Saturday, July 11, 2026

God Is Faithful

 
God Is Faithful (Psalm 114)
Sovereign Grace Music

VERSE 1
God brought out His people with a strong and mighty hand
Took them out of slavery to behold the Promised Land
Mountains fled before them and the seas turned back and ran
And they saw that He was good
 
CHORUS 1
God is faithful to His promise
He is with us, He is with us
God is faithful, God is faithful to His own
 
VERSE 2
God has come to free us from the bondage of our sin
Tasting of His kindness we cannot go back again
Leads us through the desert to the rivers of His grace
Working all things for our good

VERSE 3
We have known Your mercy and Your love as in the past
If days be few or many You will guide us to the last
You have said it, we believe it, every promise holding fast
For we know that You are good
 
CHORUS 2
God is faithful to His promise
He is with us, He is with us
God is faithful, God is faithful to His own
You are faithful to Your promise, 
You are with us, You are with us
You are faithful, You are faithful to Your own

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Friday, July 10, 2026

“Beware of manufacturing a God of your own..."

“Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just; a God who is all love, but not holy; a God who has a heaven for every body, but a hell for none; a God who can allow good and bad to be side by side in time, but will make no distinction between good and bad in eternity. Such a God is an idol of your own, as truly an idol as any snake or crocodile in an Egyptian temple. The hands of your own fancy and sentimentality have made him. He is not the God of the Bible, and beside the God of the Bible there is no God at all." ...JC Ryle

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The Return of Socialism and the GOP's Golden Opportunity  In an April speech in Austin, Texas, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas argued that progressivism and American constitutionalism are fundamentally incompatible. He's right. It's also true that socialism — real, genuine socialism — is incompatible with the American way of life as it's been experienced for two and a half centuries. That's a fact — and it's a powerful argument to make in this milestone 250th American birthday year, in particular. Republicans should make that argument passionately and with alacrity.


Islamunist Mamdani Torched for Erasing Little Italy, Little Ireland, and Jewish Areas from Map of NYC, Includes Little Palestine New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is being shredded over a map of the Big Apple that glaringly omits iconic neighborhoods such as Little Italy, Little Ireland, and Jewish areas. Instead, there is heavy representation of Islamic enclaves such as Little Palestine, Little Pakistan, and Little Egypt, among others. The map was part of the World Cup tourism campaign, and Italians are calling it an insult to one of the communities that helped build New York.

Mamdani’s Rent Freeze Threatens Everyone Who Owns Anything  Fuel costs went up 11% in the last year, and insurance went up 10.5%, but Mamdani’s RGB announced Thursday that landlords will get no increases this year or the next. And, according to Mamdani’s campaign promises, not even in the years after, as long as he is mayor.
   Zero rent hikes will cause buildings to rapidly fall into disrepair — just what the new mayor intends. On May 29, he announced that when landlords fail to keep buildings up to code, “we will take aggressive legal action” to “transfer ownership to responsible stewards — stewards that include community land trusts, nonprofits and even the tenants themselves.”

“A specter is haunting America — the specter of communism.” That is a variation of the opening line of The Communist Manifesto (1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, which states: "A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism."
   Is it possible that the ghost of communism is indeed haunting America? How could that be? Didn’t we win the Cold War?

25 Million Communists in America...43% of ‘students’ rate Communism favorably  Demonstrating once again that at least part of the problem is the extended educational system, postgrads are the educational group with the highest level of support for Communism. Their 16% “very favorable” rating for Communism exceeds that of even Gen Z.
    Government employees are among the most positively disposed towards Communism with 14% “very favorable” towards Communism and 17% somewhat favorably disposed so that 31% or nearly a third of government employees have a positive view of Communism.
   A few generations ago we would have seen that as an urgent national security crisis. Now it just helps explain why our system works so badly and why the bureaucracy is so radical.


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Trump’s Immigration Enforcement Really Is Slashing Violent Crime   Nor is it a coincidence that the record influx of illegal immigrants during the Biden administration coincided with a sharp increase in violent crime. It is equally unsurprising that crime has fallen as deportations have increased. Deportation records show that 70 percent of illegal immigrants deported during the Trump administration had either criminal convictions or pending criminal charges in the United States. Even those who avoid arrest understand that any contact with law enforcement could lead to deportation, giving them a strong incentive to stay off the police’s radar and avoid committing additional crimes.

