essentialsaltes said:

Trump to ask Supreme Court to reconsider birthright citizenship case​

Under the Supreme Court's rules, parties in a case have 25 days to petition for a rehearing to challenge a judgement or decision based on the merits.

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Regardless of what President Trump may say, the administration did not petition for a rehearing. It's over.

tall73 said:

While still on the far side of the Jordan, in the initial conquest under Moses, we see that the people of Reuben and Gad had "a very great number of livestock".

Numbers 32:1-4​

1 Now the people of Reuben and the people of Gad had a very great number of livestock. And they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, and behold, the place was a place for livestock. 2 So the people of Gad and the people of Reuben came and said to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the chiefs of the congregation, 3 “Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon, 4 the land that the LORD struck down before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock, and your servants have livestock.” (ESV)​

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Surely these livestock were never intended to be eaten. Israel, being a very moral and kindly nation, probably had adopted the livestock as pets which, in due time, would be accorded proper burials in landscaped cemeteries.

Currently playing chess.

Akita Suggagaki said:

It is up to each of us. We have to respect and seek the truth even when it does not support our worldview, beliefs, and biases. Do we have the character to such a commitment?

I don’t think so. It saddens me to say that truth and character are no longer priorities.

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I'm not knocking truth. But it is a means to an end. If one knows the truth, but it doesn't result in being kinder, more compassionate, more just, it is worthless. It is a tool. It is not a destination.

ThatRobGuy said:

But I know this isn't a case where anyone on the progressive side is claiming to have some sort of a deep reverence for historical statues or monuments, is it?...because that would be a laugh.

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I didn't see anyone make that argument here.

Many are questioning the security value of removing a representation of a sword from a statue.

DogsInHeaven said:

Thank you for your reply. This helps. When somebody is talking about Enoch as in the books of Enoch, how do you know which Enoch they are referring to?

Also, how about Joseph?

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The Bible does not have any book called "The book of Enoch" so the first thing you know is that they are not quoting the Bible.
The next thing you know is that they are quoting something not written by anyone named Enoch , a text from around 200 B.C.

But you can always type this in your browser "Which of the books of Enoch contain the following statement..."

Please pray that I'm not getting sick and that God will allow me to feel better especially when I see my grandchildren. I ask in the name of Jesus. Thank you and God bless you. Carmen

Psalm 37:1-2 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)


As long as the world as we know it exists, and humans still live on the planet earth, evil will always exist. For we humans are all born into this world with sin natures, in the image of Adam who was the first man God created and the first man to sin against God. Only by the grace of God, by faith in Jesus Christ, can any of us be delivered from our slavery (addiction) to sin and now serve God with our lives in walks of obedience to his commands.

So when those who make sin their practice, who do evil by habit, do evil to us or to others, we are not to fret over it. We are not to burn with anger and want revenge. We are not to be consumed with fear, hatred, worry, incense, envy, bitterness, and/or resentment. But we should pray for the wicked to turn their hearts to Christ, and we should trust the Lord with our lives. For one day all evil and evildoers will be no more, when God comes to judge.

Psalm 37:3-4 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)


So, we should pray for those who make sin their practice that they will one day turn their hearts to Christ. Then we should commit our way to the Lord, and we should do the good that God has planned for us to do. And this includes loving our enemies and those who do evil against us, praying for them, forgiving them, doing good to them, and speaking the truth of God’s word to all who will listen. We return hate with love and with forgiveness.

And then we need to focus our attention on what God has for us to do as his followers. We must be those who are faithful to the Lord and to his service, who follow our Lord wherever he leads us in doing all that he calls and equips us to do for his praise, honor, and glory, and for the salvation of human lives. We must put God/Christ first in our lives, always committing all of our ways to him, trusting him with our circumstances, resting in him.

Psalm 37:5-6 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)


So, if our lives are committed to the ways of the Lord, he should be first place in our lives. His will and purpose for our lives should be our top priority. We should be seeking his face in order to know and to do his will that he has for our lives. And then we must obey what the Lord has for us to do, all in his power, under his leading and direction. And then we must trust him with the results, even when it may appear like nothing is happening.

And even if we are slandered, falsely accused, mistreated, snubbed, rejected, and cast aside as unwanted because we serve the Lord Jesus with our lives, we are not to be discouraged. We are not to let that dishearten us. But we must keep pressing forward in the will of God in doing what he has called us to do, trusting him to work it all out for good. And then we should leave our reputations in his hands and keep on keeping on in his service.

Psalm 37:7 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)


If God has called us to his service, he will equip us to do his work and his will his way. Our job is to follow him wherever he leads us in doing whatever he has called us to do, and then to leave the results to him. For it may look to us as though nothing is happening, or as though we are not making a difference, but all the while God is using us in other people’s lives in ways we don’t even know about. So we can’t judge by outward appearances only.

