YAL is a “libertarian, classical liberal and conservative student activism organization,” according to their website. UAH student Joshua Greer filed a lawsuit in the Madison County Circuit Court on behalf of the organization against UAH and the UA system in response to the policy.

UAH’s policy states that students are allowed to protest, but not until they get clearance at least three days in advance, and they must get university approval before doing so.

Breton indicated that in order to prevent Twitter from being banned in Europe, the tech entrepreneur will have to part ways with his “arbitrary” approach to reinstating the accounts of people previously banned from the platform. Musk must also surrender the platform to an “extensive independent audit” by 2023. Reportedly, Breton told Musk that the platform must “reinforce content moderation” and “aggressively” root out disinformation.


Musk doesn't strike me as the type of man who would stand down fron justice over Tyrannical threats.

I suppose that Europeans might have to take up VPNs like the Chinese, in order to get on Twitter to exercise free speech

Hi there,

My name is Steve, and I'm new around here, so thanks for having me!

One thing you should know about me is that, although I've been a Christian for over half my life, I've just really struggled with asking people to pray for me. I don't really know why because it's not like I've had this really bad experience doing it before. It's more like, "Yeah, God. I'll pray for others, no problem. But when something is wrong in my life, if we could keep it between you and me, that'd be great."

Well, God, in his kindness, has decided to challenge me in that arrangement by allowing me to go through some things recently that have forced me to become more open about what I'm going through, and that's included bringing me to where I am now, which is joining you folks and asking for you to pray for me regarding a specific part of my life--finding a new job.

Long story short: I have a job. I'm thankful for that fact. But for the past year or so, I've really been feeling like I need to find something else. The company that I'm working for is very demanding. The job that I'm in is anywhere between overwhelming and downright soul crushing. I do appreciate the fact that it's a job, that it allows my family to eat and live indoors. But beyond that, I'm just really struggling to make any progress or feel like I'm making a difference for anyone. And so I'm just asking God to help me to find something that allows me to do more of what I'm good at and less of what I'm bad at, and to be able to live and work at a more sustainable pace than I am right now.

Now, there is some good news in all of this. I've been having a handful of interviews over the past few months, and some of them have seemingly gone quite well. Unfortunately, I've also gotten quite a few, "Thanks for interviewing, however..." emails and phone calls.

At the moment, I have two roles that I'm interviewing for. Both seem like they'd be really neat opportunities, and both, I believe, would allow me to do more of what I'm good at and less of what I'm bad at.

I'd love for you all to pray for me that 1. I'd be patient in this process, and that I'd continue to trust that God knows what he's doing in my life at all times, and 2. that if one of these opportunities is the right one for me, one of them would materialize with a job offer even as soon as this week. (And I know that I don't need to rush this, but I really would love to have it resolved sooner than later.)

Thank you all for your prayers. I appreciate it! And I'll keep you posted on where things go with these opportunities.

Hi everyone, I just discovered this on YouTube, this is amazing! Muslim women all over the world are burning their headscarves in the street after the death of the Iranian woman in police custody in Iran! Something big may be happening in the spirit world! The ayatollah in Iran may be about to go down, so far he is holding on to power by military force but it is only a matter of time before something happens to him! If he orders the military to open fire on the protesters they may refuse to obey and turn on him!

Whoever Follows Him
John 8:12 ESV


Jesus Christ is God and he is the only begotten Son of God. He left his throne in heaven, came to the earth, was born as a baby to a human mother, conceived of the Holy Spirit, and he lived on this earth as fully God and fully man, only without sin. While on the earth he fed the hungry, healed the sick and afflicted, raised the dead, gave sight to the blind, and he preached repentance (the forsaking of our sins) and love and obedience to our Lord as necessary components of believing faith which saves.

Jesus Christ did not teach that we could just acknowledge faith in him and thus we are now saved, done deal, and heaven is guaranteed us when we die regardless of how we live on this earth. He taught progressive salvation. He taught that we must walk in the light as he is in the light and that we must not walk in darkness or we don’t have eternal life in him. And he taught that we must die with him to sin daily and walk with him in obedience, for if we hold on to our lives of living in sin and for self we will lose them for eternity. But if we die with him to our old lives we will live.

For when Jesus said that he is the light of the world he was speaking of truth, righteousness, holiness, uprightness, moral purity, and the like. For he was absolutely perfect, without sin, and thus he could be the sacrifice for our sins once and for all. But the light is also a guide to lead us in the way that we should go, and so he was saying here that if we follow him in walking with him in the light (holiness and righteousness) and in obedience to him and to his ways, we will not walk in darkness (see Gal 5:16-21; 1 Jn 1:5-10), and darkness is sin. So, if we obey our Lord we won’t walk in sin.

