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Officially it wasn't the fall but the impact that caused her broken hip , leg, and eventually death
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An Auckland family is demanding more information about the death of their 79-year-old mother who fell from her bed at North Shore Hospital in late February and died 10 days later.RE: Is the real truth being hidden?
Because nothing matters til it matters.
RE: Enjoy life!
Lovely pics young lady!
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Actor and writer Joe Flaherty, known for his roles on Happy Gilmore and Freaks and Geeks, has died aged 82 after a brief illness.What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
He knows your future to your personal individual future. He knows what your tomorrow holds and he'll meet you there. With whatever you need to get through that tomorrow to stand for to walk in the light and faith, you can trust that because you can trust him, you can rest in that because you can rest in him. And if you still feel anxious, do what our brother Peter counsels us to do. Cast all your cares upon Jesus because he cares for you.Don't worry about future issues, don't fear, possess your soul and trust in the Lord, he is God over all things, including your future and the future of our world.
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
And the story of the gospel and the church over the past two thousand years is that the worse the persecution gets.The more the church grows, the worse the persecution gets, the more the church grows, despite those 10 waves of persecution under 10 Caesars, despite those millions and millions of Christians who were killed during the first 250 years of the church, despite that genocide. You know what else happened?
The church exploded. Exploded, could not be contained, could not be controlled.
The gospel explodes now in places like China and Iran, where persecution is so severe because it cannot be stopped, the kingdom cannot be stopped, and the gospel will indeed and pretty much has penetrated every corner of the globe.
Remember in this verse, in verse 14, when Jesus says then the end will come, he's referring to the end Times era, the beginning of end times events, starting with the Rapture. And as Jesus continues with the all of that discourse, he's going to get into the disciples specific questions from verse three. And his answers are going to be coming up over these next few weeks in our study. This is the promise Jesus gives in Luke's gospel at the end of this portion of the Olivet discourse in Luke, he says, but not a hair of your head shall be lost by your patience.
Possess your souls. If you die for Jesus now, if you're martyred, how in the world can not a hair of your head be lost? This is what Jesus is saying. If your earthly body is destroyed. You have lost nothing. Let that sink in if your earthly body is destroyed. Jesus says you've lost nothing. Jesus is telling his boys, his disciples, you're going to wake up in heaven, in my presence, in glory, in the presence of the father in paradise.
And when you see what you've gained in eternity by laying down your life for me, you will realize you have lost nothing.
On the contrary, you have gained everything. Every disciple who lost their lives for Jesus is in the presence of God right now with a full head of hair, not a single hair has been harmed.
And I think that truth may be more impactful for me than for some of you.
What does Jesus mean when he says, by your patience, possess your souls? He's saying, don't freak out, don't freak out, don't stress out. When these things happen, fear will want to possess your soul. Do not let it. Be patient. Let God's plan unfold, bring those fears under submission to the word of God, and by doing that, you possess your souls, you take control of your soul, you command it to be in submission to the word of God.
You don't let fear possess your soul. And that applies to every situation we face in life, which causes fear to well up in us.
The solution is to be patient. It's to look back at God's faithfulness in your life and remind yourself he's been perfectly faithful and he'll be perfectly faithful in the days to come. Don't freak out in the moment. Have faith, be patient.
Give God's plan time to unfold. Trust in his goodness. Do not let fear possess your soul. Going to wrap up with this. If you find your love growing cold toward your spouse, towards your kids. Your co-workers or anybody else, I've got to ask you, frankly and honestly and directly. Have you willingly chosen to walk in sin in some area of your life? I know you're telling yourself there's not a connection, but there is there is a connection between choosing sin and cutting off the flow of God's love into your life and your love for others growing cold.
There is a connection. And if you've chosen sin over God. Your source of love is being choked out right now, if that's you repent, repent, turn away from that sin, do everything you can to get it out of your life. Turn to Jesus. He brings life to every relationship. Sin brin
gs death to every relationship. Change. Now do it. And then listen. Jesus doesn't only know the future of our world and the future of our universe.
