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"Your comments will not stand!" with debanked vicar Richard Fothergill

Special guest the Rev'd Richard Fothergill joined revs with a difference Jamie Franklin and Daniel French for the second half of this episode to discuss his recent experience of being debanked by the Yorkshire Building Society for his shockingly prejudicial comments about transgenderism. But our conversation was more wide-ranging, taking in Richard's experience in starting the international movement which goes by the name of The Filling Station (https://thefillingstation.org/) in response to the weakness of many local churches and the general spiritual darkness of the surrounding culture. In the first half of the episode, Daniel and Jamie discussed Psalm 2 and the nations raging against Christ, the Costa Coffee transgenderism debacle and the spiritual implications of the outrageous level of inheritance tax that we are forced to pay in this country. We also covered a Question the Rev on the legitimacy or not of the NRSV translation of Scripture. Please Support! Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/irreverend) or Buy Me a Coffee (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/irreverend). Subscribe to Jamie's Blog here: https://jamiefranklin.substack.com For your merchandise needs: https://irreverendmerch.bss.design Links: Costa "trans man" cartoon - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023... Inheritance tax in the UK - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023... Notices: Find me a church: https://irreverendpod.com/church-finder/ Join our Irreverend Telegram group: https://t.me/irreverendpod Find links to our episodes, social media accounts and ways to support us at https://www.irreverendpod.com! Thursday Circles: http://thursdaycircle.com Jamie's Good Things Substack: https://jamiefranklin.substack.com Irreverend Sermon Audio: https://irreverendsermonaudio.buzzspr...

Gab Tells Governments Who Demand Censorship To Get Lost, Facebook Censors On Behalf Of The Biden Admin

 Gab Tells Governments Who Demand Censorship To Get Lost, Facebook Censors On Behalf Of The Biden Admin

The “Facebook Files” recently made public have shed light on how White House officials exerted pressure on the social media giant for special access to tools to target vaccine-hesitant users. They also criticized Facebook employees for not sharing enough data, contradicting White House claims during that time.

At Gab we stand firm in our commitment to freedom of speech and will never bow down to any administration’s demands for censorship, be it the Biden Administration or any other. Our resolve remains unwavering, as we regularly reject censorship requests from governments. We have a long history of very publicly turning down censorship demands from the UK, Germany, France, and many others.

Unlike Facebook we believe in allowing the free flow of information, regardless of whether it aligns with popular narratives or not. It is disheartening to witness Facebook taking steps to suppress not just false information but also mere opinions about vaccines. Internal documents reveal Facebook’s deliberate efforts to create a “vaccine negative environment” by demoting posts discussing negative side effects or questioning vaccine mandates, even though these discussions are not based on false information.

When the pandemic hit, conventional social media platforms faced a daunting task: curating vast amounts of pandemic-related content while attempting to control the spread of information. This often led to concerns about the suppression of genuine debates and the Facebook Files reveal that this overreach was absolutely happening on other platforms. In stark contrast, Gab remained true to its principles of free speech, providing a welcoming space for users to engage in open conversations about vaccines, COVID origins, and lockdown measures.

Gab’s refusal to censor discussions surrounding the pandemic allowed a myriad of perspectives to flourish. Users felt empowered to share their thoughts, concerns, and even dissenting opinions without fear of being silenced. As a result, Gab became a platform where experts, skeptics, and ordinary people could engage in constructive dialogues and learn from one another.

Amid the chaos of conflicting narratives and rapidly evolving information, Gab acted as a beacon for critical thinking. By encouraging uncensored discussions, users had the opportunity to analyze various viewpoints and make informed decisions. The free exchange of ideas on Gab facilitated the growth of a well-informed community that could better navigate the complexities of the pandemic.

It’s quite astonishing to learn that even memes were a point of contention for the Biden White House. This shows a worrying trend towards stifling creativity and the sharing of ideas. According to Facebook, posts expressing concerns about the Biden administration’s Covid vaccine mandates and criticizing government overreach were subjected to reductions because they were perceived to contribute to a “vaccine negative environment.”

In an email, Nick Clegg, Facebook’s then-VP of Global Affairs, shared his conversation with Andy Slavitt, President Biden’s White House senior adviser for the COVID response. Slavitt was visibly outraged that Facebook had not removed a meme about vaccine side effects. The meme used Leonardo DiCaprio’s iconic pointing image with text suggesting potential future class-action lawsuits related to the COVID vaccine. Slavitt argued that the post drew a direct comparison between COVID vaccines and asbestos poisoning, which allegedly undermined confidence in the vaccines among the Biden administration’s target audience.

