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‘Amen Church’ has reportedly shut down completely and permanently closed its doors, putting the Dallas-based church out of its misery following its spectacular implosion and downfall. Three months ago, Amen Church founder Dr. Field Harrison shocked concertgoers attending the ‘Amen Nights’ worship concert when he attacked the inspiration of the Bible and came out fully as LGBTQ-affirming. Telling the gathered crowd, “There are some people that want to treat the whole Bible as equal, just not this guy” Harrison was dismayed when rather than standing up for the voiceless, the crowd stood up to leave, disgusted at what they heard....

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA) is a simmering cauldron of blasphemy and mephistopjlean angst, to the point that sitting through an actual church service at one of their pagan temples is a foretaste of the hell that awaits them if they don’t repent. Some of the denomination’s greatest hits include: Woke Church Newsletter Invites Congregants To Help Pay for Abortions and Abortion Pills Pastrix Says Jesus Called Syrophoenician Woman a ‘B*****’ + “Jesus Screwed Up, She Redeems Him” Queer ELCA Pastrix Ordained With Drag Queen Nuns While Jennifer Knapp Serenades This brings us to Lura Groen, the pastrix...

At least 37 people were shot, three of them fatally, Friday into Sunday afternoon across Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) Chicago. Breitbart News reported one of the shooting fatalities occurred in a drive-by incident Sunday morning just after 2 a.m. Five people in all were shot in the incident and a 40-year-old woman succumbed to her wounds. ABC 7 / Chicago Sun-Times reported that a man was shot and killed “in the 1000 block of North California Avenue in the Humboldt Park neighborhood” roughly 30 minutes after the drive-by incident occurred.

The Bible In Paintings ~ Encouragement for Applying and Appreciating God's Word ~ The Best of J A M E S T I S S O T “JACQUES JOSEPH TISSOT (1836 – 1902), anglicized as JAMES TISSOT, was a French painter and illustrator. He was a successful painter of fashionable, modern scenes and society life in Paris before moving to London in 1871. Tissot also painted scenes and figures from the Bible. “In 1885, Tissot had a revival of his Catholic faith, which led him to spend the rest of his life making paintings about biblical events. Tissot returned...

Yesterday the City wore a more quiet and natural aspect than on any day since Sunday, and it was apparent that the reign of the mob was drawing to a close. The return home of several regiments of our State Militia, whose services were immediately tendered to the authorities, gladdened the hearts of our citizens and struck terror to those of the mob. The riotous demonstrations were confined to a comparatively small neighborhood of tenement houses on the east side of the town, and even in that locality they did not assume a formidable shape until late in the afternoon....

A private Christian preschool has issued a complaint of religious discrimination against Colorado state officials. Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) attorneys are representing Darren Patterson Christian Academy, which runs a preschool called “Busy Bees” in Buena Vista, Colorado. The academy was denied state funding of the new universal preschool program (“UPK”) unless it forgoes its religious character, beliefs and exercise. Effective July 1, the UPK program gives every 4-year-old in Colorado a minimum of 15 hours per week of free preschool services for the next year. All licensed preschools in Colorado have been encouraged to join the program, but they must...

Why do liberals and leftists want to continually indoctrinate everyone else, while today’s conservatives tend to adopt a live and let live attitude? Raising this question to conservative friends, I had no idea that the issue would prompt such intense reactions, including heartfelt expressions about attempts to communicate with family members, relatives, friends, and associates. Judy S. said: “I’ve tried to discuss politics with a few liberals, including family members whom I love, and their responses always felt like having venom spit at me by an agitated viper. I no longer discuss politics with anyone on the Left. I do,...

WHITEMARSH TOWNSHIP, Pa. - Emergency crews are responding to the scene of a train derailment in Montgomery County. According to authorities, cars on a CSX Norfolk Southern train derailed in the area of Stenton Avenue, Flourtown Road and Joshua Road in Whitemarsh Township just after 5 a.m. on Monday. Sources told FOX 29 that 15 to 20 cars believed to be carrying hazardous materials derailed in the area, prompting a Level 2 hazmat response. Police later said the only material leaking out of the train cars was silicone pellets, which pose no threat to the public.

Long the hottest place on Earth, Death Valley put a sizzling exclamation point Sunday on a record warm summer that is baking nearly the entire globe by flirting with some of the hottest temperatures ever recorded, meteorologists said. Temperatures in Death Valley, which runs along part of central California’s border with Nevada, reached 128 degrees Fahrenheit (53.33 degrees Celsius) on Sunday at the aptly named Furnace Creek, the National Weather Service said. The hottest temperature ever record was 134 F (56.67 C) in July 1913 at Furnace Creek, said Randy Ceverny of the World Meteorological Organization, the body recognized as...

17 July 2023Monday of week 15 in Ordinary TimePainting of St. Benedict of Skalka and his fellow hermit Andrew Zorard, Skalka nad Váhom, SlovakiaReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingExodus 1:8-14,22 ©The Egyptians force the sons of Israel into slaveryThere came to power in Egypt a new king who knew nothing of Joseph. ‘Look,’ he said to his subjects ‘these people, the sons of Israel, have become so numerous and strong that they are a threat to us. We must be prudent and take steps against their increasing any further, or if war should break out, they might add...

