Hello,

I pray. I haven't read the bible properly in a bit, maybe verses here and there. I haven't been to church in a bit.
I am autistic. I see a mental health nurse and counsellor. I am in meds for depression and low mood.
I like walks, meeting up with friends, puzzles, learning violin.

Robert Reich speaking truth.

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Pray that Canada's Liberal party who won today's elections somehow miraculously respects & favors Christian concerns in the culture war:

The emergency waiver issued by the EPA prevents retailers in most states from having to stop selling E15 gasoline on May 1. While the waiver remains in effect only through May 20, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin signaled that he plans to keep issuing waivers through Sept. 15, the date when the federal government typically would allow E15 sales in all states again.

Most gasoline sold across the U.S. is blended with 10% ethanol, but 15% blends are becoming increasingly common, particularly in the Midwest, where most of the nation's corn is grown. ... EPA had previously prohibited its sale during the summer over concerns that its use during the summer driving season could increase smog.

...ethanol consumes about 40% of the nation's corn crop

Zack Pistora, Kansas lobbyist for the Sierra Club, said ethanol plants also use high amounts of water, and states like Kansas are worried about the depletion of aquifers. He said it's “hypocritical” to portray ethanol as environmentally friendly and said the Trump administration should promote renewable energy, electric vehicles, public transportation and sustainable agriculture.

See also the rare unanimity regarding Biden's waivers:

We all know about the Woke left in the West. This is for sure an enemy of Christendom. But there is also this overreaction on the right that is just as ugly.

With anti-semitism taking off, hand in hand with Christian Nationalism, there are even talks about Deus Vult and such. This is bad news, and it comes from the far right.

So that leaves me in a precarious position. I am not left enough for the woke mob and not right enough for the fascists.

I believe this is the Christian position.

It is written,

James 1:27
"Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained from the world."

and,

2 Timothy 4:1-4
"I solemnly charge you before God and Christ Jesus, who is going to judge the living and the dead, and because of his appearing and his kingdom: Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; correct, rebuke, and encourage with great patience and teaching. For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, will multiply teachers for themselves because they have an itch to hear what they want to hear. They will turn away from hearing the truth and will turn aside to myths."

We must correct against the lies of the evil one. We have never been more divided. And Satan comes to divide and conquer. Yes, there is good being done by president Trump, but some ugly stuff is coming out as well. Stuff like laughing at the tears of liberals because Trump won. Public Christian figures are saying stuff like this. They are more concerned with their right-wing propaganda than they are with true orthodox Christianity.

I read this article one time that was very helpful for me to understand the purpose of government.


I think both the far left and the far right are prone to error. Something is certainly changing in our culture. We are becoming more extreme in our views. This is, no doubt, due to social media algorithms, which constantly try to expose you to more extreme views. We must, as Christians, strike a balance between these two evils. The Bible is not right-wing and it is not left-wing. We have to let the Bible speak for itself. The Bible is its own thing.

Hi everyone. I am having a really difficult time and was hoping for help. I have had a really severe case of OCD my entire life. I recently had knee replacement surgery and about a week later the fears started hitting and I have got severe panic. I have the fear of having caused harm form of OCD and false memory type. I don't know how to think about it. I feel like I won't get well. I've been begging Jesus to come get me.

In 1Thessalonians4 verse 6 it states 'The Lord will punish all those who commit such sins' therefore as a Christian would it mean that there would be no forgivenes if he/she got mixed up in sexual immorality?

It's already passed the TX Senate and it's moving through the House. Supporters say police just can't do their jobs without being able to kill. Some critics say that it'll let police kill more. Other critics say that removing culpability for this specific crime will motivate prosecutors to charge them with more serious crimes.

Here's a story with bodycam footage of the case mentioned at the beginning of the article. Anybody with half a brain can look at that and see how the police could have handled that better.
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I don't know about you, but when I saw people like Candace Owens saying, "Christ is King," I knew something was up. We had our inclinations that this phrase has been used in an anti-semitic way for years, but now it is literally smacking us in the face.

Please don't use the phrase "Christ is King." It is a true statement, yes, but it carries with it a lot of baggage. It's somewhat lumped together with Christians Nationalism which has some baggage of it's own. But "Christ is King" has been used in overt ways as anti-semitic language.

