A U.K. member of Parliament has called for the reinstatement of a nurse who was suspended after using male pronouns for a biologically male convicted pedophile who identifies as a woman. The case involves allegations of religious discrimination, racial abuse and institutional bias within the National Health Service.

Claire Coutinho, the Shadow Equalities Minister and Conservative MP for East Surrey, last week met with nurse Jennifer Melle at Westminster to discuss the disciplinary action taken against her, the conservative group Christian Concern reported.

Coutinho said she would write to the Chief Executive of the Epsom and St. Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust, as well as to the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), to advocate for Melle’s reinstatement and to question why she is under professional investigation.


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I’m getting ready for an out-of-state move and starting to feel a bit overwhelmed. I’ve handled smaller moves on my own before, but this one is a lot bigger, so I’m thinking about bringing in professionals. Has anyone here used an affordable and reliable moving company they’d recommend? I came across Three Movers while searching online, their reviews seem okay, but I’d love to hear from anyone who’s actually worked with them or has other good suggestions.

I'm finally having a discussion thread about Katharine Bushnell's book "God's Word to Women"! There's a lot in her book, so I'm only covering certain things.


This discussion will be about Eve. I will be posting which paragraph number certain points are made and links to Bushnell's book on the Internet Archive. Please also read Genesis 3 in your Bible. I will post the link to the NIV translation, but you are welcome to read whichever translation you'd like.



Here are certain things I learned from Bushnell's points about Eve:

1. Eve was a "superior help" not an "inferior help" (Paragraph 34)
   
   

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2. When Eve told God that the Serpent deceived her, she was confessing what had happened and what she did, instead of putting the blame on someone else (Paragraphs 68, 69, 94)
   
   

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3. God put enmity between Eve and Satan as a result of Eve's confession; Eve's offspring is believers while Satan's offspring is unbelievers (Paragraphs 71, 72, 73)
   
   

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4. Eve means "mother of all the living [the believers]" instead of "mother of all human beings that have ever existed" (Paragraphs 83 and 97)
   
   

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5. Eve was not banished from the Garden of Eden, but Adam was (Paragraphs 95 and 96)
   
   

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I would like to hear from you all what you thought of the five points I posted. Did you think of anything else when you read the paragraphs? How do the things that Bushnell discusses and points out in her book differ from what you have heard from others or in church?

In tbe last 5 years I have noticed people in my peer group at church (early 50's agewise) have been more distant. We used to get together for potlucks, Bible study and hang out at times. People don't keep their potluck dates anymore. There is no longer any Bible study for my peers. At church only 2 people in my peer group ask me any questions. I am the one that asks the questions or they walk by me without saying anything. This year in 2025, my good friend forgets dates in my life and I am the one to typically initiate communication. Are other people finding this, especially those in their 50's. I feel invisible at times. Is this a spiritual battle or just what happens in the age range of 47 to 55?

God loves you. Jesus loves you. God has not forgot you. Even though you may be all alone. And think your days are over .Or that nobody remember you. GOD DOES. He wants you to take new steps with him full of joy. Trust him, and he will pave the road. No matter how hard now, He will create a new way. There is a plan and destiny for you too. It does not matter age. looks. jobs. money. He will. do. it. Today, know you have God on your side.

This is from the Old Testament, but the New Testament writings teach the same truths. To come to God and to put our faith in Jesus Christ, who is the second person of our triune God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – it requires that, by God-gifted and God-persuaded faith in the Lord Jesus, we forsake our sinful practices and that we now follow our Lord in walks of obedience to his commands, in surrender to his will and to his purpose for our lives.

For God’s grace is not just forgiveness of sins and the promise of eternal life with God based on a profession of faith in Jesus Christ only. God’s grace, which is bringing us salvation, is training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives while we wait for our Lord’s return (see Titus 2:11-14). And his grace sent Jesus to the cross to put our sins to death with him so that, by faith in him, we will die to sin and now walk in obedience to our Lord in surrender to his will.

