Loved this interview on religious demographics by @gina_zurlo. Especially the end part about Gen Z. Are we in a massive religious transition? The future is a history being made as we live it out today. What will come of the change? Food for thought: https://t.co/DqdewgnApI
20 rules for young men:
1. Never date a friend’s ex
2. It’s ok to go to the movies by yourself
3. Hygiene is more important than you think
4. Know the different between love and lust
5. Stay informed on what’s going on. Don’t be a sheep
6. Have a sense of humor but don’t joke about your dreams and goals
7. Study the types of people who upset you and why
8. Stand up to bullies. You’ll only have to do it once.
9. Don’t bully people weaker than you
10. Learn how to tell stories
11. Don’t complain. 80% of people don’t care about your problems and 20% are glad you have them
12. Be impressed by the things that matter
13. When coming across a successful person, talk less, ask more.
14. Leave a lasting impression after people meet you
15. Don’t feel guilty for being too ambitious
16. Be mentally and emotionally ready to lose loved ones at some point of your life.
17. Always have some cash with you
18. Regardless of what you get paid per hour, give your best.
19. Avoid porn at all cost.
20. You never marry a girl, you marry her entire family.
This article was written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspecitve..👍🏽
My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!
I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around.
I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it.
Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought.
We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!!
Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ??
Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity."
Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in.
When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided.
My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress.
Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country.
People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.
Why? The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn't live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn't see the rise and fall of socialism and communism.
We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague."
Street preacher confronts Pastor partaking in a pride march.
It’s not “love” to not tell someone the truth of the Gospel.
Yes there are ways to do it in love; but supporting the thing opposite to the Bible is not it.
Mormons are often very personally offended when Christians say that Mormonism isn’t Christian. This is dumb.
Joseph Smith’s first “encounter” with God involves God telling Smith that every creed Christians profess is an abomination to God.
Every creed.
That includes the Nicene Creed. They reject who God is, who Jesus is, the nature of salvation, the nature of exaltation, the clear teaching of Scripture, etc..
Mormonism rejects the very core of the Christian faith in all its essentials. Joseph Smith knew this but nowadays they are playing mind games with their own people and with real Christians.
Either THEY are Christians or WE are. It’s one or the other. Not both.
When asked “Will all be damned but Mormons?” Smith replied, “Yes, and a great portion of them unless they repent and work righteousness” (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, pg. 119)
The Doctrine and Covenants (1:30) leaves no doubt to the Mormon teaching of exclusivity when it says the LDS Church is “the only true and living church upon the face of the whole earth, with which I, the Lord, am well pleased ….”
Brigham Young, second only to Joseph Smith in Mormonism said…
“Should you ask why we differ from other Christians, as they are called, it is simply because they are not Christians as the New Testament defines Christianity” (Journal of Discourses 10:230).
“The Christian world, so-called, are heathens as to the knowledge of the salvation of God” (Journal of Discourses 8:171).
I could easily give you pages of them saying they are the only true Christians and how we are all ignorant beasts and our doctrines are wrong. They knew at the time they had a different God, gospel, Scripture, and system of belief. But now it has become expedient to pretend otherwise while still preaching all those false and unchristian things.
Mormons, your leaders are gaslighting you and you are gaslighting us. You aren’t Christian but we want you to be. Flee from Mormonism. Flee from Joseph Smith.
“The great variety of settings in which the words ἐγώ εἰμι are used…show that it is a phrase which pervades the whole Gospel.
It is restricted neither by audience nor by religious context.
Instead, the words echo throughout the Gospel from Jesus’ first declaration that he is the messiah...to his dramatic arrest in which the utterance of the same words creates an astonishing response from Jesus’ audience.”
- David Ball, 'I Am" in John's Gospel, 147.
@JoeRoganRecaps Dude. Don’t pray to a burial cloth. Pray to the One buried and then resurrected! Jesus! He’s God. The shroud is just a piece of fabric. That’s idolatry. The irony is thick here. Jesus hates idolatry.
Children need to be read aloud to — and so do adults. When rich language goes in through the ear, it settles deep inside, and what settles in comes back out on the page. The best writers were first the best listeners.
And if you're dealing with dyslexia, the ear is your best ally. Never let a dyslexic child see a spelling list before they've heard it. Sound before sight — hearing the words first gives them a far better chance of holding on.
Reminder for all young parents:
You only get:
- 1 Summer with your baby
- 3 with your toddler
- 9 with your child
- 5 with your teenager
This time is precious. Don’t rush it.
“Then the Lord said, “Go and love your wife again, even though she commits adultery with another lover. This will illustrate that the Lord still loves Israel, even though the people have turned to other gods and love to worship them.”” https://t.co/O6Uaowv4PB