Dear Friends,
Philippians 4:8 says,” Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.” In these perilous times, we cannot afford to have our heads in the sand. At the same time, we must be careful that the negativity surrounding us does not stop us from fixing our sights on Christ and what is true, pure, and good.
1. MORE SIGNS OF WESTERN CHURCH’S DECLINE: The average age of Christians in England and Wales is now 51. By contrast, Muslims in those countries have an average median age of 27, and those who claim no religion hold an average of 32. In September 2022, Pew reported that only 63% of Americans identify as Christian, down from 92% in 1972. In a recent article, “Losing Their Religion: Why US Churches Are on the Decline,” The Guardian reported, “Churches are closing at rapid numbers in the U.S… as congregations dwindle… and a younger generation of Americans abandon Christianity altogether.” Church closings likely accelerated with Covid-19, and “Protestant pastors reported that typical church attendance is only 85% of pre-pandemic levels.”
Woke megachurch Pastor Andy Stanley will host and speak at the Unconditional Conference for “Christian parents with LGBTQ+ children and ministry leaders.”
Ed. Note: Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci predicted, “Socialism is precisely the religion that must overwhelm Christianity… In the new order, Socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture via infiltration of schools, universities, churches, and the media by transforming the consciousness of society.” The attack on the American church began in the 1800s with liberal higher criticism theology imported from Germany and accelerated in the early 1900s with John D. Rockefeller’s funding of liberalism and the social justice movement. The Marxists have been wildly successful in infiltrating the church and are now making serious inroads in the Southern Baptist and evangelical churches. For more, visit enemieswithinthechurch.com.
2. HALF OF U.S. HOUSE DEMOCRATS REFUSE TO DENOUNCE SOCIALISM: 100 Democrats refused to support a House resolution titled “Denouncing the horrors of socialism.” Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) explained, “When we offered a resolution saying that we stand to thwart socialism, there was complete opposition by my colleagues on the other side of the aisle.” Rep. Maria Salazar (R-FL), who introduced the resolution, is herself a daughter of Cuban exiles who escaped Communism. However, Salazar attended the World Economic Forum’s meeting in January, where she strongly advocated granting “amnesty” for illegals in a panel discussion alongside Democratic Senators Kyrsten Sinema (AZ) and Joe Manchin (WV).
3. RONNA ROMNEY MCDANIEL RE-ELECTED TO HEAD RNC: Ronna Romney McDaniel presided over three disastrous elections for the GOP (2018, 2020, and 2022) and did little to combat voter fraud in 2020 and 2022, despite promises to do so. McDaniel’s salary ballooned from $122,582 when she first took the job to $358,431, and while chair, McDaniel spent millions on private jets and luxury items.
A January 26 Rasmussen poll found that only 15% of Likely Republican Voters supported Ronna Romney McDaniel, 20% supported attorney Harmeet Dhillon, and 30% supported Mike Lindell. McDaniel, who refused to debate ahead of the chairman election, easily won with 111 votes from Republican National Committee members, while Dhillon received 51, and Lindell received only 4. Tellingly, only four of the 168 RNC members “offered an unabashed endorsement” of Trump’s 2024 campaign, according to USA Today. Charlie Kirk, who attended the event and supported Dhillon, said, “Consistently 90% of GOP voters said they wanted change at RNC. 111 RNC members just told 90% of the party we don’t care what you say.”
4. TYRE NICHOLS DEATH: Both left and right have responded to the brutal beating and death of black man Tyre Nichols at the hands of five black police officers. Freshman Democrat Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost (F) posted (but later deleted) a tweet claiming, “Doesn’t matter what color those police officers are. The murder of Tyre Nichols is anti-Black and the result of white supremacy.” Vice President Kamala Harris called for “non-negotiable” police reform legislation, while Black Lives Matter once again demanded to “defund the police.”
Franklin Graham wrote, “What happened to Tyre Nichols should never have happened—it was cruel, unjust, and evil. Our hearts break for his family… The heinous actions of these five officers does not mean that people should start talking about defunding the police. On the contrary, it means just the opposite. We need more funding and support for law enforcement for better training, vetting, hiring, and increasing salaries so we will have the best of the best. God help us.”
