Baby Cyrus story is now a documentary every American should see

Government controlled human trafficking must stop in America

When essentially moral people witness explicit harm being continually done to helpless and innocent children, isn’t it time for all of God’s children to do everything in their power to stop it?

In our mission to apply God’s Word as it touches every area of our society, we’re increasingly challenged to do whatever we can to answer the prophet Isaiah’s call to God’s people:

“Cease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice, reprove the ruthless; defend the orphan, plead for the widow.” Isaiah 1:16-17

When are we going to compel our personal communities of believers to take that charge seriously enough to apply it to one of the timeliest commands of Scripture – Proverbs 24:11?

“Deliver those who are being taken away to death, and those who are staggering to slaughter, O hold them back.” Proverbs 24:11

The rest of that passage says:

‘If you say, “Behold, we did not know this,”
does not he who weighs the heart perceive it?
Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it,
and will he not repay (each) man according to his work?’

Proverbs 24:12

It’s natural for well-meaning people to think the best of others, especially when you live in a society that, for generations, was largely led to believe that most people were raised to believe in ‘the golden rule.’  But, in today’s chapter of world history, where the depths of empire-controlled evil and openly accepted human depravity are being publicly exposed, our sensitivities are numb from the widespread abandonment of virtue.

A documentary film producer, Ryan Matta, is devoted to what he honestly believes is his God-given mission to expose and, hopefully, dismantle the scourge of human trafficking in America.  He produced a new documentary in December 2025, featuring a true story about the unlawful abduction of the grandson of one of my dear personal friends, who pastored an inner-city church in California for over a decade. My friend, Diego, also has championed the defense of the scientific and historic case for Biblical creation for many years, which is how we got acquainted because of our common commitment to home based education of our children.

The documentary film is titled, “Never in America,” and it’s about Child Protective Services—CPS—the three-letter agency nobody wants to talk about, but which may be the most sinister of them all. Not because the people inside it are uniquely evil (though some are), but because the system itself has been engineered into a machine that destroys families on an industrial scale.

Most of us might have thought we understood government corruption. We’ve heard plenty of stories about the FBI, CIA, DOJ, CDC. But regardless what any of us have heard about all the scandals in those government agencies, the nightmare story experienced by my friend Diego’s family is one story that you’ll truly think it could never happen in America.  

It is one thing to believe the government is incompetent. It is another to realize it’s kidnapping children—hundreds of thousands of them—every single year.

And most Americans have no idea.

This report is only a sketch to process what we’ll learn from the scandalous story of Baby Cyrus. The horrifying picture of the “foster care system” that emerges is not comfortable to hear. It’s not comfortable to report. But if you’re a parent, a grandparent, an aunt, an uncle, a human being who deeply cares about your family—this matters… probably more than any of us can fathom.

What Ryan and Diego reveal forces us to confront a reality that sounds like dystopian fiction, except it’s really happening right here, right now, in our country. And the first time you hear it, it breaks your heart with what makes you think you’re in a nightmare that can’t be true.

The Case That Pulled Back the Curtain: What Happened to Baby Cyrus?

If you’ve never heard of the Baby Cyrus case, you’re not alone. Despite becoming one of the most viral CPS cases in American history, it received almost no mainstream media coverage—because it exposed something the corrupt systems of our society desperately want to stay hidden.

The family at the center of it—Diego, his daughter Marissa, her husband, and their baby boy named Cyrus — are the picture of a beautiful and well-adjusted, loving American family. Diego himself is a longtime pastor with a huge extended family and deep community roots. These aren’t parents living on the edge of society, hiding from law enforcement, or struggling with addiction. These are the people we assume would be the least vulnerable to state overreach.

But when CPS wants your child, your virtue doesn’t protect you.

Baby Cyrus presented a puzzling medical condition named “cyclic vomiting syndrome.” It’s a rare digestive disorder with no known medical cure, where a baby can vomit 10, 20, 30 times a day for several days at a time, risking dehydration and malnutrition. The parents were doing everything right: taking him to doctors, monitoring him constantly, protecting him from choking dangers, and trying desperately to find solutions.

Then one nurse noticed the family didn’t vaccinate. And that’s when everything changed. When you watch the documentary, you’ll learn that the nurse’s entire demeanor shifted. Suddenly the parents weren’t seen by the pediatrician as competent or caring—they became suspects. The hospital ordered them to attend a series of classes and weigh-in office appointments, even forcing them to give Tylenol, despite the known harm for an 8-month old baby. After several exhausting days, the mother woke up with a migraine and called to reschedule one of the mandatory office visits. She left a voicemail. Four hours later, CPS was hunting them.

