“It’s not if they are going to attack, it’s just when they are.”

That’s what Ohio’s Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones said after attending the National Sheriffs’ Association Conference in Washington, D.C, held Feb. 3-6, according to the Journal-News. At the conference, FBI officials warned sheriffs from across the country about imminent terrorist attacks on the U.S.
“There are people already here who have come to this country who hate us and want to kill us,” Jones warned. He’s on a mission to make sure his department is prepared.


Lines of attack, he said he was told, will be through cyber attacks, crippling power grids, train derailments and cells of armed terrorists who target multiple areas of the country. Cyber attacks already have happened, including one that affected the BCSO in 2020 when the dispatch center was crippled. The sheriff’s office is “getting five cyber hack attempts a day by the Chinese, three times a day by the Iranians, and we got hacked two years ago by the Russians,” Jones said. “And that is not just us. I assume they are doing that all over the country.” Jones said the Chinese have the U.S. outnumbered 50 to 1 in people working on cyber attacks and prevention.
“Their deal is to cause us disruption in our county. To cause chaos in our country, not like next week — now. From the red flags and chatter that they (FBI) are hearing,” he said. Jones said the FBI also said people have come across the border to “do harm to us … that they have never seen it this bad.” Thousands of people are working to disrupt the country, including national and local elections, he said. “They told us we need to be prepared to talk to local county election people to be prepared,” Jones said. “They want us to lose faith in our government.”
He said big cities will not just be the target, terrorists also will hit in smaller cities and rural areas where people typically feel safe.
“The terrorists are here, we have already been told that, from 160 countries that want to do us harm,” Jones said. “We have been told by the FBI that they are here and it is just a matter of time before they attack.”

Hi,

Just want to discuss this, how to evangelize a LGBT (Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender) couple. If have never evangelize to this group, but would be interesting to talk about this.
We all know this to be a sin, but maybe we should just show them love first, not that we agree with their lifestyle, but we should think like this, love them, respect them, don't try to convince them yet that their lifestyle is a sin and that God is not ok with it, love them first. Sometimes there are reasons why they are in LGBT relationship, sometimes it is because of abuse. If it is abuse and we confront them to early that they are wrong and should change without first showing love, it will backfire, they will actually get repelled by your behavior. Love them first, slowly with guidance of the Holy Spirit convince them that their lifestyle is a sin.

So I listened to a testimony of a girl, she experienced domestic abuse when young age, not that she got raped, but her father harmed her mother, but not so that she would die, but he did slap her or something I guess. So that propably turned her Lesbian propably, she saw how a man harmed her mother.

Br,

Seeking a second presidency as the Republicans’ presumptive 2024 White House nominee, Donald Trump has said he would “encourage” Russia to attack any of the US’s Nato allies whom he considers to have not met their financial obligations.

Trump told European leaders that US ‘will never come to help you’

On Saturday, Trump claimed that during an unspecified Nato meeting he told a fellow head of state that the US under his leadership would not defend any countries who were “delinquent”.

“One of the presidents of a big country stood up and said, ‘Well, sir, if we don’t pay, and we’re attacked by Russia, will you protect us?’” Trump said, adding “I said, ‘You didn’t pay, you’re delinquent?’”

“No, I would not protect you. In fact, I would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want. You got to pay. You got to pay your bills.”

White House spokesperson Andrew Bates, asked about Trump’s comments, said, “encouraging invasions of our closest allies by murderous regimes is appalling and unhinged – and it endangers American national security, global stability and our economy at home.”

It’s amazing how, bit-by-bit, facts are dawning on people.
Yesterday’s unshakeable truths — vaccines/lockdowns/masks good, 2020 election fair, Biden a bit slow but the best choice — are all disintegrating in real time.

Public policymaker response to COVID was a joke, election corruption is undeniable and the president’s news conference performance this week sealed the deal in a lot of minds that Biden cannot go on as president.
And then there’s the whole idea that Donald Trump as president was the worst thing to have ever happened to America.
Some have changed their minds on that. Big-time.