At Gab we embrace diversity of thought and allow users to express themselves freely, even if their opinions might differ from those in power. We firmly believe that open dialogue, not censorship, is the path to progress and understanding.

Gab’s commitment to free speech extended beyond just pandemic-related discussions. By remaining transparent about its content policies and rejecting censorship requests from various entities, Gab earned the trust of its users. This trust formed the foundation of a strong and loyal community, united by the belief that open dialogue is paramount in times of uncertainty.

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Yes, You Can Legislate Morality

 Yes, You Can Legislate Morality 

By: Pastor Andrew Isker

Any time a conservative Christian proposes laws to address issues of public morality, he is always told “you can’t legislate morality.” This is a mantra that is deep in the bones of liberal, democratic society. You hear it all the time.

Want to pass laws to stop abortion? “You can’t legislate morality.”

Want to eliminate gay marriage? “You can’t legislate morality.”

Want to stop children being castrated? “You can’t legislate morality.”

Want to stop the dissemination of pornography? “You can’t legislate morality.”

But simply repeating something ad nauseam doesn’t make it true.

The reality is that law really does “legislate morality.”

The very idea that morality is separable from external society—from the norms and standards of everyone else around you—betrays a liberal individualism that is completely out of touch with reality. Human beings do not develop their moral bearings in isolation. Only the most antisocial personalities and the mentally ill are capable of bootstrapping a novel and idiosyncratic morality apart from what everyone around them believes.

The overwhelming majority of people acquire their moral senses from those around them, especially those in authority over them. Parents, teachers, peers, media, and yes, even government instill moral principles upon them. The Bible commands Christian parents to do this very thing (Pr. 22:6, Eph. 6:4). Naturally, it isn’t as simple as giving a child a set of rules and downloading them into their brain. The human heart does not work this way. However, the moral training parents give their children does become internalized over time. Children really do believe what their parents tell them is right and wrong, and though some can and do rebel against it, the majority will more or less follow what they have been taught. Outward conformity to external rules usually becomes internalized over time.

Rules don’t change a person’s heart directly and on their own, but they absolutely do train you before you are even able to understand why those rules are given. When I tell my young child not to touch the hot stove, he doesn’t understand the reason why he has been given this command. All he knows is that his father told him something and he must obey. Only when he matures will he understand the reason he was given this command is because I love him and do not want him to harm himself. That is how the exercise of authority brings about moral formation. Whether that authority is father over son or king over subject is immaterial.

You can see this demonstrated in political and cultural developments over the last century. Attitudes regarding race relations have changed dramatically since the Second World War. During the war, the overwhelming majority of soldiers were in favor of maintaining the military policy of segregating units by race. When the United State Supreme Court declared school segregation unconstitutional in 1954, over 40% of Americans disagreed with the decision. Forty years later, in 1994, the same poll was conducted and only 11% disapproved of the ruling while 87% approved.

No polling recent polling exists on the decision, but it would be safe to estimate opposition to Brown is in the very low single digits. How did Americans go from believing segregation was good to nearly everyone believing it was bad in the space of half a century? While law was obviously not the only factor in cultural change, it quite evidently had a major role. Law changes the moral principles of a people. Law has a pedagogical function. The Bible even talks about the Old Covenant law in this way (Gal. 3:24-27) Furthermore, people see a preference cascade and they want to be in the majority. This doesn’t imply that they are insincere. It is simply human psychology. Human beings adapt to the their surroundings, including their moral surroundings.

The very same process played out with the acceptance of homosexuality and gay “marriage.” In the late 1990s into the early 2000s, defense of marriage acts and gay “marriage” bans were extremely popular even winning majorities in places like California in 2008. That same year the then-Senator Obama campaigned for President publicly opposing gay “marriage.” Then, all-of-a-sudden, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Obergefell v. Hodges that the United States Constitution guarantees a right for homosexual men to play act as married man and wife. Immediately all the Civil Rights Act provisions became applied to homosexuals and eventually to virtually every other conceivable sexual perversion.

Concurrently, public opinion of homosexuality rapidly changed. The majority that had only years earlier opposed homosexuality now approved of it. Their moral views were legislated for them. It wasn’t as though every, single American sat down to deeply meditate upon their own moral principles, sifting through complex philosophical and ethical conundrums. They saw which way the wind was blowing and conformed. Again, while some may be insincere, human beings are pack animals. We do whatever everyone else is doing. Anyone who has ever been in a traffic jam knows this is true.