No returned call. No conversation. No due process. Just a full-blown manhunt for a family whose “crime” was rescheduling a routine doctor office appointment.

They were already planning to move to Florida two months later. Out of pure fear—fear I now see was justified—they decided to leave early, hoping that if they got out of the jurisdiction, CPS would close the case. They had broken no laws. They had no charges against them. The only “danger” was that CPS wanted to seize their child, and the parents wanted to prevent that from happening.

When they went to visit a friend—who happened to be a retired sheriff—law enforcement illegally geo-tracked their phones. They surrounded the family in their vehicles near their home with nearly twenty squad cars. Twenty Squad Cars coming for a pastor, his daughter, her husband, and a baby.

The whole incident was broadcast live on Facebook, showing guns were drawn, family members were man-handled from their vehicles, the sister mistaken as the mother was dragged out a window, cuffed, insulted, and arrested even after proving she wasn’t the mom. The real mother was threatened, cornered, forced to hand over her baby “the easy way or the hard way.” After she complied, they arrested her anyway.

Can you imagine handing your infant to a stranger with a gun pointed at you, knowing what the state is capable of—and then being arrested for complying?

Cyrus was taken to the hospital. The parents were jailed. And in any other CPS case, that would’ve been the end.  The vast majority of CPS abductions like this never see their children again. The agency was already making plans to “place” the baby in a foster home.

But this family had two rare advantages: an enormous network of church members and activists, and a close friendship with Ammon Bundy, who was running for governor of Idaho at the time. He mobilized protests overnight. Hundreds of people surrounded the hospital. Thousands sent complaints. The story spread like wildfire across independent media.

Eight days later—an unheard-of outcome in CPS cases—baby Cyrus was returned home.

But the victory was bittersweet. St. Luke’s Hospital then sued Bundy and Diego for tens of millions of dollars, claiming the protests cost them revenue because they “had to shut down for safety.”

To this day, Diego is still fighting off lawsuits that would bankrupt a billionaire—representing himself, because hiring legal defense would destroy his family financially. The state couldn’t keep the child. So they’re trying to destroy the family instead.

What No Parent Wants to Believe: Our Government Is Kidnapping Children

Hearing the details of the Baby Cyrus case is shocking and unnerving enough, but what unraveled next went much, much deeper. This wasn’t an isolated story. It was a symptom of a monstrous system designed to tear apart families, funnel children into state custody, and in far too many cases… into the hands of predators.

It’s obvious that we don’t believe every CPS worker is evil. Many think they’re helping. Many took their jobs because they care about children. But the structure—the incentives, laws, funding streams, and legal shield around CPS—creates machinery that rewards child removal and punishes family preservation. And the numbers tell the truth.

Ryan, the producer of the documentary, shared the statistic that should naturally shock anyone who’s truly listening: An internal CPS audit from 2019 found that 83.3% of the time, CPS was in the wrong when removing a child from its home. Listen to Ryan Matta share some of his discoveries, recorded in the introduction to the documentary, “Never in America.”

Watch the documentary at: https://rumble.com/v724pje-never-in-america-unmasking-cpss-kidnapping-empire.html  

America, what if I told you that the federal government crafted a vile incentive scheme, letting states rake in profits while taking children from their loving parents’ arms? Bankrupting those families and ruling lawfare to silence their desperate cries for justice? Would you believe me? Would you call me a conspiracy theorist?

America, what if I told you that Child Protective Services is operating the world’s largest government-backed… taxpayer-funded … child trafficking network… and the very system designed to safeguard our children, are the ones robbing them of their futures?

All of the child services agencies initially started out in the service of children becomes and organization that is in fact hunting children.

Our children are the targets, and millions of people in government, education, our health care system, and our child protective systems are complicit in the agenda. … Pedophilia is how the deep state recruits and controls people. From the powerful elites, down to otherwise ordinary men, children are easily being bought and abused around the world. … 500,000 kids per year are removed by this child trafficking organization from their parents… Many disappear and many are never ever heard from again. Once the public realizes that the government is not protecting their children, then everything else about the government is called into question.

Here is where Diego, Baby Cyrus’ grandfather, begins to share his thoughts.

  “when the government does something evil and wicked, they cloak it, they hide it behind these little anecdotal pieces of evidence that show ‘look we’re doing something good.”

