In a shift that has become much more noticeable in five of the last six years, men, especially among millennials and Generation X, have been outpacing women in church attendance. The trend spiked significantly this year, a new Barna report has found.

Data collected as part of Barna’s ongoing State of the Church initiative with Gloo show that following the COVID-19 lockdowns, men have been outpacing women in church attendance by significant margins. This year, Barna researchers found that 43% of men reported attending church weekly, compared with 36% of women.

“Across every generation, women are trailing men in weekly church attendance, especially among Gen X and millennials,” Barna researchers wrote.

Married fathers with children under 18 were found to be leading the way in church attendance, while single mothers trailed both married mothers and fathers on the measure. Just 24% of single mothers reported that they attend church weekly.

The gap in church attendance between men and women this year is the largest ever recorded by Barna since they began tracking the trend decades ago.

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Recently, the United States has experienced shocking acts and threats of violence against Christian communities and Christian voices that highlight a growing and troubling conflict.

On August 27, a person identifying as transgender opened fire during Mass at Annunciation Catholic Church and School in Minneapolis, killing two young children and injuring many others. Authorities are investigating it as an anti-Catholic hate crime. Less than a month later, on September 10, conservative activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated while speaking at Utah Valley University during a public event of Turning Point USA.

• Sophie (Nicholas) John Roske attempted the assassination of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh on June 8, 2022, in Chevy Chase, Md.
• Audrey (Aiden) Elizabeth Hale was responsible for the mass shooting at The Covenant School, a Christian elementary school, on March 27, 2023, in Nashville, Tenn.
• William “Lily” Whitworth, who identified as transgender, plotted shootings against three Colorado Springs schools and at least one church, and was arrested in March 2023 and sentenced on January 30, 2024

These tragedies have intensified the question: why is there such aggressive hostility in some quarters — especially among some who identify as transgender — toward Christian values? To be clear, not all trans-identified individuals share hatred or seek conflict with the Christian faith. But these incidents suggest there is a strand of antagonism that intersects with cultural, ideological, and moral disagreements.

I believe there are seven core reasons why transgender ideology often clashes with biblical Christianity.

1. The Bible teaches binary gender (Genesis 1:27)

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7 reasons for the trans conflict with Christianity

These tragedies have intensified the question why is there such aggressive hostility in some quarters toward Christian values

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Praise & Thank Jesus Christ for ensuring that a deal so that the 7-Oct-2023 Israeli hostages could be freed by this weekend:

Was listening to a program talking about mental health. (My mental health issues Part #1)

Unlike other people with their mental disorders or disabilities, I can describe exactly what's going on with me, and it's not at all a mystery to me. When I'm around a bunch of different sources of noise, or people talking (including other people's televisions, and media and whatnot sometimes) (or when I'm around a combination of both actually) I am constantly picking up on everything and immediately applying it to something about me, or having to do with me, and applying it it all kinds of different ways all of the time and always, some of which are sometimes very disturbing, although not always disturbing always, but either way, me or mind makes it about me or something having to do with me, or something that I was just experiencing/doing, and it is something that I am not at all doing willingly. And with a lot of different noise/sources/voices around, it is constantly shifting, and changing, constantly and very, very, very quickly. I can shut a single source down almost immediately, but with a lot of different sources/voices, it is happening too fast for me to be able to keep up most usually, or shut them all down immediately or completely, cause the second I pick up on on one voice/source, and shut it down almost immediately, it changes to another one after that almost immediately, and it's too much for me to be able to keep most of the time, and almost always. And it's not ego either, or me willingly desiring to make everything about me, but this all happening/being done to me 100% completely involuntarily, as I've all but completely killed my own ego by now, almost 100% completely. If it's supposed to be some form of communication, then I don't think it is at all meant for us human beings. And even if it was some form of communication, or I could make some sort of sense of it (which I can't, but if I could) then how could I ever be sure of the source really? Like I said, I don't think it's meant for us human beings. But this is why I wear headphones and listen to something else when I'm out in public, and am out among a bunch of these different sources that very much act like a lot of very, very different, always constantly changing and shifting voices to me actually. It's schizophrenic in a nutshell basically, and that is what it feels like when I'm out in public actually. So it's a very great limitation/mental disorder/disability, and there seems to be no way of eliminating it or completely getting rid of the problem right now 100% completely, because it's not me doing it to myself willingly. And even though I say all of this, there are still some of you who are going to think that I am somehow making this up, or am being dishonest, or am lying, or that it's not as bad as I'm making it out to be maybe, but I 100% guarantee you that you can't make something like this up, and unless you personally have or experience these problems yourself always, then you just don't know how debilitating/disabling they can be actually.

