France’s interior minister Gérald Darmanin has threatened Catholic demonstrators with a police crackdown if they do not desist protesting a ban on Masses.

During Sunday’s broadcast of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Ron Klain, former Vice President Joe Biden’s pick to be White House chief of staff, signaled a nationwide mask mandate would be forthcoming in a new Biden administration.

....True Christian liberty, unlike the various “freedom” or “liberation” movements of the secular world, is not a matter of demanding the “rights” we have...Only when we recognize that we do not deserve our “rights” can we properly exercise them as privileges.

COVID has clearly been devastating. But our reaction has turned a bad pandemic into an unrivaled self-inflicted national disaster.

....Dr. Anthony Fauci, one of the architects of the country’s ongoing nightmare, suggested Thanksgiving dinner could be a fatal event. Fauci, 79, and his wife won’t be with their three daughters but instead will celebrate online. “Well, I’m an elderly person,” Fauci said during one of his nonstop media interviews. “My wife and I are going to have dinner together, a quiet dinner. We’re going to get on Zoom. And we’re going to talk and smile and laugh and drink and eat with our children, who are doing it distantly and virtually.” Fauci this week warned Americans to “do what you’re told.”

....Most Protestant pastors say giving has been at or below 2019 levels, as well as at or below their budget for this year.

....“It pains me to say this, but in certain quarters, religious liberty is fast becoming a disfavored right,” said Alito, who is Catholic. The pandemic, he bemoaned, “has resulted in previously unimaginable restrictions on individual liberty....”

.....church attendance is vital for spiritual life....when people stay out, they risk degrading their spiritual lives. Sometimes I’ve seen people use a seemingly legitimate excuse (like a health crisis) to stay away, when the fact is that some other problem is really behind it....Whatever the reason, staying away can mean withering away.

A California judge ordered San Diego to reopen strip clubs even as local officials crack down on churches.

What if our worst fears are realized? What if years of pro-life progress are undone? What if our religious liberties are really attacked? What if the nation lurches towards an anti-God socialism? What if our policies prove disastrous for Israel and the Middle East?

Nearly half of Protestant pastors say that the economy during the COVID-19 pandemic is negatively impacting their churches, but only a small fraction of them say the impact has been “very” negative, according to a new survey. 

It’s out of your hands. If you’re not a lawyer, an investigator, or a witness — or maybe someone who can encourage a witness to speak out — your influence on this election is down to just two things. You can speak out to encourage those who are in the fight. And you can pray. Otherwise, you’re stuck with whatever happens. It’s out of your control. And here’s what I’ve learned: Out of control isn’t always such a bad place to be, if you trust God with it.

....The life of the church may feel more natural and organic in church without formal membership—but it’s the organic relationships of a commune, not a family. Communes are just people who happen to live near one another, but a family is a web of organic relationships that develop within defined commitments and roles. If you want the church to be a family, commit to formal church membership.

....I know that the word “revival” scares people today. We do not need revivalism. We do not need a neat little formula that produces a predictable result. We need to truly repent of sin and turn to God. We need a Haggai 1 type response to truth.

This is not simply because many of us voted for Trump. The hostility was there long before he came on the scene, and it will be there long after he is gone.

It is because we hope in an eternal savior that we joyfully continue our daily lives. We don't need a week off of classes or work to mourn an election. Our daily joys have suffered no loss of meaning.

....“The policy basically says that it’s normal for a baby with Down syndrome to be terminated right up until birth.”

....In an interview with The Arab American News two weeks ago, Kamala Harris explicitly stated that she was committed to creating a Palestinian state inside the borders of Israel with its capital in Jerusalem while limiting the number of Jews permitted to live in Judea and Samaria.

Hillsong has fired Carl Lentz, the pastor of its New York City branch.

Something happened in my house this week that those who know me will find unbelievable: I cut the remaining cord to cable news.  Fox News, the only remaining cable news source I considered somewhat trustworthy, found itself banned from my home with all other cable news.

....Ah, how insignificant a matter will mar our peace of mind: some little thing that happened in getting to your pew—some trifling incident even while you are in it, waiting for worship to begin, may, like dust in your eye, cause you the greatest distress. Such poor creatures are we that we may lose our peace of mind even by a word or a look.

Hey guys, this thing is not only not over; it is scary for Biden.  I mean really scary, and most of all, the media know it.  

Dozens of leaked internal documents and Zoom call video footage were made public Sunday describing plans by progressive activists and federal workers to disrupt and destabilize the outcome of Tuesday's presidential election, including plans to "shut down the White House."

The Italian archbishop best known for confronting Pope Francis over the Vatican’s willful blindness to priests who abuse boys has written a letter in which he lashes out at the “global elite”, prompting some to accuse him of sympathizing with the “QAnon” movement of conspiracy theorists.

.....If we are to see a genuine move of God (which is the only hope for our nation) then we must humble ourselves and confess our pride as well as besetting sin. Our blessings have become a curse; our abundance has taken us away from God. Pride is so powerful that many people reading this will get upset rather than humble themselves and seek God afresh

....Donald Trump wildly exceeded my expectations. He has defended the rights of the unborn, appointed originalist judges, and consistently and boldly defended religious liberty. His foreign policy accomplishments which have been all but ignored by the media are astonishing. No one in history has done what Trump has in the Middle East

.....This soft totalitarianism is based upon an ideology that has set aside the ideals of classical liberalism in favor of a new progressive creed. This creed, often known as “social justice,” diminishes individual identity in favor of group identities based on gender, race, sexuality, and so on.

....Today’s teenagers are growing up in a society that is increasingly hostile to faith, especially regarding faith-based values, and the social cost of being identified as religious amongst one’s peers is getting higher with each passing day.

...."Am I willing to go to jail? I'm willing to be obedient to God," said Pastor Mike McClure.

Religious leaders across the country are urging Americans to accept the results from Tuesday's presidential election as police and retailers prepare for civil unrest

....So it truly makes you sit back and wonder, “What is John Piper thinking” when he can draw a parallel between the personally destructive arrogance of Trump (a well documented given) and the destructive arrogance of the worldview of the left that ultimately was behind the death of 125,000,000 human beings in the 20th century.