Ryan comments on the previous segment highlighting USAID, saying “USAID is a blueprint, a case-study in how deeply corruption can run when power goes unchecked. But it’s not the end of the story. It’s just the beginning. Because there’s a machine that’s far darker, far more insidious, and it’s operating in plain sight… a system that doesn’t just betray a nation. It preys on the most vulnerable among us… Child Protective Services… also known as CPS.

Diego begins commenting… “this is how they sold people what I call the CPS myth…  They hide it behind that façade”

Diego says, “Now, if you expose this stuff, they’ll try to kill you.

Ryan says, “Over the past decade, every celebrity, politician, or independent journalist who tries to expose this satanic child trafficking enterprise has turned up dead…

Diego says, “Senator Nancy Schaffer, from the state of Georgia, uncovered the same thing you’ve uncovered, the same thing we uncovered… (Nancy Schaffer says)… “I wrote a scathing report entitled ‘The Corrupt Business of Child Protective Services.’ The report cost me my Senate seat.”

Ryan says, “Senator Nancy Schaffer of Georgia’s 50th district was set to release her documentary called, ‘The Corrupt Business of Child Protective Services’ in 2008. Followed by a news report starting at 20:57 “This Georgia state senator was planning to present her discoveries to the international criminal court when she and her husband were found shot dead in their home.”  Jump ahead to 21:43 where Ryan says, “The GBI labeled it a murder suicide… case closed. If she was a US Senator, what do you think they are planning to do to me?”

Ryan Matta’s interview with Seth Holehouse on his podcast, Man In America, about the exposure of evil surrounding the Baby Cyrus case is one of the most troubling things imaginable.

The complete interview is at: https://maninamerica.substack.com/p/inside-the-cps-machine-government?publication_id=1040302&post_id=181015774&r=184ayj&triedRedirect=true

And also at Inside the CPS Machine: Government Overreach, Trafficking Pipelines, and the Families Being Torn Apart w/ Ryan Matta

In 2024, about 400,000 American children were wrongfully stolen from their families by bureaucrats doing what they believe is their legitimate job.

And here’s the unbelievable statistic that should haunt every one of us until we stop making excuses for not stopping this horror: Fifty-four percent of those children never see their parents again. That’s over 200,000 children a year—just vanishing into the system.

Imagine a foreign government kidnapping 200,000 American children a year. That’s at least one precious child disappearing forever from all 3,000+ counties in America Every WEEK …We’d call it war. But when our own government does it, it gets filed under “child welfare.”

This isn’t welfare. This is state-sanctioned abduction.

The Foster System: A Pipeline to Trafficking

It would be one thing — still horrific — if these children were being placed into safe, healthy foster homes. But Ryan’s research showed something far darker.

He revealed statistic after statistic, each one landing like a gut punch. He’s lived with this information long enough to stop being shocked, but not long enough to stop being angry.  Here’s what he uncovered:

A massive percentage of trafficked children—sexually exploited, missing, abused—come directly from the foster care system. Not from the streets. Not from foreign countries. Not from broken homes. From state custody.

Let me put this plainly:

The government is taking children from loving families and placing them into environments where they are far more likely to be raped, abused, trafficked, or disappear entirely.

And Fifty-five children go missing from foster care daily. Daily.

Where do they go?

“Ran away” is the official line. “Placed with a sponsor.” “Transferred.” “Unknown.”

But Ryan gave example after example of what actually happens.

A thirteen-year-old “runs away.” A foster parent shrugs. CPS shrugs. Law enforcement shrugs. But no one asks the harder question:

Did she “run away,” or was she sold?

The foster system has become the perfect hunting ground for predators because children inside it lose the two protections that matter most: A parent and a witness. No one is watching. No one is accountable. No one is coming to save them.

Ryan told about cases where girls from the foster system ended up chained in basements, raped daily, starved, and tortured. About migrant girls trafficked after border crossings, dumped into HHS facilities, then sold to “sponsors” who were never vetted. About staff inside group homes who prey on kids because the system gives them access and near-total immunity.

How can we honestly think we have a free country while this is happening on such a scale?

We knew years ago that our country is essentially about as moral as ancient Sodom for tolerating what we do for electing judges and county officials who rarely, if ever make this issue a priority.

How can we be a functioning country when we allow our government to feed the country’s children into hell?

How the System Got This Way: The Money Machine Behind CPS

One of the most stunning parts of Ryan’s research was discovering why CPS behaves this way.

