A rare win for conservation was just scored in the fast-developing Travis County, Texas, where 30 minutes from Austin’s busy tech sector, music venues, and barbeque spots, a historic family ranch has just been converted into a public park.

It wasn’t just converted, it was voluntarily sold by the family who owned it—at $40 million less than what developers were offering to turn the partially forested Hill Country remnant close to Hamilton Pool Preserve into a series of apartment complexes and shopping malls.

Known as RGK Ranch, this 1,507-acre cattle ranch was owned by the Kozmetsky family for three generations. Its recently deceased owner, George Kozmetsky, made a fortune with a company called Teledyne, and invested a lot of money, entrepreneurially and philanthropically, in Austin and Travis County.

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Hey, just joined recently, im hoping I can be an encouragement to those on here and also find some for myself. Oh... And I posted a prayer request If you have time to check it out, it's on the PRAYER WALL and would appreciate your prayers.

I count it an abnormality of faith's soundness to suggest one's culture is what we guage our walk with Christ with. You won't hear that being spoken as a problem, though it does enjoy very much frowning on an assortment of issues commonly known as - outdated. A list nor instance here is not nesessesary. So if you can't relate, you may also lean far too heavily on hermaneutical effort.

In other words, for some unknown reason the human condition frequently chooses reason over His will?

I have this VERY legalistic friend. He believe that ALL church are evil because of the Book of Revelations Talking about the Babylon Church Being the Catholic Church and that the Protestants and other Churches are the harlot offspring of the Catholic Church. He think all spiritual gifts are evil because the Bible says in the end times there will be signs and wonders from the Devil. He also wont say "I' or "Me" because he feels that it doesn't respect God. He doesn't capitalize any words accept for God and Jesus. He is one of those people who spells God as G-d. What's worse is he is constantly asking me to believe what he believes and tells me to not go to Church. It's awful. I get into arguements with him often and it is starting to get annoying. I've been praying but he hasn't changed. What can I do?

I don't need denominations. I don't need the virgin Mary, politics, to talk in tongues, or to be perfectly healthy.

I do as scripture says and I work out my own salvation.

Forgive me for being blunt.

Moses prescribed death penalty for murder (Exodus 21:12), adultery (Leviticus 20:10), blasphemy (Leviticus 24:16), idolatry (Deuteronomy 17:2-5), and various forms of sexual immorality (Leviticus 20:13-16).

God forgave David's adultery with Bathsheba (2 Samuel 12:13).

Num 35:

30 If anyone kills a person, the murderer shall be put to death on the evidence of witnesses. But no person shall be put to death on the testimony of one witness. 31 Moreover, you shall accept no ransom for the life of a murderer, who is guilty of death, but he shall be put to death. 32 And you shall accept no ransom for him who has fled to his city of refuge, that he may return to dwell in the land before the death of the high priest.

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In other cases, ransoms were accepted. Wiki:

There is some question as to whether the death penalty was invariably or even usually implemented in ancient Israel, or whether this was even the intention of the Tanakh (c.f. Numbers 35:31). "It must be noted that the death penalty might also indicate the seriousness of the crime without calling for the actual implementation of it in every case. In fact, there is little evidence that many of these sanctions were ever actually carried out in ancient Israel. Only in the case of premeditated murder was there the added stricture of 'Do not accept a ransom for the life of the murderer who deserves to die' (Num 35:31). . . . Traditional wisdom, both in the Jewish and Christian communities, interpreted this verse in Numbers 35:31 to mean that out of the almost twenty cases calling for capital punishment in the Old Testament, every one of them could have the sanction commuted by an appropriate substitute of money or anything that showed the seriousness of the crime, but in the case of what we today call first-degree murder, there was never to be offered or accepted any substitute or bargaining of any kind: the offender had to pay with his or her life".[28]

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[28] Walter Kaiser Jr., Peter H. Davids, F. F. Bruce, and Manfred T. Brauch, Hard Sayings of the Bible (Downers Grove: IVP Academic, 1996), p. 162. ISBN 0-8308-1423-X

I have been trying to explain to others how my brain works and processes things but it is extremely hard to figure out. I would like to explain a little bit more right now so you can hopefully understand a little bit better on how to pray for me. I do not try to focus on my self alot it's just very hard for me to understand people and vise versa.

