mikeforjesus said:

My thoughts are they are the same Christ instituted it as Paul said that He was saying the one he did in corinthians is from then when the Lord instituted it and it is said the break which we break is it not the communion of the body of Christ and it is called a supper so it is a food as Christ said My flesh is food indeed and My blood is drink indeed and He said this is My body but such is not necessary to ever be saved but just to commune with Christ to unite more fully with Him He made it to be saved immediately on death if one also followed all Christ’s will.

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And you left OUT , for. the Greek text , DO YE /. POIEO. a verb in the Greek Present these , Active Voice , in. the

Imperative Mood. which . is. a command to perform the Lord.s supper .

And it good to know the Tense and Moods and the. Active VOICE , Christ is there. and it easy to debunk !!

And in. 1 Cor 11: 25. it says. This Cup. is the NEW ARRANGEMENT , which Paul call the DISPENSATION ./. OIKINOMIA. .

dan p

Valletta said:

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/eu-suspend-us-tariff-countermeasures-141355352.html

They are concerned Trump would hit them with even more tariffs, which he would.

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"The EU continues to work with the U.S. to finalise a Joint Statement, as agreed on 27 July," the spokesperson said in a statement.

"With these objectives in mind, the Commission will take the necessary steps to suspend by 6 months the EU’s countermeasures against the US, which were due to enter into force on 7 August."

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This is diplomatic language, allow me to translate:
This guy is mercurial in his demands and we’ll hold off on doing anything since it’s all up-in-the-air anyway.

In the linked article we will look at the interracial marriage between Solomon and his bride as well as the passage where the sisters are afraid their flat-chested younger sister may struggle to find a man and the plan they create to help her:
If She Be A Wall: The Sister With No Breasts

Hello Leevo!

I'm excited you're thinking about this and thank you for the fantastic questions!

For a concise yet thorough overview of salvation and election as held by the Lutheran Church, I can recommend what is formally confessed in the Formula of Concord, which consists of two documents:

A brief version called the Epitome:

And an expanded version called the Solid Declaration:

If it's helpful, I can add this:

All churches believe in holy mysteries, even if they disagree on the language concerning it. The fact that God is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, is a holy mystery. The fact that Jesus is fully man and fully God is a holy mystery. That is, there's no analogy in nature, no comparison, no experience we can draw on to make logical sense of the Holy Trinity. Yet, we all believe and confess it, because it's divinely revealed to us through Christ. And again, the two natures of Christ is beyond our ability to reason, for according to logic, that which is finite cannot contain that which is infinite. But the Bible refers to the man Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Mary, as GOD, YHWH. This is an article of faith that received by all Christian churches. The Trinity and the two natures of Christ, then, are two examples of where faith governs reason among all Christians.

Now, in the Lutheran Church, we hold that the mystery of God is not only constrained by the nature of God but extends to His works! His works of creation, of miracles, providence, the Church, the Sacraments, the resurrection, and even salvation! For us, these are all articles of faith, things properly received by faith. So in the same way we receive the two natures of Christ by faith, we also receive salvation by faith. This is why we can hold that salvation is entirely from God, but that damnation is entirely merited by sinful man. The Bible says Christ atoned for all sin and yet that not all are saved, and we say: Amen!

The best Biblical summary that I know of, that speaks of salvation, election, and the connection to good works, is found in Ephesians 2 — it's just a beautiful and wonderfully rich text!

Speaking of Christians, the saints (Ephesians 1:1), the elect (Ephesians 1:3-5), the Holy Spirit through St. Paul says that we were dead in the trespasses and sins. This is a very powerful image and not merely symbolic. It's a profound explanation of the spiritual reality of all who reject God by their unbelief. (Cf. Luke 9:59–60; Luke 15:24; John 11:43–44; Revelation 3:1–2; and Jesus' words that we have to be born again / born from above in John 3)

It can be helpful to consider the image of a corpse, the reality of being spiritually dead, in connection to human will and the OT sacrificial system. A dead person cannot will or chose himself to life, let alone work for or merit it! The only thing he can do is to rot and defile, to make things spiritually unclean. But the good news, literally, the Gospel, is that Jesus makes us clean and holy, and just as He called Lazarus out of the grave, He also calls us to life by means of His Word. Ephesians 2:8-10, the great summary of salvation and Christian living, reads:

"For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them."

