It is essential that every servicemember knows that, in America, we never leave a man behind. That hasn't been the case lately. But with the rescue of these two airmen, every servicemember knows it's true once again. Let's learn from the Bible about this principle from the life of Aristarchus.

Pam Bondi is the second cabinet member fired after Kristi Noem. What does this say about Trump's presidency? And how should we look at this after just celebrating Resurrection Sunday?

Welcome to Politics by Faith. It's the show where we take the news of the day and we bring it to the Bible. You can walk away with peace and perspective. There's new headlines every day, but Ecclesiastes says there's nothing new under the sun. So thanks for being here to get the true story, the story of the day. Pam Bondi is fired. 

The third high profile filing, uh, firing. in the cabinet. Mike Waltz was a while back. He was the national security advisor. He's now the ambassador to the UN doing a fine job there. That was back in May of 2025, though. 

But earlier in March, we had Kristi Noem and she was fired for what seems to be some bad behavior. You may have missed this. I kind of missed this. Conservatives didn't talk much about it, but I'm sure people on the left did. But it deserves to be highlighted as a reminder of don't do sinful, stupid things. So Kristi Noem is accused of funneling millions of dollars of contracts to friends. 

She would approve these contracts to companies that were run by people connected to the conservative movement. And the most egregious one seems to be this contract that was given to the husband of the then Homeland Security spokeswoman. Tricia McLaughlin, you've seen her before. So she's the spokesperson on Homeland Security. Her husband was getting these multimillion dollar contracts. And it's all kind of tricky to follow the money about who owns this and got that and blah, blah, blah, whatever. 

But they're like hundreds of millions of dollars contracts. And I thought, of course, of Ephesians 5. That was my first thought. But if you asked me to quote Ephesians 5, I would have missed part of it. So the Ephesians 5 that I always think of is, but among you, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality. or any kind of impurity. 

because these are improper for God's holy people." " So I was going to play that, I was going to read that scripture and leave it there. Be like, oh, you know, sexual immorality and money, immorality. But I didn't realize that Ephesians 5 actually says this, but among you, there must not even be a hint of sexual immorality or of any kind of impurity or of greed. because these are improper for God's holy people. So I didn't need to connect another dot. 

I didn't need to stretch that at all. It's right there. It's sexual immorality or greed. Getting $100 million contracts. That would be, I'd put that under the greed category. So Noam is gone out of Homeland Security and now Pam Bondi is out as attorney general. 

We're not quite sure what happened there. There's some rumors or reports that maybe she gave a heads up to some Democratic congressman that he was under investigation for something or some documents are going to be released about him. I don't really know. Right. Maybe we'll find out. It may have just been in general that she wasn't doing enough to arrest bad people. 

I mean, over a year has gone by now, so we got to get going. Like, let's let's go. We got stuff to do. So maybe she just wasn't doing enough. Maybe we'll find out more as time goes on. But either way, she's gone now. 

So I don't know. Out of all the cabinet members the president picked, we got The theme that comes out of this for me is that it is hard to be good in DC. And I think when people are doing good in DC, they need to be praised and commended for it. There are a lot of forces, this is true anywhere, but there's a lot of forces around you that are trying to take you out. And there's so much sin around you and there's so much easy money around you. And it's just all the more reason, gosh, first Peter 12 says, keep your conduct among the Gentiles, be the non -believers, keep Gentiles. 

Excellent. So that when they speak against you as evildoers, They may see your good works and glorify God on the day of visitation. " So it's like, these horrible Christians in DC, they're awful. They're the worst. And people are like, what, like what? Well, they're, uh, they're, they got nothing, not a hint of immorality. 

And then of course, we're told in Romans 12 to overcome evil with good, even, and especially when surrounded by a bunch of pagans as you would be in DC. But here's what I want to go to the Bible with today. Last couple episodes of our podcast here, Politics by Faith, we focused, of course, on Good Friday. On Friday, we talked about the moon and creation as good, and we connected that to Good Friday. Then Saturday and Sunday, we had two of our TV specials about the resurrection, which everything hinges on. To me, that was one of the things that I took away from this special that I haven't in years past, is that the entire religion of Christianity is hinges on this one thing. 

And it's amazing, actually, I'm impressed that the Bible emphasizes this. To me, this is a point of proof that the Bible is true because the Bible could have said or if someone was just making up a cult or something they could have said yeah and then this thing happened this resurrection back from the dead that's crazy and kind of hard to believe so don't really worry about that but no no the whole Bible is like this is the entire point everything rests on this crazy thing that happened I just love that unfortunately I think a lot of Christians today or over Easter it's dressing up nice and all that stuff. Right. And they don't even think of the resurrection. So you might as what's the difference between never even considering the resurrection and what it really is and what it really means versus not even believing it was possible. 

