The Righteous Cause

A Deep Dive into Gov. Pritzker’s Authoritarian Warning That… Warns About Authoritarianism

Posted on October 22, 2025October 22, 2025 by Dennis Robbins

You Have to Be KIDDING Me?! Oh boy, where do we even START with this one, folks? Gov. Pritzker Compares Trump’s Illegal Immigration Crackdown to How the Holocaust Started “Before the Holocaust took place, people were accused of being immigrants … and then it was othering people. And that led to a lot worse things.”…

Reaching the Unchurched: An Outreach Plan For East Valley International Church

Posted on October 20, 2025October 20, 2025 by Dennis Robbins

Together, Let’s Bring Them in To East Valley International Church A Note to Our Congregation This document presents a comprehensive and multi-faceted approach to reaching the unchurched in our Gilbert community. However, it’s important to recognize that many of the specifics outlined here will ultimately depend on congregational participation based on individual work schedules, family…

“The Man Who Met Jesus.” A Bible Study and Pastor Joey’s Sermon on Luke 8:26-39.

Posted on October 19, 2025 by Dennis Robbins

East Valley International Church sees the digital realm not as a lesser substitute, but as a new kind of wilderness—a vast, scrolling expanse of the human heart. And just as the Spirit once moved over the face of the primordial deep, He moves now through fiber-optic cables and Wi-Fi signals, speaking light into the chaos of…

Evidences of Mature Christianity for Modern Believers

Posted on October 19, 2025 by Dennis Robbins

Evidences of Mature Christianity For Modern Believers For a little deeper dive in our study of Chapter 4, Fundamentals of the Faith, I asked Claude AI this question: Based on Scripture, can you describe the key evidences that demonstrate mature Christian faith for modern believers?: 1. LOVE FOR GOD AND OTHERS Supreme Love for God…

The Julian Assange Saga: From Digital Revolutionary to Free Man

Posted on October 17, 2025 by Dennis Robbins

The Julian Assange Saga: From Digital Revolutionary to Free Man A Narrative Investigation into WikiLeaks and the Price of Truth The morning of June 26, 2024, marked the end of a saga that had consumed fourteen years, spanned four continents, and ignited a global firestorm over press freedom, government transparency, and the limits of national…

Cue the Cue Balls: The Political ‘Ya Got Trouble’ Score of the NYC Mayoral Election

Posted on October 17, 2025October 17, 2025 by Dennis Robbins

Cue the Cue Balls: The Political ‘Ya Got Trouble’ Score of the NYC Mayoral Election kicks off with a musical parody of the frantic, warning-filled song from “The Music Man,” capturing the high-drama, raw tension, and fiery accusations dominating the race. Imagine the stage set with charismatic candidates—Zohran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo, and Curtis Sliwa—singing lurid…

Beyond the Slogan: Unpacking the Biblical Doctrine Behind ‘God’s Love Knows No Borders’

Posted on October 17, 2025October 17, 2025 by Dennis Robbins

Geriatric leftists are out in full force again, blessing us with a beautiful rendition of “We are not afraid” outside an ICE facility. pic.twitter.com/yqjIzZkEsB — MRCTV (@mrctv) October 17, 2025 The Old Testament of the Bible clearly mentions respecting and preserving geographic boundaries, often referred to as “boundary lines” or “landmarks.” These are seen as…

A Small Sampling of Global Layoffs for 2025.

Posted on October 16, 2025 by Dennis Robbins

It’s been a turbulent quarter for the job market, and just when it seemed the layoffs had reached their limit—*but wait, there’s more!* A fresh round of workforce reductions has arrived for 2025, adding new names and departments to an already crowded roster of corporate cutbacks. The pattern mirrors a familiar refrain from classic infomercials:…

Public Notice: A Suggested Class Action Lawsuit Filed on Behalf of the American Electorate

Posted on October 16, 2025 by Dennis Robbins

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (if this were a real effort on behalf of the voters) October 16, 2025 Nationwide Class Action Filed by American Voters Against the U.S. Government, Senate, and House of Representatives for Alleged Legislative Ineptitude and Breach of Public Duty Washington, D.C. — A historic Class Action Lawsuit has been formally filed in the United States Federal…

The Political Blame Game: Washington Is A “Made For TV Accusation Show”

Posted on October 16, 2025 by Dennis Robbins

The Federal Accusation Consortium: How Washington Operates in a Fact-Free Zone If you consume political news from Washington, D.C., you are likely familiar with a persistent, grating rhythm. A lawmaker appears on a news broadcast, their face a mask of grave concern. They level a serious accusation against the opposing party: “They are destroying democracy,”…

2 Corinthians 11:13-15: For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds.

Romans 3:20-24: For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin. But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

