When I was in my late teens/early 20's my mother was diagnosed with a possible allergy to wasps/bees. Some time later a wasp nest cropped up under a windowsill in the yard and I was surprised at how well it was hidden. Our dogs were nosing at it and were being ignored. So, I decided to show my mum, I took her into the yard and pointed it out. I did remember her allergy, but didn't really think there was a risk due to the dogs being safe.
She was surprised and in hindsight maybe scared, reminding me of her allergy. I just shrugged it off back then as she wasn't stung and I hadn't felt that there was much danger, they weren't aggressive and the allergy wasn't certain.
I'm not good with people and it's only years after that I really started thinking on just how badly it could have gone. She never really brought it up afterwards.

Similarly, I worked for my parents, and was tasked with disposing of some liquid nitrogen. My dad used to chuck the last little bit on the floor in front of us as a joke sometimes, and I once thought I'd emulate him and aimed in front of my mum's feet. My dad immediately scolded me, my mum was thankfully protected by her long pants though her hems got a little iced. I could have burned her and I feel so horrible years later.

It's been so long that I can't even remember if I apologised properly. I just feel like a terrible human being. I'm sorry that this is a bit of a vent. I honestly plan to call her tomorrow to talk about this. I sometimes get OCD (anxiety?) symptoms which are probably why this hit me so strongly. I feel like I should be in jail, even though nothing happened. Though that's probably the OCD talking.

Please pray for me. I feel like my mind is jumping from one thing to another to be guilty about and I'm struggling to keep up.

Sheriff’s officials claimed following the shooting that it was unclear whether Savannah was shot by deputies or her father, and they said deputies didn’t realize it was her when she got out of the car. For nearly two years, they refused to release footage of the shooting.

But on Friday, the department disclosed nearly a dozen video files to the independent journalist Joey Scott, who filed records requests 18 months prior. The clips – which were shared with the Guardian and include helicopter footage – show deputies shooting at Savannah as she followed their instructions to move toward them. The videos also suggest deputies shot her after two officers remarked that it was the girl who exited. The footage, and the sheriff’s narration of the video, further make clear she was killed by deputies, not her father.

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I am 74 years of age, and I feel every bit of it, too. The longer that I live, the harder things become to do, even small tasks. I wear out much faster than I used to, and my mind is not nearly as sharp as it once was. I am definitely at that point to where I don’t want to have to learn anything new in the area of technology, but I will if I am required. Yet I am still working full-time for the Lord in the ministry to which he called me twenty years ago, and I will continue to do so, by the grace of God, and in his strength, until he tells me that my work on earth is finished.

But I can tell you that I am definitely in line with Paul here. I, too, groan in this earthly body of mine, and I, too, long to put on my heavenly dwelling. For I do long for the day when all my trials and troubles will be over and I will be with my Lord for eternity. All my tears will then be wiped away, and sorrow will be no more. I will be in a place where evil cannot exist, and the thought of that is glorious! But the best part of it all is that I will be with Jesus, and I will see him face to face.

Now, how am I assured of all of this? Well, first of all the Scriptures teach us that if any of us want to come after Christ, we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin and to self), and follow (obey) our Lord Jesus. For if we hold on to our old lives of living for self and in sin, we will lose them for eternity. But if for the sake of Jesus we deny self, die daily to sin, and follow him in obedience, in practice (not necessarily in absolute perfection), then we have the hope of salvation from sin and eternal life with God promised to us, as long as we continue in that faith until the end.

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

So, for us to claim heaven as our eternal destiny we must have been crucified with Christ in death to sin, and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin, but now as slaves to God and to his righteousness. And now we must be walking (in conduct, in practice) in righteousness and holiness, and in obedience to our Lord and to his New Covenant commands and no longer in sin. For if sin is what we obey, it leads to death. But if we obey obedience, its end is eternal life with God.

Nonetheless, if all you have done is just profess faith in Jesus Christ but then you have continued to go your own way, and to live life however you want, and if sin is still your practice, i.e. if you keep going back to the same sins over again without genuine repentance, then, according to the Scriptures, you do not have Jesus as your Savior and Lord, and heaven is not your eternal destiny. And many will hear Jesus say to them, “I never knew you! Depart from me you workers of lawlessness,” because they did not obey the Lord but they chose their own path, instead.

