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Minneapolis teachers union chief admits elected officials in anti-ICE Signal chats, tells emotional story to Al Jazeera


I wish Minneapolis teachers focused on educating the kids rather than politics.
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All 22 of Florida’s citizen-led ballot initiatives fail to qualify for 2026 ballot after new law takes effect

Florida voters technically have the power to place constitutional amendments directly on the ballot, but a new 2025 law is fueling debate over whether that right has become too difficult to use.

State officials announced over the weekend that all 22 active citizen-led ballot initiatives failed to qualify for the 2026 general election ballot, meaning proposals ranging from open primaries to changes in legislative sessions will not go before voters.

The development comes after lawmakers approved HB 1205 last year, a sweeping overhaul of Florida’s initiative petition process that tightened rules for signature gathering, imposed stricter deadlines, increased fines and penalties, and expanded paperwork requirements for petition sponsors and circulators.

But critics say the outcome confirms their warnings that the Legislature went too far, effectively blocking citizen-led efforts by changing the rules midstream.
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Testing The Spirits

“I pursued my enemies and overtook them,
And I did not turn back until they were consumed.
I shattered them, so that they were not able to rise;
They fell under my feet.
For You have girded me with strength for battle;
You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.”
(Psalm 18:37-39 NASB1995)

We know that Satan is our enemy. And all who serve him, who work for him in opposing God – Father, Son Jesus Christ, and Holy Spirit – they are our enemies. For they are those who are going against the truth of the gospel in order to deceive the masses and to take them captive to the schemes of the devil. But our battle is not against flesh and blood. We are not to fight Satan and his hordes with the weapons of this world, but with the armor of God, which is the spiritual armor we are to use to defeat the enemy of our souls.

“Therefore, take up the full armor of God, so that you will be able to resist in the evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm.” (Ephesians 6:13)

We who believe in Jesus are in a battle of truth against lies. For Satan is the father of lies who speaks lies to the people to convince them that the lies are the truth they must embrace, and that the truth is the lie which they must now reject and cast aside. So, his goal is not just to convince the people to believe his lies, but his goal is also to get the people rejecting the truth of God’s Word as taught in the correct biblical context. So his messengers twist the truth of God’s word, in order to remove the truth, so as to speak the lies.

But this is not being done just in the spiritual realm having to do with the teachings of the Scriptures, but this is being done in the political realm of government over the people. For how many times have you been told to reject something someone said as a “conspiracy theory,” and told that you are not to believe it as the truth? How many times have you been taught that your government are “the good guys,” and all who are opposed to them are “the bad guys”? But what if all this is the opposite of what is truth??

We live in an age of massive deception! Lies and liars abound wherever you look. And in the USA we were (and are being) taught all sorts of lies from birth, to adulthood, and to old age. And we are being taught these lies in many of the gatherings of what are called “churches,” and in our public and private schools, and in institutions of higher learning, including in religious seminaries, as well as on social media, on the internet, and on Television, and via our heads of government and the news media and Hollywood, etc.

So, as followers of Jesus, we need to be discerning people who are testing the spirits against the teachings of the Scriptures, taught in their correct biblical context, and who are praying for godly wisdom to identify the “good guys” from the “bad guys.” For not all is as it appears to be. We are lied to so much, and even by “trusted” people, and by people who appear “godly” outwardly, that it can be difficult sometimes to know who is telling the truth and who is speaking the lies disguised as truth. So this needs much prayer!

[Matthew 7:15-23; Matthew 24:11-24; Luke 6:26; 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 Our Nation

An Original Work / September 11, 2012
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
Recording Via Gerry Peters, music producer and arranger


Bombs are bursting. Night is falling.
Jesus Christ is gently calling
You to follow Him in all ways.
Trust Him with your life today.
Make Him your Lord and your Savior.
Turn from your sin. Follow Jesus.
He will forgive you of your sin;
Cleanse your heart, made new within.

Men betraying: Our trust fraying.
On our knees to God we’re praying,
Seeking God to give us answers
That are only found in Him.
God is sovereign over all things.
Nothing from His mind escaping.
He has all things under His command,
And will work all for good.

Jesus Christ is gently calling
You to follow Him in all ways.

