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Do not worry then, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear for clothing?’ For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
I repeat His words so frequently these days and each time I say them, a great sense of relief even overcomes me! His truth is ALWAYS my help. Thank you for posting this one on this C&C post as it is possibly the weightiest one we've read in a long time! I am SO thankful we do not have to worry about tomorrow!
Plan on hanging around for a while and making TPTB, when facing a tribunal, worry about "it" being swift and painless.
Keep resisting. Keep telling people about all the lies they've fed us. The more people we can awaken to the horrors surrounding us caused by these malicious actors, the better our chances in turning the tables on these bleepers.
Tucker Carlson let go from fox with immediate effect. Trying to shut down our truth rollers here in the UK. Just whittling away and it is real. Continue talking to family and friends. Let them know the truth. It is uncomfortable but badly needed.
Memes have the advantages that they make the point quickly, often before defense mechanisms kick in, and they are usually funny, which is also disarming. Please share them, sending people either the link above, or individual memes that you find funny and on-point.
Your memes are a cosmic 2x4 upside the head! I subscribe to your stack and appreciate the frequent wake up calls. They make me laugh, cry, and everything in between.
I have my doubts about it being swift or painless. His suffering was neither of those. The greatest trials are usually trials by fire, and I have had a few. But at the end I could truly say that while it truly was the worst of times’, I look back and am so thankful that He walked with me through those fires.
YES...."lilies of the field".....that's what I want to be in the Lord's kingdom....and ROSES to remember as well! Remember His great love for all of REBELLIOUS, sin-loving humans whom HE SHED HIS PRECOUS BLOOD TO REDEEM!!
A not-so-curious case of holy and secular converging on an insight ↓↓ 😊
💬 So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. ~~Matthew 6:34
🗨 The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today. You are arranging what lies in Fortune’s control, and abandoning what lies in yours. ~~Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
I used to call myself a socialist. I supported BLM, labor unions, Bernie and AOC. I had also left my Christian faith. Then Covid happened and nothing was making sense. I followed the censored. I came across Jonathan Cahn's books, I started reading about Marx, Lenin, Stalin. I have done a complete 180. Reconnecting to my Christian faith has given me hope. I no longer fear what's coming because I know in the end Good wins. God bless!!
I've heard the name before but I am not familiar with C.S. Lewis. I will definitely read up. TY. I did read Thomas Sowell's book Black Redneck White Liberal which was an eye-opener. I found out he used to be a Marxist until he did his own research.
Also consider Lewis’ Space Trilogy, especially the first two books: Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra (aka Voyage to Venus). Like the Narnia chronicles these books are Christian parables and retell the same issues in different ways.
If "straight theology" is too heavy, try CS Lewis' "Chronicles of Narnia". They tell the story of Christ via fables - not unlike JRR Tolkein's "Hobbit".
I loved these books so so much as a child, and later found a guilde to them that detailed the symbolism and meanings behind the events and characters in the books.
I would refer you to C. S. Lewis' "Mere Christianity" if you want an intimate account of his "faith journey", Nomero! READ ON and be edified in FAITH in YESHUA--the only begotten son of YAHWEH!
Thank you Sharon. I recently finished Mere Christianity and am reading Lewis’ other books. The Book of Enoch is mind blowing as well. I drive a lot for work purposes so I love to listen to these things. Dr. Taylor Marshall, Archbishop Vigano, CS Lewis, Timothy Alberino and others are what I now prioritize on my listening que. If you have any other suggestions, please let me know.
Bravo, Nomero - making good, holistic use of that drive time. I was a field sales rep for over 30 years--so I know all about that shtick--LOL! One of my favorite pastors was Steve Brown (from the Sunshine State no less). In fact, Pres. Nixon would attend Steve's parish when he was staying at his FL "home away from the White House" in Key Biscayne. I believe Steve still does radio or podcasts (he is retired from the pastorate). I just did a search online and he DOES have an online ministry called KEY LIFE with TONS of material! I plan on listening to Steve once again. Let me know if you are enriched by his spiritual/Biblical insights, Nomero--here's the link to Key Life: https://www.keylife.org/
Discernment. Now you can see what it truly means. Kudos on exercising it in heavy winds. ‘Tain’t easy but well done, you! And thank you for posting about your journey.
Reading Cahns book “The Return of the Gods” right now. It’s stunning and shines a huge light on what’s really going on. Push God out of the country and this current horror is what slithers in. 7 fold Jesus says in a parable.
Great book! I have read most of his books. Meanwhile in Russia more than 5,000 Churches have been built in the past 5 years due to demand. And they prioritize family, not anti-God and anti-human agendas like we are doing here.
I have a trans teen grandkid. It’s very scary and I pray for him always. I got clarity from that book about is happening to our children. Totally satanic and evil child sacrifice on many levels.
Yes it is scary. And yes it is satanic. We're watching a family member confuse her young son. He's still in elementary school. And there's nothing we can do because we don't know how to approach the subject. We don't want to alienate them.
So, while our military is prancing men around in dresses and discussing pronouns, China and Russia are planning on destroying the US with hypersonic weapons. Great.
Yeah. The comparative recruitment videos for army US military were so touchy feely— kind of woke but the other countries—whoa. Wouldn’t want to be against them. Scary.
That would mesh well with a prophecy in the 1800’s attributed to Joseph Smith. He said that in the Last Days that the USA would spend our treasure and our military might in foreign wars, and that half of our military would be destroyed as a result, and that our government and Constitution would hang by a thread…he said that foreign powers would try to divide up and take the USA for themselves, but the people…good men and women who love the Constitution…would rise up and save our Country and Constitution.
He also said that when our military might was decimated, and half of it destroyed that our government would beg “the boys from the mountains” to save it…and they will.
I believe this as it seems that we are seeing the fruition of these prophecies right in front of our eyes.
Difficult times are ahead, but this Country will not entirely fall.
Indeed. The Prophet whose every prophecy (including that of the Civil War) has come true. Just as a point of reference- all of the prophets of old had multiple wives as well.
With all that we are seeing in today’s messed up world, and the deliberate destruction of this Country, our Government, and our Constitution by enemies within and without…his prophecy makes a lot of sense, and gives hope that, unlike the Romans, this Country and our people will not be entirely destroyed in the years to come.
A person who mocks another’s faith only shows that she is not very secure in her own.
The USG will eventually collapse though it's hard to say under what circumstances. That's pretty much a given as empires are not sustainable. Even one of the longest lasting empires, the great British Commonwealth Empire, eventually faded away. Now it is the USG empire's turn.
The USG can disappear into the dustbin of history but the American people will still be here. That is a distinction we should all keep in mind.
Daughter, chartered accountant in UK, has remarked to us, her parents, that she would never want to come back to USA because 'we work too hard'. Her father, business owner, sets her a bad example, as he works 12 hours a day 5 days a week. At least he doesn't go into the office on weekends anymore.
Wow..., the first two frightened me - the last one was a cartoon - saying nothing related to what it takes to be in combat. The U.S. has fallen - it's obvious!
The beginning with the Chinese and Russians is interesting. But the end of this vid is mind blowing when they get to the gay US troops. The 2 moms raising the girl are literally groomers.
And yes, the that portion was produced by the Fed Govt.
Russian troops are highly "alpha" against unarmed people and peasants.
The backflip hatchet throwing doesn't work against people with the will to fight and the best training.
If the Russians were so "alpha" they show it in weird ways. Human wave attacks. Running over each other with APCs to run away. Raping other conscripts. Getting smoked by grenades.
Wow, really? I suppose that works when cheer leading the troops. That kind of rhetoric portraying the enemy combatant as cowardly is always used in war. The Jap Nip was characterized as such as was the Vietnamese Gook and we all know how well they fought. The Gooks even kicked us out of their country. The Russians would be the last I would portray that way given their performance against the German army in WWII or against Napoleon and his army.
We know how to put fuel in a fuel tank and plan for logistics.
In OIF we had the problem of units running beyond their supply train because they couldn't keep up over hundreds of miles. See, the Thunder Run to baghdad.
In Ukraine Russian units ran out of fuel because they started bone dry and their logistic units were destroyed by Ukrainian partisans. See, the 40 mile long convoy.
There is a news funnel. If you are okay sitting on the edge of the large end and falling, you head right where they want you to land. And...I didn't hear about the story about Ft. Hood?!
It's Fort Hood, by the way. Not "Camp Hood". I just came from there heading to Mates. Where are there "raped conscripts" at Fort Hood? Please, tell me where.
There are none.
This is a volunteer army, not a forcibly mobilized one.
There are no conscripts in the US Army at Fort Hood.
Great point - if they declare they've won, the U.S. war money will dry up. Of course, they will likely pivot to demanding money for rebuilding and reparations, but if they can continue the war angle, they'll keep getting war money and THEN demand the rebuilding money from the U.S.
Don't need taxpayer money. Need weapons to put warheads on Russian foreheads. 500k more artillery shells from South Korea are inbound to fuel the next offensive.
Ukraine is fighting the world's second army by itself. It's a smaller, regional power against Russia's large advantages.
Russia declared victory over Ukraine on day 2 of the war. it's now day 426 and Russia is still no closer to victory even after several stinging defeats of their armies.
Did the USA claim it won at Midway? No, there was another year of had slogging ahead even though the majority of the Japanese naval aviation and their carriers had been sunk.
Did the USA stop fighting after midway? Also no. See above.
By continuing to exist and being stronger than before Ukraine is winning.
In truth, everything that O'Biden has done has been to weakened the US and our military. Do not assume this is from incompetence. For example, why did he sell our strategic petroleum reserve to China? Everything that is done is according to a very specific agenda.
The world is on fire because of weak dementia clouded gay leadership in the White House. I only hope America can last 2 more years till the dementia joe disaster is over!
Nothing could be farther from the truth. Edgar Cayce prophesized that Russia would save the world, and The Bible says that Russia and China together would do so.
My parents got mixed up with Edgar Cayce over 50 years ago. Please, don’t buy into this. It’s demonic deception. It is not of God. My dear parents finally were brought to the Christ of the Bible and renounced this occultism. Remember, Satan can easily disguise himself as an angel of light. Run from this!
I don’t really mind Benjamin. His lunchbox got stolen. But I’m afraid it’s his type of blind, obedient thinking that may end up fulfilling the “depopulation” part of the UN2030 Agenda. WW3 anyone?
That's not even confirmed or proven yet. Jeff shared it and stated this:
"The highly-suggestive but unverifiable part is the claim that Russia retaliated by attacking Kiev (or Lviv) with six hypersonic Kinzhal missiles, destroying a 120-meter-deep military bunker housing 100-300 top Ukraine and NATO generals, who were leading Ukraine’s military campaign until they were hypersonically snuffed out."
So where are the names of these 100-300 top Ukrainian and Nato generals?
One specialist dies and it hits the Army Times and creates a storm. 100-300 top brass died and crickets? Nothing?
Hypersonic weapons haven't helped Russia one bit.
And by the way, Hypersonic weapons didn't stop Ukraine from crossing the Dniepr river and taking land on the left bank. You know, where Russia has the least amount of troops.
"To put it in terms leftists can understand: masks create little individual, personal climate-change spaces."
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But seriously, what absolute devastation. This is beyond tragic. Damaged a generation, indeed. Reduce fertility by masks and then shots. Reduce intelligence by masks, and shots. We are only beginning to understand the immensity of what has been done to our communities and our families.
So glad we homeschool. So glad my spouse worked from home and avoided masks. So glad we all refused the poison.
Think of all the broken hearted couples with infertility issues.
I had to beg and beg a lot to keep my daughter in law from getting the clot shot while she was pregnant with my granddaughter. She was glued to tv fear porn. But she listened and waited until the baby was born to get it. And now she has ‘seen the light’ to not get the baby vaxxed. Wish she hadn’t got it herself.
Perhaps you can get your DIL on the "Detox Spike Protein" program that various REAL doctors have developed--I have a copy of it, if you would like me to post it here, Sherry.
Unfortunately, I don't know how to create a CSV file (which is what Substack requires to upload files to their platform) for that article on "How to Detox From the Spike Protein" that Dr. Joseph Mercola shared a few months ago. I presently have it in a Word file--so if any of you would like me to pass it on to you--send your e-mail request to me at sharonabend@yahoo.com and I'll gladly send the article to you as an attachment to my response e-mail--OK?
I know someone who was pregnant and forced to get the shot. I was worried sick but her baby was born healthy. Her Husband got the shot too to keep his job.
I am so happy for your family. ❤️🥰 I still think this mask study was also to deflect, masked or not, the clot shots cause all the same problems. This entire scamdemic is so awful.
A younger gal with 2 little children is still wearing masks where she works locally. Every single day for 8 hours 5 days a week for 3 years. I shudder to think. But then, so is her boss.
I’m not sure. One is in preschool I think and had some major issues when born. The grandparents babysit and by the looks of them are not in tiptop shape. I’m sure the gal is overly concerned she might bring something home. She wears those stupid harmful cloth face diapers also. Like her boss. Only her cloth ones match her lanyard so crafting is going on. Still. Sad, sort of.
The Devil is having a heyday. He is after all the chief anti-human. Been working against all of God’s good creation since the day he chose to put himself against The Creator.
Go to the movie ‘Nefarious’. It is an eye opener and a great way to start a conversation with someone you may bring with you that counts the devil’s existence.
