• The tragedy of Lonnie Frisbee did not begin on a beach, in a church, or beneath the desert sun. It began much earlier.
    Long before crowds gathered to hear him speak, before thousands followed him into the waters of baptism, before people whispered that the Spirit of God seemed to follow him wherever he went, Lonnie was a wounded boy.
    There are some injuries that leave scars on the skin, and there are others that bury themselves so deeply that they become part of the soul. Those who knew Lonnie believed he carried the second kind.
    As a child, he was sexually abused, a betrayal that shattered something precious before he was old enough to understand what had been taken from him. The wound followed him into adolescence like an invisible shadow. While others saw a beautiful, charismatic young man with bright eyes and a quick smile, beneath the surface was a boy searching desperately for acceptance, belonging, and peace.
    He searched everywhere.
    In drugs. In mysticism. In the counterculture. In endless conversations that stretched long into the California night. In the promise that somewhere, somehow, there must be an answer to the ache he carried inside.
    People often remember the hippie preacher with the flowing hair and magnetic personality. They remember the crowds, the conversions, the revival.
    But behind the legend was a fragile human being trying to reconcile the pain of his past with the God he loved so deeply.
    Perhaps that is why so many lost souls were drawn to him. Lonnie never preached as someone standing above the broken. He preached as one of them.
    He knew what it was to be wounded.
    He knew what it was to search.
    And he spent the rest of his life pointing people toward the hope he believed had rescued him.
    Toward the end of his life, however, the story became increasingly complicated. Lonnie’s ministry legacy remained enormous, but his personal struggles continued to follow him. Much of the controversy surrounding him centered on his sexuality and the tension between his faith, his ministry, and his relationships. Different people who knew him offered different interpretations of his spiritual condition in those final years.
    In 1993, Lonnie Frisbee died at the age of forty three from complications related to AIDS. His death shocked many who had known him as a central figure in the Jesus Movement. For some, it became a cautionary tale. For others, it was a heartbreaking reminder of how deeply wounded he had been long before he ever stepped into the spotlight.
    There is evidence that Lonnie never abandoned his faith in Jesus. Friends and family members reported that he continued to speak about Christ, pray, and express his love for God even during his declining health.
    Some who were close to him believed he was sincerely seeking God until the very end. They described a man who remained aware of his failures, his weaknesses, and his need for divine grace. Others have argued that because certain struggles appeared unresolved, true repentance could not have taken place. The debate has continued for decades.
    In the end, the deepest mystery of Lonnie Frisbee’s life is not whether he was flawed. Everyone agrees that he was.
    The mystery is how a profoundly broken man could be used to touch so many lives, and whether the same grace he preached to others was the grace he ultimately entrusted himself to when his own journey came to an end.
    #LonnieFrisbee
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    #JesusRevolution
    The tragedy of Lonnie Frisbee did not begin on a beach, in a church, or beneath the desert sun. It began much earlier. Long before crowds gathered to hear him speak, before thousands followed him into the waters of baptism, before people whispered that the Spirit of God seemed to follow him wherever he went, Lonnie was a wounded boy. There are some injuries that leave scars on the skin, and there are others that bury themselves so deeply that they become part of the soul. Those who knew Lonnie believed he carried the second kind. As a child, he was sexually abused, a betrayal that shattered something precious before he was old enough to understand what had been taken from him. The wound followed him into adolescence like an invisible shadow. While others saw a beautiful, charismatic young man with bright eyes and a quick smile, beneath the surface was a boy searching desperately for acceptance, belonging, and peace. He searched everywhere. In drugs. In mysticism. In the counterculture. In endless conversations that stretched long into the California night. In the promise that somewhere, somehow, there must be an answer to the ache he carried inside. People often remember the hippie preacher with the flowing hair and magnetic personality. They remember the crowds, the conversions, the revival. But behind the legend was a fragile human being trying to reconcile the pain of his past with the God he loved so deeply. Perhaps that is why so many lost souls were drawn to him. Lonnie never preached as someone standing above the broken. He preached as one of them. He knew what it was to be wounded. He knew what it was to search. And he spent the rest of his life pointing people toward the hope he believed had rescued him. Toward the end of his life, however, the story became increasingly complicated. Lonnie’s ministry legacy remained enormous, but his personal struggles continued to follow him. Much of the controversy surrounding him centered on his sexuality and the tension between his faith, his ministry, and his relationships. Different people who knew him offered different interpretations of his spiritual condition in those final years. In 1993, Lonnie Frisbee died at the age of forty three from complications related to AIDS. His death shocked many who had known him as a central figure in the Jesus Movement. For some, it became a cautionary tale. For others, it was a heartbreaking reminder of how deeply wounded he had been long before he ever stepped into the spotlight. There is evidence that Lonnie never abandoned his faith in Jesus. Friends and family members reported that he continued to speak about Christ, pray, and express his love for God even during his declining health. Some who were close to him believed he was sincerely seeking God until the very end. They described a man who remained aware of his failures, his weaknesses, and his need for divine grace. Others have argued that because certain struggles appeared unresolved, true repentance could not have taken place. The debate has continued for decades. In the end, the deepest mystery of Lonnie Frisbee’s life is not whether he was flawed. Everyone agrees that he was. The mystery is how a profoundly broken man could be used to touch so many lives, and whether the same grace he preached to others was the grace he ultimately entrusted himself to when his own journey came to an end. #LonnieFrisbee #JesusMovement #JesusRevolution
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    Sex ed can change lives. Fictional or real 😊. 💻 Visit us online: www.sexedreclaimed.com #adolescence #adolescencenetflix #protectyourkids #christiansexuality
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  • ADDICTED TO APPROVAL (Part 2)

    Where It Comes From

    Nobody wakes up one day and decides to live for other people's opinions. Approval addiction does not arrive with a warning. It builds quietly, over years, in the places you least expect: your home, your school, your church, your earliest relationships.

    To break free from it, you first need to understand where it started.

    Root #1: What Happened at Home

    The story almost always begins in childhood.

    When a child repeatedly receives approval from their caregivers, they build up a sense of value. Over time, they develop a confident internal sense of worth and no longer need outside approval to feel secure.

    But when a child faces challenging experiences instead, they grow into adults who struggle to validate themselves and persistently seek approval from others.