It isn’t just incompetence. It isn’t just corruption. It isn’t just ideology. It’s money.

In 1997, the Clinton administration passed the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA). Before ASFA, states didn’t have a massive funding structure to support removing children. After ASFA, state governments could access huge amounts of federal money—but only if they increased child removals and adoptions. That means the state gets financially rewarded for taking your kid.

Now bureaucratic evil is incentivized by rewards and steady pay checks

  • Police departments get quotas.
  • Caseworkers get quotas.
  • Court dockets get overloaded.
  • Judges rubber-stamp removals.
  • Foster agencies get paid per child.
  • Adoption agencies get paid even more.

Every government bureaucratic agency receives benefits from one thing: Separating a child from their biological parents.

You don’t build a machine like that accidentally. And once billions of dollars are flowing through it, you don’t shut it off without a fight.

The Part No One Wants to Admit: The People Doing the Taking Are “Just Following Orders”

One of the most troubling parts of the Baby Cyrus case isn’t the bureaucrats. It’s the cops.

Like Seth, who interview Ryan Matta, the producer of “Never in America,” I’ve been a strong supporter of law enforcement all my life. My dad retired from a city police force. I still believe many officers are honorable. But after the night Baby Cyrus was taken away by armed policemen from his mother, how can a child, seeing that action on the videos recorded as it unfolded, ever fully trust armed men dressed in black with a gold badge? When twenty squad cars surrounded a pastor’s family at a gas station, ripped a young woman from her seat, arrested a mother who had broken no laws, and seized a baby at gunpoint — They weren’t heroes. They were order-takers.

That moment – recorded live on video – forced me to look at policing differently. Good officers can do terrible things when the system tells them they must. History proves that over and over. Just look at NAZI Germany.  And CPS relies on this compliance.  Every kidnapping they perform is carried out by someone with a badge who believes they’re “just doing their job.”

Evil doesn’t always wear a villain’s mask. Sometimes it wears a uniform and follows protocol. And it takes exceptional discernment and courage for a government-paid law enforcement agent to ‘stand down’ voluntarily at the risk of losing their job.

The Bigger Picture: A Society Destroying Its Own Foundation

As Ryan continued his talk with Seth on the video you can see for yourself, something else became clearer than ever. This isn’t just about CPS. This is about the deliberate dismantling of the nuclear family in America. Why do we know this for certain?

Because if you want to control a population, weaken its culture, and destabilize its future, the fastest way to do all that is to sever the bond between parent and child. What happens when you remove hundreds of thousands of children from stable families? You create generations of traumatized adults. You create people who struggle to form families of their own. You create citizens who depend on the state, not each other. You create easy prey for traffickers, criminals, and predators. You create exactly what the spiritual forces and human architects of this evil system want.

That realization should seal it for any morally conscientious adult. This isn’t incompetence. This isn’t oversight. This isn’t accidental. It’s engineered.

So, What Do We Do?

Ryan was asked what he tells parents who are terrified after learning all this. His answer was heartbreaking in its simplicity:

“Never let CPS into your home without a warrant. Never call CPS unless your child is in immediate, physical danger. Never assume “it could never happen to me.”

Once they are in your life, the system is designed for you to fail. It’s designed for you to break their unlawful ‘laws.’  It’s intended to make you feel like a renegade if you try to escape being pursued by a very scary bureaucratic deep state agency.

The other answer is education. Awareness. Sunlight. The only reason Baby Cyrus made it home is because – in God’s providence – thousands of people saw what was happening and refused to stay silent. When the illegitimate actors of a rogue state fear public outrage, they retreat. When the state knows no one is watching, it advances its nefarious schemes.

Ryan Matta made this documentary so people could see the truth with their own eyes. Seth – The Man in America – wrote the essay that I have largely quoted from for the same reason. If we want our country back—if we want to protect our children—we have to be willing to look at the evil being done in plain sight. Why do I say we have no other option?

Because one day, it might not be “someone else’s child.” It might be yours. Or my grandchildren. And if that day ever comes, you will pray that the rest of America is awake enough to fight for your family the way thousands fought for Baby Cyrus.

Conclusion: The Fight Ahead

Seth Holehouse walked away from his conversation with Ryan Matta shaken, angry, and deeply moved. He wrote it this way:

It’s “Not because I’m naïve about government corruption—I cover it every week. Not because I needed another reason to distrust federal agencies—I already distrust most of them. But because the magnitude of this one is bigger than almost everything I’ve covered:

  • The government is kidnapping children.
  • The foster system is trafficking them.
  • The courts are rubber-stamping it.
  • The media is ignoring it.
  • And the public barely knows it’s happening.

