Jesus used this metaphor to communicate with his followers. The survival of sheep depends on the existence of a shepherd who cares.
“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd sacrifices his life for the sheep. A hired hand will run when he sees a wolf coming. He will abandon the sheep because they don’t belong to him and he isn’t their shepherd. And so the wolf attacks them and scatters the flock. The hired hand runs away because he’s working only for the money and doesn’t really care about the sheep.
“I am the good shepherd; I know my own sheep, and they know me, just as my Father knows me and I know the Father. So I sacrifice my life for the sheep. I have other sheep, too, that are not in this sheepfold. I must bring them also. They will listen to my voice, and there will be one flock with one shepherd.”
John 10: 11-16 (NLT).
Dear friends and followers,
Thank you for the flood of prayers and encouragement after I shared about the hateful emails I’ve been receiving. The latest one, arriving today, tells me the “best way to serve humanity” is to end my life.
These attacks are meant to intimidate and silence me. They won’t!
My strength comes from Jesus Christ.
Your support reminds me why truth-telling matters.
Please keep praying for protection over all who speak boldly. And let’s remember: words have power. Use them to build people up, and not to destroy.
“For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.” — 2 Timothy 1:7 ✝️
What gives you strength when facing darkness?
God bless you all.
#StandForTruth #CarolSwainSpeaks
After testifying before Congress to demand accountability from the SPLC, I was rewarded with a barrage of threatening, foul-mouthed emails from progressives — exactly the kind of intimidation their leaders encourage by distorting the truth.
“No weapon forged against you will prevail, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and this is their vindication from me,” declares the Lord. — Isaiah 54:17 (NIV)
Yesterday at the hearing on the SPLC’s role in manufacturing hate labels, Rep. Moskowitz pressed me hard on whether neo-Nazis are white supremacists.
Neo-Nazis generally fuse antisemitism with a belief in Aryan or white racial supremacy and dominance. That overlap is real. But antisemitism itself is older and broader. It shows up in Black nationalist circles, Islamist movements, far-left anti-Zionism, and other places that have nothing to do with white supremacy.
The SPLC once focused on actual extremists like the KKK and neo-Nazis. It has since drifted into labeling mainstream conservatives, Christians, and dissenting voices as hate groups. That expansion turns precise terms into blunt weapons. When “white supremacist” gets stretched to cover systems, statistics, or anyone who rejects the new orthodoxy, clarity dies and honest disagreement gets recast as extremism.
Words matter. Definitions should describe reality, not serve an agenda.
