Saturday, May 02, 2026

How Long, O Lord, How Long?

How Long, O Lord, How Long? (Psalm 13) 
 Sovereign Grace Music

VERSE 1
O Lord, our God, to You we come
Will You still hide Your face?
We cry before You and on our knees we pray
How long, O Lord, how long?
 
VERSE 2
Our sorrows leave us weak and worn
Surrounded by our fears
We look to heaven through feeble faith and tears
How long, O Lord, how long?
 
CHORUS
Till Your glory fills our eyes
And our faith is turned to sight
Till our thirsty souls are satisfied
How long, O Lord, how long?
 
VERSE 3
Our foes and enemies rejoice
Injustice seems to reign
Lord, we are shaken and we are losing strength
How long, O Lord, how long?
 
VERSE 4
But we will trust Your steadfast love
Your grace will be our song
You bring new mercies with ev’ry rising sun
How long, O Lord, how long?

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Sing praises to the Lord, O you his saints...

Sing praises to the Lord, O you his saints,
    and give thanks to his holy name.
For his anger is but for a moment,
    and his favor is for a lifetime.
Weeping may tarry for the night,
    but joy comes with the morning.
     -Psalm 30:4-5

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Why AI’s biggest threat is actually its power to seduce us — and the computers are already winning: Prof   We so often panic about how AI will outsmart us and take our jobs. But what if its ability to exploit mankind’s emotional quirks is more dangerous than anything else?
   “Seductive AI doesn’t depend on outsmarting people, but on essentially being lovable, being cute, being friendly, being sexy, so as to gain people’s trust and acquire influence over them,” Reynolds said.

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DOJ Launches West Coast Healthcare Fraud Strike Force Targeting Arizona, Nevada, and Northern California  The Healthcare Strike Force model has proven to be one of the most powerful tools in the federal enforcement arsenal, responsible nationally for the prosecution of over 6,200 defendants who collectively billed federal healthcare programs and private insurers more than $45 billion.

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Trump DOJ launches investigations into 36 Illinois school districts over LGBT indoctrination The probe will “examine whether the schools have notified parents of their right to opt their children out of” whatever instruction they may be conducting on “sexual orientation and gender identity,” the announcement says, and whether they are limiting restrooms, lockers, and athletic teams to actual members of their designated sex.

TAKE ACTION PARENTS: Muslim Brotherhood’s War on America’s Children-The MSA Takeover of U.S. High Schools-Texas Student Fights Back  The Muslim Brotherhood’s Muslim Students Association (MSA) is now aggressively infiltrating America’s high schools and junior highs, turning taxpayer-funded public schools into recruitment hubs for Sharia and Islamic indoctrination as the next phase of its civilization jihad.

Lesbian Communists Hijack New Hampshire Public School Curriculum    Translation: How do we consolidate and centralize our totalitarian grip on the education system so that not a single thoughtcrime is any longer possible?


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Bill in India smooths way for government to seize church assets   A sweeping foreign funding bill in India could hand the government control over faith-based schools, hospitals and charitable institutions built over decades, church leaders said.

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Friday, May 01, 2026

Pray without ceasing...

Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. -1 Thessalonians 5:16-17

I have quitted all forms of devotion and set prayers but those to which my state obliges me. And I make it my business only to persevere in His holy presence, wherein I keep myself by a simple attention, and a general fond regard to God, which I may call an actual presence of God; or, to speak better, an habitual, silent, and secret conversation of the soul with God, which often causes in me joys and raptures inwardly, and sometimes also outwardly, so great that I am forced to use means to moderate them, and prevent their appearance to others.  -Brother Lawrence

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What is easy to miss is that young men and women are responding to the same underlying wound: the collapse of community and the epidemic of loneliness. Men’s social networks have disintegrated more severely than women’s. In the absence of genuine community, many young men found their way to the manosphere—a kind of church of the self, offering moral clarity, structure, and belonging organized around masculine identity. Young women, equally lonely, found feminist influencers waiting for them online, ready to monetize their isolation and channel it into righteous grievance. Both, in other words, wanted community, moral structure, and a shared account of what human life is for. They just went looking for it in all the wrong places. First Things

Looking For the Gen Z Revival? Check Bookstores And Movie Theatres   This suggests a future for Gen Z that’s increasingly divided. Some will be in person at church. Others will be in person in bookstores. Others will be in person at running clubs, and others at movie theaters. But they will likely never talk to each other. The town square will be social media, and Gen Z will pick from the cafeteria of choices it offers to determine which in-person community they like best. 
   There’s still reason to believe religion itself will come out ahead on this in the long term.

