Bishop Edir Macedo Bezerra, the billionaire founder of the neo-Pentecostal Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, who Brazilian authorities once accused of using church funds to enrich himself, has sold his luxury condo unit in the Porsche Design Tower in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida, for $13 million.

The sale, which was made on Sept. 10, was reported by the real estate firm Redfin.

Macedo’s condo, which was previously sold brand new in 2016 for $9.65 million, is described by Redfin as “the height of coastal luxury.”

It’s a “one-of-a-kind duplex penthouse” boasting 6,121 square feet of space and the Dezervator — a private car elevator that goes directly to the condo’s four-car sky garage. The condo, which has four large bedrooms, high ceilings and floor-to-ceiling glass windows, also has a private balcony pool with ocean views.

Macedo and his family are proponents of the prosperity gospel, which teaches that "believers have a right to the blessings of health and wealth and that they can obtain these blessings through positive confessions of faith and the 'sowing of seeds' through the faithful payments of tithes and offerings."

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Hello all!

I thought I should share some random facts.

Since water is a renewable resource, and humans (and animals) consume water to survive.

Is it true that the water we consume possibly passed through countless humans and animals since it's being recycled over and over again?

Also, human beings create water via our metabolism. Is that also consumed?

Peace

It seems like there haven't been many pointed discussions about the economy down in the US right now.
Seems that the DOW continues to improve.
Unemployment is at BEST, underwhelming.
The inflation on foods is becoming quite untenable for many.
Farming, as an American industry is on the brink of complete disaster (if we are to believe American farmers)

But I don't live there.

What are you passionate about here? What are the really GREAT things you see happenning? What are the troubling things?

I'm curious.

Thank you, Senator Grassley for revealing the truth about Biden's weaponized FBI.

It's the classic pattern: Muslims appear to be open and democratic, until they outnumber the non-Muslims. Once that happens, it's back to the 9th century, with Shar'iah law and dhimmitude.

The Islamic faith is incompatible with modern Western countries, particularly the United States.

MSN

No matter how much gaslighting the Trump admin and the right may invoke, that is the reality.
I mean exactly how many liberal radicals militias are out there in the woods playing army in preparation of a revolution?
But kind of like climate change and science itself, anything the Trump admin doesn't like gets deleted from government websites.
They are literally whitewashing reality.

President Donald Trump called Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar a “disgraceful person” and a “loser” when asked if the Minnesota congresswoman should be stripped of her committee assignments following her remarks about Charlie Kirk’s murder.

While addressing reporters from the Oval Office on Monday, the president responded to a question about Omar, saying that he believes the congresswoman should lose her committee assignments.

“I think she's a disgraceful person. Loser. It's amazing the way people … I know it's people [maybe] from her area of the world, I don't know,” Trump stated. “They got here and they voted her in. It's hard to believe, but I think she's a disgusting person."

Omar’s office did not respond to The Christian Post’s request for comment in response to the president on Tuesday.

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I have been suffering immensely recently but it is not because of my belief in Christ. This has lead me to believe I am being punished rather than having my faith cleansed through fire. Is this a fair belief?

[NRSVUE 2tim 3:1-5] 1 Godlessness in the Last Days You must understand this, that in the last days distressing times will come. 2 For people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 unfeeling, implacable, slanderers, profligates, brutes, haters of good, 4 treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 holding to the outward form of godliness but denying its power. Avoid them!

What do you think about that?

DOJ Quietly Deletes Study After Charlie Kirk's Death That Says Right-Wing Extremists Engage in 'Far More' Political Violence

The U.S. Department of Justice appears to have quietly removed information online regarding right-wing violence following the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

As of Friday, Sept. 12, a 2024 study titled “What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism” no longer appears on the DOJ website under President Donald Trump's administration. However, it is still viewable as an archived post on Wayback Machine.

“Militant, nationalistic, white supremacist violent extremism has increased in the United States. In fact, the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism,” the first two lines of the study read.


