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Digital ID

What are the churches saying about Digital ID, the mark of the beast, transhumanism etc?

My church is silent on these things so I intend to ask them what their views are and how we are to guard against all of what is likely to come as a result of the pursuit of the above.

It would be good to know if any churches are assisting and how?

Saint Cecilia

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Saint Cecilia Virgin, Martyr

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ICE agent arrested for pulling gun on California teen, lawyer says

RIVERSIDE COUNTY, Calif. (KTLA) — A California man who reportedly works as a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent is accused of illegally detaining a minor at gunpoint while off duty last week.

The Nov. 10 incident, according to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, played out at around 10:30 pm outside a home in Temecula.

Attorney Greg Kirakosian, who represents the boy and his family, told Nexstar’s KTLA that the 17-year-old was driving home after dropping a friend off down the street when he saw the suspect, identified by investigators as Gerardo Rodriguez, pointing a gun at his vehicle and demanding he pull over.

“In the moment, I think he was just scared for his life. He had a gun pulled on him, and he was told to immediately stop or else,” Kirakosian explained, referring to the teen. “Then that same person came up to his driver’s side door and pulled him out at gunpoint.”

Someone not in police uniform pulling a gun on a driver at night sounds like a carjacking. Perhaps the driver should have kept going.

Also - "Gerardo Rodriguez"? Sounds foreign. Better put him in a camp until we establish his immigration status.

Fulfilled Dream reinterpretation and most probably related to Comet 3I/Atlas

At first I though its about the work I have now. But originally the dream was literally about something coming from space.

The female AI humanoid in my dream told me about the importance of those dates especially about July 7. I already told about this date in my dream around March (see link below)

Or I could have misread her very human-like handwriting and it could have been July 1 !! The same day 3I/Atlas comet was discovered!

I felt the urgency in her tone but she also sounded positive. She was very cryptic in her communication as if whatever is arriving cannot be revealed to anyone, yet it is very important to me like a gift or a package that is meant only for me. I don't know. It's all very strange.

Something huge also happened to me at my end last July 1. It wasn't just the job. I can't tell about it anymore. One thing for sure, it's not about money, I'm still poor!


Establishes connection to my March 20 dream:

March 20 dream

Staging ground in space:


Details I left out originally - the object will originate from beyond the Solar System.

I'm supposed to rendezvous with it but as of now, I have absolutely no means of reaching whatever is out there and I have to be there physically (in fact, nobody have the means to send a man in deep space as of yet unless it's a one-way death trip!). In fact, the female AI told me precise coordinates in space. I did not write it down and ultimately forgot the coordinates!!:doh::doh:

Give God the Glory

“For consider your calling, brethren, that there were not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble; but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong, and the base things of the world and the despised God has chosen, the things that are not, so that He may nullify the things that are, so that no man may boast before God. But by His doing you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption, so that, just as it is written, ‘Let him who boasts, boast in the Lord.’” (1 Corinthians 1:26-31 NASB1995)

I am presently recovering from a medical procedure I had done at a hospital yesterday which they term a bronchoscopy (a biopsy). They sent a tube of some kind with a robotic camera down my throat into my lung to take pictures and samples of a lung mass (or nodule) inside my lung which they suspect is either cancerous or has an infection of some kind. I should get the results of this in about 3 days, I think. Right now I am a little bit out of it, I have a slight headache, and I am doctoring a sore throat, but progress is being made in the right direction, all glory, praise, and honor to God alone.

But my calling of God, which is to write down what he teaches me each day from my times with him in his word, and to then place these writings on the internet, is not contingent on me being in good health and not having a headache or any other physical abnormality. If it was, Satan would certainly use that against me to dishearten and to discourage me and to keep me from obeying the Lord. For he preys on our weaknesses in hopes that he can take us down and out so that we will retreat and give into the flesh. And so we must put our faith in the Lord to lead and guide us in these times.

For God did not call us to his service because we are in pristine condition. Now we must be followers of Christ for whom obedience to God and dying to sin is our practice, by the grace of God. But God’s calling upon our lives is not dependent on us having lots of book smarts, or us being popular among the people, or us even being well thought of by many. We may be among the rejected, the forgotten, the forsaken, the ignored, the castaways, and not someone who other humans would have thought of or chosen at all. But God chose us, because then he is the one to get the glory, and not us.

