January 6 fugitive arrested in Obama’s DC neighborhood with guns and materials to make Molotov cocktails (after quoting Trump post that shares Obama's address)​

A man with numerous firearms and materials to make an explosive was arrested Thursday in former President Barack Obama’s Washington, DC, neighborhood after claiming on an internet livestream that he had a detonator, law enforcement officials told CNN.

Taylor Taranto, who had an open warrant for his arrest related to the January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack, was arrested by the Metropolitan Police Department and federal law enforcement. He has been charged with being a fugitive from justice.

Trump Post Revealing Obama Address Was Shared By Jan 6 Fugitive Hours Before He Was Arrested With Guns Near Obama Home​

Several details of the arrest are stunning and disturbing, including the fact that Taranto posted the message “Got them surrounded!” above a Trump Truth Social post that included a news article revealing the address of the Obama home, as well as several other prominent Democratic figures.

Man arrested with guns near Obama’s house had been acting erratically​

The man who was arrested Thursday with weapons in his van near the residence of former president Barack Obama had been acting erratically and espousing baseless claims that even some of the most ardent Jan. 6 defendants found distasteful, according to multiple people who said they recently interacted with the man.
Multiple Jan. 6 demonstrators outside of the D.C. jail said they had kicked Taranto out of their group on Saturday after he attempted to play a video that showed the death of Ashli Babbitt in front of her mother.

SITE linked Taranto to his social media accounts by cross-checking them with his public records. He had an active YouTube channel that was under his name and included videos of himself speaking and inside the Capitol on Jan. 6, she said.
“Review of his posts revealed an obsession with Trump and conspiracy theories,” Katz wrote. She added: “In recent weeks, many of his posts included reports referring to Obama as ‘coaching up left-wing house Democrats in private meetings’ and claiming Obama is contributing to a shadow government aimed at destroying Trump.”

‘This child was, simply put, being starved to death’​

Two homeschooling parents in Georgia face myriad charges after their 10-year-old child was found emaciated, wandering along the street in search of food, and begging never to return to their grasp or residence, authorities in the Peach State said on Tuesday.

Tyler Schindley and Krista Schindley each stand accused of attempted homicide in the second degree and attempted malice murder. They also face charges of cruelty to children in the first degree, second degree, and third degree, battery, simple battery, and false imprisonment, Spears said on Tuesday.

According to warrants in the case obtained by Atlanta-based NBC affiliate WXIA, the couple caused their son “cruel and excessive physical and mental pain” when they “intentionally withheld food from the juvenile for an extended period of time.”

There were several additional children in the home, authorities said. They have since been removed and placed in the custody of the Georgia Department of Family and Children’s Services. The children were all being homeschooled, according to the GPD.

When I was a young monk, I always had a negative reaction to the above quote. I simply did not believe that such a statement could be made with any real honesty by your average man or woman, let alone someone entering a monastery. I certainly did not experience myself as being vile, let alone the vilest.

However, as the years passed quickly by I began to reconsider what the above quote meant to me after a few decades.

Humility and self-knowledge are inseparable, they can in no way be separated. They are like two mirrors reflecting back on each other in an endless dialogue that is transparent, childlike, and not afraid of what lies beneath our conscious minds. Well, ideally that is true. In real life, self-knowledge is often forced upon us, and we can always find reasons to turn away from what it can teach us. Yet there is a heavy price to pay.

I believe that when we do not deal with ourselves before the Lord in an honest manner, owning up to our foibles, the only way they can be dealt with is in those around us. Gossip intrigues, and withdrawal from the community can be faulted on a lack of humility, usually. It is humility that allows us to grow up and to be on the way to becoming centered, responsible, and overall, happy in our vocation. If we choose to continue resisting what our reactions to others have to teach us, then we will continue in our anger, and bitterness is the fruit of such a path. Eventually, it could lead to abandoning our vocation entirely.