And underneath, inexpressible sadness. The floodgates have opened on this thread. All bottled up. *sniff Bound to happen. *sniff Going within in a minute. *sniff. God is there. Light, Love, Wisdom, Strength... 🤧 and Humor. God invented humor, for the other release - laughter. God bless Jeff Childers. (Done, done, and done no doubt.)
On a more serious note: mask damage, vax damage, economic, emotional and and physical damage — ALL of it — All the casualties of this war against peopleI
*They* say “permanent” damage but they say so many afflictions are un-healable, just because our barbaric, corrupt, arrogant and ignorant system hasn’t “developed” the drug or procedure — and because they never see the successes in *their* world, in which no condition is reversible, it’s merely “treatable”.
We know this is rot. Pure Rot.
PEOPLE!
We CAN find the Cures — The real, healing and restorative ways to reverse the harm done, and we WILL! The greatest, most brilliant, most noble, most generous, most gifted, most inspired, most knowledgable, and most awake people are on our side!! They (we) are publishing, reading, and sharing!!
We must never give up seeking the CURES!
— AND BY GOD WE WILL!!
Trust our Holy and Sovereign God, Creator of all, Lover of our souls. Our Savior and Redeemer. Pray! Pray! Pray!
An associate pastor at my church has masked himself, and his two small children from Day 1. His son has a condition that ‘requires’ all family members mask. My heart breaks for his children. He and his wife are trusting the advice of the pediatrician to the detriment of their and their children’s health. 😥
I want to ask these folks at what point will they feel safe enough to get rid of their masks? Because I think they haven’t stopped to consider that question. If they have no answer, they’re going to end up masking, well, forever.
Hypersonic weapons and religion doesn’t go well with coffee. Religious exemption, for church goers? The same churches that closed their doors during the pandemic while liquor stores and Lowe’s remained open? Church has nothing to do with being a Christian, God’s light is in each and everyone of us at birth, it’s a matter of how much worldly junk stifles it out. I’d say since the pandemic, many Christians have been digging themselves out and finding the light they’ve had all along. We are never without God, we simply turned our backs on him. Every single person on earth has the right to claim exemption from the vaccine that destroys our God given DNA. Asking if you are a church goer is not the question God would ask.
I appreciate your thoughts and I understand where you are coming from as I once thought the same thing. Regarding your last sentence though I would respectfully disagree as the God's Word tells us to fellowship with others, it's a command, not optional (Hebrews 10:25 among many other passages).
Many churches did not close their doors, or if they did they quickly reopened them once the pastor realized the danger was being overstated. Please don't lump all churches together in this regard, it's just not true and is a convenient excuse not to attend. And regarding hypocrisy I'll quote Greg Laurie, "If you find a church without hypocrisy please don't join it as you'll ruin it". We are all fallen creatures including pastors.
Fellowship can occur anywhere, parks, parking lots, fellowship is communicating with others about our faith, strengthening it as a community. I’m sorry, I had a negative experience with a Catholic Church and I never returned. I don’t like religion, I don’t trust it. I do believe in God, I pray, I do not congregate under a roof. I do not trust religion.
Raised Catholic myself so I get it, I was away from church for nearly two decades after falling away.
There are Bible-believing churches that are filled with wonderful people who love God and joyfully praise him together. I don't trust "religion" either which is why I don't do it. I celebrate a relationship with Christ with other likeminded people, that is fellowship that the Bible describes. It's joyful, heart-felt praise for all God has done for us and the wonder of His creation. Thankfully I've found a church that focuses on Him and not "religion".
I was in your exact same position and had lots of excuses not to attend. God had other plans though, and my life has been thoroughly blessed by it. God bless.
Just like we need to love the sinner and hate the sin, so must we separate the truth of the Catholic Church handed down from Christ from the fallen members (including leaders) that have compromised that truth. It is important to learn what the Church teaches so that what people “think” The Church teaches doesn’t get in the way of what Is the truth. I am beyond grateful everyday that I can truly receive the body and blood of the same Jesus that died for me. AMAZING!
Thank you, Jackie. Love Coffee and Covid, but I wish people would do some more research on what the Church actually teaches. Those who left truly do not know what they rejected, or they never would have done so.
Amen, sister! So well said. I need all the grace that’s available 🙏🏻 Can we commune with God on our own? Of course! But we live by our senses, and the same way Jesus used mud and spit to heal the blind man when he could have easily just said “be healed,” illustrates that we need concrete expressions of God’s presence. Receiving Holy Eucharist is life-changing!
Amen. The Lord, in the Eucharist, was my lifesaver during covid. I found a TLM Church that did not close down, did not require masks and were honestly practicing their faith. I found myself back in the Faith of my Fathers.
I too am a lapsed Catholic who wandered in the wilderness for many, many years looking for ‘something’. Jeff Childers is entirely correct in saying that Covid brought (at least some) people back to religion. I’d been slowly rediscovering my Christian faith, but it was in March of 2020 that I began to seriously read and study and pray once more. Where I live there are no churches which did not close their doors during Covid and, even re-opened, they are only interested in preaching the ‘religion’ of diversity. So I continue to worship alone, supported by online communities of faith. I have prayed to find a physical community, but so far that prayer has not been answered. Communities like this one help keep me sane - thank you all!
Former Catholics—I am also one— continue to be the largest group of non-churched folks. Praise God I found a Bible-based church that is my church home. We are about 2000 strong—although counting attendance is not a priority— don’t have a building, meet in a conference center, and donate over $2M annually to local and international faith-based initiatives. God is so good!
I'll add here that my comment wasn't meant to denigrate the Catholic church as "religion" but was meant as a general comment regarding people getting wrapped up in the mechanisms of religious practices at the expense of knowing Jesus.
Christ calls us to be in a relationship with Him, if that occurs in the Catholic Church then praise God! God works in all sorts of wonderous ways, and as the Bible says by our fruits they shall know us. By "religion" I meant those that mouth platitudes or went through the motions but don't actually know Him. Unfortunately I saw plenty of that growing up. Twelve years of Catholic schools culminated with our Catholic priest principal being taken down with the biggest sex abuse payout in LA and Orange county history at the time. It was not an isolated incident back then as several of our parish priests were also exposed over the years.
That was my experience but I recognize it's not that of everyone, and that there are plenty of Protestants and Orthodox who were also awful hypocrites.
If you are in a Catholic Church and love the Lord, then who am I to tell you that you are doing it wrong? Gods' grace covers us all, he doesn't expect us to tick every box on the salvation checklist but to love Him with our whole heart, mind, and soul. We are sanctified in this life through the renewing of our minds as Paul says, through that we draw closer to Him. If that is happening for you in a Catholic Church then God bless you as my brother or sister in Christ.
LL, as a “recovering Catholic” myself (meant only in a humorous, not disrespectful way), I can relate to your observation and especially to Jeff C’s reply. My parents raised me in their faith because that’s what they believed. So I was introduced to the Triune God and basics of Christian orthodoxy, but for me all the ceremony and traditions obscured the heart of the Gospel — the atoning death and resurrection of Jesus. As an adult I finally transitioned from the religion to the relationship and found the peace and forgiveness that I couldn’t fully grasp before being led to a Bible-teaching non-denominational fellowship. Truth always prevails. November of 2001, I was baptized of my own volition and born again (at the age of 37). My life is now split into everything that was before, and everything since! I pray that you will find that same soul-liberation and peace, not in “religion” but in sharing the true joy that comes from fellowship with heaven-bound pilgrims the world over.
Much of organized religion has been infiltrated. You have to be careful. Of course knowing how they approached the scamdemic and their endorsement of the shots would be a big indicator. Also what does the rainbow represent to them. Noah or trannies.
I don’t trust religion either! Religion is one thing; a relationship with the creator of the universe is quite another. Glad we’re in the C&C community together.
Do you quit shopping when you see a hypocrite at the store? Do you quit going to movies when you see a hypocrite at the theatre? Do you quit going to work because a hypocrite works there?
If you don’t quit doing those things, if you continue going back to the store, the theatre, work..........doesn’t that make you a hypocrite?
There is division in denomination. But, it is about a relationship with the good Lord. It is not about a building or who you tithe to....fellowship is not limited to a pre-designed space. But, a lot of denominations pushed, actively, for the coof jab after lockdowns and mask mandates and 'no singing'. It is there where they lost a lot of trust. But, those who chose to 'leave' a certain 'church', found fellowship elsewhere, I hope. How often does it talk about Jesus arranging a talk in a temple? None that I can think of, off the top of my head. If anything, the temples were for scolding those in charge. But, even if there is just ONE person who questioned, one person who moved closer to their creator because of the behavior of TPTB, it is good. May God bless all of us in our journey to know the one true God. May we be ever mindful that He is a loving God, but he is also a jealous God. A vengeful God. We need to remember that it is not all JUST butterflies and rainbows. The FEAR of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
But Lisa you will be spending eternity with the very same people you are avoiding now so you might as well learn to love and accept them (and I’m preaching to myself here cuz I often get fed-up and impatient with the saints.) if we truly love God we will love Gods people. Also, fellowship is important but we gather to worship primarily, not be entertained. I hope you find a solid church! It’s a huge blessing.
I'm not avoiding people, I'm avoiding denominational issues. To me, I see a person, that person is of God. What happens once they live on earth, well, I don't have anything to say about it. I do however have a good deal to say about what I do and where I congregate. Trust me, God loves me alone in the woods sitting under a tree, he loves me in a community. I'm not ever worried about avoiding people. People are the least of my worries.
Unfortunately, Jeff, that "fellowship" is relegated to other Christians. When I left my "Church", I lost every friend I ever had, and one remarked that I was "the dog that went back to his vomit." (Hebrews). Most former friends said they'd pray for me, and I'm sure they did, but organized religion, by definition, is exclusionary. I prefer the unconditional love of the unchurched.
God already knows everything there is to know about us.... so there's that...
Find a church, settle in, and live the life He planned for us. Church is community. Community is necessary. Share the gospel, the authentic one that lead to our conversion. Having others holding us accountable is a good start. We aren't going to build His kingdom by standing back and watching for change... Church is where we should want to be...
Where two or more are gathered in my name... The physical church in contemporary times constitutes a physical structure. But the word Ecclesia (from Ecclesiastical) is from the Greek meaning an assembly of citizens. Jesus held “church” gatherings in rooms and in fields and on mountainsides to discuss the scriptures. There are some that have moved away from the physical church and have started bible studies at home. I belong to such a group, gathering to read and study the Bible. That is a fellowship so close and rewarding - sister-like within a women only group - where understanding and challenging each other cannot be duplicated in a physical structure on Sunday. However, to go to a church and receive the bread and wine, collectively, is a beautiful thing as well. A combination of those disciplines that come from the heart is what keeps me close to Him.
I believe we need to be a part of a community where God is not. Non- believers learn nothing from those entering a building to worship. They learn from the actions of believers, the bright light of God is better served on the streets where there are people in need. A community does not have a roof and walls. We segregate ourselves, this is not Godly.
Scripture has a lot to say about worship from Gen to Rev. The weekly worship service, whether in a church, a field or a home, is not a segregation as all visitors are welcome. But it is a coming together, specifically as the body of Christ through the empowering of the Holy Spirit for the specific purpose of worshiping God: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. We often lose sight of the simple fact that we are called by God to give Him worship. Some traditions treat Sunday worship as primarily a "teaching event". Some treat worship as a "conversion opportunity" even though they are "preaching to the choir." Some treat Sunday worship as a "ministry event" to meet the emotional needs of the people. There are always elements of this in our Sunday gatherings but the main purpose of the Sunday coming together is to glorify the Lord and offer praises to His Name along with the host in heaven whom we join when we gather in worship. This "mystical" experience is the primary purpose of the Sunday worship service. The Psalmist is the best teacher of what worship is. Read the Psalms and use them in worship to understand how to worship the Lord.
I would add that it is the other 6 days of the week when we are to do the work of carrying the light of the gospel out into the world in service to others. Sunday is exclusively given in service to our Lord.
Precisely. We are called to do both: Worship with fellow believers AND carry the gospel message to the ends of the earth. "The hands and feet of Jesus".
Well said Phil. I’ve seen so many folks who see themselves as Christians but want to remain independent of the body of Christ. So often, they are vulnerable and become easy targets for Satan because they are self-isolated and therefore weak. Paul said each one of us has a vital function in the Body and we are all needed no matter how insignificant we are.
I don't know what I would have done without church. Many do not have such strong faith as to not need encouragement from others. A good church is a place you find that. Taking such support away would plunge many people into despair, at which point they have little to offer others. God loves the weak and knows they need support and comfort and I think it was for love of us he gave us scriptures that say we ought to go to church.
My neighborhood during the worst of covid was such a bleak lonely place with no support to be found because everyone believed isolating was the most virtuous thing you could do. Because of the verses about the importance of meeting, my church met and it was a haven for hurting people.
The first Christians met in their HOMES - no "resplendent buildings" (that was the pagans that had their glorious edifices to extol their "gods"). TIME TO RETURN TO OUR ROOTS--GO UNDERGROUND and worship together in our home (via ZOOM for now).
True!! However...I am referring to the new dispensation of Christian believers (most of whom are "Gentiles")..unlike the old dispensation of Jewish believers in Jehovah God.