So, walking by faith is not just going through the motions of religious practice. For “faith” is divine persuasion, and it comes from God, and not from ourselves, and it is evidenced by our walks of obedience to our Lord in holy living and in going where he sends us, and in saying what he gives us to say, and in doing what he commands us to do. For why did so many of the Israelites not get to go into the Promised Land? It was because of their unbelief (disobedience), for genuine faith = obedience to the Lord.

[Hebrews 12:1-2; Ephesians 2:8-10; John 1:12-13; John 6:44; Hebrews 3:1-19; Heb 4:1-13; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Romans 6:1-23]

And I love this part! “So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him.” Amen! This is what we should aim for. For we are not saved just so that when we die we get to go to heaven. We are saved from our sins so that we will no longer live in sin and so that we will now live to please God in all that we are and do and say. For.. and please pay close attention to these words..


We are all going to stand before our Lord one day and he is going to judge us according to what we have done, according to our works. And if we have walked in obedience to his commands in holy living, and no longer in sin, then we will receive salvation from sin and eternal life with God. But if we continued in deliberate and habitual and premeditated sin against our Lord, and against other humans, and we did not walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, then we will die. We will not inherit eternal life with God.

[1 Co 6:9-10; 2 Co 5:10; Rom 2:6-8; Gal 5:16-21; Gal 6:7-8; Eph 5:3-6; Col 1:21-23; Col 3:1-17; 1 Jn 1:5-10; 1 Jn 2:3-6,24-25; 1 Jn 3:4-10]

Near the Cross

Hymn lyrics by Fanny J. Crosby, 1869
Music by William H. Doane, 1869

Jesus, keep me near the cross;
There a precious fountain,
Free to all, a healing stream,
Flows from Calvary's mountain.

Near the cross, a trembling soul,
Love and mercy found me;
There the bright and morning star
Sheds its beams around me.

Near the cross! O Lamb of God,
Bring its scenes before me;
Help me walk from day to day
With its shadow o'er me.

Near the cross I'll watch and wait,
Hoping, trusting ever,
Till I reach the golden strand
Just beyond the river.

In the cross, in the cross,
Be my glory ever,
Till my raptured soul shall find
Rest beyond the river.

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Years after his going home, fruit is coming. I have believed this for years. Many parts of this word really resonated in my spirit.
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The Chicago Public Health Department (CPHD) announced last week the detection of 52 cases of measles, with the majority stemming from a shelter for migrants. Children less than five years old received 31 of the diagnoses. CDPH determined low vaccination rates from the immigrants’ home countries contributed to the increase in cases.

So the Biden administration was in such a hurry to bring people in for future votes that they did not vaccinate the children. Now these children, less than five years old, suffer. And what about the kids who are trafficked? What has Joe done to find out what happened to the 85,000 children his administration lost track of? This needs to stop.

"The underlying lawsuit aims to stop the Biden Administration’s “parole” scheme that allows 30,000 aliens from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela (CHNV) to enter the country each month and remain–indefinitely. The program allows these aliens–after more or less flying to the destination of their choice–to obtain work permits and ultimately claim public benefits, such as food stamps and welfare. The program floods our country with legions of illegal aliens who should not be here, only further worsening the worst immigration crisis in our nation’s history."

We all should be concerned. The article says that after parole "these illegal aliens are released into the United States without restrictions as to where they may go and without monitoring or other safeguards to track their whereabouts." Recall the 85,000 children the Biden administration lost track of, if you think that was accidental that is your opinion, although I think the lack of serious effort to find out what happened to them is telling. This is clearly deliberate.

I’m not completely confident in the question that I’m wanting to ask. I’ve read the Bible numerous times and I always feel like I don’t get the same understanding that other Christians seem to get. So if this is a dumb question then I apologize.

In revelation it says in short - things will happen and many will be deceived (presumably by evil)

My question is about the Christians. If they are deceived does biblical truth and faith in Jesus mean forgiveness for those deceived?

An obvious thought that I had is that Jesus would not be happy about such things. But my thoughts are that it would be one of those deals where He would forgive but those who had done it might have to make their own peace with their faults and mistakes.

