Just took my sister from her professional residence as she has MS, to the hospital due to infection that somehow has enter her bloodstream. She is a great sister, and was diagnosed to late with MS to get much medical help. The saddest thing for me is I honestly see this as my fault, with my warp view of God I see my sister being punish because God is angry at me. Please pray especially for her health but also what little sanity I have left as my view of God is getting very dark. But my sister is miserable where she is now, not the hospital but the home as she had a nice saving but in just about 3 months they are close to bleeding her dry. Hopefully before she leaves the hospital somehow, someway she can get a transfer approved.

Does anyone have any ideas as to why God would desire that we know that Jesus did not Baptize during the below event?

John 4:1-2 KJV - 1 When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, (Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,)

What is the lesson to be gained, here?

The son of Hamas’ founder,Mosab Hassan Yousef, who became a spy for Israel, and also converted to Christianity, says that virtually all Palestinian
children are indoctrinated into a world of hate and murderous desires.

To desire to kill all those who don’t share their faith. And maybe be martyred to the approval and praise of their parents.

Like so many other Muslims around the world, they also are immersed in a belief system that causes them to want to kill not just Jews, but Christians and Americans in general.

It seems to me that most Americans are not really paying attention to the ever-growing threat from Muslim countries.

I ask for prayers for protection for those the Muslims want to destroy. And for their little children to somehow learn to love and not to hate. To want to embrace life and not destroy it.
And to one day embrace the Lord, as “the son of Hamas” did.

Link where it can be read,
Hi, I am a Christian and I am sharing my witness testimony above with you in the link about the gift of prophecy in today's world. I am diagnosed with Anorexia and Autism. I hope you can take away something from the testimony.
God Bless

So late in November 1982 around Thanksgiving being religious but not knowing Christ as I I attended a small Christian School called Abundant Life Christian School in Junction City KS, I meet a than young man Jerry Skinner at Calvary Baptist Church. The nerve of this guy who told me, I was a sinner who needed Jesus Christ, I made a false confession of faith knowing within myself I was just as good as anybody.
For the next four months I study the Bible to find proof I was good enough, and even though I willfully ignore obvious verses of my need for Christ Jesus. The Spirit spoke to me, through the one sin that just was so obvious to me. So April 1 1983 I call to the Father. It is not a sin I have ever been proud of but always knew something was wrong with me because of this sin. So you can see how low I really am in my own eyes I will even tell this sin which lead me to asked the Father to saved me from myself with the Precious Blood of Christ, I Peter 1:18-19, Hebrews 13:20-21. The sin which help me to ask for the Blood of Jesus but now so easily cripples my walk with God is porn. Porn has brought to my own eyes how low i am. At least before I came to Christ and my first 3 years with Christ I had hope with the opposite sex on and off dating. But ever since then i am so low only way is to look for this wicked sin for pleasure as instead of a major dude when it comes to women I happen to be will just take the e off dude. Writing this as shortly will be going to work, and my plans later will be to find this pleasure wicked as it maybe. How does the Holy Spirit work in the life of a believer who so easily gives up to this lowly sin, Ephesians 2:10? How am i not one of bad seeds of Mark 8:6-7; 13-14?

Proverbs 17 Select Verses


We, as followers of Jesus Christ, should not be those who entertain lies and what is contrary to God’s word and to the teachings of the Scriptures. We should not willfully listen to those who speak wickedly, who speak what is evil, who practice telling lies, and/or to those who twist the Scriptures to their advantage in order to continue living in sin. And we should not listen to vulgarity and anything that is mocking or making light of the Scriptures and the divine character of God. And we should not engage in gossip, either.

Now, in order for us to know the lies which are being spread, we do have to listen to or read what people are saying, to a point. For how can we refute the lies of the enemy if we do not know what the lies are that are being said? But that is not the same as us entertaining the lies in our minds and hearts and us listening with a desire to engage ourselves in the lies. But another way of looking at this is that what we might preconceive as lies may not be lies at all, but may be the truth but that we were taught were lies.

So, what am I saying here? Sometimes we get brainwashed to believe that the lies are the truth and that the truth is the lie and so we automatically reject certain things without even considering if what is being said is actually true or not. Now some things should be obvious, but not everything is, for we were all brought up believing things a certain way, and many have had their beliefs altered by the mind manipulations of the media, and by preachers, and so many people are believing lies as truth and truth as lies.

