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Gal 5:13 For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. #Texit

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@Rangers Comfortable lead. Get Rocker out before he messes it up.

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@MikeWingerii Just means you need to eat a lot of it. Sounds like a win to me.

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@Jon_Galland It’s been my experience that the Toyo’s last longer than the Nitto’s but a Falken lasts longer than both.

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@SaltyDGalveston 2,3,4

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@MorEdge_Insight Nope

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@ElRanchCowboy This doesn’t look rich to me, it just looks like you’re on a first name basis with the guy at John Deere financial. He calls every month to make sure your payment is coming.

[Wes Huff @WesleyLHuff]

If you are a Christian your confidence today rests on foundations that cannot be shaken. If God is for you, and He has not spared His own Son but delivered Him up for all of you, then He will graciously give you all things with Him. (Rom 8:28–39) And please don’t hear this as a platitudinal X post: it flows from the reality of your election. God chose you in Christ before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless, predestining you for adoption as His children according to His pleasure and will.

The Puritan theologians are helpful here, and understood something vital about this assurance: election and covenant work together, offering troubled believers a double source of assurance; you can plead the covenant with God, asking Him to fulfill His promises, while simultaneously finding comfort in the sufficiency of His prevenient grace and the immutability of His will in election. Your election is not fragile or conditional on your performance, as I’ve said before, your salvation is received not achieved. God’s immutable decree of election proceeds from His perfect counsel, the basis for maintaining His people in sanctification and imparting to them an inward principle of holiness.

Yet this absolute promise does not leave you passive. God’s love, made known to you, draws you out of yourself toward Him in orderly, faithful obedience. The conditional promises of the covenant are inseparable from your daily renewal of it through prayer, meditation, and worship. Your obedience becomes the very means by which you experience and confirm what God has already secured.

Anchor yourself in the permanence of God’s word. Heaven and earth will pass away, but His words will not pass away. (Matt 24:35) All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, reproof, correction, and training in righteousness. (2 Tim 3:16–17) In this word, your election is declared, your redemption is promised, and your perseverance is guaranteed — not by your strength, but by His.

[Wes Huff @WesleyLHuff]

Most people in the comments missing the point here: Luther didn’t remove books from the Bible and Trent didn’t add them. Before Trent and its addition of the anathema clause it was always an open conversation. The 66 is what everyone agreed upon, the question was about the apocrypha (a term not invented by but clarified on by Athanasius in his 39th Festal Letter in AD 367 to describe the other books of the OT outside of the 39). If the 73 canon was, as many in the comments to my OP want to reductionistically claim, a settled issue going back centuries then you wouldn’t have the Jeromes, Athasiuses, Cyrils, Gregory the Greats, Ximenes, and Cajetans of the world all openly discussing and disagreeing with various Deuterocanonicals and their inclusion vs. exclusions as inspired canon. These aren’t randoms, they’re Saints, Bishops, Popes, Cardinals, and Doctors of the Church.

I think a lot of people would be surprised to hear how close the vote on their inclusion in an official list attached to an anathema was at Trent. At the Council of Trent, considerable debate took place on whether a distinction should be made between two classes of books (canonical and apocryphal) or whether three classes should be identified (Acknowledged Books; the Disputed Books of the New Testament, later generally received; and the Apocrypha of the Old Testament). Finally on 8 April 1546, by a vote of 24 to 15, with 16 abstensions, the Council issued a decree (De Canonicis Scripturis) in which, for the first time in the history of the Church, the question of the contents of the Bible was made an absolute article of faith and confirmed by an anathema.

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@RightOnRangers Is he going to six flags?

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Truth.

[Shane Pruitt @shane_pruitt78]

Lukewarm Christianity has become so normal that Biblical Christianity seems radical.

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@Rangers__Nation I hope. Surely it wasn’t all that talk about them being in first place.

[Sean Strickland @SStricklandMMA]

We need to make a way to donate to the legends destroying flock cameras......

How do we support you?!

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@MaryBowdenMD It’s crazy. Once you learn what they look like you find yourself constantly picking them out too. No wonder they need to build all these data centers, they are storing all the pictures of where we are driving.

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@nmlinguaphile They each have their own strengths. I’ll eat either or both.

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@GuntherEagleman I’m going with 0%. Sorry, just been watching them long enough to believe they really don’t care about their constituents. But don’t worry, next election they’ll tell us all how hard they fought for us behind closed doors

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@VinnysCorner1 Do they have any?

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@KamVTV Unfortunately I don’t think Texas is.

[Kambree @KamVTV]

🚨 EVERY STATE SHOULD BE WATCHING MISSOURI RIGHT NOW.

Amendment 5 may be one of the most interesting tax ideas in the country: make massive Big Tech data centers that currently pay almost nothing actually pay their share, then use that revenue to phase out the state income tax and cut property taxes. Taxpayers keep more of their money. Big Tech pays more for the massive infrastructure it uses.

I hope Texas is paying VERY close attention!