The way my brain works nothing like how scientist and doctors say that it SHOULD work. I have some thoughts throughout the day just not very many. More "WORDS" come to my mind than anything else, barely any ideas, thoughts on how to complete a task,I understand a tiny amount of what I read and watch, many times I just walk around aimlessly with no thought at all of what I could do or should do. I mostly just sit on a chair because I don't have enough thoughts to figure out much else to do.

Thanks for your prayers
JAY

The suit was dropped when the magazine agreed to remove the incorrect info.
Bishop Barron,a well-respected Catholic media figure, did my heart good when he set the record straight.
Quote:
Editors' note: With the author's permission, the editors have removed a paragraph that originally appeared here because Bishop Robert Barron's media ministry, Word on Fire, informed us that they consider it slander for them to be in any way associated with Donald Trump or Trumpism," the updated Commonweal article said.

There is no legitimate reason why the audio tapes continue to be withheld. The White House released the transcripts., let's see if the transcripts are accurate. What's the big deal? Democrats have used tricky tactics before, I wish they had not in the past. But the reality is that sometimes you have to fight fire with fire. MTG did get the response from AOC she wanted in order to dispense with the normal rules of debate and amendments before the Democrats figured what was going on.

So much in politics and high power finance is corrupted by money and power seeking that it becomes very hard to think of any world leaders who are not tainted by the systemic corruption yet the gospel calls Christian to purity, honesty, and truth. How can a Christian serve in high office while maintaining his/her integrity.

Peace to all,

To me the logic of Baptism is to the spirit of the soul of the being in the Body. To me, the spirit in the soul of the being is what manifests the being in the Body of the Deity as Baptized. The New Being is the soul brought into the Presence of God through the power of the Holy Spirit, From Adam and Eve we receive the Body, (spirit, soul and flesh). All corrupt. We become Baptized through the Body to the spirit in the soul of the being by the Living Waters of Baptism and become immortal and corruptible into the Body of Christ from Birth and Resurrection as Baptized and becoming into Communion through the Power of the Holy Spirit. Communion is the re confirmation of the Holy Spirit will of God in the soul of the being, the Body (soul, spirit and flesh), becoming transfigured into the image of The Father, God. To me the logic is that all mankind become eternal beings as brothers and sisters of Christ, from the Cross, Ecce Mater tua.

There are many stories on how this is accomplished in the physical, spiritual and eternal world ahead. All faith based systems of belief have a common denominator guiding "Spirit." To me this explains the Logic of the Holy Spirit. Through the Holy Spirit will of God, we become united as one in being with the Deity, glorified and transfigured into the pattern, we become like Him, into the image of God, the Father. Please advice any correction or input or updates in-case I have presented something in error with respect to the Word.

Peace always,
Stephen

Now days, for me at least, I must not allow anyone to know what is bothering me and must only pray in my mind. No one can know what I am praying. The reason is that we, in this day and age, do not know if "they" will try to make all your prayers come true or fail. Can you imagine, for example, Donald Trump thinking all his prayers are answered. Why would "they" do that to anyone? Or what if he started feeling like all his prayers were like a curse?
Sounds crazy? This is the world I've lived in for decades. I actually think things like it's possible [he] might actually want to turn America over to Russia or China or Putin! Of course there are lots of things I wonder and really I don't know anything. I don't even know who I am. LOL.
Anyway, I actually do ask for prayer about this. And if you want to know more about me, well, you probably don't really want to know. LOL. But let's see how this goes and maybe I'll tell you.

Hello everyone. This is my first post. I'm happy to be here. Still finding my way around. I'm in my 40's and have been married to my wonderful husband for 20 years. We live in Texas and have two children in their teens and one cute dog. We attend a non-denominational church. I'm a writer and my husband is a CDL driver. I look forward to being part of this community.

Trump’s legal troubles are drowning state Republicans in a financial flood of their own making​

When infighting in the Colorado Republican Party recently spilled out into the press, the conflict wasn’t over ideologies or values. It was an argument about money; or rather, the lack of it. Like other state Republican parties nationwide, Colorado’s GOP is feeling the pinch of the national party’s Trump-centric fundraising plan. Now those internal party cracks are becoming embarrassing public fractures.