God Bless.

Another thing that I probably also need to mention about this, which has been/still is a side effect from some of the times that this has been disturbing, is also having/developing PTSD from it now actually, which also makes me sometimes anticipate any and all, especially unanticipated/unexpected noises, as sometimes potentially disturbing or triggering, so headphones is definitely the way to go for someone like me, as they are like a lifeline for me. I apologize to all of you that I can't seem to deal with it or handle it any better or differently.

God Bless.

(My mental health issues Part #2)

I'm saving this and these for the next time I see my therapist here in a few weeks.

For example, when I was talking with you last time and you mention dogs sometimes, I sometimes identify with them sometimes in my mind mentally, and when you mentioned your church choir leader last time, I identified with that or him for a minute last time temporarily, as if I was him, or was like him somehow, or in some kind of way actually, or that someone or something was trying to tell me that I was in some kind of way actually, but I was able to shut them, or those thoughts, or those voices, down, almost immediately, and so, it wasn't a big deal really, and none of you even knew that that was going on with me and in my mind at the time mentally. But, when I'm around a lot, or a lot of different sources/ones going on/off all of the time around me, my mind is doing this with all of them all of the time and constantly, and very, very fast with everything, and it's always changing or shifting voices/sources very, very, very quickly, and it's hard to shut them all down immediately all of the time usually. And sometimes, something happens with what's happening on the outside of me that let's me know that something, or someone, knew, or always knows, just exactly what was going on with me, or was happening right then to me at the time mentally, or with what I was just identifying with and how I was identifying with it, actually. Which can feel like a very great violation sometimes of my privacy, which can sometimes be very, very intimidating, or scary, and can sometimes trigger me all of the time and constantly, so that I'm always triggered, or am always on edge all of the time mentally, until I am out of that situation again actually. It can't all be true, but when I'm around a bunch of different sources constantly, I don't have the time to try to discern truth from fiction, which is why I just try to shut them all down immediately. Discerning the truth from fiction can take a lot of time actually, so unless I actually have the time to get a break, and sit around and think about it, and can remember a lot of what was just happening, I can't most of the time actually. Over the course of my total amount of time living with this mental disorder, or disability, I've identified as almost everyone and everything over my total course of time having this, and so I don't think there is any kind of way that all of it can be true ever, etc. And if it ever was or is, then I don't have any kind of idea as to what to say to that or about that ever exactly, etc. It took me quite a while to even be able to know that this is what was going on, or happening with me, and those times we're very, very bad, because they were also very, very confusing, so at least I know now what's happening, and can now write about it now, or tell it to the rest of you now, at least somewhat clearly.

God Bless.

When you, or me, or anyone identifies with something, you first have to ask yourself if you are in any way like that person, place, or thing, or animal, or not, in this specific situation or circumstance, or this specific context or not, exactly? And then also how, or in what kind of way (or ways) (multiple or plural) exactly? If there is even any kind of truth in it at all exactly? Which takes at least some time at least to be able to discern that, or figure that all out exactly? But that you also don't have the time for at the time when there is a lot of it happening or going on very, very quickly like it always happens or does to or for someone like me when there is a lot of different sources to potentially pick up on all of the time exactly. So, there is really no mystery anymore as to just exactly what is happening or going on anymore exactly, but it's more just exactly which way should you apply it, or just exactly what you're supposed to do with all of it all of the time exactly? Like I said earlier, I don't think it's possible for all of it to be true, and so that means that at least some of it has to be false, but with the way it happens to someone like me with a lot of different sources to potentially pick up on sometimes, there is not enough time to be able to figure that all out ever, or ever dwell too long on any one thing, or one or more of those things as quickly as they are/it is changing/happening, until you can get back out of that situation once again temporarily.

