I set time limits on texting and other apps with the Lock Me Out app on Android, and some of the time it has not been effective. Like yesterday when I had a 10 minute time limit on texting, but I still ended up being glued to the phone and not able to put it down for a long time. When I was glued to the phone, I felt like there was a lot less to do on the phone so I was using the phone cut off from the activity I love, and really not liking it. If I have much more of these experiences feeling stuck on a phone and feeling severely limited in not being able to text friends, I might disable the time limit on texting and just use Lock Me Out for limiting or blocking other apps like social media. I might even disable the time limit on texting soon.

For controlling my addiction to my phone I turn the phone's power off before/when I get home, but not always consistently. It seems like this may be a more effective barrier to texting or my phone addiction because I cannot as easily grab the phone and immediately spend time on it, and I may decide to keep it off for my own good and to be able to get more tasks done. I have a landline and cell plan on my Galaxy Watch so I can still receive urgent calls from my mom if she has a pressing need to call me.

With my smartphone addiction, I also have weird behavior of wanting to get in bed in with my phone. Previously, I loved to just get in bed and text friends and found it really relaxing. Now with a time limit in place if I get in bed with the phone, I may spend some time browsing the Google Discover Feed, or scroll through YouTube to see what is there, but yesterday I kind of ran out of stuff to do on the phone, so I just put the phone aside and laid there.

With the time limits in place, it would be super productive if I opened the Bible app and worked on memorizing Bible verses. I did that once with these new limits, but a lot of times I have not.

Scoop: Trump plan asks Ukraine to cede additional territory for security guarantee​

The new Trump plan to end the war in Ukraine would grant Russia parts of eastern Ukraine it does not currently control, in exchange for a U.S. security guarantee for Ukraine and Europeagainst future Russian aggression, a U.S. official with direct knowledge told Axios.

New Trump peace proposal for Ukraine could require land concessions and military reduction, source says​

A new peace proposal for Ukraine drafted by the Trump administration could envision the country ceding the eastern Donbas region and limiting the size of its military in exchange for security guarantees from the United States, according to a Western official familiar with the ideas under discussion.

The 28-point plan, which President Donald Trump has reviewed and supports, is the White House’s latest attempt to bring Russia’s war in Ukraine to an end. Some of the proposal’s provisions — including territorial concessions in areas not currently held by Russia — have previously been nonstarters with the Ukrainians. But US officials see a new window of opportunity to restart peace discussions.

The plan is still in the framework stage, and its many points haven’t been finalized. CNN has not reviewed the proposal.

Ukraine envoy Keith Kellogg ‘quits’ after plan for US peace leaked​

Donald Trump’s Ukraine envoy Lt Gen Keith Kellogg is leaving the role, it has emerged hours after a US plan to end the war leaked.

Lt Gen Kellogg, 81, is expected to step down as US special envoy in January in a departure that will deal a hammer blow to Kyiv’s diplomatic efforts to end the war on favourable terms.

The retired general has been a key advocate for Ukraine inside the Trump administration at a time when the White House’s support for Kyiv has dwindled.

The progressive left wing liberals really do want to indoctrinate your children against what parents believe.

What are your thoughts on the Loch Ness Monster and other topics related to cryptozoology? (Such as champ, yeti/bigfoot etc).

I think it's mostly a hoax, but it's a fun topic for fiction!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/11/20/coast-guard-swastika-noose/

For some reason a nazi symbol can manage to not be considered hate speech....just "potentially divisive". This seems to speak to the ideologies this administration are happy to empower. Getting angry at posters for being critical of Israel I'd expect some posters will be quite upset to hear this is happenning in your navy.

And ditto for nooses and confederate flags (though their display is still banned).

What kind of coast guard Commandant would allow this? Glad you asked.

Admiral Kevin Lunday
Wow. How can that be?
Well as per a smart person than me:
This role requires senate approval. If you do not put forward a candidate, there is an unconfirmed interim leader.
So the Admiral leading the navy does not have senate confirmation, and has been leading the navy in an interim capacity since inauguration with no replacement in sight.
This was actually detailed in project 2025 as a way to have sycophants installed without the need for Senate approvals.

