Rick Bennett @txcvacations

When Preachers Entertain, the Devil Applauds – The Pulpit Was Never Meant for Performance Introduction The pulpit was never meant to be a stage, the preacher was never meant to be a performer, and the congregation was never meant to be an audience waiting to be impressed. The pulpit is a sacred place of proclamation where a man stands under the fear of God, opens the word of God, and declares the message of God to souls who will one day stand before God. That is not entertainment. That is not religious theater. That is not motivational speaking with a Bible verse sprinkled on top. That is not a comedy routine, a branding opportunity, a personality platform, or a weekly performance designed to keep people emotionally engaged and spiritually undisturbed. The pulpit was meant for preaching. “Preach the word,” said Paul in 2 Timothy 4:2. Not entertain the crowd. Not manage the room. Not protect the atmosphere. Not build the preacher’s image. “Preach the word.” When the pulpit forgets that command, the devil does not need to shut the church down. He just needs to turn the pulpit into a stage. The devil applauds entertaining preaching because entertaining preaching can keep people busy without making them holy, moved without making them obedient, laughing without making them repent, impressed without making them tremble, and comfortable without making them converted. The devil does not mind a preacher who can hold attention if he cannot hold the line. He does not mind religious energy if there is no conviction. He does not mind a packed building if the saints are not being fed and sinners are not being warned. He does not mind polished sermons that make people say, “That was amazing,” as long as nobody walks away saying, “God has spoken to me, and I must get right.” The devil is not afraid of talent. He has seen plenty of it. He is not afraid of crowds. He has plenty of them. He is not afraid of emotion. He can manufacture that anywhere. What he fears is a Bible opened, a cross preached, sin exposed, Christ exalted, hell warned against, doctrine declared, and the Holy Ghost using the sword of the Spirit to cut into hearts. The modern pulpit is in danger because too many preachers have confused communication with performance. Yes, a preacher should be clear. Yes, he should be understandable. Yes, he should avoid needless dullness, careless speech, and lazy preparation. But clarity is not entertainment, and earnestness is not showmanship. The old prophets were not performers. John the Baptist was not a performer. Paul was not a performer. Stephen was not a performer. The Lord Jesus Christ was not a performer. They spoke truth with authority because eternity was real. Today, many pulpits are shaped more by audience retention than divine commission. Sermons are crafted to be shareable, pleasant, humorous, smooth, non-threatening, emotionally timed, and socially acceptable. But the Bible says, “It pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.” God did not choose performance as His method. He chose preaching. When preaching becomes entertainment, the pulpit may still draw applause from men, but it loses power with God. Chapter One: The Pulpit Is a Place of Proclamation, Not Performance The pulpit is a place of proclamation because the preacher is a herald, not an actor. A herald does not invent the king’s message. He does not soften it because the crowd is sensitive. He does not change it to fit the mood of the hour. He does not decorate it with enough humor and personality that the decree becomes secondary to the delivery. He stands and announces what the king has said. That is Bible preaching. The preacher stands with a Book in his hand and a charge on his soul. He is not there to display himself. He is there to declare God’s word. The moment the preacher becomes the main attraction, the pulpit has been profaned. Second Timothy 4:1-2 gives the preacher his charge: “I charge thee therefore before

People will trust lottery odds… but ignore prophecy. 👀 Odds of winning a lottery: 1 in 259,000,000 Odds of ONE man fulfilling just 8 biblical prophecies: 1 in 100,000,000,000,000,000 And Jesus fulfilled OVER 300. Born in Bethlehem. Betrayed for 30 pieces of silver. Pierced hands and feet. Buried with the rich. Rose again. These prophecies were written hundreds of years before Jesus was born. At some point, it stops being coincidence. The Bible isn’t just a book. Jesus isn’t just a teacher. He is exactly who He said He is. ✝️ #JesusChrist #BibleProphecy #Faith #Gospel #Christianity #JesusIsLord #Truth

@aj_inapi At the height of slavery in America, only 1.4% of Americans owned slaves. The same ruling class that's passing laws owned slaves, not those you see on the street. Stop giving power to the same ruling class making us fight.

