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The first Jesus March will take place in Salzburg, Austria, on October 31st.
Could you please pray that God's will be done in Jesus' name?

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

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And what did Jesus teach on this subject? He said,


And when Jesus denied himself and he took up his cross, it was to do what? To put our sins to death with him so that, by faith in him, we will now die to sin and walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands. Faith in Jesus Christ, if it is biblical faith, must result in us forsaking the self-life and our sins to now follow Jesus/God in obedience to his commands. If we hold on to our sinful lifestyles, we will lose our lives, but if we give up our self-life and our sinful practices to follow Jesus in obedience, we will save our lives.

And please be aware that making a profession of faith in Jesus is not what saves you from your sins and promises you heaven when you die if you do not deny self, die to sin, and follow Jesus in obedience to his commands. And “the wicked” and “the ungodly” are not just those who make no professions of faith in Jesus Christ, but they are all for whom sin is still their practice, and for whom obedience to God is not their practice. So, don’t be fooled by the lies which tell you that all you have to do is say you believe in Jesus.

Therefore, what should our lives look like if we are of genuine faith in Jesus Christ? Daily we should be putting sin to death, by the Spirit, and we should be walking (in conduct) in obedience to our Lord’s New Covenant commands. And we should be those who are patterning our lives after the character of God and the example of the life of Jesus, and we should walk in agape love which prefers to live through Christ, choosing his choices, and obeying them in his power, according to his will. And love does no harm to its neighbor.

Thus, this will require that all immorality or any impurity or greed must not be existing among us who profess faith in Jesus Christ, and if it is, that it is not to be ignored, but dealt with biblically. For this we should know with certainty, that no immoral or impure person or the covetous idolater has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. But this has to do with all who refuse to give up their sinful practices and who do not obey our Lord’s commands, in practice, that they will not have eternal life with 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 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]

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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Don’t Be Fooled!
An Original Work / September 17, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Some children are more independent and strong-willed than other children, and if you try to assist them, or if you try to instruct them in the way that they should go, they might respond with, “My Do It.” Now, we should not do everything for them, and they do need to learn to be independent and to do things for themselves, to a point. But they must also learn to respect and to obey their elders, unless the adults are insisting that they do something sinful. After that, when no longer children, they are supposed to grow up.

Sadly, there are many adults still living like children, still taking an independent and “My Do It” approach to their life choices, which can be good, and which can be bad, depending upon the choices being made and who all is impacted by those choices. Many of them, therefore, never grow up, but they continue to behave childishly in self-indulgence and in being self-absorbed. Many of them end up doing what they want to do regardless of right and wrong, and regardless of who gets hurt in the process.

Sadder still is that many of these adults profess faith in Jesus Christ, and yet they still go their own way, making their own choices (good and bad), doing whatever brings them pleasure, regardless of who they hurt in the process, and regardless of what God’s word teaches us about how we should live, and about moral purity, and about putting off what is of the flesh and that is sinful and putting on obedience to our Lord. They may claim they want to be free from the control of sin, but their hearts are in the wrong place.

And one of the big problems at work here is that they are not looking to God for their solutions, although they may seem to, at times, but then they go right on living just like before. But they are looking to the world and to other humans to solve their problems rather than going to God and to his word and just doing what his word teaches that we must do. But this can only be done in his power, and only as we yield control of our lives over to God and we now submit to his will, and we die to sin, and we obey his commands.


Faith in Jesus Christ is not verbal only. Faith, which comes from God, and which is gifted to us by God, is persuaded of God as to his righteousness and holiness, and of our sinfulness, and of our need to die with him to sin and to walk in obedience to his commands, in holy living, in the power of God. For in Jesus’ death on that cross, he put our sins to death with him, so that by faith in him we will now die to sin and walk in obedience to his commands, in surrender to his will for our lives. And if we do not die to sin, and if we do not obey his commands, in practice, we do not have eternal life in him.

So, the counsel here is that we are to take God and his word seriously. We are to believe, not only the promises of God which make us feel good, but also the promises of God which let us know that if sin is still our practice, and if obedience to God is not what we practice, that heaven is not our eternal destiny. For all of God’s promises have warnings and conditions. And if we do not meet those conditions, because of how we live, we are not recipients of those promises. So we must all submit to God, put sin to death in our lives, and purify our hearts, for from our hearts come evil deeds.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Matthew 15:17-20; 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]

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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Pleasures that Wage War in Your Members
An Original Work / September 16, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

I watched the video while having lunch and the message was timely. There’s a lot of things we do that no one sees and things we hold together no one commends. But our faithfulness is worthy of applause. And if you haven’t heard thank you or job well done as of late. Know that you’re seen and deserving nonetheless.