5. EGG SHORTAGES AND THE WAR ON FOOD: A massive fire broke out at Hillandale Farms in Connecticut, likely killing thousands of chickens. Chicken farmers have recorded viral videos asserting that tainted feed is causing their hens to stop laying eggs. As a flashback, in March 2022, Joe Biden said he talked with European allies “about how we could increase and disseminate more rapidly food shortages.”
Bill Gates, who has an uncanny ability to predict the future, invested in artificial eggs right before the price of eggs jumped.
For more, read, The Chicken and the Egg: What to Do as Supply Chain Problems Keep Getting Worse.
6. DISPOSABLE INCOME WITNESSES LARGEST DECLINE SINCE GREAT DEPRESSION: Fox Business reports, “The most troubling information in the GDP report is the precipitous drop in real disposable income, which fell over $1 trillion in 2022. For context, this is the second-largest percentage drop in real disposable income ever, behind only 1932, the worst year of the Great Depression.” 25 million Americans — half of U.S. renters — now spend over 30% of their pre-tax income on rent, as Biden’s illegal immigrants drive up rent costs. Around 70% of respondents to a Bloomberg survey believe the stock market has not yet hit rock bottom. PayPal will lay off 7% of its workforce, around 2,000 employees.
En Volve reports that the Democratic Party is now the party of the rich: “The 40 congressional districts in the 116th Congress that had the highest median values for their owner-occupied homes were all represented by Democrats.”
Ed. Note: The misnamed Federal Reserve (created in 1913 by a Morgan-Rockefeller-dominated cartel of bankers) is the source of many of America’s economic woes. For more, read, G. Edward Griffin’s classic work, “The Creature From Jekyll Island.”
7. PFIZER FALLOUT: Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) has called on Congress to investigate vaccine manufacturers following Project Veritas’ bombshell video in which a Pfizer executive claimed the company worked to “mutate” the Covid virus. Google swiftly took down the Project Veritas video from YouTube. Remarkably, China’s CCP-run Global Times commented on the video, “Till now, the vast majority of U.S. media outlets and politicians are ignoring it…If an undercover video of similar kind was exposed in China, there is no doubt that the Chinese public and officials would take it very seriously.”
8. MORE WARNINGS AGAINST COVID VACCINES: Drug safety analytics expert Professor Retsef Levi of the MIT Sloan School of Management said that mRNA injections “should stop because they completely failed to fulfill any of their advertised promise[s] regarding efficacy. And, more importantly, they should stop because of the mounting and indisputable evidence that they cause [an] unprecedented level of harm, including the death[s] of young people and children.”
The Rain Foundation reports that in England, “over 20,000 defibrillators [used to respond to sudden cardiac arrests] will now be in nearly 18,000 schools by the end of the academic year.” Ireland reports 42% more deaths in the past two months than before Covid-19. Ross Pomeroy reports, “Now ranging in age from 27 to 42, Millennials are suffering strokes at higher rates than their forebears did at the same age, reversing a 40-year decline in stroke deaths.”
9. MINNESOTA MOVES FURTHER LEFT: After an illegal told Minnesota state legislators, “We are voting,” a Minnesota official with the Secretary of State’s office claimed, “Our office has no indication that noncitizen voting is a problem in Minnesota or nationally.” Minnesota Democrats are pushing for automatic voter registration and voting for felons. The Minnesota House passed legislation that would eventually ban coal, oil, and gas and make the grid 100% carbon-free in 17 years. Governor Tim Walz signed a radical abortion bill, stating a “right” to all abortions right up until birth. Minnesota’s Attorney General’s office is trying to take away State senator and Covid whistleblower Dr. Scott Jensen’s medical license.
