....and those results are in:

Home Depot Sales Miss Expectations on Soft Demand​

Home Depot says it will raise some prices because of tariffs​

Target Q2 Earnings Miss Estimates, Comparable Sales Decline Y/Y​

Walmart Stock Slips as Q2 Profit Comes Up Short​

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Electric Bills Are Up 10% So Far This Year—Why They Could Keep Getting Costlier​

There is no way one can not see the economic trends in higher retail prices, climbing utility costs, layoffs, a shrinkage of business itself, as the opposite of the day one Trump economic promises. It is the polar opposite. Tariffs? Truth be told there has not been one fully completed and signed tariff deal with any country.

The liberal approach to crime.

Brent Hinds, the former singer-guitarist for the Grammy-winning heavy metal band Mastodon, has died in a motorcycle crash in Atlanta aged 51.

Hinds, who left Mastodon after 25 years in March 2025, was killed on Wednesday when his Harley-Davidson collided with a BMW SUV around 11.35pm, per Atlanta News First.

The Atlanta Police Department said in a report the driver of the SUV failed to yield while making a turn - with Hinds found 'unresponsive' at the scene and later pronounced dead by medics.

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Hi everyone,

My name is Davide and I'm 43. I live in Italy and I work in the engineering business sector as a program manager with 16+ years of experience in various engineering roles in the aerospace, luxury cars and off highway/agricultural sectors. I am an active Christian, husband to a lovely young lady and father of a very active and smart boy.

I have worked and volunteered over the years as mentor and career coach, and I'm trying to find a platform where to offer my FREE mentoring and/or career coaching, and I'd like to deliver it following Christian values. I'd love for anyone interested in my simple and humble offer, and I'd be happy for you to contact me directly on WhatsApp at my number +393394553191.

I really look forward to see if God allows for this career/life opportunity to finally open, after having tried many routes on this matter.

I hope to get very busy with sessions!

Davide

Tried to get one in April and my claustrophobia took over. They kept trying to get me to go out of town to get an open MRI but with everything going on, it was difficult. I finally talked them into giving me something to calm my nerves and they gave me a lorazepam. I still had issues but got through it. I have been dealing with medical issues since February when I got pneumonia. Could you please pray that the MRI shows good results so I can get away from this stuff for awhile? I’d really appreciate it. By the way, that pill gave me a hangover! I guess they are highly addictive but I did not see the attraction myself.

Thank’s guys.

Michie

Hi all,

Sorry, new here, so not sure this is the right section. If not, please let me know and I'll move it, if possible.

Just wondered if anyone read this type of bible? I have recently purchased one that I believe was published c. 1820. Up until this purchase, I did not know these existed and wondered if anyone could help me understand that intent of it and how to use it etc.

Thanks!

Here I am on GCTV in Greenfield Mass.
This one is heaven on earth gospel

One judge wrote that Engoron erred by ruling before the trial began that the attorney general had proved Trump engaged in fraud.
In his portion of the ruling, Judge David Friedman, who was appointed to the court by Republican Gov. George Pataki, was scathing in his criticism of James for bringing the lawsuit.
"Plainly, her ultimate goal was not 'market hygiene' ... but political hygiene, ending with the derailment of President Trump's political career and the destruction of his real estate business," Friedman wrote. "The voters have obviously rendered a verdict on his political career. This bench today unanimously derails the effort to destroy his business."

It was an outrageous political attack against the leading candidate for president.

James Dobson, the influential conservative Christian therapist, author and radio personality who founded Focus on the Family, has died at the age of 89.

The Dr. James Dobson Family Institute announced Thursday morning that Dobson had passed away following a brief illness. He is survived by Shirley, his wife of 64 years, two children, and two grandchildren.

“Dr. Dobson was a pioneer — a man of deep conviction whose voice shaped the way generations view faith, family and culture,” said Gary Bauer, senior vice president of Public Policy at the Dr. James Dobson Family Institute, as quoted in the announcement.

“His bold leadership, integrity, and compassion helped equip countless families to thrive in a world of shifting values. He was a mentor, a counselor, and a steady voice of truth in turbulent times.”

Many individuals took to social media to give their condolences, among them conservative bestselling author and radio personality Eric Metaxas, who called Dobson “a hero.”

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The Governor want to remove that power from the voters and place it under his authority - a direct move against the Democratic Process.

Sure looks like a direct attack on the Democratic process to make political appointment without voters consent.

A Politico poll found that nearly two-thirds of California voters prefer retaining the state’s independent redistricting commission over returning authority to the Legislature to draw congressional lines.

