Ever wonder why people switch sides?

Who really are these people…

Remember the enemy works through infiltration.

Pray for discernment. God’s leading is the only way to see through the charade.

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What if the military is in control and is dismantling this corrupt system one piece at a time?

Start with Biden’s inauguration was a complete departure from normal protocol.

And President Trump is ALWAYS the bait for pushing bad people out in the light.

Nothing is as it seems so don’t let anything stress you. God is in control … the plan is God’s plan.

Have a little faith … God always wins.

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The Michigan Court system is nothing more than revenue raising.

The money they collect goes to the court system, not the State of Michigan, so they have a vested interest in how the decisions go. That is conflict of interest … at a minimum.

It is unconstitutional.

Thats why we don’t have justice in America. It’s all about the money.

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I’m going to start doing more clipped videos. I figured out a quick way to do it, thank you for your patience over the years.

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Is the Trump in the painting (as he shared it) wearing a red "mozzetta" to mock the pope using it as a sign of his "authority and sovereignty" over the church?

Because I doubt Trump is using it to compare himself to Jesus--though he wouldn't mind triggering people into sharing it because they think that, in order to get people talking about the things he actually wants them to talk about.

💥...So he clearly staged/invited an average American woman dressed in red, to bring McDonald's, of all things, to point to his Presidential work of helping people/"healing America" while simultaneously giving the press a chance to ask him about a painting where he is dressed in red (like the pope, or is it Jesus?) so he can "happen to" mention the [American] Red Cross, while also answering that the pope has no business commenting on American politics and military moves (not to mention whether the man ever publicly condemned actual evil happening out of Iran or whether Trump is putting a stop to that evil), by way of a painting that somebody posted a couple months ago, and ensuring that these comments get shared the world over by people who are triggered by this whole thing in, let's say, about 17 different ways.

This is genius.

I’ve heard that have more oil than Saudi Arabia just in Colorado alone…

The stabile genius has done it again!

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Terrible storms around the Midwest tonight.

Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan

Pray for our family and friends

Pray for my friend Karen the Riveter

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All good here in West Michigan.

Sirens off … tornado threat over.

Thank you God
Thank you all for prayers.

Karen and all are good.

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We’re paying insane taxes for “services” nobody wants or needs. Most of them are blatantly for unjust enrichment for those pulling the leavers … produce absolutely NOTHING, and have zero way to track or audit the waste.
Now California is literally trying to make investigative journalism illegal with AB 2624 … the “Stop Nick Shirley Act.”

Nick Shirley has been exposing massive fraud in taxpayer-funded programs with viral videos, so Democrats respond by trying to criminalize filming and sharing evidence … with fines, jail time, and forced content takedowns.
This isn’t “protection.” It’s corruption hiding corruption.

Quick insights I added for you (so you know the full picture)
The bill (AB 2624, authored by Asm. Mia Bonta) just advanced out of committee on April 13, 2026. Critics (including Asm. Carl DeMaio and Nick Shirley himself) call it the “Stop Nick Shirley Act” because it directly targets citizen journalists like him who’ve been exposing alleged fraud in government-funded immigrant services, hospice programs, daycares, etc. (hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars money laundering fraud.)

It creates new privacy rules for “immigration support services providers” … basically making it illegal to post photos or personal info online “with intent to harass,” with penalties up to $10,000 fines + jail + forced video takedowns. Opponents say this will chill legitimate on-the-ground reporting of public fraud.
Elon Musk and others have already called it out as irs intent makes “Investigating fraud illegal.”

This bill is the perfect example of exactly what w we have been talking about … unaccountable government programs that can’t be audited or criticized without the state trying to shut down the citizens from auditing.

So with this … only the government can audit the government…

Sounds like how election fraud has gone all over the country. No accountability. No faith in any of their crap

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This posts has to be seen through the eyes of discernment, not all people we have put in a category as “an enemy” because of a label … is evil. They may just be lost.

