Welcome to Transfigurations! This blog is intended to serve the orthodox Christian community. We pray that all that is posted here will be faithful to the Scriptures as the inspired word of God, speak the truth in love, edify, bless and transform the body of Christ, and be an impetus for revival, repentance, prayer and intercession!
Saturday, July 25, 2026
“Seek the Lord while he may be found..."
“Seek the Lord while he may be found;
call upon him while he is near;
let the wicked forsake his way,
and the unrighteous man his thoughts;
let him return to the Lord,
that he may have compassion on him,
and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
“For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven
and do not return there but water the earth,
making it bring forth and sprout,
giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,
so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth;
it shall not return to me empty,
but it shall accomplish that which I purpose,
and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.
10 States Checked Their Voter Rolls With a DHS Database to Find Startling Info So far, 25 states have cross-checked more than 68 million voter registration records through SAVE and found 28,000 noncitizens and 400,000 dead people registered to vote. As more states finalize the process, the number will likely grow.
And then the public weighed in, making it clear that even if Cunningham made WNBA execs weak-kneed, the Indiana Fever guard certainly connected with fans, because on Friday morning, her shoes sold out within hours of their debut. Screenshot
Montana Teen Uses Rodeo Lasso to Rescue Drowning Man on Yellowstone River
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A young boy with Down syndrome shows his gratitude to the physiotherapist helping him put on his socks by giving her a kiss. pic.twitter.com/3Hf4lSJt47
Receive therefore every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life; meet every rising sun with such sentiments of God’s goodness, as if you had seen it, and all things, new-created upon your account: and under the sense of so great a blessing, let your joyful heart praise and magnify so good and glorious a Creator. -William Law
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The Democratic Socialists of America vs. the United States of AmericaToday, the mainstream media and institutions like academia lack the moral clarity to simply state that the political rise of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is an existential threat to the United States of America.
I’ll go one step further. A few weeks after the United States celebrated its monumental 250th anniversary, there is a strong effort to whitewash the DSA, mischaracterize their aims, and obscure their odious policy agenda. Image
Democrats who don't want to see their party in ruins had best step up and vocally, without hesitation or qualification, disavow the platform and dissociate themselves from the rabid America-haters. Accepting them as Democrats is not about a "big tent." It's a funeral bier for Democrats.
Peter Schweizer: Homeland Security Found 278,000 Noncitizens on the Voter Rolls Election security has unfortunately become embroiled in partisan politics, Schweizer says, but Democrats who are opposing efforts to harden America’s election security, as the SAVE America Act purports to do, must explain their hesitation.
“So, if the Chinese are gathering this data, and they’re hacking into our election systems, and you’ve got people that are illegally registered to vote, we should get rid of those vulnerabilities,” Schweizer says. “My point to the Democrats would be — why not do this? Either they are opposing it because some of them [Democrats] want those people voting, and they want the fraud because it helps them win,” he says.
The Mullahs Have Dropped the Mask—The Gulf Must Unite to End Tehran’s Reign of TerrorFor more than four decades, Iran's ruling theocracy has perfected the art of plausible deniability. Murder, sabotage, hostage-taking, and terrorism have been carried out through a web of proxies stretching from Lebanon to Yemen, from Iraq to Gaza. Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, and an array of Shi’ite militias served as expendable instruments, allowing Tehran's clerical rulers to wage war while pretending innocence. That pretense has finally collapsed. Image
Trump: Iran Will Pay for Ship Damage With Its Own Frozen Funds The comment follows after the U.S. has pounded Iran for about 12 days straight. Iran and the U.S. tore up a memorandum of understanding that sought peace after Iran repeatedly fired upon ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz.
When Islamic supremacists openly celebrate 9/11 while enjoying all the benefits of living inside the United States, Americans know the enemy walks among them. When British authorities cover up the atrocities of Muslim rape gangs, Brits know Whitehall can’t be trusted. The cost of government betrayal is high and will only continue to rise.
The property was sold years earlier by the Diocese of Buffalo to a company affiliated with the Downtown Islamic Center, which planned to turn the historic complex into a mosque.
