Thursday, November 05, 2026

You guide me with your counsel...

You guide me with your counsel,
and afterward you will receive me to glory.
Whom have I in heaven but you?
And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you.
My flesh and my heart may fail,
but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
-Psalm 73:24-26

Prayer is the expression of a good desire. The human heart is full of restless desires, and the prayers of men consist for the most part of the unsifted petitions which are urged by their varying passions... To desire what is right, and to desire it consistently, and passionately, is the first condition of true living. The desires can be corrected only by truth, the mind must apprehend God, and then it will say, “There is none upon earth that I desire beside Thee.”   
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Dread and Circuses: Jonathan Turley and Byron Donalds Agree Dems Will Clown Out on Impeachment Democrats have always had one goal on their dark minds and black hearts: retribution. Yes, they’re going to use the next two years to go after President Donald Trump with pointless impeachment hearings and endless investigations. Image



11 Facts About the Midterms That Show That America Is in Far More Trouble Than Most People Realize  And just look at how virtually all of our largest cities have degenerated under the leadership of Democrats.
   Nearly every major system and every major institution in this country is broken.
   Our society is literally in the process of collapsing all around us, and American voters are counting on the Democratic Party to come up with some sort of a miracle.   Good luck with all that.

Abdul El-Sayed Gave His Victory Speech. He Said Something Absolutely Chilling. During his victory speech, the Democrat senator-elect made it clear whom he thought won the election.
His people.
   He used Arabic religious expressions, including Inshallah, meaning "God willing," and Alhamdulillah, meaning "Praise be to God." The crowd applauded enthusiastically.
   El-Sayed grinned smugly throughout the speech. And why not? He has successfully infiltrated the “liberal” Democrat Party and brought his Islamist extremism with him.



What The Midterms Reveal About The Faith Vote  The 2026 midterm elections delivered a significant political setback for Republicans and President Donald Trump, with Democrats making massive gains in Congress and several key gubernatorial races. Beyond the familiar story of political dissatisfaction, economic anxiety and voter backlash, this election revealed another important development: The growing influence of faith, religious identity and moral conviction in American political life.

But here’s a cautionary note. Just a few election cycles ago, Mohammed Abdulrahman El-Sayed and James Talarico would have been utterly unelectable. Now they’re winning candidates. In this world, much conventional wisdom based on politics in the old world is no lo.nger valid.
   That’s life in Late Democracy. Be well.



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'We Need To Stop Giving Birth to Them': Maryland Special Ed Teacher Called To Abort Boys, Overthrow US Government Zentgraf was even more explicit in an Oct. 24 post, writing, "If I was in my reproduction era, I would have one of those early blood tests to see if the fetus is a boy or a girl and I would abort it if it was a boy. I don't want to give birth to my own oppressor and I feel like the only way out of this patriarchal hell is for there to be less men on this earth. I think we should start aborting male fetuses (or not having kids at all right now) and put an end to female oppression once and for all."


California city makes history allowing throuples, foursomes to legally register as partners The measure allows people in relationships involving multiple partners to officially register with the city, granting them certain rights, including hospital visitation and additional tenant protections.

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Two-thirds of churchgoers fail Bible knowledge quiz: Lifeway Research  Among its findings, Pew reported that 34% of self-identified Evangelicals did not know that Jesus was from Nazareth, 31% did not know that Jesus had delivered the Sermon on the Mount, and 25% thought that the Golden Rule was one of the Ten Commandments.

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Wednesday, November 04, 2026

That I may know him and the power of his resurrection...

Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith— that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead.  -Philippians 3:8-11

Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life’s problems fall into place of their own accord.   -James I. Packer

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Politics can restrain evil. It cannot redeem it. Culture can be influenced. It cannot be saved by legislation or court appointments. The obliteration of the GOP majority is painful. It is also clarifying. The work that actually endures is not another cycle of fundraising and messaging. It is doing the will of God, spreading the Gospel, and refusing to be absorbed by the world that is passing away.

The Unholy Alliance: Immigration, Socialism, and Political Islam in America  Politics makes strange bedfellows. It always has and always will. 
   Nevertheless, even Machiavelli might have struggled to explain today’s increasingly visible alliance between immigration activists, Democratic Socialists, and Islamic political activism in America.

 
Mamdani's Massive Real Estate Swindle Just Took a Huge Step Forward  AEI's Howard Husock warned last summer that the "endgame" of Mamdani's war on landlords "could well be what Mamdani promised in his campaign: housing socialism for thousands of apartments, which would move into city ownership or nonprofit ownership enabled by the city taking and disposing of apartments."

Virginia voters said yes to allowing abortion throughout a pregnancy Tuesday night, while Missourians defeated a proposed amendment that would have repealed a right to abortion until viability.

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Tuesday, November 03, 2026

Heavenly Father, we ask you today to be with us and our country...

