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Edison offers to pay Eaton fire victims for damages, in move to avoid litigation​

• Edison said it planned to launch a Wildfire Recovery Compensation Program this fall that would be open to those who lost homes, businesses or rental properties in the fire. It would also accept claims for injuries and fatalities.
• An attorney representing fire victims criticized the plans, saying it could lead to victims being shortchanged.

Seeking to avoid lengthy litigation, Southern California Edison said Wednesday it will offer to compensate Eaton fire victims directly for damages suffered, even though it has yet to formally concede that its equipment ignited the blaze on Jan. 7.

“Even though the details of how the Eaton Fire started are still being evaluated, SCE will offer an expedited process to pay and resolve claims fairly and promptly,” Pedro Pizarro, chief executive of Edison International, the utility’s parent company, said in a press release. “This allows the community to focus more on recovery instead of lengthy, expensive litigation.”

“In the past, the utilities have proposed these programs as a means for shorting and underpaying victims,” said attorney Richard Bridgford. “Victims have uniformly done better when represented by counsel.”

Edison said the program would be designed to quickly compensate victims, including those who were insured. People can apply with or without an attorney, it said. The program is expected to run through 2026.

NewLifeInChristJesus said:

I meant to include all sins, even the little ones. Sorry, I forgot that point.

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To me, this highlights the inconsistency and weakness of your position. I'm sure I've asked the question before but, should a believer hope to enter heaven if persisting in wanton, grave sin? And, related, is a believer guaranteed to fully overcome sin in this life?

At least 12 people have been killed, mostly Thai civilians, in clashes between Thai and Cambodian troops in a disputed region. Cambodia has fired rockets and artillery and Thailand is launching airstrikes. The region in dispute (Ubon Ratchathani, Surin, And Sisaket) has been disputed for about 100 years.

Here is a BBC link.
CNN.
Al Jazeera.
and Fox.

God "ponders" our hearts. (See Proverbs 24:12)

This should give us pause.......cuz it matters not what "words" we utter, for God sees what is hidden deep in our hearts beyond those words.

Pastor, wife who sold cryptocurrency indicted on fraud charges

Online pastor Eligio "Eli" Regalado and his wife, Kaitlyn, who led Victorious Grace Church, were indicted on 40 counts of fraud by a grand jury in Denver, Colorado, in connection with an alleged cryptocurrency scam they claim God told them to operate.

Colorado Securities Commissioner Tung Chan filed civil fraud charges against the Regalados, along with INDXcoin, LLC, Kingdom Wealth Exchange, LLC, and others for allegedly violating the anti-fraud, licensing and registration provisions of the Colorado Securities Act.

The couple had sold a cryptocurrency they called “INDXcoin” to their Christian followers, claiming that it would make them rich.

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At least we learned all of the hidden secrets of the JFK assassination after those files were finally released.

Interesting. Everything is supposed to be a distraction from the Epstein files. It's starting to look like the Epstein files are a distraction from everything else.

Jack Terrence said:

Only the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel are written in the book of life. Even 1 Peter 1:5 and John 10:28-29 which you cited shows this. Peter was writing to Israelites and Jesus was speaking to Israelites.

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But Paul, writing to the Philippians, was not writing to Israelites

“And I urge you also, true companion, help these women who labored with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the Book of Life.” (Php 4:3 NKJV)

As Bibleref.com says: "Philippians is written to a group of believers with whom Paul founded a church, during his second missionary journey in approximately AD 49 (Acts 16). Philippi was a Roman colony, with believers consisting primarily of Gentiles."

These words were addressed to the church at Sardis, another mainly Gentile church:

““He who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the Book of Life; but I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels.” (Re 3:5 NKJV)

The Christian life is supposed tobe defined by a maturity that follows the transition from living for self (the flesh, Galatians 5) to walking by the Spirit (selfless love, 1Cor 13:4-7, 2Cor 5:15). Having children almost forces us to live for others.

We are all born helpless, ignorant, and selfish. The external discipline parents apply to their children should be with the goal of teaching them to have internal discipline. This can help them be rceptive to your instruction.

Deu 6:6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:
Deu 6:7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

Eph_6:4 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

You will face choices such as setting your children on a "success" strategy of college and worldly entanglement or, growing in faith. Choices such as public education or homeschool will also be made.We chose to live with less financial means so that our children could have a better chance to resist to corruptive influences of the world.

Your schedule choices are the first of many you will be making. As you grow in your reading and understanding of the bible, you may find your prayer life also deepening. You may also wish to take advantage of the offer of God for wisdom.

