Wednesday, September 3, 2025

Teach me, O Lord, the way of your statutes...

Teach me, O Lord, the way of your statutes;
    and I will keep it to the end.
 Give me understanding, that I may keep your law
    and observe it with my whole heart.
 Lead me in the path of your commandments,
    for I delight in it.
 Incline my heart to your testimonies,
    and not to selfish gain!
 Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things;
    and give me life in your ways.
 Confirm to your servant your promise,
    that you may be feared.
 Turn away the reproach that I dread,
    for your rules are good.
 Behold, I long for your precepts...
-Psalm 119: 33-40

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--------------Big Brother watching------------

European ‘Activist‘ Uses AI Facial Recognition Tech to Identify Masked ICE Officers  Skinner, who declined to reveal the specific AI model used in his project, acknowledged that the technology is flawed and can lead to incorrect matches on social media profiles. He maintains that a group of volunteers verifies the identities through an additional process before posting any names online. While he doesn’t believe the ICE List endangers officers, as it only includes names and not personal information like addresses, he does acknowledge that a name alone could lead to the discovery of an officer’s personal data.


---------------Faith takes-----------

In a world where language and speech are often abused; where “misinformation” is passed on as lies, and truth is condemned as misinformation; it is especially important that we offer a better word. And that we take on board the many teachings in Scripture about how, where and when we speak. Can we not learn to disagree well? Those of us who are conflict averse need to be careful that we are not afraid to speak directly rather than engage in indirect speech (gossip). Those of us who seem to be conflict-driven need to repent of our aggressive speech and learn to follow the One who spoke strongly but was also gentle.
   It’s a minefield for speaker/writer and hearer/reader alike. But one we have to traverse. We need to bear in mind the ninth commandment and the fact that those who “love and practice falsehood” are outside the city (Rev.21v15). Perhaps every time we write, or engage in a significant conversation, we should pray – “May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer” (Ps.19v14).


Montreal church fined for hosting prayer service concert with Christian singer Sean FeuchtThe ticket is dated July 25, which is when the church went ahead with a prayer service at which Feucht was singing. Before the service started, police came into the church to try and stop the performance. Anti-Christian protesters set off a smoke bomb inside the church to try and intimidate those inside.de.

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Tuesday, September 2, 2025

The Lord is the strength of his people...

Blessed be the Lord!
    For he has heard the voice of my pleas for mercy.
 The Lord is my strength and my shield;
    in him my heart trusts, and I am helped;
my heart exults,
    and with my song I give thanks to him.

 The Lord is the strength of his people;
    he is the saving refuge of his anointed.
 Oh, save your people and bless your heritage!
    Be their shepherd and carry them forever.
-Psalm 28:6-9

--------------Death cults--------------

Canada spearheads the global death cult  A nation with endless land and limitless potential is busying itself not with building a future but with perfecting the art of ending lives early and monetising the process. Canada could be the model of resilience, resourcefulness and growth. Instead, it is shaping up to be the poster child of a world where human beings are expendable and profit is paramount.

It is a key issue about the relation between the doctor and the patient. If assisted suicide becomes an option then many clinicians will stop looking for what else can be done to help a patient in distress.  There is a great difficulty in accurate diagnosis and prognosis. People may be at ‘end stage’ but survive for many more years.  Professor Taubert recalled that he had also seen patients completely misdiagnosed with a terminal condition ( including cancer) that was not the case.

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Let’s not kid ourselves—this was never about fraud. It was about politics. Letitia James campaigned on “getting Trump.” She didn’t run on cleaning up Albany corruption or making New York a safer place to live. She ran on a vendetta. She promised to use her office to pursue one man and one man only, because her party feared he was the one obstacle to their hold on power.
   And Judge Engoron? He was her willing executioner.