@TheresaArueyin1 Thought you might find this interesting regarding Barabba's name. Bar: Meaning "son". Abba: Meaning "father". Together, the name literally translates to "son of the father." I thank God daily for saving a wretch like me. His love is everlasting and He is there for whosoever

I’m 68 years old, a biker with more miles on my boots than most men dream of, and three years after losing my wife, I never thought life had any big surprises left for me. Then, by pure accident, I met Maya. She was four months old, lying in the NICU, crying like the world had already given up on her. Born with Down syndrome, a serious heart defect, and addicted to methamphetamine from birth, she had been turned down by twelve families. Too many complications. Too much risk. Too expensive. They were preparing to send her to institutional care. I had wandered onto the wrong floor while visiting a buddy when a nurse saw me standing there in my leather vest and said, “That baby’s been crying for hours. Nothing calms her. You want to try?” I picked her up, held her against my chest, and started humming a low, rumbling note—the same way I used to calm my Harley on cold mornings. Maya stopped crying instantly. Her tiny hand wrapped around my finger, and something in my chest that had been frozen since my wife passed came roaring back to life. I came back every single day for two weeks. When the social worker said they had no choice but to move her to a group home, I looked her in the eye and said, “No. I’ll take her.” They laid out every reason I shouldn’t: my age, my lifestyle, the surgeries ahead, the years of therapy and special care. I listened to all of it, then told them the only thing that mattered: “She deserves to grow up with someone who chooses her.” My motorcycle brothers showed up like a cavalry. These rough, tattooed men spent a whole weekend painting her nursery a soft sunny yellow and wrestling with a crib that took four of us three hours to assemble. They brought diapers, clothes, and enough casseroles to feed a platoon. For the first time in years, my house felt alive. At five months old, Maya went in for open-heart surgery with only a seventy percent chance of making it through. I sat in that waiting room for six long hours, making every promise to God I could think of. When the doctor finally came out smiling, I cried like a kid. Today, Maya is nine months old and she is the brightest light in my world. She smiles the moment I walk into the room, lighting up like I’m the best thing she’s ever seen. Her little laugh fills the house when I make silly faces or dance her around the living room to old rock ballads. She’s hitting her milestones with that stubborn fighter spirit I’ve come to love so much. The heart defect is behind us, and every day she grows stronger, happier, and more curious about the world. I know I won’t be here for all of her life. I’m old, and the road I’ve traveled has been long. But I’ll be here for every single day I have left, and I’ve already made arrangements with my brothers and their families so Maya will never know a day without love and protection. She was nobody’s baby once. Now she’s mine—completely, fiercely, and forever. Every night I lay her down in her yellow nursery, kiss her forehead, and whisper the same thing: “You were chosen, little girl. You are wanted. You are loved beyond measure.” And as she drifts off with my finger still in her tiny hand, I realize something beautiful: I didn’t just save Maya. She saved me. I’m the luckiest man who ever lived.

Two simple Truths: Jesus Christ died for our sins. America’s fallen died for our freedom. May we live worthy.

The Bible: · 0 errors · 66 books · 40+ authors · 0 contradictions · 3 different languages · 3 different continents · 63K+ cross-references · written over 1500 years · all telling the same story This is how we know it’s God-inspired and not man-made.

