Prison time is necessary.

Seems our music is still relevant for the times we are living in now!

Let's share our songs together

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I don’t have this magazine but this is an article in this months‘ Popular Mechanics. Science tells us what we already knew.​

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<<<<<Scientists Found a Link Between Spirituality and Your Brain—Are You Hardwired to Believe in God?​

Scientists are mapping specific brain regions to understand how the brain conceives of the divine.>>>>>

I am sadly not surprised.

Christians often talk about the leading of the Holy Spirit and we read about the promise of the Holy Spirit - that it will guide into all the truth

But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.

But I don't think this means the Holy Spirit replaces our personality and thoughts - like in some SF stories. We still have our own thoughts. So how do we discern the leading of the Holy Spirit - not contradicting Scripture only goes so far.

e,g, someone might say the Spirit led them to apply for courses in accountancy rather than the legal profession. How would you discern this as the leading of the Holy Spirit? You may be equally qualified for both and other Christians could recommend both. And is that the Spirit's leading - asking other people? What about your own inner witness - is that your thoughts or God's thoughts?

It is getting camp meeting time here in these Virginia mountains. It is nice to get out as some of the settings are gorgeous. The only thing is that last year it seemed like the ministers would sit around and watch the news all day, and then repeat the issues of the times behind the pulpit. I would ask them... Please don't repeat the news! I get enough of it in my daily life. Even with electronic devices, empty windows seem attempts to fill them with daily news. And like a bunch of alley dogs and alley cats we have a bunch of reporters gathering all the garbage of the times for online display. I am hoping for a little more encouragement this year.

Please pray that God will let me hear my son talk to friends and that he can be happy. Tonight if He will let me and as long as God will allow me to hear his laughter. Please pray for Jakeb's healing if it is God's will. I ask in the name of Jesus. Thank you and may God bless you.

Funny how this anti-King thing has suddenly sprung up in US and abroad

I have this problem in my life that I've always had since becoming a christian years ago now. It's perfectionism/legalism. Just recently though I have been dealing with an issue at work thats led me to make this post because i just more than anything want some advice and input from people on how to fix this issue. I keep committing what I perceive to be willful sin not even because I want to but because it seems as though it's the only way to get through my job. It all has to do with training thats required for the job. I try to actually do the training properly but this issue is in order to do it properly it places what I perceive to be a huge burden on me. It's actually over something probably most people would perceive to be silly but my mind grapples onto it and it gives me anxiety and guilt from feeling like I'm committing sin. It all has to do with acknowledgements for terms and conditions and stuff. Again i know it's silly but it's just gets to me. I've asked God for help on it but it's just tough for me to deal with because my mind makes me feel like I have to read though and understand one of those things along with find mental loopholes just to get through it. I cant really talk about this issue to people around me cause they'll probably just think I'm crazy. It shines light though on the bigger issue as a whole that there is no escaping sin in this world no matter how hard a person tries to. Jesus himself states that stumbling blocks are inevitable in Matthew 18:7, and Luke 17:1. So if thats the case then how do i deal with this issue. I know our works don't save us and the only way to heaven is through faith in what Jesus Christ did on the cross but I also don't want to sin. I don't want to willfully sin either and I don't want to abuse grace. I can't run away from the issue either because like Jesus said it is inevitable and this is an imperfect world. I try to find ways around issues like this like using the verse talking about food sacrificed to idols and not questioning it for the sake of conscience and doing something similar with this issue which has helped me but is it ok to use idk 100%. To wrap it up how do i live with this issue of not being able to escape future stumbling blocks and battling perfectionism while at the same time not abusing grace? Thanks.

Israel must make sure to completely eliminate Iran's nuclear weapons capability.

There's no actual civil unrest, but there might be soon.

Does Walz care that there are over a million Muslims in Chinese reeducation camps? I don't understand how the American left brushes aside the evil of Communist regimes.

Democratic state politician Melissa Hortman and her husband have been killed in what appears to be a ""politically motivated assassination," Minnesota Governor Tim Walz says

Democratic state lawmaker John Hoffman and his wife were also shot, and Walz says he is "cautiously optimistic" of their recovery

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In response, the planned protests against Trump have been cancelled as the governor asked for it due to th circumstances.

