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  1. corrientes57

    Hey everyone,hi!

    Well It was spring here about six months ago now summer is ending in days, but even the colder days of winter here in Argentina are magnitudes better than the winters of Illinois.
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    introducing myself

    Where I live in Argentina no Lutherans I can find mostly all catholics. In bloomington Illinois where I came from lots Lutherans. My grandparents came from Norway and that is a country with a lot of Lutherans hence that is my background.
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    MJ Only Leviticus

    what goes into a man's mouth does not make him unclean, but what comes out of his mouth that is what makes him unclean.
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    MJ Only Leviticus

    I think Acts 9 answers that when Peter has a vision about a sheet filled with animals coming from heaven and commanded to eat from it, and when he says he cant eat anything unpure or unclean and the voice says do not call impure anything God has made clean. Just as in Hebrews Christ is declared...
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    Donald Trump Needs to Stop Inciting Violence

    hola. Oderint dum metuant is what Trump and others like him foster. Instead of reassuring and calming he is content to incite and provoke, to divide and conquer and let the people hate so long as they fear. Fear divides and allows inferiors to dominate and subject others. 1 John 4.18 There...
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    Christians in politics

    “If any earthly institution or custom conflicts with God’s will, it is your Christian duty to oppose it. You must never allow the transitory, evanescent demands of man-made institutions to take precedence over the eternal demands of the Almighty God.”
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    Christians in politics

    Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
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    Jimmy P's Funhouse (50)

    i started a joke, that made the whole world start crying, but I didnt see that the joke was on me
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    introducing myself

    I am glad to have discovered this site. Hope I will be allowed to share my mind and heart with others. So far my sharing what I know with others has been with the secular world which does not accept me much but at least hears what I say. But I refuse to just sit back and curse the darkness...
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    introducing myself

    Would be nice to get some back and forth going with anyone on here. I am so starved for talking with someone about anything meaningful. Still even though I am not spanish speaking I am glad to be here in my wifes country
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    introducing myself

    hola. Que tal? I tried mate several times. It tastes like I might imagine grass in hot water sucking through a straw might be were I brave or silly enough to try grass in hot water sucking the juice through a straw
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    It's a Big Book, Sooo Where Do I Begin?

    hola. Hope you are well. There is a truism about the Bible I thought before I read it myself and then someone expressed it better even than me. That truism is that, "the Bible does not lend itself to understanding those who refuse its mastery over them". So what I mean is that to understand...
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    The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Days is non-christian?

    hola senores. there are a lot of mormon missionaries here in Argentina. Some have come to my house. They left the book of Mormon for me. In politeness i accepted. It is about the length of the New Testament. I have read the New Testament 18 times I am familiar with its style and flow...
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    how do I reply to posts or to members

    hola. I am familiar with ncaabbs.com which is for sports minded people like myself and has individual places for teams to respond to on blogs for alumni like me in my case NIU football, class of 1974. But how it is done here I dont know if someone could please tell me how to get started here...
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    introducing myself

    Hola. I am living in south america since I married someone from here two years ago. I originally come from Illinois in the USA. I have only my wife to really talk to here. No one else speaks english well enough to say anything more than pleasantries. I long for some meaningful conversations...