For example, we may be writing what the Lord is giving us to write each day and to post it on the internet, but we may be getting very few responses. And so we may presume that we are not making a difference. But then if we could look at our statistics, and this is just one example, we may learn that hundreds or even thousands of people may be viewing what we write and post each day, or it may be just one. Then we realize that God is using us.

Commit Your Way to The Lord
An Original Work / July 28, 2026
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Be Still

Based off Psalm 37 and 46
An Original Work / February 29, 2012
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

God’s our refuge and our strength,
An ever-present help in trouble.
Therefore we will not fear,
Though the mountains fall into the sea.
The Lord Almighty is with us;
God of Jacob is our fortress.
“Be still, and know that I am God;
Exalted I’ll be.”

Trust in the Lord and do good;
And delight yourself in the Lord,
And He will give you your heart’s desires.
Commit your way to the Lord.
Trust in Him and He will do this:
He will make your righteousness shine
Like the dawn, the justice of your
Cause – the noon-day sun.

Be still before the Lord,
And wait patiently for Him; do not fear.
Fretting only leads to evil.
Put your hope in Jesus Christ.
If the Lord delights in your way,
He makes your steps firm and steady.
The Lord upholds you with His hand,
So you will not fall.

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essentialsaltes said:

Trump reiterates threats to bomb Iran's power plants and bridges​

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The president again floated strikes on Iran's power plants, bridges and desalination plants -- a threat he has previously walked back.

"I would say in two hours. Most of the bridges, the major bridges will all be gone. And the power plants in one day. And, you know, if I can avoid doing that, I'd like to do that," Trump said, giving a timeline for how long he said it would take for the U.S. to accomplish such an objective.

"And then there's always the desalinization plants. And who am I hurting there? I'm hurting the people. So I'm not looking to do that," he added.

[If he goes through with it, this will be useful evidence in his war crimes trial that he knew it was not a legitimate military target.]

Federal judge orders release of witness to Houston ICE shooting​

U.S. District Judge Keith P. Ellison issued the order releasing Jose Trinidad Rojas Pliego on Monday, one week after blocking the federal government from deporting him.

Since the shooting, Rojas Pliego has been in custody "without an individualized bond determination."

“Given the severity of this ongoing unconstitutional deprivation of Petitioner’s liberty, the Court concludes that immediate release from custody is required,” Judge Ellison wrote in his order.

Wow, the term for that one roast is in the filter now?

I think most of the Calvary chapels are good places to be. Because they have one authority- God and His Word.
Good preaching, good worship and good people. There are some big ones in L.A. The pastors sink they’re whole heart into it.

Dave G. said:

Well, as I stated, if you find a good one stay there.

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Fantine said:

I guess it was self published in the vanity press--which I will now think of as the insanity press.

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What, you didn't snag a copy?

The story of the priest who turned the cave-dwellings of Guadix into classrooms, and meekness into a path to holiness.

Did you know that a Spanish priest spent years descending into inhabited caves to teach children who had never seen a school how to read? This is the story of Saint Pedro Poveda Castroverde (1874–1936): born in Linares, formed in Jaén and Guadix, founder of the Teresian Association, and martyr of the religious persecution of 1936 in Madrid. His story runs through the lead mines of Jaén, the mist of Covadonga, and classrooms across Spain, up to the early morning when he gave his life without hiding who he was.

In this video you'll discover:
How his vocation was born among the lead mines of Linares, in 1874.
Why he went to live among the poor in the cave-dwellings of Guadix, and what school he founded there.
How, in the silence of Covadonga, he shaped the Teresian Association by entrusting his mission to young women.
What words he spoke, without fear, in the early morning of his martyrdom, on July 28, 1936.

The life of Pedro Poveda is not only a chapter in the history of Spain: it is a testimony that education, lived as a form of charity, can transform the most forgotten people. His canonization in 2003, in the very Madrid where he had once been arrested, closed a circle that had begun in a forgotten cave on the Guadix plateau. We invite you to discover his full story.

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Lost4words said:

Nope...you mean lefties being weak and opening the gates to all types of people who don't care about UK life.

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Lost4words said:

Nope...you mean lefties being weak and opening the gates to all types of people who don't care about UK life.

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I guess it must have been all those lefties in power for all those years up to now who let Johnny Foreigner in?

Psalm 36:1-4 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)


Your Way or God’s Way?

Before I got to this passage of Scripture this morning, the Lord put in my mind the lyrics to a secular song titled, “My Way.” The lyrics fit this passage of Scripture. For, repeated over and over again throughout the song are the words, “I did it my way.” The person said, “I planned each charted course, each careful step along the byway.” Then, “For what is a man what has he got if not himself then he has not to say the things he truly feels and not the words of one who kneels.” To me, this sounds like a rejection of God.