God Bless.

Was listening to a program talking about mental health. (My mental health issues Part #1)

Unlike other people with their mental disorders or disabilities, I can describe exactly what's going on with me, and it's not at all a mystery to me. When I'm around a bunch of different sources of noise, or people talking (including other people's televisions, and media and whatnot sometimes) (or when I'm around a combination of both actually) I am constantly picking up on everything and immediately applying it to something about me, or having to do with me, and applying it it all kinds of different ways all of the time and always, some of which are sometimes very disturbing, although not always disturbing always, but either way, me or mind makes it about me or something having to do with me, or something that I was just experiencing/doing, and it is something that I am not at all doing willingly. And with a lot of different noise/sources/voices around, it is constantly shifting, and changing, constantly and very, very, very quickly. I can shut a single source down almost immediately, but with a lot of different sources/voices, it is happening too fast for me to be able to keep up most usually, or shut them all down immediately or completely, cause the second I pick up on on one voice/source, and shut it down almost immediately, it changes to another one after that almost immediately, and it's too much for me to be able to keep most of the time, and almost always. And it's not ego either, or me willingly desiring to make everything about me, but this all happening/being done to me 100% completely involuntarily, as I've all but completely killed my own ego by now, almost 100% completely. If it's supposed to be some form of communication, then I don't think it is at all meant for us human beings. And even if it was some form of communication, or I could make some sort of sense of it (which I can't, but if I could) then how could I ever be sure of the source really? Like I said, I don't think it's meant for us human beings. But this is why I wear headphones and listen to something else when I'm out in public, and am out among a bunch of these different sources that very much act like a lot of very, very different, always constantly changing and shifting voices to me actually. It's schizophrenic in a nutshell basically, and that is what it feels like when I'm out in public actually. So it's a very great limitation/mental disorder/disability, and there seems to be no way of eliminating it or completely getting rid of the problem right now 100% completely, because it's not me doing it to myself willingly. And even though I say all of this, there are still some of you who are going to think that I am somehow making this up, or am being dishonest, or am lying, or that it's not as bad as I'm making it out to be maybe, but I 100% guarantee you that you can't make something like this up, and unless you personally have or experience these problems yourself always, then you just don't know how debilitating/disabling they can be actually.

God Bless.

Another thing that I probably also need to mention about this, which has been/still is a side effect from some of the times that this has been disturbing, is also having/developing PTSD from it now actually, which also makes me sometimes anticipate any and all, especially unanticipated/unexpected noises, as sometimes potentially disturbing or triggering, so headphones is definitely the way to go for someone like me, as they are like a lifeline for me. I apologize to all of you that I can't seem to deal with it or handle it any better or differently.

God Bless.

(My mental health issues Part #2)

I'm saving this and these for the next time I see my therapist here in a few weeks.

