Sunday, February 15, 2026

President's Day: The Naughty and Nice List

 President's Day: The Naughty and Nice List, by Pastor Kevin Swanson

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Elon Musk: "What I’ve learned is t

Elon Musk: "What I’ve learned is that legacy media propaganda is very effective at making people believe things that aren’t true." - From X

Recommended reading: Cal Thomas: The Decline of the Washington Post - townhall.com

More recommended reading: Deep Truth: The Lives of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein

Here is an excerpt from this book: "Whenever you run a clandestine operation, you run two things at the same time: you prepare the team for the hit, and you keep it so small there's nobody to spread it all around. And across the hall is a big staff working on what we call special plans. They're preparing the cover story. The cover story is what they want people to believe and to talk about, and to argue about." - From a 1992 speech by Col. Fletcher Prouty, former chief of special operations, Joint Chief of Staff

Red States Pay Lip Service To Christianity, But Won’t Touch Same-Sex Marriage

 Red States Pay Lip Service To Christianity, But Won’t Touch Same-Sex Marriage - americanthinker.com

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Recommended sermon: A Biblical Response to the Supreme Court Decision, by Dr. David P. Murray (2015)

UK's Insane New Trans Guidance Says School Kids As Young As Four Can 'Change Gender'

 UK's Insane New Trans Guidance Says School Kids As Young As Four Can 'Change Gender' - zerohedge.com

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How Canada can become part of the United States

 How Canada can become part of the United States - wnd.com

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Recommended reading: Canadian Olympic Swimmer Switches to Team USA: 'Always felt like an American' - hotair.com

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I heard of a Canadian who joined the American military and became a Navy Seal. He said, "As a Canadian serving in the American military I can finally sing our National Anthem and really mean it!." He was referring to the phrase in "O Canada." We stand on guard for thee!

Recommended reading: 

Here is a quote from this book by Ann Coulter: "Since arriving in Canada I've been accused of thought crimes, threatened with criminal prosecution for speeches I haven't yet given, and denounced on the floor of parliament (which was nice because that one was on my 'bucket list')."

Recommended videos: 


Do nuclear numbers matter?

 Do nuclear numbers matter? - wnd.com

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Recommended video: Future of Life Institute: I've studied nuclear war for 15 years - you should be worried

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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.'"

We told you so: EPA was wrong about CO2 from the start

 We told you so: EPA was wrong about CO2 from the start - wnd.com

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More recommended reading: The End is Near (And It Can't Come Fast Enough!) - townhall.com

Excerpt from this article: "In 12 years, we'll all be dead. An unstoppable force will wipe out all of humanity, most of the animals, and even some of the cockroaches. It's not climate change, it's the smugness of the true believers, the brainwashed masses of millennials who will one day be in positions to implement the absolute bat-feces crazy ideas they are espousing today."
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For further research on climate change/global warming...

Israel urges Diaspora Jews to come home, but will they?

 Israel urges Diaspora Jews to come home, but will they? - jpost.com

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Recommended sermon:  Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem, by Rev. David McMillian 

The text for this sermon is Psalm 122: "Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee."

Here are a couple of Jewish songs that I really like (Although I would like them better if they were singing praises to our Lord Jesus Christ!):

  1. Minyan Man, by The Maccabeats
  2. I'm A Jew and I'm Proud, by Benny Ivri Anochi

Recommended sermon: I'm a Jew. Hope You Are Too! by Dr. David P. Murray

The text for this sermon is Romans 2:28 & 29"For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God."

The Bible also says: "For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. And so all Israel shall be saved..." - Romans 11:25,26a

More recommended sermons:

When Activism Turns Into Outrage, and CPS Becomes the Tool

 When Activism Turns Into Outrage, and CPS Becomes the Tool - pjmedia.com

Excerpt from this article: "With a smug look of satisfaction, Nancy Krause stepped up to the microphone at the Calvert County Board of Education meeting this week, turned and faced the crowd full of parents and students, and proudly declared her bold move: she called Child Protective Services on high school kids who attended a Turning Point USA event. It didn't matter that parents granted permission for their kids to attend an event organized by the students themselves."

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Recommended reading: Don't Blame Me Daddy - False Accusations of Child Sexual Abuse, by Dean Tong

From Sermonaudio.com...

