Peace in Christ.

The Son of man comes with the “clouds.”

Mat 24:30 KJV
(30) And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

These “clouds” are the people of the outside world who will “see” the Son of man being made manifest in us (seeing the light) and will come to us in belief. They will gather thick around us like a cloud.

“This generation” (the unbelievers of the man-based churches) will only see the sign… the sign of Jonah…as the men of Nineveh (the people of the outside world) will rise up in the judgment of them. They will see the Son of man coming in the clouds of the eye witnesses of His glory shining through us. Every eye shall see Him.

The “clouds” are the people of the outside world that will “gather thick together” around us.

Luk 11:29-30 KJV
(29) And when the people were gathered thick together, he began to say, This is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and there shall no sign be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet.
(30) For as Jonas was a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation.

Behold a “greater”…more in number…than Jonah is here. He comes with the "clouds"....a myriad of people....a "great multitude"... who will be around us in their belief of Him.

Luk 11:32 KJV
(32) The men of Nineve shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.

The Lord comes with MYRIAD of His saints. He comes with the “clouds.” Clouds are made up of myriads of water droplets.

These “clouds” are the “great multitude” of believers among the people of the outside world that will come with us to execute judgment upon the unbelievers of the man-based churches who spoke out in evil in their unbelief of the Word of Truth when they heard it and rejected it.

Jud 1:14-15
(14) And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with MYRIADS of his saints,
(15) To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

He comes with “clouds”….the clouds of the eye witnesses of the people of the outside world who will see His glory shining through us and believe and “gather thick together” around us. Every eye shall see Him...even those who do not believe.

Rev 1:7 KJV
(7) Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.

Here's an awesome 35 minute moment between Russell Brand and Charlie Kirk that took place on August 7th, 2025.

Thanks brothers! I needed to hear this this morning. The Lord Jesus bless you both! :

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"Charlie Kirk was a devout Christian, murdered for his conservative religious and political views by a young man who has fallen victim to the ideological demons of our time."

"DEI has cost you academic advancement and employment. The leftist attack experienced in most universities has ridiculed your biblical faith and the very values you learned from your fathers and mothers, grandparents and your Confirmation pastor — values that taught you Christ, forgiveness, love, service and vocation."

A remarkable discovery in northern Israel has shed light on one of the least-documented Jewish uprisings against Roman rule.

Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) and Zefat Academic College have unearthed a hoard of 22 bronze coins, dating back more than 1,600 years, in the ancient settlement of Hukok in the Lower Galilee.

The treasure was found stashed in a small crevice deep inside an underground hiding complex, a network of tunnels and chambers first carved during the Great Revolt (66–70 CE) and later adapted for the Bar-Kochba Revolt (132–136 CE). To the researchers’ surprise, the coins turned out to be from a much later conflict — the Gallus Revolt of 351–352 CE, the last Jewish rebellion under Roman rule.

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I'm in the UK where we have several political parties, the one with most votes forming a Government (currently the Labour Party) and the rest in opposition. The leader of the largest opposition party (currently Conservative) is the main spokesperson for the opposition and forms a Shadow Cabinet.

Although many issues are debated on party lines, moral issues, such as abortion, gay rights and assisted dying are not on party political lines. Our MPs have free votes. I think this prevents too much of a left/right divide and is a great blessing. I'm curious to know if this is the same in other Western democracies so would love to hear from those in other countries. Comments from fellow Brits are welcome too, of course! Thank you in advance for any replies.

As Christians, collectively, we are the universal body of Christ, the church, the people of God by God-provided and God-gifted and God-persuaded faith in Jesus Christ, which is not of our own doing, not of human flesh, but of God. So, we humans do not get to define what that faith looks like. God does. And his word teaches us that biblical faith in Jesus Christ leads to us dying with Christ to sin, and being raised with him to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but as servants of righteousness.

As those who are now belonging to God, by faith in Jesus Christ, we are individually gifted with Spiritual gifts of the Holy Spirit, and we are given our body parts (our individual ministry assignments) by God within the body. Some people are gifted with the body assignment of spiritually equipping the saints of God for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ. But this must be done biblically, and not according to “church” business models and secular marketing schemes, but according to the word of God.