The Great Commission is Jesus’ final command to His disciples (and by extension, to all His followers) before ascending to heaven. It is the mission statement for the Church … to spread the gospel and make disciples among all people.

What is a disciple??
A disciple is a follower of Jesus who learns from Him, obeys Him, and imitates Him.

The Primary Passage (Matthew 28:18-20, NIV)
Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

This is the most commonly referenced version of the Great Commission.

Key Elements
All authority belongs to Jesus — this is the foundation and power behind the command.
Go (or “as you are going”) — the mission happens in everyday life and intentional outreach, not just staying in one place … or preaching to the choir to get your daily dose of confirmation bias.

Make disciples of all nations — the core command. Again … A disciple is a follower of Jesus who learns from Him, obeys Him, and imitates Him. This is for all nations (every people group, culture, and background — no exceptions).

Baptizing them in the name of the Trinity — public identification with Christ and entry into the community of believers.

Teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you — not just sharing information, but helping people live out Jesus’ teachings.

Promise of presence — Jesus assures He will be with us through it all, even to the end of the age.

Jesus gave similar instructions in slightly different words elsewhere:
Mark 16:15 — “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.”
Acts 1:8 — “You will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” (This emphasizes starting locally and expanding outward, empowered by the Holy Spirit.)

In short, the Great Commission is about going to the lost WHEREVER THEY ARE, WHATEVER THEIR BACKGROUND OR CULTURE!!!!
… sharing the good news of Jesus, helping them become committed followers, and teaching them to live as He taught — all while relying on His authority and presence.

So this is going to go into the topic of divisiveness being accepted as moral superiority for alleged Christians.

Is it ok … creating teams based on a construct of moral superiority … or invalidating or attacking others for deciding they are brave enough to talk to ANYONE??? Not just the members of the “choir.”

I thought life was about reaching and helping people who are lost or struggling … who may not realize certain things are wrong because of how they were raised.

The Great Commission calls believers to cross those divides with the gospel, just as Jesus crossed cultural and social barriers during His ministry.

Jesus was the greatest human rights activist who ever lived!!! He knew how to protest!!!!

So shouldn’t we be going to those who were raised in a culture that has taught them to integrate what we consider human rights violations?

How will they learn??? War isn’t working … unless we decide to go the evil genocide route … what about spiritual diplomacy??

It’s not always going to work … but the nonstop wars across the world haven’t worked either. I’m not talking about large organized criminal groups or governments … I’m talking about going to the people one at a time … building relationships. The best testimony I ever heard was from a Jewish man who became a Christian through a lifelong friendship with a Christian friend who earned the right to be heard because he cared.

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What do you think late term abortions were all about???

And human trafficking…

Humans are a commodity to Satanists … they feed off humans. We are not just talking food source … we are talking a spiritual source for life. This is where the spirit world and the physical world can be clearly seen.

They sold their souls so there is no life in them except what they can take from others…

Get it? The life is in the blood.

Time to wake up.

Life is in God alone. If you don’t have the life of Christ in you … you are a walking dead man.

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Ok let’s go back to my first post on addressing the great commission and “mainstream Christian divisiveness”

https://t.me/Brandenburg4MI/12447

I’ve been watching all the outrage online about Pope Leo XIV and his meetings with Muslim leaders … visiting mosques in Algeria, praising Christian-Muslim dialogue in Africa, calling for coexistence in a divided world, and urging us to break free from prejudice, anger, and hatred.

A lot of Christians are flipping out, saying he’s “not really Catholic” or that he’s compromising the faith by even talking to them. I get it. Emotions run high, especially with everything going on in the world … conflicts, terrorism, cultural clashes. But I’m not here to pick sides or defend the Pope as some flawless guy. I’m looking at this differently, like I always do, through the lens of Scripture and plain common sense.

And my question for fellow Christians is simple: What exactly is our commission?

