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@JoshuaBarzon Feels strange to see the Trinity represented be a Venn Diagram. Drawings can only help us as a crutch in our walk with Him. It's a start, but the uncontainable is One. And we can be adopted into His. By faith, not by understanding.

A helpful visualization of the Trinity.

@OnDisasters Don't forget these choppers were designed in the Northern Hemisphere.

New Zealand Air Force Bell UH-1 engine start. (Can any chopper expert explain why he is holding one of the rotors before he "cranks" it?) 📹helicopters_action

Percentage of Europeans who don't understand what marriage is, throughout Europe: 🇳🇱 Netherlands: 94% 🇸🇪 Sweden: 94% 🇩🇰 Denmark: 93% 🇪🇸 Spain: 88% 🇮🇪 Ireland: 86% 🇩🇪 Germany: 84% 🇱🇺 Luxembourg: 84% 🇵🇹 Portugal: 81% 🇧🇪 Belgium: 79% 🇫🇷 France: 79% 🇫🇮 Finland: 76% 🇮🇹 Italy: 69% 🇦🇹 Austria: 65% 🇸🇮 Slovenia: 62% 🇨🇿 Czechia: 60% 🇬🇷 Greece: 57% 🇨🇾 Cyprus: 50% 🇵🇱 Poland: 50% 🇭🇷 Croatia: 42% 🇭🇺 Hungary: 42% 🇪🇪 Estonia: 41% 🇱🇹 Lithuania: 39% 🇸🇰 Slovakia: 37% 🇱🇻 Latvia: 36% 🇷🇴 Romania: 25% 🇧🇬 Bulgaria: 17%

Percentage of Europeans who support “same sex marriage” throughout Europe: 🇳🇱 Netherlands: 94% 🇸🇪 Sweden: 94% 🇩🇰 Denmark: 93% 🇪🇸 Spain: 88% 🇮🇪 Ireland: 86% 🇩🇪 Germany: 84% 🇱🇺 Luxembourg: 84% 🇵🇹 Portugal: 81% 🇧🇪 Belgium: 79% 🇫🇷 France: 79% 🇫🇮 Finland: 76% 🇮🇹 Italy: 69% 🇦🇹 Austria: 65% 🇸🇮 Slovenia: 62% 🇨🇿 Czechia: 60% 🇬🇷 Greece: 57% 🇨🇾 Cyprus: 50% 🇵🇱 Poland: 50% 🇭🇷 Croatia: 42% 🇭🇺 Hungary: 42% 🇪🇪 Estonia: 41% 🇱🇹 Lithuania: 39% 🇸🇰 Slovakia: 37% 🇱🇻 Latvia: 36% 🇷🇴 Romania: 25% 🇧🇬 Bulgaria: 17% According to Eurobarometer 2023

@konstructivizm Either way this hotel is at least 5 stars.

Artemis2 vs Apollo ...

@VigilantFox Can we be objective in seeking Truth? Perhaps only once we are ready to be held accountable IF the outcome is that He is Lord.

Former atheist shares what the “greatest legal mind” said when he was asked to reach a verdict on whether the resurrection of Christ was real. Sir Lionel Luckhoo was the most successful defense attorney in the world. He won 245 murder trials in a row. But one day, someone asked him to apply his legendary legal skill to reach an informed verdict on whether Jesus actually rose from the dead. Luckhoo had been skeptical of the resurrection—but after spending years investigating the evidence, he came to this conclusion: “I say unequivocally that the evidence for the resurrection of Jesus Christ is so overwhelming that it compels acceptance by proof which leaves absolutely NO ROOM FOR DOUBT.” PBD guest and journalist Lee Strobel shared that Sir Lionel Luckhoo’s sister just happened to be one of his neighbors. She showed Strobel her brother’s papers, and it was “ultimately a confirmation” of what he discovered in his own research—that the evidence for the resurrection of Christ was overwhelming.

@MarioNawfal If it won’t spoil it already is.

🇺🇸 24 years in a box and this McDonald's burger and fries are still out here looking presentable. My leftovers from last night are already a biohazard. Something is deeply wrong here.

@Ihunanya_chi Wonderful insight! Thank you.