🚨‼️A lot of Christians are not ruined by adultery, drunkenness, or apostasy. They are ruined by delay. They keep saying “one day” while God keeps saying “today.” One day I’ll get serious. One day I’ll lead my family. One day I’ll pray like I should. One day I’ll witness. One day I’ll use what God gave me. And while they keep kissing that word “later,” their life is bleeding out on the floor. The devil does not need every believer to become a Satanist. He just needs him distracted, tired, overcommitted, and always almost ready. If he can keep you busy enough to neglect prayer, dull enough to avoid the Bible, and comfortable enough to postpone obedience, then he can bury your calling without ever putting you in a tabloid scandal. That is why some of the saddest wrecks in the body of Christ still look respectable on Sunday morning. Jesus Christ did not say, “Admire till I come.” He said, “Occupy till I come.” That means do business with what He gave you. Use the gift. Carry the burden. Speak the truth. Raise the children. Write the page. Pray the prayer. Make the call. Take the step. Stop waiting for a perfect season in a cursed world. If the thing is right, scriptural, and sitting in your hands, then your biggest enemy may not be confusion. It may be disobedience with a polite smile on its face. One day you are going to stand before the Lord Jesus Christ, and it will not matter how many intentions you had stacked up in your head. It will matter what you did with what He gave you. That is the difference between a burden and a biography. Plenty of people feel things. Fewer obey. So quit bragging about what you know God has put on your heart and go do the next thing He already showed you to do.

Elon Musk just defended America better than every politician in Washington combined. Musk: “After World War 2, the US could have basically taken over the world and any country. Like we got nukes, nobody else got nukes. We don’t even have to lose soldiers. Which country do you want?” One nation on earth held a weapon nobody else had. Total dominance. Zero competition. No risk of retaliation. Every empire in history that held that kind of advantage used it. Rome. The Mongols. The British. The Ottomans. They conquered until they collapsed. America had a bigger advantage than all of them combined. And it rebuilt the countries it just defeated. Musk: “The United States actually helped rebuild countries. So it helped rebuild Europe, it helped rebuild Japan. This is very unusual behavior, almost unprecedented.” Almost unprecedented? It had never happened before. Not once in 5,000 years of recorded history. The Marshall Plan wasn’t foreign aid. It was the most radical act of restraint any superpower ever committed. America turned its enemies into allies. Turned rubble into economies. Turned surrender into partnership. Germany went from ashes to the economic engine of Europe in a generation. Japan went from unconditional surrender to the third largest economy on earth. Three years after the war, America was flying food into Berlin. A city in the heart of the nation that just tried to destroy it. That’s not policy. That’s a civilization deciding what it is at the exact moment it has the power to be anything. You’re being told a story right now. That America is the villain of history. You hear it everywhere. Media. Universities. Social platforms. Musk: “There’s always like, well America’s done bad things. Well of course America’s done bad things, but one needs to look at the whole track record.” Every nation on earth has dark chapters. Every single one. The difference is what a country does when nobody can stop it. And when nobody could stop America, it fed its enemies and rebuilt their cities. Musk: “The history of China suggests that China is not acquisitive. Meaning they’re not going to go out and invade a whole bunch of countries.” Probably right. China has historically built walls, not fleets. But the real question isn’t about borders anymore. We’re approaching a moment that mirrors 1945 in ways nobody has fully processed yet. AI is going to give a handful of people a power advantage that makes nuclear monopoly look quaint. If someone is going to hold that kind of power, who do you want it to be? The country that conquered when it could? Or the one that rebuilt when it didn’t have to? Every alliance. Every trade route. Every economy. Billions lifted out of poverty. All of it traces back to one act of restraint that had never been done before. And carries no guarantee of being repeated. The most powerful thing America ever did wasn’t building the bomb. It was what it didn’t do after.

The Islamists are slaughtering Christians in Africa.  Where are the western countries?   This must be confronted. Now!

Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby

2 months ago

This is what Islamists are doing to innocent civilians in Sudan. Where is the outrage?

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“Genocide!” cries the Left… …except when Islamists are committing genocide against Christians in Nigeria, Sudan, Syria, Myanmar, Libya, the Congo, Burkina Faso, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen, Iran, and Afghanistan.

Please pray for the Catholic hostages kidnapped by islamist terrorists in Nigeria As their ransom demands have not been met, the terrorists have begun to execute women and children No coverage in western media Please RT so that the world knows about the inhuman crimes committed in Nigeria with the compliance of western politicians, religious leaders and media

Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby

2 months ago

BREAKING: Islamists in Nigeria who kidnapped 416 women and children three days ago, say that ultimatum has expedited and they will begin executing the hostages. There has not been a word about this in the media for the last three days. Now they’re starting executions.