Christian heritage keeps vanishing while officials scramble over “securing” the site they already allowed to fall into the wrong hands.
So here is the unfashionable thought. The question is not whether the Crusades were good. Serious history doesn't grade in gold stars. The question is whether we are still allowed to understand what they were for, and whether a civilization that has criminalized its own memory of self-defense can mount any defense at all.
The people who know nothing know everything...At an insufferable anti-Israel dinner party, a masterclass in dealing with pro-Palestinian idiocyI have no doubt that this is the finest post-October 7th piece published on Substack (originally on Moral Clarity). The substantive arguments speak for themselves, but what is so special about the piece is how it is written. Far more than a mere polemic or an academic thesis, it is a bona fide work of literature that gets to the beating absurdity of Andy Burnham thought. It speaks of argument in a world of slogans. It promotes truth in a world of ignorance. It elevates fact in a world of fiction. And it does so with a humour, humanity and exasperation that AI would never be capable of. It is Nachum Kaplan’s authentic voice, and the voice of all those that despair along with him.
Put simply, it’s a masterpiece deserving of a prize that the luvvies will never give him —-and it’s a powerful testament to the continuing force of the writer to preserve our humanity. (Don't miss this!)
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Massachusetts House Passes Bill That Would Allow Late-Term Abortions “It’s a very sad day in the commonwealth of Massachusetts. The precedent that we’re setting is that a mother can get an abortion up until the moment of birth for a healthy, viable baby,” state Rep. Alyson Sullivan-Almeida said.
“This is a significant change to the law to expand what is already an extremely progressive abortion policy in Massachusetts,” state Rep. Joseph McKenna added.
Washington should keep pressure on the southern border while expanding northern intelligence, cargo screening, anti-corruption work, and joint investigations. Project Bay exposed one network using legitimate commerce as cover. America can't afford to discover its northern gaps only after the drugs, guns, and brokers are already in place.
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The boy went to the shelter with the intention of adopting a kitten, and as soon as he arrived, one of the cats hugged him..🐈🥺
The wonder of the life of Jesus is this—and you will find it so and you have found it so if you have ever taken your New Testament and tried to make it the rule of your daily life—that there is not a single action that you are called upon to do of which you need be, of which you will be, in any serious doubt for ten minutes as to what Jesus Christ, if He were here, Jesus Christ being here, would have you do under those circumstances and with the materials upon which you are called to act.
At least since New York passed its Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) back in 2019, it has been clear that trouble has been coming for New York’s electrical grid. The CLCPA effectively prohibits construction of new fossil fuel power plants, even natural gas plants; and the old ones are aging and are forbidden to be replaced or upgraded. Supposedly, lots of wind and solar generators were going to be added to the system. But those have been slow to come and, more importantly, can’t be counted on to generate anything when you need them.
Massive disconnect of power roils largest US electric grid The epicenter of the event was in northern Virginia, home to the largest collection of data centers in the world. When an area transmission line went out of service Wednesday morning, the data centers' own control systems unplugged from the electric grid and transferred to backup power, Dominion Energy, the electric utility for the region, said in a statement.
"Within minutes of the incident occurring, our system operations team was able to stabilize the situation and return to normal operating conditions," Dominion said.
The Virginia event underscores why federal and state regulators are studying measures to better manage sudden drops in demand from data centers and crypto miners that can destabilize grids.
The left often refers to radical changes as "reimagining" everything from police to the Supreme Court to prisons to borders. However, the rise of socialists in the Democratic Party has moved such claims from the merely rhetorical to the outright revolutionary.
Democrats have a poison called DSA—Democrat Socialists of America—a communist organization that made Mamdani mayor of New York, New York. If communism can make it there, it will make it anywhere, right?
But Democrat officials know voters are rejecting it—for now.
The med school continued affirmative action in violation of civil rights laws and even after the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2023 decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, which banned race discrimination in higher education.