That’s not a broken system. That’s an evil system. And if we don’t expose it, if we don’t talk about it, if we don’t demand accountability—then we become complicit in its silence. I can’t live with that. Ryan can’t live with that. And if you’re reading/or hearing it being read, I’m guessing you can’t either.”

So, rather than hide your eyes from the harsh reality of wickedness that we’ve reported on today… watch his documentary. Share it. Talk about it. Prepare your family. Know your rights. And refuse to let fear silence you. Why?

Because the truth is uncomfortable. But losing our children would be far worse. And if there’s one thing I know about America—it’s that when our children are threatened, we rise. It’s time to rise.

Bonus Segment

In January 2023, my friend, Diego, the grandfather of Baby Cyrus, after extensive gathering of documentation, put out a 7-minute video report that you can see on the website he created to document everything. It’s called “They Lied to You.”  Here are a few excerpts from it.

VIDEO 2 – They Lied to You—New Video Evidence Proves that Baby Cyrus was a Perfectly “Healthy Baby” When He Was Kidnapped By Meridian Police

https://freedomman.gs/cyrus/videos/  total 7 min

If you have 90 minutes and you want to truly understand the ENTIRE STORY, then watch the presentation below:  https://freedomman.gs/cyrus/story/

This is the 90 minute presentation given by Diego Rodriguez (Baby Cyrus’s grandfather) on May 10th, 2023, about Government Subsidized Child Trafficking that not only describes the entire Baby Cyrus Story, but explains the reasons WHY Baby Cyrus was kidnapped in the first place. This EYE-OPENING video presentation can change your paradigm completely and can save you and or a loved family member from every suffering the pain and anguish of having your child kidnapped by CPS! (The presentation begins at the 4:10 mark, if you’d like to skip the introduction.)

Click here to access the links/documents mentioned in the presentation above.

For a shorter overview, you can START WITH THIS VIDEO (Video 1) – The 8 Minute Video that shows what happened when Baby Cyrus was kidnapped:

If you are like most Americans, you are shocked and enraged by what you saw in this video. (Additional videos related to the Baby Cyrus case can be seen here.). The details of what led up to this kidnapping and what happened after Baby Cyrus was kidnapped can be read below:

THEN READ THIS—Overview of the Baby Cyrus Kidnapping and Government Subsidized Child Trafficking Case:

This is the original story for those who want an overview of “What Happened?” (Approximate 10 minute read.)

May 5th, 2022 | by Diego Rodriguez

My grandson, Baby Cyrus was kidnapped by police officers from Meridian, Idaho at the behest of the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare for no reason other than financial gain. The story and the actions of all bad actors, including police officers, politicians, St. Luke’s hospital, nurses, doctors, the prosecutor, the judge, and other bureaucrats have been so egregious, tyrannical, and demonstratively ILLEGAL, that the story has made national and even international news, and has been featured by news outlets all over the country—with some believing that this is now the highest profile CPS kidnapping case in American history.

In this article, I am going to summarize everything that happened so you can see what the force of government, when wickedly exercised with malice and evil intent, is capable of. I will share with you never before seen documents and video evidence that I’ve received from whistleblowers from within the system, and you will be shocked, horrified, and terrified for your own family’s safety. Believe me, if they can do it to my family, they can do it to yours, no matter how law-abiding and compliant you are.

Before I share with you the overview of Baby Cyrus’s kidnapping, along with specific and some never before seen evidence, you must understand something very clearly or NOTHING at all that I share will make any sense. You see, if you are like most Americans, you are probably under the false impression that Child Protective Services, or CPS, exists to protect children from abusive parents, and that the foster care system exists to take abused children out of dangerous homes into safe homes. I likewise used to be under that false impression. As a Pastor of an inner city church for nearly a decade in Central California, I even have contacted CPS when I learned of instances of sexual molestation. So I understand that is the assumption that people have regarding CPS—that only abusive families or drug addicts get their children taken away by CPS. What I have learned is that nothing could be further from the truth.

The truth is that since Bill and Hillary Clinton gave America the ASFA law in 1997, all 50 states are now financially incentivized to kidnap children for any reason whatsoever. The federal government literally pays state governments to kidnap children under the guise of protecting them. They have indiscriminate power and authority to kidnap any child at any time for any reason, without due process, and they literally get paid to do so.

