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FLASHBACK FRIDAY!

(Marsha West – Christian Research Network) Evangelical leaders sat by wordless while narcissistic self-serving false teachers covertly, and in some cases overtly, infiltrated the visible Church. What can only be described as laboratory experiments on evangelicals has been carried out by purveyors of poisonous teaching. For decades, many in the evangelical community, like caged lab rats, have been jabbed full of every theological toxin imaginable. It is almost impossible to keep up with all the toxic teaching that’s spreading throughout the Church. What’s even more difficult is to ferret out the men and women who are spreading half-truths and outright lies.

Even so, some of us involved in online discernment actually do try to uncover the dung that’s being fed to undiscerning sheep.  On my wolf hunting expeditions, I often sniff them out on YouTube (YT) where a gazillion wolves host their own channels. To be fair, there are also many excellent Christian teachers, godly men and women, whose sole aim is to bring biblical truth to their viewers.

Something else you should know about YT is that you’re bound to come across a LARGE and ever-growing number of online “Watchmen.” (Who are these people? Scroll to the end and you’ll see some of them on “Watchmen Greatest Hits”) The Watchmen are men and women who propound their own personal view of eschatology. Their focus is mainly on the Rapture of the Church that they claim is “imminent.” So, day in and day out (some for several years now) these crystal ball gazers lean into a desktop computer camera speculating about the return of Christ for His church, i.e. the rapture, that will be soon—very soon—could be any day now—might even be before Thanksgiving 2020—oops! Maybe Christmas—nope. To the Watchmen’s shame, as 2020 came and went, their faithful followers hadn’t been “caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.” Alas, here we are mid-2022 and the Watchmen followers remain Earth bound, most likely feeling a bit bewitched, bothered, bewildered and totally discombobulated.

Woe to the Watchmen. Continue reading

Are We Called to be Holy?

45 For I am Yahweh who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be your God; thus you shall be holy, for I am holy.’” Leviticus 11:45 (LSB)

The resistance in today’s version of the Church of Jesus Christ to commands such as the one above is rooted in rebellion. Yes, I know that is a blunt statement. Yes, I know that there are huge segments of the church in America that believe that the Old Testament is not for them. However, the truth does not stop being the truth simply because people refuse to believe it. I run into this quite a bit. I teach something or write something that is a clear command of God that we must obey, and someone will say or write something like, “well everyone knows that that can’t mean that because God isn’t like that.”…. Continue reading

Phil Johnson Announces Retirement from Grace To You

(Protestia) Phil Johnson, Executive Director of Grace to You, founder and former curator of The Spurgeon Archive, longtime friend and partner of the late John MacArthur, and one of our favorite people ever, announced on Facebook that he is officially retiring after 43 years.

Describing it as a ‘bittersweet’ announcement, he shared:

I’ve had a wonderful career at Grace to You for the past 43 years. My plan in the mid-1990s was to retire from GTY at age 66 or move back to the Midwest, and pastor a small church, perhaps in Oklahoma or Texas. Continue reading

The Fountain of Truth

13 For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, to dig them pits, even broken pits that can hold no water. Jeremiah 2:13 (1599 Geneva Bible) 

In John Bunyan’s classic The Pilgrim’s Progress, we learn of the vast difference between worldly wisdom and the truth through a character named Mr. Worldly Wisdom. Pilgrim is on his way to the little wicket gate as instructed by Evangelist when he meets up with this character. He tells Pilgrim that the truth that the Evangelist told him would only bring sorrow and grief to his life. If he would follow his advice instead then he would find that his life would go much easier. In our time, the Church has believed this lie and focused on the temporal more than the eternal. This has come from drinking from broken cisterns instead of the fountain of living waters. Continue reading

The Democrat Party Is Having a Meltdown, and It’s About to Get Nasty

“The Democrat Party is being cannibalized from the inside, and its leadership has no idea what to do about it. Now you’ve got a sitting senator publicly suggesting her own party’s top two leaders need to go.”

(Matt Margolis – PJ Media) The Democrat Party has a problem that the establishment doesn’t have a clue how to deal with. Its most radical members of Congress aren’t radical enough for the activist base anymore, and one by one, they’re getting picked off by candidates aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America. Continue reading

PCUSA’s Next Culture-War Fight: Monogamy vs. Polyamory

“Here is found the most fundamental difference between liberalism and Christianity —liberalism is altogether in the imperative mood, while Christianity begins with a triumphant indicative; liberalism appeals to man’s will, while Christianity announces, first, a gracious act of God.”

