What distinguishes Christians from Muslims and Jews? The conflict in Israel shows it exactly. Christians know that their home is not here in this world. Muslims and Jews, on the other hand, believe that their home is here in this world. That is why they are willing to fight for a piece of land. Why fight when there is paradise? Why fight when the world will end one day anyway? Why take pride in something that is passing away?

Nationalism/Patriotism does not exist in Christianity. The nation of the Christian is Christendom, the flag of the Christian is the cross, the homeland of the Christian is paradise, and the King of the Christian is Christ.

The unbelievers are fighting each other. God is using them for His plans. He puts hatred in their hearts and sets them on each other and they do not realize it.

The reason for this question, is that the news has been suggesting a possible presidential run for Ron DeSantis, who I personally view as an authoritarian kind of person, in comparison with Trump. But then I remembered a lot of people claiming that Trump was a fascist - but I never viewed him that way.

Personally, my view of Trump is a 1980's kind of guy, who isn't the type who is into banning books, or being racist, or going against progressive, democratic values at all.

...So I was wondering where people get off calling him "fascist", especially when considering that Ron DeSantis does indeed seem more that way than Trump ever did.

In fact, I view DeSantis as so authoritarian, I might even consider voting Democrat if he becomes the primary candidate for the GOP - something I've never considered before in my life.

I find myself in a world driven by Lust and Alcoholism.

This is New Zealand life.

I wait for the opportunity to speak of another way.

Most have unresolved anger and hurt and resort to self medication.

With this self made life is pride and self righteousness.

Can I introduce the Jesus I have come to know and Love?

Is there a crack in the conversation ?

I hesitate to waste words but wait for the moment when He speaks through me.

Extend Your hand to heal... (Acts 4)

It is your work and your Love.

After the place was shaken they spoke His Word with great boldness.

Make me a living letter from Him posted at the right time to the right recipient.

Mentioning the Name of Jesus threatens a self made kingdom - but it must be so...

The mockery are distain He endured continues today.

Don't let it silence you.

Father Martin published the Pope’s Spanish-language letter and an English translation on the website of Outreach on Jan. 27.

Pope Francis has written a letter to clarify his comments on sin and homosexuality from a recent interview with the Associated Press.

“When I said it is a sin, I was simply referring to Catholic moral teaching, which says that every sexual act outside of marriage is a sin,” the Pope wrote to Jesuit Father James Martin, in response to a request for clarification.

Francis said he was trying to say in the interview that criminalization of homosexuality “is neither good nor just.”

“As you can see, I was repeating something in general,” he wrote. “I should have said ‘It is a sin, as is any sexual act outside of marriage.’ This is to speak of ‘the matter’ of sin, but we know well that Catholic morality not only takes into consideration the matter, but also evaluates freedom and intention; and this, for every kind of sin.”

Father Martin published the Pope’s Spanish-language letter and an English translation on the website of Outreach on Jan. 27. Father Martin is the editor of Outreach, which describes itself as “an LGBT Catholic resource” operating under the auspices of America Media.

In an interview published Jan. 25 by AP, Pope Francis said, “Being homosexual is not a crime. It’s not a crime. Yes, but it’s a sin. Fine, but first let’s distinguish between a sin and a crime.”

Continued below.

There are no apparent recent threads about this in news or politics but since we've been here so many times before it seems everyone must be jaded by it.

A person or business cannot simply take on more debt at will. They must prove to the debtor that they have the income or collateral to back up the loan or increase to the loan. There is a difference between personal finance and government finance (or microeconomics and macroeconomics, if you prefer), but what is the point of a debt ceiling if they keep raising it at will? Or do they just keep claiming the GDP is going up so we can afford more debt?

Proverbs 2:9-15-9-15 The Message (MSG)​

So now you can pick out what’s true and fair, find all the good trails! Lady Wisdom will be your close friend, and Brother Knowledge your pleasant companion. Good Sense will scout ahead for danger, Insight will keep an eye out for you.
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What do you think about brother knowledge? Is he real? Do you interact with him? What's he like? I think I am experiencing him right now. I asked him to show me something, and he did!

So what are your thoughts?

Pray that I will have a comfortable working environment and that social anxiety will go away as well Grant me more peace of mind and happiness Amen

Good day to all you beautiful children of God! No teaching or anything, just a thread to fellowship in general. How are all you doing? How is the Lord working in your lives?

