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.Mikha'el. · 2025-08-28T23:41:55-0500

I am watching the finale of Destination X UK now.

GodDoesListen55 · 2025-08-28T23:00:23-0500

Am I worthy? Am I worthy of love? Am I worthy of compassion? Am I worthy of understanding? Well… am I?! Am I even enough? It is truly a shame that you still see me for the girl that I was instead of the woman that I have become and am still improving upon every single day. I wish there was a way to prove it to you. But then again, you are the one who is not worth it, not me. So, it's all whatever, right? Right!

JohnClay · 2025-08-28T22:48:51-0500

Paul4JC said:
BTW, Moses was not the only one on the mountain the whole time. Seventy elders also went up, but probably not to the same height Moses went.

9 Then Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and the seventy elders of Israel climbed up the mountain. 10 There they saw the God of Israel. Under his feet there seemed to be a surface of brilliant blue lapis lazuli, as clear as the sky itself. 11 And though these nobles of Israel gazed upon God, he did not destroy them. In fact, they ate a covenant meal, eating and drinking in his presence! [Exo 24:9-11 NLT]

I wonder if the elders also heard the voice of God... I haven't read the Bible very thoroughly but I was under the impression that only Moses could hear the voice of God at the time

Pop D. · 2025-08-28T22:16:20-0500

Heavenly Father, Holy is Your Name, we pray You will strengthen and empower Riley, in the Name of Jesus, as only You can do. Amen and Amen.

BPPLEE · 2025-08-28T21:56:42-0500

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Jen Psaki
@jrpsaki

Prayer is not freaking enough. Prayers does not end school shootings. prayers do not make parents feel safe sending their kids to school. Prayer does not bring these kids back. Enough with the thoughts and prayers.

CNN jumped to the front of the line defending her.

Guojing · 2025-08-28T21:44:05-0500

FredVB said:
I see. I could not tell, with this short discussion and with hearing the position that the epistle of James was written earlier. I do not see why that must be so, still. And you did say as all James were the same then. I think the epistle of James is for all Christians too, and I include it.

If you believe James was written after the Acts 15 council event, then I can understand why you would say that.

But if later on, you discovered it was actually written before Paul was saved, would you agree with my point of view that he was not writing to any gentile Christians?

Guojing · 2025-08-28T21:33:42-0500

ViaCrucis said:
have always recognized that miraculous works of God can happen; though the sort of anticipatory idea that I should expect miraculous healing is a modern phenomenon.

-CryptoLutheran

Yes, almost every Christian believed that God could heal

It is the Word of Faith churches that applied concepts from neuroscience and other concepts from New age, that says that God heals according to some kind of law.

Its like the law of gravity, if X happens, then healing will definitely happen.

Carl Emerson · 2025-08-28T21:10:14-0500

Kathleen30 said:
Carl perhaps it is a mixture of both. But one thing is certain is that religion and government bureaucracy have become welcome bedfellows joined at the hip more and more. Meaning you need degrees or certificates for the power of the God to be accepted as legal status in todays world.

Kathleen, you make a good observation...

I guess Jesus and the Apostles operated in the Father's power outside of that requirement back in the day, and were executed for it.

What goes around comes around.

We sure need Him to come back.

Meantime the likelihood of needing to be underground or at least discrete looms.

My Pastor used to say that the church was not within a bulls roar of what we were seeing of His power as we ministered in the inner city.

No one was credentialed - folks were saved and healed - the truely miraculous was common.

There seems to be a principle here.

The foolish things of this world.

bbbbbbb · 2025-08-28T20:11:05-0500

RileyG · 2025-08-28T20:01:32-0500

Praying God fills Jake with the love and joy the world cannot give! In his holy name I pray, Amen!

RileyG · 2025-08-28T19:05:30-0500

Lord have mercy!