Or to quote John: Christians "become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God."

Thanks be to God!

Joyfully in Christ,
Bp. Daniel Nilsen

FAITH-IN-HIM said:

from the post "Unfortunately, the war on Christians didn’t end with the last election. T"

A significant issue today is the belief among some Christians that the so-called "war on Christianity" could be resolved through elections or government policies. The war on Christian began at the crucifixion on Golgotha. If the words of Jesus are interpreted as accurate, then the challenges facing Christianity and Christians will persist until His return to earth.

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The answer then isn't to disarm and hand your enemies all the power.

…PROGRESSIVE LEFT IN THIS COUNTRY COMPLETELY IGNORE AND RAISE UP STRAWMEN

While the silly neo-progressives of today think that criticism of Pope Francis when he was alive and now in death is the greatest threat to the Church, the article I link below hits the real nail on the real head.

It isn’t white martyrs like the three Sacred Heart Seminary laymen theologians fired by the Archbishop of Detroit, who represent the greatest of all threats to the papacy and now legacy of Pope Francis as well as to the unity of the Church, but rather, the German Church, including numerous bishops, some cardinals, as well as theologians, priests, religious and laity. The threat of a full-blown schism in Germany, similar to the Protestant Revolt or Reformation, rooted also in Germany, is very real and makes anyone in the USA who are considered in a hyperbolic way as “Francis haters” by the silly neo-progressive left, look like child’s play.

The article by Serre Verweij written for Rorate Caeli is long but a must read. It is very insightful, especially the first paragraph I print below, which is what I have been writing too here on my most humble blog.

Leo and the Germans ​

This is the first of several analyses written for Rorate by our contributor Serre Verweij on Leo XIV's first year.

Series: The First Year of Leo XIV
by Serre Verweij
for Rorate Caeli
August 1, 2025

While we are waiting for Pope Leo XIV to tip his hand and release his first encyclical, and make his first curial appointments, both sides in the struggle between tradition and modernism keep trying to claim him. The attempts by progressives to claim the Pope as their secret candidate (after the fact) are looking increasingly desperate, however. Specifically, attempts by the German bishops stand out as highly dubious.​

Read more »​

And a reason to expect more​

Now here’s an interesting sequence of events:

1. July 24, 2025: A Vatican court denies an appeal by Libero Milone, the Vatican’s former auditor general, dismissing his claim that he was wrongfully fired because he uncovered evidence of widespread financial corruption. Milone has threatened to make that evidence public if his appeal is ignored.
2. July 29, 2025: The Pillar obtains a memo in which the late Cardinal George Pell reported evidence of “potentially illegal” bank transactions at APSA, the Vatican’s investment fund, and asked Milone, as auditor, to investigate. The questionable transfers would lend support to reports of money-laundering.

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I hope she wins! I would like to see her as president one day!

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Rows of bunk beds line the interior of the so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” detention facility in the Florida Everglades, a repurposed training center now designated for holding immigrants. President Donald Trump appears in the background during a July 1, 2025, visit to the site. | Credit: The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

As part of a new Catholic ministry, the Archdiocese of Miami celebrated its first Mass at the Florida detention center for unauthorized immigrants known as “Alligator Alcatraz.”

“I am pleased that our request to provide for the pastoral care of the detainees has been accommodated,” Archbishop Thomas Wenski said in an Aug. 3 statement. “Also, we were able to respond to a request to provide similar service to the staff who reside at the facility.”

In a July interview with “EWTN News In Depth,” Wenski said his “greatest concern” was the “health and care of the people that are being detained” at Alligator Alcatraz. He and other advocates were calling for “a minimum of standards” and said that “one of those standards should be access to pastoral care.”

At the time, Wenski explained his archdiocese was having difficulty arranging Masses and spiritual care for the immigrants being held because the Florida state government and the federal government were “arguing among themselves who is accountable” for the detention center.

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Hi all,

I eat a plant based diet.

As a Christian here are some verses that help

Romans 14:3 Talks about not judging those who eat a plant diet and those who eat a meat diet.

As a Christian I am not personally opposed to those who eat meat however I think modern animal farming practices results in unhealthy animals, the same can also be said for poor non organic plants, pea protien with poisons or pesticides. Regardless of what you eat, having high quality godly and ethical practices for how the animals are treated or how the food is gathered is important.