Trusting God's Justice When Falsely Accused

  Trusting God's Justice When Falsely Accused, by Dave Jenkins of Servants of Grace Ministries

The text for this sermon is Psalm 7

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Recommended reading: Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions, by John Grisham and Jim McCloskey

More recommended reading: You Have the Right to Remain Innocent, by James Duane

On the inside of the front cover it reads: "What police officers tell their kids about the fifth amendment."

What if the Big Bang wasn’t actually the beginning of the universe? | Watch (Video)

 What if the Big Bang wasn’t actually the beginning of the universe? | Watch - msn.com

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Recommended video: Answers Academy: Problems with the Big Bang, by Dr. Jason Lisle

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When we look around the world today and see the wars, and famines, diseases, natural disasters like earthquakes and hurricane, it's hard not to see in these the signs of our Lord Jesus near return. But some signs of the time get missed, like this news story of an image of a photon. The Bible says: "But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased." - Daniel 12:4.

Fewer than a third of churchgoers read the Bible daily: Lifeway

  Fewer than a third of churchgoers read the Bible daily: Lifeway - msn.com

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Recommended sermon: Religion Without Regeneration: John Wesley's Testimony, by Rev. Ian Brown

The text for this sermon is Matthew 7:21-23"Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.  Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity."

The following quote about John Wesley has been attributed to Pastor Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892):

"Most atrocious things have been spoken about the character and spiritual condition of John Wesley, the modern prince of Arminians. I can only say concerning him, that while I detest many of the doctrines which he preached, yet for the man himself, I have a reverence second to no Wesleyan; and if there were wanted two apostles to be added to the number of the twelve, I do not believe that there could be found two men more fit to be so added than George Whitfield and John Wesley. the character of John Wesley stands beyond all imputation for self-sacrifice, zeal, holiness, and communion with God; he lived far above the ordinary level of common Christians, and was one of whom the world was not worthy."

A Young Universe? Astrophysicist Dr. Jason Lisle Brings The Receipts! (Video)

A Young Universe? Astrophysicist Dr. Jason Lisle Brings The Receipts!

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Today in the News - Monday, February 16, 2026

