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  • CF has always been a site that welcomes people from different backgrounds and beliefs to participate in discussion and even debate. That is the nature of its ministry. In view of recent events emotions are running very high. We need to remind people of some basic principles in debating on this site. We need to be civil when we express differences in opinion. No personal attacks. Avoid you, your statements. Don't characterize an entire political party with comparisons to Fascism or Communism or other extreme movements that committed atrocities. CF is not the place for broad brush or blanket statements about groups and political parties. Put the broad brushes and blankets away when you come to CF, better yet, put them in the incinerator. Debate had no place for them. We need to remember that people that commit acts of violence represent themselves or a small extreme faction.

Make no mistake: Antisemitism is the smokescreen of Hell

We’re watching a toxic lie race across the globe, infecting hearts and minds with astonishing speed. It claims humanity’s problems can be traced to one people: the Jews. And its so-called “cure”? Cut them off, cripple Israel, and turn Zionism into a crime.

“The interesting thing about Jew-haters,” Russian author, Uri Kurlianchik observed, “is that they don't hate Jews for something in particular; they hate them for everything: capitalism and communism, fanaticism and atheism, nationalism and globalism, insularity and meddling. They pin literally all the sins of the world on Jews.”

The great Charlie Kirk said, “There is a corner of the internet of people who want to point and blame the Jews for all their problems… Everybody, this is demonic, and it’s from the pit of Hell, and it should not be tolerated, period.”

Kirk described it perfectly as “hyper-online brain rot.”

Josh Hammer, senior editor-at-large at Newsweek and author of the 2025 book Israel and Civilization: The Fate of the Jewish Nation and the Destiny of the West, noted after Charlie Kirk’s assassination that Charlie had been “holding back some really nasty stuff” brewing in very young, far-right online circles - including increasingly open antisemitism. He said Kirk was doing “more than maybe anyone in the country” to contain it. And now, Hammer admitted, he “worries… what that energy does from here in his absence.”

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Jack Hibbs links rising antisemitism to End Times, says Trump peace deal will fail: 'Doctrine of demons'

Pastor Jack Hibbs claimed during a recent interview that rising antisemitism across the political spectrum is demonic in origin and evidence of the End Times.

Hibbs, who pastors Calvary Chapel Chino Hills in Chino Hills, California, and adheres to a premillennial dispensationalist eschatology, also asserted that President Donald Trump's recent Gaza peace plan will fizzle to make way for the Antichrist.

“It's really an amazing time. First of all, we have to make sure that we put it in the proper context, as all things," Hibbs told the Christian Broadcasting Network last week in response to a question about alleged conspiracy theories and antisemitism from prominent voices on the political right, such as Candace Owens and Nick Fuentes.

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Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you...

Peace in Christ.

Again, we do not find the living body of Christ in the man-based churches where the Lord of glory has been crucified among them (and being kept that way even now).

No mortal flesh is being saved in the grave of the man-based churches. We must depart from them.

They are not shining forth the glory of the Lord as His presence is not being made manifest through them. They mortally perish as they do not hear the Word of Truth, the good news of our mortal salvation from their “pastors” who do not understand it and yet are allowed to rejoice in this situation.

He is not there among them for He is risen. The Lord of glory is being crucified….extinguished….betrayed…given up…among them. The Son of man goes (sinks out of view from this earth) as it is written of Him.

Mat 28:5-6 KJV
(5) And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified.

(6) He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.

“Come see the place where the Lord lay…”

He made his grave with the wicked and with the rich in His DEATHS (plural). The Hebrew word for death is in the plural form here in Isaiah 53:9. The "wicked and the rich" are their pastors who know not what they are doing…and yet are allowed to profit and rejoice in this situation.

The “deaths” (plural) are the deaths of His people (we are many members of His body) who are being led astray by rich pastors (as deceit is found in their mouths) and are not manifesting His life in their mortal flesh which would have saved their mortal bodies.

The rich pastors have no understanding of the Word of Truth…the gospel of our salvation…and are not preaching it to their spiritually poor congregations.

Each of His people that does not manifest His life in their mortal flesh and mortally perishes as a result is a death of Him.

“Deaths” = a multitude of people. They could have manifested His life in their mortal flesh but were not fed with the gospel of Truth and so mortally perish without knowing it. The Lord of glory is never made manifest in their mortal flesh which would have given them an age-lasting life (aka “eternal life”).

This is the “violence” of those who “rule” over them…their church rulers… as they are actively cutting off the manifestation of His life in the mortal flesh of those they are deceiving. He is being cut out of the land of the living…and His people who are falling for their deceit are mortally perishing without understanding. Deceit is found in the mouths of those who rule over their congregations....and they do "violence" as they are cutting off the manifest life of Jesus from their congregations. Jesus did none of these things.