There's no difference, but we have to believe it happened. 

Okay. So here we are now the day after resurrection Sunday. Now, what, how should we live our life in light of the resurrection? Now I should note this real quick. We should not think of the resurrection only one day a year. And therefore we shouldn't think about how to live life. 

only the day after this one day, the resurrection and how we should live accordingly is an everyday consideration. Of course, just wanted to say that. So I think the place to go is James, James three in particular, but all of James and I like to go to James because James, the brother of Jesus was an unbeliever. He didn't, he didn't believe his brother was, was the son of God. But then it says in, uh, first Corinthians 15, seven, it says, then he, Jesus appeared to James. then to all the apostles. 

" So he was an unbeliever. John 7, 5 says, for not even his brothers believed in him. Mark 3, 21 says, and when his family heard it, they went out to seize him for they're saying he's out of his mind. So he was a, he was an unbeliever. And then he had this direct encounter with the resurrected Jesus. 

And gosh, wouldn't you like to know everything that was said in that, that meeting, that hangout. Uh, but we know that there's a scene in, uh, Acts 15, you got Paul, Peter and Barnabas. They were all speaking to this council in Jerusalem. And then, uh, it says James replied. Brothers, listen to me. And he goes on. 

All right. So we know who, where he was and we know in Acts where he ended up. So James goes from an unbeliever to a believer because there was an encounter with a resurrected Jesus. And then James wrote how we should live life. He wrote this whole thing about how we should live our life in light of the resurrection. And it just wrote down a couple of the, just some verses stand out. 

It's so good. I mean, the whole thing, you should read the whole thing. James 1 12. And blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial. For when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him. " I would share that with Christians who are living in DC or anywhere, of course, but anywhere where there's a lot of trials around them. Blessed is the man who remains steadfast. 119 says, know this, my beloved brothers, that every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger. for the anger of man does not produce righteousness of God. Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls." 

There was one key word there that I want to get back to in a different verse. Let's go to chapter three. Are you with me on this one? away? Putting away all the filthiness, put away all the wickedness, get rid of all that stuff. James chapter 3 talks about taming the tongue. 

See how great a force a little fire kindles and the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is so set among our members that it defiles the whole body and sets on fire the course of nature and it is set on fire by hell. Let's go to 13. This is the verse I wanted to Focus on that. Verse 13, James 3, 13. Who is wise and understanding among you? 

Let him show by good conduct that his works are done in the meekness of wisdom. That was the word in the scripture I just shared that I wanted to focus on, meekness. So for a minute, he was talking about how a Christian should talk, which really comes from the heart. But now he's talking about how a Christian should live. Verse 14. But if you have bitter envy and self -seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth. 

This wisdom does not descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic. For where envy and self -seeking exist, confusion and every evil there are there. But the wisdom that's from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, without hypocrisy. " Wow, that's amazing. Pure, peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruit, without partiality, without hypocrisy. Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace. 

So meekness is the key here. Meekness is not weakness. They sound the same. They're one letter off. Just flip the letter around 180 degrees, but they're very different things. Meekness, as Martin Lloyd -Jones said, is the seeing the true, having a true view of ourselves as vile sinners before God. 

This ties a bit into Friday's episode as well about how we can't accomplish anything without him. But when you have a true view of yourself as a vile sinner, then you will be meek. Because from that posture, you will rely on God and the Holy Spirit. If you do that, you will inherit the earth. I just give a shout out to Martin Lloyd -Jones. There's a book of him by him called Sermon on the Mount. 

It goes through all of it. It's just brilliant. But I'll quote here Matthew Henry, who's a Puritan in the mid 1600s. He said, meekness preserves the mind from being ruffled and discomposed. And the spirit, Holy Spirit, your spirit from being unhinged by the vanities and vexations of this lower world. Meekness stills the noise of sea, the noise of her waves, and the tumult of the soul. 

Meekness permits not the passions to crowd out in a disorderly manner like a confused, ungoverned rabble, but draws them out like the train bands, rank and file, everyone in his own order, ready to march, to charge, to fire, or to retreat as wisdom and grace give word of command. That's from a book called The Quest for Meekness and Quietness of Spirit, Matthew Henry. But again, it doesn't mean weakness. It's knowing when and how. to march and charge and fire, right? Notice Matthew Henry didn't say, oh, meekness is never doing anything. 

No, it's not. You gotta know when, properly, how to march, charge, fire, and maybe retreat, whatever the Holy Spirit says. So if you're ever put in a position of power, whether you're head of Homeland Security, or you're the attorney general of the United States of America, or you're the manager of a business, or you're the lowest down in the totem pole that you can get, first day on the job of a fast food burger joint whenever you're you have people under you or around you meekness is a virtue we're lacking and a virtue we need more of whoever humbles himself will be exalted whoever exalts himself will be humbled do your job and do it to the glory of god do it well thanking god for the opportunity staying away from sin and knowing the fullness of your sinful nature being meek YouTube . com slash at politics by faith is podcast page. If you can subscribe over there, that'd be awesome. YouTube . 

