Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord!

Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord!

O Lord, hear my voice!

Let your ears be attentive

to the voice of my pleas for mercy!

If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities,

O Lord, who could stand?

But with you there is forgiveness,

that you may be feared.

I wait for the Lord, my soul waits,

and in his word I hope;

my soul waits for the Lord

more than watchmen for the morning,

more than watchmen for the morning.

O Israel, hope in the Lord!

For with the Lord there is steadfast love,

and with him is plentiful redemption.

And he will redeem Israel

from all his iniquities.

-Psalm 130

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Ancient Homily For Holy Saturday

Something strange is happening – there is a great silence on earth today, a great silence and stillness. The whole earth keeps silence because the King is asleep. The earth trembled and is still because God has fallen asleep in the flesh and he has raised up all who have slept ever since the world began. God has died in the flesh and hell trembles with fear.

He has gone to search for our first parent, as for a lost sheep. Greatly desiring to visit those who live in darkness and in the shadow of death, he has gone to free from sorrow the captives Adam and Eve, he who is both God and the son of Eve. The Lord approached them bearing the cross, the weapon that had won him the victory. At the sight of him, Adam, the first man he had created, struck his breast in terror and cried out to everyone: “My Lord be with you all.” Christ answered him: “And with your spirit.” He took him by the hand and raised him up, saying:

“Awake, O sleeper, and rise from the dead, and Christ will give you light.

“I am your God, who for your sake have become your son. Out of love for you and for your descendants I now by my own authority command all who are held in bondage to come forth, all who are in darkness to be enlightened, all who are sleeping to arise.

“I order you, O sleeper, to awake. I did not create you to be held a prisoner in hell. Rise from the dead, for I am the life of the dead. Rise up, work of my hands, you who were created in my image. Rise, let us leave this place, for you are in me and I am in you; together we form only one person and we cannot be separated. For your sake I, your God, became your son; I, the Lord, took the form of a slave; I, whose home is above the heavens, descended to the earth and beneath the earth.

“For your sake, for the sake of man, I became like a man without help, free among the dead. For the sake of you, who left a garden, I was betrayed to the Jews in a garden, and I was crucified in a garden.

“See on my face the spittle I received in order to restore to you the life I once breathed into you. See there the marks of the blows I received in order to refashion your warped nature in my image. On my back see the marks of the scourging I endured to remove the burden of sin that weighs upon your back. See my hands, nailed firmly to a tree, for you who once wickedly stretched out your hand to a tree.

“I slept on the cross and a sword pierced my side for you who slept in paradise and brought forth Eve from your side. My side has healed the pain in yours. My sleep will rouse you from your sleep in hell. The sword that pierced me has sheathed the sword that was turned against you.

“Rise, let us leave this place. The enemy led you out of the earthly paradise. I will not restore you to that paradise, but I will enthrone you in heaven. I forbade you the tree that was only a symbol of life, but see, I who am life itself am now one with you. I appointed cherubim to guard you as slaves are guarded, but now I make them worship you as God.

“The throne formed by cherubim awaits you, its bearers swift and eager. The bridal chamber is adorned, the banquet is ready, the eternal dwelling places are prepared, the treasure houses of all good things lie open. The kingdom of heaven has been prepared for you from all eternity.”

"He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree..."

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. He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed. For you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls. -1 Peter 2:22-25

We must not conceal from ourselves that true Christianity brings with it a daily cross in this life, while it offers us a crown of glory in the life to come. The flesh must be daily crucified. The devil must be daily resisted. The world must be daily overcome. There is a warfare to be waged, and a battle to be fought. All this is the inseparable accompaniment of true religion. Heaven is not to be won without it. Never was there a truer word than the old saying, “No cross, no crown!” If we never found this out by experience, our souls are in a poor condition. -J.C. Ryle

"For I have given you an example..."

When he had washed their feet and put on his outer garments and resumed his place, he said to them, “Do you understand what I have done to you? You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right, for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you. Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them. 

-John 13:12-17

It is a great act of eternal love when Christ once for all absolves the sinner, and puts him into the family of God; but what condescending patience there is when the Saviour with much long-suffering bears the oft recurring follies of his wayward disciple; day by day, and hour by hour, washing away the multiplied transgressions of his erring but yet beloved child!....While we find comfort and peace in our Lord’s daily cleansing, its legitimate influence upon us will be to increase our watchfulness, and quicken our desire for holiness. Is it so? -CH Spurgeon

Make haste, O God, to deliver me!

Then one of the twelve, whose name was Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said, “What will you give me if I deliver him over to you?” And they paid him thirty pieces of silver. And from that moment he sought an opportunity to betray him. 