This is, by definition, child trafficking, and while it is very difficult to ascertain exactly how much money is doled out to states, experts say that it is currently an $80 billion industry in America. And this money that is paid by the federal government to all 50 states comes from the Social Security Fund Title 4. In other words, the Federal Government is robbing senior citizens of their social security funds and instead giving that money to state governments so they can kidnap babies and destroy families.

Senator Nancy Schaefer of Georgia was the first prominent national figure to bring this to light in public. She spent countless hours investigated CPS, following the money trail, uncovering their corruption and evil, and ultimately wrote the report, “The Corrupt Business of Child Protective Services.” Nancy declared unabashedly that CPS was essentially a child trafficking organization that kidnapped children for profit.

Nancy had made speeches around the country in national forums and was completing a video exposing the lack of oversight in Georgia’s Department of Family and Child Services (DFCS) as well as Child Protective Services (CPS) nationally; and started to receive lots of death threats. Unfortunately her video was never published as her and her husband were murdered, being found shot to death in March 2010.

Listen, if people on the streets will murder someone else for a $100 pair of Air Jordan’s, you better believe that they will murder a Senator who threatens an $80 billion child trafficking cash machine.

Until you understand this, you will never understand what happened to baby Cyrus. You will foolishly believe that there has to be more to the story, or that I am not sharing additional details with you. But I will share all the facts with you and the additional details that are too long to cover here in this article can be found on Baby Cyrus’s website at freedomman.org/cyrus.

Now, I am about to show you empirical evidence that my Grandson, Baby Cyrus, was violently kidnapped by Meridian police, without cause and without evidence, that Baby Cyrus was falsely declared to be in “imminent danger,” even though CPS and St. Luke’s hospital admitted that he was not, and that my daughter and son-in-law were illegally prosecuted in secret, without due process, and in violation of their Constitutional rights and in violation of multiple Idaho State statutes.

I will then share with you what you can do about it and how you can join the fight to stop child trafficking forever in Idaho and in America.

The documentary, Never in America, can be watched free online at either of these links:

Diego, the grandfather of Baby Cyrus, has developed and maintained an up-to-date website that’s devoted to the complete story of the openly public kidnapping of his daughter’s son at: https://freedomman.gs/cyrus/   I encourage you to review the various parts of this historic exposure of one of the most obvious society-wide evils in history. Share it with everyone in your church. Ask them what they think should be done. Ask them to read Proverbs 24:11-12. Then ask them to ask their pastor what are they going to do about this extreme tragedy.

My friend, Diego Rodriguez, has been keeping me updated on the nightmare his family has gone through from the beginning. Here’s his message on the documentary of the whole story when it was finally released in December 2025.

“My family and I just watched a pre-release copy of it. We were all speechless by the time it ended. I could not put more support behind this film if I tried. It is a MUST WATCH. Ryan Matta (who made the documentary), was definitely called and prepared by God to put this documentary together. He makes an unassailable case regarding CPS and all the bad actors involved, including: hospitals, doctors, judges, police…everybody!”

Do not miss this film!  It is on Rumble at https://rumble.com/v724pje-never-in-america-unmasking-cpss-kidnapping-empire.html

 Here are Ryan’s channels:

https://x.com/Ryan MattaMedia – no longer active on X

https://rumble.com/user/RyanMatta

Ryan Matta is interviewed about this documentary, Never in America, by Seth Holehouse on his podcast, Man in America, at https://maninamerica.substack.com/p/inside-the-cps-machine-government?publication_id=1040302&post_id=181015774&r=184ayj&triedRedirect=true

A comment for parents worth noting

One of the comments by a Rumble viewer posted under the Rumble posting of this documentary was from “lillycreek” she wrote:

“what parents don’t know and need to know to protect themselves and avoid going thru ruthless cps lawfare is you can go above all their heads, above the doctors, teachers, CPS workers, CPS and cops without paying a dime by IMMEDIATELY filing a complaint detailing the unlawful actions under color of law taken against your family submitted to your State’s investigator, and cc a copy of the complaint to your Mayor, Congressman, Senator, Governor and POTUS. every state has one and they all have a website with the complaint form you can submit. No Lawyer will tell you that.”

This advice sounds good and should be researched more. Every vigilant parent must heighten their awareness of the wicked forces at work to eradicate what the Bible calls “the heritage of the Lord” – our children.

Reclaiming a Biblical Worldview takes Humility to Test All Things

Everyone has a worldview, but relatively few people see their world through the eyes of the Bible, even among those who call themselves Christian.  

