This is good news, but it only addresses the presence of terroristic CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood. It does not however address why churches are emptying out, thereby becoming the property of Islamists:
"Even if we lean on the most substantive data available, the most recent comprehensive survey from the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, or ISPU, in 2020 listed 224 mosques in Texas. That number represented a thirty-five percent rise since 2010. No updated counts confirm the exact figure for 2023 through 2025, but the trajectory is clear enough to say one thing with confidence.
Houston, we have a problem."
"This moment isn’t ultimately about Islam.
It is about us."
"The Church forgot the cost of truth.
It forgot the duty of discipleship.
It forgot the command to be fruitful and multiply.
It forgot that God builds nations through families that fear Him.
It forgot that no civilization survives once it hates the faith that built it." Virgil Walker
Always on point! My sons live in Texas; I live in North Carolina. Another alarming thing I have seen is the movement of the LGBTQ agenda into small towns. I am speaking specifically of Taylor, TX, just outside of Austin. I haven't been to Taylor in several years, so I can't speak to the current situation, but I know about problems in the past. Along those lines, for any believers reading this, please pray for me this morning. I intend to enter an LGBTQ business in a nearby small town. My purpose is to demonstrate the love of Jesus. I "happened" to see online that the business is closing and the owner is devastated. I will tell her that I am a follower of Christ, that I know we disagree on many things, but that people with opposing views need to be able to talk to each other. I will express my sorrow that her dream is ending and will pray for her if she allows. I don't intend to debate unless she wants to. There's a fine line here; I'm not sorry the business is closing, I just have compassion for her. I can't pray for God to bless her but I can pray for Him to reveal Himself to her.
Lord God, we pray for Your filling of Your Spirit in Anne as she steps into enemy territory with the love of the Savior and a precious message of hope in the Truth of the Gospel!
Austin is Berkeley California’s sister city. The cesspool of Berkeley’s liberalism has destroyed not only Berkeley but San Francisco and multiple other cites. There are conservative areas in CA but they are never on the coastline, much like all the United States coastlines. It’s bizarre how the coastlines are ALL Blue.
And to the men reading this, hear this clearly. If fathers do not disciple their children, someone else will. Islam understands that. Christians used to. Every true revival begins with men who refuse to sleep through the collapse of their own households.
I am an elder of a church that takes the quote seriously. The sad part is we are relatively rare in SE WI. Meanwhile the Mosques multiply and Muslim families grow as Christian couples have fewer and fewer children. I believe God is giving us a wake up but far too many choose to sleep.
A troubling trend. Christians are divided and largely not practicing evangelism. Evangelical seminaries embrace a third way between orthodoxy and theological liberalism. Islam presents a unified front and doesn’t care who it offends.
“Islam does not rise because it is more persuasive. It rises because it is more committed to reproducing itself. Larger families. Stronger community ties. Clear expectations. Steady immigration. A unified religious identity. “. Everything the church used to stand for.
I live in Michigan, about 30 miles northeast of Dearborn. I'm well aware of the same issues happening in our neck of the woods. I pray the Church wakes up. Looking so forward to the next Just Thinking podcast, Virgil, which I know will address these very things. God, make us vigilant and courageous to share the gospel and stand for TRUTH first in our homes and then in the public square.
The aggressive move of Islam across the world is alarming. But, as you said, the decline of true Christ-following churches is even moreso. O Lord, please wake up Your people.
Some truth here but I get tired of people blaming the church. Secular culture that is now deconstructing Christianity is to blame. And the vacuum left is gladly filled with anything and everything non-Christian.
Try blaming abortion and extreme feminism first please, along with a host of other isms.
I understand where you're coming from. I do, and I used to think the same. So my response is not coming from an angry heart. However, the Bible mentions the roles of marriage and of men and women, as well as valuing both born and preborn children. God gives us His standard in His Word and we, as the Church, are to abide by it and follow His order of taking our faith into every area of life - school, work, voting, marriage, raising children, ect. The Church is the one who is supposed to speak into these issues ... Not even speak into them - we're supposed to lead the conversation. Things like feminism and abortion were not meant to be political, voting booth issues, but biblical issues with an absolute, unshakeable reply from Christians based in an honoring of and reliance on Holy Scripture. Unfortunately, we are seeing the disastrous consequences when the Church willingly surrenders to the government and culture from which we were warned to be set apart.
