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Re: Pastors and Churches Endorsing Candidates
Posted same day on my Facebook Page I will speak briefly on the ability for houses of worship/religious leaders to now endorse candidates and move on. According to the report, when a house of worship “in good faith speaks to its congregation, through its customary channels of communication on matters of faith in connection with Continue reading
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July 8th, 2025 – Healthcare and Hope
This was originally posted on my Facebook on July 8th, 2025 Alright, now that we’ve acknowledged the realities of passing of the Trump administration’s Big Beautiful Bill, let’s talk about our role in what comes next with the realities at play. While the “Big Beautiful Bill” doesn’t outright target rural communities, we know that rural Continue reading
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Preaching on Sunday July 6th, 2025
This post was originally posted on my Facebook the Sunday Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill into law. I’m not preaching today, I’m off until tomorrow. But if I were leading worship, I would do three things, regardless of what I had planned. First, I would speak to the continuous natural disasters (Texas Continue reading
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On the Passing of “One Big Beautiful Bill”
This was originally published on Facebook July 3, 2025. The day the bill passed the House. We are doing the very thing the prophets warned us against and failing to heed the warning of Christ’s prophecy of the “sheep and the goats.” This is sin. The pedestal of the statue of Liberty has a plaque Continue reading
Jonathan LeMaster-Smith 