And what this means is that everyone of us has a spiritual role within the body of Christ, as a whole, for the building up of the body of Christ to spiritual maturity in our walks of faith in the Lord Jesus. So, we are also to be those who speak the truth of God’s word to one another, but spoken in love, to help one another to not be taken captive by certain people by their trickery and craftiness in deceitful scheming, so we will not be led astray to false doctrines of salvation and end up not in true relationships with Christ.

And then notice with me carefully what this says next:


Do you see what this is saying? We who are followers of Jesus Christ, doing the will of God for our lives, are all necessary to the proper working of the body of Christ, the church. And the body can only work properly when every body part is provided the opportunity to supply his or her part to the proper working of the body. For God did not design his body to work like so many institutional market-driven beholding to the government, in partnership with the government “churches,” which are denying many body parts to function.

For, as the body of Christ, we are to be teaching and admonishing one another in all spiritual wisdom. And we are to be exhorting one another every day so that none of us may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. And we are to be stirring up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, but encouraging one another, and all the more as we see the Day drawing near. And encouragement is not all just the feel good stuff, but it includes to urgently counsel, to admonish, and to exhort.

And our meeting together does not have to be all in one place or on any specific day of the week or at any particular hour of the day or night, but it can be anywhere at any time at any appropriate location, which can include meeting on the internet, or via a phone call, or a text message, or a video call, or whatever other means of communication we might have. And “the church” is not a building that you go to, but it is the people of God who can meet together in small or large groups anywhere for the purposes of God.

[Acts 2:14-18,42-47; Romans 12:1-8; 1 Corinthians 12:1-31; 1 Corinthians 14:1-5; Galatians 6:1; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:1-16; Ephesians 5:15-21; Ephesians 6:10-20; Philippians 2:1-8; Colossians 3:12-16; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:13; Hebrews 10:23-25; James 5:19-20]

Oh, to Be Like Thee, Blessed Redeemer

Lyrics by Thomas O. Chisholm, 1897
Music by W. J. Kirkpatrick, 1897

Oh, to be like Thee! blessèd Redeemer,
This is my constant longing and prayer;
Gladly I’ll forfeit all of earth’s treasures,
Jesus, Thy perfect likeness to wear.

Oh, to be like Thee! full of compassion,
Loving, forgiving, tender and kind,
Helping the helpless, cheering the fainting,
Seeking the wandering sinner to find.

O to be like Thee! lowly in spirit,
Holy and harmless, patient and brave;
Meekly enduring cruel reproaches,
Willing to suffer others to save.

O to be like Thee! while I am pleading,
Pour out Thy Spirit, fill with Thy love;
Make me a temple meet for Thy dwelling,
Fit me for life and Heaven above.

Oh, to be like Thee! Oh, to be like Thee,
Blessèd Redeemer, pure as Thou art;
Come in Thy sweetness, come in Thy fullness;
Stamp Thine own image deep on my heart.

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The Proper Working of Each Individual Part
An Original Work / September 19, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Andrew Daniels and John Gilpatrick discuss how your brain could fight to stay alive after your body gives up.

You know the stories: a flash of light, a tunnel, maybe even a mysterious voice telling you it’s not your time. Near-deathexperiences have fascinated people for decades, but now scientists are starting to think there’s something even stranger going on: Right as the body shuts down, the brain might be kicking into overdrive, firing off one last burst of consciousnessin a final push to stay alive.

That’s the mind-blowing idea behind one of Pop Mech’s most-read recent stories, “A ‘Twilight Consciousness’ May Exist in Dying Patients. Could That Mean Death Isn’t Final?” In the story, scientists detail a huge spike in gamma brainwaves—those linked with memory, awareness, and sensory experience—after patients are declared clinically dead. The discovery basically challenges everything we thought we knew about what it means to die.

Watch Andrew Daniels and John Gilpatrick break down the weird phenomenon of “twilight consciousness” and share a few stranger-than-fiction stories, like the man who woke up on the operating table just before his organs were harvested, and the 95-year-old woman who rose from her coffin after six days and made herself a bowl of porridge because she was hungry.

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"To think that we settled...uh...Aber-baijan and Albania, as an example. It was going on for years."

Grandpa Trump doesn't know the difference between Albania and Armenia, and thinks there's a place called Aberbaijan.

Is it time to put him in a nursing home?

