As Christians ponder whether America is experiencing revival, apologist Frank Turek is digging a bit deeper, noting it's essential that people don't just get "spiritual renewal, but they become disciples."

He also addressed some of the confusion and date-setting that sometimes arises in theological discussions about the End Times.

“How do you make disciples? How do you make people that actually follow Jesus — not just people that say, 'I got fire insurance, I'm going to Heaven?'" he told The Bible Bros Podcast hosts Billy Hallowell and Dalton Harper. "Jesus didn't say, 'Come make believers.' He said, 'Come make disciples.' And that means carrying your cross and doing things that you might not normally want to do. It means denying yourself and following Him, and that's hard."

With so much spiritual activity underway, Turek was asked whether it's possible for both chaos and renewal to occur in the U.S. at the same time. This conversation gets especially interesting when it comes to speculation about the End Times.

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Michie said:

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Forever COWARDS!

Peace in Christ.

John wrote these things unto us who believe into the name….that is, the authority…of the Son of God. We who believe into the name/authority of the Son of God has now (present tense) an age-lasting life.

1Jn 5:13 KJV
(13) These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have (present tense) eternal (AGE-LASTING) life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

But what do most Christians do?

They see themselves as “wise” and think it prudent to go and submit themselves under man’s authority…going to a man-based church rather than submit to the Lord (Supreme in authority) Jesus Christ who comes in the Father’s name/authority. Christ is the Head and we are complete in Him.

Seeing themselves as “wise,” they let a man exalt himself over them. They let a man bring them into bondage….subjecting themselves unto his church denominational ordinances contained in his church handwritings where they are serving the sin instead of dying to it. The life of Jesus is not found among them. There is no age-lasting life to be had by going to a man-based (man’s authority) church.

2Co 11:19-20 KJV
(19) For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.
(20) For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.

The Lord comes in His Father’s name/authority…..and yet, many receive one who comes in his own authority rather than the Lord’s.

Joh 5:43 KJV
(43) I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.

The false prophets say that they come in His name/authority and say that they are preaching the words of Christ and yet deceive MANY. Many receive them.

Mat 24:4-5
(4) And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
(5) For many shall come in my name, saying, I am THE Christ; and shall deceive many.

Many receive those who come in their own name/authority and preach “another jesus” with another spirit and preach another gospel. They “bear well with him.” People reject the authority of the Lord Jesus, but will readily accept imposters...the falsely sent…the “chiefest apostles” (who are supposedly sent in His name/authority) and go to their “churches”.

“Apostle” means “sent.” Yet, these are false “apostles”….falsely sent.

2Co 11:3-5 KJV
(3) But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
(4) For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.
(5) For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.

Let no man beguile you of your reward….an age-lasting life. A man’s handwriting of church ordinances/dogmas is not done in His authority but is a product of a puffed up fleshly-minded man.

Col 2:18-23 KJV
(18) Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

A church handwriting of ordinances (statements of faith, church constitutions, by-laws, creeds, etc, etc, etc) are all from fleshly-minded men who do not hold the Head of Christ. They are not of His authority.

Why subject ourselves to a man-based church authority where they are serving their church handwritings….the commandments and doctrines of men?

(19) And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.
(20) Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
(21) (Touch not; taste not; handle not;
(22) Which all are to perish with the using) after the commandments and doctrines of men?

Beware of men who seek to deceive you into going to and submitting to a man-based church 's authority where they serve the transmissions of men....their church handwritings of ordinances...rather than submitting to Christ who is the Head of all principality and power. We are complete in Him. We do not need to submit to man's authority.

Col 2:8-10 KJV
(8) Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
(9) For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
(10) And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:

Yet, many think themselves as “wise” to do so…a show of wisdom in will worship....to go and humbly and solemnly submit themselves to man’s authority rather than the Father’s. It does nothing to save our mortal flesh in doing so. It neglects the body which should be saved if we submit to the Lord’s authority rather than man’s.

(23) Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.

They…those who profess themselves as “wise”… go to a man-based church where they are serving their images…their handwritings of ordinances which are patterned like the nations around us. In doing so, they exchange His glory (that we are supposed to shine to this dark world) for an image made like corruptible man. His glory is not being seen among the man-based churches.

Rom 1:22-24 KJV
(22) Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
(23) And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

And we are unclean just by sitting together with them. We sin against our own mortal bodies by doing so. They defile our mortal flesh. We must come out from among them and be separate. This is our sanctification to come out from among the “dead” so that His glory light should shine through us.

