Detention ordered for referencing God, divine justice

Two Assemblies of God pastors in Cuba, Luis Guillermo Borjas and his wife, Roxana Rojas, were detained this week after invoking their religious beliefs during their son’s military tribunal.

Prosecutors are seeking an eight-year prison sentence for the couple, who face charges of disrespect and disobedience to authorities.

The incident occurred in Nueva Gerona, Isla de la Juventud, where the couple resides, according to the U.K.-based group Christian Solidarity Worldwide.

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With Judgement imminent, we pray for a sign of repentance as Biden stares into the reflecting surface of eternity.

On May 18, 2025, the news broke that Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., the 46th president of the United States and one of the most recognizable Catholic figures in modern American political life, was diagnosed with advanced, metastatic prostate cancer. The cancer, classified with a Gleason score of 9—aggressive and spreading to his bones—is no trivial diagnosis. Though still hormone-sensitive and medically manageable to a degree, for a man of his age and medical history, it is virtually a death sentence. It is the kind of diagnosis that forces even the most secular of societies to confront the fragility of life. And for those who live in the household of faith, it demands reflection not only on mortality but on the state of the soul.

The coincidence of Biden’s diagnosis being announced publicly the very same week that CNN anchor Jake Tapper’s book about Joe Biden is released is striking, to say the least. Some are going to be dismissive about the two events, but I tend to lean on the side of this being more than mere happenstance. I believe any discerning reader and listener is going to ask deeper questions.

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Felt like posting this.

Christ is Risen!

If forever punishment was true, Jesus wouldn't need to wait on anybody. If forever punishment was true, Jesus would forget about the lost sheep and get the party started in Heaven. However, this verse describes Jesus as WAITING. Remember, God is patient, not wanting any to be lost.

1 Corinthians 15:25
English Standard Version
25 For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.​

One KJV verse says that some are punished forever. Another KJV verse says that all are made alive. They can't BOTH be true, so which one is, please?

Matthew 25:46
King James Version
46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.

1 Corinthians 15:22 King James Version
22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

Dr Peter Kwasniewski tweeted about this. TAN Books is located in the Diocese of Charlotte which infamously just had it's bishop shutdown the Latin Mass across the board and is allowing it to be held in one spot (a formerly protestant property).

So in response, to improve Catholics' understanding and education on the matter, TAN is discounting all of their books related to the TLM by 75%.

I wanted to have this done months ago but, all is as God wills it.

This ended up being a much different experience from Theodore’s baptism a couple years ago. This was a group of 9-10 babies, and the only group we could get into that worked with all of our other arrangements was a Spanish baptism. Luckily my wife and her family are Hispanic so it at least made a little sense.

Now my older son Theodore was baptized in New York while we were living with my in laws. And when we did that we didn’t need anything except his baptismal attire. Apparently my parish here in California does things differently but nobody gave us a heads up. All the other families had these kits that had a candle, rosary and a their own shell for the water (apparently to keep as a sacramental). A nice family lent us their shell, but then when it was time for the candle we froze. Until Joey’s godmother remembered she had a candle in her purse that was a discarded altar candle from the St Jude shrine at St Dominic’s Catholic Church in SF (one of my favorite churches in the country). Turns out they weren’t planning to be there yesterday but stopped in last minute for Mass and that’s when she got the candle. So now that’s on our mantle, and it feels so providential since it was already a holy candle.

Joey was a trooper, where Teddy shrieked and cried through his baptism Joey slept the entire time. Only jolting slightly with the third pouring of water, which my wife and I both say was the Holy Spirit awakening him.

It was a lot of fun and I’m thrilled he’s finally baptized into the Church family.

"Unlike many others at Harvard, I have no dramatic cancellation, or intellectual persecution, or struggle session to report. I stopped teaching at Harvard last year primarily because of its anti-truth-seeking culture, radical left-wing bias, racial and gender discrimination, and prevailing anti-intellectualism, which made continued participation a poor use of time. There are exceptions, but on the whole Harvard has strayed from its foundational mission of unbiased truth-seeking and has become ideologically driven, too often resembling a secular church or a partisan think tank. The university’s culture and practices prioritize ideological conformity over open inquiry and debate, suppressing dissenting viewpoints and compromising academic freedom. This shift undermines the core values of a secular university and poses a threat to the integrity of academia and broader society."

I can see this from their actions.

LAHORE, Pakistan — A judge in Pakistan on May 16 handed custody of a Catholic girl to the Muslim man who kidnapped and forcibly married her despite evidence that she was coerced into stating she converted to Islam, her father said.

