The Crimson Worm

The crimson worm embodies Christ’s humility and salvific suffering. Lowly yet infinitely powerful in love, He enters the decay of the world, bears the burden of sin, and offers His life as the bridge between brokenness and redemption. Isaiah 41:14 “Do not fear, you worm Jacob, you men of Israel; I will help you,” declares the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.

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Officially 40 years old as of midnight. (This video will likely not upload with the best quality, but I thought I would try anyway.)

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Oh, my Lord, how deeply I love You and believe in You.

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“I have loved you even before the foundations of the world.” – Jesus

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Psalm 50

Seraphim Bit-Kharibi - Psalm 50

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“Those who look to Him are radiant; their faces are never covered with shame.”

Psalm 34:5

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Zoran Mondami was recently sworn into public office, choosing to take his oath on the Qur’an. That detail matters b​ecause a public oath is a symbolic appeal to moral authority. What you swear on says something about what you recognize as ultimate truth.

So let’s stop pretending this is just a harmless difference in symbolism.

The Qur’an does not merely deny the divinity of Christ. It goes much further than that. It explicitly rejects the crucifixion, calls the Son of God a lie, and places submission to another god above all else. That alone should alarm any Christian who takes truth seriously.

But it does not stop there.

The Qur’an contains commands that sanction violence against those who do not submit, including fighting and killing unbelievers under prescribed conditions. That is not a caricature. That is in the text itself. This is not the ethic of Christ, who told Peter to put the sword away and taught us to love our enemies, not conquer them.

You cannot reconcile these two visions of God.

Jesus never spread His kingdom by force. He never commanded the killing of those who rejected Him. He laid His life down and told His followers to do the same. The moral universe of the Qur’an is fundamentally different. Power, dominance, and enforced submission are central to it in a way that is utterly foreign to the gospel.

So when a public oath appeals to the Qur’an as a moral authority, this is not a neutral act. It is not interchangeable with the Bible. Ideas have weight. Texts shape consciences. Symbols teach a nation what it is willing to normalize.

I can defend religious liberty without pretending all religions teach the same thing. I can love my neighbor without lying about theology.

From a Christian worldview, any god that denies the Son, rejects the cross, and sanctifies violence in his name is not the God of Scripture.

That matters.

Deeply.

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The order of Melchizedek is not a human fraternity and not a lineage that can be traced by blood. It is a shadowed priesthood that rises out of the ancient dusk of Scripture, standing outside the normal boundaries of Israel’s priestly line. It is a priesthood God Himself appoints, not one inherited or earned.

In Genesis he appears without warning, like a figure stepping out of eternity for a moment. Melchizedek is both king and priest, ruling a place called Salem, which means peace, yet his presence feels older than Abraham, older than Levi, older than the very soil beneath their feet. He blesses Abraham and receives his offering, and then he is gone again, swallowed by silence as quickly as he emerged.

Centuries later, the Spirit speaks through Psalm 110 and pulls back a trembling veil. “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.” It is a vow made by God Himself, a promise that another Priest King would come, one not bound by death or weakened by sin, one whose ministry would not pass from father to son because His throne and His offering would never crumble.

And in Hebrews, the mystery is completed. Christ steps into that ancient shape, fulfilling it with His own eternal life. He is the Priest whose hands never grow weak, the King whose reign is not touched by decay. His priesthood is built not on ancestry but on an indestructible life. He offers Himself, not animals. He enters the true sanctuary, not a shadow of it. He intercedes forever, not just for a season.

So the order of Melchizedek is the eternal priesthood of Christ.

A priesthood that does not die.

A covenant that does not break.

A throne that does not tremble.

A sacrifice that does not fade.

It is the haunting, holy lineage of the One who stands between God and man with pierced hands that still shine with life.

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Photo stack of my dad. He is seventy years old, and his life has been a long testimony of steady grace. He is the man who has covered my days with kindness that never faltered, the man whose calm voice never once rose in anger, the man who lived out the love of God in the way he walked through every ordinary moment. My mother holds her own place in my heart, but today I want to pause and honor my dad. His gentleness shaped me in ways I still feel, like a quiet light that has followed me through the years.

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The word of God says to expose fruitless deeds of darkness, and I can think of only a few things that produces such rotten fruit, or is darker than this.

The network known as 764 emerged in 2021 when a teenager from Texas named Bradley Chance Cadenhead created an online community that preyed on children and vulnerable youths. Its name comes from the ZIP code of his hometown.

Though it began as a single server, 764 quickly mutated into a sprawling, decentralized network spanning dozens of offshoots and splinter groups. Its members prowl through chat platforms such as Discord and Telegram, as well as gaming communities, seeking minors, often children or teens already fragile from loneliness, mental health struggles, or brokenness.

What 764 does is unthinkable. Members groom victims, manipulate trust, and coerce them into producing explicit content or engaging in self harm, violence, cruelty to animals, or worse. The network distributes these abhorrent recordings of gore, torture, and abuse as a twisted form of currency, using them to extort further control. In some cases, they force victims to carve “cut signs” or “blood signs” into their skin as proof of submission.

In 2025, authorities cracked down on some of the worst perpetrators. Two alleged leaders of a violent subgroup known as 764 Inferno were charged with orchestrating global child exploitation, grooming, and the distribution of child sexual abuse material. Another member was sentenced recently for possession of such material and faces a lifetime of supervised release.

Yet the danger lingers. Because 764 is decentralized, fractured, and constantly shifting, arresting a few perpetrators does not extinguish the horror. Splinter cells persist under new aliases, new handles, and new avatars, waiting in the dark corners of the internet.

This is more than criminal perversion. It is a creeping shadow against innocence, a violent assault on childhood, trust, and the sanctity of the human soul. For anyone who cares about the innocent, especially children, 764 stands as a cruel and merciless waking nightmare.

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Enoch: The Walk of Faith (Hebrews 11:5-6)

Are you saved from the wrath to come?  Are you really?

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One of the greatest men who ever lived, John McArthur.

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Today was such a beautiful day. The leaves fell like whispered prayers, each one a small death and a quiet promise of new life.

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If they have ears, let them hear.

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