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Jesus / Family / Football / Making new things out of old things and creating a cloud of sawdust. Go Blue! Luke 10:24 / I love a good sequel.

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College football is over. What are you going to do now?

10 Things to do when the College Football Season is Over – Team Rivalry Times
https://t.co/r67a7EMsnD

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@byamabe Side note...I am also a father, husband, programmer and Lutheran...how many of us there?

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@LutheranAnswers It's catholic, but it's not Roman Catholic ;)
I wonder how Roman Catholics feel when they hear the Roman Catholic church is a denomination of the church catholic? :)

[Paul Anleitner @PaulAnleitner]

The myth of George Washington is more important than the “history.”

Why?

Because myths are the container of a culture’s ideal values.

Our founding hero could have been like the Romans— a man who murdered his own brother.

But our ideal hero is a giant who “never told a lie” and kneeled to pray at Valley Forge.

That our culture selected those values to revere and preserve in myth isn’t “propaganda” about our past. It is the archetype we aim toward.

Mythological hero George Washington is a story we should keep telling.

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@MarkRogersVOCFB @CTGOVERNMENT When I lived in LA back in '94 the Registration was something like $360 for my one vehicle. Back in Michigan, that same year, I paid about $75. Michigan is about $150 per car now, so I can only imagine what California is now. It's ridiculous.

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Team USA lost. Trump should've stayed out of it.

Bad calls happen. When a bad call is overturned postgame, via third party interference, it impacts the players. Team USA could've gone into that game with a chip on their shoulder, instead they had a false sense of security.

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@Buckeye_GDG @JohnnyOldenJr We're trying. Too much going on these days. :)

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@___mithrandir_ I might be too practical, but my thought is - if they're on the island that long, yes, he's their pastor. When they return to civilization they are unlikely to start a new church, but rather return to their home churches where they will continue as they were.

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Will Wheaton called Dwayne Johnson a coward. Not to his face, of course...

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@shoesonplease But, Anna, voting 100% Democrat is moderate. If she had voted with the Republicans even once she would obviously be a far right extremist. Come on, this is basic political stuff. ;)

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@TheDonStein @ZaidJilani I'm convinced Ronald Reagan was the last Republican and Jimmy Carter was the last Democrat.

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@DarthHarryson This might be some of your best work yet.

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@TheHoody27 TOUCHDOWN MEEEEEECHIGAN!

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@shoesonplease like, "Thank you for shopping at Meijers."

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What is the collective wealth of the people sitting at this table and are they the same people now trying to strip said libraries and parks of the names of the people who built them?

[Ruzy.hl @0xRuzy]

Seth Rogen said rich people used to spend their fortunes building things everyone could use.

Seth Rogen: Maybe this is like naive of me, but it seems like these rich people who are like, had outsized wealth, it seems like they used to like to have their names on things

Keanu Reeves: Libraries, that were like public...

Seth Rogen: able to be used by the public.

Keanu Reeves: National parks. You know what I mean? Yeah, parks...

Seth Rogen: ...parks, observatories, libraries, museums, you know, things like that. And now it's like, people don't do that stuff anymore.

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@TheDonStein I'm seeing a lot of Roman Catholics claiming a victim status. It's the largest Christian denomination in the world, they have their own country, and yet they still have to pick fights to prove themselves. They don't seem all that confident in "the church establish by Christ."

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Michigan Sports Optimistic talk...but still no playoffs.
https://t.co/J4nJEX5lGf

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@MarkRogersVOCFB I worked with a woman who told me she was going to an "oldies concert." I asked who was playing. She said, "Um, Journey? Foreigner? and I think it's REO wagon, something?" I cried a little as I walked to my office.

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@lukedsimmons I appreciate your view, but I still think it's better to have the kids in the worship service with their parents. Worship, like life, isn't always neat and tidy and compartmentalized. But God's work still speaks through it all.

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It seems the more we try to undermine the Bible to say what makes us feel more comfortable, the further we are from the truth of Scripture; Jesus saves you by His means, not yours.
This is an excellent argument from @HansFiene

[Hans Fiene 🦬 @HansFiene]

The Bible says "baptism now saves you." And sure, you can argue that this doesn't mean what it sounds like.

The Bible says that baptism makes us dead to sin and alive to Christ. And sure, you can argue that this doesn't mean what it sounds like.

The Bible refers to salvation coming through "the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit." And sure, you can argue that this watery language does not refer to the watery-thing Jesus instituted in Matthew 28 and said that all Christians were to receive.

The Bible speaks of being born again of "water and the Spirit." And sure, you can argue that this refers not to baptism, where the Holy Spirit works in the water, but to the water of amniotic fluid (that is, the natural birth) and then another birth, the non-watery rebirth of regeneration through faith by the power of the Holy Spirit.

The Bible speaks quite clearly of infant faith. And sure, you can argue that these passages don't mean what it sounds like.

The Bible thematically links baptism with circumcision, which was performed on Israelite boys when they were 8 days old. And sure, you can argue that this link doesn't mean what it sounds like.

The Bible says that baptism "is for you and your children." And sure, you can argue that this doesn't mean what it sounds like.

The Bible says to make disciples through teaching and baptizing "all nations." Children were inarguably included in the Jewish understanding of "nations." And sure, you can argue that a different definition of "nations" is being used when speaking of baptism.

The Bible describes entire households being baptized. "Households" is a term that inarguably included children if they were present. And sure, you can argue that all of the households described as being baptized did not include children and that there was no reason for Luke to note this if we were not supposed to think that we should baptize infants.

But the problem is that, to deny baptismal regeneration and to reject infant baptism, you have to argue ALL of these things. Each and every one of them.

So, what is more likely: that you are forcing false assumptions about baptism onto the Bible or that every single passage describing baptism and infant faith doesn't mean what it says? What's more likely: that you have a flawed hermeneutic or that passage after passage after passage about baptism and infant faith needs a ton of clarification in order to unlock its true meaning?