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My husband Charlie shared this from Facebook, and I also have included my post about the tragic shooting of Charlie Kirk on Truth Social.

September 10, 2025

From Nick Freitas, a republican from Virginia…

I am told that as a state representative this is the moment where I’m supposed to express my heartfelt condolences and then stand in solidarity with those on the other side of the aisle as we condemn political violence and stand unified as one people.

But we aren’t “one people” are we?

The truth is we haven’t been for some time now, and there is really no point in pretending anymore, if there ever was.

We are two very different peoples. We may occupy the same piece of geography, but that is where the similarities seem to abruptly end.

I convinced myself for a long time that whenever the left called me a racist, a bigot, a sexist, a fascist, a “threat to democracy” for even the most innocent of disagreements, that it was simply hyperbolic rhetoric done for effect.

And now the “effect” is a widow and two orphaned children, because the left couldn’t bear the thought of a peaceful man debating them and winning.

I don’t think they realize it yet, but murdering Charlie is going to be remembered as the day where we finally woke up to what this fight really is.

It’s not a civil dispute among fellow countrymen. It’s a war between diametrically opposed worldviews which cannot peacefully coexist with one another. One side will win, and one side will lose.

Charlie tried to win that fight through argumentation, through discussion, through peaceful resolution of differences.

And the other side murdered him.

Not because he was “extreme” or “inciting violence” or any other hyperbolic slur they hurled at him. They murdered him because he was effective. Because he was unafraid. Because he inspired others and made them feel like they had a voice, that they were not alone. And he did it at the very institutions which have fomented so much hatred toward conservatives.

I don’t want to “stand in solidarity” with the other side of the aisle. I want to defeat you. I want to defeat the godless ideology that kills babies in the womb, sterilizes confused children, turns our cities into cesspools of degeneracy and lawlessness…and that murdered Charlie Kirk.

Social media is aflame right now with leftist celebration of Charlie’s death.

I wonder if any among them understand what has just happened. If there is a Yamamoto somewhere in their midst warning, that all they have done is awoken a sleeping giant.

I doubt it. I think they gave up such introspection and self-awareness long ago.

I don’t know exactly what will happen next. I just know that it won’t be the same as what has happened in the past.

There will be thoughts and prayers…Charlie would have wanted prayers. Not for himself but for those left behind and for the country that he loved.

But then there will be a reckoning.

My Christian faith requires me to love my enemies and pray for those who curse me. It does not require me to stand idly by in the midst of savagery and barbarism…quite the opposite.

So every time I feel tired, every time I feel discouraged or overwhelmed, I am going to watch the video of a good man being murdered in Utah…I will force myself to watch it…and then I will return to the work of destroying the evil ideology responsible for that and so much more.

Rest with God Charlie, your fight is over.

Ours is just beginning.

*******

👆🏻 So powerful! 👆🏻

******

In reply to a TikTok video of Charlie & his family. I wrote this on Truth Social:

This made me cry 😭 so much! I have been so sad ever since I heard that Charlie Kirk was shot and killed. I hope they found the killer. God bless his wife & children. Charlie will be greatly missed by millions of supporters and admirers of his wonderful Christian & political work. He is with Jesus now- in paradise – as Jesus once said to the man next to him on the cross when the man said, “Remember me when you come into your kingdom.” He knew that Jesus was the Son of God! And Jesus replied to him, “Today, you will be with Me in paradise.” So comforting to know that physical death is not the end. Eternity in paradise is awaiting all who believe in Jesus as Lord and Savior. This is the hope we have!

May God comfort Charlie’s wife, children, and all who mourn for him today. 🙏🏻✝️📖

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The Evildoers Never Go Away! Why Big Tech attacks WND, but praises the Satanic Temple

February 1, 2025

David Kupelian of WND, explains quite well what parents, who reject the evil ways of this world we live in, are up against when trying to protect their children from satanic club influence.

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WND vs Satanic Temple: Guess which one Big Tech supports

David Kupelian shows how, for today’s elites, good is evil and evil is good

Dear WND reader,

Recently, I wrote to you expressing my own, and WND’s, gratitude to God for Donald Trump’s November election victory and his subsequent rapid-fire deployment of dozens of executive orders and agendas for making America great again. I’m sure you share the same relief and gratitude; we’ve been greatly blessed.

