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Christsfreeservant · Sep 13, 2024

Give ear to my words, O Lord;

consider my groaning.

2 Give attention to the sound of my cry,

my King and my God,

for to you do I pray.

3 O Lord, in the morning you hear my voice;

in the morning I prepare a sacrifice for you and watch.

4 For you are not a God who delights in wickedness;

evil may not dwell with you.

5 The boastful shall not stand before your eyes;

you hate all evildoers.

6 You destroy those who speak lies;

the Lord abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

7 But I, through the abundance of your steadfast love,

will enter your house.

I will bow down toward your holy temple

in the fear of you.

8 Lead me, O Lord, in your righteousness

because of my enemies;

make your way straight before me.

9 For there is no truth in their mouth;

their inmost self is destruction;

their throat is an open grave;

they flatter with their tongue.

10 Make them bear their guilt, O God;

let them fall by their own counsels;

because of the abundance of their transgressions cast them out,

for they have rebelled against you.

11 But let all who take refuge in you rejoice;

let them ever sing for joy,

and spread your protection over them,

that those who love your name may exult in you.

12 For you bless the righteous, O Lord;

you cover him with favor as with a shield. (Psalms 5:1-12 ESV)

When we humans are born into this world we are born with sin natures, in the image of Adam, the first man God created and the first man to sin against God. Ever since Adam sinned all humans have been born with sin natures separate from God and not able in ourselves to attain to God’s approval and to his righteousness. And that is why God the Father sent his only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, to the earth, ultimately to be the final and full blood sacrifice for the sins of the entire world so that by genuine faith in him we might be delivered from slavery to sin and obey God with our lives.

[Rom 3:9-26; Rom 5:12-19; 1 Co 15:21-22,42-49; Eph 2:8-10]

By God-gifted and God-persuaded faith in Jesus Christ we are thus crucified with Christ in death to sin and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but as slaves to God and to his righteousness. Therefore we are not to let sin reign in our mortal bodies to make us obey its desires. For if sin is what we obey, it leads to death. But if obedience to our Lord is what we obey, that leads to righteousness and to sanctification, and its end is eternal life with God (Romans 6:1-23).

So, if we are indeed those who are denying self and dying daily to sin, by the Spirit, and who are walking in obedience to the Lord, in practice, by the grace of God, and in the power of God, then Satan is going to be hot on our trail to try to get us to fail and to disobey God and/or to falsely accuse us of wrongdoing and/or to attack us and persecute us in some way in order to hurt us and/or to attempt to make us look bad, and/or to get other humans to hate and reject us and to mistreat us, hoping that we will give up.

And so when we are going through such times as this, if we are truly followers of Jesus Christ, we are going to call upon the Lord in prayer. And we will seek his counsel, his wisdom, and his direction in knowing what to do, and in what to say, and in how to respond (react) to what we are being called upon to endure for the sake of the name of Jesus and for the sake of his gospel message. And if we are patient, and if we don’t try to take matters into our own hands, the Lord will lead us in the way to go.

Now our salvation from sin is not free license to keep walking in deliberate and habitual sin, regularly returning to our vomit, committing the same evil acts over and over again. For our God is not a God who delights in wickedness. Evil cannot dwell with him. Evildoers, i.e. those who make evil their practice (their “go to” habitually) will not stand before God as those who are righteous in his eyes. For God hates lies. He hates all that is evil. And the Lord abhors the bloodthirsty and the deceitful who speak lies.

So, if we want to be saved from our sins and to have eternal life with God, we must deny self, die to sin daily, and walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in practice, by the Spirit, via God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ. And sin must no longer be what we practice. We must walk in the fear of the Lord in surrender to his will, in submission to his Lordship, and in honoring him as the holy God that he is via our walks of obedience to him in holy living. And we must be those who are being led to walk in righteousness.

For if we continue in deliberate and habitual and premeditated sin against the Lord, continually returning to the same willful sins over again without genuine repentance (turning away from sin) and without genuine submission to the will of God for our lives in walks of obedience to his commands, then we will face the judgment of God, regardless of what our lips profess. And we will not inherit eternal life with God. For true faith results in walks of obedience to our Lord and in death to sin, by the Spirit.

