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[Camus @newstart_2024]

Kevin James dropped a powerful reminder about prayer and God.

He said if you look back at all the things you once prayed desperately about, they all got taken care of, maybe not exactly how you wanted, but in a better way. The things that once kept you up at night aren’t even worries anymore.

“Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God… will guard your hearts and your minds.” - Philippians 4:6-7

[🎩Laird of the Manor🎩 @LairdOfThManor]

A small public service announcement from the Department of Things That You Should Know…

It has not “peeked” your interest.
Nor has it “peaked” your interest.

…It has piqued your interest.

You are not “phased” by something.
You are fazed by it.

If you’ve had a long day, you are weary.
If you suspect someone is an idiot, you are wary.

It is “due course”, not “do course”.
“Per se”, not “per say”.

And while we’re here, it’s “could have”, not “could of”, but that particular battle may already be lost.

Thank you for your attention during this brief outbreak of grammatical housekeeping.

This has been a @LairdofthManor announcement.🎩💙

[Pastor Rich Bitterman @w_bitterman]

He took a rainbow stitched onto a San Francisco Giants cap and placed beside it the first Word God ever spoke over that sign. Genesis 9:11-16.

That was enough for the league to warn them to not write a Bible verse on the pride hat again. A covenant became an offense.

MLB could point to the uniform rule and maybe the rule was clear enough. Still, everyone knew the ink was not the real scandal. The scandal was Genesis.

A verse from the first book of the Bible appeared beside a rainbow and suddenly the old story came walking into the modern room. God had spoken first..that was the wound. Before it was claimed by a movement, it was placed there by mercy.

Landen Roupp said there was no hate in it. He said the rainbow is a symbol of God’s covenant and as a believer he wanted to stand firm. Good!

There are times when standing firm looks less like shouting from a platform and more like refusing to vanish under a hat. Writing the verse in ink was small a small thing. The witness was not.

I admire him. He could have worn the cap and said nothing, carried his convictions quietly back to the clubhouse. Instead, he wrote Genesis 9 beside the rainbow. It was not a spectacle. It was a confession.

To understand why, we have to leave the ballpark and walk back into the soaked world of Genesis 9. God speaks as the world was still wet with judgment when God blessed Noah.

He gave Noah’s family the earth. He sent them out to fill it and placed a holy fence around human life and said, in effect, “Do not treat people like animals. They bear My image.”

Every person carries that mark. The baby in the womb and the old man in the nursing home. The angry critic online and the confused soul wrapped in a flag. Every one of them lives beneath the hand of the God who made them.

Christian courage can never be cruel because every person bears God’s image. Mercy still hangs over this world and sinners still have time to come home.

Then God lifted His sign into the clouds.“ I have set my bow in the cloud,” He says, “and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between me and the earth” (Genesis 9:13).

The word is bow. That is easy to miss because we have turned the rainbow into greeting-card weather with soft colors after rain. Scripture’s bow is often a weapon. It belongs in the hand of a warrior. Scripture’s bow is often a weapon, bent with judgment, strung with arrows, aimed by wrath.

In Genesis 9, God hangs the bow in the clouds with no arrow in it.

Look at that again. The bow is there, but the string is quiet. The storm has spent itself. Sunlight breaks through the wet air. Color bends across the sky and creation receives a sermon without a single human word. God remembers. He keeps His promise. The world deserves judgment, yet mercy still hangs over our heads. The rainbow is a sermon.

Long before flags, merchandise, corporate campaigns, political speeches, or team uniforms, God placed the rainbow above a guilty world and made it preach patience.

That is why Genesis 9 belongs in this conversation. Christians do not need cruelty to speak clearly. Sneering never strengthens truth. When believers say the rainbow belongs to God, we are saying more than “our symbol came first.” We are saying the world is still being held together by the promise of a holy God who gives sinners time to repent.

The rainbow is beautiful because mercy is beautiful.

It also warns because mercy delayed carries a clock inside it. Peter tells us the Lord is patient and calls sinners to repentance. The same God who set His bow in the clouds has appointed a day when every mouth will close and every knee will bow.

That makes the cross shine brighter. At Calvary, judgment did not stay in the distance. It landed as the arrow we deserved struck the Son of God. Christ stood beneath the wrath sinners earned and mercy flowed from His wounds. Genesis 9 gives us the empty bow in the clouds. Golgotha gives us the Savior on the tree.

So yes, be thankful for these players. Be thankful for men who can stand beneath public pressure and say, with open eyes and a steady voice, “I belong to Christ.”

