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On October 31, 1991, a 79-year-old Mary Anne MacLeod Trump stepped out of her Rolls-Royce on Union Turnpike near her home in Jamaica Estates, Queens, when a 16-year-old mugger grabbed her purse and threw her to the ground, and what followed was not just a violent crime but the event that quietly reframed the entire final decade of her life and revealed how her son, the real estate billionaire Donald Trump, actually showed up when it mattered for the people he loved. Mary Anne's purse contained $14. She refused to let it go. The mugger beat her on the pavement, breaking her ribs, fracturing multiple bones, causing a brain hemorrhage, and inflicting permanent damage to both her sight and her hearing, injuries from which she never fully recovered. A bread-truck driver named Lawrence Herbert witnessed the attack, chased down the teenager, and held him until police arrived. The assailant later pleaded guilty to robbery and assault and received a sentence of three to nine years in prison. Donald Trump subsequently tracked down Lawrence Herbert and sent him a personal check specifically intended to keep Herbert from losing his home to foreclosure, a quiet, direct, and entirely unpublicized act of gratitude for a man who had saved his mother. Mary Anne spent the last nine years of her life significantly diminished by that attack, her vision and hearing permanently impaired, surviving her husband Fred by approximately a year before dying on August 7, 2000, at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park, New York, at age 88. She had come to America 70 years earlier with $50, worked in other people's mansions, married a builder from Queens, raised a future president, and in the end was mugged on her own street for $14, her Rolls-Royce parked just feet away. The death notice in the Stornoway Gazette, the newspaper of her Scottish hometown, read simply that Mary Ann Trump, aged 88, was the daughter of the late Malcolm and Mary MacLeod of 5 Tong, the fishing village she had left at 18 and never stopped belonging to.

This is a baby miscarried at 19 weeks. No clump of cells. No blob of tissue. A human being!

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Happy Anniversary Harry 😳

I would like to ask everyone to pray for Dr. Peter Stafford, the missionary physician who has been evacuated from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) after testing positive for the Ebola virus. Please also pray for his wife, Dr. Rebekah Stafford, and their four children. The Staffords now serve with Serge, but were part of our Samaritan’s Purse Post-Residency Program several years ago. I spoke with Rebekah by phone today and told her we would be praying for Peter and their family. bbc.com/news/articles/…

Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger was a racist who wanted to "exterminate" black people. Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, is usually touted as a paragon of feminist valor, a woman of courage who fought off the forces of reaction in her decades-long birth control campaign that liberated women from the tyranny of biology. But Sanger had a very dark side. She was a blatant eugenicist, and indeed, her birth-control campaign was not primarily focused on empowering all women, but rather on tamping down procreation rates for categories of women she considered the unfit — including African Americans. As writer Anastasia Hanonick notes: Everything she stood for is fundamentally opposed to feminism. While on the surface it appears that Sanger fought hard for women’s rights and equality, a deep dive into some of her personal narratives reveal shocking truths that demonstrate otherwise. And she viewed black women as "unfit" mothers. In her infamous essay titled “A Better Race Through Birth Control,” she emphasized the importance of birth control use to improve the “quality of humanity,” thereby justifying her views on eugenics. In this article she went on to say: “It is reasonable to assume that women of subnormal mentality, however lacking they may be in vision and altruism, would prefer to avoid the pain and responsibilities of procreation, if the satisfaction of sex could be divorced from reproduction. Given Birth Control, the unfit will voluntarily eliminate their kind.” Given the ubiquitous presence of Planned Parenthood in African-American communities, the abortion business carries on her mission.

It looks like straight out of a cartoon

@TNTJohn1717 And they attend diddy parties. And some are gay.. 🤔

🚨‼️Nothing says “take no thought for raiment” like a $1,600 reversible leather bomber jacket. John the Baptist had camel’s hair and a leathern girdle. Modern celebrity preachers have designer leather, stage lighting, security teams, and a prosperity gospel that apparently comes with a wardrobe department. Somewhere between “freely ye have received, freely give” and “Mother’s Day sale extended,” the American pulpit got lost in the mall.

