That's Luke 11:23.
In Nahum 2:1: "The one who scatters has come up against you. Man the fortress, watch the road; Strengthen your back, summon all your strength."
At 5 pm on February 22, 1943, Hans and Sophie Scholl, along with their friend Christoph Probst, were executed by Nazi guillotine after being found guilty of distributing leaflets opposing the Nazi regime. The trial had commenced earlier that day at 10 am.
The members of the White Rose were not pacifists. Sophie may have rejected war, but not violence: she demanded that the French defend Paris to the last shot because it was a matter of honor; she welcomed the violence of the SS in Amsterdam because it would clarify each party’s position, and she herself would have been ready to shoot Hitler.
She agreed with Hans and Alexander Schmorell, who argued in the leaflets that Hitler’s “brown horde” must be attacked and exterminated. In December 1942, Hans wrote that it was necessary to take up arms against the “wild beasts” that had been let loose, and he had a loaded army pistol with him during the nightly graffiti actions.
--Constantin von Hoffmeister
Published in 2019 by the Observatory of Christianophobia, a French website dedicated to documenting incidents of anti-Christian hate crimes, map marks every area a church has been attacked in France with a red pin. As a result, virtually the entire map of France appears covered in red, highlighting the ubiquity of church attacks.
Tomorrow is the President’s State of the Union Address. I have no preview of what he will say. It may be rewritten an hour before presentation because the state of our affairs is changing by the hour.
My question every year at this time: will the speech reflect the same reality that God sees when He considers our state of affairs, the condition of our collective “heart,” and the relative unresponsiveness of our souls?
I have a lot of long-term hope for our nation because I’ve seen the historical evidence of nations rebuilding the ruins of their early foundations, and rediscovering righteousness, peace, and prosperity. I’ve seen the records of their rebuilding Christian civilization on top of ruins.
I’m watching a number of small communities in the US rebuild countercultural families, their churches, their marriages, and their radical independence from the government. These communities are rediscovering the meaning of hope and the favor of God.
But, overall, what is the state of ...