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Progressives aren't "for" anything. They are against God's Word. This manifests in pretty wild ways, like the story of Lindy West. But lest we get too prideful, we need to realize the lessons of John 12.

Welcome to Politics by Faith. This is where we take the news of the day and we bring it to the Bible so we can walk away with peace of perspective. Because there's new headlines every day, but Ecclesiastes says there's nothing new under the sun. So thanks for being here to get the true story, the story of the day. A progressive woman is miserable. I probably could have thought that out a little more because that's not much of a headline. 

Newsflash. Progressive women are miserable. Progressive woman living by progressive moral standards not happy. It's like well. Yeah on the show this morning We talked about the word normal. I think the word normal today has this connotation of boring. 

Like oh, it's lame. Like normal and lame are the same thing. Or let's not be as negative, but something like it's what everyone does. Normal means it's the usual. It's not what it means. at least not originally. 

Webster's Dictionary 1828 . com is my favorite website. The original dictionary. The definition of normal is according to a square or rule perpendicular forming a right angle. Also according to a rule or principle. In other words, normal is good. 

An article here from the Wall Street Journal about a fat millennial feminist. Now hold on, I'm not calling her fat. That's her whole thing though. She wrote at Jezebel and the New York Times about people being fatphobic. She proclaims her fatness as part of her identity. She's like Winnie the Pooh. 

Short, fat, and proud of that. And apparently she wrote a memoir. She's in her 40s now, seems a little early to write a memoir, but the Wall Street Journal wrote about it. This person said Ms. West has done everything that the progressive political project told her to do. She refuses to try to lose weight, even though it's making her life worse, as she writes about in her memoir. She made her identity, everything about her, her activism, everything about her identity. 

It says she avoids spending time with her extended family because they might have quote, unknown politics. And it isn't that they actually disagree with her. It's that they, they just might. She married a non -binary person. All the while claiming, as many leftists do, that they're very happy. I should say, I'll give a little sneak peek of where I'm going with this. 

All the while claiming, as many sinners do, I'm very happy. She made claims that this is how everyone should live. And you conservatives with your ways and your normal ideas, your heteronormativity, just a bunch of broods. And she's also polyamorous. She's in a polyamorous relationship. So her husband has his girlfriend also living with him as well. 

Maybe a kid's warning. I should have maybe given one a minute ago. Sorry. Maybe a kid's warning for five minutes. She wrote about, let me just quote Wall Street Journal, she writes about retreating to the guest bedroom during frequent bouts of depression and being subjected to the sound of her husband and his girlfriend having, you know what, in an adjacent room. She reports that she wrote this memoir to provide financial support to her family, three able -bodied adults in their 40s who seem to spend most of their working week emotionally terrorizing each other. 

Okay, I could go on, but it's just a train wreck. So what do we learn from this woman's life? what i've learned politically is that this uh is that progressivism isn't for anything progressivism is only against it's against anything that a christian culture has created so christians believe in a monogamous marriage they are against it what are they for i don't anything but that and you'll ask them why are you pro these other things they're not they're just against what is normal we believe in gender norms they don't They don't. Not only they're against that, they're against genders existing at all, right? There's this, do you know the name Caster Semenya? You probably don't remember the name, but you may remember the picture, if you saw a picture of him. 

This is the South African woman who won two gold medals in the Olympics and three world championships, and is so obviously a man. And the Olympics just now said that men can't compete against women in the Olympics. You'll read headlines, it'll be like, Trans the Olympics rule that trans people can't compete in the Olympics. That's not true. Just that men have to compete against men. In these last Winter Olympics, there was a trans mogul skier who competed like Sweden or something. 

It's a he. It's a male that lives as a woman, but he competed against men. So no one cared. Got dead last as well. 

Oh, give me 20 minutes. 

I'll get him up in 20 minutes. Why do you want to get him up? Do you want to play with him? OK, I'm recording, though. So, yes, you just. No, it's fine. 

That was a great time. Just don't let - Why do you - No, why do you want to play with him so much? Something's going on. Something's afoot. Okay, alright. Just keep him out of here. 

I got 20 minutes until I'm done with this. Love you. Jamie's sleeping. In the other room, taking a nap. So he competed and - a man, he got dead last, but he was competing as men, right? 

