Francis Schaeffer stated, “The ignorance of the Church is more dangerous for a culture than the decadence of the world.”
So, if you’re going to one of those churches that is silent on cultural issues (i.e. the decadence of the Democratic party platform), leave and go elsewhere!

Anyone who is objecting to ICE doing their job needs to read this, titled “The Hard Truth About the Sanctuary Movement”
https://impri

The Hard Truth About the Sanctuary Movement

Kate Steinle (2015, San Francisco)
32-year-old Kathryn “Kate” Steinle was shot and killed on July 1, 2015, while walking with her father on Pier 14. The shooter, José Inez García Zárate (also known as Juan Francisco López-Sánchez), an illegal immigrant from Mexico who had been deported multiple times, fired a single .40-caliber round that ricocheted off the pier and struck her in the back. He claimed he found the stolen gun and it discharged accidentally. A San Francisco jury later acquitted him of murder and manslaughter charges but convicted him on a firearm possession count (later overturned on appeal). He had been released by local authorities despite an ICE detainer.

Laken Riley (2024, Athens, Georgia)
22-year-old nursing student Laken Riley was attacked and murdered on February 22, 2024, while jogging near the University of Georgia campus. She died from blunt-force trauma and asphyxiation. José Antonio Ibarra, a Venezuelan national who entered the U.S. illegally in 2022 near El Paso and was released into the country, was convicted in a 2024 bench trial of malice murder, felony murder, kidnapping, and aggravated assault with intent to rape. He was sentenced to life without parole. Prosecutors said he targeted her while “hunting for females.

Jocelyn Nungaray (2024, Houston, Texas)
12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray was kidnapped, sexually assaulted, and strangled to death on June 16, 2024. Her body was found the next morning under a bridge in a creek. Two Venezuelan illegal immigrants—Johan José Martínez-Rangel (apprehended and released by Border Patrol in March 2024) and Franklin José Peña Ramos (apprehended and released in May 2024)—were charged with capital murder. Authorities allege they lured her, bound her, assaulted her, and dumped her body. Both face capital murder charges.

Juan Ramón-Vásquez (Philadelphia example of a repeat offender shielded by sanctuary policy)
An illegal immigrant from Honduras previously deported, he was in Philadelphia custody in 2014 when ICE lodged a detainer. Local authorities released him under sanctuary policies. After release, he repeatedly raped a young child (his girlfriend’s daughter) over an extended period. He later received a lengthy state prison sentence for the sexual assaults plus additional federal time for illegal reentry. U.S. prosecutors explicitly linked the failure to honor the detainer to the subsequent crimes.

Video – Non-effective Church monologues

If discipleship is important to most churches, and I think it is, why is it that pastors continue to use a very non-effective way of teaching their congregants?

Since when are long monologues the best way to teach and train anyone?

What if, in schools, all the teachers did was give long monologues and never asked questions of the students and never allowed the students to ask questions of them?

How well would they learn?

The same applies to the church, correct?

Interactive dialogue is normally considered far more effective than long monologues.

Interactive dialogue would be the same type of learning you would have with one-on-one tutoring which I would say is universally accepted as way more effective than listening to a long monologue.

Silent Pew-sitters video

Do the pew-sitters have any responsibility to call their leadership into account when their leadership is sitting silently by and watching a God-given republic be lost?

During the Holocaust of the 1940s, as trains went by the churches carrying Jews to the gas chambers, should the pew-sitters have said something to their silent leadership?

Why is it that most pew-sitters sit idly by as they watch their leadership be silent, knowing full well that there are many people sitting in their pews who brainlessly continue to vote for the party that supports and endorses communist socialist principles and candidates?

Will the pew-sitters and leadership in this country ever wake up?

Do struggles make us better than life always going smoothly?

Do disagreements make us better than never arguing?

What good is a friend if all they do is agree with everything we say and do?

Bryce Crawford is trying to do whatever it takes to reach the lost and teaching others to do the same.

Going to his website and watching some of his video clips could be beneficial to all.

https://brycecrawford.org/

Letter to the American Church by Eric Metaxas

The following is a link to an interview with Eric Metaxus and Pastor Alan Jackson (pastor of World Outreach Church? since 1989).
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfr7u5pvEpo

Here are a few take away points from this very informative interview:

• God is trying to get the church to speak and not be silent.
• Eric took writing this book very seriously, “What does God want to say”.
• The book is like a needed cold bucket of water being thrown in the face of the church.
• The American church is being silent in the face of evil similar to the German church leading up to WWII.
• There was also CRT (Critical Race Theory) way back then.
• Some evangelical churches are opening their doors to CRT.
• Many church think they are only supposed to “preach the gospel”. Jesus did more than that, He spoke truth about all issues.
• Eric says don’t stay in churches where they hide the truth about what’s going on.
• This is urgent, it’s not at the door step, it’s in the building.
• The Bonhoeffer story is a warning to us.
• Millions of people are looking to the church for wisdom on all the craziness that is going on.
• The safe thing, i.e. churches afraid to make waves, is probably from the devil.
• It is and should be a privilege to participate in the battle
• People have died for what we have in this country

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.

Click on the link below to watch an excellent summary of the book of Job.

25 minute summary of the book of Job

Below I listed some worthwhile takeaway points from the video.

Every time someone suffers we are looking for answers.

Can a person love God when God gives them nothing?

Job loses everything.

In real life when suffering arrives you do not get the explanation either.

Job’s friends thought this: Suffering is Punishment, Innocent people don’t suffer like this, Therefore Job is NOT innocent.

