Please pray for my son Jakeb. Please ask God to heal him mind and body and give him happiness and if it is God's will please let me see him smile or hear his laughter. Thank you and God bless you.

1. One of my friends will consistently vent to me about all the negative things other people have done to them this week, and then, after going through their rant, will turn to me and say “Please tell me something positive,” at which point my brain shuts down and I can’t think of anything really positive to tell them because I’m still thinking about all the negative stuff they just told me.

Is this person a narcissist? Should I make a habit of writing “positive things” down so that I have something to tell them and “override my brain” so to speak? Should I aim for spiritual edification (positive Scripture) or just rebuke them for placing me in an impossible situation?

2. This same friend is broke, and the two of us went to considerable lengths to retrieve an expensive set of trading cards from their parents’ house that they want me to sell. Unfortunately for them, I know nothing about how to sell trading cards, and they don’t either. Nor do I have the time or interest to learn the ins and outs of the trading card industry and valuations. This looks like a lose-lose situation because if I price it too high, it will not sell (and they are impatient and nagging), and if I price it too low, they will accuse me of ripping them off (and rightfully so). I downloaded a trading card value app, but it will take months for me to even appraise the cards. This person badly needs money and is refusing to learn how to sell the cards themselves. I am concerned that this is all a narcissistic trap. What would you advise me to do?

What would make America great again, paying off the national debt or giving workers and corporations tax cuts? During the last campaign season, there was a lot of talk from Magadonians on the important debt crisis we are constantly facing with many saying it was the most important issue. We know that the last Trumpian tax cut added some one to two trillion dollars.

American Progress.org (link)

Tax Cuts Are Primarily Responsible for the Increasing Debt Ratio​

Tax Policy Center.org (link)

Expiring provisions​

Good morning readers and other friends,

I posting here because I have a practical question : what's the current practice in your parish for the disposal of baptismal water after a baptism ?

I suppose it's not ok to just let it go in the sink but when your parish is in the city center with no natural ground nearby, what can you do ?

I have Asperger's and it's hard for me to find long-term employment. I need to find something that I can do. I was a janitor for almost an entire year, but I developed depression and had to quit for my mental health. I'm not even trying to be picky, I just need a job so I can move forward in life. I need your prayers and support. Thank you in advance.

So let's review. The information requested by a judge regarding Trump et al deportation actions are declared to be "state secrets" and a security threat to our nation if made public.

Yet to this same administration, war plans complete with timing, targets, methods, and heck, even a CIA operative among those war plans, are not considered secret and perfectly fine if made public.

Never mind in the text themselves "high side" is literally mentioned which means "classified".
It's going to be a long four years of this insanity.

Well I can't do an MRI. I can't be in that enclosed tube for 40 minutes. I went into a panic attack. So I have to wait for the doctor to call and see what my other options are. I'm so depressed! I'm going to take a nap.

Prayers appreciated.

Are little people allowed in Hollywood?

Snow White and the 7 computer generated images ?

In the Live Action version of Snow White ?

Why no little people?

This is computers stealing jobs from humans.

The Houthis claimed they had attacked the USS Harry S Truman aircraft carrier and several US warships in the Red Sea​

Houthi militants in Yemen are claiming responsibility for a new attack against U.S. warships in the Red Sea.


The terror group claimed in a statement published by the Jerusalem Post late Tuesday that they had attacked the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier and several U.S. warships in the Red Sea.

Early Wednesday local time, the Houthis said they had targeted a U.S. vessel and Israeli military locations using drones.

Fox News Digital has reached out to the Department of Defense for comment.

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The concept of the "rapture" is one that's often discussed in Christian theology, particularly among certain Protestant denominations. It refers to a belief that faithful Christians will be taken up to heaven before a period of tribulation on Earth. This idea is primarily derived from a few key passages in the New Testament, though interpretations vary widely.

One of the main scriptures cited to support the belief in a rapture is 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17, which describes how "the dead in Christ will rise first" and how believers "will be caught up together... to meet the Lord in the air." The phrase "caught up" is often translated from the Greek word "harpazo," which means to seize or snatch away, and this is where the term "rapture" originates.

Another passage frequently mentioned is 1 Corinthians 15:51-52, which speaks of a mystery where believers will be changed "in the twinkling of an eye" at the last trumpet. These verses have been interpreted as describing an instantaneous transformation and ascension of believers.