No, it's the Church (or those people who call themselves the Church).
Too long, "churches" have been preoccupied with appearances, money and political power while denying or just ignoring the real Power. The meet for worship which demands nothing. They tolerate leaders who look shiny on the outside by are anything but humble and holy. I have lived in Texas and the most disturbing thing to me was building and building full of people saying they were following Christ while they clearly followed the gods of money, power and popularity. They are the proverbial whitewashed sepulchres and now judgment comes for them.
It's interesting I have spent two decades now living in the dreaded bluest of "blue" states, places spoken of with derision and eyeroll by the Texans. But I have found far more true Christians in these places than I ever did in Texas. Because here, worshipping Yeshuah costs something. There is no social capital to get for showing up on Sunday. Quite the opposite. So people tend to stand for the truth and mean what they say. And small churches of a few hundred see far more real impact than Texas megachurches of thousands. They think we are the lost cause, while they aren't even showing up for the battle.
Cultural Christianity is dead. It never really existed. It was the same system of Pharisaism Yeshuah destroyed, repackaged with good Republican politicians in a Texas megadome church. Their AD 70 is about to arrive, and it will be just.
If men had not been harassed into silence, surrendered their manliness, or some combination thereof, we would amend the First Amendment to exclude protection for the practice of Islam. Yes, the states, even the federal government, would then have the right to legislate heavily against it. It's the only commonsensical thing for us to do, which is why we won't do it.
The Founders never imagined that the First Amendment would be used to sanction anything but Christian or Jewish practice. In fact, in my rewritten First Amendment, only Christian and Jewish practice would be protected.
Why should we accept supinely our being crowded out of our homeland by religion which has contempt for us and wants to enslave or murder us? Our country really has lost touch with basic sanity, and much of it is due to the subordination of men to women. ( The judgment of God, perhaps? ) Remember the one hundred year old British vet recently? He did not think that given what Britain has become, his sacrifice and his friends' had been worth it.
The founding fathers wanted a nation liberated from God - at best you could call many of them deists or practical agnostics. And why would Judaism, a false religion that desires open Islamic immigration, be protected?
John Adams said the Constitution was meant only for a moral and religious people, and was "wholly inadequate" for the governance of any other kind.
The First Amendment was intended to protect the states in whatever they might want to do religiously. As an example, I am all but certain that The Protestant Episcopal Church was the official state church of Virginia for a few decades.
What the FF wanted was a nation liberated from a federal government which would make decisions of that type for the entire country. Judaism is a false religion in that it doesn't acknowledge Jesus Christ as Lord, but you sound too bright not to know that whatever a particular FF believed, he would have found it unfathomable that anything would hinder Jewish practice. America's oldest synagogue was established in Charleston, SC, before The Revolutionary War.
I have no idea what you are trying to say in this reply: it seems to be just a restatement of what has already been said as if you didn’t pay any attention at all to what you’re replying to.
We’ve forgotten, as David de Bruyn asserts, that “culture” is not “ethnicity.” Rather it is centered around shared religious affections. It begs the question - What did our Founding Fathers really believe about what we are now please to call “freedom of religion” - although they used different wording - “the free exercise thereof.” An elder in our church was kicked off a college campus for freely exercising his religion in calling out the errors of the Rainbow Jihad, but had to sue on the grounds of the freedom of speech. Yet, we allow cultural rot to progress apace when we allow pagan practices to overtake neighborhoods, towns, counties on the grounds, not of “free speech”, but because *they* have the right to freely exercise their religion, at times contrary to the bounds of civilized expression - such as loudspeakers afflicting the entire populace to an obnoxious call to prayer, or disruptive, all-night pagan celebrations brought gratis by H1B “visitors”. And those who object are, figuratively still (for now), run out of town on the proverbial rail. Just whose culture is this, anyway?
Informative indeed, I must say, Sir Virgil Walker, much insight I gathered and I must step up my prayers for the churches of the true and living God, without hesitation or fear of circumstances and situations, because in all that is happening in the world along with the wickedness of man's heart and the tactics of the enemy, The Sovereign God's power still controls everything, and his foreknown supernatural power,will be glorious and His reign as king of kings will be on full display, thanks Brother Virgil Walker and just wanted to say I enjoyed the panel on Smart Christian channel with Corey, I loved it very much. Peace Brother!!!!
