On Saturday, former Vice President Kamala Harris took a not-so-subtle rhetorical jab at President Donald Trump, who defeated her in the 2024 election last November, and Elon Musk. Harris delivered remarks upon receiving the Chairman’s Award, which honors people who “excel in public service and leverage their unique platforms to ignite and drive meaningful change” at the NAACP Image Awards in Pasadena, California. “Some see the flames on our horizons, the rising waters in our cities, the shadows gathering over our democracy and ask ‘What do we do now?'” Harris said a few minutes into her speech. “But we know exactly what to do, because we have done it before,” she added. “And we will do it again. We use our power. We organize, mobilize. We educate and we advocate. Because, you see, our power has never come from having an easy path.” Harris later needled Trump and Elon Musk, a wealthy tech executive who is overseeing the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), without mentioning them by name. “While we have no illusions about what we are up against in this chapter in our American story, this chapter will be written not simply by whoever occupies the Oval Office nor by the wealthiest among us,” Harris said. “The American story will be written by you. Written by us. By we the people.” Reports emerged after Trump won the 2024 election indicating that Harris, 60, was signaling to her confidants that she wants to keep her future political options open, including a potential 2026 campaign for governor of California or a presidential run in 2028. “I don’t think the world has seen the last of Vice President Kamala Harris,” Symone Sanders, a former adviser to Harris who became a host on MSNBC, said in December. “I don’t know how she will show up again, but she is a young politician who garnered over 75 million votes in this election, and she will be back.” Harris has not formally embarked on any campaigns in the intervening months, but last week she made headlines by signing with Hollywood talent agency CAA, joining former Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday that he is willing to resign from office if it means that the war is brought to an end and his country is admitted into NATO. He was asked at a press conference if he was ready to resign if it means that peace can be brought to the region after 3 years of war. “If [it guarantees] peace for Ukraine, if you really need me to resign, I am ready,” he said. “I can exchange it for NATO.” CNN noted that his country will need to double the size of its military if it is not allowed to join NATO. His comments come after he was repeatedly attacked last week by President Donald Trump, who claimed that Zelensky was a “dictator” and suggested that Ukraine was responsible for the war. “Think of it, a modestly successful comedian, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, talked the United States of America into spending $350 Billion Dollars, to go into a War that couldn’t be won, that never had to start, but a War that he, without the U.S. and ‘TRUMP,’ will never be able to settle,” Trump posted on social media. “The United States has spent $200 Billion Dollars more than Europe, and Europe’s money is guaranteed, while the United States will get nothing back,” he continued. “Why didn’t Sleepy Joe Biden demand Equalization, in that this War is far more important to Europe than it is to us — We have a big, beautiful Ocean as separation.” Trump also claimed that Zelensky has a low approval rating. “He refuses to have Elections, is very low in Ukrainian Polls, and the only thing he was good at was playing Biden ‘like a fiddle,’” Trump said. “A Dictator without Elections, Zelenskyy better move fast or he is not going to have a Country left.” Zelensky won 73% of the vote in Ukraine’s 2019 election against incumbent Petro Poroshenko. The next election was set to take place in 2024 but has been delayed indefinitely since the country is in a state of martial law — in which some democratic processes, including elections, are temporarily suspended — due to Russia’s invasion in 2022. The New York Post noted this week that Zelensky’s approval rating currently sits just a little over 50%. “In the meantime, we are successfully negotiating an end to the War with Russia, something all admit only ‘TRUMP,’ and the Trump Administration, can do,” he added. “Biden never tried, Europe has failed to bring Peace, and Zelenskyy probably wants to keep the ‘gravy train’ going. I love Ukraine, but Zelenskyy has done a terrible job, his Country is shattered, and MILLIONS have unnecessarily died – And so it continues…” The remarks from Trump on social media come after he criticized Ukraine for complaining about not being given a seat at the table during talks this week between the U.S. and Russia in Saudi Arabia. “I hear they’re upset about not having a seat. Well, they’ve had a seat for three years,” Trump said. “And a long time before that. This could have been settled very easily. A half-baked negotiator could have settled this years ago.” Trump said that Ukraine “should’ve never started” the war, adding that they “could’ve made a deal.” “I could’ve made a deal for Ukraine that would have given them almost all of the land, everything, almost all of the land, and no people would have been killed, and no city would have been demolished, and not one dome would have been knocked down,” he said. “But they chose not to do it that way.”