That gets me through the day sometimes. Also: Do not fear the terrors of the night nor the arrows that fly by day. Be still and know that I am God. Instant calm.
I kind of skipped the whole proxy war part. I am not a military analyst, but I and many others saw Ukraine coming as soon as Afghanistan was disgracefully abandoned. I still do not believe there is not under the table cooperation from the DOD, with Russia and China. The Ukraine government has been corrupt for decades and hiding all kinds of US secrets. That’s my take.
But I loved your last part of the revival happening. I was raised in the Lutheran church. I worked in the parochial school attached to the church until covid hit. When my church shut down for months, took money to stay shut down, and reopened the school the following September with everyone in masks, including preschoolers and toddlers, and the most ridiculous protocols, I was thoroughly disillusioned by the mainstream churches. I realized that everything my old church was doing was being handed down from the state synod, in turn the national synod. I found out many churches quietly stayed open. I found others opened back up quickly and threw off all restrictions, immediately. It was my own personal revival. Since then I have attended a Pentecostal church. I love the enthusiasm by which they worship, I love the pastor and his Biblical standard for everything. I’ve gone to a Baptist church where the minister put me in mind of one of the Black Robes of the Revolution in America’s independence. Like Jeff, I have expanded, and loved that I am seeing revival and everything that goes with it. So many great people have come out as teachers and leaders in this Jesus revolution, and many of the mega church leaders have fallen. That’s as it should be. This is a Spiritual war, and we don’t defeat evil any other way. I often think you are at your best, Jeff, when you quietly, but regularly add your faith as the basis for all going forward. God bless!
I still attend my old church semi regularly. There are Saturday evening services, so I can go there and still go to my other on Sunday mornings.There are good people in this church who worship regularly, but have been lulled into the church losing it’s influence in the community. Churches used to be the places that first responded to emergencies. They helped clothe and feed those in need. Their pastors and priests sat on school boards and township boards. They were involved! Now they have shrank within themselves, content to be a building unto themselves, no longer being missionaries within their own communities. I now kid, “I am two churched”, but I truly feel I am revived!
I, too, was raised in the Lutheran church but after marriage started attending the church of my husband's upbringing. Upon our divorce just a few years before Covid, I returned to the Lutheran church and found comfort in it's ritual and services. However, I also found that it was becoming too progressive and pushing for social change/justice that I did not agree with. I stopped going after they shut down hard.
Attending only once about a year ago back at the church of my youth with my father. By this time, masking had decline significantly in the area where I live but was still quite enforced here. The message that day was about our collective guilt as participants in a racially founded nation. I was disgusted. This congregation was the first in a new land where it's Dutch settlers were looking for freedom and equality and a way to unrestrictedly worship their God. I am at loss to understand how it's history has been so twisted.
I am currently seeking a new church family. But am hesitant to reach out and rather timid of visiting new churches by myself.
Not Lutheran but our children attend Lutheran Church Missouri Synod (LCMS) schools and we're extremely thankful for it.
One thing I've realized is that there are denominations of Lutheranism that are as different as night is from day. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA, the largest Lutheran demonization in the US) has forsaken the Bible and some might say Christ Himself. The churches are "pastored" by characters that proudly list their pronouns and the churches sport rainbow flags and BLM banners. It's about as far from biblical Christianity as one can get.
The LCMS and other denominations such as WELS on the other hand, are still biblical, often fiercely so. At my kids orientation their LCMS principal stated, "my vow to you is we will never teach your kids anything contrary to God's Word". He meant every word of it.
If you find comfort in Lutheran services you really might want to consider LCMS or one of the other remaining biblical denominations. The ELCA unfairly gives Lutheranism a bad name as unlike the ELCA, not all Lutheran churches have not submitted to the demonic spirit of the age.
I agree. I liked the pastor of my duel Lutheran church. I worked in the school and he would often come in and talk politics with me. Then CoVid hit and the lockdown shut off every light. Nothing. After a month they started streaming a service of sorts where the pastor stood in front of a blue screen with automated choir music and delivered a message. He would state that he abstained from communion until “we” could all take it together, the implication was don’t try to do this at home. Wait. OK, but suddenly last December it was announced we would have communion in every service, never done before. I realized that the all of the new directives were coming not from our board of elders but from the top of the Missouri synod, so we would be homogenous. I want Biblical teaching, what I realized I was getting was a canned sermon, a same every Sunday liturgy, that seemed to be moving more towards the Catholic masses where only the top down was allowed to direct or speak. I have learned more about Martin Luther from this Pentecostal church then I ever did in my own Lutheran church. My new Pastor broke down the Apostles Creed and why it is so important and yet it is not part of their everyday services. I love much about the traditional Lutheran church I grew up in, but I can no longer remain in a tight little group with only my “church” people included. Too many churches failed in the events of covid and the lockdowns. I have learned to give Grace to them as no one knew what was going on, but too many have persisted in sweeping it all under the rug. That can’t ever happen again. I still volunteer at the parochial school and love it, but I pray that the leaders now know how duped we all were.
What you describe is parallel to the PCA / PC(USA) divide. The former is, to use your words, "fiercely Biblical". The latter, well, correct pronouns are more important within their denomination every passing day. Our PCA church has welcomed families fleeing the ELCA church in town.
The small town church I grew up in is PC USA. The pastor is completely lost... he's a college prof as well. I think the combo of PC USA churches closing down and colleges closing and requiring zoom courses completely undid him! He hasn't held a church service indoors since March 2020... he sends his congregants an email each week, "that counts as a sermon..." When he did agree to hold services, he had people drive up and sit in their cars, while he spoke (with a mask on) over a loud speaker from the breezeway... No communion. No piano. No hymns. 15 minutes and it was done. Our friends moved to another church. What was once a vibrant church has been suffocated by milk toast Christian fools!
It IS intimidating, especially for those of us who are introverts. But so worthwhile!
While my family were traveling for two months, we opted to visit different churches during our travels and found good ones in each place. I encourage you to stick with it and don't give up. Look at reviews and websites to get clues about what churches are like before visiting. With one, I remember being so encouraged because they had written an article making the case for Christians getting religious exemptions from vaccine mandates and why it was a reasonable biblical stand. I thought, "wow, I'm going to feel very comfortable attending here!" And we were.
And the Presby USA took the exact opposite stance. The congregations must be shedding all over each other now. Assuming the shedding thing is real--I await confirmation one way or the other.
I hope you can find a new church. My husband was a non participating Catholic when we married. He joined the Lutheran church a year after we married. We raised 3 kids together in the church. Two have moved out of state and attend no church and the one here still attends but is not a regular. My husband loves the tradition and routine of the church, it reminds him of his Catholic upbringing. It is grounded to him. I felt like I was in a box when covid hit. Had it not shut down traditional churches, I may never have left. I go alone regularly to my new church, but I found a wonderful welcoming group of people who make me feel welcome every Sunday.
Most churches now do some kind of social media to make people aware of their existence. Many do live streaming of their services. You can watch many on podcasts later on. It may give you an idea if you would like to attend. It is worth a look at.
I did find a church online to "attend" Easter services. I am considering a visit, although, like your husband I also find the tradition soothing and this church does not seem to fill that need though I did appreciate the Easter message. I suppose that I will keep looking.
And many did. They drove all the way across town to our church... In February of 2021, 78 people joined our church. Their church didn't open until much later in the year....
I wonder how much of it is driven by the principals themselves. Our kids attend an LCMS school and our experience was much different. The school did follow the public health order when it was in effect (under Romans 13) but the school stopped doing so the instant it was rescinded. Also, the school put up tent classrooms outdoors so students could attend class without masks (weather permitting). Last off, once the mask order was lifted the school required a doctor's note for children to continue to wear masks in class, the rationale being that masks impeded communication.
Our principal happens to be a fearless man of God though, and we are incredibly blessed to have him. If the principal is a spineless, I could see how a one could easily succumb to the bureaucracy of a large church organization.
First and foremost they have to teach the Word of God, all of it. It’s reading the Bible and teaching our children the true happenings recorded therein. It is not rote memorization of liturgical precepts, but knowing God and having such a close relationship with Him.
I'm so sorry you had such an experience. We occasionally attend a Lutheran Church (MO synod) in Conklin, MI where several generations of my family were/are members. I say occasionally because we live in TX but we travel to MI frequently so whenever I'm there, I feel the need to attend church there plus, both of my parents and several other deceased family members are buried on a hill behind the church). I didn't travel there during the first 2 years of covid. I know they had zoom Church services for awhile.
Some interesting comments I grabbed from a vax thread. People are so tired of this crap:
>>The hospital I work at just dropped the mandatory masks and visitation limits, and I tell u the staff is PISSED. They hate losing the control that the last three years gave them. Power is addictive and turns people into wicked creatures!
>>AMEN! They tried to make me force a laboring woman wear a mask during childbirth! I said hell no!!
>>My dad in for emergency procedure was surrounded by 4 nurses more concerned he could mask because he was having a hard time breathing. Bullied him before they would let him go to the other floor for his procedure.
>>Here in BC the staff are absolutely power drunk mandates are still in effect and I've lost all faith in healthcare in BC. Unfortunate that if my family gets sick we will most likely will have to cross to another province for help. Even optometrist tried forcing n95 on me.
>>Power drunk is a good term for it!
I’ve stopped taking my children for well visits for 3 years now and we stay completely out of the medical industrial complex. No doctors, no meds and we’ve never been healthier and happier!
Good for you for keeping them out of the system, which I think is hellbent on destroying lives as opposed to saving them. They are good at putting people back together after accidents and that is about all, I think. As my biological aunt said, if you go to a doctor long enough or often enough, they will find something wrong with you.
Plus wearing the masks deprived them of oxygen. They're all hateful and mentally ill now. Plus their religion has been proven temporary and false. The covidiots are in turmoil. Advise them to wear 2 masks and get every shot available to them. Cull that herd.
All the hospitals in my region of mid Michigan have taken off the mask mandates. I don’t know about doctors or administrative staff, but the nurses are overjoyed to be rid of them!
Interestingly, my husband goes to the VA for medical. Last week they still required masks. My husband won’t fight it, but it’s a good thing I wasn’t along. They would have gotten an ear full of Biden’s end to the emergency pandemic, no need for any Federally run building to be requiring masks!
Biden only lifted the national emergency - the health emergency is still in effect til Mid May, I believe. Perhaps the VA is clinging to the health emergency still?
I went to the doctor recently at the local large corporate medical office. As usual the check in secretary told me to put on a mask. Usually I take one, say thank you with as much goodness as I can, and then squoosh it in my pocket or in the trash. Occasionally I have just said, "I'm not doing that." Depends on the mood. This time I looked at the indicated box of masks and probably there was a unintentional visible look of disgust on my face, and the secretary said, irritatedly, "oh never mind!" That same week they officially dropped their patient mask requirement. Patients have been doing their business for quite some time without masks, as long as they can persist past an admonition or two. I have never had a doctor remonstrate me for not wearing a mask, nor behave in a way that I perceive as negative. I wish to ask what they think, though I imagine it is not an easy question to expect them to answer candidly.
I have had Drs and nurses treat me as filthy when i was the healthy one with my elderly mother who was also not ill!! But i refused to mask. Masked Drs who wouldn't touch my mom's knee!! Who refuse to take off the face diaper because "i have addition autoimmune compromised ppl at home". What?? Do they never wash?!
Maddening isn’t it. I went to an ophthalmologist in the city who asked me if I was vaxxed. When I said no it was like a rush of cold arctic air had just entered in. I almost got frostbite! When the exam ended and I left I don’t know who was happier. She was double masked, face shielded and wore gloves and even then kept wiping things off with some kind of solution. Imagine living like that!
My son who is a doctor of pharmacology and has 3 little ones is the same, no doctors, no meds and only healthy food. Even though he has an important career in providing IVIG medical therapy, he is totally out of the medical "system".
I can't take credit - well maybe a little - he's just a good critical thinker. And stubbornly independent. Never would have made it in the military, he would have been kicked out for talking back.
Cleveland Clinic announced last Tuesday that the masks would be going away on Thursday.
I used to be a member at their wellness center. Took Pilates classes for many, many years. A few months ago, I decided I would no longer give them my money. Ditched the membership, but luckily my Pilates instructor is able to teach me privately and I'm contributing to her wealth instead of Cleveland Clinics. The ONLY way I will EVER go there again is if I'm dying. Maybe not even then since there are worse things than dying.
"There are worse things than dying." Yep. You nailed it. I think being forced onto a vent and suffering kidney failure from remdesivir falls into that category. So do most cancer treatments, long term. I'll pass.
This whole thing about the Minecraft Papers doesn't sound right to me. Maybe other former military can chime in. I served in the regular Air Force for six years. The last four years I had a Top Secret codeword clearance. We had lots of time on midnight shifts to scrounge through the reports and data available to us. It was VERY compartmentalized. The only thing halfway sensitive were various codebooks and frequency schedules, and some slightly out-of-date info on enemy aircraft. How in the world does a junior Air National Guard member have access to Joint Chiefs of Staff memos and reports and CIA analysis summaries. There's no way that would be possible. What am I missing? Admittedly, my service was back a few years, but it can't have changed that much. Other opinions?
It’s been decades since I served. I remember the background checks and the criteria for getting top secret clearance. I was offered a coding breaking MOS. Being young and stupid, I decided I didn’t want to listen to a bunch of beeps all day. Things are significantly more sophisticated these days.
