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  • CF has always been a site that welcomes people from different backgrounds and beliefs to participate in discussion and even debate. That is the nature of its ministry. In view of recent events emotions are running very high. We need to remind people of some basic principles in debating on this site. We need to be civil when we express differences in opinion. No personal attacks. Avoid you, your statements. Don't characterize an entire political party with comparisons to Fascism or Communism or other extreme movements that committed atrocities. CF is not the place for broad brush or blanket statements about groups and political parties. Put the broad brushes and blankets away when you come to CF, better yet, put them in the incinerator. Debate had no place for them. We need to remember that people that commit acts of violence represent themselves or a small extreme faction.

The Lord Said He Won't Let Me Fall

The Lord gave me a dream. I saw something drop out of a window and wanted to to go after it and felt something preventing me from doing so. I woke up and then instantly knew that it was a message. A message that I can't save the fallen, nor will He let me jump out after them. That's why He's set me apart from my family. Yesterday I asked this question, "Why do they keep criticizing me when they see me spending time with The Lord and getting offended?" Now I have His answer. I simply cannot follow where they are going and we must disagree, at least for now.

Indigenous funeral urns discovered on human-made islands in Amazon rainforest

Giant ceramic pots made centuries to millennia ago were found to hold human bones, while others held a mixture of seeds and the remains of fish, frogs and turtles.


a woman excavates a large funeral urn from the rainforest

Archaeologist Geórgea Layla Holanda works on one of the recovered funeral urns in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest.(Image credit: Márcio Amaral)

Seven giant funeral urns dating to pre-Columbian times have been found deep in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. A fisher who works in this little-known waterlogged area of the middle Solimões region, along the upper course of the Amazon River, made the discovery after a 50-foot-tall (15 meters) Paricarana tree fell over, revealing the urns buried beneath it.

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Rosie O'Donnell apologizes after making wild assumption about Minnesota school shooter

Rosie O'Donnell has apologized after she branded the Minneapolis school shooter who murdered two children a MAGA Republican.

The comedian, whose longtime hatred and rivalry with Donald Trump led her to flee to Ireland after he won the election, ranted to TikTok about Robin Westman on Friday.

'Saw about the Minnesota shooting, and it brought me right back to Columbine in 1999 when I just could not get it through my head that students in American were shooting each other in schools,' she said.

This was a church inside a Catholic school. And what do you know? This was a white guy, Republican, MAGA person, what do you know? White supremacist.'

Despite her claims, Westman was a self-identified transgender woman who had a nihilistic viewpoint and an obsession with past mass shooters.

Notably she also he had the words 'kill Donald Trump' scrawled in white on one of the weapons she owned, as well as racist and anti-Semitic messages.

On Sunday, O'Donnell apologized for her comments saying: 'I know a lot of you were very upset about the video I made before I went away for a few days. You are right and I did not do my due diligence before I made that emotional statement.

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Russian asylum seekers deported back to Russia from the USA


The US authorities deported somewhere between 30 and 60 Russian citizens on a single day earlier this week, Dmitry Valuev, the president of the nonprofit Russian America for Democracy in Russia, told independent media outlet Agentstvo on Friday.

Valuev said the mass deportation occurred on Wednesday, with the Russians first being flown to Egypt, where they were met by members of the Egyptian secret services before being placed on a flight to Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport. Some of the Russians attempted to change their flights, but were beaten by Egyptian security forces, Valuev said.

The Russians deported from the US were either in immigration prisons, awaiting deportation, had lost their asylum claims or had decided to leave the US without waiting for a court decision, Valuev said, adding that some deportees feared political persecution in Russia. Agentstvo said that among those expelled from the US was a former serviceman who faced charges for desertion in Russia who had applied for asylum in the US, but was turned down.
Not much in the news about this, heard about this happening first through Konstantin from Inside Russia YouTube channel (he's a Russian who left Russia some time after the start of the Ukraine invasion for those who don't know).

I don't know how to link to his community post from my phone, but his information from Russia mainly matches that article. They were immediately seized by KGB, interrogated, beaten, threatened with both sexual and nonsexual violance and "special means" used. Some have now been released under the condition that they cooperate with the KGB, sharing whatever information they have on ICE and other groups in the US (seems they are particularly interested in human rights orgs) and participate in a "Return to Russian Federation" campaign, essentially appearing on shows and propaganda to tell how awful the USA and the West in general are.

The Baptism of the Holy Spirit in Acts 2

Well known

Acts 2: When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. 2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. 3 Then there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them. 4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

Notice the emphasis on they were all - Look just a could verses back (remembering the Scripture was not written in chapter and verse.

Acts 1:14 These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers. 15 And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples (altogether the number of names was about a hundred and twenty), and said,
Notice - the eleven were address, but there were others in the room that made up the 'them all' - Mary, the mother of Jesus, with His brothers and 120 people in total.