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

For by God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ, which is not of our own doing, we are crucified with Christ in death to sin and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but as slaves to righteousness in walks of obedience to God’s commands. We are no longer to permit sin to reign in our mortal bodies to make us obey its desires. For if sin is what we obey, it results in death. But if obedience to God is what we obey, it results in sanctification, and its end is eternal life with God (see Romans 6:1-23).

So, faith in Jesus Christ is not lip service only. It is not just a verbal confession of Jesus Christ as Lord and of his bodily resurrection. It is not just words we say in a prayer to “receive Christ,” either. And it is not a one-time event which takes place in our lives which secures us heaven for eternity, but regardless of how we live. For how we live determines whether or not our faith is of the flesh or if it is of God, and if it aligns with the biblical gospel, or if it does not. And that determines our eternal destiny.

For we learn in 1 John 1-3 that if we claim that we have fellowship with God, but yet we walk in darkness (sin), we are liars. If we claim that we know God, but we do not obey his commandments, in practice, we are liars. For it is not the one who claims he is “in Christ” who is “in Christ,” but it is the one who has denied self, died with Christ to sin, and who is now walking in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in practice, and no longer in sin. We have the hope and the promise of eternal life with God in heaven.

For our thoughts are not the same as God’s thoughts, and our ways are not the same as his ways. But God’s ways are higher than our ways, and his thoughts are higher than our thoughts. So we do not get to define faith and salvation and forgiveness of sins and eternal life with God according to our own fleshly thinking, according to our own will and purpose. But we need to define all of that according to the teachings of the Scriptures, but taught in their correct biblical context, and not out of context.

For many charlatans and wolves in sheep’s clothing dwell among us who are distorting the truth of the Scriptures by teaching them out of their correct biblical context in order to make them say what they want them to say. So it is important that we are students of the Scriptures who read and interpret them according to their correct biblical context. Both in the Old Testament and in the New Testament we are taught that biblical faith involves us dying to sin and walking in obedience to our Lord’s commands. Know the truth!

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

Seek the Lord

Based off Isaiah 55
An Original Work / July 20, 2012
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
Musical Instrumentation by Mark Bradley

“Come to Me all you who thirst; come to waters.
Listen to Me, and eat what’s good today,
And your soul will delight in richest of fare.
Give ear to Me, and you will live.
I have made an eternal covenant with you.
Wash in the blood of the Lamb.”

Seek the Lord while He may be found; call on Him.
Let the wicked forsake his way, in truth.
Let him turn to the Lord, and he will receive mercy.
Freely, God pardons him.
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,”
declares the Lord, our God.

“My word that goes out of My mouth is truthful.
It will not return to Me unfulfilled.
My word will accomplish all that I desire,
And achieve the goal I intend.
You will go in joy and be led forth in peace.
The mountains will burst into song… before you,
And all of the trees clap their hands.”

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God’s Ways are Higher Than Ours
An Original Work / October 6, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Peace in Christ.

We are to be raised up together by Him and made to sit together in heavenlies (Greek: epouranios = above heavenlies) in Christ Jesus.

Eph 2:5-6
(5) Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved
(6) And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:

We are to be seated with Christ above the heavenlies….far above all principality and power and might and dominion and every name that is named, not only in this AGE but also that age that is to come. He gives us power over the nations when we sit with Him at the right hand of God. We sit in His throne with Him.

Eph 1:20-22
(20) Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places (ABOVE the Heavenlies),
(21) Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world (AGE), but also in that which is to come:
(22) And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,

This is why KINGS shall come to the brightness of our rising. The kings of this earth shall see Him shine through us and come to His light.

Isa 60:2-3 KJV
(2) For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.
(3) And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.

Kings shall SEE and arise….princes shall also worship Him.

They once despised Him/us and were once a servant of them…the rulers of this earth.

But we are to arise and shine…to manifest His glory to them. We are be a light to the nations of this world so that they be saved. They will then see Him and come to the light that we shall shine to them.