And then we will have the light of life, which is life in Christ, which is eternal life in him, which is salvation from sin. For, you see, Jesus Christ and his New Testament apostles did not teach a one-time decision to believe in Jesus Christ, that it would save us from our sins for eternity regardless of how we live on this earth. Now they did not teach that we have to live in sinless perfection or we are not saved, but they all taught that we must walk (in conduct, in practice) in obedience to our Lord, in holiness and in righteousness, and not in sin, or we do not have eternal life with God.

[Isaiah 53:1-12; Matt 4:17; Matt 7:21-23; Matt 11:20-21; Matt 12:41; Matt 21:28-31; Matt 26:26-29; Mk 1:14-15; Lu 5:32; Lu 9:23-26; Lu 13:1-5; Lu 15:2-7; Lu 17:25; Lu 24:45-47; Jn 1:1-36; Jn 6:35-58; Jn 8:24-58; Jn 10:27-33; Jn 14:15-24; Jn 15:1-11; Jn 20:28-29; Rom 5:8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14; Rom 9:5; 1 Co 6:19-20; 1 Co 11:23-32; 1 Co 15:1-8; 2 Co 5:15,21; Eph 4:17-24; Php 2:5-11; Col 2:9; Tit 2:11-14; Heb 1:8-9; Heb 2:14-15; Heb 4:15; Heb 10:23-31; Heb 12:1-2; 1 Pet 2:24; 2 Pet 1:1]

Whoever Abides in Him
John 8:31-32 ESV


Now, to abide in Christ is to live in him, and it is to continue in him, to walk in his ways and in his truth, to do what he says, to comply with him and to follow him and to keep (obey) his commandments (New Covenant). And it is to continue in this obeying and following him and sticking to the truths of his word and agreeing with him and accepting what he says we are to do and how we are to live and doing it. And the Scriptures teach that we must continue in this way until the very end in order to have eternal life with God.

[Matt 7:21-23; Lu 9:23-26; Jn 8:31-32; Jn 15:1-12; Rom 8:24; Rom 11:17-24; Rom 13:11; 1 Co 1:18; 1 Co 15:1-2; Gal 5:16-21; Col 1:21-23; Col 3:5-11; 2 Tim 1:8-9; 2 Tim 2:10-13; Heb 3:6,14-15; Heb 9:28; 1 Pet 1:5; 2 Pet 1:5-11; 2 Pet 2:20-22; 1 Jn 1:5-10; 1 Jn 2:3-6;24-25; 1 Jn 3:4-10]

And Jesus said here that we must abide in his word if we are to be his disciples. And there is no division between believer and disciple. For if we truly believe in Jesus with God-given faith, as the Scriptures define belief, then we are his disciples. For belief in Jesus is not just an acknowledgement of what he did for us on that cross or a mere acceptance mentally or emotionally of the salvation he provided for us. Biblical faith in Jesus Christ is obedience and it involves daily dying with Christ to sin. And that is what it means to be a disciple. It means we follow him in obedience.

But as we read further on down in this passage we see that the Jews belief in Jesus was not genuine belief, for he ended up telling them that their father was not God the Father but their father was the devil. For if God was their Father they would love Jesus and to love Jesus is to obey him. For if we say that we love him but we don’t obey him, then we don’t love him and we don’t know him and one day we will hear him say, “I never knew you! Depart from me you workers of lawlessness!” (Matt 7:21-23)

So, don’t get caught up in the false gospel that many are teaching today which says you can “believe” (not defined) in Jesus, have your sins forgiven, and have heaven guaranteed you when you die regardless of how you live your lives on this earth. Yes, Jesus does not demand sinless perfection. But he does “draw a line in the sand” which says that if we walk (in conduct, in practice) according to our flesh, in sin, and if sin is our habit, and if righteousness, holiness, and obedience to our Lord are not our practice, we will not inherit eternal life with God regardless of what our lips profess.

[Lu 9:23-26; Jn 8:51; Jn 14:15-24; Jn 15:10; Matt 7:21-23; 1 Jn 2:3-6,15-17; 1 Jn 3:4-10,24; 1 Jn 5:2-3; 2 Jn 1:6; Rom 2:6-8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14; Rom 12:1-2; Tit 2:11-14; Heb 5:9; 1 Pet 1:1-2; Jas 1:21-25; 1 Co 10:1-22; 2 Co 5:10; Heb 3:1-19; Heb 4:1-13; Heb 10:23-31; Php 2:12-13; Jn 10:27-30; Acts 5:32; Gal 5:16-21; Gal 6:7-8; Eph 5:3-6; Col 3:5-11]

Make Me a Blessing

Ira Bishop Wilson / George Schuler

Out in the highways and byways of life,
Many are weary and sad;
Carry the sunshine where darkness is rife,
Making the sorrowing glad.