Leidy Tatiana Mafla-Martinez, who built a significant presence on TikTok by posting videos with the locations of ICE operations in the Los Angeles area, was arrested on Friday by ICE agents. She reportedly has a DUI conviction. The Department of Homeland Security confirmed the news in response to a Newsweek report.
"You bet we did, @Newsweek," DHS wrote on X. "Leidy Tatiana Mafla-Martinez is a CRIMINAL ILLEGAL ALIEN from Colombia who was convicted for driving under the influence in Los Angeles. Martinez entered the country in 2022 and was RELEASED by the Biden administration. Under President Trump and @Sec_Noem, if you break the law, you will face the consequences."

So too some of the sanctuary-city mayors may soon be charged and arrested.

Trump wins major victory: Appeals court overturns NYC civil fraud judgment​

Famously, G.E. Moore held up his hand in front of the class and declared, "Here is a hand." And, by that declaration, Moore refuted epistemic skepticism.

What was he refuting?

• If S knows that q (she has a hand), then S knows that not-sk (skepticism is false).
• S doesn't know that not-sk.
• Therefore, S doesn't know that q (she has a hand). - modus tollens

What was Moore declaring?

• If S knows that q (she has a hand), then S knows that not-sk (skepticism is false).
• S knows that q.
• Therefore, S knows that not-sk (skepticism is false). - modus ponens

Does that argument work? Can I just raise my hand, and wave away all the brain-in-a-vat, Cartesian-daemon possibilities?

For the past year, Los Angeles has been testing a program that dispatches specially trained civilians who don’t carry guns in response to certain calls for help. The report released earlier this month by the city said the early results are encouraging.

“When deployed to non-violent, non-urgent calls for service, unarmed crisis responders have been shown to minimize the potential for escalation and address critical mental health emergencies in a manner that prioritizes compassion and safety,” the report said.

The use of so-called “unarmed crisis responders,” the report found, not only offers specialized care to people who need help — it also allows “LAPD more time to focus on traditional law enforcement efforts.”

The ongoing pilot program has teams of licensed clinicians, social workers, community workers and therapists who work in pairs, responding to calls around the clock, seven days a week. Over its first year, the program handled more than 6,700 calls, largely to conduct welfare checks and respond to reports of public intoxication and indecent exposure.

Although some skeptics questioned whether unarmed civilians would too often be overmatched by the subjects they encounter, the recent report found that fewer than 4.1% of calls end up requiring police backup. Those cases typically involved individuals who insisted on having an officer present or who turned out to have weapons, the report said.

The outreach workers conduct follow-up visits after certain calls and offer specialized services to people who are willing to accept them, including mental health treatment and drug rehabilitation programs.

Hi everyone, let us see if our faith can find a way for dealing and trampling under mind games. This can be a social justice issue for people.

Mind games on someone can be like a hall of mirrors/mirage/delusions/illusions, web of lies, masks=changing the attributes of people, to mind manipulation of theirs to creating mystery situations which are not present and maze's of hoax's on you and snares triggered in the body. I do not like doing maze type things and can feel agoraphobic and need to get out if people try this on me.

People who do this to you may be abusive and provocative. They can play on the Bible’s guides to steam you up.
For instance we know a Commandment of God is not to steal and I do not.

An example- say In a supermarket sometimes someone was dizzy and eaten an apple in the store. Previously staff if I felt poorly cordially and freely would provide me juice and assistance. Continuing the story say if one apple was eaten and another one taken to the self checkout and left behind after being paid for and shown to the staff. The agitator could say you shouldn’t have stolen the apple which has been paid for and this is a lie and a hoax to them. The accusation of stealing could lead to an overwhelm internally although you know it is fake-it would provoke your conscience. They are playing on peoples intelligence and manipulating the Bible.

For me- I could be going out they tell me to watch for fornication without seeing someone. They are misusing the faith.

Eg they will be telling me to turn around and there is nobody there and then I think something is happening and more which used to trigger an overwhelm but no more-they try and predict disaster to happen for you and fall into it. I have autism with moderate sensory needs and I think they do it on purpose as well sometimes, but God responds. This can happen to anyone. if I am overwhelmed due to them God has intervened, but I need to find a remedy. The Holy Spirit told me, justice is coming, but to never let it bother me would be great to resolve. I don't like to take their time to deal with this.

These happen to people and it can be said to other human beings to, but me as a witness to the faith-my condition can find it difficult and they will do these to me and nobody else telling me to turn around etc.
I have had severe anorexia which has been in a strong recovery, but it is like may be someone doesn't like it and the insult will no longer call me fat...but insult me about my faith and my conscience to get to me perhaps to rattle my recovery...still under a year in solid recovery but months in and what is this.... God is with me and his spirit has appeared to take me out of an unprovoked overwhelm due to being provoked with lies....please tell me why do people say autism=spiritual attack at times as I am wondering what it is and the autism may not be it for me as it is consecrated. God made me and supports me when overwhelmed and has given me his gifts to try and protect me in life and equipped me to cope. They are almost like they can persecute me, but it is nobody else. I think God gave me at times the junior gift of discernment to narrow this down.

