My father has to get a prostate biopsy, he is kinda worried about the after effects and the potential of having prostrate cancer. Please pray that the surgery goes well for him, he recovers quickly and that he is not Ill, amen

Backstory I am 30 years old and recently have a my first boyfriend. I am a serious Christian and was saved when I was 12. Over the years I've struggled with being single and feeling extremely lonely and unwanted by guys. Now I finally have a boyfriend and I feel like the Lord might be trying to tell me to break it off. This person is so shy and caring towards me. But the thing is I don't think he's a real Christian. He doesn't go to church nor talks about the Lord. We just started dating so I don't know if it's too soon to break up. What should I say/do? I don't want him to become resentful towards God because I broke up with him

14 Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.
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Joshua 1:8
8 This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
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Psalm 119:15
15 I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways.
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Psalm 104:34
34 My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the LORD.
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Philippians 4:8
8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
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Psalm 119:97
97 O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
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Psalm 1:2
2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
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Psalm 143:5
5 I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I muse on the work of thy hands.
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Psalm 63:6
6 When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.
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Psalm 49:3
3 My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.
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Psalm 77:12
12 I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings.
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Psalm 119:148
148 Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word.
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Isaiah 26:3
3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.
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Psalm 119:11
11 Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
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Proverbs 4:20-22
20 My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. 21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. 22 For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
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Matthew 6:6
6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
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Psalm 1:1-6
1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. 2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. 3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. 4 The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. 5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. 6 For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.
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Psalm 119:97-99
97 O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day. 98 Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me. 99 I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.
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Genesis 24:63
63 And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide: and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the camels were coming.
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Psalm 119:78
78 Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.
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Psalm 145:5
5 I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty, and of thy wondrous works.
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Romans 12:2
2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
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Psalm 119:99
99 I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.
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Psalm 119:48
48 My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.
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This was only up for a few hours before MSN took it down. Fortunately, I still had the window up, so I copied, cut, and pasted it here for your perusal.

Biden has utterly abdicated any remaining moral stability he might have had. Absolutely disgusting.

‘Nation in decline’: Nudity at White House Pride event sparks hysterical fears
Story by David Covucci

Sixteen Hundred Pennsylvania or Sodom and Gomorrah?

That is the question our nation's leading conservatives are asking themselves after President Joe Biden hosted a Pride event at the White House.

During the event, the White House hung a Pride flag from the columns of its rear portico, which prompted bizarre outrage from some in the far-right who believed it was an act of treason and an insult to the nation's armed forces. Pride events have become a flashpoint in the right-wing's anti-LGTBQ movement, as Republicans have sought to demonize the movement.

"The ideological coup is complete," wrote Ben Shapiro.

However, that concern was soon eclipsed after a video went viral of an attendee flashing went viral.

"Nation in Decline," wrote one prominent right-wing influencer.

The video comes from trans TikToker @rosemontoya, who filmed herself meeting President Joe Biden, and held her hands over her breasts while a voiceover asked "Are we topless at the White House?"

Some people photoshopped Biden and his Vice President Kamala Harris into the image.

Others referenced the biblical destruction of the towns in ancient times that has become synonymous with sin and excess.

"Sodom and Gomorrah," they wrote.

"I thought this had to be fake. It was just too [degenerate] even for Biden Whitehouse… but nope… this is where we’re at… disgraceful," wrote one.

In a TikTok, Montoya responded to the backlash, noting that it's legal to go topless in D.C. (while nudity is allowed in D.C. and on federal land, it's unclear if there are regulations unique to the White House) and that they "fully support the free the nipple movement."

Montoya noted there would not be as much outcry if she identified, as she previously did, as a man.

"All you are doing is that you are affirming I'm a woman," she said.

Montoya said that she was inspired by her trans masculine friends showing off their mastectomy scars and wanted to join in their joy.

"I had no intention to be vulgar or profane in any way. I was simply living in joy."

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In Ex 20:8 God said "REMEMBER the Sabbath day to keep it holy"
The "Sabbath Commandment" in Ex 20:8-11 is not the "making" of it - rather it is the call to REMEMBER it.. So it was made BEFORE that.

