Listless Trump Campaign Turns To Conway​

Lara Trump warned her father-in-law Donald that an election win against the Dems is no longer a foregone conclusion – with Kellyanne Conway now set to return to the fold.

Trump’s daughter-in-law – who is also co-chair of the RNC – had a meeting last weekend where she described the race between him and Kamala Harris as a coin toss.

Lara Trump reportedly “laid out the cold hard facts” to Donald just one day after the ex-president had a reunion with Conway, 57.

The first woman to ever manage a presidential campaign to victory, Conway was one of Trump’s fiercest advocates on the trail and in the White House before she left in August 2020.

The 2024 Trump campaign has suffered from a triple blow of vice presidential nominee JD Vance’s poor reception from the public, Harris’ “honeymoon period” as she jumps into the race and a similar effect on her choice of running mate Tim Walz.

Now, what had appeared to be a coronation of Trump for a return to the White House over Joe Biden has turned into a neck-and-neck race, with Harris beginning to take a lead in the polls.

Conway’s role would not be specified but would have her working side-by-side with co-campaign manager Susie Wiles, who currently runs the show with Chris LaCivita.

Now, Trump and two of his closest allies – Lara as well as wife Melania – are backing him to try and get Conway to come to the rescue.

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Kamala Harris Copies Trump’s No Taxes on Tips Campaign Promise​

Vice President Kamala Harris copied a campaign promise first announced by former President Donald Trump to eliminate taxes on tips.

During a campaign rally in Nevada on Saturday, Harris acknowledged that Culinary Union Local 226 was at the rally, and she continued on to vow that if elected president in November, she would work to “raise the minimum wage” and “eliminate taxes on tips for service and hospitality workers.”

Harris’s promise comes after Trump announced in June during a rally in Las Vegas, Nevada, that if elected president, his administration would “not charge taxes on tips.”

“I know Culinary 226 is in the house,” Harris told the crowd. “And, the culinary union, as everyone in Nevada knows, they have helped lead the way in our country for workers’ rights and workers dignity. I have to say, for years I’ve been so proud to work by your side. When I was Attorney General of California, we worked together to crack down on wage theft. When I was a United States senator we fought together for paid family leave and medical leave, and earlier this year right here in Vegas we celebrated your historic contract win. And, it is my promise to everyone here, when I am President, we will continue our fight for working families of America. Including to raise the minimum wage, and eliminate taxes on tips for service and hospitality workers.”

During a roundtable event at an African-American church in Michigan in June, Trump again vowed that his administration was “not going to tax tips.”

“Tell your waiters and waitresses, anybody else getting tips, ’cause they’re… a lot of people get tips,” Trump said. “Car attendants and caddies, and a lot of different people get tips. We are not going to tax tips – the tax immediately is coming off.”

Intel is part of the chip manufacturing construction in Columbus OH They received 8.5 billion of your tax dollars.

I recently watched a YouTube Video, here, from a channel named Expedition Bible. I have not watched enough of this channel to determine the overall scholarly integrity of the presenter, but his presentation of the facts seemed to stand for itself. The overall subject of the video is how Biblical dating can be supported through archaeology. But what interested me was his discussion of a possible correlation between the story of Jonah and Nineveh and an eclipse.

Relevant facts:

• Assyrian chronologies have been discovered (see original translated source here) showing that in 763 BC, in the year with eponym Esdu-sarabe, it is stated "Revolt in city of Assur, in month of Sivan, sun was eclipsed." (see page 63 in above source).
  
  
• It is possible to date past eclipses, and it is known that in the area of Nineveh, there was an eclipse on June 15, 763 BC. And, actually, I think that eclipse was used to link the Esdu-sarabe year mentioned above to 763 BC. In this web site there is an artist's rendition of what the eclipse would have looked like in Nineveh. And at this website there is a graphic showing the path of the eclipse just north of Mosul, the modern name of the area for former Nineveh.
  