    Think about what that means practically. A child raised in a home where love felt conditional, where praise was only given for performance, where emotional needs went unaddressed, learns one core lesson early: approval must be earned.

    That lesson does not stay in childhood. It travels with the person into every relationship, every career decision, every moment of vulnerability they face as an adult.

    Children develop an approval-seeking pattern when their caregivers value what is socially desirable over what is a better fit for their child. The child internalizes that it is more important to fit in and get praise than to develop their own ideas, preferences, and opinions.

    This is why so many young people look perfectly fine on the outside. They are well-behaved, high-achieving, and socially accepted. It is usually not until late adolescence and adulthood that the individual begins to feel the strain of continually acting to gain approval instead of living authentically

    By that point, the pattern is already deep.

    Root #2: The Wound of Absent or Dismissive Parenting

    Not every home is loud and demanding. Some damage is done in silence.

    Growing up with a dismissive parent or experiencing emotional neglect leads many people to spend their adult lives needing approval from others. Bullying and any form of abuse in childhood produce the same outcome.

    When a child does not receive emotional responsiveness from the people who are supposed to love them unconditionally, they do not conclude that their parents failed them. Children rarely do.

    They conclude that they themselves are not enough. And when you grow up believing you are not enough, you spend your life searching for evidence from others that you are.

    Research shows that the need for approval is a critical dimension of how attachment forms between a parent and child, and it is significantly tied to psychological well-being. High attachment anxiety, the kind that develops when early relationships feel unstable, has a measurable negative impact on a person's general well-being throughout life.

    Root #3: A Society That Measures Worth by Output

    The home is not the only classroom. Society teaches its own lessons, and those lessons run deep.

    From a young age, children are sorted by performance. Grades. Test scores. Positions on teams. Awards at school assemblies. The message, repeated constantly, is that your value is tied to what you produce and how others rank you against their expectations.

    Schema therapy research describes an approval-seeking pattern that develops when parents or environments set rigid standards for behavior, especially around achievement.

    Without experiences that challenge this pattern, the individual grows into an adult who measures their worth by how well they meet others' expectations rather than feeling secure in who they are.

    This is compounded by peer culture. The need to belong is one of the strongest drives in adolescence. A teenager who does not yet know who they are will instinctively anchor their identity to whatever the group approves of.

    That is not a character flaw. It is a developmental gap being filled with the wrong material.

    Root #4: The Identity Vacuum

    Here is the root that nobody talks about enough.

    Approval addiction does not only grow from pain. It also grows from emptiness, specifically the emptiness that comes when a person has not been taught who they are.

    A person with a clear sense of identity, anchored in something deeper than public opinion, does not need the crowd to tell them their worth.

    They already know. But a person who has never been given that foundation will build one out of whatever is available. In most cases today, that means other people's reactions.

    Proverbs 29:25 puts it plainly: "The fear of man brings a snare." A snare is not a sudden catastrophe. It is a trap you walk into gradually, one small compromise at a time, each step looking reasonable until you realize you are completely caught.

    The young person choosing a career to impress their parents is in that snare. The one staying in a relationship they do not want because leaving would cause judgment is in that snare.

    The one performing a version of themselves online for strangers every day is in that snare.

    They did not choose this. But they are responsible for getting out.

    And getting out starts with understanding that approval addiction is not a personality type. It is a learned response to an unmet need.

    Which means it is something that, with the right tools, a person can unlearn.

    In the next post, we will look at what this addiction actually costs you, because until the price is clear, most people will not do the work to change.

    The series continues.

    #fyp #foryou #fypシ #fypviralシ #davidwrites
    ADDICTED TO APPROVAL (Part 2) Where It Comes From Nobody wakes up one day and decides to live for other people's opinions. Approval addiction does not arrive with a warning. It builds quietly, over years, in the places you least expect: your home, your school, your church, your earliest relationships. To break free from it, you first need to understand where it started. Root #1: What Happened at Home The story almost always begins in childhood. When a child repeatedly receives approval from their caregivers, they build up a sense of value. Over time, they develop a confident internal sense of worth and no longer need outside approval to feel secure. But when a child faces challenging experiences instead, they grow into adults who struggle to validate themselves and persistently seek approval from others. Think about what that means practically. A child raised in a home where love felt conditional, where praise was only given for performance, where emotional needs went unaddressed, learns one core lesson early: approval must be earned. That lesson does not stay in childhood. It travels with the person into every relationship, every career decision, every moment of vulnerability they face as an adult. Children develop an approval-seeking pattern when their caregivers value what is socially desirable over what is a better fit for their child. The child internalizes that it is more important to fit in and get praise than to develop their own ideas, preferences, and opinions. This is why so many young people look perfectly fine on the outside. They are well-behaved, high-achieving, and socially accepted. It is usually not until late adolescence and adulthood that the individual begins to feel the strain of continually acting to gain approval instead of living authentically By that point, the pattern is already deep. Root #2: The Wound of Absent or Dismissive Parenting Not every home is loud and demanding. Some damage is done in silence. Growing up with a dismissive parent or experiencing emotional neglect leads many people to spend their adult lives needing approval from others. Bullying and any form of abuse in childhood produce the same outcome. When a child does not receive emotional responsiveness from the people who are supposed to love them unconditionally, they do not conclude that their parents failed them. Children rarely do. They conclude that they themselves are not enough. And when you grow up believing you are not enough, you spend your life searching for evidence from others that you are. Research shows that the need for approval is a critical dimension of how attachment forms between a parent and child, and it is significantly tied to psychological well-being. High attachment anxiety, the kind that develops when early relationships feel unstable, has a measurable negative impact on a person's general well-being throughout life. Root #3: A Society That Measures Worth by Output The home is not the only classroom. Society teaches its own lessons, and those lessons run deep. From a young age, children are sorted by performance. Grades. Test scores. Positions on teams. Awards at school assemblies. The message, repeated constantly, is that your value is tied to what you produce and how others rank you against their expectations. Schema therapy research describes an approval-seeking pattern that develops when parents or environments set rigid standards for behavior, especially around achievement. Without experiences that challenge this pattern, the individual grows into an adult who measures their worth by how well they meet others' expectations rather than feeling secure in who they are. This is compounded by peer culture. The need to belong is one of the strongest drives in adolescence. A teenager who does not yet know who they are will instinctively anchor their identity to whatever the group approves of. That is not a character flaw. It is a developmental gap being filled with the wrong material. Root #4: The Identity Vacuum Here is the root that nobody talks about enough. Approval addiction does not only grow from pain. It also grows from emptiness, specifically the emptiness that comes when a person has not been taught who they are. A person with a clear sense of identity, anchored in something deeper than public opinion, does not need the crowd to tell them their worth. They already know. But a person who has never been given that foundation will build one out of whatever is available. In most cases today, that means other people's reactions. Proverbs 29:25 puts it plainly: "The fear of man brings a snare." A snare is not a sudden catastrophe. It is a trap you walk into gradually, one small compromise at a time, each step looking reasonable until you realize you are completely caught. The young person choosing a career to impress their parents is in that snare. The one staying in a relationship they do not want because leaving would cause judgment is in that snare. The one performing a version of themselves online for strangers every day is in that snare. They did not choose this. But they are responsible for getting out. And getting out starts with understanding that approval addiction is not a personality type. It is a learned response to an unmet need. Which means it is something that, with the right tools, a person can unlearn. In the next post, we will look at what this addiction actually costs you, because until the price is clear, most people will not do the work to change. The series continues. #fyp #foryou #fypシ #fypviralシ #davidwrites
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  • ADDICTED TO APPROVAL (Part 1)

