RebelShell

God, family, yarn.

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#churchpicnic #4thofjuly #independenceday #church #hotdogs #fellowship

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I get extremely overheated very quickly these days. I inch my face closer to my desk fan and then...
I'm wearing my fan as a hat because my hair got sucked in the back side and wrapped around the fan blades.
It's a really good thing the Lord is patient with his lesser children.

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@SenJohnKennedy I hope you know how much you are loved by so many in this country. Also, your staff is right. Keep making these videos. There are days when it is the only time I smile. <3

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@SenJohnKennedy You make me want to live in Louisiana. You are a treasure. <3

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@UKFREEDOMUNITE Hank Williams - I Saw The Light

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@KnightsTempOrg Scotch is a drink, lad. ;)

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@ItsRobbAllen I grew up Methodist. I loved it. Until about 10 years ago when they became blatantly non-biblical. I left, went to seminary, and now I'm an asst. pastor at a small church in Tombstone, AZ. If you visit, come see us. Corner of 2nd and Allen St.

[Erin Derham Van Swol @HistoryBoutique]

Before I ever felt God‘s hand on my shoulder, I felt a similar peace on a mountain top.

Matt and I fell in love on a hike.

Our first date was a hike, he proposed on a hike, we hike with our kids.

We pulled ourselves out of hardships and health scares on mountain tops.

But, at the time of these photos, I didn’t have a Church or even even consider myself a Christian.

My only connection to God was through nature.

My epiphany this morning is that every moment of peace experienced, every hardship and every success, was Christ helping me find my way back to him.

He was so patient.

It is overwhelming sometimes, to think about how many times he saw me fail.

I don’t know how to explain it other than one day, I felt his presence in a very real way and since that day he hasn’t left my side.

I was singing in church and felt his hand on my shoulder.

I started crying and just let it happen. I was in so much pain and so overwhelmed with fear and loneliness.

And at that moment, he was there.

I can’t even type these words without crying.

That was a year ago.

It felt like magic.

This morning, I am so full of gratitude to be a Christian with an incredible church, family, and the natural world all given to me (and you) by God.

My prayer is that all of you have felt this or feel this one day too.

God isn’t attached to any ideology or political party.

He is there for every single person on this earth, and your life will be irrevocably changed for the better when you let him in.

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

Let me be honest. I wanted to stay Muslim so badly.

Not even because of God at first, but because of the life attached to it.

My dad’s businesses were waiting for me. Signed and ready.

My mom’s community. Doctors, lawyers, politicians. Connections everywhere.

Success was laid out in front of me.

There was even an arranged marriage lined up. A doctor. Beautiful future. House. Wedding. Stability.

All I had to do was say one sentence:

“Yeah, I still believe.”

That was it.

Keep the money.
Keep the family approval.
Keep the life.

But here’s what ruined it for me:

I could not unsee Jesus.

Once I really read the Quran and compared it to the Gospel, I couldn’t force myself back into pretending.

And honestly, knowledge becomes heavy at that point.

Because I didn’t leave Islam to rebel.

I left because I could not betray what I believed was true.

No business opportunity, no relationship, no comfortable future was worth denying the King who gave His life for me.

So yeah, my life would have been easier if I stayed.

But when Jesus says, “I am the way,” you don’t answer with, “But the other path feels safer.”

You pick up your cross and walk.

[Bishop Ceirion H. Dewar FSHC @BishopDewar]

As a Bishop, I cannot stay silent. I have today drafted and sent an open letter to His Majesty King Charles III, the text of which reads as follows:

To:
His Majesty, Charles III,
King of the United Kingdom and the Realms,
Supreme Governor of the Church of England,
Bearer of the ancient title Defender of the Faith.

Your Majesty,

I write to you neither as a politician nor as a commentator, but as one of your loyal subjects who, as a bishop of Christ’s Church, cannot remain silent while the Christian foundations of this kingdom are steadily dismantled.

Sir, there are moments in the life of a nation when silence becomes a form of betrayal. If I refused to speak to Your Majesty now, this would be such a moment.

For more than a thousand years the Crown of this realm has stood in solemn covenant with the Christian faith.

The laws of this land were shaped by it.
The liberties of our people were nurtured by it.
The conscience of our civilisation was formed by it.

From the abbeys of medieval England to the parish churches of our villages, from the preaching of the Reformers to the missionary zeal that carried the Gospel to the ends of the earth, the Christian faith has not merely influenced Britain — it has defined her.

Yet today that inheritance is being quietly but deliberately eroded. Across the institutions of this nation there is a growing hostility toward the faith that built them.

Christian belief is mocked in the public square. Christian morality is dismissed as intolerance. Christian institutions are pressured to surrender doctrine in order to conform to the ideology of the age.

