Here come our robot overlords; Judge McAfee biased for Fani?; lots of election interference / denialism over Putin; new 'fine people' hoax sputters out; Washington literally lowers the bar; and more.
If you get a chance please remind your minister/pastor that most church leaders should repent for their utter dereliction of duty to their congregation during the c19 abomination.
Maybe they should spend at least one Sunday morning helping their flock to understand how pathetic their behavior was.
I tried that! He held strong, we left in early 2021 after 35 years of being very active and raising our sons there. He pitted vaccinated against unvaccinated, and has the injuries and deaths of many parishioners and employees on his hands. He loved the power of separating people and the six foot separation and masking. He ignored everything I sent him to read. I was part of the management team and we spoke often, but he refused to listen. He forgot about discernment! He trusted the science and not God or those God put in his church!
How absolutely Awful for you all as a congregation. We too left our small church (19 yrs ) because of all the rules that were printed in our bulletin every Sunday and how we were doing this for the greater good and loving our neighbor .
We were very active there , but the members had lost the will to grow and spread the gospel locally, so we dusted the dirt from of sandals 🩴 and join a present church ⛪️ that is strong in doctrine and worshiped outside that summer & fall as long as we could (2020 ) The pastors asked the congregation what we wanted and we all in unison cheered ( outside on the lawn ) let’s Worship outside as long as we can and then get back to normal. What a gift from God to be fearless in our Worship !!! 🙏🏻✝️❤️🙌⛪️
I used to sit in sunday school as a little girl and gaze wistfully at the outdoors. (No AC so doors and windows open.) Just maddening in the Spring with the birds chirping merrily. I would think of Jesus out in a boat or preaching at a shoreline, and it seemed a bit unfair. It’s still difficult for me to spend much more than an hour inside.
Christine...hearing "doing this for the greater good" is a trigger when it is preached from pastors who were full of fear. It felt like virtuous manipulation. Now some are trying to figure out how to get people back into the building.
Exactly! My Catholic friends had mass via radio broadcast. They drove to church, after a stop at a coffee shop, sat in their car, had communion via drive-up and done. On their way in 30 minutes. They got spoiled 😂
We did that on Easter at my urging to at least see each other. As a Flower Guild member, we decorated a large wooden cross with flowers with large arrangements at the base. It was a healing service to at least have our windows down and talk or say hi to fellow parishioners. Then the diocese shut it down from happening again! The churches are supposed to stand in the face of this kind of tyranny!! The majority of them failed.
I pray you do 🙏🏻 keep seeking God’s truth …. ✝️ we belong to WELS Synod ( Lutheran ) Strong in doctrine at Shepard of the Hills , West Bend , Wisconsin.
Thank you. He is in my heart and mind everyday. I will never turn away from him!! I can’t live without him and his guidance, protection and love. We are in Portage Lakes, Ohio.
Exposed: Communist Infiltration of the American Church
Eric Metaxas is an author, speaker, and radio host, as well as the host of the nationally syndicated Eric Metaxas Show. He has also published well over a dozen books. Among his published works, is ‘Letter to the American Church’, a book which was recently turned into a film. In today’s episode, I sat down with Eric, to get a better understanding of his message, about the parallels between the American church today and German Churches in the 1930s, as well as why staying silent isn’t an option.
Same. We even had "parking lot church" in our cars, with a "safety team" deployed to roam the lot and admonish parishioners who dared crack a window. We were gone before that absurdity came about. Not surprisingly, the pastor bailed after losing roughly 50% of the congregation--the week before Easter!
But just remember this, God is immutable, the same goes with His Word, follow it very close to your heart, not by tradition, but by conviction, With your vast experience, I’m pretty sure you do!
Thank you, Ed. It was amazing how fast people turned into Nazi's! The groups I was part of bragged about their jabs and that all of them (since I resigned) were jabbed and not one wasn't! What a badge of honor and now all of them who had cancer in remission have it ten fold and new ones. And boy did they love the masks....so much so they had some made and embroidered with the our names on them!!!! I refused! I pray everyday and keep his word close!
Nothing new under the sun Joni. Look at the controlling political class that Jesus fought against daily in his short teaching career. Jesus had some very choice names for them, brood of vipers is one of my faves...
nor FEAR... the fear that gummit might come along and whack you for not jugging to THEIR fiddle.
But GOD's command is "DO NO forsake the gathering of yourselves together...... and siting in a parked car,m windows up tught, is NOT "gathering". Nor is staring at the zoom screen in your own living room at home, all by yourself.
I've got a LOT of disagreements with John Mac Arthur, but now i have a tremendous amount of respect for the man, because HE STOOD FIRM against the City of Los Angeles by refusing to close his church when so "ordered". then the city coerced the bank nearby which had, for decades, allowed them to use their car park on SUndays for attendees, so the bank shut it down NOW where they gonna [ark? Well, whaddya know the Jewish Temple round the cornder approached him and said "we're aenever here Sundays, you and your folks go ahead and park in OUR lot.
The Fallen Church finally exposed. And to think it took the Scam/Plandemic to accomplish this feat. But at what appalling cost? And who knows because we haven't yet begun to pay the freight on now unstoppable impacts. At any rate, you said it very succinctly. It hit me like it hits you.
We have some kind of dumb church next door. It was chilling to see the place shuttered down week after week. And so, what you say resonates. And my best to you. And enjoy life as much as you can.
Ryan G - Us too. We still haven’t found one to go back to. We watch one online in a different state, that we wish was here so we could attend. We refuse to go to one that was derelict in their role as a church and derelict in their role as Jesus followers. If they exposed themselves as fear over faith we refuse to go there. It’s sad we can’t find one nearby.
We’ve visited many in our area. I know there has to be at least one. We just haven’t found it yet. It gets tiring to keep going to new ones and walk away disappointed. So we’ve taken a break from the search for now. We also have a special needs adult child so it makes things more difficult in the search as well.
Singing to the Lord hiding the face and smile He gifted us with. There is a woman I used to work with who still wears a mask everywhere. I haven’t seen her entire face in 4 years behind her plexi fortifications. She’s young.
I know a young man about 21 who continues to wear his superhero themed mask as a fashion statement. On rare occasion, I see him without the mask (it is usually when he is eating), and I am always surprised to see his whole face. He is a good looking young man. Much better looking without the mask. I worry about him. Have told him about the health issues of continual oxygen restriction and bacteria etc on the mask (which I doubt he cleans on a daily basis). But he loves his mask. I think at this point it is part of his identity and an emotional crutch of some sort.
Cotton dust causes brown lung disease. This has been known since the early textile age. Brown lung disease is like asbestosis, a silent killer over about 20 years and then a distinct crippling disease.
There are no studies on the other various synthetic materials used in masks. What do those particles do once inhaled into the lungs? No one knows. Yet.
Many cloth dyes are lung carcinogens. Again, the toxic inhalations occur over time only to end in a catastrophic medical event years down the road.
Was horrifying to see so many children forced to wear cloth masks with cartoons printed on them. And still sad to see how many people of all ages cling to a face rag to save them from a virus that is 1/40th the diameter of a human hair. I’m certain the young man you mentioned could pluck a hair and likely pierce the mask he wears. The virus is 40 times smaller. So.
that virus runs from about point zero two eight MICRONS up to about point zero five six microns. The grit that sashays easily through the N95 mask is around fifty to a hundred microns. Four decimal places larger. And I cannot poke a human hair through an N 95 mask, but it is easy to do that with the silly pleated blue glorified kleenex thing most commonly worn.
And studies HAVE been done concerning the particles sloughed off those wretched things.. largish spicules of hard plastics, for one small item... that do NOT break down.
tell him if he likes the thing so much wear it as a headband.
I wonder how many folks have evr read tthe mandatatory protocol for operating room personellregarding the use and wearing of those masks in the surgical heatre. I read them, and was astounded. VEY precise and paricular. But I never saw this published in any health department releases, nor in any newspaper. It would have ex[osed the fundamental lies regarding these worse than useless things.
I kniw from using the N95 masks to protect my lungs etc when doing car body work, woodwork, sanding, grinding, painting, etc. After wenty minutes of griding body filler and sanding to prep for painting I had to stop, take it off, scrub the grit off my face ( a thick layer of whatever colour I was working with, covering the area UNDER the mask on my skin... I could feel the grit on my teeth, blew out out of my nose in copious quantities, etc. When I read how tiny that silly virus is I KNEW it was a few thousand times smaller than the paint and sand particles mu mask could NOT filter out.. and so what's the point of the mug nappie beyond blind submission to some gummit poohbah who knows less than a tenth what I know about such things.... he has NO background in medicine, science, practical work experience..... only to do what he is ordered to do to keep his paycheck coming every two weeks. Hirelings are NEVER out for the good of their employer OR victims.
@BasedFloridaMan, your comment is so ironic, yet paints a picture many of us saw at church during c19. Sad how many pastors donned masks and stated rules soaked in fear. Faith is the only thing that can overcome fear. And as pastors their livelihood, their purpose is to spread faith, not fear.
While our church followed the local authorities, being a sacramental church, we never stopped administering the Eucharist! And mind you, we share the same communion spoon. Some did not partake out of fear, others did. It was their faith call.
This is how I feel when I’m sitting in our Bible Study and there are stupid women with masks on, extolling the virtues of Jesus and how much they “trust” God. It’s all I can do to not just walk out.
Ive tried to go back to my Methodist church twice and I just can’t get over how it behaved. What did they get back in caving and sin? Around 20 sitting in the pews. (Had a 2,000 membership at one time.) Older people like me. No younger families. About 5 children in Sunday school, most of them just get dropped off by parents while they go to breakfast. No choir. No outreach. I just can’t do it. I can’t forgive. Lukewarm church as Jesus warns. The other churches in town are the same. I’m looking. It’s a smallish town.
In the meantime, maybe you could get the @real life network” app. Jack Hibbs is a marvelous pastor. Maybe you can start a home church watching his services and eventually bring in a pastor. Praying for God to give you wisdom regarding a church for you and others like you.
Jack Hibbs did part 1 of a 2 part sermon yesterday. It's about Israel and what the Bible says about it and how it correlates with what's happening worldwide. Very, very good sermon. Next Sunday is part 2 and I'm looking forward to it.
Also, you don't necessarily need the app. His services can also be found on fb, X, and I believe on other social media sites. The sermon can also be seen on Fox Business channel for those who have that particular TV channel.
What the bible says about Israel is that He sent the Roman government and armies to utterly destroy Isreal and that land ti end her spiritual debauchery that had been ongoing for a long time. The political entity commonly referred to as Israel has no real connexion nor relationship to the Israel of the First Century AD. This is clearly laid out inJohn's Revelation, and borne out by the secular history of that era, which had no axe to grind nor point to prove.. only recording what happened as they watched.
Josephus, known and trusted Jewish historian, wrote a five volume history called "The Jewish Wars", volumes 2, 3, 4 are relevant. Good english translations are avaiable online for no cost. A guy named Tertullian was embedded with the army Vespasian was ordered to deploy to Israal by Nero in 66 AD, spring, to bring those rowdy Jews under control. Every Roman army had their "scribe" to record what went on.
Just as Jphn's Revelation predicted, every detail of it actually happened in real tme history as reccorded concurrently.
I've heard Jack Hibbs a few times.. won't listen any kore, as he also fails to comprehend that, just as Jesus Himself predicted clearly, "all these things will come to pass before THIS PRESENT GENERATION passes away." The "all these things" he clearly meant were the things He spoke about in what is known as the Olivet Discourse", as described to the Twelve umedately folloing His prediction of the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem.. ot oine stone left upin another. That mdae a bunch of folks mad.. and yet we all acceot that IT happened... which is (very tellingly) jot recorded in the bible. WHY? Because the canon was closed prior to the year AD 70, thus the Temple was destroyed after it was closed, so thus jot mentioned in scripture. We take secular reports that the Temple WAS indeed destroyed.. why not all the other details tat started to unfold well before Rome came to do what God had sent them to do... destroy the Temple AND the nation.? And I am thus left with only two viable possibilities.. either He spoke truly and it all DID happen (which recorded history bears out) or He is a liar. The second option is ot acceptible thus leaving me with the first.
Tio...Do not be discouraged by the disagreement from others. You are more correct than most people will ever know in this life. Pastor Chuck Baldwin in Montana is a great resource on this subject for any reader wishing to investigate this further. God bless you and your house.
You realize Herod’s temple was not the first to be destroyed utterly. God evicted His people more than once.
Yours is one interpretation. There are Bible scholars who interpret differently. And the prophets of the Old Testament made prophecies about the Jewish people coming again to the holy land from the four corners of the earth, where God had scattered them.
Zechariah says Jesus will set foot on the Mount of Olives, when He returns.
Thank you. I find online unsatisfying. Maybe that’s just me right now. Our northern Illinois town is nearly 75% Hispanic now and they have their own churches. I’m praying too.
I have always felt the same way but I've been watching/listening to Jack Hibbs sermons the last month or so and I've gotten so much out of them. Sometimes I place my phone on the window sill while doing dishes or while cooking.
I know it doesn't replace Sunday worship service but it's a great addition for days in between.
Will they let you attend? Are their services only in Spanish? Can you ask them if they will start a Spanish as a second language class? You could just try learning Spanish by immersion ( that’s how all the 19th and early 20th century European immigrants learned English). Perhaps someone would be willing to translate the sermon.
It may seem like I am being snarky, but I am not. I have done short term missions in immigrant communities in the US, and abroad and have attended Nepali, Twi (in Ghana), Aramaic (in Iraqi Kurdistan), Spanish, Portuguese services. We currently teach English as a second language in our church (all légala as far as I know, but we don’t check—render unto Caesar, etc.)
It would be a tremendously welcoming thing to do, and they might even see it as an evangelistic opportunity. I am quite sure that their theology, beliefs and practices are more orthodox and Spirit filled & driven than 75–90% of the churches in your area.
I’m still half hearted looking. In upstate New York, I found one but it was all former Wiccan ladies and I think they were still doing reiki, not true laying on of hands. I never went back there. & My favorite Methodist church in Florida fell for the mask and jabs.
