There isn't a person around us who has not benefited significantly from the programs instituted by Lyndon B. Johnson in the 1960's and passed at great personal cost.

These programs: Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, Medicare, Medicaid, Headstart, Higher Education Act (Pell Grants, student loans), Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Immigration Act of 1965.

The Immigration Act eliminated quotas favoring Europeans.

Even the most conservative among you have been affected by these laws.

My grandfather died when I was 8 years old. He suffered a stroke and spent several weeks in a hospital for the destitute in East Meadow, NY. I'm sure that most states didn't even have a hospital like this for the poor. Seniors had no medical insurance at all.

Have your grandparents needed nursing home care? Thank LBJ. Did you need a student loan or Pell grant to advance your education? Thank LBJ. Did you or your parents come here from a country outside of Europe? Thank LBJ.

Before you join the Great Society wrecking crew, think about your life, your parents' lives, your grandparents' lives. Think about your friends' lives. Think about how these programs have improved our lives--or even saved them.

Thank you, LBJ. (Yes, you made mistakes in Vietnam but you changed our country for good.)

Peace in Christ.

All that are in the “graves”….the graves of the man-based churches….shall hear His voice. We shall hear Him speaking to us from heaven in the Spirit of Truth.

Joh 5:28-30 KJV
(28) Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,

They that will do good will come forth from them…from the “graves” of the man-based churches.

They will do good towards what they hear Him saying in the Spirit of Truth. The Son of God comes to give us an understanding so that we know Him who is true. He opens up the Scriptures to our understanding.

Others will not come forth from their “graves.” They will remain in them and will behave badly towards what they hear Him saying. They will speak evil words in their unbelief. They will not show love towards those brothers whom He sends out to speak His words of life and spirit….the words of an age-lasting life…to them.

(29) And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.

As hears our responses towards His voice, He judges.

(30) I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.

For by our words (in response to the hearing of His voice) shall we be judged in the Day of Judgment.

Mat 12:35-37 KJV
(35) A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
(36) But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
(37) For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

For this is how the children of God are manifest….and the children of the devil: on how they will respond (doing righteousness or not….loving their brother or not).

1Jn 3:10 KJV
(10) In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.

The children of the devil will “remain among the graves and lodge in the monuments.” They will savor the things of men….their man-based churches….and not the things of God. They will refuse to come out from among the graves....the man-based churches...and will do evil.

Isa 65:3-5 KJV
(3) A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;
(4) Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;
(5) Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day.

They will turn from the holy commandment that will be delivered to them to keep (to come out from among them and be separate) in their unbelief. They will refuse to listen. They will be the "evil and adulterous generation." They will continue to be attached to the harlot church that they are one body and one flesh with and will speak evil of any who will do His holy commandment to come out from among them.

2Co 6:17-18 KJV
(17) Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
(18) And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

They will not answer when He calls them. They will not hear when He speaks to them. Instead, they will do evil before His eyes and choose that wherein He does not delight. They will choose to remain in their man-based churches and speak evil of any who will leave them.

Isa 65:12-14 KJV
(12) Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted not.
(13) Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed:
(14) Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit.

See that you do not refuse Him that speaks from Heaven. Don't turn away from Him that speaks from Heaven in the voice of the Spirit of Truth (the chief messenger...the archangel).

Heb 12:24-25 KJV
(24) And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
(25) See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:

Jesus said unto His disciples…His learners… if any man will come after me, let him deny himself and “take up”…that is, TAKE AWAY or take up his cross (his stake)… and follow Him.

Don’t be staked down in your “church” but take it up/away and come after Him as He leads us out of the man-based churches. Don’t be fixed. Take up the stake that has fixed you there in the man-based churches and follow Him out of them.

Mat 16:24-25
(24) Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up/take away his cross, and follow me.

Don’t seek to save your “church” life…their thoughts and ways. We must lose our fixed church life in order to save it. We must take up the stake that has us pegged in their churches.

(25) For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.

As Paul showed us: we must lose it all….our religious man-based things..in order to win Christ.

Php 3:7-10 KJV
(7) But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
(8) Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
(9) And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
(10) That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;

We must be steadfast in our faith of the Word of Truth as the devil will seek whom he may devour. His “children” who remain in the man-based churches will speak evil of us…but we are not to return evil for their evil.