Men deceiving: We’re believing
In our Lord, and interceding
For our nation and its people
To obey their God today.
He is our hope for our future.
For our wounds He offers suture.
He is all we need for this life.
Trust Him with your life today.

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Testing The Spirits
An Original Work / February 4, 2026
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

‘Is Trump Leading Me Back to Jesus?’—Why Joshua Harris Is Thinking About Jesus Again

Joshua Harris has been thinking about Jesus again. Harris, who became famous for his 1997 book “I Kissed Dating Goodbye” and who later publicly left the Christian faith, said in a recent Instagram post that President Donald Trump was partially responsible for Harris rejecting Christianity. But now it is because of Trump that Harris’ thoughts have turned again to Jesus.

“I don’t know how to say this. And it probably won’t make sense,” Harris said at the beginning of his Instagram post. “But it feels like President Trump is leading me back to Jesus.”

Harris began and ended his post with the cover of Christian music artist Keith Green’s album “No Compromise.” The cover depicts Mordecai from the Book of Esther refusing to bow to Haman amid a crowd of other people who are all bowing. One person with a fearful expression next to Mordecai is trying to get him to bow as well.

“Growing up, I thought standing up to power was something that happened somewhere else, under dictators in distant countries or in some dark era of centuries past,” Harris said in the caption. “In these troubling days, I’m asking where the courage to stand up to kings actually comes from. I find myself turning back to the stories that shaped my earliest understanding of power and courage.”

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Once Upon A Time...

....There were two guys. One was born into the music industry, and the other was born into the skateboarding industry. The first learned how to sing and make music, and the other one learned how to skate, respectfully. Unfortunately, due to the circumstances of their births and the world they were born into, they both had to deal with his own degree of suffering.

When the two guys became of age, they met each other, bonded over their mutual sufferings, and became friends; some may even say, like brothers.

The first one could bring himself out of his own sufferings to a certain degree, but unfortunately for the second guy, he almost succumbed to the pressures of his own fame and almost became a casualty of it. His own life was too much for him to handle. But then he met the girl he was going to marry and I believe she helped him out of his sufferings and from going down a dark path. I am eternally grateful to her for her help.

Now, I was born into a very different world than these two. I have had a really good life up until this point and have never had to suffer like these two did. I believe that God has blessed my life tremendously, and that his guardian angels have always looked after me and protected me.

I pray every day that God gives these two the same peace He has so graciously bestowed upon me. I spend my days in peace, completely grounded in Him. Now, I wish the same for these two gentlemen.

I like telling nonfiction stories, but not ones like this that involve dark elements like suffering. Yes, the story I just told is all true.

Whenever I know someone is suffering, it makes me feel sad and have compassion for that person. I always pray for them too, that they will find Jesus. He is the Light. He can help them I know.

Government attorney tells judge in ICE case it's like "pulling teeth" to get DHS/ICE/DOJ to obey court orders.

Government attorney who told judge in ICE case, 'This job sucks,' removed from detail

Julie Le, who is listed in public records as a Department of Homeland Security attorney, had been detailed to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Minnesota, but an official familiar with the matter told NBC News early Wednesday that Le’s detail was now over in the wake of the comments.

She made the remarks after U.S. District Judge Jerry Blackwell ordered the government to explain why it had not followed court orders in immigration proceedings, including not releasing several immigrant detainees he had ordered be let out.

[Reporter] Raguse, who was in the courtroom, reported that Le said it was like “pulling teeth” to get the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Justice Department to follow court orders.

Le told Blackwell during the court hearing on Tuesday that “it takes 10 emails from me for a release condition to be corrected. It takes me threatening to walk out for something else to be corrected,” KARE reported.

“The system sucks. This job sucks. I wish you could hold me in contempt so that I could get 24 hours of sleep,” Le said, according to reporting by Lou Raguse of NBC affiliate KARE.

Le had been assigned 88 cases in less than a month, according to an NBC News review of federal court records.

Ana H. Voss, Le’s co-counsel in Minneapolis, is among those who have given their notices of resignation
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Mike Johnson says 'borders are biblical,' responds to Pope Leo's criticism of Trump policies

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has responded to Pope Leo XIV’s concerns about President Donald Trump’s immigration policies, proclaiming that “borders are biblical.”