And all of us who have trusted Christ with our lives, who have died with him to sin, and who are dying daily to sin, and who are walking in obedience to his commands in holy living, are in genuine relationship with Jesus Christ. Our faith is genuine because it results in dying to sin and following our Lord in obedience, and so we can be assured of salvation from sin and eternal life with God provided we continue on that course and we do not turn away from the Lord and go the opposite direction and stay there.

[Matt 7:21-23; Lu 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Rom 2:6-8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14; Rom 12:1-2; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Co 10:1-22; 2 Co 5:10,15,21; Gal 5:16-24; Gal 6:7-8; Eph 2:8-10; Eph 4:17-32; Eph 5:3-6; Col 1:21-23; Col 3:1-17; Titus 2:11-14; 1 Jn 1:5-10; 1 Jn 2:3-6,15-17; 1 Jn 3:4-10; 1 Pet 2:24; Heb 3:1-19; Heb 4:1-13; Heb 10:23-31; Heb 12:1-2]

Give Ear to Jesus

An Original Work / February 16, 2016
Based off Isaiah 55

Call on your Savior.
Seek the Lord while He is near.
Let the wicked forsake his way;
Turn to the Lord.
God will have mercy.
He’ll forgive you of your sin.
He will freely pardon you
And give peace within.
Turn from your sin, follow Jesus,
Be cleansed from sin.

Give ear to Jesus.
Come to Him. Your soul will live.
Listen to Him speaking to you:
“Eat what is good.”
If you are thirsty,
Come to Jesus, drink from Him.
Drink His Spirit given to you.
Be born again.
Listen to Him. Do what He says.
Rejoice in Him.

God’s Word, eternal,
Will achieve what He desires.
He is willing none should perish,
Saved by His blood.
Share now the gospel.
Jesus died so we’d go free.
Walk in vict’ry,
Free from your sin, eternally.
Die to sin, and live to Jesus.
In Him believe.

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Christsfreeservant · Sep 13, 2024

“Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness!

You have given me relief when I was in distress.

Be gracious to me and hear my prayer!” (Psalms 4:1 ESV)

If we are following Jesus Christ with our lives, in earnest submission to him as Lord, and in sincere surrender of our wills to the will of God, and if our desire truly is to do the will of the Lord, as is evidenced by our walks of faith and obedience to God, and by daily dying to sin and to self, we are going to be opposed by Satan and by other humans who are not following the Lord in full surrender to his will, but who are still walking in sin and living for themselves and for the sinful pleasures of the flesh. Some will reject us.

And in those times of difficulty we need to call upon the Lord to give us relief in our distress, as he has done so many times before. We need to go to him for our strength and for our support and for godly counsel in knowing the right things to do and to say, and in how to respond to others who are treating us with disdain. For we need the wisdom of God, especially in times like these so that we don’t go beyond where we should go, and so that we don’t do and say things he does not want us to say and to do.

“O men, how long shall my honor be turned into shame?

How long will you love vain words and seek after lies? Selah

But know that the Lord has set apart the godly for himself;

the Lord hears when I call to him.” (Psalms 4:2-3 ESV)

So, if other humans turn our honor into shame, what would that look like? It might be that they mock us and they disparage us for our walks of faith and obedience to the Lord. They might accuse us falsely of what they call “works-based salvation” because we believe that true faith will result in genuine repentance and genuine walks of faith in obedience to our Lord and to his commands. And they might treat us with scorn and reproach because we take God and his word to heart, and because we follow the Lord.

Or they might twist our honor in order to try to make it look as though it is dishonor because of some twisted concept that they have of how certain things should look. This often stems from them taking Scriptures out of context and misconstruing them toward their benefit, although they do not meet the necessary requirements for those Scriptures to apply to their lives. For they desire to have cause to accuse us of wrongdoing while they justify their own wrongs which they commit willfully and with full approval.

But we can find comfort in knowing that the Lord has set us, who are godly in his sight, apart for himself and for his service to do his will and what he desires. He has called us, and he has trained us, and he has equipped us for his service that we might walk with him in obedience to his commands and follow him in the ways in which he leads us. And so when we are in distress, and when we are being mistreated for righteousness’ sake, we can call upon the Lord and he will hear us and he will guide us in the way we should go.

