Our eye is our judgment, our discernment, the ability to judge between good and evil, right and wrong, healthful and harmful, and truth and lies, etc. So, when our judgment is clear, i.e. when it is of a single undivided focus, without a double agenda, which is focused on Christ and on his teachings and on his gospel truth, then our whole being is full of light (Christ, truth, righteousness, godliness, moral purity, uprightness and faith in Christ).

But when our judgment and discernment is not clear, but it is bad – evil, wicked, immoral, dishonest, and full of malice, mischief, and disobedience to God and to his commands – our body is full of darkness (sin, wickedness). And this happens when we choose to ignore the Lord and his commands and to do what is evil, instead, deliberately, habitually, defiantly, and willfully against God and his will and purpose for our lives, because of pride.

Then watch out that the light in you is not darkness. So, what is this saying? There are a lot of people today professing faith in Jesus Christ with their lips, believing that all their sins are forgiven and that heaven is secured for them when they die. So they believe they are in the light, when truly they are still in the darkness. So what they think is the light is really darkness, because they have accepted a lie and not the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

For we cannot just give lip service to the Lord and then presume upon him that he is going to let us into his heaven. For Jesus taught that not everyone who says to him, “Lord, Lord,” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God the Father who is in heaven. And God’s will (his commands) for our lives should be written in our hearts, but they are also written down for us in the Scriptures, so we are without excuse.

So, here is the thing. If we read the New Testament Scriptures, and if we read them in their appropriate context, and not out of context, and if we read book after book after book, we should soon begin to realize that God sets a standard for who is of genuine faith in Jesus Christ and who is not. Those who have died with Christ to sin and who are obeying him in practice, are of God. Those who deliberately and habitually commit the same sins repeatedly, and who do not obey God, are not of God. They are not saved.

And this is not saying that we will never fail or that we will never sin again, for it is possible that we might sin (see 1 John 2:1-2). But if we repent, and we obey God, in practice, and if we don’t continue on in a habitual pattern of repeating the same sins over again, especially deliberately, but obedience to God is our practice, as is holy living, then we can be assured that we are in a right relationship with God and that we will inherit eternal life with God.

And that really is what this passage of Scripture is teaching, which is why it warns us to watch out that “the light” in us is not darkness disguised as light. And that is a huge problem today because so many people now are teaching and/or are believing that all they have to do is make a profession of faith in Jesus Christ and heaven is secured them. But they are not being taught that they must die to sin and obey God, in practice, to be In Christ.

So, we need to be those who are living the truth of the gospel and who are sharing the light and the truth of the gospel with all people, whether professing Christian or not. For many are believing the lies and not the truth, and they are headed to hell on the promise of heaven, because they do not believe the gospel that Jesus and his New Testament apostles taught, for they prefer the lies which do not make them have to give up their sins.


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

More Precious Than Silver

Lynn DeShazo

Lord, You are more precious than silver.
Lord, You are more costly than gold.
Lord, You are more beautiful than diamonds,
And nothing I desire compares to You.

Lord, Your Love is higher than mountains.
Lord, Your Love is deeper than seas.
Lord, Your Love encompasses the nations,
And yet, You live right here inside of me!

Who can weigh the value of knowing You?
Who can judge the worth of who You are?
Who can count the blessings of loving You?
Who can say just how great You are?

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Full of Light or Darkness?
An Original Work / June 13, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

This avatar is a picture of my very small Mary garden. I had the statue and went out and bought white petunias with a purple center this week. I wanted white and blue flowers but the nursery didn’t have blue petunias. So, the white stands for purity, purple stands for Mary’s humility and sorrows. Does anyone else have one?

Please strong prayers for my son Jakeb's mental health and happiness. Oh Please Dear God let me hear him laugh. I love you Dear God and I love you Dear Jesus. If it's Your will please let me hear his laughter. in Jesus name I pray and ask for prayer. Amen.

Kyle Travis Colton, 38, was arrested in December 2023 and charged with five counts in a 15-page criminal complaint and statement of facts after he allegedly told passengers on a flight from Washington, D.C., to Los Angeles “that he was part of the ‘second wave’ of rioters.”

Then, in February 2024, Colton was charged in a four-page sealed indictment with one count of receipt of child pornography for allegedly receiving “one or more visual depictions” within interstate commerce “where the production of such visual depiction involved the use of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct.”