--------------Conquering--------------



Breaking Texas: Georgetown Islamic Center’s Expansion Builds Sharia Enclave, Raising Children From Cradle to Imam to Pipeline Mosque Leaders Nationwide (Video) This “rapid growth” is not accidental. The United States continues to admit large numbers of Muslim immigrants and refugees each year, while higher birth rates within Muslim families accelerate expansion. The result is a built-in demographic engine that fuels demand for larger mosques, schools, and Islamic institutions.
    This was no longer about local prayer needs. It was about creating permanence: a seminary, a marketplace, youth facilities, and a leadership pipeline — all justified as sadaqah jariyah (eternal investment in Islam).

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Global fertility decline sparks debate over future policy, as UK birth rates drop to unprecedented levels     The pressures being felt across the world are causing many governments to introduce measures to encourage parenthood – from subsidies in China to generous parental leave and child benefits in Europe – but Pew notes the evidence that such policies lift fertility is limited.

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Landslide kills over 1,000 people and levels entire village in Sudan's Central Darfur  "Initial information indicates the death of all village residents, estimated to be more than one thousand people. Only one person survived," the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army said in a statement

---------------Drones-------------

Electromagnetic Weapon Destroys Drone Swarm In Seconds: 'Singularity Event'  Drones have quickly become all the rage among military leaders and Silicon Valley investors, but new weaponry could threaten the nascent technology’s swift rise

Thunderstruck on the Prairie: How Science and Sound Are Saving Cattle  Researchers from the USDA are patrolling prairie skies with drones, armed with speakers, playing everything from Angus Young's guitar riffs to Scarlett Johansson's screaming match with Adam Driver in the movie Marriage Story.
   It's easy to visualize being a wolf, so close to dinner, when out of nowhere, a flying box begins blasting a Hollywood divorce drama at 120 decibels.

---------------AI-------------

Let Me Google that For You...The AI threat to our humanity no one's talking about  While it is clear, then, that AI can be designed and used for good, I do worry that even its best, most productivity-boosting, most labor-saving uses may, if we are not careful, come at a very steep price. Can we design AI in a way that serves us without forgetting, in the process, how to serve one another?


A Single Typo in Your Medical Records Can Make Your AI Doctor Go Dangerously Haywire  That's what MIT researchers found in a June study currently awaiting peer review...

--------------Faith takes-------------

Whenever The World Mocks Prayer, Christians Should Pray Twice As Hard After tragedies such as we saw this past week, it’s become increasingly fashionable for people to say, “Now is not the time for prayer – it is the time for action!” To that I would say this: prayer is the highest form of Christian action and whenever the world discourages prayer, the Christian should pray twice as hard!
    Pray without ceasing! Pray that God would bring comfort and healing to our grieving neighbors, that he would bring us to repentance and deliver us from evil in all its forms, and that he would put the devil to flight through the preaching of his Word. Finally, pray that God’s name be hallowed and His divine will be done, that those who consider themselves our earthly enemies would instead become our brothers and sisters through saving faith in Jesus Christ. Read it all

Pope Leo meets LGBTQ Catholic advocate and vows continuity with Francis' welcoming legacy   Pope Leo XIV met Monday with one of the most prominent advocates for greater LGBTQ inclusion in the Catholic Church and encouraged his ministry, just days before a planned Holy Year pilgrimage of LGBTQ Catholics to the Vatican.

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Monday, September 1, 2025

Establish the work of our hands upon us...

 Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love,
    that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
 Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us,
    and for as many years as we have seen evil.
 Let your work be shown to your servants,
    and your glorious power to their children.
 Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us,
    and establish the work of our hands upon us;
    yes, establish the work of our hands!
-Psalm 90:14-17

Lord on this Labor Day, we thank You for the blessing of work.  We ask for strength to complete each day.  We ask for rest when we are weary.  We ask Your guidance for everyone seeking employment, and we ask that You be with those whose faces we might never see but who work tirelessly each day for the good of us all. Amen. Prayer

---------------Labor Day--------------

The founding of the United States was an exceptional moment in human history, and because those ideas cannot be cancelled or rescinded our country remains exceptional. Labor Day celebrates American exceptionalism through the work and the accomplishments of its diverse free people.

