Maybe the off shore wind turbines ain't a good idea after all?

Please pray for me and my partner. We are having issues in our relationship that might break us apart. She is a believer. There are some toxic traits that I have that I need to work on. Please pray for me, but also the relationship to be healthy, blessed, and to remain firm. Please also pray that God remains the focus.

I wonder how left wing liberals in the media and the government will react to these endorsements?

I've had a rough few months. I found out that my niece is some kind of witch/Satanist and has been for years. My atheist sister hassled me over Christmas for talking to my grandson about the nativity. My boyfriend of 12 years just broke up with me (which might be a good thing by the way he treated me the last few years). But, it's stressful nevertheless.
Please pray that I have some peace in my life considering I'm on a rollercoaster right now.
Thanks.

Maersk cargo is rerouting and avoiding the red sea. Cargo is more valuable than oil in cost. Going to increase prices because of time and now insurance.
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I know this verse doesn’t mean we shouldn’t associate with unbelievers but does this verse mean we shouldn’t be friends with unbelievers or close friends with unbelievers or we shouldn’t have business with them ?

What does it mean to have faith in God? I remember a pastor once telling me you have to have faith. Does it mean when I pray, believing that God will answer it or does it mean accepting that there is no one else above God?

One of my struggles in the past has been caring about what other people think and making them more important than God. Is this a lack of faith?

Do you feel working 40 hours a week important to god? (I know bible says 6 days which most people in America have 5 day work week)Or if you are able working part time maybe four days out of the week enough or does god want more in your opinion, I do know paul talks about working in bible but just wanted people on here, thoughts on how much god wants us to work, thank you for input

There are some interesting pros and cons to what California is doing and implementing for over 700,000 undocumented immigrants between the ages of 26 and 49.
What are y'alls thoughts and opinions about this topic?

I'm starting this thread because there is so much grumbling by many people on the USA right where they think everything is against them.
They think

• media is against them
• Movie and tv industry is against them
• Social media is against them
• DOJ, FBI, CIA is against them
• Science is against them
• Pretty much all of the other western democratic countries are against them.

They believe in some Deep State conspiracy, even believe "establishment" Republicans are against them.

I'm not sure if this predates D Trump or not, but obviously it's D Trumps schtick. Woo is me, no one has ever had such a hard time as me, please donate to my "Mega Wealthy highly connected and influential old white man needs money to keep rich, connected and powerful" fund.

I don't know where to start & I don't know who or how to ask these things. I would like my preacher to do my funeral service. When, nobody knows but likely within 10 years. Do I ask him? Or just tell my wife to ask him after I die? Do I pay him? If so how much? Also, do I need to talk to funeral homes & cemeteries to reserve a place for me? FWIW I'm 67 & have health issues. There is a life insurance policy to pay for the costs. Also my wife wants to be buried where her parents are & that's 650 miles away. I don't know any preachers 650 miles away & I'm not sure my preacher wants to make a 1,300 miles trip. I don't want my wife to figure all this out when I'm gone. Assuming she outlives me.

I feel when I meet people I can point out what makes them unique. Me I just feel I'm looked over often, very invisible it's been that way all my life and I'm 32. Don't really have friends and I feel if I were special people would gravitate towards me.



I feel I'm just longing to be special and noticed but i feel like a Grey lump, no different than the average person. Nothing about me makes someone do a double take. To add im also pretty shy, ive gotten better. I just feel i have no special talent. I just feel i have nothing to offer. I try to pursue education to make me more useful ( i have certifcates and a degree-- that I cant use. I feel stuck at dead end jobs and it makes me feel like this is all i can do) This hits hard even more bc after dealing with a guy I was recently seeing he was so amazing. I truly wanted to be like him. He inspired me on every level.. I messed it up though.



And I feel ill never find someone special like that again or someone that amazing won't notice me. Idk I feel be was too good for me anyway ..



I'm working on how I see myself this year and I wrote down affirmations. I'm going to repeat them.



Any advice is also welcomed.

“It was a mass email sent to several (Secretaries of State) and state offices across the country,” said Michon Lindstrom, a spokesperson for the Kentucky of Secretary of State’s office.

A copy of an emailed threat obtained by CNN showed government offices in at least 23 states listed as recipients. The sender claimed to have placed explosives inside “your state Capitol,” although no specific state was mentioned in the email. It’s not clear if other email threats were sent.

The threat affected Capitol proceedings in Kentucky, Mississippi, Georgia, Connecticut, Michigan and Minnesota.

[Secretaries of State are associated with elections.]

Of course, we didn't do it because If we did it would have been on critical infrastructure. I have a feeling Iranians did it to themselves to stir up hate against the US and Israel. But who knows.

The incommunicable attributes of God are:

Aseity (Independence)

Infinity

Immutability (unchangeability)

Simplicity


Does Jesus Christ possess these attributes? And in what sense is he true God from true God as per the Nicene Creed?

