Receive every day as a resurrection from death...

Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life; meet every rising sun with such sentiments of God's goodness, as if you had seen it, and all things, new-created upon your account: and under the sense of so great a blessing, let your joyful heart praise and magnify so good and glorious a Creator. -William Law

Set your minds on things that are above...

If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.  Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.  For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. 

-Colossians 3:1-4 Image

Let the heavens be glad...

Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice,

    and let them say among the nations, “The Lord reigns!”

 Let the sea roar, and all that fills it;

    let the field exult, and everything in it!

 Then shall the trees of the forest sing for joy

    before the Lord, for he comes to judge the earth.

 Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good;

    for his steadfast love endures forever!

 -1 Chronicles 16:31-34

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Even the Liberal Media Is Admitting That Obamacare Is a Failure  For years, Democrats sold Obamacare as a moral crusade that would make healthcare cheaper and fairer for everyone. Instead, premiums exploded, deductibles skyrocketed, and coverage got worse. When even CNN pundits are conceding that people can’t afford their insurance “even with subsidies,” the illusion of success is crumbling. No amount of spin can hide the reality that Obamacare’s signature achievement — affordability — never materialized.

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As Mamdani Heads to City Hall, ICE Offers NYPD Officers a Way Out 

Mamdani’s Victory Proves Mass Legal Migration Is Just As Dangerous As Illegal Migration  No matter how great our principles sound, they mean nothing to a population that doesn’t understand or value them.

America needs a 40-year pause in immigration

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New Alliance, Old Scandal: The COVID Failure Haunting Hochul   Gov. Kathy Hochul’s new “nonpartisan” health alliance masks a partisan agenda—and revives memories of New York’s deadly nursing home scandal and years of cover-ups. Image

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The digital Reich: how America forgot the lessons of 'Never Again' Eighty years after Auschwitz, America has reinvented propaganda with hashtags, algorithms; political extremes now mirror each other and same tactics Holocaust education was meant to end are once again shaping the American mind. Image

Princeton hires professor who denied Oct. 7 massacre to teach course on Gaza 

How the Hell Did We Let China Buy a Trailer Park in THIS Spot? 

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It’s Impossible To Keep Up With The Fall Of Britain 

Meanwhile, the consequences of unchecked migration and non-assimilation are playing out on the streets of increasingly dangerous British cities. Most of the migrants arriving in Britain are from places like Eritrea, Afghanistan, Sudan, and Somalian — societies that have very different views of civic life and of civilization itself. Most of them are Muslim, and upon their arrival they are absorbed into one of Britain’s many growing unassimilated Muslim communities — in Birmingham, Bedford, and parts of London like Tower Hamlets. These are places that only bear a faint resemblance to what they were 20 years ago thanks to mass immigration.

WWII Navy Veteran Sinks British Establishment  

Instead, Penstone bemoaned the sorry state of freedom in a censorship-addicted United Kingdom in which actual “thought police” arrest Brits for expressing opinions.  “What we fought for was our freedom.  We find that even now, it’s a darn sight worse than what it was when I fought for it.”  Boom!  The ol’ salty dog managed to knock out both co-hosts with just a few blunt words and direct eye contact.

When the ‘Pastor’ Marries Four Men: Germany’s Truce with Polygamy 

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Swedish Patients, Muslim ‘Caregivers’ 

A 20-year-old Iraqi migrant who had previously served prison sentences for drug offenses was discovered to have filmed and mocked elderly dementia patients while employed as a caregiver at a municipal care home in Ängelholm, southern Sweden.

Flashback: ‘I Won’t Treat Them. I’ll Kill Them.’...The Australian nurses who bragged about murdering Jews are not outliers

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The path of the righteous is level...

The path of the righteous is level;

    you make level the way of the righteous.

 In the path of your judgments,

    O Lord, we wait for you;

your name and remembrance

    are the desire of our soul.

 My soul yearns for you in the night;

    my spirit within me earnestly seeks you.

For when your judgments are in the earth,

    the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

     -Isaiah 26:7-9

O you who love the Lord, hate evil!

O you who love the Lord, hate evil!

    He preserves the lives of his saints;

    he delivers them from the hand of the wicked.

 Light is sown for the righteous,

    and joy for the upright in heart.

 Rejoice in the Lord, O you righteous,

    and give thanks to his holy name!

