May GOD heal her.

Amen.

There is a constant battle that rages in mankind between the world in which man lives and God the Father in heaven. The carnal elements of the world naturally elicit a human sense of awe and wonder when the human appetite is satisfied with the pleasures of the world, whether it's debauchery, gluttony, sexual immorality, deceit, calumny, avarice, and so forth. The carnal elixir that provides temporary satisfaction and relief leaves the person, I argue, desiring more of the same spiritual concoction, which leads to an unholy habitual state of mind and heart embedded in sinful acts.

The state of humanity’s life revolves around a constant engagement between God and the world. And, ultimately, we will need to decide which life we prefer, one with God or one without Him. St. Paul provides a vivid example of this battle in his first letter to the Corinthians,

Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. For this perishable nature must put on the imperishable, and this mortal nature must put on immortality. When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” “O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?” The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.[1]

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All this detail being so certain is strange to me.

Ex-CIA veteran James Olson defended espionage as “moral” at a Catholic leadership summit.

Catholic business leaders gathered on Saturday, Jan. 31, at The Ritz-Carlton Bacara in Santa Barbara, California, where James Olson, retired CIA chief of counterintelligence, spoke at Legatus’ The Summit.

Legatus, an organization for Catholic executives launched by Domino’s Pizza founder Tom Monaghan in 1987 with chapters throughout North America, hosts The Summit annually.

Other speakers at this year’s event included actor/filmmaker Neal McDonough, former HUD secretary Ben Carson, and former Google senior vice president for social Vic Gundotra.

Olson, who served overseas with the CIA in the Soviet Union and Austria as well as in Mexico, has been a regular presenter at Legatus events, discussing themes from his book “Fair Play: The Moral Dilemmas of Spying,” which explores the difficult moral questions intelligence officers face as well as the challenges of being a practicing Catholic while doing the work of a spy.


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Just over a year ago in County Wicklow, Ireland, three young men decided to sidestep the secular Christmas season tradition of hitting 12 pubs and instead visited 12 different churches for Sunday Mass.

Forty churches later, Luke Doogue, 20, and his friends Neil, 19, and Stephen Patterson, 17, have found themselves explaining on Irish national radio how on earth they decided to swap “pints for pews.”

“This journey didn’t start with holiness; it started as an alternative to the traditional ‘12 pubs of Christmas,’” Doogue told EWTN News.

He continued: “We were looking for a reason to get up on a Sunday morning that didn’t involve questioning our life choices the night before. What we called ‘12 churches’ began half as a joke and half as a challenge: Could we replace pints with pews and still enjoy ourselves?”

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Following a complaint from a British pro-Israel legal organization and a media inquiry by The Telegraph, the Britannica Kids edition removed a map that labeled Israel as “Palestine.”

The change was prompted by concerns that the material omitted Israel and pushed a politically biased narrative.

Published on the Britannica Kids website, the map showed the entire area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea as “Palestine,” with no mention of Israel, Ynet News reported. The caption with the map read, “The name Palestine refers to a region in the Middle East. The region lies between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.”

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Michie said:

Democrat U.S. Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware recently revealed that he prays for Republican President Donald Trump and does not consider him to be “my enemy.”

New York Avenue Presbyterian Church of Washington, D.C. hosted an event on Monday titled “Living Out One's Faith in Difficult Times: An Evening with Senator Chris Coons.”

During his remarks, Coons, who has served in the Senate since 2010, said he received mixed reactions when he prayed with Trump on stage during the 2017 National Prayer Breakfast in Washington.

“I said, ‘Mr. President, would you please stand with me? I want to pray for you,’” Coons recounted, when talking about the risks that one takes in faith. “Now why is that a risk at all?”

“And to the hundreds who called and texted and complained about what I did, I said ‘what part of pray for your enemies did you not understand?’ And he is not my enemy.”

“How many of us pray for Donald Trump every day? Anybody?” Coons asked his audience, with the senator raising his own hand while asking. “Joe Biden said ‘you can’t just love your country when you’re winning.’”

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Democratic senator says he prays for Trump, president is 'not my enemy'

A Democratic senator recently told a recent gathering that he prays for Republican President Donald Trump and does not consider him to be my enemy

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I disagree. This President most certainly is the enemy of all that has been good about the form of American government.

Maria Billingsley said:

This woman is something else. The funding available is extraordinary.