For it is by the doing of God that any of us are of faith in Jesus Christ living holy lives, pleasing to God, in death to sin, and in walks of obedience to his commands. Even the faith to believe in Jesus is not of our own doing; not of the will of the flesh of humankind. But the faith to believe in Jesus comes from God, and it is gifted to us by God, and it is persuaded of God as to his holiness and righteousness, and of our sinfulness, and of God’s requirement that we be crucified with Christ in death to sin and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer as slaves to sin, but as Christ’s servants.

Gospel:[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

So, we get no credit for any of it! God gets all the credit and all the glory and all the praise. And that’s the way it should be. And so when God calls you to salvation from sin, by his grace, and to living for him, in ways which are pleasing to him, and then he calls you to his service, follow him wherever he leads you. And he will lead you to holy living and to putting sin to death, by the Spirit. But don’t ignore him just because you think you are not gifted in a particular way, for he can gift you in ways you may never have imagined. He definitely has done that with me in miraculous ways.

Most all the things he has been having me do these past 21 years I had never done before. Yes, I had taught the Scriptures for many years, but not on the internet, and not in writing. I had never posted daily devotions on the internet prior to this calling. I had written a few poems early on in my life, but not like the ones he gives me to write, and never this many. Yes, I majored in music in college, and I did write a tune to one of my poems, but I never wrote songs before like these and then posted them on the internet. I had never done video talks before, or written memes, or books, etc.

So if you have never done something before, and it is an area where you believe you lack giftedness, if God calls you, do not refuse him. For he is able to do far beyond any of us can imagine. He can do the impossible. Like when I started college the first time I was reading on a 4th grade level. I got up to 7th grade level, still with a reading comprehension disability. And then God called me to read all kinds of articles on history, science, politics and all sorts of news articles about what was going on in the world, things I would never have touched before, but he gave me understanding of them.

So, just saying here that we should not refuse God because we think we are not qualified for the task. Yes, we must be surrendered to our Lord, obeying his commands, living holy lives, pleasing to him, and he is the one who empowers us to do that, too. But we should not refuse the callings of God on our lives because we think we are not up to the task or because we never did something before. For he can give us all we need to do what he has called us to do, and in miraculous ways we would never have imagined. Then, all the honor, praise, and glory go to God, and not to our human flesh.

Your Servant Witness

An Original Work / March 13, 2012
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love


Humbly I bow, Lord, before You,
Bringing my requests to You.
May I listen; hear You speaking.
May I follow You in truth.
Gently lead me in Your service.
Guide my steps and strengthen me.
Fill me with Your love and mercy.
May I live for Thee!

Let me be Your servant witness,
Telling others of Your grace.
May I always share the gospel
With those I meet face to face.
May I show the love of Jesus,
Caring for the needs of men;
Be Your servant witness always
For my Lord, Amen!

My desire to be like Jesus,
Living for Him ev’ry day.
May I obey all His teachings
Given me, so I’ll not stray.
Love You, Jesus, Lord, my master.
You are the King of my heart;
Follow You where’er You lead me;
Not from You depart!

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An Original Work / November 22, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Republican Congressional Aide Faked Politically-Motivated Attack



An aide to a Republican congressman from New Jersey faked being the victim of what she claimed was a politically motivated slashing in July, a narrative that quickly unraveled when investigators found spare zip ties in her Maserati, federal prosecutors said.

Law enforcement officers said that the aide had actually paid a body artist $500 to give her scars on her arms, chest, neck and face, for which the officers obtained a receipt and a consent form with a copy of her driver’s license.​

Release International prayers for Pakistan.

One of our partners in Pakistan supports Christians in communities who are often enslaved in brick kiln work and who are constantly vulnerable to abuse, because they are Christians.

Support groups provide biblical discipling, as well as collaboration to deal with specific social problems faced by Christian families. The groups run savings programmes to enable members to start self-supporting businesses.

Pray for those in the groups with health issues.

Please pray also for those seeking healing from past drug addition. Pray for real spiritual growth.

Pray for those in the support groups who are now out of work: for God’s provision for them and that they might know God’s peace when burdened with loans.

Pray for younger family members, to be guided and blessed by the Lord in their
faith and struggles.

Pray for the nation of Pakistan: that its government and law enforcement agencies will have the courage and wisdom to implement justice and protect its citizens.