10. DEEP STATE CONTINUES ELECTION TAKEOVER: The Zuckerburg-funded Center for Tech and Civic Life, which spent $350 million to help “run” the 2020 elections, is expanding “nationwide.” New Mexico is considering a law that would expand mail-in voting and give convicted felons the right to vote. Kari Lake War Room reports that Adrian Fontes, Arizona’s new Democratic Secretary of State, has asked Democratic Attorney General Kris Mayes to “investigate & potentially imprison @KariLake for the ‘crime’ of… sharing signature verification evidence…”
11. WAR ON CHILDREN: Wisconsin’s Madison Metropolitan School District shockingly wants to teach LGBTQ ideology to children as young as 5. A new documentary, “Walt’s Disenchanted Kingdom,” explains how the Walt Disney Company is working to “sexually engineer” children. Utah enacted a bill supposedly banning gender transition procedures but containing massive loopholes which will allow the horrific process to continue. Washington State is releasing Level-3 sex offenders, described as “the worst of the worst,” into residential neighborhoods. The Satanic Temple is opening an abortion facility in New Mexico to offer “free religious medication abortion” as part of the Temple’s “abortion ritual.”
12. FBI CORRUPTION: FBI agent Charles McGonigal was arrested for conspiring with a Russian oligarch. The Wall Street Journal responded, “James Comey may have been right about Russia collusion after all. But instead of the Trump campaign, the alleged culprit was a member of Mr. Comey’s own team at the FBI.” In other FBI news, the federal government wants to build a new FBI headquarters twice as large as the Pentagon building.
Ed. Note: This new proposal clearly demonstrates that the U.S. government views patriotic Americans (“domestic terrorists)” as a greater threat than China, Russia, Iran, or North Korea.
13. BRITISH OFFICIAL SAYS DEEP STATE IS REAL, BUT IT’S “GOOD”: Dominic Cummings, former chief advisor to globalist and phony Conservative Boris Johnson, said, “The deep state is real.. it’s often very good, sensible, intelligent” and experienced officials trying to “stop the idiots who are being elected from doing terrible things. “Cummings believes government officials are “deeply entrenched institutions, which practically control huge amounts of what happens with very little democratic insight or knowledge and understanding.”
14. AIR FORCE GENERAL PREDICTS U.S. WILL BE AT WAR WITH CHINA IN TWO YEARS: Four-star Gen. Miki Minihan, the head of the branch’s Air Mobility Command, said, “I hope I am wrong. My gut tells me [we] will fight in 2025. Xi secured his third term and set his war council in October 2022. Taiwan’s presidential elections are in 2024 and will offer Xi a reason. United States’ presidential elections are in 2024 and will offer Xi a distracted America. Xi’s team, reason, and opportunity are all aligned for 2025.” In related news, the United States struck an agreement with the Philippines to open four new military bases.
15. NOTEWORTHY STORIES:
- Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida warns that the country is facing social collapse due to its falling birth rate: “Japan is standing on the verge of whether we can continue to function as a society.”
- Canada is restarting a World Economic Forum digital ID initiative. The Australian state of New South Wales will soon roll out a digital ID.
- Gates ally Dr. Jeremy Farrar, who currently heads the Wellcome Trust, will become chief scientist for the World Health Organization.
- The Biden Administration has relaxed blood donation restrictions for homosexual men.
- The U.K. Express reports, “Experts warn Israel is ‘preparing to go to war’ with Iran this summer.”
- West Point is imposing travel restrictions on unvaccinated cadets.
- Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) said that worrying about the border is “racist.” During the same hearing, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) noted that 4.5 million illegals have crossed the border since Biden took office.
- The New York City Police Department is turning all of its police vehicles into 360-degree surveillance units.
- Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is punishing Senators Rick Scott (R-FL) and Mike Lee (R-UT) for voting against him by removing them from the Senate Commerce Committee.
- “We believe that by the year 2030, Amazon can have more robots than employees,” said Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood.
- Hawaii has reintroduced legislation to implement the U.N.’s Agenda 2030.
- Hunter Biden has finally admitted that the infamous laptop is his by demanding that prosecutors investigate Steve Bannon and others who exposed it.
- President Biden nominated Nancy Abudu, deputy legal director of the Southern Poverty Law Center, for the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) responded, “Again, the Biden administration has nominated a partisan activist to a post rather than a sound-minded jurist. Nancy Abudu’s extremist views permeate every facet of her career as she and the SPLC actively work to denounce and demean conservatives, religious organizations, and even sitting members of the Judiciary Committee.”