I do believe that most people in monasteries struggle with the above to different degrees. Our past does have a hold on us and will often move us from behind the scenes.

Communities are very imperfect, and it is this very imperfection that can bring to the surface our inner fears, anxieties, and yes even hatred. It can be quite the endless merry-go-round without the ring at the end. There is no happy ending.

As long as there are people, customs, and dysfunctions around us that we can complain about, either vocally, or not, we will not have to take responsibility for our part in the communal situation. We can stand apart and judge from a very limited perspective. What is this perspective? Well, one way of putting it is this: “I just want everything to go the way I want it, and by the way, I want all those brothers who annoy me, to just stop.” The problem is that it is not going to happen. I do think we are all on someone’s list.

Every community has some members who have to be shown compassion, and mercy, even though the ones receiving, cannot return it. We all have different limitations, some more severe than others. Those with the most severe need the most compassion and mercy. Even if it means they have to leave, or that they leave on their own. Or, the community as a whole has to live with it the best way they can.

Self-acceptance of others comes when we learn to love ourselves as Christ commands us to. This can be a problem, when we go deeper in prayer we begin to see aspects of ourselves that could be considered vile, very vile. Festering wounds that need healing will find ways of letting us know they are there. Dealing with our inner ‘demons’ can be a lifelong process, and what we learn from this is that others struggle as well. We all have goads that keep us moving forward, even if we are crippled, and move forward slowly.

How we treat one another, as well as ourselves, which I believe are inseparable, is like being a sower of the field. When we interact with others, we leave them either a better person or one that is wounded and perhaps pushed further into isolation.

I believe that before God, each soul is an entire universe. So in this room, we have a gathering of persons, each with a rich inner life, as well as their fair share of chaos, pain, and yes, evil. Each, if left to themselves becomes saddled with a sort of personal infallibility that actually become their hell. How do these persons communicate? The bridge out of hell is of course love. Not the sentimental kind, but love that is based on insight into the worth of all others, and that brings with it the desire to be just towards all, which is love lived out in real-time. It is humility that allows that to happen, where defenses are dropped, and there is no need to judge others harshly because we know ourselves, and understand that we are all on a journey together if we only learn to see, listen, and yes love. Perhaps the ‘death to self’ that Jesus talks about, is this actual dethronement of our own infallibility.

So, yes, now that I am older I can read the opening quote and understand what it is saying. It is not something based on self-hatred, or a bad self-image, but on truth, the awful truth of the human situation, and the struggle we all must go through in order to allow the grace of healing to take hold.

People talk about human freedom as if it is something we are born with. No, we are born with the potential to grow in freedom. However, it is a long slow process, and with healing, it can move forward at a faster pace. Yet, we must revisit the same struggles over and over again, with failures, and starting again. Humility allows us to not give in to despair, which is a great temptation I believe for all humans who seek to grow in their love of God and others. Grace works in secret, and it is the virtue of humility that allows us to embrace that reality, and quietly, lovingly move forward.

In the end, it is about trust.

There is a reason that our Father St. Benedict tells his monks to never despair of the mercy of God. As we mature, we understand more deeply why he had to put that in the rule.-Br.MD

If the Catholic Church made women priests,

Could they get married to Eastern Orthodox priests?

Jeremiah 17:9-10 ESV


I sometimes hear other people and some pastors quote verse nine here and apply it to all people, including to Christians, and that always bothers me. Why? Because, as Christians we should have hearts which are now surrendered to God. Our hearts shouldn’t be deceitful and desperately sick (wicked). Now I would agree that our fleshly hearts are like this before we have changed hearts, and prior to the Spirit living within us, but shouldn’t we have changed hearts, renewed of the Spirit of God?

For, we read in Matthew 5:8, “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” And we read in Matthew 6:20-21 that we are to lay up for ourselves treasures in heaven.. for where our treasure is, there our heart will be also. And in Matthew 12:34-35 we read, “Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. The good person out of his good treasure brings forth good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure brings forth evil.”

