Prayers for the solider... and prayers that the attackers mind will be healed.

It does not sound like the attacker should have been let out, but it does not seem terrorism or linked to the Olympics.

standardlion said:

Do you enjoy music? Do you listen to Christian and secular music? How is the proper and improper Christian music?

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Taking them 1 at a time..

Do you enjoy music? - Yes

Do you listen to Christian and secular music? - Yes


How is the proper and improper Christian music? - It depends on who you ask.

I've seen people leave churches over music. Usually because whatever music being played was not to their particular taste (either too new, too traditional, out of the wrong hymnal, etc).
I worked with one church years ago. Their bylaws were written many many years ago. In those bylaws was a clause that guitars and drums were not allowed in music played at church. I do not agree with that - but there were those that did.

Personally, I like a mix from traditional hymns, to country / bluegrass gospel all the to many of the contemporary songs. Some will say that's ok. Some will say that is not ok.. and I'm ok with that.

How much is subjective. Technology has a place but you need to be mindful as well. Whatever you share remains with them. And you don't know who's viewing the data. You have to trust they're honest.

I made a conscious decision to restrict technology's presence in my life. I use a physical planner and maintain personal details offline. I use email for professional matters and conduct private discourse elsewhere. I have a smartphone and a tablet but I don't use fitness trackers or gadgets in the home. I have smart televisions and chose models without a camera or microphone.

I keep the camera covered on my devices and don't use siri, alexa, etc. I plan to store them out of my bedroom when we move and put them in a faraday box. There's other things I need to explore to increase my privacy. And I'm deeply invested in connections beyond this realm. I use the internet as a tool but real life is more important.

~bella

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Hopefully, we'll be around to talk with our grandchildren when they are young adults. Mine are still in their teens.

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My kids are teens now and I’ve been having these discussions with them for years and years already.

If only it were this easy.

Holy Scripture states that the first human being was Adam, who was created directly by God. Science (drum roll, trumpet flourish) however, sniffs at such simple-minded nonsense. Science states that a lightning bolt hitting a gob of snot lying in a mud puddle four billion years ago magically caused said gob of snot to evolve into giraffes, whales, hyenas, iguanas, flatworms, Covid-19, and yes, even you and me.

And now, Science (the same fine folks who brought to you Piltdown Man and deceased peppered moths glued to trees) has even given said gob of snot a name: ladies and gentlemen, your original ancestor was LUCA:

article said:

This acronym stands for the “Last Universal Common Ancestor,” which scientists believe was a tiny, and very basic, organism. They think that this single-cell being was the forefather from the smallest of bacteria to the biggest of beasts.

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Betcha didn't know that your Aunt Mildred was related to the squirmies wriggling around in the tubs down at the bait shop, didja? Well, read on:

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For years, researchers have estimated that LUCA emerged on our planet some 4 billion years ago – just 600 million years after the world’s formation. The international team of authors, based in the UK, Netherlands, Hungary and Japan, said they had to “work backwards” to “zero in on exactly when LUCA appeared on Earth.”

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"Appeared", did it? Just out of nowhere? Oh, wait---not, it must have been aliens. Or asteroids. Right. Okay; onwards we go.

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“Using a genetic equation based on the time of separation between species, the team worked out that LUCA must’ve been mucking around on Earth as early as 400 million years after its creation,” the researchers explained.

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"After its creation"??? I thought they didn't believe in creation? If it was created, then it was created by whom? And how? (Yes, I know about the lightning bolt. Our little gob of goo was just lying there, totally dormant, until Reddy Kilowatt came along and poof! turned on all the little gizmos that set it free to start growing fuzz that eventually became an elephant. Sure.)

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They concluded that whilst LUCA was a simple prokaryote (a single-cell organism whose cell lacks a nucleus and other membrane-bound structures), it likely had an immune system. This enabled it to fight off primordial viruses.

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Now, wait just a cotton-pickin' minute---if LUCA was the very first "living" organism that appeared on our nascent planet, where did these viruses come from??? Were they already here to begin with, like Keith Richards and George Soros, before LUCA even showed up? Then how could LUCA have been the first living organism? Or did LUCA evolve a bunch of viruses because it was bored and needed something fight with?