“Be angry, and do not sin;

ponder in your own hearts on your beds, and be silent. Selah

Offer right sacrifices,

and put your trust in the Lord.” (Psalms 4:4-5 ESV)

Now it is somewhat difficult here for me to grasp the context of this in relation to what was just said previously, and to whom these words are spoken. Are they spoken to his enemies? Even though they were angry at David for some reason, to where they dishonored him, and to where they were believing the lies and not the truth, they were not to let that anger turn to sin? But weren’t they already sinning against David by their treatment of him? I find it difficult to understand the context here.

Nonetheless, can we learn something from this? Yes! And Paul repeated this instruction in Ephesians 4:26. And I have almost always understood this to mean that, although we may feel anger, at times, because anger is a natural human emotion which serves as an indicator to us that something is wrong, we are not to let that anger stew within us to the point to where it turns to sinful behaviors. For it is out of the heart that come evil behaviors, and if anger is stored up in our hearts, it will rise its ugly head through sin.

So, even if we are angry for just causes, like anger over abortion or adulteries or the senseless murdering of innocents or prejudice or whatever other just cause there may be, we are not to let that anger turn to bitterness and hatred and resentment and the mistreatment of others. We are not to let the sun go down while we are still angry, but we are to take our anger to the Lord in prayer and let him fill us with his love and peace. And we are to pray for good ways that we can make a difference in this world of ours.

“In peace I will both lie down and sleep;

for you alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety.” (Psalms 4:6 ESV)

When our trust is fully in the Lord and not in the flesh of other humans, and not in ourselves and in our own intellect and reasoning, we can be at peace even in the most difficult of circumstances. We know that God is completely sovereign over our lives and that nothing can touch us but what God allows it, and he allows it for a purpose. And he will give us all we need to endure the trial and to learn what we need to learn during the trial so that we continue to grow to maturity in our walks of faith in obedience to our Lord.

[Matt 5:10-12; Matt 10:16-25; Matt 24:9-14; Luke 6:22-23; Luke 12:49-53; Luke 21:12-19; John 15:1-21; John 16:33; John 17:14; Acts 14:22; Rom 5:3-5; Eph 6:10-20; Phil 3:7-11; 1 Pet 1:6-7; 1 Pet 4:12-17; 2 Tim 3:12; 1 Thess 3:1-5; Jas 1:2-4; 2 Co 1:3-11; Heb 12:3-12; 1 Jn 3:13; Rev 6:9-11; Rev 7:9-17; Rev 11:1-3; Rev 12:17; Rev 13:1-18; Rev 14:1-13]

His Tender Mercies

An Original Work / January 26, 2014

Fear not! I’m with you.
Be not dismayed!
God watches o’er you.
Trust Him today.
He’ll lead and guide you;
Give you His aid.
He’ll love and keep you
With Him always.

Walk in His footsteps.
He’ll lead the way.
Trust in His love;
Believe that He cares.
He will not leave you.
Faithful He’ll be.
His tender mercies
Now you will see.

Fellowship with Him
Throughout the day.
Tell Him your heartaches.
He’ll heal always.
Rest in His comfort.
He is your friend.
Your faith He’ll strengthen,
True to the end.

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Michie · Sep 13, 2024

PLYMOUTH, Mich. (OSV News) — Local author Rebecca W. Martin has debuted her first novel, “Love in the Eternal City” (Chrism Press), a Catholic romance that not only tells the love story between a Swiss Guard and an American expat, but also serves as Martin’s own love letter to the city of Rome.

“Love in the Eternal City,” the first of Martin’s planned Swiss Guard romance trilogy, tells the story of Elena Gattino, an American from the Midwest who travels to Rome for a fresh start. There, she meets Benedikt Rechsteiner, a member of the Swiss Guard, and his sister Rianna. Throughout the novel, the reader can explore Rome through the eyes of Beni and Elena as their own friendship and romance blossom.

“Love in the Eternal City” takes readers to Rome

Martin, 31, a parishioner at Our Lady of Good Counsel Parish in Plymouth along with her husband, is a book editor at Our Sunday Visitor. “Love in the Eternal City” is her first novel and third book, having previously published “The Catholic Wedding Planner,” a guide for Catholic brides and grooms, and a children’s book, “Meet Sister Mary Margaret.”

