In Jesus life on Earth, and in the Garden of Gethsemane did Jesus know He was to die for the salvation of a faceless crowd, or, did He know a bit more, recognising each face, or even more, feeling the events of each soul's life in full? What do you think here? You can mention if you believe Jesus died for the elect only.

Loneliness and longing,
Feeling not belonging,
Fit not in the picture,
Wond’ring ‘bout the future?

Needing much endurance
And much of assurance
God is fully sovereign
O’er to Him belonging?

News brings much confusion,
With it much illusion.
Who then to be trusted?
Not those who’re corrupted.

Need much of discernment,
Know who’s of the serpent.
Wolves now in sheep’s clothing,
Saints of God they’re loathing.

There is much deception
And not much exception.
Liars now are plenty,
Of the truth are empty.

Pray to God for wisdom
And to have good vision
To discern the liars
And their sin’s desires.

Would you now be willing
God give you a vision
Showing you the liars
And what God requires?

Listen to the Savior.
Yield to good behavior.
Sins no longer savor.
God’s will now you favor.

An Original Work / June 23, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

The Vatican has endorsed a report calling for reforms to alleviate the global debt crisis affecting billions of people in developing countries.

The document, titled “The Jubilee Report: A Blueprint for Tackling the Debt and Development Crises and Creating the Financial Foundations for a Sustainable People-Centered Global Economy,” was presented at the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences on June 20 as one of the main initiatives of the 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope.

Supported by Pope Leo XIV, the publication is the work of the Jubilee Commission created by Pope Francis in June 2024 in order to find a way to carry out sovereign debt restructuring based on ethical principles. Thirty international economic experts were on the commission, including Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz and former Argentine Economy Minister Martín Guzmán.

$97 trillion in global public debt​

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Hello everyone. My name is Magdalena. I’m grateful to have found this space and wanted to introduce myself, even though this is admittedly a little outside my comfort zone.

Earlier this year, my little brother Joey went home to be with the Lord after fighting childhood cancer for six years. He was just 14. I was his big sister and caregiver through most of his journey. Walking with him through that valley was both heartbreaking and beautiful. In the hardest moments, God’s presence was the only thing that carried us.

Since losing Joey, I’ve been learning to walk through grief one day at a time. But even in this season of loss, I’ve felt God quietly nudging me to share the prayers, scriptures, and songs that have brought me comfort. With the help of my two best friends, I started a YouTube channel called Healing Prayer Songs. It's a place where I share soft prayers and peaceful Christian music, hoping it can minister to others walking through their own hard seasons.

I’m not very good at social media, but I know the Body of Christ was made for times like this — to encourage, uplift, and walk with one another through both joy and sorrow. I would be so grateful for your prayers as I continue on this path, and I hope I can be a blessing here too.

Thank you for reading.

Magdalena

Sometimes there really is a bunny.

However, since bunnies cannot be proven theologically, but they exist .. this creates a heretical paradox.

HTML can get messy, and become very hard to read. it's like a thousand knitting threads totally tangled, or like
drowning in an ocean of HTML codes.
When you are writing a complex Html page, how do you handle it ??

Representative Kat Cammack went to the emergency room in May 2024 and needed a shot of methotrexate to help expel her ectopic pregnancy.

Florida's ban took effect on May 1, 2024, making abortions illegal after six weeks with narrow exceptions. The penalties for those who violate the ban are steep, punishable by up to five years in prison, fines of up to $5,000 and loss of medical licenses.

Though doctors estimated that she was just five weeks pregnant, there was no heartbeat and her life was at risk, Cammack told the Wall Street Journal that staff had resisted giving her the drug because they were worried about losing their licenses or going to jail after Florida's near-total abortion ban took effect. Hours later, doctors agreed to give her the drug, she told the newspaper.

[Cammack] told the newspaper that she did not blame the Florida law for what she experienced. Rather, she lay the blame on messaging from abortion-rights advocates, which she said made hospital staff afraid of giving drugs even in circumstances where it was legal.

Alison Haddock, the president of the American College of Emergency Physicians, told the Journal that it is common for doctors in states that have restriction access to abortion to be concerned about "whether their clinical judgment will stand should there be any prosecution."

"CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE! It has been fully agreed by and between Israel and Iran that there will be a Complete and Total CEASEFIRE,'' Trump proclaimed in a social media post, adding that the truce would take effect in about six hours after both parties have completed military missions.

Thank you President Trump!

Donald Trump approval rating: New polls show shakeup over Iran bombing​

The results were that the majority of people are unhappy with the move.

