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Make fun of Christians — it’s comedy.
Make fun of Muslims — it’s Islamophobia.
Make fun of white people — it’s a joke.
Make fun of Black people — it’s racism.
Criticize men — it’s empowerment.
Criticize women — it’s misogyny.
Make jokes about straight people — it’s humor.
Make jokes about the LGBTQ community — it’s homophobia.
When the left speaks out — it’s freedom of expression.
When the right speaks out — it’s hate speech.
Or perhaps it depends on which side you’re standing on.
The point isn’t to disrespect any religion, race, gender, political belief, or community. It’s to question why similar words and behaviors are sometimes judged differently depending on who says them or who they’re directed toward.
We cannot demand tolerance while practicing intolerance. We cannot preach equality while making exceptions. And we cannot expect respect while refusing to extend it to others.
True equality means applying the same principles to everyone, even those we disagree with.
Because equality shouldn’t come with exceptions, freedom of expression shouldn’t be selective, and respect shouldn’t depend on who you are, what you believe, or which side you stand on.
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BREAKING: The FAA issues a nationwide ground stop, marking only the second such shutdown since 9/11.
The FAA cites “extraordinary circumstances” and safety concerns as the reason for the sweeping halt.
The reported move raises immediate questions about what prompted such an extraordinary aviation restriction.
@WillCainShow | Jonathan Hunt
Aaron W. Matthews retweeted
If the Vikings don't trade for a quarterback tomorrow, they're not a serious franchise.
“The purpose of trials in life is not to drive us away from God, but to only bring us closer. May God's Will be done, not mine.” -TreVeyon Henderson
Prayers up, my brother in Christ! #gopats
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Aaron W. Matthews retweeted
If your version of Jesus…
+Supports abortion.
+Celebrates lifestyles that Scripture calls people to repent of.
+Affirms the idea that we can redefine the gender God created.
+Claims there are multiple ways to Heaven.
Then you’re following a false Jesus.
You’re not worshipping the Jesus of Scripture. You’re worshipping your own ideologies and simply attaching His name to them.
Aaron W. Matthews retweeted
As we sort through last night’s results, let’s remember two things:
1) The ultimate battle isn’t about politics or parties. It’s about truth, and the freedom to speak it.
2) The long game is what counts.
There is reason for concern. This election will certainly reenergize the far left in its effort to spread and enforce progressive ideology—with all its attendant threats to free speech, religious liberty, parental rights, life, and the rule of law. @ADFLegal and its allies are already gearing up to defend those freedoms, just as we did during the Obama and Biden administrations. We’ve been here before. We know the playbook.
But setting aside party politics to look at the larger fight for truth, we shouldn’t miss last night’s giant bright spot. In four states—including deep-blue Washington and Colorado—it appears that voters have passed referendums to keep men out of women’s sports and spaces. By solid margins. In a blue wave year.
This tells us that whatever leftist politicians may hope to do, the American people still value reality. They aren’t ready to abandon truth.
And this represents a shift in the right direction. More Americans are embracing biological reality today than just a few years ago. Getting here took hard work, alliance-building, persuasion—and, sadly, more than a few people learning the hard way by watching women and girls suffer the consequences of a lie.
If working at ADF has shown me anything, it is that sometimes you have to lose before you can win. But I would never bet against truth in the long run. It always has a way of rising back up and reasserting itself. And lies have a way of producing harms that become impossible to deny.
But let’s be clear: we can’t effectively fight for truth without practicing and modeling it. And too many of our candidates have fallen woefully short. Americans are rightly hungry for leaders of integrity, competence, and principle. They want a vision to believe in, and our side has the ideas that actually work.
So if the left succeeds in making the failed ideas of Marx and Engels appear more ethical or compassionate than the brilliance of Jefferson and Madison—who founded the most prosperous and free nation in human history—we truly have no one to blame but ourselves.
Today isn’t a day to blackpill. It’s a day to refocus on the long game, remember that our real fight is for truth, and have confidence knowing that truth is a powerful force to set people free.
And if you’re a believer in Christ, it’s always a good day to trust Him and remember that our ultimate hope isn’t in any earthly government, but in His eternal kingdom.
Onward.
We’ve subscribed and enjoy @AngelStudiosInc —it’s nice to not have to constantly worry about trash popping up in a movie (even PG movies) that is inappropriate for kids. We need more family movies. No sex, filth, raunchiness, homosexuality, or taking the Lord’s name in vain. Hollywood, take note.
We just made a promise no Hollywood studio has ever made. No sex or nudity on screen, no F-word, and no misuse of God's name in Angel originals. And 3 million Guild members get a veto on everything before it ever lands on Angel.
