Sam Potter @s_potter95

He's right but it wasn't just about Catholics. They also wanted to culturally reprogram Jews & Lutherans! Which is why Catholics, Jews, and Lutherans have their own independent schools at scale.

Jeremy Wayne Tate @JeremyTate41

6 days ago

Ben Sasse has always been honest, but facing a terminal diagnosis he has been unplugged. Last night, in exactly 13 seconds, he explained the real reason compulsory education ever started in America. Catholics, consider this when making choices about education for your children.

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A devotion on judges, shepherds, and salvation: John 10:1-21 Imagine that you’re on trial for murder, a crime you are most certainly guilty of for the purposes of this illustration. The judge has all the evidence of your profoundly evil act in front of him and he’s about to issue his judgment and sentence you to death. So just as he’s about to utter those words of condemnation, your brother bursts into the courtroom and runs to your side and says to you, “don’t worry.” Then, looking at the judge, he says, “your honor, I have decided to take my brother’s place. Find me guilty. Condemn me and set him free.” So that’s what he says and you feel profound relief burst through your heart and music begins to swell to a glorious crescendo, and then the judge looks at your brother and says, “Uh, no. Get out of my courtroom, you lunatic. You don’t have any authority to take his place on death row. Your brother is guilty and I’m not punishing anyone else for his crime.” In the end, a substitutionary sacrifice has no value if the judge does not authorize it. As kind as your brother’s offer to save you is, it’s not worth anything if the judge hasn’t permitted him to offer it. And this is why it’s important that Jesus tells us, in the Good Shepherd narrative, that He has authority both to lay down His life and to take it back up again. It’s not just that Jesus loves us and is willing to die for us. It’s that His Father, the Judge, has authorized Him to be that sacrifice. God the Father has given His Son the authority to die in your place, to take the punishment you earned, to destroy your sins. And in the same way, because Jesus has no sin of His own, God the Father has given Him the authority to rise on the third day because death has no authority to hold him. And so, in all of this, you can feel the relief burst through your heart, and every day you can hear the song of the angels swell to a glorious crescendo in your ears. You can hear all of this without the fear that the record scratch or the rug pull is coming. The Judge has already accepted the substitute, the sacrifice. He has already poured out His wrath towards your sins upon His Son at Calvary. And He has already declared you innocent and worthy to be His own child forever through the power of Christ’s resurrection, the very one He authorized to accomplish this. Be at peace. You are innocent. You are declared righteous and set free, free to be a child of God. You are justified through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

A devotion on projection and forgiveness: Luke 22:47-71 “Projection” is a term that psychologists use for a curious form of human behavior where Person A accuses Person B of doing or thinking the things Person A is actually doing or thinking. For example, if a man has a guilty conscience about having committed adultery or giving himself over to lust in some way, he will often accuse his wife of having adulterous intentions when she’s just friendly with another man. Adulterers project adultery onto everyone else. Addicts see addiction in everyone else. Liars always think everyone else is lying. That’s projection. And in our reading from Luke today, Jesus calls out the projection of the men who come to arrest Him when He says, “have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs? WHen I was with you day after day in the temple, you did not lay hands on me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness.” In other words, Jesus is ultimately saying, “You could have taken me into custody in broad daylight, but you’ve come under the cover of night because you’re not really concerned about my supposed blasphemy and false teaching. You just want to strip me of the honor I have in the eyes of the people. And ultimately, you want to rob me of the glory I have as the only begotten Son of God. So the reason you’re armed like you’ve come to capture a violent thief is not because I’m a robber. It’s because you are.” Wretched projection, indeed. But thanks be to God that He gave His sinless, spotless Son to die for those who treated Him as a robber. And thanks be to God that Jesus Christ freely gave Himself to us, when we tried to steal from Him. Once, in our sin, we were the robbers, beating Christ viciously with our transgressions in an attempt to take away His authority over us, trying to rob Him of the right to control our lives, trying to rob Him of the right to tell us that we lost sheep in need of His arms. But when we tore Him to pieces with our swords and clubs, when our sins became the very nails pierced into His hands and feet, Jesus Christ used the blood He shed to melt the weapons out of our hands, to heal those who hacked Him apart. There, from the cross, Jesus used the very divine authority we tried to steal from Him to forgive us, to restore us, to clothe us in His love, and to take us in His arms. The Savior who had nothing but love for us in His heart projected His love onto our faces. And because of this, when the Father looks at us, He doesn’t see the faces of robbers and thieves. He sees the faces of His beloved children. Blessed projection, indeed.

