Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
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Hunter Lucas retweeted
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money."
"I was a big part of the blue wave.."
That's Lee Haight, president of RRCA (Roofing & Reconstruction Contractors of America) in Naples, Florida, defending his illegal immigrant crew from ICE and saying they're "necessary," not a burden on society.
In the same video he complains the insurance company steered jobs to his competitors, then brags about an $85,000 stone-coated steel roof on the water and a claim he says could top $150,000.
Cheap labor works out GREAT for the guy at the top. LMAO
Hunter Lucas retweeted
Making @StephenM the most powerful unelected Republican in America is the exact “get that eye of the tiger back” I was calling for on Election Night.
Hells yeah.
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Seems like a heck of a thing to gamble something as precious as a US Senate seat, and all the power that comes with it that can be used on behalf of our kids and grandkids, on 5 to 12% odds a 93-year-old won’t succumb to Father Time and let a communist Democrat pick his successor. Especially when we can fix it right now. All the gains with young people Charlie helped us get were lost on Tuesday. Let’s show them we’ll do what’s right for them and their future.
Without question @ChuckGrassley should resign ASAP to allow @KimReynoldsIA to appoint his successor before it's too late. And it's beyond self-centered if not immoral for him not to. Father Time will eventually come for Chuck, too.
Hunter Lucas retweeted
Forrest Frank has gone viral for posting a video about how Christians MUST stand against abortion and “transitioning” children!
This is INCREDIBLE to see coming from a famous Christian artist!🔥
Hunter Lucas retweeted
“We just want to sodomize each other in the privacy of our bedroom.”
“We just want the tax breaks that marriages receive.”
“We just want to make out in public and be accepted.”
“We just want a month set aside to celebrate our sexual interests.”
“We just want marriage equality.”
“We just want to punish and destroy people who refuse to celebrate our faux weddings.”
“We just want taxpayers to subsidize our IVF costs because nature is a bigot.”
“We just want legal recognition of throuples and foursomes.”
And so Rome keeps burning. And the barbarians draw nearer and nearer.
California city makes history allowing throuples, foursomes to legally register as partners trib.al/injZnvo
Hunter Lucas retweeted
Charlie’s vision for Turning Point Action was always bigger than one election. He wanted a permanent, year-round operation with the people, relationships, and resources to compete in every cycle. He knew there would be victories and setbacks because he had experienced both and that’s why he built for both.
Last night, we saw races Republicans once won handily by double digits come down to the thinnest of margins, and in some cases, flip entirely. Democratic socialist candidates made the cost of gas, groceries, and housing the center of their campaigns. And voters responded at the ballot box. A rising stock market doesn’t mean much when nearly half of Americans don’t have a 401K and just want to put gas in their trucks, put food on the table, and provide a good life for their families.
But every time socialism has tried it has failed, because socialism concentrates economic power in the hands of the government instead of trusting individuals to build prosperity for themselves and their families. That’s fundamentally at odds with the free enterprise, individual liberty, and opportunity at the heart of the American experiment. We can disagree with the solutions voters were offered while still recognizing why they were looking elsewhere for answers. Exit polls clearly showed that the American people are concerned about the state of the economy and the war in Iran. This isn’t a surprise to us because we’ve heard the same concerns from our students around the country for months and we’ve been concerned about it too.
The biggest mistake conservatives can make right now would be to allow this moment to become another exercise in finger-pointing, in-fighting, or trying to secure their own political preservation. That does not solve the problems the American people are demanding be solved.
Turning Point was born out of a moment just like this following the Obama era, which was itself a reaction to the political frustration of the early 2000’s. Our history reminds us that moments of disappointment can actually be moments of renewal and infinite opportunity.
Americans are not looking for labels and don’t subscribe to unquestioned party loyalty anymore either. They will support the candidates who can both speak to their concerns and deliver on what THEY need and dream about for their families. And those needs are the same as they have always been: an affordable home, safe communities, and the hope that the next generation will inherit a country with more opportunity than the last generation did. That is what the American dream has promised to all of us.
I miss Charlie so much every single day, but especially on a day like today. He always said that when things are going well, we need to stay humble. And when things aren’t going the way we want, we need to stay positive, keep our faith, and get back to work.
