Cardinal Gerhard Müller, the former prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, has issued a series of statements following a report by The Pillar detailing a financial inspection and investigation of his former department in 2015.

The cardinal acknowledged that the Vatican department he had led kept “unusually large” amounts of cash in the office, but did not address reports of the large sums transferred into his personal bank account, or that Pope Francis ordered him to repay the funds.

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Being a faithful Catholic in the modern world seems weird to those who have embraced the modernist radical materialism that permeates so much of the culture.

Being a faithful Catholic in the modern world seems weird to those who have embraced the modernist radical materialism that permeates so much of the culture. The recent claims by Kamala Harris and her campaign surrogates that J.D. Vance is “weird” is really a coded attack on his Catholic faith and his belief that what the Church teaches is true.

Most faithful Catholics are used to being viewed as “weird” because of our certainty that Three can be One, that the Holy Eucharist can be the Real Presence of Christ, and that we can believe in what we cannot see.

The truth is that Catholicism has been viewed by many as “weird” for more than 2,000 years. And craven politicians have been calling their faithful Catholic opponents weird for almost as long. On October 9, 1774, John Adams attended a Catholic Mass in a chapel in Philadelphia during the First Continental Congress and found it so weird that he wrote about it in a letter to Abigail:


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Student, 19, had converted one week prior.​

NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A Muslim in eastern Uganda burned his 19-year-old daughter with a flat iron on July 21 after learning that she had converted to Christianity, sources said.

Naasike Maliyati of Nampologoma, Butaleja District said she attended an evangelistic crusade with a friend in the course of a visit to her grandmother in Lwangoli, Busoba Sub-County, Mbale District, on July 15.

“When they called people to give their lives to Christ, I also went and prayed to receive Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior,” Maliyati said. “When I went back home, I told my sister that I had left Islam. She went and told our dad of my conversion to Christianity.”

The following Sunday Maliyati, a student at Noor Islamic Institute in Mbale, attended a church service, and upon returning home found her father, 44-year-old Abdulrahim Kutosi, and uncles angry with her, she said.

“They tied me up, beat me, and finally my dad picked up a hot flat iron and hot water and burned me and shouted loudly that I was an embarrassment to the family,” Maliyati told Morning Star News. “I was burnt for leaving Islam and converting to Christianity, as my father furiously continued shouting that I had ashamed the family. He continued saying that even Allah is annoyed with me as the pain continued inside my body.”

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In a significant appointment for the Catholic Church in the United States, Pope Francis has named Bishop Richard G. Henning of Providence, Rhode Island, as the next archbishop of Boston. Archbishop-elect Henning, who became the ninth bishop of Providence on May 1, 2023, will succeed Cardinal Seán Patrick O’Malley, OFM Cap., who has served as the archbishop of Boston since 2003. The Holy See announced the appointment today.

A legacy of hope and renewal​

Archbishop Henning, 59, brings a wealth of experience and a deep commitment to pastoral ministry to his new role. He has been widely recognized for his efforts to engage with diverse communities and his dedication to fostering a spirit of hope and renewal within the Church. His appointment comes as the Archdiocese of Boston continues to navigate the clerical sexual abuse crisis that plunged the diocese into chaos more than 20 years ago.

According to the Boston Globe, Archbishop Henning inherits a stable situation in Boston. The archdiocese operated a $15 million deficit in 2003, when Cardinal O’Malley took the helm. In 2023, the diocese had a $13 million surplus. Cardinal O’Malley offered his retirement to Pope Francis in 2019, as required by canon law, having reached his 75th birthday. However, at the Holy Father’s behest, Cardinal O’Malley, 80, has continued to lead the archdiocese.

The Archdiocese of Boston is one of the oldest dioceses in the U.S. It was founded in 1808. Serving 1.8 million Catholics across 144 cities and towns in eastern Massachusetts, the archdiocese is the fourth largest in the nation.