  
• Next is to determine the dating of Jonah. The book of Jonah, itself, doesn't seem to contain any dating links. But Jonah is mentioned as being a prophet during the reign of of Amaziah in Judah and Jeroboam in Israel:
  
  2 Kings 14:23 "In the fifteenth year of Amaziah son of Joash king of Judah, Jeroboam son of Jehoash king of Israel became king in Samaria, and he reigned forty-one years. 24 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord and did not turn away from any of the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, which he had caused Israel to commit. 25 He was the one who restored the boundaries of Israel from Lebo Hamath to the Dead Sea,[e] in accordance with the word of the Lord, the God of Israel, spoken through his servant Jonah son of Amittai, the prophet from Gath Hepher." (map of Jonah's home town Gath Hepher.)
  
  Here is a graphic timeline showing prophets and the kings of Judah and Israel, though it doesn't have any references for the sources of information. This site has a chronology table of the kings of Israel that includes Jeroboam's (Jeroboam II) dates of reign: 782/781-753 BC. And this link shows chronology of the kings of Judah that includes Amaziah's dates of reign: 796/795-767. Here is another chart: Wikipedia timeline of the kings of Israel and Judah.
  

So to conclude: Jonah seems to have been God's prophet at the time of the 763 BC Eclipse, and it is recorded that God sent Jonah to Nineveh, and also that the city repented. It is conjecture as the the EXACT timing. I.e. did Jonah show up BEFORE the eclipse? AFTER the eclipse? But the fact that the entire city repented gives weight to the fact that there was something in addition to Jonah's words that motivated everyone. Perhaps it was just the story of Jonah being swallowed by the fish, but if there was an eclipse, that would give even more weight to his words.

What do you think?

KT

You shall not make wrongful use of the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not acquit anyone who misuses his name.

The name of the Lord is YHWH in Latin letters and יְהֹוָה in Hebrew. It is commonly pronounced as Yahweh or Jehovah. While using these names is not wrong, it is not deemed necessary. This is because the initial translators of the Old Testament chose "the Lord" to represent YHWH, a practice largely maintained in English translations as "the LORD". Misusing God's name would involve using it disrespectfully or as if it had no value. Catholics, among others, consider the name of God—whether as the Lord, Jehovah, or Yahweh—to be sacred, deserving the utmost respect and never to be treated as insignificant.

Dear Lord, teach me what You want me to learn.
Please teach me, Lord, how Your will to discern.
Give me knowledge, Lord, of what I should pray.
Help me to live for You throughout each day.

Trials do come. They are testing my faith.
Give me understanding, help me today.
Be near to me, Lord, and comfort my heart.
May I not stray from You, never depart.

Life has its ups and downs, never the same.
Enemies come at me. I call Your Name.
You hold my future. It’s all in Your hand.
Now on Your Holy Word I take my stand.

The peace of my Lord now rules in my heart.
The joy of the Lord now each day to start.
The comfort of Christ there with me each day.
In time spent with Him I bow and I pray.

An Original Work / June 9, 2022

A triumphal procession is a celebration of great victories. In this context these are spiritual victories over our enemy Satan, and over the flesh, and over sin, and over anything opposed to God and to his righteousness and holiness. And these victories are ours through genuine God-persuaded and God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ our Lord. Because of what Jesus did for us on that cross we can now die with him to sin and be raised with him to walk in newness of life in him, no longer as slaves to sin but now as slaves to God and to his righteousness (1 Peter 2:24; Romans 6:1-23).

But these victories are not of the flesh, but of God. So it is God who leads us in Christ in these victories as we cooperate with him in his work of grace in our lives. For we have to follow him and his leading. We have to go where he sends us, and to do what he commands, and to say what he gives us to say, if we are going to have these victories. And we must be those who are spreading the Good News of the gospel of our salvation to the world around us, but we must make certain that we are spreading the truth, not the lies.