Isa 49:6-7 KJV
(6) And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
(7) Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers,
Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee.

His visage…His view…is being currently “marred” so that they cannot see Him. The man-based churches are not shining the glory light to the people of this earth.

Yet, when He raises us up with Him, then kings shall shut their mouths at Him for what they had not been told they shall SEE and what they had not heard they shall consider. We are to manifest His “view” to them so that they may see His glory and consider it.

Isa 52:13-15 KJV
(13) Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.
(14) As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
(15) So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they consider.

When He shall appear (being made manifest in our mortal flesh to the people of this world), we shall also appear with Him in glory.

Col 3:4 KJV
(4) When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.

In His “times”…set occasions, God will SHOW our Lord Jesus Christ to them...the kings and lords of this earth. He will show to them…the kings of this earth… through us who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords.

And the kings shall SEE Him (shining through us) and will arise….princes shall also worship Him.

1Ti 6:14-16 KJV
(14) That thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukeable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ:
(15) Which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;
(16) Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.

Currently though, the man-based churches where they are serving their handwritings of dogmas (such as a statement of faith) are not manifesting His “view” to the people of this world. His “visage” …His view …is being currently marred by them so that the people of the outside world have no desire to come to Him.

The earth became without form….the form of Christ…and void…void of the knowledge of the glory of God. We have no light to shine to the people of the outside world (the “earth”)….as we.,.His people…the “heavens”,,, have no light. His people are foolish and have no understanding and are not shining His light to anyone of this world.

Jer 4:22-23 KJV
(22) For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
(23) I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.

We must come out from among the man-based churches and be separate….no longer being attached to them (they are unclean gatherings.) The man-based churches will not believe in what they will hear: the Word of Truth. What part does the believer of the Word of Truth have with the unbelievers of the man-based churches? What communion does light have with darkness?

2Co 6:14-18 KJV
(14) Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
(15) And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
(16) And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
(17) Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
(18) And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

We must “awake” and arise out of the dead ones…out of the dead man-based church gatherings…and Christ shall give us light so that we may shine to the people of the outside world who are in deep darkness.

Eph 5:14
(14) Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from (OUT OF) the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.

This is the way of righteousness…to come out from among the man-based churches and be separate. The LORD call us in righteousness and will hold our hand and keep us.

He will make us a light of the nations. We are to be His light of the world.

Isa 42:6-9 KJV
(6) I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;

So that their “blind eyes” may open and see His light. They will then see the Son of man being made manifest through us.

(7) To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.

The LORD will not give His glory to any man-based church.

He will not give His praise to “graven images”…to churches who keep and serve their handwritings of ordinances. The people of the outside world will not praise God by looking at any denominational church where they are keeping and serving their church handwritings of ordinances/dogmas.

(8) I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
(9) Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.

It will be church business as usual in the unbelieving man-based church denominations while the Son of man (the manifestation of His presence…the manifestation of the life of Jesus in our mortal flesh) IS BEING revealed to the people of the outside world.

Mat 24:37-42
(37) But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming (Greek: Parousia = PRESENCE) of the Son of man be.

The man-based churches will continue on in their things OBLIVIOUS to what is going on while they ignore the presence of the Son of man.

(38) For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,

They will NOT KNOW anything until the “flood” of the believers of Christ among people of the outside world becomes so visible to them and all of the world.

(39) And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming (PRESENCE) of the Son of man be.

For at the time they (the unbelieving man-based churches) are being oblivious…not knowing what is happening outside their churches, the Son of man is being revealed to the people of the outside world ...and many will be received (taken) to Him. One person of the outside world shall be see Him and be received unto Him while another will be left.

(40) Then (AT THE TIME) shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
(41) Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
(42) Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

They…the man-based churches… will say that they we are “gluttonous” and drunkards because we are friends with the people of the outside world (publicans and sinners) who will fellowship with us because they will see the Son of man being made manifest in us to them. They will see and believe and come to the light in us while the man-based churches will scoff at us.... until they see a “cloud”....a "flood".... of the people of the outside world coming...and then they will know (but it will be too late for them).