Isa 53:8-9
(8) He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.

(9) And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death ( DEATHS ); because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.

The rich men…their ruling pastors….are full of “violence” because of this situation. Their tongue is deceitful for they are leading many astray from the way that leads to life...the life of Jesus that could be had/manifest in their mortal flesh.

Mic 6:12 KJV
(12) For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

The rich pastors have been allowed to rejoice in this awful situation. They nourish their hearts as in the "day of slaughter" as the sheep they are pastoring are all mortally perishing under their "care."

They CONDEMN (to adjudge against, pronounce guilty) AND KILL the Just One …the Innocent One…and He does not resist them. The Lord of glory is being crucified even now. In the “trial” of Him, they cast their vote for guilt instead of innocence (the “white stone”). His manifest life is never released among them.

His manifest life is being cut off from being made manifest in the bodies of the people that they are “pastoring.” They are pastoring the “flock of the slaughter” as the Lord of glory is being crucified among them.

Jas 5:5-6
(5) Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

(6) Ye have condemned and killed the Just One; and He doth not resist you.

The hire of their laborers is kept back by fraud as the Word of Truth is not being preached to their congregations. The drum beat of the rejoicing of their (of the rich rulers of the churches) nourished hearts have kept them from hearing the cries of their congregations who are like Lazarus…desiring to eat of the crumbs of truth that fall from their tables and yet are full of problems...full of sores from top to bottom.

Yet, the rich men...the rich pastors...are about to have their rejoicing changed to weeping and howling for the miseries that shall come upon them. He will deliver His sheep from them for their cries have entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth who will hear their cries and deliver them from those shepherds who are only feeding themselves.

Jas 5:1-4 KJV
(1) Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
(2) Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
(3) Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

(4) Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

They...the rich rulers of the churches... fare “sumptuously” every day…that is, they REJOICE (fare = rejoice) brilliantly every day as they get their earthly, daily needs met from their congregations. They rule over them …being “clothed in purple and fine linen.”

This rejoicing of their rulers though drowns out the cries of their spiritually poor congregations who are like Lazarus.

Their congregations lay at the gate….at their mouth…waiting to be fed with the Word of Truth.

They are full of sores…full of problems…and yet the “dogs” come and lick the sores. In other words, the flattering tongue of those who could care less about them speak empty words of peace and safety to those who are experiencing problems which does nothing to solve the problems of their congregations. They come speaking "feigned words" as they make merchandise of them.

Luk 16:19-21 KJV
(19) There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously (REJOICED BRILLIANTLY) every day:
(20) And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores,

(21) And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.

There has been a great famine of hearing the Word of God spoken in truth and sincerity.

Rev 6:5-6 KJV
(5) And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.

And yet those who are responsible for feeding His people are allowed to rejoice in this situation: “hurt not the oil and the wine”…hurt not their rejoicing.

(6) And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.

“Wine” makes the heart of man glad and “oil” makes his face to shine. The rich rulers of the churches “fare sumptuously every day….they rejoice brilliantly…their hearts rejoice and their faces shine as they eat the "bread" of others freely.

Psa 104:15 KJV
(15) And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man's heart.

They are feeding the “flock of the slaughter.”

Zec 11:4-5 KJV

(4) Thus saith the LORD my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter;

Their possessors slay them as they are cutting off the life of Jesus from those who are being led astray by them. Those that sell them….making merchandise of them….rejoice as they say “Blessed be the LORD; for I am rich” and do not care for the sheep as they are too busy rejoicing. Their own shepherds of the flock of the slaughter pity them not.

(5) Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed be the LORD; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not.

They follow after Judas as they purchase a "field" with the reward of the iniquity. They are pastoring the flock of the slaughter....a "field" of people who are mortally perishing as they make merchandise of them. They "fall headlong" after the reward as they get their earthly needs met by their congregations that they have "bought." Their "burst asunder in the middle"...that is, they REJOICE greatly in the heart (the "middle')....and their "bowels gush out"...that is, they have NO PITY for those they are making merchandise of. Their congregations are a "field of blood" as the life of Jesus is being cut off from being made manifest in their mortal flesh and so they are all mortally perishing. "Aceldama" = "smoothness" of the tongue and blood. Through deceit (the smoothness of the tongue) do they do "violence" in the field as they are preventing the life of Jesus from being made manifest in those they are deceving.

Act 1:18-19 KJV
(18) Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.

(19) And it was known unto all the dwellers at Jerusalem; insomuch as that field is called in their proper tongue, Aceldama, that is to say, The field of blood.


2Pe 2:3 KJV
(3) And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.

Jesus Christ is already raised from the dead. He is risen so that we might have His resurrected life now in our mortal bodies.

