Friday Church News Notes
June 5, 2026 - Volume 27, Issue 23
The Friday Church News Notes is designed for use in churches and is published by Way of Life Literature. Unless otherwise stated, the Notes are written by David Cloud. Of necessity we quote from a wide variety of sources, though this does not imply an endorsement.
PREVIOUS GENERATIONS OF IMMIGRANT AMERICANS (Friday Church News Notes, June 5, 2026, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - We are witnessing the first generations of uncontrolled, unsupervised immigration in America, the first generation of immigrants (broadly speaking) treated to free everything, the first generation that expects to break the nation’s laws with no consequence, the first generation not educated in the nation’s unique principles, the first generation intent on remaining isolated in separatist, non-English speaking communities, the first generation allowed to keep their own anti-American judicial system. It seems insane, but it is actually genius. It is a major part of a definite plan to destroy the old America and create a new one. And it will doubtless eventually succeed, unless the entire public school system from kindergarten to university is revamped, and the Leftists who control the nation’s law schools, state bar associations, and judiciaries are evicted, and several generations of brainwashed citizens are effectively re-educated, and the Democrat trifecta states are evicted from the Union, and a new generation of spiritually powerful New Testament churches is raised up, at the very least. The impossibility of this is one reason why we are focused like a laser on Great Commission/New Testament church business, which is God’s main business today. Consider the immigrants of former times. They were not scofflaws; they entered legally and obeyed the nation’s laws; they learned English; they worked hard; and they were educated in and committed to American principles. The following window into those times is from Michael Auslin, National Treasure: How the Declaration of Independence Made America, 2026: “A surge in immigration from 1880 to 1920 had brought over 20 million newcomers to America, many from Scandinavia and southern and eastern Europe. From a population of 50 million in 1880, the country had shot up to 106 million four decades later. High birth rates combined with waves of immigrants who settled in the new territories and packed into rising metropolises like Chicago, Cleveland, St. Louis, and Kansas City. With the foreign-born now 15 percent of the population, turning these immigrants into patriotic Americans became a priority for politicians, employers, and educators. Mandatory elementary school and civics classes were designed to imbue them with American values and to teach them about the principles of self-government. Community groups also played a key role. The Educational Alliance, founded in 1889 on East Broadway as one of New York’s original settlement houses, gave tens of thousands of Jewish immigrants from Russia and Eastern Europe ‘that practical understanding of American government, institutions, and ideas which alone can make them real Americans.’ During World War I, the National Americanization Committee, headed at one point by Thomas Edison and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, distributed thousands of copies of a forty-eight-page Citizenship Syllabus to ‘train our foreign-born population for good, efficient and devoted American citizenship.’ In 1922, the Ford Motor Company began advertising educational films on ‘Civics and Citizenship’ aimed at public schools. Meanwhile, the country’s founding documents were translated into immigrants’ native languages” (Auslin, National Treasure, pp. 189-190). Henry Ford established schools to educate immigrants in English and the principles of good citizenship, with the goal of assimilating them as Americans.
QUALIFIED FOR CIVIL LIBERTY (Friday Church News Notes, June 5, 2026, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - The following is excerpted from Edmund Burke, Letter to a Member of the National Assembly, 1791: “Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites,--in proportion as their love to justice is above their rapacity,--in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption,--in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.”
FAMILY USING WAY OF LIFE MATERIALS (Friday Church News Notes, June 5, 2026, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - “My girls are reading really well now, so we have started to go through your Birds Eye View of the Bible for our family devotions, and they look up and read all the verses. We are making slow progress, as a lot of the stuff is hard for their little minds to understand, but it is so much fun to see them learn and be excited about it, and the younger ones who can’t read are learning and answering the questions too. My wife and I are starting to go back through Keeping the Kids again, as we need to always streamline our focus. It scares me to see so many kids grow up around us, from ‘good’ families and turn out to either go way off from the faith, or turn out to be just existing christians. ... what I mean is that they don’t have much character, not much enthusiasm for christian service, or work ethic or anything. Please pray for us as our children are our number one focus and we strive to lead them to turn out to be faithful servants of our Lord. I feel like such an unworthy person to be in charge of these little ones, but God has given me that responsibility. I really appreciate your ministry, and your materials have blessed our family so much. Thank you for your faithfulness, and we pray for you every day on the mission field.”
