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Chele 4 Life @chele4l1fe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Mary's fragrant gift did not come at the expense of the poor. For Jesus, it's an indispensable honor at the right time. He authorizes giving to the poor in His name and accepts such gifts as being given directly to Him. They bring Him glory and honor. what-is-mankind.blogspot.com/2026/09/a-ti...

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A time for every purpose

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Chele 4 Life @chele4l1fe.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

BEFORE: Zaccheus might have said his philosophy of life was, "Get everything you can, while you can. Every man for himself!" AFTER: This restored son of Abraham started acting like a good brother-keeper. what-is-mankind.blogspot.com/2026/08/how-...

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How does Zaccheus measure up?

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Chele 4 Life @chele4l1fe.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Nehemiah 5 paints a picture of how God cares about His people's physical needs. Here, He provided care through His law and the people He positioned as leaders. The story involves protest, which may surprise you, but it's not the Bible's only protest. what-is-mankind.blogspot.com/2026/07/we-a...

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“We are equals!”

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Chele 4 Life @chele4l1fe.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

This time of year, I consider how often to fill the hummingbird feeder, where to place my bird baths, and what flowers will attract birds and other pollinators to my yard. Jesus wants me to consider more than that. #LatestBlogPost what-is-mankind.blogspot.com/2026/05/cons...

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Consider the birds, the flowers

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Chele 4 Life @chele4l1fe.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

We search the scriptures to learn what pleases God. In Mark 3:1-6 we have an example of something that deeply displeased Him. What's it take to make God angry? What would've made Jesus feel good as He looked around that room? what-is-mankind.blogspot.com/2026/03/hear...

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Healing hearts

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Chele 4 Life @chele4l1fe.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

2nd in series: Compared to biblical values, attitudes toward people with disabilities leave much to be desired. When Jesus healed Bartimaeus, He brought these disparities into focus. His power & love shine brightly against dark despair and discrimination. what-is-mankind.blogspot.com/2026/02/atti...

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Attitudes toward people with disabilities

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Chele 4 Life @chele4l1fe.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Jesus was uniquely in tune with God while also being attuned to suffering people. He knew who was being oppressed and who was doing the oppressing. In healing the "bent" woman and correcting the synagogue official, He did the Father’s will. what-is-mankind.blogspot.com/2026/01/jesu...

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Jesus healed a woman with a disability (Luke 13:10-17)

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Chele 4 Life @chele4l1fe.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

#ChristmasPost Jesus isn’t just A son of man. He is THE Son of Man--unique, the epitome of humanness, the only one of us without sin. Mankind is the part of creation TO which the Son of God came, and OF which He became. He not only died FOR us but AS us. what-is-mankind.blogspot.com/2025/12/bein...

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Being found in fashion as a man

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Chele 4 Life @chele4l1fe.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

#LatestBlogPost Even in the Old Testament, brotherkeeping was not limited to relatives. New Testament passages apply brotherliness to nonChristian neighbors and countrymen. The demands of brotherliness towards the unsaved are urgent and demanding. what-is-mankind.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...

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The role of brotherliness in evangelism

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Chele 4 Life @chele4l1fe.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

#LatestBlogPost No review of biblical brother-keeping is complete without a discussion of Christian brotherhood. And no discussion of Christian brotherhood is complete without a look back at what it means to be a brother-keeper in the Old Testament. what-is-mankind.blogspot.com/2025/08/paul...

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Paul’s masterclass on brother-keeping

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Chele 4 Life @chele4l1fe.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

"Whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also." Is this a one-off in Jesus' repertoire? An outlier? Or does it fit the larger context of His teaching, His ministry, and the word of God? what-is-mankind.blogspot.com/2025/07/jesu...

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Jesus’ kingdom does not advance by violence

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Chele 4 Life @chele4l1fe.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Jesus was numbered among the vilest transgressors, died with and for them. He went to the cross in exchange for a murderer named Barabbas. He later felt the blows that Paul--a violent aggressor--inflicted on His followers... and yet He saved him! what-is-mankind.blogspot.com/2025/04/paul...