Psalm 118:24, This is the day that the Lord hath made, let us rejoice and be glad in it!

Has the Kingdom come yet? Has all passed away?

Notice he says, the Law and Prophets - are they nailed to the cross too?

Has everything in prophecy been fulfilled?

Jesus said when heaven and earth pass away then shall the LAW pass away.

When does that happen?

Revelation 21

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.


Do you want to be Great in the Kingdom or the least?

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been there.

1 SAMUEL 2




22 Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did unto all Israel; and how they lay with the women that assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

23 And he said unto them, Why do ye such things? for I hear of your evil dealings by all this people.

24 Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make the Lord's people to transgress.



A SLAP ON THE WRIST



Eli was the High priest, his sons were priests also, but they where a disgrace to their calling. Not only were they thieves, but they were fornicators.

These women came to worship God, but these two evil men used and abused their power.

The Lord eventually dealt with them and rightly so, but why did it have to come to that?

I have heard it enough times, some Christian is living in sin and I hear this:

You can't judge him/her

You should look at your own life first.

You should show them love

They have been members of the church a long time, we can't drive them away.

Eli knew that what they were doing was sinful, he was the stereotypical bad parent or even pastor, whatever their child or church member do, they tolerate, they don't want to rock the boat, they can't correct their children/church members, that is too harsh by far.

Now I realise that God hardened their hearts, because of their indifference, but Eli was at fault here, he should have dealt firmly, in banning these evil men from the priest's office, the things they were doing, were worthy of severe punishment or even death.

Virtually the same scenario happened in Numbers 25, what happened these two were pierced through by Phinehas. So why didn't this happen with these two evil men?

I hear this all the time, something happens in a church, some Christian is in sexual sin and after multiple rebukes refuses to change his/her behaviour. We need to deal with sin in the house of God, not wait and say, let's wait and pray and let God handle it. He has given us pastors and deacons with authority to deal with this, but how often do they act like Eli and give a slap on the wrist, when they need to deal with the sin like Phinehas did and kill it, that is to disallow fellowship to that person.

Time to clean house Church, judgement begins at the house of God.



God wants a pure church.



God bless you



KK



1 CORINTHIANS 1



2 To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:

CALLED TO BE SAINTS

What a way to start a letter.

First of all, we are sanctified in Christ Jesus, in the Greek it is used as a noun and means Holy People, we are as Peter says later in his epistle in chapter 2:

9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.


Why are we a holy people, because we are called to be saints, or to be holy. Corinth was one of the worst places to be a Christian, it was full of sin and idols and temples to false Gods and yet here were a people who were holy to the Lord, who were to live lives that were worthy of their high calling.

Look at the phrase Peter uses in the verse above, to proclaim the excellencies of Him, don't you just love that, why have we been saved?

We are a church set apart by God, a chosen people and a royal priesthood, why so that we who are called to be saints can show forth the glorious excellencies of the one who called us.

Let's do that every day and show the world that Jesus lives.. in us

For his glory and honour

Amen

God Bless You,

KK


REVELATION 3

20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

ANSWER THE DOOR!!!!


This is probably the most misused verse in the Bible, when I came to faith back in 1975, this was the verse that I remember from the book Journey into life. But it is not aimed at unbelievers, it comes right at the end off the letters to the seven churches and indeed right at the end of the last one to the Laodicean church, which has some of the strongest rebukes in the Bible.


You remember that Jesus has become so upset with this Church and its compromise that he has threatened to spew them out of his mouth, that means what they are makes him physically sick. This Church was not one thing or the other, they wanted to serve Christ and still wanted to live in the world.


But there is hope, this is one of the greatest invitations in the Bible. Let's look at it for a minute.


It is Jesus who is knocking, Behold I stand, if you go and read in Song of Solomon chapter 5:2, Solomon is seeking for his bride. This is a wonderful picture of what Jesus is doing today, he is earnestly seeking his bride, the Church. He is standing at the door of the Church and knocking to get in. Is he standing at your Church and knocking to get in?


Although these letters were addressed to the Leaders of the seven Churches, this invitation is to everyone in the Church. note the words, if any one hear my voice and open the door. This whole invitation is a personal invite for every Christian as well as for the whole Church. The Lord stands at the door of each believers heart and he is constantly knocking, but the door handle is on the inside, it's up to you Believer’s to open the door.