So when a Christian proposes laws for the purposes of public morality, the you-can’t-legislate-morality-ers who naysay don’t truly believe what they are saying. There is always going to be a public morality enforced by law. It is not “whether,” but “which.” Our current legally enforced public morality makes “racism” and “discrimination” the most damnable offenses. The official public morality makes every sexual practice except for pederasty—for now—all but illegal to criticize.

There is a public morality and the laws we have passed have enshrined it. If Christian laws were passed that make adultery a crime once again, prohibit the production and distribution of pornography, prohibit public displays of homosexuality, criminalize all abortion, and eliminate no-fault divorce, the culture would necessarily change. And such change would be rapid. And just like all other cultural change, it wouldn’t be insincere. People would conform to the influences that surround them just as they have with other cultural change.

Laws would not make men Christian. The Christian influence of a Christian culture everywhere around them would however make the preaching of the gospel significantly easier. Take for example the unfortunate Congresswoman Nancy Mace. Last week Mace spoke at a pastors’ prayer breakfast held by Senator Tim Scott where she openly bragged about cohabitating with a man not her husband and turning down intercourse with him in order to make it on time. In a society governed by Christian-influenced law, something like America a century ago, such a thing would be unheard of by anyone, much less a person with major political influence who makes much of being a regular church-goer. No one would be expected to individually exegete the Bible in order to arrive at a Christian sexual morality. It would be in the air around them and implicitly understood by everyone. You simply would not do that, just as everyone today knows there are certain words you are forbidden from uttering.

In such a world, where Christian understanding of right and wrong is fundamental to the entire society, there is a pathway where the gospel can be understood and applied. In our world today, much of what the Bible calls “sin” is celebrated as a virtue. Just to reach a point where people can admit something they do is a sin is a steep mountain to climb. Law is a teacher. What the king commands trains his people in what is moral and immoral. When the Bible describes the evil kings of Israel, it often says “who made Israel to sin.” This does not imply that the average person in Israel had no moral agency or was not responsible for what he or she did. What it does mean is that what the political leader commands has a very real effect on how his people understand right from wrong. A people will follow their leader for good or for ill. That is how God made human beings.

So with this in mind, Christians should absolutely want to pursue law for the sake of public morality. “Cultural Christianity” is good. All legislation is legislating one morality or another. God changes men’s hearts. And one instrument He uses is the commands of those He places in authority. To that end, we must pray for godly rulers who will wield the authority God gives them to reform a very corrupt and godless society. Kings have led great moral reforms in the past. And they will do so once again.

Russia Has Eliminated 400,000 Soldiers Thus Far

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Alasdair Macleod: The Financial Equivalent of Nuclear War

