The left didn’t care about Iryna Zarutska. The left didn’t care about Charlie Kirk. The left didn’t care about Austin Metcalf. The left didn’t care National Guardsmen got shot in DC. But they burn cities over a woman who tried to kill ICE agents. Let that sink in…

The commentary around the ICE shooting reminds me of 2020 when I posted on my Facebook account a bunch of statistics surrounding black Americans post-George Floyd. A black woman told me, “I hope you have that same energy when you get shot by a cop.” My first thought was, that’s not likely because I’m not a criminal. I’m not breaking laws on a regular basis nor am I consuming illegal substances like drugs. I don’t place myself in situations where cops are called and I sure as hell don’t involve myself in official police business. The reason the commentary reminds me of this dialogue is because people are pretending that this shooting is a likely outcome for any American. But it isn’t. It’s incredibly far-fetched to act as if these men are walking around looking to shoot some rando driving a car. But it becomes believable if your entire concept of ICE is that everything they’re doing is at random. What has bothered me is that even normies think ICE is going door-to-door looking for people who “appear” illegal. They’ve consumed media that has convinced them that there are these immigration cowboys running around the country ready to terrorize your neighborhood. They have no clue about how ICE operates, and what their primary objectives are. Even more so, most people live a life of comfort and never see the underbelly of what ICE and other law enforcement officials see. ICE is at the forefront of stopping human trafficking, including children being trafficked. The men and women they are deporting range from being criminals in their homeland to criminals domestically. Nothing about their activities is random; they are highly targeted apprehensions. They are a limited enforcement arm and it would be objectively stupid and unproductive to operate “randomly.” They know where to find specific people because many have already been to immigration court and have deportation orders. They have their addresses and know who they associate with. Some have committed crimes here and so they have this information already. But when you understand that these men and women aren’t running around like headless chickens searching for brown people to deport, and that they’re highly trained officers, it makes more sense as to why you shouldn’t fear being wrongfully deported or shot by them. If you were attempting to impede any investigation or apprehension of any law enforcement arm, you’d be entering a dangerous territory that could lead to your arrest. Or in simple terms, don’t mess around with people who have guns and authority. So to the woman who said for me to have the same energy, I won’t need to because I don’t play foolish games with people with guns and authority. I also don’t attract attention by doing illegal things. Overwhelmingly, criminals are the ones who get shot by cops and criminals are the ones who shoot at cops as well. Likewise, none of you should be concerned about being deported unless you aren’t here legally. You shouldn’t be concerned about being shot by ICE unless you are provoking a response from them by interfering with their work. When you live in their reality of today may be your last day, you don’t play around with unruly people. Giving the benefit of the doubt to people can get you killed in a uniform. This is why ICE officers wear armor and masks. They face death threats and attempts on a consistent basis now that their jobs have been politicized. So, any person who is telling you to live with fear of an unlikely outcome, know they are attempting to manipulate you for some form of gain. There is a lot of that happening today; stay vigilant and protect your soul.

Jaguars HC Liam Coen, with a not-so-subtle jab at Broncos HC Sean Payton: "Grateful that a small market team like us can come into a place like Mile High and get it done." Payton had mentioned Jax being a small market team earlier in the week.

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The number of people celebrating Charlie Kirk's death who work as teachers, nurses, psychologists, social workers, and other "helping professions" is immensely disturbing. We have a serious problem in this country.

You can tell a lot about a person by how they react when someone dies.

I’m so sorry to hear this and my condolences to Ben’s family-I can’t imagine what they’re going through. It’s time we find answers to these existing cardiovascular issues and an EKG isn’t getting it done. Would love to partner with others to mandate that intercollegiate physicals include echocardiograms. My son was diagnosed at 20 years old with cardiomyopathy (enlarged left ventricle). Was severe enough that a heart replacement was talked about if his heart didn’t improve. Thankfully it has improved since the spring of 2023. Too many young people are asymptomatic and unaware of any issues that exist. A mandated Echo could help save lives. It’s time for the NCAA and Conference Commissioners to take a look at this. Love to be involved.