Well what happens when you open the door, it's the most glorious thing ever, Jesus comes and has intimate communion with us, there are two amazing promises here, one is that Jesus will come in, when you open the door, he will be there. Sometimes you open the door after someone has been knocking and they have disappeared, not Jesus. Secondly, he will have fellowship with us and get this.. us with him. The most intimate thing that we have is a meal and that is why Jesus is knocking, he wants intimate and deep fellowship.


It's time for some Churches to open the door to Jesus, because the door to him, is closed. Are you going to brave enough to open it?


As an individual believer are you going to open the door of your own life to Jesus?


How long are you going to leave him at your door knocking?


It's time to answer the door!!!




God Bless You,


Keith






SOAK IN SCRIPTURE...PLEASE LISTEN

FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT SERIES

The Fruit of the Spirit is Compassion

Brian Cochran | The Fruit of the Spirit

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The Fruit of the Spirit is Humility

Brian Cochran | The Fruit of the Spirit

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Keeping in Step with the Spirit

Brian Cochran | The Fruit of the Spirit

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SINGLE SERMONS

Help from Without

C. H. Spurgeon | Faith's Checkbook by Spurgeon

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The Compromising Church

Mike Gendron | Conferences: Homosexuality

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The Forgotten Followers

Denis Lyle | The Master's Men

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Jael

Dr. Derek W. H. Thomas | Out of the Lime Light

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No Guilt in Life, No Fear in Death

Rev. Roger Higginson


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Video Talk

Isaiah 61:1-3 ESV


This, in essence, is the message of the gospel of our salvation. And Jesus read the first part of this in the Synagogue in Nazareth, applying it to himself as the anointed of the Lord (Lu 4:17-21). But he was not the only one to bring this good news. All of us who are in Christ, by God-given faith in him, are to be sharing the good news of this gospel to the world around us (1 Pet 2:9; Matt 5:13-16; Matt 28:18-20; Acts 1:8; Acts 26:18).

I am now going to kind of summarize my understanding of how this applies to our lives today. The Good News is not just for people who are physically poor (reference the beatitudes in the sermon on the mount in Matthew 5). So I believe these are the poor (humble) in spirit, for they are the ones who are going to listen and respond to the gospel and believe. The same applies to the brokenhearted, which are those who are repentant over their sin.

Regarding the captives and those in prison, this is speaking of those who are in slavery (bondage, addiction) to sin. Jesus came to set the captives free. He died on that cross that we might die with him to sin and live to him and to his righteousness (1 Peter 2:24). So when we believe in Jesus with God-given faith, we are crucified with Christ in death to sin and raised with him to walk in newness of life in him (Romans 6:1-23; Ephesians 4:17-24).

Those who mourn are those who are contrite in heart and who grieve over their sin and so they repent (turn away from their sin). God will comfort us when we grieve and we repent of our sin. He will comfort us with his salvation. And to be given a beautiful headdress instead of ashes, is to be delivered out of our lives of addiction to sin so we can now walk in holiness and righteousness. And oh what gladness when we are set free!

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Praise Be Told!

An Original Work / December 28, 2013
Based off Various Scriptures

He was pierced for our transgressions.
He was crushed for all our sin.
Our chastisement was upon Him.
By His stripes, we now are healed.

He has witnessed all our trials,
And the sins we choose to wear.
Yet, while we were dead in our sin,
Jesus died, our sins to bear.

He himself bore all of our sins
In His body on a cross,
So that we might die to our sin,
And live for His righteousness.

By faith in the pow’r of Jesus
And His blood shed for our sins,
We can be forgiven our sin,
And have life with God in heav’n.

He will lead us and He’ll guide us
In the way that we should go.
He will comfort and protect us,
Because Jesus, we do know.

Though He disciplines for our good,
He will heal us – Praise be told!
Do not fear, your Lord is with you.
Just have faith in Christ your Lord.

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I asked Chatbot about Adam and Eve and was told: "Adam is a biblical figure and it is not considered a historical or scientific fact that he was a real person." So I wonder is this yet another way for liberals to push their way into our schools? Every step of the way chatbot will claim that: "As a machine learning model, I do not have beliefs or the ability to hold any kind of religious or non-religious convictions." What a load of propaganda that is. You state an opinion when you say Adam was not a real person.

Hebrews 12:25-29 ESV


Context

This chapter begins with counsel to the believers to lay aside every weight (burden, obstacle), and sin which clings so closely, so that we can run with endurance the race God has marked out for us to run. And then it goes on to talk about God’s discipline in our lives, which is for our good, that we may share in God’s holiness and that later it will yield the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by such discipline.

