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Saturday, February 7, 2026

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Recommended podcast: How the Mental Health Industry Misses the Mark, by Dave Wheaton of The Christian Worldview. Dave Weaton interviews Greg Gifford, the author of Lies My Therapist Told Me

Here are some excerpts from Elizabeth Wurtzel's great book, Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America:

'I looked at him in shock. Why the hell does everyone think the problem is drugs? 'David, what I wouldn't give to have a drug problem.' I say. 'What I wouldn't give for it to be that simple. If I could check in somewhere and come out the other end okay. I'd be thrilled.'"
"Even then, I was pretty certain, in my 12 year old mind, that life was one long distraction from the inevitable."
"Everything's plastic, we're all going to die sooner or later, so what does it matter. That was my motto."
"...and then one day you realize that your entire life is just awful, not worth living, a horror and a black blot on the white terrain of human existence. One morning you wake up afraid you're going to live."
"But then I never had to worry about a crash landing because I never even took off."
"Something inside me was not just depressed but dividing, cracking, splintering, pulling me back and forth between my two parents, and occasionally I wished I could walk through a picture window, and have the sharp, broken shards slash me to ribbons so I would finally look like I felt."
"They ask me if I've done any drugs in the last 24 hours, and I say no. Then I say I guess I smoked some pot and snorted some coke also, but that was just to make the Ecstasy last longer. I also admit to them I had some beer, maybe a couple of sea breezes in there too. Then the doctor asks if I have a substance abuse problem, and all I can do is laugh."
"'I won't do that.' he said. 'I already told you it's your mother's responsibility.' 'Oh *** Daddy. I give up. I can't listen to this anymore.' 'What am I supposed to say?' 'Try, Have a good life. Because this is it for me.' Years later, thinking about this conversation, I will remember, as somebody very sagely said during the parricide trials of the Menendez brothers: Anytime your kids kill you, you are at least partly to blame."
"Depression is all about If you loved me you would."
"But instead of going to a mental institution, I decided to go to California."
"...I wish that every psychiatrist I've ever dealt with could know what it's like to be a patient and to feel desperate. I wish they could know what it's like to wake up every morning afraid you're going to live.'
"So the plan was simple: I would earn enough money to pay my mother back, and they I'd kill myself."
"On April 8, 1994, as I was completing this book, Kurt Cobain shot himself in the head...Grunge, the musical style that Nirvana did so much to invent and popularize, was described by Newsweek as 'what happens when children of divorce get their hands on guitars.'...Every person who has experienced a severe depression has his own sad, awful tale to tell, his own mess to live through. Sadly, Kurt Cobain will never get that far. Every day I thank God that I did."

More Headlines for Saturday, February 7, 2026

Daily History: What Japanese High Command Said When They Realized Hiroshima Was Gone

Uncharted Territory: US & Russia Now Have No Limits On Nuclear Weapons - zerohedge.com

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Recommended podcasts:

Hiroshima, Scorched Earth, and Nuclear Warfare - Why We Don't Kill Women and Children, by Pastor Kevin Swanson
Were the Atom Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Justified? by Peter Hammond

The following quotes are from Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard's book, Killing the Rising Sun:

"In the blast that follows, a fireball spreads out over the target zone. It travels at one hundred times the speed of sound, rendering it silent. One-millionth of a second later, the people of Hiroshima began to incinerate."
"But Enola Gay is safe. All twelve men on board are alive. In six hours they will celebrate with whiskey and lemonade and spend the night far from the hell they have just created."
"The next day the chilling results of what the young officer saw from the air are reported on Japanese radio: 'Practically all living things, human and animal, were literally seared to death."
"[President] Truman's face lights up. 'This is the greatest thing in history...'"
"'Thank God for the atomic bomb' is a common refrain among American soldiers and sailors, who have been dreading the blood-bath sure to come if American troops invade the beaches of Japan. To many of them, the bombing of civilians is not an issue - it's payback for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor."
"Oppenheimer soon leaves the stage, but not before bringing the house down with his final comment: 'My only regret is that we didn't develop the bomb in time to use it against the Germans.'"

Friday, February 6, 2026

From X...

8 biblical events archaeology has proven true

8 biblical events archaeology has proven true - msn.com

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Recommended Video: Answers in Genesis: Why Radioactive Dating CANNOT Be Trusted

From Sermonaudio.com...