This is why we are taught in the Scriptures to test everything that we hear (or read) against the Scriptures, in context, and in prayer, to make certain of whether or not what we are listening to are lies or the truth. But sometimes we have things wrong and we do not realize it until we search the Scriptures ourselves and then we realize that what we were taught was not the truth, and that what we were believing was a lie. So we must be careful that we don’t reject the truth thinking that we are rejecting lies. And this is why we need to be students of the Scriptures who read them in context.

Now, with regard to what verse 9 teaches us, there are really two ways of looking at this, I believe. For this is speaking of covering another person’s transgression, a sin, which I believe has to do with forgiveness. We are to forgive those who sin against us and we are not to desire revenge nor retaliation, and we are not to gossip about the person who sinned against us in order to get others to think evil of the person. For it is loving to forgive others who sin against us and to not retaliate.

On a flip side of this, this is not talking about hiding sin or excusing away sin or giving the sinner the idea that his sin doesn’t matter to God or that he is okay if he continues living in that sin. This is not about condoning sin nor about excusing it away or coddling people in their sins. For the Scriptures teach that we are to speak the truth in love to one another, and that we are to exhort one another daily so that we are not hardened by sin’s deceitfulness, and we are to help restore one who has fallen back into sin.

And it is definitely not teaching that we are to excuse away or hide deliberate and habitual sin going on within the gatherings of the church, among those professing faith in Jesus Christ, and that we are to hide their sins so that no one finds out. For when sin is allowed to permeate the church it spreads like gangrene and it impacts the entire body of Christ. We are to confront habitual and intentional sin among the members of Christ’s body with the intention of bringing the sinners to genuine repentance.

And what verse 15 says here is definitely what is largely taking place today in the market-driven and flesh-driven “churches” here in America. For the wicked are largely being justified and the righteous are largely being condemned. For if you are living in deliberate and habitual sin you will often be coddled in your sins and comforted with a false message which gives you the assurance of salvation and eternal life with God regardless of how you live. Other people will like you because you are like them.

But if your life is committed to Jesus Christ and to his service, and so you take God and his word to heart, and so you are walking in obedience to the Lord in holy living, although not necessarily in absolute perfection, and so you are doing the will of God in loving the people of this world and by sharing with them the teachings of the Scriptures, and so you are calling sin what it is, and you are calling people to repentance and to obey the Lord, and you are refuting Satan’s lies, you will largely be rejected.

And that is because so much has been flipflopped to where good is being called evil, and evil is being called good, and those who are walking in sin are being applauded while those who are walking in righteousness are being cast away. And those who coddle people in their sins are being called “loving,” while those who confront deliberate and habitual sin in the lives of those professing faith in Jesus Christ are regarded as unloving and/or as judgmental and legalistic and/or self-righteous, etc.

So, be students of the Scriptures who know what they teach, in context, and don’t be followers of human beings, some of whom are lying to you. Don’t entertain the lies, but first of all be certain of what are lies and what is truth so that you don’t end up rejecting the truth in favor of the lies thinking that you are believing the truth and not the lies. And be those who forgive others their sins against you but don’t be those who coddle people in their sins and who make excuses for them so that they continue in their sin. Speak the truth, but speak it in love, and lead others to follow Jesus with their lives.

[Matthew 7:21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 1:12-13; John 6:44; Romans 2:6-8; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 12:1-2; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10,19-20; 2 Corinthians 5:15; Galatians 5:16-21; Galatians 6:7-8; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 10:23-31; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 Jn 1:5-10; 1 Jn 2:3-6; 1 Jn 3:4-10]

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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please pray for healing for the bottom of my foot, I have either trodden on something or been bitten as it is sore and looks like a bite/sting. please pray it wont get worse but better. Thank you.

John Oliver, host of HBO's Last Week Tonight, has offered Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas a million dollars a year, out of his own pocket, plus a luxurious motor coach, to resign from the Supreme Court.

Do you think Thomas will take the offer? Or will Harlan Crow counteroffer?