And in Matthew 22:37 we read, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” But how can we do that if we all have deceitful and wicked hearts? And in Luke 8:15 we read, “As for that in the good soil, they are those who, hearing the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with patience.” So, some people have honest and good hearts.

And in John 7:38 we read, “Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’” And in Acts 2:46 we read about “glad and generous hearts.” And in Acts 4:32 we read, “Now the full number of those who believed were of one heart and soul,” and that was a heart surrendered to God. And in Acts 13:22 we read, “I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my heart, who will do all my will.”

And in Acts 15:9 we read, “having cleansed their hearts by faith.” And in Romans 5:5 we read, “because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.” So, we can, by faith in Jesus, have cleansed and pure hearts. And in Romans 6:17 we read, “have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed.” So, we can have obedient hearts to God.

And in Romans 10:1 we read, “My heart's desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved.” And 2 Corinthians 4:6 says, “For God, who said, ‘Let light shine out of darkness,’ has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.” In Galatians 4:6 we read, “And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, ‘Abba! Father!’”

And Ephesians 3:17 says, “so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love.” And Ephesians 6:6 says, “not by the way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart.” And in Colossians 3:15, “compassionate hearts.” We read in 2 Thessalonians 3:5, “May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ.”

And in 1 Timothy 1:5, “The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.” And in 2 Timothy 2:22 we read, “So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.” So, if we believe in Jesus Christ with God-given faith in him, we can have pure hearts, good and honest hearts, and we can love God with our whole heart.

We can have glad and generous hearts, and hearts which are surrendered to Jesus Christ, and we can be people after God’s own heart, and have cleansed hearts, and hearts filled with the love of God. And we can have obedient hearts and hearts which desire good for others. We can have hearts filled with the light of truth, and Spirit-filled hearts, hearts that are committed to doing the will of God, compassionate hearts, and hearts which are directed to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ.

So, yes, in our sin nature, we have deceitful and wicked hearts. But once we have been transformed in heart and mind of the Spirit of God, and our hearts have been cleansed and made new by God-given faith in Jesus Christ, and God is living within our hearts, by faith in him, our hearts shouldn’t be deceitful and desperately wicked. Now they should be pure, honest, good, moral, upright, godly, generous, and hearts filled with the love of God.

But this doesn’t mean that everyone who professes faith in Jesus Christ has a pure, honest, upright, and godly heart committed to obedience to our Lord Jesus Christ. This comes through us daily dying to sin and to self and us daily surrendering our hearts to the Lord and walking in his ways and in his truth. But it is the Lord who tests our hearts, and he will give to each one of us according to our ways (see Romans 2:6-8; Galatians 6:7-8).

So, just know that not all of us have deceitful and desperately wicked hearts, not if our hearts have been cleansed and renewed of the Holy Spirit. But we still live in flesh bodies, and so we still have the ability to return to wicked and deceitful hearts if we cease to surrender our hearts to the Lord, and if we stop obeying the Lord, in practice, and if we go back to living in sin and for self. So, we need to guard our hearts so we keep having pure hearts.

My Sheep

An Original Work / June 24, 2012
Based off John 10:1-18 NIV

My sheep hear me. They know me.
They listen to my voice and obey.
I call them and lead them.
They know my voice, so they follow me.
They will never follow strangers.
They will run away from them.
The voice of a stranger they know not;
They do not follow him.

So, I tell you the truth that
I am the gate, so you enter in.
Whoever does enter
Will find forgiveness and will be saved.
Nonetheless whoever enters
Not by the gate; other way,
He is the thief and a robber.
Listen not, the sheep to him.

Oh, I am the Good Shepherd,
Who laid his own life down for the sheep.
I know them. They know me.
They will live with me eternally.
The thief only comes to steal and
Kill and to destroy the church.
I have come to give you life that
You may have it to the full…

They know my voice, so they follow me.