A 22-year-old has been arrested after he allegedly threatened to murder New Hampshire Governor Kelly Ayotte using homemade pipe bombs.
Independent reporter Breanna Morello posted on X: “Investigators say Tristan Anderson boasted about his plans to his roommate on Snapchat, displaying the materials he planned to use.
Anderson allegedly posted anti-Semitic messages about an “Israel Deep State” before targeting Catholic Governor Kelly Ayotte with threats.

The violent political rhetoric needs to stop.

We live in a day and age, at least here in the USA, we do, when so many compromises are being made to truth and to righteousness, and to the gospel of Christ and of our salvation, and to morality and to obedience and to holy living. The gospel message is being reduced to a profession of faith only, where morality may or may not be being taught, and where the subject of obedience to God is either discouraged altogether or it is being presented as recommended, but as optional, and not conditional to our salvation.


Sadly, this is where we are as a society, and it is where so much of today’s “church” is, as well. The gospel is being diluted in order to appease human flesh and to attract the ungodly of the world to these secularized “church” gatherings. Obedience has now largely become a bad word, and it is being associated with legalism, with harshness, and with being judgmental. And deliberate and habitual sin is now being tolerated and pacified in the name of God’s grace. But God’s grace does not tolerate and pacify habitual sin.

The grace of God, which is bringing us salvation, is training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives while we wait for Jesus’ return. For Christ “gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.” “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.” (See Titus 2:11-14; Ephesians 2:8-10)

Those who are speaking the truth of the gospel of Christ, in its fulness, are largely being marginalized, rejected, rebuked, ignored, falsely accused of wrong, and called legalists and teachers of works salvation. And all this while those who teach the “gospel light” are being honored, praised, lifted up, and followed by large crowds of people. For the “gospel light” people do not insist on obedience to God and death to sin as God’s requirements for what it means to believe in Jesus and to receive him as Lord/Master of our lives.

But 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).

For by God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ, which is not of our own doing, we are 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 righteousness in walks of obedience to God’s commands. We are no longer to permit sin to reign in our mortal bodies to make us obey its desires. For if sin is what we obey, it results in death. But if obedience to God is what we obey, it results in sanctification, and its end is eternal life with God (see Romans 6:1-23).

So, please know and believe the truth of the gospel as taught by Jesus and by his New Testament apostles, taught in the correct biblical context, and not out of context. Many lies are being spread in the name of Christ and of his gospel by teaching Scriptures out of context and making them say what they do not say if taught in the correct biblical context. Context is critical to correct biblical interpretation and to understanding and believing the truth of God’s word. And make obedience to God and death to sin your daily practice.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 1:12-13; John 6:44; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:23-31; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10]

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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Whatever is Right, Whatever is Pure..
An Original Work / September 18, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Military leaders consider recruiting campaign centered on Charlie Kirk​

Possible slogans discussed include “Charlie has awakened a generation of warriors.” There is talk of using Turning Point USA chapters as recruitment centers.
Pentagon leaders are considering a new recruiting campaign that would encourage young people to honor the legacy of assassinated conservative activist Charlie Kirk by joining the military, according to two officials familiar with the planning.

Anthony Tata, who serves as undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness, is leading the effort, the officials said.

The idea is facing resistance from some Pentagon leaders who have privately warned those working on the effort that such a campaign could be perceived as the military trying to capitalize on Kirk’s death, the two officials said. Kirk did not serve in the armed forces.

The bottom line was she didn't pick him because he was gay.

You can dislike much of what Kirk believed, and the following statement is still true: Kirk was practicing politics in exactly the right way. He was showing up to campuses and talking with anyone who would talk to him. He was one of the era’s most effective practitioners of persuasion. When the left thought its hold on the hearts and minds of college students was nearly absolute, Kirk showed up again and again to break it. Slowly, then all at once, he did. College-age voters shifted sharply right in the 2024 election.

Kirk and I were on different sides of most political arguments. We were on the same side on the continued possibility of American politics. It is supposed to be an argument, not a war; it is supposed to be won with words, not ended with bullets. I wanted Kirk to be safe for his sake, but I also wanted him to be safe for mine and for the sake of our larger shared project. The same is true for Shapiro, for Hoffman, for Hortman, for Thompson, for Trump, for Pelosi, for Whitmer. We are all safe, or none of us are.