So, what is the truth of the gospel that we are to be spreading? Jesus said that if anyone would come after him he must deny self, take up his cross daily (die daily to sin and to self) and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to our old lives of living in sin and for self, we will lose them for eternity. But if for Jesus’ sake we deny self, die daily to sin, and follow him in obedience, then we have the hope of salvation from sin and eternal life with God. But we must stay the course until the very end, the Bible teaches us.

[Lu 9:23-26; Matt 7:21-23; Matt 24:9-14; Jn 6:35-58; Jn 15:1-11; Rom 1:18-32; Rom 2:6-8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14,24; Rom 12:1-2; Rom 13:11; 1 Co 1:18; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; 1 Co 15:1-2; 2 Co 5:10,15,21; 2 Tim 1:8-9; Heb 9:28; 1 Pet 1:5; Gal 5:16-21; Gal 6:7-8; Eph 2:8-10; Eph 4:17-32; Eph 5:3-6; Col 1:21-23; Col 3:5-17; 1 Pet 2:24; Tit 2:11-14; 1 Jn 1:5-10; 1 Jn 2:3-6,24-25; 1 Jn 3:4-10; Heb 3:1-19; Heb 4:1-13; Heb 10:23-31; Heb 12:1-2; Rev 21:8,27; Rev 22:14-15]

Now, when we are spreading the knowledge of Christ and of his gospel to the world around us, including to all who profess faith in Jesus Christ, we are the aroma (fragrance) of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing. And please note that this says, “being saved,” for our salvation is not a one-time deal and now we are good to go regardless of how we live. Our salvation is progressive, and it is dependent upon us walking in obedience to our Lord in holy living and us no longer making sin our practice, from now to eternity (see above Scriptures).

And in this context, “aroma” is being used more metaphorically to mean the knowledge or character or distinctive marks of who Christ is and of what he taught and of why he came to the earth. We as his followers are to be his representatives in sharing who Jesus is, but not in words only, but in our actions, by our example. Now this is not a claim to perfection, as Jesus was perfect, but our lives should reflect who Christ is and what he has called us to be and to do. It should be apparent that we have been with Jesus.

Now to those who are genuinely “being saved,” i.e. who are walking in obedience to the Lord in holy living, and who are no longer walking in sin, by God’s grace, what we share with them, if what we are sharing is the truth of the Scriptures, should be an encouragement to them. And to encourage is not just all the “feel good stuff” that people like to hear, but it is sharing with them the truth that can save their souls from hell, and which teaches them how they should live as followers of Christ.

But to those who are perishing in their sins – which includes those who are making professions of faith in Jesus Christ but who are still living in deliberate and habitual sin against the Lord (see Scriptures above) – they will not find encouragement in our words unless they are ready to receive them and to follow Jesus in obedience to his commands. For they don’t want to be confronted with their sins and called to repentance, to the forsaking of their sins, and to walks of obedience and surrender to Christ as Lord.

But all this is dependent on us being those who speak the truth of God’s word in love to the people, who are teaching the word in its appropriate context, and who are not altering and diluting the truth to make it more palatable to human flesh, as so many people are doing these days. For we need to be people who are honest, sincere, and obedient to our Lord to do what he has commissioned us to do as his servants and messengers. And so we must be careful to teach the Scriptures in context so that we don’t end up teaching a false gospel taken from Scriptures taught out of context.

You are Loving and Forgiving

An Original Work / February 19, 2012
Based off Psalm 86

You are loving and forgiving,
Jesus, Savior, King of kings.
You provided our redemption.
By Your blood You set us free.
You are gracious; full of mercy.
No deeds can compare with Yours.
Great are You; there is none like You.
Glory be to Your name.

Teach me Your way, and I’ll walk in it.
O Lord, I will walk in Your truth.
May I not have a heart divided,
That Your name I give honor to.
I will praise You, O Lord, my Savior,
For great is Your love toward me.
You have delivered me from my sins.
Your grace has pardoned me.

