I’d like to start with a little story that I have heard several times throughout my life and just recently read again. Application will follow:
A young man applied for a job at a local farm. The farmer asked him several questions to get an idea of his qualifications and experience. The young man simply said, “I can sleep through a storm.” The farmer was puzzled, but nonetheless he hired the young man. Time went by. One night a storm blew in—a real tempest with wind, rain, lightning, and hail. The farmer and his wife awoke in alarm. They called loudly to the young man, but he was sleeping soundly.
The farmer and his wife went out to check on things, annoyed at the hired man’s seeming unconcern. But they found everything secure, closed, covered, stalled, and bedded. The farm was safe. Then they understood the young man’s words. He could sleep through a storm because he was prepared for storms.
The following Decency Minutes scripts for this week, narrated by Bill Johnson, talk about just a few of the many “storms” that our nation is facing. Truth be told, unless the Lord intervenes, it’s likely to be a real “gully washer,” that will carve “ditches” and “erode” the landscape of our nation. Others of us will have additional “storms” to weather as well: health, relational, financial, emotional, etc. Some of these “storms” will also threaten to carve deep ditches into our lives and character. Yet, regardless the wind, rain, lightning, and hail, if we have placed our faith in Christ alone, we can “sleep through the storm.” Jesus has “secure, closed, covered, stalled, and bedded” our hearts and minds because we have trusted in Him.
That doesn’t mean that we no longer have a responsibility to strive for righteousness; we should do all we can to be salt and light before a watching world. Salt and light affects its environment and, humanly speaking, may cause the dark and decaying to become resistant in any number of ways. Regardless, God has this, we are safe in the hands of Jesus, and the Holy Spirit will guide us through each storm, political and otherwise. Let us truly rest in Him. When we begin to look at the storm instead of the Saviour, let us, like Peter, call out “Lord, save me!” and reach up to Jesus. (Matt. 14:22-33)
In 2013, there was a huge push within the Republican party for a bill granting amnesty and a pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens.
In spite of massive pressure from both parties and the media, that effort failed and was put to rest with the first election of Donald Trump who ran on the opposite of amnesty – limiting all immigration. When Trump was re-elected with a mandate for mass deportations, it seemed to be the final nail in the coffin for the amnesty argument.
But, with the crushing results of the 2026 midterm elections for the GOP – and the end of the Trump era in sight – Republicans, including Trump, seem to be testing the idea of amnesty for illegal immigrants again.
American lawmakers must realize that their job is to ensure the welfare of Americans, not replace Americans with people who will vote for them.
It’s Time to Crack Down on DIY Abortions
When President Trump first term was the most pro-life administration ever. That’s why it’s so disheartening to see his second administration abandon the pro-life cause regarding the biggest abortion issue of our day – mifepristone.
At least two-thirds of all abortions are now done by this do-it-yourself abortion drug. And it’s being shipped into states where pro-life laws have restricted it. No other drug is prescribed with no ID or medical exam.
Yet, inexplicably, the Trump administration has left in place Biden-era policies that stripped away any restrictions of mifepristone. Now with Democrats gaining power in Red states and vowing to overturn pro-life laws, it’s more important than ever that mifepristone be blocked.
Urge President Trump to put in place the restrictions on mifepristone that Biden removed. Call the President at 202-456-1111.
The midterm election results may have taken the wind out of our sails and with the increasing number of threats bombarding us from the left, discouragement would be the natural course. BUT I want to encourage you to press on in the cause of righteousness and to press into our Lord, Jesus Christ.
It was Winston Churchill who urged us: “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
And Charles Spurgeon reminded believers of the peace that is theirs: “As for us, we cast anchor in the haven of the Word of God. Here is our peace, our strength, our life, our motive, our hope, our happiness. God’s Word is our ultimatum. Our understanding cries, ‘I have found it!’ Our conscience asserts that here is the truth, and hence we rest content.”
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