Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong – October 17, 2025

Greetings from Tyler,  

We just got back from the Feast of Tabernacles and had a fantastic crowd at Panama City Beach. I spent the entire time there, and everybody was in high gear. I hope it went as well in all the sites. 

It’s almost like we haven’t been gone in the news. The negotiations that were going on as relates to Ukraine, still are. The next meeting is in Hungary, and in the meantime the war goes on.

Israeli hostages have been released in the war in Gaza. Those idiots better have learned their lesson, but probably not. It’s a different mentality over there, and nothing makes sense to you or me. Everybody knows what has transpired so far.

Trump apparently wants to be known as a peace-maker. I saw him brag about the wars he’s stopped in Africa, and he’s got bigger fish to fry. Who knows what Putin has in mind, or Zelensky for that matter. The war in Ukraine may be the hardest one to solve. There’s another meeting planned, but the principles have that look on their face. It won’t be easy.

The Arabs have released hostages that should have never been taken in the first place. Things haven’t changed that much, despite thousands of years. Apparently Donald Trump has everybody’s respect in a way that we’ve not seen before. They better agree before something else happens. The rabble-rousers must have taken a play from some former playbook, because they’re still saying things that make me remember how they used to talk, and that was the 70’s!

Nancy Pelosi may retire! But then again, maybe not. There is a backbench of hopefuls, one of them related, that may make life difficult for years to come. Let’s hope not.

Charges have been filed on Comey and Bolton, and they are not insignificant. Page after page of crimes. They thought they’d be in power forever, and so weren’t worried. I guess they never saw Trump coming, but now they’re in trouble.  

Vigils were held all over Europe for Charlie Kirk. Who knew they even cared? He was having an impact, and now even more. That shooter didn’t know what he would unleash. What do you want to bet that he realizes he made a big mistake, and will have to live with it. In prison.

We had a great and inspiring Feast. We hope you’ll start planning right now for next year’s Feast.  There used to be a thing about the “best Feast ever,” but whose memory goes back that far? We’re having some great ones, no doubt about it, and looking to the future. We’re not through yet!  

With God’s help, we may never be.

Mark