At the same time, I sounded a strong warning about the temptation to kick back now and relax – to abandon the cultural and political battlefields and go home and “make merry” – while assuming Donald Trump will just magically fix every economic, societal, geopolitical, medical, cultural and spiritual problem still afflicting our much-besieged nation.

That would be a gigantic mistake. Trump needs our help!

For this reason, I pointed out, WorldNetDaily cannot relax, coast or slow down, mistakenly concluding there’s no longer a pressing need for us to boldly seek out, dig up, publish and broadcast the truth 24/7 as we have been doing for almost three decades.

One of several examples I cited – of evils still actively preying on our society and our children – was the “After School Satan Clubs” now proliferating in America’s public schools.

How is it possible something as obviously dark as “After School Satan Clubs” could take root in our schools to draw our precious kids into their orbit?

The answer, to a considerable extent, is Big Tech. That’s right. Even though multibillionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk bought Twitter and renamed it “X” and eliminated the grotesque censorship that formerly characterized that particular social media platform (which, remember, had banned Donald Trump when he was the sitting president of the United States!), Big Tech is still largely in the hands of leftist globalist elites.

Consider what today’s “lords of the internet” regard as good and evil. Wikipedia is the closest thing to the Internet’s official standard of reality, since when you Google any subject, organization or person, the very first search return you receive, in virtually all cases, is the Wikipedia article about it.

So, let’s see what Big Tech’s “arbiter of reality” says about a couple of entities from opposite ends of the spectrum: The Christian journalism organization WorldNetDaily … and the Satanic Temple, which sponsors and runs the “After School Satan Clubs.”

Try to guess which one – WND or the Satanic Temple – is attacked mercilessly and which one is praised and supported by Wikipedia.

We’ll start with WND. Here’s the first paragraph of Wikipedia’s assessment of our much-loved news organization, now in its 28th year of continuous reporting:

“WND (formerly WorldNetDaily) is an American far-right news and opinion website. It is known for promoting fake news and conspiracy theories, including the false claim that former President Barack Obama was born outside the United States.”

But wait, there’s more: “WND’s political lean has been described as alt-right and far-right. WND is known for promoting fake news and conspiracy theories, including the white genocide conspiracy theory … The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) labels WND an anti-government extremist group.”

Sounds bad, but hang on – it gets worse: “In April 2020,” notes Wikipedia, “the SPLC reported that WND ‘has boosted a number of articles featuring antisemitic dog whistles, fake cures and other disinformation’ about COVID-19.”

In reality, WND is one of the leastantisemitic news websites on Planet Earth, as is abundantly evident in our daily Mideast coverage – featuring original reporting by our Israeli journalists, including the one in Jerusalem we recently hired full-time. Every day, in both news and commentary, WND vigorously defends Israel as the Jews’ rightful and eternal homeland.

And what about that nasty criticism of WND spreading COVID “disinformation” and pushing “fake cures”? Having spent three years counteracting the actualdisinformation the government and Big Media disseminated daily, I defy Wikipedia or anyone else to point to a single element of the COVID story WND got wrong: Early on – long before many others figured it out – WND reported on the real source of the virus (the biohazard level-4 “Wuhan Institute of Virology” where mad scientists just happened to be conducting insanely reckless experiments on making bat coronaviruses more dangerous to humans – and NOT the “wet market” a few blocks down the street), as well as the dangers of the new mRNA “vaccines,” and the destructive totalitarianism of the mandates, and more.

Oh, and those “fake cures” Wikipedia claims we promoted? Those would be ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, well known to be effective against COVID-19 especially when administered early in the course of the disease, and relied on and distributed to their citizens by various governments around the world. Meanwhile, dishonest U.S. government officials at the FDA, CDC and other agencies – as well as virtually ALL of the major news media – scandalously attacked these meds as “unsafe,” even though the very same Food and Drug Administration had officially ruled both drugs as “safe” decades before!

OK, so that’s how Big Tech, through its all-knowing, all-seeing encyclopedic mouthpiece Wikipedia, sees WorldNetDaily.

But what about the Satanic Temple?