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I suspect they also have extraordinary expenses already in recruiting and housing agents and repairing damaged vehicles and the like. I’m glad they will be getting body cameras. I think they should also have whole site surveillance cameras so as not to have to rely on insurrectionist videos. More light is needed on whatever is going on. Currently there is way too much propaganda. I wish there was an honest third party observer available as well. It’s all so polarized at the moment.

Wilb6487 said:

Any gathering that can do that without curriculum, Bible study outlines, or a lesson plan has my respect!

And does your group have a meal together, seek God in the Spirit?

If so, that's a great way for all to become one with Him!

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Yes. Once a month.

Habakkuk’s Prayer​

3 A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet. On shigionoth.[a]

2 Lord, I have heard of your fame;
I stand in awe of your deeds, Lord.
Repeat them in our day,
in our time make them known;
in wrath remember mercy.
3 God came from Teman,
the Holy One from Mount Paran.[b]
His glory covered the heavens
and his praise filled the earth.
4 His splendor was like the sunrise;
rays flashed from his hand,
where his power was hidden.
5 Plague went before him;
pestilence followed his steps.
6 He stood, and shook the earth;
he looked, and made the nations tremble.
The ancient mountains crumbled
and the age-old hills collapsed—
but he marches on forever.
7 I saw the tents of Cushan in distress,
the dwellings of Midian in anguish.
8 Were you angry with the rivers, Lord?
Was your wrath against the streams?
Did you rage against the sea
when you rode your horses
and your chariots to victory?
9 You uncovered your bow,
you called for many arrows.
You split the earth with rivers;
10 the mountains saw you and writhed.
Torrents of water swept by;
the deep roared
and lifted its waves on high.
11 Sun and moon stood still in the heavens
at the glint of your flying arrows,
at the lightning of your flashing spear.
12 In wrath you strode through the earth
and in anger you threshed the nations.
13 You came out to deliver your people,
to save your anointed one.
You crushed the leader of the land of wickedness,
you stripped him from head to foot.
14 With his own spear you pierced his head
when his warriors stormed out to scatter us,
gloating as though about to devour
the wretched who were in hiding.
15 You trampled the sea with your horses,
churning the great waters.
16 I heard and my heart pounded,
my lips quivered at the sound;
decay crept into my bones,
and my legs trembled.
Yet I will wait patiently for the day of calamity
to come on the nation invading us.
17 Though the fig tree does not bud
and there are no grapes on the vines,
though the olive crop fails
and the fields produce no food,
though there are no sheep in the pen
and no cattle in the stalls,
18 yet I will rejoice in the Lord,
I will be joyful in God my Savior.
19 The Sovereign Lord is my strength;
he makes my feet like the feet of a deer,
he enables me to tread on the heights.

A Psalm of Trust After the Cross​

O LORD,
I have heard of Your works, and now I have seen them.
What prophets longed to glimpse,
You have revealed in Your Son.

You clothed Yourself in flesh,
You walked the dust of our roads,
You bore the weight of our rebellion
And did not turn away.

Your glory did not thunder only from the mountains;
It hung upon a cross between criminals.
Your power was not hidden in lightning,
But made perfect in weakness.

The grave trembled at Your coming,
Death loosened its grip,
And the stone could not hold
What love had raised.

The nations rage, the earth groans,
Creation still waits in travail—
Yet we have seen the end written in blood and light.

Though the harvest fails,
Though the economy of men collapses,
Though strength leaves our bodies
And the future seems stripped bare,

Yet we will rejoice in the LORD.
We will exult in the God of our salvation.

For You have given us more than deliverance—
You have given us Yourself.
Your Spirit dwells within us,
A seal of the age to come.

You make our feet like the deer’s,
Not by removing the heights,
But by teaching us to stand upon them.

The cross stands behind us,
The empty tomb before us,
And glory awaits beyond the veil.

The LORD God is our strength;
He causes us to walk in hope,
Not by sight,
Until faith gives way to fullness.

Amen.

Helmut-WK said:

Show me a video where I can clearly see that she hit him.

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I don’t think this video is from the shooter unless it’s a second agent shooting. These guys-at best- are poorly trained to be doing their jobs. At worst………

Man must lead by example not 'political' authority. This shows true in that we can not chosen to be led we can only yield. But not to lose heart a desire is all we need, because He is faithful.

I've done some writing. I am working off an on on a hard sci fi story.

bèlla said:

It's wonderful to connect with someone from South Africa. There's a rich history of prayer and fortitude on your continent. And no one prays like you all. No one!

