....The life of the church may feel more natural and organic in church without formal membership—but it’s the organic relationships of a commune, not a family. Communes are just people who happen to live near one another, but a family is a web of organic relationships that develop within defined commitments and roles. If you want the church to be a family, commit to formal church membership.

....I know that the word “revival” scares people today. We do not need revivalism. We do not need a neat little formula that produces a predictable result. We need to truly repent of sin and turn to God. We need a Haggai 1 type response to truth.

This is not simply because many of us voted for Trump. The hostility was there long before he came on the scene, and it will be there long after he is gone.

It is because we hope in an eternal savior that we joyfully continue our daily lives. We don't need a week off of classes or work to mourn an election. Our daily joys have suffered no loss of meaning.

....“The policy basically says that it’s normal for a baby with Down syndrome to be terminated right up until birth.”

....In an interview with The Arab American News two weeks ago, Kamala Harris explicitly stated that she was committed to creating a Palestinian state inside the borders of Israel with its capital in Jerusalem while limiting the number of Jews permitted to live in Judea and Samaria.

Hillsong has fired Carl Lentz, the pastor of its New York City branch.

Something happened in my house this week that those who know me will find unbelievable: I cut the remaining cord to cable news.  Fox News, the only remaining cable news source I considered somewhat trustworthy, found itself banned from my home with all other cable news.

....Ah, how insignificant a matter will mar our peace of mind: some little thing that happened in getting to your pew—some trifling incident even while you are in it, waiting for worship to begin, may, like dust in your eye, cause you the greatest distress. Such poor creatures are we that we may lose our peace of mind even by a word or a look.

Hey guys, this thing is not only not over; it is scary for Biden.  I mean really scary, and most of all, the media know it.  

Dozens of leaked internal documents and Zoom call video footage were made public Sunday describing plans by progressive activists and federal workers to disrupt and destabilize the outcome of Tuesday's presidential election, including plans to "shut down the White House."

The Italian archbishop best known for confronting Pope Francis over the Vatican’s willful blindness to priests who abuse boys has written a letter in which he lashes out at the “global elite”, prompting some to accuse him of sympathizing with the “QAnon” movement of conspiracy theorists.

.....If we are to see a genuine move of God (which is the only hope for our nation) then we must humble ourselves and confess our pride as well as besetting sin. Our blessings have become a curse; our abundance has taken us away from God. Pride is so powerful that many people reading this will get upset rather than humble themselves and seek God afresh

....Donald Trump wildly exceeded my expectations. He has defended the rights of the unborn, appointed originalist judges, and consistently and boldly defended religious liberty. His foreign policy accomplishments which have been all but ignored by the media are astonishing. No one in history has done what Trump has in the Middle East

.....This soft totalitarianism is based upon an ideology that has set aside the ideals of classical liberalism in favor of a new progressive creed. This creed, often known as “social justice,” diminishes individual identity in favor of group identities based on gender, race, sexuality, and so on.

....Today’s teenagers are growing up in a society that is increasingly hostile to faith, especially regarding faith-based values, and the social cost of being identified as religious amongst one’s peers is getting higher with each passing day.

...."Am I willing to go to jail? I'm willing to be obedient to God," said Pastor Mike McClure.

Religious leaders across the country are urging Americans to accept the results from Tuesday's presidential election as police and retailers prepare for civil unrest

....So it truly makes you sit back and wonder, “What is John Piper thinking” when he can draw a parallel between the personally destructive arrogance of Trump (a well documented given) and the destructive arrogance of the worldview of the left that ultimately was behind the death of 125,000,000 human beings in the 20th century.

France is deploying military forces at religious sites as pastors are anxious and anguished after a Greek Orthodox priest was attacked with a sawn-off shotgun in the city of Lyon on Saturday, days after three people were killed in an Islamist extremist attack at a Catholic church in the city of Nice.

The son of the man expected by many to be America’s next President abandoned a laptop containing a treasure trove of top-secret material, including his father’s private emails and mobile phone numbers, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

Joe Biden made no bones about it: If he wins the presidential election, he will gut religious freedom protections that allow faith-based homeless shelters, charities, and small business owners to act according to their consciences. Specifically, he will shove LGBT ideology down the throats of religious Americans in the name of fighting “discrimination.”

....While Falwell’s personal behavior and self-dealing raised alarms among some Liberty loyalists, including people close to his father, they would leave the university  — and keep quiet about their misgivings.

....The particular class of people who have ruled this nation in recent decades worship no one but themselves.  They despise us because we fail to worship them.  Christianity, straight-up and unadulterated, is an affront to their authority.  A sign of inferior breeding.  A vulgar deficit of what is needed to be cool.

The rise of the political organization Black Lives Matter and the modern social justice movement has caused no small disturbance in the American church. Some people are confused, some are overwhelmed, some are overconfident, and some are deceived.

....Like me behind the wheel as a sleepy driver, the church at Ephesus needed something to jolt them out of their regular routine. This was a church with 30-50 yrs. of history under their belt. They had begun well, under the discipleship and teaching ministry of Aquila and Priscilla, then the apostle Paul....

Pope Francis has once again betrayed traditional Roman Catholics with a statement that appeared to support civil unions for same-sex couples and has let that misconception stand without correcting the record.  Prominent church leaders are not about to let the usual weaponized ambiguity -- a hallmark of the liberal Pope Francis' reign -- go unchallenged.

The president shared his change in religious identity in a written interview with the Religious News Service. “Though I was confirmed at a Presbyterian church as a child, I now consider myself to be a non-denominational Christian,” Trump wrote, without giving an explanation for the transformation or saying when it occurred…Trump, who contracted COVID-19 in early October, attributed his swift recovery to his faith.