It's that time again, the beginning of a new year. Some will mark this with a list of resolutions. Others will view the event as a premature end to the Christmas season and simply the first annual holiday on the calendar. I want you to do something different. Make the beginning of 2026 the moment you take an active turn away from lamenting the fall of our nation reform This.
Everything has its time. How do we said in the book of Ecclesiastes there is “a time to be born and a time to die… a time to cry and a time to laugh… a time to endure and a time to repair… a time for war and a time for peace.”
If our time should be marked by some theme – as those of us who strive to “don't live by a lie“The era of my existence is marked by a fatalistic dirge of mourning. We see evil marching in every direction, and invest the greatest reactionary energy in wringing hands and lamenting 'Woe is us.' It should not be this way. How did Americans become cowards when our ancestors crossed the seas under the power of the wind and looked upon the most formidable military force in the history of that time to found a nation in a distant, overseas frontier country?
Today, this is where law-abiding Americans like Daniel Penney are charged with crimes for protecting others from violent criminals. Government officials working in conservative administrations have been charged by district attorneys with ties to Soros. Those who kill children in the womb are protected by law enforcement, and those who interfere with unborn children are arrested. Public school systems drain communities financially and produce graduates who are ignorant of history, hostile to truth, and contemptuous of the values on which the nation was built.
Several years ago, former North Carolina senator and Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards often spoke of two Americas. It turns out he was right. Americans were persecuted with prejudice for presence at the US Capitol on January 6th. However, the FBI has been unable to track down Antifa and American Hamas, despite their frequent, ongoing, overt acts of violence. Progressive activists are free to break laws, while conservatives are forced to live in fear of losing their jobs, being denied banking services or platforms, and perhaps even being criminally prosecuted for expressing beliefs that have been the standard for most American generations.
In Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) felt obligated to make clear that Americans in his state are allowed to run away from violent mobs rather than sit helplessly awaiting martyrdom, because there are people who believe the most basic self-defense measures are controversial. The list goes on. We have chosen to play the role of a frog in a pot of water and it is boiling.
There are laws in this country, but we sit idly by, pretending that modern Bolsheviks and foreign invaders are exempt from them. The Somalis are financially plundering the nation while the predatory goals of radical Islamists are achieved by those who believe that evil is protected by the First Amendment. In no previous century would Americans have been able to surrender en masse so easily. Complaining about the state of affairs does nothing to slow down the cancerous spread of paganism-fuelled progressivism that is devouring our homeland. slacker crying this tactic is lazy, and too many of us are guilty of it. Professional mourners are useful at funerals, but do nothing to stop advancing armies, change policies, or preserve decent civilizations.
So I believe that as the calendar turns, so does your attitude and decision-making process. If you are reading this in the United States of America, you are the lucky beneficiary of the sacrifices made by those who came before. When did we abandon our heritage and hand over our institutions and civil power to delinquents who believe gender is fluid, obesity is authentic, ordered freedom is bad, and math is racist? Who thought people who glorified the sexual mutilation of children were intelligent enough to exercise influence responsibly?
Clearly the ball has been dropped. Whining won't fix it. We have to get back on the field and play as a team. This begins with a moment of self-reflection. Stop for a moment and ask yourself this question:
Will I be content to let the candle go out before my eyes, and will I leave freedom as a mere fairy tale that my descendants hear about as an extinct way of life?
How you answer this question will determine whether you are worthy of the stewardship that God and our ancestors have entrusted to you.
Our enemies did not take control of the situation, mourning and hiding. They are one and we can learn from their methods. In 2026, accept a new scenario.
– Has your church moved away from biblical truth? Work to reform it or go where Christ reigns.
– Are your schools unaccountable? Give up your family. Pressure pastors to speak out against Christians enrolling their children, and build political capital so that school boards fear God and parents more than teachers unions and pervert activists.
– Is your workplace hostile to truth? Stick to the truth, take legal action if you are persecuted, and try to inspire boycotts.
-Your district attorneys and police chiefs refuse to enforce the law? Lead efforts to hold them accountable and remove them from office. Call on junior or senior judges to restore order where activist judges have intentionally contributed to or directly caused chaos.
– Is your local government moving towards a totalitarian impulse? Resist within the law. Rod Dreher offers a wise course of action in his book entitled Don't Live by a Lie: A Guide for Christian Dissidents. In it he writes:
It seems our cause is lost… but we're still here! Our mission now is to create an underground resistance to the occupation, to preserve the memory of who we were and who we are, and to ignite the fire of desire for the true God. Where there is memory and desire, there is hope. (p. 214).
The use of the civic talents bestowed upon us in this place and time is not theonomy. This is common sense. To the overly pietistic critic who objects to the fact that Scripture predicts that things will get worse before they get better, I agree with this view and add that the biblical text nowhere commands or gives consent to godly people to deliberately try to hasten the fulfillment of end-times prophecy. This is simply another way of immanentizing the eschaton.
To ensure that people from all walks of life understand my point, it is very simple:
The time for reckless hand-wringing must end now. The way forward is not to complain, but to campaign; not to lament, but to repent; not hope for reform, but promote it.
Societies that recognize, respect and function according to basic moral principles have a higher quality of life, better educational outcomes and offer greater stability to the population. Working to restore such civic politics is literally loving your neighbor. Even the famous atheist Richard Dawkins, who has devoted considerable energy to undermining faith in society, is now acknowledges benefits of a Christian policy.
“If you love darkness and are content to live in darkness and misery, then be content with little faith; but if you love the sunshine and want to sing songs of joy, sincerely hide this best gift, “great faith” wrote the late, great 19th-century Baptist minister Charles Spurgeon. Victory belongs to the Lord, but the responsibility to work for righteous ends rests on our shoulders as part of the ongoing stewardship mandate given in Genesis.
In 2026, close Lamentation. Open Nehemiah. We have a civilization that needs to be protected, restored, managed responsibly and bequeathed to future generations.
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