As in none other than actor/comedian Michael Rapaport who, despite vicious rants against Trump, now says he’s considering voting for him.
“There was no Trump critic who was more vicious or profane,” Rebel News publisher and Canadian conservative activist Ezra Levant tweeted of Michael Rapaport.
“This is the most shocking conversion I’ve ever seen,” Levant wrote.
In his tweet, Levant included a portion of the Thursday PBD podcast, in which co-host Adam Sosnick discussed with Rapaport the possibility of voting for Trump.
“At the end of the day,” Sosnick said, addressing Rapaport, “I’m a reasonable person. So like you said initially — I think I’m gonna consider this.”
“I’m considering it,” Rapaport responded. “But to pull that lever [to vote for Trump] — we don’t pull levers anymore — to actually pull that lever (pause) I’m gonna tell you right now, I won’t vote! I’m not voting for Biden, I’m not voting for Kamala.”
Quizzed by PBD co-hosts, Rapaport said among Democrats there was no one to vote for.

This scenario is precisely what i have been warning about considering the recent legislative zeal to facilitate trans-sexual perversion under the nonsensical pretense of it being the only viable treatment for the severe mental illness of gender illness, which this poor boy was not even informed of.

Rather, in this case it appears that a “gender therapist” (as opposed to a normal pediatrician) engineered this with the boy’s mother for some perverse reason. Christian ethics forbid me from speculation as precisely why the mother is doing this. However, there are several pathological motives one can think of for why a person might want to subject a child to such a trauma, including, perhaps, a sexual perversion on their part, or a desire for attention (some kind of Munchhausen-by-proxy, a dreadful illness which is otherwise regarded when acted upon as child abuse, but in this case in a state under control of the far left such as New York, it could happen that such an illness is tolerated in the specific context it results in gender reassignment due to the seeming interest of some politicians in increasing the instances of such reassignments as a sign of social progress), or it could be due to a desire to have a child of the opposite sex, or in the case of a single parent due to a divorce, perhaps the parent is overwhelmed of the issues that arise in parenting, by themselves on those days when they have custody, a child of the opposite sex, perhaps revolted by the unanticipated aspects of caring for a child of the opposite sex, or indeed perhaps a parent might, as a result of a particularly traumatic divorce, develop a general loathing for the opposite sex or a specific loathing for their former spouse which is transferred to the child owing to, perhaps, similarities in appearance as well as mannerisms resulting from the influence of the other parent on the developing child, or it could be many other things, none of which constitute a legitimate reason to begin secretly “transitioning’ a child from their natural sex to an assumed “gender identity.”

I would note that the only scenario where sexual assignment might have validity in a pediatric perspective from the perspective of traditional Christian sexual ethics would be in the case of a child born as an hermaphrodite, or with other ambiguities in their reproductive anatomy which might interfere with both urological and reproductive functionality. Historically there was no means of providing care in the cases of such deformities, but ironically, our contemporary society in many cases would insist that we tolerate such deformity and not seek to provide medical care, because persons suffering with such a condition are the “I” in the LGBTQIA+ continuum (I shudder to think what all might be included under the “plus” character, the use of which can also be regarded as a not very subtle jab against Christianity, since it is the case that Christian bishops and archbishops from various denominations that have an episcopal polity and hierarchy, such as the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox, Catholic, Assyrian and Anglican churches, will add one or more + symbols to their name, as crosses, to indicate episcopal rank, and the symbol is also used in the case of the deceased particularly when the Latin cross typographical symbol † is unavailable.

At any rate, this incident should serve as a reminder of the importance for traditional Christian denominations to immediately not only sever communion with, but place under an anathema, those individuals and organizations which are seeking to actively interfere with, or legally and ecclesiastically preclude the preservation of traditional Christian ethics concerning sexual behavior. This is being accomplished both through changes in the law, changes in the doctrine of churches, and an effort to cause Christians to regard the problematic practice of conversion therapy* as being not just a medical failure but a religious disaster so severe as to be considered an arch-heresy.