Pastor, thanks for writing about this. Texas is very concerning, but I have a question about Washington, D.C. that I hope you can answer. Perhaps I am wrong, but I have heard that weekly, on Fridays since late 2024, Moslem prayer is held at the National Washington Cathedral. Why are Christians not meeting there at the same time in larger numbers?
**No**, there is no indication that **Muslim prayer** is currently happening or regularly occurring at the Washington National Cathedral as of December 13, 2025.
The cathedral (an Episcopal Christian church) has hosted Muslim participation in **interfaith events**, most notably:
- A one-time Muslim-led Friday Jumaa prayer service on November 14, 2014, which was historic but not repeated as a regular practice.
- Interfaith services where Muslim leaders offer prayers or calls to prayer alongside Jewish, Christian, and other traditions.
For example, earlier events in 2025 (such as the post-inauguration Service of Prayer for the Nation in January) included calls to prayer from Muslim traditions as part of broader interfaith gatherings. However, there are no reports of ongoing, exclusive, or regular Muslim prayer services at the cathedral.
The National Cathedral describes itself as a "house of prayer for all people" and occasionally includes diverse faiths in national or interfaith contexts, but its primary services remain Christian. No current events or schedules suggest Muslim prayers are taking place now.
As a gathering place for our nation Clerics have been present at National events like post inauguration ceremonies.
The growing numbers of mosques and brazen calls for Sharia woke up Gov. Gregg Abbott
Gregg Abbott on X
Today, I designated the Muslim Brotherhood and Council on American-Islamic Relations as foreign terrorist and transnational criminal organizations.
This bans them from buying or acquiring land in Texas and authorizes the Attorney General to sue to shut them down.
https://x.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1990800292225691720?s=20
This is good news, but it only addresses the presence of terroristic CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood. It does not however address why churches are emptying out, thereby becoming the property of Islamists:
"Even if we lean on the most substantive data available, the most recent comprehensive survey from the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, or ISPU, in 2020 listed 224 mosques in Texas. That number represented a thirty-five percent rise since 2010. No updated counts confirm the exact figure for 2023 through 2025, but the trajectory is clear enough to say one thing with confidence.
Houston, we have a problem."
"This moment isn’t ultimately about Islam.
It is about us."
"The Church forgot the cost of truth.
It forgot the duty of discipleship.
It forgot the command to be fruitful and multiply.
It forgot that God builds nations through families that fear Him.
It forgot that no civilization survives once it hates the faith that built it." Virgil Walker
Epic City is proceeding to be built. Abbott’s actions are smokescreen. The real threat is the eventual implementation of the Noahide Laws.
Always on point! My sons live in Texas; I live in North Carolina. Another alarming thing I have seen is the movement of the LGBTQ agenda into small towns. I am speaking specifically of Taylor, TX, just outside of Austin. I haven't been to Taylor in several years, so I can't speak to the current situation, but I know about problems in the past. Along those lines, for any believers reading this, please pray for me this morning. I intend to enter an LGBTQ business in a nearby small town. My purpose is to demonstrate the love of Jesus. I "happened" to see online that the business is closing and the owner is devastated. I will tell her that I am a follower of Christ, that I know we disagree on many things, but that people with opposing views need to be able to talk to each other. I will express my sorrow that her dream is ending and will pray for her if she allows. I don't intend to debate unless she wants to. There's a fine line here; I'm not sorry the business is closing, I just have compassion for her. I can't pray for God to bless her but I can pray for Him to reveal Himself to her.
Lord God, we pray for Your filling of Your Spirit in Anne as she steps into enemy territory with the love of the Savior and a precious message of hope in the Truth of the Gospel!
Thank you so much! I feel very peaceful (and excited) about doing this. It has been the desire of my heart to talk to those who disagree with me.
Austin is Berkeley California’s sister city. The cesspool of Berkeley’s liberalism has destroyed not only Berkeley but San Francisco and multiple other cites. There are conservative areas in CA but they are never on the coastline, much like all the United States coastlines. It’s bizarre how the coastlines are ALL Blue.
And to the men reading this, hear this clearly. If fathers do not disciple their children, someone else will. Islam understands that. Christians used to. Every true revival begins with men who refuse to sleep through the collapse of their own households.
