If you've heard of it and want to watch it, you can click the link below to stream the full 90 minute documentary off of Twitter. I've been wanting to watch it since it's released but was unable to because I couldn't subscribe to DW+. The stream came out this morning on Twitter and just today it has over 80 million views and counting, prompting Daily Wire to extend it's viewing another 24 hours through Saturday the 3rd.

Matt Walsh is one of the 5-7 top personalities at Daily Wire along with Ben Shapiro, Jeremy Boering, Andrew Klaven, Michael Knowles, Candace Owens, and Jordan Peterson. Walsh, along with Knowles, is a traditional Catholic as well which is the primary force shaping his views. He created What Is A Woman? to analyze and shine a light on the transgender movement and the terrible threat it poses to everyone, including and especially children.

It should be streamable on any device with internet access below:

Bible Banned From Utah School District

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Good Book is being treated like a bad book in Utah after a parent frustrated by efforts to ban materials from schools convinced a suburban district that some Bible verses were too vulgar or violent for younger children.
The 72,000-student Davis School District north of Salt Lake City removed the Bible from its elementary and middle schools while keeping it in high schools after a committee reviewed the scripture in response to a parental complaint.

A copy of the complaint obtained by The Salt Lake Tribune through a public records request shows that the parent noted the Bible contains instances of incest, prostitution and rape. The complaint derided a “bad faith process” and said the district was “ceding our children’s education, First Amendment Rights, and library access” to Parents United.

“Utah Parents United left off one of the most sex-ridden books around: The Bible,” the parent’s complaint, dated Dec. 11, said. It later went on to add, “You’ll no doubt find that the Bible (under state law) has ‘no serious values for minors’ because it’s pornographic by our new definition.”

President Joe Biden claimed Friday that inflation has fallen for 10 straight months, just days after the Bureau of Economic Analysis announced that the Federal Reserve's preferred inflation gauge rose in April.
Good to hear. I just must have been going to the wrong stores.

Gender-confused woman boasts that killing her baby was an 'easy decision.'


(LifeSiteNews) — A gender-confused woman who goes by the name “Lucky” thanked Planned Parenthood for both her abortion and giving her “gender-affirming care.”

The abortion giant posted the video to kick off “Pride Month,” the annual celebration in June of the LGBT agenda, which is also named for the deadliest sin.

Planned Parenthood said it wanted to share her story to help ensure abortion becomes “normalized.”

“When it comes to your abortion, any reason is the right reason,” Planned Parenthood tweeted. “Telling your abortion story is important, and the more we talk about this essential form of health care [sic], the more normalized it becomes.”

“Hi, my name is ‘Lucky.’ I’ve had an abortion and I get gender-affirming care [sic] from Planned Parenthood. I wound up in a very, very difficult relationship. And within three months, I found out that I was pregnant,” the gender-confused woman says. “I was like, ‘oh, no.'”

She said her “abortion was one of the greatest acts of compassion” she had “ever committed.”

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Hi everyone,

I've been lurking the forums for a few weeks and decided to join up because I think it would be better to engage in some of the conversation rather than just watch from the side lines. I've been having problems with Paul as I found some blogs online that tried to depose him of his apostolic position, so any fellow Christians that have good resources on that topic, that would be greatly appreciated. I'm also pretty new to using forums myself, so if I format anything incorrectly or fail to post links and such, then please be patient with me. Other than that I hope to have a pleasant time while I'm here and to grow in my faith and understanding.

Hello everyone…I’m new here.

CLEVELAND, Ohio – A Bay Village priest is facing backlash after saying the church is “under attack” and referencing a pro-LGBTQ nonprofit in a sermon Sunday.

The Mass was interrupted when someone stood up and challenged the issue. Later, police were called to an incident outside of the house of worship.


During a service at St. Raphael Parish, the Rev. Timothy W. Gareau, the church’s pastor, referenced the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence being awarded the Community Hero Award by the Los Angeles Dodgers for service to the LGBTQ community.

“Look at the Los Angeles Dodgers. Look what’s happening. Defaming the name of Jesus Christ. Defaming the name of every Christian here on Earth. It just burns a hole in my heart, angers me and embitters me. And it should you,” he said during his homily, which was live streamed online.

The videos have since been removed from the church’s Facebook page.

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There has always been controversy as how many were crucified with Jesus ?

Was it 2 that were crucified with Jesus ?

Or was it four that were Crucified with Jesus ?

Some say 2 and some believe it was 4 ?

What say you ?

dan p

Is it sin to call people by their gender identity, even though I know that men cannot become women and women cannot become men? It is scientifically impossible.

If this is, in fact, his data, how is it legal to post a private citizen's private info online for any and all to peruse?