-- A2SG, hope he takes it...that's a nice motor home.....

This is great news- I have been spending alot of time searching for a new apartment, I recently heard I was going to be getting more money per month and that would be enough for a nice apartment in the Harrisburg area, however this fell through and it turns out I was not going to be getting much extra money and I could not afford most local apartments. I was out driving through Harrisburg and as I was driving I saw quite a few apartment complexes that I had never seen before and were not listed on the internet. I now have about 10 complexes I can apply to that should work that I can afford, I also found one apartment north of Linglestown that would be absolutely perfect, it is exactly what I was looking for! I believe God led me to this supernaturally! It is an apartment on the top floor of someone's house that is back in the woods north of Harrisburg, it is in a nice peaceful setting, it is out in the country but still very close to Harrisburg, this was just what I wanted! Alot of people have been praying for me for new housing and I have also been asking God for this and He has answered in a big way, something that will work will now come up for sure! It looks like I will finally be able to get out of my current apartment after about 5 years! I have been living right in the pit of hell here 24/7, there is an extremely evil presence here and there is a huge drug problem, I can smell pot smoke coming from the other units in my building every night and I also smell it coming out of people's windows when I go out for a walk, lots of people here are doing drugs. Every day has been a huge spiritual battle, I have been doing spiritual warfare over this complex every day and also praying for the salvation of all tenants and also praying for an end to all drug and alcohol activity. When I first moved in here I found that my apartment was infested with spirits, however I pled the blood of Jesus over my apartment and took authority and told the spirits to leave in the name of Jesus. I got a sensation like the air in my apartment was on fire and then I felt the spirits leave and now my apartment is nice and peaceful! I also asked pastor mel to come over and pray over my apartment to cleanse it and he did that, I also anointed the door to my apartment with oil and prayed that nothing evil would be able to come through the door and I also anointed the door to my bedroom and did the same, that helped alot. There was also a big spirit in the complex, a demonic principality, I got someone on the internet to agree with me in prayer that it would go and I felt it leave, the atmosphere here has improved alot now, I also have been binding all evil spirits in the complex and casting them out and also loosing angels here in the name of Jesus, that has helped the atmosphere here alot as well. There is still a very evil presence here but things are much improved from when I first moved in.

If the Catholic Church made women priests,
could they get married to Eastern Orthodox priests?

There are more than a few messianic Christians soldiers in the IDF. There are some Christians in enclaves in Gaza. Since there are Americans being held hostage in Gaza, some of them may be Christians.

I’m making these points because I know that this is a forum for prayers for persecuted Christians.

Please pray for a cease-fire where the hostages will be released. I don’t believe that Netanyahu is ever going to call for a permanent cease fire, and personally, I can see why.

But in the past temporary ceasefires led to the release of hostages.

Please pray for them, and for the Christians who are trapped in Gaza.

In Northern Mozambique there was a surge (Islamic State) and they have blocked off a main road. Anyone driving is being stopped - as of yesterday - and if they are Muslim they are being ordered to pay a road tax and allowed to continue on.

If the driver is Christian they are being forced to convert to Islam or die on the spot.

Please join me in praying for the protection of God's people there, and that if they face their death they do so in the power of the Holy Spirit.

I'm so very sorry for this... Please pray with me.

I believe that this information is very important and interesting.
What say you?

“This award, I mean, just leaving the whole Trump thing out of it and seeing what occurred here…And I’m no different than any other investor, I’m shocked at this,” O’Leary said in an interview Monday with Fox Business. “I can’t even understand or fathom the decision at all. There’s no rationale for it.” It would be foolish to make investments in New York when they can twist the law into anything they wish. In the blink of an eye your investment could be confiscated.

I find it really ironic (is that right word or is there a better word) telling God in prayer
that I'm lonely.

I know the right answer is supposed to be, if you have a real and intimate relationship with God
you shouldn't be lonely, otherwise that is like saying to God, He doesn't complete me and He's not
enough, which I know is wrong and supposed to be wrong.

I want to have human friends, companion, partner, camaraderie, family..... but it makes me feel like
saying that to God is like telling him, "you're just not enough".

