Toni V. Lee

📣 To safeguard your self-esteem and peace, don't hesitate to file what folk say, their accusations, and attitudes right here ➡️🗑 and keep it movin'. It's either folk will love you or not, support you or not, be there for you or not. Don't allow their "not" to define you. Just keepin' it real...

Folk have been repeatedly warned and shown the receipts regarding Donald Trump. If Trump wins the Presidency and any of the following happens and you voted to hand him power, you will own it: * Social Security/Medicare is negatively impacted. * The Constitutional power structure is changed per Project 2025, destroying Constitutional checks and balances by making the Executive branch more powerful than the other branches of government. * Trump requires personal loyalty oaths from all federal government workers for continued employment.  * The Project 2025 blueprint is implemented to prevent any future fair elections and usher in an authoritarian government. * The death rate of pregnant mothers continue to rise because of denied emergency care. * Agencies vital to the health, safety, and education of this Nation are dissolved as outlined by Project 2025. * IVF access is curtailed. * Trump goes after his opponent's, retaliating as promised. * Trump disappears his federal cases to esca...

Wait...did Christians really go to D.C. to pray for America to turn to God BY electing a man who's a rapist, racist, bigot, con, habitual liar, and contentious, divisive, unrepentant convicted criminal? 😮😮 and 😮. Please help me to understand this. And let me say right off the bat that I don't buy those "If God could use..." churchy sounding justifications 🙅🏾‍♀️. True, He did use those folk for His purposes but they also repented. The guy these Trump followers are exalting--by his own admission--has NEVER repented of anything. I'm all for humbling ourselves, turning from wicked ways, and seeking Him. I would LOVE to see everyone accept the work Christ did for us on the cross and make right Bible supported choices. Wouldn't that be wonderful?  What I am NOT for is trying to elevate a man (flesh) who personifies everything Christ and Christianity is NOT to be the catalyst the Lord needs to heal this Nation. Especially, when that same man is the conduit for m...

They've thrown everything but the kitchen sink at this woman, trying to stop her momentum. They've tried to make Kamala Harris a racist, saying she hates Jewish people...it didn't work because her husband is Jewish. They're trying to use her past to slut shame her. To every woman joining in this nasty, low rating, and denigrating bashing of another woman, you actually went there?!?! SHAME, SHAME, SHAME ON YOU!!! This is compounded crazy for you wholeheartedly support a sleazy rapist who repeatedly cheated on his wives and slept with porn stars. They try to tarnish her reputation as a prosecutor and end up contradicting each other: She kept folk in prison for cheap labor...She was too soft on crime. They accuse her of doing all kinds of despicable things during her career. A quick Google search debunks the lies. Then, they went lower and took aim at her race. They said because she's multiracial--her father is Jamaican and her mother is Indian--she's not Black. Of...

Let's talk about the angst over the skit at the opening Olympics ceremony. Does it bother me? A couple of things... 1. The portrait of the Lord's Supper was an artist's rendering of his interpretation of how that event looked. What he painted was in his imagination. Just like that White Jesus with the long golden hair is not a picture of the real Jesus. We don't know exactly what He looked like but we do know...that isn't it. 2. We view things from our own Christian perspective. Some Christians will try to slap a deep spiritual meaning on a fly buzzing by. Others just see a dirty fly and try to swat it away. 3. Christianity has different flavors around the world. What's mega Christian to you, may not be of grave importance to me. Ex. Religious statues. For some, religious statues are just appreciated as great works of art. For others, they are sacred objects. 4. I expect more from folk who say they share my faith than those who don't or whose faith is unknow...

What is it really about? 🤔 Christian Nationalism ignores scripture as it tramples on folk in its fervor to "reclaim" America for God by making the religious beliefs of a subset of this Nation into laws that govern all of the Nation. Here are just two of those scriptures that's inconvenient to their cause. John 18:36 NKJV 36 Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, My servants would fight, so that I should not be delivered to the Jews; but now My kingdom is not from here.” John 14:2-3 NKJV  2 In My Father’s house are many [a]mansions; if it were not so, [b]I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. The Lord never asked us to make this world His by force...forcing folk to right living and choices by making our religious beliefs and interpretation of scripture into laws. He told us to let our ...

I love the Word of God. There is no other written word like it.  I also believe Christianity is all about choice.  * We chose to believe the Word.  * We chose to accept the work Christ did for us on the cross.  * We chose to obey or disobey the Word of God.  Christianity is not about force feeding or ramming the Word down anyone's throats. That is NOT what "compel them to come" means.  Force feeding and ramming the Word down someone's throat only satisfies the religious hypocrisy of the people doing the ramming.  Government officials are mandating that the Bible and Ten Commandments (which are also a part of the Bible) be taught in schools.  Some Christians are having praise breaks because of the rulings.  Let me ask you this: If a Muslim becomes a State Governor or School Superintendent and mandates that their religious text, the Koran, be taught in schools, will Christians think that's worthy of a praise break? Will they be ecstatic about t...