For example, when I was talking with you last time and you mention dogs sometimes, I sometimes identify with them sometimes in my mind mentally, and when you mentioned your church choir leader last time, I identified with that or him for a minute last time temporarily, as if I was him, or was like him somehow, or in some kind of way actually, or that someone or something was trying to tell me that I was in some kind of way actually, but I was able to shut them, or those thoughts, or those voices, down, almost immediately, and so, it wasn't a big deal really, and none of you even knew that that was going on with me and in my mind at the time mentally. But, when I'm around a lot, or a lot of different sources/ones going on/off all of the time around me, my mind is doing this with all of them all of the time and constantly, and very, very fast with everything, and it's always changing or shifting voices/sources very, very, very quickly, and it's hard to shut them all down immediately all of the time usually. And sometimes, something happens with what's happening on the outside of me that let's me know that something, or someone, knew, or always knows, just exactly what was going on with me, or was happening right then to me at the time mentally, or with what I was just identifying with and how I was identifying with it, actually. Which can feel like a very great violation sometimes of my privacy, which can sometimes be very, very intimidating, or scary, and can sometimes trigger me all of the time and constantly, so that I'm always triggered, or am always on edge all of the time mentally, until I am out of that situation again actually. It can't all be true, but when I'm around a bunch of different sources constantly, I don't have the time to try to discern truth from fiction, which is why I just try to shut them all down immediately. Discerning the truth from fiction can take a lot of time actually, so unless I actually have the time to get a break, and sit around and think about it, and can remember a lot of what was just happening, I can't most of the time actually. Over the course of my total amount of time living with this mental disorder, or disability, I've identified as almost everyone and everything over my total course of time having this, and so I don't think there is any kind of way that all of it can be true ever, etc. And if it ever was or is, then I don't have any kind of idea as to what to say to that or about that ever exactly, etc. It took me quite a while to even be able to know that this is what was going on, or happening with me, and those times we're very, very bad, because they were also very, very confusing, so at least I know now what's happening, and can now write about it now, or tell it to the rest of you now, at least somewhat clearly.

God Bless.

When you, or me, or anyone identifies with something, you first have to ask yourself if you are in any way like that person, place, or thing, or animal, or not, in this specific situation or circumstance, or this specific context or not, exactly? And then also how, or in what kind of way (or ways) (multiple or plural) exactly? If there is even any kind of truth in it at all exactly? Which takes at least some time at least to be able to discern that, or figure that all out exactly? But that you also don't have the time for at the time when there is a lot of it happening or going on very, very quickly like it always happens or does to or for someone like me when there is a lot of different sources to potentially pick up on all of the time exactly. So, there is really no mystery anymore as to just exactly what is happening or going on anymore exactly, but it's more just exactly which way should you apply it, or just exactly what you're supposed to do with all of it all of the time exactly? Like I said earlier, I don't think it's possible for all of it to be true, and so that means that at least some of it has to be false, but with the way it happens to someone like me with a lot of different sources to potentially pick up on sometimes, there is not enough time to be able to figure that all out ever, or ever dwell too long on any one thing, or one or more of those things as quickly as they are/it is changing/happening, until you can get back out of that situation once again temporarily.

God Bless.

The professor and speaker who stood by wife Tammy Peterson’s side during her cancer treatment and Catholic conversion is facing his own health challenges.

Christian psychologist Jordan Peterson, known to millions across the globe, is in dire need of prayer, said his daughter, Mikhaila Peterson, who posted a deeply personal update on social media over the weekend, imploring her followers to pray for her father.

In a viral video posted on Oct. 4, Mikhaila shared that her dad — who joined The Daily Wire in 2022 after rising to the international stage after his public criticism of a Canadian bill that moved to add gender protections to the country’s code of human rights (and subsequently has spoken with EWTN and Bishop Barron) — has spent almost an entire month in the intensive care unit fighting pneumonia and sepsis.

Calling her father’s condition “near death,” Mikhaila shared that “this summer has been exceedingly difficult,” calling the entire ordeal “terrifying.”

The author of the 2018 self-help book 12 Rules for Life, which has sold millions of copies across the globe, also catapulted the professor into the spotlight.

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I’m wondering if anyone here knows of a reputable place I could find any tactile icons? I’m looking for a gift for a blind friend at our parish. Thanks

This teaching is under the Old Covenant God had with his people Israel (Jews only). But much of it is taught to us again in the New Testament under the New Covenant God has with his people Israel (Jew and Gentile by faith in Jesus Christ), the body of Christ. And what is repeated for us under the New Covenant, we are to apply to our lives in obedience to our Lord.