I found a wonderful, Bible based non woke Calvary Church in my area. Nondenominational Christian. Also check out some of the Creationist speakers/ teachers like Russ Miller & Mike Riddle. We’ve had both in our Church.
Excellent advice P Flournoy! Pastor Jack's teaching is awesome and he is a national leader. I remember him conveying the story after he was convicted over closing the sanctuary of planning to re-open in person no restriction church. Many 'big name' pastors contacted him asking please don't do that. The Holy spirit said open, who was he to disobey?
CCCH home churches are very active and you get to meet with other believers. 'Just like the good 'ol days'! I find the church app a little simpler to navigate for live services: https://calvarycch.org/ there is a pop-up link to the Real Life Network there if you rather. I watch the 8:00 am and the 10:30 am services, same message but I always hear something different. His mini series on Israel packs a mega punch, highly recommend!
We had the same experience with our 35 year membership to our first United Methodist church. Tried to meet with pastor to get over the hard feelings- they completely abandoned us when we took our mother in to get her out of hospice in the nursing home. (She lived an additional 5 months once released from solitary confinement). Found a nondenominational church and are growing to love it. Takes time. The wounds are DEEP!
I understand your pain, Janet, and I wish you well in your search.
As a practicing Roman Catholic I was devastated when Pope Francis showed his true colors. But I also, thank the Good Lord that covid became a warning to believers that my Church was infiltrated by evil. God led me to Traditional Latin Mass parishes and devout Novus Ordo priests, worldwide, who are fighting the good fight against this corruption.
Neither a bad pope nor corrupted wolves in sheep’s clothing will make me leave the faith of my fathers. So I now am delighted to be a Traditional Latin Mass Catholic aligned with prelates who will not succumb to evil.
Ireland refused the globalist elite changes to their constitution, which replaced "family" and "motherhood" with rainbow cult speak. They found miraculous medals of Mary in with many of the ballots.
That’s great! I’m not sure what our Catholic Church did during the great shutdown. There is a Greek Orthodox monastery outside of town. They encourage visitors but I don’t know yet if they do services. It was recommended by a poster on another substack. I may visit.
We had new members at our church ⛪️ ( WELS ) who were lifetime members of the United Methodist church. They were seeking truth from scripture and were very upset with homosexual pastors and the over all teachings of the Methodist church body . God is separating the Sheep 🐑 from the goats 🐐 The Holy Spirit is working in the hearts and minds of believers and it’s a Wonderful thing to see . ❤️🙏🏻✝️
God is working for sure. Some other power protected and led me away from the lies. a sermon I heard in 1988 hit me hard in 2021. The only thing I remember, indeed, from any sermon since 1988 was when the pastor told us that some of us may be led by God to “pull people out of the ruins”. I have thought of that often since then. I believe that time is coming. ❤️🙏🏻
Janet if you can look for a Calvary Chapel near you; they are wonderful, beautiful music and message and they are all packed and still growing. The old traditional churches are empty because everyone is at Calvary! we have 8 different locations for Calvary in driving distance because they are so busy, and they have even been asking for people to come Saturday night instead of Sunday because every seat is taken on Sundays. Online church is also a great way. It’s much easier than you think too to join an online service.
I was fortunate to be discipled in a Calvary Chapel early in my Christian walk. Their “distinctives” as Chuck Smith called them are first and foremost rooted in solid expository teaching from the Word of God, led by some of the most gifted pastors in generations. The Chuck Smith protégés — you are lucky if you can find one! — are now in the process of handing pastoral duties to the next generation of gifted and uncompromising teachers and leaders. I’ve never heard a watered-down Gospel preached in a Calvary anywhere. Be a Berean, and test everything, but I agree with Lyndsay that CC is a solid source of truth whether you’re “attending” online or in person.
Thank you. Many churches have the name Calvary in it. How do I know the difference? Like would Calvary Community be that? It’s 35 minutes away. Is “Chapel “ specific? Is it denominational?
Janet, I believe Calvary Chapel is the key in the name to the original organization built under the late Chuck Smith. Jack Hibbs' church (which started in a friends home as a Bible study) is called Calvary Chapel Chino Hills. So simply replace Chino Hills with your local community and see what you come up with. As a rule CC's are Bible teaching churches, not big on formalities or ritual and generally relaxed in attire. The worship music can vary and is usually contemporary in nature, though that can vary on local talent. You probably won't hear an organ anytime soon. I would like to hear some of the old time hymns personally, such a strong message from the olde artists. I'll give you one more source to research, His Channel https://hischannel.com/ Pastor Chuck Smith helped the founder of His Channel, Dennis Swick, move from radio to television a long time ago. His Channel carries an archive of Chuck Smith sermons. Look under the movies and documentary section to watch the biography of Calvary Chapel, it's quite interesting.
Hi Janet: here is the link and you can put in your zip code. it will try first to give you an exact Calvary Chapel, but if not, it will recommend others. this is the official website.
Ours too. Never once did anyone call us during the shut down. The "reopen" was tentative and outdoors (Michigan). Wear your masks and sit far apart. I finally sent an email to our pastor in 2023 along with a wonderful talk between some pastors regarding the failure of faith during the pandemic. He didn't listen to it and instead doubled down on how appropriately they behaved to be "safe". I won't go back. If our rotten governor ever issues another lockdown, I know they will eagerly comply.
I can almost go along with the 'better be safe than sorry' stuff excepting that a pastor should have looked into the initial claims regarding C19 madness using mortality figures. Had they done that red flags would have started sprouting all over the place.
The problem is that pastors these days are not well educated ... not in general, and specifically not well educated by the seminaries. The situation is appalling. We, of course, had no idea how bad things were in the American churches back in 2009/2010 until we began reading classical theologians, Reformation era confessions of faith, and material like Matthew Henry and the Geneva notes.
I am proud to say that these days my wife (God bless her) knows more about Christianity than ninety or more percent of the pastorate in the country. God gave me a very smart wife. For this I am grateful.
Same with my rotten governor. Illinois. Everybody was all jabbed up by September 2021 (except me, I’m sure) but still masks were ordered on again. That’s when I left. Plus the church district poached our well liked young pastor during the shutdown and we had a new not even ordained in our denomination guy right after we opened. I considered that a heinous betrayal after the stress of lockdowns. Methodist so there are lots of baked in issues right now.
So much Jumbo Pritzker did during those years still makes me seethe. He loved that power—soaked it up for all he was worth. He may be rich but he still has to look himself in the eye every morning knowing full well what he is.
I got 2 phone calls the entire time 1 from the pastor (the new one they put in place during the shutdown after poaching our well liked one) and one from a parishioner. I was an active member.
12 of us TOTAL sitting in Episcopal pews the last Sunday when the Bishop(?) in Denver shut down ALL in-person services...not even the balls to go to 10 person services! I saw the collapse of community and was within an inch of doing free coffee pushcart and prayer needs at the empty high school parking lot (TOO BUSY with my essential/critical business--and not a type A). Should've stepped up as NO ONE ELSE DID!
It was so weird. Some I did see regularly out and around but very few. That late winter of jabs I sat around a CAMPFIRE in the snow with my Bible sermon women’s group. I still attended that but our church was still closed. They were getting jabs but one wore 2 masks outside. The others just 1 🤣🤣🤣🤣. I told them I won’t wear masks outside and I was “waiting to see what happened” about the jabs and was very clear I wasn’t going to be a “lab rat”. Still, absolutely no one has ever asked me WHY I didn’t get them. A couple still sent me outrageous crap about jab immunity was so much better than natural immunity. Or pulled the “Christian thing to do”. Didn’t I care if I infected anyone? Later in the year these same fully jabbed went to a party and infected each other or created a testing opportunity. I stayed home because my throat felt a bit scratchy.
My wife and I were appalled at the church's COVID response and stopped attending. They kowtowed to all the COVID rules and even jumped on the BLM race apology bandwagon. My independent men's Bible study group was also on board with the COVID hoax and I left that, too. A few weeks ago I finally got back to attending a local church. Great music (traditional hymns) with loud congregational participation and good gospel presentation. Yet some habits seem to be lingering from COVID. Offerings are deposited in collection boxes and once-monthly communion is offered only at a dedicated evening service. That latter mat not be COVID related and I intend to inquire about it. Regardless, it feels good to get back to communal worship. We do have to bolster the right-thinking physical organized church, even uf not perfect. They need us
We changed churches in 2021, some reasons for covid response and other reasons for direction of UMC. Now in a Jesus loving church, that teaches His Word.
We were blessed with a message yesterday from a missionary we support.
We need to grow in His commands and promises, we're given examples from around the community which is great. However, most need to understand the power of God and the healing that He has provided through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit to get away from the litany of sickness and tragedy. So, 2 Corinthians 5:9, Wherefore we labour, that...we may be adopted of Him.
Forgive.. you MUST. then move on. Don't hold bittterness. It will only poison you when you find the next one. Leave them to wallow in THEIR vomit. don't participate.
Janet, we have entered into a new age of worship, and the sheep are being separated from the goats. The internet is your ally right now, if you can follow and comment here you have the wherewithal to watch Jack Hibbs on line! If you have a problem reach out and I or someone more qualified will help you out. I posted links in reply to P Flournoy to get you started, you can do this, 'see' you in church soon!
Or reformed Baptist or non-denominational. Of course, you need to examine them carefully. Plenty of churches are calling themselves reformed who are not.
I read this a few years ago, didn't then know about the Federal handouts to churches, a payment for getting the job done. And Presby still have this on their website.
Your comment causes me to wonder just how many members of their congregations have the Presby. ministers consigned to death or to a living hell?
Yes, and the Gvt WAS preparing in 2005-09 for these actions, the fact that no one saw it coming is B.S., we didn't WANT to see the pre-planning and certainly it was ALL only for our own good!
@SusanMc I knew the churches received PPP “loans” and I have either read or just “heard” that there were strings attached (of course 🙄) about staying closed, etc. Supposedly, it was just to keep staff and teachers paid, but I’m sure those strings were held tightly in the fine print. Here’s one article I found from the MSM:
These are people devoid of the knowledge of scripture that only the Holy Spirit can give. They have read the description of the construction of the Old Testament tabernacle, that it was to be skillfully made, exactly after the pattern that was given to them by God. They have also read that when details were not obeyed, as in the use of unauthorized incense, or "strange fire," the result was death. They have read in the New Testament that we are living tabernacles. And despite all this, they take it upon themselves to encourage their congregations to meddle with God's handiwork, the work of the most skilled craftsman.
They are always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the Truth.
Locally our Lutheran ELCA was LAST to open, i told the pastor that was his call as who knows better just how very old and sickly most of his congregants are than he? One upside is ZOOM services for the true shut-ins; praise God that is a true blessing to come from this devious plot against Christ-followers and ALL humanity.
What? The pastor knows best? Not when he shut his church..... When we attended an event at the PCUSA at Christmas time in 2022 (an event that was forever before then FULL) there were 35 of us in the congregation... There were a dozen college choir members, all masked and sitting 8' apart in a choir loft that holds 100... Their voices drowned out by the piped in vocals of yesteryear, that only few knew about. The fear exhibited in that large church was palpable. The pastor spoke through his N-95 double mask. Yep, I'm sure he was a scholar on how healthy his congregation was...🙄🙄🙄 Church on ZOOM is not a church of faithful believers.
Our PCA church in Overland Park, KS never stopped meeting in person, although it was outside in the parking lot for months, they moved inside as soon as the local government “allowed” it (without enforcing mask mandates) and claim they will never comply with lockdowns again.
Ugh. I tried to find anyone's email from PCUSA website to share some current science with them. Not even gonna try to engage on the theological issues as the whole PCUSA is a lost cause. Very sadly spoken as a former PCUSA member (but not for the last 30 or so years.)
We tried that with our pastor and church counsel…wrote emails, met with them but to no avail. We were a flock without a true leader and then to top it all off our church held a vaccine clinic! On that note…we left, actually we fled! I pray that one day they will repent but I fear that they feel justified because they obeyed our government. It appears that today’s church put government over God….God help us!
SHOULD have known better Anyine with half a lick of sense should have figured out that a new unproven technlogy (mRNA) that had never been used as a "vaccine", and was rushed thorugh "approval" with NO real tirals then released on the public after only SIX months of "trials" (fake ones a that ) should not be trusted.
I remember it taking TEN YEARS to get the Salk polio vaccines cleared for use.
I remain steadfast. I find them without excuse. It was NOT their job to weigh government edicts, nor make judgements on the accuracy or falsity of those edicts. Nope.
An HOW could these "men" stand quietly by and refust to OBEY ghe clar unambiguous WORD OF GOD that clearly cOMMANDS "forsake NOt the gathering together of yourselves". And fuher, preadh the Word, in season and out".
nd how bout tho=is little jewel: "He gave some apostles, prophets, evengelists, PASORS< TEACHERS for the equipping of the saints for the work of the ministry UNTIL WE ALL come into the fullness of the faith, full, complete, lacking nothing, equipped for every good work (from memory here, might be a tad off, but if you doubt go and find it yourself.. Ephesians 4, around ten and following, if memory serves)
It does NOT fall under the job description of pastors or teachers, and certainly not elders or bishops, to be giving instructions and/or setting policies relating to medical or health issues. NOT their bailiwick. ALL the ones of which I became aware did their pandering to the government for the safety of their own skin.
WHAT might have happened had ALL the pastors, elders, teachers, deacons, members etc, in every church naming the name of CHrist all across the land had stood firm and said "we will obey God rather than MEN, and He has COMMANDED us to NOT forsake the gathering of ourselves together. WE are determined o obey GOD rather than men. And if he gummi goon squads nip round and have us all into the lockup, there is strong precedent for the saints to sing and praise and pray IN the prison. The original Jail House Rock took place in a jail in Cesarea Philippi. It ended with the entire household of the Jailer and all the other guards, etc, being baptised the next morning.
When my little church decided to shut down (I believe out of fear of reprisal) I suggested we meet anyway, those who were willing. but no, we can just use Zoom (which despise to this day) I had my own key, but realised I'd be the only one showing up. No point to that.
