New York Times columnist and author David French drew scorn on social media over the weekend when he affirmed the transgender identity of a male staff writer at The Dispatch who identifies as a woman.

French congratulated Jessica Riedl, who was born Brian and has a wife and children, for joining as a contributing writer at The Dispatch, where French formerly served as a senior editor. The online magazine was founded by Jonah Goldberg, Stephen F. Hayes and Toby Stock in 2019 after The Weekly Standard went defunct.

"This is great news for The Dispatch. Nobody is better on fiscal policy than Jessica. Jessica and I recently had a great conversation about the grim realities of the federal budget on The Opinions podcast," French tweeted Friday. He also affirmed Reidl's feminine pronouns during an interview published in The New York Times in March.

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Idaho man lights wildfire, shoots at firefighters responding, kills two, apparently kills self.

https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/idaho-coeur-dalene-firefighters-shooting

Seems like one disturbed or upset person has the power to cause a lot of chaos and suffering.

....to the 600k+ Medicaid recipients in North Carolina

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Luke 9:26 / Mark 8:38

If you are ashamed of me and my message, the Son of Man will be ashamed of you when he comes in his glory and in the glory of his Father and the holy angels.

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If a person is a proper Christian does that mean they're so happy and grateful that they're saved that they want to tell the world about it and save souls, etc? I used to be a young earth creationist (YEC) until I started university (and went straight to atheism like in this Old-Earth Creationism "tract") but I just wanted to spread the word about YEC and not about Jesus. I went to a Lutheran high school but the year level I was in mostly didn't sing in chapel at all (I can't remember if I did). I think the two other smartest kids in the year level were atheists.
Note my youngest sister's favourite TV show in high school was Sex and the City (where the 4 women have sex with lots of men) but she eventually became a hard core Christian and wrote 5 Christian books
(can be downloaded here - except for Heart of the Father 2)
So what kind of attitude about talking to others about Jesus should a Christian have in order to be saved?
Also my sisters' pastor (or "prophet") says that most so-called Christians are going to hell, including his Christian grandmother:
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Matthew 7:13-14

Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.

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Shalom

This weekend, evangelistic meetings are taking place here in Salzburg, Austria.

In addition, the brothers and sisters here regularly hold book tables and distribute evangelistic literature.

We ask for your support in prayer in Jesus' name.

And may God continue to draw the people we have already reached to Himself in Jesus' name, Amen (John 6:44; 1 Corinthians 3:6).

Thank you for your prayers!

May the Lord bless you abundantly (Luke 6:38; Job 42:10) and may He bless Israel in Jesus' name, Amen!

Soli Deo Gloria

PS And I pray that the Lord will send out harvesters into His harvest (Matthew 9:38).

There is a very good reason why the Scriptures, Old Testament and New Testament, warn us to not put our trust in human beings, particularly in people of prominence, wealth, and importance in the world, some of whom are leaders of nations, newscasters, or well-liked preachers and evangelists, etc. And that is because we are all human. And not all humans can be trusted, because not all humans tell the truth about who they are, and what they are doing, and of their motivations for why they do what they do.

Liars, deceivers, manipulators, tricksters, clowns, entertainers, and actors abound, playing their tricks on the human race, lying to them, deceiving them, and convincing people to trust them unequivocally. And some of this is ingrained in us from childhood on up, such as I was brought up to put my hand over heart and to pledge (vow) my allegiance (fidelity) to my government, and to sing patriotic songs of worship of my government, and to treat our military as though they are our “saviors” who keep us safe.

And I also grew up on television, beginning in the early 1950’s, and so my mind was programmed with all sorts of stuff that I believed because I had no reason to think that any of them were lying to me. I was very naïve and trusting, even when I had very good reasons not to trust other human beings. I didn’t believe everything they told me, but a lot of it, I did. And it did partially shape my thinking about things early on in my life, and into adulthood. And so the Lord had to reprogram my mind to see the truth.

As Christians, our trust needs to be in the Lord, and in his Word (taught in context), and not in human flesh. And just because someone claims to be a Christian, it doesn’t necessitate that they are Christians, biblically defined. For there are a lot of “wolves in sheep’s clothing” who are among us, passing themselves off as followers of Jesus Christ who are just using that to deceive Christians into trusting them and believing them and putting their faith in them, believing that they are the “good guys” who are on our side.