However, Spalding said, there is a way to teach accurate American history without teaching self-loathing. The ideologically motivated “history” pushed by the Smithsonian is not history at all, Spalding told The Federalist. “History has been driven out by a postmodern idea about systemic oppression, and as a result, they’ve kind of dropped the whole story.”
He claims that National Health Service (NHS) protocols in the UK allow and encourage the removal of organs from patients who are still showing biological signs of life, including movement, heartbeat, and reflex response.
After 10 years of covering the trans madness, here's what I learned Allow me to show you what life in the trans trench has been like for the past decade, with a combination of personal story and indisputable, brute facts. This is the tip of the iceberg, a mere fraction of the filth. Horrific...
Because you have kept my word about patient endurance...
Because you have kept my word about patient endurance, I will keep you from the hour of trial that is coming on the whole world, to try those who dwell on the earth. I am coming soon. Hold fast what you have, so that no one may seize your crown. The one who conquers, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God. Never shall he go out of it, and I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down from my God out of heaven, and my own new name. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’
Pastor Ezekiel Dachomo, whose warnings about persecution in Nigeria were cited by President Donald Trump, was sought by Fulani gunmen before they killed nine people in the July 11 attack, according to Truth Nigeria.
UK Govt Launches Legal Battle to Prevent Release of Migrant Crime Rates The left-wing British government has launched an appeal against a ruling ordering the release of the crime rates of migrant groups in the UK, sparking accusations that Labour is seeking to prevent the public from knowing the truth about the impacts of immigration.
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RFK Jr. Freezes $1B in Medicaid to California, Minnesota over Fraud FearsHealth and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Tuesday that the Trump administration is deferring more than $1 billion in Medicaid payments to Democrat-led California and Minnesota over high-risk claims flagged in a crackdown on fraud.
State Department: Cuba Is Aiding Iran, Hamas, Other Jihadis in the WestThe report, titled Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism, indicted Cuba for covertly supporting just about every threat to American stability it could find, including domestic terrorists and left-wing extremists – every group or individual that might help to “turn America against itself.
I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.
-Ezekiel 36:25-27
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The Left’s Favorite Religious Target Is Wearing a HabitTheir complaint says Catholic doctors and institutions could be required to tell terminally ill patients about assisted suicide, counsel them about obtaining it, refer them to willing providers, create policies facilitating access, and allow employees to help patients qualify. Refusal could bring civil penalties, professional discipline, loss of licenses, and possible criminal exposure. Image
Police Catch Anti-Catholic LGBTQ Wacko and an Anti-ICE NYC Incendiary in Separate IncidentsAndrew Arrabaca committed an arson and explosives attack on a New York City federal building with multiple agencies' employees, including the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the FBI, on July 20. Arrabaca expressed virulent hatred against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Ean Halstead did not succeed in carrying out his threatened attack, fortunately, but like Arrabaca, he is woke — though in Halstead's case, the prevailing derangement seems to be extreme LGBTQ ideology, as Halstead is homosexual and bitter against Catholics.
After the ineligible payments were identified, which often result from fraudulent activities, the funds were returned to the originating federal agencies before any funds were disbursed.
Canada‘s Indigenous Community Angry as Government Abandons Them to FiresMultiple reports from Ontario, Canada, quoted local First Nations members this weekend stating that the government did not properly warn them about the catastrophic wildfires that have engulfed entire communities, nor has it offered adequate response to put them out.
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How China Made and Shipped Fake Driver’s Licenses to Tamper With the 2020 ElectionAs stated in that document, the intent of the alleged scheme was for the People's Republic of China (PRC) to produce and export fraudulent U.S. driver’s licenses to Chinese sympathizers in the U.S., so as to create “tens of thousands of fraudulent mail-in votes for US Presidential candidate Joe Biden, in late August 2020.”
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The Horrible Way the Biden Admin Messed Up the Strategic Petroleum ReserveCrazy. Not only draining it for the wrong reasons and putting us in danger thereby, but wasting our money and not even properly maintaining the reserve when it is such a critical resource for national security. Now that releasing oil might make sense, not for political reasons - but for the right reasons - supply issues, Biden's actions have made that more problematic because you don't want to let it get too low
Over the past few years, the unions have transformed from Democratic Party political machines into truly radical organizations that are working hard to pressure the Democrats to move ever-farther left on every issue, economic or social, and they have been doing a darn good job of it too.
