“Oak Flat is like Mount Sinai to us — our most sacred site where we connect with our Creator, our faith, our families and our land,” Wendsler Nosie Sr., an Apache elder and leader of the group, said in a statement. “Today’s ruling targets the spiritual lifeblood of my people, but it will not stop our struggle to save Oak Flat.”

Apache Stronghold had asked the court to block construction of the planned mine on the grounds that it would violate their constitutionally protected religious rights and an 1852 treaty between the United States and the Apache. The group said Oak Flat — on the edge of the Tonto National Forest outside Phoenix, not far from the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation — is a unique and biodiverse archaeological site used for religious ceremonies they cannot hold anywhere else.

According to federal planning records, the multibillion-dollar mine would transform Oak Flat — which the Apache call Chí’chil Bildagoteel — into a nearly two-mile-wide, 1,000-foot-deep industrial crater to access one of the largest untapped copper ore deposits in the world.

In a 6-5 ruling by the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge Daniel P. Collins wrote that Apache Stronghold’s religious claims failed because, while the government’s transfer of federal land to Resolution Copper would significantly interfere with their ability to practice their religion, it would not “coerce” them into acting contrary to their religious beliefs, “discriminate” against or “penalize” them, nor deny them rights or privileges afforded to other citizens.

Collins ... wrote that Apache Stronghold had not only asked for the government to allow their free exercise of religion, but for “de facto” ownership of a “rather spacious tract” of public property — a request he said had to be rejected.

In a dissent joined fully or in large part by the remaining judges of the panel, 9th Circuit Chief Judge Mary H. Murguia, an Obama appointee, wrote that the “utter destruction” of Oak Flat clearly represented a “substantial burden” on the Apache’s religious rights under the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act and should therefore be blocked

Several other judges wrote their own dissents and concurrences, as well — reflecting a diverse array of opinions in a complex case that has created strange bedfellows, uniting religious conservatives with liberal environmental activists

Is it just me or is everyone losing there mind lol

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We live in a day and time presently much like what was described for us in the Scriptures with regard to the last days before the return of Christ. And it appears to be getting much worse by the day. So, if we are at all observant about what is going on in the world and all around us and even within the gatherings of what are called “churches,” at least here in America, we should be able to see the signs of the times happening right before our eyes.

But there is a warning here for us lest we get caught off guard unaware of what is happening all around us and lest we are also unaware of its influence on our lives and that we may be deceived. For many professers of faith in Jesus Christ are deceived, and they are living in a dream world completely unaware of their surroundings and of what is really happening, much of it behind the scenes, but the evidence of which can be seen, if we will see.

But deception abounds today in the government, in the media, in the news, on social media, on the internet, on TV, on the radio, in movies, in TV shows, in advertisements, in social media memes, in “Christian” song lyrics, and in preachers’ sermons (talks), and in how “churches” are being formed and run these days, etc. Lies are everywhere. Anything can be faked, and much is. And anything can be doctored and altered, and much is, too.

So, we cannot take people and anything we hear or read or think we see at face value and believe them just because what we see or hear looks or sounds real. This is a time like none other in our history where we must absolutely test everything and everyone against the Scriptures (in context – critical) and in prayer to make certain that what we are hearing, reading, and seeing is real and that we are not being “taken for a ride,” so to speak.

For so many professing Christians are so easily believing the lies and thus they are indeed being weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the cares of this life. And many are trapped in sexual idolatry and immorality and in lying and cheating and in taking advantage of others. And so many of them are so worldly to the point to where it is now barely distinguishable between the church and the world, for they look the same pretty much.

So we need to be people of discernment who test everything and everyone and who are listening to the Lord and who are students of the Scriptures who study them in their context. And we need to be those who are following the Lord Jesus in daily surrender to his will and in obedience to his commands in holy living and who are not living for self and for self-pleasure. In other words, we need to be spiritually awake and ready for our Lord’s return because we are remaining steadfast in faith and in practice in Him.