I too have a very hard tine believing that a junior national guard was able to get that much information unless everyone was asleep at the wheel.
Thank you--exactly my thoughts when I first heard of this. 21 year old? Unless, of course---he was a trans....then he'd be eligible for all sorts of promotion bennies, wouldn't he?
Completely wrong. 21 year old lower enlisted air force reservists aren’t tasked with putting together strategic intel briefs for the CIA and command authority.
You’re full of shit. I’m a retired army officer of 23 years. You were not briefing shit buy maybe your tank crew. But please, continue to spew nonsense about how in the know you are because you drove a tank.
The uptick in stillbirths is due to the vaccine and spike protein. The vax also kills sperm cells. Countries who are trying to pin mask wearing to the declining birth rates in their countries still won’t admit that the vaccine is the problem.
With all due respect for religion, you should not need a religious exemption and have to "walk the walk" like good little sheep to say no. We need to fight for the right to decide how we manage our health. Not letting someone dictate what allows us to decide.
I agree. It should be simply a question of saying no, without any justifications necessary.
That said, I do agree that at least someone should have some kind of real faith and not just use a pretend belief to get something in exchange. Though I don’t think there needs to be proof as in regular church attendance. Although that is a good indicator of sincere faith, as are praying and reading the Bible.
Anytime we raise the problematic of when someone has "real" faith or not, and particularly in the context of government, then it entails that there be criteria and a funcionary who has (and also is authorized to have) the authority to determine the legitimacy (what is legal faith?) of faith. Yes, for me, I do wish to discern those who are sincere and real, but I wish that within the context of my own personal life and personal decisions, which is an acceptable scope of relevancy for my personal discernment. In what way is it desirable and Good to determine real faith (and what following actions), and how do we address that without placing our human authority above divine authority?
You are right. But with Jeff Childer’s approach, it may have had a profound affect on those with whom he was working. And, since God is always working for our good, He may be using that ‘religious’ exemption to open those blind eyes to their need for a relationship with Him.
After all, Relationship is what He is all about. Not religion.
“Every single person who calls you is a an opportunity for you to bring that person to faith, so that their religious exemption letter WILL BE true. God’s put you on a pole, like the bronze serpent, so that you can reach people in a way you never could have before.”
This is genius! God works His will in the most mysterious of ways! And sometimes in the simplest and most obvious of ways. We simply have to be open and willing to hearing His Way for creating heaven on earth! He’s waiting to assist; all we have to do is ask for His help! What opportunities are right in front of each of us today for sharing God’s message of hope and tipping the scales in favor of Love! Fear has no hold on us!
Thanks, Jeff, for sharing the amazing gifts you are providing in addition to great news and legal advice; you’re truly an instrument of God!
I lost my faith 20 years ago when my mom died a slow and horrible death from cancer. I never considered going back until all the scamdemic stuff. I’ve started seeing various signs pointing me in the direction. Including some great friends enlightening me to the word of God. Plus all the wonderful C&Cers. 💙. Godspeak calvary church in Thousand Oaks never closed. pastor Rob defied all the Lockdown nonsense. I’m thinking that’s a great place to start my new awakening.
Great read C&C and as a matter of fact covid and the bioweapon shots made me start going to mass again, I saw how evil this world has become and I knew I had to re-connect with God and meet Him in His home, the church. I never thought about an exemption for the jabs because I don't work and am retired, I just needed to be close to God and show Him I was always with Him but life had steered me away for a time. Our church is packed every Sunday and that gives me allot of hope.
Mine was closed for a year. I haven’t been back because of the speed they caved in—all my local churches did— but I’m getting leadings to return and someone called me Saturday and encouraged me to come back. I believe I will. Christ totally got me through some terrible times in 2021. It was clear to me He opened my eyes to this satanic plan in our faces. It was very shocking and marooned me politically and led me back because God was ALL I had. I’m ready to return now. Finally. I need these people and they need me. 🙏🏻🙏🏻 Perhaps this person who called me needs to see that God is working and is using her.
I kept away from church for over 2 years for the same reasons. We finally just had to dump our old church and go looking for a new one. The realization that we couldn’t return was the hardest part. While we are happy in our new church, the sadness of leaving a church I had been connected to for over 50 years was devastating. Recently went to the doc for blood work and yearly checkup. She kept asking me about being sad. Tried several times to prescribe antidepressants and gave me a phone number for a therapist. She didn’t realize the depth of sadness from the past few years. Plus the realization that now I need to find a new doctor to replace her. She was wearing a “pronoun pin” and a rainbow watch band. Oh yea- she also highly recommended a Covid shot and taetnus shot.
I’m sorry. But glad you found another congregation. We lost so many young families that used to attend. Only 3 in Sunday school now. Plus they replaced our beloved pastor during the end of lockdown with a newby that wasn’t even from our denomination. I think that was a rotten act by the district “leaders”. Feels like seminary sermons now( I still attend a womens group that goes over the sermons). I’m returning now to see what God wants me to do. Bless you.
See if your records diagnose you as vaccine hesitant and the reason. If the reason is depression that tags you as a potential danger to the community even if you don’t have her as a doc. The records follow you.
Sorry to sound tin foil hat, but the diagnostic codes are in play now.
Code Number Z28.310 for a “diagnosis” (not a diagnosis at all, but an invasion of privacy) likely to be used against many people in the future. Doctors log it into the computer system that is accessed by government and private health insurers informing them of your Covid vaccine status. There are further designations for why you are not jabbed including depression, anti vax, etc. The purpose is to log who may be a “danger” to the community.
Jeff Childers wrote: "That way, their sincere religious exemption requests would be factual and true, and not susceptible to being picked apart by skeptical reviewers."
More importantly, it wouldn't be picked apart by God. I'm sure He was not pleased by people invoking His name to get an exemption who hadn't actually worshipped Him in years and had no intention of doing so. But I get the point.
Regarding reconnecting with faith, it happened to me on a business trip after neglecting my faith (and my kids faith unfortunately) for about a decade. About seven years ago I was on a business trip that happened to be to the area where I committed my life to Christ back in the 90's. It was Wednesday night and I was sitting in the hotel room and suddenly felt compelled to attend that same church's mid-week service. Within seconds of worship starting I felt a level of peace and comfort that I had lost and long forgotten.
It surprised me but I immediately knew I had to be back in church regularly. It also surprised me that when I came home and told my wife and kids that I wanted to start going to church they said "sure" with no arguing and we've been attending ever since. God had been working on their hearts too apparently.
Ok. Jeff Childers made me laugh and cry at the same time.
Now I am crying again. Oh, the joy that comes when we turn back and find that He never moved.......that He was waiting for us to turn our faces back to Him!!!
Do not worry then, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear for clothing?’ For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
— Jesus, Matthew 6:31-34 NASB1995
I repeat His words so frequently these days and each time I say them, a great sense of relief even overcomes me! His truth is ALWAYS my help. Thank you for posting this one on this C&C post as it is possibly the weightiest one we've read in a long time! I am SO thankful we do not have to worry about tomorrow!
I haven't read the post yet. . .
Wow, then it is definitely one scripture handpicked by the Holy Spirit as it resoundingly answers how we are to respond after reading the post! 🙌🏻👏🏻
I just hope that whatever happens, it's swift and painless so we can leave this earth to a better place.
Plan on hanging around for a while and making TPTB, when facing a tribunal, worry about "it" being swift and painless.
Keep resisting. Keep telling people about all the lies they've fed us. The more people we can awaken to the horrors surrounding us caused by these malicious actors, the better our chances in turning the tables on these bleepers.
Tucker Carlson let go from fox with immediate effect. Trying to shut down our truth rollers here in the UK. Just whittling away and it is real. Continue talking to family and friends. Let them know the truth. It is uncomfortable but badly needed.
CNN, not to be outdone by rival Fox, just axed the intolerable and sanctimonious Don Lemon.
Pro Wrestling Illustrated is hiring as he is good at making up stories so he’d fit right in.
Good riddance. You described him perfectly. Was there a reason and wonder what dirty hole he will pop out of next?
Yes, absolutely. Speak truth. Some will reject it, but some others will listen and be made aware of the lies flooding our world.
My personal effort in this regard is memes, which I collect here most days:
https://patrick.net/memes
Memes have the advantages that they make the point quickly, often before defense mechanisms kick in, and they are usually funny, which is also disarming. Please share them, sending people either the link above, or individual memes that you find funny and on-point.
Patrick--Thank you for my Monday afternoon treat! And you are right The evening news should be Patrick's Memes--The Truth in about 60 Seconds.
Thanks Michael. I appreciate the compliment.
Your memes are a cosmic 2x4 upside the head! I subscribe to your stack and appreciate the frequent wake up calls. They make me laugh, cry, and everything in between.
Thank you Katherine!
https://i.postimg.cc/fTvhZFRP/Zelensky-vs-tucker.jpg
Ironic.
Oh, I want to live to see them worry….
I have my doubts about it being swift or painless. His suffering was neither of those. The greatest trials are usually trials by fire, and I have had a few. But at the end I could truly say that while it truly was the worst of times’, I look back and am so thankful that He walked with me through those fires.
The testimony, in the end, was worth every step.
Truth!
Boom!
Painless or not I will stand up to this evil. God's will be done
It will be like lightning… fast enough?
"In the twinkling of an eye".
3 fish and 5 loaves of bread.
YES...."lilies of the field".....that's what I want to be in the Lord's kingdom....and ROSES to remember as well! Remember His great love for all of REBELLIOUS, sin-loving humans whom HE SHED HIS PRECOUS BLOOD TO REDEEM!!
I skipped down to comments half way through to find Janice- words Beyond Me ... your words give me peace .😘🙏
I am very blessed by that. But they are not my words, which makes them so much better!
Beautiful gift you have 🙏
Thank you Sister 🙏🏻Jesus changes everything and the cross matters. Maranatha 🕊️
Thank you for the verse- I REALLY needed to hear this today. God Bless.
A not-so-curious case of holy and secular converging on an insight ↓↓ 😊
💬 So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. ~~Matthew 6:34
🗨 The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today. You are arranging what lies in Fortune’s control, and abandoning what lies in yours. ~~Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
I used to call myself a socialist. I supported BLM, labor unions, Bernie and AOC. I had also left my Christian faith. Then Covid happened and nothing was making sense. I followed the censored. I came across Jonathan Cahn's books, I started reading about Marx, Lenin, Stalin. I have done a complete 180. Reconnecting to my Christian faith has given me hope. I no longer fear what's coming because I know in the end Good wins. God bless!!
Wow. Quite a journey! It's good to see both sides of the debate. It's much harder to be duped or propagandized.
This warms my heart and brings me such hope! Thank you for sharing your journey 🙏
Gives me hope for my daughter.
You took the journey of C. S. Lewis Nomero! And you are a WARRIOR person for the Army of Yeshua--the TRUE "Lion King"!!
I've heard the name before but I am not familiar with C.S. Lewis. I will definitely read up. TY. I did read Thomas Sowell's book Black Redneck White Liberal which was an eye-opener. I found out he used to be a Marxist until he did his own research.
I also recommend "The Screwtape Letters". Highly entertaining, and very enlightening.
Thank you! I can't wait to start reading Lewis' books.
I recommend the following eight-volume set that's available from Amazon and includes The Screwtape Letters and Mere Christianity :
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=c.s.+lewis&crid=2FKHM7UCIYHKD&sprefix=c.s.+lewis%2Caps%2C121&ref=nb_sb_noss_2
Also consider Lewis’ Space Trilogy, especially the first two books: Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra (aka Voyage to Venus). Like the Narnia chronicles these books are Christian parables and retell the same issues in different ways.
Screwtape is VERY pertinent to our day. Great book.
His books are so rich, often I need to stop reading after each sentence just to ruminate. Makes for slow going, but oh so rich!
If "straight theology" is too heavy, try CS Lewis' "Chronicles of Narnia". They tell the story of Christ via fables - not unlike JRR Tolkein's "Hobbit".
I loved these books so so much as a child, and later found a guilde to them that detailed the symbolism and meanings behind the events and characters in the books.
I would refer you to C. S. Lewis' "Mere Christianity" if you want an intimate account of his "faith journey", Nomero! READ ON and be edified in FAITH in YESHUA--the only begotten son of YAHWEH!
Thank you Sharon. I recently finished Mere Christianity and am reading Lewis’ other books. The Book of Enoch is mind blowing as well. I drive a lot for work purposes so I love to listen to these things. Dr. Taylor Marshall, Archbishop Vigano, CS Lewis, Timothy Alberino and others are what I now prioritize on my listening que. If you have any other suggestions, please let me know.
Bravo, Nomero - making good, holistic use of that drive time. I was a field sales rep for over 30 years--so I know all about that shtick--LOL! One of my favorite pastors was Steve Brown (from the Sunshine State no less). In fact, Pres. Nixon would attend Steve's parish when he was staying at his FL "home away from the White House" in Key Biscayne. I believe Steve still does radio or podcasts (he is retired from the pastorate). I just did a search online and he DOES have an online ministry called KEY LIFE with TONS of material! I plan on listening to Steve once again. Let me know if you are enriched by his spiritual/Biblical insights, Nomero--here's the link to Key Life: https://www.keylife.org/
CS Lewis—what an extraordinary writer, thinker and theological scholar!!
CS Lewis...great comparison.