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“It’s clear that LUCA was exploiting and changing its environment, but it is unlikely to have lived alone,” Tim Lenton, of the University of Exteter, who co-authored the study, said in a statement. “Its waste would have been food for other microbes, like methanogens, that would have helped to create a recycling ecosystem.”

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LUCA was here first, but encountered viruses, microbes, methanogens? "Captain, we appear to be taking on water....this ship is full of so many holes, we could use it for a colander."

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Nevertheless, although LUCA is our oldest established common ancestor, scientists are still trying to work out how complex life evolved from its origins.

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Yeah, I'll bet.

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Further work must now be done to dig deeper into our primordial history and discover how exactly we, and the extraordinary world around us, came to be.

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It's amazing that they actually swallow this stuff. It takes just as much, if not more, complete blind faith to believe this nonsense as it does to accept that idea that a Supreme Being created the whole works out of nothing. But, let them have their fun. If it gives them a sense of comfort to think they have it all worked out, goody for them.

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Psalm 91 - A Blessed Morning Prayer

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Opponents of the death penalty in the United States are celebrating a milestone as the country marks the 200th death row exoneree in roughly 50 years and more states continue to abolish capital punishment.

Catholic Mobilizing Network (CMN), which advocates ending capital punishment in the U.S., said in a press release this month that California prisoner Larry Roberts had become “the 200th death row exoneration since 1973.” Roberts had been on death row since 1983 after his fellow prisoners claimed he killed both a prison guard and another inmate.

CMN Executive Director Krisanne Vaillancourt Murphy said in the press release that the 200 exonerations were the result of “the tireless efforts of faithful advocates and committed lawyers.”

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Jn 5:

26 For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself. 27 And he has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man. 28 Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice 29 and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of** judgment**.

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The Father made Jesus the final judge on Judgment Day.

Elsewhere in Lu 12:

13 Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.” 14 But he said to him, “Man [M1], who made me a judge or arbitrator over you?”

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This was a civil case between two brothers. Jesus did not want to arbitrate between them. He did not deny that he was the judge of eternal life. He issued a warning to everyone:

15 And he said to them, “Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”

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Don't focus on earthly possessions which was what M1 was doing. Focus on heavenly possessions. He told the parable of the rich fool.

20 But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’ 21 So is the one who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.”

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Did the Father make Jesus a judge or arbitrator over people?

Not in the case of M1, Jesus did not arbitrate for M1 but gave him a warning against his obsession with earthly possessions.

She said she would a few weeks ago.
May her voters not vote for her. May she be gone and her squad.

OP part 4a Complete. Op Part 4b to come tomorrow.

It's normal for older people to get shorter as they age. It can indicate a health problem, but often, it's harmless.

Unfortunately, many of the speeches were filled with slogans, that are not
quite accurate. Or, downright wrong.

Regardless of the expensive show, politicians are still having a hard time
speaking the truth.

rockytopva said:

I believe Elon Musk will also work with a centralized currency and require a mark on the body to buy ans sell. He seems like a forerunner to the Anti-Christ.

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I agree also, as he is working on this Neuralink technology. The true AC might use some of Musk's centralized currency and brain chip ideas to start his empire. Be careful of these billionaires, they are out to get us.

cradleGO said:

Didascalia Apostolorum In Chapter XXI Look for [ver. 13] and [ver. 17]

Here is the section of the Didascalia. For this to be true, there has to be something in that Exodus quote that the Temple authorities could use as a pretext to celebrate the Passover early. The text is saying it wasn't correct ('erring utterly').

"But by reason of the multitudes of all the people, from every city and from all the villages, who were coming up to the temple to keep the Passover in Jerusalem, the priests and elders took counsel and commanded and appointed that they should keep the festival straightway, that they might seize Him without disturbance. For the inhabitants of Jerusalem were engaged with the sacrifice and the eating of the Passover; and moreover, all the people that were without were not yet come, for they had deceived them as to the days. That they might be convicted before God of erring utterly in all things, therefore they anticipated the Passover by three days, and kept it on the eleventh of the moon, on the third day of the week. For they said: 'Because the whole people is gone astray after Him, now that we have an occasion let us seize Him; and then, when all the people are come, let us put Him to death before all, that this may be known openly, and all the people may turn back from after Him.'