Christians should learn from that. Stand firm when the culture demands your silence. Hold your ground when conviction is called hatred. Do it with tenderness, clean hands, tears for the lost, love for your neighbor and your Bible open.

A rainbow appeared on a baseball cap and a few men remembered the God who set it in the sky.

That is enough reason to be grateful. The rainbow is still preaching and let the church stand firm under it.

[Franklin Graham @Franklin_Graham]

God's Word never changes.

[Valerie Anne Smith @ValerieAnne1970]

"700,000 people were pumped full of a drug that SHUTS DOWN your kidneys & fills your lungs with fluid...everyone that was dying was on REMDESIVIR."
~Dr Bryan Ardis

They died of Pulmonary Edema, but Hospitals made more money & big bonuses by writing 'Death Caused by COVID.'

With a 53% mortality rate, Dr Anthony Fauci & the CDC still chose Remdesivir, under the brand name Veklury, as the only approved hospital treatment.

It was deemed 'too unethical & harmful' to continue as a test drug in the African Ebola drug trials...yet it is still the 1st line hospital COVID treatment today.

The past 5 yrs Remdesivir has been FDA approved for ages 12 & up, the CDC & FDA have recently approved Remdesivir for infants less than 28 days old & it is now being marketed as treatment for newborns who weigh at least 3 lbs.

The clinical trial to determine 'neonate pediatric safety' was based on 58 hospitalized infants who were injected with Remdesivir & monitored for only 10 days.

Remdesivir is known to cause damage to the liver, heart & kidneys which leads to multi-organ shutdown.
LIVER: cellular level damage & Remdesivir builds in the system thru multiple day treatments resulting in liver toxicity.
HEART: post marketing heart injuries listed as sinus bradycardia (slow heart rate), T-wave abnormalities, prolonged QT interval, ventricular fibrillation & cardiac arrest.
KIDNEYS: studies & data released in 2021 showed patients on a 5-10 day Remdesivir (Veklury) regimen, suffered 2.81X greater acute kidney injury & subsequent permanent renal damage.

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

The story in the Bible that rattled me before I converted to Christianity from Islam:

The two thieves crucified next to Jesus. I never knew about them. Bro. They’re the whole Gospel in one scene.

Two men. Same sin. Same cross. Same dying breath. Same distance from Jesus — mere feet away on either side.

One mocks Him. One turns to Him and says, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.”

And Jesus tells the second man: “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. He never prayed five times. Never fasted. Never gave to the poor. Never got baptized. He had nothing to offer but a dying glance toward Jesus.

And Jesus saved him... on the spot.

In Islam, that man was doomed. No time to balance the scale. No deeds to weigh. Game over. A horrible life with a horrible punishment ahead.

I wonder if that would be me…

Yet in the Gospel, that man was in paradise the same day — because salvation was never about his works. It was about WHO he turned to in his last moment.

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

That’s why the Gospel is offensive.

And Jesus asks everyone: who do you say I am?

[Bridgett Fertig @LightOnLiberty]

Why don't they teach us THIS in school?!

"3/4 of the original Christian world was conquered by Islam through extreme violence!"

"By the 1600s, Islam had covered MORE of the Earth's surface than the Roman Empire did at its peak. And during that war, during that expansion, 280 million people died!"

[Carol M. Swain, PhD @carolmswain]

In a world gone mad, where evil is called “good,” darkness is praised as “light,” and bitter is sold as sweet — God’s Word and warnings ring louder than ever:

“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!”

Isaiah 5:20-21 (KJV).

Our leaders are fighting wars on multiple fronts at once. Israel is under siege. America is stretched thin. Ukraine is mired in what seems to be a never-ending war.

China, Russia, and Europe are opportunistic players in this global crisis.

Favor from the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is our only hope.

We don’t need another congressional hearing or another speech about red lines.
We need God’s wisdom!

Let’s stop scrolling. Bow our heads and pray as the Lord leads.

Lord Jesus, grant our leaders supernatural wisdom and discernment.
Expose every lie and deception.

Protect the innocent.

Give our leaders humility and the courage to always choose light over darkness and good over evil in both domestic and foreign affairs.

I lift this petition in the name of Jesus.
Amen.

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[Wesley Hunt @WesleyHuntTX]

Hey Jasmine…

Black pilot here.

I think you missed the plot.
Then again, that’s becoming a pattern.

