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Does anybody really believe there will be peace with Russia as long as Z is president? I don’t believe it.
https://youtu.be/4U8zqnRiLa8?si=r2whS98L_FHJw0oJ
Hello! Welcome back to Prayer Garden Podcast! On this episode we speak with my friend Mark, known as 8traQ. Come and listen to Mark's testimony of his instant conversion to Christ after losing his job on 7/11/22. Mark's encounter with God in that same moment "changed the entire trajectory of his life". We hear how God's favor and Mark's obedience opened doors to high places all within 48 hours of that job loss. Mark's story is a great reminder that the Lord will ask you to surrender in order to make space for something better. Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding!
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Timestamps:
0:01 – Introduction
2:37 – Opening Prayer
3:41 – Bible Verse (Acts 2:3-4)
9:19 – Announcements
9:56 – Beginning of Testimony
13:08 – Coming to Christ Moment
20:13 – God Opening Doors
30:00 – Q Drops
34:36 – Surrendering More to God
40:45 - The Call Back to Comedy
50:35 – Final Prayer/Announcements
I’m just going to throw this out there. How think that the attack on Big Balls was planned by the left? Could they have scouted him? Could they have determined that he had the character to defend a woman being attacked? Could they have set up the situation to give him that beating?
What he did was pure kino.
When he did the barrel roll, he started at an altitude of several thousand feet. At the lowest point, he was only ten feet above the sea. And that's with a plane not designed for such stunts. And it was his first flight ever. What an absolute legend.
Who?
SkyKing.The man who stole the plane 7 years ago. That was a comment on 4Chan..I felt it needed reposting.
For a second I thought you were talking about Biggles 🤣
(For those of you who havent read Biggles, you don't know what you are missing!)
I've read a Biggles book. Long time ago..
GoDaddy has gotten crazy expensive..I can't help noticing, when they got an Indian CEO, the prices have been going up every year like crazy. Greed does not see long term vision. Can someone recommend a cheaper option to Park my few Domains?
wix is what I go with for both domains and website management. It's far superior to GoDaddy in every way. And I believe cheaper too
Thanks for your help. BUT WIX is Israeli owned and they fired People for Supporting Palestinians. No thanks.
True. But all of the providers are corrupt in one way or another and personally I've not been able to get around it for my particular needs. Google has a service offering, but I've got problems with them too.
Here's a couple resources that might help you further
https://www.icann.org/en/contracted-parties/accredited-registrars/list-of-accredited-registrars
https://www.forbes.com/advisor/business/software/best-domain-registrar/
Thanks for the Links. Have a good rest of your Weekend. Wishing you great happiness and success down the road.
was in what I would consider a conservative shop within a very democratic system. Precious Metals is my primary hobby. Not to get rich, but to leave something for the kids and hopes that they be successful when they are my age. This store I was in is one of the best stores in the area. They literally have everything and they have the top of everything.
there was a dude talking and he was speaking about how someone drew a gun and everyone fled. Ok. I have a hard time not speaking up in some situations. I asked the question..
Why? Why do people flee and how do people expect to out run a bullet.. the pysch I believe is behind it is we as people would rather be shot in the back fleeing than to face the threat and give it a chance to be destroyed.
this town I was in has the brightest minds that Colleges have in the world.. This guy I was speaking to was also a customer but he knew the owner, obviously. This guy most likely was a professor and I am nobody.
SO i implied. What if people were not programmed to flee but to pursue the threat? What if when a person starts to open fire onto people and they are not justified to do such a thing, people go after that person and make it so he/she/it can never to that again?
the guy did the blank stare at me. I broke him.
did not mean to offend anyone. He was in a place that sells precious metals. How can one who buys PM's not be somewhat a conservative by nature? At least he did not start yelling and doing the nonsense. Maybe he just never thought of it before? I dunno. I am sure he is in a higher class of people I am in.
I had a psych professor in college who asked, do you run because you are afraid, or are you afraid because you run? It is an interesting question. I think the fight/flight/freeze response is unconscious and many people don’t know how they’d respond in an emergency until it happens. And many only care about self preservation, not helping others. Remember the cops that hid during one of the school shootings?
You are correct. No one knows until it is there.
We as a USA / Western Culture has allowed chickens to in charge of wolves. We allowed little 100 pound girls and boys to have authority over wolves.
We are all innocent until proven guilty in the USA. We can not prevent horrible crimes but to allow wimps to be the authorities is mind boggling.
I am for LEO. My grandpa was a LA PD officer and he was injured back in the day. When I see little girls with badges it will always baffle me. When I see men cower with badges that will always baffle me.
SHARIA law is inbound in a large way and we will not be able to believe LEO’s will help. They are wimps. Not all. But the proof is in reality. Tickets over crime is what they do.
Just a guess, fren, but the blank stare may have been due to his realization that he wouldn't have the fortitude to stand up against a violent aggressor.
Hopefully you're right and your comment broke through his "fear" syndrome and ooened his mind to forcible defense.
I was several miles from the James Huberty massacre at the San Ysidro McDonalds in the early 80's. I couldn't imagine why NO ONE tackled the camo-fatigue-wearing fully armed nutcase when he walked in the door and before the shooting began.
I've personally had several experiences where I put myself at risk by subduing a violent aggressor. Each time it was done in the moment and as the situation called for. No doubt that inaction by immediate witnesses/victims or onlookers has contributed to countless robberies, muggings and murders. Perhaps Linda McMahon could instigate mandatory (or stronhly suggested) personal defense training in our schools. Let bullies play themselves, which would definitely empower their previous and potential victims!
Nice.
Those as you are rare and very important.
We should not live our lives on edge but if a situation arises there is only a fraction of a second to decide the decision.