Here is one example.



So, I say, chose this day who you will serve. Will you be a Biblical Christian and realize Jesus was a Jew? Or will you fall to the dark side and keep saying "Christ is King"?



I realize this is controversial, but at some point a line needs to be drawn and I think this is the time the line needs to be drawn.

However, reports of Columbus Day's demise, like that of Christmas, may be exaggerated.

The federal holiday, the second Monday in October, was still known as Columbus Day during Biden’s term, but also as Indigenous Peoples Day.

"Good luck to the Great people of Canada. Elect the man who has the strength and wisdom to cut your taxes in half, increase your military power, for free, to the highest level in the World, have your Car, Steel, Aluminum, Lumber, Energy, and all other businesses, QUADRUPLE in size, WITH ZERO TARIFFS OR TAXES, if Canada becomes the cherished 51st. State of the United States of America. No more artificially drawn line from many years ago. Look how beautiful this land mass would be. Free access with NO BORDER. ALL POSITIVES WITH NO NEGATIVES. IT WAS MEANT TO BE! America can no longer subsidize Canada with the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars a year that we have been spending in the past. It makes no sense unless Canada is a State!"
April 28, 2025

Trump certainly is consistent.

Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)

as I was out in the garden today I just.. think about how I just don't feel like I was meant for heaven.
all the grandiose, all the jewels and gold, all the big choirs singing praise and harps of gold and glory glory glory glory ...
to me that's just all disappointing and meh.
I know this is going to come across really wrong but.. when I hear "glory" I think "ego stroking" I think trumping things up. I think tacky. I think obsequious displays. I think of a fat king lounging on a golden throne adorned in jewels basking in obsequious worship displays while being fanned and fed grapes. A stereotype. A stereotype that I hate.
But other people love that sort of thing. Other Christians especially.

to me a garden has more appeal than a temple
a beach more appeal than a palace
a mountain more appeal than a throne
birdsong more beautiful than any choir to my ears
a sunset more beautiful than any gold
the stars more beautiful than any jewels

It makes me long for Eden, not heaven, and I never get better at that.

so I get depressed when I think of our end point being .. palaces, thrones, jewels, gold, obsequious praise and worship and grandiose displays, no night sky, no seas, no mountains just flat plains for grazing. Like the God who created Earth and Eden .. just decided He cares more about temples and thrones and palaces and Jewels than His initial very good creation. Imagine loving the God who created Earth and Eden, but He seems like He changed over time to being someone else who is harder to love and became someone you can't relate to anymore. Imagine everyone else also being unrelatable because they relate to all the palaces and gold and glory, and you just.. can't.

It feels isolating. I can be in the middle of a church, in the middle of a party, in the middle of a crowd.. and feel so totally alone and isolated. Like I don't even "get" my creator, because He wants things that I can't find desirable.

am I truly the only one who finds glory "meh"?

A blackout brought much of Spain and Portugal to a standstill Monday, halting subway trains, cutting phone service, and shutting down traffic lights and ATM machines for the 50 million people who live across the Iberian Peninsula. Spanish power distributor Red Eléctrica said restoring power to large parts of the country and neighboring Portugal will take hours, reports the AP. The company declined to speculate on the causes of the huge blackout. The Portuguese National Cybersecurity Center issued a statement saying there was no sign the outage was due to a cyberattack. Eduardo Prieto, head of operations at Red Eléctrica, told journalists it was unprecedented, calling the event "exceptional and extraordinary."

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White House displays yard signs of the 100 'worst illegal immigrant criminals' arrested in Trump's first 100 days​

The White House lawn is lined with posters of 100 of the "worst illegal immigrant criminals" arrested in the first 100 days of President Donald Trump's second term.

"Good Morning from The White House!" White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt wrote on X on Monday morning, sharing video of the posters, which say "arrested" at the top and appear to have a mugshot or other photo of the person followed by the label "illegal alien."

The bottom of the poster lists a crime the person is accused of committing, including rape, murder, sexual assault of a child, lewd acts in front of a child, and distribution of fentanyl and illegal guns.

Continued below.

Peace in Christ.