Within the very Church that bears the name of England, voices have arisen that appear more eager to mirror the spirit of the age than to proclaim the eternal truth of the Gospel.

Meanwhile, beyond the walls of our churches, powerful political movements openly speak of removing Christianity from its historic place within the life of this nation.

What would once have been whispered is now proclaimed openly: that Britain must become a post-Christian state.

It is in this context that I write to you, Your Majesty. For the British Crown does not stand apart from this crisis.

The Sovereign of this realm bears a title that is not merely historic but sacred in its origin and meaning: Defender of the Faith. Those words are not decorative. They are a charge.

They speak of a monarch whose duty is not merely to preside over the ceremonies of the Church, but to stand as a guardian of the Christian inheritance of the nation.

Yet many among your subjects now ask, with increasing anxiety: “Who will defend that inheritance today?”

They see a nation drifting from its foundations. And they ask whether the Crown will remain silent while that inheritance is dismantled.

Your Majesty, may I be so bold as to observe that your coronation oath was not a poetic formality. It was a solemn vow made before Almighty God to maintain and preserve the Protestant Reformed Religion established by law.

Those words bind the conscience of the sovereign. They remind the Crown that its authority is not merely constitutional but moral. The monarch is not merely a symbol of national continuity, but a custodian of the spiritual inheritance that shaped this realm.

History records moments when kings and emperors were confronted by the Church and reminded that their authority was accountable before God. In the fourth century Ambrose of Milan stood before the Emperor Theodosius I and reminded him that even the ruler of an empire must bow before the moral law of Christ.

That tradition of prophetic witness has never disappeared. Nor should it. For when rulers forget the foundations upon which their authority rests, the Church must speak — not with hostility, but with holy clarity.

And so, I write to say this, Your Majesty: The Christian character of this nation is under profound and accelerating assault.

If the Crown does not stand visibly and courageously in defence of that inheritance, history will record that the guardians of Britain’s institutions watched in silence as the foundations were removed.

The issue before us is not nostalgia. It is civilisation. Remove Christianity from the story of Britain and you do not create a neutral society — you create a moral vacuum. And history teaches us that moral vacuums are never left empty for long.

Your Majesty now stands at a crossroads that few monarchs in modern history have faced.

For the erosion of Britain’s Christian inheritance will not ultimately be judged by speeches made in Parliament or debates in the press. It will be judged by whether those entrusted with the guardianship of our ancient institutions chose to defend them — or merely preside over their quiet surrender.

You may preside over the quiet dissolution of Britain’s Christian identity. Or you may rise to the ancient responsibility entrusted to the Crown and speak with clarity about the faith that built this kingdom. The first path requires little courage. The second will require a great deal. But it is the path that history honours.

Your Majesty’s subjects are not asking for religious coercion. They are asking for leadership. They are asking that the sovereign who bears the title Defender of the Faith remember what that title means.

They are asking that the Crown hear the growing cry of anguish from Christians across this land who feel that the spiritual inheritance of their nation is being surrendered without resistance. And they are asking whether the Crown will stand with them.

For the faith that shaped Britain is not merely a cultural ornament. It is the wellspring from which our laws, our liberties, and our moral imagination have flowed. If it is cast aside, the nation will discover — too late — that it has severed itself from the very roots that sustained it.

Your Majesty, to many the Crown is a symbol of authority. But before God it is also a symbol of stewardship. And stewardship carries with it the duty to defend what has been entrusted.

May Almighty God grant Your Majesty the wisdom to discern this hour, and the courage to fulfil the sacred duty entrusted to the Crown.

Yours faithfully,

Bishop Ceirion H. Dewar FSHC
Missionary Bishop
Diocese of Providence
Confessing Anglican Church

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@AOC Yes. We openly embrace dogs. My dogs don't want me dead. Not a tough choice.

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@BuzzPatterson This one is always on my mind. Psalm 20:7. "Some trust in chariots, and some trust in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God."

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@lpackard Do you read your posts after you type them? I'm married. I have yet to miss an election. If I need to re-register, I'll use my birth certificate and photo ID. Are you suggesting that I'm not intelligent enough to figure that out?

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@RubenGallego You are an embarrassment to the great state of Arizona. Please do not run again...we're really tired of you.

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@GuntherEagleman Dodge. Obviously. Are you being funny or something? ;)

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@JDVance @SecKennedy Good call. But I was wondering about the mint and chip myself...

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@AlBuffalo2nite 19 years over here. All glory to God.

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@GuntherEagleman Here you go. ;)

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@catturd2 I am completely surrounded by a lack of cookies, Mother. Get this sorted.