Fifth Circuit Rules Against In-State Tuition for Illegal Aliens  It is important to note that the ruling specifically states that universities cannot provide in-state tuition to aliens when it does not provide such benefits to American nationals regardless of residency. It therefore undercuts the tuition break for foreigners on the explicit argument of it being unfair to citizens not residing in the state i n question.

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Strongest El Nino In 75 Years Sets Off Food Supply-Chain Alarm Bells   The CPC, a NOAA/National Weather Service unit that issues official US government climate outlooks, wrote in its report that sea-surface temperatures at least 1C above normal have spread across the central and eastern equatorial Pacific, with an 81% chance the event becomes "very strong" and ranks among the largest on record since 1950. Some parts of the Pacific were 2.7C above normal last week. Image

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Meet the 15-year-old prodigy trying to unlock the secrets to human immortality  By the time many children are still settling into middle school, Simons was already moving through high school. He graduated at age 8 and began undergraduate studies in electrical engineering at Eindhoven University of Technolog before turning 10.
   He later shifted to physics at the University of Antwerp after scheduling problems disrupted the engineering program. The change did not slow him down.

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Kaiser Nurses Sound the Alarm That AI Surveillance Threatens Patient Care and Human Dignity  This push toward surveillance-heavy AI in healthcare fits a troubling pattern. Large institutions, often shielded by layers of bureaucracy and progressive policy, embrace unproven technologies while sidelining the experienced judgment of frontline workers.
   The result? A system that treats nurses not as skilled caregivers but as cogs in a machine optimized for throughput and savings.

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Thursday, July 09, 2026

Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God!

Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom 
and knowledge of God! 
How unsearchable are his judgments 
and how inscrutable his ways!
 “For who has known the mind of the Lord,
    or who has been his counselor?”
 “Or who has given a gift to him
    that he might be repaid?”
For from him and through him 
and to him are all things. 
To him be glory forever. Amen. 
-Romans 11:33-36

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Platner drops out of crucial Senate race after bombshell rape allegation torpedoes campaign  Platner's withdrawal clears the way for Maine Democrats to name a new challenger to Republican Sen Susan Collins...

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Trump Administration Targets Medicare Fraud After 7,100 Percent Surge in Transplant Claims  Administration officials said Medicare claims for tissue and organ transplants, known as allografts, climbed from $200 million in 2019 to $14.4 billion in 2025—a 7,100 percent increase.
    The surge led the White House Anti-Fraud Task Force, headed by Vice President JD Vance, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to intensify their review of claims. Since March, the agency has denied 96 percent of allograft claims identified during the review.

Staggering education fraud uncovered as SoCal school leaders stole $20M to bankroll lavish lifestyles   A new report revealing the staggering extent of fraud in America’s K-12 education system highlights a pair of California school leaders who separately stole nearly $20 million from their schools to bankroll their lavish lifestyles.

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New world screwworm spreads across Texas, threatening livestock and beef prices   A flesh-eating parasite has been confirmed in at least 31 locations across Texas. State and federal officials are working to contain the outbreak, as it threatens the state’s multibillion-dollar cattle industry.
   The United States Department of Agriculture has confirmed 32 new World screwworm infestations in the United States: 31 in Texas and one in New Mexico. Cases span 12 Texas counties and 23 separate premises. The most recent detection, a sheep in Crockett County, was confirmed July 3.

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Report Lays Out the Leftist 'Ideological Capture' of the Smithsonian   The report, which was published on Saturday, July 4, particularly took aim at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History (NMAH), accusing its leadership of adopting "an ideological framework that no longer treats the American story as a shared national inheritance to be taught or celebrated, but as a political instrument to divide, dispirit, and discourage our citizens."
   The report accuses the museum of "anti-White activism," "illegal alien activism," and "transgender activism." It also includes many photos of materials the White House has identified as problematic.