Trump Announced Prayer Gathering to Rededicate America to God, by Adam McManus of Worldview in Five Minutes
The Cross of Glory, by Pastor Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892) [Text: Galatians 6:14: "But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world."
Friday, February 6, 2026, by Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr.
News Roundup and Comment, by Jim Schneider of Crosstalk America
A Few Sighs from Hell - To the Reader, by John Bunyan (1628-1688) [Text: Luke 16:19-31]
Warning to Those Still Unawakened, by Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)
Did Humans Live with Dinosaurs? by Ken Ham of answersingenesis.org
The Ignorance of Man, by Dr. Martyn Lloyd Jones [Text: 1 Timothy 1:13: "Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief."
John MacArthur Explains Absolutely Everything in Five Minutes, by John MacArthur [Text: Genesis 1: Colossians 1:15-17]
If Earth Was a Tennis Ball, by Rev. Roger Higginson

From YouTube.com...

Here is a short excerpt from this second video:

Stephen Gardner: "What is Jim Crow? Is this a Republican Creation to suppress black people?"

Vince Ellison: "Jim Crow is a system set up by the Democrat Party designed to make sure that black people stay in their place so that they could utilize them in the way that they wanted to utilize them. And that's what they're doing right now...If you want to talk about what Jim Crow really was, it was fixing elections in the Democrats favor in the deep south..."

Trump FBI Announcement "Bad News" Democrat Mid-Term! Elon Trump RX Medicare 2026 - TrueLife News
Two Major Findings from the Epstein Files Make Glenn Beck Question Everything - Glen Beck
Americans Told to Evacuate Iran as Talks Expose Sharp Disagreement - Steve Ram
Leaving the Church Over Sports? - wretched/Fortis Institute
Iran Update!! U.S. Tells Citizens to Leave Iran Now!! Trump to Disclose Alien Life!! - NY Prepper
We Found Epstein's Secret Tunnels... - Benny Johnson

The Briefing for Friday, February 6, 2026, by Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr.

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John MacArthur Calls this the Most Hated Christian Doctrine

Recommended sermons: Total Depravity, Part 1, 2, & 3, by Rev. Paul den Butter

The following quote is from sermon #1 of the above 3 sermons on Tota Depravity. I listened to in the early 1980s. The sermon was on Total Depravity, and the minister was Rev. Paul den Butter:

"It is commonly stated that the central doctrine of the Reformation was the doctrine of justification by faith. Now it is of course true that justification by faith was one of the major issues of the Reformation. But more basic than the justification of the ungodly by faith alone, is the doctrine of man's depravity and consequently the bondage of his will. Martin Luther, one of the great reformers, has acknowledged this fact in his discussion with the great humanist Erasmus. Erasmus was a roman catholic, though he had quite a bit of criticism of the Roman Catholic Church, he never broke ranks with the Roman Catholic Church, and he saw need for reformation, but he never broke ranks with the Roman Catholic Church. He was a defender of much of the doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church. Well, this humanist defended the doctrine which is still taught by Roman, namely that man is not totally depraved. But that man still has a freedom in the use of his will. And writing a treatise on the freedom of man's will Erasmus defended that Roman Catholic position of semi-pelagianism Luther replied in his famous book the bondage of the will. and in that book Luther makes the statement, 'you alone have attacked the real thing, that is, the essential issue. You have not worried me with extraneous issues about the papacy, purgatory, indulgences and such like, trifles, rather than issues, in respect of which almost all to date have sought my blood...you, and you alone, have seen the hinge on which the vital turns, and aimed for the vital spot. For that I heartily thank you, for it is more gratifying to me to deal with this issue, and the issue is 'Does man have a free will or not.' And Luther has seen that on this issue everything hinges. Is man totally depraved or not? Is man completely corrupt or has he still some good within. now on this question there have been 3 positions during the history of the church. There was first of all Pelagianism, let me give you a little bit of church history also tonight. There was in the first place Pelagianism, named after a British monk, Pelagius, who preached in Rome from 401 to 409. ad. and Pelagius said every man comes into this world his own Adam. every man is born in a state of innocency. and he is endowed with the full ability to make his own choice and to decide whether he will be virtuous or vicious. So, Pelagius did not believe, not at all, in man's corruption. and in man's depraved nature. man was born in a state of innocency and man could determine whether he would be a virtuous person or a vitious person. Of course Pelagius was honest enough to admit that man was doing sin but he did not sin because the source was within his heart no, no he sinned because he imitated other people that committed sin. There is also a second position called semi-pelagianism that goes not so far as pelagianism. . Pelagius said man is innocent. man is not depraved at all. He can make himself depraved, but he is not. Semi-pelagianism said sure man is depraved, but not completely depraved, man is sick but he is not dead. and if man will only use those faculties which he still has and if he moves in the direction of God then God's grace will come and he will lead him the rest of the way. Man is deformed yes, man is sick sure But man is still able to use his free will, and using his free will he must make the first move and take the first step and God will do the rest. That is Semipelagians which was adopted by the Roman Catholic Church and by Arminianism, and by much of modern evangelism. But then there is a third position which is sometimes called Augustinianism, named after Augustine, a church father, who brought out of the word of God the doctrine of original sin. and of the need of divine grace in the entire complex of Gods saving activities. Augustine showed from the word of god that man is not depraved but that man is totally depraved. And for that reason, no activity of man can save him. or can make the beginning of salvation. but that grace and grace alone can save man. Well these are the three positions, and it is not difficult t determine which positions our father held when they confessed total depravity."

