Over and over we see this. There is no accountability.

I received my St. Dymphna Chaplet today and already had it blessed. I even prayed on it once.
How often are you supposed to pray on them per day? I assume the answer is how often you want to.
I knew something religious that my priest didn’t know. He asked me If St. Dymphna was a patron saint for the eyes and I said “no, mental illness.” He then told me she’s also for the eyes which I was fairly positive she isn’t, but I didn’t want to argue with a priest and especially didn’t want to find out later that I was wrong.
I came home and googled it. I was right.

Summary Acts 1:1-26; Acts 2:1-13

Jesus Christ had died on a cross, risen from the dead, appeared to many for about 40 days, and then was taken up to heaven to be with God the Father. But before he left he commanded his followers to wait for the promised Holy Spirit whom he would send to them. He told them that they would receive power when the Holy Spirit came upon them, and that they would be his witnesses locally and nearby, and to the remotest part of the earth. And all his followers were continually devoting themselves to prayer, while waiting.

At this time Peter stood up in the midst of Christ’s followers (a gathering of about 120 people) and he spoke about Judas, who had betrayed Jesus, and of Judas’ death, and of the need to select another to take his place. Matthias was the one chosen, and he was added to the eleven apostles.

Now it was the day of Pentecost, and they were all together in one place. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit was giving them utterance. A crowd gathered, and they were bewildered because each one of them was hearing them speak in their own language. They heard them in their own languages speaking of the mighty deeds of God, and they were amazed and perplexed as to what this could mean. But others were mocking and accusing them of being drunk.

Peter’s Response


This quoted section above is only a portion of Peter’s response, but this is the part I will focus on in this writing. So, Peter was saying to the doubters that what they were seeing take place was a fulfillment of what the prophet Joel prophesied (Joel 2:28-32) many years before Jesus Christ was born, that these things would take place in the last days. And we are still in these last days, and these things are still taking place in our day and time, although they are presently being refuted by many doubters. But…

Our Rule of Thumb


This is our “rule of thumb” (accurate guide or principle) we are to follow in these cases. We are not to quench the Spirit by despising (deriding, hating) prophetic utterances, but we are to examine everything carefully against the teachings of the New Testament Scriptures, as a whole, in their correct biblical context, to see whether or not these prophesies (including dreams and visions) are of God, or if they are of the flesh, which we can tell if they totally contradict the teachings of Christ and of his New Testament apostles.

And sadly, there is so much fakery going on today in this area that it does tend to lead Christians, as the majority, to not even want to consider that God might still be speaking to his servants via dreams and visions and prophecies. But please know, also, that to prophesy is not mainly about predicting the future, but it is about sharing the truths of the Scriptures in practical ways which can be applied to our lives today, which is relevant to our present culture. It means merely to speak forth the words of God.

And the purpose of prophesy is to be for the spiritual encouragement and maturity of the body of believers in Jesus Christ. It is taking the teachings of the Scriptures and making them relevant to what is going on in our world and in the church today, and giving out the messages that are most needed in these critical times we are in right now. This includes constructive criticism and instruction that builds a person up to be a suitable dwelling place of God, via dying with Christ to sin and obeying his commands, in practice.

[Romans 6:1-23 Luke 9:23-26; Romans 12:1-8; 1 Corinthians 12:1-31; 1 Corinthians 14:1-5; Galatians 6:1; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:1-16; Ephesians 5:15-21; Ephesians 6:10-20; Philippians 2:1-8; Colossians 3:12-16; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:13; Hebrews 10:23-25; James 5:19-20]

Oh, to Be Like Thee, Blessed Redeemer

Lyrics by Thomas O. Chisholm, 1897
Music by W. J. Kirkpatrick, 1897

Oh, to be like Thee! blessèd Redeemer,
This is my constant longing and prayer;
Gladly I’ll forfeit all of earth’s treasures,
Jesus, Thy perfect likeness to wear.

Oh, to be like Thee! full of compassion,
Loving, forgiving, tender and kind,
Helping the helpless, cheering the fainting,
Seeking the wandering sinner to find.

