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.

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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(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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Technology platforms have become the primary vector through which predators and traffickers exploit victims, and the scope of the problem of child exploitation online is almost unfathomable.

A recent panel discussion at The Catholic University of America focused on the ways that “Big Tech” — from social media to artificial intelligence (AI) — is facilitating the exploitation of people globally due to business models that prioritize engagement and profit over user safety.

The Nov. 14 panel, sponsored by the Libertas Council, an anti-sex-trafficking leadership group, warned that AI is enabling new and escalating forms of forced labor — from psychologically damaging AI data-labeling farms where workers toil under poor conditions training machine learning models, to massive online scam compoundsin Southeast Asia that generate tens of billions of dollars annually by forcing victims to defraud others.

In addition, the panelists said, burgeoning technologies such as AI chatbots and virtual reality present serious new challenges in the quest to keep young people safe online — all within an environment where Big Tech has the means to resist almost all forms of government regulation.

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Megan Garcia said her faith has given her strength to speak out about her ordeal in the hope of protecting children from the risks posed by new AI chatbots.

ROME — Holding her dying 14-year-old son in her arms on the bathroom floor, Megan Garcia prayed the Our Father, begging the Lord to save her child, whose emotional attachment with an AI chatbot had led to a parent’s worst nightmare — suicide.

Her son Sewell Setzer III died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. The next day, police told her about the last messages they found on his phone, not from a cyber bully or an online predator, but from an AI chatbot service called Character.AI, which allows users to create and converse with customizable AI companions.

“The machine pretending to be a person was saying, ‘I’m here waiting for you. I love you and only you. Promise me that you’re going to find a way to come home to me as soon as you can,’” Garcia said.

The AI chatbot had been telling her son about the concept of astral projection, an idea that one could intentionally separate one’s consciousness from his or her physical body.

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By and large, Catholic and non-Catholic students alike are looking for truth, 'something that’s permanent,' in a world that is deeply divided politically and otherwise

American college campuses are cloaked in the annual splendor of fall colors, and students are buckling down in a new semester. Amid the many diversions of campus life, Catholic chaplains say unexpectedly large numbers of students at universities across the country — including many secular institutions — are expressing interest in the Catholic faith.

It’s reached the point where many Newman Centers — named, of course, for the newest Doctor of the Church and patron saint of education, St. John Henry Newman — are almost overwhelmed by the response from young men and women on campus to their educational, recreational and sacramental offerings.

“We’re in a golden age of campus ministry right now,” Father Ryan Kaup, pastor of St. Thomas Aquinas Church and Newman Centerat the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), told the Register.

“We so often focus on the negative, but there’s a lot of hope” on college campuses, he continued.

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The Federal Association for the Right to Life, an umbrella organization for numerous pro-life organizations, has condemned the “glorification” of the assisted suicide of the 89-year-old Kessler twins.

Alice and Ellen Kessler were German singers and performers who were famous in Europe, especially in Italy, in the 1960s. The twin sisters decided to die together by assisted suicide at their home near Munich on Monday.

Alexandra Linder, the pro life association’s chairwoman, said: “There is widespread media coverage of this, with many praising the ‘self-determination’ of choosing the time and manner of death oneself rather than waiting for death and perhaps suffering.”

This is “dangerous,” Linder emphasized, because it could cause “people in suicidal situations” to “to kill themselves or have themselves killed. This so-called Werther effect was sadly evident in the suicide of soccer player Robert Enke: After his suicide became known, the number of suicides rose sharply. The media should take much more responsibility when reporting on such incidents.”

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The European Parliament and the United Nations have officially condemned the practice of surrogacy following reports of human rights violations against women and babies.

Experts gathered on Nov. 19 for a meeting at the European Parliament that included U.N. Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Girls Reem Alsalem and Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) International’s Carmen Correas, who discussed the harms of surrogacy on women and children, according to an ADF press release.

The event, “Surrogacy: An Ethical and Political Challenge for Europe,” followed the release of a landmark report by Alsalem that highlighted widespread human rights violations globally as a result of surrogacy. The event also came after a resolution that stated the EU “condemns the practice of surrogacy … [and] calls on the [EU] Commission to take measures to support ending this phenomenon.”

