@Apple Understand, not everyone who uses an iPhone is part of the “shiny & new” “selfies for daily affirmation” crowd. Some of us just want to FaceTime our kids so we can see our grandbabies smiles.
For us, we prefer battery life over “glasswater” or whatever. #iOS262
I’m with her! The new Apple update is so bad!
I did it only because I was forced to because I purchased a new Mac!
I did manage to disable a few features though!
Don’t do it if you don’t have to! 🤨
Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.”
-Deuteronomy 31:6
Grok on UPFs: Synthetic flavors & aromas mimic natural ones using chemicals like vanillin (a cheap substitute for vanilla added to over 18k products), pyrazines for nutty notes, or lactones for creaminess, tricking the olfactory bulb to arouse appetite & mask processing odors.
John Piper was once asked how he was so riveting as a Bible preacher.
He said that the key is to preach as though the Bible is the most interesting, amazing, soul-stirring book ever written.
Then he added, “Because it is!”
.@SecKennedy: "This is the fulfillment of a promise that we made in the MAHA Report... to give them an offramp, farmers who are dependent on chemical fertilizer inputs, to give them an offramp where they can transition to a model that emphasizes soil health."
In my experience, the reason the parents ignore the very clear data that smartphones will make their kids’ mental health worse later in life is that they believe their own children to be invincible, supernatural outliers; or they think phones are as harmless as TV/video games.
I was taught that the temple would be rebuilt in Jerusalem and that it would be desecrated by “the abomination that causes desolation”.
If this already happened in A.D. 70, why would we look forward to a rebuilt temple with sacrifices that themselves would be an abomination?
@thatbrian Hi, Brian. My family spent a weekend in a town near Brevard, NC. On Saturday night I looked up churches to visit. As I listened on YT one pastor said believers need to hang out in Ephesians. Boom. We visited and he exegeted. A country pastor in NC verse by verse. This is the way
The mindset of the flesh is hostile to God because it does not submit to God’s law. Indeed, it is unable to do so. Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
Romans 8:7-8
Christians have to walk with The Spirit. Reflect and take inventory - are you following Your King?
Yezzah!
Reformed people should be among the happiest!
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ (who)… chose us before the foundation of the world…