@bryan_johnson Ultimately, it’s not the prayer, but who you pray to that matters. Just like it’s not your faith in a chair that holds you up when you sit, but how sturdy the chair actually is.
I pray you’ll find Jesus, in whom we find out who God really is and what he came to do.
Heavenly Father,
We lift up our brothers and sisters in Iran to You. In the midst of conflict and suffering, we ask that Your glory would shine brightly through Your church.
In Jesus' name, Amen.
@AmericaPapaBear We need to be reminded that the greatest miracles are dead people coming to life when we accept Jesus as Lord and are made alive with him through his blood.
Physical miracles are wonderful but they are not primarily what Jesus came to save us from!
This isn't a story you'll hear anywhere. But you need to hear it.
In Iran, a believer was risking his life to secretly distribute 5,000 Bibles. Authorities raided his home & forced him to burn them all to save his life.
@FightofFaith@FightofFaith All Christians have experienced the greatest miracle - hearts of stone changed to hearts of flesh; dead men to living; enemies to children 🧡
🚨🚨🎙️| Bruno Fernandes: "I stayed [at United] because I thought I still had something to contribute to the club.
Obviously, the Saudi offer, with all that money… it was huge. My wife has her feet on the ground, just like me.
We don't want to be the richest people in the world. We just want to be the ones who have achieved their dreams, who lead a beautiful life with their children and who try to achieve as much success as possible.
My wife said to me: 'Have you achieved your dreams? Have you accomplished everything you wanted?'
That little remark made me realize that she was on the same wavelength as me.
I didn't want to leave the club when we were in difficulty." [@BBCSport]
So the Pope met with David Axelrod last week. David Axelrod. Obama's campaign architect. A man who is not Catholic, has never met a pope before, and whose entire career has been engineering political narratives for the American left.
And then, by pure coincidence, the Pope immediately started lobbing shots at the Trump administration, and three US Cardinals popped up on 60 Minutes doing the same thing.
All organically, I'm sure.
I'm a practicing Catholic. I need you to understand that part. But in my opinion, Trump has all the right to lash out at him. Maybe you'll disagree, but in the end, Trump talks like Trump. Water is wet. I'm talking about MY Church being run like a DNC satellite office but with a golden throne.
This is the same Vatican that watched governments padlock churches during COVID and said nothing. That let Biden take communion while funding abortion and said nothing. That fired Bishop Strickland for defending actual Church doctrine. That removed Bishop Fernández in Puerto Rico for defending religious exemptions THE CATECHISM ITSELF supports.
But somehow Trump is the threat to human dignity.
Pope Francis was bad. Leo has turned out to be worse. Francis at least was vague about his politics. Leo went and hired the consulting firm.
The man has ignored the slaughter of Christians across Nigeria, the Sahel, India, Syria, Bangladesh, Pakistan. Hundreds of believers murdered, churches burned, pastors kidnapped. His response? Platitudes about dialogue.
OF COURSE he won't even name who's doing the killing.
But he'll fly across continents to make interfaith gestures the week after his people coordinated a media hit on a sitting US president.
The weaponization of belief is obvious. You get the Pope to pick a fight with Trump, and suddenly millions of conservative Catholics have to choose between their faith and their vote.
Denzel Washington understands it. He doesn't play that Hollywood Satanic game. He has is eye on the real prise...a relationship with our Lord and Savior Yeshua ✝️
This Easter, the global Church celebrates together. Some freely. Some in hiding. But all celebrating the same risen Savior. ❤️
Believers in Iran, Afghanistan, and other nations won't let persecution stop their Easter worship.
Pray for them. Be inspired by them. 🙏✝️
This is Carson's best quote and it's not even close:
"People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord.
We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated."
Jesus is not a life coach.
He is the King of kings and the Judge of the living and the dead.
He didn't come to make your life materially better; he came to make you dead to sin and alive to God.