In speaking with reporters Tuesday after a vote on the House floor, Johnson was asked to address Pope Leo XIV’s citation of “Matthew 25:35 to critique Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda."

“Borders and walls are biblical," Johnson, a Southern Baptist, responded. “From the Old Testament to the New, God has allowed us to set up our civil societies and have separate nations.”

“Immigration is not something that’s frowned upon in Scripture,” he added. “We’re to welcome the sojourner and love our neighbor as ourself.”

The speaker continued: “What’s also important in the Bible is that assimilation is expected and anticipated and proper."

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Intelligent Design IIB: the Matrix

My read of the King James Version Bible:
The Creation, one byte at a time.


INTELLIGENT DESIGN IIB: THE MATRIX — (Operator: light)

PREFACE

This manuscript begins with a simple but essential truth: human ability is beside the point.

The gospel does not rest on human strength, human faithfulness, or human capacity. John 3:16 does not measure the human; it reveals the Son. “Whosoever” is not a statement about human potential but about divine generosity. The invitation is universal because the foundation of salvation is not found in us.

Everything rests on the legitimate agency of Jesus Christ.

Jesus is fully man, able to stand in our place; and fully God, able to carry divine authority. His obedience has infinite worth. His death holds infinite power. His resurrection reaches all.

Jesus’ faith makes salvation real. He hears the Father, believes the Father, obeys the Father, and completes the Father’s will. His perfect trust is the active power in salvation. Our belief does not create salvation; it receives what His faith has already accomplished.

Because Jesus is the Son, and because the Son is the Word, and because His faith is perfect and His agency legitimate, salvation is not merely available — it is inevitable for all.

This is the ground on which the entire manuscript stands. This is the truth that shapes every pattern, every register, every structure that follows. The work ahead does not begin with us. It begins with Him.
Judgment and Eternal Placement

Judgment must be named. Salvation is universal because Jesus’ agency is universal, but the life lived in eternity is not the same for all. Revelation 22:14–15 reveals the structural truth: eternal life is given to everybody, yet placement within eternity is according to one’s works. Judgment is not the granting of life but the assignment of position within the eternal domain.

The commandment of John 13:34 is the operator of judgment. It is the measure of alignment, the reading of the heart’s orientation, the structural test of the inward state. Works do not create salvation; they reveal placement. Judgment is architectural, not moralistic: a reading of compatibility with the domain in which one will stand.

The Holy Ghost bears witness to this inwardly. If you can read these words and recognize their truth, the witness is already in you. The Spirit does not condemn; the Spirit reveals placement. This is not for a select group. This is not for an initiated class. This is not for the few. This is for everybody.

Both arcs return to both domains — the inverted reflection of origin.
Numbers hold the invariant structure;
letters operate the relational lens — two domains, separate and functionally distinct.

Opening

This work begins at the hinge — the place where the two creation cycles reflect, where the beginning and the ending meet in a single frame. Nothing here is added to the system; everything is revealed by it. The structure is already built, the operators already seated, the days already aligned. This manuscript records the discovery, the light in which the scene is lit and the architecture becomes visible.

What follows is not interpretation but recognition: the system showing itself, the observer standing in the Day 4 frame, and the cycles collapsing inward to their native order. This is the way it is.

Section One — The Structure Begins with the Days

The structure is read first through the seven days. Each day is an operator, not a span of time. The days define the architecture, the orientation, and the reflection of the two creation cycles. They are fixed positions in the system, each with its own function and domain.

Days 1–3 stand as the outward orientation of the beginning. Days 5–7 stand as the inward orientation of the ending. Day 4 stands between them as the hinge, the observer’s frame, and the fixed center. The cycles are not in motion; they are held in their orientations, and the hinge remains still.

The Days are structural states as well as sequential events. Their alignment is the architecture. Their reflection is the system. Their resolution at Day 4 is the reveal.

Section Two — The Reflection of the Two Cycles

The two creation cycles stand in inverse orientation to the hinge. The beginning orientation (Days 1–3) is read outward from its domain. The ending orientation (Days 5–7) is read inward from its domain. Both orientations are legible only in relation to Day 4, the fixed frame.