Christsfreeservant · 2025-08-28T18:55:51-0500

Pastor Jay Randolph said:
I am not sure it is as wide as you may think. I have been to more than a few of the churches in every state except for Alaska. I have seen some very shocking things in many, but been lifted up in many. I am not a fan of denominations, and feel that is one of the biggest problems with society. The other being the lack of unity. I have been to churches that do not talk about the cross, Blood, or dying to ourselves and taking up the cross daily. Most of the people I witness to are happy to point out that those who say they are Christians attend church for Worship and Bible study, and the rest of the week, act worse than the world. And sadly, many do. My goal is to do my bst, and point the world to Jesus.

Thank you. I appreciate your comment and your insights, as well as you taking the time to read this and to respond to it.

hedrick · 2025-08-28T18:43:55-0500

This seems to depend upon what you count. Here's a nifty site that lets you choose which set of crimes to track: Crime Trends in U.S. Cities: Mid-Year 2025 Update - Council on Criminal Justice. It's weird how much they differ. Of course almos all mayors of the largest cities are Democrats. Party affiliation of the mayors of the 100 largest cities

1Tonne · 2025-08-28T18:43:10-0500

joymercy said:
People do respond well, when they are given love

I think that we especially need to listen and to listen well with all humility

Attending services is not enough if you do not let people know that you love and care about them

Reflection on ourselves and our lives as faithful Christians can help to show us how and where we need to step up

This post is not directed at you Joymercy, it is just a post to make people reflect.

The question could be asked: How do we show true love?
Is love simply doing good deeds and being a friend? Certainly, kindness and friendship can reflect love. But when it comes to eternity, there is an even greater way to love: by addressing sin directly, even when it’s uncomfortable.
Jesus Himself is our example. To the Samaritan woman, He said, “Go, call your husband”, knowing she had many and was living in adultery. To the rich young ruler, who declared his willingness to follow, He replied, “Sell everything you have”, exposing his love of money. To the self-righteous Pharisees, who claimed Abraham as their father, Jesus declared, “You are of your father the devil”, revealing their slavery to sin.
Jesus consistently confronted sin. Why? Because He loved people and did not want them to perish.
Yet, He also warned that such love would not always be well received. He said the world hated Him because He testified that its deeds were evil. If we follow His example, the world will hate us too.
But still, we are called to love our neighbour. And true love sometimes means “pushing the hot button”: showing people their sin, even at our own expense.

Bradskii · 2025-08-28T18:34:23-0500

From here: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/27/us/alligator-alcatraz-closing

'In a message sent to South Florida Rabbi Mario Rojzman on Aug. 22 related to providing chaplaincy services at the facility, Florida Division of Emergency Management Executive Director Kevin Guthrie said “we are probably going to be down to 0 individuals within a few days,” implying there would soon be no need for the services.'

RileyG · 2025-08-28T17:21:47-0500

joymercy said:
Yes

I think there will be more people in hell than heaven, based on what our Blessed Lord said.

CoreyD · 2025-08-28T16:46:36-0500

Viki_rrr said:
Hello, my name is Victoria. I grew up in a country with secular views, but the most widespread religion here is Islam. My family are not very devout Christians; since childhood I went to church, was baptized in Orthodoxy, but I could not call myself truly faithful. Until I came of age, I lived, in some sense, a rather reckless lifestyle: I got acquainted with alcohol and cigarettes early on. At the age of eighteen, I began to take an interest in Christianity, and to be honest, that was the worst year of my life. I started thinking more about religion, and this gradually helped me come out of a crisis. Of course, I read the Bible, prayed, but honestly, I am sure that my knowledge is not well-structured, and I would like to hear your advice: where is the best place for me to start?

Nice to meet you Victoria.
Welcome to the forums.

The best place to start, is where you did - reading the Bible, and prayer.
I remember a song they sung at Sunday School... "Read your Bible, Pray every day... Pray every day... Pray every day. Read your Bible, Pray every day... and you;'' grow grow grow..." Or was it, "And the good Lord will bless you"? I forgot.

Of course, as little ones, we did not have a clue what exactly that meant, as we just enjoyed singing, but now that I am grown, I realize how true those words are, and what they really mean.

