The End of the Age: The Last Days According to Jesus with R.C. Sproul
Thursday, January 1, 2026
Here is a Hymn Based on Psalm 46: A Mighty Fortress is Our God
(To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A Song upon Alamoth.) "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah. There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High. God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early. The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted. The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah. Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath made in the earth. He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire. Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah. " - Psalm 46
- Hymn based on Psalm 46: A Mighty Fortress is Our God
- Here is a sermon on Psalm 46: God is Our Strong Refuge, by Dr. Joel Beeke
Today in the News - Friday, January 2, 2026
Today's Headlines
- WATCH: US Military Rings in the New Year with Fireworks, VAPORIZES Two More Drug Boats Totaling 35 Boats Destroyed - thegatewaypundit.com
- New Trump-Xi Showdown Approaches As Chinese Tankers Press Ahead To Venezuela Despite Blockade - zerohedge.com
- 'Absolutely blew my mind': Watch TSA agents spill the beans on Somali men flying potentially billions of dollars out of U.S. in carry-on luggage - wnd.com
- Abortionists demanding tax money to kill unborn children suddenly give up! - wnd.com
- 'Just Fine:' WI Governor Tony Evers Continues to Withhold SNAP Data From the Trump Administration - townhall.com
- The FBI Refocused on Violent Crime — and the Results Speak for Themselves - townhall.com
- Desperately Defending Timmy - hotair.com
- Thick as Thieves: Top Attorney For Special Counsel Jack Smith Previously Spiked Clinton Foundation Investigation - hotair.com
- Obama's Trojan Horse: How His Refugee Machine Engineered The Billion-Dollar Looting Of US Treasury - zerohedge.com
- Trump Pulls National Guard Out Of Chicago, Los Angeles & Portland - zerohedge.com
- Long History of Democratic Party Rot - canadafreepress.com
- Current stats show that Trump’s economics is working - americanthinker.com
- Confirmed: Trump Kicked Epstein Out of Mar-a-Lago - dailysignal.com
- CIA: Ukraine Did Not Target Putin’s Residence In Recent Drone Strike - i24news.tv
- Before We Build on the Moon, We Have to Master the Commute - universetoday.com
- IRAN SHOOTS PROTESTERS — TRUMP BACKS THE PEOPLE - gellerreport.com
- Elon Musk Adds Third Facility to ‘Colossus’ AI Project - techrepublic.com
- Elon Musk Adds Third Facility to ‘Colossus’ AI Project - lifenews.com
- NJ, NY, CA, CO among top 5 states Americans are fleeing in 2025: United Van Lines - thepostmillennial.com
- Washington Post Sympathizes With Male Athlete Who Competes in Female Sports - legalinsurrection.com
- High-stakes chess in the Red Sea: Why Israel recognized Somaliland - allisraelnews.com
- Tucker Carlson says no Americans have died from radical Islam. History says otherwise - israel365news.com
- Trump Administration Speaks Out As Woman Becomes First In The UK To Face Criminal Charges For Silent Prayer - harbingerdaily.com
- Ghoulish: 'Ethicist' says surgeons should be allowed to kill during organ harvesting - wnd.com
- Watch CNN's Attempt to Debunk Nick Shirley's Somali Fraud Video Blow Up in Their Faces - townhall.com
- International Fugitive 'La Chely' Sentenced to 50 Years in Mexican Prison - townhall.com
- Jack Smith Just Blew Up His Entire January 6 Case - pjmedia.com
- Russia Requests Trump Admin To Stop Pursuit Of Oil Tanker In Atlantic Basin - zerohedge.com
- Washington State AG Warns Citizen Journalists To Stop Investigating Somali Daycares Or Face Potential Hate Crime Charges - zerohedge.com