Progressive Christianity Watch: Flirty God, Lesbian Angels, and Other Things Not in Your Study Bible  It’s been a while since I’ve written a Progressive Christianity Watch. I have a trio of doozies for you today, so enjoy.

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With so much evil seeming to be sweeping over the world and the West of late, just the other day I was thinking about biblical texts that speak of how God’s restraint over what happens on planet earth might be lifted (see 2 Thessalonians 2 for example). At the end of the day, the only reason things are not even worse than they are is because God has been keeping evil in check to some extent.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is very clear on the approach that the West must close borders and dismantle Islamist infrastructures to prevent the spread of radical Islam. Unlike the U.S. and Middle East, which are actively countering Islamist elements, Europe remains vulnerable due to political complacency and open borders. The influx of refugees and elites from Middle Eastern conflicts will accelerate Islamist demographic and political dominance.

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Thursday, April 30, 2026

We have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus...

Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.  -Hebrews 10:19-22

Ransomed men need no longer pause in fear to enter the Holy of Holies. God wills that we should push on into His Presence and live our whole life there. This is to be known to us in conscious experience. It is more than a doctrine to be held, it is a life to be enjoyed every moment of every day.   -A.W. Tozer

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BREAKING: House Votes to Fund DHS, Ending 75-Day Shutdown  House Speaker Mike Johnson spoke to reporters after the House adopted the Senate-approved package.
   “We’ve got the budget resolution passed. This is very, very important because that will ensure that border security and immigration enforcement will continue today and well into the future, despite Democrat attempts to reopen our borders and protect criminal illegal aliens from removal,” Speaker Johnson said.
   “The net result of passing our reconciliation bill is that ICE and CBP are funded for three years,” Johnson said.

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Blue Wednesday for communists...Iran is losing. Comey is losing. And America is having a great week.   We know the military is doing a good job because the media moved the war off the front pages. Instead, the DC bylines are all about the new White House ballroom.

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Supreme Court Rules on Faith-Based Ministries’ Rights  The court unanimously ruled in favor of faith-based ministries being able to seek federal assistance when intrusive state investigations threaten to undermine their mission, in First Choice Women’s Resource Centers v. Davenport. The ruling is also a major victory against the pro-death abortion lobby, and it's a triumph for the constitutional right to religious liberty, a right that leftists are constantly attempting to undermine.

Vermont pays Christian school $566k for athletics ban based on girls' forfeit against male  Mid Vermont Christian School is still suing other state officials because they have "yet again excluded all religious schools" from participating in the Green Mountain State's tuition and other public benefits programs, lawyers say.


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In Cities Across America, Homeless Services Are Doled Out Based on Race and Sexual Identity  Some formulas give race more weight than any other variable.

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Ozempic Personality: Ozempic is a gene-bending drug; it alters users' personalities  Drugs that alter genetic expression, such as Ozempic and GLP-1 drugs, can have severe adverse effects, including changes in personality, emotional flattening and loss of joy in life, due to their impact on consciousness.  Due to this effect, a new term, “Ozempic personality,” has been coined.

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Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Finally, be strong in the Lord...

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. -Ephesians 6:10-12

The Christian is engaged in a warfare. There is a fight before him, hence armour is urgently needed. It is impossible for us to stand against the wiles of the Devil unless we avail ourselves of the provision which God has made for enabling us to stand.   
-A.W. Pink Image

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Breaking Down the Would-Be Assassin’s Manifesto  “I experience rage thinking about everything this administration has done.”

Ever in “spin mode,” Democrats will continue to pretend that they are not responsible for all these threats to the lives of Trump, his administration, his voters, and law enforcement officers around the country.  Right after the latest attempt on the president’s life, Democrats in the press collectively blamed “guns.”  Democrat Congressman Jamie Raskin joined Democrat mouthpiece Margaret Brennan to call for a “national conversation” on “gun violence.”  
   In other words, Democrats call Trump and his voters “Nazis” and “racists.”  Democrat voters take those words seriously and attempt to kill Trump and his voters.  Then Democrats blame that violence on “guns” and demand that Trump supporters be disarmed.  Democrats’ ridiculous cycle of lies and violence would be laughable if it were not also so deadly.