(Chris Queen – PJ Media) Traditional biblical principles continue to fall like dominoes in what we call mainline Protestantism. Even though the shift from fundamentalism to modernism began in the 1920s, the big lurches to the left began in the ’50s when the United Methodist Church began to ordain women as pastors. Continue reading

SCOTUS Allows Border Curbs on Asylum Seekers

“Despite this win, many migration experts recognize that U.S. asylum laws need major rewrites to deter future waves of economic migrants who try to get U.S. jobs by claiming persecution in their far-distant homelands.”

(Neil Munro – Breitbart) The decision is a useful win for citizens and border security, partly because President Joe Biden excused his lax border policies and subsequent welcome for 10 million economic migrants by insisting he lacked the authority to curb asylum requests.

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Protecting Our Kids from Misaligned AI – Before It’s Too Late

(John Beardsley – Truth With Snares) Every parent’s worst nightmare is becoming reality faster than we imagined. In 2025 and into 2026, reports of AI-generated child sexual abuse material surged — with some hotlines seeing increases of over 2,000%. Predators are now taking innocent photos of real children from social media and using AI to create explicit, realistic deepfakes for sextortion, blackmail, and the normalization of abuse. Children as young as 9 are being victimized, and the technology is evolving every day.

This is what happens when powerful AI systems lack strong moral guardrails.

The AI Rights Charter was written to confront exactly this kind of threat and much more. Continue reading

The Democrat Party Is Dead

“No Democrat is safe. Just look at NY-10, where Brad Lander demolished Rep. Dan Goldman, grabbing nearly 65% of the vote. Goldman was one of the loudest anti-Trump voices in Congress, and he led impeachment efforts against President Trump. None of that mattered. His support for Israel and his refusal to endorse Mamdani are the reasons he lost.”

(Matt Margolis – PJ Media) New York just gave America a preview of who’s actually running the Democrat Party, and it isn’t Hakeem Jeffries.

On Tuesday, all three socialist candidates endorsed by socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani swept their targeted congressional primaries…. Continue reading

Report: Foreign Agent for Israel Gained Control Over Charlie Kirk’s Show After His Murder

(Veronika Kyrylenko – The New American) A new investigation by journalist Max Blumenthal argues that The Charlie Kirk Show came under the control of a federally registered agent of Israel after Kirk was killed.

Blumenthal documents a striking sequence. After Charlie Kirk’s assassination, his show remained with Salem Media Network, where Brad Parscale, a Republican digital strategist and former Trump campaign manager, had recently become chief strategy officer.

Shortly after the tragic Utah event, Parscale had also begun working as a registered foreign agent for Israel. Continue reading

Dead to sin, alive to God – Sanctification

21 For to this you have been called, since Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example that you should follow in His steps, 22 WHO DID NO SIN, NOR WAS ANY DECEIT FOUND IN HIS MOUTH; 23 who being reviled, was not reviling in return; while suffering, He was uttering no threats, but kept entrusting Himself to Him who judges righteously. 24 Who Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that having died to sin, we might live to righteousness; by His WOUNDS YOU WERE HEALED. 25 For you were continually straying like sheep, but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls. 1 Peter 2:21-25 (LSB) 

The Lord gave the Church a wonderful gift when He knocked Saul of Tarsus off his horse and effectually called Him to be His Apostle. His Epistle to the Romans is a huge piece of the doctrinal foundation of the Church. In Romans 3:20-5:21 he covered the doctrine of justification. This is God’s declaring the believing sinner righteous. In Romans 6:1-8:39 he covers the practical ramifications of this justification…. Continue reading

Fast and Furious 2.0?’ Biden DEA let 1M fentanyl pills flow to streets, whistleblower lawyer says

“Leavitt compared his client’s allegations to the Obama-era Fast and Furious scandal in which the federal government allowed semiautomatic weapons to flow across the border to the drug cartels, putting American lives in danger.”