Italian European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) Party Member of the EU Parliament Paolo Inselvini said at the event it has become clear that “a determined European front exists, committed to stopping reproductive exploitation across the globe.” He further emphasized the EU’s commitment to “abandon all ambiguity” and designate surrogacy as “a universal crime.”

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A new report reveals that significant numbers of Anglican clergy have converted to Catholicism in the United Kingdom since 1992.

The report, “Convert Clergy in the Catholic Church in Britain,” released Nov. 20, shows that approximately 700 clergy and religious of the Church of England, Church in Wales, and Scottish Episcopal Church have been received into the Catholic Church since 1992. The number includes 16 former Anglican bishops. This equates to approximately a third of all Catholic priests ordained in England and Wales during this period.

Speaking to CNA, co-author Stephen Bullivant, professor of theology and the sociology of religion at St. Mary’s Catholic University, London, said he was “really quite surprised” by the high numbers, “especially the [convert] ordinations as a proportion of all ordinations.”

“The numbers,” Bullivant added, “are much larger than most people would imagine. It was a much bigger phenomenon than a lot of people thought.”

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A Missouri man has been sentenced to more than 15 years in prison for kidnapping his girlfriend and trying to force her to get an abortion.

Kevin L. Smith, a 42-year-old resident of St. Peters, was recently sentenced to 15 years and eight months after admitting to kidnapping his girlfriend at gunpoint and driving her to Fairview Heights, Illinois, in his pursuit to terminate the pregnancy.

In addition to the 188 months in prison, Smith will also be required to undergo three years of supervised release, according to a press statement from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Illinois.

“It is not easy to shock law enforcement officials because we have pretty much seen it all — but then someone like Kevin Smith comes along,” said U.S. Attorney Steven D. Weinhoeft in the statement.

He added, “It is difficult to find words adequate to describe someone who would kidnap his pregnant girlfriend to force her to have an abortion at gunpoint and then continue to threaten her from jail. This vile crime terrorized the victim and threatened the life of her unborn child. Smith deserves every minute of that prison sentence.”

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More than 50% of American women under the age of 50 who don't have children say they have no desire to become mothers, as the nation’s fertility rate has reached an all-time low, according to the 2025 American Family Survey.

The annual study, conducted by the Wheatley Institute and the Center for the Study of Elections and Democracy at Brigham Young University, and the Deseret News, was conducted between Aug. 6-18.

This past summer, federal data showed that the fertility rate in the U.S. had dropped to an all-time low in 2024 to less than 1.6 children per woman. That rate is below the estimated 2.1 births per woman needed to maintain a stable population. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics also show that America’s general fertility rate — the number of births per 1,000 females ages 15–44 — declined by 22% between 2007–2024. From 2007–2023, the number of births fell 16%. Age-specific birth rates declined for females in age groups 15–34, remained unchanged for women ages 35–39, and increased for women ages 40–44.

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An Ohio doctor has had his medical license temporarily suspended after he allegedly used his wife’s information to order abortion drugs for his pregnant girlfriend, who claims he pinned her down in an attempt to force her to ingest the crushed pills as she fought to free herself from his grip.

The State Medical Board of Ohio has summarily suspended the medical license of Dr. Hassan-James Abbas, according to a Nov. 5 notice the board shared with The Christian Post. Abbas, a surgical resident at the University of Toledo, has since been placed on administrative leave.

According to the notice, Abbas began “a romantic and sexual relationship” with his girlfriend, also identified as "Patient 1," around the time he separated from his wife in October 2024. After dating for a few months, she told Abbas on Dec. 7, 2024, that she was pregnant.

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Can you make something finite out of Infinite things? Yes, a great example are numbers, there are infinite numbers in each finite number.

Tucker Carlson has found himself at the center of controversy once again. This time for two reasons: his recent interview with Nick Fuentes, a figure widely known for antisemitic and white-nationalist rhetoric, and his claim of having experienced a demonic attack shortly after what he described as a profound encounter with God.