[Matthew 7:21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 1:12-13; John 6:44; Romans 2:6-8; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 12:1-2; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; 2 Corinthians 5:10,15,21; Galatians 5:16-21; Galatians 6:7-8; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Colossians 1:21-23; Colossians 3:1-11; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 10:23-31; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 Jn 1:5-10; 1 Jn 2:3-6; 1 Jn 3:4-10]

For Our Nation

An Original Work / September 11, 2012

Bombs are bursting. Night is falling.
Jesus Christ is gently calling
You to follow Him in all ways.
Trust Him with your life today.
Make Him your Lord and your Savior.
Turn from your sin. Follow Jesus.
He will forgive you of your sin;
Cleanse your heart, made new within.

Men betraying: Our trust fraying.
On our knees to God we’re praying,
Seeking God to give us answers
That are only found in Him.
God is sovereign over all things.
Nothing from His mind escaping.
He has all things under His command,
And will work all for good.

Jesus Christ is gently calling
You to follow Him in all ways.

Men deceiving: We’re believing
In our Lord, and interceding
For our nation and its people
To obey their God today.
He is our hope for our future.
For our wounds He offers suture.
He is all we need for this life.
Trust Him with your life today.

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Hebrews 12:2a (NASB20)
looking only at Jesus,……………………..

Romans 13:14 (NASB20)
But put on the Lord Jesus Christ……….

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These two truths go hand in hand, for to the degree one does the looking, to that degree will one experience the putting on…. For one can not effect anything of one’s salvation other then in and through looking to Jesus, for Christ must do all in one or the putting on will not happen…. For one looking to one’s self or own abilities can never put on Christ…. For Christ must form Himself in one, which can not be done by any human ability or work, it can only be done by Christ Himself, but the wanting of it, the desiring of it, the asking and the relentless seeking after it, the knocking on the door of Heaven that it might be done in one is one’s part…. For the heart that says ‘I will not let you go till you bless me’, is the heart that will receive from Him…. The heart that will humbly put all on the line, and wait patiently before God so that He might form Himself in one is the heart that will be so blessed…. For it is the Father’s good pleasure to give one the kingdom but one has to want it with all one’s heart….

But the question might be asked; how can one know when one wants it with all one’s heart..?

This one can not know, for this is where humbly waiting before God comes in, for one can not know one’s own heart, but God knows and is working to make it so…. This is where trusting His love for one comes in, for to the degree one does trust Him to that degree can He work to form Christ in one….

For the forming of Christ in one is one experiencing one’s salvation of Christ…. For salvation is Christ’s life coming to life in one, blessed are they that desire into this truth, for they shall be those that have put on…..


Many blessings in the putting on, Not me

I need prayers my daughter ran away last night. She's 15. Her name is Riley

Mark Robinson is favored to win the Republican nomination for governor in a battleground state, even as some see serious liabilities for November.​

Surrounded by fans at a beach town bar, Mark Robinson addressed his absent critics. “Mark Robinson is not running to be governor to be a bully over anybody,” he said.

Left unmentioned: The deluge of offensive comments that made such a declaration necessary. There was the time he called school shooting survivors “media prosti-tots” for advocating for gun-control policies. The meme mocking a Harvey Weinstein accuser, and the other mememocking actresses for wearing “harlot dresses to protest sexual harassment.” The prediction that rising acceptance of homosexuality would lead to pedophilia and “the END of civilization as we know it”; the talk of arresting transgender people for their bathroom choice; the use of antisemitic tropes; the Facebook posts calling Hillary Clinton a “heifer” and Michelle Obama a man.

“He is history’s latest example of someone trying to rise to power through hate,” said Dale Folwell, the Republican state treasurer, who is waging a long-shot campaign against Robinson.

Plenty of other Republican officials are uneasy about the prospect of Robinson leading the ticket.

“Listening to Republicans on and off Jones Street” — the hub of state government in Raleigh — there’s a sense that “while he may be the voice of the party, he’s not the voice of North Carolina,” said Jonathan Bridges, who managed former GOP congressman Mark Walker’s now-shuttered campaign for governor.

Supporters shrug off the reporting on Robinson’s most outrageous comments as smear jobs and “fake news.” When asked about one of Robinson’s most-scrutinized Facebook posts — a 2018 screed against the film “Black Panther” that references Israeli currency and uses a Yiddish slur for Black people — Ed Broyhill, a Republican national committeeman from North Carolina, said, “I can’t help but think that that’s been manufactured by some opposition.”