Jesus says the Sabbath was MADE for "mankind". Mark 2:27 "the Sabbath was MADE for MANKIND"

The Sabbath commandment is part of the TEN Commandments which Deut 5:22 says that God spoke "the Ten Commandments to the people... and He added no more" (Only the TEN were spoken directly to the people)

So this is the only set of commandments spoken directly by God to the people from the mountain , written on stone and kept inside the ark. (not that the TEN are the only commandments in the moral law of God - of course)

But "Remember" the Sabbath - from WHAT past event?

If it is FROM - Gen 2:1-3 when both mankind and Sabbath were made - then it is FOR mankind and was established as such in Gen 2 even before sin.

So then:

Is it from the Ex 16 event?
In Ex 16 God said this -
23 And he said unto them, This is that which the Lord hath said, Tomorrow is the rest of the holy Sabbath unto the Lord: (KJV)
26 Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will be none.”
28 And the Lord said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to keep My commandments and My laws? 29 See! For the Lord has given you the Sabbath; therefore He gives you on the sixth day bread for two days. Let every man remain in his place; let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.” 30 So the people rested on the seventh day.

OR is it from the Gen 2 event?
In Gen 2:1-3 God said this
Gen 2:
Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. 2 And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. 3 Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.

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QUESTION: ??So in Ex 20:8 when God said "REMEMBER the Sabbath" - which event is He primarily wanting them to REMEMBER?

Does God tell us which event is the focus to be remembered IN THE ACTUAL Commandment - of those two past events?

Ex 20:8-11
8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 For six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath of the Lord your God; on it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male slave or your female slave, or your cattle, or your resident who stays with you. 11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and everything that is in them, and He rested on the seventh day; for that reason the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. ("Sanctified" it)

hmm vs 11 of Ex 20 points us not to the Ex 16 past event... but rather to the Gen 2:1-3 past event as we can see in its quote of Gen 2.

That answers the question "remember the Sabbath -- from what past event?" IN the actual commandment.

The focus in the Sabbath commandment is not on the manna event of Ex 16... it is on the "making of mankind and of the seventh-day as a sanctified holy day" in Gen 2:1-3.

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Question -- does Christ ALSO link the making of the Sabbath with the making of mankind (Gen 2) - and show the relationship that they have two each other?


Mark 2:27 "The Sabbath was MADE for man (mankind) and not man (mankind) MADE for the Sabbath" - as Christ said. Where once again we see the "making" of the Sabbath and the "making" of mankind associated together. -- just as we do in Gen 2. No wonder the Sabbath commandment itself point to that Gen 2 "making" event.

BTW in Matt 4 Jesus points back to the book of Deuteronomy saying "MAN shall not live by bread alone - but by every word that comes from the mouth of God". Once again that same term for MAN - is - MANKIND.

Is 66:23 "from Sabbath to Sabbath shall ALL MANKIND come before Me to worship"

Please pray for me. Since losing my job, I haven't been eating right and I haven't been sleeping. This is really taking a toll on me.

The president called the LGBT community “the bravest and most inspiring" people he's ever met, acclaiming them as an example for the entire world​

Then chooses to celebrate them for a month.


Yet on June 6 -our Commander in Chief is completely silent until 8:45pm and they get a tweet for their sacrifice.

I have a post I would like to write but I cant find a forum for it.

It is pan denominational.

As we speak, congregations are falling, many rely only on ageing populations .
Some - once mighty- denominations are current attrition rate, destined to disappear In a decade.

Christianity is no longer appealing to the young.
How can we get them back?

They are fed a diet of scientism and the shrinking God of the gaps falasy.

Whilst it is patchy , in Portugal it is far better than U.K., the trend is clear, and it is time we fought back .

I have some thoughts on several points we must address,
Part of the problem is all of Us. What we do against what we should do!
Part of the problem is peer pressure , some kids are ridiculed for confirmation!
Part of the problem is the dishonesty in presentation of what science knows or can know.
We have a media controlled by atheists deternined to misrepresent Us, treating Christian’s as weak in the head,

They create all sorts of false tropes like “religion is responsible for all wars and deaths”. ignoring communist China, Russia and Cambodia!

So call the forum what you will, but it is a cross denominational discussion of


”fighting back for the hearts of the young.”
The problem. Experience. Solutions . Ideas.

I literally cannot find a forum for it but it is surely one of the most important Subjects of all.

if it’s created I’ll write the first post.