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Detroit author shows a 'Catholic love story is the best love story' in debut novel

Catholic author Rebecca W. Martin has debuted her first novel, "Love in the Eternal City" (Chrism Press), a Catholic romance that not only tells the love story between a Swiss Guard and an American expat, but also serves as Martin's own love letter to the city of Rome.

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Neogaia777 · Sep 13, 2024

Neogaia777 said:
Set of three keyed alike masterlock trigger locks on Amazon, 30 dollars, and a set of three keyed alike cable locks, or what I call action locks, 15 dollars on Amazon. I'm getting both the next time I get paid, and I'm going to start using them. You can get more than that that are all keyed alike, but I only own three guns, so...? Oh, and you also have the choice between keyed alike, or combination locked alike, etc. I'm going with the keyed though, etc.

God Bless.

Trigger locks are generally more secure than cable locks, so I'm going to try and use those on all three of my guns, but there is just one of them that a trigger lock might not work on though, but if it doesn't work on just that one, it will be the one that is already locked up in it's own individual carrying case, and so I will just put a cable lock on that one in addition to it's already being locked up in it's own case.

Even though I don't have minors/children around, live alone, hardly have anyone over, have my own home security system, and all of that, etc. I still feel like I should do it anyway, etc.

God Bless.

Michie · Sep 13, 2024

(OSV News) — The twin specters of abortion and desperation frequently hover over unplanned pregnancies.

Referencing these realities, Father Donald Rooney, pastor of St. Bernadette Catholic Church in Springfield, Virginia, posed the question: “What are we going to do that’s going to help somebody?”

Father Rooney, a priest of the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia, asked that question of his parishioners at St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception Church in Fredericksburg nearly two decades ago.

“If we’re going to shout no,” he said, “we have to shout yes.”

Growing network of maternity homes

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Catholic maternity homes providing critical support for moms in need

"If you want to save babies, you have to love their mothers," Jessica Freyne said. "That's what maternity homes do; that's what pregnancy centers do."

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DennisF · Sep 13, 2024

mindlight said:
The aspiration here is to bring about a multipolar world in which the many autocracies (Sorry Brazil and South Africa) and smaller nations in this club will have more freedom to act according to their agendas. That in itself does not sound as bad in theory as it would prove to be in practice. A multipolar world would be more likely to be an unstable one with a greater frequency of bloody wars.

The club is a disparate group of members often in conflict with each other e.g. India and China or indeed Iran and Saudia Arabia who are mortal enemies. There is no shared military alliance as with the G-7 in the background and so their voice is not as powerful as their share of the world economy and trade implies.

The group looks more like an axis of resistance to me than an actual threat to Western hegemony. This could well change and then the key question for me is whether or not autocracy or democracy can better model Christian values in the modern world and which would be better for the church. Currently, the club includes major persecutors of Christians like India and China and so it remains unattractive as an alternative to the USA.

"... the key question for me is whether or not autocracy or democracy can better model Christian values in the modern world and which would be better for the church."

I am wondering if nominal Christians will ever rediscover and recover what God says in scripture about human government. "Democracy" is ambiguous; it can have its Enlightenment meaning of (as Francis Schaeffer aptly stated) the "tyranny of the 51 %" where humans ("We the people") are the highest authority recognized by govt; or its more popular meaning that the people have some say in government. God's govt in scripture affirms the latter but certainly not the former; that's the form of govt that Israel had when Moses was on the mountain, or Adam and Eve in the Garden, who outvoted God 2 to 1. That's democracy.

So instead of wondering which worldly model of govt Christians should favor, why not let Jesus be Lord and start with God's form of govt, then judge humanistic -isms by the word of God?