Email: dennis@novus2.com

The Saturday Question: Why Seventh-day Adventists Worship Differently Than the Rest of Us
Image: Portrait of Ellen G. White at age 51 A Traditional Christian Examination of Doctrine, History, and the Prophetic Legacy of Ellen G. White Introduction: A Church That Resists Easy Categorization On any given Saturday morning, more than twenty-four million people in over two hundred countries […]
EVIC Sunday School – Lesson 4: How the Bible Was Made and Preserved
Lesson 4 The Incredible Cost of Preservation of the Bible Introduction and Purpose of the Study Our study is a six-week informational series intended to strengthen the class’s confidence in the Bible as God’s Word before transitioning to a longer “real-life discipleship” […]
The LDS Living, Baptized for the Dead: One Verse, a Billion Names, and a Question of Authority
A Traditional Christian Examination of Latter-day Saint Proxy Baptism ✦ ⬩ ✦ Introduction: A Woman in the River On a September day in 1840, a widow named Jane Neyman waded into the muddy current of the Mississippi River near the half-built city of Nauvoo, Illinois. She was not being baptized for […]
The Captain Without a Crew: David Miscavige, Empty Buildings, and the Quiet Collapse of Scientology
Image: An AI-illustrated depiction of Xenu, the alien overlord of Scientology’s secret cosmology. Ruling a Galactic Confederacy seventy-five million years ago, Xenu solved overpopulation by luring billions to Earth, killing them with hydrogen bombs detonated in volcanoes, and subjecting their […]
A Scholarly Examination of the LDS Jaredite Pacific-Landing Thesis
From Babel to Bethlehem—Or to Seattle? A Christian Critique of the Jaredite Ocean Journey I. Introduction: A Voyage in Search of a Map There is a particular pleasure in looking at a map and tracing a story. Children do it with adventure novels; theologians do it with the wanderings of Abraham; […]
Sitting in the Pew, Slipping from the Faith: A Sober Reading of the Latter-day Saint Participation Collapse
The Quiet Erosion of LDS Sunday School, Home Study, and Tithing ❦ ❦ ❦ I. A Headline the Church Did Not Want to Write On April 16, 2026, The Salt Lake Tribune ran a sentence that, in any prior year of Latter-day Saint history, would have been unthinkable. Independent demographer Matt Martinich, […]
American Hero, Neil Robbins (1923-2003), 671st Medical Hospital Ship Platoons WWII – 1943-1946
Neil Robbins, one of 11 children to John Emmett Robbins (1877~1951) and Bertha Belle Ernst Robbins (1890~1966), was born September 12, 1923, in Medford, Oregon because they didn’t have a hospital in nearby Jacksonville where his parents lived. One of the oldest communities in Oregon, […]
Athens, Algorithms, and the “Gift of Possibility”: A Christian Reads an LDS Apostle on Artificial Intelligence
Can a Machine Have a “Moral Compass”? A Mormon Apostle Says Yes — An Orthodox Christian Says Wait ❦ ❧ ❦ Introduction: A Lamb a Day on the Acropolis Elder Gerrit W. Gong opened his Athens address with a parable Henry Kissinger liked to tell. A visitor to a zoo marvels at a lion and a lamb lying […]
EVIC Sunday School: How the Bible Was Made and Preserved
Lesson 1 The Journey of How the Bible Was Made and Preserved The lesson opens a six-week study designed to deepen confidence in the Bible by tracing the remarkable path it traveled to reach modern hands. Pastor Joey reminds the class that Scripture did not fall from the sky, leather-bound and […]
EVIC Sunday School – Lesson 2: How the Bible Was Made and Preserved
Lesson 2 The Journey of How the Bible Was Made and Preserved Lesson 2 of our six-week study is designed to deepen confidence in the Bible by tracing the remarkable path it traveled to reach modern hands. This Bible study traces how the Old Testament was formed through prophetic authority, […]
EVIC Sunday School – Lesson 3: How the Bible Was Made and Preserved
Lesson 3 How We Got the Bible — The Formation of the New Testament Canon Lesson 3 of our six-week study is designed to deepen confidence in how the Bible came together — and can we trust that the right books made it in? This Sunday school lesson tackles one of the most important and most […]
The Ewe Lamb of Nauvoo: Memory, Revision, and the Youngest Wife of Joseph Smith
EARLY MORMON PERSONALITIES — TWENTIETH INSTALLMENT Helen Mar Kimball, the Doll, the Altar, and the Making of a Mormon Memory ❖ ❖ ❖ On a warm afternoon in Nauvoo, Illinois, sometime in 1841, a twelve-year-old girl named Helen Mar Kimball still loved her dolls. She kept a small company of china […]
The Elect Lady and the Burning: Emma Hale Smith and the Cost of Standing Beside the Prophet Joseph
