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Hello everyone. I am a new member here and a young pastor. I have a question for any preachers out there. Before I answered my call to preach I never really pod attention to the many different Bibles there are out there. Once a started preaching I had a few different study/reference Bibles given to me and suggested to me to use. I love them all but am on the hunt for one that I just can’t seem to find.  What is a good Bible any of you all would suggest to use to preach out of and study out of?  Not asking for translations I use only KJV (not trying yo start an argument there).

Most of Trump's nominees have been or became staunch supporters of the President-elect. The nomination of a few of them--not ideally suited to their pending position--can be seen as a reward for their loyalty.

I pretty much agree with fenris' assessment of the nominations/appointments, and find Gaetz' nomination particularly troubling. I mean, why even consider such an obnoxious, morally and ethically-challenged loose cannon as the future head of the DOJ?

My ideal government is a group of people with the intelligence and imagination of a four year old, sitting behind the steering wheel making “vroom vroom” noises as long as daddy has the keys…

Trump cabinet picks, in my humble opinion

White House chief of staff: Susie Wiles : A

Secretary of state: Marco Rubio : A+ (Huge upgrade over Blinken, who seems to be working hard at managing an American decline)

Attorney general: Matt Gaetz: F (crazy, not serious person, ethics violations, won't get confirmed in the senate)

HHS secretary: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: F (crazy, not serious person, science denier, won't get confirmed in the senate)

U.N. ambassador: Elise Stefanik A++ (Will be a strong moral voice in the house of lies called the UN)
 
"Border czar": Tom Homan: A (His verbal sparring with AOC at a House hearing is epic!)

Defense secretary: Pete Hegseth: B (Probably very good, but young and position might be over his head. Still better than who's in the position now)

National security adviser: Michael Waltz (I don't know who this is)

Interior secretary: Doug Burgum (I don't know who this is)

Secretary of homeland security: Kristi Noem: D (Nothing against her personally, but I don't think she's up to managing the tremendous amount of personnel and agencies that fall under DHS)

CIA director: John Ratcliffe: A

Director of national intelligence: Tulsi Gabbard: F (She has pro Putin and Pro Assad tendencies, she's anti war when America does it, but pro war when our enemies do.)

EPA administrator: Lee Zeldin: A (I love Lee at any post, but I wish he got some party leadership position)

U.S. ambassador to Israel: Mike Huckabee A+++ (Loves Israel and Jews, has visited Israel over 100 times over the last 50 years)

 

Do I know him?  I’m forced to smile at the question.  I’ve been waiting for him for most of my life.  The truth is he changed my life long before he was even born.  All Israel has been waiting for the Messiah for a long time.  But I waited for a special reason.  You see, God promised me that I wouldn’t die until I had seen him.  And so I waited.  And waited.  And waited.  And waited.  Each day I would take my place in the temple.  Hoping that this would be the day that I would finally see The Consolation of Israel.  And each day I went home without seeing him.

You may wonder that I didn’t get discouraged and give up.  And I’ll admit that there were times when that seemed like the prudent thing to do.  When I got discouraged and asked myself why I was doing this.  But each day, when I would get discouraged, I would think back to that promise and realize that if I quit I would never receive the gift God had promised.  And that gave me the strength to keep waiting, and waiting, and waiting. 

Each day I would go to the temple and take my place where I could watch all the people that came and went.  It was nice in the temple.  It was peaceful, especially if you stayed away from where the money changers were.  And over the years I studied the Scriptures, and learned much.  And eventually, as the years rolled on, even became one of those the people sought out with questions.  And as nice as all that was, I never forgot what my real purpose was in being there.

Until that one day when it happened.  I was in my normal place when they walked in.  There was nothing special about them.  Just a man and his young wife and a baby.  There was nothing about them that would attract your attention.  But I knew.  This was the one I had been waiting for almost all my life.  I don’t remember how I got over to them.  All I remember is suddenly being there in front of them.  I reached out and gently took the baby from his mother, and I worshiped God, the tears running down my face.  At long last God had fulfilled His promise. 

“Lord, let now your servant depart in peace, for my eyes have seen your salvation.”