1Pe 5:8-11 KJV
(8) Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

The same afflictions will be accomplished in our brothers that are in the world. They …our brothers…will hear His voice in belief and will leave their man-based churches and will go out into the world. They will also be persecuted by those they will leave behind in the man-based churches…no matter where they live in this world.

(9) Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.

But the God of all grace…who has called us unto His age-lasting (“eternal”) glory by Christ Jesus will make us complete in Him….AFTER we have “suffered a while” by the persecutions of the people who will remain in their man-based churches and will not believe in the Word of Truth when they will hear it.

(10) But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
(11) To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

Those brothers that are in the world who will suffer the “same afflictions” …the same persecutions by the man-based churches that will leave behind…are the same group addressed in James who said “to the 12 tribe which are scattered abroad.” They are "scattered abroad" because they will all have left their man-based churches and will have gone out into the world to be separate from them.

Jas 1:1-4 KJV
(1) James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.

Count it all joy when you fall into many temptations…for the people of the man-based churches that you will leave behind will persecute you. You will be tempted to return evil for their evil….but count it as joy for the trying of your faith works patience. We suffer with Christ when this happens. Count it all joy.

(2) My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
(3) Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
(4) But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

If we suffer with Him (in the persecutions by the man-based churches), we shall be glorified together with Him. The sufferings are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

Rom 8:17-18 KJV
(17) And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
(18) For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

If we partake of Christ's sufferings (by enduring the persecutions we shall receive by the man-based churches,) we shall be glad with "exceeding joy" when His glory shall be revealed. His life shall be revealed in our mortal flesh...His glory shall be revealed. Don't think it is "strange" concerning that fiery trial of our faith as though some strange thing is happening to you as this is part of the process to receive His glory in this mortal body in this earth. We share in His suffering when it happens.

1Pe 4:12-14 KJV
(12) Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
(13) But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
(14) If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.

Catholics don't fit neatly on either side. Following Christ always looks weird to a world obsessed with power and picking sides.

“Did you know the Pope ate dinner there last year?” my friend said.

I was out with a few friends when we walked past a restaurant where Pope Leo went last summer (perks of living in Chicago!).

She laughed and added, “We should go in and press some rosaries against the walls!”

I noticed another friend who isn’t Catholic giving us a look. “You Catholics are so weird,” she said with an affectionate laugh.

We laughed too.

“It’s true,” I said. “We can’t deny it.” We Catholics are odd ducks in all kinds of ways, from our love for saints’ relics to our Saturday evening Mass “counting” for Sunday.

But in today’s America, it’s all too easy to forget that we aren’t supposed to fit in.

We used to be a lot weirder, and it’s time to reclaim that as a badge of honor.

Trying too hard to fit in​

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Let it be
The arrival of the
New year
I hope we have a good year
Ahead of us
AIso I hope to accomplish my
Poetry writing
Also I hope
I will be no more sick
I am planning to stay
Healthy
In the new year
I have no idea if I
Will be able to do that
I am questioning that
AIso I am living now in
The future
I still don't know nothing
About my future
God please tell me about my future
Because I am dying to know
About my future
I hope not to make
Any mistakes in my
Future
That I had done in my
Past
I am afraid of
Making mistakes again

Jn 6:44

44 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.

No man can come here means no man has the ability to come to Christ. That cancels out the myth that man has a freewill,

It also means that no man has the ability to believe on Christ for Salvation. Because Christ equates believing on Him with coming to Him. Jn 6:64-65

64 But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him.

65 And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.


What about those Jesus says to them Jn 5:40

40 And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.

Thats answered in Jn 6:44 they simply will not come because they cannot come unless the Power of God draws them and makes them willing

Ps 110:3

3 Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.

If and when one comes to believe on Christ willingly, the credit goes to Gods Power !

Who is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance? We are all who believe in Jesus Christ to be Lord and Savior of our lives, who take God and his word seriously to obey what he says, who by faith in him have died with him to sin and who are now living to him and to his righteousness in walks of obedience to God, and in holy living, by the grace of God, in the power of God, as persuaded by God.

We are physical people who live in physical nations on this earth. But the nation whose God is the Lord is not a physical nation of people but a spiritual nation of all who by faith in Jesus Christ (Jew and Gentile) are walking in his ways and in his truth and righteousness, according to his will and purpose for our lives. We are God’s holy nation, his chosen people, the people belonging to God who desire to serve the God that we love with our lives.