Oseas · Sep 13, 2024

Compare the Beast of sea X the red Dragon
1-The body of the ARCHAIC Beast of sea, has 7 heads, 10 horns, and a name of blasphemy (Revelation 13:1),--> with his satanic headquarter in Rome-Vatican City;
2-The body of the red Dragon has 7 heads,10 horns, and a TAIL(Revelation 12:3-4),->and his headquarters in in heaven(heaven? Ephesians 1:3-8)

The above body of the red Dragon, the Old Serpent, appears in heaven with 7 heads, 10 horns, because he SWALLOWED his main partner as a whole, the Beast of sea, and the great harlot which rides upon the Beast-.i.e. the Roman Catholic Church. The TAIL of the red Dragon are the structures of all dead denominational Churches and all kind of evangelical sects, and also the modern and devilish pseudo-Christian movements called gospel.

SOON THERE WILL BE TWO TERRIBLE AND SATANIC BEASTS WORKING AROUND THE WORLD-THE BEAST OF THE EARTH AND OF THE SEA

So, first and now the battle is and will be against the Beast of sea, having 7 heads and 10 horns, and upon his horns 10 crowns, and upon his (7) heads the name of blasphemy.
Revelation 13:3 -> 3 And I saw one of his (7) heads as it were WOUNDED to death; and his deadly WOUND was healed(HOW? Revelation 13:2): and ALL THE WORLD wondered(will wonder) after the Beast.->after the Beast of sea.

AGAIN:
1- The ARCHAIC Beast of sea, has 7 heads and 10 horns, and upon his(10) horns ten crowns, and upon his (7) heads the name of blasphemy (Revelation 13:1),--> with his satanic headquarter in Rome-Vatican City;

2 - The Beast of the earth, having two horns like a lamb( a false lamb, a Jewish false messiah, an esoteric, and kabbalistic and spiritist messiah-John 5:43-47 and 2 Thessalonians 2:9-12), and he speaks as dragon. And he(will) exercise all the power of the first Beast(of the Beast of sea-the Papacy) before him, and (will) causeth the earth(Israel) and them which dwell therein to worship the first Beast(the Beast of sea),whose deadly WOUND was(will be) healed.->Revelation 13:11-12. How was(will be) it healed?
Well, the dragon, that old serpent, called the Devil and Satan, will give to the Pope(to the next and last Pope to be elected) his Power, and his Throne (in the Great City-Jerusalem), and great Authority-Revelation 13:2 combined with Revelation 11:2)
NOTE: The spiritual and physical estructures of the RCC will be the dragon's main partner, actually, the dragon will SWALLOW as a whole the spiritual and physical estructures of the RCC-Revelation 12:3, take a look. THEN the body of the red Dragon will be complete, as is written in Revelation 12:3-4:
3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven(heaven? Ephesians 1:3-8); and behold a great red dragon, having 7 heads and 10 horns, and 7 crowns upon his heads.
4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven(heaven?Ephesians 1:3-8), and did cast them to the earth. So they shall lose their souls for ever -->Revelation 12:12

Revelation 13:14-> And deceiveth(will deceive) them that dwell on the earth(Israel) by the means of those miracles which he had(has) power to do in the sight of the Beast(of the Beast of sea); saying to them that dwell on(Israel) the earth, that they should make an image to the Beast, which had the WOUND by a Sword, and did live.

Get ready

There will be TWO TERRIBLE AND SATANIC BEASTS WORKING AROUND THE WORLD not so far from these current days. There will be persecutions against true believers; false believers will believe in the false messiah above described.

Be careful and get ready

See the difference of Satan from Adam's time and Satan of the current time

See the difference of Satan from Adam's time and Satan of the current time

If we compare the generation of Adam's time, when the sons of GOD were still before the Lord and Satan among them going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it; with the Christians generations, after the Ministry of JESUS, i.e. to compare with the generations of the sons of...

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BPPLEE · Sep 13, 2024

Ana the Ist said:
No....he used multiple overseas encrypted networks to communicate with someone, the sort of thing that only terrorists typically know about.

The Iranians?

DennisF · Sep 13, 2024

Michael said:
It seems to me that "hope springs eternal", particularly at the start of a new year, and a new decade, in a relatively new century.