Alasdair Macleod believes that the US dollar is heading towards a major financial crisis due to its unsustainable debt trap, contraction of bank credit and rising interest rates. He believes that Russia and China are behind the destabilization of the US dollar as a global currency and are attempting to introduce a new single, gold-backed trade settlement currency, which the enlarged BRICS membership could potentially use. This currency does not include any retailers yet, but those involved in international trade transactions would need to use it. McLeod believes that the US government has been sending Henry Kissinger and Janet Yellen to convince China to not abandon the US dollar, as the consequences would be immense. However, he still believes that the majority of BRICS members will ultimately support this new currency in order to improve monetary stability and create a stabilising effect on global markets. Palisade Radio Links: ► Website & Newsletter: https://palisadesradio.ca ► Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-1586024 ► Odysee: https://odysee.com/@PalisadesGoldRadio:c Alasdair believes that the Russia-Ukraine crisis and the US sanctions against Russia have been the catalysts for the introduction of a gold-backed currency. He believes that a financial war similar to a nuclear war is brewing due to the shift from fiat currency to gold, and the contraction in bank credit will result in a decrease in the nominal GDP of countries. To counteract this, and protect itself, Russia and China have been attempting to support poor countries in order to keep them away from Western control. Lastly, he discussed the historic situation of the Weimar Republic's financial collapse, which saw those with gold profit handsomely, and concluded that the only solution for the Russian economy was to move forward with the “financial war” which he predicts will happen at the Johannesburg BRICS summit. Time Stamp References: 0:00 - Introduction 0:34 - BRICS Meeting & The Dollar 13:47 - China-Yellen Meeting 15:00 - Gold & Global Trade 19:03 - BRICS & SCO (Asia) 26:55 - Russia & Commodities 33:10 - Western Fiat & History 36:47 - Western Ignorance 40:54 - Foreign Held Debt 43:37 - Bank Credit & Money Supply 50:34 - Gold & Financial Wars 55:15 - Golden Consequences 1:02:32 - Gold in a Crisis 1:05:22 - Wrap Up Talking Points From This Episode - BRICS is proposing a gold-backed currency as a trade settlement system to reduce interest rates and increase monetary stability. - The US has sent Henry Kissinger to try to convince the Chinese to abandon the proposed currency. - Moving away from the dollar and backing it up with gold could create a financial war. Guest Links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/MacleodFinance Website: https://goldmoney.com Research: https://www.goldmoney.com/research/ Alasdair Macleod is Head of Research for GoldMoney. He is an educator and advocates for sound money thru demystifying finance and economics. His background includes being a stockbroker, banker, and economist. Alasdair Macleod started his career as a stockbroker in 1970 on the London Stock Exchange. Within nine years, he had risen to become senior partner of his firm. Subsequently, he held positions at the director level in investment management and worked as a mutual fund manager. Mr. Macleod also worked at a bank in Guernsey as an executive director. For most of his 40 years in the finance industry, he has been demystifying macro-economic events for his investing clients. The accumulation of this experience has convinced him that unsound monetary policies are the most destructive weapon governments use against the common man. Accordingly, his mission is to educate and inform the public in layman's terms what governments do with money and how to protect themselves from the consequences.

Connecting with Tradition and Simplicity

 Connecting with Tradition and Simplicity

By: Rory Feek, Plain Values

On our recent trip to Amish country in Ohio to spend time with the team at the Plain Values office, Marlin put together a small gathering of folks from the community, and I sang a few songs and shared a few stories with them. But I think my favorite part of the trip was when he took us around and introduced us to his neighbors, Ivan and Emma, a young Amish couple in their mid-thirties.

We have an Amish community here in Etheridge, Tennessee, about an hour from our farm, and we make trips there often to purchase jams and jellies and other things. But I don’t know any of the people who live there and have never been given the opportunity to spend time talking with any of them.

Ivan and his family live in a beautiful brick home up on a hilltop, not at all like the white clapboard houses I’m used to seeing most Amish folks living in here in Tennessee and other places. After welcoming us inside, for about two hours, we sat on chairs in their living room, visited, and got to know each other.

We talked about our families and what it was like growing up Amish for Ivan and his wife, and English for myself. I don’t think our childhoods could have been any more different. He grew up as part of a family of 11 (she is from 12), rooted in a strong community of believers, extended family, and centuries of history. I, on the other hand, grew up with my mom, a single mother, struggling to survive with 5 children, and spent much of my youth living in trailer parks, and only getting to be around extended family now and then, but never enough.

But here we were, both grown, raising families of our own. Me, with a good bit more gray in my beard than he has in his, but both of us well past our days of youth. He had recently purchased the English-built house they live in and turned it into an Amish home. Ivan explained that the first thing he had to do was remove the forced-air electric a/c & heat system and install a wood stove, with only a main floor grate that allows the heat to rise to the rooms above. And then he disconnected the house from the electric power pole and covered up most of the electric outlets and light switches. Then they installed a few gas lights here and there.

Lights that I’d never seen before, especially not in the rows of lighting options at Lowes or Home Depot where most folks purchase their lights these days. And lastly, he’d put in a few solar panels so that they could run a few small things from time to time, but only in moderation. Ivan told me how it wasn’t so much that all of this is strictly ‘policed’ in his Amish community, as much as it is given as a guideline. It was also, as he explained, how he and his wife wanted to live and raise their children. Like most Amish in that area, Ivan shared that he and his wife wanted to live and raise their children in this way: off the grid, with no tv or internet.

His story about how he took this beautiful, modern house with all the up-to-date features and reworked it to suit him and his family better reminded me of what I have done to my phone. I had to—actually, I chose to—‘dumb down’ my smartphone to make it a tool that worked for me instead of me being a tool of the phone. My iPhone has no SIM card and no connection to the internet. It has no apps, no ability for googling or searching. And especially no texting. I just wanted to have a powerful 4K camera that fit easily into my pocket. In order to make it a blessing for us, I had to simplify it, like Ivan and Emma did in their house. They just need a good place to live their lives and raise their children, without the constant marketing of outsiders telling them how they should live or what they’re missing out on by not having the latest of the latest gadgets inside and around their home.