We are those who walk in the fear of the Lord, believing him and his word, and in his promises, and his warnings, too, which we take seriously. We are those who love, honor, value, respect, reverence, and worship him, in spirit and in truth. And to love God is to obey God – Father, Son Jesus Christ, and Holy Spirit. And to worship him is to give our lives to him as living sacrifices to God, holy and pleasing to God, because we love him (Romans 12:1-2).

[Genesis 17:7-9; Genesis 18:19; John 8:18-19,38-47; Romans 2:28-29; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 9:4-8,25-28; Romans 11:1-36; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 3:16,26-29; Galatians 4:22-31; Ephesians 2:11-22; Ephesians 3:6; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-16; Hebrews 8:6-13;1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 2:22; Jude 1:5; Revelation 2:9; Revelation 3:9]

And who are “the nations”? This may speak of literal individual physical nations of people on this earth. It is also used to describe the ungodly of this world, in some cases. But the point here is that God is completely superior and in charge over all people of all nations on this earth, and that there is not anything that any of them can do but what God allows it, and he has the power to stop them from doing what they have planned at any moment.

The plans of humans will never supersede God. God is fully sovereign over all he made. And it is not God’s will that any of us should sin against God, but God does allow Satan to exist, and he allows sin and evil to exist, and he sometimes allows evil people to do evil things to other people, for to remove all evil from this earth would mean removing all human life, because we are all born with sin natures, and we are all capable of sinning against God.

But, despite whatever humans may do, or attempt to do, the counsel of the Lord stands forever, and he has the power to nullify the counsel of the nations and to frustrate the plans of the peoples so that they will not succeed in their evil plots. Yet the Lord will use evil people as his divine instruments of judgment against those who profess his name but who deliberately do evil to others and not the good that God has for them to do.

For the Scriptures teach that to know God, to be born of God, and to be in fellowship with God, we must not be those who deliberately and habitually sin against God and who do not obey God and his commandments, in practice. For Jesus gave his life up for us on that cross to buy us back for God (to redeem us) out of our lives of slavery to sin so that we will now serve him in walks of obedience to his commands and in holy living.

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]

For Our Nation

Professionally recorded in Nashville, TN
Via Gerry Peters, music producer and arranger
An Original Work / September 11, 2012
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

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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The Nation Whose God is The Lord
An Original Work / July 4, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

I’ve been at a crossroads recently to the point where I broke down in tears which I haven’t felt in a long time. I want to serve the Lord but I’m afraid I’ll leave him again I am a wandering soul searching for love, companionship, peace, joy and a sense of purpose. I’ve tried what the world has to offer and it is all vanity like King Solomon said. I miss Jesus and love him. I want to be a part of heaven and the new earth someday.

Keep me in your prayers so that I keep on the straight and narrow path.

God bless.

American,Happy Birthday Day to you!

PSALM 23: "A verse-by-verse understanding for us all" (Part 3)

verse 3


'HE RESTORETH MY SOUL; HE LEADETH ME IN THE PATHS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS FOR HIS NAME'S SAKE" KJV

'"HE RESTORES MY INNER PERSON. HE GUIDES ME IN RIGHT PATHS FOR THE SAKE OF HIS OWN NAME (Complete Jewish Study Bible)


What is David saying here, being always guided by the Holy Spirit, as ALL scripture is? As we consume the Word of God, being our "Green pastures and still waters," the words of scripture enter our hearts and minds through our eyes and ears, either by reading or listening. When we let the message of scripture into our hearts, there should be a transformation. Yet that is up to each person. Some may read the Bible only as an interesting novel, or fiction, not believing it is true.

For those who DO read and believe, then, our "inner person" gets transformed. We understand where we stand before a "Sinless and Holy God." We are all "guilty as charged" sinners. Yet the Word of God offers hope through Yeshua/Jesus. He becomes our Mediator and Redeemer. We understand what is right and wrong, what is sin and what is Holiness. Our inner person, the "real YOU," becomes transformed little by little. Actually, it is an "ongoing" process, which is complete once we leave our earthly bodies at death.