But remember that the Scriptures warn us against those who pretend to be Christians, who disguise themselves as servants of righteousness, but who are of the devil, and whose intent it is to destroy us and our faith in Jesus Christ so that we will believe the liars and the manipulators who charm the people into thinking that they are of God, and therefore that they are to be trusted. And the Scriptures instruct us to be on the lookout for those who pretend to be of God but who are workers of iniquity, instead. Test them!

And don’t raise any human up to God-like status. Too many people are putting politicians and newscasters and preachers on pedestals that they are bound to fall off of. And they are believing whatever these people tell them, and then they are regurgitating whatever those people tell them, as though it is absolute truth, when they don’t even know if it is truth, or not. We who believe in Jesus need to be seekers of truth who do not put our trust in human beings, but in God, and in his word taught in the proper context.

Learn to be those who question everything but God, who ask questions, and who seek answers, and who are students of the Scriptures who study them in the correct context, under the guidance and direction of the Holy Spirit, and then who obey the teachings intended for the church, Christ’s body. And know what the Scriptures teach when they are taught in the right context. For many lies stem from Scriptures being taught deliberately out of context to make them say what they do not say if taught in the right context. 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).

[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 2:6-8; 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 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:5-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10]

Seek the Lord

Based off Isaiah 55
Musical Instrumentation by Mark Bradley
An Original Work / July 20, 2012
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

“Come to Me all you who thirst; come to waters.
Listen to Me, and eat what’s good today,
And your soul will delight in richest of fare.
Give ear to Me, and you will live.
I have made an eternal covenant with you.
Wash in the blood of the Lamb.”

Seek the Lord while He may be found; call on Him.
Let the wicked forsake his way, in truth.
Let him turn to the Lord, and he will receive mercy.
Freely, God pardons him.
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,”
declares the Lord, our God.

“My word that goes out of My mouth is truthful.
It will not return to Me unfulfilled.
My word will accomplish all that I desire,
And achieve the goal I intend.
You will go in joy and be led forth in peace.
The mountains will burst into song… before you,
And all of the trees clap their hands.”

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Put Your Hope in God
An Original Work / June 30, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

This post has been reuploaded from a thread on a completely Christian forum by me. The original post was also by me, so if you happen to have seen this on another forum, this is a reupload.

For context, I'm 19 years old and male. A lot of my peers (including me) play video games, but where our similarities end is in the nature of what exactly we play. At one point in my younger teenage years (maybe 13-15?) I played a video game called Grand Theft Auto but stopped abruptly after. Never once have thoughts of homosexuality or sexual conduct in general really notably crossed my mind. I'm a teenager, of course I know about and understand sex, but the idea of actually partaking in it has never truly been something I've been too invested in, and I'm proud of that milestone against lust considering I've been abstaining since three years ago. And I would consider myself strictly heterosexual/straight. Until these recurring dreams started.

These dreams are usually almost entirely the same. One of the main protagonists from the game I mentioned earlier and I usually have some form of intercourse. I won't go into too many details for the sake of both my self respect and your mental wellbeing, but they're far from standard and don't seem very 'loving' at all, usually revolving around some form of disrespect being passed to me during the act. I doubt this could be a sign that I need to find a partner or work on my life - this feels more lustful than anything else. Don't exactly know why this particular character considering last time I touched the game chances are I couldn't even drive, but dreams are very strange sometimes so I'll excuse that particular bit. I looked up his name (I believe it's Trevor) and didn't find any direct ties to Satan or even the Bible as a whole.

This dream is certainly lustful, and I can't find any way to make it stop before I get tempted and potentially do something rash or before it successfully pushes its agenda onto me. If anyone could interpret what exactly (most likely) Satan or some other being is trying to tell me and what this spells for my future, because I'm beginning to grow accustomed to and even comforted by these dreams which is not good at all lol. I don't trust my judgement enough to go with my interpretation (something from my past/childhood is trying to turn me away from God).

TL;DR: Having a questionable/lustful dream that I believe Satan has some part in???