I have since connected with a arger group that did NOT shut down.. a vibrant alive bunch, many fourth generation families. Nearly all declare they would JOT stop meeting bcause of soe government edic. If they'd arrest the teaching pastor, we have a number of others who can handle the Word well. Nothing wrong with getting some of the young chaps started teaching, either
Great rejoinder!! It’s extremely important (in my honest opinion) to come to the realized conclusion that our governments and states are pathocracies. They are led by psychopaths or sociopaths or malignant narcissists. In addition to these political institutions and establishments, so are financial and religious-ecclesiastical institutions and establishments. Psychopaths and sociopaths and malignant narcissists are attracted to the power and the status of leading these organizations.
“All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. - Missionaria Protectiva, Text QIV (decto)” — “Chapterhouse: Dune” by Frank Herbert
".....most church leaders should repent for their utter dereliction of duty to their congregation during the c19 abomination."
Agreed.
As a side note, Pastor Gary Hamrick has stood strong as a pastor against these ungodly issues. At the beginning of his teaching on 17Mar24, he addresses the signing, INTO LAW, of same sex marriage by the conservative Governor Youngkin. It's not yet posted on the website, CornerstoneChapel.net, but he provides a SUPERB commentary on the issue and is well worth checking the site soon to hear it.....along with the teaching, of course.
I tried joining a local church last year after many, many years without. Discovered that they are cashless in their fund-raising merchandise store, and push technology at every angle. Your supposed to "Text a number if you've accepted Jesus."
I've already left. I'm a much better person, spiritually and otherwise, when I stay home and do introspection/bible study on my own...
The minister stumps for amazon.com in many sermons. I finally put a hand-written note in with one of my donation checks, asking why this was so? Did he understand the centralization of power taking place, to the detriment of the Church? I included my phone number with my note.
They cashed the check the next day. And i never heard form them on my question ....
My church Cornerstone Chapel has stayed true to Biblical principles and our Pastor Gary Hamrick has never wavered once! I watch him online and he is fantastic! A true Biblical Conservative who is courageous and principled! https://cornerstonechapel.net
For me...when I heard it was global, I knew it was spiritual and we were fighting a battle that was not of flesh and blood. And, now, as I look around, I wonder where the men of God are? Where are the bold and fearless? I have been bold and fearless for the last 4 years...and not of my own doing either. I know who my Father is. Yes, why now? Why me? Why us? I have had many talks with myself..."Stay strong, you are a daughter of The King". There is a hierarchy in God's kingdom for a reason. But I refuse to back down, even if there is no bold male to stand in the gap. I would rather be drawn into the arms of the Lord with the words "Well done, my good and faithful servant" than have any human say "Good job! Thanks for going along with us because we told you we know what is best for you." Does that make any sense?
Jails should've been filled with pastors, priests, deacons...but the Prideful Compromised State Church leaders would've heaped hate upon them all for their anti-science, anti-gospel, rebellion against our Caesars and Governors.
I attended a Catholic funeral as restrictions were relaxed. The pews were still segregated with taped X’s for the seats to be left empty. That 6’ stuff was all BS. Pulled out of Fauci’s, um, “you know, the thing.” 😄
-21 We know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in the evil one. And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life. My little children, guard yourselves from idols.
Glenn Beck posted a criticism of McAfee on X, I believe, and someone posted a link to C&C and implored people to read what you wrote about the whole deal, saying that the situation is more nuanced than they think. I admired the chutzpah of that individual because it was a bloodbath in the comments 😁😉
I'm generally in agreement with Jeff on most of his insights. But I take issue with his characterization of the Federalist Society. He describes a Federalist Society that *was*, not the Federalist Society that *is*.
I, too, have been a supporter of FS. I used them as a good barometer on legal issues, would inform of which judge's philosophies aligned with conservatism, who would make for higher court material.
But 2020 revealed their true colors. And we began to see that FS has been as thoroughly infiltrated by posers and frauds to conservatism as every other institution in our nation. Just like the many churches described in these comments.
Trump committed to appoint only FS recommend judges to SCOTUS. All of whom met with Mitch McConnell's approval. Rest assured that they all aligned with McConnell's globalist authoritarian values more than Trump's MAGA no mandates. Coney Barrett even upheld mask mandates, business closures, all of the most egregious anti-freedom, unconstitutional pandemic restrictions as an Appeal's court judge even before she was nominated to SCOTUS.
None of Trump's Federalist Society McConnell-approved SCOTUS appointments protected our constitutional rights in pandemic. With the exception of them rediscovering the freedom of worship about 4-6 months into the forced closures. That was the only pandemic mandate they differed from the progressive justices on. And that relief honestly should've been granted with an emergency injunction the moment governments issued church closure orders. Courts moved immediately to stop Trump's travel ban from terrorist nations in 2017, takes time isn't an excuse. Four to six month delay was inexcusable for repugnant to the Constitution policies that declared churches inferior to the state, obliterated separation clause.
Only a lower appeals court judge - nominated by Trump - ended forced masking on planes. One appeals court judge.
The FS/Mitch McConnell-approved SCOTUS justices refused to hear *any* November 2020 election fraud cases. Wouldn't even take up the most important cases in our nation's history, determining our future as self-governed people. Hear nothing, see nothing, say nothing monkeys in black robes. After taking up election fraud cases in 2020 primary election fraud cases resulting in new elections just a few months earlier. November, 2020: crickets.
And just a few months into 2021 Amy Coney Barrett - Federalist Society/Mitch McConnell-approved - inked a multi-million dollar book deal. Her payoff for being a reliable anti-constitutional vote on the court, hostile to individual liberty, free and fair elections. A pretty cheap legal whore as far as the stakes on the table are concerned.
There's much more evidence to back up these assertions I make against the Federalist Society. Suffice it to say they are as captured by the globalist totalitarians as any large, influential organization today. Not conservative in the individual liberty constitutional freedom side of public policy.
But they'll be really good at making sure multinational corporations have freedom to collaborate with government (Fascism) all they want as they conspire against the individual.
Sorry, Jeff, but the Federalist Society you and I remember isn't the same today. What was ain't what is. As captured as the AMA and the largest medical associations, universities, media, Hollywood, sports, teachers unions, churches, etc. It has not remained the island of sanity you seem to believe it is.
Making McAfee's creds less reassuring. His history with Brian Kemp being even more troubling. The CCP- backed GA governor/TrumpHater/Election Fraud enabling treasonist that he is who wants Trump imprisoned. Federalist Society seal of approval is a flimsy shield in 2024.
Colorado had only 3 Christian fellowships file suit against the State; once it went in front of the judge the state predictably changed policy so there was no reason to continue the case...they're simply regrouping for the next emergency edict to implement in the future, now they have more info and strategy and precedent for their Tyranny.
Covid was a test run for what might be coming next. I say might because, while entirely too many fell for the impressive propaganda, a significant portion has been awakened to the danger.
Yep. Even the travel mask ruling was on the process used to take away our rights, not protecting our inalienable rights we are born with. And hasn't been heard by SCOTUS, isn't a final ruling. Strategy and precedent for their tyranny, indeed.
True. And judges are but high priests in black robes serving their man-gods, not God Almighty. That said, until we restore God's law, natural law as the way of our world we are subjected to the whims, caprices and malice of judicial tyrants. To stand with God and our inalienable rights comes with the cruelty of tyrants. Even being fed to the lions. Most of us aren't in a hurry to be fed to lions. So we try to impose upon the high priests in black robes how high a price it will be for them to try to be man-gods. Such that they reconsider which of our rights they choose to exact their cruelties attempting to deny them to us as we stand defiantly with God. Making them ask themselves how strong is their bloodlust to impose their will. Some judges have more bloodlust in them than others.
This, and almost all western governments, just murdered at least 17 million of us worldwide, with that poison injection. We are being "fed to the lions" one by one. The bloodlust of the ruling class is running rampant.
To everyone that cites "God" in these comments, why do you fear death? Has it not been told you that death is but a door to, in the case of the religious, heaven. To those that don't believe, how can you ignore the evidence that death is but another stage in the never ending cycle that the universe dances to?
Lose your fear of death and it becomes possible to act courageously. And courageous action is required if we are to preserve any semblance of Liberty for our grandchildren.
"If you want an picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face, forever."
Can you see the faces of your grandchildren beneath that boot?
I am so grateful I came across Jeff and all C&Cers several years ago. I love Jeff's perspective on so many things.... Oftentimes, I don't have the time to read this daily, but I"VE STAYED bc of the KILLER COMMENTS!!! ALL YOU ALL ROCK!!!
The problem with so many of these conservative mouthpieces (Beck, Hannity, and particularly Levin) is that they are showmen trying to drive outrage. Perhaps Beck has good intentions deep down but getting people all riled up is good for ratings so that's what he does. The knee-jerk reaction of his listeners to Jeff Childers' take shows they aren't willing to think for themselves and enjoy stewing in their own juices.
Nothing is as black and white as they guys claim, they just get people angry. Personally, I don't like to be angry and if someone is continuously trying to provoke it then they get expelled from my life. I want truth and solutions, not someone stoking pointless outrage (and making a buck off it to boot). But some people just like to be mad, I feel sorry for them.
Compare a Trump rally to these guys. Trump will make jokes about these people and the crowd will be howling. They have a good time. Who has a good time listening to Mark Levin scream at his audience?
Really, it's like we're winning a close game. The other team's QB is injured and not very good to begin with. Their backup may be the better QB. And everyone on our team wants the other team to put the backup in. It makes no sense. This affirmative action plant has been exposed as a liar and fraud. Anything that comes from this banana republic trial will be tainted.
If that's not enough...the judge also very clearly threw her under the bus by saying there was evidence of impropriety but he wasn't there to rule on that. Basically said someone else should.
Sometimes I think people are more interested in scoring social media news cycle "wins" than they are in actually winning.
"The States of Missouri & Louisiana and the individual plaintiffs in Murthy v. Missouri (formerly Missouri v. Biden)—as do plaintiffs in Kennedy/CHD v. Biden—allege that the Biden administration impermissibly coerced and pressured social media companies to deplatform and shadowban users and censor truthful content regarding COVID, regulatory failures, vaccines, and other content with which the Biden administration disagrees."
And He said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? [vv. 2-8] How will you understand all the parables? The sower sows the word. And these are the ones who are beside the road where the word is sown: when they hear, immediately Satan comes and takes away the word which has been sown in them. And in a similar way, these are the ones being sown on the rocky places: those who, when hearing the word, immediately receive it with joy; and they have no root in themselves, but are only temporary; then, when affliction or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they fall away. And others are those being sown among the thorns; these are the ones who have heard the word, but the worries of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for anything else enter in and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful. And those are the ones which were sown on the good soil: they who hear the word and accept it and are bearing fruit, thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold.”
Oh wow, I never would've guessed that! I work in user experience & this is a very poor experience indeed! And sorry, I meant to say that is a flaw of Substack, not the inimitable Coffee & Covid.
It's useful to sort comments by "chronological" order instead of "top first" when you first open the comments. This prevents the UI from sort of jumping around as other readers "like" comments.
I appreciate your courage in bringing up this matter. It has resulted in a useful workaround for those of us who are not here for religion. I tried Jeff's tip for skipping by whole threads and it works beautifully. Thanks!
Not at all big-mad or imputing here, OD and Lew. Just an alternate take on posting scripture. “All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness” (2 Timothy 3:16). That’s pertinent in all contexts, so to those who post scripture I say, it’s dark out, so please “let your light shine” (Matthew 5:16). Those who feel otherwise have the collapse-thread feature and can close the blinds if they prefer.
At least on mine, the lines light up and show the "link" cursor when I hover them, so at least on desktop the UI is not too bad (though could perhaps be clearer, and it would be terrible for mobile / touchscreen where you don't have a cursor).
I wish there was a way to segment out a specific topic of your news sometimes. Often it would be a perfect response on other’s comments on X or FB. The only problem would be trying to have someone read through the whole thing to find my response.
For those with ‘eyes to see, and ears to hear’, nothing could be more appropriate, helpful, or relevant to the issues highlighted by C&C than Bible verses. To those with spiritual understanding, the Bible provides the ‘lens’ through which all relevant reality is most clearly perceived. To those without such understanding, however, Biblical wisdom and the discernment that flows from it, is only foolish and annoying irrelevance at best, or worse.
‘There are none so blind, as those who will not see.’ - Unknown
But a natural man does not accept the depths of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually examined.
Not to be oppositional or anything, but I defy anyone to explain how scripture is not pertinent. Unbelief doesn’t affect truth. Unbelief only affects the one who doesn’t believe.
The Bible is God’s Word to us. It was written by human authors under the supernatural guidance of the Holy Spirit. It is the supreme source of Truth for Christian beliefs and living. The Bible is inspired by God and is The Truth without error. It is the sole authority for living our lives. Therefore it is the most relevant book you could ever read.
What??? Many of us look forward to seeing God’s Word in this substack and it applies well to whatever we’re discussing each day. If you don’t like hearing God’s Word than keep scrolling!
I’m “officially” in 2 Samuel, but I do skip around as evidenced by my posts shared here. It is an adventure to see what the Lord puts in front of me and when. Blessings to you!
Janice, I hope that you are “bearing fruit, thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold”. I have the same hope for all who are enduring in the faith of Christ to the end of our mortal lives.
TODAY COULD BE THE BEGINNING OF THE BIGGEST SCOTUS HEARING IN OUR HISTORY: Murthy vs Missouri! The Government’s appeal to the ruling against them on Missouri vs Biden July 4, 2023!
ALL EYES PAYING ATTENTION AND PUBLIC SENTIMENT FOR THE FIRST AMENDMENT!!!
Yes! My MSM captured hubby had never heard of it. I can’t watch tv in the same room as he does. He’s man caved it for years. I would be a blithering idiot by now if I did or have joined the gaslit and walking dead long ago.
I ask Hubs almost every day how one could be married to someone who didn't share the most important and common beliefs? Politics, religion? As these are the bases upon which we identify as people. How do you function??!! Hats off to you Janet.♥
That is so frustrating! I tried to share info regarding the case on Facebook for the normies. I googled articles on it and there's very little...top hit was about how the accusations are mIsInFoRmAtIoN.
“they’re finally starting to make the robots seem more relatably human by programming mistakes into it.”
