Proverbs 16:18 KJV
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

Psalm 45:11 KJV
My Respond evidence scriptures:
'So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: For he is thy Lord; and worship thou him. '

Psalm 119:128
'Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right, And I hate every false way.'

Believing in God (‭Romans‬ ‭10:9‭-‬10‬) is a precept.

Matthew‬ ‭6:33‬ ‭KJV‬

33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Ways you can seek God is by reading your bible, and praying. Reading your bible and prayer is a sign of worship.

2 Kings 9:30-37 KJV 2 Kings 10:1-36 KJV

My Respond:
‭Romans‬ ‭10:9‭-‬10‬ allows you to become like God at the time you believe. Believing in God is a sign of worship.

Romans‬ ‭10:9‭-‬10‬ ‭KJV‬
9 that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

Colossians 2:14 KJV
'blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; '

‭Ephesians‬ ‭2:15‭-‬16‬ ‭KJV‬
15 having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; 16 and that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:

God has blessed me to become like his image, my inner man having faith and believing in Jesus Christ ‭(Romans‬ ‭10:9‭-‬10‬ KJV) becomes a sign of worship. Reading my Bible and praying allows things to be added to me food, raiment and to do God's commission. Which can be also a praise report and acknowledgement.

Commission- The state of that which is entrusted, as the great seal was put into commission; or the state of being authorized to act or perform service,as a ship is put into commission.

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Peace in Christ.

We all know the refrain from an old song: “When we all get to heaven, what a day of rejoicing that will be!”

But this is not what is going to happen as it is met with a “sting” when we mortally die. Death is not a friend but an enemy to be defeated in Christ Jesus. Mortal death brings a “sting” to those who perish.

This is not about “dying and going to Heaven” but IS about NOT mortally perishing (dying) from this earth through faith in Jesus Christ. This is good news for us in the here-and-now.

Whosoever believes into Him (a point reached at the “last trump” moment) should not perish but have an age-lasting life until that moment of transformation.

We shall not mortally perish ever until the redemption of this mortal body where it is to put on immortality which is fashioned like unto His glorious body. We shall then at the last trump will have completely circumvented death…never dying as promised…. through Christ Jesus.

Joh 3:16
(16) For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life (age-lasting life).

“Perishing” is being mortally cut down from this earth as shown in Luke 13 and in the parable of the barren fig tree that follows. Luke 13:9 .

Luk 13:1-5 KJV
(1) There were present at that season some that told him of the Galilaeans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.
(2) And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose ye that these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they suffered such things?
(3) I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
(4) Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem?
(5) I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.

In Amos 5:18, why wish for the day of the Lord? He comes in His wrath with the whirlwind and His chariot to take us away from this earth in the day of our mortal death. The “day of the LORD” in this context in Amos 5 is speaking about the day of His wrath that comes to take us away mortally from this earth through our death. It is the day of our mortal death which then extinguishes His wrath upon us for the serving of the sin. We are saved but only as by fire.

To what end is it for you (personally)?

Amo 5:18-20 KJV
(18) Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.

It comes with a “sting” and not rejoicing. There will be no “light”…and no “brightness”…no cheerfulness. It will be a day of darkness. It comes with a shock that we had been deceived by false prophets into serving the sin which brings "darkness" to us and not cheerful rejoicing.

(19) As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
(20) Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

The sting of death is THE sin. Mortal death brings the realization that we had perished because we listened to the wrong people….false prophets who led us down the broad way to our mortal destruction.

They deceived us into serving THE (definite article) sin….and that realization is the sting of our death when we depart from this earth.

1Co 15:55-57
(55) O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
(56) The sting of death is THE sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
(57) But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

The strength of the sin is the Law.

We are not to have other “gods” (elohim = JUDGES) before Him. God is our Judge and His laws are written inside us. Our judges are not to be an external handwriting of ordinances/dogmas (which many keep and serve).

Exo 20:3-6 KJV
(3) Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

We are not to make unto ourselves any “graven image”…graven by the pen of the church scribes…of anything in the earth beneath that resembles man’s handwritings in the world (their governmental constitutions, laws, etc).

We are not to make graven images containing the external laws of the Scriptures (of anything that is in heaven above). Moses had made the tabernacle after the exact similitude of things in Heaven. Yet, men make similitudes (graven images) of what they thought they understood in the Scriptures (external commandments of the law) and they go and build an earthly tabernacle (a “church”) based upon their “image”…their handwriting of ordinances.

We are not to make any graven image that is in the water under the earth…that is, make handwritings based on the teachings of dead men who have already perished from this earth. Their teachings “the water” under the earth (as they died and were buried) should not be made into a handwriting of ordinances.