They can act like a friendly devil with a holier than thou conscience. They can be built on the grandest lies of religious slander to the conscience and stories of bad behaviour removed by God from life. You would think the Lord would be returning soon with all this madness as well.

These schemers can infect you as well to make you feel guilty for them and infecting the body as well and be hearing bizarre things to provoke your conscience that are impossible and insane and a hoax but can twist your words with their snares in the body. They also can be built on things you decided not to do and prodding you with them to. You may find it stupid and know it s not true but accusations like that and especially if long drawn out can be grating. Some people may think it is true though and that's a shame.

What does this scripture say about this, of course prayer helps, and what are your thoughts to.

Jesus mentioned about the spirit of fear. Is this mind games an anxiety thing that someone can overcome if done to them and how.

I saw this forum and the first post it was like these ways can act, built on a web of lies. What in the scripture can we use to overturn these hot prodded conscience stirrers for nothing and can it be used on vulnerable with great effect.

My vision of the Devil


Perhaps some people online can act like baiters at times as well.


Let's find the way out these web of lies and hoax that distress people’s consciousness.

We who profess faith in Jesus Christ as Lord of our lives, who are following him in walks of surrender to him, in obedience to his commands, in holy living, and who no longer are living as slaves to sin, we should identify with the psalmist as those whose souls pant and thirst for God. God should never be an afterthought in our minds, or someone we only think of when we want something from him. But he should be foremost in our minds and hearts.

We should pant and thirst for our Lord like someone who is truly hungry and thirsty and cannot wait until we are able to find food and water. God should not just be someone we give thanks to at meal time or who we meet with for a short period of time each day in daily devotions and in prayer. He should be our everything! He should be our life, what we live for and long for and desire most above all else in this life of ours. He should be our King!

Sadly, that does not seem to be the modern concept of a relationship with Almighty God via faith in Jesus Christ, God, the Son. The modern concept of those who are of faith in Jesus Christ appears to be all about what God can do for us, but not about what he requires of us in the way of thought, words, time, and deeds. It centers more around self, and how, by a profession of faith in Jesus Christ, we are now forgiven all sin and promised heaven as our eternal destiny, nothing required of us regarding repentance and obedience.

Therefore, many who profess the name of Jesus do not believe that how they live their lives will impact their salvation and eternal life with God in any way. They feel as though they have their assurance of salvation, so how they live no longer matters. And many of them go on living in deliberate and habitual sin against the Lord, with sexual sin seeming to be the predominant sin in today’s culture. And I am one who definitely weeps over this situation.

Now, I know that sin has always existed, including sexual sin. But with the convenience of the internet via smart phones in people’s pockets, I believe that the number of professing Christians who are living in sexual adultery and idolatry has massively increased. Statistics would have it that as high as 75% of “Christian” men (including some pastors), with a lower percentage for females, and a rising number for children, are users of pornography.

Yet, although that does seem to be the predominant sin in our culture today, it is not the only sin affecting the church, the body of Christ. The worst, I believe, is the altering and diluting of the gospel of our salvation in order to make it more palatable and acceptable to the ungodly and to human flesh. So people, by the masses, are being fed a big fat lie disguised as the true gospel. And the masses are believing, and they are living the lie that how they live will have no impact at all on where they spend eternity. But it will!

But I can remember a time when the church taught the critical nature of true biblical repentance, i.e. of us dying to sin, and of true biblical obedience to our Lord, both as necessary components of believing faith. I can recall when preachers taught serious Holy Spirit led sermons about how we must die to sin and now obey God, and how we must live holy lives, pleasing to God, and no longer walk in sin. And I can recall being a part of several spiritual revivals which changed the hearts of many people for the good.

But now it seems so focused around making people “feel good,” and not offending the ungodly and the world with the truth of the gospel. So many “churches” have now turned into businesses, and they are marketing their businesses to the people of the world. And so they have altered the gospel to make it less offensive and more culturally acceptable. And I weep over that, too. So many people are being lied to and are thinking that heaven is their destiny when the absolute opposite of that is true, in reality. Very sad!

Gospel:[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 2:5-10; 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 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]

For Our Nation

An Original Work / September 11, 2012
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
Recording Via Gerry Peters, music producer and arranger

Bombs are bursting. Night is falling.
Jesus Christ is gently calling
You to follow Him in all ways.
Trust Him with your life today.
Make Him your Lord and your Savior.
Turn from your sin. Follow Jesus.
He will forgive you of your sin;
Cleanse your heart, made new within.

