In some lands people believe that they possess a RIGHT to freedom of speech but is that a biblical position to hold and if you think it is then show us why it is.

And what did Jesus teach on this subject? He said,


And when Jesus denied himself and he took up his cross, it was to do what? To put our sins to death with him so that, by faith in him, we will now die to sin and walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands. Faith in Jesus Christ, if it is biblical faith, must result in us forsaking the self-life and our sins to now follow Jesus/God in obedience to his commands. If we hold on to our sinful lifestyles, we will lose our lives, but if we give up our self-life and our sinful practices to follow Jesus in obedience, we will save our lives.

And please be aware that making a profession of faith in Jesus is not what saves you from your sins and promises you heaven when you die if you do not deny self, die to sin, and follow Jesus in obedience to his commands. And “the wicked” and “the ungodly” are not just those who make no professions of faith in Jesus Christ, but they are all for whom sin is still their practice, and for whom obedience to God is not their practice. So, don’t be fooled by the lies which tell you that all you have to do is say you believe in Jesus.

Therefore, what should our lives look like if we are of genuine faith in Jesus Christ? Daily we should be putting sin to death, by the Spirit, and we should be walking (in conduct) in obedience to our Lord’s New Covenant commands. And we should be those who are patterning our lives after the character of God and the example of the life of Jesus, and we should walk in agape love which prefers to live through Christ, choosing his choices, and obeying them in his power, according to his will. And love does no harm to its neighbor.

Thus, this will require that all immorality or any impurity or greed must not be existing among us who profess faith in Jesus Christ, and if it is, that it is not to be ignored, but dealt with biblically. For this we should know with certainty, that no immoral or impure person or the covetous idolater has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. But this has to do with all who refuse to give up their sinful practices and who do not obey our Lord’s commands, in practice, that they will not have eternal life with God.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 1:12-13; John 6:44; 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 10:23-31; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10]

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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Don’t Be Fooled!
An Original Work / September 17, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Shalom

The first Jesus March will take place in Salzburg, Austria, on October 31st.
Could you please pray that God's will be done in Jesus' name?

Thank you for your prayers!

May the Lord bless you abundantly (Luke 6:38; Job 42:10) and may he bless Israel in Jesus' name. Amen!

Soli Deo Gloria

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The Republican Party is seeing a “Charlie Kirk effect,” with moderate Democrats and Independents switching party affiliation at breakneck speed.
Freshly emancipated former Dems told The Post they were horrified by the assassination of the 31-year-old podcaster last week — who they thought of as kind and reasonable — and further disgusted by the ghoulish celebration of his killing by many lefties.

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We are watching the DNC collapse before our very eyes. I am predicting that the next decade will be dominated by Republicans, to include 2 terms with J.D. Vance. After that, things will level out with an increased in Independent voters to include many liberal Republicans leaving the GOP. Eventually we will have a three party system with the GOP still on top, and Independents fighting with Democrats for second place. Regardless, the GOP will be in power for a very long time.

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What is the scriptural support for the idea that Christ not just is punished in our place, but that he actually dies in our place?

And if that is correct, why do we still die?

Started a youtube channel documenting my journey in to growing with Christ and about 1.5 years in. The holy spirit is working in me and it's given me the courage to make videos because I think now is the time to be speaking up on these kinds of things.
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Some children are more independent and strong-willed than other children, and if you try to assist them, or if you try to instruct them in the way that they should go, they might respond with, “My Do It.” Now, we should not do everything for them, and they do need to learn to be independent and to do things for themselves, to a point. But they must also learn to respect and to obey their elders, unless the adults are insisting that they do something sinful. After that, when no longer children, they are supposed to grow up.

Sadly, there are many adults still living like children, still taking an independent and “My Do It” approach to their life choices, which can be good, and which can be bad, depending upon the choices being made and who all is impacted by those choices. Many of them, therefore, never grow up, but they continue to behave childishly in self-indulgence and in being self-absorbed. Many of them end up doing what they want to do regardless of right and wrong, and regardless of who gets hurt in the process.

Sadder still is that many of these adults profess faith in Jesus Christ, and yet they still go their own way, making their own choices (good and bad), doing whatever brings them pleasure, regardless of who they hurt in the process, and regardless of what God’s word teaches us about how we should live, and about moral purity, and about putting off what is of the flesh and that is sinful and putting on obedience to our Lord. They may claim they want to be free from the control of sin, but their hearts are in the wrong place.

