Michie said:

Christian supporters of Israel are pushing back against Tucker Carlson’s claim that using terms like Judea and Samaria instead of the West Bank is like referencing the fictional world of Narnia, along with other remarks the political pundit made during a podcast with a recently fired U.S. State Department press officer.

The former Fox News host released on Friday his interview with Shahed Ghoreishi, a contractor who had previously worked for the Bureau of Near East Affairs. During the interview, Ghoreishi reiterated his claim that the State Department had fired him following disputes over the language and terminology used in statements about Israel.

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It is silly and ignorant to even say that. Judea and Samaria are spoken of many times in Scripture for 1000s of years...

rjs330 said:

What is going on in this country. Im beginning to wonder if there is demonic piece of what is going on in this country. The exceptional violence of the seemingly mentally ill is reminiscent of possession. I'm no expert on the matter for sure, just beginning to wonder.

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According to astronomical news, on September 7–8, 2025, a total lunar eclipse lasting 82 minutes will occur. This rare blood moon will be visible in many parts of the world.

In recent years, blood moons have appeared repeatedly, like constant warnings to the world:

On April 15, 2014, the first of a tetrad of blood moons made its stunning appearance, dyeing the sky blood red.

On October 8, 2014, the second blood moon appeared, and the alarm bells continued to ring.

On April 4, 2015, the third blood moon followed, with unusual sights becoming frequent.

On September 27–28, 2015, the fourth blood moon coincided with a supermoon.

On January 31, 2018, the rare “super blue blood moon” trifecta appeared in the sky.

On January 21, 2019, the “super blood wolf moon” shook the night sky, with a red moon being accompanied by a “wolf moon”—another rare celestial event.

On May 26, 2021, a blood moon once again coincided with a supermoon.

On May 16, 2022, the “flower blood moon” rose in the east, and people once again witnessed the moon turn to blood.

On March 13–14, 2025, another blood moon appeared—the full moon known as the “worm moon” turned blood-red.

Are these recurring blood moons really just astronomical phenomena? Or are they reminding us that the great catastrophes are drawing ever closer?

Many prophets believe that the appearance of blood moons signifies extraordinary and great events to come. There are also many Bible experts who firmly believe that the appearance of blood moons is the fulfillment of the prophecy in the Book of Joel 2:29–31: “And also on the servants and on the handmaids in those days will I pour out My Spirit. And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of Jehovah comes.” Also, in Revelation 6:12, it states: “And I beheld when He had opened the sixth seal, and, see, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood.” “The great and terrible day” mentioned in the prophecy refers to the great catastrophes. We have all seen disasters growing in scale over the past few years, with frequent occurrences of such disasters as earthquakes, famines, plagues and floods which are truly horrifying; the world situation is in turmoil and constantly changing, and there are frequent eruptions of wars, violent incidents and terrorist attacks which continue to escalate; the global climate is getting warmer, and extreme weather and various astronomical wonders are occurring frequently. The signs of the last days prophesied in the Bible have appeared one by one. The frequent appearance of blood moons is not a spectacle, but a warning of the last days!

Good. They should not have to play against a male.

Sometime during the lockdowns in Michigan I was getting pretty depressed and shut in. During my prayer time one day in the winter I just starting singing out to the Lord. The words were kind of a blend of several old songs I remembered singing in Church as a child. The rhythm of the song kind of resembles 'Nothing but the blood of Jesus' . . . So it's a kind of mash up of my many worship memories. Enjoy~ and find more of my music on youtube if you like it! I am always looking for collaborators to work with!

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Praying for all families.

"First of all, then, I ask that requests, prayers, petitions, and thanksgiving be made for all people." CJB I Tim 2:1

From CNN

ABBY PHILLIPS: "The deputy attorney general met with Ghislaine and she shortly thereafter moved to a mininum security prison, why?


ATTORNEY WHO REPRESENTED MAXWELL: [hem haw, I can't talk about client stuff, but in situations like this] "there's always a quid pro quo."

Dan Perez said:

And do. you have a verse where TIME ENDS. ?

DAN P

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John speaks of the last hour, he tells us we're living in the last hour.


What does the end of days mean to you? Days, years and such as men know it to calculate seasons was established on God's fourth day and we do know that God is not subject to time he is eternal, eternity lacks the limitations of time.

Dan Perez said:

And do. you have a verse where TIME ENDS. ?

DAN P

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‘Catastrophic threat’ to startup of massive Hanford nuclear cleanup plant rumored​

Rumors were flying Monday that the future of radioactive waste treatment at Hanford’s massive vitrification plant might undergo a major change.