The pages of scripture and the words of God written down are our "right paths." These lead us into "right-living," which is another way of saying "righteousness." We have been "righteously saved" by grace to walk in "righteous works." The commandments of God teach us what is "right living," and by reading scripture, we can see the fate of those who chose to rebel against God, those who took "another path," and those who were faithful to God, walking on the "paths of righteousness."

So, the shepherd has taken his sheep to feed in green pastures and to drink cool, quiet waters. Now, the food is being digested and the nutrients are being distributed in the bodies of the sheep. Allow the WORD of God to penetrate your inner being, receive HIS "spiritual nutrition" which has been authored by "His Own Name"

I went to confession at a different parish recently and when I went into the confessional, there was a real window in the room - the first time I've ever seen this. I liked it, actually. It was a beautiful sunny day and the light just beamed into the window beside me. I don't think this kind of thing is very common, is it?

2:35

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According to many of her senior classmates here at Waunakee High School in Wisconsin, 18-year-old Molly Schafer was a loner. But before graduation, she leaned on her artistic skills to reconnect and learned an important lesson in the process. Steve Hartman has the story "On the Road."

There is a woman I know who is Pro-Choice. She is a Christian. I know this is a hotly debated thing. My perspective is that she may not know why the Pro-Choice perspective is wrong fully. I am trying to talk to her about it. It's a very heavy topic for her as she has had an abortion herself.

She has changed her perspective on some things. I told her watching shows about mediums is bad, and she stopped watching them. I've also told her to stop doing sports gambling, and she stopped that as well. But I also understand that I am working against decades of propaganda. She has been secular most of her life, and I live in MN, which has some of the worst laws about abortion there are. I'm thankful she is willing to even have the conversation in the first place. But I have to "weigh" how much I share with her and when.

If anyone has any advice on what the gentlest way to make the case for Pro-Life is, I'd love to hear it.

Edit: I think it might be okay to mention that I have schizophrenia/bi-polar if this seems like a stupid read.
First off I have a tendency to only post negative feelings or experiences, so let me reiterate that I have indeed had a lot of very good moments in my faith

But. Recently going through a rougher patch and it's not necessarily even my patch.

My family seems to be struggling a lot. I have siblings as well and we all know siblings can argue a lot.

The reason for me doubting morality is rooted in the way Christianity is portrayed through mainstream media. It's very counter intuitive to Christianity. I feel like it tries to over emphasize it without explaining the Word of God and including the Holy Spirit into teachings leaving everyone with less than nothing.

In the same way that growing up my parents never mentioned God once. The time I was trying to believe in Jesus was a horrible time as well. I've had a hard time coming to peace with that and constantly ruminate on the mistakes I made through just going with the mainstream Christianity or lack thereof. In the bible it explains how bad it is for anyone who causes the little ones to stumble, yet in the broken world we live in that seems to be the overwhelming majority of people.

And if parents don't teach their kids anything of spiritual sustonence how can God hold that over them growing up with none? It's a habitual cycle of brokenness as I feel the way to finding God is obviously a hard test of faith because I remember not even understanding how to call on the Lord.

I've just seen the way this leads to absolute brokenness and I have a hard time trying to believe God's morality as anything that is actual morale. Morale is based on clear evidence of right or wrong when we are born into this world missing the very Spirit that tells us right from wrong. Unless I'm just so off and he is always actually there allowing our mistakes to happen. Even so though?

It's just is seeming a chaotic cluster fluff to me right now. Deception has been a big topic I'm studying lately and it's hard to believe we live in a world like this, being hated and a target

Merit Street Media, the Texas media company founded by TV personality and psychologist Dr. Phil McGraw, has filed for bankruptcy amid an ongoing legal fight with Trinity Broadcasting Network.

The Fort Worth-based company claims that TBN failed to "live up to its contractual obligations" as the "controlling shareholder" of Merit Street, leaving the media company founded by McGraw with over $100 million in debt, according to a lawsuit filed on Wednesday in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Dallas.

Launched in April 2024, Merit Street is "going dark" just over a year after its debut because, it says, TBN "has refused to honor its commitment" to provide national distribution for the network, which features a programming lineupanchored by "Dr. Phil Primetime" along with "Crime Stories with Nancy Grace" and "The Island with Bear Grylls," among other shows.

Continued below.