I am going to try to post my first draft of a novel I am in the process of writing. Feel free to "interupt" with comments, questions, suggestions and such, as I will do my best to keep the entire story straight in this initial post! Also, I apologize for the poor formatting, the forums are still a bit tricky for me.

Post 1
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...... and so on, come back and check regularly!

I have already ranted about my main issue(s), so Hello from a very warm Minnesota. Have no idea anymore of my faith as yes I love God but at the same time I hate God. But hopefully it is going good for all of you.

Hey Everyone!

I wanted to reach out to the community on here as something has been deeply weighing on my heart and mind. This past Thursday (February 15th) was my 29th birthday - I had a tonsillectomy. I had been ill since Christmas Eve of 2023 with recurring strep throat and 3 rounds of antibiotics. Now, that should all be gone! I am on day 5 of recovery in quite a bit of pain and agony, but am hopeful for a better future.
This past Saturday, something very scary happened. Now I want to add that I do have EXTREME anxiety/panic issues, and am currently taking medication for it. On Saturday, I noticed my heart was beating very strangely. My wife, who is a Paramedic, ran me by her station to run an EKG on me and discovered that I was throwing an arrhythmia (she called it 'Couplets'). From that moment on, I started shaking, crying, trembling...panicking! I thought I was GOING to die. Her coworker used words like "he has a second degree heart block, he needs to go to the ER NOW"; I had no idea what any of this meant. My wife reassured me it was something fixable, not to fret, and remain calm. The entire time in the ER, I could not stop shaking out of fear and adrenaline - I was praying to myself and I felt "Hopeless" in a sense. I was NOT ready to die. All I kept thinking about was my family, my wife and our baby boy who is due to be born in a couple of weeks, and how I have let God down with my sin and disobedience.
After a few hours of sheer panic, I finally started to calm down as most of my test results started coming back normal. At this point, I SOBBED. I have never felt such an intense fear of death in my life, and I feel like my faith has been shaken to my core. My wife re-assured me that God says 365 times in the bible to "Not be Afraid", yet I can listen to that and still feel utterly terrified of death.
A few weeks ago, our pastor had mentioned that you can tell someone is saved by the Life that they live. They will have a NOTICEABLE change...I thought to myself about this and realized that I had accepted Christ many years ago, but I don't really know if there was a discernible change?

I guess...how will you know when your heart is completely and utterly filled with the Love of Jesus, that not even Death can scare you? Does it mean that because of feeling I had Saturday, I am not saved?

In 1st place was Abraham Lincoln, who received a ranking of 93.87.

In 2nd place was Franklin D. Roosevelt, receiving a 90.83.

The president in 3rd place was the first president, George Washington, who received a 90.32 ranking.

Additional rankings:

12th, Bill Clinton (66.42)
14th, Joe Biden (62.66)
16th, Ronald Reagan (61.62)
22nd, Jimmy Carter (54.26)
32nd, George W. Bush (40.43)
35th, Richard Nixon (36.41)
45th, Donald Trump (10.92)



Measuring presidential greatness is, of course, both subjective and selective. Historians routinely reanalyze leaders' successes and failures — and in today's polarized political climate, those qualities can look very different, depending on whom you ask. It can also be difficult to extract distinct criteria for presidential greatness, other than helming the United States during critical moments in history — such as helping found the country or keeping the nation together.

The survey's goal is to give historians and experts on the presidency a chance to state their opinion of where today's leaders stand in a broader context. To do so, Rottinghaus and Vaughn sent requests to current and recent members of the Presidents and Executive Politics section of the American Political Science Association.

"Perhaps you would like to see “the offense” in question. Well, here it is, in all its naked criminality.

The video montage shows you contact in the Whitepine League, which is a strong and competitive league. While contact like this could be considered criminal on the sidewalk, it is not, never has been, and never should be treated as criminal on the court. The video then moves on to bad (but not criminal) behavior in college ball, and the same in the NBA. many of them not called as fouls, then fouls in college ball, and then fouls in the NBA. It concludes with the two Logos incidents in question."

