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My friend Joe Heschmeyer shared this testimony of conversion from protestantism with me from Catholic Answers Live today. I remember meeting this wonderful woman when I gave my talk in San Diego. She was open to a discussion afterward, but I could tell she was bothered by what I... had shared. It clearly struck a chord, as she describes. But despite that outward appearance of rejection, it turned out that hearing about the Church Fathers catalyzed a process of considering the Catholic Faith that led to her conversion, and reception into this Church this year! Praise God! I know how she feels! Here is why I am sharing this clip: I have seen this pattern over and over again. This particular woman was quite mild, but I’ve known many people who sometimes violently reject anything that sounds Catholic. But it actually sows a seed, a question, and when they begin investigating that question, many of them end up becoming Catholic. Why? Because the Catholic Church is the Home of Truth, and whoever seeks Truth with all their heart will eventually find their way to Her, by God’s grace. The moral of the video? Always share the truth in love, and let the Holy Spirit take it where He wills. Pray for people. Fast for them. So much goes on we will never see. Sometimes God will show us some fruit a long time later. Sometimes He won’t. But we can trust that He is good, and always working. HE is the Great Converter! Pray for this wonderful woman. Welcome Home, sister!show more

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🎤E-Knock (Catholic Rapper)1 год назад

@catholiccom Didn't know Heschmeyer was Asian. learn something new everyday!

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Daniel L. ✝️🇻🇦1 год назад

@catholiccom This must've been such a beautiful moment for you to see, Joshua. You really are doing so much good for the Church. God bless you!

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Matthew Flood1 год назад

@catholiccom Beautiful! God bless her and your witness to her. Thanks for sharing

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Acaydia1 год назад

@catholiccom Plant the seed and let someone else come by and water it from time to time. The most effective method.

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Suzi Hixon Bledsoe 🇻🇦⚖️ | Trademark Attorney1 год назад

@catholiccom Welcome Home, Sister.

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Seneca Aquinas1 год назад

@catholiccom Glory to God!

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Ad Coelum1 год назад

@catholiccom Amen and keep it up brother.

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suziezini1 год назад

@catholiccom @DrShayPhD Heres a good story…🍒

Фото профиля Steven Bell

Steven Bell1 год назад

@catholiccom I love hearing stories of conversion. As a Catholic convert myself, I know how powerful those seeds of truth and grace can be. Thank you for sharing and for the work you all do!

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Joshua Charles1 год назад

@catholiccom Thank you Steven! I’m the same way. We are so blessed!

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17,343 просмотров • 1 год назад

This is a great video by Mike Winger. Many people who don’t know my story think I grew up in the church. I actually grew up in an Atheist home and I was told not to question science or the belief that there is no God. I had many questions and I was encouraged not to ask them. That doesn’t sound like critical thinking or free thinking. Search for the truth yourself to be sure of what you believe. That’s why I encourage Christians to know what you believe and why you believe it.

This is a great video by Mike Winger. Many people who don’t know my story think I grew up in the church. I actually grew up in an Atheist home and I was told not to question science or the belief that there is no God. I had many questions and I was encouraged not to ask them. That doesn’t sound like critical thinking or free thinking. Search for the truth yourself to be sure of what you believe. That’s why I encourage Christians to know what you believe and why you believe it.