Now under the New Covenant we are taught that in the last days, which I believe began with the birth of Christ, there will be people of faith in Jesus Christ who are filled with the Spirit of God (all who believe in Christ have the Spirit) who will prophesy, see visions, and dream dreams. And to prophesy is to speak God’s messages to the people. So prophecy is not always (or primarily) predicting the future. So, we should not discount prophecy, dreams, and visions, but we should test everything against the New Testament Scriptures to make certain they are not against the truth.


[Acts 2:12-18; Joel 2:28-29; Matthew 7:15-23; Matthew 24:11-14; John 10:1-15; Romans 16:17-19; 2 Corinthians 11:3,13-15; Ephesians 4:11-16; Philippians 3:2; 2 Peter 2:1-22; 1 Thessalonians 5:19-22; 1 Timothy 1:3-7; 1 Timothy 6:3-10; 2 Timothy 3:1-9; 1 John 4:1-6; Jude 1:1-25]

For we do have people among us today who profess faith in Jesus Christ and who call themselves prophets and/or teachers, some of whom claim that God speaks to them through dreams or visions, whose words are against the teachings of Christ and of his New Testament apostles. And some of them are indeed leading the people to follow after false gods of man who are lying to the people about what the Scriptures teach. And many people are blindly following them. And they are teaching that we do not have to obey God and his commands and that we can keep sinning and still have life in Christ.

But if we are of genuine biblical faith in Jesus Christ, we should be those who love the Lord our God with all our heart and with all our soul, and so we want to obey our Lord and his commands. We want to do what pleases God and to not live to please the sinful desires of the flesh. Yes, obedience to God and to his commands is required of us in the New Testament under the New Covenant God has with his people who believe in Jesus Christ. We are not under the Old Covenant liturgical and ceremonial laws, but we have to obey God’s teachings to us under the New Covenant God has with us.

For, if sin continues to be our practice, and not obedience to God, according to the Scriptures we do not know God, we are not in fellowship with Christ, and we do not have eternal life with God. So, we need to take this to heart.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; 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 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; 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]


But under the New Covenant we don’t have all the laws about putting people to death that they had under the Old Covenant. We are not to kill anyone, but we are to leave all retribution to the wrath of God. Now we, as the body of Christ, though, are to exercise church discipline on those within the church who are living in sin and who refuse to repent and who are impacting and influencing the rest of the body of Christ to follow suit (1 Corinthians 5 as an example). And we are not to put up with false teaching (2 Corinthians 11:1-4), but we are to be followers of the truth who expose the lies.

As the Deer

By Martin J. Nystrom
Based off Psalm 42:1

As the deer panteth for the water
So my soul longeth after You
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship You

You alone are my strength, my shield
To You alone may my spirit yield
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship You

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Test Everything You Hear
An Original Work / October 9, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Genesis just talks about Adam and Eve facing death as a punishment for their sin. I was wondering what would have happened after that? Would they be resurrected and judged by Jesus? If they are saved I wonder what about Cain? Thanks.

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We’ve seen a recent surge in religiosity among young people, along with other stirrings of possible renewal within Western culture. In fact, history, particularly Christian history, consists of a series of near-defeats that give way to unexpected renewal and the emergence of something even better than what came before.

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Let's all pray that this is the case. I remember that St. John Paul II once said that the future of the Church would be from Africa; maybe his prophecy will be proved true.

All hostages to be released ‘very soon’

DENVER — President Donald J. Trump is heading to Israel on Sunday.

He is expected to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and deliver a major address to the Knesset — Israel’s parliament — in Jerusalem.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has invited Trump to visit Israel, given that the final round of negotiations took place in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, and that two years of talks have been conducted in Cairo.

However, at this point, there is no indication from the White House that Trump will visit Egypt.

Rather, he wants to speak directly to the people of Israel — America’s most trusted and faithful ally in the region and the target of Iran’s seven-front war.

"I am expected to arrive in Israel in the coming days,” Trump told a reporter for Axios News.