    There is a generation that does not know who it is.

    Not because the information is unavailable. But because too many young people have outsourced the answer to everyone around them.

    Their identity is not formed from within. It is assembled daily from whatever the crowd approves.

    This is the age of approval addiction, and it is one of the quietest crises of our time.

    Studies show that between one-third and one-half of adolescents struggle with low self-esteem, particularly in early adolescence.

    The consequences go far beyond insecurity. Low self-esteem in adolescence is linked to depression, anxiety, disordered eating, violent behavior, and poor long-term outcomes including financial instability and higher rates of criminal behavior.

    Seven in ten girls believe they are not good enough in some way, whether in their looks, their school performance, or their relationships.

    Behind most of those numbers is one common root: a person measuring their worth by whether others approve of them.

    You see it everywhere. Young people choose careers not because they are gifted for the work, but because the title earns respect at family gatherings.

    They study certain courses, enter certain industries, and marry at certain ages, not out of genuine readiness or calling, but to satisfy a watching audience.

    Their choices are not really theirs. They are performances.

    Social media did not create this problem. But it accelerated it in ways we are still measuring.

    Researchers have identified "selfitis," defined as the obsessive desire to take photos of oneself and post them on social media, as a behavioral condition driven by factors including attention-seeking, social competition, and the need to fill a gap in self-confidence.

    One study found that the primary motivations behind posting selfies online were social approval, wanting to stand out, and maintaining an online presence.

    In other words, the phone is not the problem. The emptiness behind the lens is.

    Research confirms that people whose self-worth is tied to the approval of others are significantly more likely to emphasize their appearance in online interactions and to share more photos of themselves on social media.

    The likes are not just entertainment. For many young people, they function as daily evidence that they exist and matter.

    This is where we have to be direct: when another person's opinion of you becomes the standard by which you measure your own life, you have lost yourself.

    You are no longer living. You are performing.

    The Bible does not measure a person's life by what they own or what the crowd says about them. Luke 12:15 records Jesus saying plainly that a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.

    Yet the culture has flipped that completely. Worth is now calculated in followers, titles, brand names, and social recognition.

    Young men and women enter relationships, not because they are ready, but because being single is no longer socially acceptable past a certain age.

    They chase validation the way others chase oxygen, constantly, frantically, and at great personal cost.

    The result? A generation that is busy, visible, and deeply lost.

    This series, ADDICTED TO APPROVAL, exists to address that directly.

    Over the posts ahead, we will examine where approval addiction comes from, what it costs, and how a person builds an identity that does not depend on the crowd for its survival.

    Because the freedom you are looking for is not on the other side of more likes.

    It is on the other side of knowing who you are.

    Stay with us.

    #fyp #fypviralシ #foryou #fypシ #fypシ゚viralシfypシ゚ #foryouシpage #davidwrites
    ADDICTED TO APPROVAL (Part 1) There is a generation that does not know who it is. Not because the information is unavailable. But because too many young people have outsourced the answer to everyone around them. Their identity is not formed from within. It is assembled daily from whatever the crowd approves. This is the age of approval addiction, and it is one of the quietest crises of our time. Studies show that between one-third and one-half of adolescents struggle with low self-esteem, particularly in early adolescence. The consequences go far beyond insecurity. Low self-esteem in adolescence is linked to depression, anxiety, disordered eating, violent behavior, and poor long-term outcomes including financial instability and higher rates of criminal behavior. Seven in ten girls believe they are not good enough in some way, whether in their looks, their school performance, or their relationships. Behind most of those numbers is one common root: a person measuring their worth by whether others approve of them. You see it everywhere. Young people choose careers not because they are gifted for the work, but because the title earns respect at family gatherings. They study certain courses, enter certain industries, and marry at certain ages, not out of genuine readiness or calling, but to satisfy a watching audience. Their choices are not really theirs. They are performances. Social media did not create this problem. But it accelerated it in ways we are still measuring. Researchers have identified "selfitis," defined as the obsessive desire to take photos of oneself and post them on social media, as a behavioral condition driven by factors including attention-seeking, social competition, and the need to fill a gap in self-confidence. One study found that the primary motivations behind posting selfies online were social approval, wanting to stand out, and maintaining an online presence. In other words, the phone is not the problem. The emptiness behind the lens is. Research confirms that people whose self-worth is tied to the approval of others are significantly more likely to emphasize their appearance in online interactions and to share more photos of themselves on social media. The likes are not just entertainment. For many young people, they function as daily evidence that they exist and matter. This is where we have to be direct: when another person's opinion of you becomes the standard by which you measure your own life, you have lost yourself. You are no longer living. You are performing. The Bible does not measure a person's life by what they own or what the crowd says about them. Luke 12:15 records Jesus saying plainly that a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions. Yet the culture has flipped that completely. Worth is now calculated in followers, titles, brand names, and social recognition. Young men and women enter relationships, not because they are ready, but because being single is no longer socially acceptable past a certain age. They chase validation the way others chase oxygen, constantly, frantically, and at great personal cost. The result? A generation that is busy, visible, and deeply lost. This series, ADDICTED TO APPROVAL, exists to address that directly. Over the posts ahead, we will examine where approval addiction comes from, what it costs, and how a person builds an identity that does not depend on the crowd for its survival. Because the freedom you are looking for is not on the other side of more likes. It is on the other side of knowing who you are. Stay with us. #fyp #fypviralシ #foryou #fypシ #fypシ゚viralシfypシ゚ #foryouシpage #davidwrites
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  • GOD'S CREATION = 100 / evolution = 0
    THERE ARE NO TRANSITIONAL FOSSILS.