Anyone who spends an inordinate amount of time attacking a particular denomination, particularly the Roman Catholic Church, is harming themselves and others.

With regards to themselves, they are distracting themselves from what the Greek fathers called “nepsis”, that is to say, watchfulness, over their own sins, by focusing on the alleged or historical sins of others which are in many cases literally ancient history. The time spent attacking Rome endlessly is better spent in repentence.

With regards to others, much of what they say has the effect of also causing great offense to other traditional liturgical Protestants, such as the Lutherans and High Church Anglicans, who are among the oldest Protestant denominations, and Moravians, who are the oldest Protestant denomination to preserve their own distinctive theological and liturgical identity (the Waldensians are older, but converted to Calvinism, and later embraced a hybrid Methodist doctrine in becoming the main Protestant denomination in Italy; their original beliefs were eccentric, not quite in line with later Protestantism, and from what we know about them, were quite possibly erroneous after the fashion of the Donatists). These liturgical Protestants share many beliefs with the Roman Catholic Church and many worship practices; many of them call their main Eucharistic service “the Mass” for example.

Furthermore, harm is caused to Eastern Christians - the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and the Assyrian Church of the East and Ancient Church of the East. These churches were at one time in communion with Rome, but were historically independent, and later were separated in schisms, many of which are close to healing (for example, Roman Catholics and members of the Assyrian Church of the East can receive the Eucharist in all of each others parishes, and this is also true for some Oriental Orthodox parishes, and would be the case for the Eastern Orthodox, except most bishops are not prepared to allow it, but some probably do in certain parts of the world; indeed some of the EO churches with the most formidable reputations for being conservative are actually among the most liturgically relaxed.

The problem is that a great many anti-Catholic polemics were written by people unaware of the Eastern churches, or the history of the early church; for example, they were unaware that most of those present at the Council of Nicaea were Greek, with a Roman Emperor and two Roman legates among the 318 bishops who signed the Nicene Creed. There were also probably some Syriac Fathers, who did attend at some ecumenical synods, and perhaps even an Armenian, Ethiopian or Georgian (Ethiopia and Georgia were either the fourth or fifth countries to convert entirely to Christianity, or the fifth and sixth to embrace it officially, counting Rome; I forget the order in which they converted, but the basic order was the City State of Edessa in 301 AD, followed by the Kingdom of Armenia in 306 AD, the Roman Empire in 314 AD with the conversion of St. Constantine, the Edict of Milan and the defeat of the pagan co-emperor Licinius, who was a known persecutor of Christians (interestingly, St. Constantine’s mother St. Helena had been Christian for some time); followed by Georgia and Ethiopia.

Some people falsely claim that Constantine imposed all of these doctrine on the churches, which is hugely offensive to Eastern Christians who were persecuted by Arian Emperors like Constantius, and who had been involved in the Council of Nicaea and the later Ecumenical Synods, all of which were held in the East, in Constantinople or elsewhere in Asia Minor.

Lastly, the attacks against the Roman Church are scurrilous in many cases, ignoring the extremely important humanitarian work performed by the RCC, which is the largest charitable organization on Earth, with operations that as an Orthodox I greatly admire; due to communism nearly all Orthodox hospitals and universities in Eastern Europe were seized, leaving only some facilities in the Middle East (in particular, orphanages in Egypt, which are necessary because the Muslims cruelly oppose their religion’s objection to adoption on all orphaned children in Egypt, not just Muslims but the Christians who comprise over 10% of the population, including Coptic Catholics as well as Coptic Orthodox and Alexandrian Greek Orthodox.

The Roman Catholic Church was also indispensible in procuring the repeal of Roe v. Wade in the United States and has stood with other traditional Christian churches in opposing abortion, euthanasia and other contemporary evils.

Thus perhaps we should consider the beam in our own eye before complaining about the splinter in the eye of Roman Catholics, and cease constant and unwarranted criticism of their denomination.

Greetings, my dearly beloved Catholic friends, from an Orthodox Christian who supports reunification.

