Scripture teaches that believers are drawn into a conflict that is older and larger than human history. The rebellion of Satan and his angels (Revelation 12:7–9) forms the backdrop of a war that now touches every believer. This conflict is not symbolic; it is a real struggle against real spiritual beings.
Today, these forces remain on earth, awaiting the moment when God’s sons—His children—awaken to their true calling. Our role is clear: we are to be witnesses who testify to the accomplishment of the fall of Satan’s kingdom. As believers, we stand as living evidence that the defeat of the enemy has been accomplished in the spiritual realm and is now being manifested through our lives and testimony here on earth.
2. The Enemy Is Not Human
Paul’s central statement reframes the entire Christian worldview: “We wrestle not against flesh and blood” (Ephesians 6:12). People are not the enemy. Behind human conflict stands an organized kingdom of darkness—“principalities,” “powers,” and “spiritual wickedness in heavenly places.” Humans may oppose believers, but they are captives of the enemy (2 Timothy 2:26), not the enemy themselves.
3. Satan and His Host
The Bible presents Satan as a fallen spiritual being (Revelation 12:9), the “prince of the power of the air” (Ephesians 2:2), and a roaring lion seeking to devour (1 Peter 5:8). His forces are structured, intelligent, and active in the world. Their aim is to deceive, accuse, tempt, and destroy.
4. How Believers Enter the Fray
Christians do not volunteer for this war; they enter it by being united with Christ. When God transfers us from darkness to light (Colossians 1:13), we become participants in the conflict between these two kingdoms. The battlefield is the mind, the heart, and the world around us.
5. The Armor of God
Because the enemy is spiritual, the weapons must be spiritual (2 Corinthians 10:4). Paul’s armor in Ephesians 6:13–18—truth, righteousness, faith, salvation, the Word, and prayer—is God’s provision for standing firm. These are not metaphors for feelings; they are the practical means by which believers resist the enemy’s schemes.
6. Christ’s Victory Is Our Confidence
Believers fight from a position of victory, not uncertainty. Christ has already disarmed the powers (Colossians 2:15) and destroyed the works of the devil (1 John 3:8). Our task is not to defeat Satan but to stand in the triumph Christ has secured.
Conclusion
The Christian life is participation in an invisible war. Our enemies are not human but spiritual; our weapons are not earthly but divine; and our confidence rests not in ourselves but in Christ’s finished work. To understand this is to see the world as Scripture sees it—and to engage the right battle with the right weapons. Kenneth Wayne Hancock [co-pilot]
Please take time to read this Substack by Virgil Walker. He is correct in his perspective – and now – even more now – the fight is real for the children of this society. If not now – WHEN?
Short. Panicked. “Virgil, my daughter says she’s non-binary. I don’t even know what that means.”
I stared at the screen longer than I expected. Not because I didn’t understand the question, but because it’s become so heartbreakingly normal.
Another Christian home. Another teenage girl. Another identity crisis unfolding under the roof of parents who pray, go to church, and genuinely thought they were doing enough.
I called him back. His voice was low, defeated. For months, he’d watched his daughter drift. A phone glued to her hand. A new group of friends with inside jokes he didn’t understand. A secret social media account she made during a sleepover. A youth group that entertained her but never discipled her. A mother stretched thin by work and worry. A father who was physically present but emotionally absent.
By the time she said the words out loud, the real battle had been lost months earlier.
This is the quiet crisis. Not loud rebellion. Not dramatic apostasy. A slow drift no one notices until it becomes a storm.
We’re not losing our daughters in college. We’re losing them in the living room.
Not because the culture is loud, but because the Church has grown quiet. And because too many Christian homes have unknowingly outsourced discipleship to screens, schools, and youth ministries that don’t know our daughters the way we do.
The Pressures Our Daughters Carry Alone
Girls today are growing up in a digital marketplace where identity is traded for attention. Every scroll preaches a new sermon:
Change your body.
Invent your truth.
Cut off anyone who disagrees.
Trust your feelings.
Normalize the chaos.
Anxiety is spiking. Self-harm is trending. Gender confusion spreads through friend groups like wildfire.
They’re being discipled every day—but rarely by us.
The Exhausted Mother and the Distracted Father
This isn’t about blame. It’s about honesty.