A devotion on earthly glory vs. true glory: Luke 22:24-46 Throughout the earthly ministry of Jesus, His disciples are constantly arguing among themselves as to which of them will be the greatest in His kingdom, which of them will have the most glory, the most honor, the greatest position of power in the presumed earthly reign of our Lord. And here in our text for today, the disciples are doing this again, on the very night of our Lord’s betrayal. It’s all quite amazing. The disciples have now heard Jesus speak numerous words about His rapidly-approaching crucifixion. They’re witnessing His increasing distress, His agony wafting into the air that is already thick with the hatred that the Pharisees and Chief Priests have for their Lord. And yet, they simply can’t make sense of any of this. This isn’t enough to pull their thoughts away from earthly glory. And so we see something vitally important about the Christian faith. It doesn’t matter how much you are surrounded by Christian stuff, Christian ideas. It doesn’t matter how much you hear the word of the Scriptures or how much time you spend in Christian churches. If you don’t have the Holy Spirit, all of those words will bounce off of your ears. So pray for a greater measure of the Spirit. Pray that God would take not His Holy Spirit from you. Cling to the Spirit who has pierced through your earthly-glory clogged ears and blessed you to believe in the true kingdom of Christ. And do all of this by looking to the cross of Christ. If you want glory, if you want honor, if you want the praise of God Himself, look to the place where God gave you everything. Look to the cross. In the wounds of Jesus Christ, see the glory of God pouring out upon you. Gaze upon the blood of your Savior and there you will find the crimson fibers that your Father wove together as the robe of honor placed around your shoulders. If you want the praise of God look to the place where God destroyed every sin that prevented you from possessing His kingdom. Look to the place where God washed you in His favor and love, the favor and love that gave you the right to be praised as His beloved child.

It is an utter shame that Christians have fallen under the sway of these NAR charlatans and heretics. These are the real “shepherds for sale.”

Matthew D. Taylor @TaylorMatthewD

3 weeks ago

The New Apostolic Reformation has been staging Christian nationalist events on the National Mall for 25 years. Today they finally got a White House-sponsored one. This is what they've been building toward and prophesying. My new piece: open.substack.com/pub/matthewdta…

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A devotion the absurdity of wanting heaven without Jesus: Luke 15:11-32 When the older brother confronts his father about the feast of joy he’s thrown in honor of the prodigal son’s return, the older brother laments that, after all these years of faithfully serving his father, his father never even gave him a young goat that he might celebrate with his friends. Again, and quite notably, with his friends. Not with his father. And with this little detail, the older brother reveals the wickedness of his heart. He wants his father’s glory, but not his presence. He wants the splendor his father produces, but doesn’t want his father anywhere near it. He wants to be praised for his obedience, but doesn’t want the love of the one he obeyed. And in this, we see a perfect depiction of the absurdity of unbelievers who get angry at the notion that they must have faith in Christ in order to have eternal life. It might sound perfectly reasonable to their own ears when they say, “why shouldn’t I be able to go to heaven just because I don’t believe in Jesus? Why should I go to hell just because I’m not a Christian?” But if we use terms that describe what heaven and hell actually are, we begin to see the insanity of the request. Heaven is being in the presence of Jesus. Hell is being apart from Him. Likewise, belief is ultimately wanting to be near Jesus, to receive His righteousness. And unbelief is wanting to be far from Him, wanting your own righteousness instead. And so, saying “if I’m not a Christian, why should I go to hell” is ultimately saying, “I don’t want to be near Jesus, but why should I be far from Jesus? Why can’t I be near His righteousness but not get close to it?” Just like the older brother in the parable, such people want the glory of God without the presence of God. This request is nonsense. If you want the Kingdom of Christ, you have to want Christ. And if you don’t want Christ, then you’ll get what you desire and all the suffering that comes from being separated from Him. So if you want eternal life, despair of your own righteousness. Quit believing the lie that you’ve earned a goat and a celebration with your friends. Leave your pride behind and walk into the kingdom where the fattneed calf has been slaughtered and where your Father’s love is radiating. Walk away from your sins and into the arms of your God. Beg for the blood of Christ to clothe you and cover you, and your Father in heaven will show you that it is already the robe around your shoulders and the ring on your finger. Stop lingering outside the feast. Come inside and live forever.

I’m I are if paying a 300% markup to provide 5 weeks of diapers to 25% of babies so that a nonprofit middleman can pay a parasitic class of bureaucrats is actually a good policy. Love the pro baby energy, but this is in pure policy terms a very bad design.

Lila Rose @LilaGraceRose

a month ago

This is a GOOD policy. It does not make up for the horrific, evil policies of allowing and funding the killing of preborn babies.

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A devotion on Jesus and His enemies wanting the same thing: Luke 13:18-35 In a strange sort of way, those who want our Lord dead and our Lord Himself very much want the same thing. They both want Him dead. And on top of that, they both want the blood of Jesus to place the favor of God into His enemies’ hands. But, of course, each side wants that blood to accomplish this in very different ways. As the Pharisees show when they tell Jesus, “get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you,” they ultimately want Jesus dead because they want Him out of their way. They want Him gone so He’ll stop humiliating them in arguments, stop making them deal with the horrifying thought that all of their stringent adherence to the Law hasn’t made them worthy of eternal life. But if Jesus is gone, if He runs away or, even better, if He’s put to death, then He won’t stuff that wretched idea into their heads anymore and they can resume having confidence that they’ve earned the favor of God. And yet, that favor is exactly what Jesus wants to give them, which is why He won’t be bullied by their threats of violence. Oh, Herod wants to kill Him? Well, if that’s true, Herod can get in line. He’s not the only person that wants Jesus to shed His blood. And the first person in that line is our Lord Himself. He came for this purpose, to forgive the sins of even His bitterest enemies upon the cross, at the right time, in the right place, in fulfillment of the Scriptures. Jesus came to give the righteousness of God to those who could never have earned it through His dying breath, no matter what their deluded minds and hearts told them. Those who have no hope, those who were violently thrashing about as they drown in condemnation, even as their violent thrashing pierced the hands and feet of our Lord, that’s who Jesus came to save. Those are the ones whose hands Jesus wanted to pry open and give them the favor of His Father, the favor no sinful man could have earned but that our Lord purchased with His own blood. That’s why Jesus died for Herod, the Chief Priests, the Pharisees. And that’s why Jesus Christ died for you.