Keep reading the Bible, and praying every day for the Lord to help you come to really know him, and he will provide you the means to do so.
Have a good time.

Michie · 2025-08-28T16:36:15-0500

One might assume that the soul would be a more controversial topic than the body in Catholic teaching, given that it is invisible and hard to imagine.

Nevertheless, when St. Paul was preaching to the Athenians, their main objection came after he revealed the doctrine that we would all rise again — with our bodies!

Now, what causes us daily griefs? Physical ailments, being tired, needing to hydrate, needing to go to the bathroom when we are busy, weight gain — do we want this mortal coil forever? Yet it is an article of our faith that we were made bodily and, after a brief separation, our souls will be reunited with our beloved bodies forever.

A love-hate relationship

As with many things in a culture that has been formed by Christianity but has lost the fuller, integrated sense of it, we are constantly bouncing back and forth between an inordinate love of our bodies and the other extreme of hating them. The former causes the latter.

You can’t hate something you don’t first love, and our image-saturated culture loves to show us bodies. Many of our readers can surely sympathize; my body doesn’t look Instagram-ready all the time.

For the body-obsessed, countless hours are spent on hair and makeup and in the gym. Nevertheless, ol’ Grim Reaper will come for the chiseled as well as the flabby, and gravity will take its toll. The massive growth of the Botox and plastic surgery industry fights back, but to no avail.

Continued below.

Love the one you are: Authentic self-care in a body-obsessed culture

Explore the Catholic perspective on loving and honoring our bodies as gifts from God, balancing self-care and spiritual unity with the soul.

www.oursundayvisitor.com

peaceful-forest · 2025-08-28T16:35:07-0500

It is strange that you wrote this...

Because I have a family member that is dating a very bad woman right now, and multiple people have thought that she has placed a curse on him. Many bad things happen to him.

I do not know if he has been cursed, but I think God could be allowing it in his life to repent and turn to Jesus for salvation.

Quasiblogo · 2025-08-28T16:34:14-0500

com7fy8 said:
Well well . . . I just viewed a few translations of this verse, and yes it seems some make it about what God desires, while others bring out prayer that He will do the good things we hope for.

For starters . . . it can mean the same thing, either way. After all, if God has good He desires for us, yes it is good for Paul to pray this for us. And . . . "of course" . . . if we desire what God desires . . . praying for what we want is the same as praying for what God wants . . . if we want what God wants! So . . . either way of translating can mean the same thing.

So . . . now let me look at an interlinear >

It seems Paul prays that God will fulfill every good pleasure. Every pleasure that is good,

***pleasing to God Himself***

. . . is what Paul means, here, I would say . . .

This would mean whatsoever God Himself in His so great goodness can desire and do; and this good is so more and better than we now can hope and think and desire. But as God shares with us His own good, and we grow in this sharing with God, then we become more and more able to discover all so better than we could have hoped while less mature. However, He changes our character so we become more and more able to share with Him in His own love where all His good is.

And this includes how God changes us to become all-loving and sharing and caring as His family, the way His love is > this is included in the good pleasure which so pleases God Himself.

But is this what has our attention, all through the day and in our praying???? May be, "not quite" > so, in case ones translate this verse to mean what we ourselves are now capable of desiring . . . this can be limiting, away from all which God is capable of pleasing and doing.

So, I would favor, most of all, how this scripture can mean all that is possible with God. And we have Jesus Christ "who also makes intercession for us" > in Romans 8:34 > praying for us according to His own faith, not limited to how we might be able to wish and want and pray. Plus, the Holy Spirit makes intercession for us > Romans 8:29.

So, I see how Paul is praying for God to take us beyond how we can now think and want and pray.

Well thought out, com!

peaceful-forest · 2025-08-28T16:29:09-0500

People are fed up and taking action. Co-existing is not a thing that can ever happen.

DaisyDay · 2025-08-28T16:25:10-0500

wing2000 said:
Consequences for friends, but not Putin.

Weak.

Meanwhile, the U.S. continues to purchase Russian exports....

4-D chess!

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