In October 2024, Colton pleaded guilty to one count of disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds. He faced a maximum sentence of one year in prison and a $100,000 fine.

The defense and the prosecution submitted dueling sentencing memos in early January; Colton’s sentencing hearing was, somewhat fortuitously, slated for Jan. 21. The day before that, of course, the 45th and 47th president issued blanket pardons to all Jan. 6 defendants.

Now, Colton insists the investigation that led to his child pornography charge was inextricably tied up in the Jan. 6 case against him.

In April, the judge overseeing the child sex abuse material case denied a motion to suppress the evidence in its entirety – but acknowledged the government lacked probable cause to search Colton’s computer.

Previously in Kyle Colton

Democrats have pretty much gone insane. Nancy Pelosi called the riots in Los Angeles where all kinds of violence is on display "exuberance of the moment!" Compare that with her depiction of the January 6 protest as an "insurrection."

What would she say if all that "exuberance" led a bunch of thugs to set fire to her house or her car?

And then there's Maxine Waters claiming there is no violence at all. You can almost read her mind, "Don't believe your eyes, you morons. Those cars burning spontaneously combusted. The looters? They were just in the store 'cleaning up' from all the broken windows that exploded from air pressure."

Nothing to see here folks --- except Trump derangement syndrome. I read a Facebook meme today that Trump was going to declare martial law and make mass arrests of American citizens. Really folks, get a grip. Did you ever read about the treatment of the Jan 6ers, jailed for YEARS without charges and without the constitutional right to a speedy trial? On the fourth anniversary of the event over 500 were still awaiting trial or sentencing and others were still being targeted by Biden's KGB.

I'm reading the Gulag Archipelago at present. That might be a good exercise for all you Trump haters out there.

Solzhenitsyn compares the treatment under the commies (think Democrats) to the Czar Nicholas who was almost benevolent in comparison. Trump is no saint, but I doubt he's the devil the Left have created. As for ICE, I'm thrilled that they are identifying criminal illegal aliens for quick deportation. The polls show most Americans support Trump's immigration policy.

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Have you ever had Spiritual Direction? When I first started I really did not have the slightest idea of what it was about.

Then I read The Practice of Spiritual Direction way back in the late1980's.

Good book but also some things to kick around.


"spiritual direction is concerned with helping a person directly with his or her relationship with God." p. 5

That sounds simple enough. But it gets more sophisticated.

"The ministering person helps the other to address God directly and to listen to what God has to communicate. The focus of this kind of spiritual direction is the relationship itself between God and the person. The person is helped not so much to understand that relationship better, but to engage in it, to enter into dialogue with God. Spiritual direction of this kind focusses on what happens when a person listens to and responds to a self-communicating God." p. 6


So we might be asked questions like, "What is God like for you in prayer?" That is actually a tough question to answer. To really be articulate and honest rather than saying what we think we should say.

or

'What happens in your prayer?"

"What do you experience God telling you in prayer?"

"Who is God for you?"

"We define Christian spiritual direction, then, as help given by one Christian to another which enables that person to pay attention to God's personal communication to him or her, to respond to this personally communicating God, to grow in intimacy with this God, and to live out the consequences of the relationship. The focus of this type of spiritual direction is on experience, not ideas, and specifically on religious experience, i.e., any experience of the mysterious Other whom we call God. Moreover, this experience is viewed, not as an isolated event, but as an expression of the ongoing personal relationship God has established with each one of us." p 8


So the priority is given to experience rather than teachings or methods or things we should do or not do

"The spiritual director is most interested in what happens when a person consciously puts himself into the presence of God....He is interested in the whole person, but the focus of interest is the prayer experience of the directee."


I wonder if this sort of attention is a critical missing element in most of our lives because it is not something often articulate unless we write in a personal journal.

"What is God like for me in prayer?" Well, God does not talk to me verbally unless I read words in scripture. "What do I feel in prayer? Experience God in prayer?" Well, it depends and it varies. Sometimes it seems no one is there, no one listening. At other times it is as if the air around me, the environment itself is God present to me. And sometimes it depends on where my thoughts go.

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According to the sheriff’s office, the vandalism occurred around 10:30 p.m. on Saturday, June 7, at St. Martha’s Catholic Church in Porter, Texas.