Tell the sweet story of Christ and His love,
Tell of His pow’r to forgive;
Others will trust Him if only you prove
True, every moment you live.

Give as ’twas given to you in your need,
Love as the Master loved you;
Be to the helpless a helper indeed,
Unto your mission be true.

Make me a blessing, make me a blessing,
Out of my life may Jesus shine;
Make me a blessing, O Savior, I pray,
Make me a blessing to someone today.

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I don’t think this gets discussed enough in the Christian community.

Thoughts?

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Why am I such a dusty window
For your light to shine through?
Why am I just a tiny star
In a sky already blue?
Why do I offer everything
With my heart closed like a fist?
I want to love You better than this
Why do I live like I'm in chains
When You have set me free?
And why do I have to break Your heart
Before I fall to my knees?
I know it's time to pray for change
Give all I have to give
I want to love You better than this
So renew me
Remake me
Undo me
Unbreak me
Come into the empty spaces
Of my broken places
And consume me
Complete me
Pursue me
Redeem me
Let Your Holy Spirit living through me
Renew me
I need Your power to renew me, Lord, yeah
I need to know You're moving through me, Lord
I need You as my refuge
My first and last resort
Be the river always running
Through my deepest thoughts
Keep me in Your arms
'Cause even when I drift
I want to love You better than this
So renew me
Remake me
Undo me
Unbreak me
Come into the empty spaces
Of my broken places
And consume me
Complete me
Pursue me
Redeem me
Let Your Holy Spirit living through me
Renew me
My life bending to Your will
Seeking You until I'm more and more like You

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This post is not to debate this topic but to share this woman's story so that it might help someone struggling with these issues or reluctant to come to Christ because of it.

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I have a great respect for this sister in Christ, her story of how she came to Christ is phenomenal. (She shares her full story on focus on the family youtube channel).
What she says here is nothing but the truth about God. I hope her story helps someone out there.

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House Representative Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) suggested implementing new House rules in the next Congress, including banning members from accepting campaign donations from federal lobbyists and federal PACs, proposals, he said, “we should work with Democrats on.”

Gaetz also suggested banning members of Congress for life from becoming lobbyists and trading individual stocks. His proposals were presented at a forum held Nov. 14 by Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) on conference rules for the incoming 118th Congress. His reasoning behind prohibiting members of Congress from accepting lobbyists’ campaign donations lies in the money involved, which “all has strings attached to it” and anybody who says otherwise is “lying,” said the Florida congressman.

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Frankly I think Matt is a horrible person let lone horrible congressman, but I agree with him here. And so would the vast majority of "Democrats, for it's a argument they have been making years, specially since Citizens-vs-United. For example, me personally, I find it mind boggling so many politicians spouting patriotism and donning American flag pins, once they lose their seat run to become foreign country lobbyists hired to lobby the very committees they once served. Let's face it, our overall political system is tantamount to legalized bribery, the quid pro quo. As Matt mentions, get rid of that money and focus shifts from donor desires to what's good for their constitutes. (well, at least in theory). Nevermind why more of those in congress aren't stating the obvious, but why aren't voters making this obvious of what's wrong with American politics more of an issue? Or maybe that's a rhetorical question.

The head of the largest oil and natural gas trade association warned that failure to replenish the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) could trigger another oil crisis in the coming weeks.


“The Strategic Petroleum Reserve, unfortunately, has become the strategic political reserve. And we have grave concerns about how it has been so politicized. This is for emergency purposes, not to lower gasoline prices during a time during a political season,” American Petroleum Institute CEO Mike Sommers said in a Friday interview on Fox News.

Republicans and oil industry officials have said that Biden’s move to release oil from the SPR was designed to keep gas prices artificially low ahead of the Nov. 8 midterm elections. But they have argued that the long-term effects of the order may be devastating.

I drove a relative to the airport and had a meal inside one of its fastfood restaurants. I saw so many familiar faces from different nationalities, some were passengers and some were fight attendants. Over ten of them!

I've seen, come across them before, just can't remember when and where exactly.

I very rarely visited the airport, only traveled on a plane a few times in my life and don't really socialize much. In fact, I don't like socializing so I avoid it if I can.

So seeing over ten familiar faces in one small restaurant in one small international airport within 30 minutes. That's over ten people from different walks of life I've somehow come across over the years some from other countries, all meeting in the same place in such astronomically small time frame. That counts as incredibly uncanny and for me exceptionally creepy. What's going on?

I remember when I first became involved with witnessing and street ministry that we were taught to lead people into the Baptism of the Holy Spirit right after they prayed the prayer of salvation. From tears of repentance to praying in tongues.

It was very effective, but at some point I got away from the practice.

Was anyone else taught the same? If so, did you see similar results?

It was a real season of discipleship and growth in our church.

