Now that I'm no longer in a city I never really run into them. It has been literally years since I saw a street preacher.

But, I did see a few. Ones that were effective and ones that were not.

One going back many years to my university days still sticks with me.

He was a somewhat chubby man, mid to late 40's. Preaching / Yelling with zeal in the middle of the campus square during the school flea market.

The crowd was honestly respectful, most passed by, a few were listening but none were heckling.

In an effort to reach the young men in the crowd, he began preaching / yelling about how God would give you not just spiritual strength but physical strength. He went on to claim that through God he could do more push-ups than anyone in attendance. Going as far as to call the young men listening spiritual and physical weaklings.

A young college athlete stepped forward to take him up on his offer. The street preacher tried to back down, tried to deflect, etc. But, the young man would have none of it. He, called the preacher a coward and asked him to prove what he just claimed or go home because he was just full of hot air.

The portly, middle aged preacher said a prayer then and he and the young athlete had a push-up contest.

The street preacher lost. Not just lost by a little. He lost badly. The young man was still doing pushups like a machine when the preacher gave up in a red faced, huffing and puffing heap.

The crowd laughed and left, the preacher gathered up his stuff and left.

Obviously lessons were learned that day. Likely not the ones the preacher intended, but perhaps one he needed.

If you street preach, be sure you are called, be sure you are prepared, be sure you do not stray from the Word into self...

Clare73 said:

That is done in the power of Holy Spirit who now indwells them.

No overcoming means no Holy Spirit.

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Right, they either never turned to Him to begin with, or they've turned back away from Him, failing to remain, returning to the flesh. Those, however, who persevere to the end, producing the good fruit of overcoming sin and doing good, will prove themselves to have been good soil.

partinobodycular said:

Ah, you're lucky then, because I don't get that. Notice that I mentioned windswept, which means that the snow blows across those miles and miles of wide open fields until it encounters some type of windbreak where it forms a sort of white concrete around anything unlucky enough to be more than three feet high.



Ah, now you're speaking my language. Outsiders think that you're crazy if you tell them that what we need to dry the ground out is a nice warm rain. They're like... how does rain dry the ground out? Because until it rains the ground is frozen, so all that melting snow has nowhere to go. Then the rain thaws out the ground, and what was nothing but a lake one day is gone the next. It just magically disappears.

Then the spring comes and the northwesterly winds turn into southwesterly winds and rain. Everything turns green, and eventually the rains stop. At which point everything is beautiful for about two weeks, and then the bugs come.

Yeah, life in the Upper Midwest, it's so much fun!

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MidWest eh? Nice! I've always wondered what that part of the US looks like.

I'm really surprised you guys don't have windbreaks. In the canadian prairies they were installed in the "dirty 30s" to stop soil loss. Did you guys not do it up there?

Clare73 said:

Not a dime's worth of difference. . .

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These posts are just kinda sad.
And now you'll reply trying to suggest my posts are also sad.

And the wheel will continue while we turn...

DaisyDay said:

Am I reading this right? This probe sounds independent, very off-brand for this administration. I fear heads will roll.

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It does seem strange. Bish wanted to dish on Schiff, but instead...

Bish said she kept trying to return to the Schiff allegations, but that the officials “are trying to, in my opinion, investigate the investigators.”

The AP story notes one of the people who may or may not have impersonated a federal agent is Robert Bowes, a Trump 1.0 official.

NxNW said:

Evidence please!

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All on youtube...check it out..tons from reliable site....




These are the only ones i follow...

Fervent said:

Given that transubstantiation is a miracle, I'm not sure that blood typing restrictions would necessarily apply. It's not a transfusion or an ordinary medical procedure, so the miracle can be wrought even if it doesn't physically "make sense" for it to have such effects.

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I agree with that. Still, I would like to know Jesus' blood type, and O negative makes the most sense to me, spiritually, symbolically, physically.

BobRyan said:

That is not what the Bible teaches.

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It teaches not to put our will ahead of the Will of God. Both elohim and man failed to obey. To force either to have done so would have eliminated our usefulness as servants if we no longer had the freedom to be creative in fulfilling our appointed tasks. For instance Adam would have named everything the same name, not having the ability to think beyond instinct.