Did you catch it?

How many were filled with the Holy Spirit? Them all!

Thoughts

Prior Auth Comes to Medicare


Under the model, known as the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction (WISeR) Model, "CMS will partner with companies specializing in enhanced technologies to test ways to provide an improved and expedited prior authorization process" under traditional Medicare, the agency said Friday in a press releaseopens in a new tab or window, adding that the model will help "patients and providers avoid unnecessary or inappropriate care and [will safeguard] federal taxpayer dollars."​
The WISeR Model will test new technologies including artificial intelligence to see whether they can expedite the prior authorization processes for certain items and services "that have been identified as particularly vulnerable to fraud, waste, and abuse, or inappropriate use," the press release noted. "These items and services include, but are not limited to, skin and tissue substitutesopens in a new tab or window, electrical nerve stimulator implants, and knee arthroscopy for knee osteoarthritis."​

Illinois Gov. Pritzker Says Chicago Is Safe As 35 Shot, 5 Dead Labor Day Weekend

The governor was joined by Mayor Johnson, who insisted that Chicagoans do not want a “military occupation” and that the city is being unfairly targeted. Both leaders argued that what Chicago truly needs is “investment,” not federal intervention.
The message from the city’s leadership, however, rings hollow to the families of the victims of the Labor Day weekend violence. The shootings, which began Friday night and continued through the weekend, left a trail of tragedy across the city.

The situation speaks for itself.

prayer request

I am just out of surgery last week and am still begging the Lord for healing on a hand injury from 11 months ago. And instead of loving dreams of encouragement I seem to have too many of the bad kind. Please pray hard for the Lord to intervene and heal all things in me. And for heavens sake to send some company to rural single people who are isolated way too much. Lord please listen here.

Trump in talks to deploy private army to Ukraine to protect American interests in the country if peace plan emerges

The plan is being devised as a workaround after the US president promised that American troops would not be stationed in Ukraine.

US contractors could be deployed to help rebuild Ukraine’s front-line defences, new bases and protect US businesses.

The plan is being discussed alongside a range of other so-called security guarantees – drawn up by the coalition of the willing led by the UK and France – that will form the basis of a long-term peace plan.
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We Don’t Need Gun Control, We Need To Classify Gender Dysphoria As A Mental Illness Again

These irreversible interventions euphemistically referred to as lifesaving “gender affirming care” paired with rhetoric from Democrats who undoubtedly incite violence by insisting Republicans are “erasing trans people” have had more than a decade to take effect.
The results, as seen in both science and culture, are less than ideal. Not only are more people than ever struggling with the social contagion of the LGBT movement, but more of those people are also resorting to deadly acts of violence often linked to and motivated by their struggle.

Such violent movements indeed need to be stopped.

False Preachers/Teachers

There will be a variety of opinions on who is and isn't, but that's ok.

According to the Bible, a false teacher is someone who teaches doctrines that contradict the core message of the gospel and the teachings of Jesus Christ, often disguised as a genuine follower of Christ. A wolf in sheep's clothing.
A key characteristic is that their teachings do not align with the sound instructions of Jesus and the Bible. They promote a different doctrine that leads to ungodliness.
Ultimately, they are identified by their fruit and they lead people away from the truth of God and the Bible.

There are many false preachers/teachers in the world. For the well known ones, who all do you see as false teachers?

Some that come to mind for me are: Benny Hinn, Paula Cain, Ben Creamer, Joel Osteen.

ICE moves to deport Guatemalan children despite judge’s order

The Trump administration on Sunday pushed to deport 10 unaccompanied migrant children to Guatemala, their country of origin, hours after a federal judge in Washington temporarily blocked the government from pursuing the action.

The order, issued Sunday morning by Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, temporarily forbade the administration from deporting the children for 14 days. It came after the National Immigration Law Center filed an urgent request in federal court on behalf of the children, who are between the ages of 10 and 17 and in the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement.


“It is a dark and dangerous moment for this country when our government chooses to target orphaned 10-year-olds and denies them their most basic legal right to present their case before an immigration judge,” Olivares (attorney) added.


Rudy Giuliani severely injured in car accident


At 81 it can be difficult to fully recover from such an accident. Please pray for Rudy.

Smartphone Advice for Flip Phone Generation

So many things assume you have a smartphone now, it looks like I'll have to have one. The main question comes down to IOs or Android. IOs means Apple, of course, while Android means everything else. Android is Linux, which I had some experience with, and generally boasts more flexibility. It also allows third party apps, which can be both good and bad. IOs means everything has to be done the Apple way and no third-party apps, and pretty much locks you into all things Apple. But restricting apps should also give some security from malicious apps. That "Apple ecosystem" can also be good and bad. I'm interested in the AirTag for tracking things like keys, and from what little I can find the Android equivalent is more spotty in coverage. That said, both seem to rely on compatible devices to do the locating, so outside Bluetooth range it might be a wash. I'm told that IPhones are more expensive for what you get than Android, but have looked at some Android phones that are right up there with IPhones and beyond price-wise.