- Politico reporter seemingly suggests Somalis have a right to shoot citizen journalists for asking too many questions about daycare scandal - americanthinker.com
- There’s Strong Evidence That Deep Staters Were Engaged In a RICO Criminal Conspiracy - americanthinker.com
- Locked-Up Leaders: 7 Most Influential Christians Behind Bars In 2025 - dailycaller.com
- What New York Will Be Like Under Mamdani - dailysignal.com
- It's Not Just Minnesota. The Vast Majority Of Daycare Is A Scam - thefederalist.com
- America's 250th Anniversary Must Honor Our First American - thefederalist.com
- Rep.: They’re Narco-terrorists; The World Is in a Better Place Without Them - newsbusters.org
- Activists Linked to George Soros Are Training Jurors So They Can Help 'Marginalized' Defendants -westernjournal.com
- What is future of NY Jews under Zohran Mamdani? - jpost.com
- US 'deeply concerned' about Iranian protesters facing violence | World - christianpost.com
- Xi Vows to Annex Taiwan in New Year's Speech - newser.com
Columnists/Videos
- David Stockman: The Real Story Behind the Russia–Ukraine War—and What Happens Next - lewrockwell.com
- Kurt Schlichter: How My 2025 Predictions Went – and Some Predictions for 2026 - townhall.com
- Julio Rosas: While America Watched the Border, the Cyber Front Exploded - townhall.com
- Stephen Moore: The Economists Got 2025 All Wrong - townhall.com
- EJ Antoni, Ph. D.: Trump’s Christmas Present: 4 Percent Growth - townhall.com
- Alex Newman: Trump Admin Honors God at Christmas While Conservatives Battle at TPUSA - (Video)
- Michael Snyder: Will 2026 Be a Year of War With Iran, Russia and China? - lewrockwell.com
- Ron Paul: Trump Takes a Step Toward Liberty - lewrockwell.com
- Larry Elder: Obamacare Was, Is and Will Always Be a Problem - townhall.com
- Lew Rockwell: The Statism of Donald Trump - lewrockwell.com
- John Stossel: Government Control in the Digital Age - newsbusters.org
- John Stossel: Doomed? - townhall.com
- Cal Thomas: Wrong Predictions? Never Mind - townhall.com
- Disney, accused of violating children's privacy, agrees to $10 million settlement - wnd.com
- Democrats' New Slop, Same as the Old Slop - redstate.com
- The Pence Mirage: Why the Right Isn’t Leaving Trump - hotair.com
- How Jobs Become ‘Jobs Americans Just Won’t Do’ - lewrockwell.com
- Hollywood Blamed The Fans For Their Failures And Now They Face Collapse - zerohedge.com
- Vegas Police Roll Out Fleet Of Tesla Cybertrucks After $2.7M Donation - zerohedge.com
- America May Bomb Iran Again: Trump - thenewamerican.com
- ROOKE: The Somali Fraud Scandal Gave Trump A Kill Switch. What Happens If He Doesn’t Use It - dailycaller.com
- Why the US Is Worried About China's Military Drills - dailysignal.com
- AI Will Eat Itself; It’s Like Mad Cow Disease – Tech Insiders Not Concerned by Accelerating Development - expose-news.com
- Israel Recognizes Republic of Somaliland as an Independent State - canadafreepress.com
- Tusk: Hope for peace in Ukraine within weeks - swedenherald.com
- Israel, U.S. Give Hamas Two-Month Deadline To Disarm - worthynews.com
- Denmark Ends Letter Delivery After 400 Years As Digital Era Takes Over - worthynews.com
- The year in review: Israel at a turning point - worldisraelnews.com
- The ‘Zombie’ Caliphate: While the World Celebrates the Muslim Brotherhood’s Demise, Its Billion-Dollar Empire Thrives in Plain Sight - algemeiner.com
- Super Trumper Lauren Boebert goes scorched earth on president for putting kibosh on her bill - wnd.com
- Saudi strikes, Emirati retreat and separatist gains: making sense of Yemen’s growing - ynet.com
- Abortionists demanding tax money to kill unborn children suddenly give up! - wnd.com
- Why these 7 most significant legal matters of 2025 will have longstanding impact - wnd.com