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The Progressive Pantheon of Pathetic Heroes: -VD Hanson   The left’s “heroes” are too often liars, criminals, or violent radicals—canonized not for virtue, but for their usefulness to the progressive cause...Why does the left make martyrs out of monsters?

Politicians of every stripe should support saving the lives of people who would otherwise be murdered. Yet Democrats behave as though the actions President Trump has taken are worse that the deaths those actions have prevented.

Churches are burning across Europe. But why? But concern is growing about deliberate arson, particularly in France, where a number of attacks have hit the headlines. A church steeple caught fire in Saint-Omer in northern France in September, with signs of forced entry. In 2016, a team of young jihadists attempted to set fire to Notre Dame Cathedral, but were caught and imprisoned, fuelling rumours that the 2019 fire was not accidental and the authorities were not honest about the cause

---------------Defense--------------


The Pentagon Cracks Down On Big Tech’s Coziness With China Defense Secretary Hegseth slammed Microsoft for using Chinese engineers on Pentagon data, ending the program and warning that Big Tech’s ties to Beijing put U.S. security at risk...

--------------Around the web---------------


The War on Boys: Why Stories Are the Antidote to a Culture That Calls Masculinity Toxic  Taken together, schools, teachers, culture, and publishing form an echo chamber that tells boys, You are guilty before you’ve even begun.

Homan Reveals How Many of the Unaccompanied Children Lost Under Biden Have Been Located 

Monumental Media Malpractice: CBS Deceptively Edits Sec. Kristi Noem Interview 


---------------Minneapolis--------------



How does the smoke of worship become the smoke of feminism?
    If ordinary church-going women like this can become this confused about matters of faith and morals, what happens to a mentally ill 23-year-old who is told by the liberal media that Donald Trump is Hitler, a threat to democracy, and that the United States is on the threshold of fascism with concentration camps around the corner?

Minneapolis Shooting Reveals Democrat Party’s Comfort With Satanic Talking Points  Many Democrats also (probably unwittingly) provided more evidence of the overlap between leftist politics and Satanic behavior in issuing mocking condemnations of the Christian God and prayer, even while the attacked children were receiving emergency care.





---------------Never give up--------------

Saturday, August 30, 2025

The God We Love (Nicene Creed)

 
The God We Love (Nicene Creed) 
 CityAlight-featuring Matt Redman

V1
We believe in one God, the Father 
The Almighty, the Maker of all 
The One who rules the seen and unseen 
We believe, and we adore
Jesus Christ, one Lord of creation
From the Father, begotten not made
He is the Light from Light eternal
And the God of every age
 
CHORUS
All glory to the Father now
All honour to the Son
And praise the Spirit, now and always
This is the God we love
 
V2
For this world and for our salvation
He came down from the heavens above
Born of a virgin and the Spirit
Truly man and truly God
He was crucified under Pilate,
Suffered death and was laid in the grave
And in accordance with the scriptures
On the third He rose again 

CHORUS
All glory to the Father now
All honour to the Son
And praise the Spirit, now and always
This is the God we love

BRIDGE
And He has made His ascent 
Into the heavens above
Where He sits at the Father’s right hand now 
But He will come back again
And He will judge in truth

The Holy Spirit has come, 
Voice of the prophets of God
     Sent to us, he has given us new life
      Forgiven, now and baptised        
One holy church, we rise
We rise…

CHORUS
All glory to the Father now
All honour to the Son
And praise the Spirit, now and always
This is the God we love

V3
Now we wait to be resurrected
And we look for the world without end
This is our creed, our faith, our anthem 
This is the God we love
This is the God we love

Therefore, stay awake...

Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming. But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into.  Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.   
-Matthew 24:42-44 Image

---------------Minneapolis----------------

Stats Show Shocking Surge In Attacks On Churches In America    In 2024, the United States witnessed a significant uptick in acts of hostility targeting churches, with a total of 436 documented incidents—a sharp increase from 315 in 2023 and nearly double the 230 reported in 2022.

Trump's DHS tells Americans to 'pray without ceasing' after Catholic church shooting ...some Democrats and leftists have mocked the calls for “thoughts and prayers” in the aftermath of the attack.

...a gigantic game of pretend, a broad and deliberate dissociation from reality for the purpose of maintaining a political racketeering operation, which is what the Democratic Party had become.

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----------------Faith take---------------

We typically think of—and pray for—God to intervene in our lives to remove trials, pain, difficulties, and hardships. Calvin’s view is the opposite: God intervenes in our lives by placing trials, pain, difficulties, and hardships in our lives. Whatever ails us in our spiritual lives, the remedy, Calvin says, is the blessing of a cross to bear.

Not a few members of our small group struggled with this idea. Particularly those who were experiencing real, present, pervasive, life-altering, dream-shattering, soul-crushing, inescapable suffering.

The intellectual answer is simple: God ordains trials in our lives for our good (see James 1:2-4 and Romans 8:28-29).

The experiential answer is much more revealing because the real, present, pervasive, life-altering, dream-shattering, soul-crushing inescapable experience of suffering digs down to our deepest desires: What do you hope for in this life? Read it all...

Friday, August 29, 2025

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses...

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. -Hebrews 12:1-2 Image

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Democrats Want to Kill You if You Pray  The Democrats are too effete to fight an outright civil war. As I wrote yesterday, they'd rather have the victim groups they've beaten into submission do their dirty work. They're gunning for us, though, and all the while, they're trying to take our guns.



The Annunciation shooting reveals the savagery of identity politics We have to grapple with the possibility that a culture that forces the individual ever more inwards, inviting them to obsess over their own fantasy identities and to loathe any ‘phobe’ who refuses to genuflect at their altar of the self, is wrenching people ever further and ever more violently from society itself.

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REPORT: One Third of Gen Z Was Never Born If America lost one-third of an entire generation to war, disease, suicide, or gun violence, it would be treated as the greatest tragedy in our nation’s history. But according to a new report, abortion has claimed the lives of that many would-be Gen Zers – and hardly anyone in the political or media establishment has taken note.



-----------------Faith take---------------

Those scoffing at Christians’ prayer after Wednesday’s tragedy repeat the folly of the crowds who dared the crucified Christ to save Himself. Image

Tozer levels this word of rebuke to the American Christians of his day:
"Perhaps the most serious charge that can be brought against modern Christians is that we are not sufficiently in love with Christ. The Christ of fundamentalism is strong but hardly beautiful. It is rarely that we find anyone aglow with personal love for Christ. I trust it is not uncharitable to say that in my opinion a great deal of praise in conservative circles is perfunctory and forced, where it is not downright insincere...
...Christ can never be known without a sense of awe and fear accompanying the knowledge. He is the fairest among ten thousand, but He is also the Lord high and mighty. He is the friend of sinners, but He is also the terror of devils. He is meek and lowly in heart, but He is also Lord and Christ who will surely come to be the judge of all men. No one who knows Him intimately can ever be flippant in His presence."

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Thursday, August 28, 2025

I the Lord will answer them...