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Think about it, everyone`s born good, so the brain, must be wired to be good completly. But some people turn evil during their lives, usually early in life also, so how can an entire brain, rewire itself? Exactly, it shows that the soul isn`t coming from the brain. Some children are born without a brain also, they only have the brain-stem, so if you put these two facts together, the soul is actually the brain-stem, and the brain is for something else entirely

I had to speak out now because the 2024 election might turn on this issue of who is cognitively capable: Biden or Trump? It's a major issue that will affect some people's votes. Not enough people are sounding the alarm, that based on his behavior, and in my opinion, Donald Trump is dangerously demented. In fact, we are seeing the opposite among too many in the news media, the political leaders and among the public. There is also this focus on Biden's gaffes or other things that are well within the normal limits of aging. By comparison, Trump appears to be showing gross signs of dementia. This is a tale of two brains. Biden's brain is aging. Trump's brain is dementing.

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https://www.salon.com/2024/03/01/li...lug-dr-john-gartner-on-accelerating-dementia/


I know it's only a couple dozen health professionals and not a poll of random but how about we have a thread for trumps cognitive decline too; As was suggested way earlier.

Perhaps also an Inveatigation as to why the media isn't touching this stuff..... I gues

I guess Pontius Pilate was white, and some of the Greek Philosophers that saint Paul encountered in Athens were probably white, but Jews weren't, they are more or less like Arabs are today.

Can you think of any white people of faith and importance in the bible?

Society in Australia and probably in Europe and other parts of the West is transitioning to types of religious belief that either have no God or have a God quite unlike the God of their forefathers. There are many reasons for this. Some are education, availability of information, wealth and increased time for intellectual curiosity; this is a little like the people that saint Paul encountered in the Areopagus in Athens. In the Areopagus saint Paul's efforts at evangelism were not very successful, he didn't have an existing Jewish community listening to his sermon, and the philosophers who were mentioned in the passage (Acts chapter seventeen) had what saint Paul says is "worldly wisdom"; it seems that worldly wisdom is mostly religion proof.

So, here we are, Christians in a well educated culture where religion has lost authority and retains only some credibility, and we have only the same gospel that saint Paul preached on our lips, or do we? Maybe worldly wisdom has touched our thinking too, and if it has is that bad or good or neutral from your perspective?

I watched a short video on this topic, not from a Christian (I think), here it is
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Pray that The Holy Spirit inspires customers to boycott CVS & Walgreens pharmaceuticals as a sign of protest against the selling of mifepristone pills(chemical abortion):

Eritrea​

Dr Kiflu Gebremeskel will have spent 20 years in prison this May. Dr Kiflu has never been charged with a crime or been tried in a court of law. Please pray for him and his family: wife Elsa, sons Yosias, Daniel and Senai, and daughter Hermala.
Number of Prayers 1
YES - I WILL PRAY
Eritrea

Eritrea​

Praise God for Aster’s release from prison and pray for her as she rebuilds her life. Pray especially for healing, peace and comfort in light of the many traumas she suffered whilst imprisoned.
Number of Prayers 30
YES - I WILL PRAY
Eritrea

Indonesia​

Thank God for the testimony of Fenny Suryawati, who suffered horrendous injuries in the May 2018 terrorist bomb attack on her church yet inspires many with her story of recovery and forgiveness.
Number of Prayers 31
YES - I WILL PRAY
Indonesia

Indonesia​

Pray for the continued restoration of the three churches targeted by Islamic State suicide bombers in 2018. A total of 15 people were killed in the explosions including 10 from Surabaya Central Pentecostal Church. Several more were injured.
Number of Prayers 55
YES - I WILL PRAY
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Indonesia​

Indonesia has the largest Muslim population in the world, totaling 220 million, but the highlands of Central Sulawesi are home to many Christians. Pray that followers of Christ in this area will continue to be able to practice their faith freely.
Number of Prayers 45
YES - I WILL PRAY
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Indonesia​

Pray that the authorities will act quickly to stop militants disrupting church services. Some congregations have recently been forced to stop services.
Number of Prayers 35
YES - I WILL PRAY
Indonesia

Indonesia​

Ask God to grant courage and wisdom to church leaders as they negotiate ways for their congregations to worship sometimes under acute pressure from hardliners opposed to the gospel.

