@GuntherEagleman@grok: “No authentic 950-year-old (11th-century) painting matching this exact scene exists; the image is a viral hoax circulating on social media with fabricated claims of discovery in a remote monastery.”
https://t.co/A4UyfeonJJ
@andy64052583@ericmetaxas@reachjulieroys@jamesmacdonald Salacious misnomers - HBC/MacDonald dropped 2018 suit against Roys solely due to impact on the church. He fearlessly engaged in 7 years of legal actions across 3 separate suits with ~100K docs of discovery – prevailing every time, bc actions of the actual wrongdoers were exposed.
@MuhammadKhurram@dom_lucre “…rather than a confirmed quote from Meloni. Reports describe her pushback as focused on the pope's right to call for peace, not a detailed lecture on nuclear history or U.S. hypocrisy.” 2/2
https://t.co/r81It97Uwg
@MuhammadKhurram@dom_lucre “Meloni's alleged final line ("only one has ever used them... the US... tone it down... no one throws around nuclear threats like Washington") re US history doesn’t appear in mainstream coverage. It circulates more as social media commentary or unverified amplification…” 1/2
@elizakmccoy Thank you for sharing what you know to be true (it WILL prevail) to shine light on the ceaseless, baseless, twisted accusations against Erika and her clearly shattered heart.
In 2018, after what was supposed to be a mundane surgery, I nearly bled to death, post-op. Instead of being discharged the next morning, I spent a few days in ICU.
I had been a Christian for over 20 years and a pastor for almost 10. That night, which I genuinely thought was my last, do you know what I thought about? It wasn’t how many times I’d read through the Bible, or prayed, or shared the gospel, or sacrificed as a pastor.
In those moments of fleeting consciousness only one question mattered: where do I stand before God?
Mental focus was very difficult, but I could recite Romans 5:1 to myself: “Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.”
I had peace with God in Jesus! And so I could have peace as I stood at the threshold of my death.
Pastors, what do the frail and failing need to hear from us? The certain basis for peace with their God, the gospel of Christ. Even knowledgeable Christians (and pastors!) need to be reminded in their weakness, not about their faithfulness, but the faithfulness of Christ and the peace they have in Him before the last enemy.
Spanberger lied to get elected.
The instant she was elected, she knowingly broke state Constitution to steal my vote forever.
VA Dems got 51% of the vote, and Spanberger signed a law to give them 91% of the seats.
She's a disgusting person, a fitting face for the Democrats.
@jk_rowling People conflate culture with race, and then accuse people of racism to shut down criticisms of cultures.
Race is hardware, culture is software.
All humans are equal, but not all software is equal, nor equally compatible.
The good news is: any human can run any software.
So, yesterday was a hard day. I woke up to the news of James Vanderbeek's death. Like so many millions of Americans, I looked at the pictures of his six beautiful children and his lovely wife and my heart broke.
But I suspect it broke a little differently than many.
When you have cancer, learning of the death of a celebrity who has your diagnosis (and announced it about the same time you did no less), is a bit of a gut punch, to say the least.
Though it's not just celebrity deaths that can blindside you. Someone will share of the loss of a family member or friend to cancer, and it hits you in a personal and fearful way. Someone in the Facebook support group who's been an active contributor is suddenly gone. To say it knocks you down emotionally, spiritually, would be an understatement.
So as a Christian, what do you do with these feelings? First, like every other human being on the planet, you feel scared. You cry. You want to hide your head.
And then you do what the Psalmists did. You stop listening to the fear in your heart and seek out the truth of the Word that stands regardless of the day's news. And you let THAT speak to you and drown out those fearful words.
For me yesterday, Psalm 91. Just a bit of that:
Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”
Surely he will save you from the fowler’s snare and from the deadly pestilence.
He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge;
his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.
You will not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day,
nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague that destroys at midday.
A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand,
but it will not come near you...
And (once again) you place yourself in the hands of a benevolent Father. You tell him of your fear, your heartache, your failures. You make your requests known. And you rest in perhaps the sweetest doctrine a cancer fighter (or any Christian) can know. Providence.
Providence assures us that God is not distantly watching our pain. He is not passively allowing events to unfold. He is continually, actively governing all things, from galaxies to governments to our (comparatively) small suffering.
As RC Sproul put it, "there are no rogue molecules."
What God's complete sovereignty means to someone like me is that my cancer is not random. It did not slip past God unnoticed. He was present before the diagnosis, at the diagnosis, and remains present in every moment of it. A God who loses control in suffering would be terrifying. A God who governs suffering and is making meaning from it is the only God who can be trusted.
And it means that cancer cannot touch me beyond what God allows and what he allows will always be for my good, even if in ways I can't see or understand right now.
So if you're like me and the Vanderbeek news hit you hard for personal reasons, know that you are not alone. And this day you have the opportunity to place yourself, if you have not already, in the hands of One who controls all things and in whom you can have perfect trust.
When the hard days hit, He is waiting for you.