Sarah

53,402 просмотров • 1 месяц назад

Issues of paternity have shaped our society for generations, especially in Zimbabwe. They did not start today. I remember going to a funeral with my father in the 1990s, and as we sat around the fire the men began sharing stories. One of them has stayed with me ever since. A Zimbabwean doctor had married a nurse, and they struggled to have children. As usual, when there is no child, the blame was placed on the woman. She went to see her own doctor, who told her plainly that she was not the problem, and advised her to bring her husband for testing. The husband refused, as many Zimbabwean men tend to do. Their marriage eventually collapsed, with the man insisting he could not be the problem because he had a child with another woman before marrying the nurse. That woman, he said, was also a doctor, and he was raising that child. After the divorce, the nurse remarried another doctor, and she immediately fell pregnant. Because it was a tight medical community, the whole situation became a talking point. The ex-husband had loudly declared that his former wife was barren, yet here she was having one child after another, three in total, with her new husband. Meanwhile, the ex-husband remarried, and again there were no children. One day the ex-husband and his former wife met at a gathering. During a casual conversation, as people who once knew each other, she told him directly that he was raising a child who was not his. She told him that he had no capacity to father a child and that if he finally went for tests, he would discover the truth. She reminded him how he had insulted her and her parents, and how he had refused to listen. The revelation shook him. He went for tests, and it was confirmed that he was the problem. He had spent seventeen years looking after a child who was not his. The moral of the story is simple, and I always stress this when mentoring young people. When in doubt, check. In fact, even without doubt, check. A DNA test at birth saves you from future heartbreak. Many men are raising children who are not theirs. Some women know exactly what they are doing. Others genuinely do not know because their relationships overlapped before they settled down. In those cases, even the woman cannot be sure who the father is. So when you have a child, get a DNA test. If you ask for one and a woman becomes defensive or resistant, that is a major red flag. At that point, the test is no longer optional, it is necessary. That is the reality of life today. As they say, trust is beautiful, but DNA is confirmation. In this life we live, hope is not a strategy when it comes to your children, so test your child and protect your future, as the saying goes. I have DNA stories that I could share for a whole year. If compulsory DNA testing was demanded of all of us today, you will be shocked by what will come out. This brother in the video is now going through denial. He has been told the truth, but he is still in shock, which is why he is asking for silly things from this woman. It is hard for any man to discover that the child he believed was his belongs to another man. That is why DNA testing is a necessity and why it should be compulsory.

Issues of paternity have shaped our society for generations, especially in Zimbabwe. They did not start today. I remember going to a funeral with my father in the 1990s, and as we sat around the fire the men began sharing stories. One of them has stayed with me ever since. A Zimbabwean doctor had married a nurse, and they struggled to have children. As usual, when there is no child, the blame was placed on the woman. She went to see her own doctor, who told her plainly that she was not the problem, and advised her to bring her husband for testing. The husband refused, as many Zimbabwean men tend to do. Their marriage eventually collapsed, with the man insisting he could not be the problem because he had a child with another woman before marrying the nurse. That woman, he said, was also a doctor, and he was raising that child. After the divorce, the nurse remarried another doctor, and she immediately fell pregnant. Because it was a tight medical community, the whole situation became a talking point. The ex-husband had loudly declared that his former wife was barren, yet here she was having one child after another, three in total, with her new husband. Meanwhile, the ex-husband remarried, and again there were no children. One day the ex-husband and his former wife met at a gathering. During a casual conversation, as people who once knew each other, she told him directly that he was raising a child who was not his. She told him that he had no capacity to father a child and that if he finally went for tests, he would discover the truth. She reminded him how he had insulted her and her parents, and how he had refused to listen. The revelation shook him. He went for tests, and it was confirmed that he was the problem. He had spent seventeen years looking after a child who was not his. The moral of the story is simple, and I always stress this when mentoring young people. When in doubt, check. In fact, even without doubt, check. A DNA test at birth saves you from future heartbreak. Many men are raising children who are not theirs. Some women know exactly what they are doing. Others genuinely do not know because their relationships overlapped before they settled down. In those cases, even the woman cannot be sure who the father is. So when you have a child, get a DNA test. If you ask for one and a woman becomes defensive or resistant, that is a major red flag. At that point, the test is no longer optional, it is necessary. That is the reality of life today. As they say, trust is beautiful, but DNA is confirmation. In this life we live, hope is not a strategy when it comes to your children, so test your child and protect your future, as the saying goes. I have DNA stories that I could share for a whole year. If compulsory DNA testing was demanded of all of us today, you will be shocked by what will come out. This brother in the video is now going through denial. He has been told the truth, but he is still in shock, which is why he is asking for silly things from this woman. It is hard for any man to discover that the child he believed was his belongs to another man. That is why DNA testing is a necessity and why it should be compulsory.