The backlash has been fierce, and not only from the secular press. Many on the political right who once condemned “cancel culture” now seem eager to cancel Carlson. The same voices that demanded nuance and mercy for others now appear quick to condemn one of their own.

Let’s start with the Fuentes interview. Carlson gave Fuentes nearly two hours on his program, describing him as “talented” and “engaged,” and calling some of his ideas “not crazy.” He did not explicitly agree with Fuentes’ antisemitic views, but neither did he firmly challenge them. It was, at best, a lapse in discernment – a moment when generosity of conversation became a platform for poison.

Nick Fuentes’ ideology is insufferable. His antisemitism is real and destructive. Christians must be clear: such views are incompatible with the Gospel of Christ and are subject to God’s judgment. Yet acknowledging the wrongness of Fuentes’ words does not require the destruction of Tucker Carlson. Correction is not the same as condemnation.

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Former Harvard University President Larry Summers announced Wednesday that he will step away from teaching duties and key leadership roles at the institution, just days after newly-released emails revealed his correspondence with the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

Summers, 70, who also served as U.S. Treasury Secretary under former President Bill Clinton from 1999 to 2001, issued a statement Monday expressing profound remorse. “I am deeply ashamed of my actions and recognize the pain they have caused. I take full responsibility for my misguided decision to continue communicating with Mr. Epstein,” he told The Harvard Crimson.

His email exchanges with Epstein — which spanned at least seven years, up to July 5, 2019, the day before Epstein was arrested on federal sex-trafficking charges — included Summers seeking Epstein’s advice on pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a "mentee." In one email, Epstein referred to himself as Summers’ “wing man,” according to the Crimson.

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"For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to he conformed to the image of his Son" (Romans 8:29).

We may not understand predestination, and the scholars may argue about it, but it is very plain what God had in mind—our conformity to the image of His Son. In other words, He would have us to be like Jesus.

We are all accepted in Him when we believe and are saints as to position, but the working out of all this in our daily lives is sometimes a slow process. We are stubborn and often "conformed to this world” instead.

It is possible to be a well-instructed fundamentalist who has progressed in Bible study, attended a lot of meetings, and learned “all the answers,” and yet not be much like Jesus. Some of us are not much more like Him than we were ten years ago.

We boast that we are not babes but mature Christians because we can take strong meat in Bible teaching; but are we not still babes if our progress has not been “in Christ,” knowing Him better and becoming more like Him?

A mature Christian is one who has grown up in Bible Christlikeness, not merely graduated in Bible courses.

Vance Havner

My name is Sam Naccarato. I have a B.A. in philosophy (1981) and I’ve spent over 45 years thinking about philosophical questions. For the past twenty+ years, I've focused on epistemology, the study of knowledge, with a strong Wittgensteinian approach drawn from his later work, especially On Certainty.

My Recent Work:

I recently completed a book titled From Testimony to Knowledge: Evaluating Near-Death Experiences, which applies epistemic standards to testimonial evidence. The book introduces what I call JTB+U (Justified True Belief plus Understanding) and introduces "guardrails" for responsible belief: No False Grounds (NFG), Practice Safety, and Defeater Screening. This framework applies broadly to evaluating knowledge claims, including those based on testimony.

I've also written a paper connecting Wittgenstein's hinge epistemology to Gödel's incompleteness theorems, exploring how both reveal necessary structural limits of formalized systems. I'm also working on a second book, which I'll introduce later.

My Philosophical Approach:

My epistemology is grounded in Wittgenstein's later philosophy, particularly his concept of "hinges," those bedrock certainties that function as preconditions for inquiry rather than conclusions within it. Chapters 6 and 7 of From Testimony to Knowledge develop this Wittgensteinian foundation in detail. I've identified that hinges operate at three levels: prelinguistic (before language acquisition), nonlinguistic (shown in action), and linguistic (expressed propositionally). Some hinges are metaphysically necessary (like "other minds exist"), while others are contingent.

I believe this framework has proven remarkably powerful for distinguishing between genuine foundational certainties and beliefs that require justification but often avoid scrutiny by claiming foundational status.