He is already raised to glory so that we might shine forth His glory to the people of this dark world.

He …the Holy One and the Just/Innocent One is being denied in the man-based churches where His life is not being found.

Act 3:14-15
(14) But ye denied the Holy One and the Just One, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you;

(15) And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.

We must “go quickly” out from among the graves of the man-based churches where His manifest life is not found.

He leads us out of them into “Galilee”… “circle” of the nations. The people of the outside world encircle us. We will then manifest His presence to them through our mortal bodies when we depart from the grave of the man-based churches. His life will then shine to them from us.

Mat 28:7-10 KJV
(7) And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you.
(8) And they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great joy; and did run to bring his disciples word.
(9) And as they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, All hail. And they came and held him by the feet, and worshipped him.

(10) Then said Jesus unto them, Be not afraid: go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me.

Obama care collapsing.....

'No-win position': GOP careening towards crisis on health care plan

Lillis wrote, "The deadline has put Republican leaders into a no-win position: If they extend the tax credits, they’ll go on record for the first time augmenting a Democratic law they deem noxious while infuriating a conservative base that’s spent more than 15 years trying to kill it.

"If they don’t, the out-of-pocket health costs for millions of people will skyrocket heading into next year’s midterm elections, when Republicans are already at risk of losing control of the House."

GOP faces a familiar dilemma: What to do about Obamacare?

Republican leaders have found themselves in a familiar place: pledging to make major changes to the Affordable Care Act, citing rising health care costs and a looming deadline - but far from agreeing on how to do it.

Republicans promised a mid-December vote on how to proceed on the expiring subsidies, in exchange for support from some Democrats for ending the government shutdown in November. Democrats have argued that the simplest and most politically popular option is to extend the subsidies, which were implemented in 2021 and meant to help defray the cost of health coverage during the covid-19 pandemic. But many GOP lawmakers have campaigned for years on pledges to “repeal Obamacare” and say that continuing to fund the subsidies is a nonstarter, calling instead to shift the money to Americans in the form of health-savings accounts.

“The White House has a solution for cost-sharing,” [can we see it? The last one the WH rolled out vanished in less than a day] Kevin Hassett, director of the National Economic Council, said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” predicting that “people are going to work this out” by Christmas.

“We don’t want to cause panic for the folks who are worried that they’re going to lose the thing that they have,” Hassett added.

Thirteen House Republicans, mostly from liberal-leaning states, sent a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) during the shutdown warning that a failure to extend a version of the subsidies would “risk real harm to those we represent.”

However, many Republicans oppose extending the subsidies - arguing that they are a pandemic-era relic - and instead see the debate as an opportunity to revisit health care reforms the party has sought in the past.
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Game based on Bible passage about killing everything that breathes

At the start there is now a title screen which asks if you want blood and gore or not. If you choose no it goes to the "Unbrutal Bible Bubblebaths" title screen and there is no blood or chopping. Originally I had groans and sighs instead of screaming but a Christian gave a negative review saying things like:
"...the game fails to demonstrate the real suffering that took place in Philistia and Phoenicia"
So that is why I added screams of agony.
Isn't that like me making a game with porn, and giving the player the option to choose whether or not they want to see nudity or not?
Do you see a difference?

Groans and wailing leave it to the imagination of the audience, just as two people kissing, but the audience cannot see their lips, or two people naked under the covers, but the audience cannot tell if they have on underwear or not.
When we look at how things are censored, we get the idea that the makers are considering their audience, since they are not catering to people that love things that are shocking.

You know whom you are catering to, John, don't you?

I don't think it is glorifying sexual immorality because the soldiers and you need to kill those people.

It is cartoonish though. Also there are a large number of games that glorify violence like the Doom games and Mortal Kombat. But I'm including gameplay that is based on Bible passages.
Doom; Mortal Kombat; Carmagedon; GTA; Call of Duty; God of War... all designed to desensitize the audience, or the player, to shocking things, so that they love it, and are drawn to them....
More money for the people that care little about sin.

This is why Marvel is so deep into it.
It's why Disney loves their young viewers who aren't aware of the harmful spiritism in their "oh so innocent" movies.
It's a money making affair John, and one can easily get pulled into it, because it's all around us, and sometimes we immerse ourselves in it.
I was there before... well, at least before games got more graphic.
People are mor obsessed now with graphic violence than in the past.

Why do you think that is the case? Desensitization.

Well what you and the soldiers do involves the consquences.

Well in the gameplay you are the punishment for those kinds of things.

I thought I'd portray things that are normally ignored in Bible games, etc. If there was no "Sinful Temple" in the game then the player wouldn't really understand why they need to kill everything that breathes.
There are ways to make a game, or movie of the Bible without being graphic, and still let the audience know something is sinful, or some form of punishment has taken place.
Movie makers do it all the time.