(24) Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

We are to no longer be partakers with them. What does light have in communion with darkness? We are to “awake” and arise OUT of the dead ones (plural) and Christ shall give us His light.

Eph 5:14 KJV
(14) Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from (OUT OF) the dead (plural), and Christ shall give thee light.

Then we shall SHINE FORTH AS THE SUN in the kingdom/government of our Father. We shall have His name/authority written upon our foreheads.

Mat 13:41-43 KJV
(41) The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity;
(42) And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
(43) Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.

Blessed is he that comes in the name/authority of the Lord

Thanks be to God.

Hello All,

Here following is a link for a scholarly study of the truth regarding the Giants in the Bible.

The Nephilim, or "Giants" of Genesis 6, Etc."


Here following is a link for a scholarly study of the truth regarding more info on the fall of angels.

"The Sons of God" in Genesis 6:2,4


Hope this helps!

Blessings,
Love Fountain

Why do our lives happen this way or that? Are they meaningless? No, everything is meaningful—radically so: every tree and stone is pregnant with meaning; every life is a story told or yet-to-be. We have at last, as we travel forward, a choice. In which light do we walk? The one that knows this forest as the only world? Or do we walk by a different light?

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In colonial days before the diocese was founded, the Faith was kept alive by the laity itself. Before there was even a regular traveling priest assigned to the region, Catholics held the torch by teaching, praying, and keeping the liturgical calendar in their homes and communities.

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AceWestfall08 said:

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. John 14:12
We are told we will do greater works than Jesus because Jesus goes to the father......

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Yes, in this life while have the Spirit of God in the interim. CFAN has accomplished this. 80,000,000 converts, hundreds healed in one night, 1,000,000 in one alter call born again.

But in the everlasting AceWestfall08?

At one time Swebenborg's teachings were surprisingly popular in the US, for instance, in early America. Hellen Kellor and John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed) were famous examples of individuals who claimed to follow Swedenborg's teachings.

Swebenborg's ideas are a mixture of provocative theology (for the time) that isn't all that problematic (salvation as a process of regeneration and not primarily doctrinal assent, judgement as simply being the human person's disposition known in light of divine truth), to flirting with serious Modalism in reducing the Trinity to different aspects of God's being.

ChatGPT.

Not David said:

Lord have mercy!

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Its eye opening to say the least...

Job 33:6 said:

Also, I don't interpret Barbarian as disagreeing here, because I don't think that Barbarian is suggesting that ensoulment has to be an intervention distinguishable from ordinary biological causation, even though it is a divine act.

But he can share his thoughts.

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I tend to agree. If you look at the development of belief it begins simple and rudimentary and develops into a sophisticated belief. To the point where humans can know God. Become spiritual.

It seems belief naturally evolved until the point where humans could have relation with God. Took on Gods image. Before that point belief was simple and not refined to be Gods image. Humans were not capable of knowing God in a way that the bible authors explain.

So maybe there was a point in the evolution of belief itself that became awakened so to speak in humans simply by the natural course of humans evolving their knowledge to a point they could take on the image of God. Out of all creation it was only humans who could achieve this.

This says something about consciousness as well. That conscious awareness increased and became God conscious. This transcends the physical evolution and into the spiritual.

9Rock9 said:

I personally think there were [other humans back in Adam and Eve's time], and some verses imply that.

For instance, Cain is worried someone might kill him after they found out what he did. If he and his parents were the only people around at the time, who exactly was he afraid of? He also later goes on to found a city. How can you have a city with just three people at most? …

I'm curious as to what others think?

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There is no explicit statement in the Bible that other people existed at the time of Adam and Eve, but there is clear indirect statements and indications.

For example, when Cain was banished from Eden to homeless wandering, he expressed fear: “Whoever finds me will kill me” (Gen 4:14). Notably, he does not use a kinship term like “brothers” (אַחִים, ʾāḥîm) or “house of my father” (בֵּית אָבִי, bêt ʾābî), but rather an open and indefinite “whoever” (כּל, kôl). He is not worried about revenge from his family but the vulnerability of exile, of no longer belonging to God’s protected community. He is not afraid of remaining among kin, but about being cast out from among them. So, God reassures him that divine protection will follow him in exile, such that Cain will be avenged sevenfold if anyone kills him (v. 15).

