Friday, April 03, 2026

"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

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Thursday, April 02, 2026

"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

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Wednesday, April 01, 2026

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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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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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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Tuesday, 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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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.



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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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Monday, March 30, 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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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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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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Saturday, March 28, 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

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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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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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Friday, March 27, 2026

But now the righteousness of God has been manifested...

But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it—the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. -Romans 3:21-26

Straight through all the apparently tangled course of human history runs the accomplishment of God’s eternal plan. -J. Gresham Machen

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Drone Swarms Shutting Down Our Nuclear Strike Command:Barksdale Air Force Base  “Between March 9-15, 2026, BAFB Security Forces observed multiple waves of 12-15 drones operating over sensitive areas of the installation, including the flight line, with aircraft displaying non-commercial signal characteristics, long-range control links and resistance to jamming,” a confidential briefing obtained by ABC News said. “After reaching multiple points across the installation, the drones dispersed across sensitive locations on the base.”

FBI Announces Chinese Suspects Indicted for IED at CENTCOM Headquarters   The Federal Bureau of Investigation has revealed that a brother and sister from China are indicted in connection with an improvised explosive device (IED) placed at the base that serves as headquarters for U.S. Central Command, which is currently executing the Iran operation.


It’s Time To Acknowledge The Truth About China  The Chinese nation, using techniques other than open warfare, has long worked to turn the U.S. into a vassal state.

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Finland has shot itself in the foot in convicting Päivi Räsänen Senior US official Riley Barnes, speaking on behalf of the Trump Administration, has made his feelings clear on the conviction: "Holding Christian beliefs isn’t a crime. Finland’s 'hate speech' conviction of MP Päivi Räsänen – for simply writing a pamphlet defending the Bible – shows the tragic state of religious freedom in the West. The United States stands opposed to these ideological attacks against the Christian faith." Image

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European Leaders Now Know Trump Was Right: Iran Was an Imminent Global Threat  Iran’s failed strike on Diego Garcia exposed the truth: Tehran’s long-range ambitions were real all along—and Europe ignored the warning until it was too late.

‘Appalling’ Video Shows Protesters Cheer American Troops Returning Home From Iran War ‘In Caskets’   Shocking video from a radical anti-Iran war protest in Philadelphia showed participants explicitly supporting Islamic terror groups and calling for “cheers” every time an American servicemember comes home “in a casket.”

American universities have been shifting into a rhetoric that not only accepts “Death to America,” but is openly chanting the same slogans of the oppressive regime.

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Democrats Created A New Laken Riley — They Want You To Forget She Ever Existed  Sheridan Gorman is becoming the new name that Democratic political leaders would like to quickly forget...It’s been just over two years since Laken Riley, a nursing student in Georgia, was savagely murdered by a different Venezuelan illegal alien. 
   The cases are strikingly similar: a promising young woman with her whole life ahead of her is dead, the suspect is an illegal immigrant, and Democrats will point the finger at everyone but themselves. Image

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Massachusetts Plan to Replace Taxpayers with Migrants Collapses The deep blue state of Massachusetts is facing financial collapse: politicians raise taxes on remaining citizens as taxpayers flee the state on top of the cratering of the inflow of poor migrants.

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Islamic encroachment is moving swiftly across Texas, not only in education, but with the building of dozens of new mosques, the development of a large Muslim community, and infiltration of Christian churches, it is clear these are barbaric conquerors who will stop at nothing to totally destroy America. It is up to Texans to bring full stop to the assault on our schools, our history, and our way of life.

Illinois: 30,000 Muslims Fill Stadium for Mosque with Documented Terror Ties (Video) This is exactly the type of thing we don’t want...Wake up, America. The transformation isn’t coming — it’s already underway.

EU: New Report Warns ‘No-Go Zones’ Fueled by Mass Migration, Islamization, and State Weakness Are Spreading  While more commonly associated with Europe, no-go zones are increasingly evident in the United States. Police in Dearborn, Michigan, now have Arabic patches, and the city’s Muslim mayor, Abdullah H. Hammoud, warned a Christian resident he was “not welcome” in the city last year when he expressed opposition to street signs honoring an Arab publisher accused of supporting terror.

The strain of Islam that’s growing dominant in Britain has no interest in tolerance or pluralism.

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Apple Co-Founder Warns 'You Are Owned' by Big Tech   TVs have never been bigger, brighter, or cheaper. 30 years ago, I paid $750 (roughly $1,500 in today's dollars) for a 27" lo-def Sony Trinitron that seemed to weigh about as much as a small car. If you had told me then that in the future, that same money would get me a 70" 4K HDR screen so thin and light that I could hang it on the wall, I'd have said, "Bring it on!"
   But if you'd also told me that today's TVs would report to the manufacturer every show and movie I watch, and they'd sell that information to any and every advertiser out there… Well, I'd have been a lot less enthusiastic.

OpenAI “indefinitely” shelves plans for erotic ChatGPT  Insiders told FT that OpenAI mulled scrapping the “adult mode” plan entirely, as even its own advisors warned that ChatGPT users could form unhealthy attachments, which might harm their mental health. One advisor chillingly suggested that the tweak risked turning ChatGPT into a “sexy suicide coach.”

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