I graduated from West Point.
I went through Army flight school.
I learned to fly the AH-64 Apache.
I deployed to combat and flew 55 combat missions over Baghdad.

Nobody handed me a cockpit because of my skin color.

Nobody lowered the standards for me.

Nobody looked at me and said, “Let’s check a diversity box.”

That’s what people like you don’t seem to understand.

Suggesting that Black pilots, Black engineers, Black doctors, or Black leaders need special preferences to succeed is not empowering, it’s insulting.

I didn’t want a different standard.
I wanted the same standard.

And when you’re flying into combat, the American people don’t care what race the pilot is.

They care whether the pilot is qualified.

Merit isn’t racist.
Excellence isn’t discriminatory.

And reducing every achievement to skin color says far more about your worldview than it does about mine.

[Reverend Jordan Wells @WellsJorda89710]

🚨 I’m a Black man, a proud conservative, and a follower of Jesus Christ.

When I see protesters outside the Collin County Courthouse chanting “FUCK WHITE LIVES!” after Karmelo Anthony’s sentencing for murdering Austin Metcalf, my soul grieves.
This isn’t justice. This isn’t “community.” This is demonic hatred — plain and simple. All lives are made in the image of God. Every single one. Black, White, Brown — doesn’t matter.

Celebrating the loss of any innocent life, or cheering on evil because of skin color, is straight from the pit of hell.
And here’s the truth they don’t want you to say out loud: When Black conservatives, Christians, or truth-tellers like me call this out, we get labeled “traitors,” “Uncle Toms,” or “betrayers of the community.”
Let them talk.

I’d rather be disliked by some in my own community than stand before a Holy God and be found guilty of excusing evil, hating my neighbor, or twisting justice for racial points.
My allegiance is to Christ first — not color, not tribe, not political pressure.

“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil…” (Isaiah 5:20)
I choose truth over tribe. Light over darkness. God over man.
Who else is tired of the hate? Drop a 🙏 if you stand for real justice — not skin color.
#AllLivesMatterToGod #FaithOverFear #TruthOverTribe

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

BREAKING: The 101-year-old Telata Chef St. Garbriel Church has been burned to the ground by Islamists in Ethiopia.

Along with torching the church, they murdered dozens of innocent Christians.

Where is the outrage?

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

Iranian man warns that Sharia law starts with unity between the left and Islam.

Pay attention to what he’s saying. The same alliance between the left and Muslims that is taking place now in the West happened decades ago in Iran. That’s how Iran became an Islamic theocracy.

[Valerie Anne Smith @ValerieAnne1970]

Babies are born with LOW vitamin K on purpose — it’s not a flaw. It’s God’s perfect design.

Cord blood is packed with stem cells specifically meant to repair the physical stress and micro-trauma of birth.

Low vitamin K keeps the blood naturally thin so those stem cells can flow freely and travel exactly where they’re needed — to heal tissues, support organ repair, and jumpstart the newborn’s developing systems without premature clotting getting in the way.

God made it this way so the baby’s own cord blood stem cells can circulate optimally in those critical first moments and hours.

Thin blood = maximum mobility for healing. High clotting factors right at birth would slow or trap those precious stem cells, interfering with their God-given job.

Benefits of lower vitamin K at birth (by design):
• Stem cells & cord blood: Allows unrestricted travel of hematopoietic stem cells throughout the body to repair birth trauma, reduce inflammation, and support tissue regeneration.
• Immune system: Cord blood stem cells help establish and strengthen the newborn’s naive immune system. Low vitamin K ensures they reach the bone marrow, thymus, and other sites without clotting interference.
• Neurological & organ protection: Stem cells can migrate to the brain and vital organs to protect against the oxidative stress of labor and delivery.
• Natural timing: Colostrum (that first “liquid gold”) is rich in natural vitamin K — delivered orally, slowly, and gently through breastfeeding exactly when the baby needs it. God’s perfect dose at the perfect moment.

Instead, we cut the cord early (stealing up to 30-40% of the baby’s blood volume and those vital stem cells), then inject synthetic vitamin K loaded with polysorbate 80, propylene glycol, benzyl alcohol, and sometimes aluminum — straight into an immune system that’s barely online.

Why are we “fixing” what God already designed perfectly?

Think about it before you consent.
Nature doesn’t make mistakes. God doesn’t either.
Delay cord clamping. Keep the cord blood. Trust colostrum. Respect the design.

Your baby’s body was fearfully and wonderfully made. ❤️

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

BREAKING: Dozens of Christians were massacred in Ethiopia over the course of the last week by Islamists.