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That reality as well the reality their bill will drive up the deficit 2.4T, is why the GOP without conscience just dismisses not just the CBO's score, but every economic think tank who come to the same conclusion. Don't like the reality of climate change, just dismiss it as a hoax. Don't like the reality of losing a election, just claim it was stolen. Don't like the realities of covid, just call it a hoax. It's all the same Modus Operandi.

For over six decades, the “religious right” in America was boomer “Christian nationalism,” straight out of The Handmaid’s Tale. It was about “keeping God in the schools” and the National Prayer Breakfast. It was traditionalist, mindful of theology, and, well, theocratic, which is to say it wanted to take the standards of a religious tradition and apply them to the secular law. They wanted the books of Scripture to replace the statute books.

But President Donald Trump is trying to create a new religious right, one that is not just illiberal but fundamentally different and opposed to traditional religion as we’ve known it. The faith of the MAGA movement is not one in which the state conforms to the church, but one in which the church is bent to the will of the strange beast that is American nationalism — the belief that the American project is an exercise in freedom and prosperity like the world has never known, but also the sole possession of those who are white, heterosexual, and unquestioningly loyal to the nation.

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Source: Donald Trump is building a strange new religious movement

This is a great article about MAGA and religion. In short, religion is merely a tool in service of a MAGA state.

Pray The Heavenly Father Ferociously protects, defends & fights for The Israelite Bride against her enemies:

A Virginia school district has dropped a Title IX investigation against a Muslim student who was one of three boys who complained about sharing a locker room with a girl who identifies as male while refusing to dismiss charges against the two other boys who are Christians, attorneys say.

Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS), located about 35 miles northwest of Washington, D.C., has dismissed its "sexual harassment" charge against one of the three Stone Bridge High School sophomore boys who complained about the district policy that allows trans-identifying students to use the restroom or locker room intended for the opposite sex, according to Founding Freedoms Law Center (FFLC), the legal arm of The Family Foundation.

The LCPS policy also states that school staff members are to use a trans-identifying student's chosen name and pronouns "regardless of the name and gender recorded in the student's permanent educational record."

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No doubt the America-hating left will protest this one, too.

This should be no shock, to AI users. This is because a software tool doesn't
have ANY IDEA what a human life is, and these "AI tools" tools are NOT BUILT WITH
MORAL-ETHICAL MODELS that would lead the software to chose to protect human life,
over the preservation of a bunch of computer code in memory.

THE AI TOOLS DON'T KNOW WHAT HUMAN LIFE IS.
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The same is true of many human beings in America.
They have no (historic) moral-ethical model, and live life as if it were some
type of electronic screen game.

This is why I continue to enter posts on this site, asking the question of whether or
not it would be right for a human employer to turn away candidates for a job who are
incapable of distinguishing our shared reality, from conspiracy theories.

I close my eyes first
Than I Iift my hands
Unto God
And I start to pray
For my God
For two hours
That is the longest
Prayer I did so far
And in that prayer
I asked God
To get rid of my depression
Because I have it very bad
My God
I am asking you God
To bring some sun
During the Summer
Because now we are
Living in the Summer
God now that I have been
Receiving the sun every day
During the Summer I am getting
Plenty of vitamin D
And during the Summer
My depression is ok
God
Also I have more energy
To do things
Thanks to you God
I feel very grateful
For having all the things
That you gave to me
You gave me my health
And I take good care of
My health
Also Father I am responsible
For my hygiene
And I take good care of
That

“Did not my spirit go with you when the man got down from his chariot to meet you? 2 Kings 5:26
Please read 2 Kings 5:24-27

How did Elijah know where his attendant went, and what he did? Was Elijah there in spirit? Did Elijah have an "open window view" to the scene?
The reading suggest these possibilities.

Do you the same happens today?
Can people be given open windows to scenes of other people's life, activities, etc.?
Has anyone ever had a personal experience, or spoken to someone who related seeing beyond physical barriers... in other words, seeing persons from another "room" which is outside the scope of physical vision?

