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06/03/2026

The real conservative beats the President Trump-backed candidate for governor of Iowa! The President needs better advice on some of these races!

WATCH: Zach Lahn gives victory speech after winning the GOP primary...

06/03/2026

WEEKLY SPECIALS AT ROUSES IN CENTRAL corner Hooper and Joor roads Wednesday, June 3, 2026 to Tuesday, June 9, 2026. For all weekly specials, go to https://www.rouses.com/locations/rouses-market-8/

06/03/2026

LIVE - SERMON: RUTH
PART 20: I WENT OUT FULL — OLD-FASHIONED WORSHIP SERVICE from Life Tabernacle Church in Baton Rouge, the Church That Never Closed, for 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, June 2, 2026. The pastor is Rev. Tony Spell. Services are held each week at 10 a.m and 6:30 p.m. on Sundays and at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesdays.

Pastor’s sermon notes at the end of this description.

Video production by Katherine Diamond for Central City News.

UPCOMING EVENTS:
• July 1-5, 2026 — Revolution: America’s National Youth Conference. For details and to register, go to ltcbr.com.

Life Tabernacle operates from a beautiful 41-acre campus at the corner of Hooper and Blackwater roads in the City of Central, Louisiana, just outside Baton Rouge. It is a multi-racial church where everyone is welcome. On Sunday morning, church is held in seven sanctuaries on the campus. Most adults worship in the main sanctuary. Children are welcome there too but most attend one of the six worship services for children of a specific age and s*x. The message in the children’s services is the same as in the main sanctuary but designed for their age level. The bus ministry, supported by 50 buses, reaches out into the poorest areas of South Louisiana from Lafayette to Baton Rouge to New Orleans. The broadcast ministry reaches more than 7 million people a year as part of the Great Commission. Life Tabernacle supports missions at home and abroad.

Since March 2020, more than 3,000 people have been baptized at Life Tabernacle Church.

Life Tabernacle is also home to Revolution: America’s National Youth Conference, held every year just before July 4. In 2024, Revolution was held July 3-7 and attracted nearly 5,000. It is one of the largest youth conferences in the United States. Admission to the conference is free but reservations are required and must be made at ltcbr.com. The church built the Brush Arbor Freedom Center at Revolution Square in 2021 specifically to house the youth conference. Seating is currently 5,800.

To support this ministry, you may contribute online at LTCBR.com or by mailing your contribution to Life Tabernacle, 9323 Hooper Road, Baton Rouge, LA 70818. If you desire to designate your contribution for a particular purpose, indicate “Tithe,” “Church Building Ministry,” “Legal Defense,” “Bus Ministry,” “Broadcast Ministry,” “Revolution National Youth Conference,” or such other purpose as you desire.

Online Membership in Life Tabernacle is available. If you are interested in joining Life Tabernacle as an Online Member, write to Rev. Tony Spell, 9323 Hooper Road, Baton Rouge, LA 70818. Tell him about yourself and why you are interested in Online Membership. He will respond!

RUTH
PART 20: I WENT OUT FULL
Ruth 1:21 "I went out full..."
FULL is Canaan, EMPTY is Moab. 10 Years of backslidings=EMPTY.
In God's presence, there is fullness. No man can stay around, where God is, and be empty. Barnabas was full of the Holy Ghost. Stephen was full of faith. Dorcas was full of good works. The seven men of honest report were full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom. Naomi's own testimony from her pre-backslidden days was, "I went out full."
Psalm 16:11 Presence fullness of joy.
John 3:34 Immeasurable Spirit.
Isaiah 26:3 "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee." Philippians 2:5 THE MIND OF CHRIST MUST CONSUME YOU!!!
NAOMI was from the tribe of Judah, lived in the house of bread and praise. Her experience was shouting happy. She enjoyed her inheritance and possessed her possessions. If she had remained true to God, watched and prayed, tithed, read the Bible, and went to church regularly, she still would have been FULL!!!
SHE WENT OUT FULL, AND LIKE THE PRODIGAL SON, CAME BACK EMPTY.
Romans 4:21 "Fully persuaded" means that he was filled brimful. There was no room for doubt.
Luke 1:53 "He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away." Matthew 5:6 "Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled."
Acts 13:52 "And the disciples were filled with joy, and with the Holy Ghost."
Acts 3:10 "They were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened unto him."
Colossians 1:19 "In him dwells all fulness." Colossians 2:9 "For in him..complete"
JOY is the prime requisite of the Christian life.
Galatians 5:22 "The fruit of the Spirit is JOY."
John 15:11 These things have I spoken to you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your Joy might be FULL.
John 16:24 JESUS said you have asked me for nothing, ASK and RECEIVE, that your JOY may be full.
1 John 1:4 "These things write I unto you that your JOY may be full."
1 Peter 1:7-8 "The trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, (OUR SUFFERING PURIFIES US AND GLORIFIES GOD) therefore, rejoice with joy, unspeakable and full of glory."
"I took a test, I passed, I REJOICE."
Isaiah 12:1-4 Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.
2 Chronicles 30:26 "So there was great joy in Jerusalem: for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was not the like in Jerusalem." WHY? 2 Chronicles 29:3 Church doors opened! 2 Chronicles 29:4
Gathering together in UNITY.