Please pray for the salvation of my nephew Charlie. He has struggled with schizophrenia which was triggered by heavy drug use, but is now stable through medication, support & care. He hasn't taken drugs for many years now and he is a nice quiet guy who has been used by people. He phoned me the other night and told me he has been attending church and I urged him to keep going. Please pray that Charlie comes to know the gospel and the truth of God's word, that he accepts Christ as his Lord & savoir and that he receives the Holy Spirit to be born again.............That would be so wonderful to see Charlie find salvation after all that he has been through.................I would cry with joy.

Bless you all for praying.

Victor.

I was praying today about some things, and the LORD showed me a few things. We often pray into our wants, or to try to prove God. But God is love. The reason He does things is to show His salvation and love. Say a person asked us to prophecy, God does not want us to prove anything, He wants to show that person His love. The way He does that may be allowing us to prophecy, but we need the attitude of love in doing so.

1Co 14:12 Even so you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, let it be for the edification of the church that you seek to excel.

Canon XI

"Let no one in the priestly order nor any layman eat the unleavened bread of the Jews, nor have any familiar intercourse with them, nor summon them in illness, nor receive medicines from them, nor bathe with them; but if anyone shall take in hand to do so, if he is a cleric, let him be deposed, but if a layman let him be cut off."

Please help me understand. Does our Orthodox church still enforce this in our modern times? Particularly the part about NOT seeking medical treatment or medications from a Jew? Please give a reason why or why not accordingly.

I need to know because I recently purchased some vitamins from a Jewish run company whose CEO I think is a rabbi. I didn't realize how heavily Jewish this company was until after the fact, I suspected it but didn't know an actual rabbi was possibly the owner. They don't really promote it as such but I did research after seeing some kosher symbols on the bottle. What if the CEO routinely has a Jewish priest say prayers and ceremonies over his business and product line? Would that be an issue for an EO customer? Even if he doesn't do that, would purchasing a product be an issue?

Also, hypothetically, what if "the best surgeon in town" is Jewish? Are we really not to seek out his treatment?

Note: I'm not being anti-Semitic, I am asking due to the canon above. Thank you.

Hello folks. The 2020s have been a unique decade so far, some things good, others bad. But one common theme is demonic activity. As a kid during the 2000s and 2010s, things seemed a little more innocent. Nowadays, the level of demonic influences in our society has increased.

Here is a timeline, beginning with 2021, as that is where the demonic things really started. This list is not exhaustive, and more stuff could be added, but this is why I stay away from most pop and most rap.


2021
March '21: Rapper Lil Nas X releases the Satan Shoes, a foot garment designed with demonic imagery and has soles which contain one drop of human blood. The same guy released a music video containing himself lap dancing on the devil.

2022
August '22: Pop musician Demi Lovato releases the album Holy [censored], wearing a bondage outfit while laying on top of a cross in the album artwork.
September '22: Sam Smith, a UK singer releases the song "Unholy", garnering attention from the media. The song features demonic lyrics about adultery over an Arabic style melody.
October '22: Elon Musk wears a demon costume for Halloween, featuring the goat of Baphomet and demonic inscriptions to a red carpet event.

2023
February '23: Sam Smith's "Unholy" is performed at the 65th Grammy Awards, depicting Satanic imagery and dancing. Numerous FCC complaints have been made, as the show was broadcast on live television.

November '23: Sabrina Carpenter, a pop star showcased herself in a lewd position on top of a Catholic altar in NYC. The pastor of the church where the music video was recorded was disciplined by the Brooklyn Bishop.

2024
January '24: Amazon Video publishes Hazbin Hotel, a cartoon featuring Satan in a positive light along with Lilith.

July '24: Olympics opening ceremony mocks the Last Supper.

Good day, I'm asking for prayer for the salvation of the persons attending Pakuniga, Prema Satsangh Mandir and Sanatan Dharma Mandir hindu temples. Please prayer for the salvation of them and their families. Thank you for all your prayer.

The superior general of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP), Father Andrzej Komorowski, met with Pope Francis on Feb. 29, 2024, at the Vatican. | Credit: Pater Stefan Reiner, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Vatican Media

Rome Newsroom, Mar 1, 2024 / 13:45 pm

Pope Francis met with the superior general of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP) on Thursday, confirming that restrictions on the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass don’t apply to the order.