Parents shouldn't have to sift through a dozen movies to find one they can watch. That's why we made the Angel Promise. foxnews.com/media/angel-stud…
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Worship changes the worshiper into the image of the One worshiped. – Jack Hayford
The METHOD of worship must NEVER become more important than the PERSON of worship.
If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshiped. – Evelyn Underhill
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Aaron W. Matthews retweeted
“There’s a reason the Protestant Reformation lit up Europe.”
— Mark Dever 🔥
I watch this every year. Never gets old.
“A communist is a socialist with a gun. Socialism and communism have been responsible for the deaths of millions of persons throughout history. It is built on Marxism, which is based on victimhood (“I am oppressed, and you are the oppressor”) and envy (“I want what you have, so give it to me”).” -Dr Jim Garlow
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Any time CAIR (The Council on American-Islamic Relations)—which is declared to be a terrorist organization—announces their support for a candidate, ask yourself why. They aren’t doing it for the good of America.
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Thankfulness, gratitude—they’re not slices of a pie that runs out when you dish them out. No! There’s always plenty to go around. God gladly resupplies for us as we serve them to others.
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Aaron W. Matthews retweeted
Be Jacob Misiorowski
- High school senior season canceled by COVID
- Tore his meniscus 2 games into his freshman year
- Came back, 10-0, 136 Ks in 76 innings
- Drafted 63rd overall
- Scouts doubted he'd throw enough strikes to start
- But started his MLB career with 11 straight no-hit innings
- All-Star selection after just 5 career starts
- Got swept by the Dodgers in the NLCS
- Next year: MLB-best 1.80 ERA and 252 strikeouts
- Threw the fastest pitch ever tracked by a starter (103.7 mph) then kept breaking his own record
- Swept the Dodgers right back
- Opened the World Series with the fastest pitch in WS history
- 5 scoreless innings in the clincher
- Won the first ever World Series for the Brewers at age 24 in his Cy Young year
- Loves Jesus
- Not afraid to cry on camera
He’s a legend already.
Aaron W. Matthews retweeted
Cooper Pratt claiming “I owe it all to my Heavenly Father” when celebrating the Milwaukee Brewers World Series victory is the best thing I’ve seen in a long time in professional sports.
I love to see it 🙏
Aaron W. Matthews retweeted
Alex Smith says he was ashamed of his leg and bitter toward football until rehabbing alongside wounded service members changed his life
“In my rehab process, I'm so thankful I got this thing called the Secretary of Defense designation, which is this deal for civilians that are deemed to have what's called a warlike injury. And so I got access to military medical care because there were no athletes for me to look to that had gone through something like this at that point. When I had half a leg and they're moving body parts down and it was like, hey, so and so did this and came back to play. There was nobody. The only examples of any positivity were people in the military through the decades of wars in the Middle East and roadside bombs and IEDs that there were a lot of servicemen and women that had severe lower leg injuries, severe tissue loss, severe breaks. Which through the infection and the hit was kind of like where I was at”
“So I got to go down and do my rehab at this military center. It doesn't matter what branch of the military you're in. If you have a severe limb injury, this is where you go. And it's in San Antonio, Texas. And it's called the Center for the Intrepid. And it changed my life. Again, I was super ashamed of my leg. It was grotesque looking and I kept it covered. I was ashamed of it. It represented everything that I had lost. I was really kind of struggling with my new normal. And I'll never forget going down there from day one. The military believes in this thing called group suck. Doing hard things, it's better to do them together. And so when you go down to this rehab center at the Center for the Intrepid, there are no private rooms. There's just one great big open room and it's surrounded by windows and everybody does their rehab together”
“I'll never forget my first trip there again. I couldn't even stand on my leg. I got it all wrapped up. I've got this steel cage bolted keeping it together. And there's double amputees, there's triple amputees, there's terrible burn victims. And nobody is hiding behind their scars. Everything's out in the open and people are moving forward with their life. And the physical therapist, Johnny Owens, walks behind the desk and gets a football and comes back to me and he has me get down on my good knee. And again, mind you, I'm very bitter towards football at this point, and I got three young kids, two boys that love to play catch with their dad, and I have not touched a football from the day of my injury. And now this is four months later”
“He brings out a football, throws it to me again. I'm on my one good knee on the ground, and he has me start playing catch. And this is from 10 feet away. And I'll never forget the light bulb going on of like, I can still play catch. Like, what else can I still go do. And it was the only place in the world where those guys were egging me on and goading me into you can do more… And that's the first day I said I wanted to play again was that day”