If the body of Jesus had been stolen, the wrappings would not have been left behind. Grave robbers had no interest in linen cloths soaked with burial spices, they would not have taken the time to unwrap a body neatly. The cloths would have been torn, scattered, or removed in haste. Yet Scripture describes them as lying there, intact and orderly.

@FarazPervaiz3 Humanism + tepid Christianity is leaving the gates open in the West. With the blood of the lamb on the doorway of our home, no foreign sword can do us harm. Nations will be restored from the family outwards.

Islam is the biggest Problem for the Christians in England.

@Adam_FaithfulM wrs.edu/assets/docs/Co…

In 1986, the American Medical Association published an article titled "The Physical Death of Jesus Christ". It details the entire process of Jesus' trial to His death on the cross. In Luke 22, before Jesus is arrested, it is written that He was in great distress & sweating blood. Although rare, it is recognized as Hematidrosis, a condition caused by high levels of stress. At the time, the crucifixion was considered the worst death for the worst of criminals. But this is not all Jesus faced. He endured whipping so severe that it tore the flesh from His body. He was beaten so horribly that His face was torn & His beard ripped. A crown of thorns, 2-3 inches long cut deeply into His scalp. The leather whip used to flog Him had tiny iron balls & sharp bones. The balls caused internal injuries while the sharp bones ripped open His flesh. His skeletal muscles, veins, & bowels are exposed, causing major blood loss. Most men do not survive this kind of torture. After Jesus was severely flogged, He was forced to carry His cross while people mocked & spat on Him. Crucifixion was a process meant to instill excruciating pain, creating a slow & agonizing death. Nails as long as 8 inches were driven into Jesus' wrists & feet. The Roman soldiers knew the tendons in the wrists would tear & break, forcing Jesus to use His back muscles to support Himself to breathe. Imagine the struggle, the pain, the courage...Jesus endured this reality for 3 hours! The Gospel of John writes that after Jesus' death, a Roman soldier pierced His side with a spear & blood & water came out. Scientists explain that from hypovolemic shock, the rapid heart rate causes fluid to gather in the sack around the lungs & heart. The accumulation of fluid in the membrane around the heart is called a Pericardial effusion & the lungs is called a pleural effusion. To the world, Christianity is as foolish as it can get. They believe it's for the weak. But when you are confronted by the reality of the cross, it's clearly not a pretty sight. It is brutal & horrific. This is the weight Jesus carried. The weight of the sins of the world, all so that we can live. God's wrath is fully satisfied in Jesus. This is what it took. Repent & believe! Jesus is “God among us” in the flesh. Jesus is our Savior. Jesus loves you so much that He went through this spiritual and physical punishment for your sins and mine. Jesus is the LORD, Almighty God, Everlasting Father. Thank You, Jesus.

This just describes the physical agony. He also had been ‘alone’ among people His whole time on earth, getting His strength from prayer. Betrayed by Judas and by His own people, misunderstood by His disciples and family. Yet in Hebrews 12:2 the verse says, “for the joy set before Him, He endured the cross...” What is that joy? That He may restore you in the image you were meant to be and into the relationship you were meant to have.