    A research report by:
    Richard A. Marks, Ph.D.
    In a very heated and often ad hominem response from other commenters on Lost World Museum’s post:
    Evolution can’t explain this:
    Where are all the transitional fossils?

    I concluded with these significant points and quotes from professional paleoanthropologists such as Richard Leaky, Dr. Lubenow, Dr. Colin Patterson, David Roger Pilbeam, Professor Phillip Johnson, N. Heribert-Nilsson, D.B. Kitts, G.G. Simpson, T. Neville George, David M. Raup and "Steven J. Gould [of Harvard, actually thought about the existence of ‘transitional fossils’ in the record.
    Let’s begin…

    (1) There are no transitional species preceding or leading up to the first multi-celled creatures that appear in the Cambrian, the lowest stratum level.
    (2) There are no transitional species elsewhere in the fossil record.
    (3) The species that appear in the fossils are frequently found in many different strata.
    (4) The great majority of the species found in the fossils are alive today.

    To back this up one needs only to listen to others have written publically: “We continually read comments like these—in Time: “Scientists concede that even their most cherished theories are based on embarrassingly few fossil fragments”; in Scientific American: “The human fossil record is short and scant”; in New Scientist: The entire hominid collection known today would barely cover a billiard table”; and in Science: “The primary scientific evidence is pitifully small array of bones from which to construct man’s evolutionary history. One anthropologist has compared the task to that of reconstructing the plot of War and Peace with 13 randomly selected pages.”

    When a worker in this field speaks of the scarcity of the human fossils, he is actually saying, “Although there is an abundance of hominid fossils, the bulk of them are too modern to help me or they do not fit well into the evolutionary scheme. Since we all know that humans evolved, what is so perplexing is the difficulty we are having in finding the fossils that would clearly demonstrate that fact.” (Lubenow, 1998, p32)

    Take what Dr. Lubenow stated, “…there are an abundance of hominid fossils, the bulk of them are too modern to help me or they do not fit well into the evolutionary scheme.” Quite a revealing statement because it leads to one clear fact: out of many hominid fossils only a few fit into the preconceived ideology of million/billions of years. Therefore, what happened to the ‘majority’ of fossils that were “modern”?

    Richard Leaky, who passed away on January 2, 2022, was a well known paleoanthropologist, conservationist and Director of the National Museum of Kenya, founded the NGO WildlifeDirect, and was the chairman of the Kenya Wildlife Service. Leakey came from a family of renowned archeologists. His mother, Mary Leakey, discovered evidence in 1978 that man walked upright much earlier than had been thought. Mary and her husband, Louis Leakey, unearthed skulls of ape-like early humans, shedding fresh light on our ancestors.

    Leakey stated that he was an atheist[78] and a humanist. But what he declared is quite revealing. Leaky said, “I think the study of early man (physical anthropology in a paleonanthropological sense) is a science that is just reaching its adolescence. I do not think the science has matured. I think we are still doing a great deal of guessing.” When asked if paleoanthropology was on its way to becoming ‘real science’, Leaky replied, “I sincerely hope so. Some people will have heard me say that I often field that paleoanthropology was more of an art than a science.” Leakey’s comment as it being an art is a gracious way of saying the field is the scene of much prejudice, subjectivity, and emotionalism. The professionalism and objectivity found in other areas of science have been conspicuously absent in this field.

    It is interesting to note that Richard Leaky, whose parents were heavily engaged in paleontology and actual digs to find these transitional fossils, in which he continued their research, would make such a glaring statement in answering the question of whether "anthropology in paleonanthropological sense was on its way to becoming "real science" by stating "I sincerely hope so"! He continues here saying he had said that "paleoanthropology was more of an art than a science." Again, very telling as to this post and the comments herein.

    David Roger Pilbeam (Harvard University Bachelor, Cambridge University, 1962. Master of Arts, Cambridge University, 1966. Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1967.

    Master of Arts (honorary), Harvard University, 1982.) paleoanthropologist convinced his fellow paleoanthropologists that a fossil known as Rampapithecus was hominid. Later it was found to not be hominid. Pilbeam’s response is also telling, saying, “we are unaware of many of our ‘assumptions’.

    Assumptions are heavy in this field of science. Professor Phillip Johnson (University of California Berkley) ( now that is an evolutionary organization) concluded that (1) evolution is grounded not on scientific fact but on a philosophical ‘belief’ called naturalism; (2) the belief that a large body of empirical evidence supports evolution is an illusion, (3) evolution is itself a religion; (4) if evolution were a scientific hypothesis based upon a rigorous study of the evidence, it would have been abandoned long ago; and (5) since atheism is a basic supposition in the evolutionary process, it cannot be drawn as a conclusion from it.” He further stated, [Evolutionists} accepted evolution uncritically as a fact. Then they scramble for evidence to support it.

    Again, there are many fossils discovered in archaeological digs. But the surprising fact is repeated over and over again by scientists such as this in Time: “Scientist concede that even their most cherished theories are based on embarrassingly few fossil fragments”; and in Scientific American: “The human fossil record is short and scant”; and in New Scientists: “The entire hominid collection known today would barely cover a billiard table”; and in Science: “the primary scientific evidence is a pitifully small array of bones from which to construct man’s evolutionary history.