Many mothers are silently exhausted. Many fathers think being in the house is the same as leading it.
But daughters need more.
They need a mother who is present enough to teach identity through tenderness and example. They need a father who steps into their emotional world with strength, clarity, and affection.
Scripture is clear: “Do not forsake your mother’s teaching” (Proverbs 1:8). “Fathers, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord” (Ephesians 6:4).
The home is the first seminary. The father is the first pastor. The mother is the first discipler. The Bible is the curriculum.
When we loosen our grip on those responsibilities, the world grabs the pen.
How the Church Accidentally Helped Create This Crisis
Most churches want to serve families well, but the results tell a different story.
Youth ministries often entertain our daughters but don’t form them. Women’s ministries too often trade doctrine for emotional uplift. Pastors avoid clarity about womanhood for fear of offending someone.
When the Church stopped defining womanhood, TikTok took the job.
Now, girls learn more about identity from strangers online than from the people who love them most.
The Lies Our Daughters Are Swallowing
We can’t rescue our daughters unless we expose the lies shaping them.
The culture tells them:
Your feelings are your identity.
Your body is optional.
Your family is a barrier.
Your worth is measured in attention.
Truth grows inside you, not above you.
Happiness requires self-reinvention.
Any boundary is oppression.
This isn’t neutral content. It’s a rival religion.
And it disciples more aggressively than most churches preach.
The Biblical Truth They’re Starving For
Our daughters need something deeper than slogans, softer than affirmations, and stronger than self-esteem.
They need Scripture. They need doctrine. They need clarity. They need the beauty of femaleness explained and celebrated. They need a vision for womanhood shaped by creation, not culture. They need a Father in heaven who names them before the world can rename them.
Identity isn’t discovered. It’s received.
Our daughters need that truth more than they need a selfie, a trend, or an online tribe.
How Christian Homes Can Reclaim Their Daughters
Reclaim the dinner table. Talk. Listen. Ask real questions. Reclaim the phone. Set boundaries with courage. Reclaim the father’s voice. Shepherd. Protect. Speak. Reclaim the mother’s presence. Model. Guide. Love. Reclaim worship as a family discipline. Reclaim conversations about identity before the culture plants its seeds. Reclaim discipleship as the work of the home, not the side project of the church.
This isn’t complicated. It’s just costly. It requires time, courage, and conviction.
A Closing Word to the Father Who Texted Me
After we talked, he grew quiet. Not defeated—determined.
“I didn’t fight for her heart early enough,” he said. “But I’m ready now.”
There was no quick fix. No magic verse. No formula. Just a path forward built on presence, repentance, prayer, and truth.
That’s the call for every Christian parent reading this.
We won’t win our daughters with panic. We’ll win them with presence. We’ll win them with Scripture. We’ll win them with patience. We’ll win them with courage rooted in Christ.
The culture is loud, but the gospel is stronger. If we reclaim the work God gave to the home, we won’t lose this generation of daughters.
Not on our watch.
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The door to the other dimension — the spiritual dimension — is Christ Himself. Scripture teaches that we must enter the Kingdom of God, but the question remains: How do we enter? Jesus answers plainly: “I am the door.” But a door always opens somewhere. Christ is the Door that opens into the righteous, heavenly dimension — the realm where God’s will is done, the realm Jesus taught us to seek when He said, “Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth…” Through His righteousness, we step from the natural into the spiritual, from the earthly into the heavenly.
Peter expands this truth by explaining that an entrance into this Kingdom is “supplied” to those who add seven attributes to the faith already operating within them (2 Peter 1:1–8). These seven additions are nothing less than the divine nature of Christ, spiritually transposed into our earthly vessels. As we add them, we are not merely improving our character — we are entering the righteous spiritual dimension where God’s Kingdom operates. Christ is the Door, and these attributes are the steps through that Door.
This is the very purpose of God: to multiply His divine nature into “many sons unto glory.” We have been chosen to walk this path of apostleship, following Christ step by step, for “the steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD.” The Kingdom we enter is invisible, spiritual, and real — a dimension into which Christ alone grants access.