O to be like Thee! lowly in spirit,
Holy and harmless, patient and brave;
Meekly enduring cruel reproaches,
Willing to suffer others to save.

O to be like Thee! while I am pleading,
Pour out Thy Spirit, fill with Thy love;
Make me a temple meet for Thy dwelling,
Fit me for life and Heaven above.

Oh, to be like Thee! Oh, to be like Thee,
Blessèd Redeemer, pure as Thou art;
Come in Thy sweetness, come in Thy fullness;
Stamp Thine own image deep on my heart.

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Prayer for my uncle "Saulius" his name. He has cancer and went to hospital for bleeding doctors say tgat don't.need to hope much, but my uncle really want to luve prayer for him to get healed. AMEN

Local grandmother held by ICE over $25 bad check from 10 years ago​

Jim, a veteran, and Donna, a full-time health care worker, married about eight years ago. A simple life of faith, family and friends. Jim says she’s the first to help others in times of trouble.

Donna, an Irish citizen, came to the U.S. when she was just 11 years old. She is a legal resident alien, or green card carrier, but not a U.S. citizen.

All was well, Jim says, until July. While in Ireland for a family funeral, on the way back at customs in Chicago, Donna was arrested.

“You don’t arrest 58-year-old grandmothers. It’s just wrong. She hasn’t committed crimes. You just don’t do that,” he said.

[To be fair, she did commit a crime.]

Ten years ago, Donna wrote a bad check, charging documents say, for $25. She was a single mom.

She paid it back and got probation. But Jim says the U.S. government is suddenly arguing that was a crime of moral turpitude.

[She was moved from Missouri to a county jail in Kentucky, where she's cooled her heels the past 30 days.]

Title says it call. Here's a link to the news story:

California woman faces 5 felonies for registering dog to vote

I'm glad they included photos. If you see them please report them to ICE.

The Federal Trade Commission and Utah authorities have ordered the owner of Pornhub to pay a $5 million penalty for hosting content on the website that includes child abuse and other nonconsensual behavior.

A stipulated order for permanent injunction was filed last week in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah, requiring Pornhub's parent company Aylo (formerly known as MindGeek) and its affiliated companies to implement and enforce better policies regarding illicit content on the website.

Pornhub has been ordered, among other things, to suspend all content featuring child sex abuse material and nonconsensual material, implement "comprehensive procedures" to stop the publication and dissemination of such materials, have its prevention efforts periodically reviewed by a third party, receive an annual certification on prevention, and improve its privacy security.

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FinCEN (Financial Crime Enforcement Network) is issuing a notice on the increase in financial motivated Sextortion cases. Often this cases involve the perpetrator of fraud targeting underage males (mostly teen boys). The crime can lead to devastating effects on the family. In some cases it has lead to the suicide of the victim, with the perpetrator encouraging the victim to commit suicide. I have worked a few cases and they are quite unpleasant.

Here is FinCEN's press release. Here is the notice itself.

Often the perpetrators, at least in the cases I've worked on, are in primarily the Philippines or West Africa (mostly the Ivory Coast).

It did have something to do with outer space but only concerned me I think.

I got a job around that date! And not just a job. It was a good job in a good company!

And guess what!!?? Their products looked exactly like spacecraft (rocket) engines!! In this way, it did have something to do with outer space! In the dream, I was told it's a gift so hopefully, fingers crossed, it stays! Ironically, the company did send me a gift of their products.

Incredibly uncanny!

From time to time, I’ve heard atheists incorrectly try to refute that a creator God exists because of all the evil and suffering in the world. But as atheist Richard Dawkins says, that’s flawed thinking: “The problem of evil, to me, shouldn’t be a real problem because you just say, ‘Well there’s an evil god,’ and so that’s a lesser question.”

The thornier issue is the question of evil and a God that’s supposedly infinitely benevolent and good. That, as I’m sure you know, has been debated endlessly with lots of both real and digital ink spilled (see my latest discussion on it here).