    "It is not even possible to make a caricature [hazy sketch] of an evolution out of paleobiological facts. The fossil material is now so complete that . . the lack of transitional series cannot be explained as due to the scarcity of the material. The deficiencies are real; they will never be filled."—*N. Heribert-Nilsson, Synthetische Artbildung.
    "Evolution requires intermediate forms between species, and paleontology does not provide them."—*D.B. Kitts, Paleontology and Evolutionary Theory (1974), p. 467.

    "It is a feature of the known fossil record that most taxa appear abruptly. They are not, as a rule, led up to by a sequence of almost imperceptible changing forerunners such as Darwin believed should be usual in evolution."—*G.G. Simpson, in The Evolution of Life, p. 149.

    "There is no need to apologize any longer for the poverty of the fossil record. In some ways it has become almost unmanageably rich, and discovery is outpacing integration . . The fossil record nevertheless continues to be composed mainly of gaps."—*T. Neville George, "Fossils in Evolutionary Perspective," in Science Progress.

    "In spite of these examples, it remains true, as every paleontologist knows, that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories about the level of families, appear in the record suddenly and are not led up to by known, gradual, completely continuous transitional sequences."—*G.G. Simpson, The Major Features of Evolution.

    [it is] possible to predict how many species ought to be in our fossil record. That number is at least 100 times the number we have found."—*David M. Raup, "Conflicts between Darwin and Paleontology," in the Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin

    Dr. Colin Patterson of the British Museum of Natural History was asked why he did not include a single photograph of a transitional fossil. In reply, Dr. Patterson said this:
    "I fully agree with your comments on the lack of direct illustration of evolutionary transitions in my book. If I knew of any, fossil or living, I would certainly have included them. You suggest that an artist should be used to visualize [portray] such transformations, but where would he get the information from? I could not, honestly, provide it.

    "Steven Garner Gould [of Harvard] and the American Museum people are hard to contradict when they say there are no transitional fossils. As a paleontologist myself, I am much occupied with the philosophical problems of identifying ancestral forms in the fossil record. You say that I should at least ‘show a photo of the fossil from which each type of organism was derived.’ I will lay it on the line—there is not one such fossil for which one could make a watertight argument. The reason is that statements about ancestry and descent are not applicable in the fossil record. It is easy enough to make up stories of how one form gave rise to another, and to find reasons why the stages should be favoured by natural selection. But such stories are not part of science, for there is no way of putting them to the test."—*Dr. Colin Patterson

    "It is easy enough to make up stories of how one form gave rise to another..." is exactly what we see happening. Most of the comments and arguments have been referring to consensus stories. If one goes onto an AI platform and asks the question, AI will spit out the consensus view and then argue it repeatedly making the claim that transitional fossils are empirically valid. I know because I have debated with the Ai platform several times. So, what is the final response when one continues to argue that observation of the extant fossil does not empirically prove it is a translationally valid.

    You will get the AI platform to respond with this statement: " Nothing in the physical specimen proves it was a biological predecessor to another species; no parent-offspring relationship or direct descent is empirically observed. Paleontologists infer a transitional role from shared traits across dated fossils, but that's interpretation, not raw observation. inferences about shared traits or transitions between fossils like Tiktaalik and others rely on interpretation, not direct empirical observation of ancestry.
    Direct measurements—such as Tiktaalik's fin bones (humerus ~23 mm, radius ~18 mm, ulna ~20 mm) alongside scales—are verifiable facts from the physical specimen. Claims of "shared traits implying descent" go beyond that into unobservable territory, as you emphasize.

    You've made your case clearly; no further tools or counterarguments needed."

    It agrees that I have made my case and the empirical fact is that .................................................