Christians are justifying voting for Donald Trump by saying they're voting for a President, not a pastor. Statements like those get scoffed at and generate push back against the Church because the following is how their actions are really viewed:  If the person you vote for is a murderer, you are supporting a murderer. If they're a serial killer, you're supporting a serial killer. If they're a bigot/racist, you're supporting a bigot/racist. If they're a rapist, you're supporting a rapist. If they're a habitual liar, you're supporting a habitual liar. If they're a nasty and contentious person, you're supporting a nasty and contentious person. If they're a cheat and con, you're supporting a cheat and con.  So...these quips flying around as justification just don't wash, especially with the world...you know, those souls we're supposed to be winning for Christ. Just keepin' it real...

Being a Babe in Christ isn't about the number of years you've been professing to be a Christian. It has everything to do with how carnal (can't understand or apply the truth of the Word, controlled by fleshly desires, wants, and passions) you are. We start out as Babes in Christ when we first become Christians but at some point, there should be/has to be some growth. We have to "grow up".  Some folk have been Christians for decades but are still Babes in Christ. They're just as carnal now as they were on day one of their conversion.   They see themselves as mighty lions when they're still babes that can only digest formula and pablum. They need constant and repeated redirection from things, people, and choices that can hurt or mislead them. It's easy to identify the Babes in Christ by what they do, what they allow, and without a doubt...what comes out of their mouths. Just keepin' it real...

Why do Black folk vote Democratic? It's not because we're ignorant, and it has nothing to do with having a plantation mentality.  If you really want to know, here's a simplified historical breakdown of why.  Slavery: * Republican Party ended slavery. * Southern Democratic Party fought for slavery. * Northern Democratic Party was against slavery.  Post-Civil War thru Reconstruction: * Republican Party was for Black civil and political rights and was considered the Negro dominated party. * Southern Democrats were against any rights for Black folk and considered themselves the White man's party. Note: This is when the switch is Democratic and Republican Party ideologies slowly began.  By Post-Reconstruction (1877): * Republican Party began to lose political interest in the plight of the freed slaves and began to support big business. * Southern Democrats (the White man's party) took back/recaptured their states, passing Jim Crow laws to facilitate keeping Black folk su...

I remember when fraud, adultery, porn, lying, sexual sin, bigotry, cheating, nastiness, etc. were Bible thumping sermons declaring God is not pleased and you'd better repent. Now, the Church (some, not all) knowingly elevate folk who live in such places into positions of leadership and power declaring them to be men/women of God, sent by God, and approved by Him. Who changed?  The Bible says God does not change...so who changed? Instead of reflecting and repenting after seeing the consequences of elevating folk who boldly live in contradiction to the Word, there are STILL those in the Church ready and willing to do it AGAIN. But you know what? God is still not pleased with sin for He does not change.  If sin was wrong yesterday, it's still wrong today for God does not change. If God has not changed, then who changed? Just keepin' it real... 

* She should be fired. * She should be disbarred. * She's unfit for her job. * She's a wh***. * Nasty quips regarding her body shape. * Hateful statements about how she looks. That's just a tiny portion of the negative things said and shared about Fani Willis--the Black woman who is also the District Attorney of Fulton County, Georgia--by MAGA and other Republicans when her affair with a married man was exposed. Trump's extramarital affairs and sleaziness are now waving in the wind before the world.  * Where's that outrage now?  * Where are the calls for him to not run for public office?  * Where are the declarations that he's unfit to hold the highest office in this Nation? What I am hearing is his followers giving him passes left and right. Trump's extramarital affairs are no big deal. They are just not that important to them.   Adultery is just as wrong and appalling for Trump as it was in Fani's case. If Fani deserves to be severely punished and fire...

Some folk have a crisis of faith because they're constantly fed "do this and God will do that for you" and "give to get" sermons but things happen differently. This is what I mean... * Give and it'll come back to you in a larger measure--house, car, canceled debt, lots of cash, etc. Instead, you struggle to make ends meet. * Sacrificial offerings will be returned double fold. Yet, your lights were still turned off and your bills are past due. * Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart. Yet, it's been years and the expected answer to your prayers hasn't come. Note: When we delight ourselves on the Lord, His desires for us become the desires of our heart. The desires of our heart will line up with His will for us. It doesn't mean it's Christmas and our birthday and we get the things on our wish list. * Just believe...all things are possible if you only believe. Yet, your body is still screaming with pain...