It doesn't fit their current narrative, so of course they would delete it.


What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism

Militant, nationalistic, white supremacist violent extremism has increased in the United States. In fact, the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism. Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists, including 227 events that took more than 520 lives. In this same period, far-left extremists committed 42 ideologically motivated attacks that took 78 lives. A recent threat assessment by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security concluded that domestic violent extremists are an acute threat and highlighted a probability that COVID-19 pandemic-related stressors, long-standing ideological grievances related to immigration, and narratives surrounding electoral fraud will continue to serve as a justification for violent actions.

In some lands people believe that they possess a RIGHT to freedom of speech but is that a biblical position to hold and if you think it is then show us why it is.

Shalom

The first Jesus March will take place in Salzburg, Austria, on October 31st.
Could you please pray that God's will be done in Jesus' name?

Thank you for your prayers!

May the Lord bless you abundantly (Luke 6:38; Job 42:10) and may he bless Israel in Jesus' name. Amen!

Soli Deo Gloria

"Astronomers may be one step closer to unlocking the missing link in supermassive black hole evolution after finding mysterious tiny red objects may in fact be an entirely new class of celestial objects – ‘black hole stars’.

Scientists spot potential new class of black hole stars

And what did Jesus teach on this subject? He said,


And when Jesus denied himself and he took up his cross, it was to do what? To put our sins to death with him so that, by faith in him, we will now die to sin and walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands. Faith in Jesus Christ, if it is biblical faith, must result in us forsaking the self-life and our sins to now follow Jesus/God in obedience to his commands. If we hold on to our sinful lifestyles, we will lose our lives, but if we give up our self-life and our sinful practices to follow Jesus in obedience, we will save our lives.

And please be aware that making a profession of faith in Jesus is not what saves you from your sins and promises you heaven when you die if you do not deny self, die to sin, and follow Jesus in obedience to his commands. And “the wicked” and “the ungodly” are not just those who make no professions of faith in Jesus Christ, but they are all for whom sin is still their practice, and for whom obedience to God is not their practice. So, don’t be fooled by the lies which tell you that all you have to do is say you believe in Jesus.

Therefore, what should our lives look like if we are of genuine faith in Jesus Christ? Daily we should be putting sin to death, by the Spirit, and we should be walking (in conduct) in obedience to our Lord’s New Covenant commands. And we should be those who are patterning our lives after the character of God and the example of the life of Jesus, and we should walk in agape love which prefers to live through Christ, choosing his choices, and obeying them in his power, according to his will. And love does no harm to its neighbor.

Thus, this will require that all immorality or any impurity or greed must not be existing among us who profess faith in Jesus Christ, and if it is, that it is not to be ignored, but dealt with biblically. For this we should know with certainty, that no immoral or impure person or the covetous idolater has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. But this has to do with all who refuse to give up their sinful practices and who do not obey our Lord’s commands, in practice, that they will not have eternal life with God.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 1:12-13; John 6:44; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:23-31; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10]

Oh, to Be Like Thee, Blessed Redeemer

Lyrics by Thomas O. Chisholm, 1897
Music by W. J. Kirkpatrick, 1897

Oh, to be like Thee! blessèd Redeemer,
This is my constant longing and prayer;
Gladly I’ll forfeit all of earth’s treasures,
Jesus, Thy perfect likeness to wear.

Oh, to be like Thee! full of compassion,
Loving, forgiving, tender and kind,
Helping the helpless, cheering the fainting,
Seeking the wandering sinner to find.

O to be like Thee! lowly in spirit,
Holy and harmless, patient and brave;
Meekly enduring cruel reproaches,
Willing to suffer others to save.

O to be like Thee! while I am pleading,
Pour out Thy Spirit, fill with Thy love;
Make me a temple meet for Thy dwelling,
Fit me for life and Heaven above.