🚨‼️A lot of Christians are not ruined by adultery, drunkenness, or apostasy. They are ruined by delay. They keep saying “one day” while God keeps saying “today.” One day I’ll get serious. One day I’ll lead my family. One day I’ll pray like I should. One day I’ll witness. One day I’ll use what God gave me. And while they keep kissing that word “later,” their life is bleeding out on the floor. The devil does not need every believer to become a Satanist. He just needs him distracted, tired, overcommitted, and always almost ready. If he can keep you busy enough to neglect prayer, dull enough to avoid the Bible, and comfortable enough to postpone obedience, then he can bury your calling without ever putting you in a tabloid scandal. That is why some of the saddest wrecks in the body of Christ still look respectable on Sunday morning. Jesus Christ did not say, “Admire till I come.” He said, “Occupy till I come.” That means do business with what He gave you. Use the gift. Carry the burden. Speak the truth. Raise the children. Write the page. Pray the prayer. Make the call. Take the step. Stop waiting for a perfect season in a cursed world. If the thing is right, scriptural, and sitting in your hands, then your biggest enemy may not be confusion. It may be disobedience with a polite smile on its face. One day you are going to stand before the Lord Jesus Christ, and it will not matter how many intentions you had stacked up in your head. It will matter what you did with what He gave you. That is the difference between a burden and a biography. Plenty of people feel things. Fewer obey. So quit bragging about what you know God has put on your heart and go do the next thing He already showed you to do.

The longest red light ever.. 😂

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The Gifts of Healing: A Rightly Divided Answer to the Charismatic Proof-Text There are certain verses in the Bible that false teachers love because they can lift them out of their place, wrap them in religious noise, and make them sound like they teach something they do not teach. First Corinthians 12:9 is one of those verses. Paul says, “To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit” (1 Corinthians 12:9). A charismatic reads that and immediately starts building a healing ministry, a stage show, a prayer line, a seed-faith racket, or a “claim your miracle” doctrine. But the Bible believer has to slow down and ask the question that should have been asked before the shouting started: what is Paul actually saying, where is he saying it, to whom is he saying it, and what period of God’s dealings is he writing in? The issue is not whether God can heal. Any Bible believer with sense believes God can heal. The issue is whether 1 Corinthians 12:9 proves that some modern fellow in a shiny suit, or some internet prophet from South Africa, or some woman screaming into a microphone, has the apostolic “gifts of healing” today in the same sense that the apostles had sign gifts in the book of Acts. That is the issue. This kind of verse can trip up a younger Bible believer. That is no insult to younger Christians. Every Bible believer has been there. You are out on visitation, knocking doors, trying to speak for the Lord, and somebody throws a verse at you with confidence. They do not rightly divide it. They do not explain it. They do not compare Scripture with Scripture. They just quote the verse like a magician pulling a card out of his sleeve. “What about the gifts of healing?” And if you have not studied it, you may know in your spirit that something is wrong, but you may not yet have the verses lined up. A pastor standing beside you may try to give the right answer, but if he does not carefully explain the transition in Acts, the signs of an apostle, the temporary nature of sign gifts, the later Pauline references to sickness, and the difference between God healing providentially and a man possessing an apostolic gift, the charismatic will walk away acting like he won. That is how false doctrine survives. It takes advantage of unprepared saints and unexplained verses. So this essay is written to pin the thing down. Not with emotionalism. Not with tradition. Not with dry theological fog. With Bible. The question is simple: what are “the gifts of healing” in 1 Corinthians 12, and can a modern charismatic claim that verse as proof that he personally has the same healing power the apostles exercised? The answer is no. God can heal today, but that does not mean some modern man has the apostolic sign gift of healing. God can answer prayer today, but that does not mean every claimed healer is legitimate. God can use doctors, medicine, rest, mercy, prayer, and providence today, but that does not mean the early Acts-period sign gifts are still operating in the same way. If the Bible says “gifts of healing,” then a Bible believer should believe what it says. But he should also believe everything else the Bible says about apostles, signs, transition, sickness, medicine, and the close of Paul’s ministry. A verse taken by itself can become a toy in the hands of a fanatic. A verse rightly divided becomes a sword in the hand of a Bible believer. Chapter 1: The Verse Says “Gifts of Healing,” Not “A Permanent Healing Ministry” The first thing to notice is the wording itself. Paul says, “To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit” (1 Corinthians 12:9). He does not say that every believer has healing power. He does not say every church should have a resident miracle-worker. He does not say that every sick saint can demand instant recovery if he speaks the right words. He says the Spirit gives “to another” the gifts of healing. That wording matters. The context is

@TNTJohn1717 Amen, well said!