Jesus will be here soon. It says so in the Bible. Jesus himself says so in Revelation 22:7. But as it says in Matthew 24:36, “But concerning that day and hour [that Jesus will be here,] no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.” The best thing to do is to be at your best when he shows up. He may show up tomorrow, next week, next month, next year, next decade, century or millennium, nobody knows.

There’s no taking for granted he will appear when a particular person is alive. That person may be settled in his grave or in God’s Kingdom before Jesus appears. But as it says in Matthew 24:40-41, “...two men will be in the field; one will be taken and one left. Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken and one left” when Jesus appears. The one who is taken is one who would have passed away before Jesus arrives, and the other one is someone who is around when Jesus appears. Two men who worked in the field, and two women grinding at the mill before one of each is taken.

That suggests that the ones who are left would be going about their business when, Surprise! Jesus appears. But the reality is there are billions of such people, some will have been “taken” and some who will be “left.” Not all may be in the same place as where he arrives, but word would get around in any event. But to simplify things, keeping it to two of each, what type of man in the field, so to speak, will Jesus come across? Will he come across a man who’s been living a moral life, and who asks for forgiveness when he invariably sins, or will he come across a man who just the other day spent his time off attending a hate rally against a hated group of his choice on a wholesale basis? And what of the woman who is grinding in the mill? Will she likewise be living a moral life and asking for forgiveness when she sins, or will he come across a woman who just the other day, as an elected official, would be more than happy to refer to all migrants to her country as “monsters?” Makes no difference to her, if she can get their vote. She may refer to herself as a Christian, but recall in Matthew 2:14-15 that when Jesus was under threat of being slain by King Herod, Joseph took him and Mary to Egypt and stayed there until many years later when it was safe to return to their country upon Herod’s death. Did anyone in Egypt refer to that family as ‘monsters’?

Or go further back to when Joseph found himself in Egypt and was brought to the attention of the Pharoah in Egypt at the time, did the Pharoah say ‘Get this “monster” out of here’? Alright, so the Pharoah after him wasn’t so kind to the Hebrews, and perhaps if he had his way, a big, beautiful wall would have been built around Egypt, preventing outsiders from coming in. But given that the Bible was written based of faith, it is difficult to read into the happenings in the Bible as one would any historical event that is found in secular history books. So let’s go closer to the present…the U.S. could have said ‘keep those monsters out,’ referring to the waves of immigrants in the 19th and 20th centuries who were being processed at Ellis Island. But it didn’t, did it? Perhaps at the time, there were enough people who were level-headed enough to know that not everyone, IF anyone, who landed on America’s shores, were ‘monsters’.

So what if Jesus appears and he sees a ‘monster’-hater working in the field, or grinding in a mill? Would he take them up? Seems unlikely if they fail Jesus’ test set forth in Matthew 25:31-46. What would they say if Jesus says, ‘Take these to the Lake of Fire’? would they say ‘Had we known you were coming, we would have changed for your benefit’? Seems unlikely they would get a second chance, particularly when you consider the Parable of the Rich Fool, when God says to the Rich Fool who was planning his future, ‘Fool, your time has come NOW for judgement!’

As it implies in Matthew 24:44, you must be ready come day or night, for you won’t know when Jesus will appear. How many people now, who when faced with hordes of needy people and who are hell-bent to turning them away, will end up being turned away themselves by Jesus if he should hear what they say about the needy, and see how they treat the needy? Who is the real ‘monster’ here?

Joh 18:38 Pilate saith unto him, What is truth? And when he had said this, he went out again unto the Jews, and saith unto them, I find in him no fault at all.

Pilate's rather blasé inquiry showed a sort f world weary disregard for philosophical musings. What he failed to perceive was that the rhetorical question was asked of he who is truth.

The bible calls four things truth, God the Father,God the Son,, God the Holy Spirit, and the word of God. One might see truth as that which is absolute, unchangeable and defines reality. There can be a difference between something that is true and truth.itself.

I once made a comment is a social setting that all psychology was wrong. When challenged to support my assertion, I said that no psychological theory of human behavior included the concept of sin. Thus not remedy drawn from such an inadequate understanding of human behavior could be anything but random in its efficacy. While my statement could see as true, to consider truth, one has to go to the bible.

