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I Know a Name by Elevation Worship and Brandon Lake

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@Joseph G @Hazelelponi @mourningdove~


[Verse 1: Chris Brown]
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

[Chorus: Chris Brown]
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

[Verse 2: Brandon Lake]
I have a King with dominion over death
He holds the keys in His holy nail-scarred hands
He is the heel, yeah-eah
That has crushed the serpent's head
Our resurrected Great I Am
Come on

[Chorus: Chris Brown, Brandon Lake & Chris Brown]
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


[Refrain: Chris Brown, Chris Brown & Brandon Lake, Brandon Lake]
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
Every time I call Your Name
Yeah, yeah-yeah
Mmm

[Bridge: Brandon Lake, Chris Brown & Brandon Lake]
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

[Refrain: Brandon Lake, Chris Brown & Brandon Lake]
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
[Chorus: Chris Brown, Brandon Lake, Chris Brown & Brandon Lake]
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

[Refrain: Chris Brown, Brandon Lake, Both]
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

[Interlude: Chris Brown & Brandon Lake]
Hey
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
[Outro: Brandon Lake, Choir, Brandon Lake & Chris Brown]
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
I know His Name, too! :blush:
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Buried to increase profits.

ByABC News
November 1, 2001, 12:45 PM

Nov. 2, 2001 — -- The contaminated letters recently sent as biological weapons produced America's first human anthrax cases in …
a) centuries
b) decades
c) weeks

The answer, "c," might not be so surprising to ranchers and residents in parts of the country who have lived amid anthrax all their lives — but rarely have gotten sick.

"There are certain things that a rancher knows about raising cattle," said Ed Curlett, a spokesman for the Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. "How to deal with anthrax is one of those things.""

European Parliament again calls for release of Nigerian imprisoned for blasphemy in ‘rare’ move

Freedom of religion is the best policy and this case has implications for Christians living under Muslim oppression. But he's a Sufi singing lies. You are only a real martyr if you sing/WhatsApp the truth.
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How to be a soldier of Christ

Look here. A crown of life​

James 1:12 Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.​


That crucifixion happens when we are baptized into Christ, and into His death...by baptism in Jesus' name for the remission of past sins.
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‘Democrats Learned Nothing’: Karoline Leavitt Destroys Dems Over DOGE, Calls Them ‘Incredibly Out Of Touch’

The Democratic Party has nothing to show, so they collectively complain and whine about Trump.
You're not wrong there, my friend. Trump does tend to dominate the news cycle, and too many democrats are focused on responding to him and complaining about him. I also wish that Congressional democrats would focus instead on trying to enact legislation to help working Americans and do what they were elected to do: govern. There's been far too little of that lately, from either party.

But that doesn't garner attention in the saturated media market, so even if it did happen, we probably wouldn't hear about it anyway.

-- A2SG, still, it'd be nice if they made the effort.....
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Food Fight

What can I say? I'm a drama queen. I'm blaming God as He can get quite dramatic and hilarious in my dreams. I love it!

Anyway, not sure if this fits into this category, but I felt it is definitely a good read for this section. We'll see if it stays or lands elsewhere. Hope it puts a smile on your face.

Sometimes we just have to laugh at ourselves in our humanity. Click below.

Evolution with a biblical perspective (video)

Hi
Is it evolution or creation

Love and Peace
Dave
Both. Creation for sure, never thought of it like that. But must be some miscommunication with the word evolution. I think of it as simply things changing over time, and things always change, that's a given. Even heavenly realms come and go changing with the times.

I don't know why or how people can say evolution isn't a real thing when it's simply things and people changing over time (And they DO!) people change alll the time. We are either moving more toward the spirit or flesh. Idk.
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Australian healthcare workers threaten Israeli man, claim to have killed Jews in their care on camera

As bad as their statements were, the fact that they were using a hospital computer to perform an online chat during their work hours, that was not work related, would probably have got them suspended as well.
They really aren't the brightest bulbs in the chandelier.
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For as the lightning comes out of the east, and shines even unto the west...

Peace in Christ.

Again, the Son of man….the life of Jesus…is to be made manifest (SHINE) in our mortal flesh for this world to see.

interesting re-application of the text.

Rev 1 - "every eye shall see Him"

Matt 24:
23 Then if anyone says to you, ‘Behold, here is the Christ,’ or ‘He is over here,’ do not believe him. 24 For false christs and false prophets will arise and will provide great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect. 25 Behold, I have told you in advance. 26 So if they say to you, ‘Behold, He is in the wilderness,’ do not go out; or, ‘Behold, He is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe them. 27 For just as the lightning comes from the east and flashes as far as the west, so will the coming of the Son of Man be. 28 Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will gather.