God rewards the righteous and punishes the wicked – not wrong in general terms, but does not apply to Job.

Job is not walking away, he insists in bringing his case directly to God.

Faith that stays in the room even when the room is unbearable.

This is not faithlessness.

Job is not a man who has lost his faith, but a man furious at the silence.
In the middle of all the anguish Job says, “I know that my Redeemer lives.”

What makes Job’s faith extraordinary?

• Faith when life is hard.
• Faith that exists at the bottom of the pit when everything has been stripped away with no explanation and no relief in sight.
• Not by being calm or performing patience but by refusing to let go.

God’s silence is not equal to God’s absence.

Suffering can be where God is most actively present even when it cannot be felt.

The answer to suffering in Job is not an explanation but an encounter.

Job asks, “Where are you?” God answers, “I am here, I have always been here”

The encounter changed something a comfortable life never could have changed.

Job does not say, “Now I understand why this happened”. He says, “Now I have seen you”.

Job was angry and honest.

Job’s friends had correct theology and beautiful speeches but not the truth.

Two things about the restoration

• Restoration is not presented at the as the point of the story. He was restored because God is generous, not because Job earned it
• Restoration does not undo the suffering, it follows it

Job never gets the explanation. Neither do we.

Does Job fear God for nothing?
He answers it by staying, by arguing, by saying “I wish to speak to the Almighy”

He refused to let go of the relationship even though the relationship was giving him nothing he wanted.

He finds that at the bottom of the pit his redeemer lives.

The friends gave God beautiful speech’s, Job gave God himself.

Your anger at God is not faithlessness

Job was still in the room, still in relationship. refusing to pretend what he did do not feel.

What Job did that the friends did not do was to talk to God directly and honestly, without managing how it sounds.

Not the prayer that SOUNDS faithful but the prayer that IS honest.

This is an excellent podcast that every American should watch.

You’ve been lied to about America’s history with Christianity
https://youtu.be/rjL3x8SIlhw?si=oIO7P2LuHzVp1omx

Did the Founding Fathers actually want Christianity out of government, or is that the biggest historical lie ever told? Pastor Josh Howerton sits down with Tim Barton of WallBuilders to go straight to the original documents.

From the Marxist roots of revisionist history to the founding fathers’ forgotten anti-slavery legacy, this episode will challenge everything you thought you knew about America’s founding.

Josh Howerton said this is the best book he has read in the last 5 years – The American Story: The Beginnings By Tim and David Barton
Tim had a 1612 Kings James Bible – one year after it was written

America reads the Bible in DC – April 2026

• Liberal media goes ballistic thinking that political leaders and presidents reading the Bible in their official government office is obviously out of bounds and is obviously out of step with the historic norms of our nation.
• Every single president in American history said that America was a Christian Nation until President Barack Obama.
• Dwight Eisenhower, when he became president, led his own prayer at his own inauguration.
• George Washington – the first action he took after he was sworn in as president was to take all of the elected officials to a church service.

1777 – Congress approved the importing of 20,000 Bibles

1781 – The Aiken Bible was endorsed/approved by Congress

An ACLU attorney thought David Barton’s writings were awful and he went through them in order to show why they were wrong. After a year and a half the attorney only had one criticism; the facts were understated. And he became a Christian reading through all the documents.

Charles Finney was an atheist – while in law school, reading all the law books which contained massive amount of Bible quotes, he because a Christian.

Marxist

• Teach people that they are oppressed – then cause them to rise up against the government.
• Rewrite the past to control the future.

Christian theology divides the world on a sin-righteousness dividing line – If I believe that you’re just mistaken, then I can reason with you.

Critical theory divides the world by oppressed and oppressor

• If I believe that you’re evil, I begin to feel a moral obligation to stop you and oppose you.
• If I cast all the people who founded our nation as evil, wicked men, then by rewriting the past, I’m controlling the future and we need to reject whatever principles that they injected into our culture.

George Orwell wrote in 1984, “Whoever controls the past controls the present, whoever controls the present controls the future.”

Many in our nation have forgotten our starting place.

The most quoted source in the founders writings was the Bible (34%)

By 1815 there had been more than 1400 official government issued prayer proclamations done by governors, presidents or Congress.

1st amendment, establishment clause

• Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion
• To interpret properly requires asking what evil was intended to be remedied
• Government cannot establish a state church and require you to go there.

First grade text book used in America

• The New England Primer
• Used for at least 100 years starting in 1690
• A totally Christian textbook.

Jefferson’s wall of separation statement

• January 1, 1802 – Jefferson’s Letter to the Danbury Baptists – wall of separation between church and state.
• January 3rd 1802 – Jefferson goes to church at the capital building, largest protestant church in America took place inside the capital building.
• When Jefferson was asked why he attended church at the capital building, he replied, “No nation has ever yet existed or been governed without religion nor can it be.”
• Jefferson’s choice as the primary reading text for schools – the Bible and the Watts Hymnal.
• Jefferson was active in furthering Christianity among native tribes.

Benjamin Franklin – brought the constitutional convention back to prayer.

Slavery started clear back in Genesis, not from America.

By 1804 every northern colony had passed laws for the abolition of slavery.
1833 – Wilberforce ended slavery in the British empire.
1829 – Jefferson’s original draft of the Declaration of Independence – included a list of grievances, the longest was against the slave trade. The declaration needed to be unanimous so the slave grievance was removed because 2 of the 13 were for slavery – South Carolina and Georgia.