A growing number of state Republican operations are either broke or perilously close to it. Last year, the Minnesota Republican Party reported having only $53 in the bank and over $330,000 in debt. In January, Michigan’s Republicans faced bankruptcy amid a brutal MAGA leadership fight. So much for being the party of fiscal responsibility.

Republican Party chairs know from Democrats’ past examples that starved state operations lead to electoral blowouts at the ballot box. But the Republican National Committee isn’t coming to the rescue

Republicans can thank Donald Trump for their current financial problems. Trump’s deal with the RNC requires the party to run its donations first through his Save America PAC

A sound mind is misunderstood. People think that having mental illness means that you don't have sound judgment. However unbelievers dont have mental illness, so is their judgment sound?

The apostle Paul was actually of his mind at times and he had that thorn in the flesh. That's not exactly what people normally consider to be sound judgment.

We walk by faith not by sight. This means that it doesn't matter what our mind thinks or sees. My own mind is my enemy. I have mental struggles. I ignore my mind. Romans 8 said that nothing can separate us from God's love. Not even my broken mind. Not any illness. Nothing can rob us of God's love.

Hi everyone, I would greatly appreciate your prayers- about 1 week ago my mother fell and broke her wrist and is now in a cast and sling, just yesterday they had to do surgery and installed screws and a metal plate to get it to heal, I was just visiting my mother this morning and she was in severe pain despite powerful pain medication. Both of my parents are elderly and are not saved and their hearts are not open to the gospel, there have been many times when I asked if I could pray for them and they said no. They are involved in a unitarian church, they believe all religions are equally valid, it is a demonic thing. Please pray for my mother's healing and for the pain to go and also for both of my parent's salvation and that their hearts would be open to the gospel! My parent's names are Denny and Lila. Thank you!

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The man convicted of attempting to kidnap then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and attacking her husband with a hammer was sentenced Friday to 30 years in prison.

Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley handed down the sentence for David DePape, 44, whom jurors found guilty last November of attempted kidnapping of a federal official and assault on the immediate family member of a federal official. Prosecutors had asked for a 40-year prison term.

DePape was given 20 years for one count and 30 years for another count. The sentences will run concurrently. He was also given credit for the 18 months that he’s been in custody.

DePape stood silently as Judge Corley handed the sentence and looked down at times. His public defense attorneys had asked the judge to sentence him to 14 years, pointing out that he was going through a difficult time in his life and had no prior criminal history.

So, I have been 'saved' three times, but I realized that I didn't mean it any of those times.

The first time I was 'saved,' I was little, so of course, I didn't mean it.
The second time, I didn't mean it either.
The third time, I just said it because I was scared of going to hell. If I tell my parents or any of my family members, they'll get upset with me. I know they will.

(By the way, sorry if this is a bit confusing. I have OCD, so...)

I keep everything simple. I love Jesus simple commands and simple theology. Even life is basic and simple. I see people doing all sorts of things on YouTube and in life and I remind myself to keep it simple. Or perhaps the Lord reminds me.

This is for the adults who can handle the meat of the word.

Our shield and sword for this bloody heart battle are love, gentleness, humility, meekness in wisdom, lowliness of mind and heart, forgiveness, servitude, compassion, mercy, tenderness, long suffering, and enduring all things even great hardship.

Conservative:
averse to change or innovation and holding traditional values.

Liberal:
willing to respect or accept behavior or opinions different from one's own; open to new ideas.

In all honesty, these are the littoral definitions of "conservative" and "Liberal," according to Oxford.

What philosophy can you in good conscience get behind?

Based on the definition of these concepts alone, I must say that the party that respects people's opinions even when they are different from our own and is open to new ideas, is the party of liberty (freedom).
The party that does not value innovation nor are they open to new ideas sounds like oppression to me.

Do you want to work for oppression or freedom?

What are the benefits of not changing with changing times, and what are the benefits of changing as society changes?
What are the pitfalls of changing with changing times or making no changes or innovations?