When Pope Francis was the Pope,
some cardinals were concerned
he might suddenly allow gay weddings.

There is a way to block future Popes from doing that.

The Vatican could give each local bishop the power
to BAN gay weddings in their part of the Church.

The Lord never has nor ever will desire a stone temple for His habitation. This Truth was made clear by the words of Nathan the prophet in response to David's wish to build the Lord a Temple. When David brought the Ark of the Presence to Zion, it was placed in a tent, known as the Tabernacle of David.

Second Samuel Six:

17 So they brought the ark of the Lord, and set it in its place in the midst of the tabernacle that David had erected for it. Then David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord.

David expresses his wishes to the prophet Nathan.

Second Samuel Seven:

1-3 And it came to pass, when the king sat in his house, and the Lord had given him rest round about from all his enemies; that the king said unto Nathan the prophet, see now, I dwell in an house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains. And Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that is in thine heart; for the Lord is with thee.

Nathan is so confident that David has the favor of the Lord that he tells him to "go for it". And then the Lord spoke to him.

4-6 And it came to pass that night, that the word of the Lord came unto Nathan, saying, Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the Lord, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in? Whereas I have not dwelt in any house since the time that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle.

7 In all the places wherein I have walked with all the children of Israel spake I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying, Why build ye not me an house of cedar?

The prophet Amos prophesied the restoration of David's Tabernacle, not the Temple built by Solomon.

Amos Nine:

11 In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:

This Word was confirmed by the Holy Spirit at the Council of Jerusalem

Acts Fifteen:

13-15 And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Men and brethren, hearken unto me: Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name. And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written,

16-18 After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up: That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things. Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.

Isaiah sees the Tabernacle of the Millenium

Isaiah Thirty-Three:

20 Look upon Zion, the city of our appointed feasts;
Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a quiet home,
A tabernacle that will not be taken down;
Not one of its stakes will ever be removed,
Nor will any of its cords be broken.

The Throne is established within the Tabernacle of David

Isaiah Sixteen:

5 In mercy the throne will be established;
And One will sit on it in truth, in the tabernacle of David,
Judging and seeking justice and hastening righteousness.

The Presence of the Lord in His Tabernacle will be our security

Isaiah Four:

6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the day time from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.

The Tabernacle will never be taken down, but the servants of God will expand His Tabernacle over the nations. This is the vision for "the children of the barren woman".

Isaiah Fifty-Four:

1 Sing, O barren,
You who have not borne!
Break forth into singing, and cry aloud,
You who have not labored with child!
For more are the children of the desolate
Than the children of the married woman says the Lord.
2 Enlarge the place of your tent,
And let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings;
Do not spare;
Lengthen your cords,
And strengthen your stakes.
3 For you shall expand to the right and to the left,
And your descendants will inherit the nations,
And make the desolate cities inhabited.

Jeremiah does not lament the Temple destruction, but the removal of the Lord's Tabernacle. The Ark of the Presence housed within the Temple was kept behind curtains. This is the Holy of holies.

Jeremiah Ten:

20 My tent is plundered,
And all my cords are broken;
My children have gone from me,
And they are no more.
There is no one to pitch my tent anymore,
Or set up my curtains.

This is God's Eternal Habitation With Man

Revelation Twenty-One:

1 Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea. Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God.

22 But I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.

Prominent Hollywood actor Chris Pratt recently included Jesus on the list of things he "can't live without" in the latest example of the entertainer proclaiming his Christian faith.

Pratt took to Instagram last week to create a list of "things I can't live without." Included on the list of 10 items was "Jesus."

Oxygen took the top spot on the 46-year-old's list, followed by organs, his own blood and gravity. Coming in behind Jesus were food and water, the National Football League, his wife and kids, bass fishing and his "glam team." The video accompanying the Instagram post showed a member of Pratt's "glam team" applying makeup to the actor.

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How do you reconcile that the Bible explains many times in the Old Testament that people should not pass their children through the fire.You know talking about the pagans? And likewise god did not want us to sacrifice our children even to him.Then in the new testament God gives his only begotten son to atone for our sins. Why would God forbid his own people to do such a thing?And then he would do it himself?

Heads to President Trump’s Desk
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This is great news for the USA.