In a question posed to 2,824 adults on Sunday — a day after the bombings — YouGov found that a clear majority, 53%, disapproved of the way Trump is handling Iran, with 35% approving and 12% offering no opinion.

It may seem a strange thing to say, but I say it after considerable thought, and some years of experience in talking to people of all kinds, that there is hardly anything so little understood by Christians generally as the love of God

When I say “the love of God,” I do not mean His love to the world, His love for those who have sinned against Him with hard hearts and a high hand. That love is beyond comprehension—too great, too utterly stupendous for mere words to set forth. I refer rather to that special love which God has to us His children, the Father’s love to those who belong to His dear Son.

Ask the average Christian how he knows that God loves him? “Well, God has been very good to me: He has brought me through many a trial, and though I have had many ups and downs, yet here I am today, still trusting and following.”

Perhaps some reader of these lines is rather astonished that one should regard such a reply as anything but very right and good. Well, we do not find fault with it; we thank God for all the causes He gives us to speak of His abundant delivering mercies in times of a trial, and of His abundant goodness and constant care. But I ask, what about those who have not been delivered in the hour of their trouble?

A Christian, who intended to go from Europe to America by the ill-fated Titanic, but prevented by some unforeseen event, took it as a great proof of God’s love that He allowed that event to hinder him from taking that vessel. But what about the Christians who were not thus providentially hindered, who did take that vessel, and who went down with her in mid-ocean? Were not they equally the object of God’s love?

God has mercifully and providentially intervened in times of persecution and distress on behalf of one another of His poor troubled people. The readers of such a book as “A Thousand Miles of Miracle,” will be at no loss to quote instances of this. On the other hand, numbers were not delivered; no “miracle” of providential mercy was wrought on their behalf. They were left to be cruelly slaughtered by their savage persecutors. Did not God love them as much as those that He was pleased to succor and deliver?

The mercies which we enjoy every day, and which we are accustomed sometimes to speak of as “our common mercies,” were often denied to the Apostle Paul. He knew what it was like to lack food and clothing, to have no roof over his head, and to go from day to day in danger of his life (2Co 11:23). Did not God love Paul?

Let me go further. Let me speak for a moment of Him who came from eternal riches to be poor from love for us. He was acquainted with grief (Isa 53:3); worse off than the foxes with their forest lairs and the birds with their roosting-places. He had nowhere to lay His head (Mat 8:20). Others could go to their homes, while He spent the night on the lone mountain side. Mercies which you and I take as matters of course were withheld from Him. Why? Was He not ever the worthy subject of His Father’s infinite and everlasting love? Aye that He was. Then why the poverty, suffering and grief during His lifetime on earth, when it was no question of making atonement?

Mark the answer: Because the Father’s love does not express itself in the form of earthly and temporal mercies, or at least, is not to be measured by them, though He may give us many , and we may rightly take them all from His gracious, loving hand. God is good to all creatures. He bestows His mercies on the unconverted as well as upon those who belong to His Beloved.

There is a well-known story of Charles Spurgeon’s visit to a Christian farmer. I was relating it to a God-fearing widow by whose fireside I was sitting. She had been passing through sore and bitter trial, and the enemy had taken advantage of this to sow in her heart the seeds of distrust and doubt. She felt that God had forgotten her; that at all events, His love was not such a reality towards her as towards others.

So I told her of Spurgeon’s visit to the farmer, and of his inquiry when he notices that in the place of the usual bird, fish or arrow, a text “God is Love,” had been placed upon the old barn as a weathervane. “Do you mean to say by that,” he asked, “that God’s love is as changeable as the wind?” “Nay, nay,” replied the farmer, “my meaning is that God Is Love, whichever the wind blows!”

This is the lesson we need to lay at heart. We must in no wise measure God’s love by circumstances. The gentle breeze from the south may blow upon us, bringing ease and prosperity; or the biting blasts may sweep down from the frozen north, bringing trials, grief, suffering and disappointment. But nothing changes the love of God. The grand truth is that He loves us as He loves His Son. Wonderful words, and they are true; for read the precious words for yourself in John 17:23. It is the Son of God, our Lord Jesus who says: “Thou … hast loved them, as Thou hast loved Me!”

Lying before me on a table is a picture of a small hotel. Stretched across the full width of the building, above the door, is a long board bearing these words: “Free Board Every Day The Sun Doesn’t Shine.” If an unwary traveler should enter the hotel on some gloomy day and demand a meal, free of charge, on the strength of this inscription, he would of course, be blandly asked by the proprietor, “Why, sir, do you imagine that the sun has ceased to shine? It may be gloomy here, but the sun is shining in all its glorious brightness!”