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I have a friend—an in‑law—who started a church because she loves Chris Oyakhilome so much. Half the church is in the choir, and they all love dressing alike. Every time they gather, they show up in a completely new coordinated outfit. I think they call it Christ Embassy. He works with Benny Hinn sometimes. Even she goes to Africa and other cities when they have a special meetings.

I've always taken the novel Frankenstein to a a refutation of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's work Emile, Or Treatise on Education. In college I had the good fortune to be reading Rousseau's work in one class as I was reading Mary Shelley's work in another.

JohnB445 said:

There is no guarantee of a long healthy life

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I died with very little warning, It is a miracle they were able to revive me. So yes there can be no warning. Esp with friends. I remember a song that said I never thought I would never see you again. That is true to some degree for everyone. We just never grasp the concept that we may never see them again. You get to be my age and I start to wonder who is and who is not still alive. Young people die also. That hits harder because for better or worse they did not get a chance to live so much of their life.

JohnClay said:

I thought if Jesus existed before the universe was created he would be omniscient. Talking to God the Father suggests Jesus lost all of his godly knowledge when he was born and God the Father was talking to a blank slate.

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Jesus is the Word of God, and the universe was created through Him. He became fully human, and in doing so He emptied Himself — not by ceasing to be God, but by laying aside the privileges of His divine position. We see this in moments like when He says, “Only the Father knows.” That’s His self‑emptying in action.

“In the beginning was the Word. The Word was with God, and the Word was God.”

The Word is not a created being — He is God’s own eternal self‑expression. And of course, this is held together with the Holy Spirit: three in one, one in three.

RileyG said:

Odd. I thought Finland was a Christian nation (officially).

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As in the U.K., the views of the elite and political class even in Finland and as demanded by the hateful EU have no relation to what the people think.

All the Christian countries are being threatened by EU , take portugal , Hungary , Poland , for failing to adopt EU standards , ( ie rhetoric on matters like lgbt and abortion) and will be fined for refusing to accept a mass of Islamic hate cult migrants .

Thankfully Portugal - I live in much of the time- has our ladies promise from Fatima of “ in Portugal the dogma of the faith will always be preserved “ and so it is. Catholicism is still strong.

Elsewhere in such as the U.K. the prophecy is also true “ Russia will spread its errors” which now has legal murder on demand abortion. It was a fascinating prophecy because in 1917 communist Russia had yet to exist. It was still in the future.

If we who profess faith in Jesus Christ become followers of men and women, and of church denominations and their creeds and goals and objectives, then we cease to be the followers of Christ that our Lord desires. For we are not to identify as “Baptists,” “Methodists,” “Lutheran,” “Presbyterian,” and/or “Episcopalians,” and the list goes on. We are to be followers of Jesus Christ, and of him (of God) alone. And denominational theologies and creeds and statements of faith are not to usurp authority over the Word of God ever.

For, humans are not to be our gods. They are not to be the ones directing our lives. We are not to be looking to them to be our Saviors. And church denominations in the USA are largely partnered with the government and with the world, which God forbids. And so many of them are marketing what they call “the church” to the people of the world in order to attract the world to their gatherings, so they are human-based businesses, which God also forbids. And God is calling his people to come out from among them.

[Matthew 21:12-13; John 2:13-17; Acts 5:27-32; 1 Corinthians 1:10-13; 1 Corinthians 3:1-9; 2 Corinthians 6:14-18; Philippians 3:18-19; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22; Revelation 13:5-8; Revelation 18:1-5]

So many people claiming faith in Jesus Christ today are followers of other humans over and above being followers of Christ. Their allegiance is to their pastor or to their “church” denomination, or to some famous TV preacher and/or evangelist who they often raise to God-like status. For they do not question them or their character or what they are teaching against the truths of the Scriptures, but they just follow them and their teachings blindly, as though they are God and the Scriptures themselves. God forbid!

And so many of these “church” denominations are beholding to the government, and they even teach government worship via the pledge (vow) of allegiance (worship) of the government, with hand over heart. And they teach worship of the military, teaching us that they are our saviors, that they are the ones keeping us safe from our “enemies.” And they teach government worship via the singing of national anthems and songs of worship of the government, some of which are in our “church” hymnals.