Do something nice for yourself.

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What is the scriptural support for the idea that Christ not just is punished in our place, but that he actually dies in our place?

And if that is correct, why do we still die?

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The Republican Party is seeing a “Charlie Kirk effect,” with moderate Democrats and Independents switching party affiliation at breakneck speed.
Freshly emancipated former Dems told The Post they were horrified by the assassination of the 31-year-old podcaster last week — who they thought of as kind and reasonable — and further disgusted by the ghoulish celebration of his killing by many lefties.

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We are watching the DNC collapse before our very eyes. I am predicting that the next decade will be dominated by Republicans, to include 2 terms with J.D. Vance. After that, things will level out with an increased in Independent voters to include many liberal Republicans leaving the GOP. Eventually we will have a three party system with the GOP still on top, and Independents fighting with Democrats for second place. Regardless, the GOP will be in power for a very long time.

Your thoughts

Started a youtube channel documenting my journey in to growing with Christ and about 1.5 years in. The holy spirit is working in me and it's given me the courage to make videos because I think now is the time to be speaking up on these kinds of things.
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A Special Initiative Roundtable on Catholic Principles, Human Costs, and Pastoral Challenges

Donald Trump’s victory was not just a victory for his movement, but for the ideas of the people in this room. National conservatism is an idea whose time has arrived.

The battle for our future is not between democracy and autocracy, capitalism and socialism, or even “Right” and “Left,” in the old meaning of those terms. It is between the nation and the forces that would erase it.

For decades, many of those in power—not just here, but across the West—have been locked in a cultural war with their own nations. We see that in many of the countries of Europe today, where the immigration crisis threatens to transform the ancient fabric of those nations—and all who object are menaced by an increasingly totalitarian censorship state.

The old conservative establishment may have opposed something like illegal immigration on procedural grounds—simply because it was illegal. But they took no issue with it in substance, and if the same thing was achieved through “legal” avenues, many of them would celebrate and support it.

For the tens of thousands of Americans who were forced to train their foreign H-1B replacements just to get their severance package, the fact that it was “legal” is little comfort.

For decades, the mainstream consensus on the Left and the Right alike seemed to be that America itself was just an “idea”—a vehicle for global liberalism. We were told that the entire meaning of America boiled down to a few lines in a poem on the Statue of Liberty, and five words about equality in the Declaration of Independence.

If you imposed a carbon copy of the U.S. Constitution on Kazakhstan tomorrow, Kazakhstan wouldn’t magically become America. Because Kazakhstan isn’t filled with Americans. It’s filled with Kazakhstanis!

For years, conservatives would talk as if the whole world were just Americans-in-waiting—“born American, but in the wrong place.”

That’s what set Donald Trump apart from the old conservatism and the old liberalism alike: He knows that America is not just an abstract “proposition,” but a nation and a people, with its own distinct history and heritage and interests.

His movement is the revolt of the real American nation. It’s a pitchfork revolution, driven by the millions of Americans who felt that they were turning into strangers in their own country.

America, in all its glory, is [our revolutionary and pioneer ancestors'] gift to us, handed down across the generations. It belongs to us. It’s our birthright, our heritage, our destiny.

We Americans are the sons and daughters of the Christian pilgrims that poured out from Europe’s shores to baptize a new world in their ancient faith.

The first settlers in my state were mostly Scots-Irish ... As the historian David McCullough writes, the Scots-Irish families that first settled Missouri “saw themselves as the true Americans”:

But America does not belong to [the radicals, i.e. "them"]. It belongs to us. It’s our home. It’s a heritage entrusted to us by our ancestors. It is a way of life that is ours, and only ours, and if we disappear, then America, too, will cease to exist.

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Emphasis added. All opinions are Senator Schmitt's. National conservatism is a variant of conservatism that prioritizes the defense of national and cultural identity. In the United States, [Trump's ideas] can be considered a variety of national conservatism, which also gives its name to the National Conservatism Conference, organised by the Edmund Burke Foundation.

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Notable theologian and author John Piper has warned Christians not to pursue mysticism or believe that one can connect with God in a supernatural realm to gain hidden knowledge.