Daniel 1:12-16 highlights an example of someone improving their health through a plant based diet.

A book I would recommend is called 'How not to die" this also talks more details about a plant based diet.

Basically a plant based diet requires a few things

-Increased vitamin B12 because this is commonly from animal products you need vitamins or fortified foods in general to get this
-Complete amino acid chains for sources of protiens

I will talk about the proteins, for example rice and beans each on their own alone do not form a complete protien chain however if you combine them together then they would form a complete protein chain.

Now some plants are rare that do have complete such as Edamame, however some of this pea protein comes from China and there are concerns about lead poisoning. You should wash the vegetables and pair them with vitamin C, vitamin C also aids with the absorption of nutrients.

PatrickTate said:

Exactly!

The Church, the Bride of Messiah plays the role of the feet and ears and eyes and hands of Messiah Yeshua - Jesus in this world.

Pastor Rick Joyner was shown that we are backslidden and we only obey The Head of the Bride, Messiah Yeshua - Jesus a percentage of the time.

Messiah Yeshua - Jesus told Pastor Rick Joyner that He had had much larger plans for a homeless guy who Pastor Rick had met than he or the churches in the area of that man were ready to handle.

The Final Quest [English] Rick Joyner

The Final Quest [English] Rick Joyner

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And where is there a verse where t he. Body of Christ is called the Bride , as I have never seen that verse ?
dan p

Sacred.Beautiful. said:

Have you ever watched The Chosen? It's helped me tremendously in terms of feeling a closeness to God.

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I mean, the way that show has brought God into my life is incredible.

Double Jeopardy (1999)

Maria Billingsley said:

This podcast is a pretty weak attempt to change the narrative where the rest of the world sees it completely different. The only way to believe this version is to prove it. We know that will never happen. Very unfortunate.

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Hamas was expecting this situation, that's why they took hostages. Iran and China have put enormous amounts of money into propaganda against the Trump administration and Israel. The U.S. and Britain are trying to get the food to the people.

So too we are influenced by the massive amount of propaganda:

ozso said:

It's like being the little brother of the almighty King of Kings.

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Thank you, ozso. Actually, i have the feeling like Jesus introduces us into a filiation of God, but does it mean he valids us as brothers. They have first to do the will of the Father, haven't they ?

| Scott Olson/Getty Images

The latest world congress of antisemites concluded last Wednesday after world leaders once again reassured each other that those evil Jews are, in fact, starving children, and that therefore they must not be left to peacefully coexist, secure in their own sovereign nation. The outcome of the conference fully justified the Trump administration’s decision to boycott the conference, which it called “an unproductive and ill-timed … publicity stunt.”

Conference of antisemites

Of course, evil is never so blunt. Rather, Saudi Arabia and the recently radicalized France co-hosted a “High-Level International Conference for the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution” at the U.N. headquarters in New York City. But when world leaders discuss settling the “Question of Palestine” and implementing a “Two-State Solution” in a U.N. context, no one can miss their meaning.

The conference produced a seven-page document that endorsed a renewed effort to achieve a two-state solution between Israel and Palestinian Arabs. The plan insisted that Israel agree to an immediate ceasefire and prevent the starvation of children in Gaza, before it eliminated Hamas or effected the return of the remaining hostages. Seventeen individual countries, the European Union, and the Arab League all signed onto the document.

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tonychanyt said:

No, not exactly. Habakkuk complained in 1:


Habakkuk was frustrated and venting. Gill explained:


Proverbs 15:


Habakkuk wasn't making a doctrinal statement that God literally could not see evil. Rather, he's expressing his frustration and confusion about why God, who was holy and pure, seemed to be tolerating wickedness. It's a lament or complaint to God, not a theological pronouncement about God's limitations.

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When he speaks about God not being able to look at sin, he is speaking about allowance of sin. God is pure and righteous and holy and good and just. Sin is not tolerated by Him, that is why He chose his Son to become sin, so that we have a path back to Him. The only righteous person who could bear the sins of the world.

Gregory Thompson said:

"members use parents' rights as a vehicle to attack public education and make schools less welcoming for minority and LGBTQ+ students."

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I don’t think it’s a vehicle or an excuse to be less welcoming to LGBTQ students.

I so thank all of you for your prayers. I woke up this morning with a message that in a way could force me to begin go start preaching and teaching although I kind of would prefer to not go in that direction.