If he competed against a woman he probably would have won. So there's an interview that this runner, I think he's from South Africa, again competing as a woman, and he said a real -life quote, my testicles don't make me any less of a woman. That's a real sentence. my testicles don't make me any less of a woman what now when he competed in the olympics in the women's 800 meter gold silver and bronze first second third place all went to a man all of them went to a man a man women like blonde long hair like blonde actual women got third fourth or fourth fifth and sixth totally totally hosed by three dudes who when they were wearing their running uniforms weren't even uh they were in like men's running uniforms they weren't even wearing like you know the women will run in like a bikini kind of thing they were wearing men's running uniforms and they still competed against the women and they got first to get there with that so they're they're against even the concept of gender even existing that's how contrary they are to what is true so that's the that's the political point i want to make is that progressives aren't for anything other than just like destruction or something but they're against Good, beautiful, and true. Let me quote from the Wall Street Journal, then we'll get to the Bible. As you hear Jamie in the background probably screaming any minute now as Jack woke him up, for some reason, something's afoot that he wanted to play with the baby, the three -year -old, in the middle of the day for some reason. 

We'll find out soon. The Wall Street Journal. In the 1960s, counter -culturalists popularized the idea of the man, a patriarchal authority figure against whom one should rebel. And when you start from the assumption that the man is always wrong, your political project produces all sorts of strange ideas. As in the case of Miss West. If the man.. 

that slimness is healthy and beautiful, well, then it's good to be fat. If he says that traditional gender roles are best, then it's good to be non -binary or transgender. I'll throw in here one more point. They are right that there are men who are terrible, like progressives will say that men are terrible. That's true. There are men who are terrible, but the left has chosen to ally themselves with the worst men that exist. 

Who supports abortion? Terrible, awful men. Abortion was first supported by men in the 60s who wanted to sleep around with as many women as possible and not get them pregnant. That's who support, or at least when they got pregnant, there was an out so they didn't have to deal with it. Those are the people who supported abortion, the men. Similarly, there are indeed certain men who are against monogamy in marriage, the worst kind of men. 

And this woman, Ms. West's husband, was able to use progressivism to justify sleeping around because he's half Nigerian. And he told her that monogamy is at its root a system of ownership. So she was so consumed by white guilt that she forced herself to allow him to go be with other women. Because if she said no, then it would be like she was a slave owner. So what's broken here? What's broken is people just can't submit to God. 

James 4, 7 says, submit yourselves, therefore, to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Or you can resist God. and run to the devil. who is just about inverting everything all the time in every way imaginable. And they call it progress. 

All right, fine. Progress from what? What are you progressing from? What are you running from? You're running from the good, the beautiful and the true. You're running from God's word. 

Let's go to the Bible. Just read this morning, John 12. It says, But although he had done so many signs before them, they did not believe in him. John says multiple times that Jesus did these things that people would see him and believe in him. that he was the son of God, but still some, no matter what he did, they did not believe that he was the son of God. Now here's the key. 

That's the key of this whole episode here. And this is what I need to hear lest I get prideful and think that I'm so much better than Miss West. I am indeed in a better situation than Miss West. There's no question about that, but that is only because of God's grace. The very next moment of John 12 says, but although he had done many signs before them, They did not believe him, that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled when he spoke, Lord, who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? 

The point here is unbelief is the default. Total depravity is the default. And that's where I was, where you were, but because of God's grace, we believe. And it's only because of God's grace that any of us believe. And without that grace, I know I would be just as depraved. Just give me a little more. 

a little more, like my pre -Christian life just needed a little more time to spiral. 20 years. I'm probably the same age as this woman. So it's about 20. If I kept going down the spiral of my pre -Christian life, I'd be no better off than Ms. West. Different sins, whatever, but same denial. 

Just the same. So my point is, if someone does believe, it is because God revealed himself and the truth to us. And we need to be incredibly grateful for that, to say the least. John 12, therefore, they could not believe because Isaiah said again, he has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts. Less they should see with their eyes, less they should understand with their heart, hearts in turn, so that I should heal them. If you reject God, he'll harden your heart. 

I mean, John 3, 19 says, and this is the judgment. The light is coming to the world. And people loved the darkness rather than light because their works were evil. I praise God every single day that in my sinfulness, he gave me and you the light. And now we can see. I said something on the radio, something like. 

What progressivism has done to individuals, individual peoples, very sad. And what it's done to our society is tragic and infuriating. And we should have pity on the victims of progressivism. But we should also have a righteous anger at the people who spread progressivism like it's the gospel. And Ms. West has done that her entire life. They have destroyed lives. 

They've destroyed cultures. They're tearing down what is normal and what is good everywhere they turn. And that's where I stopped on the radio. I would stop there. But the more I think about it, I should keep going. And. 

I would be doing the exact same thing. if it weren't for God's grace in my life. I would be just as lost and just as blind and just as proactively evil as she is. So thank you God for repentance and salvation.