U.S. HOUSE SELECT SUBCOMMITTEE REPORT ON CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC (Friday Church News Notes, June 5, 2026, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - The following is excerpted from John West, Endowed by Our Creator: The Bible, Science, and the Battle for America’s Soul: “At the end of 2024, the US House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic issued a 557-page report. It was scathing. It faulted government science officials for spreading misinformation about the origins of COVID-19, exaggerating the power of COVID-19 vaccines, and employing ‘Undemocratic and Likely Unconstitutional Methods to Fight What It Deemed to Be Misinformation.’ The report also determined that ‘There Was No Quantitative Scientific Support for Six Feet of Social Distancing.’ and ‘The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Relied on Flawed Studies to Support the Issuing of Mask Mandates.’ Regarding the extended lockdowns imposed throughout America, the report concluded that ‘Unscientific COVID-19 Lockdowns Caused More Harm Than Good,’ itemizing their severe impacts on the economy, mental health, children, and young adults. When it came to vaccine mandates, the report concluded that they too ‘Were Not Supported by Science,’ and ‘Caused Massive Collateral Damage and Were Very Likely Counterproductive.’”
THOMAS JEFFERSON AND SLAVERY (Friday Church News Notes, June 5, 2026, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - “How could the man who wrote that ‘All men are created equal’ own slaves? This, in essence, is the question most persistently asked of those who write about Thomas Jefferson, and by all indications it is the thing that contemporary Americans find most vexing about him. ... The question carries a silent assumption that because he practiced slave holding, Jefferson must have somehow believed in it, and must therefore have been a hypocrite. My belief is that this way of asking the question ... is essentially backward, and reflects the pervasive PRESENTISM of our time. Consider, for example, how different the question appears when inverted and framed in more historical terms: How did a man who was born into a slave holding society, whose family and admired friends owned slaves, who inherited a fortune that was dependent on slaves and slave labor, decide at an early age that slavery was morally wrong and forcefully declare that it ought to be abolished? Though stating the same case, these are obviously different questions, focusing on different things, but one is framed in a historical context and the other ignores historical circumstances. The rephrased question reveals that what is truly remarkable is that Jefferson went against his society and his own self-interest to denounce slavery and urge its abolition” (Douglas Wilson, “Thomas Jefferson and the Character Issue,” The Atlantic Monthly, November 1992). For more on this see Slavery’s Ugly History from Ancient Times, available as a free eBook from the Books section of www.wayoflife.org.
THE LIVER (Friday Church News Notes, June 5, 2026, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - The following is from CreationMoments.com, April 20, 2026: “An adult human liver is about the size of a small football. It weighs about three pounds, making it the body’s largest internal organ. Tucked neatly beneath the ribs, your liver performs more than 500 different tasks. It is a vital link between your heart, lungs, and digestive system. Inside the liver is a bewildering array of microscopic veins in which each drop of blood is processed. Here, blood conditions are constantly monitored to make sure that its chemistry meets strict standards. If more of some substances are needed in the blood, they are supplied. Useless chemicals are broken down into useful chemicals. Your liver makes proteins, and corrects blood clotting factors. Your liver also sees to it that hormone balances are maintained and that poisons are neutralized. If substances are needed to fight an infection, your liver makes them and adds them to the bloodstream. Your liver also stores vitamins and minerals and prepares itself to provide your body with quick energy when you need it. In addition, the liver makes bile, which is essential for digestion. Structures like the liver have caused many evolutionists to abandon the idea that life is a result of millions of years of accidents. The liver is just too well-designed and integrated into the body to have been produced by purposelessness and mindlessness. As Scripture says, truly God has formed our inward parts! REF.: “The liver: the body’s refinery,” Discover.”
CONCLUSION: The Friday Church News Notes is designed for use in churches and is published by Way of Life Literature’s Fundamental Baptist Information Service. Unless otherwise stated, the Notes are written by David Cloud. Of necessity we quote from a wide variety of sources, but this obviously does not imply an endorsement. We trust that our readers will not be discouraged. It is God’s will that we know the times (1 Ch. 12:32; Mt. 16:3) and that we be as wise as serpents and harmless as doves. The News Notes remind us that the hour is very late, and we need to be ready for the Lord’s coming. Are you sure that you are born again? Are you living for Christ? “And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof” (Ro. 13:11-14).
QUALIFIED FOR CIVIL LIBERTY (Friday Church News Notes, June 5, 2026, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - The following is excerpted from Edmund Burke, Letter to a Member of the National Assembly, 1791: “Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites,--in proportion as their love to justice is above their rapacity,--in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption,--in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.”
FAMILY USING WAY OF LIFE MATERIALS (Friday Church News Notes, June 5, 2026, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - “My girls are reading really well now, so we have started to go through your Birds Eye View of the Bible for our family devotions, and they look up and read all the verses. We are making slow progress, as a lot of the stuff is hard for their little minds to understand, but it is so much fun to see them learn and be excited about it, and the younger ones who can’t read are learning and answering the questions too. My wife and I are starting to go back through Keeping the Kids again, as we need to always streamline our focus. It scares me to see so many kids grow up around us, from ‘good’ families and turn out to either go way off from the faith, or turn out to be just existing christians. ... what I mean is that they don’t have much character, not much enthusiasm for christian service, or work ethic or anything. Please pray for us as our children are our number one focus and we strive to lead them to turn out to be faithful servants of our Lord. I feel like such an unworthy person to be in charge of these little ones, but God has given me that responsibility. I really appreciate your ministry, and your materials have blessed our family so much. Thank you for your faithfulness, and we pray for you every day on the mission field.”
