I'm not an admirer of Donald Trump but I don't think he is the anti-Christ. I do have my suspicions of another American political figure, but he's been very quiet for the last few years so I could easily be wrong. However my old Presbyterian pastor nominated the figure I've got in mind, saying "Something seems to come through his voice" and "He's rotten to the core". The last phrase was a sentiment expressed word for word by an ABC journalist to my surprise, but she died a few years ago.

There was an opinion peace in the ABC (Australia) onine news today entitled "Is Trump the Anti-Christ"?

The author is Robyn Whitaker, Associate Professor of New Testament at the University of Divinity, founding Director of The Wesley Centre for Theology, Ethics, and Public Policy and author of Even the Devil Quotes Scripture.


I disagree with her assertion that "... there is no one antichrist..." I think there will be although there are, have been and will be many types of anti-Christs.

So let’s ask the provocative question: is Donald Trump the antichrist? The short answer is no, because there is no one antichrist. To claim that the number 666 refers to a specific person is to misunderstand the symbolic and polyvalent nature of the ancient biblical texts.

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The Catholic Catechism states that ...

The supreme religious deception is that of the Antichrist, a pseudo-messianism by which man glorifies himself in place of God and of his Messiah come in the flesh. 575

676 The Antichrist's deception already begins to take shape in the world every time the claim is made to realize within history that messianic hope which can only be realized beyond history through the eschatological judgement.

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The opinion piece was not an item I expected to see in the ABC news which I think is a bit left wing, although I find they're usually accurate as a news source. I like their uncluttered online news site, and generally refer to them for my newsworthy information. I don't watch much television news although I often see our local Channel 7 news in passing as I'm likely to be cooking or eathing our evening meal around that time. My wife watches Channel 7 in the main, and is an addict to "Home and Away", which is a Channel 7 soapie set in "Summer Bay".

Matthew 24.39 - That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.

Do you think this will include planes falling out of the skies , cars and other vehicles crashing into one another etc.
Because I had some awful thoughts about this. What if one day I'm driving my family or friends somewhere and I'm the only Christian in the car.........
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I have been reading about TB Joshua. It got me rather perplexed. Apparently, he didn't just have 'moral failings'. Don't we all? But there were miracles and conversion and church growth (along with all those controversies that always accompany such movements). In my boring, uncharismatic, mainstream traditional church wild, bizarre and bad things don't happen. But neither does growth or passion for the things of God.
We can adopt two extreme opinions (unnecessarily IMO) - one, those sexual and other predations and coercions are exaggerated or lies by hostile actors or two, the entire ministry was counterfeit or satanic. But do we need to do this?
I understand personally the temptation that as believers saved by grace our works good or bad should not affect our salvation. Our good deeds and inner renewal should be in response to the Work of Christ, who now calls us His friends. My Orthodox friends say that the more they grow in Christ, the more they are aware of the greatness of their worldliness and especially their pride - the original sin in the Garden of Eden.
Now that church leadership has been left behind in my retirement, and I know more about the private lives of my co-leaders after their deaths, I see how flawed they actually were, how often quite concerned for their own dignity and getting their own way. (I always knew that I was such a person and that held me back from from what I was capable of doing).

Can you please say a prayer for me?

I am spiritually DRAGGING, and my anxiety is worsening.

Please pray for my own salvation and grace.

Blessings

My mental health is worsening and worsening, and my anxiety is getting worse.

Plase pray for me.

Blessings!

...and restricts entry from other countries.

The ban, which goes into effect on Monday, bars travel to the United States by citizens of Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.

Mr. Trump also imposed restrictions — but stopped short of a full ban — on travel from Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela. People from those countries cannot come to the United States permanently or get tourist or student visas.

“The recent terror attack in Boulder, Colo., has underscored the extreme dangers posed to our country by the entry of foreign nationals who are not properly vetted, as well as those who come here as temporary visitors and overstay their visas,” Mr. Trump said in a video message announcing the travel ban. “We don’t want them.”

Curiously, Egypt is not on the list.

I was watching this video by Gavin Ortlund on his YouTube channel "Truth Unites."

I respect Gavin a lot.

However, I don't think AI will EVER be "conscious."

AI is for sure dangerous, but do you think AI could ever become conscious?

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Please pray for the health of my dog. She is diabetic, and is becoming lethargic again. She is constantly throwing up and won’t eat. I am taking her to the vet tomorrow, but please pray that she gets better

If we, who profess faith in Jesus Christ, allow sin to reign in our mortal bodies, and if we then gather together with the body of Christ, we are not going to be able to have a spiritual influence on the rest of the church which will lead them to walks of faith in obedience to our Lord in holy living. We will either have no influence at all, or a negative one, for what comes out of our mouths comes from what is stored up in our hearts. And all it takes is one bad influence to begin the spread of influence contrary to God’s will.