If Dems were smart they’d get out of the way and let Trump do his thing, and confirm all his people. Their entire argument is that his agenda will be bad for the country, so in that case, let him cook and then you can run against unpopularTrumpism and sweep next time. Unless you’re worried people will like it. In which case, you’d be screeching in the streets…

The church, while being a spiritual family, is not meant to replace the natural family. They overlap. They interact. But they do not eclipse each other. 1 Timothy 5:1-2 teaches us that relationships in the church are family-like. However, 1 Timothy 5:8 teaches us that we have specific responsibilities to our own family. If you collapse the natural family into the spiritual family (the church), you’ll end up with things like “over-shepherding” by overly paternalistic pastors. If you collapse the spiritual family (the church) into the natural family, you’ll get things like hyper-patriarchal fathers who administer the sacraments to their own family members outside the congregational gathering. Biological fathers are pastor-like in their familial roles, but they aren’t truly the pastors of their families unless they’ve been ordained to that office. Pastors (i.e., spiritual fathers) are father-like in their ecclesiastical relationships, but they aren’t truly the fathers of their church members unless they are their biological or adoptive fathers. Scripture maintains a tension between the spiritual and natural families, and so must we. When you erase the boundaries between the natural and spiritual families, trouble arises. On one hand, this can lead to authoritarian, cult-like churches. People without a family desperately want to belong, and they are easily manipulated. But the spiritual family cannot, by its very nature, fully replace the natural family. I frequently hear young men complain about the lack of pastors who are mentors in the church. I always ask, “What does mentorship look like to you?” They often describe something like meeting every week for an hour with an older man to work through their life issues. A pastor can do this from time to time or for a season, but what they are really seeking is a dad, not a mentor. Pastors can’t be your dad. They can be father-like, but not your dad, because there is no substitute for the natural family. This is a difficult truth for many of us to accept, because broken families are all we have ever known. It’s so hard that, instead of facing the reality of what we’ve lost, we try to normalize the unnatural. Instead, we must recover biblical households, strong families, and churches that equip us to start and lead our own families.

This is a great question, but it starts in daily life. Here’s some super easy things states and companies could do to honor families. -All airlines, TSA lines, and other forms of travel should allow families to board first, before priority and first class. Family lanes should be required. -Carpool lanes on highways renamed family lanes. Florida should do this asap. @GovRonDeSantis -every parking lot should be required by law to have family reserved parking, just like handicapped parking, for the safety of mothers and children. -Family lanes at all stores for ease of checkout. -Reserved seating for families at churches, houses of worship and other community spaces where children should be encouraged to go. In short, society should beat us over the head that families take priority above class, work and other forms of identity or protected groups, because family is the backbone of our civilization.

If there was ever any doubt as to who bears responsibility for the COVID pandemic, Biden’s pardon of Fauci forever seals the deal. As Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee I will not rest until the entire truth of the coverup is exposed. Fauci’s pardon will only serve as an accelerant to pierce the veil of deception. Ignominious! Anthony Fauci will go down in history as the first government scientist to be preemptively pardoned for a crime.

We are BACK! #sacramentokings

🚨 PSA: A 99 MILLION PERSON COVID-19 VACCINE SIDE EFFECT TRIAL just released its data. It’s 🤯 To say I’m enraged would be an understatement‼️ MASSIVE changes are required. This is UNACCEPTABLE. Share this with your loved ones. Here’s the study: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3835…

Dear pastor/theologian, You probably don't need to comment on every cabinet pick.

Thanks for the vote of confidence. FEMA just confirmed our story.

I have long benefitted from Pastor John and his ministry. But this is incredibly disappointing. Trump’s policy positions pose some problems for Christians, yes. But the two sides were not morally equivalent. We should al be rejoicing this morning that he did not hand us over to leadership with the most wicked policies this nation has ever known. What we received last night was mercy. Praise God.