Maybe it’s just me but I would not be confident in a robot that makes mistakes. In my opinion, this is the flawed thinking that elites demonstrate. They think we’re stupid and inferior.
Even more creepy than HAL in the Space Odyssey movies is Mother on the Nostromo ship in “Alien” and the first officer Ash, who was really an android with orders to basically capture the alien at the expense of the human crew. If androids ever evolve to look as human-like as represented in that movie, then we r all screwed.
Oh my, sensitive some? LOL We are dating ourselves but that movie also made quite an impression on me when I saw it on the wide screen. The opening scene about man's "ape" origins was perhaps the most "interesting" part of the movie to me. I disliked it but it let me know where the movie was coming from.
Jeff, thanks for all that background info about Judge McAfee. This gives one a much better understanding of the situation, and helps prevent un-called-for, and erroneous reactions.
You know, I’m just as reluctant to bite on some of the conservative criticisms, as I am on the liberals latest hysteria. Therefore, I always wait to see what Jeff has to say and it is usually a great calming factor in whatever the latest fear pill is.. I’m just thankful that I can get my news from him and Epoch Times!
Finally visited Gainesville for the first time last week, to see the Florida Natural History museum and the Butterfly Rainforest exhibit. If Jeff wasn't out of office last week, I'd have paid a visit! I'm sure the staff is excited to have people from the Internet just showing up. LOL
Was a nice trip. Ate at Cintrón - A Floribbean Restaurant" on the way out.
Ha! We drove through Gainesville on our way back home from Savannah. We ate at a lovely Waffle House and stopped at an American Legion Post that had 2 tanks in the parking area. Hubs was out of his mind with joy that one of them was an M-7 Priest that his uncle was on during WW2. First one he has ever been able to find and we have looked all over the place. I know way more than I need to know. A truly tankless task.
After reading your commentary on the Russian election and thinking about Jan 6, I finally realized that what happened on Jan 6 is something I might gave expected to hear about happening in Russian or China. Not the USA.
Just sharing my simple minded thoughts; Russia haters don’t attack me . . . 2Ns
Actually I’m pretty sure the election of putin was probably rather fair in terms of cheating. He didn’t need to. His policies are Russia’s policies. And I’m pretty sure the Russian people, seeing real news as opposed to the shit we are served, agree with President Putin’s presidency. How’s that, Benn?
Exactly Right! Most Russians understand, although probably on different levels of awareness, that Putin saved Russia. And this is, by the way, twice (first from subversion within, and secondly ... from aggression from without.
The most respected political figure in the world today is likely to be, hands down, Putin.
Put yourself in a Russian's shoes. (I know this is impossible for BNN without stroking out.) For the first time in 3 generations, the Russian people are not starving and are ACTUALLY thriving. The shops are thriving, the economy is prosperous, the culture is healthy and proud (unlike ours) and even the church is thriving. When the Soviet gov't collapsed, the whole society descended into chaos. Putin and his team stepped into the gap and came through for the Russian people. They look at the chaos and belligerence of the USG and they know instantly what the score is.
I know, I know. Exactly so, and pretty darn good for The Gas Station and KGB Colonel Putin!
Awhile back I saw some farm land videos with huge sized fields in wheat production. For example, in 2020 Russia was #1 in wheat what with supplying around 19% of the world export markets. The US and Canada were around 13% each with Canada having a .2% edge. The video knocked me out because I remember how the stupid Soviets were always buying US wheat in the Way Back Machine days when I was growing up. Now the Russian exceed the US.
The whole world sees the Empire of Clown Land for what it is. And I am guessing that the number of people in the West who think their country's leadership are mostly absurd Freaks are at an all time high. And I am sure the Covid Population Terrorism also has a huge role in the discrediting.
I saw that NATO is building a huge NATO base in Romania with a $2 billion plus price tag. Even bigger than Ramstein in Germany. Letting The Idiots in Charge have this much money to waste is ludicrous. And this with the USG in a Fed induced Debt Trap.
I remember Glenn Beck pointing out on FNC back in 2010, how clean the DC Mall was following a Tea Party demonstration. Generally it's been my experience that conservative people 1) want to be left alone 2) refrain from violence unless absolutely necessary to defend one's self or others 3) tend to leave things at least as good as, or better than, when found.
Putin may be worse than Satan, but in that case is Trump worse than Putin? Or somewhere between Putin and Satan? No doubt would keep CNN-watchers debating for hours.
The WA state lawyer thing is happening with everything out here. The three years of “legal intern” will be legislated and funded so the law school students work for grift-based grievance non-profits. Then they will get promoted directly out of all these grifty, “partners”-with-government positions directly into equity positions with in the state government. While every other state backpedals on DEI, WA accelerates their pace forward.
You will have to show me proof on that. Washington may have become communist, but wasn't started that way. In fact, when I lived there in the 70's it was a pretty good state, especially the east side. Even now, the eastern part of Washington would like to divorce from Washington and become part of Idaho, and the same with the eastern part of Oregon. They hate what the coastal part of the state has become.
Former resident, grew up East of the Mountains, spent younger adulthood on the coast. Moved to SF/CA area while Gates was still unknown. Heartbreaking to see what has happened to the entire coastline of this great nation.
As Dr. Martin demonstrates in the video I posted today, all avenues for any criminal charges that lead back to DoD or to those directly responsible, such as Gates, are blocked and there has not been one lawyer, AG, Gov or judge that has levied criminal cases for the SELF-ADMITTED crimes that are laying out right in the open.
Musk’s X post that said AI will be smarter than the smartest person in a year and AI will be smarter than every human combined by 2030, was beyond chilling. Capital markets are accelerating AI development. The Global Cabal is frothing at the mouth to use AI as their ultimate control tool.
Intelligence and knowledge does not necessarily lead to wisdom and sound judgment. The fear of God is the beginning of knowledge which leads to wisdom. Robots will probably not be programmed to fear God.
We can be certain that robots won't be programmed to fear God. Language models only ever algorithmically predict what an expected verbal response should be, consistent with their "training." There is no love or fear or emotion of any kind involved.
I've been wondering what the truth about AI really is. Since I know zero about creating AI, I must rely on the information and analysis of others. Here's a link to an interesting article that sheds some realistic light on the topic, kind of like things I've pondered:
Good article! In the early computer days we had a term we used a lot ... GIGO .... garbage in garbage out. Until we truly understand how the human mind works, we can't replicate it but we can create much that will be horrifying, IMO.
I guess my question would be "what does he mean by 'smart?'" Lots of room in that term for many different meanings. Some may not be all that impressive.
Indeed. If he means "smart" as in "has all the encyclopedia at its fingertips", then absolutely it's likely. But if he meant it in the sense of "can draw rational conclusions and make sensible plans, not just by mimicking its input data", that's not really on the table for the foreseeable future.
As proof, look at all those smart, intellectual ethics-type that advocate killing disabled children and euthanizing people who are too old to be of financial value.
There have always been unqualified judges. When I went to law school the only piece of advice my lawyer father gave me was to be nice to the bottom third of my class because they were my future state judges.
”I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.“
Philippians 4:13 NKJV
https://bible.com/bible/114/php.4.13.NKJV
If you get a chance please remind your minister/pastor that most church leaders should repent for their utter dereliction of duty to their congregation during the c19 abomination.
Maybe they should spend at least one Sunday morning helping their flock to understand how pathetic their behavior was.
Don't forget Jesus spits out lukewarm water.
I tried that! He held strong, we left in early 2021 after 35 years of being very active and raising our sons there. He pitted vaccinated against unvaccinated, and has the injuries and deaths of many parishioners and employees on his hands. He loved the power of separating people and the six foot separation and masking. He ignored everything I sent him to read. I was part of the management team and we spoke often, but he refused to listen. He forgot about discernment! He trusted the science and not God or those God put in his church!
How absolutely Awful for you all as a congregation. We too left our small church (19 yrs ) because of all the rules that were printed in our bulletin every Sunday and how we were doing this for the greater good and loving our neighbor .
We were very active there , but the members had lost the will to grow and spread the gospel locally, so we dusted the dirt from of sandals 🩴 and join a present church ⛪️ that is strong in doctrine and worshiped outside that summer & fall as long as we could (2020 ) The pastors asked the congregation what we wanted and we all in unison cheered ( outside on the lawn ) let’s Worship outside as long as we can and then get back to normal. What a gift from God to be fearless in our Worship !!! 🙏🏻✝️❤️🙌⛪️
Let's NEVER FORGET how the children were robbed of two years of their lives by cowardly adults.
The Church had a lot of responsibility in that regard.
How could they forget that EVIL always comes for the little ones first.
How?!
Amen to that Ryan! Good to see you here!!
You too!
I used to sit in sunday school as a little girl and gaze wistfully at the outdoors. (No AC so doors and windows open.) Just maddening in the Spring with the birds chirping merrily. I would think of Jesus out in a boat or preaching at a shoreline, and it seemed a bit unfair. It’s still difficult for me to spend much more than an hour inside.
Church on the lawn sounds incredible!
Christine...hearing "doing this for the greater good" is a trigger when it is preached from pastors who were full of fear. It felt like virtuous manipulation. Now some are trying to figure out how to get people back into the building.
Exactly! My Catholic friends had mass via radio broadcast. They drove to church, after a stop at a coffee shop, sat in their car, had communion via drive-up and done. On their way in 30 minutes. They got spoiled 😂
Yep. We held services in our parking lot. Our Pastor would not budge!
We did that on Easter at my urging to at least see each other. As a Flower Guild member, we decorated a large wooden cross with flowers with large arrangements at the base. It was a healing service to at least have our windows down and talk or say hi to fellow parishioners. Then the diocese shut it down from happening again! The churches are supposed to stand in the face of this kind of tyranny!! The majority of them failed.
I would love to find a church like that again!!!!
ASK and you shall receive, SEEK and you shall find...
I pray you do 🙏🏻 keep seeking God’s truth …. ✝️ we belong to WELS Synod ( Lutheran ) Strong in doctrine at Shepard of the Hills , West Bend , Wisconsin.
Thank you. He is in my heart and mind everyday. I will never turn away from him!! I can’t live without him and his guidance, protection and love. We are in Portage Lakes, Ohio.
Exposed: Communist Infiltration of the American Church
Eric Metaxas is an author, speaker, and radio host, as well as the host of the nationally syndicated Eric Metaxas Show. He has also published well over a dozen books. Among his published works, is ‘Letter to the American Church’, a book which was recently turned into a film. In today’s episode, I sat down with Eric, to get a better understanding of his message, about the parallels between the American church today and German Churches in the 1930s, as well as why staying silent isn’t an option.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/a-letter-to-the-american-church-interview-with-eric-metaxas-facts-matter-5605474
The STATE Church must be called out, and evacuated immediately; like comparing Noah's Ark to the TITANIC! To the Lifeboats!!!
Same. We even had "parking lot church" in our cars, with a "safety team" deployed to roam the lot and admonish parishioners who dared crack a window. We were gone before that absurdity came about. Not surprisingly, the pastor bailed after losing roughly 50% of the congregation--the week before Easter!
Sorry to hear that.
Now, you should in a better place! I hope.
But just remember this, God is immutable, the same goes with His Word, follow it very close to your heart, not by tradition, but by conviction, With your vast experience, I’m pretty sure you do!
Thank you, Ed. It was amazing how fast people turned into Nazi's! The groups I was part of bragged about their jabs and that all of them (since I resigned) were jabbed and not one wasn't! What a badge of honor and now all of them who had cancer in remission have it ten fold and new ones. And boy did they love the masks....so much so they had some made and embroidered with the our names on them!!!! I refused! I pray everyday and keep his word close!
Nothing new under the sun Joni. Look at the controlling political class that Jesus fought against daily in his short teaching career. Jesus had some very choice names for them, brood of vipers is one of my faves...
Yes, I agree. In these days, brood of vipers is very fitting!
I still have my mask that says ”Faith over Fear”🙄 given to me by a multply jabbed member of my small group. Smh.
Now that’s funny, totally backwards thinking on her part and she forgot about God’s great immunity!
🙋🏻♀️ us too. 🔥 It was a great move for us butt hurt. God is cleansing the Bride for the Coronation/Consummation 🙌
And he was trusting in false 'science,' at that.
Exactly!!!
PRIDE!...the Devils playground.
Not to mention POWER.......
nor FEAR... the fear that gummit might come along and whack you for not jugging to THEIR fiddle.
But GOD's command is "DO NO forsake the gathering of yourselves together...... and siting in a parked car,m windows up tught, is NOT "gathering". Nor is staring at the zoom screen in your own living room at home, all by yourself.
I've got a LOT of disagreements with John Mac Arthur, but now i have a tremendous amount of respect for the man, because HE STOOD FIRM against the City of Los Angeles by refusing to close his church when so "ordered". then the city coerced the bank nearby which had, for decades, allowed them to use their car park on SUndays for attendees, so the bank shut it down NOW where they gonna [ark? Well, whaddya know the Jewish Temple round the cornder approached him and said "we're aenever here Sundays, you and your folks go ahead and park in OUR lot.
God bless you!
Thank you and you as well!
Can you imagine your pastor wearing a mask as he preaches about the freedom Jesus brings to your soul?
Disillusionment. Dismay. Despair. Double crossed.
That's how I felt about The Church during the plandemic.
The Fallen Church finally exposed. And to think it took the Scam/Plandemic to accomplish this feat. But at what appalling cost? And who knows because we haven't yet begun to pay the freight on now unstoppable impacts. At any rate, you said it very succinctly. It hit me like it hits you.
We have some kind of dumb church next door. It was chilling to see the place shuttered down week after week. And so, what you say resonates. And my best to you. And enjoy life as much as you can.
Likewise!
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Ryan G - Us too. We still haven’t found one to go back to. We watch one online in a different state, that we wish was here so we could attend. We refuse to go to one that was derelict in their role as a church and derelict in their role as Jesus followers. If they exposed themselves as fear over faith we refuse to go there. It’s sad we can’t find one nearby.
You need to find a church. Surely there is one somewhere... We can't be a community of believers without standing with each other in worship.