The Energy Communities Alliance, relying on reporting by E&E News by Politico, said that Roger Jarrell had been fired Monday from his position of principal deputy assistant secretary of the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management.

That agency oversees environmental cleanup of the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington from Washington, D.C.

DOE is currently required under a federal court consent decree to start showing by Oct. 15 that it can turn some of the 56 million gallons of radioactive waste in underground tanks into a stable, but still radioactive, glass form at the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant, or vitrification plant. The plant has been under construction for 23 years.

“I think they want to kill (the Waste Treatment Plant) altogether, even though it’s (close to being operational),” EandE News quoted the anonymous source as saying.

See also from 2018:

Senator Rand Paul is making a comparison of apples to green beans, IMO.

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“They Think We Are Crazy”
1 Corinthians 2:14 NIV
The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.

As I’ve shared much in the past months, I started running April 2024 again. I am now preparing for a half marathon in October. It’s been a long process of continued training getting my pace down and preparing my body for the endurance. There’s a lot of work going into this process and figuring out what I can handle. But also, it’s been a very rewarding experience as I go on my long runs. Just being out in nature has been really great. There’s a nice long trail that runs 40 miles west of where I live, so it’s been my go-to for most of my long runs.

I have to laugh and shake my head as I come home from each run. My wife and daughter think I’m crazy every time I run. They don’t understand why I like it so much. A few weeks ago, my wife made a comment that totally cracked me up. After she asked me about a long run, I said it was fun. She then said, “I wouldn’t put fun and run in the same sentence!” That was funny!

The thing I’ve discovered in the past months and year is that many people just don’t get the fun of running and I get it. Not everyone likes it, of course. You either like it or you don’t. I often joke around with other running buddies and tell them my family thinks I’m crazy for liking it and wanting to run more.

I guess I’ll just be crazy! I can’t expect my family or others who don’t get into it to understand. It’s just something that runners get and it’s a rush to get better and better and chat about it.

As I think about these experiences of people not getting it and thinking I’m crazy, I can’t help but to think that’s exactly how some unbelievers look at us with our faith. We talk about our experiences with God and how He has worked in our lives and many people just don’t get it. They consider us wacko or crazy. It makes no sense to them why we live the way we live. They don’t see the fun of why we live for Christ. They don’t understand why we give up certain ways of the world to be faithful to God. It makes no sense to them.

Even though they don’t understand, it’s still up to us to continue living this way and showing the light to the lost. Some will never get it or want to live that way. Hopefully, they will respect us, but some just won’t.

God calls us to continue to live faithfully and that’s what we are called to do to the best of our ability. The world is still going to call us crazy and we most likely will hear that from people for the rest of our lives. All we can do is be proud of the “crazy life” we live for Christ and be a light to them.

They think we are crazy and it’s our job to continue to show them why we live a crazy life.

AZ state Rep. John Gillette said Islamophobia isn’t real in a string of profane social media screeds against Muslims​

Since the beginning of September, Rep. John Gillette has made a series of posts on X, formerly Twitter, aimed at the Muslim faith. Many have been laced with profanity, and the Kingman Republican has insisted that Muslim immigrants are “savages” because they are pushing “Sharia law” onto Americans.

He added [in a phone interview with the paper] that Islam is being “pushed” on him whenever he visits Phoenix, although he did not offer any concrete examples.

“I stay out of Phoenix as much as possible,” he said.

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Defendant Charged with Threatening to Murder a Federal Judge​

MINNEAPOLIS – Robert Phillip Ivers, age 72, was charged by complaint with threatening to assault and murder a federal judge, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph H. Thompson. Ivers was previously convicted federally of threatening to kill a federal judge.

“At a time when Minnesota is reeling from acts of violence, the last thing we need is someone spreading fear into our churches, libraries, and courts,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph H. Thompson. “Ivers’s threats are bone chilling. After the past few months, we are not taking chances. When someone threatens our community, we believe them, and we will act swiftly to protect Minnesotans.”

According to the complaint, on September 3, 2025, law enforcement responded to the Wayzata Library in Wayzata, Minnesota, based on a report of a man printing off copies of a manifesto entitled, “How to Kill a Federal Judge.” This man was Robert Ivers. Law enforcement learned that Ivers showed the manifesto to library staff including a page of the manifesto that talked about killing children and had a picture of a gun on it. Ivers also gave library staff a three-page “flyer” advertising his manifesto before he left the library. The flyer stated that the manifesto “is designed to teach extremists on how to plan, train, hunt, stalk and kill anyone including judges, their family members, politicians and more!” It also advertised that the “harsh reality is that judges are going to die.