(4) Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

We are not to bow down ourselves to the church handwritings of ordinances nor serve them. The LORD our God…our JUDGE...is a jealous God. He is a jealous Judge.

He visits the iniquity (the keeping and serving of handwritings of ordinances) of the church fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Him. The handwritings are passed down from the church fathers to future generations who continue to keep and serve them.

These are the MANY who go down the broad way to their mortal destruction.

(5) Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

Yet, the FEW (the “thousands” of the vessels of His mercy...those of the house of Jacob) love God and keep His commandments (and not the graven images of the church scribes....their handwritings of ordinances). Only the few find the way that leads to life.

(6) And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

The false prophet has us make/do an “image” to the beast (their “another jesus” that they are preaching). The “image” is a church handwriting of ordinances/dogmas that their church is built upon (statements of faith, church constitutions, bylaws, creeds, etc, etc, etc). We are not to make graven images for ourselves to bow down to and worship them.

Rev 13:14-15 KJV
(14) And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.

They cause many to “kill”…that is, JUDGE…others who do not serve their church “image”. Judging others using church handwritings as a basis for is not having love for one another. This is serving THE SIN>

The keeping of the “daily” sacrifice of our Lord (the Lamb slain) is then ceased (the wound by the sword of the Spirit is “healed”) out of our lives. We then no longer live according to the Spirit (mortifying/slaying the deeds of the body) but according to the flesh by judging others…..and those who live after the flesh mortally die.

Power to give life unto the beast=the lie that you shall not surely die. By killing another, you shall not die…according to the lie.

(15) And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.

MANY have and are going down the way that leads to the destruction of the mortal body. They are being led down that way by false prophets who come to us in sheep’s clothing but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Wolves are hunters. They capture and destroy their prey.

Mat 7:12-15 KJV
(12) Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
(13) Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
(14) Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
(15) Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

These men are MADE to take and destroy (not made “to be taken and destroyed”). That is their function. They are hunters…like natural brute beasts (such as a wolf or a lion) who capture and destroy their prey.

2Pe 2:12
(12) But these, as natural brute beasts, made to take and destroy, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;

They are the vessels of His wrath that are fitted for destruction. The Potter has made them that way. The Potter formed the vessel of Esau roughly (Esau = rough handling) while He formed Jacob smooth (a vessel of mercy). Esau was a vessel of dishonor.

They …natural brute beasts that are made to capture and destroy ….are of the house of Esau…as Esau also was a hunter. They…as Esau…”live by the sword”…and die by it. They judge others using their handwritings of church ordinances/dogmas.

Gen 25:27 KJV
(27) And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.

Every man is “brutish” by his knowledge. Every founder is confounded by the “graven image” The church handwritings of ordinances are “images” containing falsehoods. There is no breath/spirit in them.

Jer 51:17-22 KJV
(17) Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

They...the graven images of handwritings of church ordinances... are empty….the word of errors. In the time of their visitation (the day of the LORD), they shall perish. The graven images did nothing to save those who keep and serve them from the wrath of God that came upon them. They are removed from this earth by His wrath.

(18) They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

The portion/inheritance of Jacob (the vessels of His mercy) is not like them. He (God) is the “former”…that is, the POTTER (Hebrew: yâtsar)… of all things.

(19) The portion of Jacob is not like them; for he is the former of all things: and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the LORD of hosts is his name.
(20) Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;

God uses those of the house of Jacob (the Potter’s vessels of mercy) to break in pieces the “horse and his rider”…that is, the power of DEATH. Revelation 6:8. With the vessels of His mercy, He will break the chariot…the chariot that comes to take us away from this earth in the wrath of God. We shall not “ride” in this chariot for we shall not die.

(21) And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider;

Hello folks. Today's devotional is about how we can use technology for good, as well as how modern technology was predicted over 2000 years ago by the Bible.

This verse is one of the verses in scripture that is Spiritual Meat. How meaty? Is it a massive Fillet? yes... Is it a New York Strip? yes... Is it a T-Bone? yes... Is it a Porter House comprised of Wagyu Beef? Without question! But, here's the issue. Before we can break out the steak sauce, knife, fork and napkin, we have to understand the principles required to Spiritually discern this Wagyu Porterhouse. For the sake of interest, a good Wagyu Porterhouse can go for as high as $1000.00 or more.

We have 4 major spiritual concepts to unpack, that would symmetrically be best served with 4 study concepts, for the sake of a good read. We'll reduce mental strain by labeling the 4 study concepts as A though D. This way the initially discussed 1-4, can be served up in a perfectly prepared fashion.