Ezra Klein has been catching some hate for this piece...

I came across this earlier, having read about Prof. Kilby in one of Leanne Payne's books. She was his assistant for a number of years, and she mentioned how he gave out to his students a series of statements. Leanne quoted a couple of them in her book The Healing Presence, and the chapter in that called Introspection versus the True Imagination I highly recommend. She says a bit more about Clyde Kilby there.

So it was good to discover these statements (kind of like a thought for the day) he gave out to his students are now online.

I wasn't sure which sub forum to put this in, but its related to spiritual disciplines.




Clyde Kilby (1902 - 1986)

Hi all,

I applied for another job.

Please pray I will get an interview, and find a full time, 40 hour week job with benefits.

God bless

Hi,

I just recently started my renewal in Christianity and the Catholic faith. I am of Spanish (Castilian) decent and my parents and grandparents were "holy rollers". My parents never did the rosary, but my grandparents did it every day. I can still remember as a chlld when they would stay with us. I received my rosary today and I decided to give it a shot. I bought the little book, "Pray the Rosary" and a Rosary Prayer Card by KeepGodinLife. The prayer card states to say the Fatima prayer after Glory Be to the Father. The booklet leaves it out and says only to say the Glory Be. I'm planning on getting my rosary blessed next week.

Anyone know which way is more common? Thanks

Democrats have blocked more nominees than ever before as they have struggled to find ways to oppose Trump and the GOP-dominated Congress, and as their voters have pushed them to fight Republicans at every turn. It’s the first time in recent history that the minority party hasn’t allowed at least some quick confirmations.

By not allowing even some quick confirmations the Democrats made their obstructionism as obvious as could be. Thus I feel the Republicans took the correct step.

Your thoughts on this?
Here's one example of the hypocrisy of those who are complaining about Kimmel being fired, but they were happy when Carlson was fired...

America is starting a “multi-step overhaul” of the naturalization process, which will include changes to the test immigrants need to pass in order to become citizens, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced Wednesday.

The naturalization test has existed in some form since the early 1900s, USCIS said, and has changed several times over the decades. The test has since been standardized, and the list of [current] possible questions are publicly available so people can study in advance. The questions are not multiple choice, but some questions have multiple correct answers.

It will be interesting to see what new questions appear.

From the creepy USCIS announcement:

"American citizenship is the most sacred citizenship in the world and should only be reserved for aliens who will fully embrace our values and principles as a nation. By ensuring only those aliens who meet all eligibility requirements ... the American people can be assured that those joining us as fellow citizens are fully assimilated and will contribute to America’s greatness."

I started going to the gym earlier this year, and recently met someone there. She went out of her way to say hello to me, which--silly me--I thought was nice. I should have been more suspicious. Long story short, I have a disability I cannot hide from others. After a few days of briefly acknowledging one another at the gym, she and I seemed--I thought--to be "making eyes" at one another, so to speak. I kept wanting to have a longer conversation with her, but the timing never worked out.

A few days ago, I was in the middle of my workout, and she was across the gym in the middle of her own work. She came over to me and asked if there was anything she could pray for. I told her I'd been stressed, and she prayed for me right there. I thought that was a bit odd, but refreshingly bold, so I thanked her. She said something to the effect of, "I know God wants us all well." Before I could say anything else, she went back to her workout and left me to mine. I called my mentor at that point, who advised me to make time to talk with her for a few minutes.

This morning, I arrived early. I sat on a bench in the gym and waited for her. When she arrived, I said hello, and again expressed my thanks in praying for me. We were about to proceed with our warm-up on the stairclimbers, and I figured we might actually be able to chat a little. Unfortunately, the only stairclimber I can use safely--due to my disability--was being used, so I went back to the bench and waited.

She finished her workout and came over to me to ask why I wasn't working out. I told her "my" stairclimber was being used and I'd have to wait, because of my disability. She again asked if she could pray for me, and mentioned something about college I didn't quite catch due to the noise of the gym. That's when the flags really started to come up for me; she's a faith healer. I told her I'd had several negative experiences with faith healers in the past, but said it would be okay if she prayed for me. I asked her to repeat what she'd said about college, and she didn't exactly repeat it, but she told me she goes to a local charismatic Christian college that I'm well aware teaches prosperity theology.