We’ve visited many in our area. I know there has to be at least one. We just haven’t found it yet. It gets tiring to keep going to new ones and walk away disappointed. So we’ve taken a break from the search for now. We also have a special needs adult child so it makes things more difficult in the search as well.
Singing to the Lord hiding the face and smile He gifted us with. There is a woman I used to work with who still wears a mask everywhere. I haven’t seen her entire face in 4 years behind her plexi fortifications. She’s young.
Trying to attend Church services with people hiding behind masks made me physically ill. I finally found a Church that shunned the masks.
I bet you almost thought that you had found Paradise!
It was an overwhelming peace of mind and spirit.
I know a young man about 21 who continues to wear his superhero themed mask as a fashion statement. On rare occasion, I see him without the mask (it is usually when he is eating), and I am always surprised to see his whole face. He is a good looking young man. Much better looking without the mask. I worry about him. Have told him about the health issues of continual oxygen restriction and bacteria etc on the mask (which I doubt he cleans on a daily basis). But he loves his mask. I think at this point it is part of his identity and an emotional crutch of some sort.
Cotton dust causes brown lung disease. This has been known since the early textile age. Brown lung disease is like asbestosis, a silent killer over about 20 years and then a distinct crippling disease.
There are no studies on the other various synthetic materials used in masks. What do those particles do once inhaled into the lungs? No one knows. Yet.
Many cloth dyes are lung carcinogens. Again, the toxic inhalations occur over time only to end in a catastrophic medical event years down the road.
Was horrifying to see so many children forced to wear cloth masks with cartoons printed on them. And still sad to see how many people of all ages cling to a face rag to save them from a virus that is 1/40th the diameter of a human hair. I’m certain the young man you mentioned could pluck a hair and likely pierce the mask he wears. The virus is 40 times smaller. So.
more like four THOUSAND times smaller.
that virus runs from about point zero two eight MICRONS up to about point zero five six microns. The grit that sashays easily through the N95 mask is around fifty to a hundred microns. Four decimal places larger. And I cannot poke a human hair through an N 95 mask, but it is easy to do that with the silly pleated blue glorified kleenex thing most commonly worn.
And studies HAVE been done concerning the particles sloughed off those wretched things.. largish spicules of hard plastics, for one small item... that do NOT break down.
like a blanky or teddy bear?
Good possibility
Lol ! I'm still laughing!
tell him if he likes the thing so much wear it as a headband.
I wonder how many folks have evr read tthe mandatatory protocol for operating room personellregarding the use and wearing of those masks in the surgical heatre. I read them, and was astounded. VEY precise and paricular. But I never saw this published in any health department releases, nor in any newspaper. It would have ex[osed the fundamental lies regarding these worse than useless things.
I kniw from using the N95 masks to protect my lungs etc when doing car body work, woodwork, sanding, grinding, painting, etc. After wenty minutes of griding body filler and sanding to prep for painting I had to stop, take it off, scrub the grit off my face ( a thick layer of whatever colour I was working with, covering the area UNDER the mask on my skin... I could feel the grit on my teeth, blew out out of my nose in copious quantities, etc. When I read how tiny that silly virus is I KNEW it was a few thousand times smaller than the paint and sand particles mu mask could NOT filter out.. and so what's the point of the mug nappie beyond blind submission to some gummit poohbah who knows less than a tenth what I know about such things.... he has NO background in medicine, science, practical work experience..... only to do what he is ordered to do to keep his paycheck coming every two weeks. Hirelings are NEVER out for the good of their employer OR victims.
and rubber gloves and pre-packaged "sacrament" what an abomination
just makes me sick
@BasedFloridaMan, your comment is so ironic, yet paints a picture many of us saw at church during c19. Sad how many pastors donned masks and stated rules soaked in fear. Faith is the only thing that can overcome fear. And as pastors their livelihood, their purpose is to spread faith, not fear.
While our church followed the local authorities, being a sacramental church, we never stopped administering the Eucharist! And mind you, we share the same communion spoon. Some did not partake out of fear, others did. It was their faith call.
Priests and deacons were never masked.
This is how I feel when I’m sitting in our Bible Study and there are stupid women with masks on, extolling the virtues of Jesus and how much they “trust” God. It’s all I can do to not just walk out.
I could have taken pictures of several!!
Florida Man! You might like some of these. They are mostly very short articles.
https://ironink.org/2013/06/the-contemporary-western-chruchs-handling-of-gods-love/
https://ironink.org/2022/09/does-god-only-love-love-always-hate-hate/
https://ironink.org/2022/07/loving-your-enemy-while-hating-gods-enemies/
https://faithandheritage.com/2014/05/biblical-love-and-hatred-harmonized/
Unfortunately, yes.
Ive tried to go back to my Methodist church twice and I just can’t get over how it behaved. What did they get back in caving and sin? Around 20 sitting in the pews. (Had a 2,000 membership at one time.) Older people like me. No younger families. About 5 children in Sunday school, most of them just get dropped off by parents while they go to breakfast. No choir. No outreach. I just can’t do it. I can’t forgive. Lukewarm church as Jesus warns. The other churches in town are the same. I’m looking. It’s a smallish town.
In the meantime, maybe you could get the @real life network” app. Jack Hibbs is a marvelous pastor. Maybe you can start a home church watching his services and eventually bring in a pastor. Praying for God to give you wisdom regarding a church for you and others like you.
Jack Hibbs did part 1 of a 2 part sermon yesterday. It's about Israel and what the Bible says about it and how it correlates with what's happening worldwide. Very, very good sermon. Next Sunday is part 2 and I'm looking forward to it.
Also, you don't necessarily need the app. His services can also be found on fb, X, and I believe on other social media sites. The sermon can also be seen on Fox Business channel for those who have that particular TV channel.
I watch him on YouTube. He is a wonderful pastor and speaker.
I think I've found the link, and will watch it.
https://www.youtube.com/user/RealLifeJackHibbs
What the bible says about Israel is that He sent the Roman government and armies to utterly destroy Isreal and that land ti end her spiritual debauchery that had been ongoing for a long time. The political entity commonly referred to as Israel has no real connexion nor relationship to the Israel of the First Century AD. This is clearly laid out inJohn's Revelation, and borne out by the secular history of that era, which had no axe to grind nor point to prove.. only recording what happened as they watched.
Josephus, known and trusted Jewish historian, wrote a five volume history called "The Jewish Wars", volumes 2, 3, 4 are relevant. Good english translations are avaiable online for no cost. A guy named Tertullian was embedded with the army Vespasian was ordered to deploy to Israal by Nero in 66 AD, spring, to bring those rowdy Jews under control. Every Roman army had their "scribe" to record what went on.
Just as Jphn's Revelation predicted, every detail of it actually happened in real tme history as reccorded concurrently.
I've heard Jack Hibbs a few times.. won't listen any kore, as he also fails to comprehend that, just as Jesus Himself predicted clearly, "all these things will come to pass before THIS PRESENT GENERATION passes away." The "all these things" he clearly meant were the things He spoke about in what is known as the Olivet Discourse", as described to the Twelve umedately folloing His prediction of the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem.. ot oine stone left upin another. That mdae a bunch of folks mad.. and yet we all acceot that IT happened... which is (very tellingly) jot recorded in the bible. WHY? Because the canon was closed prior to the year AD 70, thus the Temple was destroyed after it was closed, so thus jot mentioned in scripture. We take secular reports that the Temple WAS indeed destroyed.. why not all the other details tat started to unfold well before Rome came to do what God had sent them to do... destroy the Temple AND the nation.? And I am thus left with only two viable possibilities.. either He spoke truly and it all DID happen (which recorded history bears out) or He is a liar. The second option is ot acceptible thus leaving me with the first.
Tio...Do not be discouraged by the disagreement from others. You are more correct than most people will ever know in this life. Pastor Chuck Baldwin in Montana is a great resource on this subject for any reader wishing to investigate this further. God bless you and your house.
You realize Herod’s temple was not the first to be destroyed utterly. God evicted His people more than once.
Yours is one interpretation. There are Bible scholars who interpret differently. And the prophets of the Old Testament made prophecies about the Jewish people coming again to the holy land from the four corners of the earth, where God had scattered them.
Zechariah says Jesus will set foot on the Mount of Olives, when He returns.
You may not know all you think you know.
Jack Hibbs message yesterday (“Epicenter: Israel”) was fantastic.
Thank you. I find online unsatisfying. Maybe that’s just me right now. Our northern Illinois town is nearly 75% Hispanic now and they have their own churches. I’m praying too.
I have always felt the same way but I've been watching/listening to Jack Hibbs sermons the last month or so and I've gotten so much out of them. Sometimes I place my phone on the window sill while doing dishes or while cooking.
I know it doesn't replace Sunday worship service but it's a great addition for days in between.
I am watching right now! These comments inspired me, and YES its VERY good - must watch. https://www.youtube.com/user/RealLifeJackHibbs
Will they let you attend? Are their services only in Spanish? Can you ask them if they will start a Spanish as a second language class? You could just try learning Spanish by immersion ( that’s how all the 19th and early 20th century European immigrants learned English). Perhaps someone would be willing to translate the sermon.
It may seem like I am being snarky, but I am not. I have done short term missions in immigrant communities in the US, and abroad and have attended Nepali, Twi (in Ghana), Aramaic (in Iraqi Kurdistan), Spanish, Portuguese services. We currently teach English as a second language in our church (all légala as far as I know, but we don’t check—render unto Caesar, etc.)
It would be a tremendously welcoming thing to do, and they might even see it as an evangelistic opportunity. I am quite sure that their theology, beliefs and practices are more orthodox and Spirit filled & driven than 75–90% of the churches in your area.
I’m still half hearted looking. In upstate New York, I found one but it was all former Wiccan ladies and I think they were still doing reiki, not true laying on of hands. I never went back there. & My favorite Methodist church in Florida fell for the mask and jabs.
I found a wonderful, Bible based non woke Calvary Church in my area. Nondenominational Christian. Also check out some of the Creationist speakers/ teachers like Russ Miller & Mike Riddle. We’ve had both in our Church.
Excellent advice P Flournoy! Pastor Jack's teaching is awesome and he is a national leader. I remember him conveying the story after he was convicted over closing the sanctuary of planning to re-open in person no restriction church. Many 'big name' pastors contacted him asking please don't do that. The Holy spirit said open, who was he to disobey?
CCCH home churches are very active and you get to meet with other believers. 'Just like the good 'ol days'! I find the church app a little simpler to navigate for live services: https://calvarycch.org/ there is a pop-up link to the Real Life Network there if you rather. I watch the 8:00 am and the 10:30 am services, same message but I always hear something different. His mini series on Israel packs a mega punch, highly recommend!
We had the same experience with our 35 year membership to our first United Methodist church. Tried to meet with pastor to get over the hard feelings- they completely abandoned us when we took our mother in to get her out of hospice in the nursing home. (She lived an additional 5 months once released from solitary confinement). Found a nondenominational church and are growing to love it. Takes time. The wounds are DEEP!
Welcome home to the church as Jesus intended Susan In Kansas, my prayers are with you!
I understand your pain, Janet, and I wish you well in your search.
As a practicing Roman Catholic I was devastated when Pope Francis showed his true colors. But I also, thank the Good Lord that covid became a warning to believers that my Church was infiltrated by evil. God led me to Traditional Latin Mass parishes and devout Novus Ordo priests, worldwide, who are fighting the good fight against this corruption.
Neither a bad pope nor corrupted wolves in sheep’s clothing will make me leave the faith of my fathers. So I now am delighted to be a Traditional Latin Mass Catholic aligned with prelates who will not succumb to evil.
Ireland refused the globalist elite changes to their constitution, which replaced "family" and "motherhood" with rainbow cult speak. They found miraculous medals of Mary in with many of the ballots.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/03/17/ireland-and-the-terrible-truth-about-wokeness/#google_vignette
Beautiful!
That’s great! I’m not sure what our Catholic Church did during the great shutdown. There is a Greek Orthodox monastery outside of town. They encourage visitors but I don’t know yet if they do services. It was recommended by a poster on another substack. I may visit.
Wonderful. Let us know if you visit it.
I'm not Catholic, but I have been following Bishop Strickland's story. My maiden name was Strickland, so I'm claiming him as a relative!
What a great relative to have!!!
We had new members at our church ⛪️ ( WELS ) who were lifetime members of the United Methodist church. They were seeking truth from scripture and were very upset with homosexual pastors and the over all teachings of the Methodist church body . God is separating the Sheep 🐑 from the goats 🐐 The Holy Spirit is working in the hearts and minds of believers and it’s a Wonderful thing to see . ❤️🙏🏻✝️
God is working for sure. Some other power protected and led me away from the lies. a sermon I heard in 1988 hit me hard in 2021. The only thing I remember, indeed, from any sermon since 1988 was when the pastor told us that some of us may be led by God to “pull people out of the ruins”. I have thought of that often since then. I believe that time is coming. ❤️🙏🏻
Janet if you can look for a Calvary Chapel near you; they are wonderful, beautiful music and message and they are all packed and still growing. The old traditional churches are empty because everyone is at Calvary! we have 8 different locations for Calvary in driving distance because they are so busy, and they have even been asking for people to come Saturday night instead of Sunday because every seat is taken on Sundays. Online church is also a great way. It’s much easier than you think too to join an online service.
I was fortunate to be discipled in a Calvary Chapel early in my Christian walk. Their “distinctives” as Chuck Smith called them are first and foremost rooted in solid expository teaching from the Word of God, led by some of the most gifted pastors in generations. The Chuck Smith protégés — you are lucky if you can find one! — are now in the process of handing pastoral duties to the next generation of gifted and uncompromising teachers and leaders. I’ve never heard a watered-down Gospel preached in a Calvary anywhere. Be a Berean, and test everything, but I agree with Lyndsay that CC is a solid source of truth whether you’re “attending” online or in person.
Thank you. Many churches have the name Calvary in it. How do I know the difference? Like would Calvary Community be that? It’s 35 minutes away. Is “Chapel “ specific? Is it denominational?