All ideas welcome.
Christian only.

The president called the LGBT community “the bravest and most inspiring" people he's ever met, acclaiming them as an example for the entire world​

Then chooses to celebrate them for a month.


Yet on June 6 -our Commander in Chief is completely silent until 8:45pm and they get a tweet for their sacrifice.

...

What is one thing Yeshua can do that no one else can?

Miracles?
John 14:12
12“Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father.

Walk on water?
Matthew 14:29
29So He said, “Come.” And when Peter had come down out of the boat, he walked on the water to go to Jesus.

Raise the dead?
Acts 20:9-10
9And in a window sat a certain young man named Eutychus, who was sinking into a deep sleep. He was overcome by sleep; and as Paul continued speaking, he fell down from the third story and was taken up dead. 10But Paul went down, fell on him, and embracing him said, “Do not trouble yourselves, for his life is in him.”

Sit on the throne?
Revelation 3:21
21To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.

Judge?
1 Corinthians 6:2
2Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world will be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

Forgive sins?
John 20:23
23If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.”

Be an heir of God?
Romans 8:17
17and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.

I recently heard Dr. Joel Biermann say, "baptism is election."

What does that mean exactly? That those baptized are the elect of God?

Yours,

jm

Hello, I can't share my name due to some interesting reasons but I am a christian and was LDS a year ago. No longer lds but I am not in any denomination at this point. I am a republican and I believe in many things that other christians don't but I am not a supporter of evil and bad things.

I do want to share something about me that is kind of basic before I get into a good post about life. I am a woman I am 30 and I am a good person. I don't go around thinking "I am christian to be better than others." or even "I do things the way I do to one up someone else!" This thinking is not what I do to become a better person or good or go to church or whatever else. I don't do that. I am spiritually minded, I think of God all the time and I am goal and dream oriented. I love being able to accomplish dreams and goals and be a big thinker. I am hoping one day to be a pastor of sorts.

I am also hoping to make new ideas, new businesses, new books, and new inventions of some sort. I love creating ideas in general but making money off of them sounds fine too. I do like the idea of creating movements with people like movements to create a better society and people doing good. I know that I am nobody at this point but I am very sure I can do anything. I do not have a business at this point due to disability and this disability will be healed soon.

I am going to share some likes and dislikes and I'll try to engage in this post too so that people feel like I talked to them.

I am an INFJ. I love being INFJ and no I'm not mistyped. I'm not INFP for sure I have way too much introverted intuition to have INFP as my result. I am rare I guess but I wonder sometimes because so many claim to be INFJ at this point. I love MBTI and learning psychology. I love learning in general. I love spiritual natured topics all day long and I do care about sports too a lot. I am an artist and also a smart person in life. I love playing tennis and have a goal to get to at least a college level skill. I won't play in college but 5.0 and 5.5 are college level usually.

I am very interested in Christainity because I have seen God. If you hate that idea somehow please let me know if I can't share that I met God on this forum. I have such different opinions because of it that people sometimes can't handle ideas for some reason or another. But opinions are just that, opinions.

Anyway, most people would claim I am quiet, sensitive, and kind. But I am also considered strong by many.

Other people comment about me being "Super helpful with service" and "Super cute about being a good person." and some people claim even "you're spiritual actually interesting." And then other comments are good too but one negative one is "you're too quiet." and this is true.

I am a leader in teaching people how to be better as a person. I am good and I teach others how to be good too. I am just starting my mission in life and this is it. However, I can't explain exactly what I do.

I do around and help people all day long sometimes, but I have the time to do it because I have no work right now due to disability. So I am coming here to help give good advice and good ideas to people. I am here to support and to help. I also want to give value to people so that it sounds like I tried to help them truly.

I don't know how to create a business at this point or I would have had one by now and made a few million off of it. I am still disabled too much however to remember enough that I can't do it at this point.

I have earned very few awards but I do know I'll be in Heaven because God told me.

I have this award which is an accomplishment in itself. I was in a music video with a singer that is popular and they sung the song "a million dreams" and I am singing with a choir in the background and they used our voices for the song. It was incredible and millions of people watched it. I am proud to say that I followed the spirit on when to take choir class and this happened because of it.