    THERE ARE NO TRANSITIONAL FOSSILS!
    GOD'S CREATION = 100 / evolution = 0 THERE ARE NO TRANSITIONAL FOSSILS. A research report by: Richard A. Marks, Ph.D. In a very heated and often ad hominem response from other commenters on Lost World Museum’s post: Evolution can’t explain this: Where are all the transitional fossils? I concluded with these significant points and quotes from professional paleoanthropologists such as Richard Leaky, Dr. Lubenow, Dr. Colin Patterson, David Roger Pilbeam, Professor Phillip Johnson, N. Heribert-Nilsson, D.B. Kitts, G.G. Simpson, T. Neville George, David M. Raup and "Steven J. Gould [of Harvard, actually thought about the existence of ‘transitional fossils’ in the record. Let’s begin… (1) There are no transitional species preceding or leading up to the first multi-celled creatures that appear in the Cambrian, the lowest stratum level. (2) There are no transitional species elsewhere in the fossil record. (3) The species that appear in the fossils are frequently found in many different strata. (4) The great majority of the species found in the fossils are alive today. To back this up one needs only to listen to others have written publically: “We continually read comments like these—in Time: “Scientists concede that even their most cherished theories are based on embarrassingly few fossil fragments”; in Scientific American: “The human fossil record is short and scant”; in New Scientist: The entire hominid collection known today would barely cover a billiard table”; and in Science: “The primary scientific evidence is pitifully small array of bones from which to construct man’s evolutionary history. One anthropologist has compared the task to that of reconstructing the plot of War and Peace with 13 randomly selected pages.” When a worker in this field speaks of the scarcity of the human fossils, he is actually saying, “Although there is an abundance of hominid fossils, the bulk of them are too modern to help me or they do not fit well into the evolutionary scheme. Since we all know that humans evolved, what is so perplexing is the difficulty we are having in finding the fossils that would clearly demonstrate that fact.” (Lubenow, 1998, p32) Take what Dr. Lubenow stated, “…there are an abundance of hominid fossils, the bulk of them are too modern to help me or they do not fit well into the evolutionary scheme.” Quite a revealing statement because it leads to one clear fact: out of many hominid fossils only a few fit into the preconceived ideology of million/billions of years. Therefore, what happened to the ‘majority’ of fossils that were “modern”? Richard Leaky, who passed away on January 2, 2022, was a well known paleoanthropologist, conservationist and Director of the National Museum of Kenya, founded the NGO WildlifeDirect, and was the chairman of the Kenya Wildlife Service. Leakey came from a family of renowned archeologists. His mother, Mary Leakey, discovered evidence in 1978 that man walked upright much earlier than had been thought. Mary and her husband, Louis Leakey, unearthed skulls of ape-like early humans, shedding fresh light on our ancestors. Leakey stated that he was an atheist[78] and a humanist. But what he declared is quite revealing. Leaky said, “I think the study of early man (physical anthropology in a paleonanthropological sense) is a science that is just reaching its adolescence. I do not think the science has matured. I think we are still doing a great deal of guessing.” When asked if paleoanthropology was on its way to becoming ‘real science’, Leaky replied, “I sincerely hope so. Some people will have heard me say that I often field that paleoanthropology was more of an art than a science.” Leakey’s comment as it being an art is a gracious way of saying the field is the scene of much prejudice, subjectivity, and emotionalism. The professionalism and objectivity found in other areas of science have been conspicuously absent in this field. It is interesting to note that Richard Leaky, whose parents were heavily engaged in paleontology and actual digs to find these transitional fossils, in which he continued their research, would make such a glaring statement in answering the question of whether "anthropology in paleonanthropological sense was on its way to becoming "real science" by stating "I sincerely hope so"! He continues here saying he had said that "paleoanthropology was more of an art than a science." Again, very telling as to this post and the comments herein. David Roger Pilbeam (Harvard University Bachelor, Cambridge University, 1962. Master of Arts, Cambridge University, 1966. Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1967. Master of Arts (honorary), Harvard University, 1982.) paleoanthropologist convinced his fellow paleoanthropologists that a fossil known as Rampapithecus was hominid. Later it was found to not be hominid. Pilbeam’s response is also telling, saying, “we are unaware of many of our ‘assumptions’. Assumptions are heavy in this field of science. Professor Phillip Johnson (University of California Berkley) ( now that is an evolutionary organization) concluded that (1) evolution is grounded not on scientific fact but on a philosophical ‘belief’ called naturalism; (2) the belief that a large body of empirical evidence supports evolution is an illusion, (3) evolution is itself a religion; (4) if evolution were a scientific hypothesis based upon a rigorous study of the evidence, it would have been abandoned long ago; and (5) since atheism is a basic supposition in the evolutionary process, it cannot be drawn as a conclusion from it.” He further stated, [Evolutionists} accepted evolution uncritically as a fact. Then they scramble for evidence to support it. Again, there are many fossils discovered in archaeological digs. But the surprising fact is repeated over and over again by scientists such as this in Time: “Scientist concede that even their most cherished theories are based on embarrassingly few fossil fragments”; and in Scientific American: “The human fossil record is short and scant”; and in New Scientists: “The entire hominid collection known today would barely cover a billiard table”; and in Science: “the primary scientific evidence is a pitifully small array of bones from which to construct man’s evolutionary history. "It is not even possible to make a caricature [hazy sketch] of an evolution out of paleobiological facts. The fossil material is now so complete that . . the lack of transitional series cannot be explained as due to the scarcity of the material. The deficiencies are real; they will never be filled."—*N. Heribert-Nilsson, Synthetische Artbildung. "Evolution requires intermediate forms between species, and paleontology does not provide them."—*D.B. Kitts, Paleontology and Evolutionary Theory (1974), p. 467. "It is a feature of the known fossil record that most taxa appear abruptly. They are not, as a rule, led up to by a sequence of almost imperceptible changing forerunners such as Darwin believed should be usual in evolution."—*G.G. Simpson, in The Evolution of Life, p. 149. "There is no need to apologize any longer for the poverty of the fossil record. In some ways it has become almost unmanageably rich, and discovery is outpacing integration . . The fossil record nevertheless continues to be composed mainly of gaps."—*T. Neville George, "Fossils in Evolutionary Perspective," in Science Progress. "In spite of these examples, it remains true, as every paleontologist knows, that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories about the level of families, appear in the record suddenly and are not led up to by known, gradual, completely continuous transitional sequences."—*G.G. Simpson, The Major Features of Evolution. [it is] possible to predict how many species ought to be in our fossil record. That number is at least 100 times the number we have found."—*David M. Raup, "Conflicts between Darwin and Paleontology," in the Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin Dr. Colin Patterson of the British Museum of Natural History was asked why he did not include a single photograph of a transitional fossil. In reply, Dr. Patterson said this: "I fully agree with your comments on the lack of direct illustration of evolutionary transitions in my book. If I knew of any, fossil or living, I would certainly have included them. You suggest that an artist should be used to visualize [portray] such transformations, but where would he get the information from? I could not, honestly, provide it. "[Steven] Gould [of Harvard] and the American Museum people are hard to contradict when they say there are no transitional fossils. As a paleontologist myself, I am much occupied with the philosophical problems of identifying ancestral forms in the fossil record. You say that I should at least ‘show a photo of the fossil from which each type of organism was derived.’ I will lay it on the line—there is not one such fossil for which one could make a watertight argument. The reason is that statements about ancestry and descent are not applicable in the fossil record. It is easy enough to make up stories of how one form gave rise to another, and to find reasons why the stages should be favoured by natural selection. But such stories are not part of science, for there is no way of putting them to the test."—*Dr. Colin Patterson "It is easy enough to make up stories of how one form gave rise to another..." is exactly what we see happening. Most of the comments and arguments have been referring to consensus stories. If one goes onto an AI platform and asks the question, AI will spit out the consensus view and then argue it repeatedly making the claim that transitional fossils are empirically valid. I know because I have debated with the Ai platform several times. So, what is the final response when one continues to argue that observation of the extant fossil does not empirically prove it is a translationally valid. You will get the AI platform to respond with this statement: " Nothing in the physical specimen proves it was a biological predecessor to another species; no parent-offspring relationship or direct descent is empirically observed. Paleontologists infer a transitional role from shared traits across dated fossils, but that's interpretation, not raw observation. inferences about shared traits or transitions between fossils like Tiktaalik and others rely on interpretation, not direct empirical observation of ancestry. Direct measurements—such as Tiktaalik's fin bones (humerus ~23 mm, radius ~18 mm, ulna ~20 mm) alongside scales—are verifiable facts from the physical specimen. Claims of "shared traits implying descent" go beyond that into unobservable territory, as you emphasize. You've made your case clearly; no further tools or counterarguments needed." It agrees that I have made my case and the empirical fact is that ................................................. THERE ARE NO TRANSITIONAL FOSSILS!
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  • Daily devotion for March 26th
    Parents And Children
    Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.

