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SCOTUS Agrees to Hear Trump's Immunity Appeal - No Rush, Calendars for April

In a surprise move, the Supreme Court agrees to hear Trump's appeal for immunity, but calendars it so late that it is now almost certain that the January 6th case (the most important one) will not be held before the election. Surely, our country is going well.

Court watchers widely believed that SCOTUS would not take up the case, since Trump's entire argument is absurd: a president cannot be tried for a crime except by congress.

Kentucky House Bill seems to hurt low income workers

24RS HB 500

Bill Summary
24RS HB 500

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 337 to provide for certain employment activities to be exempt from minimum wage and overtime wage requirements; specify activities and instances that do not require an employer to pay minimum wage or overtime wage; provide for employer requirements regarding lunch periods; amend KRS 337.010 to change the definitions of "employee" and "agriculture"; amend KRS 337.385 to specify instances of employer liability for employee causes of action regarding unpaid wages; specify statute of limitations for employee causes of action for unpaid wages; bar punitive damages; amend KRS 337.990 to remove penalties for repealed statutes; repeal KRS 337.050, 337.355, and 337.365; amend KRS 95A.250, 337.020, 337.420, 337.423, 337.425, 337.427, 337.430, and 337.433 to conform.

I'll be the FIRST to say my track record on putting up legislation is laughably bad so if folks choose to ignore it, I'd understand.

But all of this seems like it is going to have a huge benefit for those with capital and a huge problem for those trying to earn capital with low skills.

Am I messing this one up again?

It seems like this kind of legislation would/could be aimed at attracting more business into Kentucky..... is that fair to say?

J_B_ and loveofourlord discussion

A thread where @J_B_ and @loveofourlord can discuss evolution and others can observe.

I'm OK with brief comments from the peanut gallery, but don't expect a reply from me and please give us some room, at least for awhile, to have a talk before the thread is derailed by extensive side conversations about how everyone is an idiot.

Hello Everyone

Hello everyone, last night, I decided to look around and see if I could find a Christian forum that I would like to join. I dropped in here, and I am seeing several people who are giving great answers to very difficult questions. This is the sort of place I would love to be able to contribute in.

A little about me. First, my user name; I tried to use just Meg, and that was taken. I am absolutely horrible about coming up with good internet handles, so I just went with Meg Christian, which is also my user name on Facebook. My FB user name came up because I have a niece who, at the time had the same first and last name as I do, and I didn't want anyone mistaking us for each other (we have both married since then).

OK so now that that's out here, a little about myself. I have been a Christian for 20 years now(!) I was in my early 40's when I repented into Jesus Christ, so I had a lot to learn over the years, and indeed, I learned a lot! I feel it is of greatest importance to give kind and grounded answers to people's questions, because the man who first successfully witnessed to me did exactly that and it made all the difference in the world for me. I am non denominational, and conservative. I've been studying the Bible since 2003, and I have also studied the early Church Fathers and the origin of the Bible, especially the New Testament.

So I hope to meet dedicated Christians who love and respect Jesus Christ, and to join with others to help people find peace with Him and peace with themselves. God bless all of you, Meg

Mitch McConnell to step down

The senator had been under increasing pressure from the restive, and at times hostile wing of his party that has aligned firmly with Trump. The two have been estranged since December 2020, when McConnell refused to abide Trump’s lie that the election of Democrat Joe Biden as president was the product of fraud.

His refusal to work on the Republican House passed H.R. 2 for border security, and even worse coming up with a bill to promote a continued border invasion, sealed his fate.
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Uncorking my old wineskin and pouring out..

Someone I follow online recommended sitting down with the Lord and writing to have deep talk with him. I have a blog, but I was actually hoping for something even more private, but also a space where fellow believers could have a place to give feedback.

I have been dealing with being depressed. I've been desiring the Lord to remove it from me. I've fasted a lot this past year+ to achieve more wisdom and knowledge and nearness to God. To have it incorporated in my life to walk in the truth, as He tells us to fast.