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
So in other words, when we consciously choose sin to pursue it and not repent of it, to walk in sin, it naturally damages our relationship with Jesus because we're willingly doing what we know grieves the heart of God.And as we tune out the Holy Spirit, because we have to, right in order to sin, we have to tune out the Holy Spirit, the voice that is convicting us, saying this is not good. This is not pleasing to the Lord. As we tune out the Holy Spirit in our lives, we are also tuning out the author of Love in Our Lives.
The only real love in existence is God. The only real love in existence flows through us from God, and so when we cut off that flow into our lives, we naturally begin to become less loving, less empathetic people.
Or we might know how to go through some of the motions, but when we're cut off from that source of love, we can only keep the charade going so far and that begins to damage all of our relationships, all of our relationships.
Would you make a note of this? Sin causes love to diminish in all of our relationships.
Sin causes love to diminish in all of our relationships.
It's true in marriage. It's true in parenting. It's true when it comes to your brothers and sisters in the church. And it's true most of all when it comes to our relationship with the Lord.
Sin causes our love to diminish, and that truth debunks the lie that we love to believe about sin.
It's this lie.
My secret sin is not affecting anybody else. Jesus says, yes, it is, yes, it is, it's damaging your relationships because your secret's sin is cutting off the flow of the love of God into your life.
It's diminishing your ability to love God and to love others.
In verse 13, Jesus says, but he who endures to the end shall be saved. I want you to hear this, really hear me on this. Jesus is not saying if you endure, you'll be saved. He's not saying that that's a work based gospel. Jesus is saying if you're saved, you will endure. It's meant as an encouragement, not as a warning, because his disciples are shell shocked at this moment.
Jesus isn't taking these shell shocked, terrified disciples and saying, but if you endure to the end, you'll be saved. He's saying, no, no, no, no. If you're saved, if you have faith in me, you will endure, First, Peter, one five.
It's on your outlines tells us that true believers are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time. Our part is to believe God, to have faith in God and God is the one who provides the perseverance. God is the one who provides the endurance. God is the one who provides the grace. We need to stand firm. Never forget Jesus promising John when he says, I give them eternal life and they shall never perish.
Neither shall anyone snatch them out of my hand. My father, who's given them to me is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of my father's hand. Now back to our text, Jesus has just shared again some some very difficult things that are coming the disciples way in the future. And so he's ending this part of the all of that discourse with encouragement. I just explained that.
And now he shares another encouragement in verse 14, he says, And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations and them.
Then the end will come. He says, Guys, listen, let me encourage you. None of the things I've told you are going to stop the gospel. None of them are going to overcome my plans for you. None of them are going to overcome my church. It's going to happen.
The Gospel is going to reach every corner of the earth.
FLAGS.
The new England football football shirts designed by Nike show the country's flag in blue and pink. The correct colour should be red cross on white background. This has upset a lot of people. You can't change the true flag's colours just if you fancy a change. In Germany Nike has caused a problem too. The number 44 Is shown to look like the SS emblem of the Nazis.
RE: Not a terrorist act
Did the insurance company claim bankruptcy (boat) and what about the lapse in judgement regarding the bridge structure and maintenance and care of the bridge?...It seems there are more than a few to blame here...
UK & USA ELECTIONS THIS YEAR. UKRAINE?
Maybe if Trump is re elected, he will finish the wall."VENGEANCE IS MINE".
Killing seven aid workers is not helping Israel's cause. Three vehicles clearly marked as aid workers and with appropriate permission to enter the area designated, somehow were hit by mistake.
RE: UK & USA ELECTIONS THIS YEAR. UKRAINE?
Not surprised...as Mexicans are bad hombres and rapists...lol...Trump should look into the mirror...
Not surprisingly, he has called people vermin...one has to wonder who is next on his list of hate...
That book he has on his night stand is becoming useful...
UK & USA ELECTIONS THIS YEAR. UKRAINE?