And so in the night when the fourth day of the week drew on, (Judas) betrayed our Lord to them. But they made the payment to Judas on the tenth of the month, on the second day of the week; wherefore they were accounted by God as though on the second day of the week they had seized Him, [[189]] because on the second of the week they had taken counsel to seize Him and put Him to death; and they accomplished their malice on the Friday: as Moses had said concerning the Passover, thus: It shall be kept by you (p. 93) from the tenth until the fourteenth: and then all Israel shall sacrifice the passover [Ex 12.6]."

The "(p.93)" must refer to a book form of this document. I didn't see anything in this at page 93:

The Didascalia apostolorum in English, tr. from the Syriac by Margaret Dunlop Gibson

So the Temple Authorities moved up Passover to avoid 'disturbance'.

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The Didascalia Apostolorum is loaded with errancies, and is written in many instances in a first person plurality, purporting to be written or transmitted by the apostles themselves, similar to the Protoevangelium of James and the Apostolic Constitutions. This manner of forgery was common in the mid second century. It makes for interesting reading, but I wouldn't credit too much authority to it if I were you.

Seems to be difficult for people to realize that the Lord intends to virtually wipe out Islam on His Day of fiery wrath, As I posted in #2.
The evil neighbors will be gone. Jeremiah 12:14, +
Maybe that truth messes up some false beliefs of what people want God to do for them.

I love walking with my Lord Jesus each day, listening to him speak his words to my heart, and following him wherever he leads me. He truly has become my dearest friend. I love how he talks to me even when I am not formally addressing him in prayer. He knows what I am thinking and oftentimes he will answer me before I even voice my request to him. I will hear a song or a scripture in my mind and realize that he is already talking to me about what I was thinking.

There is nothing more wonderful than walking in his love, in his grace, in his righteousness and holiness, and in obedience to his commands. To know that I am in the center of his will, and that I am doing exactly what he has called me to do, brings such peace and joy to my heart. Also, to know that he is using me in the lives of others, even ones I do not know and cannot see, to bring them his words, and to know that his words are blessing and ministering to their hearts, brings me much joy.

Walking with Jesus

An Original Work / May 4, 2011

When you walk with Jesus only,
And you spend your days with Him,
He becomes your dearest friend,
And your desire’s to be with Him.

Sitting with him at his table,
As He breaks the bread with you,
Oh, what sweet and blessed communion,
As He comes and sups with you.

Living for Him, oh, what glory,
Walking daily in His truth;
Leading others to adore Him
Is what He desires of you.

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The apostle Paul was called of God, by the will of God, to be an apostle of Christ Jesus. And an apostle is a messenger, one sent on a mission, one commissioned by God to a particular area of ministry, under the authority of God, and according to his guidance and direction and specific choice for our individual lives. So, in a sense, we are all to be apostles, but only in the sense that all of us are to be the Lord’s servants and messengers and witnesses in taking the message of the gospel to the people of the world.

[Matt 5:13-16; Matt 28:18-20; Jn 4:31-38; Jn 13:13-17; Jn 14:12; Acts 1:8; Acts 26:18; Rom 10:14-15; Eph 5:11-14; 1 Pet 2:9,21; 1 John 2:6]

And who was/is Jesus Christ? He is God, the second person of our triune God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. And he is our creator God, and he is the only begotten Son of God who was born to a human mother but conceived of the Holy Spirit. So when he lived on the earth he was fully human and fully God (God incarnate). So, he suffered like we suffer, and he was tempted in like manner as we are also tempted, but without sin. And then one day they put him to death on a cross because they hated him for who he was.

But it was God’s will and purpose for Jesus that he should suffer and die for us on that cross, and that he should be raised from the dead, for he who knew no sin became sin for us on that cross in order to put our sins to death with him, and he rose from the dead in victory over sin, so that by faith in him we can now die to sin and live to righteousness. For faith in him involves us denying self, dying to sin (not just once, but daily), and us walking in obedience to his commands in holy living, by his grace, in his power.

