Harry and Meghan still retain royal titles and should not be engaging in any way in political activity," Gardiner said. "It's outrageous."

So, fearing God is one thing,
It’s a thing we ought to do.
It shows respect and honor,
Which to Him is surely due.

But fear of man we do not,
For our Lord takes care of us.
Fear says to God, our Savior,
That in Him we do not trust.

If we believe in Jesus,
We should rest in Him secure.
The trials that come to us,
By our faith we must endure.

For Satan likes to whisper
Fearful thoughts now in our ears.
If we entertain his thinking,
It might bring us now to tears.

We can easily be worried
Over things not to exist
When we listen to those whispers,
And with faith we not persist.

Even if he speaks what’s coming,
Fear should have no part of us
If our faith is in our Savior,
And in Him we put our trust.

We not have control of future.
All is always in God’s hands.
But the nature of what’s coming,
In His Word he does expand.

So believe God’s Word, His teachings.
Trust now in His sovereignty.
Let Him now control the future,
And now peaceful we will be.

An Original Work / February 15, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Sword of the Lord said:

Everyone else was focused on the former, and now current, president almost being killed on the campaign trail. How appalling such a thing was. And it was appalling.

But I noticed something different. Before I say it again, I need to say this again: I'm a conservative. I do not ever want to live in a country where Democrats are in charge ever again.

Anyways, what I noticed is something biblical. President Trump was thought dead. Many of the people there thought he died when he hit the ground. Many said it appeared fatal. His family thought it was fatal. And then miraculously, he rose with a fist in the air with blood coming from his head.

It was a miracle. The fatal head wound wasn't fatal after all. Everyone now talks about how it was a miracle from God. Remind you of a prophecy?

Now yesterday evening Trump and Netanyahu had a press conference together. Trump said the US will take over and own the Gaza strip. Turn it into something real beautiful. Use the military. Remove the Palestinians and relocate them to new lands. Netanyahu of course thinks this is a great idea.

At face value, I wouldn't care. It's not their land and they don't belong there. Nothing but terrorism comes from Gaza. I wouldn't care at all. But my freaking soul and conscience is nagging at me, and I instantly felt sick when I saw this. It feels like more Antichrist prophecy unfolding. The great unifier, as he is being called, the man to bring peace to the world, as he is being called, the man who is now talked about as being loved by more and more people and it's so unusual because of how much he was hated in round 1... None of this feels right. Conservatives need to stop thinking about this politically and starting thinking about it spiritually. I'm gonna throw up now. Thanks.

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AND i had some feeling like you BUT we will not be here as what 2 Thess 2:3 as it reads , Do one should DECIEVE

YOU in NOT // ME , is a DISJUNCATIVE PARTICLE NEGATIVE which means believers saved by Grace , not one way because

EXCPEPT the DEPARTURE // APOSTASIA , should come FIRST //PROTOS , and the MAN of SIN should be BE REVEALED

the SON of Destruction ,

The Greek DEPARTURE // APOSTASIA is what many call e RAPTURE .

And after we are all CAUGHT AWAY // HARPAZO read 1 Thess 5:4 we see the will sit down into the TEMPLE

of God , Exhibiting himself that he is God .

This why I am a DISPENSATIONALIST , PRE- TRI and PRE- MILLENNIAL !

dan p

One of the most challenging objects to image is Baxendell's Unphotographical Nebula.

NGC 7088 = Ced 193, 21 hr 33.4 m, -0.23'.
Seen by J. Baxendell in 1880 as a very large diffuse nebulosity, 52' by 75', lying north of the globular cluster M2.
Confirmed visually J.L.E Dreyer (10 inch refractor) and listed by Cederblad, even though it seems not to exist.

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It took a lot of effort and many hours of exposure but here it is.

Fascinating! Thanks for sharing!

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Thanks for the info!

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You’re welcome!

Glory to God!

Praying for an end to abortion once and for all!

Marty is a great movie. I encourage all to see it that have not seen it already. It often played on TCM.

The petition appeals to Danes to pay their share of the money because—among other positive attributes—California “has 300 days of sunshine a year,” it “grows 90% of the U.S.’s avocados,” and “we’ll never run out of avocado toast.”

Lol!

I usually do Not give Praise & Thanks when someone or something faces a crises but when it comes to Planned Parenthood, I think it's alright.
Praise & Thank Jesus Christ for Weakening & causing Havoc at the wicked organization called Planned Parenthood:

disgusting!

That’s incredible!

Joshua 2 1 Now Joshua the son of Nun sent out two men from Acacia Grove to spy secretly, saying, “Go, view the land, especially Jericho.”

So they went, and came to the house of a harlot named Rahab, and lodged there. 2 And it was told the king of Jericho, saying, “Behold, men have come here tonight from the children of Israel to search out the country.”