(Gift article of a very long article) The story had all the elements of a blockbuster crime saga: burner phones, semiautomatic weapons, silencers and bags of prepaid cash cards. “NOW WE HAVE PROOF!” blared the headline on the right-wing website Gateway Pundit. “Massive 2020 Voter Fraud Uncovered in Michigan.” (GP story from August 2023)

For the next 10 days, Gateway Pundit averaged a story a day on the topic, eventually publishing at least 40 pieces. During that period, an array of right-wing podcasters all discussed the story on their shows, including former Fox personality Dan Bongino, Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk and Jack Posobiec, a far-right blogger.

On Sept. 5, Trump posted about the story on Truth Social, without comment, and was reposted 3,300 times.

Twelve days after the initial story was published, the Michigan attorney general’s office issued a statement responding to the report, citing its “false claims of election law violations.”

The story referenced “thousands of fraudulent ballots” caught by Muskegon City Clerk Ann Meisch. Grateful readers deluged her office with hundreds of calls, hailing her as a hero.

But Meisch knew it wasn’t true.

According to police reports, the Michigan attorney general’s office and an interview with Meisch, an employee of a voter registration drive company had submitted to the Muskegon city clerk thousands of voter registration applications weeks before the 2020 election, some with faked signatures and faulty addresses.

Meisch’s staff spent hundreds of hours weeding out the bad applications.

“There were no fraudulent ballots,” Meisch said in an interview, “not a single one that anyone in my office was aware of.”

["The state attorney general’s office said that while it had not ruled out that a crime may have been committed," there's no evidence of any election fraud, since Meisch and her staff did their jobs. FBI was also alerted; they have no comment.]

The site’s founder, Jim Hoft, who started blogging as a hobby in 2004, is among “the best at creating a right-wing echo system,” right-wing podcast host and former Trump adviser Stephen K. Bannon said in an interview.

Once Gateway Pundit puts one of its signature all-caps headlines on a story,that provides what Bannon calls an “infrastructure” upon which his own podcast and other right-wing outlets and influencers can build.

“Check Gateway Pundit, Epoch Times and The Blaze right when you get in. … These are very helpful to find good OAN content,” read one Jan. 14, 2021, email to producers from the channel’s news director.

A former Trump administration official who denies that Joe Bidenrightfully won the 2020 election nevertheless told The Post in an interview that if you cite Gateway Pundit in an argument, “it means you’ve lost."

There has been a lot of stink in recent years about the electoral college being what decides who is president. What if all states did it like ME and NE that is to say that the votes may be split based on how each district voted. In this way each vote would count without the people in the cities having too much control.

A Republican member of the House of Representatives spoke in support of a Ugandan law that provides the death penalty for those convicted of "aggravated homosexuality."

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In his speech, Walberg, a former pastor, railed against "the World Health Organization, or the United Nations, or sadly some in our administration in America" that have been outspoken against a new Ugandan law from May criminalizing homosexuality.

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The law not only allows for 20-year sentences for "promoting homosexuality," but also stipulates death for "serial offenders."

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At least 70 people were killed and dozens injured Wednesday in two blasts that struck the central Iranian city of Kerman, emergency services said. Thousands of mourners had gathered there to commemorate the fourth anniversary of the assassination of Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani, an Iranian military leader who was killed in a U.S. strike in Iraq in 2020.

A spokesman for the country’s emergency department was quoted by Iran’s state-run news agency as saying 73 people were killed and 170 were injured.

The deputy governor of Kerman, the slain general’s hometown, said the incident was a “terrorist attack,”

There was no immediate claim of responsibility.

[Not explicitly stated, but I get the sense that these were bombs planted at the scene (as opposed to falling from the sky)]

In the NT the word “flesh” means “old man” or sin nature nearly every time it’s used; the OT usage is always in reference to the physical body. Romans 8:9 gives the saint the most “exhorting” word! It speaks of the sin nature (“flesh”) being in the believer, but the believer is not in the sin nature (something only God can do), but “in the Spirit.” The crux of this stupendous spiritual-growth truth is that the “old man” can no longer cause the Christian to desire to sin. It’s what the desire is in the heart that God wants, “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also” (Mat 6:21). If our Father has our heart, He has the whole of us, because the treasure in a soul counts for all!

Paul owned up to the fact that the sin nature was his (Rom 7:14, 18). Thankfully he also owned up to the fact that it was no longer himself, after the new nature, that was sinning, but himself after the old man (vs 17, 20—which he was no longer a part of). He declared that he no longer desired to sin: “For that which I do I allow not” (v 15). This answers to his usage of the word “captive” (v23). A captive is held against his will and desire, thus his intention is to say that his sins are always against his desires; and this is where it all matters to God—in the desires of the heart.

Desire to please God instead of desire after the old man is exactly what God is always “working in us” (Phl 2:13). The saints desires after the new man (new nature) is all that the Father takes into account, thus His forgiveness and love are never broken, but are persistently and permanently exercised within us; as all He sees is that “treasure” (loving and pleasing God) which is eternally in the heart.