In stark contrast to the supposed evils and failings of WorldNetDaily, the Satanic Temple is all sweetness and light, according to Wikipedia. Here’s how that article starts:

“The Satanic Temple (TST) is a non-theistic organization and new religious movement, founded in 2013 and headquartered in Salem, Massachusetts. … The group views Satan neither as a supernatural being, nor a symbol of evil, but instead relies on the literary Satan as a symbol representing ‘the eternal rebel’ against arbitrary authority and social norms, or as a metaphor to promote pragmatic skepticism, rational reciprocity, personal autonomy, and curiosity. … The organization’s mission encourages ‘benevolence and empathy’ among all people, using Satanic imagery to promote civil rights, egalitarianism, religious skepticism, social justice, bodily integrity, secularism, and the separation of church and state.”

Wow. Who could be against “benevolence,” “empathy” and “personal autonomy”? Sign me up!

So this is the group running “After School Satan Clubs” in public schools across America. As Wikipedia confirms, “The Satanic Temple sponsors After School Satan, an after-school program where students engage with rationalist pursuits, scientific games, nature activities, and community service.”

Awesome. “Rationalist pursuits, scientific games, nature activities, community service”? That sounds so much better than WND’s “fake news,” “conspiracy theories” and “white genocide conspiracy theory.” (By the way, even though I’ve basically overseen the WND newsroom for years, I have absolutely no idea what the “white genocide conspiracy theory” – which Wikipedia claims we champion – even is. Maybe I should Google it to see what Wikipedia says …)

Having now shared with you side-by-side the “official” Big Tech assessments of 1) a respected and loved Christian news organization, and 2) an openly satanic organization out to recruit your kids, what can we conclude?

Sadly, in today’s America, good is increasingly portrayed as evil, and evil as good, bringing to mind the classic scripture, “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” (Isaiah 5:20)

Friends, I’m citing this as just one of many examples to illustrate that despite Donald Trump being in the White House – and may God bless his truly amazing efforts – America is still in the grip of a great deal of evil and twisted people in high places, assaulting our nation and its citizens in many ways.

Bottom line: We at WND are committed to chronicling, like no one else, the truly great accomplishments of the new Trump administration, while at the same time exposing and doing our part to END the many outrages and evils that are still harming our beloved nation and its people. Trump cannot do all this alone. Remember, another great president – Thomas Jefferson – famously said, “The only security of all is in a FREE PRESS.” That’s why WND’s motto since Day One in 1997 has been, “A FREE PRESS for a FREE PEOPLE.”

Here is how you can help support WND:

Here’s how you can help:

Please prayerfully consider making a generous tax-deductible donation to the 501c3 Christian nonprofit charity, the WND News Center. You can make either a one-time donation or a monthly recurring donation, by credit card or PayPal. Whatever you can do is enormously appreciated.

*******When I was growing up in the mid 1950’s -1972, and when I was a PE teacher for a few years in 1978-80, and then when I got married in 1983, had two, now adult married children with grandchildren, I never thought that any public school would EVER allow an “after school Satan club! “🙄☹️😠. These people are cruel😣, ugly,😡 evil,👺 and insane!😵‍💫

Keeping our future in prayer…especially for our precious children! 👧 👦 🙏🏻✝️📖🇺🇸

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Sharing A Great Christmas Message!

December 25, 2024

Dear Readers,

Merry Christmas! I want to share a great message from Pastor Miles & his wife:

Dear Rock Church Family,

On behalf of Debbie, myself, and the entire McPherson family, I want to wish you a very Merry Christmas!
If you’re anything like me, you might be wondering, “How is it already the end of 2024??” This year feels like it’s flown by, and maybe for you, it’s been a mix of joys, challenges, and even a few unanswered questions.
Perhaps you’ve faced moments this year where you’ve wondered, “God, where are You in this?” Maybe you’re wrestling with uncertainty about your future, or perhaps you’ve found yourself asking deeper questions about who God is.
Let me encourage you with this: God cares deeply about every detail of your life. He’s not afraid of your questions. In fact, He invites you to bring your thoughts, your doubts, and your hopes to Him. He’s ready to meet you right where you are, with grace and love.
How do I know this? Just look at the manger.The manger is more than just a Christmas decoration—it’s a powerful reminder of who God is. It tells the story of a God who left heaven to walk among us.Do you ever worry that God feels distant? The manger reminds us that He drew near to us, stepping into humanity so He could know us and be known by us.Do you struggle to believe God could forgive you? The manger points us to the sacrificial Lamb of God who came to take away the sins of the world (John 1:29).
In the middle of the busyness of the season, I want to challenge you to take a moment to pause. Close your eyes and picture the manger. As you do, I pray you’ll encounter a fresh revelation of God’s incredible love for you—a love so profound that He would send His Son to be born into this world for you.
Let’s commit together to making 2025 a year where we see and experience the love of God in greater ways. Praying for you and your family this Christmas season. We love you, Rock family!
God Bless You, and Merry Christmas,Pastor Miles and Debbie McPherson