So, when the Scripture above speaks of a person in these terms, “There is no fear of God before his eyes,” that is the description given in this song, I believe. For this is a person who rejects the ways of God, who does not submit (kneel) to God and to his commands, nor does he feel any obligation to do so. He is self-made, not that he created himself, for we are all created by God, but that his dependency is not in the Lord but in himself. And he takes all the credit for his own accomplishments. He said, “I did it my way.”

Who are The Wicked?

Now, who are the wicked? They are not only those who make no profession of faith in Jesus Christ, but they are many who give lip service to God but whose hearts are far from God. Although outwardly they may give the appearance of being people of faith, still they are the ones running their own lives, making their own choices, choosing their own paths. Even though they know right from wrong, they will choose to do wrong whenever their flesh is able to persuade them to do so, regardless of who gets hurt in the process.

And that goes along with verse 2 which says, “His eyes are too full of conceit to detect or hate his own sin.” For this is someone who sins deliberately and habitually without conscience and without regard for who gets hurt in the process. For this person is thinking only of himself (or herself) and what he wants out of it and of how it will bring him pleasure. And this is someone who can remain on this course for a very long time and still keep feeding his (or her) own flesh while ignoring God and his commands for selfish reasons.

Sinning in Secret

Then, when this says that the “words of his mouth are wicked and deceitful,” I see this as describing someone who is addicted to sin but who wants to hide that knowledge from others. And so he may put on a show of godliness or righteousness, or he may put on a performance that would lead others to think differently of him than who he truly is in order to hide what he is doing in the darkness when no one else can see. So, in essence, he would be a hypocrite who gives an appearance contrary to how he is living, in truth.

Now, if you look up the word “bed” in a thesaurus, one of the meanings has to do with having sex with someone. So, this could be taken in that direction, that the wickedness being plotted has to do with sexual sin, sexual immorality, idolatry, and adultery. And, as we must all realize, this doesn’t have to be a physical act with another human being, but it can be all in one’s own mind, and/or it can be via the viewing of porn, and included in that self-gratification. For this is definitely a “path that is not good.” It is selfish!

Facing the Final Curtain

Then, going back to the song lyrics (a song by Gilles Thibaut, Claude Francols, Jacques Revaux, and Paul Anka), it begins with “And now, the end is near, and so I face the final curtain.” Well, I believe this was about Frank Sinatra ending his music career, but in light of this passage of Scripture and of other Scriptures, this is the ultimate end of those for whom sin is their practice, for they did life their way and not God’s way. Biblically speaking, their destiny is hell, and not heaven, because they did life their way.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 12:1-2; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; 2 Corinthians 5:10,15,21; 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 10:19-39; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

Your Way or God’s Way?
An Original Work / July 28, 2026
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Give Ear to Jesus

Based off Isaiah 55
An Original Work / February 16, 2016
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Call on your Savior. Seek the Lord while He is near.
Let the wicked forsake his way; Turn to the Lord.
God will have mercy. He’ll forgive you of your sin.
He will freely pardon you and give peace within.
Turn from your sin, follow Jesus, be cleansed from sin.

Give ear to Jesus. Come to Him. Your soul will live.
Listen to Him speaking to you: “Eat what is good.”
If you are thirsty, come to Jesus, drink from Him.
Drink His Spirit given to you. Be born again.
Listen to Him. Do what He says. Rejoice in Him.

God’s Word, eternal, will achieve what He desires.
He is willing none should perish, saved by His blood.
Share now the gospel. Jesus died so we’d go free.
Walk in vict’ry, free from your sin, eternally.
Die to sin, and live to Jesus. In Him believe.

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In the believer Paul compared sin to a parasite where sin arose unbeconned and undaunted by the believer. What is the implication of this?

Many are neglecting eternal life salvation. Because satan has convinced the person to focus on sin in their life and not what they are lacking in their life.
Which is the very Life of God (Eternal Life) and how the gift of Eternal Life is freely received from God, by only belief in Jesus for Eternal Life (God's free gift).

The attack is by many and is mostly known by labeling God's free gift of Eternal Life by belief in Jesus., easy believism!

I fully support annonymity with these reporting lines. Keeping these kid safe from their parents is 1000% my most important priority.

Sadly, the kind of person who would make these reports is the kind of person who's children I would have extreme and grievous concerns for.

I'm am sorry Buttigieg went through this but I desperately hope that local CFS agents are able to flag his file in some way so that this type of doxxing never reaches anywhere near an investigatory stage.

RileyG said:

In our society, women are still fighting to be treated equally.

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Well, that's a shame.