PUT ON THE FULL ARMOR OF GOD, SO THAT YOU CAN TAKE YOUR STAND AGAINST THE DEVIL’S SCHEMES.
-EPHESIANS 6:11
PUT ON THE FULL ARMOR OF GOD, SO THAT YOU CAN TAKE YOUR STAND AGAINST THE DEVIL’S SCHEMES.
-EPHESIANS 6:11
“I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot,” Theodore Roosevelt calmly addressed the audience in 1912, pulling a bullet-ridden 50-page speech from his blood soaked pocket. Talk about a paper-thin line between life and death!
In today’s digital age, the internet has become the ultimate weapon of mass communication. It can’t stop a bullet like the printing press could. However, it can give a bullet momentum. The internet is a breeding ground for misinformation and conspiracy theories.
The attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump is a prime example of how social media has transformed our experience and response to such events. In the past, news of an assassination attempt would trickle out through traditional media channels. But today, thanks to the power of electronic media, the world was instantly aware of the shooting at Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania. Within minutes, the incident was trending worldwide, with everyone from POTUS to Elon Musk weighing in, and people from all walks of life were sharing their thoughts, reactions, and prayers. In the digital age, news travels faster than a speeding bullet, and opinions fly at light speed.
“Fortunately I had my manuscript, so you see I was going to make a long speech, and there is a bullet—there is where the bullet went through—and it probably saved me from it going into my heart. The bullet is in me now, so I cannot make a very long speech, but I will try my best.”
-Theodore Roosevelt
“And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.”
—Matthew 24:12-13
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
—Jeremiah 1:5
“He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, lest they see with their eyes, and understand with their heart, and turn, and I would heal them.”
—John 12:40
“Dear friends, I urge you as aliens and temporary residents not to give in to the desires of your old nature, which keep warring against you.”
-1 Peter 2:11
“Get up!” the angel said. “Take the child and his mother back to the land of Israel, because those who were trying to kill the child are dead.” So Joseph got up and returned to the land of Israel with Jesus and his mother.
—Matthew 2:20-21
“Discretion will protect you, and understanding will guard you.”
—Proverbs 2:11
“The heavens are shocked at such a thing and shrink back in horror and dismay,” says the Lord. “For my people have done two evil things:
They have abandoned me—the fountain of living water. And they have dug for themselves cracked cisterns that can hold no water at all!”
—Jeremiah 2:12-13
“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith-and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God-not by works, so that no one can boast.”
—Ephesians 2:8-9