A devotion on tax-collecting thugs and our salvation-giving Lord: Luke 5:17-39 Tax collectors in the days of Christ’s earthly ministry had a rather bad reputation. First, tax collectors were known for being rather thuggish. They weren’t accountants as we might think of them, but more along the lines of mafia goons, shakedown artists who would often use threats of governmental power and violence to extract from people more than they owned. And second, those who worked as tax collectors worked for a foreign power that was imposing itself on your nation, preventing you from being independent. They were oppression lackeys, to put it simply. And so, for the Jews who hungered to see the kingdom of David restored, you can see why being a tax collector, especially being a Jewish tax collector like St. Matthew, was such a reprehensible thing. You’re a bully and a traitor. And so, it’s a fitting thing that Matthew (or Levi as Luke calls him here) finds salvation in Jesus Christ, the gentle and faithful Savior. When the Pharisees grumble that Jesus is eating and drinking with tax collectors and sinners at Levi’s home, Jesus responds by telling them that it’s the sick who are in need of a physician, not the healthy. And so Jesus gives all who run to Him the healing of His righteousness. When we have been cruel and imposing, when we’ve used whatever power we have to make people feel small and helpless, Jesus came to us brimming with the power of God, but power that He used not to destroy us, but to save us. When we were like tax collectors extracting money that didn’t belong to us, Jesus gave us the free gift of His salvation. He allowed lawless men to open His veins and He gave us the priceless treasure of His righteousness. When we lived in service of idols, when we made ourselves soldiers in the war against our God, Jesus Christ gave us His faithfulness by giving up His life for us upon the cross. And rising again on the third day, He showed us that we now had the right to leave behind our days of tax collecting for Rome and live forever as faithful children of His Kingdom. Tax collectors made apostles, sinners made saints. That is the mercy of Jesus Christ, our crucified but risen Lord.

Yet another reason property taxes are the best form of taxes is because they match the perpetual liabilities of civilization (schools, courts, police, etc.) with a perpetual asset (the land). Your obligations to your community don't stop just because you've paid off your home.

Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX

2 months ago

Can anyone explain to me why we have to continue to pay property taxes on our land and motor vehicles AFTER we have paid them off? As far as I’m concerned, it is indefensible because it is theft.

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This is a drug that is destroying will continue to destroy countless lives and family. We need to grow up and become something better than hedonists.

More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS

2 months ago

More than half of men ages 18-49 (52%) now say they have an active sports betting account with an online sportsbook like DraftKings, Caesars, FanDuel, or BetMGM.

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Appreciate this from Meg, but please keep in mind she has vociferously attacked Christian leaders (and accused them of being “shepherds for sale) specifically because they’ve been honest to one degree or another about exactly who this man was and is.

Megan Basham @megbasham

2 months ago

I don’t know if the President thought he was being funny or if he is under the influence of some substance or what possible explanation he could have for this OUTRAGEOUS blasphemy. But he needs to take this down immediately and ask for forgiveness from the American people and

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The best part of the shot was the shot. My favorite part of the shot was the gallery thinking Cam had skulled this thing across the green as if he were me out there.

A cool thing about Jesus is that He smashed the skull of the devil into little bitty shards and then walked over his twitching carcass on His way out of the grave, rendering death powerless and promising forgiveness, life, and salvation to all who believe.

Whatever else your Lent may be, may you “return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love.” (Joel 2:13) His arms are spread open wide. Fall into them.

cc: @TheMasters 👀

Since it obviously needs to be said again. The MEANING of the ashes is given you in the words that accompany their application: Remember, O man, that thou art dust and unto dust thou shalt return. They are NOT a sign of fasting, but of DYING. They announce: Dead man walking.

Genuine humanitarian catastrophe.

Leah Libresco Sargeant @LeahLibresco

4 months ago

“Moderna’s CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: ‘You cannot make a return on investment if you don’t have access to the U.S. market.’ Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.”

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Well look, the sleep change is pretty small! Parents get MORE sleep earlier in the evening, but wake up earlier. The big change really is screen time and work.

Aziz Sunderji @AzizSunderji

4 months ago

As a new parent, I spend a lot of time changing diapers and feeding the baby. 15 months ago I wasn't doing any of this. I felt busy then too, so where did all this childcare time come from? I analyzed the Census Bureau's American Time Use Survey to find out how most parents do

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@YourCalvinist Romans 5:18 ESV [18] Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men. bible.com/bible/59/rom.5…