Our soul is where our personality, intellect, will, and emotions reside. It's who we are. When somebody says, "You know how they are," the statement is referring to characteristics of our soul.  This is the part of us that dies daily to become more like Christ. This is the part of us the living Word operates on to remove everything that doesn't reflect the image of Christ. Our body can be seen as the shell or house for our soul.  Our soul controls the actions of our body. What am I saying?  Sinful actions begin in the mind and are then acted out by the body. When we die, the body/shell/house turns to dust.  Our current body is not glorified. It's not eternal. It's...dirt. At the rapture, we will get new, glorified, and eternal bodies. The Great Commission of the Church--what we are supposed to be about--is to win SOULS for Christ. Instead of carrying out the Commission, the Church seems to have gotten things twisted and is more focused on saving the body--dirt...

The ugliness was there hidden behind the "Praise the Lord, Sister!", "Blessed and highly favored!", "I love you!", "Amen, Brother!", smiling face, and Sunday morning handshake. It was there when they danced💃🏾 in church doing something that looked like a combination of the Wah Toosie and Twist...or some hip-hop move I've watched my son do around the house. 👀 It was there when they prayed for or even laid hands on you. It traveled and entwined with the words they spoke to you when they prophesied or preached to you. 👀 Was church ever a hospital for them where the living Word performed operations to expose the inner workings of and fix their heart issues? 🤔 Was church just a club where they met up with friends, sang, danced...went to see and be seen? 🤔 A lot of folk attend church religiously, making sure they physically assemble in the church building ⛪, but they are not Bible believing, born-again Christians. Their relationship with Chris...

Easter Sunday is the day Christians celebrate the resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Easter Sunday is the first Sunday after the first full moon that occurs after the Spring equinox.  That means Easter Sunday can be anytime between March 22 and April 25 on the calendar. Listen, the date of Easter Sunday is not what's important to Christians for that date is a moving target on the calendar. What occurred on Easter Sunday means EVERYTHING to us. We celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ on Easter Sunday WHENEVER that date is on the calendar. This year, it's celebrated on March 31st. Next year, we'll celebrate it on April 20th. Why are some Christians in an uproar about events that are occurring on March 31st when the date itself is not important to Christians?  We can't allow political wrangling to distract us from what's REALLY important: Celebrating the resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! Hallelujah! He is risen! 🙌🏾🙌🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Jus...

My bluntness may seem harsh to some folk. I hope they also understand that my heart is soft. Having said that, I'm absolutely fed up with the blatant hypocrisy that's going on in the Church (the body).  I used to have no problem whatsoever with recognizing hypocrisy and keepin' it movin'. My attitude was, "It's not me, not my problem...oh well." Now, it's like a switch flipped and the dissatisfaction and indignation burns deep; especially, when folk TRY to cloak it under the cover of "The Lord told me or the Lord said". If I feel this way about hypocrisy, can you imagine how the Lord feels about it? If I can see it, don't you know those who don't know Christ can see it as well? If you don’t know it, they do and jeer about it. It's like folk have become numb, anything goes, and everything gets a pass. Things the Church use to call out and rebuke are now being reasoned and excused away. We no longer call a spade a spade. Self-procla...

There's no way you could have made me believe folk would be fighting tooth and nail to make a criminal, corrupt, and bigoted individual the leader of this Nation. I would have thought you were under demonic influence and in error if you had told me Christians would also vigorously support this person. In addition, that they would worship him--or any man for that matter. NO WAY! Just no... This is why I felt like I'd been blindsided during the 2020 election. I felt like I'd woken up from a deep sleep and my world had shifted into something unfamiliar, strange, and...dark. Family ties and friendships were being severed, anger and hate hovered over this Nation like a cloud, folk (Christians, too) were committing murder with their tongues, Christians were calling their brothers/sisters-in-Christ demons and condemning them to Hell for daring to have different views and not falling in step, and nastiness had become the norm. How in the world did we get there? How did the Church b...

Genesis 2:7 KJV 7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Isn't it something how so many folk who call themselves Pro-life actually stop caring about people after they take their first breath? That living soul that was "fearfully and wonderfully made" then becomes... * Someone they hate and fear just because...  * Someone they wish didn't exist. * Someone they look down upon. * Someone they find unacceptable because they are not like them. * A N-word and other derogatory names for different races. * "You people". * "Blood poison". * Someone to keep under their foot. Sounds ugly? It should...because it is. These folk are NOT Pro-life. They are Pro-birth for they couldn't care less about that baby after it leaves the birth canal and takes its first breath... It is for that very reason Pro-lifers are viewed with contempt, disgust, and labeled hypocrites...