Then it goes on to counsel us to strengthen our walks of faith and to make straight paths for our feet, i.e. where we have been spiritually weak we need to be strong, and where we may have wandered, we need to get back on the straight path and follow our Lord in obedience to his commands (New Covenant). No more laziness or carelessness, but now we need to be getting dead serious about following Jesus Christ in all ways.

Don’t Refuse Him

This is really a parallel passage from the one from yesterday from Psalms 95 (also Hebrews 3 and 4 and 1 Corinthians 10). There the warning was not to harden our hearts when we hear the Lord speak, and to not follow the example of the Israelites in the wilderness, most of whom died in the wilderness because of their unrepentant hearts and their disobedience. For they were engaged in idolatry, sexual immorality, drunkenness, revelry, and putting the Lord to the test and grumbling against God.

We are not to desire evil as they did and we are not to engage in the kinds of sins they engaged in in rebellion against the Lord Jesus. And this passage in Hebrews is saying something very similar. We are not to refuse God when we hear him speaking. We are not to do what most of the Israelites did in rebellion against the Lord in the wilderness. Why? Because we will face the same results as they did. We will die in our sins, and we will not enter the kingdom of God (God’s eternal rest). And it will be because of our disobedience which = unbelief.

Now this removal of things that are shaken – that is, things that have been made – is in order that things that cannot be shaken may remain. Now I see this happening in our lives when the Lord disciplines us and when he allows us to go through trials to test our faith. He is pruning us. He is cutting away the rough edges, those places in our lives that need trimming so that what remains are people of God completely surrendered to the Lord, committed to walking in him in all ways, and to not wandering from the truth.

He will do this in judgment, too, during these last days on the earth, when the saints of God are being martyred for their faith in Jesus Christ. But while they are alive they are being persecuted, and the Lord is pruning them then, too, purifying them and getting them ready to meet him in the air or to be taken in death to be with him for eternity (Revelation 19:1-9; Revelation 6:9-11; Revelation 12:17; Revelation 13:1-18; Revelation 14:12-13).

So, what can’t be shaken? God’s kingdom cannot be shaken. So we are to be grateful to God that we who are daily dying to sin and who are walking in obedience to our Lord are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken. Amen! But we are to offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire. And so what this is saying is that we have to stay the course, and we have to keep on following Jesus in obedience until the very end, because if we don’t, we will not have eternal life with God. It is what the Scriptures teach. 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]

Your New Life / An Original Work

Based off the Gospels / May 15, 2014

Go and make disciples of peoples,
Teaching them to obey their Savior.
Do not fear, but go where He sends you.
Tell them all of what you have heard.

The kingdom of God now is upon you.
Come, and follow Jesus, your Lord.
He will make you fishers of man.

If the people Jesus desire,
They must die to sin and to self-life.
If they want to hold on to their lives
They will lose them forevermore.

Surely you heard that coming to Christ
Means a new life in Jesus, your Lord.
Follow Christ wherever He leads.

Love the Lord with all of your heart, and
Love your neighbors as you would yourself.
Preach the gospel to all the nations.
Do not worry what you will say.

Proclaim the freedom for all the captives.
Share the light with all who are blind.
You are ministers of our God.

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Until the 1960s, Catholics worshipped ad orientem, with priest and congregation facing the East during Mass. Originally Christians celebrated Mass before daybreak Sunday morning with the rising sun serving as a symbol of Christ’s resurrection (testified by Pliny the Younger’s letter to the Emperor Trajan in 112 A.D.). The common liturgical direction toward the East honored the resurrection and anticipated the Lord’s coming in glory. The oldest Christian church discovered in the world (without a later structure built over it), the house church at Dura-Europos in Syria, dating from the early 200s, was found with its altar touching the wall, facing East. Churches were constructed throughout history in this same fashion, with the altar (whether against the wall or not) oriented toward the East.

Even though there were more exceptions to a strict interpretation of this geographical direction in recent times, priest and people still worshipped facing the Lord together throughout the entire history of Catholic worship. Services facing the people arose during the Reformation, because ministers were focused on speaking to and leading the congregation. The priest during Catholic worship, however, acts in the person of Christ and leads the members of the Body in a common approach to the Father. The Mass does not focus on the people but seeks to give glory to the Father through Christ and in the Holy Spirit. The Mass is not about us ultimately but about coming into communion with God, worshipping him and being drawn into his life.

