@JoeHo585871@SavedBcGrace@DefiantLs I was confused too but later in the story it seems the reporter had written it ‘misplacing the modifier’. She meant to be saying that that poor, poor child had died.
@OneTokenDeFi@renee_guthery@farmingandJesus Galatians 4. Just studied that this afternoon. But does trying to protect people from the prosperity gospel constitute legalism?
𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: What is Free Grace?
𝐀𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫: Free Grace is the biblical doctrine that teaches salvation is received solely by believing in Jesus Christ—by faith alone, plus nothing, minus nothing. Eternal life is a free gift, and once a person is saved, they are eternally secure in Christ and cannot lose their salvation.
Grace is free and means unmerited favor.
Salvation is by grace through faith in Jesus alone because He died on the Cross, shedding His blood to pay for all our sins. He was buried and bodily rose again on the third day for the justification of all who believe in Him alone for salvation.
Once saved, a believer remains eternally secure in Christ.
BREAKING: Senator Josh Hawley calls for Congress to roll back the nationwide injunction.
This would prevent a single District judge from halting a federal policy nationwide.
This must be done.
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I knocked on 75 doors today and talked to 2 dozen voters today. After I explained to them what was at stake for this election in WI on April 1st. They told me immediately they are going to vote for Brad Schimel @TeamSchimel coming up.
I also sent 235 postcards out this week to voters. I got another 165 postcards on hand. I just got my stamps today so the rest of that will be sent out this week.
My business letters will be coming on Monday and Tuesday. I got 700 of them because I would love to add a personal touch to it because we have a lot on the line here in this election and I don't voters sitting at home. If the voters sit at home. It's a vote for Susan Crawford. I don't want that. I am putting a ton of urgency and effort into all of this.
I did text 350 people this week and most of all of them are going to be voting for Schimel. I had a few liberals, but I just shrug it off because If their not gonna stop drinking the dems coolaid. I really can't help them. It's up to them.
@Eduke15 just announce the @EarlyVoteAction is up and running again so everyone should be able to download the app and start doing what I am doing.
I don't want WI to be the next Illinois. I don't want the democrats to wreck havoc and to put a fresh coat of blue paint on our state in the midterms and in 2028. I am doing all I can. I would love for you guys help. 🇺🇸 ❤️
@ScottPresler I hope I made you proud today. I hope everyone at @AmericaMission_ proud today. I hope I made @laurenboebert proud today. 🇺🇸 💯 🔥 @patriot_savvy
@TheTubby2024@libsoftiktok He doesn’t take responsibility for being the cause of the disagreement. He led the Whitehouse to believe that he was ready to sign the deal then added more demands on air. Not really an apology when he says ‘it happened’.
@BriggsJen68250@RapidResponse47 Filibuster. Is there anything wrong with bringing back the real thing? Make them put effort into blocking it rather than the ‘let’s not and say we did’ option the senate has now.
BREAKING:
Polish PM Donald Tusk speaking before flying to London for today’s Ukraine emergency summit:
“500 million Europeans are asking 300 million Americans to defend them against 140 million Russians (…) Europe today lacks the belief that we are truly a global power”
@RychardeM@LauraPowellEsq @WittWellness @seanmdav With other countries stuff uhhh yea.
America is the first global superpower not to annex half the globe but instead provide for its defense and our thanks is non stop ridicule for the temerity of wanting to pursue peace instead of sinking half a trillion into Ukraine.
As a Christian, of course I had heard of Nero. His "Roman candles" (burning Christians alive to light his garden at night) atrocities kinda tend to lead the way with his reputation. But we've been studying this period of time in history and one thing struck me today.
Yes, Nero was an absolute beast who kicked his pregnant wife to death. Yes, he had his mother killed. Yes, he killed both Peter and Paul.
But his mom? Agrippina the Younger. What a piece of work. She's just as calculating and evil as her brother, Caligula, although framed in a female form. TBH I wonder if Nero was doomed from the start coming from such a homicidal, insane and evil family lineage. Demonic oppression if not possession for sure (Caligula seems to have had some kind of health thing where he came out the other side verifiably, evilly, insane). I am sure Satan was pretty aggravated about the whole Jesus coming back from the dead and triumphing over death "thing", so it would make sense that he would go to the top of the Roman power structure and incite them to rage and murder Christ's followers.
But here's where we get the question, did they harden their own hearts as well as allow Satan to work through them? God says to those who hate Him, (Exodus 20:5) "You shall not bow down to them or serve them [idols], for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me"... Honestly? You couldn't get a better example of an evil family for 3 ish generations than the "Julio-Claudian" dynasty. And their family line ENDED. Done. Gone. The whole city of Rome celebrating by running through the streets, gone.
What does this mean for us?