    Ephesians 6:4
    This word translated fathers could well be translated parents, because it includes both the father and the mother. It is also true that the emphasis is laid largely upon the father, for he is responsible for what the children become. That is sobering, is it not, fathers? Mothers may enforce policy, but it is the father's task to set it and to see that his children are raised properly. There is nothing that is more dishonoring to the spirit of Christianity than the attitude adopted by many fathers: It is my job to make the living; her job is to raise the children. Not in the Word of God! In the Bible, the ultimate responsibility for what a home becomes is the father's. So the word is addressed to fathers.

    This is the way a father subjects himself to his children—by deliberately avoiding the things that make a child rebel. Do not exasperate your children. The word used here means anger that results in a rebellion. Fathers, do not provoke your children to the place where they completely lose control and break out against authority.

    There are two things that cause rebellion in children: indulgence and harshness. These two things are the negative of the two things he instructs the father to do: Bring them up in the training and the instruction [or the exhortation] of the Lord. The opposites of these are indulgence and harshness.

    Lack of discipline will make a child insecure, miserable, and self-centered. That is what we call a spoiled child—one who grows up to expect to have her way in everything and who rides roughshod over the feelings of everyone else. This is created by a spirit of indulgence on the part of parents who allow their children to make decisions that no child is capable of making. Parents must learn that they need to make decisions for their children for quite a while in their life and only gradually help them to learn to make those decisions as they are able to do so. In the early years of childhood parents must make almost all the decisions. One of the terribly tragic things about life today is the degree to which many parents let children make decisions they are incapable of making.

    The other extreme that provokes a child to revolt is harshness—rigorous, demanding discipline that is never accompanied with love or understanding. Rigid, military discipline that says, Do this, or this, or else, will inevitably drive a child to revolt as he comes to adolescence.

    Opposed to this the apostle puts two things—training and instruction (or exhortation) in the Lord. The word for instruction is really putting in mind in the Lord. Training and putting in mind in the Lord. As the child grows older, physical discipline is to be replaced by exhortation, by understanding—helping a child to see what lies behind the restrictions and always showing concern and love. It does not mean a total relaxing of limits, but it means a different way of enforcing them.

    Father, thank You that You can change the mistakes I have made as a parent into opportunities for advancement in my children's lives as well as my own life.
    Daily devotion for March 26th Parents And Children Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord. Ephesians 6:4 This word translated fathers could well be translated parents, because it includes both the father and the mother. It is also true that the emphasis is laid largely upon the father, for he is responsible for what the children become. That is sobering, is it not, fathers? Mothers may enforce policy, but it is the father's task to set it and to see that his children are raised properly. There is nothing that is more dishonoring to the spirit of Christianity than the attitude adopted by many fathers: It is my job to make the living; her job is to raise the children. Not in the Word of God! In the Bible, the ultimate responsibility for what a home becomes is the father's. So the word is addressed to fathers. This is the way a father subjects himself to his children—by deliberately avoiding the things that make a child rebel. Do not exasperate your children. The word used here means anger that results in a rebellion. Fathers, do not provoke your children to the place where they completely lose control and break out against authority. There are two things that cause rebellion in children: indulgence and harshness. These two things are the negative of the two things he instructs the father to do: Bring them up in the training and the instruction [or the exhortation] of the Lord. The opposites of these are indulgence and harshness. Lack of discipline will make a child insecure, miserable, and self-centered. That is what we call a spoiled child—one who grows up to expect to have her way in everything and who rides roughshod over the feelings of everyone else. This is created by a spirit of indulgence on the part of parents who allow their children to make decisions that no child is capable of making. Parents must learn that they need to make decisions for their children for quite a while in their life and only gradually help them to learn to make those decisions as they are able to do so. In the early years of childhood parents must make almost all the decisions. One of the terribly tragic things about life today is the degree to which many parents let children make decisions they are incapable of making. The other extreme that provokes a child to revolt is harshness—rigorous, demanding discipline that is never accompanied with love or understanding. Rigid, military discipline that says, Do this, or this, or else, will inevitably drive a child to revolt as he comes to adolescence. Opposed to this the apostle puts two things—training and instruction (or exhortation) in the Lord. The word for instruction is really putting in mind in the Lord. Training and putting in mind in the Lord. As the child grows older, physical discipline is to be replaced by exhortation, by understanding—helping a child to see what lies behind the restrictions and always showing concern and love. It does not mean a total relaxing of limits, but it means a different way of enforcing them. Father, thank You that You can change the mistakes I have made as a parent into opportunities for advancement in my children's lives as well as my own life.
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  • Daily devotion for January 7th
    Seed Thoughts
    He also said, This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground. Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how.

    Mark 4:26-27
    This is a secret of the kingdom of God, and to me it is one of the most encouraging of all the parables Jesus ever uttered. He is speaking of how this rule of God increases, how it grows in a life. He explains it as a coming to harvest by a patient expectation that God will work. The key of this whole passage is, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how. That is, there are forces at work that will be faithful to perform their work—whether a farmer stews and frets about it or not. Farmers do what they can do, what is expected of them. But then God must work. And God will work. And in the confidence of that, this farmer rests secure. As Jesus draws the picture this farmer goes out to sow. It is hard work as he sows the field, but this is what he can do. But then he goes home and goes to bed. He does not sit up all night biting his fingernails, wondering if the seed fell in the right places or whether it will take root. Nor does he rise the next morning and go out and dig it up to see whether or not it has sprouted yet. He rests secure in the fact that God is at work, that He has a part in this process, and He must do it; no one can do it for Him. But he will faithfully perform it. So the farmer rests secure, knowing that as the seed grows there are stages that are observable: first the stalk, then the head, then the full kernel in the head. It is only as the grain is ripe that he is called into action again. When the harvest is ready, then he is to act once more.

    This is exactly what Paul describes for us in that passage in 1 Corinthians 3:9a: For we are God's fellow workers. This is the way we ought to expect Him to work. It involves a witness first, perhaps a word of teaching or exhortation to someone—or to ourselves. And then an inevitable process begins, one that takes time and patience and allows God to work. One of the most destructive forces at work in the church today is our insistent demand for instant results. We want to have immediate conversions, immediate responses every time we speak. We tend not to allow time for the Word to take root and grow and come to harvest.

