DK CIRCUIT RIDE VII: FIRST PHASE

LOWELL & AL: My first meeting took place at a quaint restaurant in Tulsa, OK, named “Wildflower Café.” I am using first names only since this information could, under the present regime, bring them into harm’s way. These two wise Christian attorneys, are surrounded by The Trump Spirit (TTS), with Oklahoma delivering the President his highest vote in the nation, sweeping all 77 counties in a demanding statement that Oklahoma belongs to The Donald! As if to emphasize the point, the woman in the next booth proudly displayed her “America First!” t-shirt for all to see.

We of course discussed the heart-breaking reality indeed that this Narrative is spiritually, violently antagonistic to virtually all that Jesus Christ taught us. Both men are patriots in the true sense of that term but lamented with stunned incredulity how the Church cannot see Trump for who he is, Pastors especially. Still, it was a rich and loving fellowship as with finding priceless, like-minded Christian brothers in the midst of Jackals for Trump everywhere. – PSALM 133:1 (AMPC): “Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!”

MARSHA. I then motored South to Azle, Texas (pop. 13,369) through intermittent rains and storms to see my precious friend of many years in our Fellowship, Marsha and her lovely daughter, Veronica. Marsha is doing well yet fighting the return of some Parkinson’s Disease symptoms (vertigo), so do keep her in prayer as she wishes to stay in the fight as a prayer intercessor and strong supporter of The Remnant Mission to rescue souls.

On a  personal note, as I told her just before anointing her with oil and praying for here to have at least “five more years” to see this through, I told her that she was and is one of my very closest advisors, having consumed the Scriptures and many books from learned men and women who taught lessons of life to us all with the central theme of never, ever giving ground to strange doctrines, racism, nor the lure of material affluence that so quickly and firmly takes the place the True Messiah in so many American lives. – EPHESIANS 4:14 (TLB): “Then we will no longer be like children, forever changing our minds about what we believe because someone has told us something different or has cleverly lied to us and made the lie sound like the truth.”

DK CIRCUIT RIDE VII: DAY 3

SAN ANTONIO, TX. Awakened early this morning from a beautiful Mariott Hotel room one my dear friends from Focus on the Family days reserved for me here in the City of the Alamo (that story for another day; spoiler alert – I have a rather different take on that subject than most Texans).

So many memories flood my soul as I get ready to travel from here to Baton Rouge LA and all points East through the Deep South. I will briefly profile my joyful meeting with three of the loveliest people I have ever known, followed by a profile of six former close friends, Texans all, who have fallen under the Dark Spell of Donald Trump – and the reason for the Graphic depiction of the Spirit of Texas in this hour.

Again I will only use first names (nor their photos) to protect members of The Remnant whose lives become more precious, and precarious, each day Trump is in office.

KATHLEEN. This dear young lady I first met at a mountain retreat when I was directing the Leadership Institute at Focus on the Family in the early 2000’s. She and I did not know each other as we sat one night on a couple of couches, watching the other students play all sorts of games, laughter splashing across the entire room. At some point we began to chat and found ourselves truly enjoying the conversation, discovering many similarities in our view of Christ and the Faith. I recall at the end of this first of many later discussions around the hear 2022, that I said: “You are going to be my friend forever.”

Since then she has worked as a government foreign student and language teacher to immigrants, and since both Covid-19 and Trump, has seen her job situation radically change, forcing her to be reassigned to a more secure position. She told of many instances where the Trump Regime has sent emails to her staff on a regular basis inquiring about their work and their loyalty. Her octogenarian Mom and elder Dad are both at root supporters of the President, the father virulently so. She however has never bought The Lie, and remains steadfast in the Lord.

LO & DR. C. Now some of you who have been with me for a few years will recognize this couple, but for the most of you, will not. When I was starting out in early 2020 with nary a penny to call my own having been fired three times for supporting Trump, I asked the Lord: “Father, I need a Priscilla, will you please sene me one?” She was the wife of wealthy tent maker Aquila, who taught Paul how to make them and they supported his ministry generously (Acts 18:26). Without the details, these precious individuals came alongside my work and have served faithfully as the backbone of my donations for five years running now, and  I publicly share my undying gratitude for largely making much of what I do possible. That is in no way to diminish all who also give generously over those years, but these two were literally an answer to my plaintive pleading to God. Just finished having a delightful breakfast with them at the local Black Bear Diner and solidified our mutual commitment to resisting the Trumpian Darkness and rescuing a few souls along the way.