It is imperative that individuals and entities that seek to promote trans-sexual gender transitions in this manner be subject to excommunication for promotion of castration, which is something that would run afould of several ancient church canons.

Additionally, any man who willfully has themselves castrated (as opposed to being castrated due to medical necessity or against their will) becomes ineligible for ordination to any office under Canon I of the Council of Nicaea, the same council that upheld the doctrine of the Holy Trinity, on the basis that to intentionally destroy ones’ reproductive capability was viewed by the Nicene Fathers as being an act of self-murder. This obviously would apply to individuals who as an adult have undergone sex-change operations, but in the case of youths, the various exceptions to the canon would protect this boy and protect his ability to potentially become a member of clergy later in life even if he is deprived of his male reproductive anatomy (something which has not yet happened).

This young boy urgently requires our prayer, and cases like this underscore the importance of our community working together to resist what is becoming increasingly severe persecution of traditional Christians over this issue and other issues related to absurd idea that persons suffering from a sexual perversion ought to be encouraged to continue in their perverse state rather than called to repentence.

@Michie if you have not already alerted our Catholic friends in OBOB such as @chevyontheriver to this issue I reckon you might want to.

*This in in its current form appears, based on the data which has been presented to us, and assuming the reliability of such data, to do more harm than good, although I do feel that scientists should at least be allowed to continue to research the subject to seek improvements, since I believe that homosexuals who want to become straight should have access to a medically proven means of doing so, which of course transition therapy in its current form is not)

Should a Christian man pursuing a woman in a Biblically way, find out about her being single (not dating, boyfriend or fiancee/husband-assuming no ring is visible on the left ring finger) by asking her friends/coworkers/others who know her well before he asks her out so as to not have to go through unnecessary rejection and awkardness if she is not available or should he just risk unncessary rejection by asking her out without finding out her status beforehand?

Born and raised in Alabama to a pastor and a homemaker. Have the call to become a minister and will be working on my credentials after my Army contract is completed.

Looking forward to connecting with others who share the same faith and learn about those different from mine.

She’s under a lot of personal stress right now. Last weekend she was arrested for hitting her ex boyfriend. She’s currently being charged with a level 6 (lowest felony in Indiana) felony for domestic battery with a minor present (her 14 year old daughter called). Her daughter has been having a lot of trouble herself (she’s cutting herself and more). We are praying that because she’s never been in trouble before that she can get it reduced to a misdemeanor or just get probation. Please pray for her!

Now, if you're thinking "wow...it sure took a while to find this voter fraud" you're correct. It did.

Why? Because at a glance... it appears no voter fraud occurred. Registered voters voted through mail in ballots....as I'm sure everyone knows is legal and easy....but in this case, voters who were registered but had no intentions of voting were identified by the defendant, and votes were then cast by the defendant's organization in the names of these registered voters.

In other words....this is in many ways the exact sort of mail-in ballot harvesting scheme that Republicans have alleged happens all too often, ever since the 2020 election. The only way to be certain this isn't happening more often would be to call each and every mail-in voter and receive their verification of voting and whom they voted for. In this case, it appears voters were bribed for their votes....so it's unclear if they would honestly admit to being part of an election fraud scheme.

Republicans have been trying to fix this obvious legal loophole by demanding in person voting. Democrats have of course, attempted to not only prevent any attempts at stopping this sort of voter fraud from succeeding....they attempted to pass legislation early in the Biden administration that would have made voter fraud easier.

Feel free to discuss, but leave out the longtime racist trope of black people being unable to acquire proper ID unless you can provide some empirical data to prove this is true.