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Brandon Gill Gives a Master Class on Questioning an Abortion Ghoul   It is a gruesome and intense questioning. Gill asked Waters which method of abortion she preferred, then proceeded to describe different procedures in horrific detail. After each one, he would again ask Waters if that was the method she preferred, making her increasingly uncomfortable.

House Republicans, Weaponization Victims Make The Case For Repealing The FACE Act  Previously reported data suggested the Biden administration disproportionately focused its FACE Act prosecutions on pro-lifers who prayed, sang, and evangelized at abortion facilities. The Trump administration’s latest report also determined the Biden DOJ requested and ultimately secured sentences that were longer for pro-lifers — an average of 26.8 months and 14 months respectively — than for pro-abortion defendants, who averaged 12.3 months and 3 months respectively.

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There’s Never Just One Cockroach...Discovery is going to be delicious In the SPLC’s case, according to the indictment, a future CFO hid names to defraud donors. Fake businesses. Shell accounts. Payments routed through “Rare Books Warehouse” so no one would know they were siphoning money to the very activists the SPLC claimed to oppose. They protected names because the truth was a scandal, and so they could keep making dat money.

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The fraud party is ending...Mehmet Oz is taking down California's health-care fraud network  Federal agents—the “new enforcers” in town—are now targeting bigger fish, the so-called “whales”: Scammers running large-scale fraud networks that have treated California like a modern-day gold rush. Since the early 2000s, these networks have exploited what they saw as fertile ground, siphoning billions from taxpayer-funded healthcare programs. Especially during periods of expanded coverage.


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Nursing Schools Can Finally Cure the DEI Disease    Over the past five years, these demands have metastasized across nursing education. Yet as future nurses have spent more time learning about fashionable political issues, they’ve spent less time learning about the care that patients need. In other words, the recent graduates of nursing schools have been less equipped to fulfill their fundamental duties. Nursing is an extraordinarily demanding field, and by diverting education time for DEI, nursing schools have directly put patient health at risk.

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Monday, April 27, 2026

Draw near to God....

 
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.  -James 4:8

Lift up your heart to Him, sometimes even at your meals, and when you are in company; the least little remembrance will always be acceptable to Him. You need not cry very loud; he is nearer to us than we are aware of.   -Brother Lawrence

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From One Assassination Attempt to the Next: Mainstreaming Violence Against a President -VD Hanson   From the trickle-down world of social media, the internet, and street theater, would-be killers absorb elite signals. This messaging becomes especially baleful when celebrities, governors, senators, and politicos amplify the claim that Trump is a fascist, a Nazi, a monster who is destroying the country and who must be stopped “by any means necessary.” Late-night comedians joke about past assassinations or assassination attempts; others have even claimed that Trump staged his first assassination attempt—and this one too!
   So deep runs their hatred.


WHCD gunman described himself as ‘Friendly Federal Assassin,’ denounced Trump policies: report The writings suggest what investigators are increasingly viewing as a politically motivated act of violence, according to a law enforcement official familiar with the case cited by the Associated Press.


'Atrocious': Melania Trump goes to war with 'hateful and violent' Jimmy Kimmel after eerie comments one day before assassination attempt   Monday morning, Melania Trump posted a fierce response to Kimmel's remarks, saying: "Kimmel's hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country. His monologue about my family isn't comedy – his words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America."

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Party of Assassins...The latest Trump assassin wasn’t a radical. He was a Democrat Islam, he said, is all about sex. In this life, high-status men get wives and sex slaves. Lower-status men get little boys. Then in the afterlife, if they’re good Muslims, they all get 72 virgins, which, for Biblical people, is a bizarrely carnal eternity.
   Modern Western nations, with their ideas about women’s liberation, are a serious threat to this system. It’s extremely important to defeat those ideas—and to control those women.

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Saturday, April 25, 2026

Good Shepherd of My Soul

 
Good Shepherd of My Soul 
Keith and Kristyn Getty

 Good Shepherd of my soul
Come dwell within me.
Take all I am and mould
Your likeness in me.
Before the cross of Christ
This is my sacrifice:
A life laid down
And ready to follow.

The troubled find their peace
In true surrender.
The prisoners their release
From chains of anger.
In springs of living grace
I find a resting place
To rise refreshed,
Determined to follow.

I'll walk this narrow road
With Christ before me
Where thorns and thistles grow
And cords ensnare me.
Though doubted and denied
He never leaves my side
But lifts my head
And calls me to follow.