1- Having an unveiled face

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Yale Center for British Art, Public Domain

The 19th-century British painter J.M.W. Turner loved to look at the sky. His work is a reflection of our own attraction to God's glory.

The painter J.M.W. Turner loved to look at the sky. In particular, he loved the skies in Kent, just off the coast of southeastern England. He first visited the beaches there as a child in the late 18th century and continued to visit all his life. As a successful artist, he was much in demand back in London. In spite of our romantic visions of starving artists, happy and free, the career of a full-time artist isn’t entirely without responsibility. There are always deadlines to meet, pictures to be painted for clients that may not spark interest, and the demands of constantly selling pictures in order to put bread on the table.

Turner wasn’t immune to those pressures. For him, the skies of the North Sea just off the coast became a refuge from the big city. In the city, the sky is tame, framed by windows or glimpsed between buildings, but at the beach the sky is boundless.

Joseph Mallord William Turner looked for a long time at those skies and made sketch after sketch in his notebooks. He never sold the paintings. They were quick impressions, studies of mood and color. His more finished art pieces are often full of amazing skies, and the mood he could create was masterful. Those paintings are justifiably adored. For a long time, his watercolor sketches were ignored. But appreciation of them has grown over the years and they’re now extremely popular.

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Recent efforts have brought to light significant finds, including graves, a chapter house, and connections to an earlier 10th-century church.
Ongoing excavations at the Posa Monastery site in eastern Germany have revealed remarkable insights into the spiritual and architectural heritage of this historic site. Since 2017, dedicated archaeologists and volunteers have worked meticulously to uncover the layers of history buried beneath this ancient ground. Recent efforts have brought to light significant finds, including graves, a chapter house, and connections to an earlier 10th-century church.

As explained by IDW, the excavations have uncovered well-preserved remains of the Benedictine monastery founded in 1114, as well as evidence of a 9th- and 10th-century castle, including the foundation walls of a residential tower. This suggests that the original bishop’s castle of the 10th century was probably located on Posa Hill.

This year, the focus was on the northeast cloister, which has been the monks’ living area since the monastery’s founding. The team uncovered the floor plan of the Romanesque chapter house –an important meeting space for the monastic community. The room has undergone significant changes over the centuries, including the addition of a new vault and stone bench during the Gothic period. An ancient water pipe was discovered under the floor of the chapter house, confirming a historical document from 1186. This pipe, which carried water to the monastery kitchen and well house, highlights the sophisticated infrastructure that supported monastic life.

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The Argentinian-owned Padrón Gelateria Artigianale, near St. Peter's Square, supplies Pope Francis and many others at the Vatican with artisanal gelato.

When walking around Rome one finds no shortage of gelaterias, the artisanal gelato shops that are one of the most iconic features of Italian street life. But near St, Peter's Square, in Via San Gregorio VII 38, there is one gelateria that has been making headlines for having a special customer: Pope Francis.

Founded by Sebastián Padrón, an Argentinian man from the city of La Plata, Padrón Gelateria focuses on traditional Argentinian flavors made artisanally, without any additives.

As reported by Rome Reports, since its opening the gelateria has served several priests and Vatican employees and eventually served the Pope himself.

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Go out and visit people in your community and make them feel welcome to come to your church. Do it .

The chair of Republicans Overseas has told Premier he hopes the solidarity shown towards former US President Donald Trump after the assassination attempt helps to ‘dial down aggressive rhetoric’ surrounding the Presidential campaign.

Greg Swenson was speaking after world leaders put aside their political differences to pray for Mr Trump and everyone affected by the incident which happened at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania.

He heard of the assassination attempt shortly after landing at an airport in Chicago and said he was “surprised and shocked. If he hadn't turned his head to the right, he would definitely have been killed. And so it was a really, really close call. It’s tragic, it’s absolutely sick.”

President Biden has called on everybody to condemn what he described as a "sick" act of violence.

Greg Swenson agreed:

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I should have been a geologist. It brings together chemistry, Earth and climbing around nature immersed in the beauty of it all.

I love the idea that the Earth is billions of years old and so much has shifted and taken place in that time.
Lately I am into knowing more about unconformities. We see them all the time when driving though rocks that have been carved out for roads.
Layer upon layer. How small we are

"Thank you to everyone for your thoughts and prayers yesterday, as it was God alone who prevented the unthinkable from happening. We will FEAR NOT, but instead remain resilient in our faith and defiant in the face of wickedness."
Amen.

Prayers are being said after an attempt on the life of Donald Trump at a rally on Saturday that left the former US president injured and a spectator dead.