God did give us a choice in the matter when it came to the tree of knowledge, yet scripture just says don't or else, rather than give understanding as to why. This, no doubt, was because man in their state of mind at the time without the knowledge could not comprehend the reasons for being told not to eat of the wrong tree anyway. Now we can, not only having the knowledge, but also the results of failure to do so in the entire Bible, and are again given a choice to repent or not, this time having an understanding why putting our will ahead of the Will of God will lead to death..

Mandami has not even sworn in yet and is already on track to becoming a lame duck mayor.

joymercy said:

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Cardinal Fernandez seems to disagree.

JimR-OCDS said:

That's great for you, but there are many others like me who have to try and translate Latin into English in their minds.
It removes them from prayer. Some are not capable of translating the words. We're supposed to serve the least of our
brothers and sisters.

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Thanks for the input! That makes sense.

Creativeguy said:

I've been struggling with this for many years despite so many prayers, reading the Bible, etc. It's a horrible, sexualized community with no substance. I try to keep to myself and not bother anyone, yet people in the homosexual world keep coming into my life causing turmoil. Please pray for me.

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Praying for you my friend. May God continue to give you strength

1 Pet 4:1 Therefore, since Christ has suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same purpose, because he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, 2 so as to live the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for the lusts of men, but for the will of God. 3 For the time already past is sufficient for you to have carried out the desire of the Gentiles, having pursued a course of sensuality, lusts, drunkenness, carousing, drinking parties and abominable idolatries. 4 In all this, they are surprised that you do not run with them into the same excesses of dissipation, and they malign you;

1 Pet 4:12 Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal among you, which comes upon you for your testing, as though some strange thing were happening to you; 13 but to the degree that you share the sufferings of Christ, keep on rejoicing

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Amen. Praise God for your sister's new life in Christ

Dan1988 said:

Romans 8:7 states that the "carnal mind" is hostile to God and cannot submit to His law.

You say that the "us" is "we humans", but that's dead wrong as the verse above clearly shows.

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That is why they are commanded to repent. We all have that choice while alive.

First let us consider what time consists of. Time is made of before and after. You can also say it consists of the present, which should be before and after some time as well. So, time is made of before and after.

Now let us consider the planck time. Which tells us that time has a minimum, called the planck time.That would mean that at some point in time, before and after ceases to exist.

Some might say, poetically, that at some point time and timelessness become one and make a child. Meaning making confusion. Confusion being the logical response to the coming together of time and timelessness.

P.S. If what I am saying doesn't sound familiar or easily comprehendible. I suggest reading about Zeno's paradox about time and the planck time. That should make it more comprehensive.

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JohnClay said:

I get the impression that there are different versions of the afterlife throughout the Bible but I guess Christians would view it in a way that makes sure it is consistent and logical.

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I think some people who identify as Christian believe this.
However, if you like we can examine the verses where you see different version, and see if we can establish if there are different, or the same.
In my research, there are the same in the "OT", but there is one difference in the "NT"

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Though the Sadducees (who were Jews) apparently didn't believe in the afterlife. I'm not sure eternal torment is in the Old Testament.

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I haven't seen it, but people say they believe it's there.
God said "They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Ben-hinnom so they could burn their sons and daughters in the fire—something I never commanded, nor did it even enter my mind / heart." Jeremiah 7:31
We can look at that a little closer, as well.
Hopefully more persons will respond to your questions, and any presented scriptures.

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Anyway I'm interested in that kind of thing. I guess it also is about God's mercy for people in the Old Testament.

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That is a good question.
What do you think of Jesus; words here... Matthew 12:41, 42; Luke 10:13-15; Luke 11:31, 32

Farid7 said:

there are infinite numbers in each finite number.

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Nonsense

Welcome to CF...I'm a bit suspicious of your project, truth be told. I simply don't see how we could construct an unbiased method for investigating testimonial evidence in a consistent fashion because there is far too much that goes into the calculus of it all. It seems similarly foolhardy as Bayesian analysis, for many of the same reasons mostly involving determining background probabilities and burdens. We may be able to establish some agent-centered competences such as seat, shape, and situation but doing so reliably after the fact is highly unlikely.

wing2000 said:

....yea, but they speak Spanish. They're not REAL Americans.

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You got that right! Gas is in litters, speed in kph, signs all in gibberish.





Where could we deport them to?