Short tenure in Providence​

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Members of the United States Congress are demanding immediate answers after the U.S. State Department admitted a $500,000 grant the agency awarded to a humanist group may have been misused to promote atheism in Nepal and Asia under the guise of “religious freedom.”

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, is demanding the State Department disclose exactly how much it knew about a pro-atheist organization called “Humanists International” (HI) and its efforts to promote atheism before it awarded the group a $500,000 grant.

McCaul has given the State Department until Aug. 6 to comply with demands for more information, threatening a congressional subpoena if the agency fails to comply.

What is going on?​

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This is from the Democrats official X account. They are really desperate.

A common argument (from the left) for gay marriage is “equal rights”, but this argument is flawed.

A pedophile might want to get married with a child aged 5, but the pedophile still possesses equal rights, as the pedophile can still get married to an adult.

To make a comparison, a homosexual man might want to get married to a man, but can still married to a woman, and thus possesses equal rights.

Rebuttal:
“But homosexual people are consenting adults, a pedophile with a kid isnt consensual”

Doesn’t matter, both the pedophile and homosexual still possess equal rights.

Pray that The Heavenly Father restores peace & true justice in the UK where there are riots:

Pray that Jesus Christ ensures peaceful political stability in Bangladesh as the nation faces so much uncertainty:

“I do not become devoted in the true sense until I have found my rest (certainty of Christ’s expiation for my sin—NC) in the Lord Jesus. I am, up to this, rather looking to receive from Him. I am more an object to myself; but when I find how fully I am an object to Him, then my heart is at liberty to make Him its Object, He having made me His.”—J B Stoney (1814-1897)

“It is a wonderful moment for the soul when by faith we occupy our position (our “position” is Christ; our “condition” is saved—NC) in the favor of our Father—when we know that we are received by Him in all the acceptance of the Lord Jesus Christ (Eph 1:6). We do not then think of ourselves, of our worthiness or unworthiness, at all (believers are worthy through Christ - 1Co 11:27, 29; Eph 4:1; Rev 3:4). We think of the Lord Jesus—His perfections, His suitability to divine favor, His infinite acceptance with the Father—and by faith, we have access into the favor of which He is so worthy (Rev 4:11).”—C A Coates (1862 1945).

“May you retire into the secret of your heart and wait on the Father, and think that His heart is so relieved of everything about you, that He sees you according to the Son at His right hand. Amidst all the confusion and contrariety of this scene I know how my Father feels about me.”—J B S

“Our Lord Jesus Christ, ‘who died for us, that whether we wake of sleep, we should live together with Him’ (1Thes 5:10). Can anything affect your heart so much as the way the man in Christ is received in the new position (it’s been said that our condition cannot affect our position—but our position affects our condition—NC)? What I press now is the right that we have to be in the place, and that it is not only that I delight to be there, but the ineffable thought is that the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ delights to have me in His place, sharing His joys.” –J B S

“When I look at this place, He is not here; and when I look at myself naturally I am not fit for Him. How happy then to know that I belong to the place where He is; and that in Him, through grace, I am made suited to Him in that new place Above.” –J B S

“Let my circumstances be what they may, if I can see them ordered for me unfailingly by the One in Whom is infinite wisdom, power (omnipotence) and goodness combined, and whose love toward me I am assured of, my restlessness is gone, my will subjected to that Other will in which I can but acquiesce and delight” (all that a saint encounters is either known and allowed to transpire or is directly ordered by God, and regardless of the outcome He is always in control of everything and uses it for our ‘good’ - Ro 8:28—NC).—F W Grant (1834-1902)

“In every trial, however gloomy, there are gleams of light and relief; but full deliverance is often delayed by our anxiety to obtain it. God Himself, and not the deliverance, is to be the satisfaction of His servant; consequently the deliverance is often postponed until we are without prospect or expectation of it; and then it may be accorded in a manner so transcendently beyond our conception, that we must see and understand the love and interest which surrounded us during the whole period of grief.”—J B S

