can’t have full authority in someone’s life if they don’t know what it says or aren’t considering what it says about the specific things they are facing in life,” said McConnell. “The Bible makes the appeal, ‘be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God’ (Romans 12:2b, CSB).”
Aaron Earls is the senior writer for Lifeway Research.
Methodology
The online survey of 2,130 Protestant churchgoers was conducted March 19–26, 2025, using a national pre-recruited panel. Respondents were screened to include those who identified as Protestant/non-denominational and attend religious services at least once a month. Respondents could complete the survey in English or Spanish. Quotas and slight weights were used to balance gender, age, region, ethnicity, education, and denominational affiliation. The completed sample is 2,130 surveys. The sample provides 95% confidence that the sampling error from the panel does not exceed plus or minus 2.21%. This margin of error accounts for the effect of weighting. Margins of error are higher in sub-groups.
Lifeway Research is a Brentwood, Tennessee-based, evangelical research firm that specializes in surveys about faith in culture and matters that affect churches. For more information, visit LifewayResearch.com.
In operation since 1891, Lifeway Christian Resources is one of the leading providers of Christian resources, including Bibles, books, Bible studies, group curriculum, Christian music and movies, Vacation Bible School and church supplies, as well as camps and events for all ages. Lifeway is the world’s largest provider of Spanish Bibles. Based in Brentwood, Tennessee, Lifeway operates as a self-supporting nonprofit. For more information, visit Lifeway.com.
Worshipers gather during a church service in the United States, where a new Pew Research Center study finds that most Americans believe in God and pray regularly, even as nearly half say they seldom or never attend religious services. Unsplash / Christian Harb
Most adults in the United States believe in God and engage in some form of religious practice, but nearly half seldom or never attend religious services, according to data from the Pew Research Center that offers a snapshot of American faith by scaling the population down to a hypothetical town of 100 people.
The analysis, based on Pew’s 2023–24 Religious Landscape Study, found that 83 of every 100 U.S. adults say they believe in God or a universal spirit. Of those, a majority express strong conviction: 54 say they believe with absolute certainty, while 21 are fairly certain. Another eight say they are not too certain or not certain at all. Sixteen people in the hypothetical town say they do not believe in God or a universal spirit.
Religious practice, however, is more uneven. If the United States were reduced to 100 adults, 25 would attend religious services in person at least once a week. Eight would attend once or twice a month, and 18 would go a few times a year. Nearly half — 49 people — would seldom or never attend in-person services.
Prayer remains common, the study found. In the scaled-down town, 44 people would pray daily, while 23 would pray weekly or monthly. Thirty-two would seldom or never pray.
Views on the importance of religion also vary widely. Thirty-eight people would say religion is very important in their lives, and another 26 would describe it as somewhat important. By contrast, 35 would say religion is not too important or not important at all.
Belief in the afterlife continues to be widespread but not universal. Seventy of the 100 people would say they believe in an afterlife. Among them, 52 would believe in both heaven and hell, 14 would believe in heaven but not hell, and three would believe in hell but not heaven. Twenty-eight people would say they do not believe in any form of afterlife.
The analysis draws on responses from 36,908 U.S. adults who participated in the 2023–24 Religious Landscape Study. The survey was conducted from July 17, 2023, to March 4, 2024, and has an overall margin of error of plus or minus 0.8 percentage points.
Pew researchers said the “100 people” framework is intended to make large national statistics more tangible.
Insufferable review of Gavin Ortlund's video on the "ape video." Will he earn a triple-double of lies, false framing, and first-person references? Will he suggest that defending it as an editing mistake risks hellfire? Watch to find out! (1.5X recommended for sanity): pic.twitter.com/0KLiTQoKNt
David Morrill published an overlayed version of Ortlund’s video with a ticker counting Ortlund’s lies and fallacies. In a video where Ortlund was professing to speak to the cult, he made 202 first person references, a solid indication that his entire argument was built upon his feelings. Additionally, he lied 12 times and falsely framed the issue 54 times, per Morrill’s review. Credit to him for suffering Ortlund’s fagspeak.