A similar pressure emerges when we consider the world in which Abraham lived—a world of cities, kingdoms, and civilizations stretching from Uruk in Sumer to the Longshan culture in China. The global population was roughly 25 million people, about 4 million of which lived in Mesopotamia and the surrounding Near East alone. Attempting to derive that world from just eight people in only 300 years misses the demographic target by nearly three orders of magnitude. From the Flood to Abraham, the young-earth creationist model comes in about 500 times too low. The picture coheres, however, if we carry forward the population implied already in Cain’s fear, treating the biblical genealogies as covenantal lineages (which a redemptive-historical hermeneutic would have us do) rather than exhaustive census records.

This also entails denying a global Flood with a universal biological bottleneck, but there are a lot of good reasons for doing that—textual, theological, scientific, historical—and rather poor reasons to keep it, which is why it’s basically just young-earth creationists who believe it.

(One also must keep in mind that the population of Egypt during the Exodus—often given as ~1450 BCE—was around 2 million. One's population growth rate must take that into account.)

Edited to add: I am reading a new book, The Generations of Heaven and Earth by Jon Garvey (2020), and he adds an interesting piece of indirect biblical evidence for non-Adamic humans, evidence I had not considered before. In this chapter, “Where Are All the People in Genesis,” he details nine pieces of evidence—some of which mirrors what I’ve argued here—but the one that struck me regarded Genesis 4:26, “At that time people began to call upon the name of the LORD.”

“Which men would those be?” he asks rhetorically. In Genesis, the expression “calling on the name of the Lord” is covenantal language typically denoting formal worship, often in a sacrificial context. Its appearance in connection with Seth’s line should therefore be jarringly unexpected. His parents had known Yahweh face to face, and his older brothers had worshipped him with offerings. It is quite unlikely, then, that Seth’s family were those who “began” to call upon the name of the LORD. Garvey argues that this verse “appears to suggest that some outsiders began to worship Yahweh, either under his covenant name or at least in substance.”

Now the introduction of outsiders to Yahweh, like the growth of population recorded in these chapters, would actually be a limited fulfilment of the commission that God had always intended for Adam, and so it has a logical place in the unfolding story. This mission was impaired, but not cancelled, by the Fall, just as the parallel commission of Israel, marred from the start by the rebellion at Mount Sinai, nevertheless moved forward under the hand of God.

Greg Beale deals with this at length in A New Testament Biblical Theology, tracing the commission down through its various bearers from Noah onwards, and writes:

After Adam’s sin, the commission would be expanded to include renewed humanity’s reign over unregenerate human forces arrayed against it. Hence, the language of “possessing the gate of their enemies” is included, which elsewhere is stated as “subduing the land …”​

Such an understanding takes what is otherwise both a curious and (in the absence of an outside population) incomprehensible snippet of information and ties it into the whole missiological purpose of Genesis, the Torah, and indeed the whole Bible. Adam’s people are damaged goods, but God’s word was not spoken in vain. But in order for this to be the case, we need to see and acknowledge the “invisible” population surrounding the new-creation population which Yahweh has seeded into the world. Somehow people began to perceive the Lord through this family—perhaps through intermarriage, even—and to call on the name of the Lord.

Paul tells us that “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” Perhaps this verse includes some of the very first followers of Christ in history.

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Jon Garvey, The Generations of Heaven and Earth: Adam, the Ancient World, and Biblical Theology (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2020).

What if the antichrist, in claiming to be God, doesn’t actually verbalize the words, “I am God”? But his claim is more in how he presents himself as though he is God, as though he is a supreme being to be worshipped above all else, who has golden statues of himself made and put on display for the world to see. For he is egotistical, loud mouthed, hateful, blasphemous, arrogant, immoral, and crude, and he boasts of how great he is and of all his many accomplishments, and how he is better than everyone else. For he thinks he owns the whole world, and that the world should all bow to him.

For, remember, he is a man of deception and trickery. And remember how the Scriptures describe false teachers/prophets as those who are “wolves in sheep’s clothing.” What if the antichrist, in order to fool the people of the world, disguises himself as a Christian, and as one who believes in Jesus and in the one true God of this world? And what if he fakes worship of Jesus and the one true God in order to deceive Christians into thinking he is one of them so that they will follow him? For they will assume a profession of faith constitutes genuine faith in Jesus, and then he will have their support.