You, O Lord, are full of compassion,
Slow to anger, bounteous in love;
Faithful to fulfill all You promise;
Glory be to Your name above.
Hear, O Lord, and answer Your servant.
You are my God. I trust in You.
Turn to me and grant Your strength to me.
You are my comforter.

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In Colossians, chapter 3, Paul gave us instructions from the Lord on how to live holy lives unto God. We are to set our minds on Christ and on heavenly things, not on the things of this earth. For we died, and our lives are now hidden in Christ. Christ is now our life, not just part of our life.

We are to put to death the things of our old sin nature. We are not to walk in the ways we once did when we followed the sinful passions and desires of our hearts. We are not to lie to ourselves or to others. Instead we should show kindness and compassion. We should forgive others as Christ has forgiven us. Over all, we are to put on love.

Your Life

An Original Work / October 22, 2011
Based off of Colossians 3:1-17

Set your hearts and minds
On things up above
Where Christ sits with God;
Not on earthly things.
For you died and your life
Is now hidd’n with Christ.
When Christ, who is your life, is seen,
You will be with Him.

Your sins, put to death.
Don’t walk in these ways.
Don’t lie to yourselves
Or to others, too.
Since you have taken off
Your old sinful past;
Put on the new self in Jesus,
Get rid of such things.

Therefore, holy ones,
Put on gentleness;
Kindness; patience, too;
Be compassionate.
Bear with one another;
Forgive others, too.
Forgive as the Lord forgave you.
O’er all, put on love.

Let the peace of Christ
Rule in your hearts now.
You were called to peace.
Be ye so thankful.
Let the word of Christ dwell
In you richly now
As you teach and instruct others;
Sing songs unto Christ.

Spoken: “And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him” (Col. 3:17 NIV 1984).

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The situation being referred to here appears to be the one talked about in 1 Corinthians 5:1-13. A man within the gatherings of the church was evidently in an incestuous relationship with his father’s wife (his mother or his step-mother). And the church was glad and was ignoring the situation. And so Paul instructed the church to exercise church discipline on the man and to remove him from the fellowship of the believers. And the goal of this action was that the man would be brought to repentance to save his soul from hell.

And they were to no longer be in fellowship with the man in order to shame him, for they were to “Purge the evil person from among you.” And it appears that they did as they were instructed. But now Paul was instructing them to forgive the man and to comfort him so that the man would not be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow. And now they were to reaffirm their love for him. So it also appears that the man, thus, had repented of his sin of incest (sexual immorality), and so God had forgiven him of his sin.

Now it helps us to picture this if we can understand the situation they were in during that time period, in contrast to our time period. For the church was the body of Christ made up of all who were of genuine faith in Jesus Christ, who had died to sin and who had been raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but now as slaves to God and to his righteousness. But the church in Corinth was the whole body of Christ in the entire city. And they were all under the same elders/overseers.

Now they didn’t all meet together in one huge building, as far as I understand, but they met from house to house and in the temple courts, which were open to the Gentiles. And they probably met wherever they could find places to meet, and they met daily, not just one day a week. And all of them who were of genuine faith in the Lord had gifts of the Spirit and were to be given opportunities within their gatherings to where they could all minister encouragement and exhortations to one another.

So, for them it wasn’t like it is for us here in America, anyway, where every congregation of what is called “church” is separate, one from the other, and under different authorities and church denominations. So, in America, if a church congregation in any particular city exercised such biblical discipline upon its members who were engaged in gross sexual immorality, the offending parties could just go to a “different church” where they would be accepted and not be disciplined at all for their sinful behaviors.

But in the time of Paul, where the church was all believers in Christ in the entire city under the same elders/overseers (my understanding), if the entire body of Christ in that city exercised that kind of church discipline on the man, he would be shunned by all the Christians in the city, and he would have nowhere else he could go. And so this would definitely put much pressure on the man and he would have felt punished to the point of either repenting of his sins or else just rejecting God and the church altogether.