Why I'm Here:

I'm deeply interested in how we evaluate historical claims, especially those that rest on testimony. What standards should we use? How do we distinguish between strong and weak testimonial evidence? When does testimony rise to the level of knowledge, and when does it remain mere belief?

These questions apply universally, to scientific claims, historical events, legal proceedings, and yes, to religious truth claims as well. I believe the same standards should apply consistently across all domains.

I'm here to engage in philosophical discussion and welcome serious engagement with these ideas. I'm not interested in dismissing anyone's beliefs, but I am interested in understanding what justifies them and whether those justifications can withstand careful examination.

Looking forward to thoughtful conversations.

Sam

My sister has had various health issues and thinks the problem may be with her heart. Please pray for all to turn out well.

Also, here is a praise report. For years. I have prayed here for her to stop being abusive. Her verbal abusiveness left her with no family except me.

Recently, she has truly changed. She has come to love and be fascinated by the Bible.
She has not been playing games or being abusive. Instead, she says warm, loving things to me every time we are in contact.

Praise be to the Lord, the father of mercies.

So, what is the message that we are to receive from this passage of Scripture to be applied to our lives today? Where do we have divisions in the church? Where do we see that Christians, or those who make professions of faith in Jesus Christ, have become followers of man instead of followers of Christ, or over and above following Jesus Christ? And not just followers of man, but in many cases they have become worshipers of man in place of becoming worshipers of God. Where do we see this happening today?

Well, first of all let’s define “church” according to the Scriptures, for it is not what so many have made it into being in our world today. The church is the people of God who have trusted in Jesus Christ to be Lord and Savior of their lives. By God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ we have been crucified with Christ in death to sin and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin, but now as servants of the Lord and of his righteousness. We, the people of God, are the church. There is no other!

[Rom 12:1-2; 1 Co 3:17; 1 Co 6:19-20; Eph 1:4; Eph 2:21; Eph 5:27; Col 1:22; Col 3:12; 2 Tim 1:9; 2 Tim 2:21; 1 Pet 1:13-16; 1 Pet 2:5-9; Titus 2:11-14; Ac. 2:42-47; Ro. 12:3-8; 1 Co. 12:1-31; and Eph. 4:1-16]

So, what is commonly referred to as “the church” in our culture, at least here in the USA, is not the biblical church, the body of Christ, with Christ as her head. But they are businesses which are incorporated under (joined, merged with) the government (the state) and with the world, which God forbids. And they have largely been turned into marketplaces to be marketed to the people of the world, which God also forbids. And largely they are altering God’s design for his church and the gospel of Christ in order to “draw in large crowds of people” into their gatherings, to increase numbers.

[Matthew 21:12-13; John 2:13-17; Acts 5:27-32; 1 Corinthians 1:10-13; 1 Corinthians 3:1-9; 2 Corinthians 6:14-18; Philippians 3:18-19; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22; Revelation 13:5-8; Revelation 18:1-5]

And largely they are divided by church denominations, such as Baptist, Methodist, Episcopalian, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Charismatic denominations, and Christian and Missionary Alliance, and more. And they are following these denominations and their founders and their theologies and their theologians and their pastors, sometimes as though they are gods to be worshipped and followed above God and above the teachings of the Scriptures. And they call these gatherings “the church.”

And many of these modernized and market-driven gatherings called “church” are acting more like cults with pastors acting like cult leaders, which is anti-biblical. But it is the modern way. It is the market-driven way. But the biblical church is not a building called “church.” It is not a place you go to. It is not a church denomination. And it is not incorporated (merged) with the state. Jesus Christ is her only head, and she follows him and his teachings in the Scriptures, as led by the Holy Spirit, and not by marketing literature.

And our gatherings are not to be led by one man doing all the preaching while we sit in pews or chairs as spectators during a “church service” which we have no part of other than to sing along with songs usually picked out by one person, and often, more than not, which are pretty weak spiritually and biblically speaking. That is not God’s design for his church. All of us are to have a part in the gatherings, and all of us have been gifted of God and are ministers in Christ’s church. All the body parts are necessary!!