[Matt 7:21-23; Lu 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Rom 2:6-8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14; Rom 12:1-2; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Co 10:1-22; 2 Co 5:10,15,21; Gal 5:16-24; Gal 6:7-8; Eph 2:8-10; Eph 4:17-32; Eph 5:3-6; Col 1:21-23; Col 3:1-17; Titus 2:11-14; 1 Jn 1:5-10; 1 Jn 2:3-6,24-25; 1 Jn 3:4-10; 1 Pet 2:24; Heb 3:1-19; Heb 4:1-13; Heb 10:23-31; Heb 12:1-2]

And the church is the whole universal body of believers in Jesus Christ. We are the ekklēsía, those who are called out from the world, and to following Jesus Christ with our lives. We are called out from our lives of living in sin and for self, and to walks of obedience to our Lord and to his commands in holy living. We are those who are “belonging to the Lord” by genuine repentant God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ whereby we die with him to sin so that we can now live to him and to his righteousness, by his grace.

The church is not an institution of human origin which is incorporated under the state as a not-for-profit business (incorporation), which is a merger and a union with the world and with the people of the world. Yet so much of what is called “church” here in America are incorporations under the state which are being marketed to the people of the world. So they alter the character of God and of his gospel to make them more acceptable to the people of the world. We are called of God to come out of and to not partake in these.

[Matthew 21:12-13; John 2:13-17; Acts 5:27-32; 2 Corinthians 6:14-18; Philippians 3:18-19; Revelation 13:5-8; Revelation 18:1-5]

And if we have been and are being sanctified in Christ Jesus, it means that we are being made holy, set apart from the world and the flesh because we are being conformed by God to the likeness of Jesus Christ in character. And to be called of God to be saints is a calling of God for us to be holy in all our conduct and for us to no longer live like we did before we believed in Jesus Christ. For we are to be different from who we were before and different from the world because we are being made to be like the Lord.

And the grace which comes from God, which is bringing us salvation, is training us to renounce (say ‘No!’ to) ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives while we await our Lord’s return. For Jesus Christ “gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works,” “which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.” (Titus 2:11-14; Ephesians 2:10).

And the peace that comes from our Lord is not absence of conflict other than it is absence of conflict with our Lord. For this peace has to do with us who believe in Jesus Christ joining together with God – Father, Son Jesus Christ, and Holy Spirit – into a whole, but also into wholeness of mind, character, and heart because we have been crucified with Christ in death to sin and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin, but now as slaves to God and to his righteousness.

To Be Like Him

An Original Work / March 16, 2014
Based off Scripture

Crucified you are with Jesus.
To be like Him, oh, you’ll be,
Because He died at Calv’ry,
So from sin you’d be free.
Oh, what joy He brings into your life,
Giving life with Him endlessly.

Oh, what plans He has for your life.
Share the gospel faithfully.
Show the people He loves them.
Now His witness you’ll be.
Tell the world of sin about Jesus,
How He died for them on a tree.

Purifying hearts, He saves them,
Who believe on Christ, God’s Son.
Turning now from their idols,
New lives they have begun.
Jesus saves from sin; we’re forgiven.
Over sin, the vict’ry He won!

When He comes again to take us
To be with Him evermore,
There will be no more crying.
Gladness will be in store.
Heavens joys will now overtake us:
We’ll be with our Lord evermore.

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Liars, liars, all around
Join their circus
Hear their clown
He’s their idol
Of renown

He’s their piper
Follow him
Mesmerizing
With a grin
Stupefying
Half past ten

Winsome he is
Folks adore
Put their idol
To the floor
They keep coming
Back for more

They don’t get it
What’s in store
Still their idol
They adore
They won’t hear it
Still, they snore

An Original Work / December 16, 2020

When Jesus Christ gave his life up for us on that cross it was to put our sin to death with him so that we, by faith him, will now die with him to sin and live to him and to his righteousness. For we were raised with him to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin, but now as slaves to God and to his righteousness. So we are not to let sin reign in our mortal bodies to make us obey its desires, for if sin is what we obey, it leads to death, but if obedience to God is what we obey, its end is eternal life.

[1 Peter 2:24; Romans 6:1-23; Luke 9:23-26; Ephesians 4:17-32]

So, as those who profess faith in Jesus Christ, we are to be followers of Jesus Christ who do what his word teaches us that we must do, and to do it as a matter of life course, not just when it is convenient for us or when it is agreeable to what we want to do. So we need to be students of the Scriptures who study them in their appropriate context who then, by the Spirit, do what the Scriptures teach us Christians we must do as true followers of Jesus Christ. For this is why Jesus died for us.