How many people here have studied the Hebrew concept of ga'al? It is epitomized in the book of
Ruth when Boaz purchases the right to buy back the rights of Naomi to the land of her husband and sons lost when a severe famine caused them to have to sell their rights to their inheritance and move to Moab.

To study this you need an e-Bible that has the KJV and Strong's Concordance, or use an online Bible such as the Blue Letter Bible and a Strong's concordance, or hardest of all, a concordance, a Strong's Concordance and a KJV Bible. There are several e-Bibles available for free online such as e-sword and Xiphos which will run on Windows.

The word redeemer in the OT comes from the Hebrew word ga'al which is #1350 in Strong's. The word redeemer is found 18 times in the OT and every time it is found it is a reference to Christ.

I did this study at least 10 years ago but lost it when my old computer was hacked as I had not backed it up. I had approximately 50 megs of notes from this study. The notes were sqaved in html so the actual volume was less than that but thaty is still a large quantity of noes as this concept is found in both th OT and NT and found throughout the writings of Ellen White. My notes included both Biblical and SOP quotes. It took me a few months to do the study which I spent several hours a day doing.

In all I found 220+ texts related to this concept in the Bible as it covers every aspect of our salvation including Christ purchasing back our dominion over the earth which Adam surrendered when he sinned.

This is a fascinating study and you will find that it will be a large spirirual blessing to you if you take it up. It certainly was for me. I found out a lot I hadn't known before about the plan of salvation and God's love for humanity.

Corpus Christi Day processions - thoughts and memories

The illustration demeans and desecrates the pivotal point in human history: the Incarnation, Passion, death, and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.

(LifeSiteNews) — They say a picture is worth a thousand words. What about a profane illustration that demeans and desecrates the pivotal point in human history: the Incarnation, Passion, death, and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ?

The illustration accompanies an online promotion of a play by Jesuit-run America Magazine’s LGBT-targeting publication, Outreach. But the play which it advertises is unimportant. However, the illustration and what it signifies is of grave concern.

To Satan, this is a priceless work of art. It is a symbol of victory, of his vain pride pretending to triumph over the cross of Christ. It is the ultimate mockery of Christ. And it has been thrust upon us just as “Pride Month” begins.

In the illustration, LGBTQ, “Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transgender-Questioning,” has dislodged the greatest title known to man: “Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews.” It is an attempt to simultaneously erase every other superlative by which Our Lord and savior is known: The Lion of the tribe of Judah, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, the Alpha and the Omega, who has triumphed by His blood.

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Not sure what his angle is on this one (apart from being an obvious, petty, and superficial attack on who he sees as his main rival)

But he's been taking a number of stances recently that could be seen as somewhat counterproductive given the base he's chosen to endear himself to over the past 6 years.

He appeared to side with Disney over DeSantis

Appears to be chastising others in the GOP for being "too strict" on abortion (not two months after bragging and taking credit for "killing Roe v. wade").

He also has been taking a "not so conservative stance" on certain entitlement programs.



Had he built his base off of the Chris Sununu/Larry Hogan centrist type of republicans, this strategy may make some sense.

However, he's spent a good part of the last decade trying to ally with and energize the most right wing part of the base, only to then run to the left of his main primary opponent?? Seems like a gamble.

Only thing I can figure is that maybe he has campaign advisors in his ear giving him the impression that he'll easily cruise through the primaries, and these more "softened" stances are part of a strategy to gain more moderate/independent votes that he was lacking (and caused him to lose to Biden) in 2020.

Or, perhaps I'm giving it too much thought and it really is just as simple as the short-sighted "ready, fire, aim" mentality he's become known for.

Attend a Corpus Christi procession​

To this day, the Fronleichnamprozession is still seen as a symbolic embodiment of contemporary Bavarian Christianity.

Although some of the most famous Feast of Corpus Christi processions take place in more rural communities outside Germany's major cities, processions can also be seen in cities such as Munich and Frankfurt. The Feast of Corpus Christi processions usually begin early in the morning, so plan your visit accordingly if you don’t want to miss out on witnessing these magnificent processions.

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Well said!

There's just a lot of evidence that pops up constantly the points towards a longer human time line than what the Creationist talk about. I find them an interesting read.

153,000-year-old footprints from South Africa are the oldest Homo sapiens tracks on record

Apocatastasis - OrthodoxWiki

I am a lapsed Eastern Orthodox Christian considering returning to the faith. If I were to do so, I would embrace the teaching of universal reconciliation. I refuse to believe that an all-loving God would send beings created in His image to eternal conscious torment for finite sins, with no chance of ultimate reconciliation. This doesn't mean that, in the afterlife, people will be converted against their will. But His love will ultimately penetrate and transform anyone willing to be open to it.

