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Pope Leo XIV Says “No One Possesses the Entire Truth”

For what it is worth, my (deceased) Presbyterian minister turned up one night in a very brief vision some time after I'd become Catholic and said "The Catholic Church is closest to the truth", with a distinct emphasis on the word "closest".

We had discussed Catholic / Protestant church differences when he was still alive. At the time he was becoming fed up with Protesant divisions.

Note that he did not say "has all the truth". He distinctly said "... closest ....

For what it is worth. Private revelation obviously.
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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.

Hell doesn't exist and there is no eternal suffering, instead bad peolle just cease to exist

If you insist on equating a love and reverence for God and His Holy Word as hatred for ones neighbor, by all means, carry on.
Just looking at what is actually being done to the neighbors by the positions Del. Nothing personal. It's just how you happen to see it, but that doesn't mean it adds up
You seem to freely pick and choose whatever words suit your narrative at any given time, so I see no point in discussing this topic any further.
My observations are pretty simple in this regards:

Love neighbors does not equate to promoting them to be burned alive forever for not believing like you.

I'd be embarrassed to try to pin my so called faith in that when faith supposedly works through love and love neighbors

Burning people alive forever is NOT done by faith
As I previously stated, God will do as He pleases.
Fortunately God is quite a bit better than the sum of us
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SO HOW DO YOU KNOW YOU ARE SAVED ??

And all that you quote ANY verse is correct but not ALL is for us. !!
Every Word of God is for everyone Dan, Matt. 4:4, Luke 4:4, Deut. 8:3

I'm sure if you spent decades thinking otherwise you wouldn't get it

You appear to be fixated on an aspect or 2 for some odd reason which usually happens when believers try to justify themselves for exercising certain activities stipulated in the scriptures

Better to start at saved by unmerited Divine Mercy and Grace and leave it at that
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The Miraculous Medal Novena

Day 5... 11/22/25

O Immaculate Virgin Mary, Mother of Our Lord Jesus and our Mother, penetrated with the most lively confidence in your all-powerful and never-failing intercession, manifested so often through the Miraculous Medal, we your loving and trustful children implore you to obtain for us the graces and favors we ask during this Novena, if they be beneficial to our immortal souls, and the souls for whom we pray.

(Privately form your petitions here.)

You know, O Mary, how often our souls have been the sanctuaries of your Son who hates iniquity. Obtain for us, then, a deep hatred of sin and that purity of heart, which will attach us to God alone so that our every thought word and deed may tend to his greater glory. Obtain for us also a spirit of prayer and self-denial, that we may recover by penance what we have lost by sin, and at length attain to that blessed abode where you are the Queen of angels and of men. Amen.
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Weekly homilies

Homily Sunday, November 23, 2025

Christ the King



2 Samuel 5:1-3

The tribes of Israel said to David: "The Lord said to you (David): 'You shall shepherd my people Israel; you shall be ruler over Israel.'"



It is marvelous when the Lord speaks to our hearts.



The tribes of Israel came to David and reminded him of what the Lord had said.



Then they anointed him king.



Colossians 1:12-20

"Giving thanks to the Father, who has made you fit to share in the inheritance of the holy ones in light."



Thank you, Lord, for loving us; we praise you, Alleluia. Thank you for your love that passes into my heart to the hearts of my family, my friends, and humanity.



Luke 23:35-43 (White)

Jesus is the king who lives in the kingdom, the Heart of God, and he reigns at this moment.



The thief says of Jesus: "This man has done nothing criminal."



This short sentence is crucial: He who keeps himself away from evil is in God.



Jesus says to the thief: "Today you will be with me in Paradise." In the present tense: "You are with me in Paradise."



At this moment, we are with God in Paradise. It depends on us to know this and to remain in God's joy.



Biblical texts: NAB-RE

Normand Thomas.
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Stepping from Fog into Sunlight: What is your "Holy Ground" moment?