 Today's Headlines

  1. First Lady Melania Trump Embraces Love of Country & Family to United States Armed Forces - whitehouse.gov
  2. CENTCOM conducts 10 military strikes against 30 ISIS targets in Syria - foxnews.com
  3. Lake Michigan Gives Up a 150-Year-Old Secret - pjmedia.com
  4. When Activism Turns Into Outrage, and CPS Becomes the Tool - pjmedia.com
  5. WATCH: 200,000 exiled Iranians join Reza Pahlavi for massive rally in Germany - worldisraelnews.com
  6. Israel urges Diaspora Jews to come home, but will they? - jpost.com
  7. South Dakota Bill Would Make it a Felony to Disrupt a Religious Service - Harbinger's Daily
  8. Texas fights back: No 'sharia city' in the Lone Star State - wnd.com
  9. We told you so: EPA was wrong about CO2 from the start - wnd.com
  10. Do nuclear numbers matter? - wnd.com
  11. How Canada can become part of the United States - wnd.com
  12. 243M Gallons of Sewage Spill Into the Potomac River in Largest U.S. Wastewater Disaster - townhall.com
  13. Tom Homan Vows to ‘Flood the Zone’ in Sanctuary Cities After Minnesota Crackdown - townhall.com
  14. Sorry Libs, Even Hillary Clinton Thinks You Went Too Far on Immigration - townhall.com
  15. Our Culture Is Tearing Itself Apart Because It Rejects Authority - harbingerdaily.com
  16. UK's Insane New Trans Guidance Says School Kids As Young As Four Can 'Change Gender' - zerohedge.com
  17. Antisemitism Has Become A Feature, Not An Anomaly, Of British Society - harbingerdaily.com
  18. The Coming Revolution Down South - hotair.com
  19. Epstein Sex Trafficking Immigration Fraud Linked to Top Obama Officials - frontpagemag.com
  20. How Did They Think Open Borders Would End? - hotair.com
  21. Muslim 13-Year-Old Shouted "Allahu Akbar", Stabbed 2 Boys, Ran to Mosque - frontpagemag.com
  22. Will Cuba Return to US Colonial Rule? - lewrockwell.com
  23. Munich, 2007: The Day The West Was Told 'No' - zerohedge.com
  24. Trump Debunking Al Gore’s Climate Fears Makes the World a Better Place - hotair.com
  25. The Biggest Bait-and-Switch War Of The Century - zerohedge.com
  26. Bastards, Worldwide - zerohedge.com
  27. The AI Transition: Even Dinosaurs Weren't Stupid Enough To Create Their Own Extinction Event - zerohedge.com
  28. Report: Most Immigrants Get Some Form of Welfare; 61 Percent of Illegal Aliens Do - thenewamerican.com
  29. Hate Hoax Yields $3.2M Verdict for Victim. Major Media Response: Crickets. - thenewamerican.com
  30. From Chuck To AOC, Here Are The Worst People Of The Week - thefederalist.com
  31. Red States Pay Lip Service To Christianity, But Won’t Touch Same-Sex Marriage - americanthinker.com
  32. Chuck Schumer Vows To Fight Supposed ‘Jim Crow 2.0’ Bill With Policy 83% Of Americans Support - dailycaller.com
  33. LGBTQ Mafia HRC Loses 65% of Its Fortune 500 Allies - dailysignal.com
  34. Trump Energy Policies Saved Lives During U.S. Deep Freeze - amac.us
  35. Fred Fleitz to Newsmax: $5B Gaza Aid Will Bypass UN, Keep Funds From Terrorists - newsmax.com
  36. Kamala Harris Polling Average Leads in 2028 Democrat Primary Polls - breitbart.com
  37. CBP: Cartels Flew 42,000 Drones near U.S. Border in FY25 - breitbart.com
  38. Canadian Political Hypocrites Sealing The Fate of Children The System Wants Transgendered - canadafreepress.com
  39. “Melania” Film Review: A Story of Beauty and Kindness - legalinsurrection.com
  40. The Epstein Effect: Say Goodbye To Globalization, Hello To Technocracy - technocracy.news
Columnists: 
Earlier Headlines
  1. Israel officially joins Board of Peace - israelnationalnews.com
  2. Leftists Are Filing Free Speech Lawsuits over Fallout from Celebrating Charlie Kirk Assassination - breitbart.com
  3. Latinx... What? No One Knows What That Is but White Leftists - pjmedia.com
  4. Who Decides What Is Good and What Is Evil? Book Review: 'If There Is No God' - pjmedia.com
  5. Report: Denver Metro Now Emerging as Key Hub for Human Traffickers - redstate.com
  6. Democrats Would Rather Lie to Themselves Than Admit That Trump Is Fixing Biden's Mess - pjmedia.com
  7. Don Lemon tells judge he's innocent of disrupting church service he invaded - wnd.com
  8. Texas fights back: No 'sharia city' in the Lone Star State - wnd.com
  9. Ellison, GOP senators clash in fiery US Senate hearing: 'You ought to be in jail!' - alphanews.org
  10. Trump revokes Obama-era climate finding on greenhouse gas risks - france24.com
  11. 'You exposed him to real danger': Father goes nuclear on school board after teachers sent his son to ICE protest - wnd.com
  12. Switzerland to hold referendum on capping the population at 10 million - swedenherald.com
  13. “Champion of Beautiful, Clean Coal”: President Trump Celebrates Industry Revival - whitehouse.gov
  14. 'Zionists frothing at the mouth': Activist demands NYC ban dogs indoors because they're un-Islamic - wnd.com
  15. Cuban American Members of Congress Ask Trump to Indict Raul Castro - hotair.com
  16. Guten Tag, Mutti: Double Strike Witching Hour in Germany - hotair.com
  17. 8,000 Indonesian Troops Headed to Gaza? “Ready to Help Keep the Peace” | KAN 11 - allisraelnew.com
  18. WATCH: Iranian TV publishes hit list targeting top Israeli officials - worldisraelnews.com
  19. Pakistani Muslims Indicted in $10M Health Care Fraud - frontpagemag.com
  20. Andy Beshear Invokes God to Defend Gender Surgery for Children - hotair.com
  21. Violence in the Arab community: 45 murders in 43 days - israelnationalnews.com
  22. Trump Gives Iran A Deadline For War That Roughly Corresponds With The End Of Ramadan - endoftheamericandream.com
  23. Dems Use IDs to Vote Against Voter ID - frontpagemag.com
  24. The Biggest Housing Bubble In The Entire History Of The United States Is In The Process Of Bursting - theeconomiccollapseblog.com
  25. Bad Bunny, MAGA, and the Destruction of Puerto Rico - lewrockwell.com
  26. INVASION! One Simple Graph Demonstrates How Dems Tried to Destroy America With Illegal Immigration - twitchy.com
  27. The Never-Ending Ukrainian Corruption, the Never-Ending Ukrainian War - lewrockwell.com
  28. We Have Now Reached "Gunperson"-Level Absurdity - zerohedge.com
  29. Mainstream Media Silent As Alleged Hate Crime Hoax Leads To Major Civil Award - zerohedge.com
  30. Rep. Jim McGovern rides to the rescue of communist hellhole Cuba - americanthinker.com