Luk 7:34-35 KJV
(34) The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!
(35) But wisdom is justified of all her children.

Hi everyone,
I'm Bertha a new member to the community hoping to find like minded individuals and make friends along the line. Let's connect, learn and share the word of GOD.

Hasan Chokr threatened children and their parents at a daycare center at a Jewish synagogue in Dearborn Michagan. This happened in 2022. After threatening people at the synagogue and spewing antisemitic slurs, he went to a gun shop and handled several weapons. He decided to buy a rifle, a shotgun and a pistol but a background check blocked the purchase. Chokr had been convicted of theft in 2017 and had a pending assault charge against him. He was out on bail.

Chokr has now been sentenced to 34 months in prison on Federal charges.
This is one case where background checks worked, they did what they are supposed to do. I do wish the sentence had been longer.

Sources
Dearborn Man Sentenced for Illegally Possessing Firearms after Antisemitic Tirade Against Parents and Preschoolers at Local Synagogue

https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/man-plotted-mass-shooting-at-jewish-preschool-in-michigan-says-us-prosecutors/

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-868642

What percentage of your income are you willing to give for life, so the nation can have ‘free’ healthcare?

Hi, please bear with me, I may be wrong on this and I'm not in the mood to explain why I'm asking this.

Say you're struggling with something and someone tells you "Only God can fill in that void..."

No offense to anyone but I can't stand this statement anymore and if it weren't for me being already friends with someone who said this, I'd remove them from my life completely. I can't handle this statement anymore. If this is the best statement that someone can come up with instead of actually solving the problem, then I don't know what to do anymore.

This statement is bleeding into Catholic circles.

I may regret making this thread, later, but once I hit that Post Thread thingy, oh well.

Not Physical or Life Science; more like technology. In any event, with AI becoming ubiquitous, here's an easy experiment: Ask an AI about something concrete but obscure that you're 100% certain of without any shadow of a doubt. Not anything "gotcha" like 11 + 11 (22 decimal; 110 binary). Just something straightforward. Which AI you ask doesn't matter.

I tried this, and the results were less than impressive. The only thing it got correct was the name of the event and when it happened. A supposed participant wasn't there. The specific event that triggered it wasn't mentioned, nor was the aftermath. Most of the response was fluff worded to pass for something authoritative. It didn't work. It read for all the world like a grade school student trying to bluff his way through an essay question.

In picking something concrete but obscure, you're asking the AI for something there's not a lot of info online to train it. No telling how many words are written about, oh, Washington crossing the Delaware, or calculating the value of Pi, and what AI regurgitates might be passable. Might. Something obscure isn't going to have many words online about it, and what AI comes up with can be questionable. It might be questionable even if there's a lot of words written about it, because it has no reasoning to fact check itself. This experiment is sort of looking at boundary conditions that evaluates the accuracy of AI.

Add to the mix topics that people debate. Add to it things that some people consider as not concrete. And consider that AI has no reasoning to evaluate its own responses.

Now consider the posts that show up on CF that are essentially "AI says." Then consider that if AI can't be relied on when it comes to the obscure, how can we rely on it for anything where it has to imitate "general knowledge?"

I've been reading about these different eschatological views, I was going to ask for a summary of the main ones, but I know the gist of them, and in any case there seems to be variations on each.

I remember saying to someone about a church I was going to attend and they said to me "Oh...They believe in Pre-wrath" Well the main eschatological position I was exposed to during my teens was Pre-trib., Pre-millenialism. So maybe they thought it might be a shock to me to sit under Pre-wrath teaching. But in other churches I have been to I can discern no clear position - except one which seemed like the Pastor was Preterist in one of his sermons. I explored some of the others views as I got older, such as Post-millenialism and Protestant Historicism. My issue with some of these views, are that they seem to interpret the seven years literally. And are the four horse men not symbolical of events that have taken place all through history - such as the two World Wars, the famines in Africa?