The only more "pre-eminent" example would be SAUL OF TAURSUS...now ST. PAUL!
Discernment. Now you can see what it truly means. Kudos on exercising it in heavy winds. ‘Tain’t easy but well done, you! And thank you for posting about your journey.
Welcome home Nomero. Another prodigal son has returned.
God’s “truth will set you free”. Amazing grace, how sweet it is!!
Wow! That's all I can say. I'm really curious how old you are.
PBTG
Thanks for sharing!
I’m excited to read his new book
Reading Cahns book “The Return of the Gods” right now. It’s stunning and shines a huge light on what’s really going on. Push God out of the country and this current horror is what slithers in. 7 fold Jesus says in a parable.
Great book! I have read most of his books. Meanwhile in Russia more than 5,000 Churches have been built in the past 5 years due to demand. And they prioritize family, not anti-God and anti-human agendas like we are doing here.
I have a trans teen grandkid. It’s very scary and I pray for him always. I got clarity from that book about is happening to our children. Totally satanic and evil child sacrifice on many levels.
Yes it is scary. And yes it is satanic. We're watching a family member confuse her young son. He's still in elementary school. And there's nothing we can do because we don't know how to approach the subject. We don't want to alienate them.
"Dr. Stephen Wright, 32, died suddenly 10 days after getting jabbed in January 2021."
A jab death within 14 days of injection is counted as unvaccinated.
Crazy huh.
It's a total coincidence.
Baffled.
I’m glad the widow was compensated. America has issued 3 so far At about 1,500$, so insulting.
My thought was that it was the Soc. Sec. widow’s compensation. Maybe I was wrong.
Yes I was thinking about her compensation. I couldnt helieve she even got one when nobody here does.
1500? What?
Safe and effective 🥴
Not just one lie, it's two!
So, while our military is prancing men around in dresses and discussing pronouns, China and Russia are planning on destroying the US with hypersonic weapons. Great.
And have you seen the combat training videos from all 3 countries? The USA trainees, fat and out of shape, so diverse as to have no cohesion.
The Chinese and Russia troops are highly alpha and downright savage. Nationalistic and not self loathing like the western soy troops have become.
Yeah. The comparative recruitment videos for army US military were so touchy feely— kind of woke but the other countries—whoa. Wouldn’t want to be against them. Scary.
That would mesh well with a prophecy in the 1800’s attributed to Joseph Smith. He said that in the Last Days that the USA would spend our treasure and our military might in foreign wars, and that half of our military would be destroyed as a result, and that our government and Constitution would hang by a thread…he said that foreign powers would try to divide up and take the USA for themselves, but the people…good men and women who love the Constitution…would rise up and save our Country and Constitution.
He also said that when our military might was decimated, and half of it destroyed that our government would beg “the boys from the mountains” to save it…and they will.
I believe this as it seems that we are seeing the fruition of these prophecies right in front of our eyes.
Difficult times are ahead, but this Country will not entirely fall.
Joseph Smith? The guy with 28 wives? THAT Joseph Smith?
Indeed. The Prophet whose every prophecy (including that of the Civil War) has come true. Just as a point of reference- all of the prophets of old had multiple wives as well.
With all that we are seeing in today’s messed up world, and the deliberate destruction of this Country, our Government, and our Constitution by enemies within and without…his prophecy makes a lot of sense, and gives hope that, unlike the Romans, this Country and our people will not be entirely destroyed in the years to come.
A person who mocks another’s faith only shows that she is not very secure in her own.
Exactly
The USG will eventually collapse though it's hard to say under what circumstances. That's pretty much a given as empires are not sustainable. Even one of the longest lasting empires, the great British Commonwealth Empire, eventually faded away. Now it is the USG empire's turn.
The USG can disappear into the dustbin of history but the American people will still be here. That is a distinction we should all keep in mind.
And it may be implied that those boys from the mountains would not have given up their guns....
We have Tactical Jesus. do you know him?
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alpha, omg - you need diversity training (facepalm) sarcasm of course
Whatever happened to “We do more before 9am than most people do all day”?🤔
Daughter, chartered accountant in UK, has remarked to us, her parents, that she would never want to come back to USA because 'we work too hard'. Her father, business owner, sets her a bad example, as he works 12 hours a day 5 days a week. At least he doesn't go into the office on weekends anymore.
Come on, man! Our soldiers are busy writing their book reports on "Heather has two mommies"!
Our soldiers know how to fill up a gas tank.
Russian soldiers would drink the brake fluid, sell half the gas, and the ammo, and then sell the other half right before the mission.
Case in point? The hundreds of abandoned Russian vehicles littering Ukraine today.
DESPICABLE DESPOTS and our own "ennui" brought the USA to its knees...where we can PRAY for forgiveness and strength for the battles to come!!
I have not, but believe it to be true.
There's several compilations, but here's a good one to cover all 3 armies. 5 mins.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnpD1tCjTcQ
U.S. Army reduced to woke cartoon characters. Yikes. This clip says it all.
Shameful display. Disgraceful. No other words.
Wow..., the first two frightened me - the last one was a cartoon - saying nothing related to what it takes to be in combat. The U.S. has fallen - it's obvious!
YES...it's only by the grace of Yahweh that all of us aren't "bowing our knee" to Mother Russia and China.
BE PREPARED TO DIE FOR OUR FAITH IN YAHWEH!!
Long ago, seemingly in a universe far away, I was taught, "The mission of the Army is to close with the enemy and destroy him."
The US Army recruitment ad is all about DIE and pronouns.
The beginning with the Chinese and Russians is interesting. But the end of this vid is mind blowing when they get to the gay US troops. The 2 moms raising the girl are literally groomers.
And yes, the that portion was produced by the Fed Govt.
Again....all by design.
How have those "alpha" Russian troops fared in Ukraine?
I mean, American soldiers training them has helped them do what, again?
That was amazingly horrific. SNAFU is America. What a joke!
My!! THEIRS look like OURS used to look! 😖
Russian troops are highly "alpha" against unarmed people and peasants.
The backflip hatchet throwing doesn't work against people with the will to fight and the best training.
If the Russians were so "alpha" they show it in weird ways. Human wave attacks. Running over each other with APCs to run away. Raping other conscripts. Getting smoked by grenades.
IDK, that doesn't seem "alpha" to me.
And we are a cartoon. Bennjahminn
We get it. We know you don’t.
The arrogant US military, once the top dawg, is reduced to a cartoon.
Wow, really? I suppose that works when cheer leading the troops. That kind of rhetoric portraying the enemy combatant as cowardly is always used in war. The Jap Nip was characterized as such as was the Vietnamese Gook and we all know how well they fought. The Gooks even kicked us out of their country. The Russians would be the last I would portray that way given their performance against the German army in WWII or against Napoleon and his army.
And yet, we are the ones who made ourselves the cartoon.........
We know how to put fuel in a fuel tank and plan for logistics.
In OIF we had the problem of units running beyond their supply train because they couldn't keep up over hundreds of miles. See, the Thunder Run to baghdad.
In Ukraine Russian units ran out of fuel because they started bone dry and their logistic units were destroyed by Ukrainian partisans. See, the 40 mile long convoy.
And, btw, you must not be following what’s been going on at Camp Hood, in TX......talking about raping conscripts.
There is a news funnel. If you are okay sitting on the edge of the large end and falling, you head right where they want you to land. And...I didn't hear about the story about Ft. Hood?!
It's Fort Hood, by the way. Not "Camp Hood". I just came from there heading to Mates. Where are there "raped conscripts" at Fort Hood? Please, tell me where.
There are none.
This is a volunteer army, not a forcibly mobilized one.
There are no conscripts in the US Army at Fort Hood.
And yet, Ukraine hasn't yet won, either. Why not?
Send. More. US. Taxpayer. Money. STAT.
Great point - if they declare they've won, the U.S. war money will dry up. Of course, they will likely pivot to demanding money for rebuilding and reparations, but if they can continue the war angle, they'll keep getting war money and THEN demand the rebuilding money from the U.S.
There is 300 billion in frozen Russian assets to pay for rebuilding.
Putin's never going to get his money back.
Don't need taxpayer money. Need weapons to put warheads on Russian foreheads. 500k more artillery shells from South Korea are inbound to fuel the next offensive.
Shells from SOUTH Korea? For the Russians? Makes zero sense.
Ukraine is fighting the world's second army by itself. It's a smaller, regional power against Russia's large advantages.
Russia declared victory over Ukraine on day 2 of the war. it's now day 426 and Russia is still no closer to victory even after several stinging defeats of their armies.
"By itself." Lol.
What other nations are sending forces to Ukraine to fight? I'm not aware of any.
Did the USA claim it won at Midway? No, there was another year of had slogging ahead even though the majority of the Japanese naval aviation and their carriers had been sunk.
Did the USA stop fighting after midway? Also no. See above.
By continuing to exist and being stronger than before Ukraine is winning.
In truth, everything that O'Biden has done has been to weakened the US and our military. Do not assume this is from incompetence. For example, why did he sell our strategic petroleum reserve to China? Everything that is done is according to a very specific agenda.
The sheeple are too busy "returning to normal"!! THERE IS NO "NORMAL" ANYMORE!
Just a “new normal” where the insane are running everything and also voting more of them into office.
Malevolence and Malice disguised as Ineptitude and Incompetence.
I agree. The destruction via Biden/DS was planned. I stand on the truth that God is sovereign and nothing can stop His will for His people.
He did only as the wooden prop, but SOMEone has done it intentionally and with purpose.
But at least those weapons are gender neutral.
Right...they will paint names on the sides of the bombs like "Terry" or "Chris".
....or Pat! 😂😂
I haven't seen any gender neutral weapons. Neither have the Russians, but they call m142s "cyka" because of how lethal and deadly it is.
YEP...all a part of the GRAND PLAN to destroy the USA....and "they're" doing a great job of it!
Exactly what I thought. Priorities, right?
My thoughts exactly, thanks for sharing!
The world is on fire because of weak dementia clouded gay leadership in the White House. I only hope America can last 2 more years till the dementia joe disaster is over!
Nothing could be farther from the truth. Edgar Cayce prophesized that Russia would save the world, and The Bible says that Russia and China together would do so.
Biblical source?
You might find this helpful. Cayce was a devoted Christian, as 8m sure you know. You can also find more links on his website.https://fb.watch/k6xQ31hLqS/?mibextid=NnVzG8
Heard the name, completely ignorant of the man. Thank you for link.
My parents got mixed up with Edgar Cayce over 50 years ago. Please, don’t buy into this. It’s demonic deception. It is not of God. My dear parents finally were brought to the Christ of the Bible and renounced this occultism. Remember, Satan can easily disguise himself as an angel of light. Run from this!
So why haven't they?
How have Russian hypersonic weapons helped them in Ukraine?
You didn’t read the article and watch the videos provided did you?
They killed 200-300 people with a bunker-buster hypersonic bomb, and took out quite a few other targets.
Do you EVER understand what you read? Does NOTHING ever penetrate your need for normalcy bias? Are you that afraid of Truth?
How sad for you and that rut you live in.
I don’t really mind Benjamin. His lunchbox got stolen. But I’m afraid it’s his type of blind, obedient thinking that may end up fulfilling the “depopulation” part of the UN2030 Agenda. WW3 anyone?
Psy-Op Benjie is just doing his job. Give him a break! He gets more Bud Light for every post he makes.
I agree. And ‘his lunchbox got stolen’. 😂😂
Bwess heart
I generally eat whatever is leftover at the house. Never at work.
WW3 which was started by who? Why is putin practicing genocide to fulfill the UN2030 agenda?
So weird, the alleged "christian" savior and defender of Christendom is fulfilling the elites' wishes for them.
Ironic.
They killed 100-300 "nato generals" allegedly.
That's not even confirmed or proven yet. Jeff shared it and stated this:
"The highly-suggestive but unverifiable part is the claim that Russia retaliated by attacking Kiev (or Lviv) with six hypersonic Kinzhal missiles, destroying a 120-meter-deep military bunker housing 100-300 top Ukraine and NATO generals, who were leading Ukraine’s military campaign until they were hypersonically snuffed out."
So where are the names of these 100-300 top Ukrainian and Nato generals?
One specialist dies and it hits the Army Times and creates a storm. 100-300 top brass died and crickets? Nothing?
Hypersonic weapons haven't helped Russia one bit.
And by the way, Hypersonic weapons didn't stop Ukraine from crossing the Dniepr river and taking land on the left bank. You know, where Russia has the least amount of troops.
"To put it in terms leftists can understand: masks create little individual, personal climate-change spaces."
🤣🤣🤣
But seriously, what absolute devastation. This is beyond tragic. Damaged a generation, indeed. Reduce fertility by masks and then shots. Reduce intelligence by masks, and shots. We are only beginning to understand the immensity of what has been done to our communities and our families.
So glad we homeschool. So glad my spouse worked from home and avoided masks. So glad we all refused the poison.
depopulation via vaccine - and all the associated policies...
direct deaths in the millions
indirect deaths (including decreasing birth rates) over the coming 30 years will be in the billions
Mission Accomplished
Think of all the broken hearted couples with infertility issues.
I had to beg and beg a lot to keep my daughter in law from getting the clot shot while she was pregnant with my granddaughter. She was glued to tv fear porn. But she listened and waited until the baby was born to get it. And now she has ‘seen the light’ to not get the baby vaxxed. Wish she hadn’t got it herself.