Jas 1:5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
Jas 1:6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

As followers of Jesus Christ, we are to be those who love the law of the Lord, i.e. his New Covenant commandments, written in the hearts and minds of those who love God and who are called according to his purpose. Studying the Scriptures should be a delight to us, not a drudgery, and something that we look forward to each day. We should be those who live by the Word of God, no longer according to human flesh, but to please God, not the flesh.

For if we are true followers of Christ, we have died with Christ to sin, and we have been raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but now as slaves to God and to his righteousness. Sin has been put to death so that we no longer walk in sin, by habit, but so we now walk (in conduct, in practice) in obedience to our Lord and to his New Covenant commands. We are now clay in the hands of the Potter being molded into the image of Christ which is a lifetime process of salvation.

The Word of the Lord to us who believe in Jesus Christ should be sweet to us, even though some of his word is hard, it is difficult, and it may seem harsh. For even the parts that may seem harsh are written to us out of love and for what is for our best. And so we need to take it to heart and to apply it to our daily walks of faith in obedience to our Lord, and not ignore the parts that our flesh might want to resist. For we should want to obey God.

We should hate every false way. We should resist the lies of Satan which he likes to whisper in our ears, and we must hold on to the truth of God’s Word, taught to us in the appropriate context, and not out of context. For so many people today are teaching lies in the name of Jesus, and they are falsifying the truth of the gospel, and they are altering the words of God to make them more acceptable to human flesh. And so they are convincing many that a profession of faith in Jesus is all that God requires of them for salvation.

But the truth is that Jesus Christ gave his life up for us on that cross to put our sins to death with him, so that by faith in him we will now die to sin and live to God and to his righteousness, in walks of obedience to his commands. And the truth is that if we continue living in sin, and not in walks of obedience to our Lord, that regardless of what our lips profess, we will not inherit eternal life with God, and we will not be saved from our sins.

So, we must get our truth directly from the Scriptures, taught in their appropriate context. And it is best if you have a reliable and trustworthy Bible translation, for there are several altered and diluted translations and transliterations of the Scriptures which are not true to the originals and which are very deceptive, and which are teaching lies, at least in part. And always study the Scriptures under the direction of the Holy Spirit who will speak truth to our hearts, and test everything you hear from humans.

Let the Word of God be a lamp to your feet (your walk of faith) and a light to your path (the truth of the gospel). For Jesus taught that to come after him requires that we deny self, die daily to sin, and follow our Lord in walks of obedience to his commands. For if we hold on to our old lives of living in sin, we will lose them for eternity. But if for the sake of Jesus we die to sin and walk in obedience to his commands, we have eternal life with God in heaven.

[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 1:1-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10]

As the Deer

By Martin J. Nystrom
Based off Psalm 42:1

As the deer panteth for the water
So my soul longeth after You
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship You

You alone are my strength, my shield
To You alone may my spirit yield
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship You

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That I May Keep Your Word
An Original Work / July 24, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Careyap87 said:

That may be true but some jobs they offer may pay very well.

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If you knew someone is spreading false teachings and know for sure their teachings doesn't agree with yours but you'll work for them anyway because they pay good money, you'll be ending up working for money, not working for the Lord.

It would only ever be excusable if you already exhausted ALL your options (unlikely) and the Lord actually told you to work there.

PSALM 23: A VERSE-BY-VERSE UNDERSTANDING" (Part 5)


"Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of my enemies; Thou anointest my head with oil, my cup runneth over" (verse 5) KJV

" You prepare a table for me even as my enemies watch. You anoint my head with oil from an overflowing cup" (verse 5) CJSB (Complete Jewish Study Bible)


As we are coming almost to the end of Psalm 23, we again have to look at imagery and symbolism. We can take some things literally, yet in this case we see a lot of imagery, yet it affects us in our spiritual life as well as in our physical world life.

A table means "provision," and "preparing a table" can remind us of mom and dad preparing lunch and dinner, and we all sit down and eat our share. (especially on Thanksgiving). Providing for our needs is what God is all about. He knows our needs as well as our wants. At times, we sit down to eat a quick peanut butter and jelly sandwich, but at times, we get the steak with potatoes and corn, with biscuits and maybe red wine.