Trump has just given a speech in Michigan, where he referred to illegal migrants as, " animals. "
RE: Not a terrorist act
The ship that struck the bridge was reported to have an issue with its propulsion in June last year.Also bear in mind that the Dali was reportedly detained in Belgium after scraping the side of quay and significantly damaging part of the hull in good weather in 2016.
Not exactly good on safety at sea by the sound of it .
RE: Not a terrorist act
2 ship companies are invoking a 200-year-old law to try to skirt huge legal liabilities from the Baltimore collision
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Well I guess they need to sort it out a.s.a.p so that would be the quickest way at this moment in time.Seems there will be questions asked and needed to be answered regarding responsibility
"Ship’s owner Grace Ocean Private Limited and operator Synergy Marine PTE denied any fault over the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse that claimed the lives of six construction workers"
RE: Is the real truth being hidden?
I thin you missed my point...rather than google it...take into the consideration of the source...plenty of misinformation circulating...
RE: Not a terrorist act
why should the American Taxpayer have to foot the Bill?What's happening with the Shipowner's Insurance?
Why is Joe so quick to unload the Bill on to the American Public?
What does he know what we don't?
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A teenager escaping kidnapping shot by California police as she crawled to them for helpA Teenage girl and her father shot dead by California police after manhunt
Savannah Graziano, 15, was shot dead by police during a shootout between police and her father, who was wanted for her mother's murder.
A teenage girl in the US who had been kidnapped by her father was following a sheriff’s deputy’s instructions and appeared to be surrendering when other deputies fatally shot her during a gun battle on a Southern California highway, according to recently released video and audio.
Savannah Graziano, 15, was shot and killed as she ran toward San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputies amid a hail of gunfire on September 27, 2022. Her father, 45-year-old Anthony Graziano, was also fatally shot.
Is the real truth being hidden?
I agree Mermaid...I have actually been studying that lately...with learning what women value most.
I am sure I will be writing some blogs in regards to this. There is plenty of information online regarding bedroom activities.....in addition, I would highly encourage men to study female attraction and how to facilitate it on a long term basis....
Female attraction is important throughout the WHOLE relationship, just not in the beginning of the relationship.
Is the real truth being hidden?
Hello Daphne,Thank you for sharing the results of that one test.
I encourage you to Google, "difference between male brain and female brain."
You will find plenty of differences there.
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
Jesus was saying. Not only am I not about to rule the world as Messiah. But the temple soon going to be destroyed and you're going to be persecuted, betrayed and murdered for being my disciples.But this type of epiphany still happens all the time when believers find out that Jesus is not a genie who exists to grant our wishes, many believers are shocked to find out that what the Bible teaches is that what God considers good for us might include us dying for him or serving him through some very difficult, prolonged circumstances.
That's how the disciples felt they were getting ready at this point for a cushy eternity that they thought was about to begin. They thought any day now Jesus is going to start ruling the Earth and we're going to be his posse. This is going to be awesome. But instead, Jesus is talking about persecution and betrayal and death.
Would have been shocking, their heads would have been spinning. And Jesus goes on in verse 11, he says, then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many, and we're able to read about some of those false prophets in the epistles like Galatians and Thessalonians, which Paul wrote to combat the teachings of some of these false prophets and teachers, verse 12.
And because lawlessness, which you underline the word lawlessness, because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. That word lawlessness doesn't just mean bad stuff. It's the Greek word, anemia, anemia, and it's defined as the condition of without law. It's a rejection of the very idea that there are moral laws that were bound to.
That's what this word means. It's a lawlessness. That is the doctrine of moral relativism or the idea that morality is just an illusion, it's a social construct. And even though we think that this is a new philosophical development happening in our day, it was the type of thinking that was prevalent in the Roman Empire during the years of the early church, especially in the major cities of Europe.
Just go and read First and Second Corinthians, where Paul has to address this type of thinking in the church.