2 Corinthians 1:8-11 ESV


Jesus told us that if we follow him with our lives, in truth, and in action, and not in lip service only, that we will be hated and persecuted as he was hated and persecuted. For if we follow the Lord with our lives, the people of the world should not embrace us as their own, but they should be against us and what we stand for. And we should be experiencing that opposition from the ungodly and from those who are still being led by the flesh and not by the Spirit, which may include some pastors and elders of “churches.”

I have felt what Paul described here. I know what it is like to be physically, emotionally, mentally, and/or spiritually abused and mistreated. I know what it is like to be in despair and to feel utterly hopeless as though there is no way out of what I was going through. The Lord allowed me to go through many such experiences in my life so that I could feel what others feel who are being persecuted for their walks of faith in Jesus Christ. Yes, it is true that I have not had all such experiences as others, but I have had many.

The physical abuse was at the hands of my father when I was growing up as a child, and that is the extent of my physical abuse. But that was horrific enough. But there are other ways in which we can be mistreated and abused and persecuted which are not of a physical nature, but which can be extremely painful, nonetheless. We can have people falsely accuse us of things we did not do and turn others against us, who will also reject us and cast us aside because of the seriousness of our walks of faith in the Lord.

We can have people yell and scream at us because we are following the Lord and not the flesh, and because we are not with the majority, but because we are with the minority, and because we are actually testing what we read and hear against the Scriptures in context, and because we don’t just believe everything we hear coming from the mouths of those who claim to be of God and who claim to be telling people the truth. For if we are truly living lives separate from the world and unto God, we are going to be persecuted.

And we can be greatly misunderstood by other Christians (or by those giving lip service only to the Lord) who are living more worldly lives, and because of the seriousness of our walks of faith, and because we take the Scriptures to heart, and so we obey them in practice, though not in absolute perfection. And they may cast judgments on us based on themselves and on their own prejudices and culture and traditions and worldly thinking. And they may be people who actually side with our persecutors and against us.

And we can have others who profess faith in Jesus Christ betray us and do evil against us and set traps for us like Jesus’ persecutors did to him. And they may be mean and hateful and spiteful towards us because we are walking in obedience to the Lord when they are not, and so we are an offense to them. And this is especially true at this time when so many “Christians” are following a diluted and altered gospel. And many of them are being trained to oppose us strongly and/or even deceitfully.

And when this piles up, and when we have no other humans to rescue us from this evil, but we often have to stand alone, but not alone because God is with us, it can be very disheartening, for sure. And when this increases, the closer we walk with the Lord, and the more that we truly are separate (unlike, different) from the world, it can be extremely emotionally painful when it appears as though all have deserted us. And Paul felt this, and so did some of the prophets of old. Jeremiah definitely comes to mind here.

But what did Paul say here? He said that this was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead. Amen! Persecution can be very humbling. And in our sorrow and despair it can lead us right into the arms of Jesus and into much deeper walks of faith which we may not have otherwise had. Especially when we have nowhere to turn but to God for our comfort, and for our encouragement, it can actually work to increase our faith and our walks of obedience to our Lord. So that can be good for us.

And then what did Paul do? He didn’t keep his persecutions and his difficult experiences to himself, and neither did Jesus. They talked about them. Why? For our comfort and encouragement, if not for now, for a future time when we will go through similar experiences, and so we will know that grace of God which can carry us through such difficulties. And so we will trust the Lord even in these difficult times, and so we will not lose heart, and so we will not give up the fight, but so we will persevere in running the race.

So, the Lord has had me share some of my experiences so that you know that you are not alone in your suffering, if you are suffering as I have suffered, and so you hopefully will find encouragement and hope and healing in knowing, by the grace of God, that we can endure, and we can come out of these times of suffering whole and healed and on fire for the Lord, and not discouraged and not be in despair and not ready to give up all hope. And that is why Jesus and Paul and others shared their experiences, too.

And so the Lord has had me write two books, not professionally published, but just posted on the internet, where I share some of those experiences, and even my own failures, but how God has used those experiences in my life to make me who I am so that I would answer his call on my life, and so that I will do what he has called me to do in sharing what he teaches me each day through his word and to put it on the internet.

The first one was written in 2018, and it has 17 chapters. The second one was written maybe a week ago, and it has 7 chapters. So, out of obedience to my Lord I am going to share with you the links to these two books so that you can read them, as the Lord leads you, if you have at all identified with anything I have shared with you today. And, again, this is for your encouragement, to give you hope in your difficult circumstances so that you know that there is a “rainbow at the end of the storm”.



I Pray for Them

An Original Work / June 4, 2013
Based off John 17

“Glorify Your Son, that Your Son
May glorify our God in heav’n.
Father, You granted Him all power
And all authority over men,
That He might give eternal life
To all those whom now
You have given Him.”

“This now then is eternal life:
That they may know You,
Father, and Your Son;
That they may know the only true God,
And Jesus Christ whom the Father sent.
I have brought You the glory by
Finishing the work that You’ve given Me.”