I guess that says the main stuff. Hi. Hello. How are you? G'day, mate? I am clearly not used to doing this whole online thing, but I thought I would give it a shot. My name is Harry, I live in Scandinavia, where I was a teacher until I retired a few years back. I live in the countryside with some animals and like the quiet life, not really one of those big online extroverts, as you may have guessed. Matters of faith are a big deal to me but not the source of big drama or worries, I take things a day at a time and see what bounty I may or may not find. Lots of hobbies, the most commonly practiced being repairs to the (ooooold) house and taking care of the animals. I mainly joined because some youngsters in my circle of family and friends started asking some questions that made my mind wander, and I thought this might be a place to talk about those things. People here are not very religious, or spiritual, so it is hard getting a good talk going on the matter. Hope to find someone here that can fill my head with good, creative thoughts!

Wish you blessings!

When can we truly say a person is no longer a Christian? Is it few months of unrepentant sin or few years of repentant sin or when they say they don’t believe anymore ?

I use the term evolution biologically and technically. It describes the process by which populations of organisms change over time through successive generations. It is driven by natural selection, genetic drift, mutation, and gene flow.

Can you be Christian and believe in evolution?

Sure, but you don't have to. You can assume evolution without believing in it. Let's talk about the utility of the theory of Evolution.

I am a Christian. I used the evolution model to implement AI programs. They are called evolutionary algorithms. You don't have to believe in evolution to work with it. If you search US patents in the last ten years, you will find many applications of evolution models. The theory of evolution has practical values. The US economy benefits from it. You cannot deny its utility.

Unlike other branches of hard science, evolution has less mathematical support. Nevertheless, it is a useful paradigm.

The Cheating Cell: How Evolution Helps Us Understand and Treat Cancer

If the theory works in daily practical life, there is no need to reject it. There is no need to believe in it either in the sense of spiritual faith.

See also

• Adam, Eve, and evolution
• How old is the earth?.

A Texas man was putting Cyrux (an abortion inducing drug) into his wife's drink to induce an abortion which (as far as I can tell, she did NOT want to have done).

Man accused of putting abortion-inducing drug in wife's water takes deal, to serve 180 days in jail
180 days he gets. Mom wanted the baby. She was WILLING to keep and raise the baby. She was willing to ALLOW HER BODY TO BE USED TO GROW THIS BABY; despite the tumultuousness of her situation. Her and her circumstance are like the POSTER CHILD for the pro-life movement.

But, she ALSO doesn't get what she wants when her husband does this.

A DOCTOR who would be performing an abortion AT the patient's REQUEST....can receive a life time in prison.

Please convince me these rules are not really just rules in place to control women. It's not even a matter of consistency; this ruling just appears to make it blatant. And I'm sure the judge in this case ruled as harshly as he saw fit. Isn't it nice that they were willing to negotiate a plea deal with this.....man.

The number of cattle in America has plummeted to its lowest point in decades, sparking concerns among ranchers about the fate of the U.S. beef industry.

"This is a bad situation for America's cattle farmers and America because we're producing 1 billion pounds less beef than we were in this country, just a year ago," John Boyd, Jr., president of the National Black Farmers Association, said Thursday on "Fox & Friends First."

"We're not investing in America's beef and cattle farmers, and Biden policies are hurting America's cattlemen, such as myself. They should be invested in America's cattle farmers and making sure that we have the tools needed to stay on the farm.

Now, if we want to understand this passage of Scripture in its correct context, it is very helpful if we can look at the Greek word for love, which is agape, and see what this love is all about. For this is not human love which is based in our emotions or that is based in the one we are loving, but this is love which comes from God and which prefers what God prefers, which is all that is holy, righteous, godly, upright, morally pure, honest, faithful, and obedient to our Lord and to his commandments under the New Covenant.

For this love engages doing for others what God prefers that we do whether or not our emotions feel the love. For we can even love those who hate us and who mistreat us and who do evil against us. We can do for them and to them what is loving and kind and godly even if our emotions are hurting from how they treated us. For this love centers in moral preference and it comes from God and so it will love like God loves us. For even when we were the Lord’s enemies, Jesus Christ died for us on that cross.

