Thank you for this - "While you wait for that, however, you may not hold anyone to a standard of your own making. You can’t judge others according to your inclinations and assumptions. You can’t decide not to forgive. You can’t withhold your stuff from people who, rightly or wrongly, decide they need it instead of you. And all of this seems, in human terms, to be impossible.
The only way it works is if you discover that God has the power, the authority, and the desire to put the world back in its proper order. Because he gave his life for you, you can give yours for people who won’t be able to acknowledge, nor even perceive the gift."
I think your predictions in "two" are extremely likely to come true. I wish I could imagine it going another way, but I cannot. I'm sure that you are correct.
The new Times Square statue looks like another case of the postmodern rejection of what is beautiful. The idea is that we are supposed to find the unattractive to be beautiful. What's sad is the utter futileness of this. You cannot change human nature. People will always find beautiful people more attractive than those who are ugly. No amount of social conditioning will ever change this.
I first learned about the Mississippi Squirrel Revival from a high school classmate almost 40 years, after my family had moved from the Baltimore area to rural central Virginia, when he brought the record to school. I loved it then and still find it funny.
Regarding your thoughts on the way things will go with the new pope, I think that 1.) the subtlety of the leftward push you mention resonates with my impression of how wicked people often try to infiltrate the church. 2.) I often think these days that the entire church worldwide, Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox is headed for a a major slip and a major unification around those who believe the orthodox faith once delivered to the saints, and those who follow the path of apostasy and the spirit of the age. All those who love the truth will forge and ecumenical unity despite our differences, and all those who hate it will form an ecumenical unity despite their differences.
I had a good chuckle over “The Great Squirrel Revival”, which I had not heard in eons. Here’s a link to a classic story in the same vein, told by the late Southern Gospel singer, Wendy Bagwell. https://youtu.be/2Wne0Q3ZnjU?si=PvDhTf-p0oT3_gBE
Thank you for this - "While you wait for that, however, you may not hold anyone to a standard of your own making. You can’t judge others according to your inclinations and assumptions. You can’t decide not to forgive. You can’t withhold your stuff from people who, rightly or wrongly, decide they need it instead of you. And all of this seems, in human terms, to be impossible.
The only way it works is if you discover that God has the power, the authority, and the desire to put the world back in its proper order. Because he gave his life for you, you can give yours for people who won’t be able to acknowledge, nor even perceive the gift."
Yes. I second this thank you.
Leggings are not pants.
I think your predictions in "two" are extremely likely to come true. I wish I could imagine it going another way, but I cannot. I'm sure that you are correct.
The new Times Square statue looks like another case of the postmodern rejection of what is beautiful. The idea is that we are supposed to find the unattractive to be beautiful. What's sad is the utter futileness of this. You cannot change human nature. People will always find beautiful people more attractive than those who are ugly. No amount of social conditioning will ever change this.
I like how the young man on the screen to the left is looking at it (or us?). Says a lot!
I first learned about the Mississippi Squirrel Revival from a high school classmate almost 40 years, after my family had moved from the Baltimore area to rural central Virginia, when he brought the record to school. I loved it then and still find it funny.
Regarding your thoughts on the way things will go with the new pope, I think that 1.) the subtlety of the leftward push you mention resonates with my impression of how wicked people often try to infiltrate the church. 2.) I often think these days that the entire church worldwide, Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox is headed for a a major slip and a major unification around those who believe the orthodox faith once delivered to the saints, and those who follow the path of apostasy and the spirit of the age. All those who love the truth will forge and ecumenical unity despite our differences, and all those who hate it will form an ecumenical unity despite their differences.
I had a good chuckle over “The Great Squirrel Revival”, which I had not heard in eons. Here’s a link to a classic story in the same vein, told by the late Southern Gospel singer, Wendy Bagwell. https://youtu.be/2Wne0Q3ZnjU?si=PvDhTf-p0oT3_gBE
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