Fasting has lead me to be nearer to Him and to sense more sincere love for Him and His people.. But as I draw nearer to people, I learn that they want nothing to do with me. I must be a walking contradiction. I guess I don't really know where I'm at in my walk except "towards him"
He says, take up your cross and follow me. So, here I've been. I haven't been reading the Word as much lately. I believe in order to follow Him, we need to be walking in Spirit and in Truth. The Truth meaning, the Word, the Spirit meaning listening to the sensitive and quiet voice of the Holy Spirit. This isn't something easily achievable unless you're cut to the heart (in my experience and hearing of others testimonies). Grief (loss) of loved ones, loss of what gives you stability. Loss of our assurances, which could be where we live, where we work, who we hang around with, the things we find identity in. For me this was everything. And it really feels like I've given up everything.

But I keep finding more to lay aside. And for the longest time it is my appetite for food, which I have not had control over and it has lead to weight gain, then loss, then gain (all my life), specifically binge eating is my crux. No I didn't just look up names for disorders and write them here, this has been a severe struggle of mine since I was 13 or younger. I've had such difficulty with this. The Lord revealed some wisdom to me on this about it stemming from childhood.

I have an aversion to people (building relationships) and was at one point diagnosed with AVPD - Avoidant Personality Disorder I like to scroll on Facebook or play a game on my phone. I like to listen to sermons and audiobooks from pastors and leaders, but I don't often pick up the bible to glean for myself. I've been often to encumbered by the woe's of life to be fully surrendered, which makes me think of the Sowers parable and the seeds that sprout and grow but remain unfruitful due to the thorns (cares of this life and deceitfulness of riches). I'm in a lot of debt and worry about things constantly. I just hate all of this. I want out...

Fruits of the spirit instead of what I've been struggling with:
Self-control for eating, forbearance/kindness for AVPD, joy and peace for depression.

I don't know how to begin to trade these things to God for the fruits of the spirit, but I desire to.
Maybe I need prayer. I'm working on a long fast. I don't know that there is or ever will be the perfect time to fast (except when the Lord calls us into it). I sensed Him call me into a fast like this several times but I gave into what I wanted several times, leaving me with the knowledge that I have not yet laid down my SELF as Lord. I had not killed 'Self' which is something He delivered me of the last time I fasted.

I hope some of this makes sense and perhaps I can return and expound on this sometime in the future. Thank you for prayers.. <3

reach and teach devotions

Check out the sermons at the bottom.
In Chinese, we continue through proverbs.
In English, we continue our study in Pilgrims progress.

1 JOHN 4
约翰一书4章
10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

不是我们爱 神,乃是 神爱我们,差他的儿子为我们的罪作了挽回祭,这就是爱了。


THE EVIDENCE OF GOD'S LOVE


John is the apostle of love; he is the one who was closest to Jesus. He was the one who leaned on Jesus at the last supper. He was one of the three on the Mt of Transfiguration and he was the only one standing at the cross, so he above anyone else can give us the unique perspective on God's love.
约翰是爱的使徒;他是最接近耶稣的人。他是在最后的晚餐上靠在耶稣身上的人。他是在变形山上的三个人之一,他是唯一一个站在十字架前的人,所以他比任何人都能给我们一个独特的视角来看待上帝的爱。
The love that God gave and has given us is completely unearned and undeserved. In fact, we deserve Hell, judgement and punishment. I know that I do.

上帝给予我们的爱 完全是无条件的,也是我们不配得的。事实上,我们活该下地狱,接受审判和惩罚。我知道自己罪孽深重!


Now God could have kept that love to Himself. He could have said, “Well, I really do love humanity and indeed I feel sorry for them, but they got themselves into this mess. Let them get themselves out of it”.

现在神本来可以把这份爱留给自己。他(完全)可以说,“好吧,我真的爱人类,我确实为他们感到难过,但他们自己陷入了这个困境。让他们自己摆脱吧。”


Now there is a long word at the end of the verse, what does this word mean? In the Greek it means Hilasmos. It means a sacrifice that turns away God's wrath and turns it into favour.

在这一节的最后有一个很长的词,这个词是什么意思?在希腊语中是Hilasmos的意思。这是指一种献祭,使神的忿怒消散,转为恩典。

The problem man had was impossible for him to conquer on his own. Someone had to come down and deal with Sin. What Jesus did was to take God's full righteous anger and justice to declare us righteous and justified. I, for one, can't get my head fully round what God did in reconciling us to himself.