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A U.S. senator has introduced legislation banning judges from considering an inmate’s self-declared gender identity when determining prison sentences and prohibiting trans-identified men from being housed in women’s prisons amid outrage over a light sentence given to a man who now claims to identify as female, after he attempted to assassinate U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., introduced the Preventing Violence Against Female Inmates Act on Wednesday. The legislation would prohibit the Bureau of Prisons from putting female inmates in danger by housing trans-identified male inmates in women's correctional facilities and would withhold federal funds from states that fail to comply.

“Prisoners should be placed based on their biological sex, not on what they choose to ‘identify’ as,” Cotton said in a statement published Wednesday. “Documented cases prove that men — including men who ‘identify’ as women — in women’s prisons put female inmates at increased risk of sexual assault. My bill decreases the risk for women by ensuring men and women are separated in federal prison.”

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Hey everyone. Would you please pray for my fiancé and I? I've been having a very stressful week with him because he's barely communicating with me. Something very stressful is going on in his life, and he often shuts down and doesn't want to talk much when he's under a lot of stress, but he's really hurting my feelings by ignoring my messages and stuff.

How many times have we heard “no one is above the law”from the previous administration. WELL the chickens have come home to roost. Watch this thread for updates pointing out those who are not above the law.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said Tuesday that she has faced more pressure over a petition to trigger a House vote compelling the release of files linked to Jeffrey Epstein than any other issue. “My signature is on that discharge petition, and there has not been another issue where I have ever received more pressure than that one, and I’m pretty much shocked by it. I can’t imagine — I’ve never understood how this is an issue,” Greene told NewsNation’s Blake Burman on “The Hill.”

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This is the time I agreed with her. In a good way.

A man arrested outside a church before it was set to hold a “Red Mass” worship service, traditionally attended by U.S. Supreme Court justices, was found to have 200 explosive devices in his possession.

Louis Geri, a 41-year-old resident of New Jersey, was arrested Sunday outside of the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle hours before the service was scheduled to begin.

According to a D.C. Metropolitan Police Department press release, Geri, who had been previously barred from the cathedral grounds, decided to set up a tent near the church building.

While Geri was arrested without incident after refusing to leave the property, authorities discovered “multiple suspicious items, including vials of liquid and possible fireworks, inside of the suspect’s tent.”

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Who are the people today who are blind, yet have eyes, who are deaf, yet have ears? They are the spiritually blind and deaf who are not heeding the call of God to die with Christ to sin and to walk in obedience to our Lord’s commands, by God-persuaded faith in Jesus Christ, in the power of God. They can be people in the world who do not profess faith in Jesus Christ, and they can be those who do profess faith in the Lord Jesus, but who have not been crucified with Christ in death to sin, so they have not been raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin.

Many of them are weekly participants in these gatherings in buildings called “churches.” But the church is not a building. It is not a church denomination. It is not a corporation under the state in an unholy union with the world and with the government. And it is not a business to be marketed to the world in order to attract the world to their “church” gatherings. Yet that is what so much of what is called “church” has been turned into. But the biblical church is the body of believers in Christ who have died to sin and who should be walking in obedience to our Lord in serving the Lord with their daily lives.

But since so much of what is called “church” these days has turned their gatherings into businesses to be marketed to the world, and so they have incorporated (merged, joined, united, combined) with the government and with the world, both of which God forbids, many have also compromised the message of the gospel in order to attract the ungodly to their gatherings. So they are not teaching the gospel according to Christ and his New Testament apostles, taught in the correct biblical context, for they are teaching that a mere profession of faith assures you of salvation and eternal life with God.

[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 13:5-8; Revelation 18:1-5]

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).

For by God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ, which is not of our own doing, we are 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 as slaves to righteousness in walks of obedience to God’s commands. We are no longer to permit sin to reign in our mortal bodies to make us obey its desires. For if sin is what we obey, it results in death. But if obedience to God is what we obey, it results in sanctification, and its end is eternal life with God (see Romans 6:1-23).