3 So the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying, “Bring out the men who have come to you, who have entered your house, for they have come to search out all the country.”

4 Then the woman took the two men and hid them. So she said, “Yes, the men came to me, but I did not know where they were from. 5 And it happened as the gate was being shut, when it was dark, that the men went out. Where the men went I do not know; pursue them quickly, for you may overtake them.” 6 (But she had brought them up to the roof and hidden them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order on the roof.) 7 Then the men pursued them by the road to the Jordan, to the fords. And as soon as those who pursued them had gone out, they shut the gate.

8 Now before they lay down, she came up to them on the roof, 9 and said to the men: “I know that the Lord has given you the land, that the terror of you has fallen on us, and that all the inhabitants of the land are fainthearted because of you. 10 For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea for you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites who were on the other side of the Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom you utterly destroyed. 11 And as soon as we heard these things, our hearts melted; neither did there remain any more courage in anyone because of you, for the Lord your God, He is God in heaven above and on earth beneath. 12 Now therefore, I beg you, swear to me by the Lord, since I have shown you kindness, that you also will show kindness to my father’s house, and give me [c]a true token, 13 and spare my father, my mother, my brothers, my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.”

We see from this text that the citizens of Jericho knew God and feared Him. They heard what He has done to Egypt, and His protection of Israel. Despite them fearing Him, they foolishly sent men to kill the 2 Israeli spies.

Except for Rahab, who in faith responded that she needs God's mercy. She not only knew God and feared Him, she also accepted Him as a Saviour. That was the difference between her and everyone else in Jericho. She acted in faith, others did not.

Many today they say they know God, but not all accept Him as a Saviour. Sin holds us in bondage. There is no other than Jesus Christ who can free us and give us life. You need to know Christ as your Saviour.

Verse 18 Behold, when we come into the land, you shall tie this scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down, and you shall gather into your house your father and mother, your brothers, and all your father's household.

Scarlet in the Bible represents sin. In Isaiah, sin is described as menstrual blood. Isaiah 64:6 We have all become contaminated with sin, and you see our self-righteousness as nothing better than a menstrual rag.
Just before Christ was crucified, He wore red garment, symbolizing that He took our sins. Saints will wear white garments, whiter than snow, because Christ has washed their sins away. Christ took on our sins, so we might take on His righteousness.

Serial entrepreneur and author Magatte Wade lambasted Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., and other Democrats for making it "clear" in Congress that they are "not working for the American people."

Wade, who was serving as a Congressional witness during a February 11 Judiciary hearing, went viral for calling out Rep. Jamie Raskin's inflammatory comments around Elon Musk and his DOGE force.

"Do we really need to hire a fourth branch of government called Elon Musk to go out and do it for us?" Rep. Raskin had asked the room on Tuesday, calling Musk and his DOGE team "mutant teenage racist computer hackers." Rep. Raskin was claiming that Musk and his team had taken "possession" of financial payment systems at the United States Department of Treasury and had access to the private financial records of Americans.

Magatte Wade sounded off in Congress at Rep. Raskin over his "complaining" about Elon Musk, asking Congressional members what their "endgame" was by attacking DOGE's process.

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The U.S. Army is redirecting millions of dollars it has collected from the Basic Allowance for Subsistence (BAS) pay for soldiers living in barracks away from food services, according to a report.


The money is supposed to help soldiers with food costs, but a Military.com investigation found that of the $225 million collected from enlisted soldiers’ BAS pay last year at 11 of the Army’s largest bases, $151 million was directed elsewhere.

Enlisted soldiers receive around $465 dollars in BAS each month, according to the U.S. Army's website, and the deduction, essentially a tax on troops, is taken from that, the outlet reported.

"It's just returned to the big pool of Army funds, and it's used someplace else," an official told the outlet of the redirected BAS pay in an interview that was scheduled by the Army public affairs office.

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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy sent a message to employees saying he was "incredibly relieved" that Alexander (Sasha) Troufanov was released from Hamas captivity after being held hostage for nearly 500 days.

"I’m incredibly relieved to share the news that our AWS teammate, Sasha Troufanov, who had been held hostage since the October 7, 2023, attacks in Israel, has been released from captivity," Jassy wrote in a message to employees.

Jassy says that the company had a team of experts working with Troufanov’s family "behind the scenes" to secure his release. The exec explained that Amazon "painfully" could not comment on Troufanov’s abduction publicly "for fear that we would negatively impact their ability to be released or how they were treated in captivity."

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After quiet weeks on fertility treatment coverage, an advocacy group expects developments soon.

The White House is now determining how best to fulfill President Donald Trump’s campaign pledge to ensure in vitro fertilization treatments would be paid for, after Trump repeatedly branded himself the “father of IVF” over the last year, NOTUS has learned.