In addition to this as can be seen occasionally on these threads the focus can become too much on Anti-Christ, rather than on the Person of Jesus Christ. I think Anti-christ is a spirit or a principality of evil. Even in the churches I believe this can be felt from time to time.

Full-preterism seems to deny the Christian Hope, and collapses into a sort of christianised secularism. If I am mistaken about what Full-preterism teaches please inform me of what it believes about the Resurrection? And what this Scripture refers to :

"They have left the path of truth, claiming that the resurrection of the dead has already occurred; in this way, they have turned some people away from the faith." 2 Timothy 2:18 (NLV)

Whenever I read this passage of Scripture in Isaiah 55, it reminds me of Jesus’ words to the church in Laodicea in Revelation 3:18-19:


So, what does it all mean? For this is speaking largely figuratively and not of literal food and drink and garments and salve, etc. What is the spiritual condition of the people in Isaiah’s passage? In the passage in Revelation? And how can we apply these messages to our lives and to the church and to the world today? How can we relate the times in which we now live to the messages God was giving to the people through Isaiah and through John?

In both cases these messages were spoken to people who professed to be of God, to be his people, but who were not living up to God’s standard of righteousness. So God was calling them to repentance, to have a change of mind and heart and behavior consistent with one who is following Jesus Christ with his life. This was a call to leave their fleshly lives behind them and to now live holy and morally pure and upright lives for the glory and praise of God and for genuine salvation from sin and eternal life with God.

In our world and church today this would be speaking of people who give lip service to God only but who do not follow him in walks of obedience to his commands and in holy living. Or they may be those of genuine faith in the Lord who have wandered from the truth, or who have fallen back into sin, or who have become spiritually lazy and slothful and nonchalant about their relationships with the Lord and their walks of faith and obedience to him. So they need a fire lit under them to bring back that passion for the Lord.

This is a call to full surrender of our lives to Jesus Christ, to walk in his ways and in his truth and righteousness, and to leave our lives of sin behind us. And this is a call to walks of obedience to our Lord and to his commands and to no longer walk in sin or to play with sin, gambling that God will still let us into his heaven even if we live for the flesh and walk in sin and ignore him and his commands. And we need to take this to heart, for if sin is what we practice, and not obedience to God, we will not inherit eternal life with God.

For God’s grace, which is bringing us salvation, is training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives while we wait for Jesus’ return. For Christ “gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.” “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.” (See Titus 2:11-14; Ephesians 2:8-10)

We, as God’s holy people, are to be those who hunger and thirst after righteousness and holiness, and who long for the Word of the Lord that we may walk in his truth. We are to be diligent in persevering in our walks of faith and obedience to our Lord and to not be slothful and nonchalant. Our lives are to be committed to walks of obedience to our Lord and to no longer walking in sin, and to letting the Holy Spirit lead us each day in his truth and in what our Lord would have us do in service to him for his purposes.

We should be passionate about God’s word and about obeying our Lord and about living the truth of the gospel and about sharing that truth with others so that they can come to know him, too. And that truth is that Jesus died and was raised from the dead that we might die to sin daily and walk in obedience to his commands in holy living. That is the essence of the gospel message, but it includes the fact that if obedience to our Lord is not our practice, but if sin is still our practice, we will not enter the kingdom of God.

Now, with regard to the words, “without price” or “without cost,” we should not take these words to mean that there is no cost to us at all if we decide to believe in Jesus Christ and to follow him with our lives. While it is true that Jesus Christ paid the price with his death on that cross for our freedom from sin, it is not true that nothing is expected of us or that there will be no cost to following Jesus with our lives. Can anyone of us come to faith in Jesus Christ of our own accord? No! Only as God the Father draws us to Christ.