God knows our needs, both physical and spiritual. The enemy can be either spiritual (Satanic influence, demonic attacks) or physical (persecution by radical religious fanatics), political unrest, and persecution of different groups (Christians, Jews), like Russia under Stalin, Hitler's Third Reich, etc. Yet God seems to always provide our needs, maybe just enough to survive the hard times. Bread, water, milk, beans, hidden ration cards,

Bibles were smuggled into the communist bloc countries by Brother Andrew in the 1960s. Even though the enemy was at the gates, the Bibles got through, and the "eyes" of the guards were "blinded." The people in those countries got the WORD even though the enemy was all around. I was a part of "Underground Evangelism" in the late 1970s, sending the gospels of John to people in communist countries.

All I did was put the name and address of the person on the envelope, and put a stamp on it and send it off from the nearest post office. (It was cheaper when I lived in Germany) All I needed was a 40 Pfenning stamp. The post office was at the "Bahnhoff" (The Train Station). Most letters went to Communist-controlled European countries. Underground Evangelism sent me a paper with 15 names and addresses each month. Every other day, I would send a letter. (The names and addresses were taken from phone books) I still remember the brother who introduced me to that ministry. It was Larry Tilicani, in Colorado Springs, CO, when I was stationed at Fort Carson. (1977)

"A Table of Provisions" can also remind us of God's "protection". "Protection" is also "provision". The Talmud (a collection of Jewish commentaries) tells of a time when David is being pursued by Saul. David finds a cave and hides inside. Then God sends a spider to "protect" David. During the night, the spider spins a web at the entrance of the cave. When morning comes, Saul's men come by the cave and notice the spider web covering the entrance. Saul says, "Let's search elsewhere. David can't be inside; otherwise, the spider web would be broken." So, in the face of his enemies, God protected David using a spider.

The oil is symbolic of the Holy Spirit. It is an inner peace that we get from knowing that even in rough and tough times, God will provide ALL of our needs. Thus, we should be rejoicing even though we might feel pain. Kings were anointed by pouring oil on their heads. Samuel anointed David to be king that way. Oil also has healing properties. The Holy Spirit can heal our inner hurts if we allow the Spirit of God to work that way in our lives.

BCP1928 said:

A sneaky way of imposing a religious test for public office. A wolf in wolf's clothing. How cute.

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It's like they can't even read their own constitution:



SECTION II-5. Public money or property - Use for sectarian purposes.
No public money or property shall ever be appropriated, applied,

donated, or used, directly or indirectly, for the use, benefit, or
support of any sect, church, denomination, or system of religion, or
for the use, benefit, or support of any priest, preacher, minister,
or other religious teacher or dignitary, or sectarian institution as
such.

Aaron112 said:

Did someone forget them ?

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What I mean is that they died and were buried, but they lived in spirit in Paradise. Coming back to the question of Adam's fate.

Jipsah said:

Well, yeah.

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And you do have a verse where Israel is part of the Body of Christ ?\

And the Greek for EKKLESIA mean, OUT . and LESIA , means A CALLING , means an. ASSEMELY

And in 1 Corr 12:15-17. the Body of Christ is made up of. of Foot , of EARS , and EYES and SENSE pf HEARINS

and SENSE of SMELL. !
dan p

Prizes thst weren't paper ot cardstock in the Crackerjack boxes!

Texas county’s emergency management coordinator was likely asleep in critical morning hours of deadly floods, sheriff says​

When asked if he knew whether Kerr County Emergency Management Coordinator W.B. "Dub" Thomas was working the night before the early morning July 4 flooding that killed at least 136 people in the state, Sheriff Larry Leitha said: "I'm sure he was at home asleep at that time," and added that he was also asleep.

Love365 said:

Most Catholic countries support making women priests.

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I don't think it's up for a vote.

ozso said:

I'm simply saying not everyone who knew or was friends with someone who did abhorrent things in secret, knew about it or was involved in it.

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While that may be generally true, the thing is, we know many things about Trump that clearly indicate he does not deserve to get the benefit of the doubt here. For example, we know he's bragged about grabbing women by certain body parts and he thinks certain famous people are "entitled" to do so; we know he's walked in on the dressing rooms of at least a couple of different beauty pageants he ran, and we know, for a fact, that he defamed E. Jean Carroll repeatedly after she claimed he sexually assaulted her, and he was found to have committed sexual assault in that case.

So, can we trust Trump if he says he knew nothing about Epstein's sexual misconduct?

Uh....no.

-- A2SG, but if you feel otherwise, you're free to trust him to babysit your teenage daughter, if you like.....

That's a good one

The Lion of Judah, who conquered the grave, he is David's Root who came to ransom the slave. From every nation & tribe, & every people & tongue, he has made us a kingdom of priests to God

How did your job search go? You may not find a Christian company to work at. Many times we live as exiles & are called to be the witness to the place we're sent