There are signs that the White House is moving to address the issue sooner rather than later, after IVF has gone virtually unmentioned publicly in Trump’s first weeks. His promise drew splashy headlines during the campaign, as Trump and the Republican Party overall wrestled with how to talk about fertility, abortion and women’s rights. Some GOP lawmakers had previously indicated to NOTUS that the focus on IVF in 2024 was just to campaign, not necessarily to pursue after the election.

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prodromos said:

No mother creates their offspring. All people other than the person's of the Holy Trinity, are created by God.

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I can surly agree with that statement. It's not that she created him, she entered the world through her. From my understanding, it's theonly way a human can enter the Earth.

prodromos said:

"Mother of God" is a christlogical title. It is about who Jesus is, not who Mary is. It is purely in defence of the Incarnation. Jesus is human because He is the offspring of a human, His mother Mary. But because He is also divine, it means His mother is the mother of God, otherwise you divide His person and run into all kinds of heresies.

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Agreed

Praying they shut down for good! I would love to see that! Evil organization!

Lord have mercy!

Fantine said:

The LGBT are not the subject of this. It's the recipients of $1.8 billion dollars in USAID to Catholic Relief Services who will lose clean water, food in times of famine, malaria and other disease protection.

Why, Riley, did Musk have to close an entire agency that milli, ons of desperately poor in the third world depend on for survival in order to close one Los Angeles agency helping LGBT youth?

But Michie was right. Others will help. China, a country who is potentially America's most dangerous enemy, has a huge presence in Africa. USAID used to give 20,000 university scholarships to promising African men and women. Those people are now in leadership roles in African and South American countries.

China is giving 40,000 scholarships now--and at the moment we're not giving any. What will Africa look like fifteen years from now, when the leaders of the country are China-friendly and U.S. enemies? USAID gives more than food. It insures their friendship in the present and the future. And China, potentially our greatest enemy, is ready to step in and make Africans our enemy as well.

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To be blunt, I don’t like nor trust Elon Musk.

A federal judge handed Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency a major win Friday — saying it could access sensitive data across three major government agencies.

Musk’s budget-slashing team had made efforts to rummage through the finances of the Department of Labor, the Department of Health and Human Services and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

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Michie said:

Since its launch, Elon Musk's DOGE has uncovered billions in wasteful spending across the federal government​

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's efforts at President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have revealed a number of examples of government waste that have dominated headlines in recent weeks, as his team continues to audit the federal government despite Democrat opposition.

Here are some of the top-lines from DOGE's findings:

Musk reveals ‘Iron Mountain’ mine nightmare​

Musk revealed this week that DOGE is investigating a limestone mine in Pennsylvania where federal employee retirements are processed manually.

"Federal employee retirements are processed using paper, by hand, in an old limestone mine in Pennsylvania. 700+ mine workers operate 230 feet underground to process ~10,000 applications per month, which are stored in manila envelopes and cardboard boxes. The retirement process takes multiple months," Musk announced on X.

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'Wasteful and dangerous': DOGE's top five most shocking revelations

The Trump administration's DOGE efforts have found several controversial and highly publicized examples of spending it says are a waste of taxpayer funds.

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We had my dad's memorial on Valentine's day. It was really nice to see everyone, uncles I hadn't seen in a while. It's sad because we probably won't see each other much now. But, it was a nice celebration and I enjoyed it.

Multiple prisoners connected to Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, a foreign terrorist organization​

Palestinians linked to suicide bombings and attempted murders are among the 369 released Saturday by Israel in its latest exchange for hostages captured by Hamas.

Thirty-six of the detainees were serving out life sentences in Israeli prisons, but only 12 of them were allowed to return to their homes in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The other 24 are being sent to exile.

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Arizona and New Mexico’s fire season is set to begin, and Forest Service personnel have typically sent staff from California to help respond this time of year. But according to a Forest Service employee in the West, that’s not possible with these layoffs and the hiring freeze.
That means work — including mapping the spread of a fire, preparation for where it’s safe to conduct prescribed burns and even sending non-fire personnel in so-called “militias” to help combat a blaze — won’t happen.

Rep. Jared Huffman, a California Democrat, said that the Forest Service layoffs will have “devastating” impacts on wildfire mitigation efforts. “Fire safety projects are already frozen and being canceled all over the West,” he said. “We’re on track to lose an entire season of critical work, and this will only compound the problem.

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Cuts of that scale [at the Park Service] wouldn’t just impact park-goers or workers who suddenly won’t have a paycheck. It could also imperil Trump’s own plans to boost energy production on public land if there aren’t enough employees in place to steadily process oil and gas drilling permits, said Steve Feldgus, Interior’s principal deputy assistant secretary for land and minerals management under the Biden administration.

One Interior employee said he was told up to 800 staff could be let go at the agency’s Bureau of Land Management, the branch in charge of overseeing oil, gas and other energy production on federal land.