“My daughter Jessica Iqbal couldn’t recite the Kalima [Islamic conversion proclamation] or respond to any other question about Islam in the courtroom,” Iqbal Masih told Christian Daily International-Morning Star News. “It was quite evident that she had been forced to claim that she had willingly converted her faith, yet the magistrate still allowed her to go with her abductor.”

Masih, a house painter in Chungi Amarsidhu, Lahore, Punjab Province, said his 32-year-old Muslim neighbor, Azeem Ullah, took his 16-year-old daughter from their house in the early hours of April 30.

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One of the nice things about the Bible is that if one Verse leaves you scratching your head or otherwise leaves you with unanswered questions, there’s more than likely another Verse in the Bible where you can find the answer. At first glance it seems terms such as “sin’ or the “second death” are bandied about, and some who are without patience may find it frustrating that the Verses mentioning those terms don’t define them. And often even preachers may use those terms, mentioning them to people who don’t exactly know what they are and would leave the church still not knowing.

Yet there are others who aren’t too familiar with the Bible who see no problem in calling out a person, telling them, ‘You’re gonna die, you sinner,’ while they themselves don’t know what they’re talking about or lack the depth needed in determining to what extent a person may be subject to the “second death” and the mitigating circumstances that may prevent a person from meeting that fate.

What is sin? James 4:17 says that sin is knowing what the right thing to do is but failing to do it. Well, that explains it, right? Perhaps not. It begs the question of what the right thing to do is. Since this definition is in the Bible, one wouldn’t be wrong in believing that the right thing to do is that which God would consider to be “good,” as He considered the things He did in creating the world in Genesis to be “good.” Seems that if we use the story of Creation told in Genesis, something good as God sees it is anything that adds to what God created instead of detracting from it.

If you still don’t know what sin is at this point, Galatians 5:19-21 lays some examples: “sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies…” Well, then. I guess we all know where people like the Roman Emperor Caligula might be spending their eternity! To be clear, that Verse says these are “works of the flesh,” and it says that those who commit such acts “will not inherit the kingdom of God.” One could safely conclude that these acts are acts of sin, if we can presuppose that these are not the right thing to do and detract from what God created. Can you conceive of the Lord considering the above acts to be “good”? Then again, God’s thoughts are not our thoughts, as the Bible reminds us.

The various acts considered to be sinful are just one part to considering an act to be an act of sin. The other part, in order to charge a person with committing sin, is that the person engaged in such acts has to know these acts are not the right thing to do. Otherwise, although we know the person committed sinful acts, it may not be enough to lay the charge of sin on him for all time and evermore. Some may say we could have used a James when many lawful authorities moved to hold that ignorance of the law is not a defense, particularly when it comes to giving out traffic fines, but that’s another story.

Anyway, what about the “second death”? Between Matthew 25:41 and Verses such as Revelation 21:8, the second death involves the lake of fire. Offhand, it’s hard to think of anyone that would want to spend eternity there. But anyway, Jesus in Matthew 25:41 says that he would say to those who failed to help the poor and needy to go into the lake of fire. Revelation 21:8 says, “But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.” So, we know what the second death is. It is the death that sinners may go to after having died once, that is after having been buried when they died the first time.

Is there a way of avoiding the lake of fire? There is. Although Passages such as 1 John 5:17 says that “All wrongdoing is sin,” it goes on to say that ”there is sin that does not lead to death.” This certainly applies to those who know what is sinful but have done the sin anyway. What sin would not lead to the lake of fire? 1 John 1:9 says that if we confess our sins, God would be faithful and just to forgive us those sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Note that the Verse doesn’t say He WILL forgive us, it just says He will be faithful and just if He does so. So, like lots of things in the Bible, there are no absolutes. But safe to say, you stand a better chance in asking for forgiveness than if you don’t ask at all, to avoid the second death. And recall Luke 23:42-43, in which the condemned man on the cross next to Jesus asks Jesus to remember him when Jesus enters Paradise, and Jesus tells him that today he will ‘be with him in Paradise.’

Foreign aid is one of the easiest conduits for government officials to steal money from poor and middle-class Americans.