The Republican nominee was bundled away by Secret Service agents after narrowly escaping death with a gunshot wound to his ear. Footage from the scene of the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, showed Trump with blood on his face.

The gunman was shot and killed by the Secret Service at the scene. He has been named by the FBI as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks.

President Joe Biden said he had spoken to Trump as condemned the shooting.

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In 1974, Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen stated that he intended to write a book about the demonic. But such a book never came to fruition. Now, some fifty years later, Sheen’s intended book has finally been compiled, all in his own words.

In On the Demonic, Sheen addresses the history of the demonic, how the devil manifested himself to Our Lord, how he has worked throughout the Church’s history, and how the Anti-Christ will come in the end times.

Though Sheen is not optimistic about world history, he is most optimistic about Jesus’ final victory: “There is one thing we do know. If Christ wins, we win!“



Perhaps the best-known cleric of his day, Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen hosted his Emmy winning television show from 1951–1966 and authored dozens of books and countless newspaper articles and columns. On the Demonic is only the second of his books to be published posthumously. Sheen’s cause for canonization was opened in 2002.

Fr. Dave Tomaszycki currently serves as Priest Secretary to the Archbishop of Detroit.



“As with any struggle, it is important to know the character of one’s enemies and the strategies they pursue. Given that achieving eternal life is in the balance, such knowledge is supremely important in the struggle against Satan. So, Fr. Tomaszycki has done us a great favor by compiling in On the Demonic Archbishop Fulton Sheen’s wisdom about the nature of the Evil One, the signs of his activity, and our defenses against his wiles. In his lifetime, the Venerable Servant of God Fulton Sheen was renowned as an evangelist. Through this book he again offers us Good News—given what’s at stake, the best news—about the victory of Jesus Christ over ‘principalities and powers’ and how to make his triumph our own.”

Archbishop Allen Vigneron,
Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Detroit

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Nobody likes a Pharisee. That being said, there might still be times when we’re tempted to feel a bit sorry for them. A prime example of this comes in Luke 6:1-5:

On a sabbath, while he was going through the grainfields, his disciples plucked and ate some ears of grain, rubbing them in their hands. But some of the Pharisees said, “Why are you doing what is not lawful to do on the sabbath?” And Jesus answered, “Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him: how he entered the house of God, and took and ate the bread of the Presence, which it is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and also gave it to those with him?” And he said to them, “The Son of man is lord of the sabbath.”

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It’s hard not to feel some sympathy for the Pharisees in this episode. Shouldn’t they be forgiven for thinking the dictates of the Mosaic law ought to trump the eccentric antics of some upstart rabbi from Galilee?

The first thing to realize in response is that the Pharisees’ case isn’t as strong as they would have us believe. When they boldly assert that plucking and eating grain from the fields is forbidden on the sabbath, they apparently have in mind the Old Testament verse Exodus 34:21: “Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.” For the Pharisees, the implication behind this verse was that reaping grain from the fields was permitted six days of the week, but never on the sabbath.

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The Fourteenth Ammendment protects the right to life of babies still in their mothers’ wombs.

For all their differences, it is clear that President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump agree that the unborn are not — and should not — be federally protected. Though President Trump has objected to Florida’s and Arizona’s recent statewide protections for the unborn, he notionally argues that abortion is a state government matter rather than a federal one. President Biden goes even further than Justice Harry Blackmun’s argument in Roe. v. Wade. Biden argues that neither federal nor state governments have the authority to legislate against abortion. But it can be argued that Trump and Biden have already sworn an oath to protect America’s unborn babies. So has every president since Ulysses S. Grant.

The Presidential Oath of Office​

You may wonder, “When did they take such an oath?” The answer: Immediately before holding office. As spelled out in the United States Constitution, a person may not hold office until he or she takes the Presidential Oath of Office. It reads as follows:

I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.

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It is important to note that presidents do not swear to love, like, or even agree with the Constitution. They do swear to “preserve, protect and defend” the Constitution. Of course, this oath includes all the amendments to the Constitution, beginning with the first 10 amendments, commonly referred to as the “Bill of Rights.”

The term “cafeteria Catholic” has been used to describe those persons who accept somecommandments and dogmas, but deny or simply ignore those they find uncomfortable. A similar moniker may be applied to a man or woman who embraces some parts of the Constitution but jettisons others. Taking the presidential oath of office constitutes a solemn refusal to become a cafeteria president: for instance, a person who affirms the Second Amendment, but denies the 10th.

And this discussion leads us to the 14thAmendment.