In a recent episode of the “Ask Pastor John" podcast, the Desiring God website founder responded to a letter from a listener named Dianne who asked about the Bible teacher's views on mysticism.

“I don’t know if this question has come up before, but what are your thoughts on Christian mysticism and Christian mystics and their interaction with God?” she wrote.

“Did they experience something in their walk with God that we have generally lost today? Is mysticism something that we should pursue to have a closer walk with God?”

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He'll be missed.

Hollywood icon starred in classics spanning five decades of film​

"Robert Redford passed away on September 16, 2025, at his home at Sundance in the mountains of Utah – the place he loved, surrounded by those he loved," his representative told Fox News Digital. "He will be missed greatly. The family requests privacy."

The Hollywood icon was best known for classics like "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and "The Sting."

Before he became the rugged screen icon of the 1970s, Redford grew up in Santa Monica, California.

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Head of the DOJ, America's top law enforcement and not just some woke lib:


I could have sworn throughout the existence of time the right railed against the idea that a type of speech, not criminal, could itself be a crime. Yes, that speech accompanying a crime can indeed be; but they detest that. Not only that, the other thing the right railed against is cancel culture. Something they are quite actively conducting given universities, law firms, school books, museums, and any other thing they don't like. This is not the "me too" movement where it was the private sector. This is the US government going "me too". Not just canceling, but promising to go after you and jail you (what charges, who knows) for invoking your constitutional right of free speech.

What gives?

Family member says individual became 'radicalized' and influenced Tyler Robinson's politics over past year​

ST. GEORGE, Utah - The trans roommate of Turning Point USA Founder Charlie Kirk's alleged assassin "hates conservatives and Christians," one of his relatives told Fox News Digital in an interview.

The 22-year-old, who has not been charged and whose name has not yet been released by authorities, was in a romantic relationship with suspect Tyler Robinson, also 22, according to the relative. She said he is in the process of transitioning from male to female.

The woman, who asked to remain anonymous, told Fox News Digital her relative began to act differently when he turned 18 and said that he developed a hatred of Christians and conservatives.

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Hello all,
I found this site by searching for Christian forums and then a post on a reddit forum with a link to here.
I am from Florida. I was saved in 1987 on my sixth birthday and called to be a pastor in 2020.
I have an mDiv in pastoral ministry and serve as a pastor.
I look forward to getting to hear your story and sharing with each other.
God bless you,
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The immediate response of many “mainstream” liberal journalists to the assassination of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk demonstrates why so many Americans loathe the corporate media.

Many of the responses to Kirk’s killing on social websites like TikTok and Bluesky have been celebratory and downright evil.

It’s ironic in a certain way that Bluesky had become such a concentrated den of hate and outrage, given that the platform was allegedly created because X had backed away from content moderation.

The truth is that what they really wanted was just a safe space for libs. They wanted a world carefully cultivated like a college campus where opinions range from the Left to Left-er, and anyone who challenges their views with logic, like Charlie Kirk, is silenced when basic liberal assumptions are questioned.

But as vicious as the hordes of hateful, random leftists have been on social media, it’s the mainstream outlets that behaved most shamefully when news of Kirk’s shooting broke.

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• Fox News host Brian Kilmeade apologized Sunday for suggesting “involuntary lethal injections” to remove mentally ill homeless people from streets.
• His remarks during Wednesday’s show sparked outrage online, with critics comparing them to ██ ████'s euthanasia programs.

The topic led “Fox & Friends” co-host Laurence Jones to say that billions of dollars have been spent on programs to care for the homeless and mentally ill but many of those afflicted resist help.

“A lot of them don’t want to take the programs,” Jones said. “A lot of them don’t want to get the help that is necessary. You can’t give them the choice. Either you take the resources that we’re going to give you, or you decide that you’ve got to be locked up in jail.”

Kilmeade added: “Or involuntary lethal injection or something — just kill ‘em.”

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the spiritual leader of Eastern Orthodox Christians, is making his first visit in four years to the United States, where he met Monday afternoon with President Donald Trump and is slated to receive honors for his environmental advocacy.

Bartholomew arrived in Washington Sunday and is scheduled to make various U.S. appearances through Sept. 25.

Bartholomew is considered first among equals among Orthodox patriarchs because of his role as patriarch of Constantinople, the ancient capital city now known as Istanbul in Turkey. That role gives him prominence, but not the power of a pope, in a church with various self-governing jurisdictions.