The Great Commission

Christian people across the world are well familiar with what we call “the Great Commission.”  Jesus, after his resurrection, just before he ascended into heaven, spoke these words to his disciples:

“All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Matt 28:18-20  

Many pastors who avoid debatable or political/social topics, claim they are ‘just called to preach the gospel.’  Others avoid contemporary arguments in society by sticking to their preaching and teaching schedule. These seem to be noble practices to most Christians, but do you think it’s only fair that those who sit down to dine at the table of where they get their spiritual food each week have a responsibility to humbly challenge their spiritual teachers to address controversial topics that are relevant to the issues we all struggle with that are going on in our world today?

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How can God’s People be a Calming Influence in a Society filled with Fear? #361

There are lots of things I’ve learned, as I grew into adulthood and fatherhood.  One that sticks out to me seems to be missed by a lot of people who have not learned yet how to avoid being dominated by fear.  The present crisis in our world really seems to accent this fact.  Simply stated it’s this: “what we don’t understand, we tend to fear.” It’s pretty common, isn’t it?  If you don’t understand how to use a dangerous tool – like a knife or a gun – it’s perfectly natural to keep your distance from that tool because of an indescribable fear.  Once you learn how to use the potentially dangerous tool correctly, you still maintain a healthy respect for the tool, but you don’t have a psychotic fear of it anymore.

When surrounded by uncertain circumstances, fear is a predictable, universal behavior for every age group and in every era of human history. Power-hungry leaders have capitalized on this fact since Nimrod after the Great Flood. Let’s not be ignorant of that fact. Without a firm reliance on the Divine Providence of Almighty God, career government people have endless ways to deceive clueless people into believing their welfare depends on government. They literally make government into an idol.

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Christmas is a time of remembering and anticipating the greatest gift to all mankind – Redemption

When you think about it… really think about it… the season of each year when we celebrate the remarkable advent of our Creator’s incarnation that we call Christmas… it’s truly amazing how God, in His providence, can use this season every year to personally communicate and commune with our deepest soul.  Even with all the distracting commercialism and misguided paganized myths that our society has amassed around the occasion, God is still profoundly using the Christmas season to bring light into the darkness of many minds whom He has chosen to receive eternal redemption. What a gift! 

The beloved disciple John, guided by the Holy Spirit of God, recorded the event straight to the point in the opening of his gospel.  He even showed the distinction between the Savior from the man, who also had the name John – the baptizer – who announced the anticipated Redeemer’s entry into our world. He wrote it this way.

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Christmas celebrations Controversy compels Christian considerations

Let’s Quell the controversy over Christmas and its traditions.

Every Christmas season many of us are confronted with various notions about the origins of Christmas and many cherished Christmas traditions. But what can we learn from the original writers of history itself about these controversial ideas?

It’s been called “the most wonderful time of the year.”  Christmas for most of us has enjoyed a long history of traditions that make the heart of the winter season a rich time of festive celebrations.

For many of us, growing up in America in the late 20th Century, our memories from childhood include the happy songs of Jingle Bells, Deck the Halls with boughs of holly, and “I’m dreaming of a white Christmas.”  There’s nothing wrong with any of that. When I was a child, singing Christmas songs like Silent Night and Joy to the World … around the piano with my grandmother… well, nothing could be more delightful to enthusiastic, ever-optimistic young children. Although Santa, for my generation, played a fairly significant part of the wide array of Christmas traditions… there was never the slightest thought that “the night before Christmas and all through the house…” was ever anything more than an amusing way of celebrating the ‘rest of the story’ that was more fully expressed when we sang “Joy to the world, the Lord is come” and “O Come all ye faithful, joyful and triumphant.”  In fact, singing Christmas carols for our neighbors on cold winter nights in December will always be a treasured memory from childhood, through adolescence, and through college days as a young adult. We never lost sight of the real meaning of Christmas. And no one, that I can remember, ever behaved like a Scrooge or a Grinch that stole the heartbeat of Christmas, which was always about the birth of Jesus, 2,000 years ago.

Many Christians today have lamented the fact that modern commercialized society has made Christmas into a highly secular time of year.

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Americans Rediscovering their Covenant with God

By Dennis Petersen

Are you ready to help people rediscover America’s covenant with God?