Tens of thousands of Christians have been slaughtered by Islamists across Africa, and the world doesn’t seem to care.

[Valerie Anne Smith @ValerieAnne1970]

RFK Jr: “The Gardasil HPV vaccine — is 37 TIMES MORE LETHAL than the cancer it claims to prevent.”

“Gardasil is the single worst mass vaccine that we’ve ever seen. It targets millions of pre-teens & teens, whose risk of dying from cervical cancer is ZERO. Nobody in their right mind would ever take this vaccine if they actually read the clinical literature.”

Death rates in the Gardasil trials were 37 times the death rates for cervical cancer.
Your child is 37 times more likely to DIE from the shot than from cervical cancer itself.

And here’s the criminal part:
It was NEVER tested against a true inert placebo. Merck ran the studies, Merck paid for the studies, Merck decided what injuries were “just coincidences.” The control group got aluminum neurotoxins — the same injuries as the vaccine group — so Merck wrote them all off. No science. No safety. Just profit.

This is being pushed on our kids while Big Pharma laughs all the way to the bank.

Read the clinical data. Say NO to Gardasil.
Protect your children before it’s too late.

The new reformulated Gardasil-9 HPV Vaccine used Gardasil-1 HPV Vaccine as the placebo in clinical trial.

Ingredients in Gardasil-9 HPV Vaccine:
9 strains HPV proteins(found to contain DNA fragments)
Aluminum
Polysorbate 80
Sodium Borate(Borax)
GMO Yeast Protein(Saccharomyces Cerevisiae)
L-Histidine

Post marketing injuries listed in the package insert:
Blood & Lymphatic Leukemia
Pulmonary Emboli
Guillain Barre' Syndrome
Transverse Myelitis
Brachial Neuritis
Death
Autoimmune Diseases
Severe Anemia
Pancreatitis
Arthralgia & Myalgia
Encephalomyelitis
Paralysis
Seizure Disorder
Cellulitis
DVT Deep Vein Thrombosis
Blood Clots

[Byron Donalds @ByronDonalds]

To you, it's just a Cracker Barrel parking lot. To me, it's where I gave my life to Jesus Christ.

I was 21 years old. I was working at the Cracker Barrel in Tallahassee after some of the worst years of my life. I'd made mistakes. Real ones.

I grew up in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, raised by a mom who worked hard and didn't accept excuses. But I made decisions that should have ended my story before it ever really started. By the grace of God, they didn't. But every day, I was carrying them.

One afternoon, a church group came into the restaurant, just back from a revival. I served them their meals like I served any other table. But something happened while I was serving them. I can't fully explain it to you. The Lord spoke to me. He said, “Stop running from Me.”

It knocked me back.

I went to find the table, and they were all gone. I could see through their windows that they were getting on their bus, and I knew deep down that if I let them drive away, I was going to keep running. So I went outside. The last woman, just as she was stepping onto the bus, turned to me and asked, “Are you okay?”

I told her, “No ma’am, I’m not okay.” I told her the Lord was telling me to stop running.

That whole bus emptied out, stood with me in the parking lot of a Cracker Barrel in Tallahassee, Florida, and prayed over me right there.

I gave my life to Christ that day. Right there.

I still get emotional about it. Because I know what I was before that moment, and I know what He's done since. He gave me a wife who shares my faith. He gave me three sons. He gave me a career, a community, a calling I never would have dared to ask for. He took a kid from Crown Heights who’d run out of chances and gave him a life that doesn't make sense apart from grace.

People ask me sometimes why I talk about it. Why I bring up the parking lot. Why I don't just keep that part private and let folks see the polished version.

I'll tell you why.

Because there's a young man out there right now — maybe in Tallahassee, maybe in Tampa, maybe in Miami, maybe in a small town in the Panhandle — who thinks his story is already over. Who thinks the mistakes he's made disqualify him from the life he could have had. Who thinks God doesn't want anything to do with somebody like him.

I'm here to tell him: that's a lie.

In life, you're not who you are at the lowest point. You're who you choose to become after.

The Lord met me in a Cracker Barrel parking lot. He'll meet you wherever you are.

You just have to stop running.

[Sean Feucht @seanfeucht]

There are six things the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to him:

- haughty eyes
- a lying tongue
- hands that shed innocent blood
- a heart that devises wicked schemes
- feet that are quick to rush into evil
- a false witness who pours out lies and a person who stirs up conflict in the community.

Proverbs 6:16-19