Also! Here is an awesome message from Dr. David Jeremiah, entitled “The Forgotten Man of Christmas.” It’s about Joseph, his role in Mary’s life, and much more can be learned about him in this awesome message!

Tags:Bible, Christianity, Christmas, Christmas 2024, God, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Joseph, Mary
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We are here…in the perilous times…just as God’s Word tells us!

July 29, 2024

The Thrill of Victory and the Agony of Defeat – As Christians are Mocked in Olympic Opening

My comment there (may still be awaiting moderation):

We are here…in the perilous times…just as God’s Word tells us!

2Ti 3:1 – But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come:

2Ti 3:2 – For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

2Ti 3:3 – unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good,

2Ti 3:4 – traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

2Ti 3:5 – having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!

2Ti 3:6 – For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,

2Ti 3:7 – always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

2Ti 3:8 – Now as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, disapproved concerning the faith;

2Ti 3:9 – but they will progress no further, for their folly will be manifest to all, as theirs also was.

But know this! 👇🏻

Gal 6:7 – Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

Jesus has overcome the world! Whether these evil ones know it or not!

Jhn 16:33 – “These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will[fn] have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.

Ultimately? These evildoers can never take such truths away from us…no matter how much they try to mock the Lord Jesus Christ and his followers.

Christine 🙏🏻✝️📖❤️🇺🇸👏🏻

John Rich wrote and posted the following on Truth Social:

Absolutely!

Tags:Bible, Bible Prophecy, Christianity, faith, God, God’s Word, Jesus, Jesus overcame the world, Olympics filth, truth
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The Best Is Yet To Come.

July 11, 2024

”Sometimes You Must Walk Through The Darkness Before You See The Light! It’s Only At The Precipice [The Moment of Destruction] That People Will Find The Will To Change!” -Christian Patriot News

”The Satanic NWO Deep State Criminal Cabal Has Partnered With Corrupt Politicians, The Propaganda Media, Big Tech, Big Corporations And The Hollywood And Entertainment Industries to Destroy Our Great Nation! Spoiler Alert: In The End, God Wins!

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

Trump Will Not Return as The President of The Bankrupt U.S. Corporation, but rather The President of The New Republic of The United States! In this New American Republic We The People have all the power. There is NO FEDERAL INCOME TAX! And America returns to The Gold Standard!”

*Warning! The video at the link below does contain some very difficult truth and disturbing information! However, if you want to know why it had to be done this way, you will get the answers. You will also learn why it has taken so long to expose it all. The stolen election is already known by millions, but it’s only part of a huge story and ongoing military operation. However, many do not know the truth about what has been going on behind the scenes.

https://m.beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2024/07/trump-just-truthed-hes-the-real-commander-in-chief-potus-45-46-47-3817123.html

Lastly, Here’s what Jesus Christ said about “doing horrendous harm to children.”

Mar 9:42 – “But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea.

Luk 17:2 – “It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.

Rev 18:21 – Then a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, “Thus with violence the great city Babylon shall be thrown down, and shall not be found anymore.

This operation had been planned for years! Kim Clement prophesied,” The plan is so brilliant, it could only have come from Me.” (Meaning God Almighty!) Kim also prophesied that, “Trump will be a trumpet” concerning this brilliant military operation!

We all need to keep this Military operation and all involved working to Save America 🇺🇸 in our prayers!