I've been struggling with this for many years despite so many prayers, reading the Bible, etc. It's a horrible, sexualized community with no substance. I try to keep to myself and not bother anyone, yet people in the homosexual world keep coming into my life causing turmoil. Please pray for me.

A simple Grok search reveals:

• Paying off a widow's mortgage: In 2016, Trump reportedly paid off the $77,000 mortgage for Annabel Hill, a Georgia woman whose husband had committed suicide, saving her family farm from foreclosure. He personally burned the debt papers in a gesture of finality.
• Loaning his jet for a sick child: In the early 1990s, Trump provided his private plane to fly 3-year-old Andrew Tenenbaum, a boy with a rare heart condition, and his family from Los Angeles to New York for life-saving surgery. The family described him as a "miracle."
• Donating presidential salary to charities: During his presidency, Trump donated his entire $400,000 annual salary to various government agencies and causes, including the National Park Service, Department of Education, and opioid addiction programs—totaling over $1.4 million across four years.
• Supporting a suicidal woman on a bridge: Trump reportedly gave $10,000 to a New York City bus driver who talked a woman out of jumping off the George Washington Bridge in 1989, recognizing his heroism.
• Sheltering Jennifer Hudson after tragedy: Following the 2008 murder of three of her family members, Trump provided Jennifer Hudson and her family free accommodations at the Trump International Hotel in Chicago for several weeks.
• Helping a distressed woman in New York: In the 1990s, Trump encountered a woman in tears near the Brooklyn Bridge who was contemplating suicide after her parents' deaths. He spent time talking her down, prayed with her, and slipped a $100 bill into her hand, which she later framed as a symbol of his compassion.
• Assisting a Marine detained abroad: Trump donated $25,000 to help a U.S. Marine sergeant arrested and detained in Mexico in 2016, aiding his legal and travel expenses.
• Funding education for a classmate's family: After a high school classmate's father passed away, Trump's father (Fred Trump) funded the college education for the three children. Trump has been noted for upholding and expanding such family traditions of quiet support.
• Providing office space to civil rights groups: In the 1980s, Trump donated prime office space in Trump Tower to Jesse Jackson's Rainbow/PUSH Coalition when the group was struggling to find affordable headquarters.
• Supporting Black entrepreneurs: Trump provided loans and financial backing to Black-owned businesses in New York that banks had rejected, helping them launch ventures in the 1970s and 1980s.
• Challenging discrimination at Mar-a-Lago: When purchasing the Mar-a-Lago estate in the 1980s, Trump ended its longstanding discriminatory policies against Black and Jewish members, sending community leaders films like Guess Who's Coming to Dinner to highlight the issue.
• Aid to 9/11 rescue efforts: In the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, attacks, Trump personally funded and organized rescue teams, donated supplies, and visited Ground Zero to assist in recovery operations.

My hopes is that this thread shows the 'other side' of the man.

Trump accuses Democrats of 'seditious behavior, punishable by death,' for urging military to ignore illegal orders



As I watch the Ken Burns Documentary on the Revolution I reflect on where we are now and how fragile or American democratic dream is. Thrre have always been difficulties and challenges. How important it is to have a leader who can inspire the best in us, unify and lead by example.

Hello,

The most nothing, is there even such a thing as the most nothing? Yes, there can be less nothingness than nothing, it is timelessness. What makes timelessness more nothing than nothing is the fact that nothing can age, thus making it less nothing than timelessness.

She did something to her back while vacuuming. She’s in a lot of pain and having a hard time getting around. She does not want to go to the doctor yet and wants to wait to see if it resolves. Please pray for her comfort and healing in the meantime.

Thank you,
Michie

Members of Congress, comprised of former US Military and Intelligence officers, released a video this week reminding members of the military that they can, and in fact, have an obligation to disobey illegal orders.

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Today, on Truthsocial, the POTUS reacted:

“It’s called SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Each one of these traitors to our Country should be ARRESTED AND PUT ON TRIAL. Their words cannot be allowed to stand.”

...later he posted:

“SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!”
He also reposted a post from a Truth Social user proclaiming: “HANG THEM GEORGE WASHINGTON WOULD !!”