Understand this: The movies and shows about the crucifixion have been tame when compared to what He actually went through. Even The Passion Of The Christ was forced to hold back a little in order to avoid an X rating. Crucifixion was, and still is, arguably the most excruciating death someone can experience. The night before in Gethsemane, He was sweating blood. This is known as hematidrosis. This would have caused His skin to become extremely sensitive, thus making the beatings to come even worse. The fear He felt was the beginning of His feeling the weight of our iniquities being laid on Him. Yet - in this moment, He didn’t demand that the Father take it from Him. He only asked for the cup to pass Him over if it was within the Father’s will. Up next came the Cat of Nine Tails, or a Roman Flagrum. This was a weapon with long leather “tails”, each embedded with sharp bones and metal. He was flogged 39 times as Jewish law mandated “40 minus one”, because 40 was said to kill a man. This flogging wasn’t like being punished by your father’s leather belt. Every strike tore flesh, every strike exposed muscle. Every strike exposed nerve endings. Every strike tore flesh to the bone. This would be like getting struck with razor blades over and over again, leading to hypovolemic shock from blood loss. Oh, and the crown of thorns? These weren’t rose thorns. These were thorns which were 2-3 inches long. Beaten into his skull. These thorns would have pierced his skull, tripping the trigeminal nerve, thus causing unimaginable pain and even more blood loss from the dozens of head wounds. At this point, extreme nausea and dizziness would begin to set in. What came next? Carrying the cross. Which weighed around 300lbs. This would be like carrying two full kegs on your back. Splinters and wood grating against the open flesh on His back. And He had to carry it 650 yards, or close to a half mile. Imagine carrying a log on your back after being skinned alive. Up next? He was nailed to the cross with spikes 5-7in in length. Piercing His wrists - this no doubt pierced the median nerve, causing extreme burning sensations up and down His arms. A spike was driven through his ankles - severing nerves and tendons. This would have felt like standing on broken glass every time He pushed Himself up in order to breathe. He suffered for 6 hours. His chest muscles collapsing, making every single breath a fight for life. His shoulders were dislocated, His arms stretching unnaturally long. His heart was struggling to pump blood. He was extremely dehydrated, His lips cracking. His heart more than likely literally ruptured from the stress. And on top of all of that, He had to feel a separation with the Father for a period of time in order to REALLY bear the weight of our sin. He took up this burden for ALL sin before Him, and ALL sin which came after Him. HE DID IT ALL FOR US. To free us. To defeat sin. To give us a pathway to the Kingdom. Every sin we commit is exactly why He had to do it. And the real kicker? He knew what was coming when He rode into Jerusalem … and He didn’t turn around. He kept going. For us.

Passengers on a commercial flight captured the launch of Artemis II on camera The plane happened to pass near the launch trajectory at the exact moment of liftoff, giving passengers a rare view of the rocket launch right from their windows.

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Your back hurts because you have a weak core, tight hamstrings, and weak glutes. Here are 10 exercises you can do in 10 minutes to undo hours of sitting at the desk:

@SpencerKlavan I know the feeling, just can't think of any examples..

Me when I have a brilliant idea that I don’t write down because “obviously it’s so good I’ll remember it”

There is a species of ant that approaches the edge of another colony, kills a single worker, and then takes on the dead ant’s scent. For ants, scent is everything. Wearing that scent, the intruder walks in with no resistance. The workers pass by without concern. The intruder moves inward, toward the queen, then It sprays the queen with a different scent that makes the workers turn on her. Then they surround her and kill her. The intruder does not need to fight anyone. The colony does the work itself. Once the queen is gone, the intruder reproduces. The true invader is no longer an intruder. It is the future. This is how ideological takeover works. A destructive foreign ideology takes the scent of familiar ideas and walks in as if it belongs. It speaks the native vocabulary, justice, equality, compassion, rights, progress. It uses these words and quietly changes what they point to. Then it moves inward. It alters how foundations are perceived. Responsibility is made to smell like cruelty, law like oppression, borders like hatred, tradition like danger, history like guilt. At that point, the civilization turns on itself. Its courts, universities, churches, media, and bureaucracies begin treating their own foundations as threats. They believe they are defending the system. They are enforcing what now smells legitimate. They do not see the intruder because it sounds exactly like them. And when the founding principles are finally removed, discredited, dismantled, erased, the foreign ideology does not need to conquer anything. It inherits what is left. The queen is gone. The colony is no longer itself. The most effective conquest is the one that convinces a society that its own foundations are the enemy, and that killing them is an act of virtue.

@aginnt Only the humble can carry wisdom. Ask any Solomon.

The most important thing the world forgot "Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom." ― Charles Spurgeon

If there is any competition at all, it would be with acreage use for so-called sustainable fuels. biomassmagazine.com/articles/usda-… Grok: "analyses project 45–100+ million acres of pastureland potentially transitioning to energy crops in high-bioeconomy scenarios, often in the Southern Plains"