For God’s grace, which is bringing us salvation, is training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives while we wait for Jesus’ return. For Christ “gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.” “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.” (See Titus 2:11-14; Ephesians 2:8-10)

And we learn in 1 John 1-3 that if we claim that we have fellowship with God, but yet we walk in darkness (sin), we are liars. If we claim that we know God, but we do not obey his commandments, in practice, we are liars. For it is not the one who claims he is “in Christ” who is “in Christ,” but it is the one who has denied self, died with Christ to sin, and who is now walking in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in practice, and no longer in sin. We have the hope and the promise of eternal life with God in heaven.

So the made-up gospel that is spreading so rapidly in today’s world, which is teaching a faith which is lip service only – no death to sin and no walks of obedience to God required – is not the biblical gospel (see the above four paragraphs for the biblical gospel message). Now there are those who use the word “repent” but not meaning a change of heart and mind resulting in a change of behavior, but just an acknowledgement of sin only. And there are some who teach holy living and obedience, but not as required for salvation. But the gospel of Christ teaches we must die to sin daily and follow our Lord in obedience.

So, please know and believe the truth, and not the lies, for your salvation from sin and eternal life with God are contingent upon you believing and living the truth of the gospel taught in its correct context in the Scriptures.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; 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 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; 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]

Arise My Love

By Eddie Carswell

..Then suddenly a melody filled the air
Riding wings of wind, it was everywhere
The words all creation had been longing to hear
The sweet sound of victory, so loud and clear

Sin, where are your shackles?
Death, where is your sting?
Hell has been defeated.
The grave could not hold the King.

Arise, My love. Arise, My love.
The grave no longer has a hold on you
No more death's sting; No more suffering
Arise....Arise....Arise

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An Original Work / October 8, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Adrian Davis, the former lead pastor at the now-defunct Huntsville, Alabama, campus of All Nations Worship Assembly, pleaded guilty to spending over $400,000 of the church’s funds on personal expenses and filing a false tax return. He is facing up to 23 years in prison.

According to court documents from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, cited by WAAY31, Davis, who is still being platformed by other churches, is now facing up to 20 years in prison for wire fraud and up to three years for filing a false tax return.

Between 2018 and 2020, court documents show that Davis treated himself to a $30,920 Audi A7 and a $45,982 GMC Yukon courtesy of the church’s purse. He also spent $31,000 on entertainment and items from the luxury brand Louis Vuitton. He also paid off personal credit card debt totaling more than $117,000.

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Stephen Miller accidentally letting slip with the quiet part there - and freezing because he realizes he shouldn't have said that.

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So, what does it mean? Well, Title 10 of US Code is the portion of federal law that pertains to the military, and, in context, he's referring to the president's ability to federalize the National Guard. A person with plenary authority has absolute and limitless power over a particular issue - for instance, Congress has plenary authority over interstate commerce.

So, in essence, Miller is claiming that Trump, as president, has absolute power to deploy the National Guard wherever he wants, for whatever reason he wants, and that he does not believe that the Courts (or state governors) have the authority to stop him. This should, I would hope, sound alarm bells in every American's head.

When they are just doing their job?

Well it seems I come across examples of this everyday...just crossed another one.

WATCH: ICE Sued After Videos Capture Pastor Shot With ‘Chemical Pellets’ at Peaceful Protest

I bet that pastor was attacking them or someth....
https://www.reddit.com/r/illinois/s/09n0juVcj3


If there are people having trouble understanding why people dislike how iCE is doing their work, I'm hoping folks will be willing to share some examples. I'll do my bit when I can.

The late Father Richard John Neuhaus had a love/hate relationship with The New York Times.

Richard was a passionate partisan of New York City, which he sometimes described as a preview of the New Jerusalem, but the Grey Lady’s parochialism nonetheless led him to occasionally dismiss New York’s most prestigious daily as a “parish newsletter.” He regularly castigated the Times’ editorials for their air of smug infallibility. And then there was RJN’s annoyance (and more) with the Times’ knee-jerk liberalism, which, by its embrace of every imaginable left-of-center cause, accelerated the decay of liberal politics into the promotion of lifestyle libertinism. Richard was thus years ahead of Joseph Ratzinger in issuing warnings about a dictatorship of relativism, the unavoidable political outcome of the Times’ cultural lurch leftward.