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It is often said that a parent’s love for her child is the closest picture we get of God’s love for humanity on this side of heaven. Years before motherhood was even on my radar, my own mother told me that when my first child was born, I would feel God’s love for me more deeply than ever before. Last spring when that day came and my son was placed in my arms at the hospital, a glittering joy crescendoed into worship as I thought, Yes, this is exactly what I expected to feel — love beyond comprehension, loved beyond comprehension. What I did not anticipate, however, was how the parallel (albeit an imperfect one) of a mother’s love for her child and God’s love for us would continue to evolve long after the initial newborn sweetness wore off and the grueling reality of being a parent set in. In what has been the hardest and best year of my life, God has used motherhood to show me not just how much he loves me but what that love actually looks like. Be still and know My son is like a battery-powered toy that just keeps going and going and going until eventually the battery dies and the toy comes to a halt. Likewise, my son never stops moving until he falls asleep. He’s been this way since he could lift his head. Movement, activity, stimulation — this is what he demands every second of his waking hours. I shouldn’t be surprised. He’s the prototype of a wild little boy. My husband was the same as a child. And yet this has grieved me as a mother. If I’m being honest, I feel a little cheated. I want to rock him to sleep. But he prefers to be laid down and left alone, free to roam his crib and wrestle his stuffed raccoon until its battery finally dies. I want to snuggle him — to wrap him in my arms, kiss the top of his downy head, and tell him all the things I love about him. He prefers the freedom of his legs (or his hands and knees; we’re not walking quite yet). I long for him to sit in my lap and flip through picture books. He would rather be sitting on his own playing with toys or getting into something he’s not supposed to (potted plants are his latest obsession). I’ve wept over this resistance of his. Child, let me love you for goodness' sake! I want to tell him. Abounding in affection for her child, a parent aches to pour out her love. On Christmas this year, my thirst was briefly abated. After a long day filled with family, gifts, and feasting, we pulled into our driveway late at night. I did what I always do when we get home — unbuckled my son from his car seat, carried him inside, changed him into pajamas, fed him, and prepared to lay him down in his crib and walk away. But just as I was laying him down, he did something he hadn’t done since the early newborn days. He rested his head on my chest. All the tension left his little body, and he just collapsed in my arms. A Christmas miracle. Tears welled in my eyes. I sat down in the unused rocking chair in the corner of his bedroom and just held him like that for an hour, trying to breathe as softly as I could for fear that he would wake and the moment would slip from me. As I sat there silently weeping, a thin voice in my spirit whispered, I feel what you feel. What? I feel what you feel. Over the next several days, the meaning unraveled itself bit by bit. The sudden shift in my son’s behavior was due to exhaustion and overstimulation from a day of ceaseless activity. Only when he had been sapped of all energy did he allow me to lovingly hold him close. And suddenly I couldn’t unsee it: Am I not the same way? Like my son, I am a busy body. Early to rise and late to bed, my days are packed to the brim with productivity. Rest is a luxury I don’t much indulge in. In fact, the hurried life is where I feel at ease. I revere God; His Son Jesus is my Savior; the Bible is where I find truth. But like so many Westerners, I am addicted to what John Mark Comer calls “the hurry drug.” When I am at my wits' end, crashed and burned, bone-tired and soul-weary — only then do I sit in my Father’s presence with no agenda, allowing Him to love me like a parent loves a precious child. I realize now that this grieves Him for the exact same reason my son’s resistance grieves me. Abounding in affection for her child, a parent aches to pour out her love. Again, my eyes well with tears. Become as little children Although my son is a busy bee, he is by no stretch of the imagination an independent child. If I so much as walk out of the room to grab my ringing cell phone, he bursts into tears. When I cook dinner, he clings to my leg and cries until I pick him up. Then he squirms and arches backward, begging to be put down again. This process repeats itself until I'm finished cooking. He doesn’t really want to be held; he just doesn’t want me paying attention to something that’s not him. He loves to play with toys, but only if I’m watching him. Car rides are a disaster because he can’t see me (and yes, we have the mirror gadget; it doesn’t help). Walks in the stroller are short-lived because he can’t stand to face the opposite direction of me. I’m praying that in time the sky and trees will become interesting to him. But so far, no luck. Full transparency: This aspect of his personality has been hard for me. I feel tethered to him to such an extent that brushing my teeth can be burdensome. He’s so needy, I whined to my mom one day over a cup of coffee. He’s just attuned to you, she said matter-of-factly. Jesus’ words in Matthew 18:3 flashed into my mind — “become like children.” Humbled, it registered that what I found annoying about my child was a beautiful image of how we are supposed to be with God: Dependent. Needy. Tethered. Attuned. I heard somewhere — from a friend, a book, I’m not sure — that God gives us the child our heart