I do not have much to say about my finances at this point but I am poor however, one day when I get money which will be sooner rather than later, I will help many people have food, clothing and water. I will help people with their hunger and housing and food. I will make a charity even just to help people in Africa truly get everything they need. I cannot stand that we still have starvation in this world despite all of the money everyone has. I have a friend and I earned up with my part time job 500 dollars for him to have a house in south africa. He bought the house and he now lives rent free and I help him with money that I earn from cleaning at home. I have to help him. He will die if I do not. So I am helping this person. My friend goes so long without food usually that he is suicidal and cannot handle it anylonger. I told him stop thinking about it because forever from now on you will have food. I have been helping this person for a while now. But we are working on getting him here in America eventually to work and be able to provide for his family and friends and he even wants to help his neighborhood with his money. I said "perfect, I want to help you and your neighborhood too." This is so important to me that I would do much to help him.

I also am service oriented one area that many might not agree with was something called baptisms for the dead. I don't believe in it anylonger and not because of the bible but because there is no power in priesthood at this point. Move a mountain I dare you. I don't think you can. God has power but people do not. Anyway, I went to save people from Hell everyday. Most people in the LDS church never go to the temple because of laziness and lack of passion for being good in certain areas, but most people also don't care. I said to myself "I wonder how to help people more" and this idea popped into my head from God and I said "ok I'll do it." So I went to the temple everyday for years and years and years. Most who go in general are once a week to once a month but I went everyday alone and said "I will help MILLIONS OF PEOPLE GET OUT OF HELL." This is what baptisms do in our church. It's not evil sounding right? Anyway, I was able to baptize thousands upon thousands of people and I got it done in a few years. I was ready to do it for the rest of my life until I died. I am very very valiant about this area. Even though it was not really helping, God said to do it so that I would love service in the end. I want to serve daily and so I will share things on here as much as I can, in the end I might have to stop because I am busy but i am helping others in other areas.

I will say this, I am not great at certain things like making money, having a job, having friends, and having family that loves me. This is not my fault however, because I am a good person and these people who do not like me are not my fault. I go around lonely and alone a lot but I learned to be happy by myself all day long even when it's been 10 years since I had friends. I even take myself out to dinner by myself all the time sometimes. I don't even care at this point and it's nice to get out. I do talk to people, I converse, I say "hello nice to meet you" and I do say things ok? But my problem lies in the fact the devil hates me and cursed me. But that's another story. Most people are more successful than me because of the Devil cursing my life. It's truly a curse when you say "hello, how are you?" "good you?" and then they never ask you more. This is my life. I am not ugly or hideous and people avoid me for some reason because of it. I am just normal but I do have curses about people. However, they are leaving because God is blessing me and I did nothing different.

Those are my qualities that are bad right now. However, it's easy to get them if I don't have a curse.

I learn by the spirit, I learn from experts what to do to be smart with life, even finances I know about but that area is not due to curses it's due to disability. I cannot remember anything in general with making a business even when I try very hard to remember. I can't even remember how to use a cash register and I cannot push carts at this point because my body will break down too fast and I'll have ligament and muscle tears after a while. Even 3 hours of it. So it's impossible at this point to do any work. So my work will be helping everyone here and in other areas of my life.


I am a leader however despite all of the sad and bad things I have in life. They will go away soon, don't worry about it. You can be a leader even if you have problems in life. I am a leader. I can help you improve your life if you need and help you truly be good as a person too. I am helpful in this way.

Thank you for reading.

I will end this now.

Is it a sin to decorate your room with photos of your favorite places in nature, yourself or your favorite singers?

As a Presbyterian minister, Dean Waldt was committed to teaching the Scriptures. But when leading an adult Sunday school class on John 6, Dean came to a crossroads; it seemed clear that what Jesus was saying about Himself lined up much more with Catholic teaching on Holy Communion than it did with his Presbyterian understanding of the Lord’s Supper.

Video below. A little over 6 minutes.

Luke 12:1-5 ESV


What is “leaven”?

I read this definition of “leaven” – “Something that modifies or lightens.” (source: M-W Dictionary). And then I read this one – “the spreading influence of what is typically concealed;” “a symbol of the spreading nature of evil” (source: biblehub.com interlinear). And the two definitions actually fit together. For the lies modify and lighten the truth to make the truth less offensive and more acceptable to human flesh. And the lies are also this spreading influence of evil, the truth of which is very much concealed.