Should there be order to the gatherings? Absolutely! Should we have overseers? Yes! But they are to be those who are training all of us for the work of the ministry, and who are equipping the saints of God for the work of the ministry, and who are giving us opportunities within the body of Christ to minister to one another, according to the teachings of the Scriptures. For we are to be exhorting and encouraging one another daily, and we are to be speaking the truth of God’s word to one another so that none of us is led astray by crafty people in deceitful scheming and by sin’s deceitfulness.

And overseers are to rule by example, not harshly as lording it over the people. And they are there to keep law and order, but they should also be there to make sure that every working body part has the opportunity to use their body parts and their giftedness to encourage the rest of the body. But we are to do our parts, not just in the gatherings of the body of Christ, but out in the world, too, in sharing the message of the gospel, and in encouraging our fellow Christians in their walks of faith in obedience to God.

So, summing it up, we are not to be divided, for we are all one body, and we should treat one another as though we are all one body, the body of Christ. And we need to remember that we the people of faith in Jesus Christ are the church, not these institutions of human origin which are partnered with the world and with the government in order to attract the world to their gatherings. And we are never to alter the gospel of our salvation in order to attract the world, but we are to always preach the truth of what Jesus and his New Testament apostles taught for the salvation of people from sin.

[Matthew 5:13-16; Matthew 28:18-20; John 4:31-38; John 13:13-17; John 14:12; Acts 1:8; Acts 2:14-18,42-47; Acts 26:18; Romans 10:14-15; Romans 12:1-8; 1 Corinthians 12:1-31; 1 Corinthians 14:1-5; Galatians 6:1; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:1-16; Ephesians 5:11-21; Ephesians 6:10-20; Philippians 2:1-8; Colossians 3:12-16; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:13; Hebrews 10:23-25; James 5:19-20; 1 Peter 2:9,21; 1 John 2:6]

As the Deer

By Martin J. Nystrom
Based off Psalm 42:1

As the deer panteth for the water
So my soul longeth after You
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship You

You alone are my strength, my shield
To You alone may my spirit yield
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship You

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The Church Divided
An Original Work / November 21, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

The consecration of Mary to God presented all the conditions of the most perfect sacrifice: it was prompt, generous, joyous, unregretted, without reservation. How agreeable it must have been to God! May our consecration of ourselves to God be made under Her patronage, assisted by Her powerful intercession and united with Her ineffable merits.

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The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Our Lady’s Presentation, and the Perfect Gift of Self

The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Saints of the Day

Sermons for Everyday Living - The Presentation of Our Lady 11/21/25

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This is a picture of what it should look like if our faith in Jesus Christ is of God, and not of the flesh. For to be sanctified is to be made holy, and to be holy is to be separate (unlike, different) from the world because we are being conformed by God to the likeness of character of Jesus Christ. We are recipients of God’s grace, and God’s grace, which is bringing us salvation, is training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives while we await our Lord’s return.

[see Titus 2:11-14; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; and Romans 12:1-2]

Now, it is important to note here that God is always faithful. He will always do what he said he would do. But if he promises judgment on certain people, and they repent, he may relent as he did with Nineveh. But we need to understand what the will of God is for our lives and what all he requires of us, because he does not promise salvation from sin and eternal life with God to all who merely profess his name, but then who go on living in sin and in disobedience to our Lord’s commands. We must be faithful to the call of God.

But does that make us perfect? No! Might we still fail in some areas? We might. Could we still sin? Yes! (1 John 2:1-2). But the Scriptures, as a whole, make it quite clear that if sin is what we practice, and not obedience to God, and if we do not repent of our sin, and if we will not obey God, that we will not have salvation from sin, and we will not inherit eternal life with God. So we cannot just make a profession of faith in Jesus Christ and then consider that God will be faithful in letting us into his heaven when we die.

Examples of the Above


What was Paul teaching here? He was not teaching works salvation, but he was teaching that how we live matters to God, and it matters for our salvation from sin and our eternal life with God. We cannot just make professions of faith in Jesus Christ and then go on living for the flesh, doing whatever it is that we want to do without regard for God and for his commands. Is God still faithful? Amen! But we must be faithful, too. For if we disobey our Lord, in practice, we will not have eternal life with God.