When we did not know God, we did “service”….be slaves to….those things which are by nature no “gods”.

The “gods” that are being talked about here in Galatians 4:8-9 are the “weak and beggarly elements” (Greek – stoicheion)….the weak and beggarly principles contained in orderly-in-arrangement man’s codified handwritings of ordinances. They are no gods.

The outside nations are keeping and serving their governing, orderly documents such as “constitutions.” They bow down to them rather than serve God and His commandments. They use them to self-govern and self-judge themselves rather than have God as their King and Living Judge.

Elements = rudiments = “stoicheion” - Neuter of a presumed derivative of the base of G4748; something orderly in arrangement, that is, (by implication) a serial (basal, fundamental, initial) constituent (literally), proposition (figuratively): - element, principle, rudiment.

Gal 4:8-9 KJV
(8) Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
(9) But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?

Now that we are known of God (we are now dead with Christ from those “rudiments”…those elements of the world …of “Egypt”…. that we were once enslaved to), how come we now turn again to and be subject to the church handwriting of ordinances of men….the “other gods” that we are not to serve.

We are now (in Christ) dead from one set of handwritings (the world's) and now we are going to become willing slaves to a "church" handwriting of ordinances?

Col 2:20-23 KJV
(20) Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
(21) (Touch not; taste not; handle not;
(22) Which all are to perish with the using) after the commandments and doctrines of men?
(23) Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.

We are dead with Christ from the orderly principles of the world ("Egypt") contained in their handwritings. We are no longer enslaved by them.

The LORD our God (our Judge) has brought us out of the land of Egypt …out of the house of bondage (being enslaved to those world handwritings which are no “gods.)”

Exo 20:1-3 KJV
(1) And God spake all these words, saying,
(2) I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

We are not to have “other gods” before Him…that is, along side Him. We are not to place a handwriting of ordinances in our places of the worship of Him….along side of Him who is our Living Judge....the LORD our God.

(3) Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

In vain (of no purpose) do they worship Him as they are teaching for doctrines the commandments of men (which are contained in their orderly handwritings of ordinances.)

Mat 15:8-9 KJV
(8) This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
(9) But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

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Now, once I was a sinner.
I lived to please myself.
My thoughts of what I wanted
I put not on a shelf.

I did what gave me pleasure.
I did just what I liked.
I did what brought enjoyment.
Myself took not a hike.

But Jesus called me to Him
To leave my sin behind,
To find my life now in Him,
No longer to be blind.

So I now follow Jesus
In doing what He says.
My life committed to Him
To go where I am led.

My heart surrendered to Him.
My will to do His will.
I want to always please Him.
His Spirit in me fills.

For now I am His servant.
I’m called of God to be
Just what He purposed for me
When Jesus set me free.

So I do witness for Him.
I share the gospel truth.
My heart, it so adores Him.
I knew Him from my youth.

I pray that others know Him
And die with Him to sin,
That they will follow Jesus,
Their hearts now cleansed within.

An Original Work / April 27, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Urgent prayers for my son Jakeb please. He is suffering mentally very badly right now. Please pray that God will heal him and make him better and happy tonight. Please pray God gets him through this if it is His will. I'm so worried. I ask this in the name of Jesus.

Shalom

This weekend, evangelistic events are taking place here in Austria (Salzburg and Vienna).

In addition, the brothers and sisters here regularly hold book tables and distribute evangelistic literature.

We ask for your support in prayer:

+ that the Lord opens people's hearts as He did Lydia's (Acts 16:4)

+ that the Holy Spirit opens people's eyes so that they turn from darkness to light and lead them to repentance (Acts 26:16-18)

+ that the Lord Jesus will be glorified there!
May God also continue to draw the people we have already reached to Himself in Jesus' name, Amen (John 6:44).

Thank you for your prayers!

May the Lord bless you abundantly (Luke 6:38; Job 42:10), and may He bless Israel in Jesus' name, Amen!

Soli Deo Gloria

PS And I pray that the Lord will send out harvesters into his harvest (Matthew 9:38).