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“Paul, Paul, why are you persecuting Me?”

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Chele 4 Life @chele4l1fe.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Psalm 8's “What is man?” is followed by Ps 9’s desperate pleas: “do not let man prevail” and “let the nations know that they are but men.” Ps 10 longs for a day when “man who is of the earth will no longer cause terror.” What’s going on? what-is-mankind.blogspot.com/2025/03/pro-...

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Pro-life virtues in Psalms 8, 9 & 10

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Chele 4 Life @chele4l1fe.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I expect people who make government better to be better than this

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Highest Bitter @highestbitter.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

A few orgs you can donate to help Ukraine: United 24 (started by Zelensky) Ukrainian Red Cross Society White Stork Hospitallers Ukraine Front Line Azov One Renegade Relief Runners Kozak Drive Foundation Sustain Ukraine Superhumans East SOS Charitable Foundation Razom for Ukraine Ukraine

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Chele 4 Life @chele4l1fe.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

A Trump acolyte criticized Zelenskyy for dressing casual when meeting with Trump, but then Elon...

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Chele 4 Life @chele4l1fe.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

These claims of waste, fraud, and abuse sound a lot like the claims of election fraud in 2020... that still haven't materialized... Still waiting...

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Chele 4 Life @chele4l1fe.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

This is what I've observed too, with my own little eyes

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Chele 4 Life @chele4l1fe.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

"He talks tough about immigrants only because he wants them to stay away. HE REALLY LOVES ALL PEOPLE, just [white] Americans more!"

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Chele 4 Life @chele4l1fe.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

I was thinking about books I've read documenting the first Trump administration, all purchased through Amazon. I wonder if Jeff Bezos appreciates the wealth he's derived from #NeverTrumpers

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Chele 4 Life @chele4l1fe.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

My rules: I'm not going to like or repost anything containing blasphemy, explitives, or references to excrement... even if I generally agree with the sentiment. If you want broader appeal, clean it up!

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Chele 4 Life @chele4l1fe.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Idea for Dems & Independents: Put Trump's name on any legislation you really really want passed... the Donald Trump Immigration Reform Package, the Trump Infrastructure Bill, the Trump Support for Ukraine Act.... Seriously, who cares who gets the credit? (Trump does, but the rest of us don't)

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Chele 4 Life @chele4l1fe.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Book idea for some enterprising editor: a compilation of unexpurgated presidential speeches at the Nat'l Prayer Breakfast. I'm guessing that the differences btw them would be obvious... like maybe many would reveal more of an understanding of faith than this: www.whitehouse.gov/remarks/2025...

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Remarks by President Trump at the National Prayer Breakfast

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Chele 4 Life @chele4l1fe.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Somehow, in their zeal to conserve other things, some conservatives forgot they need to conserve the law/Constitution. They abandoned the idea that ends do not justify the means. They are not committed to doing the right thing in the right way

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Chele 4 Life @chele4l1fe.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

This is true. It's because he makes everything about himself, and he is not inspiring, has no comfort to give. Sad... and I do not say that ironically

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Chele 4 Life @chele4l1fe.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

When God commanded Israel to clear the Promised Land of the nations who lived there, was that murder? Was it unjust killing, inconsistent with the Bible’s teaching on the sanctity of human life? Did His commands violate the very pro-life ethic that He had so carefully developed in the law?

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Conquest: Is that pro-life?

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Chele 4 Life @chele4l1fe.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

New favorite: Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859–1937), first African American artist to gain international recognition. Here's his oil painting called The Savior

The Savior, by Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937) - first African American painter to earn international recognition

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Chele 4 Life @chele4l1fe.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

As a woman of Caroline Kennedy's age, I must say she looks a whole lot better than the "housewives of DC/Mar-a-lago," with their overly made-up tightened skin and puffy lips

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Chele 4 Life @chele4l1fe.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

On this day of holocaust remembrance, let's reflect on how it started with the adoption of attitudes contrary to the biblical pro-life ethic what-is-mankind.blogspot.com

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What is mankind?