~ Christine 🙏🏻✝️📖❤️🇺🇸👏🏻

Here is Trey Smith’s “Prophecy of the Two Presidents” video, where Kim Clement tells this prophecy:

Kim Clement’s “Prophecy of the Two Presidents.”

I just watched this video again, and after 3 1/2 years, it’s amazing how many prophecies by Clement came true!

Note when Kim stated that much would be revealed, “…when a new Snowden arrives.” I think it’s Julian Assange! He has recently been released from his long “captivity” (or so the story goes) and I think that what he knows and has as proof will be monumental in capturing all of these criminals who had thought they would get away with their crimes against humanity! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Tags:Bible, blog, CIC Donald J. Trump, End the deep state, faith, God, Jesus, Military Operations, Saving America 🇺🇸, United States for America
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Jamey Johnson: Lead Me Home

May 6, 2024

I was watching an “And We Know” podcast this evening, and saw this video of Jamey Johnson performing this great song! What a great voice, lyrics & song!

Lead Me Home

1Pe 3:15 – But sanctify the Lord God[fn] in your hearts, and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear;

1Pe 3:16 – having a good conscience, that when they defame you as evildoers, those who revile your good conduct in Christ may be ashamed.

1Pe 3:17 – For it is better, if it is the will of God, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.

1Pe 3:18 – For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us[fn] to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit,

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Hollywood Actor Slams Bible as ‘One of the Worst Books Ever,’ Says Those Who Believe Genesis Narrative Are ‘Stupid’

May 6, 2024

This doesn’t surprise me…not at all! What he doesn’t know about the Bible…is a lot! If the guy wants to disparage people who believe that the Bible is God’s Word, he has the right to do so.

https://www.faithwire.com/2024/05/01/hollywood-actor-slams-bible-as-one-of-the-worst-books-ever-says-those-who-believe-genesis-narrative-are-stupid/?utm_source=wnd&utm_medium=wnd&utm_campaign=syndicated

My answer to him would be a long one, and it would include this information:

As a born-again Christian, it is my desire to heed and share Paul’s encouragement and warnings in 2 Timothy 3:1-17

2 Timothy 3:16 – All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,
2 Timothy 3:17 – that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

Talk Wisdom’s goal is to defend the tenets and values of Biblical Christian faith. We defend our Constitutional Republic and Charters of Freedom, especially when speaking out against destructive social and political issues. As followers of our Savior and Lord, we should boldly stand up for Jesus Christ in our present circumstances. He is our Savior, Lord, and King, and His love needs to be shed abroad in our hearts and in our world – now.

A quote to remember!

“We are to be obedient to God and that means we are to fight against sin. Talking about not judging and loving each other does not absolve us from our duty to correct and — if necessary — censure those who refuse to obey God’s laws. If this were the case, then God would have had no reason to even give us a law: He would have just said do not judge, just love and left it at that — but He did not do this. Instead, He told us to obey, and then gave us at least ten commands. If we love each other — Biblical love — then we will do everything we can to help each other keep those commands, not make it easier to break them. After all, how can we claim to love someone if we are in the process of making their path to hell easier to travel?” ~ Black3Actual from Oil For Your Lamp blog

Best of all, if he would read the rest of the Bible, he would see more truth, like the following link which shares the 353 prophecies fulfilled by Jesus Christ!

https://accordingtothescriptures.org/prophecy/353prophecies.html

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Mandisa’s Dad Says No Signs of Self-Harm – Here’s What He Thinks Happened

May 2, 2024

The father of the late Christian singer Mandisa is speaking out about what he believes to be the cause of her sudden death nearly three weeks ago.

John Hundley spoke before a crowd at the singer’s celebration of life service held over the weekend at Brentwood Baptist Church in Nashville, Tennessee.

Hundley said he had stayed at his daughter’s Beamon Drive home for several days after her death and spoke to detectives.

“Here’s what I think happened,” he said. “Mandisa fell down in her bedroom. They found her on the floor. If you look from the rear of her bed, she was laying on the left side. It’s clear that’s where she was laying, there was a couple of big rugs there and some clothes. On the right side of the bed, front, was this nightstand. I found her phone on the right side of the bed. There was no way for Mandisa to get around the bed, go out there, and get a phone to call for help.”