And what if “taking his seat in the temple of God” (see Revelation 13:1-10), has to do with him faking Christianity in order to place himself in a position of superiority within the gatherings of the church, i.e. among all who profess faith in Jesus Christ? And so the majority (perhaps) of those who claim to be Christians end up following him blindly, almost in a worshipful way, as though he is a god to be worshipped and/or as though he was sent by God as some kind of a “savior” for all of mankind, who can do no wrong. And so they believe everything he says, and support him no matter what.

So, you say, the antichrist is the one who denies the Father and the Son, which is true (1 John 2:22). But then how do you think he will deceive even the elect? Certainly the elect will not be fooled by someone who verbally denies God the Father and God the Son, Jesus Christ. But he is a deceiver who disguises himself, initially, in order to gain followers, just like the “wolves in sheep’s clothing.” For denying Christ doesn’t have to be verbal at all if one denies him by their lifestyles, by their words, their deeds, their actions, and their behaviors. Many who profess Jesus deny him in action.

And this is where it gets interesting. In Revelation 13 we read about two beasts, one coming out of the sea, and another from the earth. And this second beast (with two heads, which I believe could be representative of the church in a marriage relationship with the government, i.e. the institutional church) makes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose fatal wound was healed. So what if a false prophet who also claims to believe in Jesus, who is highly regarded in the Christian community, is promoting this first beast, which is then getting “Christians” to follow him?

We have to not have blinders on so that we miss all of what is happening in our present age in fulfillment of the prophesies of the Scriptures, so that we end up worshipping the beast instead of (in place of) God – Father, Son Jesus Christ, and Holy Spirit. For there is so much deception going on in our day. So many liars and deceivers and wolves in sheep’s clothing all over the place teaching lies to the people and convincing so many to believe the lies and to reject the truth of the gospel taught by Jesus and his New Testament apostles, taught in the correct biblical context, and not out of context.

For Jesus Christ taught that to come to him we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity. But if we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and we walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in his power, then we have eternal life with God. For not everyone who calls him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23).

So, please understand that the antichrist is not going to be obvious. Otherwise he loses his power to deceive. But also realize that the Scriptures teach that there are many antichrists and that all who deny Jesus as the Christ (in action, not just in words) are the antichrist. So the antichrist (one person or many people or a group of people) is not going to be wearing a sign saying, “I am the antichrist.” So don’t assume you are going to easily spot him, for even the elect will be deceived by false christs and false prophets who claim to be speaking for God, in his name (Matthew 24:24).

[Matthew 7:15-23; Matthew 24:11-24; Luke 6:26; John 10:1-15; Romans 16:17-19; 2 Corinthians 11:3,13-15; Ephesians 4:11-16; Philippians 3:2; 2 Peter 2:1-22; 1 Thessalonians 5:19-22; 1 Timothy 1:3-7; 1 Timothy 6:3-10; 2 Timothy 3:1-9; 1 John 2:18-22; 1 John 4:1-6; 2 John 1:7; Jude 1:1-25]

For Our Nation

An Original Work / September 11, 2012
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
Recording Via Gerry Peters, music producer and arranger

Bombs are bursting. Night is falling.
Jesus Christ is gently calling
You to follow Him in all ways.
Trust Him with your life today.
Make Him your Lord and your Savior.
Turn from your sin. Follow Jesus.
He will forgive you of your sin;
Cleanse your heart, made new within.

Men betraying: Our trust fraying.
On our knees to God we’re praying,
Seeking God to give us answers
That are only found in Him.
God is sovereign over all things.
Nothing from His mind escaping.
He has all things under His command,
And will work all for good.

Jesus Christ is gently calling
You to follow Him in all ways.

Men deceiving: We’re believing
In our Lord, and interceding
For our nation and its people
To obey their God today.
He is our hope for our future.
For our wounds He offers suture.
He is all we need for this life.
Trust Him with your life today.

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Understanding the Antichrist
An Original Work / February 11, 2026
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Please pray The Holy Spirit heals, comforts and provides for all those affected by the gun shooting violence that occurred on 10Feb2026 in Tumbler, Ridge, BC, Canada:

Canada will pay dearly for not following American procurement law!

prodromos said:

I'm happy that he looked up to his father and sees him as his hero. Hopefully that will carry him through his disappointment as he discovers how wrong his father was about certain topics.

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I doubt he could ever see disappointment in his fathers hundreds of videos he made, I can't see how he ever could as his father was a truther & the comments below the video prove this.