The patriarch oversees the small Orthodox population in mostly Muslim Turkey. He also oversees some communities abroad, such as the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America and some smaller U.S. jurisdictions.

Bartholomew’s meeting with Trump took place Monday afternoon in the Oval Office. His office issued a brief summary of the meeting, and he expanded on that in comments to reporters.

The patriarch told reporters afterward that he talked about the small Christian population in Turkey, “the hardships they face, the difficulties, the persecutions, but also the fact that despite all these we survive and we continue to carry out our mission,” according to the archdiocese’s Orthodox Observer news site.


Bartholomew also talked about Ukraine and his role in church affairs there.

Bartholomew is a strong supporter of Ukraine. He recognized an independent Orthodox jurisdiction there in 2019, leading the Russian Orthodox Church to declare that the communion between it and Constantinople is broken. Bartholomew has also sharply criticized Moscow Patriarch Kirill’s blessing of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The patriarch said he talked with Trump about past Russian oppression of Ukraine and about its current invasion, “about the thousands of victims, about the destruction, about the kidnapped children, about all these tragic events that wound the conscience of humanity,” according to the Observer.

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Thoughts on this?

Leaders of Gaza’s Christian community said in a joint statement released on August 26 that the forced displacement would amount to “nothing less than a death sentence”.“Among those who have sought shelter within the walls of the compounds, many are weakened and malnourished due to the hardships of the last months,” the patriarchs wrote. “For this reason, the clergy and nuns have decided to remain and continue to care for all those who will be in the compounds.”

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Clergy to stay in their churches​

“This decision came with complete freedom,” Farid Gibran, the Holy Family Church’s spokesperson, explained, saying those sheltering at the church have the liberty to leave if they want to.

The decision of the church leaders to stay in Gaza City has inspired many of those residing at the Holy Family Church to remain despite growing fears of Israeli attacks. Many, like Moussa Saad Ayyad, 41, a father of four children aged six to 14, believe the church’s relationship with the Vatican could guarantee relative safety.

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“They took my home and my loved ones, but they won’t take my right to remain here on my land no matter how dark it gets,” Fouad told Al Jazeera as he watched his daughter sleep.

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Soon after Charlie Kirk's assassination, some on the political left quickly spread a baseless theory that the conservative podcaster was killed by a follower of the ultra-right-wing group called Groypers.

The big picture: Internet searches for Groypers skyrocketed last week as critics tried to connect Kirk's suspected shooter, Tyler Robinson, and the group's leader, Nick Fuentes, a podcaster known for edgy, racist and socially transgressive content.

• Fuentes said early Saturday on X that his followers are being "framed" for Kirk's killing, "based on literally zero evidence."
• Authorities told Axios they believe Robinson's romantic relationship with his transgender roommate could be key to determining a motive for Kirk's killing, and that Robinson believed that the conservative was spreading transphobic hate.
• More details are expected to emerge this week when charges are formally filed against Robinson.

Between the lines: The partisan battle to define a killer as a follower of an ideological opponent has become a common response to high-profile slayings, from Florida to Texas to Pennsylvania.

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Since the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk on Sept. 10, social media users have shared posts showing, quoting or paraphrasing remarks the posts attribute to the conservative activist. Many readers have asked us to provide the facts on whether Kirk, the founder of the youth political group Turning Point USA, made several of these comments.

We’ll review some of the statements that our readers asked about and correct a viral social media post that got what Kirk said wrong.

While he did say many of the statements, some have been misrepresented or not presented with full context.

False Claim of an Asian Slur​

A popular post on X incorrectly claimed that Kirk used a slur for Asian people.

“That time Charlie Kirk called an Asian woman in the audience ‘c—-’ multiple times,” the post reads, spelling out the slur in full, and accompanied by a montage video from TikTok. “He made millions off of his racism and sexism.”

The video, however, does not show Kirk using the slur. Rather, as an X Community Note explains, Kirk was shouting at Cenk Uygur, a co-host of the Young Turks, a progressive online news show, and using his first name. The two men were at Politicon, an annual nonpartisan political convention, in October 2018.

“I live like a capitalist every single day, Cenk!” Kirk said angrily to Uygur, after Uygur interrupted a debate Kirk was having with the Young Turks’ Hasan Piker about what political views young people should have. “Come on, Cenk, let’s go,” he said later.

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