timewerx said:

I love eggs but I've been avoiding it. I keep reading about high cholesterol. I'm in excellent health despite not having it in my diet.

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Eggs do not raise cholesterol.

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I've been wandering through the desert
Ain't seen a cloud in forever over me
But I believe Your rain is coming, mm
Yeah, I've been hanging onto high hopes
'Cause You're the one who's making dry bones come to life
You're the light I put my trust in
Every word You say is gonna come true
You will lead me to the promised land
Everything You say is gonna happen
Even though I haven't seen it yet
I will build a boat in the sand where they say it never rains
I will stand up in faith, I'll do anything it takes
With Your wind in my sails, Your love never fails or fades
I'll build a boat in the desert place
And when the flood and the water starts to rise, yeah
I'll ride the storm 'cause I got You by my side
With Your wind in my sails, Your love never fails or fades
I'll build a boat, so let it rain
You're the map, You're my compass
You help me navigate the currents underneath
Take the lead, I surrender
Every word You say is gonna come true
You will lead me to the promised land
Everything You say is gonna happen
Even though I haven't seen it yet
I will build a boat in the sand where they say it never rains
I will stand up in faith, I'll do anything it takes
With Your wind in my sails, Your love never fails or fades
I'll build a boat in the desert place
And when the flood and the water starts to rise, yeah
I'll ride the storm 'cause I got You by my side
With Your wind in my sails, Your love never fails or fades
I'll build a boat, so let it rain
I'll build a boat, so let it rain
I will build a boat in the sand where they say it never rains
I will stand up in faith, I'll do anything it takes
With Your wind in my sails, Your love never fails or fades
I'll build a boat in the desert place
And when the flood and the water starts to rise, yeah
I'll ride the storm 'cause I got You by my side
With Your wind in my sails, Your love never fails or fades
I'll build a boat, so let it rain

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I like this one. It is getting late now, but this song is very Christian. Thank you for sharing it. The lyrics remind me of Noah's Ark, and also how God guided His people to Israel, just as He guides us to Heaven through Jesus.

The lyrics also remind me of this verse from the Gospel of Mark, where we ride the heavy storms in life by having faith in Jesus:

Mark 4:35-41 (NIV): "That day when evening came, he said to his disciples, ‘Let us go over to the other side.’ Leaving the crowd behind, they took him along, just as he was, in the boat. There were also other boats with him. A furious squall came up, and the waves broke over the boat, so that it was nearly swamped. Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. The disciples woke him and said to him, ‘Teacher, don’t you care if we drown?’ He got up, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, ‘Quiet! Be still!”’ Then the wind died down and it was completely calm. He said to his disciples, ‘Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?’ They were terrified and asked each other, ‘Who is this? Even the wind and the waves obey him!’"

Withstanding Discouragement Devotional:

com7fy8 said:

And we have Isaiah 55:11 >

"'So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth;
. .It shall not return to Me void,
. .But it shall accomplish what I please,
. .And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.'"
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Isaiah 55:11)

Yes, what God will do later shall come to pass, and all things now are in timing for what is yet to come. Basically, God plans to conform His children to the image of Jesus > Romans 8:29 < this is a basic priority always affecting what God does and when.

But, also, God's word is ***now*** doing all He pleases. So, in case some thing does not happen, there is all the good which God's word is doing, right now. So, we do well to be submissive to God so He is bringing us to whatsoever good He is doing and wants to share with us; this includes how He makes us able to sense and detect what the good things are, at any moment, even . . . **no matter how evil makes things look**.

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That's right. God doesn't waste a single day of our lives.

Intentional Tourist said:

Every night I just fight my sexual desires knowing I'll have to go through the same thing the night after that and the night after that and the night after that, etc.

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You need a positive confession of faith. I can do all things thought Christ who strengthens me.

tonychanyt said:

You are so right, in fact, even in this very respectful forum. How do I deal with them?:

Do you value my points 1 and 2? This is the last time I have asked

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I think we can both agree with @KevinT! Even though I've been in my share of online debates, it's a waste of our time to go back and forth like this. Admittingly, I grew interested in entertaining it, which is why I continued to engage.

But to answer you question, what I value is being able to strengthen and encourage other's faith so that we can become more like Jesus. I'm not stringent on holding myself to silly referencing standards because I find them to be troublesome and widely unnecessary. If people choose not to find value in my work simply because of a technicality such as not using a high-school referencing standard, that's on them. They're limiting their scope of knowledge and missing out on new insight. And there's nothing I can do about that.

rturner76 said:

So what? Doesn't the US also have a social safety net? SNAP and Social Security take care of millions. Are we Communist? Start over

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Bradskii corrected my thinking on Walz's statement about equality namely because things have changed so much in China on equality since Walz said that decades ago. Yes, all nations do have mixed economies. The Chinese have every right to govern as they like, though one would hope they offer decent human rights protections for all people groups and religions.