I wanted to ask you what your level of familiarity was with different Roman Catholic and Eastern Catholic liturgical texts. Specifically, how many of you have read the following (in either vernacular translations or in the original languages such as Latin, Greek, Coptic, Syriac and Church Slavonic):

• The current version of the Roman Missal, including the propers for Years A, B and C of the lectionary, and the various options for the service available to priests? Either in concert with, or instead of, the disposable Missalettes issued by various music publishers that are pre-arranged for the liturgical calendar of each year?
• The General Instructions for the Roman Missal (GIRM), the book of rubrics controlling how it is to be used (sort of like the old Ordo of the Breviary and the General Rubrics of the old Missal, and the Byzantine Rite Typikon, and the Armenian Rite Directory.
• The complete Liturgy of the Hours, including proper lessons (which are primarily for the Office of Readings, formerly Matins).
• On a related note, how many of you have attended a service from the Liturgy of the Hours such as the Office of Readings, Lauds, Midday Prayer, Vespers or Compline in person? And how many of you attend churches where these are regularly available?
• Any edition of the Tridentine Missal (1962 or earlier) or other Extraordinary Form Missal (such as the 1959 Dominican Rite Missal)?
• Any Extraordinary Form Breviary, such as the 1967 Dominican Rite Breviary or the Monastic Breviary in its 1517, 1930 or other recensions, or the Tridentine breviary, or the version revised by St. Pius X?
• A traditional Roman Rite hymnal (some of which are still used with the current missal), such as the Graduale Romanum, or a hymnal issued by a ltiurigcally conservative diocese such as the Diocese of Pere Marquette, or a traditional hymnal used by multiple dioceses such as the Lumen Christie hymnal used by the Diocese of Madison?
• Any missal or breviary from a less common Traditional Latin Mass version still in use, such as the aforementioned Dominican Rite, or the Use of Lyons, the Use of Braga, the Use of Cologne, or the four ancient English uses (Sarum, York, Durham and Hereford? Or the missals and breviaries of religious orders that either had their own breviary, like the Benedictines and Cistercians (whose breviaries are different from each other), or both their own breviary and missal (such as the Dominicans ( also used by the Order of St. Vincent Ferrer), Carthusians, Carmelites, and Norbertines (Premonstratensians)?
• Any missal or breviary from a non-Roman Western Rite, either in its pre-Vatican II or post-Vatican II form (among the two surviving rites, the Ambrosian and Mozarabic Rites); there are also the extinct Gallican Rite and Beneventan Rite); all of these are variants of the ancient Gallican Rite or in the case of the Ambrosian Rite, a hybrid of Gallican, Roman, Byzantine and indigenous Milanese influence, dating back to the vigil St. Ambrose had in his cathedral in 386 AD, where he introduced Greek-style antiphonal hymns to keep high the spirits of his flock?
• Any version of the Ritual or Pontificale, which include instructions for sacraments and other services like baptisms, extreme unction and funerals and in the case of Pontificals, sacraments and other services such as Confirmation, Ordination, the consecration of churches, etc).
• Any Byzantine Rite Catholic liturgical text, such as the Divine Liturgy, the Horologian (which contains the common parts of the missal), the Horologion (containing the invariant parts of the Liturgy of the Hours), the Euchologion (containing services one would otherwise find in the Ritual or Pontifical) or the books containing the propers, such as the Octoechos, the Festal Menaion (important fixed feasts throughout the year (the Nativity of the Theotokos, the Feast of the Holy Cross, the Entry of the Virgin Mary into the Temple, Christmas, the Baptism of Christ, Candlemas, the Annunciation, the Feast of the Apostles St. Peter and Paul which we just celebrated, the Transfiguration and the Assumption? Or the Monthly Menaion, whiich has all the propers for the fixed feasts? Or the Triodion and the Pentecostarion, which contain propers for Lent and Holy Week, and the period from Pascha through All Saints Day (which in the Byzantine Rite is the first Sunday after Pentecost rather than November 1st; there are multiple Soul Saturdays as well starting in the pre-Lenten period). Some Eastern Catholic churches (and Orthodox churches) have consolidated all of these into volumes that make them easier to access, such as the Ruthenian Greek Catholic Hymnal, the “Nasser Five Pounder” and other titles (one common one being Anthologion). There is also the Typikon, which ties it all together liturgically.
• Any non—Byzantine Rite Eastern Catholic liturgical books, such as the current version of the Missal of the Maronite Catholics, or of the Chaldean Catholics, of which English translations exist, or other rites where I’m not sure if English translations exist or not, such as the Syriac Catholics, Coptic Catholics, Ethiopian Catholics, etc.
• The service books of the Anglican Ordinariates, such as the Book of Divine Worship? (the name of which I really liked, as it represented the ideal of the Ordinariates, that of Anglo Catholicism but with all negative residual traces of the iconoclastic English Reformation expurgated).

