Gospels Teacher said:

Howdy there everyone! Not a massive amount of excitement in our mission work yet and it'll be likely a good year before our big trip over, but they want the newer Europe-bound missionaries to provide a little intro here well before we do our little Atlantic crossing so I suppose, here we are. We're a down-home Southern country family with connections to a few states down around here but mostly Tennessee and the Carolinas, like it sounds a lot of you we got fascinated by the growing missions to help restore and strengthen the churches in the lands of our ancestors and linked up with a group sending missions to areas where they're needed. Curiously enough through a happy series of accidents and the Lord's guidance, we've wound up on an assignment in the Belgium-France border region where we'll be working on major church restoration tasks and teaming up for conversion and worship support work. And like with most of you this is our new, permanent home and re-location, as we're bringing our 2 kids along who are just as if not more eager to pitch in!

Happily the kiddos at that age have minds like sponges when it comes to languages and our younger one soaked up French and some Flemish like a snap, our older one is also learning it fast so my wife and me I guess you could say are the laggards. But we're persevering through! Since it sounds like this question comes up a lot and to inspire others of you looking at this mission option, we don't come from the categories usually associated with easy getting the citizenship there, no direct ancestry to get a passport or one of those high skilled professions usually brought up. Our ancestry is mostly Irish, Welsh, English, Scottish and German but going way back a couple centuries before they had records we could use, and my family is basically solid, middle and working-class backcountry folk. But our devotion was clear to the group and they found a way to use our skills and interests--masonry, contracting and innkeeping all good routes to get the options to settle and team up with missions there. (And doesn't hurt that we're in the process of selling our house before looks like the market really drops off for it, though one of the families who reached out to us weren't even homeowners before they made the leap) So if you want to do mission work you'll find a way! As it's said in Galatians 6:9, one of my group's go-to messages on the topic:
Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
So the very best of luck to all of you and to any others looking to start their missions, heed those words and you shall indeed reap a happy harvest!

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ozso said:

What part of "probably" didn't you get?

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rambot said:

Remove parts of constitution from their website:
Wayback Machine
Sections 9, 10, write on habeas corpus.

I know that plausible deniability is going to be rhe only real theme for a response to justify it but I'm wondering if there would be a good reasons.

How does this action reflect on this administrations desire to uphold the constitution (if you actually feel they do)?


Lastly, is this a move that suggests you on the WRONG or the RIGHT side of history?

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ozso said:

More interested in making a bit of a point rather than a personal jab. Also there are opulent Protestant cathedrals as well.

The Berliner Dom Protestant Cathedral in Berlin.

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ozso said:

So you go around interviewing people in BC? Do me a favor and pick me up a bag of ketchup chips on your next visit.

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Say it aint so said:

Durham’s Debunking of the ‘Clinton Plan’ Emails, Explained​

Trump allies have fixated on a purported message about Hillary Clinton and Russia. John H. Durham, the special counsel, found evidence that it was likely a fake assembled by Russian spies.​

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John Ratcliffe, a top intelligence official under Mr. Trump, declassified and made public that Russian intelligence analysis claimed Mrs. Clinton had “approved a campaign plan to stir up a scandal” against Mr. Trump by tying him to President Vladimir V. Putin and Russian hacking.​

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In 2016, a Dutch spy agency hacked a Russian spy agency and copied internal memos and messages by Russian intelligence analysts. The Russians were writing reports about various topics based on the emails of American victims of Russian hacking operations. The Dutch shared a copy of the trove with the United States.​

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The New Post as a paper isn't worth using it to line the bird cage. They know this information.

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BCP1928 said:

You mean he's not a Christian?

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A New Dawn said:

According to the scriptures, if any of your salvation is of works, it is no longer of grace. The two are not compatible.

Romans 11:5 In the same way then, there has also come to be at the present time a remnant according to God’s gracious choice.
Romans 11:6 But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works, otherwise grace is no longer grace.

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ozso said:

Dig a little deeper to make sure my personal experience is true? Or are you saying I might be making up where I live, just like you might be? It's fun getting advice from someone 36 years younger than I am regarding a place I've lived in going back to 5 years before they were born.

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Hazelelponi said:

He's Catholic. Completely different faith than Baptists.

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ThatRobGuy said:

That all depends on whether or not is a "sincere" stress they're feeling.

I noted the examples before...

For people who are genuinely feeling financially pinched, their votes may be impacted.

For people who pretend to be feeling pinched because it lets them take a political jab, they're unlikely to change their voting patterns.


For instance, the kind of person who will spend $25 on Amazon to buy a package of the Biden "I did that" stickers to vandalize gas pumps with because of the gas prices going up $0.18 per gallon....yeah, it won't matter. Gas could go up to $6/gallon under Trump, they'll still be voting against the Democrats next time.


Likewise, there was polling from Ipsos in May of 2024 indicating that 42% of Americans (62% of Gen-Z) would support a meat tax of 15% in order to artificially drive down consumption in the name of helping to address climate impacts-- fair to assume a large percentage of them were democrats that were answering yes to that, right? Basically, we want to artificially raise the price of meat on purpose so that you eat less of it because meat consumption is bad for the environment.

-- now that it's a republican administration, "Oh my gosh, can you believe these beef prices? How are people going to be able to afford their beef?" doesn't come off as a very sincere concern.

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ThatRobGuy said:

I think with radio & TV personalities, the company itself has to hedge a little bit. (especially with guys in that genre of radio)

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ThatRobGuy said:

I think the advertiser-friendly podcasting market has given some of those guys a little more leverage than they once had (one would hope)

I think it would go without saying that if Howard decided to start his own weekly podcast from his basement, it'd probably be a 7-figure/year endeavor right out of the chute with very little effort due to his name recognition.

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ozso said:

Doners paid for this, not tax payers. Might as well have have a cow every time doners provide funds for a new museum or new wing in a museum.

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ozso said:

Why would that stop them from getting much cheaper gas?

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essentialsaltes said:

Leatherwood had led the embattled agency through three years as the policy spokesman for the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, but he had not joined in the increasingly public support among many Southern Baptists for former President Donald Trump.

[Note that 3 years ago is when Russell Moore stepped down from the same position -- again probably because he was insufficiently Trumpy for an organization that is “dedicated to engaging the culture with the gospel of Jesus Christ and speaking to issues in the public square for the protection of religious liberty and human flourishing,”]

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ERLC President Steps Down Amid Southern Baptist Discord​

ozso said:

That's good to hear. I worked near the Space Needle and there were homeless and junkies all around the area. During a period of time in 2023 when I didn't have a car, I had to walk from Denny Way to Westlake Center on Pine St to catch a bus and it was pretty dicey a lot of the way.

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