Pray particularly for the rights of Christians and that they would stand strong in their faith in the midst of persecution and hardship.

Jonestown

Jonestown News Updates
Tourism at the Site: A private tourism company in Guyana, Wanderlust Adventures, has begun offering guided tours of the former Peoples Temple compound, a decision met with mixed reactions from survivors. The company defends the tours as an educational opportunity to discuss the dangers of blind faith, while some survivors view it as an "abuse" and a way to profit from tragedy.
47th Anniversary: November 18, 2025, marks the 47th anniversary of the mass murder-suicide, in which 918 people died.

ME: Since, I was part of the Military clean up team. I think this is disgusting.

Googled Jonestown news, there are some stories on it.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene to resign in January

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says she will resign, after fallout with Trump


“If I am cast aside by MAGA Inc and replaced by Neocons, Big Pharma, Big Tech, Military Industrial War Complex, foreign leaders, and the elite donor class that can't even relate to real Americans, then many common Americans have been cast aside and replaced as well,” Greene said in a statement posted to social media.

"Standing up for American women who were raped at 14, trafficked and used by rich powerful men, should not result in me being called a traitor and threatened by the President of the United States, whom I fought for,"

#37 in Christian persecution, Mozambique.

The rise of Islamist extremism in the north of the country, especially in regions such as Cabo Delgado, has had a devastating impact on the lives of believers. Churches have been burned down, pastors abducted and many killed. The objective of these groups is to suppress and cause terror.
While church youth leaders are at particular risk from violent drug traffickers.

Meet "Pastor Mario"

In Mozambique, we Christians are targets of much persecution, many believers are raped, killed, several churches and houses destroyed.

PASTOR MARIO, CHURCH LEADER IN MOZAMBIQUE

What has changed this year?

Mozambique rose by two positions on this year's World Watch List. Islamist militants continued their hate campaign against Christians, which intensified after 11 Christians were executed in September 2023. In 2024, extremists launched a campaign targeting Christians called Kill Them Wherever You Find Them. Additionally, the fight against Islamist militants in Cabo Delgado was weakened after a multi-national peacekeeping mission withdrew their troops.

What does Open Doors do to help Christians in Mozambique?

Open Doors supports persecuted Christians in northern Mozambique by providing emergency aid, persecution survival training and economic empowerment projects.

How can you pray for Mozambique?

  • Pray for protection for believers in northern Mozambique as the region remains unstable and vulnerable to attacks from extremist groups.
  • Please pray that God will comfort and heal Christians who are severely traumatised because of the violent attacks.
  • Pray for Open Doors partners who work in Mozambique to be protected as they seek to strengthen the faith of believers.

“The Largest Funder of Al-Shabaab Is the Minnesota Taxpayer”How some of the state’s welfare funds ended up in the hands of a terror group

Perhaps the most surprising aspect of the Somalia fraud story is the scale, with total costs running into the billions of taxpayer dollars. That raises the question: What happened to all that money?
The Somali fraud rings have sent huge sums in remittances, or money transfers, from Minnesota to Somalia. According to reports, an estimated 40 percent of households in Somalia get remittances from abroad. In 2023 alone, the Somali diaspora sent back $1.7 billion—more than the Somali government’s budget for that year.
Our investigation reveals, for the first time, that some of this money has been directed to an even more troubling destination: the al-Qaida-linked Islamic terror group Al-Shabaab. According to multiple law-enforcement sources, Minnesota’s Somali community has sent untold millions through a network of “hawalas,” informal clan-based money-traders, that have wound up in the coffers of Al-Shabaab.

The Minnesota government hands out taxpayer money with little checking or follow-up.

What Does It Really Mean to Serve God Full-Time?

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what it really means to follow Jesus with our whole lives — not just on Sundays. Many of us may feel we love God sincerely, but we still find ourselves caught in the weekly grind, serving money more than Him without even realizing it.

I just made a video exploring what full-time devotion to God could look like in the modern world — practically, spiritually, and relationally. It also shares some of my own testimony of how Jesus’ teachings changed my life.

If this topic resonates with you, you’re welcome to watch and share your thoughts:
[Serve God Full-Time — YouTube Video]

I’d genuinely love to hear how others have wrestled with this calling.

Grace and peace to all.

US War Department mistakenly invades Mexico in dramatic escalation of tensions as Pentagon scrambles to contain the fallout: Daily Mail

Daily Fail reporting...