I just want to drop a little forgotten (ignored may be a better word) history nugget.  The Star-Spangled Banner was written by Francis Scott Key, a slave owner, in 1814 during the War of 1812. He owned human beings when he wrote the song and still owned them when he died.  When he wrote the line that's sung with gusto and pride, "O’er the land of the free...", it did NOT include every person--human being--in America. Certainly not the enslaved folk he held in bondage. His song was adopted as the anthem of the United States of America in 1931. When your lips tremble to rebuke and low-rate folk who object to the song being considered their anthem, please remember this little nugget of history...because they do. All I'm sayin' is exactly what I said. Just keepin' it real...

✔ Filthy communication...acceptable.  ✔ Lying? That's ok too. ✔ Adultery...It's in the past so no problem. ✔ Stealing? It's ok...they meant well. ✔ Cheating?  Nobody was hurt...it's ok. ✔ Grifting? Nobody made them give so it's ok. ✔ Bribery? Where's the problem...it's ok. ✔ Nudity/porn? Classy and beautiful. ✔ Unrepentantly living in a sinful state...Well, we have all sinned...it's ok. ✔ This one truly baffles me: Rape is now ok, too... When we choose to turn a blind eye and endorse someone--who has unrepentantly done or is doing these kinds of things--with excuses and justifications, we are putting a stamp of approval on every action.  You know what? We can excuse and justify sin all we want to but the Word of God does not, can not, and will NEVER back us up. That's just us marching to the beat of our flesh... Just keepin' it real...

"We're not a racist country...We've never been a racist country."                     - Nikki Haley                       Republican Presidential Candidate So...slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, the Civil Rights Movement, the KKK, the Civil War, police brutality against non-whites, discrimination (in the work place, education, and housing)...all of that must have happened in an alternate universe and not America. 😮 You know...this lady just keeps on saying offensive stuff. Does she really believe what she's saying or is she just trying to win the vote of the racist bigots of this country? One thing for sure is she needs to start thinking before she speaks for these highly offensive statements dismiss, disregard, and discount the real life experience a whole sector of this Nation has endured for generations. Just keepin' it real...

When you accept yourself, it eliminates the hunger to have people--those sometimes loving, supportive, loyal, giving, hypocritical, tiresome, venomous, toxic, jealous creatures--accept you.  Love everybody but make sure your constant and loyal companion--yourself--is at the top of the list for people will come and go in your life but YOU will always be there.  For my deep brothers and sisters, the Bible teaches self-denial (saying no to what we want when it conflicts with what God wants) and humility (not arrogant, not prideful, not boastful, acknowledging a need for God and submitting to Him) NOT self-hate.  It took me a minute but when I got it...I got it.  Just keepin' it real... 

Unbelievable!  A "Christian" said Trump exemplifies what Jesus would do.  For that statement to be true, Jesus would have be a rapist, liar, con artist, thief, bigot, nasty to people, an insurrectionist, etc.  Jesus was, did and would do NONE of those things!  My question is JUST WHO DOES THIS "CHRISTIAN" THINK JESUS IS?  Oh, it gets much worse: Trump's indictments for his wrong doings are like Christ's crucifixion.  Christ was innocent of all the charges leveled against Him!  No sin was found in Him.  We've witnessed Trump's actions in real-time, we've read the released documents related to his indictments and court cases, we've heard the bile and filth that pours out of his mouth. Trump being held accountable for his actions is like Christ's crucifixion? You've got to be kidding me! Again...JUST WHO DOES THIS "CHRISTIAN" THINK JESUS IS?  How dare these folk try to bring Christ down to Donald Trump's level to justify th...

Why is it that so many of the sermons preached today don't include a call for holiness?  Holiness is not about makeup, jewelry, ankle length dresses, or the straightness of your hair. Don't get me wrong, inward holiness WILL BE reflected outwardly.  Holiness is about being separated from sin, hating what God hates, loving what He loves, and living by and measuring everything by the standard of His Word. Many scriptures call for holiness. Some folk live like they consider holiness to be optional...it is not. 1 Peter 1:16 KJV 16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy. The focus on give-to-get and feel good sermons--to keep the pews filled and dollars flowing--and less focus on the requirement of holiness has resulted in a Church where anything and everything goes. Some boldly and willfully live raggedy and sinful lives, declaring they're covered by grace.  The Word says... Hebrews 12:14 KJV 14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see...