And one of the big problems at work here is that they are not looking to God for their solutions, although they may seem to, at times, but then they go right on living just like before. But they are looking to the world and to other humans to solve their problems rather than going to God and to his word and just doing what his word teaches that we must do. But this can only be done in his power, and only as we yield control of our lives over to God and we now submit to his will, and we die to sin, and we obey his commands.


Faith in Jesus Christ is not verbal only. Faith, which comes from God, and which is gifted to us by God, is persuaded of God as to his righteousness and holiness, and of our sinfulness, and of our need to die with him to sin and to walk in obedience to his commands, in holy living, in the power of God. For in Jesus’ death on that cross, he put our sins to death with him, so that by faith in him we will now die to sin and walk in obedience to his commands, in surrender to his will for our lives. And if we do not die to sin, and if we do not obey his commands, in practice, we do not have eternal life in him.

So, the counsel here is that we are to take God and his word seriously. We are to believe, not only the promises of God which make us feel good, but also the promises of God which let us know that if sin is still our practice, and if obedience to God is not what we practice, that heaven is not our eternal destiny. For all of God’s promises have warnings and conditions. And if we do not meet those conditions, because of how we live, we are not recipients of those promises. So we must all submit to God, put sin to death in our lives, and purify our hearts, for from our hearts come evil deeds.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Matthew 15:17-20; Luke 9:23-26; John 1:12-13; John 6:44; 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 10:23-31; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10]

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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Pleasures that Wage War in Your Members
An Original Work / September 16, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

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Pray The Heavenly Father protects Innocent Palestinian Civilians as the Israelis bring law & order to Gaza, but at the same time may His justice prevail against evil terrorists like Hamas:

Donald Trump’s victory was not just a victory for his movement, but for the ideas of the people in this room. National conservatism is an idea whose time has arrived.

The battle for our future is not between democracy and autocracy, capitalism and socialism, or even “Right” and “Left,” in the old meaning of those terms. It is between the nation and the forces that would erase it.

For decades, many of those in power—not just here, but across the West—have been locked in a cultural war with their own nations. We see that in many of the countries of Europe today, where the immigration crisis threatens to transform the ancient fabric of those nations—and all who object are menaced by an increasingly totalitarian censorship state.

The old conservative establishment may have opposed something like illegal immigration on procedural grounds—simply because it was illegal. But they took no issue with it in substance, and if the same thing was achieved through “legal” avenues, many of them would celebrate and support it.

For the tens of thousands of Americans who were forced to train their foreign H-1B replacements just to get their severance package, the fact that it was “legal” is little comfort.

For decades, the mainstream consensus on the Left and the Right alike seemed to be that America itself was just an “idea”—a vehicle for global liberalism. We were told that the entire meaning of America boiled down to a few lines in a poem on the Statue of Liberty, and five words about equality in the Declaration of Independence.

If you imposed a carbon copy of the U.S. Constitution on Kazakhstan tomorrow, Kazakhstan wouldn’t magically become America. Because Kazakhstan isn’t filled with Americans. It’s filled with Kazakhstanis!

For years, conservatives would talk as if the whole world were just Americans-in-waiting—“born American, but in the wrong place.”

That’s what set Donald Trump apart from the old conservatism and the old liberalism alike: He knows that America is not just an abstract “proposition,” but a nation and a people, with its own distinct history and heritage and interests.

His movement is the revolt of the real American nation. It’s a pitchfork revolution, driven by the millions of Americans who felt that they were turning into strangers in their own country.

America, in all its glory, is [our revolutionary and pioneer ancestors'] gift to us, handed down across the generations. It belongs to us. It’s our birthright, our heritage, our destiny.

We Americans are the sons and daughters of the Christian pilgrims that poured out from Europe’s shores to baptize a new world in their ancient faith.

The first settlers in my state were mostly Scots-Irish ... As the historian David McCullough writes, the Scots-Irish families that first settled Missouri “saw themselves as the true Americans”:

But America does not belong to [the radicals, i.e. "them"]. It belongs to us. It’s our home. It’s a heritage entrusted to us by our ancestors. It is a way of life that is ours, and only ours, and if we disappear, then America, too, will cease to exist.