To be clear. Our military serves the U.S. Constitution - not the President of the United Sates. The UCMJ clearly indicates military members are to obey lawful orders. Should the President issue an illegal order, military members may disobey the order.

The proclamation cites several reasons for the designations, alleging the groups pose a threat to the security and residents of Texas.
"The Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR have long made their goals clear: to forcibly impose Sharia law and establish Islam’s ‘mastership of the world,’" said Governor Abbott. "The actions taken by the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR to support terrorism across the globe and subvert our laws through violence, intimidation, and harassment are unacceptable. Today, I designated the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR as foreign terrorist organizations and transnational criminal organizations. These radical extremists are not welcome in our state and are now prohibited from acquiring any real property interest in Texas."

We need to recognize these bad actors who hide by calling others Islamaphobics.

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There's no articles about this as its breaking news, so I will post a video from an independent journalist. Here are the highlights of the video:

• They have no choice but to relocate the capital of Tehran because of water, gas, and electric shortages.
• IRGC officially ends nuclear cooperation framework with IAEA (No inspections, no monitoring + accelerating the program based off of the idea they need to defend themselves)
• Regional forces including Saudi Arabia on standby
• "In order to prevent war, we are going to prepare for war" - Iran
• IAEA is preparing for diplomatic war against Iran because of their pull out and are saying they have to tell the UN what is happening with its enriched uranium stock, etc.

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Comedian Bill Maher denounced the Left's embrace of gender ideology earlier this week and claimed many on his side of the political spectrum are not scientifically sound.

During a discussion with fellow comedian Patton Oswalt on Maher's "Club Random" podcast, which aired Monday, the two discussed the post-election soul-searching among Democrats, with Oswalt pushing back against the notion that Democrats have veered too far to the political fringe.

Oswalt suggested that the widespread notion that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., is "too far left" shows the country is "broken," adding that the U.S. is still reeling from having "freaked out" over the election of former President Barack Obama.

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FBI intercepted communications of Newsom administration officials, California political players​

Current and former members of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration were among the dozens of Sacramento insiders who received FBI letters in recent days notifying them that their phone calls, texts or other electronic communications had been intercepted as part of the federal corruption case tied to Dana Williamson and two additional longtime Democratic operatives.

Williamson, known as one of California’s toughest political insiders who previously worked as chief of staff to Newsom, was arrested last week on federal charges that allege she siphoned $225,000 out of 2026 gubernatorial hopeful Xavier Becerra’s dormant state campaign account. She also was accused of spending $1 million on luxury handbags and highflying travel and illegally declaring them as business expenses on her tax returns.

The notifications are routine in wiretap investigations once surveillance ends, but the letters set off a wave of panic across California’s political power structure. The letters are signed by Sacramento Field Office Special Agent in Charge Siddhartha Patel and began arriving in mailboxes from Sacramento to Washington, D.C., last week, according to copies of the communications shared with The Times.

The legal notifications, under the terms of the 1968 Federal Wiretap Act, are sent out routinely to people whose private communications have been captured on federal wiretaps.

A Newsom spokesperson said the governor's office is aware that a limited number of the letters were sent to current and former members of the administration. The spokesperson said that the letters were expected given federal law requires parties to be notified. Newsom's office said the governor did not receive a letter.

My mother has recently overcome a situation where she couldn't hold any liquid down and kept vomiting for about 48 hours. I tried to get her to go to the emergency room, but she refused. She's 100% in her right mind, so I can't force her. Thankfully, God has healed her and she's feeling better and able to keep food and liquid down, but she's only urinating once a day, usually when she first wakes up. She's drinking plenty of fluids, but it's just not coming out as much as it should be. Please pray for her kidneys/bladder/whatever's causing this to heal and for a total and complete body healing

A Christian worship organization has filed a lawsuit against Quebec City, alleging that the Canadian municipality wrongfully canceled an event featuring American worship leader and activist Sean Feucht at the last minute last summer.

Burn 24/7 Canada Worship Ministries alleges in a suit filed Nov. 14 in Quebec Superior Court that Quebec City violated "constitutional and quasi-constitutional guarantees" by terminating their event featuring Feucht at ExpoCité, a city-owned venue, according to the CBC.