“’In everything we are enriched by Him’ (1Co 1:5). The favor of our Father is given to us in Christ Jesus, and in everything we are enriched in Him. If we are not happy it is because we have temporarily lost sight of the favor given us in Him. In our foolishness we turn to the world or look into our own hearts, instead of keeping our eyes on the Lord Jesus, the risen and exalted Man in Whom the Father has given us His favor.”—C A Coates

“The nearer you are to the Father the happier you are. You come in now in all the beauty of the Lord Jesus Christ. Then you find that not only has all the offense been removed, but that the Father has been so fully glorified by the Son that the nearer you come to Him, the more you are assured of His love.”—J B S




MJS daily devotional excerpt for August 5

“Could it be possible that God would so love an individual as to give His only Son to die for him and still love him to the extent of following him with the pleadings and drawings of His grace until He has won that soul into His own family and created him anew by the impartation of His own divine nature, and then be careless as to what becomes of the one He has thus given His all to procure?” –Lewis Sperry Chafer (1871-1952).

Saint Paul points out that we cannot address the Father without the help of the Holy Spirit, who cries out within us (Galatians 4:6). Prayer should begin with an invocation to the Spirit, as it is essential to our relationship with God.

The Holy Spirit is essential to give life to the soul, grant peace, wisdom and love. Without His presence, we cannot truly be children of God. Furthermore, the gift of the Spirit is a divine gift that fills us with love and allows us to participate in the holiness of God.

The mission of the Holy Spirit is our sanctification, transforming us and bringing us closer to God. Through prayer, we can open ourselves to His action and receive His gifts, which include wisdom, understanding, knowledge, counsel, strength, piety, and fear of God. Each of these gifts helps us live in accordance with divine principles and maintain an intimate relationship with God, avoiding sin and valuing his presence in our lives.

So, I have seen non-denominationalists getting a lot of flack online.


The biggest criticism I've heard is that non-denom churches lack accountability since the pastor can do and teach whatever he wants, without any higher authority overruling him.


What are your thoughts about this, and how would you respond?

I’m thankful for the cross of Christ
Where Jesus died for me
So I could die with Him to sin
And live eternally

I’m thankful that He cared for me
And called me to be His
So I could serve Him with my life
And do all that He says

I’m thankful that He’s chosen me
To serve Him in this way
So I can share His gospel truth
And other hearts to sway

I’m thankful for the Christian church
His body, who believe
In Jesus Christ their risen Lord
By faith they do receive

I’m thankful for the fellowship
I share with Christ today
And with his body, saints of God
Who follow in His ways

I’m thankful for my family,
My husband and my kids
And grandchildren, oh what a joy
God graciously He gives

So thankful I am to have life
With purpose, not a waste
To live my life my God to please
And not His will forsake

An Original Work / November 21, 2022

Today my husband Rick and I celebrate 52 years of marriage. I am thankful for my husband.

In this life, if we are following Jesus Christ with our lives, we will be persecuted for righteousness’ sake and for the sake of Christ and his gospel message. We will be hated and persecuted because we are living holy lives in submission to Christ as Lord, and in surrender to his will and purpose for our lives. This does not make us perfect people, but lack of perfection is never to be used as an excuse for deliberate and habitual sin. For if we are truly following Jesus with our lives, we are dying with Christ to sin daily, and we are walking by faith in obedience to his commands, in his power.

[Matthew 5:10-12; Matthew 10:16-25,34-39; Matthew 24:9-14; Luke 6:22-23; Luke 21:12-17; John 15:18-21; Revelation 6:9-11; Revelation 7:9-17; Revelation 11:1-3; Revelation 12:17; Revelation 13:1-18; Revelation 14:1-13; Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23; 1 Peter 2:24; Romans 6:1-23]

But when we are persecuted, and when we are mistreated, and we are sinned against, and we are falsely accused of wrong we did not do, we are not to try to get even with those who do evil against us. Rather, we are to love our enemies, and pray for them, and do good to them, and say to them what is for their spiritual benefit, that they might be saved from their sins. And we are to forgive those who do evil against us. But forgiveness is not permission to keep on in sin, but it is encouragement to “go and sin no more.” It is giving the other person another chance to do what is right.

