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British Christians have been somewhat satisfied over the decades with Queen Elizabeth's brief mention of Jesus Christ in her annual Christmas message to the nation. Those words have never been enough to bring reformation and reform to a secular, dying nation. Britain has reached a terminal collapse during those decades of Elizabeth's reign.
Americans also live in a morally bankrupt nation. Christians were surprised and heartened by the Christian prayers and hymns at the funeral of George HW Bush. They were even more encouraged by the more explicit and personal public testimonies by so many national leaders at the Memorial Service of Charlie Kirk. Yes, these remarks were remarkable in secular, socialistic, post-Christian America, and downright shocking to Christians in suicidal Britain.
But no ceremonial Christian expressions can restore the broken foundations of a once-Christian civilization. A successful reconstruction would rely on daily, righteous, faithful obedience to the law of God in every area of life. By every professing Christian.
In each lifeless, corrupt, demoralized and exhausted Western nation, Christians must model the essence of lifegiving Biblical culture and civilization at the local level -- in their families, in their churches, and in the civil government. They need to come out of the worldly, dehumanizing, degrading institutions of our time, especially propagandistic schools and corrupting screen traps. And they need to avoid the snares of religiosity, as Jesus warned in Matthew 15: 8, 9:
'THIS PEOPLE HONORS ME WITH THEIR LIPS, BUT THEIR HEART IS FAR AWAY FROM ME. 'BUT IN VAIN DO THEY WORSHIP ME, TEACHING AS DOCTRINES THE PRECEPTS OF MEN.'"
We Americans and our British cousins need to cultivate a radical vision of reformation and revival. We need to galvanize faithful, joyful, unashamed communities of Christians who know how to boldly restore the Crown rights of Jesus Christ in local and national life, and who then will make it happen.
Zelenskyy can insult the President to his face in the Oval Office, and all Trump does is keep inviting him back. Relying on false intel about Russian casualties, the Russian economy, and the Russian polity, Trump keeps trying self-defeating, self-sabotaging escalatory tactics with Russia, playing Russian roulette but mistaking it for American poker.
Trump threatens 500% sanctions on Russian-oil purchasing nations today, threatens long-range missiles into Moscow that Russia could think are nuclear-armed, and sends arms to Ukraine laundered through NATO. All this does is enrage the Russian populace and get us closer to triggering a world war between two nuclear powers. As a Russian once advised me: “we’d rather eat dirt than surrender.” Russian history proves it, whether in dealing with the Mongols, Napoleon or the Nazis. Just revisit the history of how the people of St. Petersburg held out during what they called The Great War.
At the same time, Russia holds escalatory dominance...
Satanic social engineers have tried to starve the world of spirituality for 400 years (since the satanic “Enlightenment”) in order to turn us all into skeptical materialists, constantly analyzing ourselves, worrying, and diagnosing ourselves so that we lose sight completely of the Kingdom of Heaven and the job we have as servants. They want us to either abandon faith, or cling to the empty shell of “religion” instead of serving the Living God with fear and trembling. That way, once they reveal their parlor tricks, we’re supposed to be blown away by the acknowledgment that something more is out there.
Fear creates an altered state of consciousness, and that’s a key to Satan’s...game. Psychedelic drugs, brain chips, subsonic frequencies, DNA modification, hoaxes, cult rituals, everything to make us abandon a calm, rational, biblical worldview. It is a Christian’s duty to be unimpressed with this world, no matter how insane it gets.
-- Terry Wolfe