Login to view embedded media

Pray for anxiety at work to go away and also pray for a comfortable working environment with great respect for one another Amen

Hi all,
Any practicing lawyers on these forums? As an Aussie I just don't know - but would love to hear discussion on whether Trump could go to jail over the allegedly stolen Classified documents. Anyone know?

What does Colossians mean when it says we have been made meet, fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light? We whom have been delivered from the power of darkness and translated into the kingdom of God's Son. In whom we have been redeemed, bought back from the slavery of sin through His blood even having the forgiveness, removal of the sins. In whom we now have peace through the blood of His cross. Having been redeemed, bought back from the slavery of sin. Having the removal of sins that are past. Reconciled. One with God. No longer alienated and enemies through the wicked works of our mind, of our creation but reconciled in the body of His flesh through death. To be presented holy and unblameable, unblemished by sin and therefore unreproveable in His sight. But only If we continue settled and grounded in the faith that speaks what is written above. Not Removed from the hope of the Gospel. Which is Christ in us the hope of glory. Therein Striving according to His working that works in us mightily. Our Hearts comforted and knitted together in love. Unto all riches and the full assurance of the understanding and acknowledgement of this mystery which is Christ in you. In whom are hid all wisdom and knowledge.
So as we have received Christ Jesus let us walk in Him. Rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith. Abounding in it with thanksgiving even as we were taught. Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. For in Him dwells all the fullness of God bodily. And we are complete in Him. Circumcised with circumcision made without hands in the putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ. Buried with Him in baptism that old man be crucified with Him the body of sins be destroyed. Hence forth we do not serve sin but become servants of righteousness. Delivered from the power of darkness. Rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith. Having risen with Him through the faith and operation of God. Who raised Him from the dead. Quickened together with Him having forgiven us all our trespasses. What does all that mean if not us living sinless now?

The Perpetrators of the Crime of Dissolving a Christian Service in Lampung Were Not Arrested

The Lampung High Prosecutor's Office (Kejati) decided not to arrest Wawan Kurniawan, the RT head who was suspected of disbanding church services.

This is different if the offender is a non-Muslim. Generally non-Muslim perpetrators will be jailed. Look at what happened in the case of Ahok being imprisoned on the grounds of blasphemy, look at the case of Meiliana who was imprisoned on the grounds of blasphemy.

Another example of a Muslim figure who committed religious blasphemy against Christians is Ustads Abdul Somad, Habieb Rizieq and others. They were not jailed and free from accusations of religious blasphemy.

Source : Limpahkan ke Kejati Lampung, Ketua RT yang Bubarkan Ibadah Gereja Tak Lagi Ditahan

PRAY FEVENTLY AND SHARE

KASHMIRI MUSLIMS

Kashmiri (Muslim traditions) in India

ITALY

Prayercast | Italy

Abby Johnson replies to her awful pro choice song attacking the Supreme Court’s ruling.

Will Church leaders and the Catholic faithful remain silent in the face of these and other grave sins of our time?
A young child attends the Capital Pride Parade in Washington, D.C., on June 8, 2019.

Pride Month ends today, and although it seems its popularity is waning, children have again been the principal victims — and in some cases even the explicit target.

Cities around the world have staged LGBTQ parades, promoting an agenda that revolves around not only sexual depravity but also child genital mutilation.

But instead of being classed as a vulnerable group warranting protection from such evil insanity, children worldwide have been welcomed to such events while in their daily lives they are exposed to the depravity, even in schools where they face indoctrination.

At a parade in New York, drag queen marchers chanted, “We’re coming for your children” — a chant LGBTQ activists said has been used for years but insisted was taken out of context, according to a report in the New York Post.

Meanwhile, Catholic Church leaders, with very few notable exceptions, were silent about Pride Month throughout the month of June, and in some cases actively participated in what’s become akin to an annual “liturgical” celebration in the secular world.

