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Brian Recker

Raleigh

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  • 1 week ago | brianrecker.substack.com | Brian Recker

    “Pride goes before a fall,” my dad said solemnly as we sat in traffic in Midtown Manhattan. Growing up, my dad was the pastor of an Independent Fundamental Baptist church in the heart of New York City. Our congregation met in a public school just blocks from the Stonewall Inn—the gay bar that police raided in 1969, leading to a revolutionary riot that became the turning point for LGBT rights. beloved, with Brian Recker is a reader-supported publication.

  • 2 weeks ago | brianrecker.substack.com | Brian Recker

    Let me begin with some facts. Undocumented immigrants are more likely to be part of the workforce than American citizens, they are less likely to be criminals, and they pay about $100 billion in taxes—including contributing billions to programs like Social Security and Medicare that they are excluded from. As a result of their massive contributions, the vast majority of economists believe that the net effect of illegal immigration on the U.S. economy is positive, not negative.

  • 3 weeks ago | brianrecker.substack.com | Brian Recker

    Luke 7:36–39And behold, a woman of the city, who was a sinner, when she learned that he was reclining at table in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster flask of ointment, and standing behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears and wiped them with the hair of her head and kissed his feet and anointed them with the ointment.

  • 1 month ago | brianrecker.substack.com | Brian Recker

    Matthew 25:32–4632 All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats...

  • 1 month ago | brianrecker.substack.com | Brian Recker

    Luke 8:43-4843 And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years, but no one could heal her. 44 She came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak, and immediately her bleeding stopped. 45 “Who touched me?” Jesus asked.