EARLY MORMON PERSONALITIES — NINETEENTH INSTALLMENT Emma Smith, Loyalty, and the Limits of Faith ❦ ⬩ ❦ Introduction: A Woman on the Ice In February of 1839, a woman stepped onto the frozen surface of the Mississippi River with two small children clinging to her skirts, two more carried in her arms […]
The Mother of the Mormon Prophet: Lucy Mack Smith, the Family Faith, and the Gospel She Never Quite Found
EARLY MORMON PERSONALITIES — EIGHTEENTH INSTALLMENT Lucy Mack Smith’s Lifelong Search for Assurance ❝ ❦ ❞ A Voice on the Frozen Shore On a raw morning in early May of 1831, on the wind-scoured bank of Lake Erie, a company of weary religious refugees sat huddled and despairing. The ice had not yet […]
From Cave to Codex: The History of the Qur’an from a Traditional Christian Perspective
A scholarly narrative tracing the Muslim scripture from its first recitation to the present age — its preservation, its transmission, and its place beside the biblical record. ✦ ❖ ✦ Introduction: A Book Born of a Voice On a night that Muslims call Laylat al-Qadr, the “Night of Power,” in or around […]
The Principle and the Prophet: Confronting the Polygamous Past of the Latter-day Saints
AI Colorized Photo: Joseph F. Smith, nephew of the founding prophet, and his family. Original black & white photo courtesy: Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. A Theological and Historical Examination from a Traditional Christian Perspective ✦ ❧ ✦ I. A Faith […]
The Faithful Scribe to The Mormon Prophet: How One Englishman’s Pen Shaped a Religion
EARLY MORMON PERSONALITIES — SEVENTEENTH INSTALLMENT William Clayton and the Records the Church Tried To Lock Away ❖ ❖ ❖ It was past one o’clock in the morning on Sunday, the twenty-third of June, 1844, when the knock came. William Clayton rose in the dark, dressed quickly, and made his way down to […]
The Trillion-Dollar AI Gamble
Inside the Money Machine Powering the AI Revolution — and the Voices Warning It Could Burst An Investigative Narrative ❖ ❖ ❖ Somewhere in the American desert tonight, electricity is pouring into a building the size of a small town, humming through racks of silicon that are individually worth more […]
Navigating Faith and Doubt: Why Many Are Leaving the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Image: An AI-generated image imagines a group of young people who have encountered a faith crisis and are discouraged about their Church membership. A 2026 Analysis of an Unprecedented Generational Exodus — and a Pastoral Invitation Home Introduction: The Quiet Earthquake For the first time in its […]
Examining LDS Prophetic Claims Against Traditional Biblical Standards
Image: Google Gemini’s Nano Banana imagines the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles meeting with Jesus for some prophetic updates. A Comprehensive Biblical and Theological Analysis Borrowed Names, Vanished Signs ❖ ❖ ❖ Introduction: A Claim That Bears All the Weight The Church of Jesus Christ of […]
The Holy Spirit in Latter-day Saint Theology: A Comparative Perspective To Traditional Christianity
A Critical Analysis from a Comparative Theological Perspective A Scholarly Examination of LDS Pneumatology in Light of Historic Christian Orthodoxy A Comparative Theological Analysis: “Are Mormons Christian?” Series Abstract This article provides a comprehensive scholarly analysis of […]
The Destroying Angel: Orrin Porter Rockwell and the Theology of Loyalty on the Mormon Frontier
EARLY MORMON PERSONALITIES — SIXTEENTH INSTALLMENT Cut Not Thy Hair: The Samson of Mormondom and the Cost of Misplaced Faith ❖ ❖ ❖ A Stranger at the Christmas Door On Christmas night in 1843, a gaunt and filthy stranger pushed his way into the Mansion House at Nauvoo, Illinois, where Joseph Smith […]
Joseph Smith Searched For The Truth: A Theological Examination
First: An Observation. A casual observer who reads Joseph Smith’s “search for truth” as noted at BYU Studies, is met with an obvious question: “Joseph Smith (1805–1844) inhabited a visionary world and belonged to a visionary family. At about age twelve, he began to worry […]
Conviction, Not Convenience: Wes Huff’s Case for Why He Remains Protestant and Not Roman Catholic
The Governing Principle: Sufficiency, Not Mere Necessity A summary and theological reflection Wesley “Wes” Huff is a Christian apologist, speaker, and scholar shaped by a global upbringing spanning Pakistan, the Middle East, and Canada. After overcoming a life-altering neurological condition at age […]
Brigadier of the Daughter of Zion: The Rise and Ruin of Mormonism’s First Danite
EARLY MORMON PERSONALITIES — FIFTEENTH INSTALLMENT Sampson Avard and the Education of a Holy Vengeance Introduction: A Man Looking at the Sky On the last day of October 1838, a tall, restless physician stood near the unfinished temple lot at Far West, Missouri, and turned his face toward heaven. […]