San Francisco-based companies leaving The Golden City because of drop in revenue ... San Francisco, California-based tech CEO Mark Benioff says the city will never go back to the way it was ... ... Golden City is struggling to keep businesses intact, leaving many buildings vacant.. office vacancy rates in San Francisco were 24.8% in the first quarter, more than five times higher than pre-pandemic levels and well above the average rate of 18.5% for the nation’s top cities, ... For San Francisco, the three-year exile resulted in empty storefronts with large "going out of business" signs hanging from windows....

A failure to resolve twin strikes of the writers’ and screen actors’ guilds could lead to “devastating effects” if no deal is reached soon, according to billionaire media mogul Barry Diller. snip Mr. Diller, a former Paramount Pictures CEO, said on July 16 that the situation could compound if not resolved quickly. “These conditions will potentially produce an absolute collapse of an entire industry,” he told CBS News. “I would call for a September 1 deadline. There’s a strike deadline. I think there should be a settlement deadline, because unless it happens by September 1 … The truth is, this...

- Tlaib/Omar to Pramila Jayapal: - Hello "sister". - Hello. - How can I help in our "cause?" 'IsrAIL- bashing always work. (By us it's a goal, not just a tool, anyhow). - You two do that better. - Well, we are known as Muslims, whereas you... - So what's the strategy? - Tlaib: "apartheid" calling! As you know, by now, our other Arab (anti-Jewish) activist, brother Omar Shakir, had already used the HRW for his campaign he began since 2010 at BDS, so it's by a "human rights org." (Not just Hitler's helper A. Shukeiri's 1961 invention). And please,...

Rep. Adam B. Schiff swamped his rivals in the financial race to replace retiring Sen. Dianne Feinstein, raising $8.2 million in recent months, according to federal fundraising reports released Saturday. Schiff collected roughly double the combined total raised by his top Democratic opponents — Reps. Katie Porter and Barbara Lee — in the same period. Schiff’s windfall was fueled by his June censure by congressional Republicans over his role in investigating former GOP President Trump’s ties to Russia — a reprimand the Burbank Democrat repeatedly highlighted in his fundraising appeals.

Our benevolent overlords in the government have found another problem to "fix." This time the issue is "social isolation" and the dangers it poses to mental health. In a massive 81-page advisory report is entitled "Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation," released by the Surgeon General's office, we are told that loneliness can be as dangerous to our health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. It increases the risk of premature death by nearly a third. It's linked to higher risks of heart disease, stroke, addiction, self-harm and dementia. Ooh, that's some scary stuff. It's no accident this report refers...

"Company-wide layoffs" are currently taking place at Fox News. This information comes from journalist Chadwick Moore. Moore, in the past few days, has posted several messages to his Twitter account exposing what is going on, largely out of the public's eye. It turns out that among those being laid off are the remaining members of Tucker Carlson's team. Carlson, of course, is the extremely popular former Fox News host who was fired by Fox in April for undisclosed reasons. The "company-wide layoffs" In a Twitter message that Moore posted on Friday, July 14, he wrote: EXCLUSIVE: According to a current...

Changing conditions caused by climate change pose a potential risk to eastern wild turkeys in North Carolina and other Southern states, new research shows. Reluctance by the species to vary when it begins nesting could put that cycle out of sync with evolving weather patterns, threatening the availability of food and protective vegetation, according to a newly published study in the journal Climate Change Ecology. “There are implications here for turkey populations if individuals are inflexible in their ability to shift their reproductive activities, as resources are certainly going to change in the future,” said Chris Moorman, a professor in...

Former Disney CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg named national co-chair of Biden's 2024 campaign ... A former Disney CEO and his wife recently donated more than $1.7 million to a joint fundraising committee authorized by Biden's campaign, despite their deep ties to China. Biden’s campaign announced on April 25 that former Disney and DreamWorks Animation chief Jeffrey Katzenberg would serve as one of its national co-chairs. Two days later, on April 27, the Biden Victory Fund, the campaign’s joint fundraising vehicle, received a donation totaling $889,600 from Katzenberg’s wife, Marilyn. ... Katzenberg has deep and longstanding ties to China's communist government.. potentially...

VIDEOA very INTENSE lightning storm started rolling into Broward County, FL a little after 5 PM on July 6, 2023. I heard the roar of thunder in the distance at that time and checked LightningMaps.Org which revealed a chain of lightning strikes going off in the Everglades west of me. I immediately drove to a nearby location about 10 miles west of the Atlantic and just south of Tamarac and went up to the third floor balcony of a building. I set up my cell camera on a tripod and pointed it almost due west to catch the incoming lightning...

Forcing you to participate in the absurdity is the actual purpose. Recently, Arizona Republican Eli Crane was rebuked for referring to “people of color” as “colored people.” That’s a controversy which would, at any other time in the history of the English language, be incomprehensible to a sensible reader. After all, there’s no practical difference in the phrases. In fact, the choice to give preference to the phrase “people of color” is worse than practically useless to an English speaker -- it’s needlessly more burdensome to both the talker and the listener. Consider this formula with any other trait. Would...