And this word “rejoice” literally means “to delight in God’s grace,” in what Jesus Christ did for us when he gave his life up for us on that cross. First of all we must experience God’s grace in our own lives, and then we are to be glad in that grace. And that grace sent Jesus Christ to the cross to put our sins to death with him, so that by God-persuaded and God-gifted faith in him, we will die with him to sin and now live to him and to his righteousness in walks of obedience to his commands in holy living. So we are to be glad in our dying with him to sin and in walking in obedience to his commands.

For the grace which comes from God, which is bringing us salvation, is training us to renounce (say ‘No!’ to) ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives while we await our Lord’s return. For Jesus Christ “gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.” “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.” (Titus 2:11-14; Ephesians 2:8-10)

And to pray without ceasing is not suggesting that we are to spend our entire days and nights in bowing our knees before God and in bringing our requests to him. Instead, I believe it means to be in continuous open communication with the Lord to where we have an open door for us to speak with him, and him with us, 24/7, during all our waking hours of every day. So, prayer to the Lord is not some official and religious thing that we do each day at a particular time of day and place, though that can be part of it, but it really has to do with open 24/7 communication between us and God.

Now, regardless of our circumstances, if they are good or evil (evil being done against us), we are to give the Lord thanks. We are not to be those who make it our practice to grumble and complain about anything and everything that comes across our paths which displeases us. Now this is not saying that we cannot address wrongdoing and bring it into the light and call for repentance and for walks of obedience to the Lord. For we are to expose the fruitless deeds of darkness and call sin what it is and call for people to repent of their sins and to follow Jesus with their lives.

And we are not to quench the Spirit. How do we quench the Spirit? We do that by resisting the Spirit and his convictions and the teachings of the Word of God in order to go our own way. We do that by ignoring God’s commands and choosing to sin against the Lord. And we do that by ignoring and skirting around whatever Scriptures we don’t like which tell us what we do not want to hear, and by only following the Scriptures which make us feel good, which are often taught out of context and made to say what they do not say if they are taught in their appropriate context.

And prophesying, in this context, according to the Greek Interlinear, is “the gift of communicating and enforcing revealed truth.” It is “what is clarified beforehand; prophecy which involves divinely-empowered forthtelling (asserting the mind of God) or foretelling (prediction).” And the Holy Spirit was given to us within us to teach, instruct, reveal, encourage, and warn, etc. So we must be able to hear his inner voice speaking to us, which then sometimes he gives us to share with the body of Christ. But then we must test these words “from the Lord” to see if they truly are from the Lord.

But we are not to despise them immediately without even testing them against the truth of the Scriptures, taught in context. Some of them will be obvious immediately if we are in tune to the Spirit’s voice, and if we know what the Scriptures teach, but if we just ignore everything that anyone says he heard from the Lord, without even being certain whether or not it is from God, then we risk quenching the Spirit. But not everything that is claimed to be of the Spirit is of God. There is so much abuse of the gifts of the Spirit, so we must be very wise and discerning, and seek the counsel of God.

But once we have tested everything, then we are to hold fast to what is good, and we are to abstain from every form of evil. And just know that there are many false teachers among us who are teaching lies to the people and who are altering the character of God/Christ, and of his gospel, to make them more acceptable to the ungodly and to human flesh. And the lies are what are most popular today and which are being received more often than the truth. And that is because the lies give permission to keep sinning without change, and the truth requires death to sin and obedience to God.

[Matt 7:21-23; Lu 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Rom 2:6-8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14; Rom 12:1-2; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Co 10:1-22; 2 Co 5:10,15,21; Gal 5:16-24; Gal 6:7-8; Eph 2:8-10; Eph 4:17-32; Eph 5:3-6; Col 1:21-23; Col 3:1-17; Titus 2:11-14; 1 Jn 1:5-10; 1 Jn 2:3-6,24-25; 1 Jn 3:4-10; 1 Pet 2:24; Heb 3:1-19; Heb 4:1-13; Heb 10:23-31; Heb 12:1-2]

Oh, to be like Thee! Oh, to be like Thee,
Blessèd Redeemer, pure as Thou art;
Come in Thy sweetness, come in Thy fullness;
Stamp Thine own image deep on my heart.

