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"Not a red elephant or a blue donkey, but a slain lamb"
"Neither Right nor Left"
"Doesn't matter who's in the White House, we know Who runs God's house"
"There will be people in heaven who voted differently than you"
"We're not building Empire, we're exiles in Babylon."
All technically true statements (in important ways!).
But all FUNCTION as permission structures to be a Christian and vote for the party that enshrines the soft (for now) persecution and national sin into law.
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Yes, it can be pastorally awkward to talk about, but there is only one political party that does this to Christians *everywhere* they get power.
And there are prominent pastors (and entire Christian leadership networks, publishing arms, media platforms) who consistently create permission structures for Christians to keep voting for what is legitimately Christian persecution and national sin.
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Tackling all the big questions with @ChloeCole @PastorCWBrooks1 @jonathan_noyes @realsabijoy and Scott Symington at ReMind 2026 - a youth and young adult cultural apologetics conference. Check out remindconference.com!
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**“I stand for the flag. I kneel for the Eucharist.”** Fr. Chris Alar delivers a passionate homily about Catholic moral teaching, patriotism, and the responsibility of Christians to remain faithful to their religious convictions. Reacting to a recent election, Fr. Alar
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Trying to convince American Jews to stop supporting those who want to kill them is as difficult as convincing Arab Christians to stop supporting those who have subjugated them for 1,400 years.
Cowardice is the default state of man.
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So what if a Muslim wins an election in America and becomes a congressman or senator? Why is that any different from a Buddhist winning an election?
Because Buddhism is a religion. Islam is a state.
Islam has a population: the ummah. It has a constitution: Sharia. It has courts, criminal law, family law, taxation, rules for minorities, doctrines of war and peace, and a foreign-policy framework governing relations between the land of Islam and the lands outside it.
The ummah is not tied to Egypt, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, or any other modern country. It crosses all of them.
Islam's population "Muslims" belong to one political-religious community.
That is fundamentally different from Buddhism.
A Buddhist American may practice Buddhism faithfully, but Buddhism does not give him a second universal political order with its own law, sovereignty, territorial doctrine, and theory of government.
Islam does.
This is why reducing Islam to “just another religion” misses the point.
Muslim officeholders are literally citizens of another existing country, and their loyalties can never be American first, because the two projects are contradictory.
Add to that the religious hatred of Jews in Islam and the special relationship between Israel and America.
A Muslim in a position of power in America, with a religious mandate to hate Jews, will not approach Israel from the perspective of what is in America’s best interest, but rather from the perspective of what Islam commands him to do.
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I have so many thoughts about the recent midterm elections.
I'm working on something more formal and thorough, but I wanted to get something out there as quickly as possible.
Here are three things the Lord showed me.
First, as somebody who unashamedly voted for President Trump three times, I believe these results are the discipline of God on his recent leadership.
Months ago, when he posted the picture of himself looking like Jesus healing the nation, I was grieved. And the Lord said this to me:
His arrogance needs to be put in check, or he will become like Nebuchadnezzar, who experienced the ultimate humiliation at the height of his power.
Now I look back and understand what God was showing me.
I say this with all humility and the fear of the Lord.
Despite his crudeness and many flaws, he was appointed by God to stand as a wall protecting the Church, America, Israel, and even the free world.
But he allowed his pride to consume him, especially with how he handled the the Iran war.
And now he is experiencing the humiliation that comes with touching the things only God can touch.
God will share His glory with nobody.
I pray he repents and humbles himself before Almighty God.
Second, look at how many people voted for abortion up to the ninth month. Look at the people on social media gloating about abortion and about transgendering kids.
This is Romans 1 playing out in real time. God's passive wrath. Giving rebellious people over to their desires.
Claiming to be wise, they became utter fools.
That's what is happening in this culture. And that's what is being exposed right now in the hearts of men and women.
The Bible says in these days people will heap up for themselves false teachers who tickle their itching ears.
We see that with James Talarico, who just won the Senate in Texas. He campaigned aggressively against Christian nationalism while using a twisted, perverted interpretation of the gospel to win support from Biblically-illiterate believers and prop up his pro-trans beliefs.
The irony.
You now have a Muslim senator, Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan who is a sympathizer of the Muslim Brotherhood, a group that has openly shared its 100-year plan to overthrow the West and establish Sharia law in the United States of America.
Let's be clear. Islam is not a religion.