When the poor and needy seek water,
    and there is none,
    and their tongue is parched with thirst,
I the Lord will answer them;
    I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
 I will open rivers on the bare heights,
    and fountains in the midst of the valleys.
I will make the wilderness a pool of water,
    and the dry land springs of water.
 I will put in the wilderness the cedar,
    the acacia, the myrtle, and the olive.
I will set in the desert the cypress,
    the plane and the pine together,
 that they may see and know,
    may consider and understand together,
that the hand of the Lord has done this,
    the Holy One of Israel has created it.
-Isaiah 41:17-20

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The Mass Shooting In Minneapolis Followed A Pattern That Is Becoming Very Familiar  We have seen this happen way too many times before.  Over and over again, mass shootings are being committed by deranged individuals that hate conservatives and hate Christians.  More often than not, the shooters are deeply involved in an alternative sexual lifestyle, and so they view conservatives and Christians as their “oppressors”.  Frequently, the shooters have some sort of a personal connection to the particular target that has been chosen.  Of course in so many of these cases the mainstream media will completely ignore the real reason why a mass shooting has taken place.  But the American people are not stupid.  We can all see what is happening, and it is time for the mainstream media to start admitting the truth.

Blood, Tears, and Lessons in a Minneapolis Church No wonder the Democrat talking heads are more comfortable calling out the mourners, for praying, than they are calling out the gunman for his crimes.





----------------Pray for the nations----------------


UK Schools Sending Children as Young as Four Home for ‘Racism’  Even in cases involving older pupils, the problem often lies more with the teachers themselves.

The celebration of childlessness has gone too far  Britain’s birth rate has plummeted. It is a sad truth that many couples later regret not having children



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Civics Revolution: Conservatives Are Reviving Traditional Education With a Modern Twist To some degree, as a response to the overreach of the Great Awokening of the past decade, civics is gaining traction.

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Dr. David Speicher’s Peer-Reviewed Bombshell: DNA Contamination in Pfizer’s mRNA Vaccines  For the first time, legally admissible scientific evidence now confirms what many suspected: that mRNA vaccines may have contained DNA contaminants with profound and undisclosed risks.


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Back to Gas: School Districts Revert to Diesel Because Biden’s Electric Buses Can’t Be Repaired  Lion Electric, which received $159 million in federal funds to manufacture electric buses, has fallen into bankruptcy and failed to deliver $95 million worth of buses.
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Wednesday, August 27, 2025

In the Lord I take refuge...

                                                            
In the Lord I take refuge;
how can you say to my soul,
    Flee like a bird to your mountain,
 for behold, the wicked bend the bow;
    they have fitted their arrow to the string
    to shoot in the dark at the upright in heart;
 if the foundations are destroyed,
    what can the righteous do?

 The Lord is in his holy temple;
    the Lord's throne is in heaven;
    his eyes see, his eyelids test the children of man.
 The Lord tests the righteous,
    but his soul hates the wicked 
and the one who loves violence.
 Let him rain coals on the wicked;
    fire and sulfur and a scorching wind 
shall be the portion of their cup.

 For the Lord is righteous;
he loves righteous deeds;
    the upright shall behold his face.
-Psalm 11

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The devastating cost of cashless bail  Meanwhile, millions of taxpayer dollars have flowed into programs designed to support criminals – housing them, feeding them, offering them endless “second chances.” And what about us? The victims? We struggle day to day, financially and emotionally, often with no resources, no lifeline, no recognition. Families are left with empty chairs at the dinner table, mounting bills for funerals and therapy, and the haunting trauma that never goes away.

This Pro-Palestine Group Is Defacing New York  Within Our Lifetime has organized several lawless demonstrations

College Crackdown...American institutions of higher education are facing a much-needed reckoning   We must return to a time when students attended school to earn a BS after finishing their college courses. As it stands now, students often end up with a load of BS before they graduate.



Why Do Governments Keep Lying About Net Zero? The reality that Net Zero is expensive, restrictive and destabilising is slowly occurring to people and politicians alike. Whether by design or incompetence, the effect is the same: ordinary families pay, governments gain power, and companies take huge profits.



Monster Who Raped a Child Under 11 Released by NYPD ICE later found and arrested Robert Reid Mendez Jimenez after his release by NYPD two weeks ago.