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‘Kamala Harris' campaign launches ​

‘Republicans for Harris’ With Over 25 GOP Endorsements

“Republicans for Harris” will kick off this week with
targeted ads and themed events in Arizona, North
Carolina, and Pennsylvania.

Kamala Harris' campaign launched “Republicans for Harris” in a bid to attract GOP voters left distraught with Donald Trump. The vice president's team said on Sunday that the program will be a “campaign within a campaign.” Previously dubbed “Republicans for Biden,” the group was relaunched following the president's decision to drop out of the 2024 race.

‘Republicans for Harris’ gains over 25 GOP endorsements​

The revamped program has already gained more than 25 GOP endorsements, including former secretaries Chuck Hagel and Ray LaHood, Trump-era White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham and Olivia Troye, ex-national security adviser to former Vice President Mike Pence.
Harris' team explained that the rollout will include outreach from well-known Republicans to their networks, with an emphasis on voters who previously supported the former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, per the Associated Press.

“I encourage other Trump administration officials who saw the tyrant we worked for in office to speak out and stand with Kamala Harris this November to keep integrity in the White House and ensure democracy for our country,” Grisham said in a statement.
“Republicans for Harris” will kick off this week with targeted ads and themed events in Arizona, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania. Republicans who have supported Harris will also attend the campaign rallies alongside her soon-to-be-declared running mate.

In light of the program, Austin Weatherford, Harris’s national director of Republican outreach, said in a statement, “Donald Trump’s MAGA extremism is toxic to the millions of Republicans who no longer believe the party of Donald Trump represents their values and will vote against him again in November.”
“Donald Trump said he doesn’t want these voters, but Vice President Harris and our campaign are working 0vertime to earn the support of my fellow Republicans who care about defending democracy and restoring decency — all of which would be torn away in a second Trump presidency,” Weatherford added.

Many throughout the world are presently being severely persecuted for their faith in Jesus Christ and for their testimonies for the gospel of Jesus Christ. Numerous saints of God are being martyred because they refuse to deny the name of Jesus Christ, and they refuse to bow to the world’s system, and because they will not stop sharing the true gospel of salvation.

Jesus said we would be hated as he was hated, and that as he was treated, so would we be treated, if we are his true followers. So, this should not take us by surprise when this happens. And, it is coming to America, too, because Scripture teaches us that in the last days this persecution will increase, and that the dragon will be enraged, as though he is not already, and he will pursue Christ’s true servants and witnesses with hateful vengeance.

Yet, we are not to be afraid of those who can kill the body but who cannot kill the soul. We must believe that God is sovereign over all things – all events and all people - and that nothing can enter into our lives, outside of ourselves, but what he allows it, and he has a purpose in it which will bring glory to his name, and many to saving faith in Jesus Christ.

So, trust Him. Rest in His love. Believe Him that He will work it all for our ultimate good. Divine discipline is painful, but necessary in order to mature us, to purify us, and to make us holy. We are not here on this earth for our own pleasure, but rather to honor and magnify our Lord God.

Why Are You Afraid?

An Original Work / December 5, 2013
Based off Various Scriptures

Do not be afraid.
Your Lord is always by your side.
Serve the Lord in righteousness
Before Him all your days.

Those who hate the light
Will not come to the Lord.
They fear their deeds
Might be noticed.
So, they hate the light,
And they embrace the night.

Do not be afraid,
Although your enemy attacks.
Dare to share your testimony
Of God’s saving grace.

Do not fear their threats,
But honor Christ, your Lord.
Be prepared to give an answer
For the hope you have,
With gentleness; respect.

