For years, the American Church has been overrun with leaders who are selling out their ministries to the highest bidders, giving wolves access to their sheep in exchange for elite respectability. Rather than the truth of Scripture, high-profile pastors are preaching trendy social causes and reaping the spoils of the media's adulation. The left's march through the institutions has brought it to the last bastion--the Church--and if it could, it would bring that edifice, too, toppling down to serve its political purposes. Who is being bought and who is doing the buying? Why are our seminaries training students to be climate change activists and social justice warriors? Why are the Bible's instructions for handling accusations being thrown out while "trauma experts" are being brought in? You've had your suspicions. Now you will have answers. I've spent the last two years investigating the capitulation, compromise, and propaganda peddling. I'm naming names and bringing receipts. I have received cease and desist threats from one of the country's most powerful law firms. My publisher has received letters from major ministries asking for meetings about their "concerns." Backroom powerbrokers have tried to discredit and derail my project. By God's grace, they've all failed. You WILL learn which leaders and ministries are pimping their pulpits, cozying up to leftist sugardaddies, and embracing the world's oldest profession. Coming this July. Preorders open. harpercollins.com/products/s…

He says several laugh out loud funny observations here. A Frenchman discovering the charm of America.

Correct. The people on SNAP are about a billion times worse for the country than the guy building rocket ships and electric cars.

🚨 THREAD: What do Mike Pence, Mike Pompeo, John Bolton, and Elaine Chao have in common? They were all paid by a Marxist-Islamist Iran group that was designated as terrorist until 2012. No, this is not a joke. Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) was founded by leftist Islamists to oppose the western-backed Pahlavi, and participated in his 1979 overthrow. Khomeini barred MEK afterwards. MEK was implicated in multiple bombings, including that of Americans, and remained an openly armed group until 2003. Since they got de-listed as a terrorist organization in 2012 on procedural grounds, MEK and their fronts have been actively recruiting US politicians selling themselves as a moderate alternative to Khomeini. But RAND Corporation says MEK meets the qualifications for a cult, citing criteria such as forcing their members to work 16 hour days and forced divorces. Polls of the Iranian-American community shows that they do NOT accept Rajavi, MeK's leader, as legitimate, with a 46-point net disapproval - numbers nearly as bad as the existing regime. As Pence's former Chief of Staff, Marc Short, has already weighed against Trump deal, it's helpful to recall this. Receipts below. As always, patience as I pull the thread together.👇

LEAVE NATE BARGATZE ALONE YOU GHOULS.

The MLB has warned Christian baseball players that their faith and moral convictions will not be tolerated. “They are surprised when you do not join them in the same flood of debauchery, and they malign you. But they will give an account to Him…” (1 Peter 4:4-5)

A good rule of thumb is not to live a life so consumed by hatred and vitriol that it makes any portion of your obituary, much less the top line.