The gist of this entire issue is that Christians should never feel guilt concerning any issue, as God always brings us to repentance concerning our sins (unless we’re not really His yet). When we realize our sins we are still under God’s forgiveness because He knows we will always repent (1Jn 1:9); and it is the guilt that Christ’s Cross keeps us from (Mat 6:13), so that we can maintain an unbroken-peace as much as possible; so we can be used of Him, to draw the lost and strengthen the saved!!

NC

There's been a lot of fuss made about Oli the Cat who completed the Sydney-Hobart sailing race in Hobart today.


Oli seemed to purr-ceive the whole thing in typical feline fashion - nonp(l)ussed.

The Sydney-Hobart race is an annual event with yachts sailing out of Sydney Harbour on Boxing Day and down to Hobart in Tasmania, a distance of about 630 nautical miles.

Some of you might have seen me post this before but I just noticed that I don't think I posted this at the proper section. So I am posting this again. Read below:

I decided to start my own ministry account on Youtube. It will consist of interviews I will take from different people that have capabilities to speak on particular topics, from Theology to Apologetics or Christ-centered discussion on current events. I decided to start my interview from this one friend. From our past conversations, I've always had the impression that the way she talks about scripture is worth recording. I always found her to be insightful and I decided to have her speak on a particular passage. This is just a test to see if her speeches would be useful for the public. Instead of just me hearing her in our conversations, I want to see what people will think if they hear her too. So this video has her speaking on Genesis 4, and I have 2 links for it because we did it on Zoom and it has a time limit. So we had to do it in 2 rounds. Watch out video below and tell me if her talks are really worth taping for others to hear. It's just my impression that this is a special talent that can be useful for other people. But I don't want to presume I'm right without hearing other's opinions too. So watch it below and tell me what you think. Let me tell you that she did not write any notes or prepare for this as she speaks.

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Hello! I look forward to speaking to others soon! I am currently a non-denominational Christian and I hope that this forum can help grow my faith in the Lord.

On Sunday December 17, 2023, lightning literally pulverized the key and halo of the statue of Saint Peter, located on the facade of the Sanctuary of Our Lady of the Rosary of San Nicolas, north of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Given what we know now, a coronavirus pandemic that emerged out of Wuhan more than three years ago seems less like a coincidence.

A leaked document coauthored by American and Chinese scientists provides fresh and disturbing evidence supporting the Covid origin lab-leak theory.

Emily Kopp, an investigative journalist at U.S. Right to Know, an online publication about “Pursuing truth and transparency for public health,” reported recently that her organization has obtained a 2018 grant proposal called Project DEFUSE, coauthored by the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) and their counterparts in the United States, including EcoHealth Alliance.

According to Kopp, Project DEFUSE “proposed engineering high-risk coronaviruses of the same species as SARS and SARS-CoV-2.” The content of this proposal is concerning for several reasons. First, the proposal “involved synthesizing spike proteins with furin cleavage sites — the same feature that supercharged SARS-CoV-2 into the most infectious pandemic pathogen in a century.”

Second, the proposal publicly stated that such risky research would be done at American scientist Ralph Baric’s high-containment BSL-3 lab at the University of North Carolina. But Peter Daszak, CEO of EcoHealth, revealed in his private comments that once the project is funded, he would let the WIV conduct some of the risky research, despite knowing the WIV is only a BSL-2 lab and has “fewer safety precautions than required in the U.S.” Baric responded that “U.S. researchers would ‘freak out’ if they knew the novel coronavirus engineering and testing work would be conducted in a BSL-2 lab.”

According to Kopp of U.S. Right to Know, “Biosafety levels range from one (BSL-1) to four (BSL-4), with BSL-4 being the most stringent. … Many scientists say viruses that may be transmitted through the air should at minimum be studied in BSL-3.”

Daszak and other Americans on the project team omitted to disclose the WIV’s involvement to Project DEFUSE’s intended funder, the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), “in order to evade any national security concerns about doing high-level biosecurity work in China.” Daszak didn’t provide Chinese scientists’ resumes to DARPA “to downplay the non-US focus of this proposal so that DARPA doesn’t see this as a negative.”


What’s even scarier is that these documents “also show the researchers intended to use less regulated SARS-related coronavirus research as proof of concept in order to extend their high-risk methods to more deadly viruses like Ebola, Marburg, Hendra and Nipah,” according to Kopp. Some scientists’ ongoing interest in experimenting with those contagious and lethal viruses is one of the many reasons why we must understand the origin of Covid-19 because such knowledge may help prevent the next pandemic.




The first link at the top of this post is from an article that is about 12 pages long. I have only copied and pasted the first few pages of the article here. Please read the remainder of the article, as well as the linked sources to which is referred.
I look forward to any and all comments about this topic.