Why, then, did we change the direction of Catholic worship to face the people, called ad populum, in contrast to ad orientem? The Second Vatican Council did not mention this change and there is no official liturgical document from the 1960s that directed it. The thought following Vatican II’s constitution on the liturgy, Sacrosanctum Concilium, was that the Mass, which had been celebrated in an oft-inaudible Latin, should be more accessible to the people. In the experimental period between the constitution in 1963 and the promulgation of the reformed Mass of Pope Paul VI in 1969, the posture of facing the people had already become standard as a kind of spontaneous reaction to the liturgical mood of greater transparency and accessibility.

Continued below.

And what was before Baptists?

There is the old mainline Protestant denominations like Calvinism, Anglican, Lutheran, Anabaptist, not sure I I got it 100% right if those were the old mainline Protestant denominations.

Then later on new Protestant denominations came during the great revival like Methodist, Pentecostal.


Living in America, I see a lot of Baptist churches, it is a very popular denomination especially in the South. I have been heavily influenced by Baptist doctrines.

I don't know all the doctrines or if all my beliefs line up with Baptist doctrine but here are my beliefs.

Salvation is a free gift, and is paid for already by our savior Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is God in the flesh.

I believe in the Trinity, and that the Bible is the perfect word of God, and it is to be followed. I believe all the prophecy in the Bible to be true.

I believe in sanctification and repentance, that true believers will live a moral life because they have the Holy Spirit inside of them, but at the same time I believe that good works has absolutely nothing to do with Salvation.

I believe it is very important for the Church to be very strict.

I believe that those who have been saved by God are eternally secure, it is impossible for them to lose their salvation. And I believe they are predestined to persevere and do good in life.

I do not know if people have a choice or have been predestined from the beginning, I leave this topic as a mystery.

If I were to be convinced that people are predestined where they will go from the beginning would that make me a Calvinist?

And if I were to believe that people have a choice would that make me a Baptist?

Where is the distinction?

It's been 4 years since I've been a believer. I have studied many denominations, I don't know which one I will be. But so far Baptist doctrine sounds not only the most peaceful and comforting, but it makes the most sense to me. But maybe I might switch denominations because I still haven't really looked at another denominations.

It is not clear if she knew what this cake represents or maybe she just thought it was pretty.

I was watching a video about Seventh Day Adventism, and I ran across this term that I hadn't heard in decades. Actually, the first and last place I heard it was in the Charismatic movement. In the 90s when I was coming into the movement when I entered graduate school, is where I ran into the term. I read a book called "Prophets and the Prophetic Movement, by Bill Hamon. In that work, Bill Hamon quotes from an earlier work in the 1970s called "The Eternal Church" which was his take on both Church History and Ecclesiology coming from the earlier "Later Day Rain" movement of Pentecostalism.

In his book Hamon advocates a kind of spiritual Evolutionary view of Church History starting with Luther in the Reformation, where God through a series of movements brings back or properly establishes doctrines "That were lost to the Church". This process of restoration begins in traditional Protestantism and moves into various areas of American Revivalism culminating in the latest Charismatic movements. Below is a short video from the horse's mouth so to speak.

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Hamon states: “The restitution/restoration of the Church started in AD 1517 after more than a thousand years of the Church’s apostate condition, called the Dark Ages. On that date came ‘The Great Restoration of the Church,’ when the Protestant Movement was birthed. Beginning with that date there have been five major restorational movements: The Protestant, Holiness, Pentecostal, Charismatic, and Prophetic Movements.” (B.Hamon, “Apostles and Prophets” p.104) He also adds the Latter Rain Movement, Faith Movement (meaning the Word of Faith teaching popularized by Kenneth Hagin and Kenneth Copeland), and the Apostolic Movement (his of course).” (ibid. p.107)



In his book or books Ham tends to use the term "Present Truth" to describe the pinnacle of theological development or doctrinal understanding that was brought back to the Church via the latest Restoration movement.



(OK I will continue on this later depending on level of interest.... For those who know me probably know that I'm going to disagree with this kind of notion / paradigm / trope. I guess a hint of that is that this posted in the Controversial Theologies board rather than some safe space board.)

Mark 15:37 Jesus cried with a loud voice , and gave up the spirit .

Verse 38 , And the veil of the temple was rent in twain from top to bottom .

