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Unfortunately, the last few decades have seen the rise of what can best be described as “lawfare” in our nation. It is the practice of using the law as an instrument of political power instead of a measure of justice. The tactic is typically advanced by Democrats to try and punish political...

The raising of hands does signal a touchdown during a football game. However, in Christian worship it in no way implies that one is closer to the Lord. In fact, the majority of Christians don’t engage in this practice. In modern times, this has originated with charismatic groups and modern...

That they aren’t.

Correct, not in that term. Enlightenment, nirvana, whatever term from the eastern religions that you would wish to apply.

I pretty much stopped playing them after the EA Sports cancelled the NCAA football series and I finished Skyrim for the third time. Don’t even have a console anymore.

Buddhism is a distortion. It attempts to take certain tools encouraged to engender self reflection and ascetism and make them a means of salvation apart from Christ, Just as certain Christian sounding sects would attempt to make good works a means of salvation apart from Christ...and others...

I think that you’ve come up with the right answer in referencing 1st Corinthians 8. The first Jerusalem council‘s instruction was to avoid meat sacrificed to idols, but understand that those instructions were (1j specific to a mixed congregation of Jewish and gentile Christians and (2) specific...

My friend, monks and nuns in Christianity predate the origin of the Roman Catholic Church by almost 800 years. Christian monasticism first had its beginnings in the Egyptian deserts when certain believers found that they as individuals needed to live apart from society to keep themselves from...

Sometimes, loving people involves stopping them from pursuing a course of action. If your child was going to commit suicide would you let them? Or would you seek to prevent it even if that meant calling the police, getting a court commital, and holding them against their will? We have a...

i long ago learned to stop asking God “why” because my little brain is too small to comprehend his whys. I believe a fellow named Job learned this lesson a while back as well. As for killing them off, who says that He was responsible for that?

Trick.

Not to butt in with unwanted advice...and I’m not sure how old you are, but if an abnormal mass was attached to me, i would want an ultrasound now with a follow up in six months. Particularly if you have any sort of history in your family.

Psalm 141. Done!

Proverbs 31. Y’all have just been Jesus Juked. :) Oh, and Merry Christmas...

I’m hiring a president, not a preacher. Samson has his Delilah, and yet he was God’s instrument to knock down the temple of the Philistines.

Indeed. We don’t gossip, we’re just nosey. Oh, and with regards to meeting someone at work, I wouldn’t advise it in today’s HR environment. I know two colleagues who ran afoul of HR when relationships which started at work went badly.

A fellow alumnus of an “I kissed dating goodbye” youth/young adult group I see.

We’re used to hearing Roman Catholic claims that it was the original church that Peter built. In fact, prior to it falling out of communion with the rest of Christendom in 1054, there was no such thing as the Roman Catholic Church. Most of what we consider to be Roman Catholic teachings...

Yeah. Frankly I’m not even sure what he means by “beyond the cross”. Jesus himself went beyond the cross and rose again on the third day. That event has deep meaning... https://www.oca.org/reflections/berzonsky/veils