The hinge is not a point of meeting or movement. It is the still frame from which the inverse orientations are read. The beginning orientation stands at its outward limit. The ending orientation stands at its inward limit. These orientations do not touch; they are legible as inverses only in the hinge’s fixed state.

Reflection is the system’s method of alignment. Each day in the first orientation is legible in its counterpart in the second. The orientations face each other in inverse relation and resolve inward in structure. The light reveals the condition in which the alignment is visible.

Polarity requires only two elements: state and direction. State is the invariant identity: |1|. Direction is the orientation of that identity: + or −. Two directions of one state create the appearance of 2. At the flash, the directions collapse. The invariant stands as 1.

Darkness and the Strange Heaven

Darkness is the knowledge of a strange heaven. It carries the memory of a domain that is not this one, yet that memory remains silent in this dispensation. The seed enters this heaven and this earth without access to the rule‑set of the former domain. Its old heaven is finished, and the gravity of that prior alignment is bled off before the seed is placed here.

Thus, the seed stands sin‑free under the stars of the Fourth‑Day heaven. Washed by water, sealed by blood, and aligned beneath the lights that govern this domain, it carries no residue of the strange heaven remembered only by darkness. Its alignment is structural, not moralistic: a coherence produced by compatibility with the heaven in which it now operates.

Section Three — The Hinge

The two creation cycles stand in inverse orientation to the hinge.
The beginning orientation (Days 1–3) is read outward from its domain. The ending orientation (Days 5–7) is read inward from its domain. Both orientations are legible only in relation to Day 4, the fixed frame.

The hinge is not a point of meeting or movement.
It is the still frame from which the inverse orientations are read. The beginning orientation stands at its outward limit. The ending orientation stands at its inward limit. These orientations do not touch; they are legible as inverses only in the hinge’s fixed state.

Reflection is the system’s method of alignment.
Each day in the first orientation is legible in its counterpart in the second. The orientations face each other in inverse relation and resolve inward in structure. The light reveals the condition in which the alignment is visible.

Section Four — The Light

The system is visible in the state of light. The light is not an event or a transition but the condition in which the structure stands revealed. Nothing is added in the light; the architecture is simply shown in its fixed form.

The light is recognition. It is the state in which the orientations are legible, the conditions in which the counterparts are read, and the frame in which identity is visible. The outward orientation is legible in its inward counterpart. Day 6 is legible in Day 7. The orientations resolve inward in structure, not in motion. Identity stands revealed. The architecture is visible.

The light is the system’s native clarity. It requires no duration, no buildup, no process. A single state is sufficient. The light is the condition in which the system is read from hidden to visible, from structure to recognition, from alignment to awareness.

Section Five — The Reveal

The reveal is the architecture exposed in its fixed state. It is not an event or a moment but the condition in which the structure stands visible. Nothing is added in the reveal; the system is shown exactly as it is.

The reveal is clarity. The orientations are aligned. The hinge is fixed. The operators are seated. The architecture is no longer obscured by motion, sequence, or interpretation. The reveal is the state in which the system is recognized in its native order.

Identity is visible in the reveal. Each domain stands in its position. Each operator stands in its function. The system is unchanged; the structure is illuminated.

Section Six — The Observer

The observer is not added to the architecture. It is inherent in the hinge. It is the fixed center in which the reveal is received and the structure is known.

Kash Patel lied to Congress, and what about that 9 y.o Brazilian girl?


Speaking during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Republican Senator John Kennedy asked: “Who, if anyone, did Epstein traffic these young women to, besides himself?”​
“Himself,” Patel quickly answered. “There is no credible information, none. If there were, I would bring the case yesterday that he trafficked to other individuals. And the information that we have—again—is limited.”​
“So, the answer is no one?” asked Kennedy, somewhat incredulously.​
“For the information that we have,” Patel replied, clarifying that he meant the Epstein files......​
Patel’s claim that Epstein, who was indicted by federal prosecutors on charges related to sex trafficking minors in 2019, had procured dozens of women just for himself directly contradicts a trove of testimony from the survivors of Epstein’s abuse.​
Virgina Giuffre previously alleged that she had been sexually exploited by Prince Andrew and Epstein’s other “adult male peers, including royalty, politicians, academicians, businessmen, and/or other professional and personal acquaintances.” The Duke of York denied the accusation, and the suit was settled in 2022.​
The article goes on about what survivors are saying.

