This is my personal account, my views are my own…SFASU '90,'10....Daingerfield HS 1985…Proudly retired from public education after 34 years…East Tx HELLAS BDM
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John Settle retweeted
An estimated ~8M Christians just in Texas are projected not to vote during midterms.
That election will be decided by a projected ~300k votes.
Pastors, consider encouraging your people to vote real quick in announcements next couple weeks.
A) They want you to
B) They are the "salt of the earth", a preservative slowing societal decay.
John Settle retweeted
As a Constitutional Conservative and a Christian, I will be voting for @KenPaxtonTX. And no... I don't owe anybody an apology for it.
Does that mean I'm excusing his controversies? Absolutely not.
But like I just heard on a video from @howertonjosh, a vote isn't a valentine.
I'm not looking for a best friend, a pastor, or somebody who's never made a mistake.
I'm looking at RECORDS.
Both Paxton and Talarico have served in government.
We don't have to take their campaign promises at face value…
We can look at what they've actually done.
Banks don't approve loans based on good intentions. They look at credit history. Why should we approach elections any differently?
As a Christian, my convictions about the sanctity of unborn life, biblical truth, and the proper role of government aren't negotiable. And my disagreements with Talarico on those issues aren't minor.
Scripture calls us to be salt and light. Salt preserves and slows decay. That requires discernment, conviction, and ACTION...
Not sitting on our asses complaining that everything is corrupt and nothing matters.
I don't expect perfection from politicians. I expect accountability, and I'll hold the people I vote for to that same standard.
You can disagree with my decision. That's fine.
But don't confuse choosing between imperfect candidates with abandoning your principles.
There's a BIG difference between compromising your principles and actually applying them.
John Settle retweeted
🔥🇺🇸 CHRISTIANS, WE ARE ELECTING A SENATOR, NOT A PASTOR!
To every Christian saying we shouldn’t support Ken Paxton because of his personal failures, remember this: Solomon fell, and David committed adultery. God’s Word shows us that even people who were greatly used by God had serious failures.
That doesn’t mean we excuse sin or ignore accountability. It means we recognize that no human being is perfect.
We are not electing a pastor to lead a church. We are electing a senator to fight for conservative values, defend the Constitution, and represent Texas!
Judge candidates by their records, their policies, their principles, and their ability to do the job. Personal conduct matters, but so does the role they are seeking.
🇺🇸 TEXAS DESERVES A FIGHTER WHO WILL STAND FOR CONSERVATIVE PRINCIPLES!
#KenPaxton #TexasPolitics #TexasSenate #ConservativeValues #ChristianConservatives #FaithAndPolitics #GOP #Election2026 #Texas
John Settle retweeted
James Talarico reveals his vision for Texas.
Talarico says he wants to use New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s socialist agenda as a “template” to radically transform the Lone Star State.
breitbart.com/politics/2026/…
John Settle retweeted
“If Christians don’t get involved in politics, politics will erase their right to be Christians.”
— Charlie Kirk
John Settle retweeted
“If Christians don’t get involved in politics, politics will erase their right to be Christians.” - Charlie Kirk
John Settle retweeted
I'd listen to @howertonjosh over you any day my man. The way you trash others isnt Jesus like at all.
John Settle retweeted
What’s amazing to me are the ones who are bothered don’t even attend our church! You don’t like his sermons, great don’t watch ! We love them and so do the 882 new Christians that gave their life this past few weeks !! Thank the lord for great Bible teaching !
John Settle retweeted
Ken Paxton is not corrupt. But you go ahead and repeat everything the MSM and the RINOS continue to say about him. The people who are funding Talarico's campaign are George Soros, the entire Bush family, Karl Rove's pacs, and every RINO in the Senate. John Thune has funneled millions of RNC and other pac money using Tim Scott, who controls the campaign purse strings for the RINOS in D.C. All of these same people blew millions on John Cornyn and Bill Cassidy in Louisiana, but the people of Texas and Louisiana said NO to both of them.
Why are they all fighting so hard to destroy Paxton? For the same reason the Republican Texas House voted to impeach him. They are terrified of him because he knows how deep the corruption was in Texas, and he was constantly exposing them. The House voted 121 to 23 to approve 20 articles of impeachment. A majority of Republicans in the House joined with Democrats to pass the impeachment, following an investigation by a bipartisan general investigating committee led by House Republicans and Democrats. The articles primarily alleged abuse of office, bribery, obstruction, and unfitness for office related to aiding political donor and developer Nate Paul.