Now there are people who fake their Christianity, and those who are charlatans and wolves in sheep’s clothing who may appear to say the right things when they are trying to impress, manipulate, and/or deceive others with their lies, so we have to be very discerning here. For just because they may sound religious, and as though they are speaking the truth, it does not mean that lies are not in the mix or that they are not trying to gain your support for a later time in which they will convince you with their lies.

And this is why the New Testament Scriptures speak to the church and to all who profess the name of Jesus over and over again, warning all of us against lies and liars and deceptions and false teachings and Satan’s traps, and against falling for these deceptions. And it is why we have warnings such as this, and instructions in what to do to correct the situation, so that we don’t all end up in the pit thinking that we are in the right place. For all it takes is one rotten piece of fruit to infect the others and to rot them all.

And from the perspective of a 75 year old, who grew up attending church gatherings from infanthood, and who has lived many different places, and been a part of many different gatherings of the church (or the false church), and been very active in Christian ministry most of her life, including in church planting, I can tell you that deception has been working its way very slowly through the church, at least all of my life, and they have very slowly been diluting and altering the gospel to make it less offensive to the world.

And so rather than removing from their midst (see verse 2) those who are willfully, deliberately, and habitually living sinful lifestyles, with no signs of genuine repentance and changed hearts and lives, many coddle the habitual sinners in their sin, and they convince them that a mere verbal profession of faith in Jesus Christ assures them of forgiveness of all sin and heaven as their eternal resting place, but regardless of how they live. And if they feel guilty, they tell them to just claim who they are in Christ, which is a lie.

For if we made a profession of faith in Jesus Christ, but then we went right on living just like we did before we made the profession of faith, we are not really “in Christ,” by faith in him. For faith which saves comes from God, it is persuaded of God, and it is gifted to us by God. And it is not of our own doing, so we don’t get to decide what that faith looks like. For biblical faith results in us denying self, dying with Christ to sin, and walks of obedience to our Lord’s commands, in practice, by the grace of God, in the power of God.

And this is not saying that we will be absolutely perfect in all ways from that point forward (1 John 2:1-2) and that we will never fail or never sin. But sin is no longer to be what we live by, what we practice. Rather, holy living and righteousness are to be what we practice, and obedience to our Lord and to his commands. And if at any time we wander from that, we must come back to following our Lord and walking in his ways. But habitual wandering is still deliberate and habitual sinning against God, which will not end in heaven.

So, the encouragement here for the church, as a whole, is to be God’s holy people who walk in righteousness and in obedience to the Lord, and for whom sin is not their practice, who also exercise church discipline on those who refuse to genuinely repent of their sinful lifestyles and to change their life course to follow the Lord in obedience. And please know that repentance is not just saying you are sorry, especially if you are sinning and saying you are sorry deliberately and habitually, and the cycle keeps going on forever.

[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]

Seek the Lord

An Original Work / July 20, 2012
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
Musical Instrumentation by Mark Bradley
Based off Isaiah 55

“Come to Me all you who thirst; come to waters.
Listen to Me, and eat what’s good today,
And your soul will delight in richest of fare.
Give ear to Me, and you will live.
I have made an eternal covenant with you.
Wash in the blood of the Lamb.”

Seek the Lord while He may be found; call on Him.
Let the wicked forsake his way, in truth.
Let him turn to the Lord, and he will receive mercy.
Freely, God pardons him.
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,”
declares the Lord, our God.

“My word that goes out of My mouth is truthful.
It will not return to Me unfulfilled.
My word will accomplish all that I desire,
And achieve the goal I intend.
You will go in joy and be led forth in peace.
The mountains will burst into song… before you,
And all of the trees clap their hands.”

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Deliberate and Habitual Sinning
An Original Work / June 4, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

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I saw that the temp head of FEMA was unaware that there was a hurricane season. ??? FEMA has been hit by DOGE.


Yesterday, a weatherman in South Florida, with a long career at forecasting reported this:

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There is concern in Texas as well .

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Trump supporters, is this what you voted for? Does the public safety mean much to you?


BTW, cutting funding to NOAA was part of Project 2025. I remember the denials that it was a thing for Trump.

Mr. Wray should be arrested.

TPUSA founder says he's a 'massive fan' of Greenwald's

Some of the most prominent Christian influencers — including the leader of the nation’s largest conservative youth organization — are defending the reputation of independent journalist Glenn Greenwald following the leak of a sexually explicit video of him.

Greenwald, 58, best known as a co-founding editor of The Intercept and a former Guardian columnist, said the video released May 30 on social media was done so by “maliciously political” actors. In a statement on X, Greenwald, calling the act “criminal,” said the sexually graphic videos “were released online depicting behavior in my private life. Some were distorted and others were not.”

According to clips shared on social media, the video shows Greenwald, who is openly gay, dressed in women’s clothing and engaging in what he called “fully consensual behavior” with another man. The footage reportedly includes a man speaking Portuguese demanding 10,000 Brazilian Real, or roughly $2,000, which Greenwald is seen paying via PayPal.