Now, that may seem harsh to some people today who did not grow up in that culture, but we have the opposite situation in the church in America today where sexual immorality is running rampant in the gatherings of the church (or the false church). And it appears that few congregations are exercising such biblical discipline on the offending parties, and so the cancer has been allowed to spread throughout the church. If any church does anything, it is often to supply a support group for the addicted to sin.

But our Lord disciplines those he loves so that we will live godly and holy lives in accord with his will and purpose for our lives, just like godly parents discipline their children so that they do not end up wild and out of control. So, exercising true biblical discipline in such cases is not cruel to the offending parties. What is cruel is ignoring the situation and doing nothing so that human lives and marriages and families are being destroyed by this evil cancer of sexual immorality which is permeating the church.

But what this also teaches us is the importance of forgiveness. Now I believe the Scriptures teach that we must forgive even if the offending parties do not repent of their sins, but that is largely for the benefit of the ones who do the forgiving, because if we do not forgive others it will eat away at us like a cancer inside of us and it will kill us from within. But this forgiveness is not approving of others’ sins and it does not mean we should be in fellowship with those we know are living in sin. But it is us not getting even with them.

Yet the kind of forgiveness that God offers to us and that these Christians were now to offer to this man was a forgiveness that involved restoration to the body of Christ because the man had repented of his sins. For when we truly repent of (turn from) our sins to follow our Lord in obedience to his commands, he does forgive us, and he will bring us into fellowship with him, provided that our repentance is genuine. And if God, who is sinless, forgives us, we who are born into sin should thus forgive others their sins.

[Matthew 6:14-15; Matthew 18:21-22; Mark 11:25; Luke 6:37-38; Luke 11:4; Luke 17:3-4; 2 Corinthians 2:5-7; Colossians 3:12-13]

You are Loving and Forgiving

An Original Work / February 19, 2012
Based off Psalm 86

You are loving and forgiving,
Jesus, Savior, King of kings.
You provided our redemption.
By Your blood You set us free.
You are gracious; full of mercy.
No deeds can compare with Yours.
Great are You; there is none like You.
Glory be to Your name.

Teach me Your way, and I’ll walk in it.
O Lord, I will walk in Your truth.
May I not have a heart divided,
That Your name I give honor to.
I will praise You, O Lord, my Savior,
For great is Your love toward me.
You have delivered me from my sins.
Your grace has pardoned me.

You, O Lord, are full of compassion,
Slow to anger, bounteous in love;
Faithful to fulfill all You promise;
Glory be to Your name above.
Hear, O Lord, and answer Your servant.
You are my God. I trust in You.
Turn to me and grant Your strength to me.
You are my comforter.

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So i was in church today, is a small gathering, if you find one that God is doing things there is a real treasure, it doesn't matter the size building etc.
I am with some 'spiritual sufferings' and the pastor a women a guest this time was talking about 'processes' that christians are going to suffer trials etc.
and i said in my interior 'i am being processed' to the Lord and the pastor immediately looks at me and says 'Don't doubt it' and started talking to me about pro cesses, doubt was tormenting me also and she rebuked the spirit of doubt, i wish i would have paid more attention to everything else she said but i was very nervous after she put her attention on me.

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May this message of comfort touch your life or the life of someone who really needs to hear this.

In Him who is Hope and Truth,
Martin & Nancy

What does it mean to be saved? Jesus expresses it clearly “Today salvation has come to this house, because this man, too, is a son of Abraham. For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost” (Lk 19:9-10). Saint Paul will later add: “This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth” (1 Timothy 2:3-4). It is reaching someone, having their company, their total friendship, reaching eternal life which consists of knowing God and his messenger, Jesus Christ (John 17:3).