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Bangladeshi Muslim Migrant in UK Rapes 12-Year-Old Autistic Child   Notice that the prosecutors ascribe his “hostile attitude towards young girls” to “his culture.” The words “religion” and “Islam” are not mentioned. But Islam is his “culture.”

Nearly 30,000 Christians killed in Nigeria in six years   Tens of thousands of Christians are losing their lives to violence in Nigeria, many of them at the hands of radicalised Fulani herdsmen, a new report has warned.

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More Deaths on American Highways at Hands of Noncitizen Truck Drivers The Trump administration, led by Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, is ridding America's roadways of noncitizen truck drivers. But the death toll continues to rise amid legal and blue state pushback


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Wednesday, July 08, 2026

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ!

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who by God's power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.  
-1 Peter 1:3-5

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And when they vote Democrat, they are automatically, and always, voting for people who believe that a woman has a right to murder her unborn baby; that men can become women, and vice-versa, just by saying they are; that children can be mutilated for life and have a “gender change” for purely sexual reasons; that two people of the same gender can be acceptably “married” with God’s approval; that people from any nation on earth can come to America illegally for any reason they desire, be given the hard-earned money of American taxpayers, have a right to “free” healthcare, education, driver’s licenses, have the right to vote, and don’t even have to be deported to their home country when they commit the most heinous crimes against American citizens; etc., etc. etc.  My space is limited. This is what people who vote Democrat vote for, regardless of how “nice” they might be themselves. This is not righteousness, godliness, or decency; this is depravity gone to seed—at least based on the traditional moral values of the United States and Western Civilization. Image



New Yorkers Are Already Mad at Mamdani, and He's Just Getting Started  "New York residents are furious at Zohran Mamdani over power restrictions," Wall Street Apes reported on Monday. "Con Edison implemented 8% voltage reductions in parts of Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx and northern Manhattan. This means residents have to deal with things like slightly [dim] lights and appliances not working at full power."

Release the Clowns! Desperate Dems Send in the Odd Squad, Hilarity Ensues   The recent crop of Democrat politicians and the spellbound scullions who support them have something in common: They're crazier than squirrel scat.
   Each successive wave appears to be wackier than the last, which seems impossible considering what the Democrats have thrown at us in the last five years...

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Anglican Church of Canada: Pastoral Liturgies Blessing Euthanasia  By offering the supposed imprimatur of Christ — because that is whom the church is supposed to represent as His mystical body — to being euthanized and euthanizing, the Canadian Anglican Church has further normalized killing as an answer to human suffering. Perhaps even worse, its validation could result in deaths that might have been prevented as receiving the blessing could become the tipping point for some suicidal persons choosing lethality over struggling on.
   This will be of no consequence to those who are not believers. But for Christians throughout history, blessing euthanasia would be a most profound scandal.



PCUSA declares support for body-deforming trans surgeries for kids  The Presbyterian Church (USA), the largest Presbyterian denomination in the United States, has passed a measure expressing support for body-deforming sex-change surgeries for youth exhibiting gender dysphoria.

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63 Million Barrels Of Iranian Oil Stuck At Sea After US Pulls Iran Sanction Waiver  The Iranian attacks on three commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday prompted immediate US reaction with the USmilitary striking multiple targets in Iran and the Treasury canceling the waiver on Iran’s oil sales that was supposed to be in place until August 21.


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Syracuse chancellor launches task force in wake of enrollment declines and financial deficit  The school’s tuition has continued to rise alongside its commitments to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives.


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Tuesday, July 07, 2026

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation...

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.   -2 Corinthians 5:17-21

The love, therefore, wherewith God loveth, is incomprehensible and immutable. For it was not from the time that we were reconciled unto Him by the blood of His Son that He began to love us; but He did so before the foundation of the world, that we also might be His sons along with His Only-begotten, before as yet we had any existence of our own.  -Augustine

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The Democratic socialists are dissembling much the same way that Islamists use taqiyya, a doctrine of duplicity, to cover their fundamentalist beliefs so they can fit in with the West. France 24, the state-owned news outlet, characterized taqiyya in a headline as “the terrorist ‘art of deception.'”