The Man Who Invented Climate Change – Maurice Strong

The Man Who Invented Climate Change – Maurice Strong - expose-news.com

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Trump Can Win the Forever War by Taking Out the Mullahs

Trump Can Win the Forever War by Taking Out the Mullahs - townhall.com

Excerpt from this article: "When your enemy is down, that's a really good time to kick him in the head. And right now, the Iranian mullahs are down."

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Recommended video: Trump Said US is Prepared for Iranian Retaliation - Are We Prepared? - Steve Ram

Recommended podcasts:

Iran's Islamic Regime Has Killed 16,500 Protestors, by Adam McManus of Worldview in Five Minutes
Crisis in Iran, by Jim Schneider of Crosstalk America
Why So Much Hatred Toward Iran? Part 1 and Part 2, by Dan Brotterbrodt

Journalists Shocked To Be Laid Off From Obsolete Media Outlet That Loses $100 Million Annually

Journalists Shocked To Be Laid Off From Obsolete Media Outlet That Loses $100 Million Annually - babylonbee.com

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Today in the News - Saturday, February 7, 2026

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Here is a Hymn Based on Psalm 93: Jehovah Sits Enthroned

"The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved. Thy throne is established of old: thou art from everlasting. The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves. The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea. Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thine house, O LORD, for ever. - Psalm 93

Here is a hymn based on Psalm 93: Jehovah Sits Enthroned
Here is a sermon on Psalm 93: Jesus is King, by Dr. W. Robert Godfrey

Daily Sermon for the Hearing Impaired: The Ninth Commandment

The Ninth Commandment, by Joe W. Allen [Text: Exodus 20:16]

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Recommended podcast: A Conversation with Davd & Phyllis Smith - Ministry to the Silent World of the Deaf, by Various Speakers

Note: This daily sermon for the hearing impaired is dedicated to my good friend, David J. Bishop, who went home to be with his Lord Jesus on July 1, 2021. David was the inspiration for me to begin posting links to sermons for the hearing impaired. David's not deaf anymore. And the first words he heard were from our Lord Jesus, saying to him, "Well done, David, thou good and faithful servant. Enter into the joy of thy Lord!" [Matthew 25:21]

Here is one of the last pictures David sent to me before he died. He was a big sports fan and LOVED the Seattle Seahawks! He was also a BIG baseball fan. I'm sure if David had been able to hear he would have loved the song, Take Me Out to the Ball Game! But David loved our Lord Jesus much, much, much more than any sporting event! Oh, here is a video of Take Me Out to the Ball Game in American Sign Language! (ASL)

Recommended:

Sermon: The Deaf Ministry of Jesus, by Jon Speed
Christmas Video: From 1994 Miracle on 34th Street
Another great video: What are the chances?!? ☺️💕 #Deaf #ASL #americansignlanguage #wholesome (soo lovely meet Victoria)

Deafness in the News:

Study Finds: New Gene Therapy Repairs Deafness Gene, Restores Hearing In Landmark Clinical Trial - studyfinds.org

Today in History - February 7

A special thanks to Wikipedia.org for following historical information. The sermons I have chosen from Sermonaudio.com

1900 – Second Boer War: British troops fail in their third attempt to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.

Recommended sermons and podcasts: Emily Hobhouse and Concentration Camps of the Anglo-Boer War, by Dr. Peter Hammond

1900 – A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco falls ill to bubonic plague in the first plague epidemic in the continental United States.[11]

Recommended sermons and podcasts: God's Terrible Voice - The Bubonic Plague - 1665, by Thomas Vincent [Text: Psalm 65:5: "By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea."

1940 – The second full-length animated Walt Disney film, Pinocchio, premieres.[13]

Recommended sermons and podcasts: The Most Destructive Force in America? Is Governor DeSantis Right on Disney? by Pastor Kevin Swanson

Westminster Shorter Catechism Q & A #91-95

The following is from thewestminsterstandard.org:

Q. 91. How do the Sacraments become effectual means of salvation?

A. The Sacraments become effectual means of salvation, not from any virtue in them, or in him that doth administer them; but only by the blessing of Christ, and the working of his Spirit in them that by faith receive them.