needs. That certainly seems to be the case for me: a self-reliant independent who forgets that divine resources are a prayer away. My son’s insistence on my undivided attention is a mercy, a kindness, a gentle reminder to adjust my heart’s posture heavenward. I’m thankful. White as snow Every parent can relate to cleaning up messes. One day my son had one of those epic blowout diapers that is no match for a changing table and some wipes. As I began stripping off his soiled clothing to put him in the bath, he suddenly sneezed, and because he had a cold at the time, snot got everywhere — all over his face and all over me. This is what God sees when he looks at us. Utterly filthy, covered in a mess of our own making, and yet — beloved. Before I could even pivot to grab a tissue, he threw up all over himself. In a matter of seconds, the child was covered in three of the most nauseating bodily substances. Such a strange moment for God to reach down and nudge me. As I took in the image of my son in the filthiest condition he’s ever been in, I could see it so clearly: This is what God sees when he looks at us. Utterly filthy, covered in a mess of our own making, and yet — beloved. But the parallel continued to evolve. Despite the staggering mess before me, I wasn’t harsh with my son. I didn’t let him sit there in his filth. Nor did I begrudgingly plunge him into icy bath water, grab a sponge, and start roughly scrubbing him clean while I grumbled about how inconvenient this whole ordeal was. No, I bathed him gently, patiently, methodically — rinsing him with warm water, taking my time to make sure every inch of him was washed clean before I dried him off and dressed him in fresh clothing. Again, I was struck with the emotive image of God’s kindness toward us. He doesn’t look down condescendingly from his heavenly throne, sighing in exasperation that we’ve made a mess of ourselves again. He isn’t hesitant to begin the process of cleaning us up, never rough or impatient as he washes our sin away. He is tender and kind, never withholding grace, no matter how big our mess is — faithful to wash us clean over and over again, forever, until final glory when messes are no more. I feel the same about my son. There will come a day when the season of cleaning up his messes comes to an end. Until that day, though, I will meet him in the filth, whether it's his own or it’s the muck and mire of mud puddles on the playground, and I will gently and lovingly wash him clean. As I re-evaluated my son — now spotless and smelling of soap — God nudged me once more, this time with a question: Why? Why the gentleness, the patience, the tenderness? Why the unflinching reaction to clean up this colossal mess? Easy. Because he is mine. Exactly.

President Trump’s appointment of Paula White as head of the newly established White House Faith Office is the worst decision of his young presidency. I say this as someone who has voted for him three times (in separate elections) and is thrilled with practically everything he has done thus far. He is exceeding my expectations in every regard — except this one. In addition to her new position, Paula White is the “pastor” of StoryLife Church and the host of her own television show titled “Paula Today.” Her relationship with President Trump began over 20 years ago when he saw one of her television programs and contacted her, telling her that she had “the ‘It Factor.’” He later made appearances on her show. James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family ministry, said that Paula White led Trump to Christ. White, however, is one of the most visible proponents of Word of Faith theology, more commonly referred to as the health and wealth, or prosperity, gospel. The Word of Faith movement is not merely wrong in secondary matters of Christian theology, but it represents a dramatic departure from some of the basic tenets of historical Christianity. A thorough treatment of the heresies of this movement is beyond the scope of this article, but at its heart is the belief that if you are a Christian, you are a “little god.” Many in this movement even believe that as a Christian you are “as much an incarnation as was Jesus of Nazareth.” On one of her programs with fellow Word of Faith preacher Larry Huch, White enthusiastically agreed with Huch’s statement that “Jesus is not the only begotten Son of God.” She has repeatedly taught that Christians are little gods and once said, “Wherever I go, God rules. When I walk on White House grounds, God walks on White House grounds. ... I have every right and authority to declare the White House as holy ground because I was standing there, and where I stand is holy.” Further, White teaches that as an equal with Jesus — and even as God himself — Christians are entitled to health and wealth because God cannot be poor and certainly cannot be sick. Health and wealth are yours provided that you have enough faith and that you sow enough “seed” into a Word of Faith preacher’s ministry – and by "seed," these preachers mean money. They speak some truth, but it's mixed with error and heresy — and just a little leaven leavens the whole lump. White is fond of attaching a seed amount to various scripture verses. She has, for example, told her followers to sow $91 based on Psalm 91 and thereby secure God’s protection from various enemies, including, but not limited to, sickness and disease. She once told her followers to sow a “resurrection seed” of $1,144 based on John 11:44, which records Jesus’ resurrection of Lazarus from the dead. “So click on that screen right now and sow your resurrection seed as we stand in faith together and I believe God for your miracle.” White even told her church one night, “Some of you gotta be at a place of sacrifice. When it’s the hardest is when