There are certain people today called “cessationists” who believe that some of the Spiritual gifts of God, listed for us in the Scriptures, are no longer valid. But that theory is anti-biblical. And they will use 1 Corinthians 13:8-10 as one of their main sources for this theory of theirs. But, when taught in the correct biblical context, their theory does not “hold water.” For in the last days (now) God will pour out His Spirit on both male and female, and they will prophesy (proclaim God’s Word), and will have dreams, and see visions (see Acts 2:15-18 and Joel 2:28-32). Test them. Yes! But don’t disregard all.


Now, to be honest, the only reason that I am on the internet is that 21 years ago the Lord called me to this ministry, some through dreams and visions, and some through the passage in Habakkuk 2:2-3, but all through the voice of the Holy Spirit speaking within me showing me the way that the Lord had planned for me from even before he created the world. But the cessationists would have none of that. They would tell me that God doesn’t speak to us that way, but only through the written word of God. And if I had listened to them, instead of to the Holy Spirit, I would never have come to the internet.

So, let’s look at what that would look like if I had ignored God’s calling upon my life, and if I had listened to the cessationists, instead. And none of this I am mentioning is of my own doing, nor could it ever be, but all this is of God, and of his working in my life and through me for his glory. So there is no pride in any of what I am going to share with you, for all this was God working through me as I yielded to his control, and I did what he said, and I said what he gave me to write and to share with the people on the internet.

In a way, this is kind of like one of those “if you had never been born” kind of stories where they show you what the world would look like if you had not existed, and if you had not had the impact that you had on the people of the earth. Only this will be looking more at the kinds of things which would not have happened if you had not listened to the Lord, and if you had listened to other humans, instead, who were teaching the Scriptures out of context, and who would tell you that God cannot speak to you in that way.

So, this is for all of you who have heard the Spirit speaking within you, showing you the way that he has for you, and the gifts and ministries he has for you, but who have been shot down by cessationists who tell you that God doesn’t work that way, and that God can speak to you only through the written word. But the written word does not say, “Sue Love, I am calling you to write down what I talk with you about, to the best of your understanding, and to post these writings on the internet for a ‘herald to run with it.’”

And, again, none of this is of me or of my flesh or my doing. I just listen to the Lord, write down what I hear him say, and I post it on the internet. What happens before, during, and after that is in the hands of God, not mine!

Over the past 21 years the Lord has given me over 10,000 documents to write, and/or to record, and to post on the internet, now on seven different internet sites. Some of them are/were dreams and visions (primarily at the beginning), which were primarily used as parables. Some of them are songs, some are poems, some are memes (devotions), and some are video talks (not writings), but they have writings to go with them. And a few were testimonies in the form of short books. Most of them are me sharing my times of fellowship with the Lord and what I am hearing from him.

Now, at first, I didn’t even know if anyone was reading, viewing, or listening to any of these, for I got few responses, until I discovered “Stats.” And then I realized that people from over 100 different nations were/are viewing these documents or videos, and these posts were getting a large number of reads, even if I did not get many responses. And that encouraged my heart. But did I do this? No! God did! He just did it through me, but it all came from him, and I am just the messenger. So all the glory goes to God and not to me.

But think with me a moment on this. What if I had listened to cessationists, and not to God. None of this would have happened. None of these over 10,000 documents would have ever gone out to people in nations all over the world. And most of what I write about is the gospel of our salvation, and I share what I am getting from the Lord in my times with him in his word each day. So these presentations of the gospel would not have reached the people of the world, either, well not through me, anyway. But so many people today are not teaching the truth, but lies to coddle people in their sin.

So, don’t listen to the naysayers who tell you that God no longer speaks through dreams and visions, or through other sources that are not specifically the canon of the Scriptures, and that he no longer uses some of the spiritual gifts he provided for his people. The Lord even uses cockroaches and lady bugs and spiders, in what they represent, in what they are doing, kind of like dreams, as symbols of what the Scriptures talk about, and to let me know what he would have me write about that day. And none of this is antibiblical. For they can be just like the kind of parables that Jesus spoke.