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Chele 4 Life @chele4l1fe.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

As with many things Dear Leader has done, nothing stops the average American from doing the right thing... it's just a little harder, without government support. Man up, people!

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Chele 4 Life @chele4l1fe.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

STATE OF OUR NATION: 170 million Americans do not care that the Chinese gov't can use their data to undermine their country. Let that sink in. Shouldn't TikTok die because it's lost business, because it's bad for the country? Where are the patriots?

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Chele 4 Life @chele4l1fe.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Philippians 4:5 - Let your gentle spirit be known to all men. The Lord is near.

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Chele 4 Life @chele4l1fe.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I've been a Christian a long time. I know my Bible pretty well. I've never heard of an "ultra-Christian." Sounds kinda silly to even say it

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Chele 4 Life @chele4l1fe.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Not exactly Hillbilly Elegy, but close. Same as me, Ron knew what Trump was like because of the USFL; if he couldn't stick with that group's reason for being, how would he uphold the Constitution?

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Chele 4 Life @chele4l1fe.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

EXPLAINS A LOT: "In the Trumpified world of Republican politics, vice has become a moat. If a figure is a bad enough person, it inspires fanatical loyalty in Republican voters and helps protect them from challenges." #petehegseth www.thebulwark.com/p/vice-is-a-...

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Vice Is a Moat

If Pete Hegseth is confirmed, it won’t be in spite of his personal failings. It’ll be because of them.

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Chele 4 Life @chele4l1fe.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Once upon a time the GOP once knew enough to get rid of a corrupt politician, even though he had a building named after him (McKay Tower in downtown Grand Rapids) www.woodtv.com/news/news-8-...

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A Michigan assassination: Revisiting the death of Warren Hooper

Who was Warren Hooper and why did he find himself the target of an apparent professional hit job?

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Chele 4 Life @chele4l1fe.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

IF you protested peacefully on January 6th, and IF you you were treated like a gang member. OBVIOUSLY... those are big ifs www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

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Vance: People who committed violence on Jan 6 'obviously' shouldn’t be pardoned

But the vice president-elect supported those who he said had been unjustly imprisoned.

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Chele 4 Life @chele4l1fe.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

We are living the horror of this reality

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Chele 4 Life @chele4l1fe.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

No to windmills but yes to oil rigs!?!

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Liz Cheney @lizcheney.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

My response to Donald Trump’s efforts to block the Special Counsel from issuing his final report:

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Chele 4 Life @chele4l1fe.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

I understand why the artist is angry, but must Jeff Bezos fund her opinion? The patron reserves the right to his own opinion too. The artist is free to produce but not owed the patronage of the person she is criticizing. Free speech is not free; there is always a cost. The question is, who pays?

Image of Jeff Bezos, Mickey Mouse, and others paying tribute to a statue of Donald Trump

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Chele 4 Life @chele4l1fe.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Great article on the "evil eye." From my own study of the subject, I see the Bible intends the believer to concern him/herself less with fear of being the recipient of an evil look and more with not casting an evil eye on others (see Deuteronomy 15:9-11)

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Chele 4 Life @chele4l1fe.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Trending over on the other place: We will not comply (mainly with anti-vax msgs), but replacing Elon with Luigi is not the answer

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Chele 4 Life @chele4l1fe.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

It really pays to sing all the verses of Christmas carols because you'll find a recognition of life's darkness. For example...

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Chele 4 Life @chele4l1fe.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

No one is surprised. What about the rally he held in the suburb of Walker, my hometown? Will his reneging matter to the fiscally conservative folks around here? Will they step up to pay Trump's bill? THAT would be a shock www.woodtv.com/news/target-...

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Trump campaign won’t pay $49,000 in bills for Grand Rapids rallies

The city of Grand Rapids says the Donald J. Trump for President 2024 campaign has refused to pay more than $49,000 in bills for two rallies in the city this year.

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