Dominion ~ Oil painting by Greg Beecham

Never doubt God’s mighty power to work in you and accomplish all this. He will achieve infinitely more than your greatest request, your most unbelievable dream, and exceed your wildest imagination! He will outdo them all, for his miraculous power constantly energizes you. Now we offer up to God all the glorious praise that rises from every church in every generation through Jesus Christ—and all that will yet be manifest through time and eternity. Amen!
Ephesians 3:20 - 21 TPT

Bob is my fave Minion, hands down.
#MinionsRiseOfGru
#laughteristhebestmedicine
#joy

For those with mother and father wounds - He sees, He knows, He longs to heal you.

I will be a true Father to you, and you will be my beloved sons and daughters,” says the Lord Yahweh Almighty.

2 Corinthians 6:18 TPT

It was I who taught Ephraim to walk, taking them by the arms; but they did not realize it was I who healed them. I led them with cords of human kindness, with ties of love. To them I was like one who lifts a little child to the cheek, and I bent down to feed them.

Hosea 11:3 - 4 NIV

I say this specifically to Christians: To avoid conspiracy theories and lies, turn off your browser and open your Bible.

I was thinking about Bible commentators online and otherwise. The Catholic Church has been commenting on the Bible for at least 1,000 years, long before the internet phenomenon. I don't agree with all of their theology but this does, in fact, make them the original Theo Bros. 😊

This Protestant loves all of my Catholic brothers and sisters and you should be proud of who you are in Christ.

This came to mind as I looked at today's headlines:

Jesus answered: “Watch out that no one deceives you. For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Messiah,’ and will deceive many. You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of birth pains. “Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me. At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people. Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
Matthew 24:4 - 14 NIV

https://andrewjbauman.com/mychildexposed/

An excellent article! I loved how she responded! I noticed one thing - her assumption that b/c "they were Christian and homeschooled like us" no harm would ever come to him. I could argue in such finely controlled environments, there is greater prevelance of evil b/c it is hush hush and children in those environments are tightly controlled. Not all of course nor do I believe this to be a general rule, but a minority. This article speaks to many things really. I hope she will speak to him about not being afraid to speak up and leave if he is ever confronted with that again. 🙏❤️

"Black and white melt into grey
'Till every truth is stripped away
When nothing's wrong, nothing's okay
Everyone has been betrayed..."

End of Me, Ashes Remain
From the album What I've Become (2011)

Prophetic.

Truth, love, and grace have to work together. Relationships have to be more important than being right. I have messed this up. I got so wrapped up in telling the truth, I forgot about the person. This was wrong.

In relationship, we can help others see truth. Truth without relationship, trust, love, and grace is just unhospitable and disrespectful.

My blog Truth Without Love, Grace, and Relationship is Just Noise drops this week.

Kinda puts a diff spin on things doesn't it? Luke 18:40, TPT

LGBTQIA communities across America are made up of people - God's image bearers - brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, dads, moms, grandparents, siblings cousins, and friends. They must not be dehumanized by rhetoric or lack of care. Church, do what is right! American govt in the response to monkeypox, do what is right! Truth, love, grace!

An observation: We don't know what "hard Right" means in this country anymore. This will make it easier for the actual "hard Right" to come to power, not more difficult. In fact, we don't seem to know reality from fiction these days or the difference between truth and lies in so many areas. Perhaps it's time to close our browsers and turn off our 24\7 news cycles.
#shutoffthenoise

I keep hearing about the social media site Truth Social. No, I haven't joined. I don't need more social media tbh.

I ask you; what is Truth? We don't seem to know these days. Perhaps we best find out before the unthinkable happens. Truth is not as relative or as fake as it seems.

Hear them out!

https://www.elizabethbillingsley.com/post/truth-without-love-grace-and-relationship-is-just-noise

As promised. We have much to work on, myself included.