Tellyontellyon said:

Hi, I'm greedy. I eat too much food and food that I know isn't good for my blood pressure.

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Try eating less salt for your blood pressure. Losing weight is good too, but less salt might produce better results.

What is a Christian approach to this issue?

I would try to fast. It too something that Jesus said we should do after the bridegroom has left (matt 9:15). Fasting can break the cycle, allow you to have more control over the flesh as well. Find some teaching in this area from Christians who really fast a lot. As your faith grows you will be able to do this more and more.

Overeating is gluttony, and many do this, some more often than others. You will not lose your salvation over this. There are so many additives to food and things that physiologically, and psychologically effect you that it can be hard to overcome. Watch what you eat, try more natural stuff. Avoid diet drinks or anything with fake sugar as it has been shown to stimulate an appetite. I suppose you could try new weight loss drugs but I think most can overcome with better habits. Exercise, bible reading, prayer, praise and going to church regularly are good habits that would help as well. The point is to take your focus off food and onto God more.

Ask for God's wisdom and His power to have you overcome this. That you recognize the issue and are trying is fantastic. Don't condemn yourself though. Figure out too if there are unresolved issues in your past that might be leading you to find comfort in foods. God bless.

Hamlet7768 said:

Very skeptical of anything AI—the hype is hollow and the cost is immense. This particular finishing reminds me of the pictures I've seen that are taken from the Shroud, though.

I still don't know what to make of it. It feels like for everything I read in favor of it, I read something else against it. To be honest, I don't think about it much.

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I agree.

Still interesting though.

Love365 said:

Some churches have made Martin Luther King a saint.

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He's in the Episcopal Church's calendar. However, like Nightingale, he wasn't Catholic, so I wouldn't expect him to be added to the Catholic Church's calendar. (We aren't as picky about denomination as they are. )

David tried to bring the ark of God from Baale-judah to Jerusalem in 2 Samuel 6:

5 David and all the house of Israel were celebrating before the LORD, with songs and lyres and harps and tambourines and castanets and cymbals.

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Everyone was in a happy mood.

6 When they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah put out his hand to the ark of God and took hold of it, for the oxen stumbled. 7 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah, and God struck him down there because of his error, and he died there beside the ark of God. 8 And David was angry because the LORD had broken out against Uzzah. And that place is called Perez-uzzahd to this day.

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Was David angry with God?

Ellicott did not think so:

(8) Was displeased.—More exactly, was angry. The cause of his vexation was the Divine judgment upon Uzzah; yet it does not follow that he was angry with God, but rather was simply vexed and disturbed at this most untoward interruption of his plans.

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Similarly Barnes:

Displeased - Grief allied to anger seems to be intended. Compare 1 Samuel 15:11 note.

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Benson also:

2 Samuel 6:8. David was displeased — Or rather, grieved, both for the sin, and for God’s heavy judgment; whereby their hopes were dashed, and their joys interrupted.

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Keil and Delitzsch:

The burning of David's anger was not directed against God, but referred to the calamity which had befallen Uzzah, or speaking more correctly, to the cause of this calamity, which David attributed to himself or to his undertaking. As he had not only resolved upon the removal of the ark, but had also planned the way in which it should be taken to Jerusalem, he could not trace the occasion of Uzzah's death to any other cause than his own plans. He was therefore angry that such misfortune had attended his undertaking.

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I don't know of any commentaries saying David was angry at God.

9 And David was afraid of the LORD that day, and he said, “How can the ark of the LORD come to me?”

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David was frustrated by what happened to Uzzah and his plan to bring the ark to Jerusalem.

rjs330 said:

No, but they can and will challenge everything Trump says. If he sticks to the facts and the evidence to prove it, he'll be on solid ground.

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Yeah, but that's definitely not his style....

essentialsaltes said:

The judge overseeing President Donald Trump's 2020 election interference case released more evidence collected by special counsel Jack Smith on Friday, unveiling an enormous batch of heavily redacted records.

The 1,889 pages of material, which Trump's legal team had sought to keep under wraps, constitute four volumes of an appendix that Smith's prosecutors filed alongside a motion over presidential immunity that was unveiled earlier this month. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is overseeing the case, ordered the unsealing of the redacted appendix last week, but delayed the release to give Trump time to contest her decision.

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There is a lot of reading to do!

Fantine said:

If 8 years of overwhelming evidence about a candidate who, by all physical signs, is in rapid mental decline, hasn't convinced his supporters yet, another 1800 pages won't.

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There are people here who have outright admitted they had no intention of looking at/listening to any evidence. Their resentment is palpable.

RileyG said:

She’s a bigot.

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Absolutely.

Good!