Janet, I believe Calvary Chapel is the key in the name to the original organization built under the late Chuck Smith. Jack Hibbs' church (which started in a friends home as a Bible study) is called Calvary Chapel Chino Hills. So simply replace Chino Hills with your local community and see what you come up with. As a rule CC's are Bible teaching churches, not big on formalities or ritual and generally relaxed in attire. The worship music can vary and is usually contemporary in nature, though that can vary on local talent. You probably won't hear an organ anytime soon. I would like to hear some of the old time hymns personally, such a strong message from the olde artists. I'll give you one more source to research, His Channel https://hischannel.com/ Pastor Chuck Smith helped the founder of His Channel, Dennis Swick, move from radio to television a long time ago. His Channel carries an archive of Chuck Smith sermons. Look under the movies and documentary section to watch the biography of Calvary Chapel, it's quite interesting.
Hi Janet: here is the link and you can put in your zip code. it will try first to give you an exact Calvary Chapel, but if not, it will recommend others. this is the official website.
https://calvarychapel.com/church-locator/
What a nice picture. I'm definitely in the I Like Dogs club.
Thank you. Wheaton Terrier!
Ours too. Never once did anyone call us during the shut down. The "reopen" was tentative and outdoors (Michigan). Wear your masks and sit far apart. I finally sent an email to our pastor in 2023 along with a wonderful talk between some pastors regarding the failure of faith during the pandemic. He didn't listen to it and instead doubled down on how appropriately they behaved to be "safe". I won't go back. If our rotten governor ever issues another lockdown, I know they will eagerly comply.
I can almost go along with the 'better be safe than sorry' stuff excepting that a pastor should have looked into the initial claims regarding C19 madness using mortality figures. Had they done that red flags would have started sprouting all over the place.
The problem is that pastors these days are not well educated ... not in general, and specifically not well educated by the seminaries. The situation is appalling. We, of course, had no idea how bad things were in the American churches back in 2009/2010 until we began reading classical theologians, Reformation era confessions of faith, and material like Matthew Henry and the Geneva notes.
I am proud to say that these days my wife (God bless her) knows more about Christianity than ninety or more percent of the pastorate in the country. God gave me a very smart wife. For this I am grateful.
Same with my rotten governor. Illinois. Everybody was all jabbed up by September 2021 (except me, I’m sure) but still masks were ordered on again. That’s when I left. Plus the church district poached our well liked young pastor during the shutdown and we had a new not even ordained in our denomination guy right after we opened. I considered that a heinous betrayal after the stress of lockdowns. Methodist so there are lots of baked in issues right now.
So much Jumbo Pritzker did during those years still makes me seethe. He loved that power—soaked it up for all he was worth. He may be rich but he still has to look himself in the eye every morning knowing full well what he is.
I got 2 phone calls the entire time 1 from the pastor (the new one they put in place during the shutdown after poaching our well liked one) and one from a parishioner. I was an active member.
12 of us TOTAL sitting in Episcopal pews the last Sunday when the Bishop(?) in Denver shut down ALL in-person services...not even the balls to go to 10 person services! I saw the collapse of community and was within an inch of doing free coffee pushcart and prayer needs at the empty high school parking lot (TOO BUSY with my essential/critical business--and not a type A). Should've stepped up as NO ONE ELSE DID!
That’s 2 calls more than I got.
It was so weird. Some I did see regularly out and around but very few. That late winter of jabs I sat around a CAMPFIRE in the snow with my Bible sermon women’s group. I still attended that but our church was still closed. They were getting jabs but one wore 2 masks outside. The others just 1 🤣🤣🤣🤣. I told them I won’t wear masks outside and I was “waiting to see what happened” about the jabs and was very clear I wasn’t going to be a “lab rat”. Still, absolutely no one has ever asked me WHY I didn’t get them. A couple still sent me outrageous crap about jab immunity was so much better than natural immunity. Or pulled the “Christian thing to do”. Didn’t I care if I infected anyone? Later in the year these same fully jabbed went to a party and infected each other or created a testing opportunity. I stayed home because my throat felt a bit scratchy.
My wife and I were appalled at the church's COVID response and stopped attending. They kowtowed to all the COVID rules and even jumped on the BLM race apology bandwagon. My independent men's Bible study group was also on board with the COVID hoax and I left that, too. A few weeks ago I finally got back to attending a local church. Great music (traditional hymns) with loud congregational participation and good gospel presentation. Yet some habits seem to be lingering from COVID. Offerings are deposited in collection boxes and once-monthly communion is offered only at a dedicated evening service. That latter mat not be COVID related and I intend to inquire about it. Regardless, it feels good to get back to communal worship. We do have to bolster the right-thinking physical organized church, even uf not perfect. They need us
What gets me about The Church is:
THIS WAS THE EASIEST CALL ALL TIME!
When I find one I will go.
We changed churches in 2021, some reasons for covid response and other reasons for direction of UMC. Now in a Jesus loving church, that teaches His Word.
We were blessed with a message yesterday from a missionary we support.
We need to grow in His commands and promises, we're given examples from around the community which is great. However, most need to understand the power of God and the healing that He has provided through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit to get away from the litany of sickness and tragedy. So, 2 Corinthians 5:9, Wherefore we labour, that...we may be adopted of Him.
May It be so, in Jesus' name. Amen
There's no forgiveness if there's no wanting to be forgiven. The gift is ready to be delivered but the recipient despises it.
Yeah. Same. Despicable imo
Forgive.. you MUST. then move on. Don't hold bittterness. It will only poison you when you find the next one. Leave them to wallow in THEIR vomit. don't participate.
Janet, we have entered into a new age of worship, and the sheep are being separated from the goats. The internet is your ally right now, if you can follow and comment here you have the wherewithal to watch Jack Hibbs on line! If you have a problem reach out and I or someone more qualified will help you out. I posted links in reply to P Flournoy to get you started, you can do this, 'see' you in church soon!
Find a reformed Presbyterian..
Or reformed Baptist or non-denominational. Of course, you need to examine them carefully. Plenty of churches are calling themselves reformed who are not.
https://upci.org/
https://upci.org/
From PCUSA website:
https://www.pcusa.org/news/2021/9/27/vaccination-and-faithfulness-time-pandemic/
I read this a few years ago, didn't then know about the Federal handouts to churches, a payment for getting the job done. And Presby still have this on their website.
Your comment causes me to wonder just how many members of their congregations have the Presby. ministers consigned to death or to a living hell?
2 Timothy 1:7.
Nuff said. The only verse they needed to follow...ya know one of Jesus most important and profound messages...
“Federal handouts to churches”?!?!
I’ve missed that! Please source this for me. Important information to have in my file.
Thank you!
Yes, and the Gvt WAS preparing in 2005-09 for these actions, the fact that no one saw it coming is B.S., we didn't WANT to see the pre-planning and certainly it was ALL only for our own good!
@SusanMc I knew the churches received PPP “loans” and I have either read or just “heard” that there were strings attached (of course 🙄) about staying closed, etc. Supposedly, it was just to keep staff and teachers paid, but I’m sure those strings were held tightly in the fine print. Here’s one article I found from the MSM:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/catholic-churches-paycheck-protection-program-12000-applied-9000-got/
I didn't know this. But why am I not surprised?
These are people devoid of the knowledge of scripture that only the Holy Spirit can give. They have read the description of the construction of the Old Testament tabernacle, that it was to be skillfully made, exactly after the pattern that was given to them by God. They have also read that when details were not obeyed, as in the use of unauthorized incense, or "strange fire," the result was death. They have read in the New Testament that we are living tabernacles. And despite all this, they take it upon themselves to encourage their congregations to meddle with God's handiwork, the work of the most skilled craftsman.
They are always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the Truth.
Excellent!
bullseye
And this barely scratches the surface.
Exactly
PCUSA on the way down for awhile.
UMC too. The split to United or Global Methodist was devastating.
Our local PC USA was so in lock step they were one of the last churches to open. Thankful we departed that church in early 2000.
Locally our Lutheran ELCA was LAST to open, i told the pastor that was his call as who knows better just how very old and sickly most of his congregants are than he? One upside is ZOOM services for the true shut-ins; praise God that is a true blessing to come from this devious plot against Christ-followers and ALL humanity.
What? The pastor knows best? Not when he shut his church..... When we attended an event at the PCUSA at Christmas time in 2022 (an event that was forever before then FULL) there were 35 of us in the congregation... There were a dozen college choir members, all masked and sitting 8' apart in a choir loft that holds 100... Their voices drowned out by the piped in vocals of yesteryear, that only few knew about. The fear exhibited in that large church was palpable. The pastor spoke through his N-95 double mask. Yep, I'm sure he was a scholar on how healthy his congregation was...🙄🙄🙄 Church on ZOOM is not a church of faithful believers.
‘Vaccines’ are meant to trick our God given immune systems. Revelation 18:23 https://www.pathwaytopeace.net/index.php/blogs-and-articles/pharmakeia-deception
LS, thank you for the link. What I have read so far is very interesting. I will make the time to finish reading it. Saving for reference :)
Our PCA church in Overland Park, KS never stopped meeting in person, although it was outside in the parking lot for months, they moved inside as soon as the local government “allowed” it (without enforcing mask mandates) and claim they will never comply with lockdowns again.
Kansas City!
That's a positive at your church imo. Everyone makes mistakes. The first step is acknowledgement
Ugh. I tried to find anyone's email from PCUSA website to share some current science with them. Not even gonna try to engage on the theological issues as the whole PCUSA is a lost cause. Very sadly spoken as a former PCUSA member (but not for the last 30 or so years.)
We tried that with our pastor and church counsel…wrote emails, met with them but to no avail. We were a flock without a true leader and then to top it all off our church held a vaccine clinic! On that note…we left, actually we fled! I pray that one day they will repent but I fear that they feel justified because they obeyed our government. It appears that today’s church put government over God….God help us!
Your church may have received money for hosting the vaccine clinic.
We did wonder about that?
Regarding vaccines. They did not know better. I was quite annoyed at times, but never angry, as long as I wasn't forced.
SHOULD have known better Anyine with half a lick of sense should have figured out that a new unproven technlogy (mRNA) that had never been used as a "vaccine", and was rushed thorugh "approval" with NO real tirals then released on the public after only SIX months of "trials" (fake ones a that ) should not be trusted.
I remember it taking TEN YEARS to get the Salk polio vaccines cleared for use.
Yes, I agree, but they trusted the lies: "safe and effective" , remember? And they were made to be scared out of their wits.
I remain steadfast. I find them without excuse. It was NOT their job to weigh government edicts, nor make judgements on the accuracy or falsity of those edicts. Nope.
An HOW could these "men" stand quietly by and refust to OBEY ghe clar unambiguous WORD OF GOD that clearly cOMMANDS "forsake NOt the gathering together of yourselves". And fuher, preadh the Word, in season and out".
nd how bout tho=is little jewel: "He gave some apostles, prophets, evengelists, PASORS< TEACHERS for the equipping of the saints for the work of the ministry UNTIL WE ALL come into the fullness of the faith, full, complete, lacking nothing, equipped for every good work (from memory here, might be a tad off, but if you doubt go and find it yourself.. Ephesians 4, around ten and following, if memory serves)
It does NOT fall under the job description of pastors or teachers, and certainly not elders or bishops, to be giving instructions and/or setting policies relating to medical or health issues. NOT their bailiwick. ALL the ones of which I became aware did their pandering to the government for the safety of their own skin.
WHAT might have happened had ALL the pastors, elders, teachers, deacons, members etc, in every church naming the name of CHrist all across the land had stood firm and said "we will obey God rather than MEN, and He has COMMANDED us to NOT forsake the gathering of ourselves together. WE are determined o obey GOD rather than men. And if he gummi goon squads nip round and have us all into the lockup, there is strong precedent for the saints to sing and praise and pray IN the prison. The original Jail House Rock took place in a jail in Cesarea Philippi. It ended with the entire household of the Jailer and all the other guards, etc, being baptised the next morning.
When my little church decided to shut down (I believe out of fear of reprisal) I suggested we meet anyway, those who were willing. but no, we can just use Zoom (which despise to this day) I had my own key, but realised I'd be the only one showing up. No point to that.
I have since connected with a arger group that did NOT shut down.. a vibrant alive bunch, many fourth generation families. Nearly all declare they would JOT stop meeting bcause of soe government edic. If they'd arrest the teaching pastor, we have a number of others who can handle the Word well. Nothing wrong with getting some of the young chaps started teaching, either
I get what you’re saying but since when is a church scared out of their wits and actually doing medical treatments? That’s not their role in society!
Great rejoinder!! It’s extremely important (in my honest opinion) to come to the realized conclusion that our governments and states are pathocracies. They are led by psychopaths or sociopaths or malignant narcissists. In addition to these political institutions and establishments, so are financial and religious-ecclesiastical institutions and establishments. Psychopaths and sociopaths and malignant narcissists are attracted to the power and the status of leading these organizations.
“All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. - Missionaria Protectiva, Text QIV (decto)” — “Chapterhouse: Dune” by Frank Herbert
Directly under this article/conversation is a 2021 post by Mr. Childers, but a timeless classic nevertheless: https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/what-the-church-needs-to-know-about-covid-19-2307dc2a111c?r=mz98w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
".....most church leaders should repent for their utter dereliction of duty to their congregation during the c19 abomination."
Agreed.
As a side note, Pastor Gary Hamrick has stood strong as a pastor against these ungodly issues. At the beginning of his teaching on 17Mar24, he addresses the signing, INTO LAW, of same sex marriage by the conservative Governor Youngkin. It's not yet posted on the website, CornerstoneChapel.net, but he provides a SUPERB commentary on the issue and is well worth checking the site soon to hear it.....along with the teaching, of course.
I tried joining a local church last year after many, many years without. Discovered that they are cashless in their fund-raising merchandise store, and push technology at every angle. Your supposed to "Text a number if you've accepted Jesus."
I've already left. I'm a much better person, spiritually and otherwise, when I stay home and do introspection/bible study on my own...
geez Louise. The Church is rudderless....but Jesus warned about this multiple times.
The minister stumps for amazon.com in many sermons. I finally put a hand-written note in with one of my donation checks, asking why this was so? Did he understand the centralization of power taking place, to the detriment of the Church? I included my phone number with my note.
