Friday Church News Notes
November 13, 2026 - Volume 27, Issue 46
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.
KID ROCK’S FALSE CHRIST (Friday Church News Notes, November 13, 2026, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - “But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him” (2 Corinthians 11:3-4). Kid Rock (real name Robert Ritchie), who so glories in filthy rock & roll that he has chosen it as his moniker, has a new album entitled Halfway 2 Jesus. Vile rapper Eminem makes a special appearance. (Kid Rock is infamous for a partying, fornicating, violence-prone, foul mouth, drug and drink lifestyle; he is pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage, pro-legalization of drugs; his previous albums include Devil Without a Cause, Cocky, Rebel Soul, Early Mornin’ Stoned Pimp, and Bad Reputation.) In a recent interview with President Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara, Kid Rock described his Christianity as follows: “After Charlie Kirk was assassinated, like a lot of people, I started to become closer to my faith. So I started writing these songs and next thing you know they were coming to me. And I can see the skepticism in it. People like, ‘Kid Rock got saved?’ It’s like, I didn’t get saved. I’m still Kid Rock. Still going to drink a beer, smoke a cigar. I feel like I’ve always been right with God.” Note that Kid Rock plainly stated he did not get saved and has not changed his lifestyle. He claims that he has always been right with God, which means he has never been converted, never passed from death to life, from darkness to light. The Bible says, “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new” (2 Co. 5:17), and, “They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate” (Titus 1:16). Kid Rock’s Jesus is a false Christ that, unlike the Christ of Scripture, does not preach repentance (Lu. 3:1-5) and the new birth (Joh. 3:1-8), does not demand dying to self (Mt. 16:24), does not warn of eternal hellfire (Mt. 5:22; 7:19; 13:40, 42, 50; 18:8, 9; 25:41), the devil (Joh. 8:44), false teachers (Mt. 7:15-20) and false Christianity (Mt. 7:21-23). Kid Rock’s Jesus is the American pop Jesus, the Fox News Jesus, the conservative politics Jesus who accepts all things “Christian”: sacramentalism, infant baptism, process salvation, homosexual Christianity, the papacy, host adoration, saint veneration, prayers to Mary, Spirit slaying, gibberish tongues, women pastors, and living according to one’s own lusts.
BEWARE OF EMINEM (Friday Church News Notes, November 13, 2026, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - Since 1999, Eminem (real name Marshall Mathers) is one of the biggest names in rap/hip hop. He has sold more than 228 million records in the U.S. and 130 million worldwide. Billboard magazine named him one of “the greatest rappers of all time.” Eminem’s 1999 album The Slim Shady LP, which launched him to stardom, featured a “drug-dealing, bloodthirsty thug who spits furious rhymes about murder, rape, drugs and living by the law of the urban jungle.” Slim Shady is the rapper’s “alter ego.” He claims it’s all just entertainment, like a horror movie (Robert Hilburn, “Has He No Shame?” Los Angeles Times, May 14, 2000). The vicious song “Just the Two of Us” (also called “97 Bonnie and Clyde”) is about a man who kills the mother of his child and has the following conversation with his daughter on the way to dispose of the body: “Where’s mama? She’s just taking a little nap in the trunk/ Oh, that smell? Dada must have runned over a skunk.” Mathers actually used his young daughter’s vocals in this vile song. Eminem revisited this theme in his 2000 The Marshall Mathers album in the song “Kim,” which is the name of his wife. A secular music reviewer described it as “an hour-plus of vile, hate-filled spew, dripping with references to rape, murder and violence toward women, gays and pretty much anyone Eminem doesn’t like. On the opening track, the rapper even threatens to rape and kill his estranged mother” (Dan Durchholz, “Eminem tops the charts,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, June 25, 2000). When he played the song to his wife, he told her, “[I]t shows how much I care about you. To even think about you this much. To even put you on a song like this.” To the contrary, murderous “love” is not love. The “love” of rock/hip hop is not love, it is lust, at best. God’s Word defines real love. “Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil” (1 Corinthians 13:4-5). Countless hip hop-loving men have murdered their wives and “baby mammas,” but of course this has nothing to do with the music and the culture it has created. It’s just art. Wink, wink. In 2017, Eminem appeared on the song “No Favors” in Big Sean’s album I Decided, calling President Trump vile names and rapping about brutally raping conservative commentator Ann Coulter. It’s just harmless art, of course. It doesn’t affect anyone. God pays no attention. If you believe that, you have never read the Bible.
LARGEST BANK ROBBERY IN HISTORY (Friday Church News Notes, November 13, 2026, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - With the latest theft of $6.34 billion on October 29, a total of $8.7 billion in crypto currency has been stolen in 2026, with lawless North Korea accounting for 85% of that theft. Even though as much as half of the stolen amount was frozen, that still allows the thieves to hold on to a massive amount of funds that they are able to exchange for “real money” by a complex laundering system. We are reminded that this is a wicked world. Man’s fallen nature is described perfectly in Romans 3:9-18: “As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one. ... They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.” Jesus described the condition of man’s heart: “For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, THEFTS, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness” (Mark 7:21-22). This means that religion cannot make man right with God. Good works cannot purify the heart. Only faith in the blood of Jesus Christ can do that. Further, man’s fallen nature means nothing is safe in this world. Jesus taught His people how to be wise with their earthly goods: “Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also” (Matthew 6:19-21). What great wisdom! What a unique Book the Bible is!