- Summit News reports, “Top news outlets have openly announced that they’re abandoning ‘objectivity’ because it’s a racist relic of ‘white newsrooms.’”
FAITH, FAMILY, AND FREEDOM REPORT
1. PRO-LIFE ADVOCATE MARK HOUCK WINS TRIAL: Pro-life sidewalk counselor and father of seven Mark Houck, who was raided last year by the FBI and given two felony charges, was acquitted after a jury found him not guilty. Attorney Peter Breen of the Thomas More Society said, “Mark and his family are now free of the cloud that the Biden administration threw upon them. We took on the Goliath – the full might of the United States government – and won. The jury saw through and rejected the prosecution’s discriminatory case, which was harassment from day one. The Biden Department of Justice’s intimidation against pro-life people and people of faith has been put in its place.” Houck is now planning a lawsuit against the FBI and other Biden officials.
2. FLORIDA CHURCH AFFIRMS BIBLICAL MARRIAGE AND GENDER: First Baptist Church of Jacksonville, Florida, has created a statement upholding Biblical gender and marriage, which all 3,500 members of the congregation must sign to retain their membership. The statement begins, “As a member of First Baptist Church, I believe that God creates people in His image as either male or female, and that this creation is a fixed matter of human biology, not individual choice.”
3. IOWA GOVERNOR DEFENDS SCHOOL CHOICE: Iowa followed Arizona in becoming the second state to pass universal school choice, lessening the power of leftist teacher’s unions and increasing the power of parents. Governor Kim Reynolds said, “I believe parents should be able to decide what is the best environment for their child to be everything that they can be. COVID really put a fine point on that, because it gave parents a front-row seat to what was happening in their child’s classroom… A lot of them didn’t like what they were seeing.”
4. SENATOR HAWLEY’S COUNTER-CULTURAL CHALLENGE TO YOUNG MEN: At a speech in December, Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) challenged young men, “Young men, let me make a suggestion to you. Why don’t you turn off the computer and log off the porn and go ask a real woman on a date? How about that? It’s just a thought. Ask her out. Young men, why don’t you be the ones to do the asking? How about that? Don’t wait for her — you go ask. Show her a little respect. And then you take her out, and you treat her right. How about that? Don’t make her cater to your whims. Treat her right; treat her like what she is, a woman, a person of incredible significance created in the image of God.”
5. NOVAK WINS AUSTRALIAN OPEN: Tennis star Novak Djokovic made history by winning his 10th Australian Open and 22nd Grand Slam title, as arch-globalist Bill Gates looked on from the stands. Remarkably, Djokovic won the game one year after he was deported from Australia for refusing the Covid vaccine. At the time, he said, “The principles of decision-making on my body are more important than any title.” Defeated Stefanos Tsitsipas said of Djokovic, “He is the greatest [player] that has ever held a tennis racket.”
6. CANADIANS CELEBRATE ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF FREEDOM CONVOY: The Epoch Times reports, “Hundreds of people gathered on Parliament Hill Saturday to mark the one-year anniversary of the Freedom Convoy protest against COVID-19 restrictions last winter. The day was festive, and reminiscent of the atmosphere when the convoy first arrived in the nation’s capital at the end of January 2022.” Johnny Rowe, co-organizer of the event, said, “Freedom is not easy. There will be roadblocks, and that’s okay.”
7. NEW YORK RANGERS PULLS PRIDE JERSEYS: The National Hockey League’s New York Rangers unexpectedly yanked their Pride Night uniforms before a game on January 27, likely following pushback from players. The Rangers said, “In keeping with our organization’s core values, we support everyone’s individual right to respectfully express their beliefs.”
8. CHRISTIAN ACTOR SPEAKS OUT AGAINST ABORTION: Christian Hollywood actor Kevin Sorbo issued a bold yet simple tweet, “Abortion is the murder of the unborn. There is no debate here.”
