Month: August 2025
Trump Placing D.C. Metropolitan Police Department Under Direct Federal Control and Activating National Guard
From breitbart.com
President Donald Trump announced on Monday that he is taking major steps to address rampant crime in Washington, DC, “officially invoking section 740 of the district of Columbia Home Rule Act” and “placing the DC Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control,” in addition to activating the National Guard.
Trump made the major declaration during a highly-anticipated press conference on D.C. crime Monday morning, declaring it “Liberation Day” in the nation’s capital.
“This is Liberation Day in D.C., and we’re going to take our capital back. We’re taking it back. Under the authorities vested in me as the President of the United States, I’m officially invoking section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act — you know what that is — and placing the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control, and you’ll be meeting the people that will be directly involved with that,” Trump revealed right off the bat.
“Very good people, but they’re tough, and they know what’s happening. They’ve done it before,” Trump said, also announcing that he is deploying the National Guard to “help reestablish law order of public safety in Washington, DC,” assuring that they will be allowed to do their job “properly.”
Trump told reporters packed in the tight White House briefing room that this is not a partisan issue, noting that they have been victims of the crime as well.
“I understand a lot of you tend to be on the liberal side, but … you don’t want to get mugged and raped and shot and killed,” he said.
“You want to be able to leave your apartment or your house where you live and feel safe and go into a store to buy a newspaper or buy something, and you don’t have that now,” he said, noting the murder rate in Washington today is “higher than that of Bogotá, Colombia; Mexico City; some of the places that you hear about as being the worst places on earth.”
“The number of car thefts has doubled over the past five years, and the number of carjackings has more than tripled. Murders in 2023 reached the highest rate probably ever. They say 25 years, but they don’t know what that means, because it just goes back 25 years,” Trump continued, offering some perspective.
“Our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged-out maniacs and homeless people, and we’re not going to let it happen anymore,” Trump declared.
“We’re not going to take it, just like we did on our southern border,” he added.
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Ancient Christian Warning Excavated in Church from 400 AD – Modern Christians Should Heed Its Words Immediately: EXCELLENT COMMENTARY
From westernjournal.com
One of the favorite phrases of the late Christian apologist and novelist C.S. Lewis was “chronological snobbery,” which he defined as “the uncritical acceptance of the intellectual climate of our own age and the assumption that whatever has gone out of date is on that count discredited.”
It’s an idea that more Christians ought to pay attention to, particularly as the gospel gets watered down by modernity. And, if they need a reminder, ancient Christians from a much earlier chronological time — 400 A.D. or so, to be precise — have a few words for them.
According to an Aug. 3 Fox News report, an important discovery was recently made during an excavation at the city of Olympus, which Fox described as “an ancient Lycian port city in Turkey’s Antalya province.”
“The city has been excavated continuously since 2006, but during the recent season, archaeologists uncovered multiple mosaic floors, along with large storage jars called pithoi,” the outlet reported.
However, the site “continues to surprise us with its mosaics,” excavator Gokcen Kurtulus Oztaskin said.
“In 2017, 2022 and 2023, we discovered richly decorated mosaic floors at the sites we worked on. This year, we uncovered and restored the floor mosaics of Church No. 1.”
And what did the message say? It had a decidedly unequivocal message for the unbeliever or the unrepentantly sinful:
“Only the righteous shall enter.”
The city may have been abandoned by the 12th century, but the lessons from 1,600 years ago ring truer today than they ever may have in the past.
Surely, the warning was put there for a reason: namely, that those who considered themselves righteous, wouldn’t. And now, in 2025, churches — which generally don’t have mosaics, if they have anything but drab modern architecture — have less consideration about holiness than at any time in recent memory.
We talk about how open-minded, forgiving, loving, helping, and comforting we are as Christians. Yes, Christians should be those things — but there is one thing more important than all of that, and that’s holiness.
It’s not open-minded to tell a homosexual or an adulterer that the precepts of the Bible don’t apply to them. It’s open-minded to guide them into repenting from that.
It’s not forgiving to tell people who have rebelled against God that they need to forgive themselves. It’s forgiving to tell them to ask for God’s forgiveness.
It’s not loving to accept people as they are. It’s loving to tell them that God accepts them as they are — with the expectation that they will grow into something better through his love and his law.
It’s not helping to lead people to comfort. It’s helping to lead people from the wages of sin, which is death and hell.
We seem to have forgotten that, but we aren’t the only ones. In Olympus, they forgot it, too. It’s rare to hear a sermon preached about holiness now, and it was perhaps rare enough then that they felt the need to put it down at the entrance.
Holiness is God’s defining nature. 1 Peter 1:16: “Be holy, because I am holy.”
We would do well to remember that. Holiness makes it easier for us to draw closer to God, it allows us to hear his Spirit more clearly, it demonstrates our being set apart for him from the world, and it effects wonderful things in the world. We’ve got to start teaching that again.
Over a millennium and a half ago, Christians in modern-day Turkey realized they needed to start teaching it again, too. Let us not be chronological snobs and think that we know better than they did.
Maybe we should remind people that our churches should aim to be like heaven in one way: “Only the righteous shall enter.” We will fail, of course, because we are imperfect. But he isn’t, and he works in us everywhere — but especially our houses of worship.