It is a theocratic political organization that moves like a python to strangle the values of Western civilization from the inside out.
And we are gleefully letting the snake into our home unchecked.
Why would we be so naive and arrogant to think that couldn't happen here? It's literally happening before our eyes.
Read this warning from an Iranian in my DMs this morning.
But the third and most important indictment is on the Church of Jesus Christ.
Especially the leaders.
As I'm preparing my sermon for this Sunday, I just happen to be at the beginning of the Book of Ezekiel.
It was written as the Israelites were being taken into Babylonian exile. False prophets were saying, "It's not going to be that bad. Just 2 years of trial, and then God will set you free."
But God told His prophet, "I did not speak to those people. It's not going to be 2 years. It'll be longer. So settle in."
The connection is uncanny.
To every Christian saying, "It might not be great, but it's just 2 years, and in 2028 it's going to be fine": don't fool yourself.
What we're experiencing is not just a swing in political preference that will swing back in 2028.
We are seeing a fundamental shift in how this country views theology, or tries to eradicate it.
We are seeing the rise of open socialists and Marxists who hate God and are enemies of the gospel.
We took the Christendom foundation of this country for granted. And we abdicated it through our silence to wicked men and women who hate God.
Don't be surprised if in the next 10 to 20 years we see legislation here like Canada, where a preacher can be penalized for "hate speech" at his church, even if he's just preaching the Bible.
Or like the UK, where you can be arrested for a social media post deemed hate speech, especially against Islam.
This is not a lighthearted message. It is an absolute wake-up call to the Church of Jesus Christ.
Our hope was never in politicians. And any shred of hope we had in these leaders to stand up for righteousness has been destroyed.
This is a reckoning moment for this country. The Church of Jesus Christ needs to decide how seriously we will take our faith and the true teachings of the Lord Jesus.
Preachers and pastors must decide in this hour who they will serve.
Will they serve itching ears?
Will they bend over for goats?
Will they cower before wolves?
Will they fear the sheep they're called to lead?
Or will they fear God and preach the full counsel of His Word?
I'm not hopeless for America. I believe God wants to extend mercy to this country. But it's going to cost us.
Our reputation. Our businesses. Everything. While we fulfill our biblical mandate to pray for all who are in leadership, we also must fulfill our Great Commission.
To go all in for the gospel and preach the Word to all creation, no matter what people call us.
The time is now to repair the breach.
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A generation walking by sight. A church that doesn't know its Bible. Hatred for Israel is rising and almost none of the comments cite scripture.
Get back in your Bible.
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Top Democrat strategist Van Jones,
One of Obama’s former aides during his presidency
Released this message to #Michigan on #AbdulElSayed
#Midterms
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Mike Lee wants the Senate to stay in session, cancel its vacation, and confirm all 135 of President Trump's nominees before Schumer takes the gavel in January.
He argues every vacant seat benefits Democrats and holds Thune responsible.
Should the Senate cancel its vacation? YES or NO?
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The evidence of God's impossibly complex design is EVERYWHERE. This one just happens to be absolutely mind-blowing.
This one from my friend @louiegiglio is worth your time.
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Wanna hit this real quick, because it became kind of ridiculous.
- Spiritual leaders have been teaching and leading the people of God toward generosity to build the kingdom for over 3,000 years.
- Unless you are going to say that virtually every pastor since ~350AD was "being manipulative" (you will basically not be able to name a pastor in all of history who did not preach in a building the people of God graciously and honorably sacrificed generously to build), calling people to generosity to build the church that helps reach and disciple the nations and their grandchildren is both normative and God-glorifying
- It might be "manipulative" if I was somehow personally benefitting from this. I don't get a dime extra for doing this. On the other hand, my family will *give* very, very radically, but I don't personally profit from this in any way. I'm HONORED to stand next to my people and sacrifice with them.
- The number is only weird to you because of scale. I pastor a church of over 30k people. This resource initiative would be the equivalent of my old church raising ~$375,000 over the course of 2 years.
In addition to building churches to reach 5 more communities in the DFW area, here's what this will do...
- Personally fund the translation of the Bible into the language of an unreached people group for the first time in history
- Build 2 special needs facilities to minister to families of children with special needs
- Build a Missions Center that operates a food pantry that gets meals to hundreds of thousands of people per year, a clothes' closet that gets clothes to struggling families, and teaches English as a second language to people who need it
- Put Bible teaching in prisons to reach and minister to 1.2M incarcerated people in the US
- Plant 25 new completely autonomous churches in the hardest to reach cities in North America
- Fund international missions for 25 churches in countries all over the globe
- Fund ~50 local missions partners doing things like rescuing women in our sex trafficking, pregnancy centers helping women considering abortion, etc.