However, it's worth noting that the exact term "rapture" does not appear in the Bible, and the belief in a rapture as it's commonly understood today largely stems from interpretations popularised in the 19th and 20th centuries, especially through dispensationalist theology. Other Christians interpret these passages differently and may view them as metaphorical or as describing events at Christ's second coming.

Whether the rapture has a credible scriptural basis depends on one's theological perspective and how these passages are interpreted. Some believers see it as a clear promise, while others consider it a more modern doctrinal development.

Paul’s words here were addressed to the saints in Christ Jesus who were in Philippi. So, what he stated here, generally speaking, was for these specific people at this time in history. So the words he expressed here do not necessarily apply to all Christians of all time. And not everyone who professes faith in Jesus Christ today is truly a biblical saint in Christ who is living a holy life, different from the world, because they are being conformed by God to the likeness of character of Christ. Many are still walking in sin.

And not everyone who professes faith in Jesus Christ is truly participating in the gospel of Christ Jesus. For Jesus taught that if anyone would come after him that he must deny self, take up his cross daily (die daily to sin) and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to our lives of living in sin and for self, we will lose them for eternity. But if for Jesus’ sake we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and walk in obedience to his commands, in practice, in the power of God, then we have genuine salvation and eternal life with God.

So, when Paul said to them that he was confident that He who began a good work in them will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus, it was because they were those who had died to sin, who were putting sin to death daily, by the Spirit, and who were following Jesus in obedience to his commands, as empowered by God. They were not people who were giving only lip service to God while they ignored the Lord and his commands, and while they continued living in deliberate and habitual sin, claiming Jesus as Savior.

And when Paul spoke of the grace of God, he was not speaking about free license to continue living in deliberate sin against God. He was speaking of the grace of God which sent Jesus to the cross to put our sins to death with him so that we will now, by God-persuaded faith in the Lord, die with Christ to sin and walk with him in obedience to his commands. He was speaking of the grace of God which is training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present.

And when he spoke of their love, that it may abound more and more in real knowledge and all discernment, he was speaking of agape love which prefers what God prefers, which is all that is holy, righteous, godly, morally pure, upright, honest, faithful, and obedient to the Lord and to his commands. For to love God is to obey him, and if we don’t obey him, in practice, we do not love him, and we do not know him, and we will not have eternal life with him. It is not love if we deliberately and habitually sin against God.

And then pay close attention to his next words. He prayed that they would approve the things that are excellent, in order to be sincere and blameless until the day of Christ. And to approve is to accept, to support, and to consent to, in this case the things that are excellent in the eyes of God, which has to do with full participation with Christ in these things. So, this is a lot like agape love which has to do with preferring the things of God, choosing his choices for our lives, and obeying them in his power.

And this is so that they would be sincere and blameless (uncontaminated by the world, and unmixed with the world, morally pure, righteous, godly, and free from deceit, hypocrisy, and wickedness) until the day of Christ. And all this would be for the glory and praise of God, and not for their own glory. For we cannot even come to faith in Jesus Christ unless God persuades us as to his holiness and righteousness, and of our sinfulness, and of our need to turn from our sin and to follow him in obedience, empowered by God.

And so it is God who begins the good work in us, and he is the one who will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus, but only as we cooperate with his work of grace in our lives, and we yield our lives to his control, and we follow him in obedience to his commands, and by the Spirit we daily put to death the deeds of the flesh and we obey our Lord, in practice, in his power. For fellowship with God is participation and partnership with him in his work of grace in our lives, and that does not give us freedom to keep on sinning.

[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 2:6-8; 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 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:5-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10]

Lead Me Gently Home, Father

By Will L. Thompson, 1879

Lead me gently home, Father,
Lead me gently home;
When life’s toils are ended,
And parting days have come,
Sin no more shall tempt me,
Ne’er from Thee I’ll roam,
If Thou’ll only lead me, Father,
Lead me gently home.

Lead me gently home, Father,
Lead me gently home, Father,
Lest I fall upon the wayside,
Lead me gently home.

Lead me gently home, Father,
Lead me gently home;
In life’s darkest hours, Father,
When life’s troubles come,
Keep my feet from wand’ring,
Lest from Thee I roam,
Lest I fall upon the wayside,
Lead me gently home.

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Filled with the Fruit of Righteousness
An Original Work / March 26, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

A. Two people, a Christian man and a woman, are engaged to be married in a week. You catch them in an act of blatant fornication. In spite of their sinful behavior, both of them want to go through with the wedding and marry each other. Do you allow them to do so? What do you do? Should they be allowed to marry?