That’s exactly what we’re doing over at Turning Point today. We are going to listen, study the results, and spend the next two years making the case for how conservative, free market solutions, and a renewed focus on our country’s founding principles can address the problems the American people face. And we’re going to keep building the permanent infrastructure Charlie envisioned, strengthening our relationships in communities across the country, and preparing for 2028 and beyond.
If you woke up feeling discouraged today, there’s more important work to do than ever. Our principles haven’t changed and neither has our mission.
To every staff member, student, volunteer, and ballot chaser who gave their time and energy to this mission this cycle, thank you. I know Charlie would be unbelievably proud of each and every one of you, and I am, too.
Onward. 🇺🇸
Hunter Lucas retweeted
Wanna hit this real quick, because it became kind of ridiculous.
- Spiritual leaders have been teaching and leading the people of God toward generosity to build the kingdom for over 3,000 years.
- Unless you are going to say that virtually every pastor since ~350AD was "being manipulative" (you will basically not be able to name a pastor in all of history who did not preach in a building the people of God graciously and honorably sacrificed generously to build), calling people to generosity to build the church that helps reach and disciple the nations and their grandchildren is both normative and God-glorifying
- It might be "manipulative" if I was somehow personally benefitting from this. I don't get a dime extra for doing this. On the other hand, my family will *give* very, very radically, but I don't personally profit from this in any way. I'm HONORED to stand next to my people and sacrifice with them.
- The number is only weird to you because of scale. I pastor a church of over 30k people. This resource initiative would be the equivalent of my old church raising ~$375,000 over the course of 2 years.
In addition to building churches to reach 5 more communities in the DFW area, here's what this will do...
- Personally fund the translation of the Bible into the language of an unreached people group for the first time in history
- Build 2 special needs facilities to minister to families of children with special needs
- Build a Missions Center that operates a food pantry that gets meals to hundreds of thousands of people per year, a clothes' closet that gets clothes to struggling families, and teaches English as a second language to people who need it
- Put Bible teaching in prisons to reach and minister to 1.2M incarcerated people in the US
- Plant 25 new completely autonomous churches in the hardest to reach cities in North America
- Fund international missions for 25 churches in countries all over the globe
- Fund ~50 local missions partners doing things like rescuing women in our sex trafficking, pregnancy centers helping women considering abortion, etc.
- Tons more
^^^Not manipulative and not evil. Wonderful, God-glorifying, worth it.
Hunter Lucas retweeted
One of the things the data analysts on our side obsessed over was "composition"—whether the electorate looked close enough to 2024 for Republicans to win. And despite polls that showed a Democrat blowout, the data kept on telling us the same story: in some states turnout was merely OK, in other states it was downright amazing, and in no state was it catastrophic. There was a genuine sense of optimism on our team: our people were showing up.
So, I asked the smartest data guy I know, does that mean we're going to shock the world? "No," he told me. "We might do better than the polls suggest. But the data is telling us that a lot of Trump/Vance 2024 voters are pissed and planning to vote for the other guys. Our voters are turning out, but they may not vote for us."
Well, that looks prophetic now. Our voters did show up. In Florida, for example, the electorate was 9 points more Republican than Democrat, just a couple points worse than 2024. Undoubtedly there were places we could have done better on turnout. But the main problem is not turnout. The main problem is that many people who voted for Trump/Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026.
There will be a lot of infighting and arguing over what happened and why that is. One of the pollsters I really respect told me that our economic messaging wasn’t sharp enough down the stretch. I’m sure that’s true.
But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone.
Another pollster—one of the smartest people I know in politics, told me yesterday we’d lose the generic ballot by 13 points. I felt negative going into Tuesday, but even I was shocked by this. In his polling, he saw that a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats. He asked those voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team. The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were:
1) End the war
2) Focus on cost of living/inflation
3) Put America First
4) Change our relationship to Israel
Our voters showed up. And the above four reasons are why many of them voted for Democrats. This is according to a pollster who nailed the results. While many spent Monday attacking Rachel Campos Duffy for calling for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict, it turns out her political advice was sound. (She’s also a great person.)
In the next few months, there's going to be a lot of gaslighting. Expect to hear any number of establishment politicians say the solution to our woes is amnesty. I'm open to the idea that we should change enforcement—by focusing more on businesses that hire illegal labor, for instance. But anyone pushing amnesty is lying to you.