In the early years of the church, this lawlessness was all around them in philosophies like hedonism, cults like the Dionysian and the removal of moral restraint from society under the guise of enlightenment. And as sin ran rampant all around them, many, many chose sin over Jesus as they still do.
Because for them, it was persecution and death or sex parties in honor of Roman gods. I'll take the sex parties. Thanks. Sin is always, always appealing to our flesh. But let me tell you, sin is exponentially more appealing when the alternative is not Christianity. But the alternative is Christianity, persecution, betrayal and death.
And so in the early church, there were many who chose to love sin over Jesus, leaving the church in the faith, I know we're cramming a lot into this message, but this stuff is so, so important.
So please hang with me. I want you to notice that Jesus specifically links lawlessness. He links iniquity. He links unrighteousness. He links choosing sin over Jesus with love growing cold.
I want you to notice that link Jesus makes, he says, because lawlessness will abound. The love of many will grow cold.
Now, obviously, Jesus is speaking first and foremost about people's love for him, his love for the Lord, he's saying that rampant cultural sin would cause many in the early church to choose sin and love sin over loving him. But there's a secondary reality, a secondary lesson I think we can pull from this.
And it's this when we give ourselves over to the willful pursuit of sin.
So in other words, when we consciously choose sin to pursue it and not repent of it, to walk in sin, it naturally damages our relationship with Jesus because we're willingly doing what we know grieves the heart of God.
RE: I want to go on a cruise ;)
Do not be afraid, be confident that you will reach the destination you want
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
These labor pains are leading up to the rapture, where we will escape the worst of it. We will escape the wrath of God.For those who have rejected Jesus, these labor pains are leading up to God, pouring out his wrath on the Earth. They're going to keep getting worse and worse and worse till they become literally unbearable.
Now, all of that was part of the overview of the timing of the end times in Verse is nine through 13, Jesus is going to share with his disciples the things that will unfold in their future during the first generation of the church.
What do you know that, Jeff? How do you know that Jesus is switching subjects in this?
Well, verse nine can lead to a lot of confusion, a lot of confusion when you're trying to understand the order of events, because verse nine simply begins with the term then.
So people read that and they think that whatever Jesus is talking about next must take place after all these signs. So after the tribulation.
But fortunately, Luke's account of the all of it discourse makes all of this a bit clearer because the English translation is a little muddled in. Matthew, on this one specific point. Luke, 21 12, it's on your outline, tells us that at this point of the Olivet discourse, Jesus actually says, but before all these things. So I hope you're tracking with me.
Luke tells us that in verse nine, Jesus begins telling his disciples about things that will happen to them before.
All the stuff he described in the list of signs that we were just reading, so we really should be reading verse nine like this, but before all these things, they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you and you will be hated by all nations for my name's sake.
And this was the story of the early church for the first 250 years of its existence, she was persecuted by 10 consecutive seizures, who all hated Christianity. Five to seven million Christians were killed in those 250 years.
And here's where that number becomes truly mind blowing, because if you take the percentage of the world's population, that five to seven million was back then and you convert it into the same percentage of today's population, it would be as though around 253 million, 800000 Christians had been killed over the last 250 years, 250, three million, 800000 over the last 250 years, an absolute massacre of the church during our first 250 years.
Then Jesus says, and then many will be offended. That just means cause to stumble, many will be caused to stumble, will betray one another and will hate one another. Luke's gospel records Jesus saying you will be betrayed even by parents and brothers, relatives and friends, and they will put some of you to death and you will be hated by all for my name's sake. To ensure their own safety, family members would betray and rat out their own Christian family members, their own parents, their own brothers and sisters.
Their own children. And sometimes those doing the betraying would be people that everybody thought were Christians. But if you'll take your mind back to Matthew, Chapter 10. This shouldn't have been unexpected. Because back in Matthew Ten, Jesus had told his disciples, do not think that I came to bring peace on Earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword for I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother and a daughter in law against her mother in law.