Now there are people who are misinterpreting this passage of Scripture because they are interpreting “love” with human understanding and not with biblical understanding. So they might end up condemning those who are living righteously and who are loving biblically because they are thinking humanly and not biblically. For they want the kind of love that just makes other people feel good about themselves, even if it requires lying to them and withholding the truth from them in order to make them feel good.

But in reality, a lot of that kind of “love” is selfish, and so it only says to others what makes them feel good because they want others to like them and to not turn against them. So they are not really loving like God loves, thinking about what is truly best for us, for what we need, but it is a very fleshly “love” that is often more about pleasing self than acting in true biblical love towards others. And so some of these people will condemn those who are loving biblically if that requires speaking the truth in love.

So, we need to understand this love from a biblical and godly perspective and realize that this isn’t all just about making other people feel good. Now are we to be encouragers? Absolutely! Are we to be those who make it a point to thank others and to acknowledge them and their accomplishments and who do acts of kindness towards others? Absolutely! But we are not to neglect agape love which considers other people’s true needs and which reaches out to meet those needs, even if it engages confronting sin.

So this agape love is not all about making everyone feel good about themselves all the time. There has to be a balance. For when God loves us, sometimes he encourages us in ways that bring us joy and happiness and that feel good to our emotions. And other times he encourages us more in a way of exhortation or urging where he may even have to correct us and warn us and convict us of wrongdoing in order to get us to turn about, to turn away from what is evil, and to follow the ways of righteousness.

So, my point here is that if someone is truly exercising spiritual gifts of the Spirit of God in biblical ways, then this is going to involve the kind of love which feels good to our emotions but also the kind of love that may not feel good, at the moment, but what is needed, and what is necessary, and what is truly loving and kind. For it is thinking about what the other person truly needs and not just about how it is going to make them feel at the moment. And this involves laying our lives down for others for their ultimate good.

But there is a balance to be required here. We can be overly harsh, and that is not good, and we can be overly soft, and that is not good. Jesus is a wonderful example for us in how he dealt with other people and in the words that he spoke to them and in the things that he did for them. He had the right balance, but then he is God. But he was still man, too, when he walked this earth. So just because someone is called of God to speak the truth of the Scriptures, in love, that is not to be taken as being unloving or unkind.

For, again, agape love prefers what God prefers which is all that is honest, faithful, upright, and morally pure, etc. And so agape love is not going to compromise the truth of the gospel and the teachings of the Scriptures in order to make people feel good. For we can encourage other humans in ways that do not compromise truth and righteousness and godliness and still be loving and kind. Again, balance! But balance is not compromise when it comes to biblical truth and righteousness and obedience to our Lord.

Yet it is true that if we have spiritual gifts, but we do not exercise them in agape love, then we have gained nothing. And this doesn’t require that everyone else see that what we are doing is “love,” but that we are truly doing for others what is in preference to what God prefers, which is all that is righteous, godly, morally pure, and honest, etc. and which does not compromise truth and righteousness just to make people feel good so that they will like us and not think evil of us. Again, Jesus is our example.

You Loved Me

An Original Work / December 3, 2019
A song based off the poem by the same name

When I was lonely and afflicted,
You were there to pick me up.
You took me in Your arms,
And You held me tenderly.

Your love embraced me.
Your grace sustained me.

When my heart cried out to You
In my fear and my despair,
You never turned away,
But You let me know You loved me.

Your grace forgave me.
You did not shame me.

Then, when I answered the call,
“Here, Lord, send me.”
You sent me to where I must be.
Your mercy held me, did not fail me.
All this, You had planned, to use me.

And, when all trials and scorn
Came to test me.
You gave me all that I would need.
You strengthened me so I’d not fail You.
Your kindness blessed me, it touched me.

And, when I needed the church
To lift up me,
To hearten me so I’d not fail,
You blessed me with folks who would love me.
Their presence with me, Your praise hailed!

And, when I walked through the valley
Of the shadow of the death,
And tears flowed from my eyes,
Still Your kindness was there for me.

Your touch, it healed me.
For I believed You.