My personal love of astronomy began as a young child who grew up in the 1960's and followed the Gemini and Apollo missions with keen interest. Watching us landing human beings onto another celestial body in space was absolutely amazing, particularly for a 9 year old. The feeling that I had during that first moon landing was wonderful. For the very first time in history, human beings the world over were 'one' humanity, and capable of achieving almost anything by working together. We all stopped to watch TV with with awe and pride, and scientific wonder at that impressive human achievement. We all got to look back at our small blue planet from a whole new perspective. The whole Earth and every human being was living on a small blue ball in space. It looked so small from the surface of the moon. Every human being on Earth was living on that single ball in space. There was also a realization that humans chose what to do, and we chose what to do with our planet. We could choose to war against one another, we could continue to pollute and destroy the planet, or we could choose to join together and work together to protect our planet and to explore space. Anything and everything seemed 'possible' back then, and technology was growing by leaps and bounds. One of the first supercomputers were put to work on our great endeavor to explore the moon and space, and the microprocessor was built and used to make it happen.

Today, an ordinary cellphone has many times the processing power of those early supercomputers, and we can program them with our fingers rather than punch cards. A 2020 cell phone even makes our early 60's vintage "star trek communicators" look rather primitive.

The technology that we apply to space has *never* been more powerful, and it's never returned more useful scientific data.

The problem in astronomy in 2020 is not a lack of technology or useful data, but rather a lack of any ability to openly question the big bang theory, particularly as it relates to the inclusion of electrical current in space, possible causes of photon redshift (tired light/plasma redshift), and alternatives to exotic forms of matter.

I must say I was a tad disappointed and disillusioned by the first round of Parker Solar Probe papers. I guess I hoped they would 'see the light' in terms of the electric fields and current flow patterns in interplanetary space. Unfortunately astronomy remains stuck into the 2020 equivalent of Ptolemy. Nothing can change unless astronomers are ready to openly embrace scientific alternatives to relatively primitive 1960's beliefs about the universe.

I can't even look at a 2020 SDO image of the sun in the x-ray spectrum without seeing blindingly obvious "evidence" of electrical currents that run through the solar atmosphere. It's the electrical current, and electrical resistance to that current which "heats up" the coronal plasma and coronal loops, and heats up the million degree plasma filaments which are observed to be traversing that plasma medium.

The magnetic field orientation changes in the solar atmosphere cannot be properly understood *without* understanding the current flow patterns, and orientation of those current flow patterns in the interplanetary plasma medium.

Astronomer's conscious effort to avoid discussing and describing those current flow patterns in space has created a scientific crisis in that particular field of science. Rather than embracing empirical physical explanations which have worked in the lab for more than a century, today's astronomers rely upon mythical forms of matter and energy, and magical magnetic fields that do the impossible and which simply do not work in the lab.

There is no such thing as a 'magnetic switchback'. There are magnetic "fields" (3D, not 2D topology lines), but fields are simply oriented in various *three* dimensional ways, and those 3D orientations change over time, which also induces current in the surrounding conductive plasma.

It's still amazes me that Kristian Birkeland knew more about solar atmospheric physics in 1920 than virtually all of the solar physicists today in 2020, save perhaps the likes of Anthony Peratt and Donald Scott and people who aren't even professionally employed in the field of solar physics.

We can't accurately describe events in the solar corona without understanding the current flow patterns that direct the plasma, and which generate the heat (resistance), which in turn generates the x-rays we observe in SDO images.

In a hot, electrically active plasma environment as we see around the sun, the current flow patterns in the plasma cause the various "magnetic field lines" to form, sustains those fields over time, and causes them to change over time, including all the magnetic field topology changes observed over time.

The recognition of the role of that electrical current is the key to understanding solar atmospheric physics, not *just* MHD theory.

I hope that the Parker Solar Probe team eventually comes out of the closet on this topic, but alas, I was not impressed by their first attempt. It seemed like a last desperate effort to avoid dealing with the electrical elephant in the room and the electrical aspects of solar physics. It's really a pre-Tesla/Birkeland understanding of the universe.

The universe is *not* a vacuum medium as it was thought of in the 1960's. It's a *plasma* medium, and specifically it is a *current carrying* plasma medium.

With that single "realization", it's instantly possible to explain and replicate in the lab, solar coronal loops, sustain a hot solar corona, and replicate all the things we see in space in the lab on smaller scales.

I hope professional astronomers do a little soul searching the 2020's because a 1960's view of a sterile vacuum universe simply won't cut it anymore. It's useless as an explanation for anything in the plasma of space.