After she prayed for me, I tried to chat with her, but I see now she wasn't really interested in me. She was interested in my disability. Her answers to my questions were short, vague, friendly enough, but ultimately, she was done with me. The more I think about it, the more it infuriates me to be treated--yet again--like a project. I've been dealing with this garbage for decades. She slow-played me. What I mistook for some kind of flirtatious interest was her just being nervously excited about possibly healing me.

The worst part is, I fight very hard to try to believe I am not my disability. I've lived my life keenly aware of how different I am from others, and how much "less than" I am. I'm weaker, slower, less efficient, less capable of living like a normal person. I struggle with basic things. Because of my disability, my own family had separate linens and soaps and other things because my things and me would have "spoiled" the good linens and soaps and such. Every time a female has expressed interest in me, it's been because she pitied me, or because she though dating the disabled guy would win her brownie points with God or the "empaths" in her social circle. A lot of guys have "befriended" me for similar reasons.

On top of all that, I get faith healers coming up to me, prying into my medical history. I tell them I'm not interested, and they want to play the "I just want to pray for you" card, like I'm the one being offensive. I humor them and let them pray for me, and I'm discarded as a project that didn't work. Sometimes I've been told I just need more faith, or the sin in my life is prohibiting my healing. I've spent decades of my life praying and believing, trying every mantra and formula, reading all the books, begging God that something would work. For years upon years I struggled to accept myself, on top of years of abuse and ridicule from my peers for the sin of being different.

Christianity tells us we're all broken from what was intended, but then charismatic faith healers come along and say, "You're more broken because you're disabled and you don't have faith. Obviously if you had faith you would be healed." And I know the truth. I know that in Jesus' time, people who had faith aplenty still went unhealed. People got sick and died, and they weren't resurrected. Paul himself suffered from an affliction God refused to take away, so that God's power might be perfected in Paul's weakness. I understand the intellectual arguments, but I still fight to believe that I am not wholly defined by "more broken."

I've never been married, and haven't had a girlfriend in nearly twenty years. The few girlfriends I've had, my disability ended up being the main attraction. I've never had a woman take an interest in me because I'm me, which seems to suggest I'm even more broken than "more broken." I should have been suspicious that a woman seemed to take an interest in me at all, but I'd been praying in recent weeks for God to help me be the man I should be for a wife, and to help me find her. It felt nice to think maybe she was an answer to prayer, but no.

I'm done. I still have the same faith I've always had. If God wants to heal me, He knows where to find me, and I know He can do it. He's healed my lesser afflictions before, and done great and miraculous things in my life. But I am done ever thinking I could have a wife or a family of my own. God is more capable and more likely to heal me than it seems any woman is capable or likely to see me as more than my disability.

I've been told before I have a chip on my shoulder, and I won't dispute it. There are many times I have put that chip down and extended an olive branch to the charismatic set, but more and more they've managed to justify that chip in their inability to see a person, rather than a broken project.

Your job and continued employment are not protected by the First Amendment. Think carefully before you post, etc. The First Amendment does not apply in private workplaces to protect employees’ speech, says Andrew Clark, an attorney who specializes in employment and labor law. It actually protects the employers’ right to make decisions about employees, based on employees’ speech. Post at your own risk.

The company my husband works for let's people know when they hire them that any devices they give them to use for their job keeps an eye on what they are doing work wise or not. Not all companies tell employees this, but I see nothing wrong with it since it's the company that is paying a person for a job and it's the company's devices. My husband doesn't do anything of a personal nature on any of those devices. I'm always curious why some do whatever they want on them besides work. But for whatever reason they do it, they need to realize that it doesn't fall under the first amendment.

What do you think about all of this in relation to employment and free speech and the limitations in the first amendment?

I’ve been traveling through Utah the past week, at times along some of the paths they forged, which eventually turned into the Old Spanish Trail. It’s some of the most simply stunning land on God’s earth.

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This universal sacrament is akin to the Garden of Eden in which the entire human family of God should have resisted sin, received the sacrament of the fruit of the tree of life, and grown in the grace and love of God.

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The current insanity would tell us that children do not benefit from innocence but should be indoctrinated into sexual culture as soon as possible.

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