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[Orion @MDSUJON85265037]

What happens when you ask ChatGPT to build your entire family tree and find relatives you never knew existed?

I tried it. It came back with family members I had no idea I was related to.

Here are the 4 prompts:

[Aviation @xAviation]

Flying aboard a Concorde in 1988, going 1,360 mph 53,000 feet in the sky!

[archivetvmusings @archivetvmus71]

Coronation Street - written by Geoffrey Lancashire (6th September 1967). Following the wedding of the year (Elsie and Steve) there's plenty of food and drink to be consumed.

[Did You See? @TvDidYouSee]

#OnThisDay 2 September 1992
#RoyBarraclough takes a three-year break from #CoronationStreet when his character Alec Gilroy leaves the Rovers Return for the cruise ships of Southampton. This clip combines that and his first appearance from June 1972.

[Josh Barzon @JoshuaBarzon]

The Old Testament isn’t hard to understand when you realize it all points to Jesus.

[Firdausee Yahaya @honeeybuch]

He once said he was God. Slaughtered and butchered more than 60,000 babies. Now look at him, he can't even move his hand.

[Simon Calder @SimonCalder]

For over a century British and Irish citizens haven't needed a passport to take a ferry between GB and Ireland.
That changes on 28 September. From that date, Stena Line and Irish Ferries will not allow anyone on board without a passport or national ID card
https://t.co/sXyqbgILYo

[archivetvmusings @archivetvmus71]

Coronation Street - written by Jack Rosenthal (24th August 1966). Mrs Walker has her heart set on becoming a local councillor. Will she be able to count on Ena's support?

[archivetvmusings @archivetvmus71]

Coronation Street - written by Julian Roach (19th August 1974). Elizabeth Dawn debuts as Vera Duckworth (making the first of her 2,275 appearances).

[Did You See? @TvDidYouSee]

#OnThisDay 19 August 1974
Deidre's mother Blanche Hunt makes her first appearance in #CoronationStreet. #MaggieJones took over the role in September following the death of original actress Patricia Cutts. This clip combines both of their first scenes.

[The Biblical Man @Biblicalman]

Jesus rose from the dead and appeared first to Mary Magdalene.

Mark 16:9 says it plainly.

But later He also appeared to His brother who thought He was crazy.

James.

His kid brother. The one who grew up sharing a room with God and didn’t know it.

Think about James for a second. His older brother is Jesus. Not “Jesus the Christ.” Not “Jesus the Savior.” Jesus the guy who worked in the carpenter shop and came home smelling like sawdust and sweat. Jesus who snored. Jesus who ate too fast. Jesus who their mother treated different and James never understood why.

Because Mary kept her mouth shut.

Luke 2:19. She kept all these things and pondered them in her heart. Angels showed up at His birth. Shepherds fell on their faces. Wise men brought gold. And Mary told nobody. She just watched her firstborn grow up in a ghetto in Nazareth and kept the secret in her chest like a coal she couldn’t put down.

James didn’t know his brother was God.

He knew his brother was weird.

He knew his mother looked at Jesus different. He knew Joseph moved the whole family to Egypt when they were little and never fully explained why. He knew that one time his parents lost Jesus at the temple and found Him three days later arguing with rabbis like He owned the place. Twelve years old. Already gone.

Then Jesus grew up. Worked the shop. Paid the bills.

Because Joseph died - the Bible doesn’t say when but Joseph disappears from the story - and in Jewish custom the eldest son takes over. So Jesus wasn’t posing for paintings in that carpenter shop. He was feeding His family. Putting bread on the table for His mom and His brothers and sisters in a town so poor Nathanael said “can anything good come out of Nazareth?”

Then one day He left.

Walked away from the shop. Walked away from the family. Left James holding the hammer and the bills and the responsibility for a widowed mother.
James was pissed.

Mark 3:21. His own family went to collect Him because they said He was out of His mind. That’s James. That’s the brothers. Showing up to bring the crazy one home before He embarrasses the family worse.

John 7:5. His brethren did not believe in Him.
His own blood. Ate dinner with Him for thirty years. Didn’t believe.

Then Wednesday happened.

The brother James thought was insane got arrested at night by temple guards. Got beaten until His face swelled shut. Got whipped until His back looked like raw meat. Got nailed to wood and hung up on a garbage hill outside the city.

And James had to stand somewhere - maybe in the crowd, maybe at home, maybe hearing it secondhand - and process the fact that the brother he called crazy just died like a criminal.

Three days and nights of silence.

Three days of James sitting with the guilt of every eye roll. Every argument. Every time he told people “I don’t know what’s wrong with Him.” Every time he showed up to drag Jesus home because He was embarrassing the family name.

Then Sunday morning.

Jesus rose. Conquered death. Walked out of the tomb.
He appeared first to Mary Magdalene.

And later He appeared to James.

1 Corinthians 15:7. He appeared to James.

Paul gives us no scene, only the fact: Jesus appeared to His brother. The one who didn’t believe. The one who thought He was crazy. The one who was pissed that He left the family behind.

He showed up and let James see the holes in His hands.
Matthew 28:10. Go tell my brethren. Not my servants. Not my followers. My brethren.

John 20:17. My Father and your Father. My God and your God.

He rose to the highest position in the universe and His vocabulary didn’t change.

Most men get a promotion and stop returning phone calls. Jesus conquered death and called the brother who doubted Him family.

James went from “He’s out of His mind” to leading the church in Jerusalem.

James went from trying to drag Jesus home to writing a book of the Bible.