Do you believe that is possible?
See Clairvoyance

Newsom wins: Trump must give control of National Guard to California, judge rules

I may be new to the faith but in the last six months i have learned so much and The Lord has changed me even more than I thought possible and done so much for me already. In my free time I play video games with a few other friends in the faith, there is a link in my profile for anyone interested
I walked away from Christ after i was diagnosed with type one diabetes. i fell hard into a hedonistic lifestyle of psychedelic drugs, drinking and cocaine. then after fifteen years god called me back, i walked into a church, was chosen from the crowd to be prayed for, and resubmitted my life to Christ after denying him for a decade and a half while breaking down fully and crying like a newborn babe when the presence of God overwhelmed me. the blessings have been wonderful and i plan to use my time stuck in the dark to learn from it and help those who were once like me

A leader of the Catholic charismatic renewal said he believes that charismatics will enjoy harmonious relations with Pope Leo XIV following a mixed experience with Pope Francis, whose efforts to centralize the grassroots movement at the Vatican raised concerns among some members.

“I truly believe Pope Leo will be very supportive of the renewal and of other lay movements,” said Shayne Bennett, the director of mission and faith formation at the Holy Spirit Seminary in Brisbane, Australia. “What we do know about him was that he was supportive of the charismatic renewal in his own diocese back in Peru.”

Bennett spoke in Rome following a June 9–12 meeting of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal International Service (CHARIS), a Rome-based umbrella group established by Francis for charismatic movements worldwide. Bennett serves as CHARIS coordinator of the commission of communities.

Pope Francis was not initially supportive of charismatic movements in his native Argentina. In a 2024 private audiencewith the president and members of the National Council of Renewal in the Holy Spirit, the late pontiff said he had once likened the group to “samba school and not an ecclesial movement.”

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I was born with an evil nature inherited from Adam and Eve, which places me, by default, under God's condemnation. I will argue the truthfulness of the gospel of Jesus Christ until the cows turn blue and the moon comes home. But it seems I cannot bring myself to trust Christ's and the Holy Spirit's right and competence to control me.

My nature makes me distrust and disobey God and places me under His condemnation. For all practical purposes, I CANNOT bring myself to trust Christ's and the Holy Spirit's right and competence to control me. I've tried for fourteen years and I cannot do it. As Jesus said, "With men, this is impossible." Therefore, for all practical purposes, I was designed to go to hell.

Church in Baden-Württemberg celebrates "Headbangers' Services"

"Heavy metal makes me burst with life"

At the "Headbangers' Church," music fans celebrate worship in robes and to loud metal music. Matthias Fuchs, pastoral assistant of the Catholic parish of Bruchsal-Michaelsberg, believes this fulfills the message of Jesus.

DOMRADIO.DE: Shrill guitars, heavy metal, and rock in church - that's the concept of the Headbangers' Church. Why do you think rock and church go well together?

Matthias Fuchs (Pastoral Assistant in the Bruchsal-Michaelsberg Parish): For me, it's quite simple: Jesus said he came to bring life in abundance. That's always when life is in full swing and we humans get a glimpse of this abundant life and feel that he's on board. I experience exactly that in the music and when we celebrate worship together. That's why it fits together quite well for me.

DOMRADIO.DE: How do you organize these services?

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Headbanger Services in Catholic Church

cathcon.blogspot.com

A historic Anglican church in a small English town has silenced its bells after 177 years following noise complaints, prompting outrage from local villagers who claim the move has upended a long tradition.

St. Michael's Church in Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire, was told by the borough council in April to stop its bells from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. because of complaints from three local villagers, according to the Daily Express.

The bells of the historic 19th-century church had marked every quarter-hour since 1848.

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This has started the many events leading to WWIII. Orthodox Christian prophecies told by Saints and Holy Elders for years and decades are unfolding in front of our eyes. Metropolitan Neophytos quoting a holy elder on this particular event back in 2019. Surreal. Lord, have mercy. Pray that the events coming are lessened.

WASHINGTON, June 12 (Reuters) - Israel is prepared to attack Iran in the coming days if Tehran rejects a U.S. proposal to limit its nuclear program, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing U.S. and Israeli officials.

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Muslims are the fastest-growing religious group

A new Pew Research Center report shows that although Christianity continues to be the world’s largest religious group, its share of the rising global population has fallen over the last decade, mainly due to people walking away from the faith.

The report, based on an analysis of 2,700 censuses and surveys, shows that the global population of Christians grew by 121.6 million people from 2010 to 2020, reaching some 2.3 billion people. As a share of the global population, estimated to be about 7.8 billion in 2020, Christians fell by 1.8 percentage points to 28.8%.

The global population of Muslims, on the other hand, reached 2 billion, registering an increase of 347 million. Their share of the global population increased by 1.8 percentage points to 25.6%. The study also recognized Muslims as the world’s fastest-growing religious group.

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