The private meeting between the pope and Father Andrzej Komorowski, who was accompanied by two priests from his order, came at the invitation of Pope Francis and followed a request from the FSSP.

According to a press release from the FSSP, the meeting was an opportunity to showcase “deep gratitude to the Holy Father” and to discuss the “liturgical specificity of the Fraternity of St. Peter.”

The FSSP was established on July 18, 1988, as a society of apostolic life of pontifical right by the Holy See, a canonical status that was granted by Pope John Paul II.

At the heart of the FSSP’s charism is the celebration of the Mass and the sacraments according to the extraordinary form of the Roman rite, also known as the Tridentine Mass, Traditional Latin Mass, or “Usus Antiquior.”

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They don't trust the Democratic party.

Time for the United States and Russia to have peace talks in Switzerland?

I used to be a part of that "system" until I tried to commit suicide, with a 12 gauge loaded with double ought.

Finally I go home, to recover, thinking God must hate me now, and all of a sudden God speaks.

This changed my life. He spoke and my views on true Christianity, compared to what exists in the world today were transformed forever.

This allowed me to somehow (not by effort by myself, in fact it had nothing to do with me, it just came about by Him speaking to me) live the life of Hebrews CH 4, to "REST" in Him...

This is what I believe is the end game, to rest. Jesus did the work, what is the result? Better yet, have you ever seen a newborn, resting in it's mothers arms? That baby trusts her so much, their relationship so bonded, that all that baby has to do is rest in the works of the mother. As Hebrews says God rested from His works, and we must also "CEASE" from our own works.

I do not strife, to be XY or Z... I don't bemoan that I need to be more patient, or spiritual, this is all carnal religious flesh. We must see from God's view, what He desires. Jesus says it is to trust/believe 0n Him.

I am just sharing, from my experiences with God, not judging anyone. Why am I not judging? Because before GOD DID THIS FOR ME, I was living a life of sin, failure, not even understanding the scriptures or His role or my own, in this relationship, He granted me. I failed for 40+ years, every single day, I sinned. Caught in it's trap.

BUT NOW, my understanding has changed totally, but not by my own hand, this was gifted to me. I understand the garden / fall was not a mistake, God killed Jesus, not the romans or Jewish religious leadership. I understand that Sin is in the flesh, this body we live in, it can NEVER be improved, we are to live in Spirit (recon that to be a fact, more real than the flesh).

This was all God's plan, there have been no failures or plan B. How do we know this? Because in the beginning, God wrote a book. In that book were names, those would be the ones that Jesus saved, that God would draw, that Jesus said He would never lose, and since this book was written in the very beginning, that reveals that God already had this all planned out in His mind. Satan would be in the garden with Jesus, Adam would sin, Jesus would come, then die and rise from the dead.

Global warming pushes ocean temperatures off the charts: study​

In 2023, the world's oceans took up an enormous amount of excess heat, enough to "boil away billions of Olympic-sized swimming pools," according to an annual report published Thursday.
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In 2023, the oceans soaked up around 9 to 15 zettajoules more than in 2022, according to the respective estimates from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Chinese Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP).

One zettajoule of energy is roughly equivalent to ten times the electricity generated worldwide in a year.

The purpose of this thread is two-fold:

Sharing current events on your heart via article, podcast or video. It needn't be recent. The most important factor is your response to the situation and desire to bring it to light.

While discussion is possible elsewhere I would like to see a Christ driven reply from readers and participants. It is not a forum for debate or finger wagging. The greater purpose is holy engagement. Heaven moves on prayer and that's the primary reason for its creation.

When posting please include a link, brief description (copy and paste is fine), personal comments if applicable and prayer request. It needn't be in depth. Please pray for (circumstance) and the desired outcome if apropos.

Scriptural Support

For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

The heartfelt and persistent prayer of a righteous man (believer) is able to accomplish much [when put into action and made effective by God—it is dynamic and can have tremendous power].

First of all, then, I urge that petitions (specific requests), prayers, intercessions (prayers for others) and thanksgivings be offered on behalf of all people, for kings and all who are in [positions of] high authority, so that we may live a peaceful and quiet life in all godliness and dignity.

Note: If desired, a complimentary thread may be established in other forums to promote the same. God Bless.

~bella