For all throughout the New Testament, Jesus and his NT apostles told us of the cost of following Jesus with our lives. We will be hated and persecuted as Jesus was hated and persecuted. And if truly we are obeying our Lord in doing what he says we are to do, as his followers, we are to be speaking the truth of his word to each other, in love. And we are to be telling all people that they must die to sin and obey our Lord, in practice. So, we are going to be rejected, cast aside as unwanted, and even killed for our faith.

[Matthew 5:10-12; Matthew 10:16-25,34-39; Matthew 24:9-14; Luke 6:22-23; Luke 12:49-53; Luke 21:12-17; John 15:18-21]

Biblical faith in Jesus Christ means to be persuaded of God. And what does God persuade us to do? He persuades us to deny self, die daily to sin, and to follow him in walks of obedience to his commands. For, if we hold on to our lives of living in sin and for self, we will lose them for eternity, regardless of what our lips profess. But if for Jesus’ sake we deny self (lose our lives), die daily to sin, and follow him in walks of obedience to his commands, by the grace of God, we have the hope of eternal life with God (see Luke 9:23-26).

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]

Living Water

An Original Work / November 21, 2013
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
Based off Various Scriptures

My people have forsaken Me,
Their Savior, who died on a tree;
Made idols, and they worshipped them;
So empty, they will ne’er fulfill.

Lord, You are the hope of Your chosen ones.
Those who turn away from You will be shamed;
The Spring of Living Water left behind.

Living Water satisfies.

The thirsty, let them come and drink;
Believe in Jesus as their King;
The gift of Jesus given them,
So they will never thirst again.

Indeed, the Living Water flows within.
It springs up like a fountain cleansing sin.
Eternal life in heaven promised them.

Living Water glorifies.

Oh people, won’t you come to Him?
Obey Him and repent of sin.
Let Jesus come and live within.
Surrender all your life to Him.

My people, won’t you turn your hearts to Me?
Forsake your idols and then you’ll be free.
Won’t you come now to Me on bended knee?

Living Water sanctifies.

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Listen to God and Eat What is Good
An Original Work originally posted on October 15, 2024
Reposted (with slight editing) on October 5, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

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In Canada , Freedom Convoy organizers Tamara Lich and Chris Barber are travelling across the country this weekend to receive their sentence in Ottawa on October 7th. The crown wants 7 years in prison for Tamara Lich and 8 years in prison for Chris Barber.
It's vindictive and wrong. Please pray they don't have to go to jail, thank you. God bless.
(The Freedom Convoy was a series of protests that began in late 2021 and continued into 2022, primarily in Canada. It started as a response to government measures related to the COVID-19 pandemic, including vaccine mandates and restrictions on travel. The protests grew significantly, with large numbers of trucks and supporters gathering in Ottawa and other cities, leading to widespread disruptions and debates about freedom of expression, public health policies, and the rule of law.)

Harvard University used to be the envy of the world---now, it's nothing more than a sick, pathetic joke.

How the mighty have fallen. I'm sure that Harvard's founders are spinning in their graves like they're on some sort of nuclear-powered rotisserie.....and meanwhile, the Chinese and the jihadists are laughing at us with hysterical mirth. Good Lord.

Harvard hires drag queen ‘LaWhore Vagistan’ as visiting professor in gender and sexuality studies

Tufts Professor Kareem Khubchandani will teach courses on queer ethnography and drag politics at Harvard as the 2025-2026 F.O. Matthiessen visiting professor.

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"BREAKING: Pete Hegseth BLASTS Harvard for Hiring Drag Professor “LaWhore Vagistan” — “This Isn’t Education, It’s a Circus!” - News Social

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When it comes to ‘LaWhore Vagistan’ at Harvard, I’m not even outraged — it’s hilarious

Harvard hiring a professor who goes by the drag queen name LaWhore Vagistan to teach a course on Rupaul shows the absurdity of academia.

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Trump plan would limit Social Security disability benefits for older Americans​

Trump administration officials are considering eliminating age as a factor in deciding whether someone is capable of working.