-Matthew 26:14-16

Make haste, O God, to deliver me!

    O Lord, make haste to help me!

Let them be put to shame and confusion

    who seek my life!

Let them be turned back and brought to dishonor

    who delight in my hurt!

Let them turn back because of their shame

    who say, “Aha, Aha!”

May all who seek you

    rejoice and be glad in you!

May those who love your salvation

    say evermore, “God is great!”

But I am poor and needy;

    hasten to me, O God!

You are my help and my deliverer;

    O Lord, do not delay!

  -Psalm 70

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Christians massacred on Palm Sunday as attacks escalate in Nigeria   Gunmen killed at least a dozen people at a bar in the city of Jos in Nigeria on Palm Sunday and a retaliatory mob killed at least 10 others, as attacks on Christian communities across the country’s Middle Belt and north intensified through the week.

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Little Rock Conquered: Mayor Scott Bows to Islam as Stadium Turns Mosque, Schools Push Hijabs, Churches Fall, Enclaves Rise — and Mosques Harvest Votes    Little Rock Mayor Frank Scott has made pandering to the Muslim community a regular part of his schedule. On March 20, 2026, he attended the massive Eid al-Fitr celebration at War Memorial Stadium — the very field where football games once reigned.

    Photos and videos show thousands of Muslims packed onto the turf: men praying in front of women, with younger generations heavily outnumbering the elderly. Scott gave a public greeting, then stayed to shake hands and pose for selfies with attendees. Arkansas Online captured the scene perfectly: the stadium had been taken over by Islam with prayer rugs replacing gridiron markings.

Hezbollah Dearborn Terrorist Also Plotted Attack on Trump Rally “Jihad is a gateway to heaven; one that Allah opens to his chosen ones.”

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Supreme Court sides with therapist in challenge to Colorado’s ban on “conversion therapy”  The Supreme Court on Tuesday sent a challenge to Colorado’s ban on “conversion therapy” – treatment intended to change a client’s sexual orientation or gender identity – for young people back to the lower courts for them to apply a new standard. By a vote of 8-1, the justices agreed with Kaley Chiles, the licensed counselor challenging the law, that the ban discriminates against her based on the views that she expresses in her talk therapy. A federal appeals court, Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote for the majority, should have applied a more stringent standard of review, known as strict scrutiny, to determine whether the law violates the First Amendment as applied to Chiles.

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The Economic Cost Of Open Borders 

In those terms, the numbers tell a different story:

• A net annual taxpayer burden of $150.7 billion
• More than $9 billion stripped from state and local budgets in a single year
• Documented downward wage pressure on construction workers, warehouse workers, home health aides  the people who most need a raise
• A lifetime fiscal exposure exceeding $1 trillion

These aren’t slogans dressed as statistics. Taken together, they don’t make a case for open borders. They make a strong case that the country has been quietly paying a very large bill that most people have never seen.

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Energy lockdowns begin 

Remarkable, isn’t it? New script, same play, new actors for the same roles, overlapping protocols, nearly identical tempo of acceleration and dynamic of acoustics in the media. Around the world, countries are imposing price caps, consumption rationing, indoor temperature controls and shorter work weeks as a prelude to full-on stay home orders. They haven’t come to the US yet but they are spreading in Europe and the UK, as people panic about prices.

Mysterious Nighttime Hum Haunts Communities in New Jersey, Ohio, and Connecticut  Residents report vibrating homes, sleepless nights, and unhappy children and pets.

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❤🐶😘 pic.twitter.com/xIL3FNHdUV

— Wow Animals (@WOW_ANIMALS1) March 31, 2026

Have this mind among yourselves...

Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.  -Philippians 2:5-11 Image

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UN Sends Billions to Islamic Terrorists Who Kidnap its Staff 

This  ‘International Day of Solidarity with Detained and Missing Staff Members’, the UN admitted that 73 of its ‘detained’ staff members are being held by the Yemeni Shiite Islamic terrorist group known as the Houthis. Last year one of the UN detainees died in custody of the terrorists. (Unlike every Israeli air strike on Islamic terrorists, this received almost no media coverage.

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Mayor Mamdani’s Latest Appointment to His Staff Is an Absolute Slap in the Face of All Police Officers    Francois has made it clear in the past how she feels about police and actually led a lobbying group that was funded by none other than George Soros to push for defunding police departments and abolishing jails.

     So you’ve got someone who’s supposed to be on the lookout for community safety who actively tried to jeopardize such safety in the past because she hated police that much.