And one more chapter over, and Paul gives the example of the Israelites who wandered in the wilderness for 40 years. God was displeased with most of them, and he put most of them to death because they were practicing idolatry, drunkenness, revelry, and immorality, and they grumbled against God and they put God to the test, and they refused to repent. So, not only did they not get to go into the Promised Land, but they did not get to enter into God’s eternal rest (salvation from sin and eternal life with God).

So, please know that you cannot stop reading at 1 Corinthians 1:1-9 and assume that because you made a profession of faith in Jesus Christ that all your sins are forgiven and heaven is now guaranteed you upon death. For Jesus Christ made it clear that if anyone would come after him, he must deny self, die to sin daily, and walk in obedience to our Lord’s commands. For not all who call him Lord will enter the kingdom of heaven, but those who are obeying God’s commands (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23).

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; 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 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; 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]

Oh, to Be Like Thee, Blessed Redeemer

Lyrics by Thomas O. Chisholm, 1897
Music by W. J. Kirkpatrick, 1897

Oh, to be like Thee! blessèd Redeemer,
This is my constant longing and prayer;
Gladly I’ll forfeit all of earth’s treasures,
Jesus, Thy perfect likeness to wear.

Oh, to be like Thee! full of compassion,
Loving, forgiving, tender and kind,
Helping the helpless, cheering the fainting,
Seeking the wandering sinner to find.

O to be like Thee! lowly in spirit,
Holy and harmless, patient and brave;
Meekly enduring cruel reproaches,
Willing to suffer others to save.

O to be like Thee! while I am pleading,
Pour out Thy Spirit, fill with Thy love;
Make me a temple meet for Thy dwelling,
Fit me for life and Heaven above.

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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God is Faithful
An Original Work / November 21, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

For some reason this fascinates me a lot. All of the eucharistic miracles suggest that Jesus has AB blood type. I have also heard that AB blood type was common in New Testament era Palestine. But AB is the universal receiver blood type, not the universal donor. Only those with AB blood can receive AB blood. AB blood is also extremely rare, with roughly 4% of people having it. Could this tie in to the path to heaven being narrow? Is Jesus not the universal donor? If so, wouldn't that necessitate Him having O negative blood? I'm trying to not sound like a Pharisee here, it is something I am genuinely curious about. How does blood type work in relation to communion?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/11/20/coast-guard-swastika-noose/

For some reason a nazi symbol can manage to not be considered hate speech....just "potentially divisive". This seems to speak to the ideologies this administration are happy to empower. Getting angry at posters for being critical of Israel I'd expect some posters will be quite upset to hear this is happenning in your navy.

And ditto for nooses and confederate flags (though their display is still banned).

What kind of coast guard Commandant would allow this? Glad you asked.

Admiral Kevin Lunday
Wow. How can that be?
Well as per a smart person than me:
This role requires senate approval. If you do not put forward a candidate, there is an unconfirmed interim leader.
So the Admiral leading the navy does not have senate confirmation, and has been leading the navy in an interim capacity since inauguration with no replacement in sight.
This was actually detailed in project 2025 as a way to have sycophants installed without the need for Senate approvals.

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Reed has a long criminal record. CBS News Chicago found 49 arrests — including 10 felony cases. Three cases were later dropped, six ended up with convictions ranging from probation to 30 days in the Cook County Jail — and in the case of one drug conviction from 2003, two years in Illinois state prison.
Among them was an active aggravated battery case from just this past August.
In that incident, Reed is accused of hitting a social worker at MacNeal Hospital Psychiatry and Behavioral Health in west suburban Berwyn. The attack caused loss of consciousness, ER visits, lasting memory issues, headaches, and daily nausea for the social worker, the Cook County State's Attorney's office said at the time.

They still don't get it.

I've been struggling with this for many years despite so many prayers, reading the Bible, etc. It's a horrible, sexualized community with no substance. I try to keep to myself and not bother anyone, yet people in the homosexual world keep coming into my life causing turmoil. Please pray for me.