Hopewell Chin’ono

67,842 просмотров • 8 месяцев назад

A lot of buzz about Blaire White today, and my initial reaction was what Jesus says: "There will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance." - Luke 15:7 Totally justified to be skeptical in today's day and age where so many people grift off the Christian faith, but I still believe our initial reaction should be like the prodigal son's father, not the prodigal brother who was jealous of the father welcoming the rebellious son back home. We should be joyous whenever someone who was lost is now found, dead but now alive. But as you can see in this clip from his video, Blaire does not believe that he needs to detransition. He believes in the Gnostic heresy that the body and soul are separate, and he believes the core story of Jesus is that "He transcended flesh". He also rejects the necessity of going to church, affirms progressive Christian soteriology that there are different ways to God, and espouses a litany of other falsehoods in his video. Change and sanctification takes time. I've seen the power of Christ change the worst of people, I will always give people the benefit of the doubt in the beginning. Especially because I know how wretched I am and how Christ saved a sinner like me, and still to this day, I stumble and struggle with sin. But the end of the day, we will know them by their fruits. If his conversion is genuine, he will abandon his false gender identity and embrace his God-given design as a man. Let’s pray that he turns from his ways, he gets discipled by genuine believers, and gets plugged into a church that will preach the unadulterated truth.

A lot of buzz about Blaire White today, and my initial reaction was what Jesus says: "There will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance." - Luke 15:7 Totally justified to be skeptical in today's day and age where so many people grift off the Christian faith, but I still believe our initial reaction should be like the prodigal son's father, not the prodigal brother who was jealous of the father welcoming the rebellious son back home. We should be joyous whenever someone who was lost is now found, dead but now alive. But as you can see in this clip from his video, Blaire does not believe that he needs to detransition. He believes in the Gnostic heresy that the body and soul are separate, and he believes the core story of Jesus is that "He transcended flesh". He also rejects the necessity of going to church, affirms progressive Christian soteriology that there are different ways to God, and espouses a litany of other falsehoods in his video. Change and sanctification takes time. I've seen the power of Christ change the worst of people, I will always give people the benefit of the doubt in the beginning. Especially because I know how wretched I am and how Christ saved a sinner like me, and still to this day, I stumble and struggle with sin. But the end of the day, we will know them by their fruits. If his conversion is genuine, he will abandon his false gender identity and embrace his God-given design as a man. Let’s pray that he turns from his ways, he gets discipled by genuine believers, and gets plugged into a church that will preach the unadulterated truth.