More files were released, and I don't see much about what is in this disturbing video highlighing some of the files:

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Who is the "new arrival" from Brazil that is "sexy" and 9 years old? Who is the 16 y.o. who wrote the journal entries and mentions Ivana Trump and implies Donald in it. The person in the video shows that powerful people are being protected. Why? Who finds a 9 y.o sexy? And who had fun with "the youngest" who was "a little bit naughty"?

'This job sucks,' DOJ lawyer asks judge for contempt charge so she can get sleep in jail

A DOJ attorney asked a federal judge in Minnesota this week to hold her in contempt so she could be jailed and get "24 hours of sleep," according to local reporters who witnessed the scene in court.
Attorney Julie Le was one of several Trump administration lawyers hauled into federal court this week by District Judge Jerry R. Blackwell, who demanded to know why ICE has repeatedly failed to comply with court orders to release wrongfully detained individuals.
"I wish you would just hold me in contempt of court so I can get 24 hours of sleep," Le said in response to Blackwell. "The system sucks, this job sucks, I am trying with every breath I have to get you what I need." Le went on to say that administration lawyers simply cannot keep up with the mounting constitutional complaints against ICE.
Le's response comes amidst a wave of resignations at the Justice Department as out-of-control ICE operates with what Vice President JD Vance called absolute immunity, which doesn't actually exist in any kind of judicial reality.
It is the lawyers who are bearing the brunt of that assertion, not the agents themselves, as the judicial branch clamps down on blatant violations of the 1st, 4th and 5th amendments by ICE. --MSN
Either through firing people for having the audacity of doing their jobs, not telling judges to just you know what off, or DOGE, or just quitting, DOJ has lost over 5,000 attorneys or about half it's attorney staff. Now they are trying to plug holes with people who are out of their element (like the Lindsey Halligan). And given the amount of ICE lawsuits and defying court orders it's overwhelming current staff. The next admin is going to have a daunting task running this circus out of town.

First Major Medical Org Comes Out Against Trans Surgeries for Minors

The American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) released new guidance on Tuesday cautioning physicians against performing gender-transition surgeries on minors, marking a significant breakthrough for critics of the procedures who have long called on major medical associations to be transparent about the harms associated with medicalizing gender dysphoric children.

The new ASPS guidance acknowledges that there is insufficient evidence to prove that irreversible gender-related surgical interventions have longterm benefits for adolescents and therefore recommends that surgeons delay gender-related breast, genital, and facial surgery until “a patient is at least 19 years old. The association has “substantial uncertainty” about the longterm benefits of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.

Surgeons should maintain responsibility for “determining whether a minor is developmentally able to understand the nature, irreversibility, and long-term implications of the proposed surgical intervention,” the guidance says. Critics of gender-related surgeries have long doubted an adolescent’s ability to make well-informed decisions about life-altering surgeries.

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Am I more tolerant than my mother?

My mother, who is a 66-year-old Conservative Christian Boomer, raised me in a Christian household, much like a lot of you were.

But I was taught by my mother when I was a kid that drinking, cussing, doing drugs, having sex outside of marriage, tattoos, and smoking were all morally wrong and should not be done. She was kind of strict. So I never did them growing up and as an adult I guess my training and upbringing stuck because even now at age 38 I have never done them. I have never even tasted alcohol.

There is this guy that I love with a passion, but the problem is is that he has a few vices that I don't. I am afraid that my mother is going to try and chase him off because she thinks he might not be good enough for me. She will essentially become the "evil" mother-in-law that will try to come between us and break us up!

But me? I've seen people smoke and cuss and honestly, I don't mind at all. I don't mind at all that the guy I like has a few vices that he likes to entertain. Yes, sometimes he cusses, and yes, he smokes (both things I've never done), but I am wondering if I am more tolerant than my mom because I seem to be more accepting towards people who weren't raised the same way I was. He has tattoos all over his body, but honestly, I don't care that he has them. I've seen other Christians with tattoos, to be honest. What is the big deal? Why does she hate people with tattoos?