“Pride Masses” took place in some U.S. cities such as Washington, D.C., though some bishops, notably including Bishop David Zubik of Pittsburgh, disavowed such a Eucharistic service in his diocese, leading to its cancellation.

Continued below.

I was wondering if masturbation is a sin? Like No porn, no thoughts or nothing. Just the sexual desire to want to have sex but in the act you’re not thinking about anyone sexual.. if anything what I am saying makes sense, lol

In order and relative duration, the progression of the person who becomes the ultimate expression of evil in the end times.

Sorry for the long title.
I am not sure if I should be putting this in general struggles or encouragement threads but this about my faith after seeing a miracle. And how I probably did not genuinely converse or dwell on it but rather assume and associate. So please excuse me. I'll put this in another thread if this is not the right one. Pls notify me first so I can copy and paste, and you can check my posts about my crisis of faith.
Thanks. GB and prayers. Pray
for me too please.

Not sure if this is a trial or a normal mental issue of mines. Or a trial...
I just don't want to not believe, or to be discouraged. And I don't want to know that through a trial but rather a comfort because of my crisis of faith. I didn't necessarily feel or think that I didn't believe, but that I was left skeptical after thinking about not being able to believe in christianity from hearing a miracle. Do I believe what was said? Or am I able to remain in my faith knowing this is a trial, or just a thinking error. Or do I check what is wrong with my heart. Of course I have to check it.

I just depressively question. Like it isn't me but my illness.
I remember Sophomore year, or like a couple months ago I had started suffering from something, like apathy, that turned into a bunch of other stuff over the course until now. It wasn't really my question but it sorta just came to my head, "Why should I care?" And then everything I was doing felt pointless. I felt for the first time, depressed. But I did not reason off of that. So can I say the same for this?

I feel comfortable like as if I'm comfortable in Christ.


I can't just see it as a reason why I should not believe, I should see it as a reason to believe, not because I don't choose to, but because I should.

Both of my ears are feel hot btw, I was on the toilet.
I was on instagram just
scrolling and still just introspecting as I still think I'm in my crisis of faith that I was in ever since last week but it was more like it showed me that I'm trusting my own faith and not trusting God. Associating things I don't necessarily need to associate with.

So I was on instagram and I came across a post from Pastor Travis Hearn and I heard about his testimony of him having a stroke, basal ganglia, and basically losing his cognition, his movement, speech, emotions, etc etc. And I was like "hm okayy" and then I just remembered my own level of faith within Christ. Within christianity. I started to think presumably as if I did not believe because of my crisis of faith. It was like I thought to myself, "If I can't believe in miracles, or his testimony, then what makes me think I can believe God's miracles? If I were to see Jesus's works?" Then I almost tried to justify myself because I feared I wasn't able to believe in God's miracles, and so I went online searching for other christians who are skeptical but for me, I think it may have been false assumptions about my own faith, and then associations that distanced me.

It made me think that my heart was unable to believe because I was not seeking to believe. If I did not agree or love God how could I just find myself believing christianity from this supposed miracle?

How could I not believe in miracles? I certainly felt like I had already believed but this just felt like a false alarm. The things of prayers I believed in were of faithful requests from believers to God about actually helping others see and feel. Like to soften their heart, to let them see. I believed in those prayers, I did not necessarily believe in the literal impossible miracles. But, I thought of another video explaining how miracles are possible by InspiringPhilosophy on YT.


