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  1. JohnDB

    To live is Christ To Die is Gain

    What do you think Paul was saying and intended? What does this look like today? How should this opinion be expressed in our lives? What does a person who believes this behave or do?
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    Logistics Nightmare Looming

    Ok... So there has been a war against petroleum and its use. BUT We thought it was on personal use vehicles.... BUT Its not.... Tractor trailer drivers are usually a bunch of small businesses. The ones visiting farms to pick up grain or chickens or whatever to bring to the processing...
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    Life Support

    With today's technology the doctors and nurses can keep people alive as never before. They can bring people back from the brink of death and get them alive and conscious. At what point do you think the cutting off of the medical care should be? Quality of life is part of the equation...
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    How Robots Determine What You Think...AKA: mind control

    Yes, there is a mind controlling game afoot. You are being heavily influenced by mind control every time you turn on an electronic device. From social media to broadcast news....they feed each other. ESPECIALLY topics that have never been politicized before now are politics....and it's...
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    Home Ownership for Millenials (humor)

    So...since so many Millenials have bought their first home....there's a few things that you need to know now that you have settled in and are getting used to the place. You can decorate and paint the Walls and ceilings with any stencil or mural you want. However certain colors and sharpie...
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    Income Tax Refunds

    Are you getting one? Have you already gotten it? What are you going to do with the money?
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    Banking Failures

    https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/first-republic-shares-crash-60-regional-bank-crisis-confidence-spreads Here's another one. These banks aren't exactly retail banks. These are investment Banks....kinda like a Charles Schwab or JP Morgan except instead of regular stocks These banks are for...
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    What is worse?

    Offering your parents a place to live with you out of a sense of obligation... Or your parents actually taking you up on the offer. Reasons?
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    Snow Report

    How deep is the Snow in your area? Got boxes from Amazon out for delivery? Think you are gonna be able to find them in the snow on your porch? Think the delivery man is gonna make it through the snow?
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    I Have Always Wanted To.....

    Here's a fun thread I seen on another forum. What have you always wanted to do? (But haven't yet) Travel? Build Something? Take part in something?
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    Ferguson's Paradox and the Trinity

    Shortly before the Colonies in America started their fight for independence (about 35 years before) a scientist was at a dinner party when a brewha started over the theology of the trinity. A watchmaker was present and tried to get the scientist Ferguson involved in the discussion. For...
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    Do You Want To Be Well?

    Boy howdy is this thread title a loaded question. What is the honest answer? It seems everyone is throwing out medical advice these days. Everyone gives out mental health advice too. But what price are people willing to pay for health? Just as an EXAMPLE ONLY....knee surgery. Knee...
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    What Constitutes Scriptures?

    Since everyone seems to be questioning the well traveled paths lately.... Why do you believe that certain books are Holy and some are not? Age? Authorship? Content? We have the 66 books as Cannon. Why? Why do you think other books were excluded? Your immortal Soul is dependent upon the...
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    King Cake, 12Th Night Cake

    This apparently is a very popular Cake the world around. When did you last have some and when was the last time you found the "bean" ?
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    The Chosen

    On a suggestion from a friend of mine I started watching this series. So...I have thoughts but wanted to hear yours on the subject. What do you think of the series?
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    Brutality Ignored?

    I've been listening to a lot of stuff lately about how some people are super sensitive to brutality... And we somehow forget that crucifixion was extremely brutal and ugly. We watch clips from the Ukrainian war and decry the brutality we see there. We want to ignore all the brutality...
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    Passion Week

    So... Today I went to church for the first time in a long time... I wasn't amused. oh the high dollar casual clothes and the high dollar Audio Visual equipment with the best lights money can buy while using high dollar wood to build the stage out of that is "unfinished" and made to look...
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    Kingdom

    So... I'd like to start a discussion about the "Kingdom of Heaven" the Kingdom IN Heaven" the "Kingdom of God" and etc. What exactly are each of these different terms describing? (If they are different) What are the nuances? Why the shift in use?
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    The Great Resignation

    This is a fairly new thing. Jobs are plentiful but there is a shortage of available talent to work them. Food service industries especially. Plenty of people wanting to eat at a restaurant but very few willing to work in one. And it's an issue I'm facing as soon I will have some jobs to...
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    Coerced Speech or Freedom of Speech

    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-59882444 Well Christians finally won one. We don't have to congratulate homosexuals getting married anymore.