James went from skeptic to martyr. They threw him off the temple wall and when he survived the fall they beat him to death with a club. He died for the brother he once thought was insane.

That’s what happened when Jesus showed up after the resurrection and said brother.

One word changed everything.

He’s not calling you servant today.
He’s not calling you subject.
He’s calling you what He called James.
Brother.
The same James who didn’t believe. Who rolled his eyes. Who showed up to take Him home. Who sat in the dark for three days choking on regret.

He still went to THAT guy.

If He went to James, He’ll come to you.

[Hughes de Payens 🇻🇦✝️📿 @hdpayens]

Thomas Aquinas teaches that someone can be saved without ever receiving the physical sacrament of Baptism.

That claim collides directly with the Protestant assumption that Catholic sacramental theology is a rigid, mechanistic system where God is bound by human ritual.

In Summa Theologiae III, Question 68, Article 2, Aquinas makes a precise distinction that modern critics almost never encounter.

He separates the outward rite from the interior grace it signifies.

The physical washing with water is the ordinary means of salvation. But Aquinas argues it is not an absolute cage on divine freedom.

Drawing on Augustine, he explains that the sacrament is an outward sign instituted for men. But the sanctifying grace it confers comes directly from God.

When a person seeks the physical sacrament but dies before receiving it, their explicit desire for baptism can suffice. Their interior conversion, moved by the Holy Spirit, obtains the reality.

This framework shatters the caricature of "sacramentalism" as a magical legalism. The Church teaches that the sacraments are the divinely ordained, ordinary channel of grace. But she also insists the author of that grace is never trapped inside his own delivery mechanisms.

The sacrament is the norm. God's sovereignty is the ceiling.

Most critiques of Catholic sacramental theology attack a system that Thomas Aquinas never built.

If God is truly sovereign over His own sacraments, why assume the Catholic Church teaches the opposite?

[Daily Express @Daily_Express]

Hero gran thwarted shoplifting thug with her walking stick at age 82 👀💪 #news #crime #viral

[Wici Cymru @WiciCymru]

Ailagorwyd Rheilffordd Mawddwy (gyda threnau Rheilffyrdd Cambrian) ar y dydd hwn yn 1911.

Does dim erthygl Gymraeg ar y rheilffordd. Ewch ati i'w chreu, a thrwy wneud hynny, bwydwch y peirianau AI gyda gwybodaeth am 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Gymru!

Gwybodaeth:
https://t.co/b7IzINdP0z

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

Isaiah described the crucifixion in detail 700 years before it happened, and named exactly what it was FOR.

Isaiah 53. Written seven centuries before Christ:

“He was pierced for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities.” Isaiah 53:5.

“Like a lamb that is led to the slaughter… He opened not His mouth.” Isaiah 53:7. 

“They made His grave with the wicked and with a rich man in His death.” Isaiah 53:9. 

He died between criminals (Luke 23:33) and was buried in the tomb of the rich Joseph of Arimathea (Matthew 27:57-60). 

“The LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.” Isaiah 53:6.

A suffering servant, pierced, silent before His accusers, dying for the sins of others, buried in a rich man’s grave.

This is why the Jewish rabbis struggled, their Scriptures described BOTH a suffering, pierced servant (Isaiah 53) AND a conquering King (Daniel 7). Some concluded there must be two Messiahs.

But it was never two. It’s one Messiah, two comings.

First the Lamb, pierced for our transgressions. 

Then the Lion, returning in glory.

The Quran denied the piercing. Surah 4:157.

Isaiah described it in HD seven hundred years early.

You can’t erase an event that was prophesied in that much detail. The two criminals crucified beside Jesus are the entire gospel in one scene.

Luke 23. Two men. Same crime, same sentence, same cross, same dying breath, the same few feet from Jesus.

One mocks Him. The other turns and says, “Jesus, remember me when You come into Your kingdom.” Luke 23:42.

And Jesus answers: “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with Me in paradise.” Luke 23:43.

That man did zero good works. He couldn’t, his hands were nailed down. No prayers, no fasting, no charity, no time to balance any scale. He had nothing to offer but a dying glance at the right Person.

And Jesus saved him on the spot.

In the religion I came from, that man was doomed. No time, no deeds, game over.

In the gospel, he was in paradise that same day, because salvation was never about the weight of his works.

“For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works.” Ephesians 2:8-9.

Two criminals. Same cross. One difference: which one turned to Jesus.

That’s still the only difference that has ever mattered.

The Savior is everything. Praise Jesus.

[Talk @TalkTV]

🚨 Ann Widdecombe's last interview from Wednesday's breakfast show.

"There IS an establishment"

She stated she has no faith in parliamentary processes to come to fair conclusions and, as such understands why Nigel Farage has resigned as an MP.

@mrmarkdolan

[archivetvmusings @archivetvmus71]

Coronation Street - written by H.V. Kershaw (21st June 1978). Ena pops by to give Elsie the benefit of her advice (whether Elsie wanted her advice is another matter of course).

[archivetvmusings @archivetvmus71]

Coronation Street - written by John Finch (17th June 1964). Ena and Minnie have a difference of opinion.

[Steve Bierman M.D. @SteveBiermanMD]

The END of WORRY...and ANXIETY,ANGST,FEAR. Amazon review writes:

"This book seems deceptively simple, but if you follow the steps you can get rid of worry."
This little book is changing lives!

Treat Yourself:

[🇬🇧📺 Classic British TV 📺🇬🇧 @Classicbritcom]

Remembering the late Actor, Robert Eddison OBE (10 June 1908 – 14 December 1991)