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“The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task.”

Woke-ism, multiculturalism, all the -isms –– they’re not who America is. They distort our glorious founding and what this country is all about. Our enemies stoke these divisions because they know they make us weaker. Censorship, wokeness, political correctness, it all points in one direction – authoritarianism, cloaked as moral righteousness.

“Be not quick in your spirit to become angry, for anger lodges in the bosom of fools.”

“The wise will inherit honor, but fools get disgrace.”

“To the choirmaster. Of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds, there is none who does good.”

“But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire.”

“A fool's lips walk into a fight, and his mouth invites a beating.”

“He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it. For there are many who are insubordinate, empty talkers and deceivers. They must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole families by teaching for shameful gain what they ought not to teach. One of the Cretans, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.” This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,”

“Whoever sows injustice will reap calamity, and the rod of his fury will fail.”

“Remind them of these things, and charge them before God not to quarrel about words, which does no good, but only ruins the hearers. Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth. But avoid irreverent babble, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness, ...”

“All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,”

“As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions.”

“In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.”

“You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.”

“Don't raise your voice, improve your argument."

The gospel is not meant to confuse us.

So that we may now gaze in the reflection, in the mirror, and see the face of our birth there. And not wander off again to immediately forget what manner of person we are. Wander back into our old perceptions and trying to defend our doctrines, but discovering how freedom, how freedom is so beautifully packaged in him.