A CHRISTIAN WOMAN’S TESTIMONY ABOUT DRESS (Friday Church News Notes, November 13, 2026, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - “I really want to thank you for writing your book, Dressing for the Lord. It was a great help in my Bible study and coming to the conclusion that I did about dress and God has really changed my heart and humbled me through this. ... What really pierced me with truth was when I saw two men during the time I was studying and they were in the same store but on different days when I was shopping and they were dressed and acting like women. … to be perfectly honest, my first reaction inside was the disgust and offense I felt as a woman. These men were making a complete mockery of what it means to be a woman. They were also throwing out the wonderful manhood God designed them for. It both disgusted and saddened me. As I was retelling this to some friends and explaining my feelings on this, I slipped out that I wondered if this is how men felt back when women first started putting on pants. I stopped there and realized that God had just convicted me out of my own mouth. That was the day I decided I was going to get rid of my pants and make some major changes and grow my hair out and keep it grown out. Also here in Ireland we recently watched the feminists win once again in a major landslide vote to bring abortion into this country. The feminist movement is the same group that started putting pants on women, pushing for androgyny and homosexuality in a very major and vocal manner, marched around in Washington DC with vulgar and disgusting costumes when trying to push abortion there, and are pushing for abortion around the whole world. If the same people who are for mass murder of innocent children as well as gender confusion and turning around what God designed are the same ones who started cutting women’s hair short and putting pants on us, then I want to make it clear to anyone who looks at me that I have no part whatsoever in this wickedness. After making the decision to stop wearing pants, God has shown me that modesty and dressing as a woman is about something even more in the heart. It is symbol of humility. It is about learning to have a meek and quiet spirit. It is about recognizing and honoring God-given authority in our lives and being content to be who God made us to be which is the best thing we can be. When I put on a long, loose skirt, and I am covered where I need to be covered, I am humbly submitting to God and to my God-given authority. I have learned that in that submission I am protected, spiritually and physically.”
SUPER SMART SPIDERS (Friday Church News Notes, November 13, 2026, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - The following is from CreationMoments.com, October 7, 2026: “For over a century, scientists have wondered about the embellishments that at least 78 species of spiders weave into their webs. The extra bars and X’s seem to have no obvious purpose. Some have suggested that they might be hiding spots, sun shields, bird warnings or insect lures. Now a researcher at the University of Kyoto may have discovered the purpose of these designs. If he is right, evolutionary theory may be the victim of these spiders’ webs. The Asian spider the researcher studied builds two different types of webs. When it is well fed, this spider adds silk bands along the web spokes. However, when this spider is hungry it arranges these bands so that they spiral toward the center of the web. After testing the tension in both web types, he discovered that the webs with the spiral bands are much more sensitive to even the smallest insect than the banded webs. In other words, the hungry spider is looking for any insect it might eat. The full spider is only interested in larger insects. The question is, how could mindless evolution give these spiders the knowledge of structural engineering needed to create these designs? In addition, according to the evolutionary tree for spiders, this knowledge would have to have evolved at least nine times! A much more logical and straightforward explanation is that the Creator gave spiders this knowledge when He made them. Ref: Science News, ‘Hungry spiders tune up web jiggliness.’”
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).
BEWARE OF EMINEM (Friday Church News Notes, November 13, 2026, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - Since 1999, Eminem (real name Marshall Mathers) is one of the biggest names in rap/hip hop. He has sold more than 228 million records in the U.S. and 130 million worldwide. Billboard magazine named him one of “the greatest rappers of all time.” Eminem’s 1999 album The Slim Shady LP, which launched him to stardom, featured a “drug-dealing, bloodthirsty thug who spits furious rhymes about murder, rape, drugs and living by the law of the urban jungle.” Slim Shady is the rapper’s “alter ego.” He claims it’s all just entertainment, like a horror movie (Robert Hilburn, “Has He No Shame?” Los Angeles Times, May 14, 2000). The vicious song “Just the Two of Us” (also called “97 Bonnie and Clyde”) is about a man who kills the mother of his child and has the following conversation with his daughter on the way to dispose of the body: “Where’s mama? She’s just taking a little nap in the trunk/ Oh, that smell? Dada must have runned over a skunk.” Mathers actually used his young daughter’s vocals in this vile song. Eminem revisited this theme in his 2000 The Marshall Mathers album in the song “Kim,” which is the name of his wife. A secular music reviewer described it as “an hour-plus of vile, hate-filled spew, dripping with references to rape, murder and violence toward women, gays and pretty much anyone Eminem doesn’t like. On the opening track, the rapper even threatens to rape and kill his estranged mother” (Dan Durchholz, “Eminem tops the charts,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, June 25, 2000). When he played the song to his wife, he told her, “[I]t shows how much I care about you. To even think about you this much. To even put you on a song like this.” To the contrary, murderous “love” is not love. The “love” of rock/hip hop is not love, it is lust, at best. God’s Word defines real love. “Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil” (1 Corinthians 13:4-5). Countless hip hop-loving men have murdered their wives and “baby mammas,” but of course this has nothing to do with the music and the culture it has created. It’s just art. Wink, wink. In 2017, Eminem appeared on the song “No Favors” in Big Sean’s album I Decided, calling President Trump vile names and rapping about brutally raping conservative commentator Ann Coulter. It’s just harmless art, of course. It doesn’t affect anyone. God pays no attention. If you believe that, you have never read the Bible.