- The Two Biggest PR Winners of 2025: Qatar and Saudi Arabia - pjmedia.com
- Tim Walz Isn't Happy About Trump Cutting Off Childcare Funding - townhall.com
- Eric Swalwell's Backward Priorities: Arrest ICE Agents, Keep Illegal Aliens in California's Farm Fields - redstate.com
- America Is Arguing About Free Speech... The World Is Putting People In Prison For It - zerohedge.com
- The Massive Fraud Scandal No One Is Talking About - pjmedia.com
- 2025 Is Ending With A Whole Lot Of Bombing - endoftheamericandream.com
- A Ripoff Of Historic Proportions: The Amount Of Money Involved In The Minnesota Fraud Scandal Is Absolutely Staggering - theeconomiccollapseblog.com
- What Satan Intends For Evil, God Is Using To Draw The Jews Back Home - harbingerdaily.com
- What Do The Top Search Trends Of 2025 Say About The Current State Of Our Society? - endoftheamericandream.com
- 30 Numbers From 2025 That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe - theeconomiccollapseblog.com
- UN’s 17 genocidal development goals are the driving force behind child sex trafficking - expsoe-news.com
- Trump and Epstein Sittin' in a Tree - lewrockwell.com
- 2025 Greatest Hits: The Most Popular Articles Of The Past Year And A Look Ahead - zerohedge.com
- DOJ's Inventory Of Unreleased Epstein Files Soars To 5.2 Million Pages - zerohedge.com
- Do the White Thing: Trump’s EEOC Tackling Anti-white Job Discrimination - thenewamerican.com
- The Federalist Staff’s 2025 Winners And Losers Of The Year - thefederalist.com
- Polling Signals Trouble for Democrats -- and Opportunity for Republicans - americanthinker.com
- Vogue: Having a Boyfriend Is Now “Embarrassing” - answersingenesis.org
- New Unemployment Claims Unexpectedly Plunge as Layoffs Stay Low - westernjournal.com
- Trump: 'Real' Job Approval 64% - newsmax.com
Daily Sermon for the Hearing Impaired: The Necessity of Resurrection
The Necessity of Resurrection, by Joe W. Allen [Text: I Corinthians 15:12-19]
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Recommended reading: Brazilian Skateboarder Quotes Bible in Sign Language to Defy Olympic Ban on Religious Displays - lifesitenews.com
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:
Today in History - January 2
A special thanks to Wikipedia.org for following historical information. The sermons I have chosen from Sermonaudio.com
1967 – Ronald Reagan, past movie actor and future President of the United States, is sworn in as Governor of California.[23]
Recommended podcast: Franklin Graham, Dobson, Pragar, Limbaugh, Reagan: Time to Abandon Public Schools, by Pastor Kevin Swanson
Westminster Shorter Catechism Q & A #41-45
The following is from thewestminsterstandard.org:
Q. 41. Where is the moral law summarily comprehended?
A. The moral law is summarily comprehended in the ten commandments.
Q. 42. What is the sum of the ten commandments?
A. The sum of the ten commandments is, to love the Lord our God, with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our strength, and with all our mind; and our neighbor as ourselves.
Q. 43. What is the preface to the ten commandments?
A. The preface to the ten commandments is in these words, I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Q. 44. What doth the preface to the ten commandments teach us?
A. The preface to the ten commandments teacheth us, that because God is the Lord, and our God, and Redeemer, therefore we are bound to keep all his commandments.
Q. 45. Which is the first commandment?
A. The first commandment is, Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Recommended sermon: The Westminster Assembly, by Dr. Sinclair B. Ferguson
Daily Bible Verse for Friday, January 2, 2025
The following sermons are on John 8:32: "And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free."