I am an elder of a church that takes the quote seriously. The sad part is we are relatively rare in SE WI. Meanwhile the Mosques multiply and Muslim families grow as Christian couples have fewer and fewer children. I believe God is giving us a wake up but far too many choose to sleep.
A troubling trend. Christians are divided and largely not practicing evangelism. Evangelical seminaries embrace a third way between orthodoxy and theological liberalism. Islam presents a unified front and doesn’t care who it offends.
“Islam does not rise because it is more persuasive. It rises because it is more committed to reproducing itself. Larger families. Stronger community ties. Clear expectations. Steady immigration. A unified religious identity. “. Everything the church used to stand for.
I live in Michigan, about 30 miles northeast of Dearborn. I'm well aware of the same issues happening in our neck of the woods. I pray the Church wakes up. Looking so forward to the next Just Thinking podcast, Virgil, which I know will address these very things. God, make us vigilant and courageous to share the gospel and stand for TRUTH first in our homes and then in the public square.
Well stated and truly alarming. So many unaware of this slow roll to replace us. If Texas can be taken……
I am stunned. My husband and I always joke about things getting bad and moving to Texas…
Virgil, we live in Texas and that was a very needed wake up call.
The aggressive move of Islam across the world is alarming. But, as you said, the decline of true Christ-following churches is even moreso. O Lord, please wake up Your people.
Some truth here but I get tired of people blaming the church. Secular culture that is now deconstructing Christianity is to blame. And the vacuum left is gladly filled with anything and everything non-Christian.
Try blaming abortion and extreme feminism first please, along with a host of other isms.
I understand where you're coming from. I do, and I used to think the same. So my response is not coming from an angry heart. However, the Bible mentions the roles of marriage and of men and women, as well as valuing both born and preborn children. God gives us His standard in His Word and we, as the Church, are to abide by it and follow His order of taking our faith into every area of life - school, work, voting, marriage, raising children, ect. The Church is the one who is supposed to speak into these issues ... Not even speak into them - we're supposed to lead the conversation. Things like feminism and abortion were not meant to be political, voting booth issues, but biblical issues with an absolute, unshakeable reply from Christians based in an honoring of and reliance on Holy Scripture. Unfortunately, we are seeing the disastrous consequences when the Church willingly surrenders to the government and culture from which we were warned to be set apart.
I am not sure if we disagree at all. I agree with all you say. Maybe the difference is differentiating the true Church from the false worldly church?
The true church, as you say, stands firm and so are not to blame. It’s the tares among the wheat that are the problem.
No, it's the Church (or those people who call themselves the Church).
Too long, "churches" have been preoccupied with appearances, money and political power while denying or just ignoring the real Power. The meet for worship which demands nothing. They tolerate leaders who look shiny on the outside by are anything but humble and holy. I have lived in Texas and the most disturbing thing to me was building and building full of people saying they were following Christ while they clearly followed the gods of money, power and popularity. They are the proverbial whitewashed sepulchres and now judgment comes for them.
It's interesting I have spent two decades now living in the dreaded bluest of "blue" states, places spoken of with derision and eyeroll by the Texans. But I have found far more true Christians in these places than I ever did in Texas. Because here, worshipping Yeshuah costs something. There is no social capital to get for showing up on Sunday. Quite the opposite. So people tend to stand for the truth and mean what they say. And small churches of a few hundred see far more real impact than Texas megachurches of thousands. They think we are the lost cause, while they aren't even showing up for the battle.
Cultural Christianity is dead. It never really existed. It was the same system of Pharisaism Yeshuah destroyed, repackaged with good Republican politicians in a Texas megadome church. Their AD 70 is about to arrive, and it will be just.
So yes, we agree as you just very well defined the difference of the false worldly church from the true Church that stands firm.
It’s not the true Church that is the problem.
If men had not been harassed into silence, surrendered their manliness, or some combination thereof, we would amend the First Amendment to exclude protection for the practice of Islam. Yes, the states, even the federal government, would then have the right to legislate heavily against it. It's the only commonsensical thing for us to do, which is why we won't do it.
The Founders never imagined that the First Amendment would be used to sanction anything but Christian or Jewish practice. In fact, in my rewritten First Amendment, only Christian and Jewish practice would be protected.
