Dixie Drifter

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[Dixie Drifter @DrifterDixie]

@bobpockrass Smart decision to move the race earlier. Why didn't they do this for the 600? If they had moved the start time an hour or two earlier, they would have ran the entire race. And Prime has the flexibility that broadcast doesn't always have.

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@_ZacharyMiller @DanInRome Setting aside the wackier megachurches, evangelicals have firmly held to the trinitarian theology of the early creeds, and their baptisms are recognized as valid by Rome. That's hardly "a stretch to say we're part of the same religion in any meaningful way."

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@AndrewPorter663 @SingnRing @HonestYPTweets That is not the "primary argument." You need to read more widely on this topic. Might as well start with Preston's new book, From Genesis to Junia, which helpfully distills the main egal arguments.

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@kody_dowell @HonestYPTweets Tell that to the Assemblies, Wesleyan, Free Methodist, ECO Presbyterian, NALC Lutheran, etc. churches that are firmly egal and not anywhere close to a fast track to queer "affirmation."

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@NASCAR @joshberry @woodbrothers21 It's been a terrible year for Fords (except Blaney), so I doubt anyone else would have done much better. They should have given him another year, as they should have for Harrison Burton.

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@Ligonier The asinine comments to her sensible, biblical, thoughtful comments are the most depressing things I've read today. God help us. I'm conservative. I'm evangelical. But we are unbelievably pedantic and hyper-critical.

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@lindseycathryn @Ligonier Her point is precisely what you said about "a season of singleness should be marked by faithfulness," and in no way does she imply that a desire for marriage is sinful.

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@GuyJones1111 She's thoughtful and mature. You're juvenile and insecure, so not sure why this appeared in my feed.

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@RolandGunnTN Well, let's be clear, Knoxville is in the foothills, and that has always made a massive difference. The impoverished areas are in the mountains.

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@FrHilderbrand You've never read the Institutes, except maybe some excerpts in a textbook. It is full of warmth and heartfelt devotion.

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@AuronMacintyre It's the "intensely nationalistic" part that masked a shallow Catholicism and lazy anti-Protestantism. Ireland's faith was rotten long before the public collapse.

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@Havein @Jordan_Bianchi @TheAthletic @AndrejevAlex He's a grown man. He kept pushing himself, asking for a "shot" from the "kindred doctor" after Watkins Glen. He likely kept treating the symptoms, in order to continue working hard, instead of treating the cause. It's not the doctors, it's the patient in so many tragic cases.

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@Swellybelly @Jordan_Bianchi @TheAthletic @AndrejevAlex Exactly. Who knows how many steroid shots he got, in order to keep pushing, keep working hard, as he always did. He was under enormous pressure to turn things around, both for himself and for RCR. In a sense, his uncompromising work ethic is likely what got the best of him.

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@SteveSkojec I had to stop watching his videos years ago. He's the poster boy for when scholasticism becomes your religion instead of, you know, the grace and glory of Jesus Christ.

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@IVMiles I am typically annoyed by Bird's (and Wright's) commentary on American evangelicalism, but he is right about the "pathological fear of not being the most conservative person in the room." Thanks to social media, it's worse than ever.

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@afc_angelo You don't understand racing. People who have tickets (like myself) take PTO, book hotels, sometimes flights, etc. for one of the biggest races of the year. The rain might delay it, but in no way would we ever just postpone it to the next weekend and throw the whole schedule off.

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@JonMcK1647 Makes sense. He was writing in the wake of Ritschl and the Ritschlians' attack on vicarious atonement. James Orr, James Denney, and many others put out great works on the atonement at this time. Very much the hot button issue of the day thanks to the Germans.

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@stephen_demsich @DailyGenevan If you've been on an RTS campus, it's nowhere near 50%. At a mainline seminary, it's 50% women or even higher. I say that as someone who has attended both RTS and one of the oldest mainline seminaries, all within the past decade or so.

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@Arachnyd1 @BrandenPreedy But a J.D. doesn't require a master's degree, whereas a D.Min. requires a master's degree. In that way, it's more like a Ph.D. Both are rigorous in different ways, given that the former is for pastors and the latter is for professors. Speaking generally, of course.

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@TGreenhutOD Well, I remember when (as a kid in the early 90's) everyone in North Carolina was a Redskins fan. Then the Panthers came, and it took no time for the fans to realign and new fans to emerge.