(This is what my parents supposedly did, but they never got caught.)

B. Two unbelievers (a man and woman) are living together in a sinful relationship, and both of them become Christians at about the same time. Both of them want to get married because they want to continue living together. What would you advise this couple to do?

(This was the state that one of my Bible study friends found herself in long ago. The church that evangelized them forced them to live apart in purity for 6 months and endure counseling before they were allowed to marry and come back together again.)

C. An unbeliever woman wants to accept the Gospel, but is holding back because she wants to marry her boyfriend first. She is afraid that if she accepts the Gospel first and becomes a part of the church, the Church leaders will separate her and her significant other whom she badly wants to marry. What would you tell her to help her accept the Gospel?

(This was yet another friend of mine that I was trying to evangelize. I thought that she was making her boyfriend into an idol, but I honestly had no idea what to say.)

It should be noted that I and most of the churches I have been to my whole life agree with the beliefs expressed in the SOP for this section; I expect answers given here to be consistent with the listing of beliefs expressed there. I suspect that more liberal denominations would just let monogamous heterosexual fornicators get married without penalty, so I am looking for more conservative answers to these scenarios. Thanks!

At the fall of the Soviet Union, Ukraine had about a third of their nukes.

In the 1994 Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances, the UK, America, and Russia PLEDGED to respect Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity in exchange for Ukraine transferring its nuclear weapons to Russia and joining the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) as a non-nuclear state. PLEDGED!

But then Russia invaded - and now Trump is cheering them on!

What nation is ever going to trust the US again after that betrayal? The message is loud and clear. Keep your nukes - or get your own!

Trump may have just triggered the largest nuclear proliferation humanity will ever see - until "Oh oh - Armageddon by accident" finally gets us.

And Trump was so ignorant about all this HE had the gall to tell Zelensky - "You're gambling with WW3!"

What is Armageddon by Accident?

Well - here are a few times we nearly wiped out the Northern Hemisphere because of silly misunderstandings - there are more!

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"Trump attorney Peter Ticktin and Mark McCloskey have joined forces to seek compensation for the hundreds of American Patriots who were persecuted and held hostage in prisons across the country in the wake of the protests at the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2021."

So I have a friend that I encouraged to do Christian vlogging because I just had a long time impression that it’s something she is capable of. By the way she makes conversations with Christians, it seems that by the way she talks she can probably do impromptu speeches about God. I asked her if she thinks speaking is a talent of gift she has, but she is not sure. So I suggested she tries vlogging and see. So she did so after some years and now she has done numerous vlogs. They are not that long. But today she made one that’s 10 minutes long for the first time. I thought I would share it here. Does anyone thinks it’s a talent from God? I just want to see what others think. And to see if this is a talent or not. This might be the only way I can tell if I am correct. Because if people agree that it’s a talent, then I will really encourage her to take this idea of speaking to another level besides just vlogging (if she desires so).

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This was so needed, Lara Trump made sure there were plenty of Republicans observers for the last election, but we need to make sure of the integrity of future elections.

I really appreciate the advances in the science of geology.. Below the text that I copied and pasted is a short 25 second video of a 3D model of the Yellowstone Hotspot and Plume. The model goes much deeper into the earth than others that I've seen. The Yellowstone Hotspot plays an important part of the geological features that cover much of the Pacific Northwest for 50 million years. There's a LOT of magma below Yellowstone.

"The Yellowstone plume has been tomographically imaged as a tilted body extending from 80 km depth at the Yellowstone Plateau to 660 km depth beneath western Montana. Geodynamic modeling of the plume finds that the plume is up to 120 K hotter than the surrounding mantle, with a maximum of 2.5% melt and a small buoyancy flux of 0.25 MG/s, properties of a cool, weak plume. Mantle flow modeling is used to constrain the evolution of the hotspot: the Yellowstone plume initially ascended vertically through the mantle beneath the thin, accreted lithosphere of the Columbia Plateau and was responsible for the 17 Ma flood basalts there. At 12 Ma, the plume passed beneath the thicker North American lithosphere and became entrained in eastward upper mantle return flow, resulting in a shift of volcanic activity to the southeast and the onset of rhyolitic eruptions caused by melting in the lithosphere. As the North America plate moved southwest, hotspot volcanism propagated northeast, and the resulting tectonic and magmatic interactions produced the 700-km-long Yellowstone-Snake River Plain magmatic system."

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I‘m perplexed about something but I don’t know how to word my question, for fear I’m being disrespectful to the Church. Joan of Arc believed God told her to cross dress. Why would God do that?
Can popes be wrong in canonizing saints?

Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, stoked outrage and calls for her censure when she mocked Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's paralysis, dubbing him "Hot Wheels" in remarks she made at a pro-LGBT dinner last weekend.

"We in these hot a— Texas streets honey, y'all know we got Governor Hot Wheels down there, come on now. And the only thing hot about him is that he's a hot a— mess, honey," she said during a Human Rights Campaign event in Los Angeles, California.

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Donald Trump's lessons in "How to make friends and influence people" keep inspiring new behaviours.
This isn't just a meme. It's a whole thing.
There have even been discussions about whether Canada should join the EU to form new trading partners!
But - got to be careful. Democracy creeping up next to Trump's doorstep might make him uncomfortable.

Since the regime change, the Russians have fully evacuated Syria, even leaving their coveted Navy Base. The Turkish Army remains entrenched in Northern Syria and has been "carving out" a secure presence their and act as a primary influence.

This is why President Erdogan arrested the Mayor of Istanbul. The presence of the Turkish Army in Northern Syria is a direct threat to the Kurds of the region. Mayor Imamoglu is ethnic Kurd. He could not allow that strong of a dissenting voice to be free. This threat from Turkey extends to the citizens of his own country, as eastern Turkey is a Kurdish region. They have essentially established a southern front.

This could be a serious underestimation of how this affects the Kurdish militias. There are three major Kurdish militias in the region the last I investigated, including northwest Iraq of course. So prophetically significant.

Here is some information from a Research Institute that covers the region.

Syria - Turkish Presence in Military Airports and Aerial Friction with Israel

I'm Caleb, a Baptist from Texas.
Age: 25
Hobbies: Playing video games, going on walks, and sometimes drawing.
Favorite Video Game: Sonic Adventure 2: Battle (Gamecube)
Favorite Movie: Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
Favorite TV Show: Forensic Files
Relationship Status: Single (But hoping that changes)
I also have Asperger's Syndrome.
I hope I'll be a good addition to this site.

I'm absolutely sure that God has a wife in store for me. I know for a certainty that God changed my heart towards marriage; I used to be dead set against it. The problem is that I'm not in a good place in life. I'm not addicted to drugs or alcohol or anything like that, but I don't have a job, and I can't seem to find one.

I have Asperger's so it's hard for me to trust, and with the way my life looks right now, I'm afraid that I won't be able to find a job or a wife. I have contemplated suicide before. I need some help from my brothers and sisters in Christ. I've been so lonely, and I know for certain that I'm burning with passion, and that I can't accept being single. I'm so touch starved and physical intimacy and affection is something I need.

I feel so hopeless and I need help and prayers. Please, tell me there's still hope for me.

The White House budget office has taken down its website where approvals of federal funding provided in appropriations laws are statutorily required to be posted for public viewing, a move likely to face major blowback from members of Congress and government watchdogs.

As of Monday morning, the Office of Management and Budget was no longer making “apportionments” of previously enacted appropriations available on the website it set up for that purpose after Congress mandated the requirement starting in 2022**. The site now simply says: “Page not found.”

“This is in direct violation of federal law,” said Faith Williams, director of the effective and accountable government program at the Project on Government Oversight, known as POGO. “The apportionments database is a critical tool for Congress and the public to hold the executive branch accountable for its spending.”

Earlier this year, CQ Roll Call and later ProPublica used public apportionments data to report on previously enacted funding being freed up for the U.S. DOGE Service — more popularly known as the Department of Government Efficiency.

[**What instigated the need for this new requirement? Trump 1.0's withholding of appropriated Ukraine aid.]

Students are seen in the video cheering while making a "tomahawk chop" gesture, which is known to be disrespectful toward the Native American community. The Box Elder population is predominantly Native American.

Manhattan Christian apologized in the Facebook post and said the students' actions will be investigated and dealt with internally, stating:

On behalf of Manhattan Christian School, we would like to apologize for the actions that recently took place at the State C basketball tournament championship game. The student section cheer that has received publicity is not a reflection of the deep respect Manhattan Christian has for coach MacDonald, his team, and the community of Box Elder.

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Box Elder holds off Manhattan Christian to cap perfect season in State C rematch​

Led by a game-high 26 points from Tuarie Stiffarm-Rosette, the Bears defeated Manhattan Christian 65-60 in front of a packed house in the Butte Civic Center. It was a rematch of last year’s state championship game, which Box Elder won by four points.