LARGEST BANK ROBBERY IN HISTORY (Friday Church News Notes, November 13, 2026, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - With the latest theft of $6.34 billion on October 29, a total of $8.7 billion in crypto currency has been stolen in 2026, with lawless North Korea accounting for 85% of that theft. Even though as much as half of the stolen amount was frozen, that still allows the thieves to hold on to a massive amount of funds that they are able to exchange for “real money” by a complex laundering system. We are reminded that this is a wicked world. Man’s fallen nature is described perfectly in Romans 3:9-18: “As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one. ... They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.” Jesus described the condition of man’s heart: “For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, THEFTS, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness” (Mark 7:21-22). This means that religion cannot make man right with God. Good works cannot purify the heart. Only faith in the blood of Jesus Christ can do that. Further, man’s fallen nature means nothing is safe in this world. Jesus taught His people how to be wise with their earthly goods: “Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also” (Matthew 6:19-21). What great wisdom! What a unique Book the Bible is!
A CHRISTIAN WOMAN’S TESTIMONY ABOUT DRESS (Friday Church News Notes, November 13, 2026, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - “I really want to thank you for writing your book, Dressing for the Lord. It was a great help in my Bible study and coming to the conclusion that I did about dress and God has really changed my heart and humbled me through this. ... What really pierced me with truth was when I saw two men during the time I was studying and they were in the same store but on different days when I was shopping and they were dressed and acting like women. … to be perfectly honest, my first reaction inside was the disgust and offense I felt as a woman. These men were making a complete mockery of what it means to be a woman. They were also throwing out the wonderful manhood God designed them for. It both disgusted and saddened me. As I was retelling this to some friends and explaining my feelings on this, I slipped out that I wondered if this is how men felt back when women first started putting on pants. I stopped there and realized that God had just convicted me out of my own mouth. That was the day I decided I was going to get rid of my pants and make some major changes and grow my hair out and keep it grown out. Also here in Ireland we recently watched the feminists win once again in a major landslide vote to bring abortion into this country. The feminist movement is the same group that started putting pants on women, pushing for androgyny and homosexuality in a very major and vocal manner, marched around in Washington DC with vulgar and disgusting costumes when trying to push abortion there, and are pushing for abortion around the whole world. If the same people who are for mass murder of innocent children as well as gender confusion and turning around what God designed are the same ones who started cutting women’s hair short and putting pants on us, then I want to make it clear to anyone who looks at me that I have no part whatsoever in this wickedness. After making the decision to stop wearing pants, God has shown me that modesty and dressing as a woman is about something even more in the heart. It is symbol of humility. It is about learning to have a meek and quiet spirit. It is about recognizing and honoring God-given authority in our lives and being content to be who God made us to be which is the best thing we can be. When I put on a long, loose skirt, and I am covered where I need to be covered, I am humbly submitting to God and to my God-given authority. I have learned that in that submission I am protected, spiritually and physically.”
SUPER SMART SPIDERS (Friday Church News Notes, November 13, 2026, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - The following is from CreationMoments.com, October 7, 2026: “For over a century, scientists have wondered about the embellishments that at least 78 species of spiders weave into their webs. The extra bars and X’s seem to have no obvious purpose. Some have suggested that they might be hiding spots, sun shields, bird warnings or insect lures. Now a researcher at the University of Kyoto may have discovered the purpose of these designs. If he is right, evolutionary theory may be the victim of these spiders’ webs. The Asian spider the researcher studied builds two different types of webs. When it is well fed, this spider adds silk bands along the web spokes. However, when this spider is hungry it arranges these bands so that they spiral toward the center of the web. After testing the tension in both web types, he discovered that the webs with the spiral bands are much more sensitive to even the smallest insect than the banded webs. In other words, the hungry spider is looking for any insect it might eat. The full spider is only interested in larger insects. The question is, how could mindless evolution give these spiders the knowledge of structural engineering needed to create these designs? In addition, according to the evolutionary tree for spiders, this knowledge would have to have evolved at least nine times! A much more logical and straightforward explanation is that the Creator gave spiders this knowledge when He made them. Ref: Science News, ‘Hungry spiders tune up web jiggliness.’”
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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