Thank goodness 🙏. You did good work there. ❤️
Perhaps you can get your DIL on the "Detox Spike Protein" program that various REAL doctors have developed--I have a copy of it, if you would like me to post it here, Sherry.
Yes!
Cap--do you want me to post this spike protein detox protocol? It's difficult to tell what some people are responding to at times--LOL!
Unfortunately, I don't know how to create a CSV file (which is what Substack requires to upload files to their platform) for that article on "How to Detox From the Spike Protein" that Dr. Joseph Mercola shared a few months ago. I presently have it in a Word file--so if any of you would like me to pass it on to you--send your e-mail request to me at sharonabend@yahoo.com and I'll gladly send the article to you as an attachment to my response e-mail--OK?
I know someone who was pregnant and forced to get the shot. I was worried sick but her baby was born healthy. Her Husband got the shot too to keep his job.
Depopulation MASKING!!
I am so happy for your family. ❤️🥰 I still think this mask study was also to deflect, masked or not, the clot shots cause all the same problems. This entire scamdemic is so awful.
Yes I thought about deflecting from the shots. But I do believe both are very detrimental and harmful.
They both are.
A younger gal with 2 little children is still wearing masks where she works locally. Every single day for 8 hours 5 days a week for 3 years. I shudder to think. But then, so is her boss.
Do you think she makes her kids muzzle up as well?
I’m not sure. One is in preschool I think and had some major issues when born. The grandparents babysit and by the looks of them are not in tiptop shape. I’m sure the gal is overly concerned she might bring something home. She wears those stupid harmful cloth face diapers also. Like her boss. Only her cloth ones match her lanyard so crafting is going on. Still. Sad, sort of.
I feel the same. Just so unbelievably angry at this whole evil and vile plan 😡🤬
The Devil is having a heyday. He is after all the chief anti-human. Been working against all of God’s good creation since the day he chose to put himself against The Creator.
Go to the movie ‘Nefarious’. It is an eye opener and a great way to start a conversation with someone you may bring with you that counts the devil’s existence.
Amazing movie. Saw it last week based on a recommendation in this substack. Thank you!
And underneath, inexpressible sadness. The floodgates have opened on this thread. All bottled up. *sniff Bound to happen. *sniff Going within in a minute. *sniff. God is there. Light, Love, Wisdom, Strength... 🤧 and Humor. God invented humor, for the other release - laughter. God bless Jeff Childers. (Done, done, and done no doubt.)
That’s a classic line! ...Classic Jeff :))
On a more serious note: mask damage, vax damage, economic, emotional and and physical damage — ALL of it — All the casualties of this war against peopleI
*They* say “permanent” damage but they say so many afflictions are un-healable, just because our barbaric, corrupt, arrogant and ignorant system hasn’t “developed” the drug or procedure — and because they never see the successes in *their* world, in which no condition is reversible, it’s merely “treatable”.
We know this is rot. Pure Rot.
PEOPLE!
We CAN find the Cures — The real, healing and restorative ways to reverse the harm done, and we WILL! The greatest, most brilliant, most noble, most generous, most gifted, most inspired, most knowledgable, and most awake people are on our side!! They (we) are publishing, reading, and sharing!!
We must never give up seeking the CURES!
— AND BY GOD WE WILL!!
Trust our Holy and Sovereign God, Creator of all, Lover of our souls. Our Savior and Redeemer. Pray! Pray! Pray!
No despair allowed.
AMEN!
The fact that they are containing their CO2 emissions should stop global warming...and lead to population reduction...kind of a win-win...
An associate pastor at my church has masked himself, and his two small children from Day 1. His son has a condition that ‘requires’ all family members mask. My heart breaks for his children. He and his wife are trusting the advice of the pediatrician to the detriment of their and their children’s health. 😥
Tragic.
I want to ask these folks at what point will they feel safe enough to get rid of their masks? Because I think they haven’t stopped to consider that question. If they have no answer, they’re going to end up masking, well, forever.
Agree! And he is a pastor… faith over fear?
This is tragic indeed. We are in a soft roll out of the effects, so that the jabs can be distanced from the damage.
Hypersonic weapons and religion doesn’t go well with coffee. Religious exemption, for church goers? The same churches that closed their doors during the pandemic while liquor stores and Lowe’s remained open? Church has nothing to do with being a Christian, God’s light is in each and everyone of us at birth, it’s a matter of how much worldly junk stifles it out. I’d say since the pandemic, many Christians have been digging themselves out and finding the light they’ve had all along. We are never without God, we simply turned our backs on him. Every single person on earth has the right to claim exemption from the vaccine that destroys our God given DNA. Asking if you are a church goer is not the question God would ask.
I appreciate your thoughts and I understand where you are coming from as I once thought the same thing. Regarding your last sentence though I would respectfully disagree as the God's Word tells us to fellowship with others, it's a command, not optional (Hebrews 10:25 among many other passages).
https://www.openbible.info/topics/fellowship
Many churches did not close their doors, or if they did they quickly reopened them once the pastor realized the danger was being overstated. Please don't lump all churches together in this regard, it's just not true and is a convenient excuse not to attend. And regarding hypocrisy I'll quote Greg Laurie, "If you find a church without hypocrisy please don't join it as you'll ruin it". We are all fallen creatures including pastors.
Fellowship can occur anywhere, parks, parking lots, fellowship is communicating with others about our faith, strengthening it as a community. I’m sorry, I had a negative experience with a Catholic Church and I never returned. I don’t like religion, I don’t trust it. I do believe in God, I pray, I do not congregate under a roof. I do not trust religion.
Raised Catholic myself so I get it, I was away from church for nearly two decades after falling away.
There are Bible-believing churches that are filled with wonderful people who love God and joyfully praise him together. I don't trust "religion" either which is why I don't do it. I celebrate a relationship with Christ with other likeminded people, that is fellowship that the Bible describes. It's joyful, heart-felt praise for all God has done for us and the wonder of His creation. Thankfully I've found a church that focuses on Him and not "religion".
I was in your exact same position and had lots of excuses not to attend. God had other plans though, and my life has been thoroughly blessed by it. God bless.
Just like we need to love the sinner and hate the sin, so must we separate the truth of the Catholic Church handed down from Christ from the fallen members (including leaders) that have compromised that truth. It is important to learn what the Church teaches so that what people “think” The Church teaches doesn’t get in the way of what Is the truth. I am beyond grateful everyday that I can truly receive the body and blood of the same Jesus that died for me. AMAZING!
Thank you, Jackie. Love Coffee and Covid, but I wish people would do some more research on what the Church actually teaches. Those who left truly do not know what they rejected, or they never would have done so.
Yes and this can be proven out by the many Protestant and formerly anti-Catholic people that on seeking the truth, end up in the Catholic faith.
Amen, sister! So well said. I need all the grace that’s available 🙏🏻 Can we commune with God on our own? Of course! But we live by our senses, and the same way Jesus used mud and spit to heal the blind man when he could have easily just said “be healed,” illustrates that we need concrete expressions of God’s presence. Receiving Holy Eucharist is life-changing!
Not only that, it’s BIBLICAL! Matt 26: 26-29
Amen. The Lord, in the Eucharist, was my lifesaver during covid. I found a TLM Church that did not close down, did not require masks and were honestly practicing their faith. I found myself back in the Faith of my Fathers.
I thank God each day.
Perfectly & kindly said Jeff C.
I too am a lapsed Catholic who wandered in the wilderness for many, many years looking for ‘something’. Jeff Childers is entirely correct in saying that Covid brought (at least some) people back to religion. I’d been slowly rediscovering my Christian faith, but it was in March of 2020 that I began to seriously read and study and pray once more. Where I live there are no churches which did not close their doors during Covid and, even re-opened, they are only interested in preaching the ‘religion’ of diversity. So I continue to worship alone, supported by online communities of faith. I have prayed to find a physical community, but so far that prayer has not been answered. Communities like this one help keep me sane - thank you all!
Former Catholics—I am also one— continue to be the largest group of non-churched folks. Praise God I found a Bible-based church that is my church home. We are about 2000 strong—although counting attendance is not a priority— don’t have a building, meet in a conference center, and donate over $2M annually to local and international faith-based initiatives. God is so good!
I'll add here that my comment wasn't meant to denigrate the Catholic church as "religion" but was meant as a general comment regarding people getting wrapped up in the mechanisms of religious practices at the expense of knowing Jesus.
Christ calls us to be in a relationship with Him, if that occurs in the Catholic Church then praise God! God works in all sorts of wonderous ways, and as the Bible says by our fruits they shall know us. By "religion" I meant those that mouth platitudes or went through the motions but don't actually know Him. Unfortunately I saw plenty of that growing up. Twelve years of Catholic schools culminated with our Catholic priest principal being taken down with the biggest sex abuse payout in LA and Orange county history at the time. It was not an isolated incident back then as several of our parish priests were also exposed over the years.
That was my experience but I recognize it's not that of everyone, and that there are plenty of Protestants and Orthodox who were also awful hypocrites.
If you are in a Catholic Church and love the Lord, then who am I to tell you that you are doing it wrong? Gods' grace covers us all, he doesn't expect us to tick every box on the salvation checklist but to love Him with our whole heart, mind, and soul. We are sanctified in this life through the renewing of our minds as Paul says, through that we draw closer to Him. If that is happening for you in a Catholic Church then God bless you as my brother or sister in Christ.
LL, as a “recovering Catholic” myself (meant only in a humorous, not disrespectful way), I can relate to your observation and especially to Jeff C’s reply. My parents raised me in their faith because that’s what they believed. So I was introduced to the Triune God and basics of Christian orthodoxy, but for me all the ceremony and traditions obscured the heart of the Gospel — the atoning death and resurrection of Jesus. As an adult I finally transitioned from the religion to the relationship and found the peace and forgiveness that I couldn’t fully grasp before being led to a Bible-teaching non-denominational fellowship. Truth always prevails. November of 2001, I was baptized of my own volition and born again (at the age of 37). My life is now split into everything that was before, and everything since! I pray that you will find that same soul-liberation and peace, not in “religion” but in sharing the true joy that comes from fellowship with heaven-bound pilgrims the world over.
Beautiful words of healing and hope, J.M. - thank you for sharing your personal "redemption journey".
Much of organized religion has been infiltrated. You have to be careful. Of course knowing how they approached the scamdemic and their endorsement of the shots would be a big indicator. Also what does the rainbow represent to them. Noah or trannies.
I don’t trust religion either! Religion is one thing; a relationship with the creator of the universe is quite another. Glad we’re in the C&C community together.
Do you quit shopping when you see a hypocrite at the store? Do you quit going to movies when you see a hypocrite at the theatre? Do you quit going to work because a hypocrite works there?
If you don’t quit doing those things, if you continue going back to the store, the theatre, work..........doesn’t that make you a hypocrite?
Yeshua (Jesus) hated religion too.
He came to teach us that it was NOT religion He wanted, but Relationship!
That’s an entirely different thing than ‘religion’
There is division in denomination. But, it is about a relationship with the good Lord. It is not about a building or who you tithe to....fellowship is not limited to a pre-designed space. But, a lot of denominations pushed, actively, for the coof jab after lockdowns and mask mandates and 'no singing'. It is there where they lost a lot of trust. But, those who chose to 'leave' a certain 'church', found fellowship elsewhere, I hope. How often does it talk about Jesus arranging a talk in a temple? None that I can think of, off the top of my head. If anything, the temples were for scolding those in charge. But, even if there is just ONE person who questioned, one person who moved closer to their creator because of the behavior of TPTB, it is good. May God bless all of us in our journey to know the one true God. May we be ever mindful that He is a loving God, but he is also a jealous God. A vengeful God. We need to remember that it is not all JUST butterflies and rainbows. The FEAR of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
Temples also for sale of sacrificial animals? And I'll change your money for you if you don't have the correct currency--in in-temple ATM?
Yep and I guess that’s why Jesus had to clean the Temple twice in a fearful way to put an end to the scam.
Never thought of THAT angle. Good eye!!
🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
But Lisa you will be spending eternity with the very same people you are avoiding now so you might as well learn to love and accept them (and I’m preaching to myself here cuz I often get fed-up and impatient with the saints.) if we truly love God we will love Gods people. Also, fellowship is important but we gather to worship primarily, not be entertained. I hope you find a solid church! It’s a huge blessing.
I'm not avoiding people, I'm avoiding denominational issues. To me, I see a person, that person is of God. What happens once they live on earth, well, I don't have anything to say about it. I do however have a good deal to say about what I do and where I congregate. Trust me, God loves me alone in the woods sitting under a tree, he loves me in a community. I'm not ever worried about avoiding people. People are the least of my worries.
I you mean -
You don’t like ‘Organized Religion’!!!
Unfortunately, Jeff, that "fellowship" is relegated to other Christians. When I left my "Church", I lost every friend I ever had, and one remarked that I was "the dog that went back to his vomit." (Hebrews). Most former friends said they'd pray for me, and I'm sure they did, but organized religion, by definition, is exclusionary. I prefer the unconditional love of the unchurched.
Amen!
Thanks for the link Jeff!
God already knows everything there is to know about us.... so there's that...