Quebec City, which was among eight Canadian cities that canceled stops along Feucht's "Revive in 25" tour, terminated the organization's ExpoCité contract on July 23, the day before Feucht was slated to perform, citing reputational concerns given his political opinions.

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I’m a NZ-born believer living in a tiny Tokyo apartment; the sunrise just crept over the neighbourhood roofs and made me homesick for big skies and real-coffee chat. So, worldwide friends, hit reply with one sentence: what can you see outside your window right now—and does it make you smile, sigh, or pray? Photos welcome (but no pressure). Let’s swap snapshots and small talk that might grow into bigger friendship. Grace, bob121 – Tokyo

A federal judge behind a 2014 ruling that deemed Texas’ ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional has ordered the removal of Ten Commandments posters in seven school districts.

U.S. District Judge Orlando L. Garcia on Tuesday issued a preliminary injunctionmandating the removal of Ten Commandments posters from classrooms in Fort Worth, Arlington, McKinney, Frisco, Azle, Rockwall and Mansfield Independent School Districts, which were named in a lawsuit filed by multifaith and nonreligious families in September.

Attorneys with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and Freedom From Religion Foundation filed the suit on behalf of 15 families whose children attend schools in the affected districts.

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Are we to praise our Lord verbally? Yes! Absolutely! Out in the open where others can hear? Sometimes, yes! But not for show. Not as a performance. Not to get attention. But for the purpose of sharing Christ with the people of the world, and for sharing with them the gospel of our salvation so that they can come to know the Lord, too. But under the direction and guidance of the Holy Spirit, as being led by the Spirit in what to do, and how to do it, and in what to say, so that it never becomes a flashy performance to please flesh.

And just because we sing or shout praises to the Lord with our lips, it does not necessarily mean that we are truly praising or worshiping the Lord. For we can sing and shout all kinds of praises and thanksgivings to the Lord with our lips and it mean nothing to God if our lives are not surrendered to him in obedience to him and to his commands in holy living. For our true praise to the Lord is in how we live, and in what we do in service and in obedience to him and to his teachings. So the verbal must match with how we live.

For, if we are truly rejoicing in the Lord, it needs to be in truth and in righteousness, as evidenced by our submission to the Lordship of Christ over our lives. And our joy needs to be based in the reality of changed lives which have been transformed of the Holy Spirit out of living in sin and for self, to now living for God in obedience to his commands in holy living. And we should be thankful to the Lord for rescuing us out of our sinful lifestyles so that we can now live holy lives, which are pleasing to our God, in his power.

For, because you attend a “worship service” or a large gathering of people who are all singing “worship songs,” it does not necessitate that any true worship of God is taking place. For true worship of God is in presenting our bodies to God as living sacrifices to God, acceptable to God, which is our spiritual worship of God. And it involves us no longer being conformed to the ways of this sinful world, but us being transformed of God in the renewing of our minds, that we may prove what the will of God is (see Romans 12:1-2).

For our Lord is the only great God who is King above all that are called gods, but are not God. And he is completely sovereign over all that he has made and that he has brought into being. Everything is under his ultimate control, not that he has anything ever to do with evil, but he does presently allow evil to exist, and he allows people to do evil things, not in giving them approval to do evil, though. But he ultimately has control over all that is on the earth, or that is part of this world, including all who live on the earth.

And he serves as Judge and Jury over all that he has made, too. Therefore, he is not fooled by false performances of thanksgiving, praise, and adoration to our Lord, in word or in song, which are lip service only, but which are not followed up with dying to sin and living for God in walks of obedience to his commands. For he requires of us who profess the name of Jesus that we deny self, die to sin daily, and that we walk (in conduct) in obedience to his commands, or we do not have salvation from sin and eternal life with God.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; 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 10:19-39; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

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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Sing for Joy to The Lord
An Original Work / November 20, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

What does this look like in our world today? And what does it look like in the USA where I live? I don’t have enough knowledge to answer the first question as well as I would like, but I do know that Christians are being persecuted for their faith in Jesus Christ and for their testimonies for him in nations all over the globe. But the persecution of Christians can take on many different forms depending on where people are located throughout the earth. For not all persecution is physical. Much of it is intimidation.