US 'contractors' arrived by boat on Monday at Playa Bagdad, driving signs into the sand near where the Rio Grande empties into the Gulf of Mexico [sic].

Alarmed witnesses quickly alerted officials and heavily armed Mexican security personnel rushed to the scene on trucks mounted with machine guns in a terrifying standoff.

The Pentagon, in a deeply embarrassing statement, admitted that its troops were mistaken when they landed on the beach.

The Mexican personnel watched as the Americans drove six signs into the ground, which said: 'Warning: restricted area.'

Written in English and Spanish, they claimed that the beach was the property of the US Department of Defense [sic] and had been declared restricted by 'the commander'.

The US Embassy in Mexico shared a comment from the Pentagon on Tuesday which confirmed that personnel had been sent to mark 'National Defense Area III'.

'Changes in water depth and topography altered the perception of the international boundary's location,' the statement said. 'Government of Mexico personnel removed six signs based on their perception of the international boundary's location.'

The Pentagon added that contractors would 'coordinate with appropriate agencies to avoid confusion in the future.'

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum declared on Tuesday that the International Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC), a binational agency that determines the border between the two countries, would arbitrate the dispute.

Trump praises NYC Mayor-elect Mamdani after White House meeting

Trump praises NYC Mayor-elect Mamdani after White House meeting

Instead of rehashing their feud, they talked up their areas of agreement — especially on working to make New York City less expensive — and even traded some compliments.

“I think you’re going to have, hopefully, a really great mayor,” Trump said. “The better he does, the happier I am.”

“I appreciated the meeting with the president,” said Mamdani, who stood while Trump sat at the Resolute Desk. “And as he said, it was a productive meeting focused on a place of shared admiration and love, which is New York City and the need to deliver affordability to New Yorkers.”

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New Hampshire State lawmaker accused of ‘revenge porn’ loses seat on Education Committee

Rep. Bryan Morse, a 31-year-old Republican, was taken into custody Thursday. He was released on $200 cash bail, and is scheduled for arraignment on Dec. 18 in a Nashua courtroom.

According to Nashua police, an investigation into Morse began in May when the victim, who has not been identified, told authorities that he had posted explicit images of her on social media platforms without her consent.

In a statement, Morse denied the allegations and said he intended to fight the charges. “I am pleading not guilty and will be fighting vigorously to clear my name,” he said.

During his first year in office, Morse has spoken repeatedly about what’s described as the dangers of pornography in schools, including claiming in social media posts that New Hampshire public schools are providing students access to books with graphic content.

On his public Facebook page, Morse has said allowing trans people to use the bathroom of their choice is a threat to women’s privacy.

Ambassador Mike Huckabee Invited Spy Who Sold American Secrets to Israel into the US Embassy for a Secret Meeting

Trump Ambassador Mike Huckabee Held Secret Meeting With Traitor Who Sold American Secrets to Israel

President Donald Trump’s ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, held a secret meeting in July with traitor Jonathan Pollard, who served 30 years in prison for selling American secrets to Israel.

According to a report from the New York Times, Pollard met with Huckabee at the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem in July for a discussion that was “kept off Mr. Huckabee’s official schedule,” and revealed for the first time on Thursday.

Pollard confirmed the rendezvous in an interview with the Times, telling the newspaper “it was a friendly meeting” and that “a lot of things that came up in conversation.”

Three unnamed officials told the New York Times that the meeting “alarmed the Central Intelligence Agency’s station chief in Israel.” The White House was also reportedly unaware that the secret meeting was taking place.

(Spies usually have to work a little harder to get inside one of our embassies.)

Pollard was released from prison in 2015 and moved to Israel in 2020 – flying on a private jet owned by top Trump donor Sheldon Adelson to Tel Aviv, where he was given a hero’s welcome by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

In 2021, Trump pardoned Aviem Sella, the Israeli handler who recruited Pollard to spy on the United States.
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Conservative Marc Theissen column: Trump built a winning coalition. White nationalists will destroy it.

Trump built a winning coalition. White nationalists will destroy it.

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'Political suicide': Pro-Trump commentator warns MAGA's 'overt racists' will destroy GOP

In a Thursday column, Thiessen laid out how Republicans were able to secure both a popular vote and Electoral College majority in 2024 for the first time in two decades thanks to making inroads with Black and Hispanic voters. He argued, however, that the GOP's activist base includes "morally reprehensible" people like neo-Nazi podcaster Nick Fuentes, whose growing influence could turn into "political suicide for the right."

