I'm not yet what I desire to be, but Soli Deo Gloria —I'm not what I was! Still Canadian, though. I comment on (mostly dumb) things that catch my attention.
For lots of people, their “Christian faith” is something they tack onto life because it’s more reasonable than Leftist Nihilism.
For others, faith in the Lord Jesus Christ has weight and meaning far beyond being socially acceptable in their circle of friends.
If your faith costs you nothing (Mark 8:34-38),
if it doesn’t mean a genuine love for the Lord Jesus Christ (John 3:36, 14:15),
if your faith is fairweather (Matt. 13:5-7),
if your faith strictly experiential and focused on self-effort (Matt. 7:21-23),
Then what is your faith in Christ even for? What is it even worth?
Jesus isn’t a meme to share for laughs or to be “based” online. He’s God incarnate. And if you don’t recognize His as the King over all things, and Lord over all reality, then you’re completely missing the point of “faith” (Eph. 2:1-10).
Join a Christian Church that believes the above. Join a Church that is willing to tell you to repent and believe the Gospel, even if you think you already have.
“Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”
— Matthew 3:2
Now after John had been delivered up into custody, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of God, and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.”
— Mark 1:14-15
And they went out and preached that men should repent.
— Mark 6:12
Therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now commanding men that everyone everywhere should repent, because He has fixed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness through a Man whom He determined, having furnished proof to all by raising Him from the dead.”
— Acts 17:30-31
And now I see Jason Kenney trying to regain some kind of political value. He is an unrepentant hypocrite and betrayer of whatever he claimed to be "conserving"... unless it was his own pride, power, and position he sought to conserve.
He lost it all.
May he repent in truth.
@SlowToWrite I still remember. I was a member of GLC for 14 years. I remember when they stole our building and sought us out on Sundays when we gathered in secret.
Even Christians just want to pretend it's all in the past. But what changed? Time passed; that's all. It *can* happen again.
@SlowToWrite I still remember. I was a member of GLC for 14 years. I remember when they stole our building and sought us out on Sundays when we gathered in secret.
Even Christians just want to pretend it's all in the past. But what changed? Time passed; that's all. It *can* happen again.
"When you see...your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you—when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice—you may know that your society is doomed.
-Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged (1957)
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@hellogames I'm that one guy who plays NMS exclusively on Switch. Great game! Wish my computer could handle it!
Just wanted to say thanks for the fun game. I'm several years late to the party, and playing on a lacklustre platform (for something like this) but I'm enjoying it!
I worked in Edmonton's largest homeless shelter (located downtown) for ~6 years. I've seen/heard of many insane, sad depravities.
Yet I still see it wherever I go.
I don't know why my heart is not entirely desensitized. Sometimes I wish it had.
Or maybe it is more than I know.
For their first 6-8 months in office every election, every elected politician's salary should be the median for their constituency.
Unreasonable? List the reasons why.
I asked several LLMs the same question. Only @ChatGPT gave me the KIND of answer I was expecting, AND ended with a joke. The other LLMs were sticks-in-the-mud.