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Wednesday, September 15, 2021

A.W. Workman: Discipleship Is a Type of Suffering

The normal work of discipleship is a type of suffering. This, according to Paul in 2nd Timothy 2:2-7.
Proclaim & Defend: Help Wanted

...God designed man to have both activity and responsibility...

Tuesday, September 14, 2021

Christian Pastors Urge Congregants To Vote For Larry Elder In Recall Election

“We want Christians to know the issues are and who most represents their biblical world view...”
WND: Soaring Through the Roof---Vaccine Deaths Skyrocket

The U.S. gov't database that keeps track of deaths from vaccine side effects has exploded by 10-fold since the advent of COVID-19, and the experimental vaccines that have been developed in response.
National File: CDC Claims COVID Is Deadlier Now, In So-Called Fourth Wave, Than It Was When Nobody Was Vaccinated During Second Wave

...The fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US appears to be nearly twice as deadly as the second wave, which occurred months before hundreds of millions of people received vaccinations...
Muslim Teens Murder Christian Teen Who Would Not Renounce Christ

A 19-year-old Christian was beaten and strangled to death by Muslim extremists in eastern Uganda while fishing with some of his friends.
New Poll Says Americans 'Passionately' Oppose Biden's Vaccine Mandate
Christian Converts Arrested As Iranian Authorities Raid Church Gathering

Three Iranian Christians were arrested in the city of Rasht while attending a house church service.
TGC: How To Make Sense of The Conflict In Nigeria

...The security situation in Nigeria is complicated to understand, even for those of us living in Nigeria.
AFN: COVID---A Stepping Stone For a Climate Scheme

"They want to use Big Tech to use your smartphone to track you..."
Newsmax: Medical Workers Sue NY Over Vaccine Mandate
Students At Ohio University: Pro-Life Group ‘a Danger To the Student Body’

The student newspaper at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio criticized the school for allowing a pro-life group to be established on campus because it poses “a danger to the student body.”
Nigerian Pastor ‘Macheted To Death,’ Body Found By Search Party

Unknown assailants in Nigeria’s Kaduna State “macheted to death” a pastor, as the troubling trend of deadly attacks on Christians carry on unabated in that country, according to a report.
American Thinker: The Disposable Children of the Pandemic

The rhetoric about and treatment of children over the past 18 months has flung open a window into the soul of America’s ruling class.
Proclaim & Defend: The Problem of Psalm 91

Psalm 91 is arguably one of the most beautiful chapters in all of the Bible.
Tim Challies: Why Marriage Is Better Than Cohabitation

Though Christians continue to affirm the uniqueness, the goodness, and the necessity of marriage, our society continues to legitimize cohabitation as either an alternative to marriage.
The Stream: Does the Bible Limit Gender To Just Male and Female?

There’s a trendy new idea that denies God created only two genders (male and female).
PJ Media: Biden's Vaccine Mandates Are Racist and Elitist

The administration and its leading health experts have done more to confuse Americans about what the vaccine does and doesn’t do than any cable news program or Facebook post.
Randy Alcorn: How To Welcome Criticism and Respond To It With Grace

Because everyone is flawed, everyone can also expect criticism from time to time.
Desiring God: Death Will Teach You What To Say Today

Potentially terminal news, for all its unspeakable sorrow, has a way of prioritizing what we want to say most to those around us while we still have the chance.

Monday, September 13, 2021

In Defense of Motherhood ---What’s Wrong With 'Birthing People'

That motherhood and childhood begin in pregnancy is highly embarrassing to liberal anthropology. The physical and genealogical dependence of children on their parents attacks the thesis that we are isolated individuals rather than members of families that precede and survive us.
In Pakistan, Muslim Gunmen Open Fire On Church, Christians’ Homes

A group of heavily armed Muslim men fired bullets indiscriminately at a church and Christians' homes, wounding at least four Christians, including a six-month pregnant woman, in Pakistan’s Lahore city...
Alex Berenson: The British Are Dropping Vaccine Passports

Just so we’re clear: they’re not doing this because they think vaccines work - but because they don’t.
Breitbart: Australian Church Leaders Reject Government Vaccine Mandate

Australian Christian leaders in the state of New South Wales (NSW) say they do not attend to turn away unvaccinated churchgoers despite Canberra’s claimed mandate to do so.
Watchdog Warns of Christian Persecution Once U.S. Withdraws From Iraq

As President Biden plans to withdraw all U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of the year, some religious freedom watchdogs are sounding a warning about how Christians will face severe persecution...
Breitbart: Trump Addresses Christian Worship On National Mall

