Kerby Anderson
Trust has become a big issue in 2024. Elections are one reason. According to a recent estimate, a record number 4.2 billion could vote in elections around the world.
That is one reason why the theme of the recent World Economic Forum was “Rebuilding Trust Amid Uncertainty.” Kevin Roberts is the President of the Heritage Foundation and wrote that “trust must be earned. Global elites have not merely failed on that score. They have squandered the vast reserves of credibility they inherited from their institutional predecessors.”
Trust the media? That would be the same media in 2020 that assured us that the protests were “mostly peaceful” while buildings were burning in the background. The federal government documented 164 torched buildings in the cities of Minneapolis-St. Paul that occurred in May 2020. And that would be the same media that tried to convince us that Russia blew up its own Nord Stream pipeline.
Trust health officials? That would include the Surgeon General who tweeted: “STOP BUYING MASKS! They are NOT effective in preventing the general public from catching Coronavirus.” It would also include others who proclaimed masks would protect you from infection, sickness, and death.
Remember the slogan “fifteen days to slow the spread?” Those fifteen days went on for weeks, then months, and nearly two years.
Trust churches? Many pastors and churches are trustworthy. Others are not. Instead, they teach false doctrine and lead their members astray. Some churches even fail to report sexual abuse within the congregation.
This year, it will be more important than ever to use biblical discernment. Find a few trustworthy sources of information and be skeptical of the rest.

Kerby Anderson
Much of the debate surrounding the issue of border security and immigration centers on the word “invasion.” Texas Governor Gregg Abbott argues that Article IV of the US Constitution promises that the federal government “shall protect each [State] against invasion.” It also describes “the States’ sovereign interest in protecting their borders.”
He also provides some history. “James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and the other visionaries who wrote the US Constitution foresaw that States should not be left to the mercy of a lawless president who does nothing to stop external threats like cartels smuggling millions of illegal immigrants across the border.”
Critics rightly point out that people walking into the US cannot be termed an invasion. Nearly every court has interpreted that to mean “an armed hostility from another political entity.” James Madison labeled invasion an attack by one state on another. The Constitutional Convention debates connected the power to repel invasions with the power to raise armies.
While it cannot be called an invasion, the impact may feel just about the same. When the Supreme Court ruled recently that the Biden Administration could remove razor wire from the border, one pundit asked a different question. Instead of an army crossing the border, what about a gang of drug dealers and cartels dealing in human trafficking? They may not be an invasion in the legal sense, but it is doing great damage just the same.
Whatever the definition, American voters know there is a problem at the border. The most recent Harvard CAPS-Harris poll asked voters their top policy concern. Immigration was first, and inflation was second. Border security and immigration are likely to be the most discussed issues in this campaign.