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The story of John Newton is such an inspiration. All that care should look it up, it's worth the trouble.
These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o "May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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As screwed up as the Methodist Church is these days, that's a compliment. BTW I was raised in the Methodist Church, and it went off the deep end years ago.
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Campfire Kahuna
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If you find a church you are more in line with, I'd say go. Mostly, go.
These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o "May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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We are all free to make our choice, May God Bless us all, and the best to all. Do you regular church folk find it necessary to put up with the horescrap that goes hand in hand with organized religion to get to Heaven? can't a man/woman have a relationship with the big Man and his Daddy without assembly? Relationships are all we take out of here, no worldy good, no U-Haul in a funeral procession. A relationship with the Lord is the key. Thru that relationship,we have relationship with fellow believers and that's the church, not a building or organization. It's when man wants to control things, (man's natural instinct), that things get messed up. Selfless humility is a rare commodity. DF
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Campfire Kahuna
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These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o "May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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The story of John Newton is such an inspiration. All that care should look it up, it's worth the trouble. Absolutely a testimony of the Grace of God. DF
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We are all free to make our choice, May God Bless us all, and the best to all. Do you regular church folk find it necessary to put up with the horescrap that goes hand in hand with organized religion to get to Heaven? can't a man/woman have a relationship with the big Man and his Daddy without assembly? Relationships are all we take out of here, no worldy good, no U-Haul in a funeral procession. A relationship with the Lord is the key. Thru that relationship,we have relationship with fellow believers and that's the church, not a building or organization. It's when man wants to control things, (man's natural instinct), that things get messed up. Selfless humility is a rare commodity. DF This, all of Israel will be saved, the church of believers being Israel.
Ecc 10:2 The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but that of a fool to the left.
A Nation which leaves God behind is soon left behind.
"The Lord never asked anyone to be a tax collector, lowyer, or Redskins fan".
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In regards to my heart troubles, my doctor said, the people with symptoms are lucky. The same may apply to the soul.
These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o "May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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Good night good folks, I need some sleep.
These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o "May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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- "Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword" ...
- dying by the sword isn't necessarily a bad thing. If we live by the sword, surely we may die by it -
Consider the Norse.... Viking warriors who died bravely would be carried by the Valkyries to Valhalla and be welcomed to the afterlife by Odin, with whom they would feast every night. Those that simply died of sickness and old age went to Hel. IT may not be too late for you to change from christian to heathen. .. well know what a centurion was, how he got that job and how he kept it on the Galilean frontier.
He would be a straight up "bad dude" a force to be reckoned with..
No underating a centurion and his legionaires , but if not for the badass Fighting ability of non-roman citizen auxiliaries and their substantial numbers the Empire would never have reached the level it did. They were largely seen as 'babarians' by the Roman elite, but were far too proven capable fighters to pass up.
-Bulletproof and Waterproof don't mean Idiotproof.
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For Peter to just get his ear was it an excellent shot or did he almost miss completely?
Fortunately what some random minister thinks doesn't matter. There's one on TV that implies I am going to hell because I won't send him $1,000.
If you believe the scriptures, it's Peter, the right hand man of The Son of God, the first Pope, The Rock upon which the church was build. He hit exactly where he aimed. So say the Catholics but not the Bible. I'll give you that, but I was responding to Nighthawk, who is Catholic.
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You didn't use logic or reason to get into this opinion, I cannot use logic or reason to get you out of it.
You cannot over estimate the unimportance of nearly everything. John Maxwell
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I suspect that particular "minister" traded his Christianity to become a social justice warrior instead.
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I thought Methodist ministers were female? With cop haircuts. And comfortable shoes?
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I was raised in the Methodist church (before and after 1968). During Desert Shield I was a Captain in the USAR. Our pastor at a large UMC church holds up a Newsweek and starts spouting off about our soldiers being murderers. Needless to say I'm not Methodist anymore. My middle sister is and tells me about some of her pastor's stupidity and I just tell her to leave because it is a lost cause.
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The story of John Newton is such an inspiration. All that care should look it up, it's worth the trouble. He's still performing in Vegas.
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I'll give you that, but I was responding to Nighthawk, who is Catholic. Who found the response entertaining. We follow the Father who has quite a sense of humor, consider all the funny looking people He made. Just Google "people of walmart".
The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh
Which explains a lot.
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I'll give you that, but I was responding to Nighthawk, who is Catholic. Who found the response entertaining. We follow the Father who has quite a sense of humor, consider all the funny looking people He made. Just Google "people of walmart". I'm thinking Satan may have had his way with some of them, granted, they were born equal.
Ecc 10:2 The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but that of a fool to the left.
A Nation which leaves God behind is soon left behind.
"The Lord never asked anyone to be a tax collector, lowyer, or Redskins fan".
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10-4, Thanks for the inspiration Wabigoon. Yep, we all fall short, which includes unbelief, which after time morphs into knowing.
Ecc 10:2 The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but that of a fool to the left.
A Nation which leaves God behind is soon left behind.
"The Lord never asked anyone to be a tax collector, lowyer, or Redskins fan".
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I'll give you that, but I was responding to Nighthawk, who is Catholic. Who found the response entertaining. We follow the Father who has quite a sense of humor.... I dont know about that. I doubt HE was lying when HE said to provide for you and yours or HE didnt know you, being worse than an unbeliever, and when HE said there will be a great gnashing of teeth. A whole lot of people smugly accept HEs referring to those who dont believe that JESUS was the son of GOD. Those who blithely follow the teachings of men in church and add to or subtract from HIS word may find themselves gnashing teeth.
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Ecc 10:2 The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but that of a fool to the left.
A Nation which leaves God behind is soon left behind.
"The Lord never asked anyone to be a tax collector, lowyer, or Redskins fan".
I Dindo Nuffin
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I'll give you that, but I was responding to Nighthawk, who is Catholic. Who found the response entertaining. We follow the Father who has quite a sense of humor.... I dont know about that. I doubt HE was lying when HE said to provide for you and yours or HE didnt know you, being worse than an unbeliever, and when HE said there will be a great gnashing of teeth. A whole lot of people smugly accept HEs referring to those who dont believe that JESUS was the son of GOD. Those who blithely follow the teachings of men in church and add to or subtract from HIS word may find themselves gnashing teeth. Oh lighten up, it's a joke. Christians are supposed to be joyful.
The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh
Which explains a lot.
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