Find a church, settle in, and live the life He planned for us. Church is community. Community is necessary. Share the gospel, the authentic one that lead to our conversion. Having others holding us accountable is a good start. We aren't going to build His kingdom by standing back and watching for change... Church is where we should want to be...
Where two or more are gathered in my name... The physical church in contemporary times constitutes a physical structure. But the word Ecclesia (from Ecclesiastical) is from the Greek meaning an assembly of citizens. Jesus held “church” gatherings in rooms and in fields and on mountainsides to discuss the scriptures. There are some that have moved away from the physical church and have started bible studies at home. I belong to such a group, gathering to read and study the Bible. That is a fellowship so close and rewarding - sister-like within a women only group - where understanding and challenging each other cannot be duplicated in a physical structure on Sunday. However, to go to a church and receive the bread and wine, collectively, is a beautiful thing as well. A combination of those disciplines that come from the heart is what keeps me close to Him.
Bible study groups are necessary for building up the body...our own... into bodies.
We are in Him and He in us.
I believe we need to be a part of a community where God is not. Non- believers learn nothing from those entering a building to worship. They learn from the actions of believers, the bright light of God is better served on the streets where there are people in need. A community does not have a roof and walls. We segregate ourselves, this is not Godly.
Scripture has a lot to say about worship from Gen to Rev. The weekly worship service, whether in a church, a field or a home, is not a segregation as all visitors are welcome. But it is a coming together, specifically as the body of Christ through the empowering of the Holy Spirit for the specific purpose of worshiping God: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. We often lose sight of the simple fact that we are called by God to give Him worship. Some traditions treat Sunday worship as primarily a "teaching event". Some treat worship as a "conversion opportunity" even though they are "preaching to the choir." Some treat Sunday worship as a "ministry event" to meet the emotional needs of the people. There are always elements of this in our Sunday gatherings but the main purpose of the Sunday coming together is to glorify the Lord and offer praises to His Name along with the host in heaven whom we join when we gather in worship. This "mystical" experience is the primary purpose of the Sunday worship service. The Psalmist is the best teacher of what worship is. Read the Psalms and use them in worship to understand how to worship the Lord.
I would add that it is the other 6 days of the week when we are to do the work of carrying the light of the gospel out into the world in service to others. Sunday is exclusively given in service to our Lord.
Precisely. We are called to do both: Worship with fellow believers AND carry the gospel message to the ends of the earth. "The hands and feet of Jesus".
Well said Phil. I’ve seen so many folks who see themselves as Christians but want to remain independent of the body of Christ. So often, they are vulnerable and become easy targets for Satan because they are self-isolated and therefore weak. Paul said each one of us has a vital function in the Body and we are all needed no matter how insignificant we are.
I don't know what I would have done without church. Many do not have such strong faith as to not need encouragement from others. A good church is a place you find that. Taking such support away would plunge many people into despair, at which point they have little to offer others. God loves the weak and knows they need support and comfort and I think it was for love of us he gave us scriptures that say we ought to go to church.
My neighborhood during the worst of covid was such a bleak lonely place with no support to be found because everyone believed isolating was the most virtuous thing you could do. Because of the verses about the importance of meeting, my church met and it was a haven for hurting people.
Everywhere Christians go they carry His light. There is no place God is not. Shining His light in this dark world matters.
An argument against abuse is not a valid argument against use. The church was instituted by Jesus himself. We ignore it to our spiritual peril.
The first Christians met in their HOMES - no "resplendent buildings" (that was the pagans that had their glorious edifices to extol their "gods"). TIME TO RETURN TO OUR ROOTS--GO UNDERGROUND and worship together in our home (via ZOOM for now).
The Temple King Soloman built for the Lord was not shabby....
True!! However...I am referring to the new dispensation of Christian believers (most of whom are "Gentiles")..unlike the old dispensation of Jewish believers in Jehovah God.
Yes!!!!
Amen.
What the enemy intended for evil, God will use for good.
That gets me through the day sometimes. Also: Do not fear the terrors of the night nor the arrows that fly by day. Be still and know that I am God. Instant calm.
There's a wonderful meditation using that from one of the Christian Contemplatives that I use:
Be still and know that I am God.
Be still and know.
Be still.
Be.
👍👍 An exercise to bring home that the kingdom of God is within.
I kind of skipped the whole proxy war part. I am not a military analyst, but I and many others saw Ukraine coming as soon as Afghanistan was disgracefully abandoned. I still do not believe there is not under the table cooperation from the DOD, with Russia and China. The Ukraine government has been corrupt for decades and hiding all kinds of US secrets. That’s my take.
But I loved your last part of the revival happening. I was raised in the Lutheran church. I worked in the parochial school attached to the church until covid hit. When my church shut down for months, took money to stay shut down, and reopened the school the following September with everyone in masks, including preschoolers and toddlers, and the most ridiculous protocols, I was thoroughly disillusioned by the mainstream churches. I realized that everything my old church was doing was being handed down from the state synod, in turn the national synod. I found out many churches quietly stayed open. I found others opened back up quickly and threw off all restrictions, immediately. It was my own personal revival. Since then I have attended a Pentecostal church. I love the enthusiasm by which they worship, I love the pastor and his Biblical standard for everything. I’ve gone to a Baptist church where the minister put me in mind of one of the Black Robes of the Revolution in America’s independence. Like Jeff, I have expanded, and loved that I am seeing revival and everything that goes with it. So many great people have come out as teachers and leaders in this Jesus revolution, and many of the mega church leaders have fallen. That’s as it should be. This is a Spiritual war, and we don’t defeat evil any other way. I often think you are at your best, Jeff, when you quietly, but regularly add your faith as the basis for all going forward. God bless!
Makes me understand the admonition against "lukewarm" Christians.
I still attend my old church semi regularly. There are Saturday evening services, so I can go there and still go to my other on Sunday mornings.There are good people in this church who worship regularly, but have been lulled into the church losing it’s influence in the community. Churches used to be the places that first responded to emergencies. They helped clothe and feed those in need. Their pastors and priests sat on school boards and township boards. They were involved! Now they have shrank within themselves, content to be a building unto themselves, no longer being missionaries within their own communities. I now kid, “I am two churched”, but I truly feel I am revived!
I, too, was raised in the Lutheran church but after marriage started attending the church of my husband's upbringing. Upon our divorce just a few years before Covid, I returned to the Lutheran church and found comfort in it's ritual and services. However, I also found that it was becoming too progressive and pushing for social change/justice that I did not agree with. I stopped going after they shut down hard.
Attending only once about a year ago back at the church of my youth with my father. By this time, masking had decline significantly in the area where I live but was still quite enforced here. The message that day was about our collective guilt as participants in a racially founded nation. I was disgusted. This congregation was the first in a new land where it's Dutch settlers were looking for freedom and equality and a way to unrestrictedly worship their God. I am at loss to understand how it's history has been so twisted.
I am currently seeking a new church family. But am hesitant to reach out and rather timid of visiting new churches by myself.
Not Lutheran but our children attend Lutheran Church Missouri Synod (LCMS) schools and we're extremely thankful for it.
One thing I've realized is that there are denominations of Lutheranism that are as different as night is from day. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA, the largest Lutheran demonization in the US) has forsaken the Bible and some might say Christ Himself. The churches are "pastored" by characters that proudly list their pronouns and the churches sport rainbow flags and BLM banners. It's about as far from biblical Christianity as one can get.
The LCMS and other denominations such as WELS on the other hand, are still biblical, often fiercely so. At my kids orientation their LCMS principal stated, "my vow to you is we will never teach your kids anything contrary to God's Word". He meant every word of it.
If you find comfort in Lutheran services you really might want to consider LCMS or one of the other remaining biblical denominations. The ELCA unfairly gives Lutheranism a bad name as unlike the ELCA, not all Lutheran churches have not submitted to the demonic spirit of the age.
I agree. I liked the pastor of my duel Lutheran church. I worked in the school and he would often come in and talk politics with me. Then CoVid hit and the lockdown shut off every light. Nothing. After a month they started streaming a service of sorts where the pastor stood in front of a blue screen with automated choir music and delivered a message. He would state that he abstained from communion until “we” could all take it together, the implication was don’t try to do this at home. Wait. OK, but suddenly last December it was announced we would have communion in every service, never done before. I realized that the all of the new directives were coming not from our board of elders but from the top of the Missouri synod, so we would be homogenous. I want Biblical teaching, what I realized I was getting was a canned sermon, a same every Sunday liturgy, that seemed to be moving more towards the Catholic masses where only the top down was allowed to direct or speak. I have learned more about Martin Luther from this Pentecostal church then I ever did in my own Lutheran church. My new Pastor broke down the Apostles Creed and why it is so important and yet it is not part of their everyday services. I love much about the traditional Lutheran church I grew up in, but I can no longer remain in a tight little group with only my “church” people included. Too many churches failed in the events of covid and the lockdowns. I have learned to give Grace to them as no one knew what was going on, but too many have persisted in sweeping it all under the rug. That can’t ever happen again. I still volunteer at the parochial school and love it, but I pray that the leaders now know how duped we all were.
What you describe is parallel to the PCA / PC(USA) divide. The former is, to use your words, "fiercely Biblical". The latter, well, correct pronouns are more important within their denomination every passing day. Our PCA church has welcomed families fleeing the ELCA church in town.
Yep!
The small town church I grew up in is PC USA. The pastor is completely lost... he's a college prof as well. I think the combo of PC USA churches closing down and colleges closing and requiring zoom courses completely undid him! He hasn't held a church service indoors since March 2020... he sends his congregants an email each week, "that counts as a sermon..." When he did agree to hold services, he had people drive up and sit in their cars, while he spoke (with a mask on) over a loud speaker from the breezeway... No communion. No piano. No hymns. 15 minutes and it was done. Our friends moved to another church. What was once a vibrant church has been suffocated by milk toast Christian fools!
It IS intimidating, especially for those of us who are introverts. But so worthwhile!
While my family were traveling for two months, we opted to visit different churches during our travels and found good ones in each place. I encourage you to stick with it and don't give up. Look at reviews and websites to get clues about what churches are like before visiting. With one, I remember being so encouraged because they had written an article making the case for Christians getting religious exemptions from vaccine mandates and why it was a reasonable biblical stand. I thought, "wow, I'm going to feel very comfortable attending here!" And we were.
And the Presby USA took the exact opposite stance. The congregations must be shedding all over each other now. Assuming the shedding thing is real--I await confirmation one way or the other.
I hope you can find a new church. My husband was a non participating Catholic when we married. He joined the Lutheran church a year after we married. We raised 3 kids together in the church. Two have moved out of state and attend no church and the one here still attends but is not a regular. My husband loves the tradition and routine of the church, it reminds him of his Catholic upbringing. It is grounded to him. I felt like I was in a box when covid hit. Had it not shut down traditional churches, I may never have left. I go alone regularly to my new church, but I found a wonderful welcoming group of people who make me feel welcome every Sunday.
Most churches now do some kind of social media to make people aware of their existence. Many do live streaming of their services. You can watch many on podcasts later on. It may give you an idea if you would like to attend. It is worth a look at.
I did find a church online to "attend" Easter services. I am considering a visit, although, like your husband I also find the tradition soothing and this church does not seem to fill that need though I did appreciate the Easter message. I suppose that I will keep looking.
Keep looking...there are wonderful churches out there!
Oh wow. I think if I had been sitting in that congregation listening to that kind of drivel of a sermon, I would have stood up and left.
It was all I could do to stay. I wouldn't leave my 90 year old dad.
And many did. They drove all the way across town to our church... In February of 2021, 78 people joined our church. Their church didn't open until much later in the year....
Where are you located?
Thank you, Laurie, for sharing your journey to revival and HOPE in the finished work of our Lord and Saviour--Jesus Christ--the TRUE "Lion King"!
Out of curiosity, was your Lutheran church a Missouri or Wisconsin Synod church?
Missouri
I wonder how much of it is driven by the principals themselves. Our kids attend an LCMS school and our experience was much different. The school did follow the public health order when it was in effect (under Romans 13) but the school stopped doing so the instant it was rescinded. Also, the school put up tent classrooms outdoors so students could attend class without masks (weather permitting). Last off, once the mask order was lifted the school required a doctor's note for children to continue to wear masks in class, the rationale being that masks impeded communication.
Our principal happens to be a fearless man of God though, and we are incredibly blessed to have him. If the principal is a spineless, I could see how a one could easily succumb to the bureaucracy of a large church organization.
First and foremost they have to teach the Word of God, all of it. It’s reading the Bible and teaching our children the true happenings recorded therein. It is not rote memorization of liturgical precepts, but knowing God and having such a close relationship with Him.
I'm so sorry you had such an experience. We occasionally attend a Lutheran Church (MO synod) in Conklin, MI where several generations of my family were/are members. I say occasionally because we live in TX but we travel to MI frequently so whenever I'm there, I feel the need to attend church there plus, both of my parents and several other deceased family members are buried on a hill behind the church). I didn't travel there during the first 2 years of covid. I know they had zoom Church services for awhile.
Some interesting comments I grabbed from a vax thread. People are so tired of this crap:
>>The hospital I work at just dropped the mandatory masks and visitation limits, and I tell u the staff is PISSED. They hate losing the control that the last three years gave them. Power is addictive and turns people into wicked creatures!
>>AMEN! They tried to make me force a laboring woman wear a mask during childbirth! I said hell no!!