Also joining the fray was JD Greear, former president of the Southern Baptist Convention.
The images posted on our President’s social media account this week were deeply offensive. Regardless of the context, we should lament anytime we see something that denigrates the humanity of any member of our society. God’s word teaches us that each of us is made in the image of God and that God has made us all from one man and of equal value in his sight. That shared humanity is core to our understanding of the gospel.
We not only want to model that kind of ethnic unity in our church, we also long to see it reflected in our society. I pray that God would heal our land of our brokenness and make [Summit] a testimony of the unity that the gospel of Jesus Christ brings.
JD Greear also invents new sins according to woke blasphemy laws. He would not like Jesus calling people a brood of vipers if ape comparisons are off-limits.
Liberal Evangelicals are straining at camels over a non-issue while promoting societal decay. Their silence on actual sins, even those in their proximity, speaks volumes.
Mary welcomes back Pastor Andy Woods for another engaging conversation about things we need to stay on top of: first up is antisemitism. As shocked as we all were with the university protests back in 2023/24, now that those have faded from the headlines, now what? That is the challenge for us all because antisemitism continues to ramp up and if we go numb to it, we are missing a key element in making sure the perpetrators are held accountable. We also look at Jared Kushner’s Gaza plan, part of the Peace Board. So many moving parts here, but rebuilding Gaza is the number 1 goal and it might not take as long as people might think. Also on the agenda: military buildup near Iran; Noah Harari’s somewhat unhinged comments about religion and sacred texts. You cannot make this stuff up but existential types like him have no problem translating our world into an Ai dystopian-antichrist friendly-transhuman-God hating-nightmare. Lots of insights from the very sharp Andy Woods. Sugarland Bible Church will host their 5th annual Prophecy Conference February 20 and 21st.
Megyn Kelly lambasted Piers Morgan over the disgusting Bad Bunny halftime show at the Super Bowl.
Megyn Kelly joined Piers Morgan on Monday to discuss the controversial Super Bowl halftime show with Hispanic rapper Bad Bunny who rapped his lyrics in Spanish to the American audience.
The halftime show included men grinding on each other and filthy sex-filled lyrics after Bad Bunny’s words were translated to English and Americans could see what the show was about.
Apparently, Piers Morgan thought this was good entertainment. That’s when Megyn Kelly did not hold back and unloaded on the British reporter.
Megyn Kelly: I’m sorry, Piers, but to get up there and perform the whole show in Spanish is a middle finger to the rest of America. Who gives a damn that we have 40 million Spanish speakers in the United States? We have 310 million who don’t speak a lick of Spanish. This is supposed to be a unifying event for the country, not for the Latinos, not for one small group, but for the country. We don’t need a Black national anthem. We don’t need a Spanish-speaking, non-English performer performer, and we don’t need an ICE or America hater, featured as our primetime entertainment.
Megyn then went on to browbeat the British host, saying his attitude is why Britain and Europe have lost their culture. True.
Megyn Kelly: This attitude that you have right here is why you in Great Britain, have lost culture. You ceded your culture to a bunch of radical Muslims who came in and took over, and now it’s gone. We’re not allowing that here, whether it’s Hispanic, whether it’s Muslim. It’s not happening in the United States of America. That’s why President Trump was elected. And whether it’s Bad Bunny, who is American but refuses to speak English in his performances, or anybody else, we have to keep the Super Bowl, which is a quintessential American event. Football, that football is ours. They call it American football. The halftime show and everything around it needs to stay quintessential essentially American. Not Spanish, not Muslim, not anything other than good old-fashioned American apple pie. There should be a meatloaf, maybe some fried chicken, and an English-speaking performer. That’s what the Super Bowl should be.
The media’s political attacks are meant to confuse and demoralize conservative resistance to a political halftime show whose messaging targeted American culture and Christian values.
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