One of President Biden’s first actions in office was to recommit the United States to the Paris Agreement on global warming. This Backgrounder details the harmful economic implications of doing so by modeling a theoretically efficient carbon tax designed to achieve the Administration’s emissions reduction targets. While the Paris Agreement’s climate impact will be minimal at best, it will impose significant costs on American families and businesses. Instead of implementing an agenda that will decrease Americans’ access to energy and cost trillions, President Biden and Congress should pursue a policy agenda that advances economic freedom, rejects symbolic but ineffective climate policies, and reduces barriers to innovation and economic opportunity.

The Biden Administration’s climate goals are so unrealistic that the Heritage Energy Model—a clone of the EIA’s model—crashes before they can be achieved. Attempting to meet these goals through a carbon tax would reduce U.S. GDP by $7.7 trillion over 18 years and U.S. employment by 1.2 million jobs. Eliminating all U.S. emissions would reduce global temperatures by less than 0.2 degrees Celsius by 2100—wrecking the economy for a negligible climate benefit.

Acts 6:

8 And Stephen, full of grace and power, was performing great wonders and signs among the people.

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15 And all who were sitting in the Council stared at him, and they saw his face, which was like the face of an angel.

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What did they see?

Acts 7:

1 Now the high priest said, “Are these things so?”
2 And Stephen said, “Listen to me, brothers and fathers!

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Stephen was graceful and calm. His listeners stared at him. They were not awestruck; they weren't frightened by his appearance. It wasn't the kind that appeared in Matthew 28:

1 After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb.
2 There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it. 3 His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow. 4 The guards were so afraid of him that they shook and became like dead men.

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It wasn't the kind that appeared in Genesis 3:

24 So He drove the man out; and at the east of the Garden of Eden He stationed the cherubim and the flaming sword which turned every direction to guard the way to the tree of life.

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It wasn't the kind that appeared in Isaiah 6:

1 In the year of King Uzziah’s death I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, lofty and exalted, with the train of His robe filling the temple. 2 Seraphim were standing above Him, each having six wings: with two each covered his face, and with two each covered his feet, and with two each flew.

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What kind of angelic face did they see?

The verse does not specify the exact type of angel; it is more generic and idiomatic. Stephen was filled with the Holy Spirit and grace. His face brightened with a radiance that reflected God's glory. At this point, I'd put more emphasis on the grace aspect and less on the awestruck aspect.

What are your thoughts on Trump: 2016 versus today?

Hot off the press today. 42:04

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Within the last month there was a four hour round table discussion between Justin Peters, Jim Osman, Michael Brown and Sam Storms entitled “Discerning false teachers and false prophets” and can be found on YouTube.

Rosebrough uses the common hermeneutical rule “The clear passages of Scripture interpret the obscure (or less clear) passages of Scripture” on how to evaluate false prophecy in the NT era.

Rosebrough uses these clear passages of Scripture in rank order of importance (not chronological).

• Matthew 7:15-20
• I John 4:1
• Deut. 18:20-23
• II Peter 1:21

Obscure NT passages of Scripture evaluating false prophets

• I Cor. 14:29
• I Thess. 5:20-21

Rosebrough's thesis: Sam Storms, Michael Brown and the Remnant Radio guys use the obscure passages of Scripture to interpret the clear passages of Scripture. A masterful presentation.

2000 4Runner
Confirmed: coolant leak from the freeze plug, rusted radiator
Possible: blown head gasket
Quote from mechanic: $1500 -$2000 to fix freeze plug leak, $500 for new radiator.

It may be possible to clean the rust out of the radiator without replacing it. It may also be possible to get a cheaper price for freeze plug coolant leak fix, but minimum price for that fix is $1000. They have to drop the transmission and exhaust to get to it, it’s labor intensive.

Right now, pray for wisdom for decision making for my boyfriend, me, and my brother (who likes dealing with car problems but can’t drop an entire transmission!). If the head gasket is blown, the car is totaled. Also pray for provision, protection for us, and people to come alongside us to help.

Finally, please pray for wisdom for me, as I am driving my boyfriend around where he needs to go. The car broke down when he was trying to help me pick up a bike to help me with a detail of my new job, so my brother and me got involved in this mess. But I am going back to school next week and training for my new job, and so I badly need someone else locally to help him until the car gets fixed or we decide to replace it. There’s some spiritual factors going into the repair/replace decision, so pray that God would guide our minds and hearts.