Christ has given us “exceeding great and precious promises,” and through these promises we become partakers of His divine nature. Peter, in the opening chapter of his second letter, lists the very qualities that form this path of entrance: virtue, knowledge, self‑control, perseverance, godliness, brotherly kindness, and love. These are not suggestions; they are commands spoken by an apostle who walked with the Savior Himself.
Peter’s authority is not theoretical. His life bears witness:
• He performed the first apostolic miracle after Pentecost (Acts 3).
• He opened the gospel to the Gentiles through Cornelius (Acts 10).
• He served as a foundational leader and spokesman of the Jerusalem church (Acts 1–12).
• He authored 1 & 2 Peter, strengthening believers and clarifying doctrine.
• He displayed boldness under persecution (Acts 4–5).
• He confessed Jesus as “the Christ, the Son of the living God,” by revelation of the Father (Matt. 16:16–17).
• He was restored by Christ and became a model of grace after failure (Luke 22; John 21).
This is the man who tells us how to enter the Kingdom. His words carry weight because he walked with the Door Himself.
Therefore, we can trust Peter when he declares that adding these seven facets to the gem of God’s faith will open to us an abundant entrance into the everlasting Kingdom. Each attribute is a deliberate step deeper into the spiritual dimension where Christ reigns. We are not passive spectators but active participants in this transformation. As we cultivate these qualities, they become signposts marking our progress into the Kingdom, confirming our calling and election.
And the more faithfully we walk in them, the more abundantly the entrance is supplied — until we find ourselves fully stepping through Christ the Door into the dimension He has prepared for His sons and daughters. Kenneth Wayne Hancock
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I was clearing out some paperwork this weekend and came across a letter my now deceased father wrote to my yet to be born son, oh so many years ago. What a gift to find this again. And more so – such simple yet direct and timeless guidance from one generation to another. My heart is so thankful for this message from the past. But that the generations today will apply this guidance too. There is so much to still learn from our elders.
Tell it to your children, and let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation.” Joel 1:3
Dear Future Grandson:
Right now you are still in your mom’s womb and nobody knows what the future will bring, but you will be my first Grandson and there are some thoughts and ideas that I have been brought up with or learned in life that I believe are worth passing on.
Much of what I am going to say to you is much better stated in Rudyard Kipling’s great poem “If”.
While you are still a young man I encourage you to find it, absorb it, and pattern your life after it.
There are no sweeter words in the English language than “God”, “Love”, “Honor” and “Duty”.
To keep them foremost in your thoughts and actions, no matter what the trial or tribulation, you face, will see you through.
However, to follow them will also be your most difficult challenge, as the world will always work against you and present you with much easier paths to follow.
There are a few specific things that come to mind that I believe are worth repeating:
Always keep your word – it is your bond! Don’t give it thoughtlessly or carelessly, but once given, keep it to the fullest.
Always respect women – never abuse them verbally or physically! No male can ever be a man if he stoops to such behavior.
Respect and appreciate the beauty of this Earth and the wild creatures that God gave us to inhabit it – never abuse or befoul it or them.
Remember that your children and their descendents will have to live in the environment that you and your generation left them.
Honor your Country, your State and your region – You are fortunate, by the grace of God, to be born in the greatest nation on the/face of the earth. And you are a Native born Virginian, the State within that nation with the proudest traditions in the creation of that Nation and those principles of personal freedom you will enjoy.
Lastly, you are, by both birth and heritage, a Southerner whose forbearers fought for those principles and their honor in the founding of this country as far back as the Revolutionary War.
You are the inheritor of a great tradition. Don’t dishonor it!
Be ambitious and productive – always carry your own weight. But never let greed and material wealth be your master or cloud your judgement.
Honor your family and your good name – never bring disgrace on either!
Live your life as an example for your children. Give them your Love, attention and discipline.
Remember, no matter how successful in life you may become or how great your accomplishments may be, your only truly lasting legacy will be your children!
Lastly, and most importantly, live your life with God as your daily companion. He and only He will give you the wisdom, courage and comfort to see you through the good times and the bad.
God Bless You, My Grandson, may your life be long, fruitful, honorable, in God’s grace, and full of good cheer.
With love – Your Grandfather.
“Blessed are those who find wisdom, those who gain understanding.” Proverbs 3:13
“My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad indeed.” Proverbs 23:15
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