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Sunday, February 21, 2021

Advocating for Persecuted Christians Should Be a Non-Partisan Issue

...Christian persecution has reached unprecedented levels and is steadily on the rise.
PJ Media: The Backlash to Biden's Transgender Agenda Is Already Brewing
Michael Kelley: Three Ways the Gospel Impacts Your Leadership

... Too often we confine this word to the vocational realm, but in reality, all of us are leading something. We are leading a group at church, we are leading our families in the home, we are leading others in conversation – at the very least, we are leading ourselves under the lordship of Jesus. By that standard, there is something around leadership for all of us.
Proclaim & Defend: Is Death a Tragedy?

This can be a difficult question to answer. In the case of the one who does not have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ the answer is an unequivocal, “Yes!” What about the one who has a personal relationship with Christ?
Tammy Bruce Speaks of Her Dealings With Rush Limbaugh

In the 90s I was a host on a talk radio station in LA, the same that aired Rush. I was president of LA NOW, & the liberal weekend host when he visited the station. He was so vilified by my then-crowd, I expected a monster. Instead, I met a remarkable, kind and encouraging man.
American Thinker: Our Dire Future Under Biden

...The Biden administration seems hell bent on reversing every Trump administration policy, even those policies that were quite successful.
David Cloud: The Age of the Celebrity

Celebrities are the gods and goddesses of the 20th and 21st centuries.
The Gospel Coalition: Significance In Insignificance

....But God’s plan was for the great king to arise from a place of great humility. God knows that when He brings greatness out of humility, He gets all the praise.
Gospel Relevance: The Blessing of Weariness

...What could God be doing with my weariness? Or your weariness? More than you probably think.

Saturday, February 20, 2021

50 Years Of Dire Climate Forecasts And What Actually Happened

Here are 21 headlines from various news sources regarding dire climate predictions over the last 50 years. Many of the predictions are outrageously funny.
Texas Storms Leave Some Customers With Five-Figure Electric Bills

Some Texans have received massive electric bills following winter storms that delivered snow and record subzero temperatures to the state. Bills exceeding $17,000 were reported around Dallas due to skyrocketing demand for power during freezing conditions....
Newsmax: South Carolina Abortion Law Suspended a Day After Passage
Nautilus: Martin Luther Rewired Your Brain

How mass literacy, spurred by Protestantism, reconfigured our neural pathways.
'Equality Act' Would Be Giant Step to Destroying Religious Freedom

...Once the bureaucrats and politicians can tell a church, private school, or faith-based non-profit what they must do, it will be a short step to their being told what they can and cannot teach. That will be the final nail in the First Amendment’s coffin.
We Must Reclaim Friendship From the Bonds of Social Media

....A healthy relationship with the social internet requires us to reclaim the real, deep understanding of friendship that has been lost. It is important to have real friends with whom we spend time in person. We have to resist the temptation toward our screens becoming mediators of every relationship we have.
9Marks: How to Pastor When Sanctification Becomes Illegal

...Amongst other things, the Conversion and Suppression Practices Bill criminalizes any prayers or conversations in which one person aims to persuade another that pursuing certain sexual activity is not the best course of action.
Proclaim & Defend: Understanding and Responding To Persecution

....As with any area of doctrine or practice, the Word, not our own opinions, must direct us.
Two Groups Who Have Not Returned To In-Person Worship Since COVID

....we are hearing about the two largest groups who have not returned to in-person service. These groups are mentioned consistently when we hear from church leaders.
Aquila Report: The Politicization of Medical Science

In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, there has been a politicization of medical science.
CBMW: Gender Neutrality Goes To Washington

At some point in the past decade, the battle of the sexes seems to have given way to a war on the sexes.
For the Church: Four Realms of Realization In Preaching

...For the sermon to be maximally effective, there are several realms with which the preacher must be familiar. Consider with me these four crucial ones.
The Gospel Coalition: Dear Pandemic-Weary Pastor

...There’s really not an adequate word to describe all of the complexities these events have presented for pastors.
PJ Media: Rush Limbaugh Changed America
Crossway: Practicing Thankfulness During a Pandemic

There are two biblical kinds of gratitude...This kind of thankfulness is negative, thanking God for what isn’t...The second kind of thankfulness is grateful not only for what isn’t, but for what is.
Stand To Reason: How To Fight off Discouragement

Lately I’ve had to fight my impulse to whine, pout, and play the victim. I am not happy with recent developments. Am I the only one who is fighting discouragement?
Desiring God: God, Give Us Teachers Like Jesus

“No one ever spoke like this man!” Even his enemies had to admit it.