Kangmin Lee | 이강민

154,481 просмотров • 8 месяцев назад

Samuel L. Jackson explains how he landed the role of Jules in Pulp Fiction, and what it was like seeing the film for the first time on the big screen: “Pulp Fiction and I came together in a very strange kind of way. I remember auditioning for Quentin for Reservoir Dogs in New York (for the role of of Detective Jim Holdaway, Mr. Orange’s police contact). And apparently I didn't get that role. But I was at Sundance the year that he screened it for the first time. I was sitting there and I watched that movie - I was awed by it. I mean, there were people running up the aisles when Michael Madsen was cutting the cop's ear off. People were going, "Oh my God, this is horrible!" All these “auteurs” were running out of the theatre. I was like, "This is good. This is happening. This is different." So after the film, I walked up to Quentin and said, "This film's amazing, man. It's great." And he looked at me and said, "Hey! How'd you like the guy who got your part?" And I was amazed that he even remembered who I was - but he remembered me. A year or so later, I got a phone call saying Quentin Tarantino wants to have dinner with you, because he'd seen Jungle Fever and he liked that Gator character. When we had dinner, we were sitting there talking. We started talking about Hong Kong films and cartoons and foreign movies and obscure things that we watched, horror movies. We found out we liked the same kind of stuff. And he told me he was writing this thing, and he was writing this part with me in mind. He was going to send it to me. I went off to do another film. I was in the backwoods of Virginia somewhere doing a film, and the script came. A little plain brown wrapper from Jersey Films. And Jersey's got these gangster images on the logo. And it said, "If you show this script to anybody, two guys named Ernie and Luigi will come and break both of your legs." Whatever. I went, "Yeah, right." So I sat down and read it. Boom. I read this thing. It's like, "Oh my God. This is awesome." And then I said to myself, "Nobody writes a script this good. There's no way that this script is as good as I thought it was." I closed it. I opened it again. I read it immediately. Okay. This is great - If whoever produces this film lets him shoot exactly what I just read, if they stay away from it, they don't try to edit any of this stuff out - this is going to be a great film. It's going to be kind of audience-specific, because I like that kind of stuff. I have friends that I knew would like it. It was a generational kind of film. I never thought it would cross over and do all this stuff. We shot it. We had a great time doing it. And the first time I actually saw the film was at the Cannes Film Festival. That night, it screened, and I was sitting there watching the film. The audience was loving this movie, loving it. About halfway through, I realized there were subtitles at the bottom of it. So I said, "Hey, these people are reading it, and they're getting it. This might be special. This really might be something special." And actually, by the time it was over, there were tears running down my face. I was just so pleased that I was part of that particular film… I never felt that satisfied, and that kind of full about a performance and about being part of something as I was in that particular moment.” Quote comes from an Interview with the American Film Institute 2010

Gangster Cinema Central

84,825 просмотров • 20 дней назад

#Shellybenda #pundao “We sulked and not understand to each other for many times on those times. Because those times we were offended to each other and also talk this out. It made me feel like “Am I important to her?” and I wonder about it so much. Until we had to shoot this scene. Pure had to have a feeling for Loft very very much. But in the mean time, I use my feeling when I play this scene. This feeling is full of doubtful “Am I important for Shelly?. When I looked at her, I don’t know what to say and portray this scene because of this feeling in my mind. I knew that Loft love pure so much but I don’t know that Shelly love me or not. That’s why I can’t act on that scene. Um, it maybe looks ridiculous but I don’t know why I can’t do it. So there’s a time director let us talk for a minute, I saw many people look at us and it made me feel shy to tell something from my heart and also the microphone that attached. I decided to pull it off and ask Shelly “I ask you. For you, am I important?” Shelly looked at me and said “Yes” and I looked back at her. She said “I love you, why not? I love you” she said so many things. It made me feel like I can unlock something from my heart and that time is the first time Shelly said she loves me. Because she’s always tells me that she’s not the one who likes to say “I love you” easily. And I’ll be like “why I have to wait for that word from you?” At first, I don’t understand why and annoyed. But she was the one who said it first. When she said, it made me understand her more. But as you know, I’m an emotional woman. As you can see from the unpackaged live, crying over the letters. When I was told “I love you” I cried my balls out on that scene. If you can watch this scene on this Wednesday again, you will see it. But the scene got cut until it left a little. The scene where I said like “Pure love Loft” I said why I was crying so hard until the song was coming out. And the scene got cut. That scene is also my memorable moment.”