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Surveillance State Has Arrived, And Masked Heroes Are Already Fighting Back Solar-powered black boxes have been installed in communities across the U.S. under the guise of “public safety.” Yet, in true American fashion, resistance is rising against what can only be described as the arrival of a full-fledged surveillance state.

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An Independence Day movie depicts a young man learning to carry the weight of destiny.

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Monday, July 06, 2026

And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more...

And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God. -Philippians 1:9-11

Grant to us, O Lord, to know that which is worth knowing, to love that which is worth loving, to praise that which pleaseth Thee most, to esteem that which is most precious unto Thee, and to dislike whatsoever is evil in Thine eyes.  -Thomas à Kempis

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Trump's America 250 Celebration Was One for the History Books Despite the inclement weather, President Donald Trump ensured that the celebrations for America’s 250th birthday went on. The fireworks show and his speech were something for the history books. Image



A Tale of Two Countries: On the 250th anniversary of the Declaration, America’s story is cast as either triumphant inheritance or unfinished grievance, with no neutral ground in between  It is indeed curious that just as America begins to recover its political specific gravity, shedding the smothering carapace of top-down regulatory excess and the insanity of woke ideology, pustules of socialist or communist hysteria pop up in susceptible municipalities. I suspect that, like some virulent fevers, it will run its course and then die out. But Trump is right to warn about its danger because, ignored, it might well turn into the sort of all-consuming illness that the twentieth century saw ravage many other societies across the globe. Zohran Mamdani still trots out his ensorcelling smile when the cameras are running. But be warned. Behind that seductive mask are all the hideous evils that Donald Trump adduced in his brief speech.

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TRUMP recognizes 107-YEAR-OLD NAVY VETERAN
 and D-DAY SURVIVOR Arthur Rose on Independence Day

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Even so, you would have to have been hiding under a multicultural rock in the Arabian desert to not have noticed the social problems that have arisen in Britain in correlation with the unprecedented levels of Islamic immigration in recent years. To take the most obvious and most harrowing example, there has been a discernible increase in police-recorded rape offences in the UK, which went from around 8,000 a year in the early 2000s to a staggering 74,000 per year today. Astonishingly, this is an almost 1000% increase, with the very highest spikes all coming from 2021–2025, a time during which Britain has also experienced record numbers of mass immigration by people of Muslim background.

In Europe, a new chapter has been written in the grim history of Islamist abuse of European women—and the story of Europe’s historical enmity with Islam. The establishment has done everything to pretend that this story is not unfolding, despite riots, no-go zones, infidel-free ghettos, and growing civil unrest. Rupert Lowe’s Rape Gang Inquiry has blown that story wide open, and it can no longer be ignored.

The LGBTQ Movement Just Found Out How Islamic Nations Actually Feel About Them  Turkish authorities have banned a cruise ship catering to American LGBTQ2S+ travellers from docking in the country's ports, citing "moral standards" and "family values," the CEO of the events company behind the upcoming Mediterranean tour said Thursday.

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Saturday, July 04, 2026

Awaken Us Today...

 
Awaken Us Today
From the Original Motion Picture "A Great Awakening"

From the oceans, through the valleys
From the mainland to the shore
Let Your Kingdom be awakened
In the hearts of men once more
Call Your children into freedom
Captive souls to liberty
Come awaken, Holy Spirit!
Come awaken us today!

Love unending, grace unyielding
Tender mercies from thy throne
Brings the lost soul into families
Calls the wayward sinner home
Bring salvation, Great Redeemer
Holy fire fan to flame
Come restore us, come revive us
Come awaken us today!

I will serve Thee, Precious Jesus
Unto Thee I give my all
Lay my hands unto thy service
And my heart unto thy call
Perish every fond ambition
Lay aside all selfish gain
All forsaken for thy glory
Come awaken us today!

Wake, O sleeper, from your slumber!
Saints awaken, come to life!
Christ will rise and shine upon you
In His heav'nly light divine
Like the sunrise in its dawning
Breaking darkness with new light
Rise upon us, King of glory
Come awaken us today!
For Your Kingdom, For Your Glory
Come awaken us today!

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