. Rom_3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

More than one denomination falls short of truth. However, beyond doctrinal inaccuracies, perhaps are greater failings;

1. Failing to help each member become more like Jesus.
2. Administered as an organizational system whose mechanical nature impedes relationships.
3. Failing to show how to disentangle from the world and the flesh.
4. Presenting Christianity as a Sunday morning activity.

Someone recently intimated a dissatisfaction with the error of a particular denomination. Since we all contribute our own errors, we might have some compassion for a weaker brother, particularly if we are the weaker brother.

Newsom floats withholding federal taxes as Trump threatens California​

SACRAMENTO, California — Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday suggested California consider withholding tens of billions in annual federal tax dollars amid reports Donald Trump is preparing funding cuts targeting the state.

Do you know what the difference is?

The President has the authority to stop Federal School grants. And this petulant child does not have the authority to tell the Federal government no

Looks like a product of parents who never told him no

Rep. Melissa Hortman, Sen. John Hoffman shot in 'targeted' shootings: Sources

Be careful about whose example you follow, for not all who profess faith in Jesus Christ are of genuine biblical faith which saves. Many are giving lip service only to God while they continue in their deliberate and habitual sin in direct defiance to God and to his New Covenant commands. So not all who claim to be “in Christ” are truly in Christ by genuine biblical faith in the Lord Jesus. For by faith in Jesus, if our faith is of God, and not of human flesh, 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 God.

And many do walk as enemies of the cross of Christ, for even though they profess him with their lips, they refuse him by their lifestyles. They profess him with their lips hoping that they can escape hell and go to heaven when they die, but while they ignore God and his commandments (New Covenant) and they do their own thing, and they chart their own course, and they live however they want without regard for God and for what he requires of those who profess faith in Jesus Christ. For they are believing the lie that all they have to do is profess faith in Jesus and now heaven is secured them.

But what did Jesus and his New Testament apostles teach as the gospel of our salvation? They did not teach lip service only. They taught that, by God-gifted and God-persuaded faith in Jesus Christ that we now put sin to death in our lives and that we now surrender our lives over to the will of God for our lives, and that we now walk in the ways of the Lord as are taught us in the New Testament writings. Our old lives of living in sin and for self are to now be done away with so that we can now live for God in walks of obedience to his commands in holy living, and no longer as slaves to sin.

Yet many people who profess the name of Jesus do not honor Jesus Christ as Lord of their lives, for they are those whose god is their appetite for sin and for self-pleasure and for the things of this sinful world and for the lusts of the flesh and of the eyes, and the pride of life. They want their eternal security in their pockets while they still live according to the lusts of the flesh and not according to the will of God for their lives. But it doesn’t work that way. For if sin is what we practice, and not obedience to God, then we do not have salvation from sin, and we will not inherit eternal life with God.

So, don’t be like them! For that is like giving your marriage vows to your spouse but then continuing to live as though you are still single. And sadly, many married people are doing that. Many of them are living in adultery against their spouses via addiction to sexually explicit videos, movies, and the like, and via taking care of their own needs, as a result, rather than being in a loving and faithful and intimate relationship with their spouses. And the Bible teaches our relationship with Jesus Christ as a marriage, with Christ as our husband, and with us who believe in him as his bride.

So, for those whose true citizenship is in heaven, and not in hell, we are to be those who are putting the deeds of the flesh to death, by the Spirit, and who are walking in the ways of the Lord in obedience to his commands, in practice. We should be a faithful bride to our loving husband, Jesus Christ, and serve him with our lives, instead of feeding our own flesh. And we should be sharing the truth of the gospel with the people of this world so that many more people can die to their sins and now obey God with their lives. Then we have the hope of salvation from sin and eternal life with God.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 1:12-13; John 6:44; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 2:6-8; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:5-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10]

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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Minds Set on Earthly Things
An Original Work / June 14, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

All I am asking you
That you treat God right
And don insult him
He needs you respect
So respect God
Also God is the man
That create you
With his holy hands
If wasn't for God
You would not be here
Also God is waiting
For you to pray to him
Every single night
Before you go to sleep
It only takes a couple
Minutes to do it
Then you can go
Straight to bed
Tomorrow will be
Another day
That will arrive first
Thing in the morning
You also need to
You also need to
Live your life to the fullest
Because you only
Live once
Yes every year you are
Getting older
And you can't stop that
Because God made life that
Way
Yes you also need sleep
Don't stay up too late
Because that is no good
For you

I was brought up in many different denominations and this is in no wise hinting that you need some spiritual gift to be considered spirit filled. I have met fine and terrible people in each denomination.