He took a rainbow stitched onto a San Francisco Giants cap and placed beside it the first Word God ever spoke over that sign. Genesis 9:11-16. That was enough for the league to warn them to not write a Bible verse on the pride hat again. A covenant became an offense. MLB could point to the uniform rule and maybe the rule was clear enough. Still, everyone knew the ink was not the real scandal. The scandal was Genesis. A verse from the first book of the Bible appeared beside a rainbow and suddenly the old story came walking into the modern room. God had spoken first..that was the wound. Before it was claimed by a movement, it was placed there by mercy. Landen Roupp said there was no hate in it. He said the rainbow is a symbol of God’s covenant and as a believer he wanted to stand firm. Good! There are times when standing firm looks less like shouting from a platform and more like refusing to vanish under a hat. Writing the verse in ink was small a small thing. The witness was not. I admire him. He could have worn the cap and said nothing, carried his convictions quietly back to the clubhouse. Instead, he wrote Genesis 9 beside the rainbow. It was not a spectacle. It was a confession. To understand why, we have to leave the ballpark and walk back into the soaked world of Genesis 9. God speaks as the world was still wet with judgment when God blessed Noah. He gave Noah’s family the earth. He sent them out to fill it and placed a holy fence around human life and said, in effect, “Do not treat people like animals. They bear My image.” Every person carries that mark. The baby in the womb and the old man in the nursing home. The angry critic online and the confused soul wrapped in a flag. Every one of them lives beneath the hand of the God who made them. Christian courage can never be cruel because every person bears God’s image. Mercy still hangs over this world and sinners still have time to come home. Then God lifted His sign into the clouds.“ I have set my bow in the cloud,” He says, “and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between me and the earth” (Genesis 9:13). The word is bow. That is easy to miss because we have turned the rainbow into greeting-card weather with soft colors after rain. Scripture’s bow is often a weapon. It belongs in the hand of a warrior. Scripture’s bow is often a weapon, bent with judgment, strung with arrows, aimed by wrath. In Genesis 9, God hangs the bow in the clouds with no arrow in it. Look at that again. The bow is there, but the string is quiet. The storm has spent itself. Sunlight breaks through the wet air. Color bends across the sky and creation receives a sermon without a single human word. God remembers. He keeps His promise. The world deserves judgment, yet mercy still hangs over our heads. The rainbow is a sermon. Long before flags, merchandise, corporate campaigns, political speeches, or team uniforms, God placed the rainbow above a guilty world and made it preach patience. That is why Genesis 9 belongs in this conversation. Christians do not need cruelty to speak clearly. Sneering never strengthens truth. When believers say the rainbow belongs to God, we are saying more than “our symbol came first.” We are saying the world is still being held together by the promise of a holy God who gives sinners time to repent. The rainbow is beautiful because mercy is beautiful. It also warns because mercy delayed carries a clock inside it. Peter tells us the Lord is patient and calls sinners to repentance. The same God who set His bow in the clouds has appointed a day when every mouth will close and every knee will bow. That makes the cross shine brighter. At Calvary, judgment did not stay in the distance. It landed as the arrow we deserved struck the Son of God. Christ stood beneath the wrath sinners earned and mercy flowed from His wounds. Genesis 9 gives us the empty bow in the clouds. Golgotha gives us the Savior on the tree. So yes, be thankful for these players. Be thankful for men who can stand beneath public pressure and say, with open eyes and a steady voice, “I belong to Christ.” Christians should learn from that. Stand firm when the culture demands your silence. Hold your ground when conviction is called hatred. Do it with tenderness, clean hands, tears for the lost, love for your neighbor and your Bible open. A rainbow appeared on a baseball cap and a few men remembered the God who set it in the sky. That is enough reason to be grateful. The rainbow is still preaching and let the church stand firm under it.

Timeline cleanse: There is a freshman on my team. I jokingly asked him before the game how many steals would he get. He responded & said as many as the lord allows. I wasn’t expecting that lol. Come to find out he reads scripture and prays on his own before every game.

The LGBTQ movement appropriated the rainbow symbol from Christianity. Now Christians are taking it back. Deal with it.

Wow. Major League Baseball (@MLB) have now warned that writing Bible verses on their hats won’t be tolerated by players after multiple @SFGiants pitchers wrote Bible verses on "Pride Night" hats. Every Christian player should do it in protest and Christians should boycott MLB.

The fact that modern society has turned women being nice to men into some kind of collective betrayal of the gender is a disaster of enormous proportions

Larry Sanger brings up an important point here. We have to remember that the Southern Poverty Law Center has been funding white supremacists to make their movement look bigger and more influential than it is. And even within the church (maybe especially within the church!) we could see false flag efforts like this. But in a world where it’s hard to know what is real, we do know what our North Star is. Scripture. And it tells us that nursing hatred in our hearts toward our brother for outward characteristics is a sin.

As I've said, CRT/BLM ideology and white supremacy are the same sin in different shades.

I get that politics is just listless people cozying up to other listless people. Still, it's jarring to see Republicans nuzzle up to Mark Zuckerberg, a dude who funded a left-wing election scheme and relentlessly censored conservatives.

Discussing why young white men are suddenly much more attracted to wicked ideologies of Nazism and white supremacy no more "legitimizes" or excuses their sins than discussing how the break down of the black family has led to higher rates of black youth crime legitimizes those sins. Why is it suddenly not allowed to talk about how we got here?

You don’t help “rebuild” nations you go to war with unless they unconditionally surrender. Otherwise, you’re just enriching the very regime you didn’t defeat. A $300B “reconstruction fund” for Iran, even if they supposedly comply for a few years to get the money, is bad news.

I was told today by a 17-year-old that there was no way people were writing 10 page papers without Al. Dude, I was writing 10 page papers without having read the book.

An edifying spiritual lesson from an irksome annoyance.