But what does it mean to know God? Think, feel and act according to the mind, will and intention of God. The human being was created by God to be happy, a situation that only happens if it includes eternity. Being saved will then be: achieving the fullness of life in eternal intimacy with God. God wants all men to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth. But the one who defines salvation is not God, but man. God makes the proposal, man must give the answer, choose, accept, comply.

God offers his grace to all; It does not discriminate, predestine or condemn anyone, it respects the personal will to choose and opt. Salvation is within everyone's reach; only by express rejection it can be lost.

There are people who claim that reading the Bible, interpreting its content, is the only necessary and exclusive means or element to be saved. But this statement is incomplete, since it does not cover all people, all times or all situations. Also, where does the Bible say that it must be read to be saved? Who has defined it as the sole and exclusive means to achieve salvation?

If it were, strictly speaking, mandatory for everyone, how many people would be excluded? How could the salvation be foreseen for all those who lived and died before the Bible was written, the unevangelized of all times, the illiterate, the blind, etc.?

Would God be just, merciful, if he had dictated such unequal demands?
This condition, even if it were valid from the Bible, would not fit into the concept of universality of salvation and would be equally unfair, because the number of people who do not know the Bible far exceeds those who have knowledge of it.

“It is my promise to everyone here, when I am president, we will continue our fight for working families,” Harris said, pledging to raise the minimum wage and “eliminate tips for service and hospitality workers.”
She's something!

Recently I’ve been having sort of an odd worry. If I make plans with someone and it’s something I really want to do I worry if God will tell me to cancel the plans or event. I worry that if He does tell me not to go I won’t obey Him because I really wanted to go. I’ve never actually felt like God told me this but now I feel like I shouldn’t go because if He did I’m not sure I would obey. I don’t even know if this makes sense but it sucks having these thoughts and anxiety as a Christian. Can anyone else relate?

The question in title is the only one

A question of truth, once again

Tim Walz had taught in China for a year and he and his wife led 10 summer student tours.
He loves the Chinese people but is critical of their government policies.
He had a life changing moment when he met the Dalai Lama in 2016 and discussed humility, patience and compassion.
How I wish many of our politicians could have such lunches with spiritual wisdom figures and have transformational moments.

Hi , New Christian in my 50's I consider myself Baptist though I do not have a Church. Also I lean reformed (been reading the puritans) Does anyone else think that those guys are brilliant? Also have been reading Reformed Theology along with the KJV. If at all possible I really need some Christian fellowship with other believers with similar beliefs but I am no Theologian So my conversations may be a bit remedial.

Hello folks. This devotional will be a tough one, so anyone under 16 or anyone who has gone through rough moments may want to skip this one. Survivor resources are located at the bottom of this devotional.

At a small liberal arts college in Bismarck, North Dakota, Catholic science students have stayed over the summer to research the genetics of blindness in fruit flies.

Students attend daily Mass together, share community dinners, and discuss their vocations and how to follow Christ’s call in their lives — all as part of a University of Mary Summer Undergraduate Research Vocation Experience (SURVE).

SURVE director David Ronderos, a neuroscientist and biology professor at “UMary,” says the program was designed to help students embrace both faith and science.

The research itself — a decade-long project undertaken by Ronderos — is set to be published in just a few months.

Continued below.

Ecclesiastes 1:

9 What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.

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Wiki:

mainstream scientific approaches reject the explanation of déjà vu as "precognition" or "prophecy".

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Deja vu is not prophecy.

People who travel often or frequently watch films are more likely to experience déjà vu than others.

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To me, deja vu is superstition. Practice hearing from God instead.

"International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach said on Friday he is not aware of a ‘scientifically solid’ way to distinguish a man from a woman"

--"the IOC “would be more than pleased to look into” the situation, it does not have a way to probe the gender claims of either athlete at this time"

Seriously? I never heard of such a problem in decades past. It seems to me one could take a person into a locker room and settle that issue in a minute?