This made me feel or think that I did not have faith even though I was literally just chilling, feeling like I was just a little comfort living, like as if I were living for God, (check my other posts for backstory and my situation)
I quickly disliked the video, but thought about how God could be using this to show me that I'm still trusting my faith, still trusting the thoughts and feelings that I get. Thoughts and feelings that sometimes just aren't mines.
I already feel like I'm chilling in Christ as I'm on the toilet but I just don't want to dwell and doubt and then be disheartened, or even worse, lose my faith completely.
I was wondering how I couldn't just be convinced to believe in christianity after hearing of his testimony. And so that made me feel or think that I was prideful, that something was wrong with my heart and I didn't want to admit it because I was afraid of condemnation.
Please. I want to see God again. I want to believe miracles are possible. The supposed irreversible being reversed. That's impossible logically speaking. I thought I was not going to believe in God because I thought or presumed that I didn't believe in the first place. I did listen. I even felt faithful too. I just don't know what to say except for I want to believe. I want you guys to pray for me.

I do not want to deny miracles. I just want to grow my faith in God. So that I know him. That I'm safe. That I can have peace and to enjoy life, but most importantly, to live by his will. To serve others. To love others. To love God with all my heart, soul, and mind.

CNN —
In a stinging defeat for President Joe Biden, the Supreme Court blocked the administration’s student loan forgiveness plan Friday, rejecting a program aimed at delivering up to $20,000 of relief to millions of borrowers struggling with outstanding debt.

Republican-led states and conservatives challenging the program say it amounts to an unlawful attempt to erase an estimated $430 billion of federal student loan debt under the guise of the pandemic.

"There are several distinguishing features between psychology and spirituality. Spirituality is firstly about issues that lie at the core of a person's identity and motivation for life. For example, a sense of meaning and purpose are fundamental issues that have a major bearing on the attitudes, emotions, and behavior that form a person's identity. The second distinguishing feature is the relationship with the transcendent. Psychological aspects are very much influenced by social relationships. However, inherent within the concept of spirituality is a relationship that may be shared by our social network but involves a connection with something or someone outside these relationships that is transcendent or even sacred.



Yes, how doe son distinguish psychology from spirituality? Does an atheist have spirituality?

I thought this was a good article dealing with the subject.

Jewish historian Flavius Josephus wrote in Antiquities of the Jews, Book 18, Chapter 5, Section 2:

See How to get a wife

Praying for God to intercede and give favor in a situation with Uhaul company. I accidentally scrapped the side of the Uhaul when parking it, which I had full insurance from their company and they are saying because it is 3 feet from the top that its considered the roof and not covered by insurance. (which is not in the paperwork at all) I have reached out to two of the managers for them to relook into it as now they said I owe over $2,000 but they are not replying to my email. I asked them for a lower qoute or for the insurance policy to be relooked at.

please pray for my daughter she has very extremely low iron, heavy menstruation, low vitamin C, and Sodium. She is only 15 and she is a believer.
Thank you

Philippians 2:14-16 ESV


We, as followers of Jesus Christ are not to be people who go around grumbling and complaining about everything and everybody. We are not to be people who go around trying to pick fights with people just for the pleasure of being argumentative. But there are people like this. And I am not claiming absolute perfection in this area, for I can’t claim that I am perfect in my speech at all times and in all ways, even though I am walking with the Lord in faithful obedience to him day by day.

But let me say this here. Sharing the truth of the gospel and confronting the lies of Satan and exposing the fruitless deeds of darkness are being regarded these days as “negative,” and we are being told that we are not to be negative but that we are to be positive and upbeat people at all times. But if you might recall, the people of old said the same things to the prophets of old, telling them to stop confronting them with the Holy One of Israel, but to tell them sweet things, and things to make them feel good.

So this Scripture is not teaching us that we have to go around being upbeat all the time, always telling people only what makes them feel good. For it that were true, we would have to throw out most of the Scriptures. For all throughout both the Old and the New Testaments we are taught to put off lies, sexual immorality, adultery, stealing and cheating, etc., and we are to put on moral purity and faithfulness and honesty, etc. And we are to speak the truth in love, and we are to expose the fruitless deeds of darkness.