Men betraying: Our trust fraying.
On our knees to God we’re praying,
Seeking God to give us answers
That are only found in Him.
God is sovereign over all things.
Nothing from His mind escaping.
He has all things under His command,
And will work all for good.

Jesus Christ is gently calling
You to follow Him in all ways.

Men deceiving: We’re believing
In our Lord, and interceding
For our nation and its people
To obey their God today.
He is our hope for our future.
For our wounds He offers suture.
He is all we need for this life.
Trust Him with your life today.

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I Remember Happier Times
An Original Work / August 21, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

I love how he nails it - the issues of the day summed up with such clarity.
And when Fox try to attack him for it - there's a vast difference at play.
Gavin can turn it off in a second - he's just having fun.
But Fox's guy? He can't help it. That IS him!
This is such an ironic twist in American political strategy!

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Speaking of tongues, how would you paint today's Pentecostal pulpit, large or small amount of time dealing with speaking in tongues? Would your response likely include a frequent amount of time Church oversight deals with the subject? Should a Church mirror the frequency the Apostle Paul and others exhibited in the book of Acts?

Currently, I would like to be shown by someone to be in gross error by the good report of congregations who are so pumped by the subject they break out in applause whenever the Pastor sets the subject in motion! My experience to date cannot provide such a report.

What is a good or healthy frequency for a Pentecostal assembly to be thought friendly with the subject of tongues?

Hello everyone, I am keen for everyone to share their stories and I want to share my nephew's testimony who is just a tender 17 with you which I encouraged him to do. This age moves me as well and it when Christ took me in hand and I started walking with him and the Gifts of the Holy Spirit, having been baptised at 8. I am always to trying to inspire the young in my family and others like on the student forum in the UK. I remember the very beautiful advice I recieved as a 16 year old by a bunch of teenagers telling mr about Christ's miracles and how they was going to walk on water soon.. I was awestruck and knew the stories too and soon was beautiful buyoed to go hunting for my own miracle and God being so good and fatherly never gave me my request for another three inches to height- but gave me something beautiful to open intsead, the gifts itself.

Now moving back to my nephew he is a young charge for Jesus as well, always had it in the belly from childhood to seal things, a finisher. He is a professional footballer and a Christian and has been baptised and shares his story of his journey to try and inspire others. A warrior in the spirit. May graces reside with him continually. He has the strenght of Solomon for times I looked after him at just 4 he would go the highest beams and being so tiny I would be blown apart he could complete them all. Just in the belly as I said. He is commited for Christ and just 17 is early days into his walk. May the protective arm of God seal him forever.

He did a short video of his journey which is no more than 3 minutes-may I present to you my nephew Ellis McMillan Professional footballer and a 17 year child of God. Why not listen to his words. He is a light to other young people and his words moved me This is just short at under 3 minutes.-

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Ellis was always a talented star at school and would power down the line to win his races as well.

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Please pray for my anxiety, depression and fear of losing my salvation. I keep having anxiety that someone really bad is about to happen and i don't know what to do. I'm scared of could be the holy spirit warning me, or just my brain misfiring. I also need to go back to church but I'm scared of rejection. Please pray for me friends

Shalom

Praise the Lord, my soul, and forget not all his benefits. (Psalm 103:2)

"Lord Jesus, please direct my heart to honor and praise you, and not to covetousness, and open my mouth to give thanks and praise you from sunrise to sunset in Jesus' name, Amen." (Psalm 51:17)

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

Soli Deo Gloria

PS And I pray that the Lord will send out harvesters into his harvest (Matthew 9:38).

Does anyone else feel this way about their job? Or they have negative feelings about their workplace?

Maybe we can talk about it and know that we are not alone in this craziness?

I wish I could leave my current job and go somewhere else.

Ruling claims humans 'evolved over several million years'

A federal judge has issued a temporary injunction blocking a Texas law that would have mandated the display of the Ten Commandments in every public school classroom across the state.

In his ruling on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Fred Biery in San Antonio temporarily prohibited 11 Texas school districts from displaying the Ten Commandments.

The Clinton appointee said a lawsuit filed by a coalition of Dallas-area families, faith leaders and civil liberties advocates raised questions about the constitutionality of Senate Bill 10, which would have required the displays in schools statewide starting September 1.

The decision marks the third time a federal court has struck down such a state-level requirement, following similar rulings in Louisiana and Kentucky.

Biery's 55-page ruling emphasized the potential impact on students and teachers, noting that "even though the Ten Commandments would not be affirmatively taught, the captive audience of students likely would have questions, which teachers would feel compelled to answer. That is what they do."

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