Addie Bratcher @adeliela

🚨 BREAKING: Brave astronauts JUST LAUNCHED on the Artemis II mission to the MOON, in an incredible sight GODSPEED! The mission is expected to go almost 10 days 🚀 We are watching HISTORY before our very eyes! 🇺🇸

The sky glowed above the Ark Encounter @ArkEncounter with the beautiful colors of the aurora borealis last week during the intense geomagnetic storm. “The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims His handiwork.” Psalm 19:1 ESV

Are you given to excess? That extra 30 minutes of sleeping in. That extra 2 scoops of ice cream. Those extra three fingers of whiskey. That lingering gaze on the swimsuit ad. That extra tidbit of gossip that you sneak into a conversation. That extra oomph you add when you’re spanking the unruly toddler. That extra transaction on a credit card you’ve not paid off. These are all examples of excess. To be given to excess is to ignore God’s command to sobriety and self-control. When you give yourself over to excess in one area, you are inviting the devil to tempt you to excess in every area. Being given to excess is defying the finitude your being. You aren’t a boundless creature. By God’s good design, you are framed with skin and bones, mind and emotions, that are not limitless. God is a good God. He gave us nerve endings. He created us to feel and enjoy pleasure. He made us to delight in beauty. But to give yourself over to excess is to deceive yourself into the delusional thinking that you should be confine by nothing. So, run an audit on your desires. Perhaps you identify areas where you’ve given yourself over to various excesses. What should be done? First of all, confess that you have fancied your glory to be greater than it is. You don’t have a limitless capacity. Secondly, you should think about excess along these lines. If it’s cold outside, a fire’s warmth is a blessing. But to jump into the bonfire would be to completely pervert the blessing. So, thank God for framing you according to His design, and then live frugally, temperately, and soberly. Remember that you are finite, and that is by God’s design. So receive all His gifts with grateful sobriety, rather than the delusional excess of thinking that you are infinite.

Me: "What do you think we should have for dinner? My 3 year old: "Oh, I want cheetos and starfish, Oh! I said starfish! I meant fishsticks, and and and I don't like tomatoes, do you want to try a tomato, mama? Oh, Grandma loooooves tomatoes. What are we having for dinner?"

You can just do things. Like amend your constitution to confess the Lordship of Jesus Christ.

Jeremiah Knight @iamrjknight

a year ago

NEWS UPDATE Here’s something remarkable that went almost unnoticed earlier this year. Papua New Guinea has officially amended its constitution to declare itself a Christian Nation, with an overwhelming vote of 80 to 4. The amendment adds a declaration to the preamble of the

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Charlie was murdered by the Dark for showing people the Light

🚨BREAKING: Crowds break into "Amazing Grace" hymn in Central London tonight in honour of Charlie Kirk He may have been an American loved by America. But Britain and Europe loved him just as much. 🇬🇧✝️🇺🇸

Charlie Kirk 1993-2025 “All death can do to the believer is deliver him to Jesus.” Quote by John MacArthur

I read 5 books on homeschooling this week and needed a fun read to finish out the week; Arctic Homestead by Norma Cobb was perfect. I love wilderness non-fiction stories, and this book about a christian family of seven moving to the Alaskan wilds was exceptional. Go read it.

My sister-in-law, my birthday month twin, passed away this week, so I wrote her a poem: From dust to dust, her tale in March was spun, A faithful daughter, welcomed home, well done. Her life, a verse in God’s eternal song, In March begun, in March to Him belong.

I still remember the days when I prayed for the things I have now.

His eye is on the sparrow And I know He watches me.

How cool to get to meet Pocahontas in Heaven!

Young Conservative Federation 🌲 @YCFederation

2 years ago

@haymes_joshua Inside the Capitol rotunda in D.C. is this great painting “the Baptism of Pocahontas,” depicting her conversion to Christianity

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"The secret of joy is Christ in me - not me in a different set of circumstances." - Elisabeth Elliot

There’s a lot of talk right now about Christians (and conservatives) learning to embrace and wield political power — something we have not really done for quite some time. This is all well and good. Being afraid of power is immature and irresponsible. Christians should seek to gain political power and use it for good. A pietistic, Gnostic fear of political engagement has kept Christians weak and marginalized for far too long, which is not only bad for us, it’s bad for everyone. Christian statesmen have access to wisdom that non-Christians lack; we have a framework for understanding the purpose of civil government, God’s design for human society, and the proper application of civil justice that others will not have. There has been a dire need for serious Christians to enter the political arena for a long time; it’s wonderful that we seem to have turned a corner. But what should not be overlooked is that the church has power that Christians have also refused to wield for good. The church has a different kind of power, to be sure, and uses different tools and weapons. But the church is unarguably powerful. It is a more subtle form of power, like leaven working its way through a batch of dough. But though it is a more covert kind of power, it can be every bit as much public and political as power wielded by civil magistrates. How does the church exert this power in the world? When the gospel is preached in all its fullness, culminating with the declaration of Christ’s lordship, it is certainly transformative for individuals and families, but it is also socially and culturally transformative. Think of the early Christians who ultimately toppled the Roman Empire with no access to conventional political power, without lifting a sword, but who preached and prayed their way to the beginnings of Christendom. Or think of Luther’s quip about the Reformation: while he sat and drank beer with Phillip Melanchthon, the Word (that he had preached and written about) did all the work. Or consider the “black robed regiment” of Presbyterian pastors whose preaching produced the American War for Independence. Take note of the well documented prayers that aided and abetted the downfall of the Soviet “iron curtain” in Eastern Europe; in the aftermath of the 300,000 strong prayer rally in November 1989, a communist official even admitted, “We were prepared for every eventuality — but not prayers and candles.” Prayers brought down the Berlin Wall. Again: it’s good that Christians seem to be learning that political ambition can be righteous and holy. It is good and proper for Christians to seek political influence and dominion; it is good for Christians to hold high ranking positions in civil government; it is good for Christians to seek to exert political power in righteous ways and to righteous ends. Christians need to be salt and light in high places as opportunity allows. But whether we have political power in the civil government or not, we always have the weapons of liturgical war and Spiritual war at our disposal. The church does not merely seek to vote her way to cultural victory; she preaches and prays, she serves and suffers, she disciplines and disciples her way to dominion. The church has immense power to change the world. She needs to seize that power and use it. For too long we have allowed our unique ecclesial powers to lie dormant; it’s time to take up the sword of the Spirit, the imprecations of the psalter, and petitions offered before the throne of grace, the cosmic Oval Office. Political action by Christian statesmen has its place in producing a discipled nation - but political activism for Christians should never be separated from liturgical activism. It’s time to unleash the power of the church.

Don’t know about you all, but I would like a refund on my federal taxes for my whole adult life. Feeling more than a little ripped off.

How blessed am I to get to tend to needs other than my own. How blessed am I to get to do hard things. How blessed am I to get to take care of a warm home and the warm souls that live within it. How blessed am I to get to lean on my good Father for help.

@mitchellvii @KevinBratcher13