人所面临的问题 靠自己是不可能解决的。人子 不得不降生下来 解决罪的问题。耶稣所做的,是用神完全公义的怒气和公义,宣告我们为义,称义。就我而言,为了使我们与他和解,神所所做的一切,我真的不能测透。

God's love was in evidence in Him dealing with sin. Jesus came to be the propitiation for our sins; He came and died to turn our judgement into righteousness our condemnation into justification and our bondage into freedom.

神的爱 在他解决罪的时候显现出来。耶稣来为我们的罪作了挽回祭;他来了,死了,要叫我们的审判变为公义,叫我们的定罪变为称义,叫我们的捆绑变为自由。

We now have God's favor because of the sacrifice of Jesus. Let us never lose sight of the glory of the cross.

我们现在因耶稣的牺牲而蒙了神的恩典。让我们永远不要忘记十字架的荣耀。

Archibald Brown penned these amazing words.

阿奇博尔德·布朗写下了这些让人惊叹的语句。


Before God could forgive a sinner in accordance with His infinite holiness and perfect justice — think what had to be done, sacrificed, and suffered! Measure God's pardon, by the obstacles His pardoning love overcame— and then you can form some idea of its intensity.

在神按照他无限的圣洁和完全的公义赦免一个罪人之前,想想他必须做什么,牺牲什么,忍受什么!衡量上帝的赦免,用他的赦免之爱克服了多少障碍来衡量——然后你就可以大致了解这一切的强度了。

God has fathomed His love and pity in one text, "God SO loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son." That little word "so" contains more than Heaven or Earth can describe. In it, is the heart of God; in it, is the depth of pardoning love. Oh think for a minute what that pardon cost, which now makes your soul sing for joy. You received it freely enough, because Another paid the price; but what was that price?

神在一段经文中表达了他的爱和怜悯:“神(如此)爱世人,甚至将他的独生子赐给他们。”这个小小的“如此”一词所包含的内容,是天地所不能描述的。里面,是上帝的心;其中,是宽恕之爱的深度。哦,请想一想,那次赦免的代价有多大,现在它使你的灵魂欢唱。你足够自由地得到这恩典,因为另一个人付出了代价;但代价是什么呢?




God's love is most in evidence at the cross, but let us realize what it cost His Son to put us right with God.

上帝的爱在十字架上最明显,但让我们认识到他儿子让我们与上帝和好所付出的代价。

The cross.. the cross.. is such a place
A place of beauty
A place of pain
A place where sin was destroyed
Where The saviour bled and died
For me.. for me

十字架上. .十字架上. .一个美丽的地方,

一个痛苦的地方,

一个罪恶被清除的地方,

在那里,救世主为我流血而死。



God bless you

上帝祝福你




SOAK IN SCRIPTURE

CHINESE

PROVERBS BY OUR PASTOR

09-父母的道路 The Pathway for Parents

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Proverbs 4:1-9










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10-两条路 Two Roads

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Chinese
Proverbs 4:10-19

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11--你要保守你的心 Guard Your Heart

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Chinese
Proverbs 4:20-27

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12--不要陷入性罪 Don't Fall Into Sexual Sin

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Chinese
Proverbs 5:1-23

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ENGLISH

PILGRIMS PROGRESS

21. The Flatterer and the Atheist: A Roadmap to Pilgrim's...

Mike Riccardi
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The GraceLife Pulpit

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22. Hopeful's Testimony: A Roadmap to Pilgrim's Progress

Mike Riccardi
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The GraceLife Pulpit

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23. Ignorance's False Hope: A Roadmap to Pilgrim's Progress

Mike Riccardi
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The GraceLife Pulpit

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24. The Cause and Manner of Apostasy: A Roadmap to Pilgrim's...

Mike Riccardi
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The GraceLife Pulpit

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Rep. Lauren Boebert’s son arrested and faces 22 charges after alleged thefts


"The 18-year-old son of Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., was arrested on Tuesday and faces 22 charges after a series of alleged vehicle and property thefts around Garfield County, Colorado, authorities said.