And when my days are gone
My strength is failing
He'll carry me along
Through death's unveiling
Earth's struggles overcome
Heav'n's journey just begun
To search Christ's depths
And ever to follow.

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I am the good shepherd...

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. He who is a hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. He flees because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep.  I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me, just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep. -John 10:11-15

Jesus! where’er thy people meet,
There they behold thy mercy-seat;
Where’er they seek thee, thou art found,
And every place is hallow’d ground.
 
Dear Shepherd of thy chosen few!
Thy former mercies here renew;
Here to our waiting hearts proclaim
The sweetness of thy saving name.
-William Cowper

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Friday, April 24, 2026

My steadfast love shall not depart from you...

For the mountains may depart
    and the hills be removed,
but my steadfast love shall not depart from you,
    and my covenant of peace shall not be removed,”
    says the Lord, who has compassion on you.
-Isaiah 54:10

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SPLC, Swalwell, and the War for America's Minds  Because for the media, it's not about reporting. It's not about truth, facts, or anything else.
      It's about a war for the mind of the American public.


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A Burrito Stand Qualifies for Hospice Funding Under California's Medicaid System  The sheer scale of the fraud, combined with the complete absence of complaints when hundreds of these “providers” were shut down, tells us everything we need to know. Neither burrito nor real patients were being served — taxpayer dollars were.

The New York Times Celebrates Petty Theft...Another signpost on the road to full societal breakdown   Far from missing our moral code when it’s gone, however, Piker says of stealing from big corporations: “I think it’s cool. We’ve got to get back to cool crimes like that: bank robberies, stealing priceless artifacts, things of that nature. I feel like that’s way cooler than the 7,000th new cryptocurrency scheme that people are engaging in.”
   Asked if she would steal from Whole Foods, Tolentino answers: “Yes. And I have, under very specific circumstances. I will say, I think that stealing from a big box store — I’ll just state my platform — it’s neither very significant as a moral wrong, nor is it significant in any way as protest or direct action. But I did steal from Whole Foods on several occasions.”

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Goat rape and cat roasting? We are all richer for the presence of immigrants  Moreover, across the West, “undocumented immigrants” (Muslim illegal aliens) are complaining about everything from dogs to alcohol to music. One might logically ask “Why the hell did they wish to come to these countries, then?”
    Because they want the free stuff that we provide them. And they want to impose their will, their religion … and Sharia law. On the people who helped them out and gave them free stuff. That reflects badly on them. And worse on us if we continue to allow it.

In other words, DACA recipients who commit crimes are deportable under existing law, just like any other illegal alien. The program never granted immunity.
   In the end, the Trump administration is doing something radical by Washington standards: enforcing the law as written. And the left can’t take it.

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Why Do Democrats Hate America? Their business model runs on hate... How much do you have to hate America to finance racial hatred, chaos, animus, and social division?  Apparently the Democrat Party and its friends hate America enough to financially support all the groups they pretend to oppose.  Ponder that: Democrats financially support the very “hate” groups that they claim are destroying America.  By their own words, they are destroying America.

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Grappling with Hydras   A global hydra of tyrannies—from Caracas to Tehran to Beijing—spreads violence and narcotics abroad while its most dangerous head persists within America itself.

What is the one constant theme in this alternate left-wing universe?
   No Democrat outlines an immigration agenda, a way to round up Biden's criminal illegal alien entrants, an energy plan, a way to balance the budget, an anti-corruption agenda to stop the multibillion-dollar looting of the federal and state welfare systems, or a new strategic plan abroad. Instead, the party creates alternate realities that demand changing the system itself rather than working within it to appeal to the American voter.
   Living with daily delusions and shrieking at Trump demons raging in their collective heads is no way to run a country.

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When we recast sin as primarily a matter of feeling far from God rather than being in an objective state of rebellion against him, the solution gets altered. We no longer need a physician who prescribes a cure for a dying patient; we go looking for a therapist who helps us understand our feelings.

Are we done bullying nuns yet?
Apparently not, as evidenced by a new lawsuit in New York.

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The Road to Emmaus...A familiar Gospel story, and what it reveals about how we move through the world without seeing what’s right beside us   Those who would be disciples are reminded to listen, to look, to seek. To find. Because we are never alone in our journey. And when we discover that we are not alone, and who it is with us, we are uplifted as were Cleopas and his companion: “Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?” So much were they that they quit their meal and set back out on the road they had just trudged along. Only this time it is the road to Jerusalem—in Hebrew “Place of Peace.”

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