And who are the Pharisees? In our day and time they represent all those who profess faith in Jesus Christ and who act religiously in front of other people and who go through particular religious exercises, but who are sinning in secret, behind closed doors where no one can see the evil they are involved in. And they represent people in positions of religious authority over the people who profess faith in Jesus Christ within the gatherings of the church, or within the gatherings of what is falsely called “church.”

So, this would then be about hypocritical rulers and guides and ministers within the gatherings of the church or the ICs (institutional churches) who are putting on a performance of righteousness in front of people, but who are deliberately and habitually sinning against God in secret. They have that outward appearance of being Christian but by their lifestyles they deny the very Lord they profess to worship. And their teaching is not of God, even if it has the appearance that it is, for there is much deception in the mix.

Warning Against Deception

And in today’s world, the warning really and truly is against deception, for so many of the false teachings today are not necessarily all that obvious to the unsuspecting, to the naïve, and to those who don’t really know the Scriptures. And the liars count on that, too. For misimpressions are being used a lot, for they are hard to prove, because they are indirect lies and thus they can easily claim you are just misinterpreting what they are saying. So, in these cases you really have to check your impressions against the truths of the Scriptures to make certain that what you are believing is biblical.

But even there, you must test what you are hearing and/or reading against the Scriptures in their context. For may deceivers use Scriptures to tell their lies, but they use them out of context, and they twist them to say what the Scriptures do not teach in context. And so please be in the practice of reading passages of Scripture in their context, including in the context of the whole of the New Testament teachings. And this engages the use of comparing Scripture with Scripture so that you get the truth of it all.

But there is so much evil and deception and trickery going on these days in the name of Christianity. And if you are one who is teaching the truth, and who is exposing the lies, Satan is going to be after you, and others might even trump up lies against you in order to silence you, like they did to Jesus and to the NT apostles, and to the prophets before them. For Satan and his servants fight dirty when they feel as though their lies are being threatened, and that their lies are in danger of being exposed.

But God is still sovereign! Amen? He is still in control over all things. And one day all these things that are now being hidden are going to come into the light. And yes, even the slightest of errors we may have made over the years may also come out in the process, for we are not perfect people. But we should not be people who are living in sin and who are ignoring the Lord’s commands and who are going our own way instead of God’s way. So, we should have nothing to hide if our walks of faith are of God.

And none of us should be afraid of what other humans might do to us or say about us or to us. We should fear God and not other humans, and we must do what is right, even if others then tell lies about us to cover up their sins and their lies they are telling the people. Yet, we should be more concerned about getting out the truth for the salvation of human lives than with what other humans might do in response to our truthfulness. And then we need to trust the Lord to work it all out according to his plans and purposes.

For we are to walk in the fear of the Lord, believing what his word teaches us regarding what it means to be saved from our sins and to have eternal life with God. For his word teaches us that we must die with Christ to sin and live to his righteousness, and that we must no longer walk in sin, but now in obedience to our Lord. And if we do not do what our Lord says we must do, then we have to know that we do not have eternal life with God, regardless of what our lips profess. So, please take this to heart!

[Matt 7:21-23; Matt 24:9-14; Lu 9:23-26; Rom 1:18-32; Rom 2:6-8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14,24; Rom 12:1-2; Rom 13:11; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 2 Co 5:10,15,21; 1 Co 1:18; 1 Co 15:1-2; 2 Tim 1:8-9; Heb 9:28; 1 Pet 1:5; Gal 5:16-21; Gal 6:7-8; Eph 2:8-10; Eph 4:17-32; Eph 5:3-6; Col 1:21-23; Col 3:5-17; 1 Pet 2:24; Tit 2:11-14; 1 Jn 1:5-9; 1 Jn 2:3-6,24-25; 1 Jn 3:4-10; Heb 3:6,14-15; Heb 10:23-31; Heb 12:1-2; Rev 21:8,27; Rev 22:14-15]

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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"There are two giant but mysterious structures underneath the Earth’s surface, which just might be part of an ancient planet.

Yep, all this time we’ve been looking to solve the mysteries in space – but we’ve actually been standing on one all along.

That’s because underneath Africa and the Pacific, there are two large structures which are estimated to take up between three and nine percent of the Earth’s total volume, sitting between the surface and the planet’s metallic core.

