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America Needs a Slap in the Face
Shane Idleman

Shane Idleman (1972 - ). American pastor, author, and speaker born in Southern California. Raised in a Christian home, he drifted from faith in his youth, pursuing a career as a corporate executive in the fitness industry before a dramatic conversion in his late 20s. Leaving business in 1999, he began studying theology independently and entered full-time ministry. In 2009, he founded Westside Christian Fellowship in Lancaster, California, relocating it to Leona Valley in 2018, where he remains lead pastor. Idleman has authored 12 books, including Desperate for More of God (2011) and Help! I’m Addicted (2022), focusing on spiritual revival and overcoming sin. He launched the Westside Christian Radio Network (WCFRadio.org) in 2019 and hosts Regaining Lost Ground, a program addressing faith and culture. His ministry emphasizes biblical truth, repentance, and engagement with issues like abortion and religious liberty. Married to Morgan since 1997, they have four children. In 2020, he organized the Stadium Revival in California, drawing thousands, and his sermons reach millions online via platforms like YouTube and Rumble.
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Shane Idleman passionately addresses the urgent need for America and the church to awaken from their slumber of unrepentant sin and moral decay. He emphasizes that many justify their sinful actions, leading to a divisive and angry society. Idleman calls for boldness in confronting evil, particularly regarding issues like abortion, and urges a return to biblical principles in governance. He likens the need for awakening to the jarring sound of an alarm clock, stressing that it is time to speak out against injustices and stand firm in faith. The sermon serves as a wake-up call to both individuals and the nation to recognize and repent from their wrongdoings.
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Those stuck in unrepentant sin will continue to justify it. I did. When you're stuck in unrepentant, bold, arrogant sin, you will justify that sin. That's why you have a lot of angry people. Angry people. The divide in our nation, I've never seen so divisive. Have you? I mean, I don't know if you caught what they got that guy on Bernie Sanders campaign on tape saying, if Trump wins again, cities will burn. People will die. And his boss is running for the presidency. We've lost our mind. Our conscious has been seared with a hot iron. We are calling evil good and good evil. America and the church must wake up. How do you wake up? Well, one way is messages like this. You slap her arrogant face with a sermon, not physically, of course. And you wake people up. You wake them up. And shocking things that are true. What Planned Parenthood is doing is they're money laundering the blood of innocent children. That is the truth. Supreme Court, you better not play God. You better go back to the foundation on which your institution was created, was to govern according to the constitution based on biblical precepts. That's all biblical. Sacramento, Newsom, and all those places allowing abortions in college and allowing our young girls and removing parental rights where a kid doesn't even, they need parental consent for an aspirin, but not an abortion. We have lost our mind. We have drifted so off course that sometimes we need to be jarred up and from our woke and from our sleep. How pleasant is your alarm clock? Beep, beep, beep, beep. Or the alarm out in your car. What is that? Is that mine? It sounds like gentle, a gentle breeze. Is that birds chirping? It wakes you up. There's a scream. There's a call. There's a yell. There's a boldness. There's a brazenness that they can cheer to murder children, but I can't raise the volume to call them to the carpet and say that is wrong. Not on our watch. We will call out sin. We will love you all the way to the courthouse and the ballot box. But when it comes time to voice our concern, we will voice that concern. We will stand up boldly and proudly and loudly and say not on our watch.
America Needs a Slap in the Face
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Shane Idleman (1972 - ). American pastor, author, and speaker born in Southern California. Raised in a Christian home, he drifted from faith in his youth, pursuing a career as a corporate executive in the fitness industry before a dramatic conversion in his late 20s. Leaving business in 1999, he began studying theology independently and entered full-time ministry. In 2009, he founded Westside Christian Fellowship in Lancaster, California, relocating it to Leona Valley in 2018, where he remains lead pastor. Idleman has authored 12 books, including Desperate for More of God (2011) and Help! I’m Addicted (2022), focusing on spiritual revival and overcoming sin. He launched the Westside Christian Radio Network (WCFRadio.org) in 2019 and hosts Regaining Lost Ground, a program addressing faith and culture. His ministry emphasizes biblical truth, repentance, and engagement with issues like abortion and religious liberty. Married to Morgan since 1997, they have four children. In 2020, he organized the Stadium Revival in California, drawing thousands, and his sermons reach millions online via platforms like YouTube and Rumble.