Thanks.

Now this is something that have bothered me alot ever since I became a christian, I've consumed a fair bit of christian content on youtube and been exposed to some extremes but also some channels with a fair bit of followers with constroversial messages that goes against the consensus lets say.

And there's a particular channel that I have in mind when I write this as I've noticed both mine and other critical, but respectful voices has been removed (hidden) by this ministry. I did notice this when I was following my own comments and others on other devices as I were generally interested in the feedback, that this channel were in fact removing critical voices from there. And most that remained was nodding heads and comments that were easily tackled.

Now the thing is I don't know how I should handle this stuff and I would like to give the comparison of a wicked preacher in church. You might say that you can always leave that church but I'm that person that would atleast challenge the preacher on the spot infront of everyone, not for my own sake but the brothers and sisters that feeds into that teaching before leaving.

How do you advice me to deal with these people? How should the body of christ deal with them?

Sounds like something out of a movie...

The burglary occurred Sunday night at a facility in Sylmar where cash from businesses across the region is handled and stored, according to L.A. Police Department Cmdr. Elaine Morales.

The thieves were able to breach the building as well as the safe where the money was stored, Morales said. Law enforcement sources said the burglary was among the largest in city history when it comes to cash, and the total also surpassed any armored-car heist in the city.

Sources familiar with the investigation told The Times a burglary crew broke through the roof of the Gardaworld building on Roxford Street to gain access to the vault. But it is unclear how they avoided the alarm system.

Further adding to the intrigue is that very few individuals would have known of the huge sums of cash being kept in that safe, according to law enforcement sources.

The break-in was described as elaborate and suggested an experienced crew who knew how to gain entry to a secure facility and go unnoticed.

Federal prosecutors have offered Charlottesville-area socialite Eleanor Hoppe a plea deal that would put the former judge’s wife behind bars for roughly 11 years.

Hoppe, the 35-year-old ex-wife of federal magistrate Judge Joel Hoppe, has been jailed for a year, accused of transmitting child pornography and plotting to molest a little girl. Eleanor Hoppe was arrested in March of 2023 at a Warrenton motel where, the prosecution alleges, she was prepared to violate a girl with her father’s consent.

Born Eleanor Beaumont Hunton, the defendant is a scion of the family that founded Richmond’s largest law firm, Hunton Andrews Kurth. Educated at St. Catherine’s, a private school for girls in Richmond, Eleanor Hoppe later attended the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

Probably not. Genesis 7:

1 The Lord then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation. 2 Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate,

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Those were the first mentions of clean and unclean animals. There were no definitions until Moses (Leviticus 11). Probably, only clean animals were allowed to be offered as sacrifices. If Moses had penned those words in Gen, he probably used the definitions in Lev.

Genesis 9:

3 Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.

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God gave Noah clean animals for food. That's probably what Moses meant.

Hey, I have been pondering something- why does God use people? There is an answer, A good reason! I have been seeking God for the answer! If it does come I think it will be mind-blowing! I may have the answer. God has been using people from the very beginning! God uses people because He put mankind in charge of the earth, He gave mankind dominion over the earth, it is man's responsibility that the will of God is done on the earth. God does nothing on the earth without man's invitation, prayer. The earth belongs to God, but God has given man stewardship over the earth until Christ returns! There is a scripture- "Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?"-Luke 18:8 The bible says it is impossible to please God without faith. So this scripture means "will God be pleased with what man has done with His creation when He returns"? The Master of the house is away, on a journey, but He is coming back! He is going to repay his stewards what is due to each one for what they did with His property when He was gone!

I have had some sort of virus for a couple weeks now. I think I have hit the peak of it now. Yesterday I lost my voice while teaching. That was an adventure- trying to teach 27 first graders while being unable to speak above a whisper! I came home just feeling awful and my husband told me to go to bed because he could handle things. I knew it wasn't that simple, but I went to bed anyway.

A few minutes later, all 3 children were in my room taking off with things and climbing on me. Husband finally took them out and I fell asleep.

