Monday Morning Briefing (October 20, 2025)

Good morning, friends. Spend some time praying over developments in the world with me. Here are things I'd like to think/talk around:

Reminder of Nigerians - https://x.com/timmosion/status/1979854748288524397?s=46&t=UGB_bVaMqYnX9gy5jXvGyg and https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1980101240462958793

Immigrants have been receiving aid - https://x.com/jchasedavis/status/1978867502697292039?s=46&t=UGB_bVaMqYnX9gy5jXvGyg

America isn’t a democracy - https://x.com/CreasonJana/status/1979878960701026540

Conservatives replacing themselves - https://x.com/yhazony/status/1980200006021009748?s=46&t=UGB_bVaMqYnX9gy5jXvGyg but being educated by lefties - https://x.com/laralogan/status/1980064104069911031?s=46&t=UGB_bVaMqYnX9gy5jXvGyg

People stab effigy of President Trump at No Kings Rally - https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1BaL7mL6QK/

Roman Catholicism still growing - https://x.com/sachinettiyil/status/1979538636904538236?s=46&t=UGB_bVaMqYnX9gy5jXvGyg

Ryan Burge links religion and sex bigly - https://www.graphsaboutreligion.com/p/how-social-issues-are-driving-a-wedge?r=17brpc&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

Perkins gives Albert Outler chair to gay lady, Rebekah Miles - https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Z1spZsBwu/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Redeemed Zoomer continues hostility towards GMC - https://www.facebook.com/share/p/17g1GvCgV8/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Has MissionInsite at all benefited your church? - https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BDgG5v9UU/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Seminaries now applying for approval by GMC - https://www.facebook.com/share/p/17g1GvCgV8/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Mark Tooley warns not to demonize folks on the left - https://juicyecumenism.com/2025/09/25/satan-politics/

Burge also warns of death tsunami - https://x.com/ryanburge/status/1973519679873491007

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