The plural also leaves room for the fact that God’s healing work is broader than one narrow charismatic definition. God may heal instantly by miracle. God may heal gradually by providence. God may heal through rest. God may heal through wisdom. God may heal through a physician. God may heal through medicine. God may strengthen a man inwardly while leaving the outward infirmity in place. A Bible believer does not need to deny healing to reject the fake healer. A Bible believer can believe every healing in the Bible and still reject a modern man’s claim that he has apostolic power. The charismatic wants to force the issue into two choices: either accept his healing claims or deny God’s power. That is a false choice. God has all power. The modern claimant has no apostolic proof. Chapter 4: Paul’s Ministry Shows a Clear Transition The strongest evidence against the modern charismatic misuse of 1 Corinthians 12 is found in Paul’s own ministry. Early in Acts, Paul performs signs and wonders. God does special miracles by his hands. Acts 19 says, “And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul” (Acts 19:11). It continues, “So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them” (Acts 19:12). That is real Bible. No Bible believer should explain it away. But notice the wording: “God wrought special miracles.” These were not ordinary, everyday church practices. They were special miracles connected with Paul’s apostolic ministry during the Acts period. But when you get later in Paul’s ministry, the picture changes. Paul tells Timothy, “Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities” (1 Timothy 5:23). Timothy has “often infirmities.” Paul does not send him a prayer cloth. Paul does not tell him to claim his healing. Paul does not rebuke a generational curse. Paul does not tell him he lacks faith. He gives him practical medicinal instruction. That one verse is a landmine under the charismatic healing doctrine. If Paul’s apostolic healing power were still operating as an automatic ministry at that point, why is Timothy still sick often? Why does Paul recommend a medicinal remedy? Why does Paul not simply heal him? The answer is that the Acts-period sign ministry was not the permanent norm for the church. Then Paul writes, “Erastus abode at Corinth: but Trophimus have I left at Miletum sick” (2 Timothy 4:20). Read that slowly. Paul left Trophimus sick. This is not a liberal commentary. This is not unbelieving Baptist tradition. This is Scripture. The same Paul through whom God wrought special miracles earlier in Acts now leaves a fellow-laborer sick. That proves a transition. The apostolic sign gifts were not operating at the end of Paul’s ministry in the same way they operated earlier. Then add Colossians 4:14: “Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas, greet you.” Paul traveled with “the beloved physician.” He did not mock medicine. He did not treat doctors as enemies of faith. He did not say, “Luke is unnecessary because I have healing power.” He calls Luke beloved. The Bible is more balanced than the charismatic movement. God can heal, and God can use physicians.

@TNTJohn1717 Yeah these religious systems are strongholds. I was raised catholic but it had no impact on me there was no salvation there. Now as I got older coming out of the charismatic movement was difficult. I still cringe at anything charismatic.

The Eucharist is Rome’s central error because it touches the sacrifice of Christ. The Bible says Christ offered one sacrifice for sins forever. Rome turns that finished sacrifice into an ongoing sacramental center. The Bible says the believer has boldness to enter by the blood of Jesus. Rome sends sinners to priests. The Bible says we confess our sins to God and have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. Rome puts a man in a box. The Bible says the believer is complete in Christ. Rome says you need the system. Colossians 2:10 says, “And ye are complete in him.” Complete means complete. Not almost complete. Not sacramentally assisted. Not institutionally managed. Complete in Him. That one verse tears gears out of Rome’s machine. 6. The Devil Barron Sees — And The Religious Deception He Misses Bishop Robert Barron is right to reject the modern liberal idea that the devil is merely a symbol of evil, a primitive superstition, or poetic language for psychological dysfunction. The Bible presents the devil as a real personal being, a fallen spiritual power, a deceiver, a liar, an accuser, a murderer, and the god of this world. Barron is right that demons are real. He is right that evil operates spiritually. He is right that the devil works through suggestion, temptation, division, accusation, and lies. That is far better than the modern preacher who acts like Satan is a metaphor and hell is a mood. Give him credit where he is right. A man who believes in fallen angels is closer to the Bible than a seminary professor who explains them away. But here is the great thing Barron seems to miss: the devil’s greatest work is religious deception. Satan does not merely tempt drunkards, criminals, pornographers, atheists, and open rebels. He builds religions. He sponsors false gospels. He preaches another Jesus. He uses ministers. Paul said, “Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.” (2 Corinthians 11:14). Read that again slowly. Not an angel of darkness. An angel of light. The next verse says his ministers are transformed as ministers of righteousness. That means Satan’s greatest servants do not always look wicked. They may look holy. They may wear robes. They may speak of Christ. They may quote Scripture. They may defend morality. They may build cathedrals. They may teach theology. They may promote beauty. They may even warn about the devil while unknowingly operating inside one of his religious masterpieces. The devil does not care if you admire Jesus as long as you do not trust Him alone. The devil does not care if you read the Bible as long as tradition sits above it. The devil does not care if you confess Jesus is Lord as long as Rome gets to define what that means. The devil does not care if you believe in grace as long as sacraments become the pipeline. The devil does not care if you believe in the cross as long as the Mass keeps representing what God said was finished. The devil does not care if you talk about holiness as long as you never rest in the imputed righteousness of Christ. Religious deception is not the absence of Christian words. It is the corruption of Christian words. That is why Galatians 1:8 says, “Though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.” An angel from heaven could look very beautiful. Paul still said, check the gospel.