Why are you afraid?
For all that’s hidden will be shown.
What I tell you, speak in daylight.
Let the truth be known.

Do not be afraid
Of those who’ll take your life.
Fear the Lord with understanding.
Trust Him with your life,
And give not up to strife.

Do not be afraid.
Take courage, it is I, your Lord.
Bow before Me; now adore Me.
Oh, why do you doubt?

Listen to the Lord.
Get up and bear His name!
Run and tell the world He loves them.
Jesus came to save.
Give Him your all today.

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Respect, Esteem, Admiration

The context here is that of the church, the body of Christ, and of how we are all to minister one to the other as fellow servants of the Lord Jesus Christ. The first instruction for us here is that we respect those who labor among us and who are over us in the Lord and who admonish us. We are to esteem them very highly in love because of their work. But who are they? Are they everyone who calls themselves “pastor” or “elder”? No! They are not! Why? Because not all of them are “in the Lord” and working for the Lord.

So many people today who go by “pastor” or “elder” or “deacon” or “prophet” or “apostle” or “evangelist,” etc., are not working for the Lord under his direction, but they are following the marketing schemes and gimmicks of the world and of big business in order to grow their numbers. And so they have largely conformed to the world and to marketing the church to the world just like any other business in order to draw in large crowds of people from the world into their gatherings. And so they are also altering the character of God/Christ, his church, and his gospel, to be more acceptable to the world. So they are working for the flesh, and not for God.

And the Bible instructs us that we are to be those who are testing the spirits to see whether or not they are of God. And we cannot go by what they profess with their lips alone, especially since Satan disguises himself as an angel of light and his servants disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Many of them do not serve God, but their own flesh, and Satan, and the world. Many among us are truly “wolves in sheep’s clothing” who are out to deceive the sheep and to lead them astray and to false gospels of human origin which do not require death to sin and walks of obedience to our Lord and to his commands, nor holy living.

So, be very discerning and cautious with regard to whom you are giving your respect and admiration and esteem. These people need to be those who meet the biblical qualifications for elder, overseer, and deacon. So know what those qualifications are. And I am not saying that they, or any of us, need to be absolutely perfect in everything that we do. We are all still humans, and we might fail sometimes (1 John 2:1-2). But they should be people of God who are serving the Lord with their lives, who are walking in his ways, and who are obeying his commands, in practice. And they should not be those who are still living in deliberate sin against the Lord Jesus Christ.

Admonish, Encourage, and Help

The next instruction is that we are to be at peace among ourselves, i.e. within the body of Christ. And this word “peace” means, “gift of wholeness, integrity of being.” It means for us to live in the condition of God’s peace, which is peace with God and with his instructions to us and with his will and purpose for our lives. This involves unity with one another, but that unity must be of the Spirit of the Lord and in agreement with the teachings of the Scriptures, and based in integrity and honesty. So this is not unity or peace with what is not of God and that which is contrary to the teachings of the Scriptures, and that which is of the flesh of man and of marketing schemes.

Following that we are instructed to admonish the idle (unruly). We are to exhort, warn, urge, encourage, caution and counsel them in the word of the Lord and in the teachings of the Scriptures and against all that is not of God and that is contrary to the word of God. And those who are idle (disorderly) are those who are spiritually and physically lazy, slothful, and frivolous, who are not working for the Lord but to feed their own fleshly appetites. They are those who spend their free time just wasting time on entertainment and on the pleasures of the world and who are morally deficient, who have no (or little) regard for what God has called them to be doing with their lives.

And the word “encourage” has in its definition such words as admonish, exhort, warn, and urge with a holy urging, as well as it means to comfort, uplift, help, persuade, inspire, hearten, and cheer. But all encouragement should not be what is contrary to the Lord and to his teachings. We are not to lie to people to make them feel good so that they will like us, in return. And we are not to withhold from them the truth that will save their souls from hell just so that we will not get rejected by them. But we are to speak the truth in love, one to the other, and we are to exhort one another daily so that none of us are taken captive by the deceitfulness of sin (Hebrews 3:13).