The 14th Amendment​

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A Catholic priest who gave a benediction during former president Donald Trump’s rally Saturday told people they needed to pray for Trump moments before Trump was shot and wounded.

Father Jason Charron, a Ukrainian Catholic pastor, told CNA a group of about 15 to 20 people called him over to a barricade within the rally site as he was trying to leave shortly before Trump began speaking.

“I said to them: I prayed for him and his safety, but that they have to pray, as well, because there are people who want to kill him,” Charron said in a telephone interview with CNA late Saturday night. “And little did I think — literally a few minutes later there was this kind of indistinct sound, and people began leaving, and at that point I heard someone saying that that was a gunshot.”

A gunman trying to kill Trump fired several times at the former president, hitting the top of his right ear while killing a spectator and wounding two more, authorities said.

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Political leaders from around the globe have spoken out against political violence and in support of democracy after an assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump at a rally in western Pennsylvania on Saturday evening.

Leaders have also wished the former president a quick recovery after he was injured in a shooting at about 6:20 p.m. ET in Butler, Pennsylvania, shortly after the campaign rally began.

In a statement posted to Truth Social on July 13, Trump said a bullet pierced the upper part of his right ear. After receiving treatment at a nearby hospital, the former president flew to New Jersey under Secret Service protection late Saturday night.

Shooter identified​

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The Holy See has condemned acts of violence in the wake of the shooting that injured former U.S. president Donald Trump and others and left one dead at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on July 13.

A brief statement provided to CNA by Vatican spokesperson Matteo Bruni on July 14 said the Holy See expressed “concern about last night’s episode of violence, which wounds people and democracy, causing suffering and death.”

The comment also said the Holy See “is united to the prayer of the U.S. bishops for America, for the victims, and for peace in the country, that the motives of the violent may never prevail.”

Pope Francis did not comment on the incident during his weekly public appearance for the Angelus at noon on Sunday.

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Pope Francis on Sunday urged Christians to be an example to others of how to live a sober, nonmaterialistic lifestyle in peace with one’s community.

“It is important to know how to guard sobriety, to know how to be sober in the use of things — sharing resources, skills, and gifts, and doing without excess. Why? To be free: Excess enslaves you,” the pope said in his Angelus address on July 14.

The pope addressed the problems of materialism in his comments before praying the Angelus, a Marian prayer he leads every week on Sundays.

Speaking from a window overlooking St. Peter’s Square, he reflected on the Sunday Gospel, from Mark 6, focusing on Jesus’ instructions to his apostles to “take nothing for the journey” as he sent them forth to preach.

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Went to a joint Anglican/Methodist service in our village today. The two leaders get on very well. The congregations are happy to be with each other. There are lots of joint social and cultural ventures together that improve the life of the village. Chats about involvement in city-based social initiatives. Much to be grateful for ....and yet....
The pastors and the congregation are overwhelmingly female. (and the congregation old). So what? Well the theology is all about love and inclusivity. OVERWHELMINGLY. Lots of buzz words from wokism. It's all about the (general) female character of agreeableness (ref Jordan Peterson) No-one in either church has ever told the congregation WHY Christ had to die for us, because we are BORN with this fatal, inherited flaw that separates us from God. We can all just slide into the Faith and find our comfortable level.
When I consider the rows of young bearded men falling out of mosques into the streets to pray and make their presence public, how are we not going to be overwhelmed and subsumed (if not destroyed). When we talk about God but not about Jesus and His uniqueness, soon will come the day when our services will effectively be about a merciful Allah alone.

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‘One inch from a potential civil war’ – near miss in Trump shooting is also a close call for American democracy​

Does God have Trump's ear now? Is Trump reconsidering his stand that he does not concern God with his issues? Maybe a change coming?

One police officer standing on the roof of a building 130 yards away from where the Republican candidate would have prevented the shooting. How could you NOT have someone on top of building with a clear line of sight?

Priests and religious in the Catholic faith pray the liturgy of the hours or some parts of it. This prayer involves the saying of psalms, singing of a hymn, readings from holy scriptures (outside of the psalms) and specific prayers, such as the Lord's prayer and others. When at prayer it is common to have intentions for specific people in need, the pope, bishops, and priests, and for the world. These are liturgical prayers with which Orthodox and Anglican Christians are very likely familiar. I think that some Lutherans also are likely to use similar prayers.

Biden nearly assassinated by stairs....

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Biden nearly taken out by level walking surface....

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Biden almost done in by questions while bicycling...

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Trump post ear shot by bullet....



Obviously this isn't a comparison of administrative abilities....but I don't think it's going to hurt Trump's chances for election.