From the Chicago NBC news station:
A Chicago bus tour will explore sites related to Pope Leo's upbringing. Here's what it'll cost you


A bus tour centered around Pope Leo XIV’s upbringing will soon traverse the Chicago area, and tickets are already on sale.

Starting in August, Chicago Pope Tour will offer four-hour guided bus tours visiting landmarks from Leo’s early life, according to the tour’s website. Per-passenger ticket prices are listed at $59 on weekdays and $79 on weekends.

Leo, the first American-born pope, was born in Chicago as Robert Prevost.

He was born at Chicago’s Mercy Hospital and was raised in the St. Mary of the Assumption Church parish, which sits near the city’s border with Dolton, the southern suburb where Leo grew up.

“Before he led millions, the Pope was just another Chicagoan,” the tour website said. “Our unique bus tour hits the real places where he lived, studied, prayed - and yes, ate.”

The tour will highlight the pope’s birthplace on Chicago’s South Side, childhood home, seminary and childhood church, according to the company. The historical trek starts and concludes in Lincoln Park, near the Chicago Public Library.

Included in the tour price is a slice of pizza at Aurelio’s, a south suburban pizza parlor where Leo has dined.

The pizzeria recently added a “Pope-a-Roni” pizza to its menu, although the suburban chain closed its only Chicago location in May.

The Chicago Pope Tour claims to cater to “history lovers, curious Catholics, Chicago enthusiasts, and anyone who enjoys a good story.”

Tickets can be purchased through the company’s websit

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and it is having an effect - but not the one he thinks it will

Vice President JD Vance shared a text message from a Republican Congressman who was initially undecided on a bill but became a firm supporter after witnessing House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ performance, likely referring to Jeffries’ marathon floor speech during the vote on President Trump’s tax and spending mega bill. The text, as posted by Vance on X, read: “I was undecided on the bill but then I watched Hakeem Jeffries performance and now I’m a firm yes.” Several X posts echoed this sentiment, with some users suggesting Jeffries’ speech inadvertently bolstered support for the bill among Republicans,

How is it effecting the Democratic House members?

• Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH): Posts on X specifically noted her appearing to doze off during Jeffries' speech.
• Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): She was observed with her head down and eyes closed during the speech, as reported by the Daily Mail and echoed in posts on X.

Additionally, reports mentioned "multiple Democrats" were seen with their eyes closed, but no other specific names were provided

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Major U.S. Movie Theater Chain Collapses Into Bankruptcy

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The U.S. movie theater industry has taken a big blow from the COVID-19 pandemic as U.S. movie theater chain CMX Cinemas has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy a second time, five years after its first filing.

CMX is not alone; other chains face similar financial distress. Regal Cinemas closed all 536 of its U.S. theaters and furloughed 40,000 employees in 2020. Its parent, Cineworld, filed for bankruptcy in 2022 after accumulating nearly $5 billion in debt, seeking to renegotiate leases and secure loans.

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Five BILLION??? Holy Moses.

I knew the theaters were hit hard by Covid, but I personally haven't been to a movie theater in decades; the last three movies I actually watched in a theater were Titanic (1997), Saving Private Ryan (1998), and The Passion of the Christ (2004), which gives you some idea of how long it's been. I know for me personally, I would much rather just stream a movie at home from the comfort of my recliner. I can pause it any time I want to take a bathroom break or go get a snack, I can control the volume, and I can rewind to a certain spot if I need to clear up a question of what's going on in the picture.

Plus, I grew disenchanted with theaters; the admission prices were steep, for sure, but the prices they charged for a measly bucket of popcorn were absolutely astronomical; I refused to pay exorbitant prices for a snack. Also at that time, the volume levels in theaters were always set so high that it literally used to hurt my ears....and no way to turn it down. And, of course, you had the rude, stupid people, who talked loudly throughout the film, or engaged in horseplay, or were just plain disagreeable in various ways; nobody seemed to grasp the concept of sitting down and quietly watching the movie. Not having to deal with that was a major factor in driving me out of the theaters. Finally, as my PTSD got worse, I could no longer deal with crowds, especially in tight, confined spaces---and let's face it, those movie theater seats were designed to fit a 13-year-old Japanese boy with severe malnutrition, not a fat 200+ pound middle-aged American. By the time I left the movie, I usually had one whale of a backache from sitting in those seats.