“My Country ‘Tis of Thee” and “America the Beautiful,” are both in the hymnal that I sang out of in the church gatherings I attended from birth on up to mid adulthood. And I grew up singing songs of praise and worship of my government also in our public schools where I was also taught to pledge (vow) my allegiance (fidelity) to my government, and taught that our military were the ones keeping us safe from our “enemies.” And so I did as I was taught to do until I heard God say, “NO!” And then I obeyed God.

But are we to obey our government heads? Yes, we are to obey them, but with biblical exceptions, and never in the sense of giving the government our worship and praise and loyalty and devotion which should be reserved for God and for God alone. For example, the government is never to usurp authority over God and over his word. We must always obey God rather than men if other humans, whoever they are, command our worship and undying devotion and obedience to them, in all things, rather than to God alone.

Zeal for Your House

Based off John 2:17; Psalms 69:9
An Original Work / August 1, 2016
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Zeal for Your house, it consumes me.
Lord, I love my times with You.
I love to worship You and sing Your praises.
Time in Your Word brings me closer to You,
List’ning to You speaking to me,
Gently guiding me in truth.

Lord, You are my life’s example,
Showing me how I should live.
I love to walk with You where’er You lead me.
No greater joy have I when serving You.
Loving, giving, resting in Your strength,
I’m yielding to Your will.

Zeal for Your house, it consumes me.
See the church turned upside down:
Marketing ventures taking place of worship,
Men of the gospel turning into clowns.
Gospel message made appealing,
So the world will feel at home.

Lord, we need a great revival.
Turn their hearts, Lord, back to You.
Open the blind eyes, turn them all from darkness,
Lord, to the light. May they return to You,
Turn from their sin, forsake idols,
Be restored to God again.

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Worship God, Not Human Flesh
An Original Work / February 3, 2026
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

It's a good statement. Theologically grounded, not overly heavy on policy, but forcing people to confront the reality of what is going on. Fear is being wielded as a weapon, people are suffering as a result.

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[Verse 1]
Every day there's a new serenade
That is pulling my ear to the ground
Every hour there's a new voice shouting
"I am the Way, I am the Truth, I am the Life!"
Every second another distraction is
Spitting its death in my face
But every threat's just a fly in the web
You won't take me alive or dead

[Pre-Chorus]
The hand of the Father
Is my shield and my dagger
And I won't serve another god
The blood of Messiah
Is my torch and my fire
And I won't serve another god
The hand of the Father
Is my shield and my dagger
And I won't serve another god
The blood of Messiah
Is my torch and my fire
And I won't serve another god

[Chorus]
You can set your idols all around me
And play your sacred sound
But I'll never bow down
I'll never bow down
You can take me to the highest mountain
And offer me a crown
But I'll never bow down
I'll never bow down


[Verse 2]
Every artery out of my heart
Is exploding with love for His name
Every ounce of my tongue and my mouth declares
"He is the Way, He is the Truth, He is the Life!"
Every sin that I've ever committed
Is thrown to hell by His grace
Now every threat's just a fly in the web
You won't take me alive or dead
You won't take me alive or dead

[Pre-Chorus]
The hand of the Father
Is my shield and my dagger
And I won't serve another god
The blood of Messiah
Is my torch and my fire
And I won't serve another god
The hand of the Father
Is my shield and my dagger
And I won't serve another god
The blood of Messiah
Is my torch and my fire
And I won't serve another god
No, I'll never serve another
No, I'll never serve another


[Chorus]
You can set your idols all around me
And play your sacred sound
But I'll never bow down
I'll never bow down
You can take me to the highest mountain
And offer me a crown
But I'll never bow down
I'll never bow down
I'll never bow down
I'll never bow down, no

[Guitar Solo]

[Refrain]
You can set your idols all around me
And play your sacred sound
But I'll never bow down
Oh-oh
You can take me to the highest mountain
And offer me a crown
But I'll never bow down
I'll never bow down

[Chorus]
You can set your idols all around me
And play your sacred sound
But I'll never bow down
I'll never bow down
You can hold your riches high above me
Or make me live without
But I'll never bow down
I'll never bow down
But I'll never bow down
I'll never bow down
I will never bow down
I will never bow down


[Breakdown]
The hand of the Father
Is my shield and my dagger
And I won't serve another god
The blood of Messiah
Is my torch and my fire
And I won't serve another god
No, I'll never server another
No, I'll never server another
No, I'll never server another
There is no other god

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I know a name that can silence the roaring waves
I know a name that can empty out a grave
I know a name, it's the only name that saves
And it's worthy of all praise