First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, 6 who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time. 1 Timothy 2:1-6

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    Heavenly Father, we ask you today to be with us and our country now as you have been since our first days as a nation. Help us to listen less to harsh rhetoric and more to the Holy Spirit. Help us to feel how Your Spirit will guide us, no matter the election’s outcome. We pray for peace, love and hope, in Your name. Amen.

    Christ, our King, we pray today that we can look beyond the current political landscape, in a moment when it seems like it’s the only thing everyone is talking about, and remember that we are builders of Your kingdom here on earth. Prince of Peace, help peace flourish amid division, and strengthen us to live generously and charitably in Your name. Amen.

    God, may Your Spirit unify us. May we recognize that we are all created in Your image, regardless of which political candidate we vote for. As we approach this election, open our eyes to recognize that people we may disagree with are still our brothers and sisters, Your children. In Jesus’s name we pray. Amen. Prayer here

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Stupid Voters Are The Biggest Threat To America Too many ‘progressives’ would rather take out Trump than stop socialists from burning down the republic. Now that’s stupid.


Report: Nearly 2,500 Registrants Listed as At Least 110-Years-Old on Michigan Voter Rolls One such registrant’s birth year is listed as 1823, 14 years before Michigan became a state. PILF lawyers said they warned about the registrant in 2019, but the registrant remains on the Michigan voter rolls.


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Billionaire tax puts California’s economic future before midterm voters  The ballot measure, known as Proposition 40, would impose a one-time 5% wealth tax on taxpayers and trusts with assets in excess of $1 billion and use the revenue to fund state healthcare programs, public education and food assistance.
  The tax would be payable over five years and covered assets would include businesses, securities, art, collectibles and intellectual property – though real property, pensions and certain retirement accounts would be exempt.


UMich ‘should immediately suspend this student’: Prominent law professor weighs in on viral assault   The University of Michigan student went viral for shoving conservative Jewish activist Liz Benichou to the ground and yelling “I should have killed you when I had the chance.” The entire exchange was caught on video.

In sum, too many public schools are failing, parents are abandoning them, and much-needed changes are underway, with more hopefully to come.


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Monday, November 02, 2026

For you were called to freedom...

For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Galatians 5:13-14

Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free. No one can hinder him. If we understand our first and sole duty to consist of loving God supremely and loving everyone, even our enemies, for God’s dear sake, then we can enjoy spiritual tranquility under every circumstance.   -A.W. Tozer Image

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Midterm Election Incoherences, Misadventures, and Paradoxes -VD Hanson   The predicted blue wave may never materialize. And even if Democrats retake Congress, history suggests Trump could emerge stronger, not weaker, with the presidency's expansive powers.


Both of El-Sayed’s parents worked with Islamic charities accused of funding Al Qaeda




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What we are witnessing is a literal Communist-Islamist revolution launched to take over Europe. Make no mistake: America has millions of people who agree with European revolutionaries. From the Muslim fundamentalists whom the Biden administration brought in, to the pro-Hamas students brainwashed at universities, to the politicians who believe it is in their interest to destroy the American Republic and rebuild it as an oligarchy, we have our own existential crisis with the Red-Green Alliance.

Looting And Chaos Erupt In Germany, Molotov Cocktails In Paris, As Europe Slides Deeper Into Crisis  Europe appears to have been thrown into an accelerated timeline of crises colliding at once, whether far-left social unrest in France, which has spread to several other countries, the unfolding debt crisis in France, or the political crisis in Poland that erupted in the last 24 hours. The momentum is troubling and concerning...

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Sunday, November 01, 2026

A Mighty Fortress Is Our God

 
A Mighty Fortress Is Our God

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Saturday, October 31, 2026

For the word of God is living and active...

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. -Hebrews 4:12

We cannot attain to the understanding of Scripture either by study or by the intellect. Your first duty is to begin by prayer. Entreat the Lord to grant you, of His great mercy, the true understanding of His Word. There is no other interpreter of the Word of God than the Author of this Word, as He Himself has said, “They shall be all taught of God.” (John 6:45) Hope for nothing from your own labors, from your own understanding: trust solely in God, and in the influence of His Spirit. Believe this on the word of a man who has experience.   
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Christ is the master; the Scriptures are only the servant.
-Martin Luther

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Friday, October 30, 2026

You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart...

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.  -Jeremiah 29:11-13

Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that He should be able to make use of us. It may be that one of our great faults in prayer is that we talk too much and listen too little. When prayer is at its highest we wait in silence for God’s voice to us; we linger in His presence for His peace and His power to flow over us and around us; we lean back in His everlasting arms and feel the serenity of perfect security in Him.  
-William Barclay

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When cruelty is dressed up as care, would we recognise it?  What happens when cruelty is presented as kindness? When discrimination is described as care, and the devaluing of human life is presented as a practical solution to society’s problems?
   These are the questions at the centre of Channel 4’s The Experiment: Would you recognise cruelty if it was dressed up as care?, a chilling documentary exploring whether the British public could be persuaded to accept ideas drawn from Nazi ideology.
   The programme is an uncomfortable viewing. But its message is not one we should ignore.