29 “But immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. 30 And then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory. 31 And He will send forth His angels with a great trumpet blast, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.
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God is Nondual

Exactly so! To deny divine immutability and God's perfection is to me blasphemy, not to mention being logically self-contradictory —such a being is simply not God. It is one thing to not understand what is meant by divine immutability, and so to raise objections, but it is another to deny it, knowing what it means. (Sorry for being obvious).

You also say, "Now some Process Theologians have tried to deal with this, but I have yet to see a Process Theologian express things in a manner that was consistent with the Nicene Creed." To which I add —Nor, even, in a manner consistent with Scripture.

Indeed. I regard anything inconsistent with the Nicene Creed as inconsistent with Scripture properly understood - to quote St. Vincent of Lerins, a Latin father from the early 5th century venerated in the Orthodox church, or was it St. Isidore of Seville, a Latin anti-Arian bishop who we also venerate who was involved in the early Mozarabic liturgy, that scripture is not in the reading but the interpretation. St. Vincent said that what has always been believed everywhere by everyone (meaning by the church whole) is properly called Catholic, which makes sense since the word Catholic in Greek literally means “According to the Whole” and not “Universal” as is commonly said.

Thus in Orthodoxy we regard ourselves as Catholic, and the Eastern Orthodox because of the historic connection with the Byzantine Empire, the surviving portion of the Roman Empire, identify as Romans - the persecuted Antiochian and other Arabic Orthodox Christians (and their Greek Catholic counterparts) in the Middle East and the Alexandrian Greeks who are not Copts, Maronites or Assyrians and Syriacs (Suroye) identify as Rum in Arabic from the Greek Romiioi meaning Roman, and are known as Melkites to the Oriental Orthodox, meaning “King’s Men” or “Emperor’s Men”, regardless of whether or not they are Antiochian Orthodox or Melkite Greek Catholic.
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Man who almost killed himself after misdiagnosis warns of 'flaw' in assisted suicide bill

Thanks for posting this Michie. I'm in the UK. It's an extremely worrying Bill as the article you posted shows. My MP voted for it, but he said that he is open to hearing our views as the Bill progresses, so I plan to write to him again when it approaches the second vote. In the meantime I hope and pray that people from disability charities, medical experts etc. will provide sufficient evidence, during the committee stage, for many of the MPs who voted for it to change their minds. Liz Carr, mentioned in the article, has been a fantastic campaigner against it. Also I'm pleased that the article was in a national secular publication. I think most Christians are against the Bill, but this will reach others too and maybe cause them to lobby their MPs to vote against it.

Btw I saw your post on the OBOB forum about the Dutch considering Assisted Dying for the over 75s even if healthy! I couldn't post there as I'm not a Roman Catholic, but that is terrible. I'm 75 this year and the thought of it being legal to end my life is worrying. Back in my fifties I did want it to end, due to various circumstances, and I prayed that the Lord would take me. He didn't, however, but he brought me through the bad times to a much better situation. Psychiatrists say the when people are suffering mentally (and maybe physically) they think that it will always be like this. Usually it isn't. My life got better; so can others. So if anyone is reading this and does not want to go on living please seek help: from your doctor, from the Samaritans or other mental health charities and, most of all, from God. Things will get better.
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Second young Pakistani girl abducted from her home.

A 12 year old Pakistani Christian girl was abducted from her home at gunpoint by three men who have threatened to sell her into sexual slavery her parents have said.

Ariha was abducted on January 20 by a 40 year-old neighbor and two accomplishes after they forced their way into the home.

Please pray for the safe return of these girls, and protection from those who want to abduct young girls.

So far the police have failed to find her.

The father, Masih, is concerned that his daughter could become a victim of sexual exploitation to forced conversion to Islam and involuntary marriage to a man three times her age.

PRAISE

Thank the Lord for the release from custody of two Christian converts from Islam, who have been held in an Egyptian prison for three years without trial, according to religious rights advocates.

Abdulbaqi and Nour were released on January 25. Both had been in pre-trial detention since 2021 on blasphemy charges.
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Democrats release profanity laced rants against Trump - continued call for fighting in the strees

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Believe it or not, there are intelligent people who actually applauded Maxine’s style

Remember she is the one who called for open confrontation of Whitehouse staff and tell them they are not wanted.

Now she is ranting and cussing about Elon Musk.
IMO, Congresswoman Maxine Waters is an example of the worst in Congress.
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DOGE Website

The assertion is based on the Secret Service exceeding its budget in August in his first term because of the confiscatory rates Trump charged the government.


The courts are preventing the shutdowns, hopefully forever.
Do you think the best and brightest will hang around through all this? They will be replaced by sycophants and yes men, destroying the integrity of the institutions.
Many of the institutions of those federal government bureaucrats have lost their integrity a long time ago.
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Mother shoots self, 4 daughters in head; father asks world to pray for lone survivor

May the children who died rest in peace and rise in glory.

May Jesus take care of the survivors.

Jesus please help us to find better ways for young mothers with PTSD, and all others.
Amen and amen!
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