According to Thiessen, (a MAGA conservative who recently advocated for President Donald Trump to win the Nobel Peace Prize) Trump’s 2024 voting coalition was "significantly more racially and ethnically diverse than it had been in 2020 or 2016," and he had increased his vote share "almost every key demographic."

However, Thiessen warned that gains are now in jeopardy due to Fuentes' increasingly prominent role in Republican politics. Fuentes – who is the at the heart of the ideological civil war currently consuming the influential conservative Heritage Foundation think tank — is a known Holocaust denier who regularly demeans racial minorities and has called for the "death penalty" against Jewish people and practitioners of all non-Christian faiths.
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Why Democracies Prefer Docile Secularists

Why Democracies Prefer Docile Secularists by Jeb Smith

...The authorities ensure the populace has the worldview and mindset enabling the maximum accumulation of power to itself and providing the least resistance to its expansion of control. Despite what American conservatives tell you, propaganda is not a modern, liberal, or Marxist development, it arose as soon as parliamentary forms of governance began....

Time and Timelessness Becoming One

First let us consider what time consists of. Time is made of before and after. You can also say it consists of the present, which should be before and after some time as well. So, time is made of before and after.

Now let us consider the planck time. Which tells us that time has a minimum, called the planck time.That would mean that at some point in time, before and after ceases to exist.

Some might say, poetically, that at some point time and timelessness become one and make a child. Meaning making confusion. Confusion being the logical response to the coming together of time and timelessness.

P.S. If what I am saying doesn't sound familiar or easily comprehendible. I suggest reading about Zeno's paradox about time and the planck time. That should make it more comprehensive.

Enter Your Birthdate Here to Find Out What Was Happening the Day You Were Born...

I was wondering if anything interesting on the news was going on when I was born, and decided to create this website for fun. The purpose is to show people what was going on when they were born. With this website I've found out that it was a pretty slow news day on my birthday, but I bet it would feel cool to know a historical event happened on your birthday.

The data used in this project is provided by the New York Times API. They have by far the best API I was able to find, with articles dating back to the 1950s. There weren't any other major newspapers that had an API with close to as much data. The closest was the Guardian API, but theirs only went back to the 1990s. I decided to only use articles from the New York Times because their API was by far the best. This tool works if you have a birthday after the 1950s or so.

Some important dates in history I'd recommend looking up on this website are:

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In this TikTok test of a baby formula emergency, one Catholic church really stood out...

(OSV News) — A TikTok content creator’s following exploded after she posted videos of her informal study on whether churches across the country would give baby formula to a mother whose 2-month-old infant had not eaten in more than half a day.

Of the dozens of churches Nikalie Monroe called, nine said yes including at least three that are Catholic.

TikTok series on churches’ response to request for baby formula​

The short videos show a screen grab listing of the Google-searched church on the screen with Monroe, of Kentucky, on a call, asking for baby formula.

In the noncontrolled study, the real mom of two little boys sometimes used a recording of a crying baby in the background and did not read from a prepared script. Once she received a “yes” (or sometimes a “no”) she would reveal to the person on the line that the inquiry was a hypothetical scenario and describe her test.

Monroe, an Army veteran, explained to OSV News she decided to try the study to see what the church response would be to a food emergency with, at that time, the impending suspension of SNAP — the federal government’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, on Nov. 1 due to the government shutdown.

SNAP is a major part of the nation’s social safety net that provides food support for 42 million Americans. During the 43-day shutdown, SNAP ran out of funds needed to fully fund it in November — a situation that shifted the burden of alleviating hunger entirely on churches, ministries and food pantries. The shutdown ended Nov. 12 after a funding deal was reached in Congress, allowing SNAP funds to be issued to recipients later in November.

Monroe’s test lasted seven days, starting Oct. 31.

“I did have some more that I called that last day on the Friday,” she said. “I just didn’t post all the calls that day because they were all nos, and it was depressing. … I just decided, that day, I wasn’t going to call anymore about the baby formula. That was; it was hard.”

Monroe, a drug addiction counselor, said the overwhelming ratio of “noes” (79%) over “yeses” (21%) was not unexpected.

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