The Trump administration is preparing a plan that will make it harder for older Americans to qualify for Social Security disability payments, part of an overhaul of the federal safety net for poor, older and disabled people that could result in hundreds of thousands of people losing benefits, according to people familiar with the plans.

In late July and early August this year, researchers from campaign group Global Witness set up four accounts on TikTok pretending to be 13-year-olds.

They also turned on the platform's "restricted mode", which TikTok says prevents users seeing "mature or complex themes, such as… sexually suggestive content".

Without doing any searches themselves, investigators found overtly sexualised search terms being recommended in the "you may like" section of the app.

At its most extreme, the content included explicit pornographic films of penetrative sex.

These videos were embedded in other innocent content in a successful attempt to avoid content moderation.

Ava Lee from Global Witness said the findings came as a "huge shock" to researchers.

"TikTok isn't just failing to prevent children from accessing inappropriate content - it's suggesting it to them as soon as they create an account".

They informed TikTok, which said it had taken immediate action to resolve the problem.

But in late July and August this year, the campaign group repeated the exercise and found once again that the app was recommending sexual content.

A woman has been arrested after a church in Austell, Georgia, was burned, and officials say she sent messages threatening to kill the pastor and his wife. She faces multiple felony charges, including arson and making terroristic threats.


Investigators say the blaze consumed the congregation's building late on Monday, destroying roughly 20,000 square feet and leaving the structure in rubble, CBS News reported, citing court documents.

Fire crews fought flames for hours after they were called to Prayer City Eagles Chapel. Authorities found a plastic container of ignitable liquid at the scene and say the suspect entered the building without permission.

Pastor Raphael Grant said he learned of the blaze after a leader called him, and he drove immediately to the scene.

Continued below.

Pope Leo XIV on Oct. 4 signed the first apostolic exhortation of his pontificate, the text of which is expected to be released next week.

The Vatican said in a press release that Leo signed the exhortation "Dilexi te" in the library of the Apostolic Palace. The Holy See did not reveal the text of the document, which it said will be presented on Oct. 9 by the Holy See Press Office.

The focus of the document was also not officially announced, though it is reportedly expected to focus on the poor. It was signed on the feast of St. Francis of Assisi.

Continued below.

Hello

I need a prayer for my family. Specifically my children.

I don’t wanna go into details. I’m sure the holy men and women here will be guided rightly.

Thanks in advance.

Christianity is not supposed to thrive/be busy by dispute, is that not partly why there are different areas for different discussions, but how can teaching of law, commandments, sabbath, belong in a general area, and not where people who seek that, go to, exactly as the attempt to curcumcise and keep the law were rejected. If these subjects are not put away, it shows a different judgement to Gods seen below again..


Acts 15:24 Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment:


Acts 15:9 And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.
10 Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
11 But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.
12 Then all the multitude kept silence, and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them.
13 And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Men and brethren, hearken unto me:
14 Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.
15 And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written,
16 After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up:
17 That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things.
18 Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.
19 Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:
20 But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.


Acts 15:29 That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.

Trials can be of a personal nature, or they can be those that many people are having to endure collectively. I believe that the citizens of the USA are going through a trial right now with all the craziness that is going on within our government and military heads, and the decisions they are making for the people of our nation. And I believe that true followers of Jesus Christ are also going through a trial and a testing of our faith, for it seems that the majority of professing Christians are rejecting the purity of the gospel.

So many people now are teaching a cheapened and shortened and diluted gospel message which makes full provisions for the self-indulgent and the addicted to sin to continue to walk in sin and not in obedience to the Lord. They can continue in their sexual immorality and in their carousing, revelry, and riotous behavior, for they are led to believe that they are now free to continue in sin, only now without feelings of guilt. Decency, morality, and honesty are no longer required. They feel they are free to do as they want.