Anyway, I hope you all have a happy new year and new decade. I look forward to the possibilities in astronomy this decade and throughout this next century.

I think the last decade will be seen as the decade of particle physics research at CERN in LHC experiments. We learned a lot about the particle physics part of our universe over the last decade, including the completion of the standard model of particle physics, along with the elimination of many different non-standard models.

It's important to point out that in all those efforts in particle physics research, no evidence was found to support any non-standard particle physics model, and no evidence of new forms of matter or energy were observed.

IMO the PSP team is in best position to revolutionize astronomy as we understand it, or it can choose to wallow around with a concept that Hannes Alfven described as "pseudoscience" till the day he died, and which fails to work in the lab to produce any of the important relevant aspects of solar physics. I sure hope they choose to turn on the electrics fields and electrical current soon, and return to the lab, and explanations that actually work in the lab.

"One of the first supercomputers were put to work on our great endeavor to explore the moon and space, and the microprocessor was built and used to make it happen."

The 1960s IBM computers used by NASA in Houston were not really "supercomputers". Control Data Corp. was building the most powerful (highest operations/second) computers into the 1970s. Also, there were no microcomputers (actually, I think you mean microprocessors) until the Intel 4004 in the early 1970s and even that took a board of logic circuits to work. The first microcomputer - a complete processing unit in a single integrated circuit - had to wait until the mid 1980s to early 1990s, depending on how complete a "computer" is considered to be.

Hoping2 · Sep 13, 2024

Dave Darling said:
Yeah it is ridiculous, they are saying they will cut off my health insurance unless I do what they say and I need insurance for medication that I need. All I wanted was to move in with a friend and split the rent but they are saying they won't allow it, I could easily afford any apartment in the area with 1 roommate but they will not allow it, I am stuck with Essex House instead. I am not sure why they are doing this.

The only power anyone can have over you, is the power you give them.

Offline4Better. · Sep 13, 2024

Vambram said:
100% agreed, my brother.

Amen to that. Wanna know something scary? I went to a Christian college for 1.5 years from August 2018 to December 2019. It had some woke stuff there, such as a "Queer" safe space. I didn't really care much about that it was safe or queer, but the LED lights were cool. Like, if they removed the gay flags, but just kept the lights, and got rid of the name, the room could have been turned into a quiet study hall instead. But nope, the woke folks had to label the room as a Queer Space.

Gross. I did not know that at the time, cos I did not understand or know anything back then (and I was a liberal back then in 2019, instead of a centrist as I am today in 2024). Nowadays, if I ever went back to that school, I'd stay 500 ft away from that room.

Offline4Better. · Sep 13, 2024

Vambram said:
You don't think that kind of tax against one man would be an illegal tax?

Haha, it is partially a joke, but yes, that would be an illegal tax if we targeted one man or woman. A better way of putting it, is that we should tax the billionaires such as Musk (the Tesla EV guy) and others at a rate that is fair, but just high enough to allow the government to get enough money to fund security and other functions of our society.

Offline4Better. · Sep 13, 2024

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This is a brand new song by Honor & Glory, which is a worship band made up of by Kevin Young and a couple of other members of Disciple.

Wow, this is a good song. Thank you for sharing this one, as I have never heard this. It is not too heavy, and is slow just like the classic Christian songs of the 2000s.

The song heavily relates to these verses, cos the Lord is our rock and foundation:

Psalm 18:2 (ESV): "The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold."

1 Samuel 2:2 (ESV): "There is none holy like the Lord: for there is none besides you; there is no rock like our God."

Isaiah 28:16b (ESV): "Behold, I am the one who has laid as a foundation in Zion, a stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, of a sure foundation: ‘Whoever believes will not be in haste.’"

Vambram · Sep 13, 2024

Reluctant Theologian said:
It's an Australian band based in Sydney - a bit of an alternative to the well-known Hill Song; this is one of my favourites:

(Good and Gracious King)

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Thank you, my brother.

Cosmic Charlie · Sep 13, 2024

I know people hate it when I try to apply critical thinking to anything related to abortion but as a person who lives in an abortion permissive state I’d like to say something about late term abortions.

what few there seem to almost all be related to severe defect or injury.

you can either accept that severe injury and defect occur and the these people need effective and appropriate medical treatment or not.

