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“Speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord” (Ephesians 5:19). If we are Spirit-filled, we will have songs of praise in our hearts and on our lips. Once a Christian knows about being Spirit-filled and walking by the Spirit, it is still fair for him or her to ask, “But how can I know if the Holy Spirit is really at work in my life?” Ephesians 5:19 answers this question by declaring one of the unmistakable evidences of the Spirit’s full operation in our lives—we will have...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez donned an elegant gown with the slogan "Tax the Rich" painted on the back at the Met Gala in New York, where guests selected by Vogue's Anna Wintour ponied up around $35,000 a pop for tickets. The scene was reminiscent of Tom Wolfe's "radical chic" -- though rather than being guests of the well-heeled in Park Avenue duplexes, today's revolutionaries own luxury condos and drive around in government-subsidized electric cars that most Americans could never afford. My first question, though, is: Who doesn't want to "tax the rich"? Judging from my social-media feed, there seems to be...

Former US President Donald Trump criticized US President Joe Biden, claiming that he is "worse than Obama." In an interview with Newsmax, Trump criticized the US Department of Justice, claiming that Biden is using it as a weapon. Responding to a question about Biden's demand that several Trump appointees to military service academy boards resign, Trump said, "They use local prosecutors, federal prosecutors, and yet Hunter Biden is fine." Trump added, "You know, he was going to be the great unifier. But he's not a unifier. He's the opposite." "He's worse than Obama," Trump emphasized to Newsmax, adding, "Of course,...

WASHINGTON, Monday, Sept. 16. Yesterday there was some firing between pickets at Bailey's Cross Roads and Munson's Hill. It is said that two of the rebel pickets were killed. To-day all has been quiet along our lines. Our troops have been engaged in strengthening our defences, and along the upper part of the lines the pickets of the respective forces were not within-sight of each other. Our pickets now occupy the hill upon which BASIL HALL's house stood. Major ED. O.C. ORD, of the Third Artillery' Capt. HORATIO G. WRIGHT, of the Engineers, and WM. NELSON, of Kentucky, have been...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemProverbs 181. An unfriendly person pursues selfish ends and against all sound judgment starts quarrels. 2 Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. 3 When wickedness comes, so does contempt, and with shame comes reproach. 4 The words of the mouth are deep waters, but the fountain of wisdom is a rushing stream. 5 It is not good to be partial to the wicked and so deprive the innocent of justice. 6 The lips of fools bring them strife, and their mouths invite a beating. 7 The mouths of...

Yesterday I penned a throwaway post which was a slight rant at the fact that the world currently is more mad than usual, which is saying something. Unfortunately, many of my good readers took it as a sign of your faithful scribe facing imminent mental burnout where I would be reduced to some pathetic husk of a creature, shuffling around with a retarded look on my face as I gazed at the world in abject stupidity and ignorance coupled with a high level of poor dress sense. You know, like the elites. Yee of little faith. Those of us who...

Federal prosecutors are preparing to criminally charge a former Boeing pilot who is suspected of misleading regulators about safety issues during the approval process for the troubled 737 MAX, according to a new report.Mark Forkner, Boeing's 737 MAX chief technical pilot during the aircraft's development, could face charges in the next few weeks, people familiar with the matter told the Wall Street Journal. Prosecutors have been probing whether Forkner intentionally lied to the Federal Aviation Administration about the nature of new flight control software on the jet, which suffered two deadly crashes within months, killing 346 people.Forkner's attorney David Gerger...

2021 09 16 By Pollock **UNDERSTANDING THE LEFTIST AGENDA** I posted the following on Sept. 25, 2016 ..just weeks before the election. Hillary's defeat was likely the luckiest thing to happen in the history of our nation...unfortunately not all of our citizens recognize that ..YET..!! The battle is constant and very far from over. Hillary's loss has further emboldened and turned the Left and ALL the long time corrupt Political Establishment into a huge seething pack of cornered Rats fighting to the death to maintain their power and wealth...a fight for their very existence. That should be obvious to anyone...

Mark Milley took instruction from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. If you believe Bob Woodward's latest book, the US has lost civilian control of its military — unless you count Nancy Pelosi, who seems to have been in control of everything since she became speaker in 2019 with the single-minded goal of bringing down Donald Trump. Everything has gone downhill since, most dangerously at the Pentagon, where a cohort of woke generals fell under Pelosi’s malign spell. That’s the only way you can ­understand how Gen. Mark Milley could have become so deranged that he cast himself as the hero of...