America’s people have been dumbed down deliberately by a secular and demonic agenda to make us all ignorant of truth, ignorant of common sense, ignorant of Scripture, and particularly ignorant of our own history.  We should all know the fact that God’s prophet clearly prophesied that His own people (“My people” He said) “are destroyed for a lack of knowledge” (Hosea 4:6). When we speak that message, it can be a prophetic wake-up call for those who might be listening closely to what we’re saying. But another problem is that many, in the true Ekklesia of God, lack the mature personal mentors who can coach them to be guided by the Holy Spirit.  We all need that guidance to discern what is true, and to learn from the events and lives of the past that are able to witness to the incredible grace and power of God.

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Our Personal Quest to Reclaim a Legacy of Thanksgiving #367

by Dennis Petersen

 A lot has been researched and written about the proven personal benefits of living with a habit of expressing genuine gratitude.  It turns out that thankfulness is not typically a result of being happy, but rather, the opposite is true.  People who deliberately and openly confess their thankfulness to others are the happiest of people.  And isn’t it interesting that those who recognize that their lives have a purpose are the ones who are prone to give thanks to their Creator and to those around them.

Have you discovered your purpose?  Do you have a clear reason why you’re excited to get up in the morning?  If you have a mission to drive your daily goals, you’re a much happier person than those being driven by just a survival mode.

America is a nation of people with a centuries-old tradition of celebrating annual solemn days of Thanksgiving.  Yet, it seems that our current generation has almost no concept of the deeply personal conviction of the crucial importance of gratitude.  And it’s pretty obvious that that gratitude should most deservedly be directed to the Almighty Giver of every blessing and perfect gift in our lives.

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The Most High God raises up kings and takes down kings

The entire world of humanity witnessed one of the most pivotal events in history on January 20th 2025.  That reality of what began to happen then was well-expressed in the opening remarks of Donald Trump’s first address to our nation, eight minutes after taking his oath of office as the 47th President of the United States of America.

TRUMP: “The golden age of America begins right now!” (applause) From this day forward, our country will flourish and be respected again all over the world. We will be the envy of every nation and we will not allow ourselves to be taken advantage of any longer. During every single day of the Trump administration, I will very simply put America first.

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Could celebrating Halloween be spiritually dangerous?

By Dennis Petersen
“Test all things; hold fast to what is good. Abstain from every form of evil.” 1 Thessalonians 5:21-22

Have you noticed how, even before October begins, when the pumpkin decorations start rolling out in the stores, that the dark side of the celebration becomes more obviously evil every year?

Did you know that the word Halloween can be translated as holy night? But holy for whom? What happens when a night meant to be sacred is hijacked by rituals of death and darkness?

The word Halloween comes from something that sounds sacred. It means ‘All Hallow’s Eve,’ meaning the evening before All Saints Day. In the medieval Christian calendar, November 1st was chosen to honor believers who had died as martyrs. The night before became known as the eve of this holy day. When church leaders chose November 1st for All Saints Day, that date was already marked by ancient peoples across Northern Europe. It was a time for rituals far older than any Christian observance. The church tried to overlay a holy remembrance on top of existing pagan celebrations.


All Saints’ Day, also known as All Hallows’ Day, originated in the early Christian Church as a memorial day for martyrs who were executed for their faith in Jesus by pagan governments, like the Roman Empire. The first known collective celebration occurred in the 4th century. Early believers had reverence for martyrs like the Apostle John’s disciple, Polycarp.  His celebrated model of faithfulness was documented in a written report called the “Martyrdom of Polycarp,” written shortly after his execution in AD 155.  The observance of All Saints Day was moved to November 1st by Pope Gregory III in the mid-8th century when it became a universal holy day (from which we get the word ‘holiday’ which is a festival or feast day).

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Josiah – Boy King – a model of bold humility

By Dennis Petersen

Did you ever discover something you didn’t know that made a big change in your life?

Have you ever heard of a boy named Josiah?

He lived over 2600 years ago.  He was only 8 years old when his extremely evil father (King Amon of Judah) was assassinated in his own house by his royal servants after only 2 years of being king of Judah.  Amon had followed in the grossly sinful footsteps of Josiah’s grandfather, King Manasseh. During his 55-year reign, Manasseh seduced a whole generation of God’s people to do more evil than the idol-worshipping Canaanites that the LORD destroyed by Israel’s armies in prior generations. Despite the 29-year flourishing of their people under Manasseh’s father, King Hezekiah, the people of Judah under Manasseh, followed his evil abominations to do more wickedly than God’s wicked enemies, the Amorites. They followed after immorality and idolatry that secularized the people of Israel under false gods. (2 Kings 21:2, 9, 11).

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