In that same vein has been the charge of skeptics who demand an explanation for a good God and all the various acts of violence that are recorded in the Bible, some of which God commanded. Dawkins addresses that issue in his book, The God Delusion, by saying he sees God as: “Arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”

Atheist Charles Templeton piles on in his work Farewell to God: My Reasons for Rejecting the Christian Faith by writing (pg. 71): “The God of the Old Testament is utterly unlike the God believed in by most practicing Christians … His justice is, by modern standards, outrageous … He is biased, querulous, vindictive, and jealous of his prerogatives.” He’s joined by writer Robert Anton Wilson, who stated: “The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer.”

Admittedly, there are some passages of Scripture that, on the surface, appear to depict God as being pretty ruthless. Take the Flood described in Genesis as one example: “Behold, I, even I am bringing the flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life, from under heaven; everything that is on the earth shall perish” (Gen. 6:17).

Then we have God’s orders to Israel about the land He was giving them and the people who lived there; the Lord told Israel: “You shall utterly destroy them … you shall not leave alive anything that breathes. But you shall utterly destroy them” (Deut. 7:2; 20:16).


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Six Israelis were killed and 12 others were wounded, including six in serious condition, after two terrorists opened fire at Ramot Junction, near the entrance to the capital Jerusalem, on Monday morning.

The terrorists began shooting at buses and passersby, managing to hit at least 15 people before they were shot and killed by a nearby armed civilian and a commander in the IDF's Haredi Hasmonean Brigade.

According to the Magen David Adom rescue service, its medics were providing “medical treatment and evacuating five individuals in serious condition, suffering from gunshot wounds, to hospitals in Jerusalem. Additional casualties at the scene are being treated for varying degrees of injuries.”

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Some Christian are elected to high office or appointed to it. How should they exercise the power that they receive?

A new study reveals that Generation Z has higher church attendance rates than older generations of American adults, marking a reversal of long-established patterns.

The Barna Group has released new research as part of its State of the Church initiative, revealing that Gen Z churchgoers attend services more frequently than their counterparts in older generations. The data included in the report is based on 5,580 online interviews conducted from January through July of this year.

The research examined the church attendance patterns among 3,579 churchgoing adults. Among all adult churchgoers, the average attendance rate was 1.6 times per month. That number rose to 1.9 times per month among Gen Z, which refers to the youngest group of American adults. Millennials, referring to the next youngest group of American adults, are close behind with an average attendance rate of 1.8 times per month.

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I am in the service of the Lord Jesus as an evangelist under the direction of the Holy Spirit as I seek to inform lukewarm Christians that Mormonism, theology and doctrine, is of the devil and is as far from Christianity as is Greek mythology. I pray that rank and file Christians will realize that the Utah Mormon Church (Latter-day Saints) was prophesied by the Apostle Paul in Galatians 1, as was Islam, as the only false gospels brought to the earth in the latter-days by demonic angels. I will spend what days I have remaining on the earth as an evangelist doing the will of the Savior through the dictates of the Holy Spirit.

A Finnish politician has been under fire and on trial after sharing Bible verses supporting traditional marriage. Päivi Räsänen, a member of Finland’s parliament, has spent more than six years locked in a highly-publicized legal battle that has placed Scripture center-stage.

Räsänen told The Christian Post the chaos began in 2019 when the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland reportedly announced support for a local LGBT pride event. Räsänen, an outspoken Christian, was stunned by the decision — and decided to speak out.

“It was a shock to me and to many other Christians, and I even thought about resigning [from] the church,” she said. “But I was praying and I got a strong vision that I have to speak. And then I took a photo from the Bible from the first chapter of Romans, verses 24 to 27, where Apostle Paul teaches about the same-sex relationships and calls them sinful and shameful.”

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The next lunar eclipse is around the corner, meaning some around the world will be privy to the uncommon phenomenon that turns the moon a striking red color.

The upcoming lunar eclipse, which happens when Earth is situated between the moon and sun, causing Earth's shadow to turn the moon a rusty red color, will sadly not be visible from the United States this time.