Following his temporary suspension, the Texas Senate held a trial in September 2023 and acquitted Ken Paxton on all tried articles, allowing him to return to office. His attorney Tony Buzbee, proved that many of the people who testified during the Senate trial, had provided false testimonies and had conspired with other members of the Texas House to defame and destroy Paxton.
He and his wife Angela, have been separated since June of 2024, and both of their lawyers recently announced they were making significant progress toward a private, amicable settlement.
Mrs. Paxton came out today in support of him and urged Texans to vote for all Republicans on the ballot, including him. She loves the people of Texas and America, and she knows the fraud Talarico would be a disaster for both. The reason so many Republicans have done everything they could to destroy Paxton is simple. His campaign ad says it all, "Running for U.S. Senate to take a sledgehammer to the Washington establishment."
John Settle retweeted
Christians, wake up and vote.
Sitting this one out is not neutrality. It is surrender.
If you stay home, Muslims will not.
They will show up, they will organize, and they will decide the future you refused to fight for.
Your faith, your country, and your children are on the ballot.
Vote like it. Vote RED
Cc:@pastormyles
John Settle retweeted
A projected ~9M CHRISTIANS in Texas will forget to vote in the midterm elections. That election is projected to be decided by less than 300k votes.
If godly people will not engage in politics, godless people will (and are).
FAITH IN ACTION: Southern Baptist Convention president fires back at calls for pastors to stay out of politics, urging Christian leaders to 'step up' ahead of midterm elections.
Willy Rice argues that abortion, marriage, gender identity and immigration are deeply theological issues that demand a pastoral voice in the public square.
Rice says the political and theological left never withdrew from politics — and that their silence created a vacuum conservative Christians are now paying for.
Full story here foxnews.com/politics/souther…
John Settle retweeted
If you haven’t climbed a ladder in a sermon, are you even a pastor? 😆
Imagine people telling Jesus “Stop it with all ‘The kingdom of heaven is LIKE…’ stories. So gimmicky. Stick to teaching the text of the Torah.”
Jesus taught with: a coin 🪙, pointing to a mountain ⛰️, towel and basin, poor widows offering, bread and a cup 🥖 🍷, birds and flowers 🐦 🌺 …
Are you noticing we’re living in a world with church haters and critical spirits who just attack and gossip about pastors and churches out of the bitterness and envy in their own hearts?
We’ve got a whole cottage industry of “Christian TMZ” that writes about church news to get clicks and divide instead of to edify and build up. Stop incentivizing these deputy accusers of the saints. Don’t reward them by clicking on their sensationalized headlines.
(In case you missed it, this post was inspired by the most recent string of stupid attacks against my friend @howertonjosh for…*checks notes* climbing a ladder in a sermon to illustrate a point. It was a good illustration, but because God is blessing his ministry and increasing his influence, people will write and say any foolish thing about him to get podcast views and clicks.)
“Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers.” — Ephesians 4:29, NKJV
John Settle retweeted
If you don’t like Pastor Josh Howerton using visual aids to help illustrate a biblical truth, don’t go to his church. Find a pastor you relate to. What you shouldn’t do is take to social media to tear down a man of God and his church because you disagree with his style. I highly suggest people take Matthew 18:6 seriously.
John Settle retweeted
JACKS WIN!!!
SFA survives the upset scare and will hold on to win it 28-26 over UIW!!!
6-0 for the first time since 1995!
#AxedEm
John Settle retweeted
Texas,
I ask for your votes for Ken Paxton for the US Senate.
I also encourage you to vote early in person.
John Settle retweeted
It doesn’t take AI for Texans to know James Talarico is lying to them.
Talarico voted to allow China to buy our land.
Talarico voted to trans our children.
Talarico voted to force a state income tax on Texans.
Talarico voted to let violent criminals out on the streets.
New James Talarico TV ad: “No, I’m not a member of the Chinese Communist Party. No, I don’t support sex-change surgeries for kids.”
host2.adimpact.com/admo/view… #TXSEN