"50% of the world's cropland is used to feed livestock." Right. Let's have a look at that. Because this figure gets deployed like a weapon in every vegan argument about animal agriculture, usually immediately after someone points out that monocrops destroy topsoil, obliterate biodiversity, and require industrial pesticide regimes that would make a chemical weapons inspector uncomfortable. So. The claim. Yes, roughly half of global cropland by area is involved in producing livestock feed. That number is technically defensible. It is also an extraordinary piece of misdirection. Here's what it doesn't tell you. The single largest component of that "livestock feed" figure is soybean. Global soy production is approximately 370 million tonnes per year. About 80% of that gets processed into soybean oil: for human consumption, biodiesel, and industrial use. The remaining meal, after the oil is extracted, goes to animal feed. The animals are eating the industrial byproduct. The waste. The thing left over after humans have already taken what they wanted. You are not growing soy FOR the cow. You are growing soy for oil and food processing, and the cow is eating the bit you couldn't sell. Next: alfalfa. One of the most common livestock feed crops globally. It is also grown predominantly on alkaline soils, saline soils, semi-arid land, and high-altitude terrain that would fail to support human food crops. It fixes nitrogen. It stabilises degraded land. It is not competing with wheat. It is growing on land that wheat has already looked at and decided against. Then you have distillers' grains: the spent grain from ethanol and alcohol production. Corn silage: the stalks and husks after human food is removed. Cottonseed meal: the byproduct of the cotton industry. Citrus pulp. Sugar beet pulp. Oilseed residues. Livestock are, in enormous measure, running on the off-cuts of industries that exist for other purposes entirely. The "50% of cropland" figure doesn't tell you that a significant portion of that land couldn't grow human food. It doesn't tell you that much of the feed is a byproduct that would otherwise be landfilled. It doesn't tell you that the animals are often doing the most efficient possible thing with material that has nowhere else to go. It tells you a large number, in a confident voice, with no context. Which is, in fairness, the full methodology of most vegan nutrition claims.

BREAKING: The Strait of Hormuz is no longer closed. It is no longer open. It is something the world has never seen before: a permissioned corridor run by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, priced at $2 million per vessel, payable in yuan. Three ships transited in the last 24 hours. Three. Out of a pre-war average of 60 per day. Total throughput: 310,000 deadweight tonnes. Three percent of normal. Four hundred vessels are waiting outside the strait right now. One hundred and fifty tankers. One hundred and twenty bulk carriers. One hundred and thirty others. Waiting for permission from the IRGC Navy to enter a 5-nautical-mile channel between Larak and Qeshm islands inside Iranian territorial waters. This is how the gate works. A vessel operator contacts approved intermediaries with IRGC connections, submitting full documentation: IMO number, ownership chain, cargo manifest, destination, crew list. The intermediaries forward the package to the IRGC Navy’s Hormozgan Provincial Command for sanctions screening, cargo alignment checks that prioritise oil over all other commodities, and geopolitical vetting. The toll is approximately $2 million per tanker. For a VLCC carrying 2 million barrels, that is $1 per barrel. Preferred currency: yuan. If the vessel passes, the IRGC issues a clearance code and route instructions. Upon approach, VHF radio hail, AIS verification, patrol boat escort. One ship at a time. Through the narrowest channel of the most important waterway on Earth. Iranian crude is still flowing. Approximately 1.1 to 1.5 million barrels per day, mostly to China, at near pre-war levels. Iran’s own oil transits the strait it controls. The blockade applies to everyone else. Iran is simultaneously the gatekeeper and the primary beneficiary. The toll funds the IRGC. The IRGC maintains the gate. The gate generates the toll. The circle is self-sustaining. Now look at what is NOT transiting. Fertiliser. Gulf nations supply 49 percent of the world’s exported urea. Ammonia requires the natural gas that Qatar declared Force Majeure on and that Iranian strikes disrupted at South Pars. Effectively zero fertiliser vessels have received approval through the permissioned corridor. The IRGC is prioritising oil because oil generates revenue. Fertiliser does not. The molecules that feed four billion people are trapped behind a gate that only opens for molecules that fund the gatekeeper. The yuan preference is the structural shift that outlasts the war. Every tanker that pays in yuan instead of dollars establishes a precedent. Every precedent weakens the petrodollar architecture that has governed energy trade since 1974. The IRGC is not just blocking a strait. It is building an alternative payment rail under live fire. The $2 million toll in yuan is not a fee. It is a proof of concept for a post-dollar energy settlement system, stress-tested in the most extreme conditions imaginable: a three-front war with the world’s largest military. The world’s central banks are trapped by the same strait: the Fed cannot cut, the ECB is hiking, the BOJ is tightening. Six countries are rationing fuel. Japan’s 10-year yield hit a 27-year high. Slovenia has QR codes at the pump. South Korea is barring government vehicles one day per week. And behind all of it, 400 ships wait outside a 5-nautical-mile channel for a clearance code from the IRGC Navy, payable in a currency that is not the dollar. Twenty percent of the world’s oil supply. Controlled by a VHF radio call and a yuan transfer. The strait did not close. It changed ownership. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