Lord have mercy

chevyontheriver said:

The schools they complain about now were licensed and paid for by the Canadian government, eh? Yes indeed.

Another example of the State entangling the Church.

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Canada obviously hates the Church.

Stephen3141 said:

Trump Suggests Abraham Lincoln Should’ve Let the South Keep a Little Slavery

He answered a 10-year-old’s question about his favorite president by saying Lincoln should have “settled” the Civil War.

www.vanityfair.com

Donald Trump seems very confident in his ability to make deals. But,
he wanders to conclusions that show that he has little knowledge of
history. Or, morality.

Trump criticized Abraham Lincoln, for letting the Civil War happen.
Trump seems to think that Lincoln should have "settled" the Civil War.

What Trump does not seem to know, is that the South at that time, lived
with a slave economy. If slavery were abolished (as President Lincoln did,
with the Emancipation Proclamation), then the agricultural economy of the
South would have largely collapsed. And, the South was NOT willing to reorganize
its agricultural economy, to exist without slavery.

This problem with American history, is not a problem that a business
negotiator could have solved. A radical reorganization of the economy
was needed, in order to recognize the full humanity of the slaves, and
to free them.
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Donald Trump does not recognize historical truths, and seems to not understand
why history happened, the way it did. He seems to think that billionaire managers
could solve in a few days, complex problems and deep seated biases.

This is incredibly naive.

And, if Donald Trump is allowed to do more of his "solving", he will force the
Ukrainians to give up parts of their own land to Putin, for peace. And so Trump
will support the snatch-and-grab thievery of tyrants.

American citizens, and especially the poorer classes, should recognize that
Trump has no interest in protecting the human rights of every citizen. He just
wants to be seen as some great "negotiator", even if his decisions bypass a
fair rule of law, or individual human rights. Donald's "negotiating" is cut free of
the fair rule of law, and morality-ethics.

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Trump haters obviously know no bounds. Your post highlights the left wing Vanity Fair article. But I don't see anywhere in Donald Trump's comment a criticism of Abe Lincoln or that he wanted slavery to continue. He just questions why Lincoln didn't try harder to settle the matter.

As for Kamala Harris, I find it laughable. She condemned Christopher Columbus Day by saying "the arrival of Columbus was a terrible occasion as it negatively impacted those living in the U.S. at the time." Yet, she is the "border czar" letting in millions of illegal immigrates into this county. This would be almost laughable if it wasn't so sick.


You obvious aren't one of those living in the Colorado apartment complexes who are terrified for their lives from Venezuelan gangs let into this country. Some day soon you might be and then we'll see who is naive.

Jesus told the Parable of the Wedding Feast in Mt 22:

2 “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son,

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The king is the Father. Jesus is the Son.

3 and sent his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding feast, but they would not come.

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The servants made their 1st call to the invited group of people I1.

4 Again he sent other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited,

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More servants made the 2nd call to the same group I1. Still, they would not come.

8 Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding feast is ready, but those invited were not worthy. 9 Go therefore to the main roads and invite to the wedding feast as many as you find.’ 10 And those servants went out into the roads and gathered all whom they found, both bad and good. So the wedding hall was filled with guests.

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The servants made their 3rd call, targeting a different group of invitees, I2.

14 Many are called, but few are chosen.”

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Wasn't everyone called?

No. The king sent servants on location to call the locals.

Is everyone called today?

No, at least not yet. God needs to send servants to call people directly. Mt 28:

Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

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Ro 10:

14 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? 15 And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!”

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God sends his servants to call people in different parts of the world. When the chosen ones believe, they call him back

Does God call everyone?

God desires everyone to hear the gospel, but not everyone has heard the gospel from a servant of God.

'This won't deter me or the State of Israel from continuing our just war,' Netanyahu says

A drone launched by Hezbollah targeted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s private residence in the coastal town of Caesarea on Saturday morning, his spokesman confirmed.

The news outlet Axios reported that Netanyahu’s private home was hit, without giving further details.

“The prime minister and his wife were not at the residence at the time of the attack and there were no casualties,” Netanyahu’s spokesman said.

The IDF stated that three drones were launched in the attack, two of which were shot down by helicopters.

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rambot said:

Huh. I honestly don't recall arguing that point...ever.
I injected myself into a conversation you were having with someone else in Post 37. I didn't argue about a "living wage" so much as "comparing the worker's wage to those higher up.

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That was the argument you blindly jumped into. I hope you enjoyed whatever you were trying to accomplish. Whatever that was.

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Pray that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is guided by The Holy Spirit to be humble enough to obey God's Will in regard to whether he should resign or continue on:

Canada’s Trudeau trap

How the world’s most reasonable country grew sick of centre-left liberalism

www.economist.com

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I know the Lord can reach anybody if he wants to. But based on how Trudeau has functioned in the past, it’s hard to believe he would listen to the voice of the Holy Spirit.