-----------------Faith take-----------------

The time has finally come.
   With the rapid growth and development of artificial intelligence, we can now officially say that it’s impossible to tell what’s real.
   Everything can now be faked in such a way that the savviest among us can no longer tell the difference between reality and AI. Even our most trusted news sources can’t be sure if they’re being duped or not, unless they witness each news event personally, an impossible feat.
   With every video, voice, or picture, we —if we’re discerning enough—now must question the veracity of what our eyes see and ears hear.

Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly...

Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.      
-Colossians 3:12-17 Image

........For prayer.......


They even have a theme: #raisethecolours



Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick voids ‘illegal’ $7.4B payment to Biden ally-staffed nonprofit for semiconductor research ...Biden Administration officials spent significant time, effort, and resources creating an unaccountable, outside entity–Natcast–to administer taxpayer funds,” Lutnick wrote Natcast CEO Deirdre Hanford.



Medically Assisted Suicide is a Bad Idea...Time for a wakeup call  Mainstream, secular outlets are increasingly noticing the negative effects and spread of assisted suicide.


Coloradans getting first-hand taste of progressive squalor  Have you noticed recently how trash-laden the Denver-area highways have become?

New Orleans, a Carnival of Corruption  Instead, New Orleans is in a perpetual state of crisis, with decaying infrastructure, dilapidated streets, rampant violent crime, substandard public schools, a poor economy, and public officials who are either inept or corrupt.






Exposing the rot in Canada’s professional bodies Nurse Amy Hamm has been financially ruined for daring to criticise gender ideology

---------------Faith takes--------------

Always Reforming: Why Extraordinary Results in the Church Have Always Depended on Ordinary Means   Faithful churches in every generation will always face the temptation to measure their fruitfulness by what is visible, quick, and appealing. But the kingdom of God is like a mustard seed—small, slow-growing, yet ultimately unshakable. The growth God gives may not come through the things we can engineer, but through the things Christ has promised to bless.
   A church shaped by the ordinary means of grace may be quieter, smaller, and slower. But it will also be deeper, more resilient, and more faithful. It will form people not around events, but around Christ. Not around performance, but around promise. Not around consumer appeal, but around covenantal commitment.
   So let us return again to that great rallying cry of the Reformation: semper reformanda. Always reforming—not according to the preferences of our age, but according to the word of God. Always realigning, not with the winds of culture, but with the voice of Christ. Always repenting, always refining, always renewing—until our life together as the church bears the shape of the gospel we proclaim. Read it all...

In ten years, most Mainline denominations will likely still legally exist but most of them will be little more than shells. The congregations that will have survived will be indifferent and will have adapted to the new reality of post denominational America. The “end” of the Mainline may resemble the “end” of the Roman Empire, about which historians still debate. Did it end with a particular emperor? If so, people at the time likely barely noticed. Their lives continued largely as before, as others ruled where the emperor had been. And other entities claimed they were the new Rome. In one hundred years, historians of American religion will debate when the Mainline Protestant denominations ended. There might be no conclusive answer.


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Monday, August 25, 2025

It is good to give thanks to the Lord...

It is good to give thanks to the Lord,
to sing praises to your name, O Most High;
 to declare your steadfast love in the morning,
    and your faithfulness by night,
 to the music of the lute and the harp,
    to the melody of the lyre.
 For you, O Lord, have made me glad by your work;
    at the works of your hands I sing for joy
-Psalm 92:1-4

For prayer: 


The Persecution of Christians, July 2025



Mega Exodus Rocks U.S. Catholic Church: 9 Out of 10 Cradle Catholics Defect 



Denmark Made a Special Exception To Let In Hundreds of Palestinian Refugees. Here’s What Happened  Sixty-seven of the 321 refugees received prison sentences, while a majority relied on public welfare...

Cultural Domination
Psychological Warfare
Normalization of Extremism
Global Pattern






...psychiatric disorders, substance abuse, and suicide attempts


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