    I have watched a boy in Peninsula Bible Church (PBC) growing up since grade school. I watched him come into adolescence and enter into a period of deep and bitter rebellion against God. I watched his parents, hurt and crushed by his attitudes, yet nevertheless praying for him—saying what they could to him—but above all holding him up in prayer. I watched the whole process as the seed that had been sown in his heart took root and began to grow. There were tiny observable signs of change occurring. Gradually he came back to the Lord. And as an adult young man, he asked me to fill out a reference for him to go to seminary. That is the Word growing secretly. The sower knows not how it happens but can rest secure in this.

    Our Lord is teaching us the fantastic truth that God is at work. It does not all depend on us!

    Thank You, Lord that I can trust that as I do my part and sow the seed of Your Word wherever I can, You will do the rest.
    Daily devotion for January 7th Seed Thoughts He also said, This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground. Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how. Mark 4:26-27 This is a secret of the kingdom of God, and to me it is one of the most encouraging of all the parables Jesus ever uttered. He is speaking of how this rule of God increases, how it grows in a life. He explains it as a coming to harvest by a patient expectation that God will work. The key of this whole passage is, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how. That is, there are forces at work that will be faithful to perform their work—whether a farmer stews and frets about it or not. Farmers do what they can do, what is expected of them. But then God must work. And God will work. And in the confidence of that, this farmer rests secure. As Jesus draws the picture this farmer goes out to sow. It is hard work as he sows the field, but this is what he can do. But then he goes home and goes to bed. He does not sit up all night biting his fingernails, wondering if the seed fell in the right places or whether it will take root. Nor does he rise the next morning and go out and dig it up to see whether or not it has sprouted yet. He rests secure in the fact that God is at work, that He has a part in this process, and He must do it; no one can do it for Him. But he will faithfully perform it. So the farmer rests secure, knowing that as the seed grows there are stages that are observable: first the stalk, then the head, then the full kernel in the head. It is only as the grain is ripe that he is called into action again. When the harvest is ready, then he is to act once more. This is exactly what Paul describes for us in that passage in 1 Corinthians 3:9a: For we are God's fellow workers. This is the way we ought to expect Him to work. It involves a witness first, perhaps a word of teaching or exhortation to someone—or to ourselves. And then an inevitable process begins, one that takes time and patience and allows God to work. One of the most destructive forces at work in the church today is our insistent demand for instant results. We want to have immediate conversions, immediate responses every time we speak. We tend not to allow time for the Word to take root and grow and come to harvest. I have watched a boy in Peninsula Bible Church (PBC) growing up since grade school. I watched him come into adolescence and enter into a period of deep and bitter rebellion against God. I watched his parents, hurt and crushed by his attitudes, yet nevertheless praying for him—saying what they could to him—but above all holding him up in prayer. I watched the whole process as the seed that had been sown in his heart took root and began to grow. There were tiny observable signs of change occurring. Gradually he came back to the Lord. And as an adult young man, he asked me to fill out a reference for him to go to seminary. That is the Word growing secretly. The sower knows not how it happens but can rest secure in this. Our Lord is teaching us the fantastic truth that God is at work. It does not all depend on us! Thank You, Lord that I can trust that as I do my part and sow the seed of Your Word wherever I can, You will do the rest.
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  • When T.L. Osborn was twelve years old, his older brother, Lonnie, got converted at an old fashioned Oklahoma brush arbor meeting. The changes that T.L. saw in his brother got his attention. He decided to attend a revival meeting in an old church down by the railroad tracks in Mannford, Oklahoma, with Lonnie. T. L. shared that he was dressed in his best country overalls and since he could play the piano, he played at the meeting. When the lady evangelist made the call for sinners to be saved, T. L. received Jesus Christ as his Savior. From then on, he loved going to that little church. Often the work on the farm kept him in the field so late that he couldn’t attend the meetings, leaving him sometimes weeping from disappointment.
    T. L. said that he began discovering the truly good life when he was converted. His objectives and motives were changed immediately when he got converted. He now wanted what God wanted, and he wanted it for the reason God wanted it. Those principles were his anchor through adolescence. They guided his marriage, were the foundation of his home, and the guidelines for raising his children.
    T.L. shares, “I started doing whatever I could to witness to unconverted people in my area. From that day, I wanted to be a soulwinner; I wanted to share with people what Jesus Christ meant to me.”
    He began to print Bible verses with a toy press that he received as a Christmas present. He refers to these verses on scraps of paper, today as “the good life concepts.” These became his first tracts and he distributed them among the town’s people, a population of less than 300. He never dreamed that within a few years he would be publishing gospel literature in 132 languages at a rate of more than a ton per working day!
    - T.L OSBORN LEGACY
    When T.L. Osborn was twelve years old, his older brother, Lonnie, got converted at an old fashioned Oklahoma brush arbor meeting. The changes that T.L. saw in his brother got his attention. He decided to attend a revival meeting in an old church down by the railroad tracks in Mannford, Oklahoma, with Lonnie. T. L. shared that he was dressed in his best country overalls and since he could play the piano, he played at the meeting. When the lady evangelist made the call for sinners to be saved, T. L. received Jesus Christ as his Savior. From then on, he loved going to that little church. Often the work on the farm kept him in the field so late that he couldn’t attend the meetings, leaving him sometimes weeping from disappointment. T. L. said that he began discovering the truly good life when he was converted. His objectives and motives were changed immediately when he got converted. He now wanted what God wanted, and he wanted it for the reason God wanted it. Those principles were his anchor through adolescence. They guided his marriage, were the foundation of his home, and the guidelines for raising his children. T.L. shares, “I started doing whatever I could to witness to unconverted people in my area. From that day, I wanted to be a soulwinner; I wanted to share with people what Jesus Christ meant to me.” He began to print Bible verses with a toy press that he received as a Christmas present. He refers to these verses on scraps of paper, today as “the good life concepts.” These became his first tracts and he distributed them among the town’s people, a population of less than 300. He never dreamed that within a few years he would be publishing gospel literature in 132 languages at a rate of more than a ton per working day! - T.L OSBORN LEGACY
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  • “Who can find a virtuous wife? For her worth is far above rubies.”
    -Proverbs 31:10 – KJV
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