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For around the past 1,700 years, Britain has been a Christian country. Throughout that time, our officers of State have sworn allegiance to the Monarch, who held authority under, and only under, God. That faith has been the beating heart of our nation, and a rallying point each and every time we came under threat. Our peoples have stood under the banner of Christ, fighting in His name to defend our country, from attack and from all who wished us ill. And even though small, while we have sought to keep faith, the Lord has upheld and delivered us. Historically, we have been a people slow to anger, fair, and tolerant of others, upholding justice. We have defended the vulnerable and given sanctuary to those fleeing persecution in their own countries. But this we have done without sacrificing our heritage and the values on which our nation stands.
   Yet all that now seems to have been turned on its head. We are told that we must be ashamed of our history and the values that once made our nation great, while self-serving politicians seek to prioritise their own best interests, and micro-manage us – telling us what we should believe and how we should behave. Under the mantra, ‘Diversity, Equity, Inclusivity’, the faith that has held our country together is increasingly being actively suppressed, with those who dare defend Christian truth being branded dangerous extremists by the Home Office, police, and security services, and even arrested.

Former European colonial powers France and the Netherlands want all nations to punish the new crime of “gender-related killings” or “femicide.” They are asking for a commitment in a General Assembly resolution on violence against women.
   According to UN agencies, such crimes include the denial of abortion for any reason.

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'They Are Abject Liars': Scott Jennings Weighs in on Alaska Democrats' Election Antics  The legal issues aside, Peltola and the Democrats said for months 'We had nothing to do with this! What a coincidence!' That another Dan Sullivan from a little fishing town that you can't even get to other than by plane managed to file for the U.S. Senate, "Jennings said.
   "And now it's been revealed that they are abject liars and they did engage in a conspiracy," he continued. "So legal issues aside, what does that tell a voter? We're willing to lie to your face for months and months and months and here at the very end when people are making their decisions. Legal the politics are terrible for Democrats."

NY Times Admits Obama DOJ Found Evidence of Ilhan Omar’s Suspected ‘Sham Marriage’  And yet, for a decade, Omar and the corporate media have smeared everyone who looks into this as a “right-wing conspiracy theorist.”
   If you read the rest of the Times story, you’ll find a real conspiracy, one by the Obama administration and local officials in Minnesota to kill any media inquiries into the story.

Congress Shouldn’t Seat Anyone Elected With Terror Ties, Such As Sayed And Omar  How can we trust a member of Congress aligned with America’s adversaries to keep classified information secure, and not hand it to the very movements and regimes that threaten this country?
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Democrats Care Too Much About Power To Distance Themselves From Terrorism Apologists  A free society cannot survive unless terrorists, supporters of terrorists, and apologists for terrorists are driven from polite society and politics.

NY Mayor Mamdani Celebrates -- then Deletes -- Post about ‘Halalflation‘ of City Street Vendors  The post was picked up by activist Laura Loomer who blasted the mayor for trying to force the practice of Islamic halal food preparation on the city.
   “Disgusting. The Muslim Mayor of New York City is bragging about approving another 10,500 street vendor licenses for Halal food trucks,” Loomer wrote, adding, “He’s even calling it ‘Halalflation update’.”

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‘Ghostbusters’: Feds Find Fraudsters Use AI to Fake College Attendance and Receive Fed Aid  “Some use super intelligence to fill out college applications and complete coursework, so it looks like the ghost student is actually completing the class,” he said of the fraudsters. “Some even create the appearance of a fake student in an online classroom to trick schools into believing a real person is present. The goal is to keep the ghost student in school for as long as possible, semester after semester after semester, stealing money from the taxpayer.”

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DHS Closes Loophole Chinese Birth Tourists Used  Today, DHS took decisive action to protect America’s sovereignty and SUSPENDED visa-free travel for Chinese nationals to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
   This program made the islands a hot spot for Chinese birth tourism and other security vulnerabilities.

Red-State AG Sounds Alarm About Possibility Taxpayers Were on Hook to Benefit China “China has no right to raise lowans’ –or any Americans’–gas and electric bills. The Biden administration allowed the EPA to team up with radical activists that were funded by China. Those activists wanted to stop American energy dominance and raise the cost of gas and electricity. This letter is a follow-up to make sure that is no longer happening,” Bird said in a statement.

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Trans student cited for assault after saying Republicans ‘should be shot’ at University of Utah  Video shows the student saying Republicans 'should be shot in the street' before appearing to lunge at a College Republicans member who was tabling on campus.
   University police cited the student for simple assault and property damage, while queer and socialist activist groups are calling for the citations to be dropped.

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We’ve lost the plot with Halloween. What was once a festive night of play, half-remembered liturgical meaning, and neighborly cheer has been hollowed out by consumerism and hijacked by a fixation on gore and death.

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