U.S. HOUSE SELECT SUBCOMMITTEE REPORT ON CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC (Friday Church News Notes, June 5, 2026, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - The following is excerpted from John West, Endowed by Our Creator: The Bible, Science, and the Battle for America’s Soul: “At the end of 2024, the US House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic issued a 557-page report. It was scathing. It faulted government science officials for spreading misinformation about the origins of COVID-19, exaggerating the power of COVID-19 vaccines, and employing ‘Undemocratic and Likely Unconstitutional Methods to Fight What It Deemed to Be Misinformation.’ The report also determined that ‘There Was No Quantitative Scientific Support for Six Feet of Social Distancing.’ and ‘The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Relied on Flawed Studies to Support the Issuing of Mask Mandates.’ Regarding the extended lockdowns imposed throughout America, the report concluded that ‘Unscientific COVID-19 Lockdowns Caused More Harm Than Good,’ itemizing their severe impacts on the economy, mental health, children, and young adults. When it came to vaccine mandates, the report concluded that they too ‘Were Not Supported by Science,’ and ‘Caused Massive Collateral Damage and Were Very Likely Counterproductive.’”
THOMAS JEFFERSON AND SLAVERY (Friday Church News Notes, June 5, 2026, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - “How could the man who wrote that ‘All men are created equal’ own slaves? This, in essence, is the question most persistently asked of those who write about Thomas Jefferson, and by all indications it is the thing that contemporary Americans find most vexing about him. ... The question carries a silent assumption that because he practiced slave holding, Jefferson must have somehow believed in it, and must therefore have been a hypocrite. My belief is that this way of asking the question ... is essentially backward, and reflects the pervasive PRESENTISM of our time. Consider, for example, how different the question appears when inverted and framed in more historical terms: How did a man who was born into a slave holding society, whose family and admired friends owned slaves, who inherited a fortune that was dependent on slaves and slave labor, decide at an early age that slavery was morally wrong and forcefully declare that it ought to be abolished? Though stating the same case, these are obviously different questions, focusing on different things, but one is framed in a historical context and the other ignores historical circumstances. The rephrased question reveals that what is truly remarkable is that Jefferson went against his society and his own self-interest to denounce slavery and urge its abolition” (Douglas Wilson, “Thomas Jefferson and the Character Issue,” The Atlantic Monthly, November 1992). For more on this see Slavery’s Ugly History from Ancient Times, available as a free eBook from the Books section of www.wayoflife.org.
THE LIVER (Friday Church News Notes, June 5, 2026, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - The following is from CreationMoments.com, April 20, 2026: “An adult human liver is about the size of a small football. It weighs about three pounds, making it the body’s largest internal organ. Tucked neatly beneath the ribs, your liver performs more than 500 different tasks. It is a vital link between your heart, lungs, and digestive system. Inside the liver is a bewildering array of microscopic veins in which each drop of blood is processed. Here, blood conditions are constantly monitored to make sure that its chemistry meets strict standards. If more of some substances are needed in the blood, they are supplied. Useless chemicals are broken down into useful chemicals. Your liver makes proteins, and corrects blood clotting factors. Your liver also sees to it that hormone balances are maintained and that poisons are neutralized. If substances are needed to fight an infection, your liver makes them and adds them to the bloodstream. Your liver also stores vitamins and minerals and prepares itself to provide your body with quick energy when you need it. In addition, the liver makes bile, which is essential for digestion. Structures like the liver have caused many evolutionists to abandon the idea that life is a result of millions of years of accidents. The liver is just too well-designed and integrated into the body to have been produced by purposelessness and mindlessness. As Scripture says, truly God has formed our inward parts! REF.: “The liver: the body’s refinery,” Discover.”
CONCLUSION: The Friday Church News Notes is designed for use in churches and is published by Way of Life Literature’s Fundamental Baptist Information Service. Unless otherwise stated, the Notes are written by David Cloud. Of necessity we quote from a wide variety of sources, but this obviously does not imply an endorsement. We trust that our readers will not be discouraged. It is God’s will that we know the times (1 Ch. 12:32; Mt. 16:3) and that we be as wise as serpents and harmless as doves. The News Notes remind us that the hour is very late, and we need to be ready for the Lord’s coming. Are you sure that you are born again? Are you living for Christ? “And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof” (Ro. 13:11-14).
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