Here is a Hymn Based on Psalm 101: Of Mercy and of Justice

"(A Psalm of David.) I will sing of mercy and judgment: unto thee, O LORD, will I sing. I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when wilt thou come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart. I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me. A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person. Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer. Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me. He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight. I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the LORD." - Psalm 101

Here is a hymn based on Psalm 101: Of Mercy and of Justice
Here is a sermon on Psalm 101: I Will Sing of Mercy and of Justice


Here is a Sermon for the Hearing Impaired: A Permanent Ordinance

A Permanent Ordinance, by Joe W. Allen [Text: Exodus 12:14-28]

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Recommended reading: Brazilian Skateboarder Quotes Bible in Sign Language to Defy Olympic Ban on Religious Displays - lifesitenews.com

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)


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Deafness in the News:

Today in History - February 16

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

1646 – Battle of Torrington, Devon: The last major battle of the First English Civil War.

I think it was Oliver Cromwell who said: "You need not hope in order to undertake, and you need not succeed in order to persevere." The following sermons and podcasts are on Oliver Cromwell and the English Civil War:
  1. Oliver Cromwell: Saint, Soldier, Statesmen, by Dr. Alan Cairns (Text: Hebrews 8)
  2. Oliver Cromwell, by Dr. Peter Hammond
  3. Oliver Cromwell and His Russet-Coated Heroes, by Bill Potter
  4. The Life and Labors of Oliver Cromwell, by Rev. Colin Mercer
  5. Oliver Cromwell Lord Protector of England, by Rev. Ian Goligher (Text: 1 Samuel 18:12)
1959 – Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba after dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1.

Recommended videos: 

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

  1. I Feel Like Communism is Better - Millennial Worldviews (Podcast), by Pastor Kevin Swanson
  2. Cuba, Castro, and Communism (Podcast), by Dr. Peter Hammond 
  3. How to Destroy a Nation: America vs the Soviet Union, by Pastor Kevin Swanson (2012)
  4. Recommended sermon: The Cold War, by Rev. Roger Higginson [Text: Matthew 24:12: "And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold."]
Recommended reading: 95 Years Ago, The USSR Was Formed. Let's Look at the Numbers - dailycaller.com

Excerpt from this article: "According to “The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression,” a text considered the standard recollection of the USSR’s atrocities, 20 million perished as a result of Stalin’s targeted killings, forced labor, famine, and collectivization. These numbers were confirmed by a major Soviet newspaper in 1989...An estimate cited by the libertarian magazine Reason puts the total number of people killed because of communism from 1900 to 2000 at a staggering 94 million — making it by far the bloodiest ideology in recent history."

For further study...

None Dare Call it Conspiracy, by Gary Allen (1971) 

Westminster Shorter Catechism Q & A #21-25

The following is from thewestminsterstandard.org:

Q. 21. Who is the Redeemer of God’s elect?

A. The only Redeemer of God’s elect is the Lord Jesus Christ, who, being the eternal Son of God, became man, and so was, and continueth to be, God and man in two distinct natures, and one person, forever.

Q. 22. How did Christ, being the Son of God, become man?
A. Christ, the Son of God, became man, by taking to himself a true body and a reasonable soul, being conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost, in the womb of the Virgin Mary, and born of her, yet without sin.

Q. 23. What offices doth Christ execute as our Redeemer?
A. Christ, as our Redeemer, executeth the offices of a prophet, of a priest, and of a king, both in his estate of humiliation and exaltation.

Q. 24. How doth Christ execute the office of a prophet?
A. Christ executeth the office of a prophet, in revealing to us, by his Word and Spirit, the will of God for our salvation.

Q. 25. How doth Christ execute the office of a priest?
A. Christ executeth the office of a priest, in his once offering up of himself a sacrifice to satisfy divine justice and reconcile us to God, and in making continual intercession for us.

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

President's Day: The Naughty and Nice List

  President's Day: The Naughty and Nice List , by Pastor Kevin Swanson