What I love most about the Roman Catholic church is the liturgical diversity; some priests have multi-ritual faculties and are able to celebrate the mass in multiple rites; for example, in Los Angeles, where a rare Armenian Catholic church exists, a local Roman Rite priest learned Classical Armenian so he could celebrate the mass at that parish on the frequent occasions when they are unable to find an Armenian priest. The Armenian Catholics used to be the largest sui juris Eastern Catholic Church, but the Genocide of 1915 and the subsequent persecutions after the Soviet conquest of Armenia resulted in them becoming the smallest, although they do have a lovely monastery in Venice (and their own religious order, the Mechitarist Fathers; unfortunately in the Armenian Apostolic Church there are very few operational monasteries other than those connected with the main cathedrals in Holy Etchmiadzin, Lebanon (the headquarters of the other worldwide Armenian jurisdiction, led by the Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia, which owes its existence to the time when there were two Armenian kingdoms simultaneously, and its growth to mistrust of the church headquartered in Armenia after the Soviet conquest of it), Jerusalem (where there is an Armenian Cathedral that also supports the Armenian liturgical activity at the Holy Sepulchre, where along with the Greeks and the Franciscans they are one of the three main groups, and also are responsible for supervising the other Oriental Orthodox), and in Bethlehem at the Church of the Nativity (which like the Holy Sepulchre, is jointly operated by the Franciscan Brotherhood of the Holy Cross, that if i recall was given charge of the pilgrimage sites in the Holy Land centuries ago, the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem and Armenians).

Also I’d be interested in any information on prayer books you are using in your personal devotional life.

As a gift of fellowship to my Catholic brethren to commemorate the election of Pope Leo XIV and the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, I will do everything in my power to make my vast library of Roman Catholic liturgical books and hymnals available and to help Roman Catholics who wish to find certain liturgical books to do so.

Please pray for me, a sinner who is in ill health.

Two first responders were dead and one was in surgery tonight after an "ambush" in Coeur d'Alene, the Kootenai County sheriff said.

What to know​

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"Work hard, brothers, edit the issue into short clips, take the pictures out of it and publish the efforts of your brothers in the pages of the apostates. Participate in the war, and spread terror, the [Islamic] State does not want you to watch it only, rather, it incites you, and if you are unable to, use it to incite others," Al Safoo allegedly wrote in another post.

There is a real threat from terrorists.

7 Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as his children. For what children are not disciplined by their father? 8 If you are not disciplined—and everyone undergoes discipline—then you are not legitimate, not true sons and daughters at all. Hebrews 12:7-8

How would you say God has disciplined you? What form did it take?

Did Doug B. accidentally admit to Sunday as biblical?
Did Doug B. accidentally admit to Sunday as biblical? | By Malachi Threeten | Facebook

An interview with President Donald Trump from 1995 has resurfaced, highlighting how wealthy power brokers hated him even before he ascended to the presidency, and how consistent he’s been in his political views.

The interview from December 1995 was with former political media consultant Roger Ailes, who at the time was President of CNBC, but later went on to be CEO at Fox News.

In the video, Ailes referred to Trump as “one of the most famous men in the country” and asked Trump why he was so popular, noting that in New York City, “the average guy on the street — the cab drivers, the guys working on the road crews” — knew Trump by sight and often greeted him warmly, saying, “Hey, Donald, how’s it going?”

Luke 23:50–56​

50 Now there was a good and righteous man named Joseph, who, though a member of the council, had not agreed to their plan and action. He came from the Jewish town of Arimathea, and he was waiting expectantly for the kingdom of God.