The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night.
If you'd like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that's at least honest.
But everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there.
I remain hopeful about our country. To the people who are pissed off and want to say, “I told you so”: you’re right, you did tell us so. Take that energy into electing Republicans who share your worldview. To the people who are just pissed at the results, you should be. Let’s take that anger and get back to the work of saving our country.
Hunter Lucas retweeted
First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. - Paul
1 Timothy 2:1-4
Praying for America.
Praying for her leaders.
Praying for the Church—may she be awakened in this hour.
#prayer
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We'll have full election results breakdown / reaction on next Live Free episode, but some quick thoughts...
1) The Sovereignty of God over all things is a deep comfort. As the old Christian saying goes, "I don't know what tomorrow holds, but I know Who holds tomorrow."
“For God is the King of all the earth; sing praises with a psalm! God reigns over the nations; God sits on his holy throne.” (Psalm 47)
2) It is sad and grievous. Romans 1 says God’s “passive wrath” is when he “gives them up” to their sin and evil desires – when He stops restraining a people from destroying themselves and lets them have the evil things they want.
The United States intentionally chose things like max-boosting infant murder up to the moment of birth, legislated sexual perversion that will wreak havoc on a rising generation, the expansion of Islamic influence on our nation, elected leaders openly hostile to Christianity, and in at least 2 cases (TX and Kansas) chose what the New Testamant would define as (and I do not say this lightly or flippantly) demonic, apostate false teachers to lead them.
This is an example of Romans 1 playing out before your eyes.
3) There is no political solution to a spiritual problem. Politics cannot fix what politics did not break, and Mankind was broken long before any political system.
The hope of the world has been and remains Jesus Christ, reformation and revival in our nation that has the ability to reach inside the chests of men and women and make them new men and women who want (and vote for) new things.
Christ is the only way out of the chaos.
4) Important lessons to be learned for conservatives. Wisdom would not be to blame *everything* on "dumb / evil voters."
Basic leadership: "Face the brutal facts (learn and adjust), maintain unwavering faith."
5) Sadness is ok, but despair is a sin. "Therefore, we DO NOT lose heart" (2 Cor 4:16).
Head up, chest out, knees down, glory up... do not grow weary in doing good, we build and fight (Nehemiah).
What are we going to do? Get up with joy in our eyes, love in our hearts, steel in our spines and keep assaulting heaven for an outpouring of God's Spirit, sharing Christ, planting churches, making disciples and deploying them in all areas of society in eager anticipation of the next Great Awakening in our land.
Tomb's still empty, y'all :)
6) We do what the people of God have always done in time of need: WE PRAY.
See you at Encounter tonight at all Lakepointe campuses at 7pm, doors open early for you to come and "pray for the prayer meeting."
Hunter Lucas retweeted
This clip is the biggest thing we have to wrestle with after a historic level of defeat. A Watergate midterm 1974 in its depth, but 1994 in its message from the voters.
Just as Bubba and Democrats were punished for not being the “new Democrats” they had promised in 1992 and immediately raised taxes, grew government, and attempted to input socialism via Hillarycare — we were punished for not giving the people the populism that we promised.
Instead we fought harder for over ballrooms and the Kennedy Center than we did the Epstein list, we chose the stock market and data centers over Doge and debt reduction, and (the literal straw that broke the camel’s back) we made affordability worse with the very stupid Middle East foreign war we promised for a decade there would be no more of.
Of course, this was all true going into this election as reflected by the polls (which were sadly right). However, I had hoped the level of unprecedented radicalization of the Democrats and their party’s unpopularity would counter the justifiable anger of the American people at least somewhat.
Sadly, it did not. And when a state like mine, Iowa, is voting to make it virtually impossible to raise taxes by a wider margin then it voted for a tax raiser like Rob Sand for governor and to make a literal Satanic priestess my congresswoman (and after overwhelmingly supporting Trump three times), then the message is clear as painful as it is.
The earth moved, yes, but not in continental realignment. This was generational frustration that a president and party who had promised to listen to them no longer was doing so. People didn’t want to move Left (although that will now be the reality on the ground with the new governors in former red states Iowa, Ohio, and Texas). They just wanted us to stop doing whatever this current mess is. We are completely off the rails as a party and lost credibility as a result, and that includes our leader. People want Avengers End Game comic book movies, not The Eternals or The Marvels versions. And you can’t tell them to want what they don’t — especially when you originally promised them otherwise.