I know fellow Christians who have talked about "generational cursing" citing this Exodus verse as an example. And yes, some sins certainly seem to lead to generational issues, and addiction and incest would certainly be included here (some of the many, many sins apparent in the whole dynasty I have been talking about). But that doesn't mean that these people couldn't have been saved if they had had faith in God. Crazier things have happened (err, the whole coming back from the dead thing??). So even though we can see in human history the judgement of God upon the wicked, those who hate him, for generations, we can still rejoice and thank God for saving us out of that. Because let's face it, we're all descendants somehow of Cain the first murderer, and Adam and Eve the first rebels against God's good rules. Yet, if you confess with your mouth and believe in your heart in Jesus, you will be saved. That's a promise. A promise anyone, from any kind of crazy family background, can cling to and rely on.
Today? If you haven't clung onto that promise, there's still time. As the Bible says, Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your heart .. but turn and believe. (Hebrews 3). As Agrippina says here, Repent. 😁
When globalism goes too far, nationalism is the counterweight. When institutions go too rogue, populism is the counterweight. What we've endured in this war on nationalism & populism is globalist institutions responding to grievances by crushing the aggrieved, rather than reform
"Satan disguises submission to himself under the ruse of personal autonomy. He never asks us to become his servants. Never once did the serpent say to Eve, 'I want to be your Master.' The shift in commitment is never from Christ to evil; it is always from Christ to self. And instead of his will, self-interest now rules and what I want reigns. And this is the essence of sin."
- Dennis F. Kinlaw (1922-2017)
Are you trusting in the Jesus of the Bible?
Do not be hoodwinked by false prophets and heretical teachers today who push a counterfeit Christ that is found nowhere in God’s Word.
I'm concerned that many people do not understand the historical and institutional context in which the DOGE labor reforms are unfolding. They look at this as if these are some random, chaotic, arbitrary, strange, and even cruel measures to impose on a devoted civil service.
The reality is very different, and I'm not even sure that Elon entirely understands this. For more than a century, even dating back to 1883, the civil service has grown and grown without check from the elected branch, either the presidency or the legislature . The bureaucracies have ballooned from a few to 450 or so. The bloat and absurdities have grown too.
Get this: no one has ever known what to do about it. Not Coolidge, not Hoover, not Nixon, not Reagan, not Clinton, no one. No president has been able to crack this nut. The only reforms ever to have made it through are those that make the administrative state bigger, never smaller.
Countless cabinet secretaries have come and gone, always with the intention of making a change but leaving saddened, demoralized, outwitted, outgunned, and ultimately devoured.
No president has seriously taken on this problem because they simply did not know how. The unions are powerful, the intimidation from the deep institutional knowledge is overwhelming, the fear of the media as been powerful, and every single president comes to power vaguely feeling threatened by the intelligence agencies. The industries that have captured every single agency were also far too powerful to unseat or control.
This combination of institutional inertia has blocked serious reform for a full century. No one has dared. No one has even had a theory or strategy about what to do about this problem. It had become so terrible that most people in politics have simply surrendered, like homeowners who know there are rats in the basement and bats in the attic but long ago gave up trying to fix the issue.
All this time, the American people have felt themselves ever more oppressed, weighed upon, taxed and regulated, spied upon, brow beaten, and otherwise overwhelmed. Voting never made any difference because the politicians no longer controlled the system. The bureaucracies ruled all.
The Biden years underscored the point. We didn't even need a conscious and present executive. We only needed a figurehead to pretend to be president, just like the Soviet premiers in the old days. The institutions ran everything and the people controlled nothing.
How to deal with this? Trump alone figured it out in his last term: he simply took charge of the agencies in a limited way. There were screams of horror and plots galore. They performed a long stream of clever schemes to destroy him and show him who is boss, which is not the democratically elected president but the forces behind the scenes.
The job of the president, goes the message from all the insiders, is to PRETEND to be in charge but not actually do anything meaningful. Shut up, mug up, obey, and disturb nothing, let the administrative state do its thing without oversight or disruption, and then you will get your honorary library and bestselling autobiography and go down in history as great.
Trump refused the deal and look what happened.
Four years have gone by and Trump is back again, this time with a determination to slay this beast, one that he knows all-to-well. The efforts of DOGE and MAHA and MAGA are epic in scope, breaking a century of pathetic acquiescence toward the deep, middle, and shallow states, at last using moral courage to confront the problem head on, come what may.
They are profoundly aware that they MUST act fast and with some degree of ferocity, even recklessness, else we will default back to the status quo of leaders who pretend to be in charge while the embedded system runs things behind the scenes.
It has been this way for TOO LONG. The voters this time have demanded change, and mustered the faith to believe that change is possible. This is precisely what DOGE is attempting, to make good on a promise, a promise that for once the voters actually believed was credible.
They simply must succeed. There might never be another chance. The way of failure is the path everyone knows the US was on, toward economic stagnation, political scolerosis, and eventual irrelevance in the unfolding of the next stage of social evolution.