Imagine being in the minority. His brothers in the council actually use scripture to accuse and condemn Jesus.
How could they be so wrong, to see evil in him instead of good? But what can Joseph really do. To speak out puts him in danger.
He does not have the authority or influence to persuade the minds already made up against Jesus.
It must have been frustrating to see words of the law and Prophets turned around as weapons against Jesus.


But we see that also today don't we? Scripture used by the right and the left to point out, to prove the good of our view and the evil of those opposed.
Neither side seems to have the humility for introspection and reconsideration.

At times I am Joseph and at times I am Caiaphas. Fortunately no one is really injured by my pride and fear or whatever it is that makes me want to be in the right and to prove it. But then, mustn't we stand for what we believe in? Fight for it? Where do we draw the lone between obstinance and steadfastness?

I am reminded of the apostle Paul. He was most zealous for the law and tradition believing he was serving God.

James 3:17 KJV
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

I Thank Jesus Christ the Lord for being a Christian gentleman and pure. James 3:17 KJV God gives us a language we can understand use and I have used picking up the pieces and fixing confirmations. •Everything you do goal is what God wants and commanded you. Everything I do I do it with God. •My Faith Jesus Christ resurrection 3rd day makes my faith and hope work today and in my future days. •Gospel Must Reign over all.

Who are our enemies? They are all who are opposed to Jesus Christ and to his gospel of salvation. They are all who are opposed to the teachings of the Scriptures, which are for the church, as the Scriptures teach them in their appropriate context, and who are diluting and altering the message of the gospel of our salvation in order to appease human flesh and to not offend the ungodly of the world. They are all who make compromises with truth and righteousness in order to continue in their deliberate and habitual sins.

They are our enemies if our lives are surrendered to the Lordship of Christ over our lives, and if we have died to sin, and if we are walking in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in practice, because they are opposed to what we stand for, and what we live for, and what our lives are all about. And some of them will come against us, and fight against us, and will rebuke us for speaking the truth of the gospel, because they do not want to accept the truth that Jesus and his New Testament apostles taught as the gospel.

We do not make them our enemies, though. They become our enemies when they choose to fight against us, and to mistreat us, to lie about us to others, to refuse to hear the truth of the Scriptures, to reject us, and to cast us aside as unwanted and unnecessary, because we are speaking the truth that they do not want to hear and to accept. We must not let their mistreatment of us discourage us, but we must persevere in following the Lord Jesus, no matter how others treat us or say about us or to us. And we must love them.

So, deliverance from our enemies is not necessarily a physical departure from them, but it is deliverance from their influences and their words and the effects of their mistreatment, so that we do not let it take us out or lead us to give up and to walk away from where God has us, and from what he is having us do in obedience to his leading in our lives. We must remain steadfast in our walks of faith in obedience to our Lord in doing what he calls us to do, according to his word, even if many oppose us for speaking truth.

But even if they mistreat us, we do not treat them like enemies. We love them, we forgive them, we pray for them, and we speak to them what is for their benefit, for their good, as God defines “good.” We do not retaliate or return hate with hate, but we return hate with love and kindness and compassion. And it is love to tell people the truth of the gospel and what Jesus taught, and what his New Testament apostles taught, because we want to see them delivered out of slavery to sin and to now obey God.

[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 2:6-8; 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 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:5-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10]

As the Deer

By Martin J. Nystrom
Based off Psalm 42:1

As the deer panteth for the water
So my soul longeth after You
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship You

You alone are my strength, my shield
To You alone may my spirit yield
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship You

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Lead Me on Level Ground
An Original Work / June 29, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Peace in Christ.

There are MANY deceivers who are entered into the world who do not confess/acknowledge that Jesus IS COMING (present tense) in the flesh….our mortal flesh. They are not preaching the doctrine of THE Christ…but one of the antichrist. Jesus...their "another jesus"...delays His coming according to their "understanding."

2Jn 1:7
(7) For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ IS COMING (present tense) in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.

2 John 1:7 uses the present tense verb "coming" (Greek: erchomenon.)

It is used to emphasize the continuous, ongoing reality of Jesus….the life of Jesus that is supposed to be manifest in our mortal flesh which gives us an age-lasting life (aka “eternal life”) in the here-and-now.