Friday, February 19, 2021

Even Europe Is Warning Against Importing USA's Poisonous Progressivism
Nashville Church Says Bible Isn’t the Word of God, Then Draws Ire
CNN: Biden Makes At Least Four False Statistical Claims At CNN Town Hall
Exposed: The Media Has Been Lying About The Capitol Protests

...What is common about all of these media-fed narratives? Not one of them is true. Not. One.
Cripplegate: More On the Canadian Pastor Jailed In Alberta

...In November, Canadian health officials began showing up at Grace Life worship gatherings, recording the number of attendees, those who were not wearing masks, and social distancing. This continued each Sunday for about three months.
Victor Davis Hanson: Our Descent Into Collective Madness

...The most elite in America are the most likely to damn the privilege of those who lack it.
Is Math Racist? That Does Not Compute

...But after all the other things that have been called racist... it is nonetheless stunning that some are now calling mathematics racist, often inheriting ascribed guilt from the fact that some seem to be better at it than others.
World Mag: France’s Free Speech Dilemma

Terror attacks have frightened teachers and pushed a country to reevaluate its freedoms.
For the Gospel: Three Biblical Requirements for Social Media

....Like everyone else, believers were catapulted into this new digital world with no framework, rubric, or method for how to engage. We were in uncharted waters. Decades later, our engagement resembles more whining, fighting, disunity, and tribalism than it does an edifying ministry.
Tabletalk Mag: God’s Providence Revealed in Scripture

...Understanding that there is no such thing as chance should dramatically reframe our view of everyday life.
Christianity Today: How Christian Bookstores Survived 2020
Crossway: How Books Help Us Connect in Ways the Internet Doesn’t

....What’s changed is the type of reading we’re doing online. It’s a more disconnected, staccato reading—a tweet here, a context-less headline there, a constant visual hum of assertions, opinions, advertisements, commentary. It’s a frenetic type of reading that moves rapidly from unrelated thing to unrelated thing....When we read books, we are stepping into another’s shoes. We are entering the author’s world, giving our attention to the author’s perspective for an extended time.
Ligonier: Martin Luther’s Death and Legacy

Martin Luther died on February 18, 1546.
Mike Ratliff: What the Gospel Is and What it is Not

... In our day, this tinkering with Gospel is called “Contextualization.” This is the process of adding to, taking away, and changing the Gospel message in an attempt to make it relate to culture.

Thursday, February 18, 2021

March Winds: He Went Out As a Lamb, He'll Come Back As a Lion

....It is strange that the terminology uses a lion and a lamb. Those are Biblical images and types of the Lord Jesus Christ. Just as surely as the saying will come true for the month of March every year, those images are also true for the two Comings of Christ. Just as surely as He came the first time as an Innocent Lamb, He will come back the second time as a Conquering Lion.
FAQ On How the Church Relates To the Government

Over the past year, Christians had to answer tough questions regarding their relationship to the government. Here, I want to answer some frequently asked questions (and questions that should be frequently asked) like...
Christian Pastor Jailed for Holding Church Services in Canada
US Life Expectancy Drops a Year in Pandemic, Most Since WW II
Rush Limbaugh’s Monument

.... He was silenced just at the moment when the elite and powerful would silence us all. Our politicians seek to demonize half the nation—Rush’s half.
What Austin, Texas, Demonstrates About Prepping

....Most of America is 24-48 hours from starvation and dehydration. If the water system and/or electric grid goes down, people must be prepared for that.
Popular Mechanics: How to Stay Warm Without Power
Five Ways President Biden Undermined Middle East Peace Last Week

...These unforced errors will only serve to isolate our traditional allies in the region and enable Iran and its proxies and the Palestinian Authority.
Scottish Christians Warn that Hate Crime Bill Will Stifle Debate

Representatives of three large Christian denominations in Scotland have warned that the Hate Crime and Public Order bill jeopardises freedom of speech that is vital to the common good.
Inside Planned Parenthood's Gender Factory

An Ex-Reproductive Health Assistant Speaks Out