And with regard to Christians deceiving themselves, many are doing exactly that! I did for a while, too, so I know it is possible. And sometimes it is that we are deceived by others who we believe because we have not thought that we should not believe them. So we are being cautioned here against being deceived and even deceiving ourselves that we don’t have to do anything to be saved from our sins and to have eternal life with God. For God created us for good works which he planned for us to walk in them (Ephesians 2:10).

So, if you are believing the lies which are telling you that you can believe in Jesus but that you don’t have to do anything and you can still go to heaven when you die, you need to read the Scriptures in context. For the Scriptures tell us that we must deny self, die daily to sin, and follow our Lord in obedience in doing the works he called us to do. For if we do not, and we are just relying on a profession of faith to get us into heaven, we need to know that we will not inherit eternal life with God. God’s word says so!

[Matt 7:21-23; Lu 9:23-26; John 1:12-13; John 6:44; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Rom 2:6-8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14; Rom 12:1-2; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Co 10:1-22; 2 Co 5:10,15,21; Gal 5:16-24; Gal 6:7-8; Eph 2:8-10; Eph 4:17-32; Eph 5:3-6; Col 1:21-23; Col 3:1-17; Titus 2:11-14; 1 Jn 1:5-10; 1 Jn 2:3-6,24-25; 1 Jn 3:4-10; 1 Peter 1:15; 1 Pet 2:24; Heb 3:1-19; Heb 4:1-13; Heb 10:23-31; Heb 12:1-2; Rev 21:8,27; Rev 22:14-15]

So, don’t buy into the lies which tell you that God requires of you no works and that you don’t have to obey him or submit to him or forsake your sinful practices but that he will still receive you into his heaven. And when the word of God pierces your heart and teaches you that you must forsake your sins and walk in obedience to the Lord, and then you walk away and ignore what the word said to you, then don’t be surprised when you stand before God one day and he renounces you and tells you to depart from him.

For we are to be those who walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commandments (New Covenant), and who follow our Lord wherever he leads us in doing whatever he requires of us, and willingly. For Jesus died to free us from our slavery to sin and to empower us to live holy and godly lives in walks of obedience to his commands. So we are to be those who are listening to the Lord and who are doing what his word teaches us and who are putting the word into practice in our daily lives, by the grace of God.

Teach Them

An Original Work / May 24, 2012
Based off various scriptures

Open up the blinded eyes of
Those who walk in sin’s darkness.
Turn them to the light of Christ
And to His righteousness.
Turn them from the pow’r of Satan.
Turn them to the peace of Christ,
So they may receive forgiveness
And eternal life.

Teach them to put off their old selves
And their former way of life,
And to put on their new self,
Reborn to be like Christ;
To not copy worldly customs;
Be transformed in life and mind;
Obey freely His word in them,
Pleasing unto God.

Teach them how to love their neighbors
Truly as they love themselves;
Be a witness; share the gospel;
Satan’s lies dispel;
Comfort all who mourn in sadness;
Share Christ’s love and joy today.
Do this through your life and witness
For your Lord always.

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Douggg said:

Invite @fli to the thread, and have him explain what the mid-trib rapture is. And how wide of a window it has.

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Yep, I already invited him. He is a good guy. @fli thinks that the mid-trib rapture happens 3.5 years into the 7-year Great Tribulation. It is getting late here, brother, but hopefully Fli will be here by tomorrow morning, or maybe tomorrow afternoon.

I hope you have a blessed night, brother in Jesus.

That's why people stop going to Mass.
And converts struggle to join.

I'm not taking any chances.
But I can disagree on scientific things that are not theology.
Like climate stuff.

I would like to see them go back to protecting the unborn.

probinson said:

Now the Director of the Secret Service is claiming the reason no one was on the roof of that building is because the roof was sloped:

“That building in particular has a sloped roof at its highest point. And so, you know, there's a safety factor that would be considered there that we wouldn't want to put somebody up on a sloped roof,” Cheatle said.​

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The building in question:

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Here's the slope of the roof the counter-snipers were on.

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Do they think we're stupid?

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If she really said that and that’s the only excuse she has then she should be fired immediately for making such a statement. We should demand that she be fired