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Emphasis added. All opinions are Senator Schmitt's. National conservatism is a variant of conservatism that prioritizes the defense of national and cultural identity. In the United States, [Trump's ideas] can be considered a variety of national conservatism, which also gives its name to the National Conservatism Conference, organised by the Edmund Burke Foundation.

Please pray that if it is God's will he takes my bladder pain and discomfort away and allows me to feel good. I ask in the name of Jesus. God bless you. Carmen

Michigan-based novelist Angela Shupe’s debut work, “In the Light of the Sun,” can be seen as a testament to the power of art and music to lighten even the most extreme anguish and hardship.

Scheduled for release in October 2025, the book tells the story of two sisters who despite being worlds apart, use their musical gifts to overcome.

The story unfolds in a rural village of Floridablanco in the Pampanga province of the Philippines, and in Florence, Italy. The book highlights the struggles of Italian-Filipino “mestisas” (half-bloods) living in Italy during the Mussolini era.

In counterpoint, the novel outlines a middle-class Filipino family’s struggle to survive in the wake of Imperial Japan’s military occupation of the nation between 1941-1945.

Older sister Rosa Grassi has moved to Florence to be with her beloved grandmother Nonna, and to undergo voice training in preparation for a career in opera. Nonna is a former world-class soprano who has chosen to remain in Italy in retirement.

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The head of the Armenian Apostolic Church during a meeting Tuesday at the papal residence in Castel Gandolfo invited Pope Leo XIV to visit Armenia.

Catholicos Karekin II, the patriarch of the Armenian Apostolic Church, met Pope Leo for the first time at Villa Barberini, the papal summer residence overlooking Lake Albano. Leo has recently begun spending Tuesdays, the pope’s traditional day off, in Castel Gandolfo while the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City undergoes renovations.

The two discussed the need for a peace based on justice, according to Archbishop Khajag Barsamian, the Armenian Church’s representative to the Holy See, in comments to the Armenian-language edition of Vatican Media.

The invitation would mark a continuation of ecumenical dialogue and papal outreach to Armenia, the first state to adopt Christianity as its state religion in A.D. 301. Karekin II has previously traveled to the Vatican for meetings with John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and Francis.

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A U.S. Air Force reservist's lawsuit alleging he was punished for giving a speech in which he said "men can't birth babies" can move forward, a court has ruled.

U.S. District Judge Amos Mazzant of the Eastern District of Texas, Sherman Division issued a memorandum opinion and order last week in the case of Jace Yarbough v. United States Space Force, et al.

Mazzant, an Obama appointee, denied a motion to dismiss reservist Jace Yarbough's lawsuit, who has argued that he was unlawfully punished for giving a speech in uniform at a retirement ceremony in 2021 that some considered too political.

"Here, all of Plaintiff's claim involve the First Amendment and raise an important question on what limits exist when a service member, not on active duty, makes statements regarding his religious beliefs at a retirement ceremony," wrote Mazzant.

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Grammy-winning Christian hip-hop artist Lecrae responded to the assassination of Christian conservative activist Charlie Kirk, urging his followers to reject violence and instead embrace the teachings of Jesus.

"People are knocking on my DMs asking me to have some commentary about what's going on in America right now," Lecrae said in a social media post. "I'm in Africa, by the way, and here's my thing: I'm slow to speak because I'm trying to process, and part two is, there are people much smarter than me, much more articulate. I'm not that narcissistic to feel like I have to have the leading voice on everything that's going on in America.

The 45-year-old rapper, who in the past has been criticized by Kirk, said he was choosing to reflect privately with loved ones rather than immediately weigh in on the tragedy, but said he refuses to believe violence offers any meaningful solution.

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He'll be missed.

In the season finale of “Generation Indoctrination,” host Brandon Showalter and his guests trace a cultural trajectory they say has led from the sexual revolution of the 1960s to what they describe as today’s “gender chaos,” including transgenderism and pornography.

“If you spend any time in the land of gender confusion, there’s a common question you’ll hear asked among bewildered people: how on Earth did we get here?” Showalter says in the episode, “From ‘Free Love’ to Gender Chaos: Tracing the Road from the Sexual Revolution to Today.”

“The assault of gender ideology on natural reason … is so profound, it precipitates further questions about what led to this insanity. It didn’t emerge from a vacuum.”

Canadian journalist Jonathon Van Maren, host of "The Jonathon Van Maren Show," contended that the roots of transgender ideology can be traced directly to the sexual revolution.