BelieveItOarKnot · Sep 13, 2024

Der Alte said:
Of course when one crams several unrelated vss together, they can make them say almost anything they want

There's a genuine shortcut to every Word. We "live" by every Word of God, Matt. 4:4, Luke 4:4, Deut. 8:3, so there's that

And we can take any and every command in the Bible and understand them all as "love your neighbor as yourself" Romans 13:8-10

Not saying it's easy but the basis is about as simple as need be

SavedByGrace3 · Sep 13, 2024

Soon they will be throwing abortion celebration parties.
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Health Controversy: Women Throwing "Abortion Parties"

Michie · Sep 13, 2024

Deacon Bob Young, representing Knights of Columbus Council 694, accepts the First Liberty Institute's Philip B. Onderdonk Jr. Religious Liberty Award award at the American Legion’s National Convention in New Orleans on Aug. 28, 2024. | Credit: Jeric Wilhelmsen/The American Legion

A council of Knights of Columbus in Virginia has received a religious freedom award after it won a dispute earlier this year with the government over celebrating Mass at a federal cemetery.

The First Liberty Institute awarded the Knights of Columbus Council 694 its Philip B. Onderdonk Jr. Religious Liberty Award in recognition of the Petersburg council’s successful challenge to a federal rule prohibiting Mass at Poplar Grove National Cemetery. The religious freedom group assisted the knights in their challenge.

The Knights’ council has held an annual Memorial Day Mass at the Petersburg-area cemetery for decades, yet the National Park Service (NPS) had determined in 2023 that the observance was prohibited due to it being a religious service.

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Virginia Knights receive religious freedom award

A Knights of Columbus council in Petersburg, Virginia, has received a religious freedom award after it won a dispute over celebrating Mass at a federal cemetery.

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Michie · Sep 13, 2024

Mind Your Beeswax

Why does the Catholic Church make use of the lighted candle, particularly the beeswax candle, in the Mass? The answer may suprise you.

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William J · Sep 13, 2024

Thank you, everyone, for your prayers and encouragement. Today my boss told me to ask a couple of people who are experts in how things should be done in this project and one of them sent me back an email saying that I had done things the right way all along. This is such a burden lifted from my shoulders. Praise God for His blessing and thank you to all of you for your support.

Michie · Sep 13, 2024

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Legendary actor James Earl Jones dies at 93. His career spanned seven decades allowing James Earl Jones to become a legend in film, television, stage and more. James was known for his iconic voice but, it wasn't Darth Vader that was his best role. In this video we discuss the greatest movie James Earl Jones played in and the last lesson this Catholic actor had to teach us.

Michie · Sep 13, 2024

Pope Francis: US Presidential Election a Choice Between ‘The Lesser Evil’

.The Pope’s comments come 3 days after the first presidential debate between Trump and Harris in which both abortion and migration were significant topics of debate

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Michie · Sep 13, 2024

The Pope’s comments come 3 days after the first presidential debate between Trump and Harris in which both abortion and migration were significant topics of debate

Pope Francis speaks to journalists aboard the papal plane during an in-flight press conference on Friday, Sept. 13, 2024, on his return from his nearly two-week tour of Southeast Asia. (photo: Daniel Ibañez/CNA / EWTN)

Pope Francis said that American voters face the choice between “the lesser evil” in the U.S. presidential election during an in-flight press conference Friday on his return from his nearly two-week tour of Southeast Asia.

Speaking aboard the papal plane, a chartered Singapore Airlines flight, on Sept. 13, the pope encouraged Catholics to vote with their conscience.

“In political morality, in general they say that if you don’t vote, it’s not good, it’s bad. You have to vote, and you have to choose the lesser evil,” he said.

“What is the lesser evil? That woman, or that man?” he continued, referring to Vice President Kamala Harris and her Republican opponent, former president Donald Trump. “I don’t know. Each one, in his or her conscience, must think and do this.”

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Pope Francis: US Presidential Election a Choice Between ‘The Lesser Evil’

.The Pope’s comments come 3 days after the first presidential debate between Trump and Harris in which both abortion and migration were significant topics of debate

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