Author of the book The Storeroom of the Heart, winner of the Blue Ridge Mountains CWC Director's Choice Award. Pastor at Grand Community Baptist Church
@Pastor__West@Catangels You can forgive without replacing trust. Often that is the appropriate choice. The idea that you haven’t forgiven unless you trust them again is false.
@KarlVaters I agree. But … 1) We need a health measure. We all tend to believe, or claim, our church is healthy. How do we know? 2) Extinguish the idea that all kingdom growth is from church planting. Strengthen existing churches, too! 3) Many, most? should be growing.
M. A. D. or mutual assured destruction was a policy between Russia and the US in the Cold War. Oddly enough it worked.
It is a terrible strategy for use between Republicans and Democrats.
@bobby_gilstrap I’ll play:
Food cost. $20
Overnight stay in ER $725
Two follow up visits with Dr. $50
Two weeks off work $1250
Total. $2045
But if you add in having lost an inch around your waist, priceless.
@DianeGotAuthor Assuming you are in US, that is a great blue heron. ( not quite accurate to say blue heron, although is birders use a lot of shorthand )
@bartbarber You do you, and thanks for serving. As for me I believe remarrying after death of a spouse is fine. But if my wife and I divorced, for any reason, I would leave the ministry. But since I taught her to shoot I am sure she would never divorce me.