I woke up this morning still feeling terribly. I stumbled into the kitchen to grab a cup of coffee. There were dishes in the sink and on the table. I sat down with my coffee and couldn't stop coughing, so I finally agreed to take a sick day. My kids woke up screeching as usual, through the pounding in my head. I started working on sub plans, but all my school things are at work because I was fully prepped for today so I had to figure out all my school passwords. As I am writing my sub plans, my daughter climbed up next to me with her xylophone and started banging on the computer mouse. I decided to feed the kids breakfast and go back to sub plans, at which point my 4 year old emptied my pantry all over the kitchen floor. I then realized that the boys still needed their lunches packed for the day, so I finished my lesson plans and packed lunches... while my son had his cereal all over the table and floor. Then it was time to get dressed... I found a uniform shirt for my older son in the dryer and told my 4 yr old to get dressed. Once I found clothes for myself, I came out to find my 4 yr old still running around in his underwear. I couldn't find my glasses anywhere. Turned out my daughter had taken off with them, and they were in a pile of laundry.

We made it out the door and the boys are at school for the day. My daughter emptied my checkbook, and followed me to the bathroom, a which time she stood on the stool and sucked on the toothpaste. We stacked blocks for a while. I can't speak to her very much, but at least she thinks it's a game.

Nathan told David (New Living Translation) 2 Samuel 12:

9 "Why, then, have you despised the word of the LORD and done this horrible deed? For you have murdered Uriah the Hittite with the sword of the Ammonites and stolen his wife."

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Then David repented and received forgiveness from God.

13 Then David confessed to Nathan, “I have sinned against the LORD.”
Nathan replied, “Yes, but the LORD has forgiven you, and you won’t die for this sin.

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The Lord forgave David. He wouldn't die. But there were other consequences.

14 Nevertheless, because you have shown utter contempt for the word of the LORDa by doing this, your child will die.”

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Whether or not you have been forgiven, you may still be disciplined.
Whether or not you have repented, you may still be chastised.

This world is a testing ground for everyone.

Hebrews 12:

7 Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as his children. For what children are not disciplined by their father?

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Former president Donald Trump’s push to get the Nebraska legislature to change the way it awards electoral votes faced a major setback Wednesday night, when lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to prevent the change from being attached to an unrelated bill.

Nebraska is one of only two states that divide electoral votes among statewide and congressional district winners, which allowed Joe Bidento pick off an electoral vote in the red state in 2020 by carrying a swing district in the Omaha area. But Gov. Jim Pillen (R) and Trump on Tuesday endorsed a proposal to return the state to a winner-take-all system, possibly upending the final days of the state’s legislative session, which ends April 18.

The sponsor of the winner-take-all proposal has said he does not have the votes to overcome a filibuster [if it gets attached to some other future bill], but Trump’s intervention has raised speculation that Republicans could regroup.

“Ultimately, the Nebraska legislature does not legislate in response to tweets from anyone,” Cavanaugh [D] said earlier in the day.

He tweeted the cover art yesterday which was the first I heard about the book, but it seems very appropriate for our time and I hope it at least gives Catholics comfort in how to live in such times if not solutions to push back and help correct it.

I dropped a hint to my wife today that I'd like it for my birthday in a few weeks, and by dropped a hint I said "I'd like this for my birthday".






I like that in the blurb he calls out Fr James Martin too, heh.

Ever since my psychiatrist switched my meds around a few weeks ago ive been constantly attacked by the Devil to think and declare in my mind super unholy thoughts and declarations often times without even thinking about them.. Thoughts and sayings so terrible that im afraid to repeat them in fact, for like 2 hours last night he kept just placing "Satan!!" Into my mind sendings intense waves of fear thoughout my body. This also includes calling the holy spirit the devil and things like that? I'm SO afraid to even repeat half of these because they're just do terrifying and if i declare one of them i will never be able to again be restored to the Holy Spirit.

As some of you might recall I had similar issues in the past and then most of it went away for years. But now, Satan just won't leave me alone and this is the largest trial of my life yet for more ways than this one. I see my psychiatrist again in the end of April but I'm just terrified that I've lost my salvation because I said and thought things that I normally would. IM TRYING TO RESIST THE DEVIL AND HE IS JUST WINNING!

All of the Holy Spirits joy, peace, and presence is gone and I just need assurance that everything is going to be OK. Because, I sure don't feel ok.