@fullylovedknown @JoshuaBarzon This and more in soteriology101.com/2017/01/23/the…

A classic example is John Piper's treatment of Romans 9:6. This passage is only in reference to the natural descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob... As Romans 9:4 clearly states. Romans 9:6 "But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel." The Israelites who belong to Israel are chosen because of their election and faithfulness; we can identify three groups. 1) The old covenant Israelites counted righteous by faith. 2) The new covenant Israelites (Jews) counted righteous by faith. 3) The remnant of Israel that is sealed (Revelation 7:3-8), protected (Revelation 9:4), nourished and sustained by God (Revelation 12:6,14,16) until the Son of Man returns as King with the glorified saints, in accordance with Romans 11 and the OT prophets. This remnant mourns like there has never been a time of mourning when they see Him who was pierced coming on the clouds. They will receive the Holy Spirit and repent in tears. Revelation 1:7 "Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him, and all tribes of the earth will wail on account of him. Even so. Amen." Zechariah 12:10-11 "And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn. 11 On that day the mourning in Jerusalem will be as great as the mourning for Hadad-rimmon in the plain of Megiddo." >>> John Piper incorrectly applies eisegesis to Romans 9:6 when he stated that gentiles are included in "Israel" in this passage. However, sound biblical exegesis in Romans 11 does reveal that gentiles are grafted into the cultivated olive tree, the "Israel of God." The "Israel of God" is another name for the saints of God, which are described in whole or in part, with various phrases throughout the New Testament. Amen?

Eisegesis reads meaning into the text. Exegesis draws meaning out of it. The difference is not just academic. One approach lets Scripture speak. The other uses Scripture as a ventriloquist's prop. Biblical literacy begins with learning to ask what the text says before asking what it means for you.

‘I Messed Up’: LaGuardia Controller’s Devastated ATC Confession After Fatal Runway Collision Kills Two Pilots—Then a Crew’s Gentle ‘God Bless You, Man’ and ‘You Did the Best You Could’ Offer Heartbreaking Comfort in the Chaos In the wake of the tragic runway collision at LaGuardia Airport (LGA) on March 22, 2026—where an Air Canada Express CRJ-900 (operated by Jazz Aviation, flight from Montreal) struck a Port Authority fire truck crossing Runway 4, killing both pilots and injuring dozens—the aftermath has been heartbreaking. The incident stemmed from a separate emergency: United 2384’s rejected takeoffs and cabin odor issue, which prompted the fire truck response. Amid the chaos and loss, a small but profoundly human moment stands out in the ATC audio. As the airport closed and operations halted, a LaGuardia controller (likely overwhelmed and reflecting on the error) spoke candidly with Frontier 4195’s crew: FFT4195 21:55 “Frontier 4195, uh I got the word that that we’re gonna be closed for a little while, uh if you want to prepare to return to the ramp let me know.” FFT4195 (crew response) “Yeah we got stuff in progress, uh for that man that was, that wasn’t good to watch.” Controller “Yeah I know I was here, I tried to reach out to ’em I stopped and we were dealing with an emergency earlier and I messed up.” FFT4195 (crew) “No man, you did the best you could.” Later, with Endeavor 5393 (EDV5393): EDV5393 21:56 “It’s gonna be closed all night, never mind, so plan on returning, you can sort that out with your ramp.” EDV5393 (crew) “Yes sir, thank you.” “God bless you man.” In aviation, controllers and crews operate under immense pressure—split-second decisions, multiple aircraft, emergencies pulling focus. Mistakes can have devastating consequences, as seen here. Yet, hearing a crew respond with empathy and reassurance (“you did the best you could,” “God bless you”) is a touching reminder of the humanity behind the headsets. These professionals share the skies and the stress; in tragedy’s aftermath, compassion cuts through. Thoughts with the families of the pilots lost, the injured passengers and firefighters, and everyone affected. Aviation is safe because of dedicated people like these—may they find support and peace. #LaGuardia #Aviation #LGAIncident #JZA646 #AirCanada #Aviation Audio: @theATCapp

ATC audio captures moment Air Canada Express flight AC8646 collided with the truck.