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It's time to end this nonsense.

Two suspects, both in the military, were booked into jail on multiple firearm-related offenses. Each are being held on $500,000 bail, and will likely face additional federal charges.

An FBI SWAT team raided an address in Lacey and seized over 35 firearms, armor and other weapons surrounded by Nazi paraphernalia.


In total, authorities recovered:

• Short barrel rifles
• An MG42 machine gun
• Grenade launchers
• Explosives
• Body armor
• Ballistic helmets
• Ammunition

MSN

The book, "Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines," pledges to take readers through the "betrayal by the Democratic Party" that prompted Biden's decision.

More Democrats leaving a failing Party

Hi everyone, I would greatly appreciate your prayers- facebook has recently disabled my account, I have been trying to get it restored by creating a new account like 5 times now but that has been denied every time, I need to get my facebook back on-line as it has been a great ministry tool for me and I have been able to bless alot of people with it, I also use it to keep in touch with alot of other believers. Whenever I receive a teaching or revelation from God I just go down the list and send it off to everyone I know, I also will post it to Christian facebook groups with millions of members. I have probably been able to bless thousands of people with it. Please pray for the restoration of my facebook and that I get it back on-line! Thanks!

CBO: Tariffs will reduce total federal deficits by $2.8 trillion over the next​

Martin Luther King assassinated 4/4/1968

Bobby Kennedy assassinated 6/6/1968

Sudden death of Thomas Merton 12/16/1968

Coincident? Conspiracy theory? I think there is more to it.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Navy to review the names of several ships honoring the likes of slain gay rights leader Harvey Milk, abolitionist Harriet Tubman and late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, according to multiple reports.

Navy Secretary John Phelan indicated in an internal memo obtained by CBS News that the name review is aimed at “reestablishing the warrior culture” in the military, a priority of the Trump administration.

“Secretary Hegseth is committed to ensuring that the names attached to all [Department of Defense] installations and assets are reflective of the Commander-in-Chief’s priorities, our nation’s history, and the warrior ethos,” Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell said in a statement.

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Just saw this article: Google engineer says humans are on the cusp of immortality

Well, I only read the headline "Google engineer says humans can cheat death – we just have to merge with AI"

You see, it strikes me as a futile endeavour. We'd lose our subjective experience and death is something I look forward too.

Jesus promises Revelation 2:17 . It sounds so precious. Isaiah 62:2-3 says similar.


Home sounds great:
Philippians 3:20-21
2 Corinthians 5:1-2

The above headline sounds empty.

Your thoughts?

Comments aren't needed. News speaks for itself.

I have wavered back and forth between thinking I am a Christian and thinking I am not. I now think I am saved. That is based on some things that occurred this morning, including reading a couple of Private Messages from John. I think I totally trusted Christ and He took me, like I asked Him to. Here's the deal with me: I have both religious OCD and wavering faith. Either one by itself generates severe doubt. The combination of the two has held me in the perfect storm. But now, I can say to my OCD, "Epheshians 1:13-14." I can say to my concern about my wavering faith, "John 1:17." The Ephesians passage says that when I trusted Christ I was sealed by the Holy Spirit of promise. The John verse says, "Every good and perfect gift is from above and comes down from the Father of Lights, in Whom there is no variation nor shadow of turning." Biblical doctrine says that Christ saves in a moment and He does not waver. My faith might waver, but He does not. Clinging to those two verses (among others, such as what John pointed out, John 6:37) and to that biblical doctrine, I understand He has me and will not let me go. If I doubt, I can go to some verses and biblical doctrine.

Hi, I thought I would share these recovery stories where people have recovered from their eating disorder using their faith. Hopefully, someone will find it helpful and I wish you all well.

Recovery Stories-






I really do like this story of Sister Marie Therese recovery from anorexia. After decades she finally recovered with the help from Jesus.

Sister Marie Thérèse: 'Anorexia has been a friend'

How Eucharistic Faith Aided Recovery of My Eating Disorder
How Eucharistic Faith Aided Recovery of My Eating Disorder

Hope Virgo's recovery story from eating disorders

Hope Virgo

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Navigating eating disorders in church by Hope Virgo — Preach magazine - a resource for preachers and worship leaders, putting world events into a biblical context

When healing doesn't happen in a moment

Recovery support group

This is a link to a recovery group for addictions. It is free and the people are nice. People with all different conditions attend. They alternate where they meet-they meet once a week on Zoom or the alternate week in person in Brighton. Scroll to the end of the page of how to attend and email them so they can send you the Zoom link.
St Peter's Brighton - Faith in Recovery

Spiritual Counselling
https://www.chelmsford.anglican.org/vocations-and-discipleship/exploring-vocations/find-a-spiritual-companion/