And so with us. We might make the most extravagant promises for the day upon which the sun of God’s love does not shine. For such a day will never be, in winter as in summer, on dark days as in bright ones, for the Father’s love to us abides in its infinite greatness, because His love to His Son ever remains the same.

—Harold Primrose Barker (1869-1952)






MJS daily devotional for June 23, 2025


“Be anxious for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God” (Phil. 4:6).

“Ignorance insures insecurity; scriptural knowledge secures strength. “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind” (2 Tim. 1:7).

“In mechanics, wobbling is weakness. Power issues from God’s restfulness. Are we resting in the Lord? Can we wait patiently for Him to act? Anxiety reduces spiritual energy. Lack of rest of heart is one of the most serious hindrances to Christians.

“Fret of soul when wronged, or fuss over financial or other concerns, is a depletion of power, a dissipation of energy. From the rock basis of rest in Him we can put forth the whole of our energies. Perfect peace is our promised portion.

“Martha gets instruction; we all get that, for our Lord neglects none of us; but she did not get His company; company is what gives rest to the heart.

“Nothing can separate the believer from the love of God, and under no circumstances whatever can he come under the infliction of wrath from God. He may have to correct His saints for their sins, and where there has been no failure He may chasten (child train) them for their profit, that they may become partakers of His holiness; but all this is in love, not in wrath. Every action of God toward His saints is in grace and blessing; it is ever the outcome of His love.”


—Miles J Stanford


“And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ." Jhttp://www.abideabove.com/hungry-heart/esus (Phil. 4:70)

Trump made clear that Iran shouldn't have any serious attack on us. Maybe more will come, but for now, they listened. They told us where they would strike and we got everyone out of harm's way. They attacked two bases. There were ZERO dead or injured.

Iran has said that they cannot come the negotiation table while being bombed by Israel. Hopefully, those strikes will be over within the next ten days.

Trump will then offer a deal. We would BUY the enriched uranium or have an Arab state do so. The cost would be removal of sanctions on Iran.

Trump might even get Iran to withdraw support to their militia in trade for a trade deal with the US (but that might be a SECOND agreement.
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"“Thanks to God and the vigilance of the armed forces personnel and the precautionary measures taken, the incident resulted in no deaths or injuries. The Ministry reaffirmed that the airspace and territory of the State of Qatar are safe and that the Qatari Armed Forces are always fully prepared to deal with any threat."

The countries of the world need to come together against Iran.

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A police officer has been filmed confronting a pair of Christians in London for street preaching.

Mon B, a preacher with Mad 4 Jesus Ministries, told the Daily Mail that the officer informed them that they could not stand in front of the barriers and that they were told to move on.

In the confrontation, the British Transport Police officer tells the evangelists, "These people just want to do their journey, they're not coming here to listen to you."

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An essay I recent wrote using ChatGPT, based on what embodied cognition can tell us about wisdom, and on the uncanny, liminality, and modernist architecture's fascination with the younger generations, and the deeper spiritual meaning of this kind of fascination with disenchantment, specifically in the context of the Backrooms internet folklore and gaming:


In the beginning, the Backrooms was just internet horror—a bit of digital folklore that began with a simple prompt: "If you're not careful and you noclip out of reality in the wrong areas, you'll end up in the Backrooms..." What followed was a strange vision: a vast, liminal space of endless beige hallways, dingey yellow carpets, flickering fluorescent lights, and a terrifying silence broken only by the soft buzz of electrical humming.

But in the years since, the Backrooms has grown into something more. Through games, mods, memes, and collaborative storytelling, it has evolved into a strange, shared mythos—a liminal world that speaks, almost by accident, to deep spiritual and cultural conditions of our time.

At its core, the Backrooms is a wilderness narrative—a retelling of the 40 years in the desert, except instead of sand and tents and the voice of God, we have Brutalist corridors, broken vending machines, and the aching absence of meaning. It is a place of exile shaped not by divine mystery but by modern architecture, trauma, and disconnection. And yet, in its very sterility, something sacred begins to stir.

What makes the Backrooms feel so deeply unsettling isn’t just the silence or the looping spaces—it’s the recognition. The environments are eerily familiar. These aren’t haunted castles or Gothic ruins. They’re office parks, data centers, hotel conference rooms. The horror here is not ancient. It is contemporary and institutional—spaces we’ve already been trained to inhabit, but never to love.