For the gospel message has been rearranged to make room for the self-indulgent and the habitual sinner to continue to live however they want as long as they make a verbal confession of Christ as Lord and Savior of their lives. It makes room for spiritual apathy and laziness to exist within a person’s life who professes faith in Jesus Christ. And so they are able to live in unrighteousness, moral corruptness, and dishonesty, in spiritual apathy and laziness, without conscience, because they said they believed in Jesus.

So, if you are one who believes in the gospel taught by Jesus and by his New Testament apostles, taught in the correct biblical context, and so you are teaching that we who believe in Jesus must die with Christ to sin, and we must walk (in conduct, in practice) in obedience to our Lord and to his commands for us to be of genuine biblical faith in the Lord, then you are likely to come under scrutiny and to face much rejection, even by pastors of “churches” and by others who profess faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

For, it appears the majority of what are called “churches” today are these institutions (businesses) created by humans which are being marketed to the world and which are incorporated under (combined, merged, partnered with) the state (the government), all of which God forbids. And since they are targeting the world with their “product,” and they want to attract the world to their gatherings, they have also altered and diluted the gospel to make it less offensive and more appealing to the ungodly of the world.

[Matthew 21:12-13; John 2:13-17; Acts 5:27-32; 1 Corinthians 1:10-13; 1 Corinthians 3:1-9; 2 Corinthians 6:14-18; Philippians 3:18-19; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22; Revelation 13:5-8; Revelation 18:1-5]

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

For by God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ, which is not of our own doing, we are crucified with Christ in death to sin and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but as slaves to righteousness in walks of obedience to God’s commands. We are no longer to permit sin to reign in our mortal bodies to make us obey its desires. For if sin is what we obey, it results in death. But if obedience to God is what we obey, it results in sanctification, and its end is eternal life with God (see Romans 6:1-23).

So, if that is what you are believing, and putting into practice, and teaching to others, don’t be surprised if you are being met with much opposition, even from the “Christian” community and from “the church.” For, the church partnered with the world and with the government is promoting the altered gospel intended to appease and to please the flesh and to not offend the ungodly of the world. So don’t get discouraged if you lose friends or if many professing Christians no longer accept you, but they reject you, instead.

We are to consider it all joy when we encounter such trials, for we are going through these trials to learn endurance so we can grow to maturity in our walks of faith in obedience to our Lord. And the biblical gospel is definitely under attack right now in the USA, and Christians are being hated more because of the bad name many people in power are giving to the name “Christian.” But we are to be those who persevere through it all, for in the end we will receive the crown of life God has for those who love him.

[Matthew 5:10-12; Matthew 7:21-23; Matthew 10:16-25,34-39; Matthew 24:9-14; Luke 6:22-23; Luke 9:23-26; Luke 12:49-53; Luke 21:12-17; John 15:18-21; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-17; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Ephesians 6:10-20; Titus 2:11-14; 1 Peter 2:24; Revelation 6:9-11; Revelation 7:9-17; Revelation 11:1-3; Revelation 12:17; Revelation 13:1-18; Revelation 14:1-13]

What the Lord Says

Based off Isaiah 43:1-44:5
An Original Work / February 24, 2014
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

This is what the Lord says to you:
Fear not, for I have chosen you.
I have summoned you by your name.
You are mine. I died, you to save.

When you go through your trials, so deep,
I will be with you; you will not sink.
You are so precious always to me.
Trust in your Lord, Savior and King.

This is what the Lord says to you:
He who gave salvation to you;
Who delivered you from your sin;
Takes your burdens now upon Him:

Forget the former things of your life.
Give of your heart not now up to strife.
See all the new things I have for you.
Walk in vict’ry. Trust in what’s true.

This is what the Lord says to you:
He who made you; who will help you:
Do not fear what humans may do.
Walk in freedom. Follow what’s true.

Drink of my Spirit given for you.
Trust in my mercy, for I love you.
I have a plan for all of your life.
Follow my ways. Do what is right.

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When We Encounter Various Trials
An Original Work / October 5, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love