So, I was pretty well finished with movie theaters well before Covid hit; but it's still sort of jarring to think that a theater chain went into five billion dollars' worth of debt because of it.

Peace in Christ.

His body…the church….has been baptized with the same baptism He had endured. His body…the church…has also gone through suffering and death just as Him.

Mar 10:38-39 KJV
(38) But Jesus said unto them, Ye know not what ye ask: can ye drink of the cup that I drink of? and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?
(39) And they said unto him, We can. And Jesus said unto them, Ye shall indeed drink of the cup that I drink of; and with the baptism that I am baptized withal shall ye be baptized:

We are the “temple of His body” that has been destroyed.

Joh 2:18-22 KJV
(18) Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?
(19) Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
(20) Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
(21) But he spake of the temple of his body.
(22) When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.

This is not about the physical temple. We are His temple…the one that has not one stone left upon another. When Jesus spoke of "bread," His disciples thought He was talking about literal bread but He was not. The same principle applies here. Jesus is not telling about the literal temple but about His church...the temple of His body.

Mat 24:1-2 KJV
(1) And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple.
(2) And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

We are those “living stones” that is supposed to be built up a spiritual house.

1Pe 2:5 KJV
(5) Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

But the “people of the prince that SHALL COME” have come forth and have destroyed the “temple of His body.” They are preaching that Jesus SHALL COME some day and not that He IS COMING NOW in the flesh...our mortal flesh (the manifestation of the Son of man.) They are preventing His life from appearing in this earth.

Dan 9:26 KJV
(26) And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.

His manifest life in our mortal flesh (the Son of man) is being delivered NOW unto the chief priests and unto the scribes (the church rulers and their handwritings of ordinances.) They are condemning Him to death as they are preventing His life to be made manifest in the mortal flesh of those who they are “ruling” over in their churches.

And while this has been going on inside the man-based churches, the people of the outside world (the “gentiles”) mock Him and scourge Him and spit upon Him. They actively blaspheme His holy Name while the church rulers prevent His life from being made manifest in their congregations.

Mar 10:33-34 KJV
(33) Saying, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be delivered unto the chief priests, and unto the scribes; and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the Gentiles:
(34) And they shall mock him, and shall scourge him, and shall spit upon him, and shall kill him: and the third day he shall rise again.

He is not there in the “grave” of the man-based churches where there is no work, and plan, and knowledge, and wisdom.

Why seek Him among the man-based churches where He is staying crucified in the minds of the “dead” ….as they are “dead” in their trespasses and sins? Why seek the living among the “dead” man-based churches?

Luk 24:4-8 KJV
(4) And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments:
(5) And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead?

The Son of man (His manifest life in our mortal flesh) is being delivered into the hands of sinful men and has been crucified among them. It has been in their power to crucify Him. His life is not there among them. It is not being made manifest among them.

(6) He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee,
(7) Saying, The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.
(8) And they remembered his words,

They are claiming that “here is the Christ” or there…believe them not. His is not found in the man-based churches...the dead man-based churches.

Mar 13:21-22 KJV
(21) And then if any man shall say to you, Lo, here is Christ; or, lo, he is there; believe him not:
(22) For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.

He is not there among the “dead” man-based churches where they are keeping His manifest life “crucified.” He is not there for He is risen now. If Jesus is indeed risen now, we are to have resurrected life NOW in this mortal body. They are keeping His life "crucified" by their false teachings. His life is not being made manifest among them....and so we must depart from the "dead" churches. We must no longer be attached to a "dead body."

Mar 16:6-8 KJV
(6) And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him.

We are to go forth from the “grave” …the man-based churches. We are to follow Him out of them and go into “Galilee”…the circle of the nations…the world.

(7) But go your way, tell his disciples and Peter that he goeth before you into Galilee: there shall ye see him, as he said unto you.

They went out quickly and fled from the sepulchre for they trembled and were amazed.

(8) And they went out quickly, and fled from the sepulchre; for they trembled and were amazed: neither said they any thing to any man; for they were afraid.

We must also go OUT QUICKLY and flee from the “grave”…the man-based churches. They will persecute you for doing so. But we are to not be afraid of their terror neither be troubled. Give them a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear.

1Pe 3:14-17 KJV
(14) But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;
(15) But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
(16) Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.
(17) For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.