In this sense, the Backrooms evokes what scientists and theologians alike now understand: our minds are not separate from our bodies, and our bodies respond to space. Embodied cognition tells us that we perceive meaning through physical patterns—symmetry, light, color, curves, texture, human scale. The brutalist geometry of the Backrooms strips all that away. The result is not just visual discomfort but a deep, existential disorientation. This is what dissociation looks like in architecture.

The space echoes trauma, not melodrama. It reflects what many people feel already: overstimulated yet undernourished, surrounded by noise but deprived of depth. It is, quite literally, a temple of absence.

And yet—despite all of that—something remarkable happens in the Backrooms:
people play.

They don’t just survive—they cooperate. They explore together. They tell stories. They share tips. They form communities in a place designed to deny community. “Stick to the left wall.” “Don’t look at the Smiler.” “Shine your flashlight—it’ll keep them away.” “Take some almond water. You’ll need it.”

That last line—"Take some almond water"—carries unexpected weight.

In the mythology of the Backrooms, almond water is a healing substance found in vending machines and crates. It’s sweet. It restores sanity and stamina. And though it’s fictional, it feels real—because it plays the part of sacramental grace. It is the Eucharist of the uncan ny: unexpected comfort, mysterious provision, a gesture of care in a landscape of indifference.

In a world where God seems absent, people still reenact communion—imperfectly, intuitively. Even in digital exile, the liturgical instinct survives.


The Backrooms functions, whether knowingly or not, as a Christ-haunted space. The narrative structure mirrors deep theological patterns: descent into darkness, testing in the wilderness, survival through community, and the slow rediscovery of hope. It's a parody of transcendence, yes—but also a sincere search for it.

The players who enter the Backrooms do not merely entertain themselves—they engage in a form of spiritual resistance. They reject the horror’s premise of isolation. They laugh. They help each other. They mock the monsters. In a subtle but real way, they mock death itself.

Theologically, this is not far from the Christian understanding of Christ’s descent into hell—not to suffer it, but to fill it with presence, to disarm the powers, to make a public spectacle of fear itself. Even the demons become playthings when joy refuses to bow.


But there’s a warning here, too—one embedded deep in the logic of the game and its mythos:

You can visit the Backrooms. You can even play there. But you cannot live there.

To remain in the Backrooms indefinitely is to lose your identity, your name, your sense of time and direction. The space offers survival, not return. It can host initiation, but never homecoming.

This mirrors a cultural temptation: to live forever in liminality, irony, alienation. To aestheticize exile. To treat numbness as wisdom. But we are not made to dwell in absence. The mysticism of emptiness—popular in 20th-century theology and modern art—has its place. But without nourishment, without joy, without beauty, without almond water—it becomes death by fasting.

We are embodied souls, not minds floating in space. We need warmth, color, song, rhythm, bread, presence.


In the end, the Backrooms functions as a kind of parable for our generation. It shows us the shape of the world we have inherited: strange, disorienting, traumatized, and yet full of longing.

The Backrooms are not Eden. They’re not even Egypt. They’re the wilderness.
And the wilderness is only holy if you remember to keep walking.

Can someone please provide a logical argument to justify Iran's hatred for Israel, and the reasoning for their constant funding of terrorist groups to "wipe Israel off the map"?

Why is Israel the "Little Satan" to Iran?

What confuses me the most, is that Iran is not the same type of Muslim as 'Palestine's' population. And they're not even neighbors who share borders... Please explain this Iranian hatred.

Father I am always
Praying for you
Every single night
I never miss a night
That I just don't pray
For you my Father
And in my prayer
I ask you to remove
The stress
That I am having
Every single day
Father I just have a hard time
Coping with my stress
Father
Can you teach me
How to cope with my stress
Because I would love
To be able to cope
With my stress

Can an all-powerful God create a stone so heavy that even He cannot lift it? At first glance, it's a logic trap. If God can create such a stone, He cannot lift it—and is therefore not all-powerful. If He cannot create it, then He is also not all-powerful. The paradox seems unbreakable.

What if the answer has already been lived—in the person of Jesus?

A Paradox with Flesh and Blood​

Christian theology asserts something radically unique: that God voluntarily limited Himself and became fully human in the person of Jesus. This concept, called the Incarnation, is not just a doctrine of faith but a potential resolution to the omnipotence paradox.