>>My dad in for emergency procedure was surrounded by 4 nurses more concerned he could mask because he was having a hard time breathing. Bullied him before they would let him go to the other floor for his procedure.
>>Here in BC the staff are absolutely power drunk mandates are still in effect and I've lost all faith in healthcare in BC. Unfortunate that if my family gets sick we will most likely will have to cross to another province for help. Even optometrist tried forcing n95 on me.
>>Power drunk is a good term for it!
I’ve stopped taking my children for well visits for 3 years now and we stay completely out of the medical industrial complex. No doctors, no meds and we’ve never been healthier and happier!
I’ve had to unlearn A LOT.
Good for you for keeping them out of the system, which I think is hellbent on destroying lives as opposed to saving them. They are good at putting people back together after accidents and that is about all, I think. As my biological aunt said, if you go to a doctor long enough or often enough, they will find something wrong with you.
FourWinds - I just subscribed to your Substack and made a comment to your July 6th article.
Thank you!! Sorry, I'm new to being an author and am doing my best to pay attention to comments. :)
Plus wearing the masks deprived them of oxygen. They're all hateful and mentally ill now. Plus their religion has been proven temporary and false. The covidiots are in turmoil. Advise them to wear 2 masks and get every shot available to them. Cull that herd.
All the hospitals in my region of mid Michigan have taken off the mask mandates. I don’t know about doctors or administrative staff, but the nurses are overjoyed to be rid of them!
Interestingly, my husband goes to the VA for medical. Last week they still required masks. My husband won’t fight it, but it’s a good thing I wasn’t along. They would have gotten an ear full of Biden’s end to the emergency pandemic, no need for any Federally run building to be requiring masks!
Biden only lifted the national emergency - the health emergency is still in effect til Mid May, I believe. Perhaps the VA is clinging to the health emergency still?
Regarding the VA....I had lab work done on April 4th, mask were required. I returned on the 11th to see PCM, no mask required.
I went to the doctor recently at the local large corporate medical office. As usual the check in secretary told me to put on a mask. Usually I take one, say thank you with as much goodness as I can, and then squoosh it in my pocket or in the trash. Occasionally I have just said, "I'm not doing that." Depends on the mood. This time I looked at the indicated box of masks and probably there was a unintentional visible look of disgust on my face, and the secretary said, irritatedly, "oh never mind!" That same week they officially dropped their patient mask requirement. Patients have been doing their business for quite some time without masks, as long as they can persist past an admonition or two. I have never had a doctor remonstrate me for not wearing a mask, nor behave in a way that I perceive as negative. I wish to ask what they think, though I imagine it is not an easy question to expect them to answer candidly.
I have had Drs and nurses treat me as filthy when i was the healthy one with my elderly mother who was also not ill!! But i refused to mask. Masked Drs who wouldn't touch my mom's knee!! Who refuse to take off the face diaper because "i have addition autoimmune compromised ppl at home". What?? Do they never wash?!
Maddening isn’t it. I went to an ophthalmologist in the city who asked me if I was vaxxed. When I said no it was like a rush of cold arctic air had just entered in. I almost got frostbite! When the exam ended and I left I don’t know who was happier. She was double masked, face shielded and wore gloves and even then kept wiping things off with some kind of solution. Imagine living like that!
She'll die before you will, I'd bet on it.
My son who is a doctor of pharmacology and has 3 little ones is the same, no doctors, no meds and only healthy food. Even though he has an important career in providing IVIG medical therapy, he is totally out of the medical "system".
Nice work on the fam, Phil!
I can't take credit - well maybe a little - he's just a good critical thinker. And stubbornly independent. Never would have made it in the military, he would have been kicked out for talking back.
Cleveland Clinic announced last Tuesday that the masks would be going away on Thursday.
I used to be a member at their wellness center. Took Pilates classes for many, many years. A few months ago, I decided I would no longer give them my money. Ditched the membership, but luckily my Pilates instructor is able to teach me privately and I'm contributing to her wealth instead of Cleveland Clinics. The ONLY way I will EVER go there again is if I'm dying. Maybe not even then since there are worse things than dying.
"There are worse things than dying." Yep. You nailed it. I think being forced onto a vent and suffering kidney failure from remdesivir falls into that category. So do most cancer treatments, long term. I'll pass.
Based Florida Man .. good one
This whole thing about the Minecraft Papers doesn't sound right to me. Maybe other former military can chime in. I served in the regular Air Force for six years. The last four years I had a Top Secret codeword clearance. We had lots of time on midnight shifts to scrounge through the reports and data available to us. It was VERY compartmentalized. The only thing halfway sensitive were various codebooks and frequency schedules, and some slightly out-of-date info on enemy aircraft. How in the world does a junior Air National Guard member have access to Joint Chiefs of Staff memos and reports and CIA analysis summaries. There's no way that would be possible. What am I missing? Admittedly, my service was back a few years, but it can't have changed that much. Other opinions?
It’s been decades since I served. I remember the background checks and the criteria for getting top secret clearance. I was offered a coding breaking MOS. Being young and stupid, I decided I didn’t want to listen to a bunch of beeps all day. Things are significantly more sophisticated these days.
I too have a very hard tine believing that a junior national guard was able to get that much information unless everyone was asleep at the wheel.
You’re spot on. E-3s in Air Force reserve units don’t get CIA strategic intel dumps. It’s asinine to think they would.
That's his job. Well, was. Now he's going to spend most of his life breaking rocks.
Thank you--exactly my thoughts when I first heard of this. 21 year old? Unless, of course---he was a trans....then he'd be eligible for all sorts of promotion bennies, wouldn't he?
He was an intel analyst. That's his job.
People post 9/11 complained that everything was too compartmentalized and not enough intel sharing was going on.
So they fixed that.
Completely wrong. 21 year old lower enlisted air force reservists aren’t tasked with putting together strategic intel briefs for the CIA and command authority.
21 year old enlisted **are** tasked with sorting data and doing other things.
I was in the armored field.
I was giving briefs to Colonels, Generals, and majors as a lowly NCO.
You’re full of shit. I’m a retired army officer of 23 years. You were not briefing shit buy maybe your tank crew. But please, continue to spew nonsense about how in the know you are because you drove a tank.
I absolutely was.
I'll be sure to tell them that it's not a briefing.
I also didn't have a tank crew comprised of a general, colonel, and a major.
I was on a battalion level staff billet.
What did you do in the Marine Corp? Apparently it wasn’t intel.
The uptick in stillbirths is due to the vaccine and spike protein. The vax also kills sperm cells. Countries who are trying to pin mask wearing to the declining birth rates in their countries still won’t admit that the vaccine is the problem.
I suggest the stillbirth / infertility increases are due to BOTH factors.
This enemy we confront fights us on multiple fronts.
Good point.
With all due respect for religion, you should not need a religious exemption and have to "walk the walk" like good little sheep to say no. We need to fight for the right to decide how we manage our health. Not letting someone dictate what allows us to decide.
I agree. It should be simply a question of saying no, without any justifications necessary.
That said, I do agree that at least someone should have some kind of real faith and not just use a pretend belief to get something in exchange. Though I don’t think there needs to be proof as in regular church attendance. Although that is a good indicator of sincere faith, as are praying and reading the Bible.
Anytime we raise the problematic of when someone has "real" faith or not, and particularly in the context of government, then it entails that there be criteria and a funcionary who has (and also is authorized to have) the authority to determine the legitimacy (what is legal faith?) of faith. Yes, for me, I do wish to discern those who are sincere and real, but I wish that within the context of my own personal life and personal decisions, which is an acceptable scope of relevancy for my personal discernment. In what way is it desirable and Good to determine real faith (and what following actions), and how do we address that without placing our human authority above divine authority?
You are right. But with Jeff Childer’s approach, it may have had a profound affect on those with whom he was working. And, since God is always working for our good, He may be using that ‘religious’ exemption to open those blind eyes to their need for a relationship with Him.
After all, Relationship is what He is all about. Not religion.
Great comment and very good points.
“Every single person who calls you is a an opportunity for you to bring that person to faith, so that their religious exemption letter WILL BE true. God’s put you on a pole, like the bronze serpent, so that you can reach people in a way you never could have before.”
This is genius! God works His will in the most mysterious of ways! And sometimes in the simplest and most obvious of ways. We simply have to be open and willing to hearing His Way for creating heaven on earth! He’s waiting to assist; all we have to do is ask for His help! What opportunities are right in front of each of us today for sharing God’s message of hope and tipping the scales in favor of Love! Fear has no hold on us!
Thanks, Jeff, for sharing the amazing gifts you are providing in addition to great news and legal advice; you’re truly an instrument of God!
St. Teresa of Avila said, “God can write straight with crooked lines.” I believe that’s what we are seeing now 🙏🏻
I do hope so! I am happy to know that she is behind that quote. She is a favourite of mine
I lost my faith 20 years ago when my mom died a slow and horrible death from cancer. I never considered going back until all the scamdemic stuff. I’ve started seeing various signs pointing me in the direction. Including some great friends enlightening me to the word of God. Plus all the wonderful C&Cers. 💙. Godspeak calvary church in Thousand Oaks never closed. pastor Rob defied all the Lockdown nonsense. I’m thinking that’s a great place to start my new awakening.
I'm thinking that's a good place for you to start as well!!
Great read C&C and as a matter of fact covid and the bioweapon shots made me start going to mass again, I saw how evil this world has become and I knew I had to re-connect with God and meet Him in His home, the church. I never thought about an exemption for the jabs because I don't work and am retired, I just needed to be close to God and show Him I was always with Him but life had steered me away for a time. Our church is packed every Sunday and that gives me allot of hope.
Mine was closed for a year. I haven’t been back because of the speed they caved in—all my local churches did— but I’m getting leadings to return and someone called me Saturday and encouraged me to come back. I believe I will. Christ totally got me through some terrible times in 2021. It was clear to me He opened my eyes to this satanic plan in our faces. It was very shocking and marooned me politically and led me back because God was ALL I had. I’m ready to return now. Finally. I need these people and they need me. 🙏🏻🙏🏻 Perhaps this person who called me needs to see that God is working and is using her.
I kept away from church for over 2 years for the same reasons. We finally just had to dump our old church and go looking for a new one. The realization that we couldn’t return was the hardest part. While we are happy in our new church, the sadness of leaving a church I had been connected to for over 50 years was devastating. Recently went to the doc for blood work and yearly checkup. She kept asking me about being sad. Tried several times to prescribe antidepressants and gave me a phone number for a therapist. She didn’t realize the depth of sadness from the past few years. Plus the realization that now I need to find a new doctor to replace her. She was wearing a “pronoun pin” and a rainbow watch band. Oh yea- she also highly recommended a Covid shot and taetnus shot.
Not a real doctor. A drug pusher.
Yup.
I’m sorry. But glad you found another congregation. We lost so many young families that used to attend. Only 3 in Sunday school now. Plus they replaced our beloved pastor during the end of lockdown with a newby that wasn’t even from our denomination. I think that was a rotten act by the district “leaders”. Feels like seminary sermons now( I still attend a womens group that goes over the sermons). I’m returning now to see what God wants me to do. Bless you.
See if your records diagnose you as vaccine hesitant and the reason. If the reason is depression that tags you as a potential danger to the community even if you don’t have her as a doc. The records follow you.
Sorry to sound tin foil hat, but the diagnostic codes are in play now.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/special-report-medical-profession-implements-digital-diagnosis-code-unvaxxed/
Code Number Z28.310 for a “diagnosis” (not a diagnosis at all, but an invasion of privacy) likely to be used against many people in the future. Doctors log it into the computer system that is accessed by government and private health insurers informing them of your Covid vaccine status. There are further designations for why you are not jabbed including depression, anti vax, etc. The purpose is to log who may be a “danger” to the community.
God bless! Great testimony! So glad you are back at mass!
I wonder where you get this shirt: GOD>GOV
That is a totally far out idea ("far out" as in good, I'm old....)
Groovy, I am old as well
♥️🙋♀️
Me too - turned 64 two days ago.
Far out - groovy - you're harshen my mellow
I have a cricut machine so it would be easy enough to make heat transfer vinyl that says that. His video to the school board was amazing!
Jeff Childers wrote: "That way, their sincere religious exemption requests would be factual and true, and not susceptible to being picked apart by skeptical reviewers."
More importantly, it wouldn't be picked apart by God. I'm sure He was not pleased by people invoking His name to get an exemption who hadn't actually worshipped Him in years and had no intention of doing so. But I get the point.
Regarding reconnecting with faith, it happened to me on a business trip after neglecting my faith (and my kids faith unfortunately) for about a decade. About seven years ago I was on a business trip that happened to be to the area where I committed my life to Christ back in the 90's. It was Wednesday night and I was sitting in the hotel room and suddenly felt compelled to attend that same church's mid-week service. Within seconds of worship starting I felt a level of peace and comfort that I had lost and long forgotten.
It surprised me but I immediately knew I had to be back in church regularly. It also surprised me that when I came home and told my wife and kids that I wanted to start going to church they said "sure" with no arguing and we've been attending ever since. God had been working on their hearts too apparently.
Ok. Jeff Childers made me laugh and cry at the same time.
Now I am crying again. Oh, the joy that comes when we turn back and find that He never moved.......that He was waiting for us to turn our faces back to Him!!!
What Love!
What Mercy!
What Grace!!
What A Savior!
Amen!!!