But we need to be aware that the devil will try to counterfeit God and his voice and his messages, so we need to test everything we believe is of God against the Scriptures to make sure that what we are hearing or seeing does not contradict the Scriptures and their teachings. But don’t limit God to just the canon of the Scriptures, for Jesus did send us the Holy Spirit to indwell us, to teach us all things, and to counsel, to encourage, and to warn. So, we have to be able to hear the Spirit speaking within us so we know God’s calling on our lives and we know what he wants us to do and to say.

Body of Christ, Spiritual Gifts, Spiritual Ministries

[Matthew 5:13-16; Matthew 28:18-20; John 4:31-38; John 13:13-17; John 14:12; Acts 1:8; Acts 2:14-18,42-47; Acts 26:18; Romans 10:14-15; Romans 12:1-8; 1 Corinthians 12:1-31; 1 Corinthians 14:1-5; Galatians 6:1; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:1-16; Ephesians 5:11-21; Ephesians 6:10-20; Philippians 2:1-8; Colossians 3:12-16; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:13; Hebrews 10:23-25; James 5:19-20; 1 Peter 2:9,21; 1 John 2:6]

The Lord’s Anointed

Based off Isaiah 61
An Original Work / December 16, 2011
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

The Spirit of the Sov’reign Lord on me;
Anointed to preach the Good News;
Sent me to bind up the brokenhearted;
Proclaim freedom for the captives.
He sent me to preach release for pris’ners
Who are walking in sin’s darkness;
Proclaim God’s grace to all men who’ll listen;
And tell them about God’s judgments;
Comfort all who mourn;
Give crowns of beauty;
Oil of gladness and thanksgiving.

They will be called oaks of God’s righteousness,
A planting of our Savior, God,
For the display of our Lord’s splendor, and
They will rebuild God’s holy church.
God will renew them, and will restore them,
And you’ll be called priests of the Lord.
You will be ministers of our God, and
You will rejoice in salvation.
The Lord loves justice;
He is faithful to
Reward those who are seeking Him.

I delight greatly in the Lord;
My soul rejoices in my Savior, God.
He has clothed me with His salvation,
And in a robe of His righteousness.
He has given me priestly garments to wear,
As the bride of Jesus Christ.
As the garden of our Lord and Savior,
He causes us to grow in Him.
He makes righteousness,
Praise, and thanksgiving
Spring up before all the nations.

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Why Am I Here?
An Original Work / February 11, 2026
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

I'm listening to whatever this is:

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DaisyDay said:

Does the Trump administration think that it can change the US revenue system from Congress passed tax revenue to Donald's Own tariff system by wrecking the IRS?

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I don't think he cares about that as much as he cares about protecting his friends. After all, if the IRS is able to audit anyone they want to, who knows what kinds of shenanigans they might uncover.

-- A2SG, and I'll bet, among Trump's friends, there's a lot of shenanigans going on.....

Motivated by their faith, 70,000 Mexican young people made the pilgrimage to the shrine of Christ the King, which commemorates the martyrs of the Cristero War period.


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We have to learn not to criticize others; explaining the word of God makes some people angry, If that happens, leave them alone. Pray for them. Be sure to encourage people when they do good.

People who abuse their children and claim to be Christians are not Christians.

"Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven."
Matt. 5:17 KJV

Archbishop William Lori urged Catholics to approach public life with synodal listening and civic virtue, drawing on Blessed Michael McGivney’s example of serving immigrant

Archbishop Lori issues pastoral letter on political life in honor of 250th anniversary of the U.S.​

Archbishop William Lori urged Catholics to approach public life with synodal listening and civic virtue, drawing on Blessed Michael McGivney’s example of serving immigrant families.


Archbishop William Lori of Baltimore urged Catholics to foster a political culture grounded in Christ by prioritizing human dignity and genuine encounter amid partisan divisions.

“In Charity and Truth: Toward a Renewed Political Culture,” released in anticipation of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, is among the nine pastoral letters and reflections Lori has written as archbishop of Baltimore. The Feb. 9 letter explored how the anniversary can be “a moment of grace” and one of “responsibility.”
The U.S. can both take pride in its achievements and “the vibrancy of our Catholic faith” while also recognizing “the fractures, wounds, and crises that mark both our national life and, sadly, even at times our ecclesial life,” Lori wrote.

“As our nation approaches the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, we find ourselves invited into a moment of profound reflection and renewal,” Lori said. “Anniversaries are not merely occasions for nostalgia or celebration. Authentic remembrance always orients us toward renewal; it calls us to consider not only who we have been and who we are becoming — but, by God’s grace, who we are called to be.”

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