I had a question, for the last several years I have been having a problem with my Verizon cell phone account, they have been ripping me off, charging me over $400/month for my cell phone bill when it was previously only $80/month, there were fraudulent charges on my account put there by a criminal, I have been going back and forth with Verizon for many months trying to get the fraudulent charges eliminated but they refuse to do anything about it, I have been forced to shell out a massive amount of money every month or they would cancel out my cell phone service. My parents want to hire a lawyer and pursue a lawsuit with Verizon. I would like to forgive them but I have to do something to make these charges stop and I also need to be compensated for the money I have shelled out. Is it scriptural to pursue a lawsuit and sue the company for compensation? Should I sue? Thanks!

Funny! I plan on reading it.

I think we may have been interpreting the starting point of the seventy sevens prophecy incorrectly all along. What if the decree wasn't to be announced by a Persian king but announced by God through His prophets?

Many think the decree began either with Cyrus's release of the exiles or in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes. That would place the decree to either begin in 538 BC or 455 BC. This complicates the 69 sevens, an unbroken chain of events, landing either in the year 55 BC or 28 BC. I would like to propose another date that does not complicate the 69 sevens and lines up with the rest of the Bible's prophecies.

Both Zechariah and Haggai began prophesying to the exiles in the second year of King Darius the Great (520 BC) to return to rebuild Jerusalem and used the signs of Joshua the high priest and Zerubbabel the governor to assure the people the temple would be rebuild and that they should leave their lands of exile. Those two offices would be combined into one during the Hasmonean Dynasty and influence the Jewish understanding of the office of messiah. Therefore, from the decree by God to restore the temple and Jerusalem unto the time the messiah would be cut off would be 69 sevens, or 483 years.

If you count back 483 years from 520 BC, it lands you at the incredibly significant year 37 BC. This was the year the Hasmonean Dynasty was overthrown by King Herod the Great, putting an end to the office of the messiah. That office would remain vacant even throughout the destruction of the city and sanctuary (Daniel 9:26). This explains why there is such a long gap between the 69th and 70th year. The restoration of the office of the messiah is would kicks off the time of the end, but Jesus warned us that many would come in His name (title) saying, "I am he."

Paul told us that the lawless one will reveal himself as a god in God's holy temple. Revelation 13 showed us that false prophets would come and convince the world that the beast is a god by using signs and wonders. Daniel 9:27 shows us that the prince would confirm the covenant with many, which I believe alludes to the 10 toes of Daniel 2 and 10 horns of Daniel 7. With all this put together, the false messiah proves himself false by seeking to control the kingdoms of this world. Jesus' kingdom is not of this world, evidenced by his rejection of those kingdoms when he was tempted in the wilderness.

Thoughts? Happy Memorial Day!

Trump Instructs Republicans to 'Erase' January 6 Riots From History, Congressman Says​

My fears, embarrassment, fear of people, and shyness have returned, just as they were before I met Christ, and I'm a little scared because I see it as a major setback... I don't know if it's temporary or what...

I wanted to ask you a few questions:

Is it normal for a Christian to experience feelings of their old nature again for a time in their life?
How should I react accordingly?
Is this my fault, perhaps because I'm far from God?
Could this "stage of feelings" be part of God's plan, serving a good purpose? Or am I solely responsible for the appearance of the old self?

Thank you.

I'm sorry, but I didn't know which category to place this question in.

Pray that Jesus Christ Heals & Comforts all those affected by the illegal kidnappings, & adoptions of children that happened in South Korea from the 1950s to approximately 1999:

The love being spoken of here is not human love based in human emotions and in the ones we are supposed to love. This is agápē love which comes from God, and which prefers all that God prefers, i.e. what is holy, morally pure, upright, righteous, godly, honest, faithful and obedient to God. And this isn’t something we can fake, though I am certain that some people try. Some people who are very evil may try to appear loving in order to try to fool others, but it is not love to deliberately sin against other people.

And that is why what follows after “Let love be without hypocrisy,” is “Abhor what is evil; cling to what is good.” We cannot love God and other humans if we are walking in sin, making sin our practice, and not holiness and godliness and righteousness. And an example of this is a husband or a wife who will act all sweetness to their spouse, at times, when they are deliberately and habitually committing adultery against them via the lusts of their flesh and pornographic images and self-gratification, and the like.

So you can’t love God and your spouse and other people if you are clinging to what is evil and if you are abhorring what is good. If lying to people is what you practice, that is not love. If following after the ways of the world and not the ways of God is what you practice, that is not love. We cannot love God and love the lusts of the flesh and of the eyes and the pride of life, too, which is not from God the Father, but is from the world. So if what we prefer is what is worldly and not godly, that is not love (see 1 John 2:15-17).