Is Jesus beginning to intervene in Canadian and USA politics in order to expose corruption at high levels?

Are the events of these past ten years a warning for all Christians that is related to whatever form the "Mark of the Beast" will ultimately take?

Will A. I. soon expose every lie being told by elected officials as they give speeches?

Is it possible that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau here in Canada may have been working for a vastly different long term set of goals than he even thought that he was working toward?

"A ten billion dollar donation to Joe Biden or Kamala Harris or to the USA Democratic Party would not fully make up for what all Canadians and Americans saw P. M. Justin Trudeau doing up here in Canada!"

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I like betting. It's like a tax for people that are bad at math.

We who are in Christ, by biblical God-persuaded and God-gifted faith in the Lord Jesus, are the called of God to his service. Even before God formed us in the wombs of our mothers God knew us and he predestined us to be conformed to the image (likeness) of his Son Jesus Christ. Even before the ages began, before he laid the foundation of the world, he chose us in him that we should be holy and blameless before him. And in God’s book were written the days that were formed for us, before one came into being.

[See: Psalm 139:13-16; Romans 8:29; 2 Timothy 1:8-9; Ephesians 1:3-4]

So God has a unique plan and purpose for all of us individually as well as he has a collective purpose for us all, too. He did not call us to salvation just so when we die we get to go to heaven and not to hell. He called us to die with him to sin and to be reborn of the Spirit of God to now walk in holiness and righteousness, in obedience to our Lord and to his commands. And he gifted us with spiritual gifts and he assigned us our body parts within the body of Christ so that we will now live to fulfill his purpose for why he made us.

So God does not save us by his grace so that we can go on living in sin and for self and for self-pleasure and not in walks of obedience to his commands. He does not save us so that we can chart our own course and decide our own future and where we will live and what we will do with our lives while we might (or not) give him some of our time in a daily quiet time of Bible reading, and/or in attending a weekly “church” service. He has a very specific plan and purpose for each one of us he wants to do in us.

Now we are not all called to be prophets like was Jeremiah, but we are all called of God to be his witnesses in taking the message of the gospel of our salvation to the people of the world, teaching them to obey our Lord’s commandments. We are to be the light of the world and the salt of the earth in preserving and in spreading to the world the truth of what the Scriptures teach us regarding the gospel of our salvation. And we are to be those who proclaim the excellencies of him who called us out of darkness into the light.

[Matthew 5:13-16; Matthew 28:18-20; John 4:31-38; John 13:13-17; John 14:12; Acts 1:8; Acts 26:18; Romans 10:14-15; Ephesians 5:11-14; 1 Peter 2:9,21; 1 John 2:6]

But if we are going to be the Lord’s servants and witnesses who are taking the message of the gospel of our salvation to the people of the world, we need to be students of the Scriptures who study them in their correct biblical context so that we make certain that the “gospel” we are spreading is the one that Jesus taught, and that his New Testament apostles taught, and not the diluted and altered version of the gospel that so many are spreading today in the name of Christ, and of truth, and of salvation from sin.

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).

And no excuses for why we cannot be who God created us to be, doing what he created us to do, as those who profess faith in the Lord Jesus. For I can attest to the fact that God can give us knowledge and talents and abilities beyond anything we would have ever imagined or even thought of. He can give us the words to speak and the lessons he wants us to communicate. We just need to be open to hearing from him and to following him wherever he leads us to doing whatever he had planned for us before we were born.

Your Servant Witness

An Original Work / March 13, 2012
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Humbly I bow, Lord, before You,
Bringing my requests to You.
May I listen; hear You speaking.
May I follow You in truth.
Gently lead me in Your service.
Guide my steps and strengthen me.
Fill me with Your love and mercy.
May I live for Thee!

Let me be Your servant witness,
Telling others of Your grace.
May I always share the gospel
With those I meet face to face.
May I show the love of Jesus,
Caring for the needs of men;
Be Your servant witness always
For my Lord, Amen!

My desire to be like Jesus,
Living for Him ev’ry day.
May I obey all His teachings
Given me, so I’ll not stray.
Love You, Jesus, Lord, my master.
You are the King of my heart;
Follow You where’er You lead me;
Not from You depart!