I call You, Jesus
I call You, I call You Healer
Risen and reigning in power
Something comes out of the grave
Every time I call You, Jesus
I call You, I call You Savior
Worthy of glory forever
Something comes out of the grave
Every time I call Your name

I have a King with dominion over death
He holds the keys in His holy nail-scarred hands
He is the heel, yeah-yeah
That has crushed the serpent's head
Our resurrected Great I Am, come on

I call You, Jesus
I call You, I call You Healer
Risen and reigning in power
Something comes out of the grave
Every time I call You, Jesus
I call You, I call You Savior
Worthy of glory forever
Something comes out of the grave
Every time I call Your name

Chains break, dry bones wake
Every time I call Your name
The gates of Hell shake
Every time I call Your name
Chains break, dry bones wake
Every time I call Your name
The gates of Hell shake
Every time I call Your name
Oh-oh-oh
Every time I call Your name
Yeah, yeah-yeah
Mmm

Where, oh death, is now your sting?
And where, oh grave, your victory?
Come on now
Where, oh death, is now your sting?
And where, oh grave, your victory?
Yeah, where, oh death, is now your sting?
And where, oh grave, your victory?
Yeah

Dead things come alive
Dead things come alive
Dead things come alive in the name of Jesus
Dead things come alive (dead things)
Dead things come alive
Dead things come alive in the name of Jesus
Dead things come alive
Dead things come alive (dead things come alive)
Dead things come alive
Dead things come alive in the name of Jesus
Dead things come alive
Dead things come alive
Dead things come alive in the name

I call You, Jesus
I call You, I call You Healer
Risen and reigning in power
Something comes out of the grave (every time)
Every time I call You, Jesus
I call You, I call You Savior
Worthy of glory forever
Something comes out of the grave (oh, every time)
Every time I call Your name

Chains break, dry bones wake
Every time I call Your name
The gates of Hell shake
Every time I call Your name (dead things)
Dead things come alive, yeah
Dead things come alive, oh
Dead things come alive in the name of Jesus (yeah)
Dead things come alive
Dead things come alive
Dead things come alive in the name of Jesus
Yeah, yeah

So much power in the name of Jesus
So much power in the name of Jesus
Found my healing in the name of Jesus
I was healed in the name of Jesus
Found my freedom in the name, Jesus
Found my breakthrough in the name, Jesus (come on, sing)

And I call You, Jesus
I call You, I call You Healer
Risen and reigning in power
Something comes out of the grave (of the grave)
Every time I call You, Jesus
I call You, I call You Savior
Worthy of glory forever
Something comes out of the grave
Every time I call Your name
Oh, yeah

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(Those two words
Got so much power
But God)

I would still be caught up in religion
Tryna get to Heaven on ambition
I was pullin' overtime in prison, sending prayers up
When nobody else would listen (but God)
I would still be high in my addiction
I would still be dying for a livin'
I would still be sick with no physician, 'bout to give up
Doctor told me it was finished (but God)

Pulled me out of that grave
Broke me out of those chains
Who else can say
"Kill me on Friday, rise on Sunday"?

Nobody, nobody but God
Can bear this weight
Can take a lease out on the grave
Nobody, nobody but God
Deserves that name (yeah, yeah)
So who else you gonna praise but God?

Man, I think the Devil is a mailman
Serving papers like I'm late up on my payment
Ain't nobody tell him, "It's already paid, man, I'm already saved, man"
Thought he had a claim (but God)
Bet death thought he had Him on a Friday
Soft serve, he forgot about Sunday
So sweet that He cavitied the grave, got the tombstone engraved
And the only thing it said (but God)

Pulled me out of that grave
Broke me out of those chains
Who else can say
"Kill me on Friday, rise on Sunday"?

Nobody, nobody but God
Can bear this weight
Can take a lease out on the grave
Nobody, nobody but God
Deserves that name (yeah, yeah)

So who else you gonna praise but God?
He lifted me, lifted me out
He lifted me, lifted me out
He lifted me, lifted me out
Look where I'm standing, look where I'm standing now
He lifted me, lifted me out
He lifted me, lifted me out
He lifted me, lifted me out
Look where I'm standing, look where I'm standing now
Nobody, nobody but God
Can bear this weight
Can take a lease out on the grave
Nobody, nobody but God
Deserves that name
So who else you gonna praise but God?
Nobody
So who else you gonna praise but God?
(But God)