“She did not harm herself,” he stressed. “As (Beth Moore) said, Mandisa loved the Lord and the Lord loved Mandisa. So there’s one thing you may not have known. She told me some time ago that she had gotten COVID-19 and she had been weak trying to get over that. But she was trying to press through. We talked so much on Easter morning, but I thought she was going to this conference, so I had not called her recently but I’ve talked to her a lot.”

“May she rest in peace now,” he added also sharing it would be at least three weeks before detectives would release a report on the cause of Mandisa’s death.

The Franklin Police Department announced last week they were still searching for a reason for her sudden death but there was “no indication the death was the result of suspicious or criminal activity.”

As CBN News reported, K-LOVE broke the news that Mandisa — whose full name is Mandisa Hundley — passed away on April 18 at the age of 47.

The Grammy-winning artist is known for her uplifting hits like “Good Morning” and “Overcomer.” Throughout her career, she collaborated with top Christian performers like TobyMac, Matthew West, Michael W. Smith, Kirk Franklin, and Jordan Feliz.

Her death has shocked many in the Christian community.

Prominent Christian leader Beth Moore shared during the celebration of life service that Mandisa was a dynamic personality who left an impact on everyone she knew.

“Whatever she did, she did it with every molecule she had,” Moore explained.

She also reminisced over Mandisa’s performance of “Shackles (Praise You)” by Mary Mary at Living Proof conferences and events.

“She owned that ‘baby.’ She owned that stage. She made it hers,” she expressed, adding that Mandisa was not only a talented singer, but a dynamic speaker.

“That’s when we realized that Mandisa could indeed do it all…Mandisa had an impact on an audience like no one I had ever seen. She was simply sublime. Utterly mesmerizing. Every word, whether sung or spoken, hit a resonant chord with her audience and she loved Jesus in a way that made everyone around her want to love Him,” she recalled.

Mandisa became a household name after she made it to the top nine on the fifth season of “American Idol.”

The competition reality show hosted a special celebration Monday night to honor the singer’s legacy.

Former contestants Colton Dixon, Danny Gokey, and Melinda Doolittle performed “Shackles” in tribute of the singer who also performed it on Season 5 of the show.

Tribute to Mandisa.

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The Essence of Repentance

July 5, 2018

…And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.

REVELATION 22:17

It is inherent in the nature of man that his will must be free. Made in the image of God who is completely free, man must enjoy a measure of freedom. This enables him to select his companions for this world and the next; it enables him to yield his soul to whom he will, to give allegiance to God or the devil, to remain a sinner or become a saint.

Graphic: Rachel Wojo

And God respects this freedom. God once saw everything that He had made, and behold, it was very good. To find fault with the smallest thing God has made is to find fault with its Maker. It is a false humility that would lament that God wrought but imperfectly when He made man in His own image. Sin excepted, there is nothing in human nature to apologize for. This was confirmed forever when the Eternal Son became permanently incarnated in human flesh!

Graphic: Just Being Brutally Honest blog

So highly does God regard His handiwork that He will not for any reason violate it. He will take nine steps toward us but He will not take the tenth. He will incline us to repent, but He cannot do our repenting for us. It is of the essence of repentance that it can only be done by the one who committed the act to be repented of.

God can wait on the sinning man, He can withhold judgment, He can exercise long-suffering to the point where He appears lax in His judicial administration—but He cannot force a man to repent. To do this would be to violate the man’s freedom and void the gift of God originally bestowed upon him. The believer knows he is free to choose—and with that knowledge he chooses forever the blessed will of God!^[1]

Graphic: cc southbay

^[1] Tozer, A. W., & Smith, G. B. (2015). Evenings with tozer: daily devotional readings. Chicago, IL: Moody Publishers.

Hat tip: Truth 2 Freedom: July 5 – God Never Violates Our Freedom of Choice.

Note from Christine:

Yesterday, we celebrated Independence Day. It is the day that 242 years ago, America became a free nation via the signing of The Declaration of Independence.

Ben Franklin wisely stated to a woman who asked, “What type of government have you given us?” Franklin replied, “A Republic, if you can keep it.”