At one point in the conversation, we started talking about how the Amish do business and market in today’s society. That is where our worlds really crisscrossed. “Amish marketing?” I thought as, in my head, I imagined ads in a 100-year-old magazine or hand-painted signs at the end of driveways that said ‘homemade jam’ or ‘baked goods.’ I couldn’t have been more wrong. Ivan explained that the Amish are being pulled into using the same marketing tactics that the English are using. They now have to know about Google analytics and page ratings, Facebook ads and Instagram likes, and other platforms like Pinterest. “But how do you know about these things?” I asked, a little dumbfounded that his world is so much like mine. “Unfortunately, we are being pushed in that direction,” he said. “It is how business is done these days; even the Amish have to find ways to reach our customer.”

He explained that they don’t actually put the ads on Facebook or see how many likes an Instagram post gets; instead, the Amish businesses hire someone else to do that. Very similar to the way Amish do not drive cars, but hire drivers if the need arises, they have forbidden devices that allow their members internet access but will hire someone to market online if needed.

Ivan also shared a story of what life was like for the Amish half a century ago and how things have changed based on things his uncle shared with him. Back in the early 1970s, when Ivan’s uncle was still a young man, many Amish families all gathered together to bring the hay from the fields to the barn. In time, they were able to go together and purchase a baler that their families could share. Soon it was a job that only required two families to do. But before long, almost every Amish family had their own baler and could do the job themselves.

Ivan mused on how money has a way of becoming the driving force in our lives even when you don’t mean for it to be. At the end of the day, money has a strong influence, even for the Amish. He said that there aren’t that many Amish farmers anymore because there is more money to be made in building barns or doing other jobs off the farms. So their young people are being swept away just like ours. They aren’t actually leaving their farms and communities like our young people are, but a part of their hearts and a good bit of their livelihood seem to be.

It was interesting to see how blurry the line between the Amish and English cultures is becoming. I had imagined that somehow the Amish were immune, free from these things. I had no idea that even the Plain people have some of the same struggles that we, not-so-plain, folks have. 

As my visit with Ivan and Emma ended, I found myself encouraged in my own journey, and realized how similar our worlds are, even if they still seem to be about 100 years apart. We are both trying to move towards what is best for our families in the service of God, and often those choices are in complete conflict with the direction ‘the world’ is pulling us. In reality, life is about managing the delicate balance between the two.

I look forward to coming back to Ohio again one day soon. Hopefully in the fall when the autumn leaves are turning and it’s harvest time. And I hope I find myself in more living rooms, getting to visit with more of the fine people who live there in Amish country.

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Restoring the Soul of American Christianity

Restoring the Soul of American Christianity
By: Pastor Andrew Isker

We are in a time of great spiritual awakening. I cannot tell you how many conversations I have had with young men, many of whom have little or no background in church, who realize how spiritually sick our world is. As a pastor, usually my first advice would be to “find a good church.” But in our day, such advice is much easier said than done. The great sickness of our world is also reflected in the dearth of good churches.

This is not something that happened overnight. America was founded as a Christian nation with various Protestant traditions. It has always been a majority Protestant nation. But the decline of American Protestantism has been something centuries in the making. The destruction was two-fold. The mainline churches, the Episcopal church, the Methodist church, the Presbyterian church, etc. began to be overtaken by modern theological liberalism in the 19th Century.

Unbelief creeped in through the great universities and seminaries that trained the intellectual class of Christian leaders. Over time, the great churches that were the spiritual foundation of this country rotted away. Belief in the virgin birth, the miracles of Christ, even Christ’s divinity was renounced. Faith in the Bible as the inerrant Word of God was rejected, and soon mainline Protestantism was merely a society for secular moralism and not the guardians of the faith once delivered to the saints.

At nearly the same time, Christianity began to be democratized among the growing population of settlers spread out across the new American frontier. Revivalist preachers, like Charles G. Finney, began to hold large tent meetings where he would stir up his listeners into a religious frenzy. The revivalists maintained the aspects of the faith that the mainline had begun to reject, but their methodology was to provide an entertaining and highly emotionalized medium to convey the faith.