The one under Africa is known as Tuzo, and is thought to be around 497 miles in height. The other is known as Jason, and is a little taller – this is estimated to be up to 1,118 miles in height."

Why Scientists Think There May Be Parts Of An Ancient Planet Inside Earth

What did Gordon Clark bring to the table that was new? Not looking for a debate, really just curious. It seems a lot of his work had to do with apologetics (my understanding of this = debate). But, what was new to his theology that previously was not believed by Christians?

Many were outraged by the FBI of Mar-a-Lago , However if Trump was actually showing attack plans to people without clearance I would argue the raid and indictment are "good" because they would be the only way to stop Trump doing the wrong thing.
Counter arguments welcome.

Luke 11:33-36 ESV


Another word for lamp is light, and a lamp shines forth the light, and the light biblically represents Jesus Christ, the truth, the gospel, and our salvation and his righteousness. So, if we accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior of our lives, via dying with him to sin and living to him and to his righteousness – via being crucified with him in death to sin and raised with him to walk in newness of life in him, no longer as slaves to sin, but now as slaves to God and to his righteousness – then that truth and righteousness, and the holiness of God, should be shining forth from our lives.

So, what I believe this is saying is that, if our faith in Jesus Christ is genuine faith, and truly we have received the true Light, we shouldn’t be people who then bury that light and hide it so that no one can see it. We shouldn’t be ashamed of Jesus and of his gospel in word or in deed. Our lights should be shining forth the truth of God’s holy word, but not in word only, but in our actions and behaviors and way of thinking and attitudes, etc. It should be obvious that our lives are committed to Jesus Christ and to his Word.

Other words for “eye” are judgment, discernment, and discrimination. And this has to do with discerning good from evil and choosing either to do good or to do evil. And the physical eye definitely can be involved in this, too. For some judgments (decisions) have to do with what we allow our eyes to focus on and to gaze upon. But this really is about the decisions and judgments we make each and every day regarding how we choose to live and what we choose to accept and reject. So this is about how we choose to live our lives.

So, if our practice is to make righteous judgments and moral and upright decisions and choices for our lives, which then is followed by that being how we live, then our eye is healthy, and our whole being is full of righteousness and purity and holiness. But if our practice is to make sinful, evil, and immoral choices, followed by sinful, evil and immoral behaviors, then our eye is bad, and our body (our whole being) is full of darkness (sin, wickedness, evil). And the light within us is darkness.

So, what does that mean? Well, the light represents Jesus and his gospel and truth and righteousness, so I would suggest here that this is speaking of a false light, a false gospel, and a false faith and salvation. This would be people who profess faith in Jesus Christ but by their lifestyles and their life choices they deny him. They give lip service to him only, but they are still living in sin, doing what their evil hearts desire, and they are not living for the Lord, even though they profess to know him.

So, the warning or the caution here is to make certain that we have received within us the true light and not a false light, which is really darkness disguised as light. And receiving the true light is not just words we say. It is living out the truth of what the Word teaches us regarding how we ought to live in our daily lives. Again, I am not saying we must be perfect in every way. But sin should no longer be our master to where we are habitually and deliberately yielding to the sin and not to God and to his righteousness.

[Matt 7:21-23; Matt 24:9-14; Lu 9:23-26; Rom 1:18-32; Rom 2:6-8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14,24; Rom 12:1-2; Rom 13:11; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 2 Co 5:10,15,21; 1 Co 1:18; 1 Co 15:1-2; 2 Tim 1:8-9; Heb 9:28; 1 Pet 1:5; Gal 5:16-21; Gal 6:7-8; Eph 2:8-10; Eph 4:17-32; Eph 5:3-6; Col 1:21-23; Col 3:5-17; 1 Pet 2:24; Tit 2:11-14; 1 Jn 1:5-9; 1 Jn 2:3-6,24-25; 1 Jn 3:4-10; Heb 3:6,14-15; Heb 10:23-31; Heb 12:1-2; Rev 21:8,27; Rev 22:14-15]

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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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Morning & Evening for 05/30/2023​