“I have shown You to those whom
You gave to Me out of the world;
They were Yours. You gave them to Me
And they have obeyed Your words
And they accepted them. They knew
That I came from You, and they believed
With certainty, I was sent.”

“Holy Father, I pray for them by the
Power of Your name: Protect them,
So that they may be one as we are,
For they are still living in this world.
I have given them Your word;
Because of Your word, the world
Has hated them.”

“I pray they may have the full measure of
My joy now living within them.
Father, I pray You sanctify them
By Your word; truly Your word is truth.
As You sent Me into the world,
I send them to tell the world to repent.”

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The Guardian
2 JUNE 2023

Australia’s lowest-paid workers to get 5.75% increase in minimum wage


Almost 2.75 million Australians will receive a pay rise of 5.75% from July 1 after the Fair Work Commission announced its decision for those on minimum and award wages.

The annual wage review decision, released on Friday, indicates the minimum wage will increase to (Aus)$882.80 per week or (Aus)$23.23 per hour.

For some workers, the rise will be 8.6%.

Workers’ salaries have been falling in real terms in recent years as salary increases have failed to keep up with inflation. For the March quarter of this year, wages rose at an annual rate of 3.7%, well shy of the 7% annual rise in consumer prices.

The increase is about midway between the 3.8% some businesses called for, and the 7% sought by the ACTU (Australian Council of Trade Unions - OB)


SOURCE
Australia’s lowest-paid workers to get 5.75% increase in minimum wage | Industrial relations | The Guardian

(The Australian Fair Work Commission (FWC) reviews the national minimum wage yearly. FWC minimum wage decisions set the mandatory minimum wage for all workers across the country.

Australia does not have a separate minimum wage rate for service employees in restaurants etc. (we don’t normally tip))
- OB

anyone know about gematria?
here's a link Gematria - Wikipedia
it's interesting that jesus and messiah = 444 and mark of beast = 666
so what do you guys think?

I am a lapsed Eastern Orthodox Christian considering returning to the Orthodox faith, wondering if it has room for open theists. As far as I've read, Sergei Bulgakov may have been an open theist.

Daniel 4:34 (NASB95)
“But at the end of that period, I, Nebuchadnezzar, raised my eyes toward heaven and my reason returned to me, and I blessed the Most High and praised and honored Him who lives forever; For His dominion is an everlasting dominion, And His kingdom endures from generation to generation.

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Such is the analogy of the fall into the life of this world…. For as Nebuchadnezzar lost the sense of the life of a man, so was the fall of man into the life of this world….. For as man’s life is a greater degree of life than that of an animals, so was man’s first created life greater than that of the life that man fell into…. For as plant life has no understanding of animal life and animal life no understanding of man’s life…. Man’s life has no understanding of the Divine life, though all are life, the lesser life has no understanding of the greater life…. The evidence that the above is true, is, the carnal mind of man can not receive the things of God…. It is the new birth that is that life which restores to man the ability to once again receive the things of God… For it follows; to the degree the new birth has grown, to that degree will one be able to see, understand, and experience the things of God…

For just as Nebuchadnezzar’s reason had to be returned to him to understand once again the life of a man, the new birth is the necessary life so man might once again have the ability to understand and experience and know the things of God….

It is this new life grown in an individual that is the salvation purchased by Christ…. All but the growing of this life in one is but man’s attempt to grab onto a salvation of one’s own imaginings…. For the Divine life was lost at the fall, the growing, understanding and experiencing of said life is one’s salvation…. For salvation is a real new life come to life in the soul, which new life can only be experienced by the new life itself…. All other life is but blind and can not see or understand this new life just the same as plant, animal, can not understand the greater life…. Such is the reason for faith, for faith alone can access into the greater life…. For this lesser life must be given up if one would experience the growing of the greater life, for to the degree of the giving up of the lesser will be one’s experiencing of the greater….

So therefore faith is the substance that accesses the sense and understanding of the life that is greater than the life that one was born into when born into the life of this world….

‘access by faith into the grace wherein we stand’

or, for contemplation;

‘access by faith into the life wherein we stand’


Be blessed in the faith that accesses, a fellow follower, Not me

So I’m thinking about buying a diptych for my baby’s nursery. Only thing is, it says it’s a wedding diptych but its medium size (Diptych: Virgin of Kazan and Jesus Christ the Teacher in blue velvet case, medium icons - Wedding Set) and only 5.75 X 10 inches open.


Would this be okay? I mean…it’s not as big as the one in our icon corner of the main part of the house.

Hi guys! Do you guys think God would allow someone to go back in time to give themself a piece of information that would prevent them from falling away after being deceived and losing The Holy Spirit? If so, does anyone know of anyone that might be able to take them there?

Did God want us to go to church, or did He want us to live a specific way ?