Tyler Boebert is charged with four counts of criminal possession of a financial device, three counts of first-degree criminal auto trespass with intent to commit a crime, four counts of criminal possession of ID documents, one count of conspiracy to commit a felony, four counts of ID theft possession with intent to use, three counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor and three counts of theft less than $300, according to the Rifle Police Department."

Yet just yesterday, Boebert was Xing about other 'crime' families....

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Church Attacks Increase 800% in 6 Years


If you believe anti-Christian attacks have skyrocketed over the last decade, you’re right. Attacks on churches have increased 800% in less than six years — and more than doubled over the last year, according to a new report released today by Family Research Council. Documented acts of anti-church hostility include attempted bombings, shootings, satanic vandalism, and numerous attacks based on anti-Christian bias due to support for abortion or extreme transgender ideology. Some constituted unpunished election interference.

The report identified 915 acts of hostility against churches between January 2018 and November 2023, including:

  • 709 acts of vandalism
  • 135 completed or attempted arsons
  • 32 bomb threats
  • 22 gun-related incidents
  • 61 other incidents, including assault, threats, and interruption of worship services.
These acts of “religious intimidation” send the message “that churches are not wanted in the community or respected in general,” Arielle Del Turco, who authored the report, told The Washington Stand. “Regardless of the motivations of these crimes, everyone should treat churches and all houses of worship with respect and affirm the importance of religious freedom for all Americans.”

The report shows that church attacks, and acts of violence, continued to explode in 2023. During the first 11 months of last year, researchers verified at least 436 acts of hostility against U.S. churches — more than double the number of attacks in all of 2022, including:

  • 315 acts of vandalism
  • 75 completed or attempted arsons
  • 20 bomb threats
  • 10 gun-related incidents
  • 12 instances of satanic graffiti
  • 59 churches faced repeated acts of hostility
These statistics likely understate the extent of the problem, because “[m]any acts of hostility against churches are likely not reported to authorities and/or are not featured in the news or other online sources from which we collected data,” says the report. “[T]he number of acts of hostility is undoubtedly much higher.”

Acts of anti-church hostility blanketed the country in 2023, taking place in 48 states and Washington, D.C. California experienced the largest number of incidents, with 91. Texas churches endured 62 incidents; New York had 58; and Florida had 47.

“The rise in hostility we identified in our December 2022 report has neither slowed nor plateaued; rather, it has accelerated,” says the new report. “The rise in crimes against churches is taking place in a context in which American culture appears increasingly hostile to Christianity. Criminal acts of vandalism and destruction of church property may be symptomatic of a collapse in societal reverence and respect.”

The raw numbers paint a grim picture of escalating anti-Christian action boiling over into bigoted action. The report totals:

  • 50 acts of hostility against churches in 2018
  • 83 in 2019
  • 55 in 2020
  • 96 in 2021
  • 195 in 2022
  • 436 in 2023

The Eritrean Church Visit

Release International workers were visiting Eritrea to meet with the persecuted Church, they were incredibly nervous as they heard from the Church that the police were harassing the Church about who these workers were.

On their visit, one of the Eritrean sisters in Christ described her 40 days in prison as a "good time" and that it went very quickly. Was she insane? No, she had such intimacy with Christ and she worshipped constantly with other believers in jail! Oh, that we may have faith like hers.

The Release International workers were still nervous as they knew their visit was known about by the authorities and they knew what Eritrean jails were like.

The time came, after saying goodbye to the brothers and sisters in Eritrea, they made their way to the airport, the passport check came up and the workers hearts were thudding.

Alas, they were ok but the nerves didn't stop until the plane officially took off, the workers thinking of the Brothers and sisters' hardship while looking at the aerial views below, the aerial views containing the Church and believers, they had seen and fellowshipped with.

When they arrived home to see their families, they had learnt that the hosts had been arrested (not because of hosting the workers but because of evangelising).

May we always think of the persecuted brothers and sisters in Christ, as they are outlr literal family.

Source:

"When faith is forbidden" by Release International

the Antichrist

John 18:37 Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.

John 4:25 The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things.

John 12:13 Took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried, Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord.

John 5:43 I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.

John 19:19 And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And the writing was, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS.

John 19:21 Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate, Write not, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the Jews.