- The Reformation: Why It Was Necessary and What it Accomplished, by Dr. Alan Cairns
- The Lies at the Heart of Addiction, by Dr. David P. Murray
- The Truth Will Set You Free, by James Hamilton, The Street Preacher
- Jesus Confronts the False Religious Jewish Leaders, by Dr. Carl A. McIntire (1906-2002) [Note: This sermon was preached in 1963]
Daily Bible Reading for Friday, January 2, 2025
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
Recommended sermons on Genesis 3 & 4:- Motherhood: The Christian Woman's Highest Calling, by Rev. Cornelis (Neil) Pronk [Text: Genesis 313-20; 1 Timothy 2]
- God's First Words to the First Sinner, by Pastor Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) [Text: Genesis 3:9]
- Adam, Where Art Thou? by Dr. David P. Murry [Text: Genesis 3:9]
- The First Gospel Sermon, by Dr. Allen Cairns [Text: Genesis 3:1-19]
- The Gospel of the Devil: Believe it Not! by Dr. Ian R. K. Paisley (1926-2014) [Text: Genesis 3:4]
- The Blood, the Shed Blood, the Precious Blood of Jesus, by Dr. Ian R. K. Paisley (1926-2014 [Text: Genesis 4]
- Able's Offering, by Rev. Stephen Hamilton [Text: Genesis 4]
The following sermons are on Matthew 2 & 3:
The following sermons are on Psalm 2:8: "Ask of me, and I will give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession."
- God's Sovereignty and Our Praying, by Rev. Ian Goligher
- Reaching the Heathen, by Rev. Stephen Hamilton
- How Christ Will Turn Tumult into Triumph, by Rev. Noel Hughes
- Driving in the Nail, by Dr. David P. Murray (Text: Proverbs 1:7)
- Evil Recruitment Officers, by Rev. Ian Goligher (Text: Proverbs 1:10)
- Fear the Lord, by James Hamilton, The Street Preacher (Text: Proverbs 1)
Your End is Coming
Your End is Coming, by GeonBeen Park
The text for this sermon is Psalm 139:4-6: "My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue, LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am."
Xi Vows to Annex Taiwan in New Year's Speech
Xi Vows to Annex Taiwan in New Year's Speech - newser.com
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Recommended videos:
- France Enters the War? NATO Deploys Nuclear Missiles at Russia’s Border | Col Doug Macgregor
- RED ALERT!! RUSSIA DEPLOYS NUCLEAR MISSILES IN EUROPE!! TRUMP FIRST LAND STRIKE ON VENEZUELA!!
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.'"
Session 7 - The Secret Code of Creation - Fractals - Speaker: Dr. Jason Lisle, Astrophysicist (Video)
Session 7 - The Secret Code of Creation - Fractals - Speaker: Dr. Jason Lisle, Astrophysicist
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Recommended podcasts:
- The Myth of Settled Science, by Jim Schneider of Crosstalk America
- Six Days & the Eisegesis Problem, by Ken Ham
Wednesday, December 31, 2025
Ligonier Ministries: Right Now Counts Forever: Themes from Ecclesiastes with R.C. Sproul
Here is just a few short quotes fromDr. R. C. Spoul's book, Faith Alone: The Evangelical Doctrine of Justification:
"Does saving faith require a trust in the righteousness of Christ alone as the grounds of our justification? Or may a person have a different view of the gospel and still be a Christian?"
"The Reformation was waged, not over the issue of justification by faith, but over the issue of justification by faith alone. It was the Sola of Sola Fide that was the central point of dispute."
" Agreement between Rome and Evangelicals can be reached in several ways. One is for Evangelicals to abandon their historic position of Sola Fide. A second is for Rome to adopt Sola Fide as its official doctrine. The third is for agreement to be reached that Sola Fide is not essential to the gospel."
Instruction for the Journey
Instruction for the Journey, by Rev. Lawrence J. Bilkes
The text for this sermon is Hebrews 13
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