Few in the West appreciate how this episode is being used to validate Muslim zeal and faith in Islam. While it should be a no-brainer that the Taliban's victory in Afghanistan has emboldened like-minded (read: "radical") Muslims to no end, few in the West appreciate how this episode — especially America's disastrous retreat — is being used to validate the Koran itself, and thus Muslim zeal and faith in Islam. Beginning around August 15, 2021, when the Taliban reconquered Afghanistan, every time I watched an Arabic-language program or sheikh speak, they cited several Koran verses as "proof" that it was...

Another Afghan who had been deported from the U.S. after an aggravated felony conviction was found on an evacuation flight back to the U.S. this month, The Washington Times has learned. The man, who had a 2011 conviction for aggravated robbery and was deported in 2017, somehow cleared all the overseas checks the Biden administration says it is making. He was flagged only when he arrived at Washington Dulles International Airport, making it tougher to oust him. His case follows that of Ghader Heydari, an Afghan who was convicted of rape in Idaho in 2010 and was deported in 2017,...

It's not yet time to break out the champagne, but cautious optimism seems warranted. The elements for conspiracy charges against the really big names are lined up. I am cautiously optimistic over the indictment handed down yesterday, accusing attorney Michael Sussaman, then of Perkins Coie, representing the Hillary Clinton campaign, of lying to the FBI. It has been very easy to despair that anything would ever come of Durham’s Special Counsel probe, especially after the slap on the wrist delivered to Kevin Clinesmith, an FBI lawyer who lied to a court by changing evidence 180 degrees in order to facilitate...

The nation's largest state has just voted in an election triggered by one of the nation's weirdest recall processes, and the results have come out just about where they've been before. California Gov. Gavin Newsom was elected governor in 2018 by 62% to 38%, a result that was, unsurprisingly in an era of straight-ticket voting and strong partisan allegiance, almost identical to President Joe Biden's 64% to 34% margin over Donald Trump in 2020. As of this writing -- and it has taken California weeks to fully count its votes in recent general elections -- incomplete returns show 64% of...

Wasn't there research about how people who chose not to vax were using rational decsion making choices? I cannot find that research now. Was it Hopkins?

Global warming is making us cold, so we need to make it colder, or else the Earth will burn up. Let's get this right: global warming caused the record cold in Texas last winter. And the climate will be even colder for decades to come because the climate is warming, so let's spend trillions to make it colder. Global warming is making us cold, so we need to make it colder, or else the Earth will burn up. That's the conclusion of climate scientists in a new report. Now that the climate appears to be cooling, at least in many...

Jesus is Messiah and Lord, but He confounds every notion we have ever had about these titles. His power reaches perfection in “weakness” and He reigns from the cross. To the world this is utter absurdity, but the Lord insists that we meet Him at the cross. He chooses the foolish to shame the wise; He chooses the weak to shame the strong; He chooses the lowly and despised things of the world—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are (cf 1 Cor 1:27-28). Let us journey to the cross and meet Him there; let us endure...

In short, the purpose of the report is for propaganda. A newly published CDC study prompted the MSM to run headlines like "New study finds unvaccinated are 11 times more likely to die from Covid, CDC says," "Unvaccinated people were 11 times more likely to die of covid-19, CDC report finds," and "Unvaccinated People Are 11 Times More Likely To Die Of COVID-19, New Research Finds." It surely looks scary if you read only those headlines. I was curious about what the report actually says, and doesn't say. Below is what I found. 1. The purpose of the report is...

The California recall election turned out well for the Democrats. With Gov. Gavin Newsom sinking in the summer polls, the party had been staring starkly at the prospect of losing the nation's largest state and seeing its governor replaced by talk-show host Larry Elder, who had vaulted into the lead among the 46 candidates seeking to replace Newsom. Elder had rallied Republicans and started to surge, which terrified the Democrats. Not only might they lose Newsom, but they could get in the governor's mansion in Sacramento what leftists took to calling "the black face of white supremacy." Result: A panicked...

This week's deeply unsettling revelation of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley's alleged late Trump administration-era perfidy, bordering on high treason, is but one glaring fusillade in a years-long crusade by America's decrepit ruling class to condemn and ultimately subjugate us "deplorables," "wrong-thinkers" and all others with a conservative or traditionalist worldview. It is a shot across the bow in that roiling cold domestic conflict, and a clarion call as to the relevant stakes. It is also a brazen assault on one of the most rudimentary defining features of America's constitutional order -- an assault that...

In this video, Patriot Nurse discusses the cancerous growth of the Federal government and its rogue status in defiance of the Constitution. Convention of States: https://conventionofstates.com/