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So there you have it. Jesus was born into this world to be a king, words of Jesus Himself, John 18:37. Pilate writing the title on the cross about Jesus - King of the Jews, John 19:19. The Jews rejecting Jesus as their king, John 19:21.


The Antichrist will be the another, John 5:43, who will be anointed the King of Israel, the king of the Jews, as the Jews will think he is their long awaited messiah.
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Tip For When Gospel Tracts Literally Fly Out Of Your Hand While Evangelizing

My buddy Darren and I were at the Medina Ice Festival passing out Gospel Tracts when he went to hand them to me and.... Some flew out of his hand! Here's a tip on what to do when that happens...

Isaiah 13, the Day of the Lord? or History?

Now first, the chapter begins that this is the burden of Babylon, so the first thing people would think is this is about when the Persian Empire took over the Babylonians
However
Isaiah 13 contains several references to the Day of the Lord, including signs that Jesus gave during the Olivet Discourse, and shown in Revelation 6 at the 6th seal:

6 Howl ye; for the day of the Lord is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the Lord of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.

The Darkening of the Sun and Moon is the most common sign associated with the Day of the Lord, Joel 2 speaks of it, it's mentioned in the Olivet Discourse, and in Revelation 6, along with an Earthquake and other signs in the sky like the heavens being shaken/rolled up like a scroll.

Matthew 24:
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
Revelation 6:
12 And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
13 And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
14 And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
In these two locations, it cannot be referring to when the Medes and Persians destroyed Babylon, Jesus was presenting it as a yet future event from His time on Earth, and Revelation presented it as yet future past Jesus' resurrection, so it was not referring to the Day Jesus was crucified, even though those signs happened on a local scale when Jesus was crucified.

However, despite all this Day of the Lord language....

Isaiah 13:
17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
18 Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eyes shall not spare children.
19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
20 It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.
21 But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
22 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
and while currently Babylon is ruins, it was inhabited for a long time after the Persians took it over, Alexander took it over too, so did the Romans briefly, and then it was still a regional seat of power under future Persian empires until the Muslims took it over, it fell into decay, and was ultimately abandoned around 1000AD.
I have a lot of trouble accepting that this passage in Isaiah 13 was about the conquest of Babylon BC despite the text mentioning the Medes because of over 1000 years of it being inhabited and being an important city.

So how is this reconciled? It talks about the Day of the Lord, which I believe is future, and has to deal with the return of Jesus, which has not happened yet.
But it's talking about Babylonians, Chaldeans, and Medes, which would point in the past, and yet.. mentions that this event leaves it in uninhabitable ruins which doesn't line up with history either.

Isaiah 14 further goes into how the King of Babylon is equated with Lucifer, and also refers to him as the Assyrian, an empire that if using a historicist or preterist interpretation of this, the Assyrians had been destroyed before the Neo Babylonian Empire, it was what led to the Neo Babylonian Empire becoming a power; the Medes and Babylonians conquering Assyria.

The one thing I can think is that both titles, the Assyrian, and the King of Babylon, refer to the yet future Antichrist, as Micah 5 refers to the one destroyed by the Messiah as the Assyrian. It would of course explain the equation with Lucifer.

It can also be referring to Babylon in Revelation 17 and 18, rather than Historic Babylon, Babylon there has ships sailing to it, and Historic Babylon was inland.

However.. the Medes part still throws me for a loop.
It doesn't fit history, because of continued inhabitation, and, I don't really see elsewhere in scripture where there's a possible connection to future Medes. Future Persians yes, Ezekiel 38 and 39.
But not specifically the Medes.

I don't see a reconciliation in either a historical interpretation or a futurist interpretation, and I don't accept that the destruction spoken of was just.. the historic Medo-Persian conquest and remaining inhabited and important for 1000 years, and only 500 years after that being abandoned to ruins, as fulfillment.
That's not good enough for an Omniscient God who declares the end from the beginning.

Do we need to be sorry to be saved?

I was listening to a sermon and within it, the pastor said that we do not need to be sorry when repenting. In Acts 3:19 it says, "Therefore repent and return, so that your sins may be wiped away, in order that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord;" So no mention of being sorry. All we need to do is believe and turn from our sins.
I know that there are verses that say how "Godly sorrow brings about repentance", and "God desires a broken and contrite heart", but the way these verses are worded, contrition is not compulsory.