And a man's enemies will be those of his own household. He who loves father, a mother more than me, is not worthy of me, and he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me, and he who does not take his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me. He who finds his life will lose it. And he who loses his life for my sake, will find it. And I would wager that the disciples were kind of shell shocked at this point.
RE: Is the real truth being hidden?
Well if it’s speaking in generalities then I would assume that it all matters. Be good with your tongue and d*ck.RE: Is the real truth being hidden?
Johnny...You mentioned women and men thinking differently...thought I would post this...
Early studies looking at sex differences in the brain did find a distinction, but only had a handful of participants. When the sample size was increased, scientists found the human brain is sexually monomorphic.
"The differences between human male and female brains are so subtle, they could never be called dimorphic. They could never be called two shapes," says neuroscientist Lise Eliot in Fluid: Life Beyond the Binary, a documentary from The Nature of Things.
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
But then towards the late 90s, we started hearing about potential pandemics that were at risk of erupting seemingly every couple of years, SARS, H1N1, bird flu. And it just seemed to go on and on. Those of you who've been alive that long, you can probably remember what I'm talking about. You'd see it on the news every few years. This thing could go global. This thing could break out as though the world was almost trying to get a virus to break out.And then now, of course, we have covid-19 that's gripped the Earth, then Jesus says, and earthquakes in various places.
Do you know that earthquakes are more frequent today than they've been at any other time in history?
Earthquake activity around the world is exploding exponentially and has for the last 10 to 20 years, just go and Google it.
In fact, just go and Google this whole list of signs that Jesus gives.
And you give yourself a prophecy update and you'll see how these things are happening with increasing intensity and increasing frequency. The reason we look at this list of signs and believe we're close to the end times is not because of what's on the list, because, as I said, each of these things as individual events, they've happened before and they've been happening for millennia. But they've never happened with the frequency and intensity that they're occurring with in our day.
It's unparalleled in the history of the earth, what we're seeing right now. In other words, I'm sorry to tell you, you should probably lower your expectations for 20/ 21.
Now, one more thing on this particular section, because there's something that's just too good for me to leave out. If you love this stuff like I do. That Greek word for labor pains.
Odin shows up again in Paul's letter to the Thessalonians Believer's when he's writing about the end times.
The Thessalonians were worried that they had missed the rapture. And so Paul wrote to them to reassure them that they weren't about to find themselves stuck in the tribulation, experiencing the wrath of God. In First Thessalonians five, I'll read it to you.
You could turn there if you'd like to, but you don't have to. In First Thessalonians five, beginning in verse one, Paul writes this, and I want you to notice the pronouns here, he says, But concerning the Times and the Seasons brethren, in other words, when it comes to knowing the exact timing of everything and times related, he says, you have no need that I should write to you. Why would Paul say you don't need me to clear up the exact perfect timing of everything?
And then he gives us the answer.
He says for you yourselves, know perfectly that the day of the Lord, that time period when God judges the Earth, the day of the Lord, so comes as a thief in the night. Now he switches pronouns for when they say peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes upon them as labor pains upon a pregnant woman, and they shall not escape.
In other words, the worst of these labor pains that we're seeing in our world today, the worst of them. Are not going to be for us. Paul says it's for them, for those who have rejected Jesus, that's their destiny. So what's the destiny of the believer? Paul says in verse four, But you brethren are not in darkness so that this day should overtake you as a thief. You are all Sons of Light and Sons of the Day.
We are not of the night nor of darkness.
Let's skip down to verse nine in this same paragraph, in this same section of Scripture.
Addressing the same subject is where Paul famously states emphatically, for God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ who died for us. That whether we wake or sleep, whether we live or die, we should live together with him, therefore comfort each other and edify each other, just as you are also doing for believers.
RE: Not a terrorist act
To be honest, I felt deep sympathy for those who were killed by the extreme Muslims...ISIS..HAMAS..no difference...they seek to kill and destroy anyone without their belief about extreme Islamic beliefs...The feminists will say nothing...about a religion that puts women under their control..no education..not going out in public without an elder family man...but, they will rape a woman..But, if a woman looks at another man she will be put to death...