Let’s start there, because if we’re going to get angry about anything, it better line up with what Jesus actually told us to do. In Matthew 28:19-20, Jesus gives what we call the Great Commission: “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.
And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

That’s not a suggestion for the comfortable few who already agree with us. It’s a command to go … to the ends of the earth, to every tribe, tongue, and nation. Muslims included. They’re part of “all nations.” They’re lost without Christ, just like anyone else who hasn’t heard or accepted the Gospel. Our job isn’t to hunker down in echo chambers and shout from a distance. It’s to reach them.

Think about how Jesus did it. He didn’t wait for the Samaritans to convert before He talked to them … He went to their well, crossed cultural lines that good Jews weren’t supposed to cross, and had a real conversation with a woman everyone else avoided.

He ate with tax collectors and sinners, the “lost” of His day, because that’s where the mission field was. The Pharisees flipped out about it too: “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” Jesus’ answer? “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. Go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.” (Matthew 9:10-13).

Sound familiar? The anger we’re seeing now feels a lot like that … defending purity at the expense of people.
The Apostle Paul lived this out big time. He didn’t stay in safe Jewish circles. He went into synagogues, marketplaces, and pagan temples to reason with people, debate ideas, and plant churches. In Acts 17, he’s in Athens surrounded by idols, and instead of just condemning them from afar, he says, “Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious… What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you.”

He built a bridge on common ground … their own altar to an unknown god … before pointing them to the true God. He didn’t water down the truth; he used relationship and dialogue to get a hearing. That’s how the Gospel spread like wildfire in the early church … not by isolation, but by engagement.
Fast forward to today. What we’ve been doing for decades—staying angry, staying separate, posting memes about how bad “they” are, building walls without bridges—plain isn’t working. Not at all. Souls aren’t being saved in droves. Instead, we’ve got endless wars, radicalization on all sides, young people drifting away from faith because they see us as haters instead of lovers of truth, and a world that looks at Christianity and says, “If that’s what it looks like, no thanks.” Anger feels righteous in the moment, but it’s killing us. It hardens hearts … ours and theirs. It turns potential conversations into battle lines. And meanwhile, the lost stay lost.

Pope Leo going and talking to Muslims? Meeting delegations from the Programme for Christian-Muslim Relations in Africa? Visiting places like Algeria or Beirut for interfaith gatherings? Urging us to live and work together in peace where possible? That looks a whole lot like bridging the gap so they’ll actually listen.

It’s not about pretending we agree on everything … Catholics and Muslims have massive theological differences, no question. But it is about creating space where the Gospel can be shared without the noise of hostility drowning it out. How do you influence bad behavior if you refuse to even be in the room? You can’t disciple nations from behind a fortress. You have to go, like Jesus said.

I’m more inclined to think he’s probably doing the right thing precisely because the old way …
pure separation and outrage … has produced zero fruit in stopping the cycle of violence. Look around: Decades of it, and what do we have? More division, more fear, more headlines about conflict in the Middle East, Africa, Europe. If dialogue can plant even a few seeds of the truth in hearts that would otherwise never hear it, isn’t that worth trying? If it influences some to step back from extremism, to see Christians as people of peace rather than enemies, maybe that’s the option we should exercise. Because if we don’t figure this out, it’s just going to continue to be endless wars … physical, cultural, spiritual. Souls lost forever. Families destroyed. And we’ll stand before God one day and have to answer for why we didn’t go.

Don’t get me wrong … I’m not saying compromise the core of the faith. The Gospel is exclusive: Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Him (John 14:6). Dialogue isn’t syncretism; it’s strategy. It’s mercy in action. It’s what the early missionaries did when they went to hostile lands, learned languages, built relationships, and shared Christ at great personal cost. Some were martyred for it. But they went anyway.

This isn’t about being “nice” or politically correct. It’s about being obedient. Our main commission is to save souls and get them out of the darkness … whatever that darkness looks like. Everything else we get wrapped up in—the politics, the culture wars, the righteous indignation—can’t come at the expense of that. If talking to the lost means removing our shoes in a mosque to show respect as a guest (like Leo did), or signing a book, or saying religions can coexist in peace while still proclaiming Christ, then maybe that’s part of the cost. Jesus washed feet. He touched lepers. He crossed every line to reach the unreachable.