This manifestation of His life in our mortal body is the revealing of the Son of man.

But the Son of man is being given up so that His life is never being made manifest in the MULTITUDE of people who are currently being deceived by the MANY false prophets who come to them preaching “another jesus.”

The Son of man (His life to be made manifest in our mortal flesh) is being given up as it is not appearing in the mortal bodies of those who are being deceived.

Mat 17:22 KJV
(22) And while they abode in Galilee, Jesus said unto them, The Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men:

The many seducers are denying His coming in our mortal flesh in their “preaching.” They are preaching that Jesus is delaying His coming instead of IS COMING now in our mortal flesh which gives us the promise of an age-lasting life in the here-and-now.

1Jn 2:25-26 KJV
(25) And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.
(26) These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.
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They come to us preaching “another jesus” ...a decoy jesus....with “another spirit”….the spirit of the antichrist…the spirit of error.

Their “jesus” is jesus “Barabbas” (meaning “son of father”)….the “son” of their church fathers…and not Jesus the Christ who is the only begotten Son of the Father in heaven.

2Co 11:3-4 KJV
(3) But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
(4) For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.

The man-based church leaders (the chief priests and elders so-to-speak) persuade the multitudes to choose their “jesus” Barabbas.

By being persuaded by them, we destroy THE (definite article) Jesus out of our own lives. The Son of man “goes away”…sinks out of sight. The Son of man is being (NOW) given up by the hands of sinners. The life of Jesus is not being made manifest in the mortal flesh of the MANY who are being deceived by them.

Mat 27:20
(20) But the chief priests and elders persuaded the multitude that they should ask Barabbas, and destroy THE Jesus.

The Holy One…the Just One…is being denied by choosing their another “jesus” .

Act 3:14-17 KJV
(14) But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you;

When we choose their “jesus,” we kill the Prince of Life out of our own lives. God has ALREADY raised Him from the dead so that we might have His manifest life now in our mortal flesh. We are to have His resurrected life now for He already mortally died in our place so that we do not mortally die but shall have His resurrected life now for He is risen.

(15) And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.
(16) And his name through faith in his name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.

This is forgivable as we do it in ignorance….as do our church rulers who have no understanding of the truth of the gospel.

(17) And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers.

If they (the deceivers) come to you and not bring this doctrine (that Jesus IS COMING NOW in our mortal flesh,) do not receive them into your house. Neither bid them “God speed”….that is, REJOICE…for those who are bidding them to “rejoice” are partakers of their evil deeds: participating in the giving up the Son of man so that His life is never being made manifest.

2Jn 1:9-11
(9) Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.
(10) If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed (REJOICE):
(11) For he that biddeth him God speed (REJOICE) is partaker of his evil deeds.

That is what Judas said to Jesus before taking Him. He said “Hail”…that is, REJOICE…Master. They come forth and want you to “rejoice” with them in their “churches” where His life is being prevented from ever being made manifest.

Mat 26:47-50
(47) And while he yet spake, lo, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and elders of the people.
(48) Now he that betrayed him gave them a sign, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he: hold him fast.
(49) And forthwith he came to Jesus, and said, Hail (REJOICE), master; and kissed him.
(50) And Jesus said unto him, Friend, wherefore art thou come? Then came they, and laid hands on Jesus, and took him.

They REJOICE while the sheep are perishing (without His life being made manifest in the mortal flesh of those they are deceiving.) Behold, there is "joy and gladness" in this "day of slaughter"....the killing of His sheep. They are pastoring the "flock of the slaughter" and are rejoicing while they are getting their earthly needs met.

Isa 22:13-14 KJV
(13) And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.
(14) And it was revealed in mine ears by the LORD of hosts, Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.

"Hurt not the oil and the wine"...the "joy and gladness"...while there is a great famine of hearing the true Word of God in their "churches."

1 John 4:2 uses the perfect tense (Greek perfect participle) to highlight the continuing reality of Jesus Christ in the flesh (as He comes in our mortal flesh), which is a key element in testing whether a spirit is from God.