I believe we need Godly sorrow. This is like falling on the mercy of the Judge.
For instance, you had robbed a bank and then after 10 years they finally caught you and you were now before the Judge. You say to the judge without any sorrow, "Judge be lenient with me. I know I robbed the bank, but I have not done it since." The Judge is not going to be lenient. There was no sign of contrition. You were not sorry for what you had done. You are going to get the book thrown at you.
But let's say you had robbed a bank and then after 10 years they finally caught you and you were now before the Judge. You say to the judge with tears in your eyes, "I am really sorry. I know what I did was really wrong, and I wished I had never done it. It was a foolish thing to do. I am so sorry." So, you fall on the mercy of the Judge. The judge seeing your contrition will be more inclined to the possibility of a lesser sentence.

What are other people's thoughts on this? Do we need contrition? Is it a false teaching to tell others they simply need to leave their sins without any contrition?
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Texas businesses need not make accomodations for pregnant women in their work force

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Hendrix blocked one provision, the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, from being enforced against the state after finding the bill was wrongly passed. That law requires employers to provide pregnant workers with reasonable accommodations.
Paxton spent all that money and effort to cause further struggle for pregnant Texan women.

I don't understand how someone with this ethos keeps his job.


Edit: after comments, title edited to reflect content of article better.

Anyone tried fasting and praying for freedom from this?

I believe in medication. The meds I'm trying aren't really working. Gonna talk to my GP tommorow for stronger meds possibly.

It's my day off and I'm still struggling with self harm thoughts, anxiety and depression. I feel bad bc I have no reasony to feel this way. My kids are safe and with me. I'm no longer being evicted, my selfish family is gone but I'm still feeling these feelingsyou heaviness and having intense intrusive images.

Fasting is my last resort to dealing with this. I hope God helps me. I have my doubts. I hope he doesn't let me fall/die.
I just don't know why I'm dealing with this or going through this... this doesn't feel like me.

Tips for fasting and praying conc3rning this is welcomed.

Fallen Angels

I thought I would open up a thread in the proper place for the various views of the fallen angels, Nephilim, evil spirits, etc. My particular inquiry to start this thread is...

The existance of "evil spirits" can be sourced in the Bible (Luke 7:21, 8:2; Acts 19:12-13; Matt 12:27 and possibly 1Sam 16,18,19, but this can be disputed).

It is my understanding that there are two views.
(1) Evil spirits are fallen angels.
(2) Evil spirits are the disimbodied spirits of the Nephilim (the product of fallen angel and human women procreation).

If there is another view, I would like to hear it. Also, If you hold to one of the two options above (or one I haven't heard), what verses (within the Bible only please) do you use to establish this position? That is, the position of, evil spirits are....

Peace be to you

Life support

Please pray for Ben's girlfriend, she is on life support. Thank you, God bless.
Update: Thank you for your prayers. Unfortunately she passed. Her babv is now motherless. Thank you for your prayers. Unfortunately she passed. Pray for the Health Care System in Northern Canada. The nurses at the Health Centre refused to see her for 2 days until she needed to be on life support. Thanks.

Left Behind: The Kids TV Series

I've actually thought of that Left Behind: The Kids could be turn into a TV Series. It would work well episodically, even better than try to cram them into movies.

It would follow the books closely, even if some things would require some changes or some things expanded on. We might see each of the kids background before the Rapture. We might see more of the Global Community Middle School. We might get to see Chaya Stein talking with Tom just before the Rapture. We might see John Preston getting drafted to the GC Navy and talking with Carl Menninger. We might even get to see Natalie Bishop trying to talk with Claudia Zander about God.

Then of course there are some things to be concerned about, like the stereotype depictions of African-Americans, Jews, Chinese, Middle Eastern, Native Americans, Hispanics, etc.

If Dallas Jenkins and Randy LaHaye have any involvement, it would certainly be a plus!

Do you think a Left Behind: The Kids TV Series could be done? Any ideas for what could be expanded on? Is there anything you might be concern about?

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