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Trump Bars Entry from 12 Countries

...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.

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Deliberate and Habitual Sinning

“Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough? Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed. Therefore let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.” (1 Corinthians 5:6-8 NASB1995; read vs.1-13)

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

DOGE cuts to the NOAA risks lives

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.
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Christian commentators Candace Owens, Charlie Kirk defend Glenn Greenwald after sexually explicit video leaked

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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Federal judge halts deportation of Boulder firebombing attack suspect’s family


It's time to end this nonsense.

Grenade launchers, guns, explosives seized from white nationalist extremists in WA; two members of military arrested

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

Need Prayer for my Facebook

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!

Hegseth orders name of gay rights activist Harvey Milk scrubbed from Navy ship — vessels honoring Harriet Tubman and Ruth Bader Ginsburg could be next

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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Cheating Death by merging with AI

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?

I currently have assurance, but how long will it last?

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.

Links to recovery stories for eating disorders

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


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/

CNN ripped after trashing FBI as ‘juvenile’ for branding hate-fueled Colorado firebomb attack as terrorism

The backlash again Kayyem was swift on social media, with many pointing to footage of the horror that showed the terror suspect, Mohamed Sabry Soliman, screaming “Free Palestine” before he blasted a crowd who were commemorating the Israeli hostages still in Gaza.
“The guy shouted ‘Free Palestine’ while throwing fire bombs at a crowd of Jewish people,” Ben Williamson, an assistant director for the FBI’s public affairs unit, wrote on X.

CNN wants us to remember that white supremacy is the biggest threat to America.

Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands?

Ephesians 5:22-25
Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her...

The following video of a street preacher reminded me of that Bible passage. The comments for that video seem to be overwhelmingly supporting the preacher. (so far I haven't found any negative comments)

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3:09
"Are you a disobedient wife?"
"All the time and I love her for it."
"You know why - because you're not the man of the house - that's the problem - you know what happens - the devil attacks the man - he weakens the man and he strengthens the feminist woman so she has a big mouth and she has no submission, no submission"

6:36 "control your woman man - she's out of control"
6:52 "fix your stupid woman man she's being stupid"

I was wondering what Christians think about that passage being used to encourage men to have more power in a marriage...

Could it be that we are this close now ?

Because i'm seeing quite a bit of this lately.


2 Timothy 3 - But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God.

AND

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Pulled into KFC the other day and ordered a meal , received my meal but no spoon , so tapped on the window and asked for a spoon , girl opens the window and throws the spoon at me in disgust , I say well how am I supposed to eat the potato & gravy ?......she says who bloody well cares and slams the window closed. ( Must have been love at first sight..lol )

But that's only one of the many stories that I could tell. Some are saying it's because of the covid19 vaccine because Dr Peter McCullough says it goes into the brain and causes damage , but i'm not too sure about that , I think Einstein might be on to something here , who knows.

Anyone else noticing these strange behaviours in young people today ?......because if you are then we might actually be on the cusp of the end time scenario.

House Democrats Target Alina Habba Over Her Federal Criminal Case Against Rep. LaMonica McIver


Assaulting a law enforcement officer is now one of the "official duties" of Congress?
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