We never know how we would react until a thing happens but if our programming is to run and treat everything like Godzilla, that is silly.
Even if a Tidal Wave is coming most will run and perish while a few will decide if there is an option to survive and if not those will either pray or salute the inevitable. —I know the most intelligent will not be in the way of the tidal wave because they would of seen the signs beforehand :)
Thank you fren.
I used to have a recurring dream where I was on a ridgeline. One side of the mountain fell away, putting me on the precipice. I had complete faith that the Lord would deliver me from harm. No fear!
That may well be in our future . . . We have one foot in SoCal and the other about 80 feet from Puget Sound (thankfully about 35' above high tide, but that ain't much when Cascadia blows). Just a reminder to stay focused, do my best toive right and live on faith!
Remember the Evergiven freighter fiasco in the Suez Canal? The Internet Historian did a great video on the details.
https://odysee.com/@InternetHistorian:3/ever-given,-ever-taken-away:7
u/#ridetofreedom
Sounds like a lot of shits and no giggles! 😅
Lmfao
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DIwzmZqSvyY
Hit in the non binaries! This isn't Q related & while I had hoped I could justify the "Mental/Physical Health" for us all to get a good laugh, it is probably best left here instead of it's own post. Hope you guys laugh as hard as I did.
If you think it deserves it own post, feel free to post it up.
Wish I knew how to archive this, or if there is a nitter.poast.org style site that can share these for those who don't Instagram.
Lol pretty good!
It's gone 😢
CREATION SCIENCE UPDATE THE UNIVERSE STARS & GALAXIES Pluto’s Largest Moon Looks Young BY JAKE HEBERT, PH.D.
MONDAY, JULY 21, 2025 https://www.icr.org/article/plutos-largest-moon-looks-young/ When the New Horizons space probe captured images of Pluto and its large moon Charon as it flew by in 2015, conventional scientists were surprised by the small number of craters in Charon’s southern hemisphere.1 This suggested a relatively young surface, despite Charon’s presumed age of over four billion years. How could they account for this?
Theorists proposed that a subsurface ocean developed on Charon billions of years ago. The large plain Vulcan Planitia was then repaved by cryovolcanism, “ice volcano” activity that erupts with gases and materials like water and ammonia rather than with lava.2 They suggested that the heat released by the freezing of that ocean could have powered this geological resurfacing. So, although tiny and distant Charon is presumably cold and dead today, theorists think it might have been warmer in the distant past.3
But there are problems with this idea. Writers of a 2023 paper pointed out difficulties with the idea that cryovolcanism on Charon could be the result of a freezing subsurface ocean billions of years ago. The researchers stated, “We find that current models of Charon's interior evolution predict ice shells that are far too thick to be fully cracked by the stresses associated with ocean freezing.”4 And after four billion years, one would think that a significant number of craters would have still have accumulated in Vulcan Planitia, even if it had been resurfaced eons ago.
Despite these difficulties, authors of a recent study used computer simulations to try to determine when such a freezing event would have occurred.2,5 They varied factors like starting temperature, porosity of Charon’s interior, and the amount of ammonia that might have been present in such a subsurface ocean. The authors stated,
Crucially, in no simulation across any parameter studied so far did the ocean fully freeze in a timeframe consistent with massive cryovolcanic eruptions before 4 Gyr [four billion years] ago. These results strongly suggest that if ocean freezing is the cause of the resurfacing of Vulcan Planitia at 4 Gyr ago, the details of the impact [that is supposed to have formed Pluto and Charon] matter.2
For this reason, theorists are planning future simulations in which Charon formed from an impact with Pluto, hoping that this will make their job easier. As noted by a popular science writer, “If a subsurface ocean on Charon is confirmed, even a frozen one, this could challenge our understanding of how planetary bodies form and evolve, especially so far from the sun.”5
Yes, it would—especially if such an ocean is still liquid water, because maintaining such a liquid would require a precise balance over billions of years:
Maintaining subsurface oceans against freezing over geological times requires a fine balance between internal heating and heat loss, and yet we have several pieces of evidence that Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, and other moons should be ocean worlds.6
How could such a “fine balance” be maintained for so long? If a frozen or partially frozen subsurface ocean is the cause of Charon’s apparent past cryovolcanism, such cryovolcanism would probably be easier to explain if one dropped the assumption of billions of years. And should Charon or other solar system bodies have liquid water today, this is far, far easier to explain if our solar system is just thousands of years old. The most straightforward explanation is that Pluto, Charon, and other objects in our solar system came into existence recently, just as Genesis attests.
References
Charon’s Surprising, Youthful and Varied Terrain. NASA. Posted on nasa.gov July 15, 2015, accessed June 27, 2025. Noviello, J. L. et al. Modeling Charon’s Geochemical Evolution: Implications for Cyrovolcanism. 56th Lunar and Planetary Conference. Posted on hou.usra.edu, accessed June 27, 2025. Moore, J. M. et al. 2016. The geology of Pluto and Charon through the eyes of New Horizons. Science. 351 (6279): 1284–1293. Rhoden, A. R. et al. 2023. The Challenge of Driving Charon’s Cryovolcanism from a Freezing Ocean. Icarus. 392: 115391. Tognetti, L. Cryovolcanism and Resurfacing on Pluto’s Largest Moon, Charon. Universe Today. Posted on universetoday.com June 27, 2025, accessed June 27, 2025. Mace, M. Jupiter’s Moons Could Be Warming Each Other. University of Arizona. Posted September 10, 2020 at news.arizona.edu, accessed June 27, 2025.
Luke 15:4-7
“What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it? 5 And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. 6 And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.’ 7 Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.