We often speak at our congregation about the difference between a “prayer life” and a “life of prayer.” It may seem only semantic, rather than substantive—the two phrases are grammatically identical— but the change in phrasing is intended to draw attention to and emphasize a point. Many evangelical Christians think about their “prayer life” in terms of devotional habits and practices: morning Bible reading, an inspiring and theologically superficial devotional, and a prayer list, but we want to encourage believers at RPC to develop the discipline of a “life of prayer.”
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Ancient Beams Offer New Evidence of the First Temple’s Destruction “The beams appear to have served as the roof of an inner courtyard in a building from the First Temple period,” said Efrat Bocher, who directed the excavation. “During the destruction, they collapsed onto the floor. We believe that the plaster cladding of the building’s walls, melted by the fire, covered the charred wooden beams, and ultimately enabled their exceptional preservation.”
for he will speak peace to his people, to his saints;
but let them not turn back to folly.
Surely his salvation is near to those who fear him,
that glory may dwell in our land.
-Psalm 85:8-9
God is always speaking; He is never still. Just as in prayer it is not we who momentarily catch His attention but He ours, so when we fail to hear His voice it is not because He is not speaking so much as that we are not listening. -Charles H. Brent
Mamdani and his DSA comrades have one goal — a communist revolution in America The grinning zealots of the DSA want to erase borders; abolish the police, ICE, and prisons; seize the means of production and redistribute wealth in the form of welfare to the millions of people they have imported from the Third World who will vote for more of the same.
This is not just politics as usual. It is a communist insurgency aimed at destroying America. It is intolerable.
Hasan Piker Calls For an Ideological Purge of the Democratic Party—Dressed Like Mao—in Fiery SpeechDressed in a Zhongshan suit typical of the communist Chinese leader, Mao Zedong, Piker addressed a crowd at the College Democrats of America's 2026 summer convention on Saturday, calling out Democrats who dare to "compromise," support "fascists," fund ICE, fund Israel, and generally align themselves with business interests. "We don't need those Democrats anymore," the progressive streamer declared, as the DSA mounts its own ideological purge of the Democratic party.
One of the DSA's Biggest Influencers Wants to Shred the Declaration of Independence, TooLinda Sarsour, the radical Islamist activist who works with the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), is a major reason why Zohran Mamdani and other Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) members are winning elections across the country. CAIR helped bankroll Mamdani's rise to power, and now New York is in serious trouble.
As the GOP gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman told the Post:
"What Kathy Hochul is doing to the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne is an absolute disgrace. For over 120 years, these incredible women have done God’s work, providing unconditional love, comfort, and dignity to people in their final days.
They are saints walking among us, and they represent the absolute best of New York. Yet, Kathy Hochul is actually willing to shut them down, strip away their license, and throw terminal cancer patients out on the street—all to enforce her woke garbage.
[Gov. Hochul] would rather leave dying people without care than allow Catholic nuns to practice their faith." Image
Despite a half-century of anti-Western propaganda that has aggressively tried to rebrand Islam as “the religion of peace,” it is important to note that Churchill correctly described Christianity as the “religion of peace” and Islam as the “religion of blood and war.”
While Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats spend inordinate resources attempting to rewrite history, there has never been anything “peaceful” about Islam. It is also antithetical to America’s founding principles.
White guilt has been weaponized by hard left social justice cadres, who are always on the lookout for their next George Floyd martyr to keep black people pulling the (D) lever every election. The entire ideological makeup of the Democrat Party is geared to cater to the “dead cracker” crowds and ensure that no Democrat running for nation office can ever have a Sister Souljah moment ever again…
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JD and Usha Vance Announce the Birth of Their New BabyVice President JD Vance announced on Sunday evening that his wife, Second Lady Usha Vance, welcomed a baby boy on Sunday morning. Alec Neel Vance is the couple's fourth child.