It's usually up to the developer what they want to be seen, or not seen... promoted, or not promoted. Isn't that so?
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What is everyone having for Thanksgiving?

Typical things - turkey, stuffing, corn, mash potatoes, etc.

We have added fruit to the menu the last some years.


And the chocolate chip cookies were delicious! I didn't get a chance to eat the buckeyes because I was full by then.
Hope you had a wonderful day!!!!

I ate so much!

Very grateful to God for the blessings and now showing gratitude with some self-restraint!

God bless!
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The rise of menace as a mainstream political tool

clashes between Donald Trump and female reporters


“Stupid”. “Piggy”. Are we all in third grade? Regardless of politics, this verbal menace has to be called out else it is tacit approval. Instead it is defended. Caroline calls it “transparency” and blames the reporters.

This is NOT making America great.
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Cluttered room - too many books and clothes

Now that I’ve gotten a job, my room is now the thing that is overwhelming me - my closet and dresser drawers are very full. I have bags piled on top of my dresser in front of the mirror and carts in walkways.

I don’t just want to get rid of all of my stuff though. A lot of it is valuable clothes that I just want to wear and wear out, and other stuff I want to sell. I have unfinished sewing projects and other unfinished projects that I want to finish. And I’m tired from work.

If you all could pray about knowledge and strength for what to do with all of this stuff that God has over-provided me with, I would appreciate it. I start a better job in a week that is going to be even more exhausting that my current one, and so I’d like to tackle this problem the best I can before that happens. Thanks!
Same boat, but it's my whole house! I'm overwhelmed! I'll pray for you.....
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What's the weather like where you are? (10)

Oh, my goodness! We are expecting below freezing temps all week. :( Thr ice on my porch won't melt. I'm housebound.
I count myself fortunate that I live far enough north that ice is rarely a problem. I can handle snow (hopefully in much smaller quantities) but not ice. You have my sincere sympathy. At this time of year ice is likely to stick around (if you will pardon my pun) for much too long.
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Quartodecimanism: Myths and Facts

Some Quartodecimians refused to abide by it, but like Arians, their disobedience of Nicaea caused them to become anathema as soon as the First Ecumenical Synod was accepted as ecumenical by the ancient churches of Alexandria, Antioch, Rome, Cyprus, and the newly reinstated church in Jerusalem.



False: St. Matthew the Apostle and Evangelist spread the Gospel to Parthia, Pontus, and Ethiopia, where he was martyred. Also, contrary to popular opinion, the version of the Gospel of Matthew we have was originally written in Greek, not Aramaic or Hebrew.
Quartodecimanism, as I wrote above, was not the practice that was deprecated at Nicea. Protopaschitism (as it was later called) was.

Matthew 5:17: Think not that I have come to abolish the law and the prophets; I have come not to abolish them but to fulfil them. For truly I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the law until all is accomplished. Whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches men so [i.e. Paul] shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but he who does them and teaches them [i.e. Matthew] shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
I have never heard a "popular opinion" that the Gospel of Matthew was written in Aramaic or Hebrew. Nor do I know of any reliable evidence that Matthew preached in Parthia, Pontus, or Ethiopia.
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The Electrical Nature of the Universe

Rubbish.
Maybe you could tell us what "spiritual insights' you get from Isaiah 30:26a?
Don't you even know that blindness is spiritual? 2 Cor. 4:4
What will happen will not be 'doom and gloom' for the Lords faithful peoples, as verse 26b says.
So the sunspot activity will burn up everyone but you and yours? Unlikely unless you believe you are spiritually protected. Hey! Back to spiritual insights again anyway
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Meet the Apostle of Christmas—and Pray the Novena

As [John the Baptist] watched Jesus walk by he said, “Behold, the Lamb of God.” …Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two who heard John and followed Jesus. He first found his own brother Simon and told him, “We have found the Messiah” …Then he brought him to Jesus. (Jn. 1:36-40)

Africa’s Catholic Awakening Amid Persecution

By 2025, it is projected that Africa will be home to one-sixth of the world’s Catholics. That means tens of millions of faithful believers—many of them first- or second-generation Catholics—bringing new life to a Church that has long been centered in Europe and the Americas. This demographic shift represents one of the most profound transformations in Church history.


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December 2, 2025

Our Morning Offering – 2 December – O Virgin Most Pure, Wholly Unspotted


One Minute Reflection – 2 December – ‘ … And, the greater their purity, the more they will see!’

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Other Commemorations: St. Bibiana, Virgin and Martyr; St. Silverius, Pope and Martyr

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