In the USA where I live, physical persecution is not common, although I cannot say that it does not exist. The persecution here is primarily via intimidation, i.e. via shaming, mocking, rejecting, opposing, and casting aside as unnecessary and as unwanted all who stand on the truth of the gospel message, who will not compromise with the world, and who expose the fruitless deeds of darkness for what they are. For we don’t fit in with the modern notion of what it looks like to be a believer in Jesus Christ.

Therefore, the nations in an uproar, and the peoples devising a vain thing here in the USA can include many people who profess faith in Jesus Christ and those who promote Jesus as Lord and Savior, and who push the need to believe in Jesus and to become a Christian. And there seems to be a huge push in today’s culture to believe in Jesus and to become a Christian. But there is a catch to it all. From what I have seen, most of them are not teaching the gospel of Christ but a gospel of man made to look good.

For the devil is very clever. So he created a Jesus and a gospel and a Christianity made to appear genuine, but altered to be more acceptable to human flesh and to the ungodly of the world. Therefore, he led many people who are professing faith in Jesus Christ to take many Scriptures out of context and to twist them and to make them say what they do not say if taught in the correct context, to make the lies he is spreading appear to be biblical truth, but they are not truth, but a mixture of lies and truth.

So, outwardly, we have the impression that this country, and other countries, too, are on fire for Jesus Christ, and that people by the thousands, and perhaps millions, are now believing in Jesus Christ for salvation from sin and for eternal life with God, and who are being publicly baptized with water in profession of their faith. And we are being given the impression that a great revival is breaking out because thousands upon thousands of people are gathering and they are singing songs of worship of our Lord.

Could some of this be genuine? Yes! But from all outward appearance, and from what gospel is being popularly taught these days, especially in these large gatherings, I would speculate that a lot of what is being made to look like biblical Christianity and genuine salvations and genuine worship of God is far from what the Scriptures teach if taught in their correct biblical context. For faith in Jesus must come from God, and it must be persuaded of God as to his holiness and of our sinfulness and of our need to die with Christ to sin and to now walk in obedience to our Lord’s commands.

We cannot just make a verbal confession of Christ as Savior and now we are saved and on our way to heaven. For if our faith in Jesus Christ is of God, and not of human flesh, it will result in us dying to sin and now walking (in conduct) in obedience to our Lord’s commands, in practice. And worship of God is not just singing songs of worship, but it is giving our lives to God as living sacrifices to God, holy and pleasing to him, in death to sin and walks of obedience, no longer to live as slaves to sin but as servants of the Lord.

But by the devil convincing the masses that all they have to do is to make a profession of faith in Jesus, in who he was/is, and in what he did in dying for our sin and rising from the dead, and that now all their sins are forgiven, and they are on their way to heaven, this is how the people are devising a vain thing, and many are taking their stand against the Lord by teaching lies as truth and truth as lies, and by turning many people to a false hope of salvation and eternal life with God, while hell and not heaven awaits them.

But Jesus Christ taught that to come to him we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity. But if we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and we walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in his power, then we have eternal life with God. For not everyone who calls him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23).

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; 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 10:19-39; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

Have Thine Own Way, Lord

Words by Adelaide A. Pollard, 1907
Music by George C. Stebbins, 1907

Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way!
Thou art the potter, I am the clay.
Mold me and make me after Thy will,
While I am waiting, yielded and still.

Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way!
Search me and try me, Master, today!
Whiter than snow, Lord, wash me just now,
As in Thy presence humbly I bow.

Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way!
Wounded and weary, help me I pray!
Power, all power, surely is Thine!
Touch me and heal me, Savior divine!

Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way!
Hold o'er my being absolute sway.
Fill with Thy Spirit till all shall see
Christ only, always, living in me!

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The Peoples Devising a Vain Thing
An Original Work / November 19, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

So I was thinking about this verse, because it contradicts what is written elsewhere in the Bible, that there is water above and below the earth.

It turns out that the word translated as “nothing” - Blimah or Belimah or however you prefer it - is the opposite of Hokmah or Chokmah - which means wisdom. Furthermore, it is related to Balaam, a fool so foolish he was rebuked by a donkey.

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So I think the correct interpretation of this is that while the earth is above the waters in the physical sense, it is above foolishness in the spiritual sense.