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Everywhere He Sends Us
An Original Work / August 4, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Was this just for Jeremiah? Or does God still speak to our hearts and minds, via the Holy Spirit, and show us things we did not know before? And is prayer just a one way street where we do all the talking and where God says nothing? Or is it two-way communion between us and our Lord where he speaks to us, and where he guides and directs us specifically in the way that he has for us, and where he opens our eyes to things we were previously blinded to? I believe it is the latter and not the former. The Spirit speaks!

Let me give you an example of this. In 2004, when the Lord called me to this ministry, he began opening my mind to so many things I had no knowledge of previously. He put in my mind names of people and places and objects and groups and events I never heard of before. And so I looked them up at a time when the internet was more wide open and not so locked down as it is today. And he gave me much understanding of all sorts of things I would never have chosen to adventure towards ever before.

And this covered such subjects as politicians, presidents of nations, the US government and military, the Bilderbergs, Trilateral Commission, Council on Foreign Relations, NATO, the UN, the IMF, the World Bank, the Federal Reserve, Freemasons, Zionism, the Rockefellers, the Rothschilds, the deep state, the WHO, Big Pharma, the WEF, the powerful elite, the New World Order, the All-Seeing Eye (national symbol), international law, the UN Bill of Rights, the shadow government, and Washington, D.C. history, etc.

And I was literally clueless about most all those subjects previously. Never heard of most all of them before. So God, by his Spirit, was making me aware of all these institutions, and so much more, because they all play a critical role in the rule of the beast, which is in motion, and which is certainly alive and active and rising presently. And he was teaching me about weather manipulation and all sorts of evils being committed by the US government and their political allies on a consistent and habitual basis.

And he did visit me in dreams, but the dreams were more like parables like Jesus told to the people when he lived on the earth, which taught biblical truth. And he has used such parables in my life ever since then to show me what he wants me to focus on and what message he wants me to convey specifically from the teachings of his word, not in any way to alter the truths of the Scriptures, but just to let me know what he wants me to focus on and to what extent, i.e. particularly where he wants the emphasis to be.

And all of this was happening in conjunction with my daily devotions, for he had me reading the Scriptures from start to finish, and then from the Psalms to Revelation for several years, and then from the Prophets to Revelation – all of this over a period of about 13 years before he had me begin using Bible Gateway for their “verse of the day” which he expands on with additional Scriptures. I have been using Bible Gateway primarily the past 8 years, though not exclusively. But as I read the Scriptures he began showing me how they were being realized today in our present day world events.

But it wasn’t just that. He was correcting some things I had gotten wrong from teachings I had received throughout my life from pastors who taught the Scriptures. And he was opening my eyes to biblical truth I had not discovered before in the Scriptures, that I had just not picked up on before. All from the Scriptures themselves and not from any outside sources, but just truth I had missed before. For when you read the Scriptures in their full context, but you haven’t done that before, it brings the truths together.

Now there are some people who will claim that we cannot hear the Spirit speak truth to our hearts other than through the 66 books of the Bible. And I agree that we need to be very discerning so that we are not led astray by those who are adding to the Scriptures what is not of God and that which is contrary to the will of God and to his teachings. But the Lord has so many things he wants to show us that we need to be made aware of and so that we don’t end up following the beast thinking we are following God.

For so many people today who profess faith in Jesus Christ are following after people and nations and governments that are not of God, and that are against God, in reality, which we would realize if we could see all the evil they have been doing throughout our lifetimes and times well before us. And so many professing Christians are believing the lies and the liars who have persuaded them as to their lies. And this fits perfectly with the teachings on the last days before the return of Christ and of the rule of the beast.

So I want to encourage everyone reading this to pray and to inquire of the Lord as to whether or not you are believing lies of the enemy, and whether or not you are putting your faith and trust in ungodly and evil people and rulers of nations, believing that they are of God, but may not be. For the Scriptures teach us to test the spirits to see which ones are of God, and we need to be diligent about that, for we live in an age of massive deception. And be students of the Scriptures who study them in correct context, too.

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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Things Which You Do Not Know
An Original Work / August 4, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

May the Lord comfort the families of the victims and see the fragility of humanity and the truth of God. I live in Beijing. Recently, more than 30 elderly people were drowned in nursing home in Miyun County, Beijing due to rainstorm. The elderly in nursing homes still do not have the legal opportunity to listen to people preach the gospel. I feel very sad.