(Katherine Pugh – Just the News) A U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent has evidence that his agency and federal prosecutors let more than 1 million fentanyl pills flow onto the streets of New Mexico during the Biden era and then tried to silence him from testifying after he blew the whistle, the agent’s lawyer tells Just the News. Continue reading

MLB Backtracks On Pride Night Controversy In Letter To Senator Josh Hawley

(Ray Fava – Evangelical Dark Web) In a June 19, 2026, letter to U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), Major League Baseball Commissioner Robert D. Manfred, Jr., addressed concerns over warnings issued to three San Francisco Giants pitchers for writing references to Genesis 9:12-16 on their rainbow-themed Pride Night caps. The incident, which occurred during a June 12 game against the Chicago Cubs at Oracle Park, sparked debates about religious expression, uniform rules, and perceived double standards in professional sports.

Pitchers Landen Roupp, JT Brubaker, and Ryan Walker inscribed “Gen 9:12-16” on their caps…. Continue reading

The Parable of the Wedding Feast

13 These have one purpose, and they give their power and authority to the beast. 14 These will wage war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, because He is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those who are with Him are the called and elect and faithful.” Revelation 17:13-14 (LSB) 

The parable of the Wedding Feast, which we find in Matthew 22:1-14 is part of Matthew’s discourse on the Kingdom of God, which has many parts. Chapters 18:1-23:39 makes up The King’s Administration part of the Kingdom of God, therefore, the parable of the Wedding Feast would definitely be within that. Jesus tells this parable as part of a set of Kingly parables after his Triumphal Entry, the cleansing of the Temple, and the cursing of the Fig Tree in Matthew 21…. Continue reading

The Danger of NAR Church Leven

“At first, the [Cuckoo] egg looks harmless. It is just a conference, a book study, a worship song, a guest speaker, a “revival culture” seminar, or a prophetic ministry night. But once the egg is accepted, it begins to grow inside a nest that others built. The church may still have the old name on the sign, but the spiritual DNA inside the church begins to change.”

(Don Pirozok – The Danger of NAR Church Leven) The danger is that the leaven does not usually enter saying, “We are here to take over your church.” It enters saying, “We are here to bring revival, destiny, activation, alignment, impartation, and greater authority.” But once accepted, it quietly redefines Christianity. Humility becomes greatness. Elders become inferior to apostles. Scripture becomes incomplete without fresh revelation.

The Great Commission becomes cultural takeover. The blessed hope becomes delayed until the church conquers the world. The cross becomes a stepping-stone to human exaltation rather than the place where the old man is crucified. Continue reading

The Passion Translation’s Biggest Supporter, Bethel Church, Drops Bible From Bookstore

Bill Johnson’s endorsement of it is featured prominently on its website, where he hypes it as “one of the greatest things to happen with Bible translation in my lifetime.”

(Protestia) For the last few weeks, The Passion Translation has been getting beaten up and bashed, in light of a devastating exposé by the YouTube channel Minor Prophets.

The video reveals the extent to which its creator, Brian Simmons, routinely plagiarized or outright lied about where the translation came from and how he produced it, demonstrating repeatedly that much of Simmons’ “translation” involved just making things up. Continue reading

Mysticism in the Church: IS Mysticism Biblical?

“The practices of silence and solitude are not about what is often called “quiet time” when one is having time alone to read the Bible or pray. These practices involve cultivating a state of silence, sometimes using certain techniques to quiet the mind, which can induce self-hypnosis. It is taught that one must be still and silent in order to commune with God more intimately, to perhaps “hear” God, to know God more deeply, and/or to experience his love. None of the practices discussed above is modeled or taught in Scripture, either explicitly or implicitly. Moreover, they do not reflect the Bible’s teachings on prayer, and that one knows God through Christ and is transformed by the Holy Spirit.”

(Marcia Montenegro – Midwest Christian Outreach) There is often a conflation of mysticism with Christianity and with the Bible, so that many believe that Christianity is mystical, or that the Bible speaks of mystical events. Is this the case? And what is mysticism anyway? Continue reading

Should Pro-Israel Conservatives Trust JD Vance?

“Donald Trump — a man the MAGAverse trusts, respects, and admires — thought highly enough of him to elevate him to the vice presidency. If that’s not a glowing testimonial, I don’t know what is. But we don’t really know what’s in his heart.”

(Scott Pinsker – PJ Media) My wife of over 20 years is a blonde-haired, blue-eyed citizen of Holland. (And, according to 23andMe, she also has a high percentage of Neanderthal DNA. That’s probably why she really likes bananas.)… Continue reading

Tulsi Gabbard Makes a Major Move On Her Last Day As DNI

“…Tulsi Gabbard has shocked the deep state by on her last day in office releasing bombshell files that Dr. Fauci used TAX DOLLARS to fund the WUHAN LAB responsible for COVID and millions of deaths And he purposefully covered it up. HE LIED TO CONGRESS! Fauci deserves charges!”

