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This week’s Moment of Truth: Hebrews 12:1-2 (NIV) — "Since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus."

We've spent weeks talking about threats to Christianity. Here's the uncomfortable truth: every single one of them has the same accomplice. It's not the world. It's not the culture. It's you and me.

In this week's “Moment of Truth,” Colonel Richard J. Mendelow (Ret) names it plainly: no threat to the faith succeeds without our passivity, our pride, our ignorance of Scripture, or our fear of standing firm. The world will always be the world — it will lie, divide, and prey on the defenseless. That's not up for debate. What's up for debate is us.

A Christian man who storms a school board meeting armed with truth but delivers it with anger and vulgarity hasn't defended Christ — he's handed the world a win. A church that preaches the Bible until it collides with politics isn't living the gospel — it's playing at it. The only behavior any of us actually controls is our own.

As Oliver Perry once reported victory at Lake Erie, and Walt Kelly later parodied for a different kind of battle: we have met the enemy, and he is us. The future of the church in this culture won't be decided by the threats coming at it. It'll be decided by how we respond to them.

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Colonel Richard J. Mendelow (Ret)

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This week's Moment of Truth: Romans 5:3-5 (NIV) — “Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance, perseverance, character, and character, hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.”

Comfort is the enemy of growth. And the world is selling it to you every single day.

Immediate gratification, ease, and the absence of struggle are not blessings — they are attacks on everything God plans for you as a man and as a member of the body of Christ. Every warrior knows that unless you push into the pain, there is no growth. The gym, the road, the combat zone — none of it gets easier by avoiding it.

The same is true of your faith. When did you last press into something uncomfortable for the sake of Christ? When did you last choose obedience over ease, discipline over distraction, stillness over noise?

New habits can be formed in as little as 21 days. Give God 15 to 20 minutes each day. Pray before meals. Be more gracious. Spend more time in stillness. What feels strange at first will very quickly become the most powerful way to live — and to minister to a struggling world.

Make friends with discomfort. That is where growth lives.

Listen now to this week’s “Moment of Truth” to hear what it means to step forward into discomfort on the frontlines of faith.

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God bless & Semper fi,

Colonel Richard J. Mendelow (Ret)

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This week's Moment of Truth: Proverbs 18:2 (NIV) — "Fools find no pleasure in understanding, but delight in airing their opinions."

How did Proverbs know about Facebook 2,000 years ago?

We live in a world where headlines pass for the whole story, where volume substitutes for truth, and where AI tells us what to think and we call it wisdom. And while this may be sadly true of the world — it should not be true of Christians.

Christians are not consumers of worldly garbage recycled generation after generation. Christians are humble servants who obey Jesus Christ. We are official ambassadors of His heavenly kingdom. And as ambassadors, we cannot hold opinions that conflict with what He says is good, right, and just. If we do, we are wrong.

The devil knows this. And his most effective weapon against the church is not persecution — it is opinion. Baseless, divisive, conflicting opinion that confuses the truth of God, destroys unity, and makes Christians combat ineffective.

So, whose message do you most often deliver — yours or Jesus's?

This is not a time for opinion. It is a time for unity and courage in the truth of God as written in the Bible.

Download this week's "Moment of Truth" to hear what it means to trade opinion for truth on the frontlines of faith.

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God bless & Semper fi,

Colonel Richard J. Mendelow (Ret)