And, just as feminists remained quiet when the women from Israel were raped and butchered..they remain quiet...
That’s my thoughts..
RE: Easter-freakout and a few days off
This is a very different blog for you...Generally, you stay away from politics...Speaking for myself...I did not give any of it a thought...
I spent Easter with the family..that is all that really matters.
Useless trivia
Inmates in New York are suing the state corrections department over a decision to lock down prisons during next week's total solar eclipse.The suit filed in federal court in upstate New York argues that the April 8 lockdown violates inmates' constitutional rights to practice their faiths by preventing them from taking part in a religiously significant event.
The plaintiffs are six men with varying religious backgrounds who are incarcerated at the Woodbourne Correctional Facility in Woodbourne. They include a Baptist, a Muslim, a Seventh-Day Adventist and two practitioners of Santeria, as well as an atheist.
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
So what is on this list of signs that makes it so compelling, let's jump back to verse six and read it together, Jesus says, and you'll hear of wars and rumors of wars. That's pretty self-explanatory, right? There's plenty of that that's happened over the past 150 years, and a seemingly infinite number of wars and rumors of wars flying around right now.Then Jesus says, see that you're not troubled, for all these things must come to pass. But the end is not yet. The end is not yet. Jesus says wars and rumors of wars. They're not the definitive sign that the end is imminent. In other words, when World War Two was happening, that was not the sign that the end of the world was imminent. It was a sign we're getting closer. But there was so much more that still needed to happen.
That's what Jesus said. This verse 7/4, nation will rise against nation. The Greek word used there for nation is ethnos.
It actually refers to an ethnic group. The idea is one ethnic group rising up against another. And scholars believe this also points to fighting within a country among ethnic groups in civil wars. And again, there's just infinite examples of this over the past century and even happening right now, look at America right now.
Who would have thought? That after eight years of a black president, race relations would actually be worse in America and would spiral down to the state that they're in right now.
Who would have thought that today, anti-Semitism would be the worst it's been since World War Two?
Because it is, Jews are literally fleeing parts of Europe because they're being targeted by the increasing Muslim population.
And that's not even mentioning what's taken place in the Middle East over the past 10 years, where ISIS has endeavored to wipe out entire ethnic groups such as Coptic Christians and the Yazidi.
Do you know that in China right now, they have over a million Muslims in concentration camps?
Right now, China is waging an ethnic war against them. It's horrific.
And on and on and on. We could go, despite all our talk about progress and multiculturalism, when you look around, the world is more ethnically driven wars and fighting and killing than ever before. Then Jesus says, and kingdom against kingdom. Do you know that before World War One, war was pretty much always kings in their armies fighting against other kings and their armies?
World War One was really the first time the kingdoms fought against kingdoms, where it was all in. You had even untrained men sent out to fight because it was kingdom against kingdom.
And there will be famines, famines, the awful thing about famines in our day is that they're no longer caused solely by the weather. Famines happen today for economic reasons and because of wicked leaders everywhere where there's a famine, we could end it. Did you catch that everywhere where there was a famine, we could end it. There's enough food. We have the transportation technology to solve the problem.
We simply don't do what is necessary and where famine is not weather related, it's due to wicked leaders, as we're seeing in places like Venezuela right now. We would have thought surely we could have solved this problem by now, by now we could. We just don't. Then Jesus says there's going to be increasing and more frequent pestilence. Now, pestilence is a term for a fatal epidemic, disease, a plague. The idea here is that there will be epidemics and pandemics with increasing frequency.
No present day examples come to mind on this one.
Right. But you know what? If you go back to the mid to late 90s, I started noticing this about a decade ago.
You go back to the mid to late 90s, the world had been relatively quiet as far as pandemics go, as far as serious large scale outbreaks.
Useless trivia
An 80-year-old American woman has been killed while on safari in Zambia after an elephant charged at her car and flipped it over several times.