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Notable theologian and author John Piper has warned Christians not to pursue mysticism or believe that one can connect with God in a supernatural realm to gain hidden knowledge.

In a recent episode of the “Ask Pastor John" podcast, the Desiring God website founder responded to a letter from a listener named Dianne who asked about the Bible teacher's views on mysticism.

“I don’t know if this question has come up before, but what are your thoughts on Christian mysticism and Christian mystics and their interaction with God?” she wrote.

“Did they experience something in their walk with God that we have generally lost today? Is mysticism something that we should pursue to have a closer walk with God?”

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When Demi-Leigh Tebow welcomed her first child, daughter Daphne Raine, with her husband Tim Tebow in July, the world she once knew shifted in an instant.

“People always tell you, it’s a love you just have never experienced before, and I can totally resonate with that,” the 30-year-old author, speaker and former Miss Universe told The Christian Post. “I feel like I’m learning so much through her every day … just getting to see life all over again, through her little eyes, and celebrate all the little milestones.”

“Every line, every sleepless night, it’s an honor to have those things,” she added. “Somehow I feel like I’m going to miss it. Those sweet little midnight feeding sessions and moments. … I know at one point I’ll look back and just miss those, too.”

It’s a sentiment she carries into her new book, Knowing Who You Are Because of Who God Is: 100 Days to Unbreakable Faith, out Sept. 16. Dedicated to her daughter, the devotional is an invitation to trade the noise of cultural expectations for the confidence of faith.

With cover illustrations by the same artist who designed Tebow’s wedding invitation, the book’s structure reflects her current, busier season of life.

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A 12-year-old Annunciation Catholic School shooting victim is making "miraculous" progress toward recovery after she was shot in the head on Aug. 27, with family crediting "fervent prayer."

Sophia Forchas, a 12-year-old student at the school located at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was one of several students injured in the mass shooting at the parochial school three weeks ago. The attack also claimed the lives of students Fletcher Merkel, 8, and Harper Moyski, 10.

Sophia Forchas, 12. | GoFundeMe

Last Friday, Forchas' family provided a positive update on the student's condition in a message posted on a GoFundMe page to raise funds to pay for costs associated with her recovery.

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An attorney representing a Maine church that's suing a university system for allegedly refusing to sell a property to them because the religious entity objects to same-sex marriage has warned of “broader implications” if the congregation loses the case.

Last year, Calvary Chapel Belfast filed a lawsuit against the University of Maine System when the academic institution rescinded an offer to buy a school property, allegedly because of local outrage over the church’s religious views.

Liberty Counsel Associate Vice President of Legal Affairs, Daniel Schmid, who is helping to represent Calvary Chapel in court, told The Christian Post that there were “broader implications” if the church's lawsuit is rejected.

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I was sitting in a local fast food restaurant when an older gentleman wearing a chain with a celtic cross over his tie walked in. I thought he was a Priest and so I asked. No he wasn't a priest. So my next question was then was he a local Church attendee? 'Well', he replied, 'I belong to the Catholic Church', he answered.

So I stopped to mention how I just saw the Vatican and the news about the smoke which was emitting out of their chimney. Myself, not being a devout follower of all Catholic events, didn't know that the smoke billowing signified having voted in a new Pope. I thought the Vatican was on 'fire'.... And so I understood and the gentleman reminded me that the smoke of the Vatican had been going on for the last 40 years, as far as he could recall.

So I learned something new.

So I again, trying to start some type of conversation with a nice appearing gentleman regarding Christianity in any form, denomination, for the sake of having a conversation about Christianity, Church, even The Catholic Church, pointed out how the new Pope was from Chicago. And how we, as U.S. citizens, do not have to write to him in any other language other than plain old English and he would be able to understand our point...

But the question I really was intending to ask was this... Him being a believer of Creation... and also the Catholic Church and even any Protestant Church.. being believers of Creation.... the question being asked is.... If a person is not in that particular line of Creation, with its Truth, can that person be a sane and sound person...

'Well', he replied... 'but I'm a believer'...

Okay... but what about any 'other' person who has their daily life as a non believer of Creation? Can that person be sound and sane in body, soul, etc...??


So my question is that.. if a person is not within that 'line' of Truth in their own 'belief' system, per se... can that person be a sound and sane person?

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