Spirituality and the Three Little Pigs… Scripture - Whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. – Matthew 7:24-25

Once upon a time there was a mother pig who did not have enough food to feed her little pigs. So when they were old enough, she sent them out into the world to seek their fortunes.

The first little pig was very lazy and built his house out of straw.
The second little pig was a little more diligent and built his house out of sticks.
They sang and danced and played together the rest of the day.

Meanwhile the third little pig worked hard and built his house with bricks. It was a sturdy house complete with a fine fireplace and chimney.

The next day, a wolf happened to pass by and began to hunger pork for his next meal. He stopped by the first two houses and said… “Little pig! Little pig! Let me in! Let me in!” In which the replies were… “No! No! No! Not by the hairs on my chinny chin chin!” Then the wolf showed his teeth and said: “Then I'll huff! And I'll puff! And I'll blow your house down.”

So he huffed and he puffed and he blew the house down. The wolf opened his jaws wide and bit down as hard as he could, but the first pig escaped and met up with the second pig, whose house was a little sturdier. Having the wood house blew down the two pigs escaped together. The wolf chased them down the lane and almost caught them. But they made it to the brick house and slammed the door closed before the wolf could catch them. The three little pigs they were very frightened, they knew the wolf wanted to eat them. And that was very true. The wolf hadn't eaten all day and he had worked up a large appetite chasing the pigs around and now he could smell all three of them inside and he knew that they would make a lovely feast. He stopped by the house of brick and said… “Little pigs! Little pigs! Let me in! Let me in!” In which the replies were… “No! No! No! Not by the hairs on our chinny chin chin!” Then the wolf showed his teeth and said: “Then I'll huff! And I'll puff! And I'll blow your house down.”

He puffed and he huffed. And he huffed, huffed, and he puffed, puffed; but he could not blow the house down. At last, he was so out of breath that he couldn't huff and he couldn't puff anymore. So he stopped to rest and thought a bit with rage and swore he would come down the chimney and eat up the little pigs for supper. But while he was climbing on to the roof the little pigs made up a blazing fire and put on a big pot full of water to boil. Then, just as the wolf was coming down the chimney, the little piggy pulled off the lid, and plop! In fell the wolf into the scalding water. So the little piggy put on the cover again, boiled the wolf up, and that was the end of their fearsome adversary.

Interpretation. The houses are three…

1. The Straw House – Salvation – Salvation is great… But you need to start building a second house
2. The Wood House – Sanctification – Offers a little more protection… But you need to move on to a third house
3. The Brick House – The Holy Spirit – Offers the utmost protection… A wonderful fortress in the times of storm

does that make me Non denominational? my reason for not attending a church is I have an anxiety disorder and agoraphobia. I also am worried I'll pick a church that is not sound Biblically. I watch alot of Christian YouTube teachers and have learnt alot on there. there are just so many false teachers in the world now.

A group of progressive organizations has filed a lawsuit against a recently passed law in Arkansas that requires public schools to display the Ten Commandments.

Americans United for Separation of Church and State, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Freedom From Religion Foundation filed a complaint on Wednesday on behalf of a religiously diverse group of parents.

At issue is Act 573, a measure signed into law by Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders in April and is scheduled to take effect in August. The lawsuit argues that "Act 573 is not neutral with respect to religion."

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Based off Luke 9:22-25
An Original Work / February 21, 2013
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Jesus, Son of God,
Died for us on a cross.

Anyone who would come to Him
Must deny himself and follow.
He must take up his cross daily;
Die to sin and self each day.

Father, God above,
Loved us so: gave His Son.

If you want to save your old life;
Keep on sinning, follow your ways,
You will lose your life forever;
Hope of heaven gone away.

Spirit of our God
Gives us life in God’s Son.

Nonetheless, if you die to self;
Forsake your sin; follow Jesus,
You will live with God in heaven,
And forever praise His name!

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Hi,

(Posting in fellowship)

In order for an Orthodox Church to be in good standing, do they have to be in communion with the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople? Is he considered the visible head? I know he’s first among equals, and not an “Orthodox Pope.”

God bless