- Tons more
^^^Not manipulative and not evil. Wonderful, God-glorifying, worth it.
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Over the past week I’ve watched the posts about Pastor @howertonjosh: the size of his home, his net worth, and his call for generosity in the Into the Breach campaign have caused me to shake my head.
Everything on this earth belongs to God. He owns it all. Every one of us should already be asking how to steward His resources well. That is the heart of what Josh was preaching.
Let’s be clear. Josh talked about homes in general, not a specific one. He walked people through stored resources (savings, stocks, property) and said something like this: if you’re already honoring God with your home, Rooted Group, Life Group, hospitality, using it as a ministry base, then don’t sell it. You’re already stewarding it. If you’re not, the Spirit may show you one of two things: redeem the home you already have by turning it into a place of ministry, or release that resource by faith and get into something you will honor Him with. He never told anyone to sell or give anything away without first seeking the Lord. Framing it as a command to liquidate for the church is gaslighting the actual teaching.
The Lord has had me do this individually. I once received a gift and resource and I heard the Holy Spirit say, “What would you do if I asked you to give it away?” That’s what I ended up doing over the next month or so. It’s biblical. “Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver” (2 Corinthians 9:7).
Here’s why I’m speaking up.
I didn’t follow Josh until a few months ago, when the Holy Spirit first put him on my heart. On September 23, more than a month before any of this was trending, I sent him a personal prophetic word. The Lord has now asked me to share part of it.
In that word, the Lord showed me Josh’s heart for generosity. I wrote that he is “a very generous giver, and one that is not known or spoken about.” It spoke of a season of increase, and of the Lord having him “steward and hold some of the provision for a time to multiply and then give.” It also warned that the enemy would try to hit him “with a thousand cuts,” and that the Lord was working so “the outlandish attacks of this season DO NOT wear you down.”
So when I see him attacked over his finances, his home, or how he calls people to steward God’s resources, I call it what it is: foolishness. Only God knows a man’s heart. And He spoke about this man’s heart weeks before the internet decided to judge it. Josh is a giver. Josh is a faithful steward of God’s resources.
To those posting pictures of his family’s home: that is not accountability. That is cruelty and a safety issues for this man of God.
Josh, stand strong. May blessing upon blessing come to you, your family, Lakepointe, and everyone Lakepointe serves.
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🚨 Inside the Largest Government Funded Human Trafficking Ring in History: Your tax dollars trafficked over 300,000 children across the United States while NGOs enriched themselves with millions of dollars.
One NGO received $895 million to traffic children across the US. Others got $100+ million, and NGOs in areas like Tucson, Arizona pocketed millions but now receive nothing since the border shut down.
In this video we break down the contracts, speak with former Border Patrol, and confront the NGOs. It’s a must watch, like it and share it. Make sure no one forgets the hundreds of children lost in the government’s hands.
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Once upon a time, Billy Graham got a speeding ticket.
He showed up to court and experienced the most unexpected lesson that mirrors the gospel.
(Shout out to my friend Pastor @Ed_Newton who I heard this illustration from last week!)
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For the last several months, our diocese here in Northern Virginia has ended every single mass with a parish-wide prayer to defeat the “Virginia Right to Reproductive Freedom Amendment” (Ballot Question 1) and the “Virginia Remove Constitutional Same-Sex Marriage Ban Amendment” (Ballot Question 2).
It's the first time in my lifetime that I can remember the Church being this explicit in defending our Catholic faith at the voting booth. We need so much more of this in America.
If you have a quick minute today - please consider praying this simple prayer as we see the cultural & political attacks on the family become louder with every passing election cycle all over the country.
& please... vote like your faith, your country, & innocent lives depend on it.
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If godly people do not step forward to influence the trajectory of the nation, godless people WILL (and are).
Why Christians *should* vote in the midterm elections this week 👇
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Watch my @texyouthsummit speech! I share my story, how I used to be a liberal (ha!), and what led me to start the Texas Youth Summit.
My challenge to students: Know what you believe and why. Stand for what you believe. Live out what you believe.
Thank you to @RSBNetwork (RSBN) for covering the Texas Youth Summit and sharing our message!