And this doesn’t have to include a gamut of sinful practices such as lying, stealing, cheating, and committing adultery, etc., but it can just be pure selfishness, laziness, worldliness, and filling your time and your life with entertaining yourself and ignoring God’s commands and his purpose for you to even exist, which is to honor him with your life. God did not put us on this earth to be continuously entertained but to serve him with our lives in doing his will and purpose for our lives, in being who he called us to be and to do.

So, if we are devoted to one another, as fellow followers of Jesus Christ, this has to have a biblical foundation and cannot be based in the world and its ways of doing things. And in the Scriptures we are taught to care about one another’s needs, to pray for one another, and to encourage (exhort, urge) one another in our walks of faith in obedience to our Lord so that none of us will be led astray by people who use cunning and craftiness and deceitful scheming to deceive, and so we won’t fall back into sinful behavior patterns.

[Acts 2:42-47; Romans 12:1-8; 1 Corinthians 12:1-31; 1 Corinthians 14:1-5; Galatians 6:1; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:1-16; Ephesians 5:15-21; Ephesians 6:10-20; Philippians 2:1-8; Colossians 3:12-16; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:13; Hebrews 10:23-25; James 5:19-20]

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 Just Say It, Do It!
An Original Work / May 24, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

...could a loving parent justify killing their infant child in order to ensure that their child spends forever in Heaven?

Conversely, is it reckless and unloving for a parent to allow their offspring to reach the age of accountability and risk that they will spend forever being tortured by Jesus in Hell?

These ridiculous questions demonstrate the illogical doctrine of forever punishment. Right?

The day before two Israeli Embassy staffers were gunned down in the nation's capital, a rabbi warned U.S. lawmakers that Hamas' propaganda about Israel and its military campaign in Gaza has fueled a worldwide spike in antisemitism.

Eric Fusfield, a rabbi and the director of legislative affairs for B’nai B’rith International, a Jewish human rights and Israel advocacy organization, was among four witnesses who testified at a Tuesday hearing titled “Worldwide Persecution of Jews.” The bipartisan hearing, hosted by the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission of the House of Representatives, comes amid reports of a global surge in antisemitic incidents.

Reps. Chris Smith, R-N.J., and Jim McGovern, D-Mass., both led the hearing, during which Fusfield stressed the importance of an educational approach to addressing antisemitism while also emphasizing that governments have a duty to ensure public safety.

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Please pray I have an event which makes me anxious today, thank you

Q: In watching “The Chosen” I noted a couple of demoniac episodes were included, as are in fact depicted in Scripture. No CGI effects were done to show the demons either going in or coming out of the victims, making the healed person seem to simply be someone with personality disorders. What does the Church say today about demons? Are they real or were they ancient superstitions and misidentifications of what would today be called “mental issues?”

A: The Church teaches that demonic possession, while rare, is certainly something that can happen.

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Lina Maria Orovio-Hernandez, 59, also obtained welfare benefits, a REAL ID and eight other state ID’s, the Justice Department said.

We can save a lot of taxpayer money by deporting such criminals.

As an alcoholic I repeatedly, for YEARS, prayed and begged God to let me stop drinking, yet I continued drinking. Now I'm not saying it was God's fault that I drank. However, I do believe that God may delay one's ability to repent (change). Why would God delay our repentance? Perhaps for us to learn. Maybe God was thinking "Beth, you chose this path and I'm not going to let you change until I know that you have learned a bitter lesson".

I looked up scriptures regarding repentance and it seems that repentance is indeed granted and withheld by the Father.

Acts 5:31
Verse Concepts
He is the one whom God exalted to His right hand as a Prince and a Savior, to grant repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.

Acts 11:18
Verse Concepts
When they heard this, they quieted down and glorified God, saying, “Well then, God has granted to the Gentiles also the repentance that leads to life.”

2 Timothy 2:25
Verse Concepts
with gentleness correcting those who are in opposition, if perhaps God may grant them repentance leading to the knowledge of the truth,

Romans 2:4
Verse Concepts
Or do you think lightly of the riches of His kindness and tolerance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?

2 Peter 3:9
Verse Concepts
The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.

A male priest can represent Jesus at the Last Supper on Sunday.

A woman priest can represent the Holy Spirit on Saturday.

Sunflowers show adoration because they turn to follow the Sun.

A woman priest at Saturday Mass,
can hold up a Sunflower and say

We adore you Jesus.

We love you Jesus.