Morning:​

"Take us the foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vines." — Song of Solomon 2:15
A little thorn may cause much suffering. A little cloud may hide the sun. Little foxes spoil the vines; and little sins do mischief to the tender heart. These little sins burrow in the soul, and make it so full of that which is hateful to Christ, that he will hold no comfortable fellowship and communion with us. A great sin cannot destroy a Christian, but a little sin can make him miserable. Jesus will not walk with his people unless they drive out every known sin. He says, "If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love, even as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love." Some Christians very seldom enjoy their Saviour's presence. How is this? Surely it must be an affliction for a tender child to be separated from his father. Art thou a child of God, and yet satisfied to go on without seeing thy Father's face? What! thou the spouse of Christ, and yet content without his company! Surely, thou hast fallen into a sad state, for the chaste spouse of Christ mourns like a dove without her mate, when he has left her. Ask, then, the question, what has driven Christ from thee? He hides his face behind the wall of thy sins. That wall may be built up of little pebbles, as easily as of great stones. The sea is made of drops; the rocks are made of grains: and the sea which divides thee from Christ may be filled with the drops of thy little sins; and the rock which has well nigh wrecked thy barque, may have been made by the daily working of the coral insects of thy little sins. If thou wouldst live with Christ, and walk with Christ, and see Christ, and have fellowship with Christ, take heed of "the little foxes that spoil the vines, for our vines have tender grapes." Jesus invites you to go with him and take them. He will surely, like Samson, take the foxes at once and easily. Go with him to the hunting.

Evening:​

"That henceforth we should not serve sin." — Romans 6:6
Christian, what hast thou to do with sin? Hath it not cost thee enough already? Burnt child, wilt thou play with the fire? What! when thou hast already been between the jaws of the lion, wilt thou step a second time into his den? Hast thou not had enough of the old serpent? Did he not poison all thy veins once, and wilt thou play upon the hole of the asp, and put thy hand upon the cockatrice's den a second time? Oh, be not so mad! so foolish! Did sin ever yield thee real pleasure? Didst thou find solid satisfaction in it? If so, go back to thine old drudgery, and wear the chain again, if it delight thee. But inasmuch as sin did never give thee what it promised to bestow, but deluded thee with lies, be not a second time snared by the old fowler- be free, and let the remembrance of thy ancient bondage forbid thee to enter the net again! It is contrary to the designs of eternal love, which all have an eye to thy purity and holiness; therefore run not counter to the purposes of thy Lord. Another thought should restrain thee from sin. Christians can never sin cheaply; they pay a heavy price for iniquity. Transgression destroys peace of mind, obscures fellowship with Jesus, hinders prayer, brings darkness over the soul; therefore be not the serf and bondman of sin. There is yet a higher argument: each time you "serve sin" you have "Crucified the Lord afresh, and put him to an open shame." Can you bear that thought? Oh! if you have fallen into any special sin during this day, it may be my Master has sent this admonition this evening, to bring you back before you have backslidden very far. Turn thee to Jesus anew; he has not forgotten his love to thee; his grace is still the same. With weeping and repentance, come thou to his footstool, and thou shalt be once more received into his heart; thou shalt be set upon a rock again, and thy goings shall be established.

Christian brothers and sisters,

Please be in prayer for me and for my husband Rick, for we still have a very broken marriage, which has been broken the whole of our 50 years of marriage. And it is still in the bad condition it has always been in. So what we have is not a marriage and it has never been a biblical marriage. What we have are two separate people living separate lives who share a few things in common, like our kids and our grandkids, but we are going opposite directions. We are on friendly terms most of the time, but there is no real connection there. And this is not an area where there can be compromise, for this is not about trivial stuff like just differences of opinion over things. And nothing that I am saying here about our situation is being hidden from my husband, either, for this is a subject that we talk about here and there, for it is an ongoing situation that never ends. So there are no surprises here. And he and I talked about this again in the past couple of hours. He knows he is doing wrong to me and to God, even though he professes faith in Jesus Christ. And all I am asking of you at this time is just to pray. I am just saying we need prayer.

Thank you. Sue

P.S. I usually post in the devotions and blog sections of CF, in case you don't know who I am.

Hi everyone! I’m glad to have found these forums. I’m a 29 year-old living in a rural area of Maryland with my husband and our blessing of a son, who is 10 months-old. I’m a therapist full-time, and in my free time I like to cook and spend time with my family. Thank you for welcoming me!