In Jesus, God took on weakness. He got tired. He suffered. He died. These are not symbols or metaphors; they are core to the claim. The infinite became finite. The omnipotent allowed Himself to be bound.

And yet, Christians also believe that Jesus was still God during this limitation. That means God chose to become someone who could bleed. Someone who could fall. Someone who could be crushed by a stone He Himself created.

Self-Limitation Is Not Weakness—It Is Power​

What makes this answer profound is that it redefines what true power looks like. Power is not merely the ability to do anything at any time. Real power includes the ability to choose restraint.

God did not cease to be all-powerful by becoming man. He exercised His omnipotence by limiting Himself, for a purpose. This is not a contradiction. It is a richer form of strength—one that can hold back, one that can suffer willingly, one that can enter into the weakness of creation and still redeem it.

Can God Create a Stone He Cannot Lift?​

Yes.

But only because He chooses to. And only for as long as He chooses to. That stone was the weight of mortality, of suffering, of death itself. In Jesus, God carried it. He let it crush Him. And then, by His own will, He rose again—lifting not only the stone but the whole of creation with Him.

The paradox is not a flaw in logic. It's a glimpse into divine love.

Jude 3-5

Don’t trust in princes who rule in the world.
Don’t put your confidence in any earl.
Don’t make reliance on flesh what you do.
Test what you hear to be sure it is true.

Liars, deceivers, abound everywhere.
Many are trapped by them, caught unaware.
Think who they’re following is the right choice,
For they are listening to the wrong voice.

So many liars now live in this world,
Liars who give the truth now quite a whirl.
Truth, they do know it, and some know it well,
But, twisting of truth for the people does sell.

Humans, they like to hear what will feel good,
Even if truth will be misunderstood.
Making it easy for them, what they like,
Even if truth’s being taken by heist.

Not everyone now is right where they are.
Some people, with the lies, yes, they do spar.
Testing the lies against truth what they do,
For they are making sure they live what’s true.

All on the altar, our lives we do lay,
When we repent of sins and God obey.
Following Jesus wherever He leads,
Daily, the Word of God, on that we feed.

Sharing the gospel, in truth, we profess
Our faith in Jesus, in His righteousness.
Die to our sins, so we now live for God –
Hold Him in honor; of Him, be in awe.

Testing the spirits, so lies not believe,
Follow the Savior wherever He leads.
Give of your all, give it all up for Him,
Spreading the truth of the gospel, souls win.

An Original Work / June 22, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

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# 13 Lord / Kyrios , in the Genitive Case , in the Singular .

# 14 And you can google and of the Tenses , cases and Voices to examine them !


What say you ??

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When I was a little boy, I went one day to a vacant lot near our house, where I gathered up some dandelions, red clover, and what I think now must have been wild chicory in flower — our Word of the Week. Of course, I was getting them together as a present for my mother, who said, when she saw them, “But these are all weeds!” Oh Mom, you dropped the ball on that one! I have to admit, though, that I like to see lawns full of dandelions when they’re in yellow flower, and where I lived in Pennsylvania, that was the common flower you’d see, along with what we called “bluebells,” but what were really a variety of wild violets. But everybody grew flowers, and in those days it was mostly from seeds and bulbs you’d buy in packets — we had no greenhouses. The Italians had to have flowers — it was a requirement of life. You’d see many an old Italian man planting flowers, like my grandfather, or like the somewhat crabby Mr. DeFazio across the street, who always seemed to me to look a little like Grant Wood’s famous farmer with the pitchfork.



Roses and Irises, by Vincent Van Gogh (1890); from the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Access to vast amounts of data and information is not the same thing as having intelligence, which is uniquely human and requires being open to truth, goodness and the real meaning of life, Pope Leo XIV told AI experts and executives.

“Authentic wisdom has more to do with recognizing the true meaning of life than with the availability of data,” he said in a written message released by the Vatican June 20.

“Acknowledging and respecting what is uniquely characteristic of the human person is essential to the discussion of any adequate ethical framework for the governance of AI,” he wrote.

The message, written in English, was addressed to people attending the second annual Rome conference on AI, Ethics and the Future of Corporate Governance being held in Rome and at the Vatican June 19-20.

The conference “brings together executives from leading AI companies as well as large enterprises using AI with policymakers, scholars, ethicists and lawyers to consider in a holistic way the challenges facing the ethics and governance of AI, both for companies developing this revolutionary technology as well as the enterprises incorporating AI into their businesses,” according to the event’s website.

Contributing to the AI discussion​

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A simple way to provide the outside critters some relief ...