I believe , we see WHERE the LAW of Moses was set aside !!

do you agree or disagree ? What say you ?

dan p

...or maybe he will 2 Thessalonians 3:10 Mike Rowe (Dirty Jobs) sounds the alarm

I been around trying different things including Church, life group and yoga. All I run into are woman with boyfriends or husbands, more women with husband's. I was talking to this woman at yoga and it was going good until she mentioned her husband. That ended the conversation.

I try to stay positive and look at the good things in life but it is annoying, frustrating and stressful only encourages with married woman no matter where I go or what I do.

On the positive note there are two girls on my life group that are definitely not married but I just know deep in my heart they probably have a boyfriend even though they never mentioned one the past two months of life group. But every other member is married. Even a new woman I meet outside to join life group had to mention her husband. Even going out to eat with my friend who is married I purposely sat next to a woman but she had to have a husband.

Justification/Righteousness/Salvation by Faith Alone
Rom 4:
1 What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather [a]humanly speaking, has found? [Has he obtained a favored standing?]

2 For if Abraham was justified [that is, acquitted from the guilt of his sins] by works [those things he did that were good], he has something to boast about, but not before God.

3 For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed in (trusted, relied on) God, and it was credited to his account as righteousness (right living, right standing with God).”

4 Now to a laborer, his wages are not credited as a favor or a gift, but as an obligation [something owed to him].

5 But to the one who does not work [that is, the one who does not try to earn his salvation by doing good], but believes and completely trusts in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited to him as righteousness (right standing with God).

6 And in this same way David speaks of the blessing on the one to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:
(MY NOTE: Righteousness/a right standing with God is given thru FAITH apart from personal works. Also see (Eph 2:8-9)

7 “Blessed and happy and favored are those whose lawless acts have been forgiven, And whose sins have been covered up and completely buried.
(MY NOTE: All sins FORGIVEN & BURED thru FAITH placed in Christ's: death, burial & resurrection! Also see Rom 10:9-10, 1 Cor 15 1-4).

8 “Blessed and happy and favored is the man whose sin the Lord will not take into account nor charge against him.
(MY NOTE: All praise, glory & honor belong to our Lord, Savior & God, Jesus the Christ. Amen & Amen

Acts 10:
44 While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all those who were listening to the message [confirming God’s acceptance of Gentiles].
(MY NOTE: As Peter spoke, (Faith comes by hearing - Rom 10:17) those hearing believed)

45 All the circumcised believers who came with Peter were amazed, because the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles
(MY NOTE: Thru faith alone, regeneration/Christ's salvation sealing/eternal life giving Holy Spirit (2 Cor 1:22, 5:5, 2 Tim 1:14, Eph 4:30) was/is given!)

Rom 5:17 For if by the trespass of the one (Adam), death reigned through the one (Adam), much more surely will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in [eternal] life through the One, Jesus Christ.
(MY NOTE: The FREE GIGT of righteousness reign in [eternal] life through the One, Jesus Christ.

Rom 6:23 (B) the free gift of God [that is, His remarkable, overwhelming gift of grace to believers] is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
(MY NOTE: God's "grace & eternal life re a free gift given to believers in Christ's sin payment & resurrection)

Rom. 3:24 and are being justified [declared free of the guilt of sin, made acceptable to God, and granted eternal life] as a gift by His [precious, undeserved] [c]grace, through the redemption [the payment for our sin] which is [provided] in Christ Jesus,

Post cross salvation (Christ's baptism/sealing with His Holy Spirit) is a free gift given via faith in the merits/work/sin payment & resurrection of Christ.

Final thought:
Righteousness/justification/eternal life are God's GIFTS to believers. A gift is given not earned.

They have now released the footage of the police coming to the Pelosi house.

Thoughts?

"We're very satisfied with the charges," he said during a news conference with the family's attorneys. "More importantly, we want peace. We do not want any type of uproar. We do not want any type of disturbance, we want peaceful protests, that's what the family wants. That's what the community wants."

Hopefully the family's statement prior to the video being released will prevent some of the negative outcomes we've seen in the past with regards to protests going off the rails.

I have a very basic basic knowledge of Greek, probably only enough to be dangerous to myself. I know that the genitive means "of" and the accusative is the direct object and such. But I read the lexicon and I see "this word +accusative means this and that same word +genitive means something else" I have begun worrying that perhaps the translations don't take into account these nuances. To people who have read the Bible in Greek just how different is it?