A dichotomy began to emerge between respectable, high-status, elite, mainline Christianity which rejected the faith, and revivalist Christianity that remained nominally orthodox but packaged it in a highly consumable, emotionally manipulative entertainment. After nearly 200 years, that dichotomy still largely remains operative in American Christianity. This results in your options being churches with lesbian pastors who don’t believe in the Bible at all or a pastor who actually does believe in the Bible but is much more concerned with the fit of his skinny jeans, how the rock band sounds, and if the laser light fog machine is impressive enough.

Unfortunately, most churches in America today are plotted out somewhere on this spectrum. To find a church that actually believes the Bible, is not an inch deep and mile wide, and is not concerned with marketing itself as premium religious entertainment is quite a task. But thankfully there are a growing number of churches doing just this. There are more churches in America today who take as their primary mission to teach the Word of God and worship Him in a faithful, reverent way than there have been in over a century. Admittedly, this is an extremely low bar. But it is a case for great optimism.

But what does that look like? What have Protestant and evangelical churches begun to recover that has been lost after nearly two centuries of Second Great Awakening revivalism and mainline apostasy?

What the church is actually about. Rather than rejecting the faith, they are pursuing what the Bible and Christian tradition has always taught the church is. The church is the people of God. It is literally the ecclesia, the ruling assembly of the new polis (city-state) of Jesus Christ within the cities of this world (Matt. 18:15-20). It’s worship is where the people of God gather in a new Eden, a new temple (Eph. 2:19-22), to go before the very presence of God and worship Him and receive blessings from His hand.

The church is not a social club for nice, friendly people to hang out. It is a people united to the King of the world, the true global Emperor. And it is a people who rule with him (Rom. 8:16-17, Eph. 3:6, Ja. 2:5, Rev. 20:4-6). When Christians gather together to worship the Lord, they are gathering before the Imperator of the world, praising Him, receiving grace from His hand, offering themselves as living sacrifices to Him, and making pleas to Him to rule through their prayers. That is what worship is.

This is the radical transformation that the Bible presents — the Old Creation in the Old Covenant is being taken apart and remade into a New Creation in the New Covenant. That is what the New Testament is about. The Son of Man, the Son of God who has taken on human flesh bears God’s wrath and dies, is vindicated in the Resurrection, and ascends to reign over heaven and earth.

In Him, man for the first time goes before the very throne of God in the highest heaven, and the Spirit of God is poured out upon men and they begin to turn the world upside down. The Old Creation was torn apart over the 40 years that the New Testament was written as the New Creation invaded the world. This is what the apocalyptic symbolism of Matthew 24 and the Book of Revelation is about. That old world was destroyed. The Old Creation that was ruled by angels gives way to a world ruled by men—by the Son of Man and those united to Him.

That is the world we now live in. So it should come as no shock that if the church rules the world in Christ, and the church is in a totally miserable state, that the world around it would reflect that. Judgment begins at the house of the God (1 Pet. 4:17). Rather than being the leaders of the world, the church has mired herself in following the world, whether by making the Christian faith tepid with cheap entertainment or by outright apostasy. But a church that recognizes her role, which sees the great honor in being heirs of the world with its emperor, that worships Him in dignified reverence and awe, and that is willing to shed her blood in the same way as her Lord, that is a church prepared for maturity in Christ—a church prepared to rule the world.

So many Christians across America have recognized that the hour is late. There is no time for fat lesbians to give us Chicken Soup for the Soul (DEI edition) or for TED talks with a rock concert attached. The time has come for mature Christian faith—historic Christian faith—that is totally unashamed of everything the Bible teaches. Christians in America are on the verge of very great suffering for their faith and indeed many already have. We need churches to reject the spirit of the age, including the spirit of religious consumerism. Many have already begun to. This new reformation must continue and a new Christendom born.

It is difficult to find such churches, but it is not impossible. At the risk of promoting the rootlessness pervasive throughout our culture, I will say you might have to move to find one. If you do, you must go there for the long haul and plant your roots deep. We are in an age where the very most important thing is having a community of people who are willing to protect one another.

My advice to young men is still to find a church, but it must be a good one. It must be one that feeds you meat and not milk, especially not the sour milk we are flooded with. It does not take a prophet to see that the days ahead are going to be hard and difficult. You need to find a church that recognizes that it is part of an army of saints poised to conquer the world. And it is a conquest that will come as the church has always conquered: by God’s people building, sacrificing, and overcoming for His glory.

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. Find a people ready and willing to be that seed.

Pastor Andrew Isker

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