So if we have fellow professers of faith in Jesus Christ who we know are fainthearted, i.e. small of courage, cowardly, weary of heart, losing inner strength, and/or exhausted emotionally, physically, and/or spiritually, and/or who are weak, i.e. short on physical, moral, and/or spiritual strength and endurance, we are to try to help them. And depending upon what their situation is will depend upon the type of help that we should provide. But we should never encourage (support) moral or spiritual weakness. Yet, we are to be patient and longsuffering and loving and forgiving with them while not fostering any willful defiance of the commands of our Lord Jesus.

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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I recently got engaged which is a huge blessing. Today was the first day back at church since then and I feel like the people I thought would be most excited for me send to me as dismissive. I've been waiting and praying for this for 31 years and it's finally come and i don't feel the same rejoicing other young couples got when it was their turn. I'm so hurt I'm not going back to my church anymore. This is the last straw. If you've seen my previous posts I've been considering leaving for some time. Please pray for my hurt and that i don't give up on finding a new church all together

Do you have a specific ode or hymn you like, and why?

What have been your thoughts and peoples reply when they hear that the Church gave us the Bible?

My dad is older, works 7 days a week with little rest, he is pre diabetic and has one last medicine to try to solve problems with his prostate before it has to be removed.

His health is not as good as it used to be, although I would say he is average for his age (late 60s)

Please pray for his health, and to remove any obstacles that impede his wellbeing and for his longevity, that he may still live a long healthy and fulfilling life. I often pray to God that he lives to 100. I want him to be around when my little siblings are older.

At this time the Corinthian church showed compassion and mercy. The Corinthian church was in times of admiration of theologies and philosophies of the wealthy and glamorous.

Those who believed in Jesus Christ origin ( Christians) who had faith Ephesians 2:8-9 KJV and the church to both show the truth were the partakers of the consolation.

‭2 Corinthians‬ ‭1:3‭-‬7‬ ‭KJV‬
[3] Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; [4] who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God. [5] For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ. [6] And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation. [7] And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.

Ephesians 2:8-9 KJV
'For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast. '

Allowing us Christians, the people and our hands to see God, work and accomplish for us and succeed. Correlation to todays poverty and depression, deep state of emergency

Mark 10:43-44 KJV
'and whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all. But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister: '



Nehemiah 2:18 KJV
'Then I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon me; as also the king's words that he had spoken unto me. And they said, Let us rise up and build. So they strengthened their hands for this good work


Genesis 39:3,6,22 KJV
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3 'And his master saw that the LORD was with him, and that the LORD made all that he did to prosper in his hand.6 And he left all that he had in Joseph's hand; and he knew not ought he had, save the bread which he did eat. And Joseph was a goodly person, and well ffavoured. 22 And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners that were in the prison; and whatsoever they did there, he was the doer of it

Pope Francis on Sunday urged prayers for those suffering in the world due to political conflict, violence, and natural disasters, highlighting humanitarian crises in Venezuela, the Middle East, and Myanmar.

Protests and violence have erupted in cities across Venezuela after citizens headed to the polls one week ago to vote in the country’s controversial presidential elections held on July 28.

The Venezuelan government declared on Monday that President Nicolás Maduro won the election, however many opposition leaders and citizens continue to contest the results, alleging fraud and corruption against the country’s leader and his party.

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In a new letter released Sunday, Pope Francis touts the benefits of reading literature for priests and all those seeking to enrich their lives as Christian believers.

Though he said his letter was originally intended for men receiving priestly formation, he said all Christians — not just those involved in ministry — would benefit from incorporating poetry and literature into their personal times of study or leisure.

“Time spent reading may well open up new interior spaces that help us to avoid becoming trapped by a few obsessive thoughts that can stand in the way of our personal growth,” he writes in his letter, which is dated July 17 and comes at the height of the summer when many people are taking time off to rest and recreate.

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What would Trump do...

About Gaza?

About Ukraine?

About inflation?