What do you think of the idea that when we are saved all our past sins are forgiven, but not our future sins? Thoughts?

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Post-vaccination myocarditis, a form of heart inflammation, was identified in a subset of people who died “unexpectedly” at home within 20 days of receiving a COVID-19 vaccine. Researchers analyzed autopsies that had been performed on the people and conducted additional research, including studying tissue samples.

Hello, I'm new here.
I look forward to coming to know God better through good conversations, and strengthening my faith through this community.
Hope you all are doing well!

~thesacredbeautiful

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Emun said:

Revelation 17:8 is a reference to Revelation 13:3. The head that was wounded isn't a person, it's a kingdom. It's the 7th head. Which is called in other passages of the book "the beast" (with the ten horns). The 7th Kingdom didn't exist before the 6th, it existed after, but was wounded, that means it lost his power and splited into at least 10 Nations, which are the 10 horns.

The Roman Empire cannot be the 7th head because it is the 6th. The 6th head belongs to a completely different beast/material, namely the leopard/bronze (3rd beast). The 7th head is the head of the 4th beast, so it is a completely different beast/material, with a completely different culture and language. The 3rd beast with the 4 heads was Macedonian, Ptolemaic, Seleucid and Roman. All 4 shared the same language and almost the same culture.

To find out who the 7th head is, we need to consider the 2 requirements it must have to be a head.
1. it must have destroyed the previous beast. The 1st beast was destroyed by the 2nd beast, the 2nd beast was destroyed by the 3rd beast. So the 4th beast must have destroyed the 3rd beast.
2. it must have conquered Israel. All six heads conquered Israel and that means the 7th kingdom must have done so.

With these 2 requirements, only 2 candidates remain. The Rashidun or Turkish Empire. The Rashidun Empire didn't destroy Roman Empire but it was the Empire that conquered Israel after the Romans. Turkish Empire conquered Israel and it destroyed the Roman Empire in 1453.

Both of these empires have fallen in the past, and both of these empires have divided into at least 10 nations. That means that one of these two empires will return.

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Just curious.

Basically, by Paul's logic, I should be allowed to buy an animal and maim and torture it because it's my property and I own it.

Romans 9:22-23
22 What if God, although choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath—prepared for destruction? 23 What if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory—

If you were a father of two boys, would you beat one of them with a belt until they pass out in order to show the other one how much you love him?

I don't get it anymore.

Choice



I will make sure to keep this short. I know many of the postings here are so so long that it can be a bit much. Therefore, I would like to try to keep my stuff brief, but meaningful.



I just want to make a couple of comments about something that God spoke to me many years ago when I was trying to reconcile how much of our doing is Him and how much is us or should be.



He said to me…

It is in My strength but it is your choice. (Holiness / Godly living ) - God



Without God’s grace, we don’t even have the desire to live a godly or holy life. Without God’s strength, there is no way possible to do so. However, without our choice to do so we cannot live a godly or holy life either. In the spiritual realm God’s grace is there, God’s strength is there, but until we make the choice, neither is manifest in the physical realm the way they should be.



Additionally, when we sense that prompting from God to do something or to change something in your life, at that moment His grace and His strength are at their most powerful. This is the best time to act. Resisting the Holy Spirit and promptings of God to change something in your life or do something in your life creates a weakening, not of God, but of your faith and your resolve to act.

Nice to meet you all.
I really like music and my music media source is still the classic Compact Disc.

Hi everyone,

I think we need to lift up Iran in prayer, apparently there is massive civil unrest and protests against the government, the nation may be on the brink of revolution, it looks like the ayatollah may be about to go down! So far he is managing to hold on to power by military force but it is only a matter of time before something happens to him! Iranians are marching in the streets chanting "death to the dictator" and Iranian women are burning their head scarfs and burqas in the streets!

Lord God I lift up this situation in Iran to You and I pray for Your intervention in the current situation. I pray for peace in the country and and end to the unrest and that any violence would stop, I also pray for freedom for the Iranian people from their oppressive dictatorship and that Your will would be done in the Iranian government and political situation! I pray for salvation for all of the Iranian people and deliverance from Islam and I also pray for salvation for everyone in the Iranian government and military! I pray that the ayatollah of Iran would have a supernatural encounter with You and that he would come to know You as his Lord and Savior and that he would also be delivered from Islam!

Twitter owner Elon Musk on Friday began releasing a deluge of internal company documents showing what led the company to suppress posts sharing the Hunter Biden laptop story just weeks before the 2020 presidential election.

After teasing his followers with a promise to disclose “what really happened with the Hunter Biden story suppression,” Mr. Musk linked to a lengthy Twitter thread by independent journalist Matt Taibbi showing the behind-the-scenes deliberations.

It portrays company executives plotting their course in response to the New York Post story exposing the now widely authenticated laptop.