The Archdiocese of New York did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Daily Signal as to why St. Patrick’s Cathedral hosted the funeral, “an event with no likely precedent in Catholic history,” as The New York Times described it. The cathedral referred The Daily Signal to the archdiocese.
After publication, the archdiocese released a statement condemning the funeral and announcing priests had performed a Mass of Reparation.
“That St. Patrick’s Cathedral would host the funeral for a high-profile transgender activist who was well known for her advocacy on behalf of sex workers, transgender people, and people living with HIV might come as a surprise to some,” The New York Times reported. The funeral appears to have been widely attended by media from top U.S. publications.
One of the organizers of the funeral said that St. Patrick’s Cathedral was not told that Gentili identified as a transgender woman. Gentili is also revered by those who identify as LGBTQ as a “transgender icon” and advocate.
“I kind of kept it under wraps,” organizer Ceyenne Doroshow, a man who identifies as a woman, told the Times, explaining that St. Patrick’s Cathedral is “an icon, just like her.”
The Rev. Fr. Edward Dougherty led the service, according to Time magazine, telling the funeral attendees: “Cecilia died with Christ.”

I was gonna single out Cardinal Dolan but then I realized the earlier incident was in Brooklyn which is a separate diocese and has it's own bishop. Just four months ago that disgraceful Sabrina Carpenter video was filmed in a Brooklyn Catholic church and now in Manhattan we have that repugnant funeral in the cathedral of all places. What's making it worse is they're gloating about the details of how they masked the whole thing to insure that it happened.

Am I the only one who thinks the responses in both cases have been too soft? I'd like to think the Church is "turning the other cheek" publicly but privately they're going to the mattresses, but the US Church has grown way too soft.

Headline is a question, therefore the answer is no.


A bill recently signed into law in Utah sets up a process for the state to overrule or otherwise ignore federal rules and decisions, the latest move in a Republican-led push against what they see as federal overreach.

The Utah bill, introduced as the “Utah Constitutional Sovereignty Act,” was signed into law by Gov. Spencer Cox on January 31.

Yet the push may stand in conflict with the US Constitution’s “Supremacy Clause,” which states federal laws take precedence over state ones. Robert Keiter, a law professor at the University of Utah’s SJ Quinney College of Law, said he was skeptical the Sovereignty Act was constitutional.

House Republicans were shocked by some of the recent high-profile retirements announced by their colleagues, which have included powerful committee chairs and rising stars inside the GOP.

“They’ve signed up to do serious things. And we’re not doing serious things,” said Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado, a conservative who is retiring after bucking his party on several key issues.

“When you’re divided in your own conference, the joy of the job is harder,” [NE Rep. Don] Bacon told CNN. “When you have folks on your own team with their knives out, it makes it less enjoyable.”

And Rep. Carlos Gimenez of Florida, an ally of deposed former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, said this is not how he or many of his colleagues imagined life in the majority, saying, “I thought that some of our members would be smarter.”

As the 118th Congress has been dominated by deep dysfunction and bitter divisions inside the GOP, a number of Republicans – particularly from the so-called governing wing – are heading for the exits. So far, 23 GOP lawmakers have decided to not seek reelection or resigned early, including five committee chairs, though some have cited personal reasons or are seeking higher office.

Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington is not even term-limited yet in her plum post, while China select committee Chair Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin, a 39-year-old who was once seen as the future of the party, recently announced he was leaving Congress after facing intense blowback for voting against impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

“Those are big losses for us,” said Rep. Greg Pence of Indiana, who is among the [eight] members on the [Energy and Commerce] panel hanging up his voting card. “It is alarming. Especially for the institutional knowledge … So, that’s a big deal.”

[Other within the GOP see things differently.]

“Brain drain? Why don’t you survey the country and see if there is any brain to drain in Congress. Congress has a 20% approval rating. Most of what we do to the country is bad,” [Freedom Caucus Chairman Bob] Good told CNN. “I think the retirements are a wonderful thing … I have no concerns, zero concerns. We probably need a few more retirements.”

Democrats have also seen their fair share in retirements this cycle as they have been relegated to the minority. [However, the situation is obviously different if you're [at least numerically] in the majority. But the slim GOP majority in the House has been largely unable to work its will. The planners and compromisers are heading for the exit, leaving behind the 'my way or the highway' gang.]

"VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - Pope Francis has appointed as consultors to the Synod on Synodality three women who are pushing for the ordination of female deacons and priests."