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NBA Protects Players Accused Of Violent Crimes While Targeting Christians For Saying Christian Things “So why is it that the NBA and the Chicago Bulls say that I’m detrimental to the team? How? Because I believe in the truth? Because I know Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life?” Ivey continued.

   But that is where the NBA draws the line. When it comes to conduct that is actually “detrimental” — like beating your girlfriend or trafficking drugs — you get a pass. But dare profess the gospel, and the league has different standards.

Christian Athletes Rally Behind Jaden Ivey After Bulls Cut Him Following Faith Remarks 

Canada’s bill C-9 raises alarm: could quoting the Bible become a crime? 

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WARNING TO TEXAS PARENTS: Muslim Brotherhood’s MSA Is Targeting Your Children Through Public Schools — Act Now (Video)  The strategy is twofold: build insulated internal Sharia enclaves that separate Muslims from Western society while simultaneously expanding outward into public systems with “radicals with a smile.” Inside, parallel networks reinforce ideology and supremacism. Outside, polished student-led initiatives gain access, legitimacy, and influence through dawah disguised as tolerance.

America’s Largest Teachers’ Union Prizes Activism Over Education The National Education Association’s recent webinar cloaked partisanship and ideology in the mantle of free speech.

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Many worry Hollywood will soon resemble Detroit after the fall of the auto industry  The movie industry made a very deliberate choice to stop entertaining people and start lecturing them. When Trump came down that escalator, Hollywood went bonkers. Actors, studios, late-night bozos, and every other self-important narcissist in the movie galaxy decided they weren’t just actors anymore. They were activists on an unholy mission to “save democracy” by drowning the country in Trump hate, progressive identity sermons, and stale, joyless slop. And normal people, including plenty who don’t even care about politics, eventually reached the same conclusion: enough is enough.

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He unlocked a feeling he didn’t know existed.. 😅 pic.twitter.com/grDs0vJf09

— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) March 29, 2026

Worthy is the Lamb who was slain...

Then I looked, and I heard around the throne and the living creatures and the elders the voice of many angels, numbering myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice,

“Worthy is the Lamb who was slain,

to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might

and honor and glory and blessing!”'

       -Revelation 5:11-12

Praise is the most heavenly of Christian duties. The angels pray not, but they cease not to praise both day and night; and the redeemed, clothed in white robes, with palm-branches in their hands, are never weary of singing the new song, “Worthy is the Lamb.”  -Charles Haddon Spurgeon Image

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Base Defense: How Many More Warnings? 

It has long been a dirty little secret that we made a decision to “accept risk” in defending our bases from attack. That momentary bet became a habit…and then part of the environment.

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Islam and the Left 

It was Lenin who famously spoke about the “useful idiots” – those clueless wonders in the West who championed barbaric Communism while denouncing their own homelands. Today they still exist, especially as they shill for barbaric Islam. They are still as clueless as their predecessors were.

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Pakistani Christian Faces Death Penalty Over Blasphemy Allegations Pakistan's blasphemy laws (Section 295-C of the Penal Code) mandate the death penalty for insulting Islam's prophet Muhammad, frequently targeting Christians and other minorities, often due to personal disputes. Although the text mentions life imprisonment, the Federal Sharia Court ruled in 1991 that only the death penalty is consistent with Islamic law, effectively mandating it.

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Chinese National and Two U.S. Citizens Charged in $170M Scheme to Smuggle U.S. AI Chips to China   Stanley Yi Zheng, Matthew Kelly, and Tommy Shad English have been charged with conspiring to commit smuggling and export control violations. The three defendants are alleged to have sought millions of dollars’ worth of export-controlled computer chips from a California-based computer hardware company for illegal shipment to China through Thailand.

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U.S. Taxpayer Dollars Train Terror Financiers: Indiana University's Muslim Philanthropy Initiative Partners with U.S.-Sanctioned Hamas Front    According to a devastating investigation by the Washington Free Beacon, Indiana University’s Muslim Philanthropy Initiative (MPI) – embedded in the prestigious Lilly Family School of Philanthropy – organized and led multiple high-level fundraising training conferences with the Istanbul-based Hayat Yolu Association, a group the U.S. Treasury Department has officially designated a “sham charity” that provides “significant material support to Hamas.”

This Trillion-Dollar Firm Wants Out of Mamdani's NYC   As New York City's filthy commie mayor struggles to fill a $5.4 billion budget gap with a massive soak-the-rich-then-soak-them-some-more tax hike, trillion-dollar asset management fund Apollo Global Management says it will open a secondary headquarters in Florida or Texas. "Apollo expects most of its future hiring to be in the second hub rather than Manhattan," according to the New York Post, surprising literally no one.