it’s sacrifice. ... You’re gonna write your checks to Paula White Ministry, if you want to text to give you can do so, but every single person (needs to) give something significant.” Conscious that many have rightly criticized such manipulation as tantamount to buying a miracle, she followed up with, “Now, we’re not buying a miracle, we’re not doing any ‘Jesus junk,’ we don’t do that kind of stuff. We’re simply being obedient.” In sum, White would say that you can’t buy a miracle, but if you need one, you need to give her your money. It is a distinction without a difference. And the bigger miracle you need, the bigger monetary "seed" you need to "sow." Your seed is a reflection of your faith. You must give to her even before you pay your light bill because, after all, you can’t expect the electric company “to heal my child or find my children that are lost.” The healing of your sick child or even the salvation of his or her soul depends on you giving money to Paula White. These are not isolated examples. This is the unbroken pattern of all prominent Word of Faith preachers. If you begin with the premise that it is always God’s will to be healed, and someone prays for healing, but healing never comes, then the question becomes, ”Whose fault is it?” By definition, it cannot be God’s fault. If you are sick, it is your fault – your lack of giving or your lack of faith. The exploitation of the poor and the sick, though, is not the worst thing about Paula White and those like her. Even worse is the reproach they bring upon the name of Christ. In 2021, Paula White endorsed “Mother Moon” in person at Moon’s Unification Church in South Korea, a cult, which, among other objective heresies, teaches that Jesus failed in his mission, an explicit denial of his deity. White has given a myriad of false prophecies, not the least of which was that Trump would serve a second consecutive term in the White House. Even after Biden was certified as the winner, Paula White did not give up. In a viral clip, she bizarrely called upon angelic reinforcements from Africa to install him in the Oval Office. These angels were apparently blown off course somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean — no word yet on the cause. To be fair, all prominent voices in the Word of Faith movement prophesied this; White was hardly alone. But the spectacular prophetic failure of Paula White and her Word of Faith cohorts became rich fodder for the world’s ridicule. Viral YouTube videos mocking the failure of these “Christian” prophets garnered tens of millions of views, which is unfortunate because what many people believe about Christianity, they learn from watching these televangelists with massive platforms. I am not upset with President Trump that he chose Paula White to lead this new office. Donald Trump is not a theologian and does not understand the theological heresies of the Word of Faith movement. But I am upset not only with Paula White and those of her ilk but also the prominent Southern Baptist pastors who are fully aware of the Paula White problem: who she is, what she teaches, and what the Word of Faith/prosperity gospel is. Jack Graham and Robert Jeffress, for example, pastor two of the largest Southern Baptist churches in the nation (Prestonwood Baptist and First Baptist Dallas, respectively), and they have both enthusiastically endorsed Paula White. Romans 14:22 states, “Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself by what he approves.” True revival will never come through the hands of false teachers nor those who endorse them. It grieves me that our president is surrounded by “faith advisers” who are such poor representations of Christianity. Paula White meets every biblical criterion of a false prophet and false teacher. If she is not a false teacher, then the term truly has no meaning. Is everything that Paula White teaches wrong? No. Some of what she teaches is right. But that is true of all false teachers. In his description of false teachers, the apostle Peter says they will “secretly introduce destructive heresies” (2 Peter 2:1). Secretly. They speak some truth, but it's mixed with error and heresy — and just a little leaven leavens the whole lump (Galatians 5:9). I wish and pray that I could have just 30 minutes with President Trump to share with him the true gospel. I wish I could tell him that Jesus did not die so that we could have health and wealth, but he died so that he could satisfy the righteous wrath of God that burns against our sin. Our sins were imputed to Christ on the cross, and his righteousness is imputed to us (2 Corinthians 5:21) when we repent of sin and place our trust in him. We are saved by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone (Ephesians 2:8-9). Trump may not be a theologian, but he is a smart man, and he surely had to notice that all of the prophets who prophesied in 2020 that he would serve a consecutive term were wrong. He surely knows that the “Christians” surrounding him who claim to be hearing from God clearly are not. Jesus does not promise us health and wealth. To the contrary, he promises us persecution and suffering in this life (John 15:20; 2 Timothy 3:12; Philippians 1:29). But in the life to come, he will give us eternity with him. Christ himself is the reward for those who will trust him as Savior and Lord. Many prominent preachers are saying that God is bringing revival to America through the creation of the White House Faith Office. Pastor Greg Locke, for example, in criticizing those of us critical of Paula White, said he’s “for revival and truth no matter who’s leading it.” I’m certainly for revival, but true revival will never come through the hands of false teachers or those who endorse them.

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