@7eleven rewards auth is down and the app isn't loading. The wife's not too happy about missing out on the 7/11 promotion today. Hopefully you extend it for tomorrow to make up for the bugginess today.
If you understood how wicked your own sin was,
how undeserving of grace you were,
how much your righteousness stunk like used menstrual rags to God’s nose,
You wouldn’t have time to worry about someone else’s sin.
And you’d be willing extend grace to any sinner that repents
Well, an AI that doesn't discriminate, by the very definition of the word, would be absolutely pointless. You discriminate constantly throughout the day. Discrimination regarding "protected" characteristics is likely what you mean, however that discrimination is lost to most people
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Don't dwell on the negative, but yearn for the positive. The best time to start was yesterday, the next best is today.
The song lyrics resonate: 'Till you can't
@FakeDamienScott@FATtoCHUBBY@CAMELCASTOff@Callunc Then, take the carcass/skin/fat and boil/simmer with some veggies for 12-24 hrs to get some very healthy bone broth. That broth can then be used by itself or as add-in for water with rice or quinoa and myriad other recipes.
@WilburJaywright@Roadman_Podcast It's stuck to the box...
The cardboard outer layer is stuck to the corrugations...
What truly defines a sticker? Aren't we all just stickers in this world?
Nah, it's definitely printing and not a sticker 🤣
It's always important to remember just how much it means to have a parent tell you they're proud of your accomplishments and how much they love you.
God may not be proud of my life choices (I fail Him a lot), but he still loves me beyond comprehension; so much that he sent Jesus
The Family Tree That Shook the World
Matthew 1:1–25
Every epic story needs an opening scroll, and Matthew hands us a genealogy that reads like a gritty drama trailer. This isn’t a sterile list of “begats.” It’s a highlight reel of God’s stubborn grace threading through broken people, foreign kings, and scandalous detours.
The chapter opens with a bold headline: “The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.” Two names, two covenants. Abraham: the promise of land and descendants. David: the promise of an eternal throne. Jesus is the bullseye where both arrows land.
The list itself is a masterclass in divine recycling.
Tamar (v. 3): disguised herself as a prostitute to secure justice from her father-in-law.
Rahab (v. 5): a Canaanite sex worker who hid Israelite spies and joined the covenant.
Ruth (v. 5): a Moabite widow who crossed borders for a new family.
Bathsheba (v. 6): “the wife of Uriah,” a reminder of David’s darkest hour—adultery and murder.
Four women, all outsiders or outcasts, woven into the bloodline of the Messiah. Matthew is shouting from page one: This King doesn’t need a spotless pedigree; He redeems the messy ones.
Then the bombshell in verses 18–25. Mary, a teenage fiancée, is pregnant—and Joseph knows the math doesn’t add up. In a culture where betrothal was legally binding, this is a death-sentence scandal. Joseph, described as a “just man,” plans a quiet divorce to spare her public shaming.
An angel crashes his sleep: “Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.” The child will be named Jesus—“Yahweh saves”—because He will rescue His people from the root problem: sin.
Joseph wakes up, cancels the divorce, and adopts the child as his legal son. In one decision, he secures Jesus’ claim to David’s throne and models obedience that costs everything. The chapter closes with the fulfillment of Isaiah 7:14: “Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel” (God with us). The eternal Word pitches His tent in a carpenter’s home.
The King Who Outran an Empire
Matthew 2:1–23
The birth announcement goes global, but not through a palace press release. Foreign stargazers—Magi from modern-day Iran or Iraq—follow a celestial GPS to Jerusalem asking, “Where is He who has been born king of the Jews?” Their arrival triggers a political earthquake.
Herod the Great, a paranoid tyrant with a palace full of yes-men, panics. He’s not even Jewish by birth; he’s a fake Jew Edomite and Roman puppet clinging to power. The priests quote Micah 5:2: Bethlehem, a tiny village six miles south, is the spot. Herod sends the Magi with a smile and a secret order: “Bring me the coordinates so I can ‘worship’ too.”
The star parks over a modest house. The Magi unload treasures—gold for a king, frankincense for a priest, myrrh for a burial. Gifts that whisper coronation, intercession, and death. They leave by a different route after a divine warning.
That night, an angel jolts Joseph awake again: “Take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt. Herod is about to search for the child to destroy him.” A midnight road trip—refugees crossing borders under cover of darkness. Herod, realizing he’s been outmaneuvered, orders the slaughter of every boy under two in Bethlehem. The cries fulfill Jeremiah 31:15: “Rachel weeping for her children.”
Years later, after Herod’s death, another dream: “Return.” Joseph settles in Nazareth, a nowhere town in Galilee. The child grows up labeled “the Nazarene,” fulfilling the prophetic sneer: “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” (see Judges 13:5 and Isaiah 11:1’s wordplay on “branch”).
From a carpenter’s shop in a backwater village, the King who outran an empire begins His quiet conquest of the world.
@elonmusk Just a note, the listing of 100 MBPS on the site might be read as 100 Mega Bytes Per Second due to the capital B, Mbps refers to Mega Bits Per Second. Have your website copy team ensure they're advertising the correct speeds to avoid someone bringing false advertising claims.