When now I think about the ways,
Of the many, many ways
That You in Your great love
Show me that You’ll always care for me,

My heart, it thanks You,
And gladness fills me, fills me.

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I believe that this article is very well balanced, and I agree with it's author.
Justice and Mercy can indeed walk together, even on this issue of immigration.

I was thinking about how I use the gift of tongues, and working out when I am speaking in genuine tongues and when I may not be. I came to the conclusion that the intended purpose of tongues for me is during my private prayer time with God where He is the sole listener to the language I am praying. In answer to my question whether the tongues would be genuine if I submitted an example to a linguist, I concluded that doing that would be outside of its intended purpose and it would be gibberish instead of tongues. This is why every example of tongues submitted to linguists has turned out not to be identified as a genuine language, It is not the intended purpose of tongues to be tested by linguists, therefore it would be gibberish spoken in the flesh and not the Spirit.

Also, for me, speaking audibly in the hearing of others would be outside of its intended purpose, therefore it would probably be in the flesh because Paul did not recommend that tongues be used in public gatherings without interpretation. But through the sovereignty of God, there is the exception to the rule, where, in my case, I was praying quietly in tongues during a church service and my NZ Maori friend sitting beside me told me that I was speaking in fluent Maori language and what I was saying was encouragement to her. In a church prayer meeting where there was a visitor from Ghana, my friend was praying in tongues (in that Pentecostal prayer meeting they all did), and Badu, the Ghanaian stopped the prayer meeting and told my friend that he was praising God in his own rural village dialect. There was no way my friend could have known that dialect. Therefore, God, through His sovereign will, caused those tongues to be understandable languages for the express purpose of encouraging those select people.

It is the same with healing. We know that divine healing is not guaranteed by demand, but God can and does heal through His sovereign will, even though He might not bestow the actual gift of healing on anyone these days.

So when I pray to God in tongues privately according to 1 Corinthians 14:2 where in that environment I am speaking mysteries in the Spirit, then my prayer language is genuine; but if I use the gift outside of its intended purpose for me it would be through the flesh and not the spirit, and so it would be meaningless syllables and words. So my advice is for those who are unsure about whether their prayer language is genuine or not, to seek the Lord and find out from Him what the intended purpose is for them in how they are to exercise the gift of tongues.

THE HAGUE -- Dries van Agt, the Christian Democrat prime minister of the Netherlands from 1977 until 1982, has died by euthanasia, “hand in hand” together with his wife, according to the human rights organization he founded. They both were 93.

It seems I alredy introduced myself, but it seems the post got lost somewhere, this is a pasted version of my intro.
Christian Chat Forum

Hello Christian Chat dwellers
I am a messianic Jew.
Also a student of the bible.

Many Christian Forums do not accept questions or comments that do not strictly conforms to their favourite belief structure, and do not consider such ones to be Christians.
I do understand that to some extent, there are subjects that I avoid as well.

My belief is built upon only one precept taken from the bible.

"If you believe anything make sure you have the scriptural statement to back it up".

If you can put up with that, perhaps I will be allowed to stay a while.

Shalom

So, ive been talking to this friend of mine. She and I have been getting much closer recently, and we've discussed actually getting together as a couple. Suddenly, out of nowhere, I get this thought, telling me if I start dating her I will die. Now I wouldnt have thought anything of this, but this thought really seemed to be coming from somewhere BIGGER then me. Like it came out of gut? If that makes sense? Not a normal thought, more of a voice or an inner feeling. Is this God warning me? What is happening?? I feel crazy for even asking this.

Please Pray that I Never Ever be like the Unforgiving servant in the Matthew 18:21-35 Unforgiving servant parable

Report released that proves Biden mishandled classified information as a citizen. Of course, there is no expectation of charges filed because he's a Democrat and only Republicans face jail time for that sort of thing. But then Biden proceeds to make a press conference and lie about the details. Well...maybe he just forgot because his memory is that bad. Either way, another case where a Democrat commits a crime and everyone shrugs their shoulders while demanding severe punishment for a Republican.

...but what about the Christian left?