I’m tired of the anger. It’s exhausting the church from the inside out. It’s pushing away the very people we’re called to reach. What if, instead of flipping out, we prayed for these conversations? What if we saw them as open doors rather than sellouts? What if we got out there ourselves—talking to our Muslim neighbors, coworkers, refugees—in love and truth? Bridge the gap. Get them to listen. Influence the behavior we hate by showing them a better way … the way of the cross.

Christians, let’s refocus. The Great Commission isn’t optional. The lost aren’t the enemy to be avoided; they’re the mission field to be entered. Pope Leo or not, this is what we’re supposed to be doing. And if what we’ve tried for decades isn’t bearing fruit, maybe it’s time to try what Jesus modeled. Talk to them. Love them enough to tell them the truth. Because in the end, it’s not about winning arguments or staying “pure.” It’s about souls for eternity.

What do you think? Let’s discuss like adults who actually want to fulfill the call, not just vent. God’s got work for us to do.

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Our minds are so overactive these days. What we focus on and think about truly directs our actions every single day.
I’ve been going back to the attacks on Pope Leo … how come now everybody wants to believe what they’re hearing in the media about what he said and done?

How do we know it’s any different than the “jump ship” attacks going on with regard to President Trump … he’s now the bad guy ???… crap going on?

How do we know what he actually said versus what somebody else has curated for him?

We have to watch where the wind blows underneath the narrative, no matter what it is. Most of what we hear is lies … it’s curated, it’s not even real. We don’t even know what’s AI or CGI out there anymore because it’s gotten so good.
That takes me back to the verse: “Lean not on your own understanding, but in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.”

He doesn’t tell us we’re not going to walk through the valley of the shadow of death. But He tells us that even in the valley of the shadow of death, we can fear no evil. When we’re afraid and we fear evil, we do stupid things because we’re not in control. We’re driven by our emotions, and evil likes to get a hold of our emotions and make us do and say stupid … evil things. Quickest way to create an ego driven captured asset of evil.

So we need to go back to being the stability and the calm in the storm … which is always going back to God. He doesn’t promise us a perfect life, but He promises to be with us.

Proverbs 3:5-6 (NIV)
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.”

Taming the tongue and quelling the ego is one of the hardest things to do … I get it.

Speak life and give the Glory to God.

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Some see a message directing attention to the Pope and the Vatican in the image the President posted.

So let’s revisit another post — and what it may be pointing toward.

On Pope Francis’ 87th birthday, lightning struck a statue of St. Peter in his hometown, damaging the halo and the key in his right hand.

Days later, the Vatican made one of its most controversial moves in modern history.

The timing drew attention. The symbolism raised questions.

It wasn’t the first time lightning and the papacy intersected.

In 2013, lightning struck St. Peter’s Basilica just hours after Pope Benedict XVI announced his resignation. The moment was captured by professional photojournalists and widely reported.

Now, once again, timing and symbolism are drawing attention.

Some see coincidence. Others see a pattern.

Either way — people are paying attention.

https://x.com/i/status/2045080378998964621

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I’m seeing a pattern…

God … not wanting anyone not to be lost in his infinite mercy…

How he does things isn’t the way we would.

Trust the plan … it’s God’s plan for humanity.

The Jews rejected God’s only begotten Son 2000 years ago … pretty sure that most would reject Him again now if God didn’t line up with the ego driven need for confirmation bias…

Just sayin …

Question is … who has reached out to those who are lost or spiritually sick. (Sitting in our houses or preaching to the choir doesn’t count.) Or have we poured salt into the wound creating more division?

We earn the right to speak by letting the spiritually sick know we actually care about them.

I’m the first one to kick evil back to the hell it came from … from my own experience … it’s a constant check on myself to make sure I’m kicking evil and not lost souls.

My own reminder… seek wisdom and discernment. Not evil’s dominion of emotional reaction.

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Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong. I welcome correction because I don’t want be right… I want to be better.

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