On the other hand, Richard Neuhaus could no more imagine skipping The New York Times in the morning than he could imagine beginning the day without numerous cups of coffee, a bowl of Honey Nut Cheerios, and a smoke.

That love/hate relationship was crystallized in an incident during Richard’s days as a Lutheran pastor in the then-impoverished Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, when the Times declined to refer to a local black pastor (from Christendom’s entrepreneurial Protestant subdivision) as “Bishop” so-and-so.

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I’m soon going to change my medication due to terrible side effects and start a new one. Thing is, when I change medication, this is when my mum goes all out abusive monster and goes ballastic and stalks me round the house constantly abusing me and gets me locked up in mental hospital for no reason. Please pray that God protects me from her and her abuse, and also that I don’t get locked up in an institution ever or back on a terrible medication with horrible side effects and that the medication change goes smoothly and well, agreeing in Jesus Christ’s name, Amen. Thank you so much.

Editors’ note: The Christian Post Opinion Page has published two countering views on Calvinism. To read the opposing view in the piece titled “No, dear Christian — you cannot lose your salvation. Ever,” click here.

There are many who strongly believe in a doctrine often referred to as “once saved, always saved” (OSAS), or “eternal security” or “perseverance/preservation of the saints.”

Proponents of this doctrine believe that once a person with a sincere heart truly confesses Jesus as Lord and Savior, he is guaranteed Heaven. They believe that from that moment on, God will hold onto that believer and nothing — not even the person's own free will — can cause him to forfeit his eternal standing with God.

While I believe that it is entirely possible to be confident of one's future salvation (i.e., can you think of anything that could sway you from your faith in God? No? Me either.), the question is, what does the Bible teach?

The good news

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Is 'once saved always saved' a biblical teaching?

If the doctrine of eternal security is true that is, the belief that a true Christian cannot lose his her salvation the apostle Paul seemed to be unaware of it

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Anytime you see a child with two dads, you know mom is missing​

This was one of the most disturbing paperswe’d seen in a while.

The author, a gay man who used a surrogate and egg donor to acquire a child, was joking about his daughter calling him “mommy dad” and his partner being annoyed that it must be a stage the child was going through.

“Mommy” is both the near-universal term for mother as well as children’s oft-spoken first words. That’s not coincidental. It’s indicative of the primal yearning that children have for their mother from infancy through adulthood. Yet this man, who from every indication is a caring father, cannot bring himself to admit the possibility that there is something he cannot give to his child. This dad seems more concerned with his daughter validating his choices and “queer” identity than he is with validating his daughter’s deep-seated emotional needs:

In addition to all the official and informal names that have emerged to define and contain me over the years, I now also go by the name Mommy Dad—my two-year-old daughter started calling me that about a month ago. This is probably a daycare influence, although it is questionable whether ‘mommy dad’ is a response and, if so, to what. The teachers are proud that they have a two-dad family. One of them, let’s call her Lieke, never misses a chance for a teaching moment so she keeps reminding the group that Greta heeft twee papa’s (Greta has two daddies). We are both exotic and normal, orients with a Dutch twist, and I suspect that making me Mommy Dad is an act of resistance on Greta’s part.
Wherever mommy dad comes from, my husband is slightly annoyed by this development, forcing me, who also happens to be the pushover dad, to arbitrate between me, my new name, and Greta’s artful trick to normalize our relationalities. My husband rolls his eyes, then I go: ‘This is probably just a phase—she’ll grow out of it.’

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It should come as no surprise that the conditions within which children are made, between a man and a woman, are also the ideal conditions within which to raise children. Children need and long for both maternal and paternal love. His little daughter was made for the love of her mother; it’s not something she needs to grow out of.

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