Q. 92. What is a Sacrament?
A. A Sacrament is a holy ordinance instituted by Christ; wherein, by sensible signs, Christ and the benefits of the new covenant are represented, sealed, and applied to believers.

Q. 93. Which are the Sacraments of the New Testament?
A. The Sacraments of the New Testament are Baptism, and the Lord’s Supper.

Q. 94. What is Baptism?
A. Baptism is a Sacrament, wherein the washing with water, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, doth signify and seal our ingrafting into Christ, and partaking of the benefits of the covenant of grace, and our engagement to be the Lord’s.

Q. 95. To whom is Baptism to be administered?
A. Baptism is not to be administered to any that are out of the visible Church, till they profess their faith in Christ, and obedience to him; but the infants of such as are members of the visible Church are to be baptized.

Recommended sermon: The Westminster Assembly, by Dr. Sinclair B. Ferguson

Daily Bible Verses for Saturday, February 7, 2026

"But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought we to be in all holy conversation and godliness..." - 2 Peter 3:8-11

The following sermons are on 2 Peter 3:8-11:

God's Estimation of Time, by Pastor Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
The False Day-Age Theory, by Rev. Stephen Hamilton
LSD: The Antidote, by Dr. Ian R. K. Paisley (1926-2014)
Global Warming on a Global Scale, Part 1, by Rev. Brian McClung
Global Warming on a Global Scale, Part 2, by Rev. Brian McClung
Headed for Heaven - the Living Proof, by Dr. Ian Brown
Living in the Light of Our Lord's Return, by Rev. Roger Higginson

Daily Bible Reading for Saturday & Sunday, February 7 & 8, 2026

The following Bible readings are taken from the website, Oneyearbibleonline.com. If you follow this reading plan you will read through the whole Bible in one year. I highly encourage you to do so. Also, the sermons below each section are ones that I have chosen from the website, Sermonaudio.com

Exodus 26-28

Here are some sermons on Exodus 26-28:

Until the Time of Reformation, by Rev. Kyle Sorenson [Text: Exodus 26:30-35; Hebrews 9:1-10]
Christ: The Veil, by Rev. Mark Kelderman [Text: Exodus 26:31-37; 2 Corinthians 3]
What's Behind the Curtain? by Dr. David P. Murray [Text: Exodus 26:31-33; Matthew 27:51]
The Brazen Alter, by Rev. Roger Higginson [Text Exodus 27]
Garments That Speak of Christ Himself, by Rev. Stephen Hamilton [Text: Hebrews 5; Exodus 28]

Matthew 25:1-26:13

Here a sermon on Matthew 25 & 26:

The Foolish Virgins, by Rev. Stephen Hamilton [Text: Matthew 25]
The Foolish Virgins, by Rev. Stephan Hamilton [Text: Matthew 25]
The Parable of the Talents, by Rev. Jarrold H. Lewis [Text: Matthew 25]
Mobile Phones and Foolish Virgins, by Rev. George Macaskill [Text: Matthew 25:1-13]
10 Points on the 10 Virgins, by Dr. Ian R. K. Paisley (1926-2014) [Text: Matthew 25:1-13]
Working With Someone Else's Wealth, by Rev. Dr. Roger Dean Anderson [Text: Matthew 25:14-30; Luke 19:11-27]
Give Yourself to the Lord, by Rev. Ron Johnston [Text: Matthew 26:87]
The Suffering Savior: Forsaken, by Rev. Mark Kelderman [Text: Matthew 26]
The Mystery of the Holy Supper, by Rev. Jarrold H. Lewis [Text: Matthew 26]
Christ's Tears and Our Tears, by Dr. Joel Beeke [Text: Matthew 26; John 11:35]
His Blood, His Body, and the Mass, by Rev. Stephen Hamilton [Text: Matthew 26]
Peter and Judas: Backslider and Apostate, by Rev. Ron Johnstone [Text: Matthew 26]

Psalm 31:1-18

Here a sermon on Psalm 31: The Universal Language of Believers, by Rev. Jan Neels

Proverbs 8:1-13

Here a sermon on Proverbs 8:

The Penetration of the Curtains of History, by Dr. Ian R. K Paisley
The Penetration of the Curtain of Eternity, by Dr. Ian R. K. Paisley [Text: Proverbs 8]
Wisdom Like No Other, by Pastor Joel Overduin [Text: Proverbs 8; James 3:17]
Life Finders and Favored of the Lord, by Rev. Henk Bergsma [Text: Proverbs 8]
Wisdom's Seekers Blessed, by Rev. David Kranendonk [Text: Proverbs 8]
Seeking Wisdom Early, by Rev. Pieter VanderMeyden [Text: Proverbs 8]