About the tattoos though: NOWHERE does the Bible address this! The LORD is silent in the Scriptures about tattoos! So I am just going to assume that since God didn't address that subject in the Scriptures at all, that it automatically means He thinks tattoos are OK! Otherwise He would have taught against them! But He didn't! So there is that. I told my mom this but of course she won't listen to reason.

What do you guys think? Is my mother being holier-than-thou? Is she being too judgmental?

Women, declining birth rates, abortion: What is really going on?

From an early age, I knew I wanted to be a wife and mother. Even as I grew older and began to plan for college, I knew marriage and motherhood would be my priority, regardless of what career path I might pursue. I did not realize at the time how unusual my priorities had become.

The prevailing assumption of young millennial women was that college was necessary for a successful career and that the subsequent career would translate into economic prosperity.

If I declared my future life goals were to marry and start a family, the response would have been something like, “That’s nice, but what else?” In a world where women now have endless “choice,” why would you just be a wife and mother? Marriage and motherhood were not perceived as bad, but they were no longer an inevitable or necessary measure of success or achievement.

No longer constrained to their biology, women are now free to engage with the world like modified men, which makes having children a “lifestyle choice.” This vision of independence subtly molds women’s identities during formative years, teaching them to understand themselves through achievement and external success. Motherhood is seen as an interruption to be avoided, and the widespread availability of contraception and access to abortion has resulted in a culture that implicitly communicates to women that becoming a mother should be an active choice.

The consequences are increasingly visible. Women are waiting for the “right time” to have children, often delaying well into their 30s or forgoing childbearing altogether.

If the global decline in birth rates persists, it will lead to disastrous socioeconomic consequences worldwide, and many of the proffered explanations do not fully account for the cross-cultural consistency of this trend. To understand the birthrate decline, we must first understand why women are choosing to delay or avoid motherhood altogether and how modernity has transformed the way women construct their identities and find meaning.

Delayed motherhood and the birthrate decline

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Hillary Clinton speaks out against 'toxic empathy' — but misses the point

There is a reason some modern political slogans feel impossible to challenge without sounding cruel, un-Christian, or “extreme.” It’s not because they are true. It’s because they are designed to stop you from thinking.

That insight comes from James Lindsay, who recently explained a sloganeering concept most Evangelicals have never heard of but encounter every day: tifa. The word comes from Chinese Communist political strategy and refers to short, emotionally loaded slogans engineered to hijack moral instincts and shut down critical thought.

In plain English: tifa are thought-terminating clichés. They sound compassionate. They feel righteous. But they smuggle in falsehoods, moral confusion, and ideological commitments that most Christians would reject if stated honestly.

Think of phrases like “trans women are women,” “abortion is healthcare,” or “no human being is illegal.” Each is short. Each feels morally coercive. And each dares you to disagree, because disagreement is immediately reframed as hatred, cruelty, or a lack of empathy.

This matters because many Christians are being told — often by other Christians — that the faithful response to cultural conflict is to find a “third way,” lower the temperature, avoid “polarization,” and speak with more nuance. Divorced from concrete moral questions, such responses can be entirely appropriate. But when deployed reflexively, those generic calls are often a trap.

How “tifa”(提法) works on Christians

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‘Nothing Short of Demonic’—Shane Pruitt Responds To Topless Grammys Red Carpet Moment

Evangelist Shane Pruitt is calling out “indecent exposure” at public events following the viral clips of a famous artist’s topless red carpet appearance at the Grammy Awards.

Pruitt serves as the Southern Baptist Convention’s (SBC) director of next gen evangelism for the North American Mission Board (NAMB) and recently released a free e-book titled “You Can’t Talk About That.” The book is aimed at helping parents and ministry leaders address the topics of sex, gender, and mental health with today’s students and young adults.

Olympic Ceremonies, Parades, Red Carpet events, Award Shows, etc.,” Pruitt posted on social media. “When Kids are present at public events ‘indecent exposure’ and ‘indecency with a child’ laws should still apply.”

