Pommer said:

Yeah, but lookie at how l o n g his tie is!

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That's the tie of a patriot!

Firstlightdawn said:

Genetic ancestry and genealogical ancestry are not the same thing.

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That's interesting. I see many well-meaning students of Scripture getting hung up on the word "generation" regarding Jesus' prophecy of the end times. It is my view that the word generation was not referring to the lifespan of a human, but rather an undisclosed "era" of conflict, which is at, or about, 2000 years.

Firstlightdawn said:

exactly 4,000 years from Abraham to Jesus

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I'm not following your timeframe here, but I do know that from Adam to Jesus exceeded 4000 years.

I've been working on a timeline of biblical chronology, which puts most OT books, and chapters within some books, as skewed and mixed up as the bulk of theological interpretation.

Firstlightdawn said:

exactly 4,000 years

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Firstlightdawn said:

exactly 2,000 years

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I used to see this 4000/2000 pattern; however, I have dismissed the idea of "exactly."

Your point is valid, regardless of accuracy. The switchover to the Gregorian calendar certainly created a disruption in comparing the biblical calendar with the system we are most oriented to.

Many people consider the creation of Adam as the start of the 4000 years, some count from the time of Seth's birth, some to Noah, and perhaps, "from Abraham" deserves a deeper look into how God set this pattern in history.

Thanks for that. I'll look into it, casually, at first, but I'll be able to determine the validity of that when I compare it to the patterns created by the years documented in the family generations and years mentioned in Scripture.

Happiness belongs to the wealthy and powerful, most people believe.

But it turns out that happiness grows out of the soil of humility.

Right, any updates?

A New York judge on Friday said. Mangione's trial will start in June, despite his attorneys pleading to push back the date as his federal trial begins in April.

The New York state trial for Luigi Mangione, who is facing charges in connection with the 2024 fatal shooting of a UnitedHealthcare executive, will begin on June 8, the judge said in court Friday.

While he was leaving court Friday, Mangione said: "One plus one equals two. This is double jeopardy by any common sense judgment."

This outburst is the first anyone has heard from Mangione since his hearings began.

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Welcome

‘My roadmap is to trust God, to surrender to Him, to unite my heart to the heart of Jesus, and to seek the will of the Father each day in prayer.’

Editor's Note: Archbishop-elect Ronald Hicks celebrates a Vespers service Feb. 5 on the evening before his installation at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. Please find the full text of his homily below, edited for clarity and length.



Paz y bien!

Peace and all good things to all of you!

¡Paz y bien a todos mis hermanos y hermanas en Cristo, y a toda la gente de buena voluntad!

Paz y bien.

The Church, in her wisdom, gives us an evening like this.

Not to solve all the issues and challenges of our Church and our world. And not even to highlight all the blessings and successes either.

We are here this evening to pray… together.

We come here as people of faith and goodwill to ask God to bless me and to bless the entire Archdiocese of New York as we take these next steps… together.

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That’s pretty awesome! Glory to God!

How incredibly sad. I hope she gets the justice her son deserves.

Seattle, Boston archbishops make friendly wager ahead of 2026 Super Bowl​

It’s become an annual tradition for the Catholic bishops from the two cities sending teams to the Super Bowl to make a friendly wager before the big game to benefit Catholic nonprofits in the teams’ cities.

As the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks prepare to play in the Super Bowl on Feb. 8, Archbishop Richard G. Henning of Boston and Archbishop Paul D. Etienne of Seattle discussed this year’s wager with EWTN News.

The two archbishops said the weekend will be fun for fans across the nation but acknowledged it comes amid a tense time in the United States with ongoing debates and division surrounding immigration.

“I think this is an important moment, obviously, of unity. This is a shared cultural moment, hopefully a moment for people to gather, be with friends and family, a joyful thing,” Henning said. “But at the same time, we don’t want to forget that there are other realities in our world and suffering; [we want to] be attentive to that as well.”

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Amen!

Michie said:

Shamefully, 'most permissive' physician-assisted suicide in US is coming​

Shamefully, 'most permissive' physician-assisted suicide in US is coming

Death is painful, and evil But avoiding death is not the goal of the Christian life

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Lord have mercy on us and deliver us! That’s scary!

essentialsaltes said:

Iran seizes 2 foreign oil tankers in Persian Gulf, state media says​

Fifteen crew members on board the two tankers are “in custody of judicial bodies,” he said, without providing their nationalities.

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Why, this is State sponsored piracy! The free civilized world can not allow this flagrant violation to stand!

Yuck!

Grilled peanut butter Sandwich?

Pray that freedom of responsible, professional & meaningful media, press & journalism that does Not lie and does Not exaggerate is upheld & valued in all nations(especially democracies):

What's the whole chapter in Kings about? If God speaks in a "still small voice" then we not likely to hear unless we are quiet within. That can take a bit of time. But I think this is not the whole theology of hearing the Lord. Maybe God speaks to some people moreso from the Bible, it will depend on ones tradition were the emphasis is. In fact if we want to discern whether the voice we hear is the Lord's voice, then we'd need to be well spiritually grounded in Scripture. That's were I would begin.

I'd also suggest Leanne Payne's book Listening Prayer or maybe Dallas Willard's Hearing God (In Search of Guidance) because I think there is a lot more to it than that two minute clip suggests.

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Not my quote.

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Excuse me i thought it was

Can you please pray for an elderly woman who recently died?

Thank you

Please pray that my son Jakeb has a good night where he is not sad or stressed and his stomach can feel better. Please ask God that if it is His will I can hear his laughter. I ask in the name of Jesus. Thank you and God bless you. Carmen.

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Jake Lang didn't have receive enough attention.

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Oh, he's about to have all kinds of attention:

On Friday, prosecutors charged Lang with first-degree damage to property, a felony. According to a criminal complaint, Lang requested and was granted protective custody at the jail. He also allegedly told authorities he was "exercising my First Amendment right to artistic expression."

"Complainant notes that the First Amendment does indeed protect artistic expression — the creation and display of an ice sculpture, for example," the complaint read. "The First Amendment does not, however, provide protection against damaging someone else's property."

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Maybe he will make enough noise to have the administration lean on the state to let him out like they have with Tina Peters

National Park Service Returns Brochure Calling Civil Rights Leader’s Klansman Assassin A ‘Racist’​

The National Park Service returned brochures they reportedly pulled from a monument honoring civil rights activist Medgar Evers on Thursday, calling his assassin, a Klu Klux Klan member, a “racist” following massive backlash.

Park Service officials told Mississippi Today the brochures at Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument describing Evers’ Byron De La Beckwith as “racist” had been pulled and set to be replaced with a new version, removing that description. The officials told the outlet the original brochures were “outdated.”

Evers, who Trump once called a “hero,” was a World War II veteran who fought segregation in Mississippi upon his return was killed by white supremacist Beckwith in 1963. The activist’s history, however, was wiped from sections of the Arlington National Cemetery website last year.

Haha - it was the worst snowfall I have seen in my life. I woke up during the night, saw it outside the window and it definitely took me by surprise. It is totally dark at night outside my house as there is no lighting and all you can see is a silhouette of trees from the woodland opposite. I had to take a photo and fortunately my camera has a "night mode" function so I think I managed to capture it well!

Prayers…with you

Say it aint so said:

Even if a Republican won the next POTUS, he'll be boxing his things up.

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Then off to the right-wing lecture circuit!