@Man4Christ89@JustinPetersMin Honest questions: if someone isn’t permanently disqualified, how long must they be disqualified and how would one chose any amount of time that isn’t arbitrary? If you believe someone isn’t permanently disqualified, how can you say that he is presently disqualified?
Erika’s ability to say “God is good” after her husband was assassinated began with the intimacy Charlie and her had with the Holy Spirit on a day to day basis.
Your relationship with Christ will ultimately be a testament to Christ.
Get in the word.
Pray.
Go to church.
Here are two habits I started dcades ago that have made a dramatic impact in my daily life and interactions with others.
The first, anytime I was running late, hit a detour, had to deal with bad traffic, I would thank God. Sounds sort of crazy, right? Maybe go the route of Moses and ask God to part the red sea of bad drivers, but thank Him?
My wife one day asked me why I did this.
It was a fairly simple reason. Had I been a few minutes earlier, I could have been the accident. Had we got out the door on time, it could have been us on an ambulance. Clearly, God had a reason, even if we had no idea what that reason was.
It was me trying to volcalize and practice a simple truth - God works things for my good. Detours, construction, getting out the door late, etc.
It has stuck with my wife to this day.
The second? Anytime someone is treating me unkindly - think customer service folks, store clerks, etc. , I try to say to myself, "I wonder what I don't know about what is going on in their life."
Perhaps their mom has cancer. Or their spouse left them. Or they are getting sick or just getting over having been really sick. Or perhaps their car broke down on the way to work that day and they are already just scratching buy financially.
Or one of a thousand reasons that doesn't justify their sin and that I am not privy to, being but a temporary passing stranger in their day, but that reminds me they are real people with real worries, fears, concerns, trials, sorrows and burdens.
And then I try to be as kind as possible to them from a genuine love and concern for those my Lord came to save.
Because I have trials, sorrows, worries, concerns, fears, and burdens too.
You see, we generally assume the worst about what happens to us and the worst about the why and how people treat us.
We don't easily trust God's promises nor cloth ourselves with compassion towards others as Christ does towards us.
These two things have helped me try to invert these sinful tendencies.
And in so doing they have generally helped me be more joyful and able to love those who cross my path
“If afflictions drive us nearer to Christ, the Bible, and prayer, then they are positive blessings. We may not think so now. But we shall think so when we wake up in the eternal world.” JC Ryle
Happy Launch Day, my friends! We have our first episode up, ready to listen. Available wherever you find your pods.
In Season 1, Headmaster @KevinLove_Utah and Pastor @Eric_Conn are rallying the troops against the Leviathan of our day, the Public School system.
If you've been awake the last few years, you know the time is up. The rout is finally over. We are done handing our kids over to Caesar. Our generations will NOT be catechized as children of darkness.
Ephesians 6:4 gives us no room to renege on this: Christian parents–Fathers in particular–must give their children the paideia and nouthesia "of the Lord." In other words, Christian parents have a duty to give their children a robust Christian education.
But before we discuss methods to achieve this noble end (e.g. homeschool vs St Brendan's Model), we need to ask ourselves: What is a "Christian" education? What are its left and right limits? What makes it "Christian" in the first place? That is what this whole first season is about.
The St Brendan's Podcast exists to equip you with rigorous, practicable, and affordable Christian education for many generations to come.
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@TheRhetorRick@TanneriteCortez Trying to check your comment, I did a photos search on women from the 1800s. Most of the results did not have a head covering. Do you have anything to back up your statement?
@Brian_Sauve@Lexy_Sauve I was with Samaritan for years for some reason we got health insurance for 2023 as we were having another baby. It was the worst. Health insurance is a scam. Back with Samaritan as of January, never leaving again.
@teacherkristi74@MrDanielBuck@A_C_C_S So, what route would you recommend to a high school student who has a goal of one day teaching math in a classical Christian school?
The Christian Super Bowl Ad They SHOULD Have Made
A group known as 'He Gets Us' released an advert during the Super Bowl which, whilst perhaps well intentioned, failed to convey anything of the gospel to the hundreds of millions who saw it.
Here's my take on what they should have done.
#HeSavesUs
"Worldly people do not think the Bible’s power and healing virtue apply to their worrisome cares and troubled spirits. Godly people find it to be a salve for all their wounds." - Burroughs
Turns out there is something much, much better on Sunday mornings. Praise God for his sovereign grace. All you who know the Lord, praise him for undeserved, unmerited sovereign grace.