Why should we accept supinely our being crowded out of our homeland by religion which has contempt for us and wants to enslave or murder us? Our country really has lost touch with basic sanity, and much of it is due to the subordination of men to women. ( The judgment of God, perhaps? ) Remember the one hundred year old British vet recently? He did not think that given what Britain has become, his sacrifice and his friends' had been worth it.
The founding fathers wanted a nation liberated from God - at best you could call many of them deists or practical agnostics. And why would Judaism, a false religion that desires open Islamic immigration, be protected?
John Adams said the Constitution was meant only for a moral and religious people, and was "wholly inadequate" for the governance of any other kind.
The First Amendment was intended to protect the states in whatever they might want to do religiously. As an example, I am all but certain that The Protestant Episcopal Church was the official state church of Virginia for a few decades.
What the FF wanted was a nation liberated from a federal government which would make decisions of that type for the entire country. Judaism is a false religion in that it doesn't acknowledge Jesus Christ as Lord, but you sound too bright not to know that whatever a particular FF believed, he would have found it unfathomable that anything would hinder Jewish practice. America's oldest synagogue was established in Charleston, SC, before The Revolutionary War.
I have no idea what you are trying to say in this reply: it seems to be just a restatement of what has already been said as if you didn’t pay any attention at all to what you’re replying to.
I was replying to your comment, an activity which obviously was a waste of my time.
We’ve forgotten, as David de Bruyn asserts, that “culture” is not “ethnicity.” Rather it is centered around shared religious affections. It begs the question - What did our Founding Fathers really believe about what we are now please to call “freedom of religion” - although they used different wording - “the free exercise thereof.” An elder in our church was kicked off a college campus for freely exercising his religion in calling out the errors of the Rainbow Jihad, but had to sue on the grounds of the freedom of speech. Yet, we allow cultural rot to progress apace when we allow pagan practices to overtake neighborhoods, towns, counties on the grounds, not of “free speech”, but because *they* have the right to freely exercise their religion, at times contrary to the bounds of civilized expression - such as loudspeakers afflicting the entire populace to an obnoxious call to prayer, or disruptive, all-night pagan celebrations brought gratis by H1B “visitors”. And those who object are, figuratively still (for now), run out of town on the proverbial rail. Just whose culture is this, anyway?
Good article! More people need to hear this, and wake up to the reality.
Informative indeed, I must say, Sir Virgil Walker, much insight I gathered and I must step up my prayers for the churches of the true and living God, without hesitation or fear of circumstances and situations, because in all that is happening in the world along with the wickedness of man's heart and the tactics of the enemy, The Sovereign God's power still controls everything, and his foreknown supernatural power,will be glorious and His reign as king of kings will be on full display, thanks Brother Virgil Walker and just wanted to say I enjoyed the panel on Smart Christian channel with Corey, I loved it very much. Peace Brother!!!!
Very concerning. People don’t understand what they are letting themselves in for.
Pastor, thanks for writing about this. Texas is very concerning, but I have a question about Washington, D.C. that I hope you can answer. Perhaps I am wrong, but I have heard that weekly, on Fridays since late 2024, Moslem prayer is held at the National Washington Cathedral. Why are Christians not meeting there at the same time in larger numbers?
I don't know the answer to that. I'm certain that it wouldn't be hard to research. An affirmative answer wouldn't surprise me.
**No**, there is no indication that **Muslim prayer** is currently happening or regularly occurring at the Washington National Cathedral as of December 13, 2025.
The cathedral (an Episcopal Christian church) has hosted Muslim participation in **interfaith events**, most notably:
- A one-time Muslim-led Friday Jumaa prayer service on November 14, 2014, which was historic but not repeated as a regular practice.
- Interfaith services where Muslim leaders offer prayers or calls to prayer alongside Jewish, Christian, and other traditions.
For example, earlier events in 2025 (such as the post-inauguration Service of Prayer for the Nation in January) included calls to prayer from Muslim traditions as part of broader interfaith gatherings. However, there are no reports of ongoing, exclusive, or regular Muslim prayer services at the cathedral.
The National Cathedral describes itself as a "house of prayer for all people" and occasionally includes diverse faiths in national or interfaith contexts, but its primary services remain Christian. No current events or schedules suggest Muslim prayers are taking place now.
As a gathering place for our nation Clerics have been present at National events like post inauguration ceremonies.
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