But I do pray that he will resign and that somebody much better will take his place.

Panthers said:

Everyman has darkness in him, whether that man uses the darkness for good or evil.....,

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Wait a minute. This op states darkness is not evil. Post 22 implies darkness can be good or evil.

Is the inherent contradiction recognized?

Panthers said:

At the end of Revelation, the sun is darkened, and the Kingdom of total darkness returns.....

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Which, according to the opening post, would not be an evil event, nor an evil condition, because darkness is not evil.


What I am looking for is to read a post that comes right out and explicitly states without equivocation that darkness can be evil, most of scripture's references to darkness are about conditions that are NOT good, or evil, and the opening post applies to very few scriptures and therefore overgeneralized when saying "Darkness is not evil."

Can you do that?

Eh - I use use the app to order staple items (paper towels, detergent, pet food, etc) from Walmart and then go pick it up.
It's easy, convenient and I don't have to deal with the crowds at Walmart.

I do not get meat and fresh veg this way though from either Walmart or the local grocery. For that I go into the store and look around. I tried ordering that online and it was like they went out of their way to grab the most wilted looking veggies and gnarliest cuts of meat they could find.

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Sanctification = The act of making holy. In an evangelical sense, the act of God's grace by which the affections of men are purified or alienated from sin and the world, and exalted to a supreme love to God.

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Well, "holy" has to do with how God is in His love. Humans can love, but the spiritual quality of human love is not good like God in His love. Humans can be weak so hard things can get to us and degrade us into anger and fear and lusts and unforgiveness. But God can not change; so His love is stable, no matter what evil might do. And He changes us to become holy in love . . . how His love is . . . so our character is stable and strong in Jesus >

"Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world." (1 John 4:17)

Part of being "as He is" "in this world" is what Peter talks about >

"rather let it be the hidden person of the heart, with the incorruptible beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God." (1 Peter 3:4)

This beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit is > "incorruptible". So, no evil spiritual thing can degrade this, because if it is "incorruptible", there is God's almighty power keeping His gentle and quiet love from being corrupted by anger or unforgiveness or fear or lusts dominating someone for pleasure. And God's all-loving love makes us also all-loving in our character, and about family caring and sharing with our Christian brothers and sisters.

So, "holy" has much to do with how our Creator is in His character, and how He in us shares this with us.

And I will offer that this is what Hebrews 12:4-14 is talking about. God's correction is not only punishment and controlling us to stop doing wrong things. But Biblical correction is correcting our character so we are and love like Jesus and are pleasing to our Father like Jesus is so pleasing. This is not only about how we are acting, then, but how we become in our character.

In God's all-loving character, we love any and all people > we do not pick and choose who is worth loving, whom we can use, and who is good enough for us to forgive. Jesus says > "if you love those who love you, what reward have you?" in Matthew 5:46.

And in God's love, we share with Him in His immunity almighty against any and all cruel and dominating emotions >

"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment." (in 1 John 4:18)

Fear has various sorts of "torment", including frustration, depression, boredom, loneliness, nasty anger, arguing, complaining . . .

But in God's love we have automatic immunity almighty against such unholy things . . . also against dominating drives and preferences for foolish pleasure. God's love makes us so we can not be brought under the power of wrong stuff in us > Paul says, in 1 Corinthians 6:12, "I will not be brought under the power of any."

So, holiness is a good thing to have now. With Jesus, in loving any and all people, "you will find rest for your souls." (in Matthew 11:28-30) But in weak favoritistic love for only our favorite people and country and politicians . . . we can become victims of our own anger and frustration and hurts and unforgiveness . . . and blaming humans instead of claiming all we can have with God in His holy love.

So, we are wise to actively seek our Father for His real correction, "that we may be partakers of His holiness" (Hebrews 12:4-14).

Thirty of Jesus' 33 years on earth were spent "hidden" in ordinary work at home. What were these years like? What can we learn from them?

Did you ever stop to think about the kind of wild fact that 30 of the 33 years Jesus spent on this earth were “hidden” in the heart of his home, while just 3 were spent in public ministry?

During his “hidden” years, Our Lord worked, prayed, and took part in community life as a son, neighbor, citizen, and friend. But what were these years like? And what can we learn from them?

We can see from his words in the Bible that his carpentry work must have been a big part of his life. He deeply understood the world of work, especially in the fields of carpentry and construction: “A number of Jesus’ parables take place at construction sites.

How much of Jesus’ personal experience might be reflected in these parables?”
As a carpenter, Jesus worked hard, with care and precision. Pope Francis described Jesus “learning the carpenter’s craft from St Joseph in his workshop in Nazareth, sharing with him the commitment, effort, satisfaction and also the difficulties of every day.”

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