Steve, keep strumming and keep looking up—those country-night skies are a cathedral without walls.
That is a great song line my friend. Your a song writer lol. "those country-night skies are a cathedral without walls" paints a great picture.
Every chord you chase and every star you catch is an echo of the same vastness: we can’t bottle God, but we can let art and night-air carry our wonder back to Him.
Yes so true. Your inspiring me now lol. My mum and step dad use to live in the country not far from the Warrumbungle National Park
where the space observatory was. So this location was ideal for having a clear uninterupted view of the night sky.

I use to lay on my back and watch shooting stars going off everywhere across my field of vision. You could actually see the distant spiral of the milky way. This alone was something that had Gods fingerprints all over it and stayed with me.

Now putting the chords to that is not so simple lol. But we can capture some of it and your words above did just that for me or any one I reckon. But also the music has to flow with the vision or experience as well.
Press on—your next note might be the one that helps someone else hear the “something beyond.”
Yes I think this is the key (pardon the pun). Sharing helps because sharing ideas and inspirations makes it real and alive and it can then grow into something.
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Needing a pastors counsel

I'm apostolic but I can't find a counselor that shares my faith. I really need counseling.
I feel like no one gets it.
Start by praying that God bring someone into your life who can lead you to or through what you need to be resolved. If they can't, they may know the one who can.

This happened to me actually, in 2013 or so.. The start of answered prayer started 3 days later .
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So far, at least nine (now ~40) (now ~160) judges, including Trump appointees, have called a halt to Trump executive actions

Birthright citizenship returns to Supreme Court as justices meet to weigh Trump's restrictions

The justices could say as soon as Monday whether they will hear Trump’s appeal of lower court rulings that have uniformly struck down the citizenship restrictions.​

Doesn't seem like there's an issue.
Yeah this seems like a no brainer. If someone doesnt love it. Change the constitution.
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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:

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.
Well, that’s a thing.
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Who then can be saved?

It's almost amusing. You don't even attempt to perform the due diglence required in order to find out the truth for yourself, and then still endeavor to take the moral high ground like some kind of priggish Pharisee, while accusing me of your own fault.

Again, Insitutes is theology, systematic theology, and 2 Thess 1:8-10 specifically states, over and against your position, that those in hell will be "shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might on the day he comes to be glorified in his holy people and to be marveled at among all those who have believed."

Oh well, this discussion has descended into one of those rare moments when I'll express my distaste with the ignore button.
That's fine, you're welcome to hit the panic button. But it shows you can't defend your denomination's version of the gospel.
I have never expressed my private opinion about any doctrine, all I have done is defend the gospel of the Lord Jesus and it seems to have offended you.
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JPPT's Faithful Thoughts and Devotions (3)

JPPT1974's Black Friday Weekend 2025:
Christ is a jealous God and
When we put Him in the backburner
He knows as we do know
It is not an excuse and that
Things go awry but when we
Place Christ in our lives all the time
Every single time He will lead us
In the thing that is conceived and
Created by Him known as life
Always put Him first and foremost 24/7!!
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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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Give God the Glory
An Original Work / November 22, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Release from Epstein files

I don’t see how anyone can expect this administration to release anything that might be damaging to the president or anyone loyal to him.
But the Denocrats sure could have. And from everything they gave done to him over the years we know they good and well would have if they had anything. There isn't.
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JPPT1974's Daily Devotions

JPPT1974's Thanksgiving Thoughts 2025:
Zeroing in on how our spiritual
Emptiness needs to be filled
Up and how we need to replace
Physical food with spiritual food
Eternal and be filled with the
Spiritual way Christ gives us on an eternal
Basis and how He gives not as the world gives
He gives us what we need not what we want
But His ways and will are better than the world's.
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JPPT1974's Daily Devotions

JPPT1974's Thanksgiving Thoughts 2025:
When we place Him first and foremost
And that allow the Great Healer and
Physician and how that it is
For Christ to allow us to rest physical
Mental and emotional to give our
Hearts, minds, and souls rest and
Trying to give ourselves an hour a day or we would
Go nuts but in a spiritual needs to
Lean on the Lord and pray to Him and spend time with Christ.
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