#Shellybenda #pundao “We sulked and not understand to each other for many times on those times. Because those times we were offended to each other and also talk this out. It made me feel like “Am I important to her?” and I wonder about it so much. Until we had to shoot this scene. Pure had to have a feeling for Loft very very much. But in the mean time, I use my feeling when I play this scene. This feeling is full of doubtful “Am I important for Shelly?. When I looked at her, I don’t know what to say and portray this scene because of this feeling in my mind. I knew that Loft love pure so much but I don’t know that Shelly love me or not. That’s why I can’t act on that scene. Um, it maybe looks ridiculous but I don’t know why I can’t do it. So there’s a time director let us talk for a minute, I saw many people look at us and it made me feel shy to tell something from my heart and also the microphone that attached. I decided to pull it off and ask Shelly “I ask you. For you, am I important?” Shelly looked at me and said “Yes” and I looked back at her. She said “I love you, why not? I love you” she said so many things. It made me feel like I can unlock something from my heart and that time is the first time Shelly said she loves me. Because she’s always tells me that she’s not the one who likes to say “I love you” easily. And I’ll be like “why I have to wait for that word from you?” At first, I don’t understand why and annoyed. But she was the one who said it first. When she said, it made me understand her more. But as you know, I’m an emotional woman. As you can see from the unpackaged live, crying over the letters. When I was told “I love you” I cried my balls out on that scene. If you can watch this scene on this Wednesday again, you will see it. But the scene got cut until it left a little. The scene where I said like “Pure love Loft” I said why I was crying so hard until the song was coming out. And the scene got cut. That scene is also my memorable moment.”

พรรอก๊ออว์ ติ่งที่เป็นหมอดูและโทรโข่งเดินได้

166,184 просмотров • 9 месяцев назад

🇬🇭 “I go to church, but if it is not true that this land was paid for by my father-in-law and that Tetteh is behind the demolition because my husband refused to hand over the land to him, then I will do something I have never done before. We will see whether there is justice in this world.” — A woman invoked a curse over the demolition of her property at Agbogba.

🇬🇭 “I go to church, but if it is not true that this land was paid for by my father-in-law and that Tetteh is behind the demolition because my husband refused to hand over the land to him, then I will do something I have never done before. We will see whether there is justice in this world.” — A woman invoked a curse over the demolition of her property at Agbogba.

THE STATE NEWS

97,279 просмотров • 1 месяц назад

For the longest time 30+ family and friends chipped in to a private company and we could always fly that way. I never really flew commercial too much, only a handful of times. I never liked it. I hate the crowds, I hate waiting for my bags. Some people can be always unruly. The worst for me is when I had to sit by someone who would always give the attendant a hard time, treating them like a personal assistant, barking orders at them and admonishing them for what they consider substandard service. This woman sitting across the aisle from me thought she was at an all inclusive buffet. She would say “excuse me miss” as a way of getting their attention and she always used a fake sugary sweet voice and was acting polite but I could tell it wasn’t authentic, it was a way to demean the workers. She made the poor attendant kept going back and forth and getting her refills even though she was serving somebody else. She would repeatedly ask for snacks and seconds when the meal was served. I have no idea why they complied but they did. Most of us were just sitting there watching and waiting for the attendant to snap, but she was professional the whole time. This was at a time where most people weren’t going to embarrass themselves making a scene because the people who treat them like this are used to the attention, it’s almost as if they are picking a fight intentionally. The rest of the flight was uneventful. This was a long flight to Asia for me, I think the attendant knew if she angered the woman, she would then become even more difficult so she just took it. I would have cut her off a long time before she started taking advantage.

For the longest time 30+ family and friends chipped in to a private company and we could always fly that way. I never really flew commercial too much, only a handful of times. I never liked it. I hate the crowds, I hate waiting for my bags. Some people can be always unruly. The worst for me is when I had to sit by someone who would always give the attendant a hard time, treating them like a personal assistant, barking orders at them and admonishing them for what they consider substandard service. This woman sitting across the aisle from me thought she was at an all inclusive buffet. She would say “excuse me miss” as a way of getting their attention and she always used a fake sugary sweet voice and was acting polite but I could tell it wasn’t authentic, it was a way to demean the workers. She made the poor attendant kept going back and forth and getting her refills even though she was serving somebody else. She would repeatedly ask for snacks and seconds when the meal was served. I have no idea why they complied but they did. Most of us were just sitting there watching and waiting for the attendant to snap, but she was professional the whole time. This was at a time where most people weren’t going to embarrass themselves making a scene because the people who treat them like this are used to the attention, it’s almost as if they are picking a fight intentionally. The rest of the flight was uneventful. This was a long flight to Asia for me, I think the attendant knew if she angered the woman, she would then become even more difficult so she just took it. I would have cut her off a long time before she started taking advantage.