9. DESANTIS WINS AGAINST COLLEGE BOARD: Following pressure from Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, the College Board has promised to revise a national AP course on African American studies that was filled with CRT and woke ideology. In related news, DeSantis announced legislation to toughen bail requirements and increase penalties for fentanyl production and sex offenses against children.
10. VIRGINIA GOVERNOR MARCHES FOR LIFE: Virginia Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin marched at the head of the state’s first post-Roe March for Life. Youngkin declared, “I believe that we are supposed to express our views, and the March for Life is a way to express my view that Virginians elected a pro-life governor. And I think that this is an amazingly inspiring collection of people who have come out to stand for life.”
11. ARKANSAS COUNTY ELIMINATES ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINES: Cleburne County, Arkansas, will eliminate electronic voting machines and move fully to paper ballots and hand counting, following a push from the Arkansas Voter Integrity Initiative Inc (AVII). AVII CEO Colonel Conrad Reynolds said, “The machines do not read the names on the ballots; instead, they scan barcodes, which humans cannot read. They also utilize proprietary software that we are not allowed to examine. This all means voters cannot verify that their vote is being counted properly as mandated by state law.”
12. DR. MCCULLOUGH WINS CASE: Dr. Peter McCullough won a lawsuit filed against him two years ago by his former employer Baylor Scott and White Health system for allegedly violating a separation agreement. McCullough said, “This is a strong victory for freedom of speech and fair, balanced publication and media presentation of clinical data as it has emerged over the course of the pandemic crisis.”
13. CALIFORNIA TO END COVID VACCINE MANDATE FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN: California will end both its Covid-19 state of emergency and vaccine mandate for school children on February 28. Michael Kane of the Children’s Health Defense responded, “We [in the movement] have some really good momentum right now, and what just happened in California is indicative of that. People are done with this. They’re done with the most extreme portions of this COVID agenda…”
13. HOUSE VOTES TO END COVID EMERGENCY: The U.S. House voted 220-210 to pass the “Pandemic is Over Act,” terminating the Covid-19 public health emergency. Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.), the lead sponsor of the bill, said, “The American people are tired of living in a perpetual state of emergency, and it’s long overdue for Congress to take back the authorities granted under Article 1 of the Constitution.”
14. NATIONAL GATHERING OF PRAYER AND REPENTANCE: Hundreds joined D.C.’s National Gathering of Prayer and Repentance, including 16 House Republicans. Family Research Council President Tony Perkins said, “Know that God is answering your prayers, America, by raising up leaders who love Him and fear Him.” Congresswoman Mary Miller (R-IL.) prayed, “We have lost our way, because we have rejected you as Creator, Lord, and Savior. Now we are adrift and foolish, calling evil good and good evil…We most humbly ask you to intervene, deliver us here in Congress and in our country from going our own way and thinking our own thoughts. Please, Heavenly Father, take the scales off our eyes. Help us to acknowledge our need of You. Our need to weep and mourn over our pride, our immorality, child abuse, and idolatry. Draw us back to you and to your Word.”
HYMN OF THE WEEK
God Leads Us Along by G.A. Young
In shady, green pastures, so rich and so sweet,
God leads His dear children along!
Where the water’s cool flow bathes the weary one’s feet,
God leads His dear children along.
Some through the waters, some through the flood,
Some through the fire, but all through the blood!
Some through great sorrow, but God gives a song,
In the night season and all the day long.
Sometimes on the mount where the sun shines so bright,
God leads His dear children along.
Sometimes in the valley, in darkest of night,
God leads His dear children along!
Though sorrows befall us and Satan oppose,
God leads His dear children along.
Through grace we can conquer, defeat all our foes:
God leads His dear children along!
Some through the waters, some through the flood,
Some through the fire, but all through the blood!
Some through great sorrow, but God gives a song,
In the night season and all the day long!
Away from the mire, and away from the clay,
God leads His dear children along!
Away up in glory, eternity’s day,
God leads His dear children along.
Some through the waters, some through the flood,
Some through the fire, but all through the blood!
Some through great sorrow, but God gives a song,
In the night season and all the day long!