They cashed the check the next day. And i never heard form them on my question ....
I did this in both KC and STL, where my two main offices are, to see if I can get a response. None but they accepted the donation.
I only had one pastor call me out of several dozen. He was legit and fighting the good fight.
AMEN, Ryan--I just was given a similar message and shared it to my fellow C & C "army buds" today.
Good on you. The Church needs to take some responsibility as well as a majority of "Christians".
Jesus would've kicked over the tables.
How can they not see that?
Just baffling.
Blinded by the darkness of Lucifer, Ryan!!
First they wore mask. Then blindfolds.
Then they were gagged with them...
Beautiful metaphoric description of the human "slavery" that sinfulness and disbelief in our Sovereign Creator God invokes on ALL humanity!
My church Cornerstone Chapel has stayed true to Biblical principles and our Pastor Gary Hamrick has never wavered once! I watch him online and he is fantastic! A true Biblical Conservative who is courageous and principled! https://cornerstonechapel.net
you are blessed. STAY STRONG!
You too Ryan! ✝️💜💪🏻
For me...when I heard it was global, I knew it was spiritual and we were fighting a battle that was not of flesh and blood. And, now, as I look around, I wonder where the men of God are? Where are the bold and fearless? I have been bold and fearless for the last 4 years...and not of my own doing either. I know who my Father is. Yes, why now? Why me? Why us? I have had many talks with myself..."Stay strong, you are a daughter of The King". There is a hierarchy in God's kingdom for a reason. But I refuse to back down, even if there is no bold male to stand in the gap. I would rather be drawn into the arms of the Lord with the words "Well done, my good and faithful servant" than have any human say "Good job! Thanks for going along with us because we told you we know what is best for you." Does that make any sense?
They did not know better.
Few did. Some holy monastics and bishops overseas ( Godless EU) which I follow did know better, and were disciplined for it by the law!
Jails should've been filled with pastors, priests, deacons...but the Prideful Compromised State Church leaders would've heaped hate upon them all for their anti-science, anti-gospel, rebellion against our Caesars and Governors.
Cleanse Thy Church oh Lord!
I attended a Catholic funeral as restrictions were relaxed. The pews were still segregated with taped X’s for the seats to be left empty. That 6’ stuff was all BS. Pulled out of Fauci’s, um, “you know, the thing.” 😄
So tragic!
That's one of my bestest favorite-est. Thanks. That and (1 John 18) "perfect love casteth out fear".
St. Paul in Romans:
"For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things."
My Favorite ...Be Still and Know that I am GOD Psalm 46:10 ✝️🙏🏻🌎🪐⭐️☀️🌖
Thank you, Political Phil. Romans is my best-loved book of the epistles.
Jesus of Mercy, I trust in You.
Whatever God wants Christ strengthens us for. Much of it means persecution.
Read 1John 5:19.
-21 We know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in the evil one. And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life. My little children, guard yourselves from idols.
And nothing of any use without Him.
Glenn Beck posted a criticism of McAfee on X, I believe, and someone posted a link to C&C and implored people to read what you wrote about the whole deal, saying that the situation is more nuanced than they think. I admired the chutzpah of that individual because it was a bloodbath in the comments 😁😉
Let’s keep spreading the C&CN words of truth and common sense!
I'm generally in agreement with Jeff on most of his insights. But I take issue with his characterization of the Federalist Society. He describes a Federalist Society that *was*, not the Federalist Society that *is*.
I, too, have been a supporter of FS. I used them as a good barometer on legal issues, would inform of which judge's philosophies aligned with conservatism, who would make for higher court material.
But 2020 revealed their true colors. And we began to see that FS has been as thoroughly infiltrated by posers and frauds to conservatism as every other institution in our nation. Just like the many churches described in these comments.
Trump committed to appoint only FS recommend judges to SCOTUS. All of whom met with Mitch McConnell's approval. Rest assured that they all aligned with McConnell's globalist authoritarian values more than Trump's MAGA no mandates. Coney Barrett even upheld mask mandates, business closures, all of the most egregious anti-freedom, unconstitutional pandemic restrictions as an Appeal's court judge even before she was nominated to SCOTUS.
None of Trump's Federalist Society McConnell-approved SCOTUS appointments protected our constitutional rights in pandemic. With the exception of them rediscovering the freedom of worship about 4-6 months into the forced closures. That was the only pandemic mandate they differed from the progressive justices on. And that relief honestly should've been granted with an emergency injunction the moment governments issued church closure orders. Courts moved immediately to stop Trump's travel ban from terrorist nations in 2017, takes time isn't an excuse. Four to six month delay was inexcusable for repugnant to the Constitution policies that declared churches inferior to the state, obliterated separation clause.
Only a lower appeals court judge - nominated by Trump - ended forced masking on planes. One appeals court judge.
The FS/Mitch McConnell-approved SCOTUS justices refused to hear *any* November 2020 election fraud cases. Wouldn't even take up the most important cases in our nation's history, determining our future as self-governed people. Hear nothing, see nothing, say nothing monkeys in black robes. After taking up election fraud cases in 2020 primary election fraud cases resulting in new elections just a few months earlier. November, 2020: crickets.
And just a few months into 2021 Amy Coney Barrett - Federalist Society/Mitch McConnell-approved - inked a multi-million dollar book deal. Her payoff for being a reliable anti-constitutional vote on the court, hostile to individual liberty, free and fair elections. A pretty cheap legal whore as far as the stakes on the table are concerned.
There's much more evidence to back up these assertions I make against the Federalist Society. Suffice it to say they are as captured by the globalist totalitarians as any large, influential organization today. Not conservative in the individual liberty constitutional freedom side of public policy.
But they'll be really good at making sure multinational corporations have freedom to collaborate with government (Fascism) all they want as they conspire against the individual.
Sorry, Jeff, but the Federalist Society you and I remember isn't the same today. What was ain't what is. As captured as the AMA and the largest medical associations, universities, media, Hollywood, sports, teachers unions, churches, etc. It has not remained the island of sanity you seem to believe it is.
Making McAfee's creds less reassuring. His history with Brian Kemp being even more troubling. The CCP- backed GA governor/TrumpHater/Election Fraud enabling treasonist that he is who wants Trump imprisoned. Federalist Society seal of approval is a flimsy shield in 2024.
Colorado had only 3 Christian fellowships file suit against the State; once it went in front of the judge the state predictably changed policy so there was no reason to continue the case...they're simply regrouping for the next emergency edict to implement in the future, now they have more info and strategy and precedent for their Tyranny.
Covid was a test run for what might be coming next. I say might because, while entirely too many fell for the impressive propaganda, a significant portion has been awakened to the danger.
Yep. Even the travel mask ruling was on the process used to take away our rights, not protecting our inalienable rights we are born with. And hasn't been heard by SCOTUS, isn't a final ruling. Strategy and precedent for their tyranny, indeed.
Our Rights cannot be taken away from us. They are not “granted” to us by others, but supersede all laws and even the Constitution.
We can only relinquish our Rights, each one of us, individually.
True. And judges are but high priests in black robes serving their man-gods, not God Almighty. That said, until we restore God's law, natural law as the way of our world we are subjected to the whims, caprices and malice of judicial tyrants. To stand with God and our inalienable rights comes with the cruelty of tyrants. Even being fed to the lions. Most of us aren't in a hurry to be fed to lions. So we try to impose upon the high priests in black robes how high a price it will be for them to try to be man-gods. Such that they reconsider which of our rights they choose to exact their cruelties attempting to deny them to us as we stand defiantly with God. Making them ask themselves how strong is their bloodlust to impose their will. Some judges have more bloodlust in them than others.
This, and almost all western governments, just murdered at least 17 million of us worldwide, with that poison injection. We are being "fed to the lions" one by one. The bloodlust of the ruling class is running rampant.
To everyone that cites "God" in these comments, why do you fear death? Has it not been told you that death is but a door to, in the case of the religious, heaven. To those that don't believe, how can you ignore the evidence that death is but another stage in the never ending cycle that the universe dances to?
Lose your fear of death and it becomes possible to act courageously. And courageous action is required if we are to preserve any semblance of Liberty for our grandchildren.
"If you want an picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face, forever."
Can you see the faces of your grandchildren beneath that boot?
Careful with that "b" word😏😂
I knew C&C'ers would get it 😂😂😂
Thanks for the laugh. B-)
I am so grateful I came across Jeff and all C&Cers several years ago. I love Jeff's perspective on so many things.... Oftentimes, I don't have the time to read this daily, but I"VE STAYED bc of the KILLER COMMENTS!!! ALL YOU ALL ROCK!!!
The problem with so many of these conservative mouthpieces (Beck, Hannity, and particularly Levin) is that they are showmen trying to drive outrage. Perhaps Beck has good intentions deep down but getting people all riled up is good for ratings so that's what he does. The knee-jerk reaction of his listeners to Jeff Childers' take shows they aren't willing to think for themselves and enjoy stewing in their own juices.
Nothing is as black and white as they guys claim, they just get people angry. Personally, I don't like to be angry and if someone is continuously trying to provoke it then they get expelled from my life. I want truth and solutions, not someone stoking pointless outrage (and making a buck off it to boot). But some people just like to be mad, I feel sorry for them.
Compare a Trump rally to these guys. Trump will make jokes about these people and the crowd will be howling. They have a good time. Who has a good time listening to Mark Levin scream at his audience?
You are so right, and yeah,not me. Levin yelling at 10 o'clock at night is tres unappealing 😂 And I really can't stomach Hannity anymore.
The only bloodbath Trump witnessed personally was Megyn Kelly's interview of him
Really, it's like we're winning a close game. The other team's QB is injured and not very good to begin with. Their backup may be the better QB. And everyone on our team wants the other team to put the backup in. It makes no sense. This affirmative action plant has been exposed as a liar and fraud. Anything that comes from this banana republic trial will be tainted.
If that's not enough...the judge also very clearly threw her under the bus by saying there was evidence of impropriety but he wasn't there to rule on that. Basically said someone else should.
Sometimes I think people are more interested in scoring social media news cycle "wins" than they are in actually winning.
Phoni Willis needs her OnlyFans account set up and actively working it just to stick it in the face of her detractors
That's a mental image I didn't need, lol. Might have to skip lunch.
Influencers need to be even more careful than the rest of us, when spewing out ‘facts’ without context.
Everything is nuanced when Republicans are making the changes in order to slow walk. Amazing how the Dems just roll out the issues
at least McAfee didn't work under Phoni Willis to the same extent that Nathan Wade did
Okay, that took me a minute, lol.
Don’t know that he wouldn’t be in intensive care had they used that position.
🤣🤣🤣
I think this very thought every time Jeff mentions that McAfee worked under Ms. Willis.
😂🤣🥴
Good one, I'm surprised Jeff didn't say it
Ouch, nicely done
Live coverage via EpochTV of the Rally to Reclaim Free Speech on the steps of the Supreme Court has begun. https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/the-rally-to-reclaim-free-speech-5609118
"The States of Missouri & Louisiana and the individual plaintiffs in Murthy v. Missouri (formerly Missouri v. Biden)—as do plaintiffs in Kennedy/CHD v. Biden—allege that the Biden administration impermissibly coerced and pressured social media companies to deplatform and shadowban users and censor truthful content regarding COVID, regulatory failures, vaccines, and other content with which the Biden administration disagrees."
And He said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? [vv. 2-8] How will you understand all the parables? The sower sows the word. And these are the ones who are beside the road where the word is sown: when they hear, immediately Satan comes and takes away the word which has been sown in them. And in a similar way, these are the ones being sown on the rocky places: those who, when hearing the word, immediately receive it with joy; and they have no root in themselves, but are only temporary; then, when affliction or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they fall away. And others are those being sown among the thorns; these are the ones who have heard the word, but the worries of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for anything else enter in and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful. And those are the ones which were sown on the good soil: they who hear the word and accept it and are bearing fruit, thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold.”
— Mark 4:13-20 LSB
The Bible verses crowd out the comments on the article and due to poor threading UX on Coffee & Covid, the pertinent responses are hard to find.
You can click the line at the left to 'collapse' any thread and make it a one-liner.
Good to know! That will make it so much easier to skim through comments I have already read.
Woa! I didn't know that! Very handy.
How long have I been on substack??
same here!
Oh wow, I never would've guessed that! I work in user experience & this is a very poor experience indeed! And sorry, I meant to say that is a flaw of Substack, not the inimitable Coffee & Covid.
It's useful to sort comments by "chronological" order instead of "top first" when you first open the comments. This prevents the UI from sort of jumping around as other readers "like" comments.
Thanks!
I appreciate your courage in bringing up this matter. It has resulted in a useful workaround for those of us who are not here for religion. I tried Jeff's tip for skipping by whole threads and it works beautifully. Thanks!
NONE of us are here for religion....NEVERTHELESS an encouraging word is ALWAYS welcomed!!!
Thanks! People are big mad and imputing a lot about my religious beliefs and character, but I learned a great tip from Jeff on collapsing threads! :)
Not at all big-mad or imputing here, OD and Lew. Just an alternate take on posting scripture. “All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness” (2 Timothy 3:16). That’s pertinent in all contexts, so to those who post scripture I say, it’s dark out, so please “let your light shine” (Matthew 5:16). Those who feel otherwise have the collapse-thread feature and can close the blinds if they prefer.
At least on mine, the lines light up and show the "link" cursor when I hover them, so at least on desktop the UI is not too bad (though could perhaps be clearer, and it would be terrible for mobile / touchscreen where you don't have a cursor).
Bless your heart.
Seriously? All this time I've been using substack and I didn't know that! Somebody throw a rock or something.
I was today years old when I found out about the thin black line.
Always classy Mr. Childers.
I'm so technologically inept, BUT SOMEHOW, even I figured that out!
I wish there was a way to segment out a specific topic of your news sometimes. Often it would be a perfect response on other’s comments on X or FB. The only problem would be trying to have someone read through the whole thing to find my response.
Would love to search key words. I often want to go back and look at something that was in comments.