-Psalm 97:10-12 Image

Rise With The Sun

 

Rise With The Sun 

CityAlight

V1

There’s a song that’s sung through the nations

Of joyful thanks to the King

Where the countless saints who are rescued 

Praise Jesus who set them all free

V2

Hear the anthem sung in the islands 

Where sun first touches the earth

Over land and sea it advances

Now joined by the saints of this church

CHORUS

Rise with the sun 

Lift up His name

All through the earth

We sing out His praise

East to the west

Night to the day

Join in the song

And sing out His praise

V3

I will add my voice to the chorus

Of many people and tongues

For we share the gift of salvation

And share in the life yet to come

CHORUS

BRIDGE

And the church will sing

Holy, holy, holy are You Lord

You’re the glorious one, we lift up Your name

And the church will sing

(Fijian)Tabu

(German) Heilig 

(Aus Creol) Oli

are you Lord

You’re the Lamb who was slain, we lift up Your name

And the church will sing

(Mandarin) Shèngjié

(Spanish) Santo

(Hebrew) Kadosh

are you Lord

You’re the King who was raised, we lift up Your name

And the church will sing

Holy, holy, holy are You Lord

Now You reign evermore, we lift up Your name

Over all of the world, we lift up Your name

CHORUS

Rise with the sun 

Lift up His name

All through the earth

We sing out His praise

East to the west

Night to the day

Join in the song

And sing out His praise

Come sing out His praise!

Every growth of spiritual life...

Every growth of spiritual life, from the first tender shoot until now, has been the work of the Holy Spirit....The only way to more life is the Holy Spirit. You will not even know that you want more unless He works in you to desire it....The Spirit of God must come and make the letter alive, transfer it to your heart, set it on fire, and make it burn within you, or else its divine force and majesty will be hid from your eyes....Prayer is the creation of the Holy Spirit. We cannot do without prayer, and we cannot pray without the Holy Spirit. -CH Spurgeon

Restore us again, O God of our salvation...

Restore us again, O God of our salvation,

    and put away your indignation toward us!

 Will you be angry with us forever?

    Will you prolong your anger to all generations?

 Will you not revive us again,

    that your people may rejoice in you?

 Show us your steadfast love, O Lord,

    and grant us your salvation.

 Let me hear what God the Lord will speak,

    for he will speak peace to his people, to his saints;

    but let them not turn back to folly.

 Surely his salvation is near to those who fear him,

    that glory may dwell in our land.

    -Psalm 85:4-9 

Beloved, let us love one another...

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us. -1 John 4:7-12

Come and hear, all you who fear God...

   Come and hear, all you who fear God,

    and I will tell what he has done for my soul.

 I cried to him with my mouth,

    and high praise was on my tongue.

 If I had cherished iniquity in my heart,

    the Lord would not have listened.

 But truly God has listened;

    he has attended to the voice of my prayer.

 Blessed be God,

    because he has not rejected my prayer

    or removed his steadfast love from me!

 -Psalm 66:16-20

Election Day Prayer 2025

“First of all, then, I ask that supplications, prayers, petitions, and thanksgivings be offered for everyone, for kings and for all in authority, that we may lead a quiet and tranquil life in all devotion and dignity. This is good and pleasing to God our savior, who wills everyone to be saved and to come to knowledge of the truth.” -1 Timothy:1-4

Lord God, as the election approaches, we seek to better understand the issues and concerns that confront our city/state/country, and how the Gospel compels us to respond as faithful citizens in our community.

   We ask for eyes that are free from blindness so that we might see each other as brothers and sisters, one and equal in dignity, especially those who are victims of abuse and violence, deceit and poverty.

   We ask for ears that will hear the cries of children unborn and those abandoned. We ask for minds and hearts that are open to hearing the voice of leaders who will bring us closer to your Kingdom.

   We pray for discernment so that we may choose leaders who hear your Word, live your love, and keep in the ways of your truth as they follow in the steps of Jesus and his Apostles and guide us to your Kingdom of justice and peace.

   We ask this in the name of your Son Jesus Christ and through the power of the Holy Spirit.  

          - Author Unknown

O Lord, my heart is not lifted up...

O Lord, my heart is not lifted up;

    my eyes are not raised too high;

 I do not occupy myself with things

    too great and too marvelous for me.

 But I have calmed and quieted my soul,

    like a weaned child with its mother;

    like a weaned child is my soul within me.

 O Israel, hope in the Lord

    from this time forth and forevermore.

   -Psalm 131

The Mercy of God

 

 The Mercy of God 

 StillCreek

Verse 1:

Christ has met my greatest need

Death beat death upon a tree

In the wake of calvary

I’m healed and I’m redeemed

Verse 2:

Every rightful debt I owed

Plunged beneath His cleansing flow

Grace abounding, endless hope

Find rest in this, my soul

Chorus:

O the vast, enduring love of Jesus

An endless well never running dry

All my sin, forgiven, forevermore

How great is the mercy of God

Verse 3:

Surely as the sun will rise

Kindness reaches deep and wide

Day by day I wake to find

There’s more He will supply

Bridge:

How great, how great

His mercy made a way

Give thanks, give thanks

My soul can’t help but say

I wait for the Lord...

 

Psalm 130:5 

 Marcus Stanley