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And the shooting murder of Charlie Kirk, obviously.

RileyG said:

Thank you, Father!

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absolutely!

A thief apparently posted ads on Snapchat Marketplace for guns he stole in as little as two hours after stealing them. Apparently residents reported guns stolen and Sheriff’s Deputies looked for them online, found them, and arrested the culprit. The stolen guns include several handguns, a shotgun, and related items such as holsters and ammunition. It looks like the culprit is already a convicted felon, so he is being charged with possession of firearms by a felon, in addition to other crimes.

The story doesn’t say whether the guns were stolen from homes or cars.

This happened in Highlands County, Florida, which is an hour or two south of Orlando.

Snapchat videos help catch alleged gun thief​

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If you think back to the oppressed of Jesus’ day, they were happy God would be coming to take control away from mankind, not that they were going anywhere. The promise of a change of governance for the world was enough.

Prayers for the denominations and their future!

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Hi Richard,

That would be appreciated. Do you want me to message you with an email address?

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Yes, please message me individually so your email will not be public.

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I was parking the car yesterday to go into the bank, and I saw a street evangelist standing at the large intersection near the parking lot. (Photo posted below, cropped to show only his sign but not the evangelist himself, to protect his privacy.) I've seen him before; he stands with his sign on the walkway at my university many days, just outside my office window, and he also shows up each year across the street from our town's Pride Festival.

And I decided to go over and talk to him.

I'm feeling I need to reach across the divide and see if we can meet each other as human beings. We mostly discussed whether a list of sins is the best way to draw people to Christ (and we still disagreed on this at the end of the conversation). There was a bit of dueling Bible verses, a bit of grace vs repentance, and a bit of (the obvious, given the sign) dispute over whether gay people can be Christians.

We didn't come to any agreements, and I didn't realistically expect us to. But maybe I have a little better understanding of what drives him to stand by the road day after day with that sign. He feels he needs to warn people about God, and I can see that as a caring act. I don't know if he came to any understanding of me or my point of view.

I'm planning to greet him by name when I walk by him on campus this fall, ask how he's doing, maybe chat a little more, try to build some kind of relationship. The body of Christ, in all its diversity, is so hard, but it's our calling.

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Strange how Gentiles in Corinth were being warned about Mosaic Law judgements when Gentiles are not accountable to those laws. But 1 Corinthians 1:2 addresses to 'whom' Paul was warning towards...

"Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ (J)esus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of (J)esus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:"

So as a professor at a University, what do you think this means when it is addressed to 'non-church' members?

Maybe, be careful with whom you share time with? You might not find being separated from that person an enjoyable experience?


But if another really tries to 'evangel' towards one of these mentioned sign 'lifestyles', what can that person be told about that lifestyle in which he/she is within?





Know ye not that the unrighteous
shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived:
neither fornicators,
nor idolaters,
nor adulterers,
nor effeminate,
nor abusers of themselves with mankind,


In the 2011 revision of the New International Version (NIV), the phrase "homosexual offenders" from the 1984 edition was changed to "men who have sex with men". The change occurred in 1 Corinthians 6:9, a key verse cited in discussions of homosexuality and biblical interpretation.
Comparison of the 1 Corinthians 6:9 translations
NIV 1984: "Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders..."


How about the CEV?
"Don't you know that evil people won't have a share in the blessings of God's kingdom? Don't fool yourselves! No one who is immoral or worships idols or is unfaithful in marriage or is a pervert or behaves like a homosexual"


But the question being; what can be shared about God's Word towards the lifestyles being addressed?
-unrighteous
-fornicators
-idolaters
-adulterers
-effeminate
-abusers of themselves; not with themself, but with themselves? with mankind

Knowing that being Gentile has these, if these were Gentiles, not accountable to these points within the Mosaic Law.


1 Corinthians 1:2 "Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ (J)esus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of (J)esus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:"


So what Mosaic Law is there regarding 'Church' or Assembly?

Deuteronomy 23:1 being an example...
"He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD."


So, 'unto those who are part of the congregation of The LORD which is at Corinth'.... etc....


But what seems to be the problem? What is wrong with having opinions towards lifestyles? Maybe when those preferring a different type of person to/in having a relationship with that using God saying that God is similar, might be what the problem is.

I didn't want to make a new thread, but condolences to the family and friends of Charlie Kirk who was killed today from gun violence.

I've known a few people that were baptized as adults. I almost envy them. Almost.

Lord, have mercy on your daughter and restore her to full health and strength