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Movie: ’Project Hail Mary’ Is a Gut Punch to Woke Hollywood   That’s why the success of Project Hail Mary is so refreshing. It proves that audiences do not need to be lectured, scolded, or re-educated every time they buy a ticket. In the end, we want a good story and great characters. If Hollywood can learn anything from Project Hail Mary, it’s that original movies can still win, family-friendly movies can still draw crowds, and viewers are perfectly capable of rewarding good storytelling without the social-justice sermon attached.

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How the CCP Wages War Without Invading a Single American City

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Abortion Has Become a Religious Rite, not Just a Legal “Right”   Of course, asserting a religious right to kill kids is a diabolical attempt to be clever. And yet, twisting the state’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act is more than rhetorical snark. It indicates how dramatically the conversation about abortion has shifted in recent years, even as imaging technologies and prenatal medicine has clarified what abortion truly is. Not that long ago, politicians campaigned on the idea that no one really wanted abortion, but women needed it for extraordinary circumstances. Now, abortion is celebrated with light shows and dance parties, as if it is a moral good and any restrictions are a fundamental violation of human rights. It used to be “safe, legal, and rare.” Now, it’s “Shout your abortion!”

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Teacher Sexual Misconduct Is ‘Rampant’ in U.S. Schools, Leading Experts Find  “It’s under underreported because a kid feels ashamed, like it was their fault,” the Virginia Commonwealth University department chair and professor emeritus explained. “It’s very common for [the perpetrator] to make the kid believe ‘if you wouldn’t be so sexy, if you wouldn’t always be acting this way, I wouldn’t be doing this.’ These are adults who have good shaming and good grooming language.”

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This is the most wholesome shit I’ve ever seen !! ❤️ pic.twitter.com/HiYnek6LLi

— This Account Makes You Happy (@FeelYouHappy) March 30, 2026

Here Is Love, Vast as the Ocean...

 

Here Is Love, Vast as the Ocean 

The Gettys, Sandra McCracken

Vs 1

Here is love vast as the ocean

Lovingkindness as the flood

When the Prince of Life, our ransom

Shed for us His precious blood

Who His love will not remember?

Who can cease to sing His praise?

He can never be forgotten

Throughout heav’n’s eternal days

Vs 2

On the mount of crucifixion

Fountains opened deep and wide

Through the floodgates of God's mercy

Flowed a vast and gracious tide

Grace and love like mighty rivers

Poured incessant from above

Heav'n's peace and perfect justice

Kissed a guilty world in love

Vs 3

On the morn of resurrection

Mercy filled the thirsty grave

Where the stone of death burst open

Springs of life flowed unrestrained

Love no heart could ever measure

Joy no sorrows will outrun

Rush upon the soul believing

In the risen, reigning Son

Vs 4

Oh this love, vast love of Jesus

Bids us come and drink and live

To this weary world of longing

What more could our Savior give

Now to Christ who fully loved us

And who freed us from our sin

Be all glory and dominion 

Everlasting praise to Him

The tests of life are to make, not break us...

Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. -Romans 5:3-5

The tests of life are to make, not break us. Trouble may demolish a man’s business but build up his character. The blow at the outward man may be the greatest blessing to the inner man. If God, then, puts or permits anything hard in our lives, be sure that the real peril, the real trouble, is that we shall lose if we flinch or rebel.   -Maltbie D. Babcock

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LA and SD suffer major population drops as immigration slows and CA residents flee A steep drop in immigration, driven by tighter enforcement and fewer legal entry options, is leaving a noticeable dent. At the same time, high costs of living are pushing locals to relocate to cheaper parts of the country, creating a double hit that’s dragging population numbers down.

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Christianity collapsing, Islam rising (Again)? 

One of the two major political parties in the United States actually detests U.S. citizens and incessantly woos illegal aliens … and the other party doesn’t really do much about it.

   And a country that has deep, profound -- and almost ubiquitous -- ties to Christianity seems to eschew religion in favor of an anything goes hyper-secularism, yet welcomes, tolerates, and defends Islam, a pseudo-religion that considers women as property, stones gays and adulterers, and whose “bylaws” state that infidels must be converted, enslaved, or exterminated. Weird, wild, wacky stuff. And deeply disturbing.

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The Week in Pictures: Iran Derangement Syndrome 

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How far the Demoncrat party has fallen since the 1990s. pic.twitter.com/o5jNZ8m24g

— Robert W Malone, MD (@RWMaloneMD) March 27, 2026

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Unions being blessed by nature ❤️ pic.twitter.com/vdBaJIXzQH

— This Account Makes You Happy (@FeelYouHappy) March 28, 2026