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I don't want any confrontation on this post. Just getting my feelings out. If you don't agree just pass this by........ I'm going to vent here...I believe we all have the right to worship as we please, but I also know that our country, the United States of America was founded on Christian principles. I believe we should be proud of our country. A quote is a quote. It should not be amended or watered down. The news should not be afraid to use someone’s quote that refers to God. On the "Today Show", one of the wives of one of the Navy Seals killed along with the US ambassador in Libya was being interviewed. He asked her what she would say to her children about their dad and how she would want them to remember him. Her answer, and I quote, "His love for Christ", and then continued on with a few other things. Throughout the day and on the MSN homepage, replaying the story, they have edited the "Love of Christ" part out. Why? Because using the word Christ might offend someone! Well now, it's my turn to be offended! I'm offended that they would edit it out. Offended that Christians are asked to tread lightly so as not to offend someone of another religion. This man loved his country and loved God and gave his life for both. This Founding Principle is actually embedded in our Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” I hope every Christian or every person that believes in God who is offended will copy this and paste it to their status.... Let’s get this trending 🙏 “If we ever forget that we're one nation under GOD, then we will be a nation gone under.” ~Ronald Reagan

Today 2,000 years ago, Jesus Christ was nailed to a cross for a sin he did not commit He was perfect, without sin.. yet was made sin. He could have defended himself or denied every accusation, he had the power to summon 72,000 angels yet he endured. All for our justification 😢

@yhbryankimiq I've read 7 chapters so far and very well written! I know you have a bible study on here. Is this open to all like a zoom meeting? Keep glorifying God and pointing the lost to Christ and thank you for being a servant of the Most High.

@samuel_leeds Keep glorifying God brother!!

@samuel_leeds @DavidSmuts Amen! All glory to God the Father

🚨Today I will tell the world the truth about Trump as to why he did this to a woman. America, imagine being told “you need emergency surgery to survive, but the ONLY surgeon who can do it is 3,000 miles away in New York City - and you’re TOO SICK to fly on a commercial airplane, so… good luck.” That’s a death sentence, right? That’s exactly where a California woman stood in the year 2000. She needed life-saving emergency surgery. The specialist was in NYC - 3,000 MILES away. Her doctors said: “You MUST get to New York or you won’t survive.” But commercial airlines REFUSED her - she was too medically fragile to fly on regular planes with all their stops and limitations. She was TRAPPED. Dying. With the cure 3,000 miles away but NO WAY to reach it. Then someone suggested: “Call Donald Trump. He has planes.” She called, desperate, explaining her impossible situation. Trump’s response took SECONDS: “Take my plane. I’m sending my private jet to California RIGHT NOW. No charge. Get to that surgeon.” Within HOURS, Trump’s personal jet landed in California, picked up the dying woman with full medical equipment on board, and flew her 3,000 miles to New York City. She reached the surgeon IN TIME. Got the surgery. SURVIVED. Today, she’s ALIVE - has lived 25 MORE YEARS since that day - because Donald Trump sent his private jet for free to a complete stranger. Her words in later interview: “I would be DEAD if Mr. Trump didn’t send his plane. He saved my LIFE.” Here’s why Trump sending his private jet to save a dying stranger proves that when you have resources, you use them to save LIVES. ✈️🇺🇸 PRAY with me: “Jesus, please keep President Trump HEALTHY and STRONG so he can continue helping people like this for many more years. Protect him. Bless him. Let him live long to serve others. Amen.” Share so people see Trump’s heart. ✈️🙏🇺🇸

@yhbryankimiq Thank you for being the man God created you to be and glorifying our LORD and Savior by making disciples of all nations. Keep bearing fruit brother!

@conspiracyb0t Do you recall the NCAA bracket email from Anthony F that had all the diseases with Covid winning?