Tim Bayly †

It's not faithless to be clear-eyed about what this midterm election means. Look at it directly. Stare at it without flinching. Christians will have varying conclusions, but here are a couple of mine. We must not give ourselves to atheistical thoughts. God is in perfect control. Faith trusts Him with every pain and suffering He sends. Our nation deserves God’s judgment. It’s not "their fault.” It’s our fault. If exile and Babylonian captivity were God's judgments on His people in the Old Testament, note the leaders we elected and ask if God is not sending us into exile here in our own homeland? Looking and listening to those we have elected to rule over us, I find my fatherland unrecognizable. Ocasio-Cortez? Ilhan Omar? Mamdani? El-Sayed? Abortion wins? Truth be told, our friends, neighbors, and family members chose authorities whose ideologies and lives are characterized by the destruction of America's godly heritage. They are determined to throw out our nation's patrimony and kill our forefathers. Our politicians prophesy lies and our people love it so! Be clearheaded. This is an act of God. This is His judgment upon us. Stop blaming others. Don't lower yourself to resentment and bitterness. The Christian will meet our Father's discipline with repentance, faith, and prayer.

From seventeenth century New England Puritan Pastor and grieving father, Samuel Danforth, here is comfort for Christian mothers and fathers mourning a child warhornmedia.com/2026/11/03/…

The man who loves the world has no love of the Father in him. So says Scripture (1John 2:15). When trees shed leaves red, yellow, and orange, and children throw themselves onto the piles making loud with their joy and laughter; this is an excellent time to meditate on love of the world or love of the Father.

On becoming a man (fourteenth in a series) "To be a man and to become a man are separate matters." The father helping his son become a man doesn’t reduce his fatherhood to a pissing contest. He never stops loving on his son, never stops encouraging his son. He’s tender with his son. Becoming a man was hard and he remembers it acutely.

The sacramentalist pastor administers the Lord’s Supper exuberantly, dispensing vacuous flatterings, “What grace!” “What joy!” “Come!” “Take!” “Eat and drink!” “Banish all fear!” The sacramentalist pastor administers the bread and wine without the Scriptural warning, “whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner, shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.” He gags Scripture’s command, “a man must examine himself” before eating and drinking (1Corinthians 11:27-28). The sacramentalist pastor condemns this self-examination commanded by God. He disses it as “morbid introspection.”

Backyard right now. This is my Father's world, And to my listening ears All nature sings, and round me rings The music of the spheres. This is my Father's world: I rest me in the thought Of rocks and trees, of skies and seas His hand the wonders wrought.

On becoming a man (thirteenth in a series) "To be a man and to become a man are separate matters." For the Christian man, holiness and manliness are yoked together. To become holy is to become a man.

"For not knowing about God’s righteousness and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God" (Romans 10:3). "Establish their own" or "subject themselves." Are you establishing your own or subjecting yourself? Eternity hangs in the balance.

On becoming a man (twelfth in a series) "To be a man and to become a man are separate matters." To become a man, love a woman. Start with your mother, but don't stop with her. Never stop with her.

Father and his sons taking down trees, and this is less than half of his sons and daughters. A lion's pride.

Excellent. One way to check out whether we’re simply modernists incapable of thinking Biblically is reading this and asking if we think Scott’s argument is monstrous? If not, are we willing to speak thusly confessing our Christian faith by proclaiming God’s justice? conservatibbs.com/p/christa-…

On becoming a man (twelfth in a series) "To be a man and to become a man are separate matters." Today, women RULE. Face it. Becoming a man almost always requires finding a wife willing to be the wife (helpmate) and mother God made her. Today, that's difficult. Today, women rule. Plead with God for a wife. Don't marry a rebel. Wait on the Lord.

Reform is bloody. Luther knew it and stood firm: "Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me." Keep the risk reformers take in doing their dirty work in mind as you watch our President Trump. The flow of his administration has been desperately needed reforms, so cut him slack...

Kroger's now banned multiple use plastic bags (MUPG) here in Bloomington. You have dogs and kids? Good luck carrying a paper bag when you walk your dog. Good luck wrapping your toddler's dirty diaper in one. And paper bags are worse for global warming.

Excellent on Senator Sinema’s alienation of affection, adultery, and accountability for the damage her sins have done to the marriage contract, the family established by that marriage contract, and society substack.com/home/post/p-215…

On becoming a man (eleventh in a series) "To be a man and to become a man are separate matters." If a wife is her husband’s helper, his helpmate, she will help him become a man. In dancing, the man learns to be a man by studying the woman’s movements and posture. She helps him, and thus he grows in his ability to lead her.