SonnyBoy🇺🇸

101,333 просмотров • 20 дней назад

🚨 WOMAN WAS RESCUING SEAGULL, NOT STEALING IT A video I shared yesterday of a woman catching a seagull in a blanket, was Not what it looked like, the woman in question was actually concerned for the small seagull after it has fell off the roof previously, as you can see in this video that the woman in question shares with the seagull society on Facebook, she asked locals to help her it on to a flat roof so it could be back with its mother Like many people yesterday I saw the video shared round of her catching it and jumped to conclusions, for that I apologize and hold my hands up I was quick to judge

🚨 WOMAN WAS RESCUING SEAGULL, NOT STEALING IT A video I shared yesterday of a woman catching a seagull in a blanket, was Not what it looked like, the woman in question was actually concerned for the small seagull after it has fell off the roof previously, as you can see in this video that the woman in question shares with the seagull society on Facebook, she asked locals to help her it on to a flat roof so it could be back with its mother Like many people yesterday I saw the video shared round of her catching it and jumped to conclusions, for that I apologize and hold my hands up I was quick to judge

Active Patriot

1,017,319 просмотров • 9 дней назад

Farewell to International Space Station! This is truly a special place, special mission, and special team that makes it happen. It is a bittersweet departure today – I have a keen awareness that I may never be back here, and even if I was, it would be at a different time with a different crew. This chapter is over. Spaceflight has always been a life goal, and it has turned into a life-fulfilling endeavor – but not for the reasons I thought growing up. When I was young, I pictured the launch, the incredible ball of fire and the acceleration, the spacewalks (how could you not wonder what it’s like to be in that suit?), and I was fascinated by the shuttles, capsules, and stations. But as I complete this second mission living and working in space, what draws me to this job is the people. Experiences like this are amazing, but the relationships we build that make it possible are the “why.” Every day, this mission depends on people from all over the world, of different nationalities, races, religions, and cultures. It depends on government and commercial entities, it depends on all political parties, and it depends on commitment to an unchanged goal over many years and decades. It depends on people dedicated to being part of something bigger than themselves, whose names may never be known but who wake up every day to make the world a better place and to be part of something they will be proud to tell their grandkids about. History will look kindly upon them. Humans have always had a propensity to explore … across lands and oceans, up mountains, and into the sky. We as a species will never stop wondering what else is out there, and what it would be like to go. But then, in the words of TS Elliot, “…at the end of all our exploring, will be to arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time.” Crew-10 is on its way home.

Farewell to International Space Station! This is truly a special place, special mission, and special team that makes it happen. It is a bittersweet departure today – I have a keen awareness that I may never be back here, and even if I was, it would be at a different time with a different crew. This chapter is over. Spaceflight has always been a life goal, and it has turned into a life-fulfilling endeavor – but not for the reasons I thought growing up. When I was young, I pictured the launch, the incredible ball of fire and the acceleration, the spacewalks (how could you not wonder what it’s like to be in that suit?), and I was fascinated by the shuttles, capsules, and stations. But as I complete this second mission living and working in space, what draws me to this job is the people. Experiences like this are amazing, but the relationships we build that make it possible are the “why.” Every day, this mission depends on people from all over the world, of different nationalities, races, religions, and cultures. It depends on government and commercial entities, it depends on all political parties, and it depends on commitment to an unchanged goal over many years and decades. It depends on people dedicated to being part of something bigger than themselves, whose names may never be known but who wake up every day to make the world a better place and to be part of something they will be proud to tell their grandkids about. History will look kindly upon them. Humans have always had a propensity to explore … across lands and oceans, up mountains, and into the sky. We as a species will never stop wondering what else is out there, and what it would be like to go. But then, in the words of TS Elliot, “…at the end of all our exploring, will be to arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time.” Crew-10 is on its way home.

COL Anne McClain

69,039 просмотров • 11 месяцев назад