But the fruit of the spirit is love Joy, peace long-suffering Gentleness. Goodness Faith Meekness temperance against such There is no law
now is this the character traits of the holy spirit or traits god wants us to have along with the Holy Spirit
why say “ Against such there is no law”

Philippians 4:
8 Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things.
9 The things which you learned and received and heard and saw in me, these do,
and the God of peace will be with you.

2 John 1:3 Grace, mercy, and peace will be with you from God the Father and from
the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

Romans 15:13 Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing,
that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Benediction
11 Finally, brethren, farewell. Become complete. Be of good comfort, be of one mind,
live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.
12 Greet one another with a holy kiss.
13 All the saints greet you.
14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God,
and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.

All Blessings and Beatitudes and Exhortations of Holiness Be With All

Authorities uncovered drugs, including pink cocaine, as well as evidence of prostitution and multiple firearms during the operation, according to the DEA.
"@DHSgov has taken more than 100 illegal aliens into custody," DEA Rocky Mountain said in a post on X on Sunday. "Drugs and weapons have also been seized at this underground nightclub in Colorado Springs."

More lives are being saved with each major raid.

In Luke 19:1-10 we read the story of Zacchaeus, the only "rich" man who Christ ever said received salvation. In the KJV it reads;

1And Jesus entered and passed through Jericho. 2And, behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus, which was the chief among the publicans, and he was rich. 3And he sought to see Jesus who he was; and could not for the press, because he was little of stature. 4And he ran before, and climbed up into a sycomore tree to see him: for he was to pass that way. 5And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up, and saw him, and said unto him, Zacchaeus, make haste, and come down; for to day I must abide at thy house. 6And he made haste, and came down, and received him joyfully. And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, That he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner. 8And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold. 9And Jesus said unto him, This day is salvation come to this house, forsomuch as he also is a son of Abraham. 10For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.

So, why did Christ tell Zacchaeus "This day is salvation come to this house"? Christ famously said in Matthew 19:23 "That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven." This was after his encounter with the rich young man. The young man had asked Christ "what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?" Christ first answered him "keep the commandments" and listed a few of the Old Testament commandments of God. When the rich young man told Christ "All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet?" is when Christ replied; "If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me." Of course we are told that the young man went away sorrowful because he had "great possessions" and was unwilling to give them up.

When Christ relayed the Parable of Lazarus and the rich man, in Luke 16:19-31 we read in verses 22-23 "22And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; 23And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments," So, why is it that Lazarus went to "Abraham's bosom" and the rich man went to hell. I've heard people say that the rich man went to hell because he didn't help poor Lazarus. First, nowhere in the story does it say that he never gave him anything. Secondly, it doesn't make sense from a logical standpoint. If he never gave him a handout, why was Lazarus still hanging out, begging at the rich mans gate. One would think if the rich man never gave him anything he would have found greener pastures. All we know from Christ's telling is that Lazarus was poor and went to heaven and the only thing we know about the rich man is he was rich and went to hell. So, without reading between the lines, we have only the fact that he was rich to explain why he was in hell.

So, what was different about Zacchaeus? I think it;s obvious. Zacchaeus told Christ that he had given half his goods to the poor and anyone who he had cheated, he repaid them fourfold. Zacchaeus had heard Christ's teachings and acted upon them by giving away his wealth to the poor and making restitution to those he had cheated. I find it interesting that he gave half to the poor before making restitution. That meant more for the poor since they got theirs off the top and still the restitution to those he had cheated was the same. At any rate, Zacchaeus was the only rich man to actually act on what Christ taught and thus Christ said he had received salvation. This leads one to conclude that the only way a rich man can receive Christ is to give away their riches to those less fortunate and the vast majority of rich people will never do that. Thus the admonition that a rich man can hardly ever get to heaven.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis hailed the operation as “an example of FL and (the Department of Homeland Security) partnering to deliver big results on immigration enforcement and deportations,” according to a statement on X.
“Florida is leading the nation in active cooperation with the Trump administration for immigration enforcement and deportation operations!” DeSantis wrote in a separate post Saturday.
The massive number of reported arrests comes amid President Donald Trump’s ongoing crackdown on illegal immigration and as the Department of Justice moves to prosecute state and local officials accused of impeding that effort.

They need to give hefty jail sentences to anyone who aids and abets alien criminals.