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Wow…Biblical views on Marriage considered hate in Finland

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Country’s Supreme Court Convicts Christian Politician of Crime for Biblical Views on Marriage | CBN News A Christian politician in Finland has been convicted of a crime for publishing her views on marriage and sexual ethics 22 years ago. The country’s Supreme Court found parliamentarian Päivi Räsänen guilty of “hate speech” for publishing her biblical beliefs. In a 3–2 decision, the court upheld a criminal conviction against Räsänen and a Lutheran bishop for “making and keeping available to the public a text that insults a group.”  The high court did acquit her on a separate charge of tweeting a Bible verse, but … Continue reading Wow…Biblical views on Marriage considered hate in Finland

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City can’t descriminate against ministry Ohio court rules

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Ohio Court Rules City That Treated Pastor Like a Criminal Can’t Discriminate Against Ministry | CBN News In one of several different legal battles with the city, Pastor Avell was fined and given a 60-day suspended jail sentence in 2025 for keeping Dad’s Place Church open 24/7 for homeless people looking to escape the bitter cold.  Now, Judge James D. Bates of the Court of Common Pleas of Williams County has issued a final order dismissing with prejudice a lawsuit brought by city officials. The court ruled Bryan’s fire chief can’t close the church site, declaring, “The City has given … Continue reading City can’t descriminate against ministry Ohio court rules

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Christian school wins half a million from Vermont state

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Vermont Principals Assoc. coughs up more than half a million dollars after kicking Christian school out of sports league – Alliance Defending Freedom The VPA’s agreement to pay $566,000 comes after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit ruled in September that Vermont must allow the Christian school back into the state’s athletic association. In 2023, the VPA kicked Mid Vermont out of its athletic association because the school forfeited one girls’ basketball game against a girls’ team with a male athlete because playing the game would have violated the school’s religious convictions. ADF attorneys are continuing to litigate the … Continue reading Christian school wins half a million from Vermont state

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Happiness

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“If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. [9] If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.” – 1 John 1:8-10 Go to the Jesus! This is why He came! Continue reading Happiness

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It is God’s wrath

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Finally, their mind is smitten by these things, and their spirit is dull, and their sense of right is estranged: it is God’s wrath that they do not perceive their sins, lest repentance should follow, as it is written, “And God gave them the spirit of torpor,” that is, that they may not return and be healed, and be made whole after their sins by just prayers and satisfactions. Paul the apostle in his epistle lays it down, and says, “They received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send … Continue reading It is God’s wrath

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God has prepared

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For God, as He is merciful, so He exacts obedience to His precepts, and indeed carefully exacts it; and as He invites to the banquet, so the man that hath not a wedding garment He binds hands and feet, and casts him out beyond the assembly of the saints. He has prepared heaven, but He has also prepared hell. He has prepared places of refreshment, but He has also prepared eternal punishment. He has prepared the light that none can approach unto, but He has also prepared the vast and eternal gloom of perpetual night. Cyprian of Carthage. 1886. “The … Continue reading God has prepared

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True peace

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Cyprian 250AD “These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.” – Jesus John 16:33 “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” – Jesus John 14:27 It is so tempting to trust in the creation over our Creator but then we lose the hope of an everlasting peace for a temporary peace that can’t … Continue reading True peace

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He was not a sinner

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Mine too! Thank you, my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! Thank you for being my light. I could have not asked for a better. May you be glorified in my life! “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.” – Isaiah 53:6 “And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. This he said, signifying what death he should die.” – John 12:32-33 Thank you for drawing me unto you by way of … Continue reading He was not a sinner

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Being allowed to condemn what we were

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Hence, then, the one peaceful and trustworthy tranquillity, the one solid and firm and constant security, is this, for a man to withdraw from these eddies of a distracting world, and, anchored on the ground of the harbour of salvation, to lift his eyes from earth to heaven; and having been admitted to the gift of God, and being already very near to his God in mind, he may boast, that whatever in human affairs others esteem lofty and grand, lies altogether beneath his consciousness. He who is actually greater than the world can crave nothing, can desire nothing, from … Continue reading Being allowed to condemn what we were