STEVE & WENDY. When I was a new believer at University of the Pacific (CA) in the early 1980s, a young man named Steve strolled into my office one day to ask about my new Faith. One thing led to another and he not only accepted Christ, but moved on to become a national Christian leader ministering primarily to the sports professionals and inner city kids. Great man, with a godly wife, Wendy, who were godparents to our children. Back when Trump was first elected I visited them in their lovely home in Colleyville, I was looking for work and we discussed Trump for the first time and Wendy looked at me incredulously for the first time ever and said: “Well Cliff, the is Trump Country!” as if to warn me away from my views. They continue to attend the massive megachurch, Gateway (100,000 members, though many have left after their spiritual advisor to the President, Pastor Robert Morris, was forced to resign due to a moral failure. I sent them my second book and tried more than once to meet with him, but we have broken fellowship due to Trump.

PAUL & RITA. Life long citizens of Amarillo, I met these two, dear people in the 1990s while still at Regent University. They had come into my office, Rita in tears, to lament the liberal teachings there at the time, and we found fast friends from that point on – until the First Advent of Donald Trump. Our friendships became increasingly strained when at one point, Paul angrily refused to speak with me anymore. Despite my several attempts to meet with the two of them, I have been completely cut off from their fellowship, and lament still another loss of two of my closest friends who my wife Suzette and I loved to visit. Paul no longer attends church and at my latest conversation with him, was disillusioned about the Church in general and taken up drinking alcohol again, along with his wife. I do not say this to slander, since it is (a) the truth and (b) another signature of returning to the world they had before rejected.

GAY & SUSAN. This is clearly the most painful of all losses I have experienced since the rise of Donald Trump. Susan was my executive secretary when I was Director of the Institute of Journalism at Regent University, and her best friend ay was one of my first (and best) students in the journalism grad program I led. They were both rooted deeply in the Faith-Prosperity gospel and we’d have gentle disagreements over that over my years at Regent, but nothing acrimonious back then. Until again, Trump. I wrote them a couple of times to warn them of him after his election and sent copies of my first book to them. The exchanges grew more intense over a three year period to the extent that I finally said I was shaking the dust from my sandals an breaking fellowship since they would not listen (Matthew 10:14). I close with an excerpt of their Rebuke of me.

The Graphic showing Trump being protected from assassination by the Hand of God is from Gay’s page.

TO DR. K “You have come down on the wrong side of history, son. You have come down on the wrong side of theology, and you have come down on the wrong side of love as you have ministered from the fruit of the root of bitterness. The gangrene from your wounds has defiled the hearts of the ones who flock to you and you are not rightly dividing My word.

 
The fruit of your ministry is bitter, causing My children to bite and devour one another. You are not rightly discerning My body and it is only My mercy that keeps you alive and somewhat healthy when you partake of My cup. At one time you had the will to forgive those who wronged you and be healed. Then, you only had the will to be healed. Now you have neither. Your hate is not for the evil deeds men do, but for men, created in My image. You have sowed that hatred into the hearts of my sheep as you seek again and again to be right and gain approval in the eyes of men. The most tender of these look to you as a spiritual father and desperately want your approval. They are always learning, but never come to the intimate knowledge of Me, the Truth, under your tutelage because you cannot teach what you do not know. In your writings and in your interactions with My family, you seek what you call wisdom, knowledge, and understanding, but you are unteachable and leave no room for disagreement or correction. You clearly hear what I say to you, but you do not mix those words with faith, because faith works by love, not by fear and anger.

The seeds of the law of sin and death have yielded a harsh harvest in your life. Yet, my mercy abides a little longer. You still have your life. Like Paul, you have been injurious, and like Paul, you may yet obtain mercy, because when you have sown death in My Body you taught it in ignorance and unbelief. Although the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus could set you free, you have reaped injury after injury. These cycles of sowing and reaping are tightening up as time hastens.

You have correctly identified sin and called for and meted out judgement to many in My Body. You have correctly identified the spirit of antichrist in many places, but have failed to recognize its operation in your own ministry which teaches others to slander, sow discord, disfellowship, and amputate any part of the body that receives not your teaching in its entirety.

Like Paul, your persecution of your brethren and the sowing of discord is not an act of righteousness because you do it in the wrong spirit. You are angered and weep because they don’t accept your work, not because they don’t accept My Truth. You have no fruit of conversion because what you write and speak in your own fear and wrath will not penetrate the lies sown by the enemy, and it will block you from receiving both physical and spiritual provision for your own calling. The work of your hands and mind are not the sacrifice that I choose. I choose, rather, a broken heart and contrite spirit.”

CODA. So, these are my Texas Reflections – from the sublime to the seditious –  as I remain ever so deeply grateful for somehow showing us all the Truth of Donald Trump’s Christian Nationalism movement as a witness against the Great Lie of the Age. All praise to God Almighty who does everything well! DK

Selah.

MEDIA

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