And we are to live morally pure and upright and godly and holy lives, in the power of God, and in obedience to our Lord, so that we can shine as lights of the truth of the gospel in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, which has now infiltrated much of the gatherings of the church, or of what is falsely being called church here in America. For so much of the church has altered their gatherings and the gospel message in order to attract the people of the world to their gatherings, and that is all backwards.

For the purpose of the gatherings of the church is to gather together those of genuine God-given faith in Jesus Christ for their mutual encouragement and edification and spiritual growth and maturity so that they can then go out into the world and to share the truth of the gospel with the ungodly, which includes with those making false professions of faith in Christ. For so many professers of faith in Jesus Christ are not living the faith they profess, for so many of them are buying into the lies of the enemy.

So, what is the truth of the gospel that we should be sharing with the ungodly of this world? It is what Jesus said:



Video Talk
Login to view embedded media Caution: This link may contain ads

My Sheep

An Original Work / June 24, 2012
Based off John 10:1-18 NIV

My sheep hear me. They know me.
They listen to my voice and obey.
I call them and lead them.
They know my voice, so they follow me.
They will never follow strangers.
They will run away from them.
The voice of a stranger they know not;
They do not follow him.

So, I tell you the truth that
I am the gate, so you enter in.
Whoever does enter
Will find forgiveness and will be saved.
Nonetheless whoever enters
Not by the gate; other way,
He is the thief and a robber.
Listen not, the sheep to him.

Oh, I am the Good Shepherd,
Who laid his own life down for the sheep.
I know them. They know me.
They will live with me eternally.
The thief only comes to steal and
Kill and to destroy the church.
I have come to give you life that
You may have it to the full…

They know my voice, so they follow me.

Login to view embedded media

From classic recipes like a perfect shrimp cocktail and a cheesy, bay shrimp melt to modern favorites like bang bang shrimp pasta, we’ve rounded up the 30 best shrimp recipes ever.

The 30 Best Shrimp Recipes, Ever​

Quick, convenient and always a bit of a treat, shrimp is one of our favorite ingredients. And these shrimp recipes—the best of the internet, as far as we’re concerned—really showcase how fantastic everyone’s favorite little pink crustacean can be. You can keep a bag of shrimp on hand in the freezer and know that you’ve always got a quick and delicious dinner at your fingertips. If you feel intimidated when shopping for shrimp—because of questions about sustainability, buying fresh or frozen, or just because there are so many different types and sizes—not to worry! This post has some great tips about how to shop for shrimp. Whether you’re wondering ‘what can I make with a bag of frozen cooked shrimp?’ or ‘is there such a thing as a dinner that’s fast and fancy?’ or even just ‘can I eat shrimp cocktail for dinner?’, we’ve rounded up 30 easy shrimp recipes that will surely answer your question. But, for what it’s worth, we say a resounding YES, yes you can eat shrimp cocktail for dinner.

Without further ado, we give you the very best shrimp recipes:

Ridiculously Easy Shrimp Recipes​

• Garlic Shrimp Stir-Fry. Cooking shrimp in a stir-fry is a natural fit for these juicy little crustaceans. Sautéed quickly over high heat, with a flavorful sauce and some veggies, this recipe is all but guaranteed to produce perfect shrimp every time.
• Old Bay Shrimp and Sausage Sheet Pan Dinner. Big, juicy shrimp, sausage and asparagus are sprinkled with Old Bay seasoning, roasted on a sheet pan and served with a lemony aioli. YUM!
• Honey Garlic Shrimp. Done in just 20 minutes, this speedy stir-fried honey and garlic shrimp is just absolutely delicious!
• Sheet Pan Shrimp Boil. All the flavors and ingredients that make a seafood boil so good—hello, Old Bay!—cooked on a sheet pan to make life just a little easier.
• Garlic grilled shrimp skewers. After a 30-minute marinade—shrimp don't need much time!—in a garlic-herb dressing, jumbo shrimp cook quickly on the grill, making for a fresh, light dinner that just screams summer.

Continued below.