Right now I'm looking at how long Apple maintains IOs for various phones. It looks like maybe seven or eight years, while Android is less. Phones still function regardless of OS, but don't have security patches. As a case in point, the flip-phone I have is running on an "off-brand" version of Linux and appears to have been abandoned. Since I intend to keep phones for a long time, that has me leaning toward IOs.

Whether I end up with an IPhone or Android phone, it's going into an Otterbox for protection.

Comments? Suggestions?

Faith

In Romans 10:10 is the clause, "For with the heart man believeth unto (INTO in the Greek) righteousness" connected to verse s 6-8 where it states, Faith speaks on this wise, say not in our heart bring Christ down from above or up from the deep. But says, The Word is in our heart and in our mouth. That is the word of faith in which we preach.
And is this the faith that establishes the Law (3:31)and the faith that the Just live by? (1:17)

The Word in the Heart's righteousness by the Faith

In Romans 10:10 is the clause, "For with the heart man believeth unto (INTO in the Greek) righteousness" connected to verse s 6-8 where it states, Faith speaks on this wise, say not in our heart bring Christ down from above or up from the deep. But says, The Word is in our heart and in our mouth. That is the word of faith in which we preach.
And is this the faith that establishes the Law (3:31) and the faith that the Just live by? (1:17)
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Minneapolis Shooter Confessed He Was ‘Tired of Being Trans,’ Said ‘I Wish I Never Brainwashed Myself’...

Transgender mass shooter Robin Westmanconfessed that he “was tired of being trans” and wished he “never brain-washed” himself in a manifesto posted online before he slaughtered two children and wounded 18 more at a Minneapolis church.

In a twisted handwritten journal he shared on YouTube before the massacre — much of which is encrypted in a homespun code of Russian Cyrillic script and English words — Westman groaned about his long hair and his decision to transition.

“I only keep [the long hair] because it is pretty much my last shred of being trans. I am tired of being trans, I wish I never brain-washed myself,” he wrote, according to a translation by The Post.

“I can’t cut my hair now as it would be an embarrassing defeat, and it might be a concerning change of character that could get me reported. It just always gets in my way. I will probably chop it on the day of the attack.”

Westman, 23, later wrote that he regretted being trans and just wished he were a girl.

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Missouri's GOP governor calls special session to redraw congressional districts to promote "Missouri Values"

The special session, which will begin Wednesday, will also focus on reforming the state's ballot initiative petition process. [People keep voting for sick leave, abortion and marijuana, against the governor's wishes.]

"Today, I am calling on the General Assembly to take action on congressional redistricting and initiative petition reform to ensure our districts and Constitution truly put Missouri values first," Kehoe said in a statement on Friday.

"President Trump's unprecedented directive to redraw our maps in the middle of the decade and without an updated census is not an act of democracy – it is an unconstitutional attack against it. This attempt to gerrymander Missouri will not simply change district lines, it will silence voices," [guy who's gonna lose his job] wrote.

In 2022, infighting erupted among Republicans in Missouri over whether to pursue a 7-1 Republican-dominated map, which would require splintering Kansas City voters into neighboring rural districts. The legislature ultimately pushed forward the existing 6-2 map, amid concerns that the change could backfire and make several GOP-held districts more competitive.

“Death to America! Death to Israel!” — Israel Kills Houthi Prime Minister Ahmad Ghaleb al-Rahawi

This marks the first time Israel has eliminated senior Houthi leadership, a significant shift from previous strikes in Yemen that primarily targeted infrastructure.
The strike came three days after the Houthis fired a ballistic missile at Israel, their first cluster bomb attack since 2023. The Houthis have escalated hostilities since the Gaza war, launching repeated assaults on Israel and Red Sea shipping in solidarity with Palestinians.

Is any other group going to fire missiles at Israel?

Another embarrassment - this time Trump is dead

Trump Death Hoax Explained: Why the Internet Thought Trump Died

On August 29, 2025, rumors gradually circulated online claiming that Trump hadn’t been seen in two days. The next morning, the hashtags “#whereistrump” and “#trumpisdead” became a popular X.com trend.

Baseless tweets that read “TRUMP IS DEAD” and “TRUMP DIED” quickly made the rounds online, but multiple outlets and news reporters quickly shut down the rumors.

Daily Caller White House correspondent Reagan Reese tweeted, “I wake up to see people freaking out that Trump’s sick or dead or something because he hasn’t been seen in a few days. I was with the president yesterday afternoon. I interviewed him for an hour.”

