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As noted in post #27, a land transfer for the stadium was a bill passed right after the budget bill passed. (As I recall, it was at one point part of the budget itself, but didn't make it.)What does a stadium deal in 2025. Have to do with a budget from 2024?
The appeal (of the sentence) will be interesting.Ex-officer Brett Hankison sentenced to 33 months in prison in Breonna Taylor's death
Hankison is the only person to be convicted in relation to Taylor's death.
John the Baptist did. Scripture clearly states he was "filled with the Holy Spirit from his mother's womb (Luke 1:15)" therefore regenerated. Scripture has many words for conversion/regeneration such as faith, repentance, justification, Sanctification, glorification, calling, filled with the spirit, adoption, hiers, etc.particularly infants, cannot make that commitment it is
That's actually a good idea. The US could put aside a tiny fraction of the money it has available to help those in countries that need help. The money could be allocated by congress, it would keep the bad guys out of the picture, encourage others to help, have long term benefits for the US, save countless lives and...well, it's the morally correct thing to do and fulfills Christ's teachings. You could call it AidUS or something....or to form organizations for those interested in doing so.
Reading fast through this essay leaves me wondering, today, if there ever was such a place as his "America." Or is this snippet from academia merely that, a club publication discussable sipping a strong drink gently. It is heart-breaking. America today is Laocedia, making God Himself sick to His stomach. A mixed blend of aged religiosity with a sandwich-spread of idolatrous consumerism.Chesterton was half-right: America is a “nation with the soul of a church.” The other half of the truth is that many of our churches lack basic features of historic churchiness: sacraments, liturgical forms, settled creeds, authority. Like America itself, the American church seems a novus ordo seclorum. Our churchy national soul weirdly inhabits a body of peculiar, borderline-heretical actual churches.
In some respects, our unchurchy churchiness is no surprise. We’re Protestant, and Protestants have always been, as Alec Ryrie writes, radicals, lovers, and fighters, restlessly carrying on a centuries-long “open-ended, ill-disciplined argument,” churning out new ideas and rehabilitating old ones with “a certain generic restlessness, an itchy instability.” A “self-perpetuating dynamo of dissatisfaction and yearning,” the Protestant churches have been “one of the engines driving modern history.”
America was founded as a post-Christendom Christian nation. Christian, yes, profoundly so, but never Christian in the way Europe was Christian. Europe became Christian century after plodding century. We started out Christian. The Reformation battered and splintered European Christendom. Colonists brought their European splits with them, and proceeded to split even more. The church was the unifying reality of medieval Europe; after the Reformation, most European nations established one or another variety of national church. Free church Christianity was a late development in Europe. Free church Christianity is American Christianity. States retained established churches into the early nineteenth century, but that was a long time ago. Our default ecclesiology is Lockean and Baptist.
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I have. This is a weird experience, but I was going through a period of intense, awful anxiety and anguish due to past abuse. Sometimes all the "awful" just bubbles up to the surface. There's an old, T-shaped wash pole in the yard behind mine that kind of looks like a tau-cross. I like to sit in front of it, and just kind of relax, gaze at nature, and pray quietly.Did you ever have a moment where He might have answered you?
If I had experienced what I did while sober I would have no doubts.
PlayStation 4 Pro, then the Nintendo Switch. At least as far as exclusives are concerned.
I think it's more likely that the three specific politicians he threatened (unnamed in the indictment, but presumably not in his tweets) caught him these charges.
Thank you for bringing up this important point. The Pew Research data does give us a sobering glimpse into how modern Christians often prioritize comfort, experience, and convenience when choosing a church. While things like a warm welcome, inspiring worship, and a relatable sermon certainly matter, I believe doctrinal purity should not be left as an afterthought it should be foundational.The Pew Research Centre conducted a poll a few years ago asking people why they chose the church they did, after for example moving to a different area. The most common reasons were the quality of the sermon, the welcome they got, how much they liked the style of worship, and the location of the church. Well behind these was the specific teachings of the church.
So what I’d like to hear people’s views about is whether “doctrinal purity” is, or even ought to be, a consideration in people’s choice of a church. If it’s not, doesn’t that make the religious wars of past centuries quite pointless, and no church should claim to be “the one true church” or whatever?