For those with ‘eyes to see, and ears to hear’, nothing could be more appropriate, helpful, or relevant to the issues highlighted by C&C than Bible verses. To those with spiritual understanding, the Bible provides the ‘lens’ through which all relevant reality is most clearly perceived. To those without such understanding, however, Biblical wisdom and the discernment that flows from it, is only foolish and annoying irrelevance at best, or worse.
‘There are none so blind, as those who will not see.’ - Unknown
But a natural man does not accept the depths of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually examined.
— 1 Corinthians 2:14 LSB
Amen Janice!
I always look for Scripture to ground me in truth and to face the evil in our days! God bless Janice!
Amen.
For sure! Thank you for this exposition.
Cry me a river, some people will complain about anything.
There’s always someone wanting to crowd God out of the picture.
USA will pay in time for crowding God out. Big time. Not so far away as I’m seeing and discerning.
That’s Satan at work!
Right?! Like they take up maybe - I dunno - 2% of the comments (individual results may vary)
Things you don’t hear every day: “Oh no! I’m reading too many Bible verses!”
LOL
Username checks out.
I like the way your mind works, BFM.
Not to be oppositional or anything, but I defy anyone to explain how scripture is not pertinent. Unbelief doesn’t affect truth. Unbelief only affects the one who doesn’t believe.
The Bible is God’s Word to us. It was written by human authors under the supernatural guidance of the Holy Spirit. It is the supreme source of Truth for Christian beliefs and living. The Bible is inspired by God and is The Truth without error. It is the sole authority for living our lives. Therefore it is the most relevant book you could ever read.
You have no idea if I'm a believer or not. I'd simply prefer to see more topical responses. Blessings!
Bless his/her heart.
Oh snap!
Whine more.
Finger swipes. It scrolls in 1 second. Live and let live.
What??? Many of us look forward to seeing God’s Word in this substack and it applies well to whatever we’re discussing each day. If you don’t like hearing God’s Word than keep scrolling!
I am reading the gospel of Mark now.
I’m “officially” in 2 Samuel, but I do skip around as evidenced by my posts shared here. It is an adventure to see what the Lord puts in front of me and when. Blessings to you!
Janice, I hope that you are “bearing fruit, thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold”. I have the same hope for all who are enduring in the faith of Christ to the end of our mortal lives.
TODAY COULD BE THE BEGINNING OF THE BIGGEST SCOTUS HEARING IN OUR HISTORY: Murthy vs Missouri! The Government’s appeal to the ruling against them on Missouri vs Biden July 4, 2023!
ALL EYES PAYING ATTENTION AND PUBLIC SENTIMENT FOR THE FIRST AMENDMENT!!!
Yes! My MSM captured hubby had never heard of it. I can’t watch tv in the same room as he does. He’s man caved it for years. I would be a blithering idiot by now if I did or have joined the gaslit and walking dead long ago.
Bless you; strong lady you are.
I ask Hubs almost every day how one could be married to someone who didn't share the most important and common beliefs? Politics, religion? As these are the bases upon which we identify as people. How do you function??!! Hats off to you Janet.♥
That is so frustrating! I tried to share info regarding the case on Facebook for the normies. I googled articles on it and there's very little...top hit was about how the accusations are mIsInFoRmAtIoN.
I walked by the cave once in 2021 and some talking head on CNN was saying that Christians who don’t jab are not really Christians. I laughed out loud.
My condolences! You’re a very strong woman! 🙆♀️
LOL!! Pull a punch much, Janet? Tell it like it is, ma'am. More power to you.
Sounds like my situation!
Yes, if it comes down as anything other than 9-0, it won’t bode well!
Turned on NBC briefly this morning to be told that, “two Republicans want to prevent the government from protecting us!” 🤬
OMG. You were brave to turn on NBC and report back to us. I couldn't bear it!
😂 Just mentioned to Kathleen - rabbit ears, and sometimes only MSM channels show. Probably due to signal strength, but …
Didn’t last long, so not THAT brave! 😆
If McAfee is good enough for you, Jeff, he is good enough for me.
“they’re finally starting to make the robots seem more relatably human by programming mistakes into it.”
Maybe it’s just me but I would not be confident in a robot that makes mistakes. In my opinion, this is the flawed thinking that elites demonstrate. They think we’re stupid and inferior.
Think movie, "I, Robot" with Will Smith
I watched that movie once. I am not compelled to watch again. Space Odyssey ruined any relationship I might have with robots. : )
Even more creepy than HAL in the Space Odyssey movies is Mother on the Nostromo ship in “Alien” and the first officer Ash, who was really an android with orders to basically capture the alien at the expense of the human crew. If androids ever evolve to look as human-like as represented in that movie, then we r all screwed.
Oh my, sensitive some? LOL We are dating ourselves but that movie also made quite an impression on me when I saw it on the wide screen. The opening scene about man's "ape" origins was perhaps the most "interesting" part of the movie to me. I disliked it but it let me know where the movie was coming from.
Most people wouldn’t call me sensitive. Thanks for seeing I have a softer side.
Yes, the movie had some aspects from beginning to end that caused me never want to see it again.
The film industry keeps making spooky predictions. Stay tuned for the reality show, “Robots Gone Mad.”
I finally got it to play and it’s Fauci. All the way. The gravelly voice. Programmed to deceive.
I wish I could check out any time I liked.
The robot video wouldn’t play but I’m guessing it bears little resemblance to the Jetsons’ housekeeper! 🤣
Exactly what I did think about.
One of my favorite films.
Yup, very entertaining and I loved Will's revenge on the AI.
but do the robots hurl insults and make inappropriate jokes? Do they speak Spanish about my momma when they know i don't understand?
Or wink? 😉
I would argue that there will never be a robot who doesn't make mistakes because they will be built by an inferior being prone to mistakes, ie humans
Good point. I do believe think that some groups or ideologies might be prone to programing more mistakes.
Jeff, thanks for all that background info about Judge McAfee. This gives one a much better understanding of the situation, and helps prevent un-called-for, and erroneous reactions.
You know, I’m just as reluctant to bite on some of the conservative criticisms, as I am on the liberals latest hysteria. Therefore, I always wait to see what Jeff has to say and it is usually a great calming factor in whatever the latest fear pill is.. I’m just thankful that I can get my news from him and Epoch Times!
Finally visited Gainesville for the first time last week, to see the Florida Natural History museum and the Butterfly Rainforest exhibit. If Jeff wasn't out of office last week, I'd have paid a visit! I'm sure the staff is excited to have people from the Internet just showing up. LOL
Was a nice trip. Ate at Cintrón - A Floribbean Restaurant" on the way out.
Already planning our return trip!
Ha! We drove through Gainesville on our way back home from Savannah. We ate at a lovely Waffle House and stopped at an American Legion Post that had 2 tanks in the parking area. Hubs was out of his mind with joy that one of them was an M-7 Priest that his uncle was on during WW2. First one he has ever been able to find and we have looked all over the place. I know way more than I need to know. A truly tankless task.
At least Hubs was on the right track.
Haha....I see what you did there. I have gotten used turret...married 37 years, so no surprises anymore.
You're good! Now, where did I leave my LOL emoji.......
"Internet friend" covers all manner of sins.
After reading your commentary on the Russian election and thinking about Jan 6, I finally realized that what happened on Jan 6 is something I might gave expected to hear about happening in Russian or China. Not the USA.
Just sharing my simple minded thoughts; Russia haters don’t attack me . . . 2Ns
Actually I’m pretty sure the election of putin was probably rather fair in terms of cheating. He didn’t need to. His policies are Russia’s policies. And I’m pretty sure the Russian people, seeing real news as opposed to the shit we are served, agree with President Putin’s presidency. How’s that, Benn?
Exactly Right! Most Russians understand, although probably on different levels of awareness, that Putin saved Russia. And this is, by the way, twice (first from subversion within, and secondly ... from aggression from without.
The most respected political figure in the world today is likely to be, hands down, Putin.
Put yourself in a Russian's shoes. (I know this is impossible for BNN without stroking out.) For the first time in 3 generations, the Russian people are not starving and are ACTUALLY thriving. The shops are thriving, the economy is prosperous, the culture is healthy and proud (unlike ours) and even the church is thriving. When the Soviet gov't collapsed, the whole society descended into chaos. Putin and his team stepped into the gap and came through for the Russian people. They look at the chaos and belligerence of the USG and they know instantly what the score is.
I know, I know. Exactly so, and pretty darn good for The Gas Station and KGB Colonel Putin!
Awhile back I saw some farm land videos with huge sized fields in wheat production. For example, in 2020 Russia was #1 in wheat what with supplying around 19% of the world export markets. The US and Canada were around 13% each with Canada having a .2% edge. The video knocked me out because I remember how the stupid Soviets were always buying US wheat in the Way Back Machine days when I was growing up. Now the Russian exceed the US.
The whole world sees the Empire of Clown Land for what it is. And I am guessing that the number of people in the West who think their country's leadership are mostly absurd Freaks are at an all time high. And I am sure the Covid Population Terrorism also has a huge role in the discrediting.
I saw that NATO is building a huge NATO base in Romania with a $2 billion plus price tag. Even bigger than Ramstein in Germany. Letting The Idiots in Charge have this much money to waste is ludicrous. And this with the USG in a Fed induced Debt Trap.
You are funny
Not simple minded...planned, executed, truth censored...conservatives usually aren's violent. Jailing certainly squelched protests.
I remember Glenn Beck pointing out on FNC back in 2010, how clean the DC Mall was following a Tea Party demonstration. Generally it's been my experience that conservative people 1) want to be left alone 2) refrain from violence unless absolutely necessary to defend one's self or others 3) tend to leave things at least as good as, or better than, when found.
Exactly
It does happen in Russia pretty frequently.
Jeff just doesn’t cover it
I'm thinking you need to start your own blog.
Welcome to "Yet another Russia is evil and Putin is worse than Satan" blog! This will be different than the others because...reasons!
Putin may be worse than Satan, but in that case is Trump worse than Putin? Or somewhere between Putin and Satan? No doubt would keep CNN-watchers debating for hours.
Called "Russia Russia Russia"?
The WA state lawyer thing is happening with everything out here. The three years of “legal intern” will be legislated and funded so the law school students work for grift-based grievance non-profits. Then they will get promoted directly out of all these grifty, “partners”-with-government positions directly into equity positions with in the state government. While every other state backpedals on DEI, WA accelerates their pace forward.
The collaboration between the snakes of Inslee ( WA current governor) and Ferguson ( state attny general and candidate for gov) is evil.
A state settled by communists. They carry it in their genes.
Oregon carries it in their eugenes.
You will have to show me proof on that. Washington may have become communist, but wasn't started that way. In fact, when I lived there in the 70's it was a pretty good state, especially the east side. Even now, the eastern part of Washington would like to divorce from Washington and become part of Idaho, and the same with the eastern part of Oregon. They hate what the coastal part of the state has become.
Former resident, grew up East of the Mountains, spent younger adulthood on the coast. Moved to SF/CA area while Gates was still unknown. Heartbreaking to see what has happened to the entire coastline of this great nation.
Think Soros!
"For sure, the devil’s in there somewhere." You bet he is. He's the Author of ALL this Confusing mess!
Yep, he is, after all, the ruler of this world along with Sin and Death.
Lawfare is turning our judicial system into kangaroo courts and show trials: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/tj-harker-lawfare-doj-amicus-republicae-podcast
Department of Justice: fraud and resulting death/injury from covid shots are part of the US public health policy!
DOJ's motion to intervene and dismiss Brook Jackson's lawsuit v Pfizer has been filed.
https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/department-of-justice-admits-pharmaceutical
The Department of Justice. Wow. Sounds exactly like something out of Orwell's 1984. We have truly arrived.
Insanely frightening. They come right out and admit it. Lawyers must get on this, no?
As Dr. Martin demonstrates in the video I posted today, all avenues for any criminal charges that lead back to DoD or to those directly responsible, such as Gates, are blocked and there has not been one lawyer, AG, Gov or judge that has levied criminal cases for the SELF-ADMITTED crimes that are laying out right in the open.
An alternative to the ABA is overdue.
Musk’s X post that said AI will be smarter than the smartest person in a year and AI will be smarter than every human combined by 2030, was beyond chilling. Capital markets are accelerating AI development. The Global Cabal is frothing at the mouth to use AI as their ultimate control tool.
Intelligence and knowledge does not necessarily lead to wisdom and sound judgment. The fear of God is the beginning of knowledge which leads to wisdom. Robots will probably not be programmed to fear God.
We can be certain that robots won't be programmed to fear God. Language models only ever algorithmically predict what an expected verbal response should be, consistent with their "training." There is no love or fear or emotion of any kind involved.
Utilitarianism is the sole virtue, amoral, non-compassionate, no mercy nor sentiment
This will be the creed of the globalists.
In so many words, Soros said business is about profit, morality be damned.
"Robots" are machines. They are devices. They don't feel anything, neither fear or love. Neither does my car. This is just a distraction.
I've been wondering what the truth about AI really is. Since I know zero about creating AI, I must rely on the information and analysis of others. Here's a link to an interesting article that sheds some realistic light on the topic, kind of like things I've pondered:
https://mises.org/mises-wire/separating-information-disinformation-threats-ai-revolution
I'd love to hear opinions of C&Cers.
Good article! In the early computer days we had a term we used a lot ... GIGO .... garbage in garbage out. Until we truly understand how the human mind works, we can't replicate it but we can create much that will be horrifying, IMO.
I guess my question would be "what does he mean by 'smart?'" Lots of room in that term for many different meanings. Some may not be all that impressive.
Indeed. If he means "smart" as in "has all the encyclopedia at its fingertips", then absolutely it's likely. But if he meant it in the sense of "can draw rational conclusions and make sensible plans, not just by mimicking its input data", that's not really on the table for the foreseeable future.
Control tool is correct
Smart …as in “experts” ?
Ugh
And its what Elon is pushing for.
They've been saying that since the 80s.
As proof, look at all those smart, intellectual ethics-type that advocate killing disabled children and euthanizing people who are too old to be of financial value.
"Smart" without moral judgment is proving deadly.
There have always been unqualified judges. When I went to law school the only piece of advice my lawyer father gave me was to be nice to the bottom third of my class because they were my future state judges.
Don't tell me...New York?
Of course