Former President Donald Trump addressed hundreds of people who gathered on the National Mall on Saturday to pray for America and honor the 2,877 innocent people killed on September 11, 2001.
Biblical Beliefs Take a Nose Dive

A newly released American study draws attention to a “striking decline” in traditional biblical beliefs among those who claim to be evangelicals.
Supreme Court Delays Execution of Inmate Over Pastoral Touch Request

The case, involving a Christian convert and his Southern Baptist minister, is the latest in ongoing First Amendment disputes over the role of clergy in the death chamber.
Washington Court Upholds Gag Rule On Private Christian Therapists
AFN: Evangelical Lutheran Church Installs First Transgender Bishop

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of America installed its first openly transgender bishop in a service held in San Francisco's Grace Cathedral on Saturday.
American Thinker: Inconvenient Facts About Biden's Vaccine Mandate

Joe Biden took to his lectern on Thursday, shaking with righteous anger. Not at al-Qaeda/Taliban terrorists. Instead, his anger was reserved for those intransigent Americans who refuse to get vaccinated.
Live Like the Amish? (from Crisis, a catholic mag)

There is one major exception in the decline of American churches—the Amish—a mustard seed that is growing into a large tree in front of our eyes.
Proclaim & Defend: Silence Is Golden---Or Is It?

Silence is not always good! Silence is often a way out.
American Thinker: The Coming COVID Apartheid

Even before his Thursday speech, President Biden was seeking to demonize the unvaxxed.
PNW: Biden Appeasement of Iran Forcing Israel's Hand

...From the perspective of Iran's mullahs, Biden's desperate efforts to resurrect the nuclear deal manifested his weak leadership and therefore a delectable opportunity for Tehran to buy time...
Desiring God: Judge Others as You Want To Be Judged

“Judge not.” Few words of Jesus are more familiar, even to non-Christians.
For the Church: Christianity Can Be Safe Space For Truth-Seeking Intellectuals

Free thinking, fearlessly open dialogue, a willingness to voice unpopular ideas: these are increasingly endangered species in a society ever more surveilled by Orwellian thought police.

Sunday, September 12, 2021

Taliban Flag Flies At the Afghan Presidential Palace On 9/11

Prime Minister Mohammad Hasan Akhund raised the Taliban flag at 11:00 a.m. at the presidential palace...
Christian Post: In China, Police Raid Christian Music School, Arrest Principal

Communist authorities in China’s Heilongjiang province raided a Christian music school, took away dozens of students and teachers for investigation and arrested the principal, according to reports.
Newsmax: CDC Says Vaccines Lose Effectiveness For Those Over 75
Powerline: Fauci Fumbles Natural Immunity

Fauci disingenuously acts as though natural immunity is a new and untested idea, and pleads ignorance.
Study: Boys More At Risk From Covid Shots Than Covid Itself

"Young males are six times more likely to suffer from heart problems after being jabbed than be hospitalised from coronavirus," the Telegraph reported...
Poll: Little Can Be Done To Persuade Unvaccinated Americans To Get the Shot
Lifeway: Christians Don’t Share Their Faith With Unchurched Friends

Most unchurched Americans say they have multiple Christian friends, but those friends haven’t shared with them how or why they should follow Christ.
Barton: Biblical Mandate To Help Afghans Clashed With Evil State Dept.

Christians are being hunted down and killed like animals in Afghanistan, and an American who is involved in helping them escape says he is obeying a biblical mandate to help fellow believers.
American Spectator: The Very American Heroism of Todd Beamer

Why is Todd’s story so important? And why should we remember it today?
Harbingers: Israel Will Act Against Iran’s Nuclear Aspirations If World Hesitates

Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid tells his Russian Counterpart Sergei Lavrov – ‘unless the international community acts against Iran’s nuclear aspirations – Israel will opt to act on its own.
Politico: The Real Biden Presidency Emerges

...Leaving Americans behind in a foreign country after an enemy of the United States swept to power and chased us out with our tails between our legs, though, is not likely to be forgotten...
Navy SEAL: ‘Wokeness,’ ‘Political Correctness’ Killed 13 Troops In Afghanistan

He assessed incompetent advice up the chain of command among leadership as a function of ambition.
Bill Randles: 9/11---On Learning Little Or Nothing

Here we are twenty years after the Savage attack on innocent people, by Islamic Terrorists on 9/11, 2001, and the western world seems to be even blinder then before that fateful day.