The original Greek text in 1st John 2:18 uses the perfect tense, which describes an action completed in the past with ongoing results or relevance in the present. Christ came in the flesh …died in the flesh…and was resurrected in the flesh so that we might have His life NOW in the flesh. Jesus IS COMING now in our mortal flesh....not "shall come" as we all have heard them preach to us. They are of the "prince that SHALL COME" and not of the Prince of Life who IS COMING NOW in our mortal flesh.

1Jn 2:18-19 KJV
(18) Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.

The deceivers are preaching another jesus in the spirit of the antichrist (there are many jesuses who are antichrists being preached and not Jesus The Christ.) The preaching originates from the spirit of error rather than the Spirit of Truth.

They went out from us but they were not of us. They follow in the footsteps of Judas.

(19) They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.

Judas was chosen by Jesus and yet was a devil….

Joh 6:70-71 KJV
(70) Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?
(71) He spake of Judas Iscariot the son of Simon: for he it was that should betray him, being one of the twelve.

….he became guide to those who are (even NOW) taking THE Jesus out of the lives of the many that they are deceiving.

Act 1:
(16) Men and brethren, this scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake before concerning Judas, which was guide to them that took Jesus.
(17) For he was numbered with us, and had obtained part of this ministry.

They come forth to betray (give up) the Son of man (His manifest life in our mortal flesh) with a “kiss”….with a feigned kiss of the flattering lips.

When they come forth to deceive us with their “good words and fair speeches,” they want us to choose to serve their “another jesus” that they are preaching and destroy the Jesus who is coming in our mortal flesh.

His life never appears there when we are deceived into receiving their “another jesus” Barabbas and not THE Jesus The Christ.

Luk 22:46-48 KJV
(46) And said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.
(47) And while he yet spake, behold a multitude, and he that was called Judas, one of the twelve, went before them, and drew near unto Jesus to kiss him.
(48) But Jesus said unto him, Judas, betrayest thou the Son of man with a kiss?

They come forth to take THE (definite article) Jesus by using a DECOY “jesus.” The Greek word for “subtilty” is “dolos” which means “decoy.” When we choose to serve their “jesus,” we are destroying the true Jesus out of our own lives.

Mat 26:3-4
(3) Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,
(4) And consulted that they might take THE Jesus by subtilty (DECOY), and kill him.

Judas is guide to the multitude who are coming to take the life of Jesus from ever appearing in those that they are deceiving

They come forth with a feigned “kiss” of the flattering lips...instead of saluting others with a "holy kiss". They come forth with "good words and fair speeches" to deceive us.

They come with their "swords"...causing divisions among us. They come with their church handwritings of ordinances (their "staves"). They do not preach the doctrine of Christ but things that are contrary to it. We must avoid them.

Rom 16:16-18 KJV
(16) Salute one another with an holy kiss. The churches of Christ salute you.
(17) Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.
(18) For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.

Are the Witnesses truly the only ones who respect the name of God? Not quite.​

The Jehovah’s Witnesses are known for their many practices and beliefs that differ from mainstream Christianity. Examples include their rejection of the Trinity, their door-to-door preaching work, and their strict congregational discipline and shunning rules. But if you asked them, they might tell you that the most obvious marker that sets them apart as the “true” religion is their use of the name “Jehovah” for God.

A little background is in order on this name,which most people have probably heard before but don’t know much about. It’s a fact that in over 6,000 places in the Old Testament, the divine name—also known as the tetragrammaton (meaning “four letters”), which is most closely rendered as YHWH—was replaced with Adonai, or “Lord” in Hebrew. No one knows how that name was pronounced because, out of reverence, it was uttered only by the High Priest once a year, on the Day of Atonement, and that practice ceased with the destruction of the Second Temple. Indeed, by Our Lord’s time, ordinary Jews would’ve never dared to pronounce it themselves, and there are no instances of it within the Greek New Testament (though Jehovah’s Witnesses have taken the liberty of inserting it there when the Old Testament is quoted in their translation).

The Witnesses, meanwhile, noticed that the tetragrammaton had in fact been translated and left present in a few places in the King James version (e.g., at Ps. 83:18). “Jehovah” is how it was rendered, a version of the name that can be traced to the Middle Ages but that scholars have pretty definitively ruled out.

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