06/02/2026

POLITICS WITH A PUNCH — A Fun Night at Dearman’s coming up Thursday, June 11 — A humorous look at politics in the Capital City and Louisiana. Featuring Woody Jenkins, Jay Dardenne, Roy Fletcher, Jeff Crouere, Rep. Kathy Edmonston, former Metro Councilman Darrell Glasper, and comedian Tee Ray Bergeron. Doors open at 6 p.m. and the show starts at 7 p.m. Discount if you register online, or you’re welcome to show up at the door! Buy tickets online by clicking here: https://www.crouere.net/politics-with-a-punch.
For information, call 504-669-6076.

06/02/2026

The massive radio buy calling Dr. John Fleming a “fraud” is an irresponsible lie on every issue. The question is, who is paying the millions saturating the media with these lies? The Republican Party of East Baton Rouge Parish has reiterated its strong endorsement for Dr. John Fleming for the Republican nomination for U. S. Senate in the June 27 runoff election!

06/01/2026

YOU DON’T HAVE TO FACE THE STORM ALONE by Rev. Tony Spell and the Life Tabernacle choir. Sunday morning, May 31, 2026. Video by Woody Jenkins of Central City News

05/31/2026

05/31/2026

YOUR GOODNESS IS RUNNING AFTER ME by Rev. Tony Spell and the Life Tabernacle choir. Sunday morning, May 31, 2026. Video by Woody Jenkins of Central City News

05/31/2026

LIVE - OLD-FASHIONED WORSHIP SERVICE from Life Tabernacle Church in Baton Rouge, the Church That Never Closed, for 10 a.m., Sunday, May 31, 2026. The pastor is Rev. Tony Spell. Services are held each week at 10 a.m and 6:30 p.m. on Sundays and at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesdays.

Pastor’s sermon notes at the end of this description.

Video production by Woody Jenkins for Central City News.

UPCOMING EVENTS:
• July 1-5, 2026 — Revolution: America’s National Youth Conference. For details and to register, go to ltcbr.com.

Life Tabernacle operates from a beautiful 41-acre campus at the corner of Hooper and Blackwater roads in the City of Central, Louisiana, just outside Baton Rouge. It is a multi-racial church where everyone is welcome. On Sunday morning, church is held in seven sanctuaries on the campus. Most adults worship in the main sanctuary. Children are welcome there too but most attend one of the six worship services for children of a specific age and s*x. The message in the children’s services is the same as in the main sanctuary but designed for their age level. The bus ministry, supported by 50 buses, reaches out into the poorest areas of South Louisiana from Lafayette to Baton Rouge to New Orleans. The broadcast ministry reaches more than 7 million people a year as part of the Great Commission. Life Tabernacle supports missions at home and abroad.

Since March 2020, more than 3,000 people have been baptized at Life Tabernacle Church.

Life Tabernacle is also home to Revolution: America’s National Youth Conference, held every year just before July 4. In 2024, Revolution was held July 3-7 and attracted nearly 5,000. It is one of the largest youth conferences in the United States. Admission to the conference is free but reservations are required and must be made at ltcbr.com. The church built the Brush Arbor Freedom Center at Revolution Square in 2021 specifically to house the youth conference. Seating is currently 5,800.