Lately, we have seen many unhinged people on the far left political spectrum rant and rave against all that helps keep our nation free. They use issues to further their desires for more socialist/communist ideas and forms of government. Don’t they know history and the hard-fought battles against such evil, failed and dictatorship types of government? I guess not. Perhaps it isn’t being taught in public school education anymore. It certainly appears to be lost on most of those who attend, or have attended liberal/leftist colleges and universities and staunchly agree with the aberrant, extremist leftist professors who push their ideology upon the students.

Ronald Reagan quote

“The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas — a trial of spiritual resolve: the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish, and the ideals to which we are dedicated.”

— Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) —

Yes. We continue to go through “a test of wills and ideas.” One’s choice does depend on the essence of repentance at the foot of the cross of Jesus Christ. Ultimately, it is a spiritual struggle, as the last paragraph in the quoted topic above reveals:

[God] cannot force a man to repent. To do this would be to violate the man’s freedom and void the gift of God originally bestowed upon him. The believer knows he is free to choose—and with that knowledge he chooses forever the blessed will of God!^[1]

Hat tip: Truth 2 Freedom’s blog.

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Outwit Infinite Wisdom and Countermine Providence Itself?

October 19, 2017

Kingsjester’s blog is one of my favorites because his posts are very informative and his analyses of what is truly going on in the “hearts of men” are spot on.

His latest post:

Soros Gives $18 Billion to His Open Society Institute to Fund Special Interest Groups Including “The Resistance” does not disappoint, and serves as a warning regarding the evil resistance that Soros continues to perpetuate against our Constitutional Republic.

One day, an unbeliever like Soros will die and realize:

When I returned from babysitting my sweet almost-2-years-old granddaughter yesterday evening, my husband asked me if I heard about the $18 billion dollar donation that the evil billionaire “donated” to his Open Society Institute. I told him that I heard of it, but didn’t know the details yet. Kingsjester’s blog gave me the needed details to share in this post.

My comment there:

Very good analysis and explanation of what Soros is all about and the evil that he is continually doing through wreaking havoc upon our nation; as well as the lies he is trying to perpetuate under the fake, dishonest, and anti-God guise of doing “good.”

After reading your essay, this verse came to mind:

Isa 5:20

Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness;
Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Soros and his evil minions are perfect examples of this! I truly pity those who have been so blinded by Satan that they think that this horrible man is doing “good.”

Here at my blog, I also want to share part of a commentary from Blue Letter Bible on that particular Bible verse written by Matthew Henry:

Note, Those that willfully persist in sin consider not the power of God’s anger.

3. Who confound and overthrow the distinctions between moral good and evil, who call evil good and moral evil (v. 20), who not only live in the omission of that which is good, but condemn it, argue against it, and, because they will not practice it themselves, run it down in others, and fasten invidious epithets upon it-not only do that which is evil, but justify it, and applaud it, and recommend it to others as safe and good. Note,
- (1.) Virtue and piety are good, for they are light and sweet, they are pleasant and right; but sin and wickedness are evil; they are darkness, all the fruit of ignorance and mistake, and will be bitterness in the latter end.
- (2.) Those do a great deal of wrong to God, and religion, and conscience, to their own souls, and to the souls of others, who misrepresent these, and put false colours upon them-who call drunkenness good fellowship, and covetousness good husbandry, and, when they persecute the people of God, think they do him good service-and, on the other hand, who call seriousness ill-nature, and sober singularity ill-breeding, who say all manner of evil falsely concerning the ways of godliness, and do what they can to form in men’s minds prejudices against them, and this in defiance of evidence as plain and convincing as that of sense, by which we distinguish, beyond contradiction, between light and darkness, and between that which to the taste is sweet and that which is bitter.
4. Who though they are guilty of such gross mistakes as these have a great opinion of their own judgments, and value themselves mightily upon their understanding (v. 21): They are wise in their own eyes; they think themselves able to disprove and baffle the reproofs and convictions of God’s word, and to evade and elude both the searches and the reaches of his judgments; they think they can outwit Infinite Wisdom and countermine Providence itself. Or it may be taken more generally: God resists the proud, those particularly who are conceited of their own wisdom and lean to their own understanding; such must become fools, that they may be truly wise, or else, at their end they shall appear to be fools before all the world.

Hat tip: Kingsjester’s Blog, Blue Letter Bible, and graphics page links.

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