If we abandon the teaching that Christ was crucified for us while we were yet sinners, while we were ungodly, while we still lived in bondage to the carnal mind, and at enmity (war) with God -- that He loved us when we hated Him, and that He calls us to learn to love like Him -- then what we think we have built in the West will fall, and we will return to the futile paganism of our fathers. The West as we know if will no longer exist.
On the one hand, I love living in the moment and bucking the always have your phone out trend. On the other hand, it really sucks to not have any photos of the fun, beautiful, or incredible things I've enjoyed.
My friends have their various remember what happened this month/year collages and mostly my phones just like, "Remember that screenshot you took when scrolling x?" Unless, of course, I've spent time with my neices, and nephews, those photos are always wonderful.
@WhaddoYouMeme My Great Aunt used to follow Doreen when she was in the occult. When Doreen got saved, she started searching for why, and now my Great Aunt is a follower of Jesus. I pray that there are many such ones in Alex's story too.
There are plenty of cultures throughout history who sacrificed their own children to their gods or exposed them to the elements b/c they were not the desired sex etc.
The heart of man is wicked and capable of great evil.
Even if wombs had windows, small humans would still need to be protected from murder. Perhaps even more b/c the sadists who kill them would be able to see what they are doing.
Even if we put the unethical nature of making babies in a lab and freezing them aside. Khloe acknowledgeing that it would be "weird" to give Malika one of her babies, but calling Rob disgusting for not wanting to give away one of his is hypocritical. Other peoples babies, and surrogates bodies are a commodity to her that she seems to feel entitled to while her conscience still pricks her about the idea of giving away her own child.
The most anti-immigration stance the establishment could possibly take is to not hold immigrants who commit crimes against either citizens, or other immigrants accountable for those crimes.
It has taken me the whole 7 days since this came out to watch it all.
I have so many thoughts, many of which I feel I need to stew over a lot more before sharing. I may be talking about this for a while.
My most benign thought is this:
We often think about despising prophecy as a rejection of its modern existence. I would posit that Katherine Ruonala's reaction to evidence of false prophecy is also despising prophecy. In this situation, she has shown herself blasé about the awe of hearing and communicating the voice of God. She has treated what is holy with contempt. She has called what is unholy holy. She has knowingly offered the flock to the wolf and personally served him up two of Jesus's lambs. She has been shown to have spoken out of both sides of her mouth while claiming to be a servant of the One who is Truth. Whatever things Katherine Ruonala is prophet, shepherd, and Christian leader are not among them. If they were, this story would have gone differently.
Proping up false prophets is an act of despising prophecy.
I am grateful to those leaders who are standing in the gap on behalf of the Shepherd for the sake of the flock of Jesus.
@enesovat22 "Judeo-Christian ethics" is a term that acknowledges our legal system is built on the morality found in the Torah (the first 5 books of the Bible) and influenced by the bible as a whole.
It's crazy how Julia Gillard managed to screw over every single woman in Australia regardless of demographic or political affiliation. It's like she is the ultimate misogynist.
In the what is intended for evil working for good sense, it has been helpful to realise just how often abusers label accountability as attack.
When it seemed like it was just the people who abused me, it messed with my head even though I knew they were wrong.
I'm sorry you are experiencing this it's not ok. I'm also glad that the pattern of abusers behaving this way is being exposed.
You can't make this up 🤣
Candace Owens "There is a non stop onslaught onto me and my life to go after my family everything is a conspiracy in their own head"
Oh, so like what you've been doing to Erika Kirk for the last 8 months! Holy gaslighting!