Oh, to be like Thee! Oh, to be like Thee,
Blessèd Redeemer, pure as Thou art;
Come in Thy sweetness, come in Thy fullness;
Stamp Thine own image deep on my heart.

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Don’t Be Fooled!
An Original Work / September 17, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Some children are more independent and strong-willed than other children, and if you try to assist them, or if you try to instruct them in the way that they should go, they might respond with, “My Do It.” Now, we should not do everything for them, and they do need to learn to be independent and to do things for themselves, to a point. But they must also learn to respect and to obey their elders, unless the adults are insisting that they do something sinful. After that, when no longer children, they are supposed to grow up.

Sadly, there are many adults still living like children, still taking an independent and “My Do It” approach to their life choices, which can be good, and which can be bad, depending upon the choices being made and who all is impacted by those choices. Many of them, therefore, never grow up, but they continue to behave childishly in self-indulgence and in being self-absorbed. Many of them end up doing what they want to do regardless of right and wrong, and regardless of who gets hurt in the process.

Sadder still is that many of these adults profess faith in Jesus Christ, and yet they still go their own way, making their own choices (good and bad), doing whatever brings them pleasure, regardless of who they hurt in the process, and regardless of what God’s word teaches us about how we should live, and about moral purity, and about putting off what is of the flesh and that is sinful and putting on obedience to our Lord. They may claim they want to be free from the control of sin, but their hearts are in the wrong place.

And one of the big problems at work here is that they are not looking to God for their solutions, although they may seem to, at times, but then they go right on living just like before. But they are looking to the world and to other humans to solve their problems rather than going to God and to his word and just doing what his word teaches that we must do. But this can only be done in his power, and only as we yield control of our lives over to God and we now submit to his will, and we die to sin, and we obey his commands.


Faith in Jesus Christ is not verbal only. Faith, which comes from God, and which is gifted to us by God, is persuaded of God as to his righteousness and holiness, and of our sinfulness, and of our need to die with him to sin and to walk in obedience to his commands, in holy living, in the power of God. For in Jesus’ death on that cross, he put our sins to death with him, so that by faith in him we will now die to sin and walk in obedience to his commands, in surrender to his will for our lives. And if we do not die to sin, and if we do not obey his commands, in practice, we do not have eternal life in him.

So, the counsel here is that we are to take God and his word seriously. We are to believe, not only the promises of God which make us feel good, but also the promises of God which let us know that if sin is still our practice, and if obedience to God is not what we practice, that heaven is not our eternal destiny. For all of God’s promises have warnings and conditions. And if we do not meet those conditions, because of how we live, we are not recipients of those promises. So we must all submit to God, put sin to death in our lives, and purify our hearts, for from our hearts come evil deeds.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Matthew 15:17-20; Luke 9:23-26; John 1:12-13; John 6:44; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:23-31; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10]

As the Deer

By Martin J. Nystrom
Based off Psalm 42:1

As the deer panteth for the water
So my soul longeth after You
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship You

You alone are my strength, my shield
To You alone may my spirit yield
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship You

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Pleasures that Wage War in Your Members
An Original Work / September 16, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

I watched the video while having lunch and the message was timely. There’s a lot of things we do that no one sees and things we hold together no one commends. But our faithfulness is worthy of applause. And if you haven’t heard thank you or job well done as of late. Know that you’re seen and deserving nonetheless.

Do something nice for yourself.

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What is the scriptural support for the idea that Christ not just is punished in our place, but that he actually dies in our place?

And if that is correct, why do we still die?

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The Republican Party is seeing a “Charlie Kirk effect,” with moderate Democrats and Independents switching party affiliation at breakneck speed.
Freshly emancipated former Dems told The Post they were horrified by the assassination of the 31-year-old podcaster last week — who they thought of as kind and reasonable — and further disgusted by the ghoulish celebration of his killing by many lefties.