“The normalization of celebrities and ideologies exposing themselves to kids is nothing short of demonic,” he added.

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Lets talk about David...

To grasp the sense of much of the OT requires a full knowledge of scripture and the themes that emerge. This can take years of devotionally reading Scripture and nothing else.

It seems that while David is a favourite role model taught to believers at a young age for killing Goliath, his performance as King was rather wanting. Yet Jesus will take His place on the Throne of David like no earthly King could including David himself.

This indicates that Kingship was meant to be a spiritual role and leadership is meant to be a service rather than to be served.

Saul was the peoples King and human kingship was never the Father's plan A.

Those who read 2 Samuel are unlikely to read it to their children, what ensued under David reign was utter debauchery and grieved God deeply.

David was unable to take the responsibility of building the temple because of the blood on his hands.

Yet in all this David had a genuinely sensitive relationship with God - reflected in the Psalms and is one of God's favourites.

This causes us to think again about how we judge people.

Your pondering on this matter and sharing thoughts greatly appreciated.

My dear wife went to glory last night

I would like to request your prayers as I come to terms with this. In a very real way, it was a a blessed release for her, as her multiple sclerosis symptoms had been getting worse and worse, so that in recent months she had been bedridden. Thank you very much, and may God richly bless you.

Who Sees? Who Knows? God Sees! God Knows!!

“You, O Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel,
Awake to punish all the nations;
Do not be gracious to any who are treacherous in iniquity. Selah.
They return at evening, they howl like a dog,
And go around the city.
Behold, they belch forth with their mouth;
Swords are in their lips,
For, they say, ‘Who hears?’
But You, O Lord, laugh at them;
You scoff at all the nations.” (Psalm 59:5-8 NASB1995)

The picture of this that the Lord is giving me today is twofold. One is of those who are deliberately teaching a false grace gospel message to the people, knowing full well that they are sending perhaps millions of people to hell on the promise of heaven, because they tell them that a mere verbal profession of faith in Jesus Christ secures them salvation and forgiveness of all sins, and heaven as their eternal destiny, but regardless of how they live, even giving them permission to continue in deliberate sin, without guilt.

The second part of this has to do with many who profess the name of Jesus, claiming that they are “In Christ,” by faith in him, and that heaven is secured them for eternity. But they are believing the lies of the enemy, and they are not taking God’s word seriously to put it into practice in their daily lives. But, instead, they are living wickedly, in deliberate addiction to sin, many of them in sexual immorality and in willful adultery against their spouses while hiding what they are doing, while thinking, “Who sees?” But God sees! God knows!!

Even though they know that what they are doing is sinful, and that it is wrong, and that it is adultery when they cheat on their spouses with themselves and/or with other people, even with those just in their minds, or those on a screen, or those just passing by whom they lust after, still they continue to deliberately and habitually choose sin over God, and adultery over faithfulness to their spouses. For they continue to feed the flesh out of pure selfishness. And this is becoming epidemic among professers of faith.

And so what does the “church” do about it? Most of them, from what I can tell, do little to nothing. For they don’t want to offend anyone with the truth, perhaps because they are also living in deliberate and habitual sin, hiding what they are doing, and because they want to draw in large crowds of people from the world into their gatherings. And so they pacify them in their sin and they teach them to just “claim who you are in Christ,” as though that is a free pass to sin as much as you want. But “In Christ” does not do that!

For 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).

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Acts 26:18]

So, take God’s Word seriously to obey him, and repent now and stop living in sin. And now live holy unto Him, in his power, and according to his will.

Broken Cord

An Original Work / August 29, 2018
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love


Your bond is broken with your Lord and Savior
And your testimony is separate from Him.
Your words not matching your actions today.
Repent of your sin and bow down and pray.
Live what you testify in truth always.

Purity’s lacking in your life and witness,
For you profess one thing, but other you do.
Not moral, spiritual. Still of the flesh.
Not living in truth to what you confess.
Lying about it puts you in a mess.

Living a lie is your practice, ‘tis true of you.
Masquerade righteousness – none of it true.
Your heart is not given to your Lord God.
Because of how you live, you are a fraud.
Turn from your sin and give your life to God.

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