To support this ministry, you may contribute online at LTCBR.com or by mailing your contribution to Life Tabernacle, 9323 Hooper Road, Baton Rouge, LA 70818. If you desire to designate your contribution for a particular purpose, indicate “Tithe,” “Church Building Ministry,” “Legal Defense,” “Bus Ministry,” “Broadcast Ministry,” “Revolution National Youth Conference,” or such other purpose as you desire.

Online Membership in Life Tabernacle is available. If you are interested in joining Life Tabernacle as an Online Member, write to Rev. Tony Spell, 9323 Hooper Road, Baton Rouge, LA 70818. Tell him about yourself and why you are interested in Online Membership. He will respond!

05/30/2026

A CLOSER LOOK AT U.S. SENATE RACE: FLEMING VS. LETLOW by Diane Long, Former Trump Delegate from Louisiana — Americans are living in perilous times. There is no more consequential decision than whom we send to the United States Senate from Louisiana.

There are now two Republican candidates left in the race: Dr. John Fleming, former Congressman, former Deputy to President Trump, and current Louisiana state treasurer; and Congresswoman Julia Letlow.

Letlow is the graceful survivor of her husband’s untimely death, and clearly a lovely and intelligent person. A tragedy befell her and she has soldiered on admirably.

But these facts are not adequate prerequisites for being a United States Senator. Republican control of both chambers is razor thin (and may not even exist after the mid-terms.) In many ways, the Republic is unraveling. The ground beneath us feels unsteady. We need rock-solid conservative representation and unshakeable grit.

We can’t afford to make another mistake.

Letlow is an academic at heart, and these liberal sensibilities do not really leave a person. While she now insists she disavows the injustice of DEI, a true reversal is unlikely in someone from the higher education world. Her conversion is doubtful.

Fleming, on the other hand, has the robust career accomplishments and personal integrity to make conservatives rest easy. As Congressman, he was a founding member of the House Freedom Caucus in 2015. He was on the ground fighting the liberal Republican establishment before MAGA was even born.

Fleming and his band of stalwarts were MAGA before it was cool. We owe these trailblazers a debt of gratitude.
While in Congress, Fleming earned a 100% rating from Numbers, USA, the immigration watchdog that strives to protect Americans from the harmful effects of unfettered immigration and cheap foreign labor.

Letlow has received only a B (80 %) Numbers rating and has refused to sponsor various legislation that would restrict refugee resettlement; end the foreign worker visa lottery; reduce asylum fraud; and end chain migration. This record can be easily verified.

Fleming also firmly opposes Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS)—the potentially dangerous process of storing carbon dioxide underground in wells, which would be costly to taxpayers, and would create serious challenges to private property rights through Eminent Domain.

Letlow supports CCS—she has done nothing as a member of the powerful House Appropriations Committee to repeal the Biden era tax credits that fund it at public expense. There is zero market demand for it.
After his congressional service, Fleming went on to serve President Trump loyally in the president’s first term as Deputy Chief of Staff to the President for Planning and Implementation, among other roles. Later, when many around our beleaguered president were running for cover after the 2020 election, Fleming never budged. He stayed by his boss’s side to the end.

Fleming currently serves as Louisiana State Treasurer and projects a budget surplus of approximately $293 million. He strongly insists this money be returned to taxpayers and not turned over to state legislators with sticky fingers.

Conservatives in Louisiana have their own minds. Governor Jeff Landry’s backroom deal to pick a winner and a loser among Republican candidates in this race was out of line. It has been suggested that the governor helped block Fleming’s access to President Trump, his friend and former boss, to preclude a Trump endorsement until it was too late.

Regardless of one’s preferred candidate, no honest Louisianan likes dirty pool.

"These are the times that try men's souls,” wrote Thomas Paine at Christmastime in 1776, describing the brutal conditions when the Continental army was freezing and starving under General Washington. Victory seemed remote, and the obstacles were daunting. But the Patriots pressed on.

Now, as then, every decision is critical if we are to save our state, country, and ourselves.

Let’s send Dr. John Fleming ─ a tested patriot, a man of singular distinction, and a reliable conservative ─ to the United States Senate.

Diane Long
Shreveport