Bishop Robert Barron and the Beautiful Trap of Roman Catholic Evangelism Introduction Bishop Robert Barron is not the easiest Catholic figure to expose, and that is exactly why he needs to be exposed. He is not a clown in a pulpit screaming nonsense, and he is not some prosperity preacher shaking people down for seed money while he grins beside a private jet. Barron is polished, intelligent, articulate, cultured, educated, and very good at making Roman Catholicism look beautiful, reasonable, ancient, intellectual, and biblical. That is the danger. A crude error is easy to spot. A beautiful error is harder to resist. A man can reject some greasy television preacher in five minutes, but he may sit for hours listening to Bishop Robert Barron talk about Christ, Scripture, beauty, the Old Testament, the devil, the Holy Spirit, Thomas Aquinas, the saints, cathedrals, art, literature, and evangelism and think, “This man sounds biblical.” And in many places, he does sound biblical. That is what makes him dangerous to Bible believers and attractive to religious minds. He does not start by denying Jesus. He starts by adorning Him with Rome. Bishop Robert Barron is probably one of the most effective Catholic communicators in the modern world because he understands something many preachers have forgotten: beauty persuades. He knows the power of architecture, stained glass, music, ancient language, intellectual confidence, sacred art, film-quality production, and historical continuity. His Catholicism is not presented as a dry list of doctrines. It is presented as a grand civilization, a cathedral of ideas, a sweeping story, a tradition of saints and scholars, a world of beauty that claims to gather everything true, good, and beautiful under the banner of Rome. That presentation is powerful. But the Bible believer has to ask the question the emotional man does not ask: what gospel is under all that gold? What authority sits beneath all that beauty? What happens when the sinner asks, “What must I do to be saved?” Is he pointed straight to the finished work of Jesus Christ by faith alone, or is he walked into a system of church authority, sacraments, priests, confession, Eucharist, Mary, saints, confirmation, councils, catechisms, and Rome’s interpretive machinery? This essay is not written because Bishop Robert Barron says nothing true. That would be an easy lie, and Bible believers do not need to lie to expose error. In fact, Barron says many true things. He speaks strongly of Jesus as Lord. He admits Catholics have often neglected the Bible. He takes the Old Testament seriously. He believes the devil is real. He calls for bold speech and public proclamation of Christ. Those things are true and commendable as far as they go. But that is the whole point: they do not go far enough. Bishop Robert Barron walks up to the edge of Bible truth and then turns people back into Rome’s cathedral. He puts a Bible in the Catholic’s hand, but he keeps the Church’s hand on the Catholic’s throat. He tells people to read Scripture, but only through the lens of Roman authority. He speaks of Christ, but not Christ alone. He speaks of grace, but not grace without sacramental machinery. He speaks of the Church, but not the body of Christ as revealed through Paul. He speaks of the devil, but misses one of the devil’s greatest works: religious deception wrapped in beauty. That is the beautiful trap of Roman Catholic evangelism. 1. The Catholic Bishop With A Bible In His Hand Bishop Robert Barron is not one of those Catholic leaders who acts embarrassed by the Bible. That needs to be acknowledged plainly. He has publicly complained that many Catholics do not read Scripture as they should, and he has criticized preaching that begins with human experience instead of the Bible. That sounds good because it is good as far as it goes. A man who says people should read the Bible more is saying something right. A man who says preaching should not begin

@TNTJohn1717 Yes smart man but catholic to his core. I once heard him say we are not puritans and I thought no truer words..

@TNTJohn1717 Looks like a horror film.

🚨‼️The Lord told men to preach the gospel to every creature, not pucker up to a skeleton in a glass box. This is not “ancient Christianity.” This is religious necromancy with candles. The Bible never commands believers to venerate bones, kiss relics, pray to dead saints, or turn Christianity into a haunted museum tour. Christ is risen. The saints are dead. Worship God.

🚨 The Chinese Communists have just TICKETED the Fox News crew, using their abundance of surveillance cameras placed around Beijing! BRET BAIER: "There are literally cameras everywhere...they see everything...our driver parked illegally for 2 MINUTES and got a ticket for $40!" "Because they saw it, on the camera." This is Communism! It's what the Democrats want.

Glad our Founding Fathers declared independence 250 years ago. Say no to Digital ID!

So this is what it’s like to watch a British king make an evil proclamation. Charles casually telling his government to implement Digital ID without any mandate. This is why we fought a war and maintain a right to bear arms.