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We are watching the DNC collapse before our very eyes. I am predicting that the next decade will be dominated by Republicans, to include 2 terms with J.D. Vance. After that, things will level out with an increased in Independent voters to include many liberal Republicans leaving the GOP. Eventually we will have a three party system with the GOP still on top, and Independents fighting with Democrats for second place. Regardless, the GOP will be in power for a very long time.

Your thoughts

Started a youtube channel documenting my journey in to growing with Christ and about 1.5 years in. The holy spirit is working in me and it's given me the courage to make videos because I think now is the time to be speaking up on these kinds of things.
Video is here,
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A Special Initiative Roundtable on Catholic Principles, Human Costs, and Pastoral Challenges

Donald Trump’s victory was not just a victory for his movement, but for the ideas of the people in this room. National conservatism is an idea whose time has arrived.

The battle for our future is not between democracy and autocracy, capitalism and socialism, or even “Right” and “Left,” in the old meaning of those terms. It is between the nation and the forces that would erase it.

For decades, many of those in power—not just here, but across the West—have been locked in a cultural war with their own nations. We see that in many of the countries of Europe today, where the immigration crisis threatens to transform the ancient fabric of those nations—and all who object are menaced by an increasingly totalitarian censorship state.

The old conservative establishment may have opposed something like illegal immigration on procedural grounds—simply because it was illegal. But they took no issue with it in substance, and if the same thing was achieved through “legal” avenues, many of them would celebrate and support it.

For the tens of thousands of Americans who were forced to train their foreign H-1B replacements just to get their severance package, the fact that it was “legal” is little comfort.

For decades, the mainstream consensus on the Left and the Right alike seemed to be that America itself was just an “idea”—a vehicle for global liberalism. We were told that the entire meaning of America boiled down to a few lines in a poem on the Statue of Liberty, and five words about equality in the Declaration of Independence.

If you imposed a carbon copy of the U.S. Constitution on Kazakhstan tomorrow, Kazakhstan wouldn’t magically become America. Because Kazakhstan isn’t filled with Americans. It’s filled with Kazakhstanis!

For years, conservatives would talk as if the whole world were just Americans-in-waiting—“born American, but in the wrong place.”

That’s what set Donald Trump apart from the old conservatism and the old liberalism alike: He knows that America is not just an abstract “proposition,” but a nation and a people, with its own distinct history and heritage and interests.

His movement is the revolt of the real American nation. It’s a pitchfork revolution, driven by the millions of Americans who felt that they were turning into strangers in their own country.

America, in all its glory, is [our revolutionary and pioneer ancestors'] gift to us, handed down across the generations. It belongs to us. It’s our birthright, our heritage, our destiny.

We Americans are the sons and daughters of the Christian pilgrims that poured out from Europe’s shores to baptize a new world in their ancient faith.

The first settlers in my state were mostly Scots-Irish ... As the historian David McCullough writes, the Scots-Irish families that first settled Missouri “saw themselves as the true Americans”:

But America does not belong to [the radicals, i.e. "them"]. It belongs to us. It’s our home. It’s a heritage entrusted to us by our ancestors. It is a way of life that is ours, and only ours, and if we disappear, then America, too, will cease to exist.

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Emphasis added. All opinions are Senator Schmitt's. National conservatism is a variant of conservatism that prioritizes the defense of national and cultural identity. In the United States, [Trump's ideas] can be considered a variety of national conservatism, which also gives its name to the National Conservatism Conference, organised by the Edmund Burke Foundation.

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Notable theologian and author John Piper has warned Christians not to pursue mysticism or believe that one can connect with God in a supernatural realm to gain hidden knowledge.

In a recent episode of the “Ask Pastor John" podcast, the Desiring God website founder responded to a letter from a listener named Dianne who asked about the Bible teacher's views on mysticism.

“I don’t know if this question has come up before, but what are your thoughts on Christian mysticism and Christian mystics and their interaction with God?” she wrote.

“Did they experience something in their walk with God that we have generally lost today? Is mysticism something that we should pursue to have a closer walk with God?”

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He'll be missed.