At the time of publication, the White House has yet to publicly comment on the death rumors.

It all started with the claim that Trump hadn’t been seen in two days, which was proven false by multiple reports. However, the White House’s silence on the rumors contributed to the speculation.

How is "glory" different from "ego"?

So... whenever people talk about God or how good heaven is etc, it's always using the term "glory".
Now maybe I just understand the word wrong, but I just can't get excited for that aspect of it all.

Because when I think "glory" I think of "ego", "esteem" "reputation" etc. A gladiator or prize fighter or professional boxer, gets into fights for "glory" and what is the "glory", a title, a decoration of some sort (like a championship belt), a symbol to show "how great" they are, to be praised and thought highly of. It's all for ego stroking.

So all the scenes in say Revelation 4, 5, 7, 15, and 19, the heavenly scenes, Isaiah 6, it all comes across as ego stroking.
and I can't help but feel massively disappointed at all of existence, if the whole point is.... ego stroking.
People suffered and died for that ego stroking if that's all that it is.

Help me make better sense of it. Because ego stroking is by definition, the most petty and vain thing.
The only other thing that is termed as "glory" biblically is.. glowing. IE when Moses saw God's back it made his face glow and they had to cover it with a veil.
Jesus in Revelation 1's appearance has his face glowing like the sun (and as an aside I don't know why people would find that particular part appealing, looking at the sun is painful, blinding even, it's literally an unfathomable amount of hydrogen bombs going off continually from 93 million miles away, who wants to look directly at a thermonuclear detonation?)

God is In Control

“O come, let us sing for joy to the Lord,
Let us shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation.
Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving,
Let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms.
For the Lord is a great God
And a great King above all gods,
In whose hand are the depths of the earth,
The peaks of the mountains are His also.
The sea is His, for it was He who made it,
And His hands formed the dry land.” (Psalm 95:1-5 NASB1995)

As I read this passage of Scripture this morning, what immediately came to mind is what is in our news here daily in the USA. For reading our news each day is like following a big soap opera on television. And by “soap opera” I mean that it is drama, drama, drama, with little real substance. The stories told are meant to stir our emotions and to get us upset or afraid or angry, and they are also intended as distractions from the real stories behind them. And what is really going on is far worse than what is often being portrayed.

We are definitely living in the last days before the return of Christ, and the evidence is all over the place. These are very confusing and troubled times in which we now live. The beast is rising and is taking over nations, and a New World Order is being formed before our eyes. And the gospel message in the USA has largely been altered and diluted to appease human flesh, and the church has largely been turned into marketplaces to be marketed to the people of the world and to entertain them and to blend in with the world.

There is not much of a difference between the church and the world anymore, for so much of what is called “church” has partnered with the world in an unholy union and they are now marketing the church to the world, both of which God forbids that we do. And so God is calling his worldly church to come out of the world, and to come out of these unholy unions so that he will receive them, and they will be his, and so they will not be punished along with the rest of Babylon, the harlot who deceives.

[Matthew 21:12-13; John 2:13-17; Acts 5:27-32; 1 Corinthians 1:10-13; 1 Corinthians 3:1-9; 2 Corinthians 6:14-18; Philippians 3:18-19; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22; Revelation 18:1-5]

And what put all this in my mind this morning was reading that the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods, in whose hand are the depths of the earth, and the mountains and the sea and the dry land are all his, and they are all under his control. In other words, there are no kings on this earth who can do what they do unless God allows it, for a time, and for a purpose. The Bible told us these days would come, and they are now upon us, but to what extent yet or the timing of which only God knows for sure.

But the other part of this is that we are not to be afraid of what is coming, for we were told ahead of time that these days would come, and God is still sovereign over all he created. And if we are his, by genuine biblical faith in Jesus Christ, he will carry us through whatever is about to come upon us, as a people, and as the nations of the world. We should be wholly aware that at any moment our world could come crashing down upon us, for that is what is being planned, and it is what the Bible said would come. But don’t fear!

Instead, we are to sing for joy to the Lord, and we are to shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation. We are to come before His presence with thanksgiving, and we should shout joyfully to Him with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs unto the Lord. And we are to remember that God is God, and he is above all that is called “gods,” and he has all things in his hands, under his control. And no matter what comes our way, or when, if we are followers of Christ, walking in his ways, God will carry us through to the death.

But Jesus Christ taught that to come to him we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity. But if we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and we walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in his power, then we have eternal life with God. For not everyone who calls him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23).

Gospel:[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

For Our Nation

An Original Work / September 11, 2012
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
Recording Via Gerry Peters, music producer and arranger


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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God is In Control
An Original Work / August 31, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

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