When you doom scroll, you encounter brokenness and darkness of every kind. The Psalmist writes of Jesus Christ: In your majesty ride out victoriously for the cause of truth and meekness and righteousness; (Psalm 45:3–4) King Jesus does not ride out to plunder, or tax, or enslave. King Jesus rides out to bring the blessings of truth, meekness and righteousness to the world. Why would you reject a King like that?

“A baptized man can renounce Christ, turn persecutor of the Church, reject everything he once confessed, forget his baptism. Having once passed through the waters, however, his every action thereafter, including those that are wholly inconsistent with his baptismal identity, are actions of a baptized man.” Leithart

God made the whole world to make much of himself.

“Christ became a slave and died the death of a criminal in order to save his people, who were slaves and criminals. He became the curse in order to free his people from the curse” —Toby Sumpter

Jesus of Nazareth: “Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will keep it” (Luke 17:33). “If anyone would be first, he must be last of all and servant of all” (Mark 9:35). “For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it. For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses or forfeits himself?” (Luke 9:24–25).

The rich man will lie down, But not be gathered up; He opens his eyes, And he is no more.

God “hangs the earth on nothing. He binds up the water in His thick clouds, Yet the clouds are not broken under it.” Job 26

“When He has tested me, I shall come forth as gold. My foot has held fast to His steps; I have kept His way and not turned aside. I have not departed from the commandment of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth More than my necessary food.” Job 23

“We remember that early Protestantism produced the greatest art imaginable. The Reformation gave us Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Johann Sebastian Bach, George Friedrich Handel, and Christopher Wren. The Reformation gave us the laureled English poets John Milton, Edmund Spenser, John Donne, and, yes, the lord of our language, William Shakespeare. Where today are our Christian artists, like those of the early Reformation? Where are our image makers? How can we have a theme as immense as measureless grace and remain so silent and still? What image maker could have a greater hero to celebrate than the Lamb who has slain the great dragon? What poet’s heart could remain unkindled when the dove has descended with tongues of fire to set ablaze the imagination of all the Christian world? Where are our theological poets today? We have killed them.” Warren Gage

“The sorts of things that atheists could object to the existence of God are so thin, indeed so futile, that they scarcely deserve to be recounted, much less refuted.” Petras Van Mastricht (c.1698)

And the walls came tumbling down!

"Men are called to lead because they are called to take the arrows first. When men refuse that calling, everything else collapses." Uri Brito

The name Christ means “Messiah,” which is from the Hebrew word for “Anointed One.”

“The God who created this world came to be the Redeemer of this world in the man Jesus of Nazereth, and that mission was a roaring success. Christ is risen! The way of this gospel follows in the wake of this Jesus, which is to say that the life of faithful Christians—and the Church as a whole—mimics his story, a story of suffering and patience, struggle and argument, death and resurrection and glory.” Toby sumpter

For the wicked are reserved for the day of doom; They shall be brought out on the day of wrath. Job 21

“We have placed too much hope in political and social reforms, only to find that we are being deprived of our most precious possession: our spiritual life.” --Solzhenitsyn

Job 9:24 “The earth is given into the hand of the wicked.”

First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. (1 Timothy 2:1–2)