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Why are there so many Christian denominations? Do the differences actually matter? In this episode of LIVE FREE, Pastors Josh Howerton, Carlos Erazo, and Paul Cunningham break down the biggest Christian denominations, including Catholics, Protestants, Orthodox, Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, and Pentecostals, while explaining what truly separates them theologically. This conversation clarifies essential doctrines, denominational differences, church history, biblical authority, and how believers can wisely choose a healthy church without falling into confusion or unnecessary division. In this episode, you’ll learn:  • Why denominations exist  • Which doctrines are essential for salvation  • Key differences between major Christian groups  • How to evaluate healthy churches  • Why biblical truth matters more than labels   Stand firm. Think biblically. Live free.   00:00:00 - Every Christian Denomination Explained 00:00:18 - Join Us for Church ...

By Ashley Hume Sylvester Stallone revealed that he was blindsided when President Donald Trump announced his appointment as a special ambassador to Hollywood. Days before his second inauguration in January 2025, Trump shared a post on his platform Truth Social in which he named Stallone, Mel Gibson and Jon Voight as "Special Envoys," describing the role as a way for the three actors to serve as his "eyes and ears" in Hollywood and advise him on efforts to bring film and television production back to the U.S. During a recent interview with The Sunday Times , the 80-year-old "Rocky" star recalled that he found out about the appointment while watching television. "I was watching TV one night, and they go, ‘So Stallone and Mel Gibson and Jon Voight will be …’ And I went, ‘What?’ I said, ‘Excuse me? Really?’ Because if they had asked me in the beginning, I would have said, ‘This is not possible,'" Stallone said. Sylvester Stallone reveale...

By Bob Hoge President Donald Trump addressed the United Nations General Assembly in New York City Tuesday in a far-ranging speech where he talked about artificial intelligence , the U.S. security deal with Greenland , the world economy, and more. Not surprisingly, one of his main focuses was the conflict with the Islamic Republic of Iran . He reiterated a point he’s been making over the last several days — he has a big decision to make: build or destroy? Should he increase military pressure on the despotic regime or come to a deal? It's all coming to a head, he told delegates from around the world: . @POTUS : I have a big decision to make. Will a deal be made with Iran that lets them rebuild and create a far greater country than it ever was before — maybe one of the greatest in the Middle East or even the world? Or do I annihilate the Islamic Republic, and do it quickly,… https://t.co/RxA76o2HKU pic.twitter.com/0IWfkVxTyj — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) September 22, 20...

By Teri Christoph Two remarkable things happened at the United Nations General Assembly's Tuesday meeting in New York City.  First, President Trump's speech was miraculously televised, despite CNN, MS NOW, and a plethora of other legacy media types insisting they were the only ones capable of aiming a video camera at the president.  And, secondly, the Cuban delegation walked out of the president's speech in a snit after he called them an "absolutely failed state" that ultimately "will fall."  He didn't miss a beat as the delegates fled the auditorium, but instead leaned even harder into his message, declaring that communism would never come to America but that "freedom will be coming to Cuba." The danger of the regime's failed policies, he noted, wasn't just to the Cuban people, but also to the United States itself. “We will not allow a haven for foreign adversaries to threaten America on our own doorstep — right at our doorste...

Nuuk, the capitol of Greenland (Shutterstock) By Clarice Feldman Last week the U.S. entered into an agreement with both Denmark and Greenland which protects U.S. sovereignty, deters Russian and Chinese aggression, circles an increasingly fey and unreliable Canada with U.S. states and bases, and makes the U.S. exit from a sclerotic NATO more possible, if not more likely. First, a little background. Contrary to the press and jokesters who ridiculed President Trump’s offer to buy Greenland, a territory of Denmark with about 56,000 inhabitants, we have long known its strategic importance. In 1951, we entered into an agreement with Denmark allowing us to establish a base at Thule. Article XIV of that Treaty states that “This Agreement, being in implementation of the North Atlantic Treaty, shall remain in effect for the duration of the North Atlantic Treaty.” If we left NATO or it otherwise ceased to exist, we had no clear right to maintain defenses there. Nor did we have exclusiv...

By Ben Smith FBI Director Kash Patel posted the latest numbers from Operation Blackout on Tuesday, the bureau’s campaign against overseas scam compounds targeting Americans. Patel put the haul at more than $15 billion in assets and cryptocurrency. More than 500 fake investment sites have been shut down, hundreds of people arrested , and thousands of trafficked workers freed. The FBI also warned more than 10,000 Americans before they sent money to scammers, saving more than $500 million, according to Patel. More than 20 countries are now involved. OPERATION BLACKOUT. These aren’t random scammers sitting behind laptops. They built fortified compounds, trafficked human beings, forced slave labor, and constructed an international fraud machine targeting Americans. So we’re dismantling the machine. $15+ BILLION in assets… pic.twitter.com/5y1sqCKE1B — FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) September 21, 2026 Patel went straight at what sits behind the fake investment pitch or ran...

By Matt Margolis Ask a Democrat how far he or she would go to get rid of President Donald Trump, and the honest answer, according to a new poll of self-identified liberals by the Center for Strategic Politics, is further than anyone should be comfortable admitting out loud. But let’s start with the numbers that shouldn't shock anyone. As you might expect, 87% said they'd feel positive if Trump were impeached, convicted by both houses of Congress, and removed from office. Another 84% said they'd feel positive if Trump's Cabinet invoked the 25th Amendment and forced him out, with 70% landing on very positive. Fine. That's politics. But it gets worse from there. So much worse. According to the poll , 55% said they'd feel positive if Trump simply died in his sleep, compared with only 17% who'd feel negative and 28% who were neutral. The poll also found that 59% of liberals, a majority, said they'd feel positive if U.S. military leaders removed Trump from...

By Catherine Salgado Andrew Coates has a state EMT license in Nebraska and is a volunteer firefighter who wanted to turn that volunteer work into a profession. But while the state of Nebraska simply says firemen have to be high school graduates, the city is claiming that it will only accept diplomas from accredited high schools, excluding homeschoolers like him. My mother homeschooled me from kindergarten through 12th grade, and we used a program that does have official accreditation. But most homeschoolers use a much more individualized and unofficial curriculum, and since public officials usually despise parents as educational authorities, many of them refuse to recognize the validity of homeschool education, even though homeschoolers overall consistently score higher on standardized tests.  This rejection of Coates has nothing to do with competency, given the disastrous scores and increasing incompetence of many public-school students, and Coates’ own state EMT license. It...

By Victor Davis Hanson The midterm elections are six weeks away. Suddenly, a debate has erupted over the existential dangers of artificial intelligence. Jacob Coxon, a little-known Silicon Valley researcher who worked at OpenAI and Anthropic, resigned and went public with a dire warning: AI now threatens the future of the world. Shortly beforehand, news broke of the Hugging Face episode, in which OpenAI’s advanced AI “agents” autonomously hacked another company’s computers. Bedlam followed. Weaponizing AI Almost on cue, Democrats seized on the alarm as a new cause célèbre, accusing Donald Trump and the MAGA movement of recklessly courting Armageddon. The Left demanded international treaties, ignoring the dismal record of such globalist projects: the League of Nations, the Kellogg-Briand Pact, the Washington Naval Treaty, the Versailles Treaty, the Munich Agreement, the Paris Climate Accord, and the UN Human Rights Council. Panicky AI executives soon joined the chorus, speaking as t...