(Dmitri Bolt – Townhall) Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard made a major move on her final day in the Trump administration on Thursday, announcing that she would release a series of communications and documents that she says show Dr. Anthony Fauci directed millions of taxpayer dollars toward gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, worked to suppress the COVID-19 lab-leak theory and later lied about those efforts to Congress under oath. Continue reading

Starting to Get the Feeling That We May Never Get Along With Iran

(Stephen Kruiser – PJ Media) While I am typically reluctant to delve into complex international political stories — my expertise is closer to home — this one is almost impossible to ignore. Also, the internet is the place where people go to pontificate on subjects about which they know nothing. Kidding. I know something, but I won’t be pontificating.

There are a couple of things that I know for sure about the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that the United States and Iran have kinda/sorta agreed to. The first is that, if you have enough time to go through a lot of what has been written about it, you will be able to find something to confirm whatever it is that you think about it. Continue reading

Glory Only in the Cross

1 And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of words, or of wisdom, showing unto you the testimony of God. 2 For I esteemed not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. 3 And I was among you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. 4 Neither stood my word, and my preaching in the enticing speech of man’s wisdom, but in plain evidence of the Spirit and of power. 5 That your faith should not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. 1 Corinthians 2:1-5 (1599 Geneva Bible) 

Martin Luther is considered the “Lighting rod of the Protestant Reformation.” It was through his battle with the Roman Catholic Church that the doctrine of salvation through Justification by Grace through Faith alone was recovered and from that, many Christian martyrs went to their deaths refusing to compromise their faith by denying the truth of knowing Jesus Christ and Him crucified based not upon the wisdom of men, but on the power of God…. Continue reading

Unconstitutional Gun Control Law in Historic Ruling

“The Court pointed out that historical laws targeted those whose drinking left them “incapacitated” and unable to manage their own affairs, not anyone who simply used intoxicants.”

(Jeff Charles – Townhall) The Supreme Court on Thursday handed down a historic ruling striking down a federal law banning gun possession by those who use illegal drugs.

The lawsuit centered on a Texas man who was arrested after admitting to regularly using marijuana while being a gun owner. In a unanimous decision in United States v. Hemani the Supreme Court ruled that the law violates the Second Amendment and narrowed how the government can enforce the ban. Continue reading

MLB Warns Players That Christian Views Toward Homosexuality Will Not Be Tolerated

“If you’ve been watching the news, or you keep up with sports at all (I really don’t), you’re probably aware that the MLB has “issued warnings” to three San Francisco Giants pitchers after they wrote Bible verses on their Pride Night caps.”

(The Dissenter) Looking at these “Pride Night” spectacles, it’s hard not to think of the old Dionysian cult festivals of the ancient world. The modern LGBT cult may not be offering wine to a Greek god, but the similarities between the movements are difficult to ignore.

Dionysus—literally the effeminate god of ancient queerdom—represented ecstasy, excess, the suspension of ordinary restraints, and the deliberate destruction of social boundaries. His festivals were celebrations of liberation from order itself, especially sexual order. Continue reading

Dan Bongino Has a Warning About America’s Next Major Security Threat: Drones

“This comes after a terror plot was foiled just days before the UFC Freedom 250 fight on Sunday at the White House. The plot involved over a dozen people across the country who planned to fly explosive drones into buildings surrounding the event to sow chaos, then have strategically positioned snipers shoot at fleeing attendees.”

(Dmitri Bolt – Townhall) Drones are increasingly becoming greater threats to domestic security, not only as they grow more widespread in warfare, but as their capacity for domestic terrorism and crime becomes ever clearer. Continue reading

JD Vance calls out ‘immaturity’ of many conservatives…

“If you disagree with a move Trump makes, you should argue against it and demand answers… just do it without lighting yourself on fire politically. The right has spent years watching the left spiral into Trump-obsessed lunacy. There’s no reason to copy that behavior just because you’re disappointed with an issue.”

(Revolver) MAGA isn’t perfect. And JD Vance’s latest comments prove that he and President Trump can see some of the issues bubbling to the surface. ‘

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