Each lunar eclipse is visible from half of Earth, according to NASA. The Sept. 7-8 event will have the best visibility on the half of Earth opposite the Americas.

Earlier this year, though, Americans did catch a glimpse of a March total lunar eclipse, which is also referred to as a "blood moon."

Here's what to know.

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This is a bit of a confession along with just asking for advice. I struggle with lust and it's felt easier as of late to give in to it. Even though I know I'll only feel regret and shame afterwards. But I keep coming back to it because I just love it. It brings me good feelings. I have fantasies that idk if they could be lived out in a Christian marriage but I still desire and hope they can. I know that the pleasures are only good for a season but man they just seem so easy to give into. It shouldn't I guess be surprising either cause when i start to dwell on these thoughts and give in it just feels good. The issue is like I said when I give in after dwelling on it i feel shame and guilt afterwards. I'm not going to lie and say I dont enjoy this sin in the moment because I do. It's only afterward that my view changes. I've looked to see if there was a pill I could take just to kill my sexual desires or do something more extreme. Does anyone else feel this way with there sin? I know that this is referring to my sexual sin but I also have struggles with non sexual sins too like i'm sure everyone else does and could see areas in my life where my love for sin goes beyond sins that are sexual.

Shalom

This and next weekend, evangelistic meetings will be held again here in Salzburg, Austria.

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

We ask for your support in prayer in Jesus' name.

And may God continue to draw the people we have already reached to Himself in Jesus' name, Amen (John 6:44; 1 Corinthians 3:6).

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

Soli Deo Gloria

Gleb Podmoshensky left a dark mark on Platina Monastery’s history. His crimes reportedly began after Fr. Seraphim’s repose in 1982, and it seems Seraphim was unaware of them,he would have repented such immoral urges, including those tied to homosexuality. When the allegations surfaced, ROCOR acted only to defrock Gleb for disobedience, taking no legal action and notifying no authorities; the monastery itself went into schism to avoid accountability.

Years later, a New Age group called the Holy Order of MANS encountered Platina. Drawn to its Orthodox practices, they gradually embraced Orthodoxy, eventually forming the Christ the Savior Brotherhood. Some communities joined the Bulgarians, others the Serbs or the OCA; Platina aligned with the Serbian Church. Part of this integration required that Gleb leave the monastery and be denied burial there. The Brotherhood’s delayed Orthodox embrace and distance from Platina were influenced by Podmoshensky’s crimes and the lack of justice, yet he still received a glowing obituary.

As a young man, my commitment to Orthodoxy over Catholicism reflects concern over New Age and sexual immorality infiltration, as well as the increasingly secular and liberal political and theological stances of the Catholic Church.


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Amid debate over whether prayer is a sufficient response to gun violence, a Minneapolis mother whose daughter was wounded in a Catholic church shooting said action is the only way to keep children safe. Speaking days after the attack by a trans-identified shooter that left two children dead during a Mass, she urged Americans to demand policy change.

Malia Kimbrell’s 9-year-old daughter, Vivian St. Clair, a third grader, was shot three times during the Aug. 27 attack at Annunciation Catholic Church, where students had gathered for a back-to-school Mass.

Kimbrell said Vivian was hit twice in the back and once in the arm, and a friend told her that Vivian had a hole in her back, NBC affiliate KARE 11 reported.

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A common Protestant claim is that the Catholic doctrine of purgatory is nowhere to be found in the Bible. But is this true? Since the Bible assures us that nothing unclean shall enter heaven (see Rev 21:27; cf. Heb 12:14), this implies that souls who die in a state of imperfect friendship with God must undergo some kind of final purification prior to their entry into eternal life. This fits with what Sacred Scripture teaches more generally about how God acts as a “refiner’s fire” (Mal 3:2) who disciplines His children in order to purify them of their unhealthy attachments to sin (see Wis 3:1-9; Heb 12:5-6, 10-11). But even so, if Catholics are right about purgatory, then we would expect there to be some passages in the Bible which point to its existence. Here we’ll explore five such passages.



2 Maccabees 12:39-45

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