Let’s see if we’re better at getting that message than woke Hollywood has been. Is populism a brand or a real movement? We found out, in the most politically costly and painful way possible, which version the American people prefer.
"The Democrats did not run on a bunch of left wing tropes and talking points. They ran on OURS." - @SteveDeaceShow
Hunter Lucas retweeted
@_willcompton, here's a question worth answering:
Nebraska's online sports betting campaign advertises $166 MILLION in property tax relief.
Sounds huge. Until you realize that's over 10 YEARS.
Just $16.6M annually against a $5B+ property tax burden.
Who's getting the bigger payday? The out-of-state betting operations or hardworking Nebraskans?
VOTE NO on Initiatives 440/441.
Hunter Lucas retweeted
Muslims have a plan to make America a Muslim nation.
Marxists have a plan to make America a Marxist nation.
Secular Progressives have a plan to make America a Secular Progressive nation.
… but Christians seem to always have a plan to keep Christianity from further influencing our nation by discipling people into either:
1) Political apathy (“God is sovereign, back off”, “we don’t get political, just do evangelism”)
2) Political ambiguity (“Jesus isn’t a Republican or Democrat, neither Right nor Left” = primary application of gospel to culture)
If continued, this will have very predictable (and disastrous) results in coming years, and a few conversations with pastors in deep blue cities / states trying to build churches, pastor people, and raise Christian families will help you realize it.
Hunter Lucas retweeted
Angry bettors out of control. Sports betting hurts athletes. Sports betting hurts our kids. Sports betting undermines athletics. All Nebraskans lose. Vote “AGAINST” Initiatives 440 and 441. 🚫
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If you seek enlightenment but don't want to ingest poison and writhe from brain damage, you can also just pray to the one true God and repent of your sin.
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These are 3 things most Christians don’t know about Reformation Day.
1. It is possible October 31 wasn't a random date.
Some historians think Luther chose October 31st to circulate his 95 Theses (and post them on the Castle Church doors according to tradition) because the following day, November 1, was All Saints’ Day.
This was a major religious celebration when large crowds of pilgrims would gather at Wittenberg's Castle Church to venerate its collection of sacred relics.
So here comes Luther… and in Thesis 36 he argues that every truly repentant Christian has a right to “full remission of penalty and guilt even without an indulgence letter.”
In other words, Luther was challenging the indulgence system immediately before a major religious celebration involving indulgences at his own university's church.
2. Luther was not trying to create a new branch of Christianity.
Luther was a devoted Catholic monk and professor of theology. When he published his 95 Theses in 1517, his goal wasn't to start a new church, but to reform the one he was already part of.
As the controversy developed, Luther wanted ordinary Christians to read the Bible themselves and believed all church teachings and traditions should ultimately be evaluated against the authority of Scripture.
By 1522, some of Luther's followers were already starting to call themselves “Lutherans” but he was against that.
In his work “A Sincere Admonition to All Christians to Guard Against Insurrection and Rebellion” he wrote: "I ask that men make no reference to my name, and call themselves not Lutherans, but Christians."
3. The printing press was the “social media” of that time… and it changed everything.
A lot of people imagine Martin Luther as a rebellious monk who nailed his 95 Theses to a church door so the whole world would hear his criticisms of the Church.
Nope.
Luther wrote the theses in Latin for academic debate. Most ordinary people couldn’t read Latin.
The printing press had been developed in Europe only about 70 years earlier, and printers began reproducing and distributing Luther's writings. His 95 theses spread quickly beyond Wittenberg, and German translations helped make his arguments accessible to ordinary people.
In other words, Luther’s work went “viral” before “viral” was a thing.
And as Luther's writings continued to spread, more and more people were being exposed to statements like these...
"When our Lord and Master Jesus Christ said, 'Repent,' he willed the entire life of believers to be one of repentance." (95 Theses, Thesis 1)
"We do not become righteous by doing righteous deeds but, having been made righteous, we do righteous deeds." (Disputation Against Scholastic Theology, Thesis 40)
"My conscience is captive to the Word of God." (Diet of Worms, 1521)
And after that, the world would never be the same.