Eric Metaxes,
I call upon you as a supposed brother in Christ to repent of your calumny and bearing false witness.
I have previously called upon you privately in accordance with Matthew 18:15.
Our brethren have attempted to act as witnesses in accordance with Matthew 18:16.
If there was any authority you recognised other than yourself, I would call upon them in accordance with Matthew 18:17.
You reject all Christian reconciliation, and you continue in your evil acts, and so the Scriptures teach that you should be treated as an outsider, called to repentance, and evangelised. I pray you repent and come to the Christian faith.
THINGS TO PRAY OVER YOUR KIDS
- Their identity is rooted in Christ
- God protects their mind, heart, and body
- They walk in confidence and purpose
- They hunger for God's presence
- They hear and obey God's voice
- They walk in wisdom and discernment
-Their mind is sound and peaceful
- Fear, anxiety, and confusion must flee
- They value purity, kindness, and humility
- They know their worth in Christ
- Their future is led by the Lord
- They shine bright in a dark world
St Augustine so truly captures the sorrow of having wasted your prime years on filth and wickedness. I think back on the absolute scum I was and have no pride at all, no “good old days”. It was just constantly soothing a yearning that was for God, with anything but God
Every serious believer has prayed for God to kill their flesh.
When we pray that prayer, we expect an anesthetic or a kill switch. We imagine a painless transaction where God quietly turns down the volume on our worst impulses, leaving our pride and self-image undisturbed.
Instead, He answers with a mirror and a scalpel.
We often approach God believing we already know where the flesh is weak. We identify it only by its loud, embarrassing symptoms: an unexpected temper, a secret spiral, or a compulsive habit. We point to the visible stain and assume we’ve diagnosed the disease.
But those symptoms are often merely the tip of an iceberg. Beneath them lies a massive stronghold of entitlement, self-preservation, and an obsession with being sovereign over our own lives.
Before the flesh can be put to death, its true perimeter has to be mapped. And mapping it means total, humiliating exposure. The mirror is the word of God, and James warns that the man who glances into it and walks away forgets what he saw (James 1:23-24). When this prayer is answered, He doesn't let us walk away.
C.S. Lewis described this bargain in Mere Christianity. As a boy with a toothache, he knew that asking his mother for aspirin meant being taken to the dentist the next morning, he couldn't get the one without the other.
We go to God begging for painkillers just to sleep through the night, and like the dentist, He refuses to stop at comfort. He goes straight for the root, refusing to leave the rot inside us.
When that divine surgery begins, the flesh never lies down and dies with dignity.
Starved of oxygen, it thrashes like a cornered animal, manufacturing sudden panic, defensiveness, and desperate cravings. When God sends the help you asked for, a spouse asking an honest question, a mentor seeing through your facade, an accountability partner refusing to flatter you; your dying ego perceives executioners where God sent allies.
To protect itself from crucifixion, the flesh bites whatever hand is closest. Many friendships and marriages become collateral damage simply because an exposed ego is swinging wildly in the dark.
So what must our posture be when the exposure hits, the ground gives way, and we begin to spiral?
Our natural instinct is to negotiate our way off the table: "Lord, make it stop. Put the mask back on. Give me relief." But true mortification requires that you stop defending what God has marked for death.
Paul says it is by the Spirit that we put to death the deeds of the body (Romans 8:13), which means the scalpel is in His hand and our only assignment is to stop wrestling Him for it. Heroic willpower has no part here; the posture is trembling, defenseless stillness. It is the agonizing willingness to agree with God’s verdict about who you actually are apart from Him.
When exposure makes you dizzy with shame and the urge to lash out rises, you stop bargaining for an exit. The plea nust shift from relief to endurance: the grace to stay still while the rot is cut out, the restraint not to strike the people God sent to steady you, and the resolve not to crawl off the table until the work is finished.
If you asked God to kill your flesh and you suddenly feel unmasked, disoriented, and weaker than you have ever been, do not mistake exposure for abandonment, or confrontation with your weakness for defeat. The prayer did not fail.
God just took you at your word, and He loves you too much to patch up the very self you asked Him to crucify.
Russell Brand is the victim of a political hit job and I hope US diplomatic engagements with the UK make clear that we consider Brand a political prisoner.
When a Protestant minister invites you to church, ask if you can just stay at home and be saved by faith alone. Tell him Jesus is there, you have your own Bible and the Holy Spirit will guide you. See if he actually believes that's all you need.
The truth is that he tells you that you can be saved "by faith alone" only to keep you from the true Catholic Church. Once you agree to avoid the Catholic Church, he will seek to convince you to join his church, which is no church at all, and to let him be your pastor, though he is no true pastor. The requirements will keep coming: church attendance, volunteer work, financial support, on and on. You'll find that he's the only one who gets to be saved by faith alone, with a Bible, Jesus and the Holy Spirit.
Tristan Tate is the best friend on the planet. He is the best friend any man could possibly ever have. He's better than your best friend, I promise.
Never bitches, never complains. If you get him in trouble when he’s innocent, he’s glad to have taken part. Constantly happy and supportive and ready to back you up even if you’re wrong.
Permanently ready for a fight and loves to tell the tale.
Luckily, he's not only my best friend, he’s my brother.
Russell Brand’s supporters allege that the UK establishment silenced him with a 10.6-year jail sentence.
“There’s people raping up children that are 8 years old and the little child cannot even have a baby anymore when she is older .. and he served 3 years”
“if you start speaking up about pharmaceutical companies and about helping your people spreading truth to protect .. you’ll get taken down”
Does she have a point … I did watch some of Russell Brands videos on Rumble a few years back .. he went after them all .. the arms suppliers, the big pharmaceutical companies, the establishment and Ukraine
Nick Fuentes says the UK is a police state after Russell Brand gets 10 years
"With Russell Brand getting f*cked, I'm very worried about the Tates... The UK is not playing. It's a police state. What happened to Russell Brand is so wrong."
It baffles me that not a single mainstream British journalist (yes, yes, I know @danwootton) has the courage to call this egregious witch hunt lawfare like @megynkelly does.
Especially the totality convictions of years for groping. No one is getting 18 months for that.
She’s not excusing Brands behaviour, she’s applying basic principles of justice and fairness.
It’s like we have found the perfect person to persecute and destroy in order to allay the decades of applause for his vile and admitted behaviour.
It’s communist.
The more I think about it, the more this presents as a sham trial.
But we are used to those in two tier Britain.
I hope they appeal the conviction.