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Our freedoms (in the USA) are supposed to include the right of privately owned businesses to refuse services for most reasons other than discriminatory practices aimed at "protected" groups. These rights clearly have been eroded, in part by laws intended to protect civil liberties. It would seem...

There's no point to the good news unless people are first aware of the bad.

I loved Jesus for about 36 years or so before receiving the gospel and being born again of His Spirit. Lots of people love Jesus, the son of man, but not everyone receives Him as God. Even the Apostles were not born again until they received His Spirit at pentecost, despite some being given...

No one is "converted" by a human being, that's the job of the Holy Spirit, but from a carnal viewpoint, yes and yes. But in response to the threads title: 14 How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how...

Yes, I know the verse and it's one of the few that nearly every Christian has memorized, as well as many non Christians. However, some people have had pretty awful lives and the prospect of an everlasting one doesn't really have a great appeal without an understanding that life can be good...

Nope, didn't see a thing, but it was the first time that I was able to see the milky way in quite a few years. I was playing with a phone app called SkEye and could identify constellations, stars and planets just by holding my phone up and pointing my arm at what I was trying to identify. I...

John 3:16 is indeed a description of the gospel, but I've never met a born again Christian who recieved the Lord based upon that verse (though I certainly haven't met them all.) The verse doesn't address the "bad news" of godlessness, the fallen human nature and the universal need for a savior...

As a kid I liked star gazing and my parents used their grocery savings stamps to order a small tassco refractory telescope for me. I couldn't use it on school nights and it wasn't powerful enough to distinguish the bands on Saturn's rings or clearly make out more than 4 of Jupiter's moons, so I...

It's a generational thing. In my youth and in the USA, the only men that wore earrings were of dubious sexual orientation or pirates in the movies. The culture has changed. Masculinity is actually frowned upon or redefined. Men are told to embrace their feminine side or their inner child. The...

Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. I grew up on Long Island through the late 50s and 60s and I'm unaware of any outbreak of interdimensional monsters on long island then or since then, (but we did experience a lot of UFO sightings. )

Context is key. 1 James, a bondservant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad: Greetings. The letter was written to the 12 tribes of the dispersion, to hebrews under the law of Moses and in chapter 4 to those judging and fighting with each other...

Truth for Life, featuring the teaching of a modest preacher named Alistair Begg, is freely available as podcast downloads. I've always found his radio show edifying and comforting, his doctrine biblically sound. He's not prone to outlandish interpretations or sensationalism, but does draw on...

It's about a parallel world of darkness and dark forces released by scientific experiments. The main characters are all children, one an escaped subject of experimentation raised in confinement, but with psychic powers. Its basically another war between good and evil, with those on the side of...

The NOAA has posted an alert of a potential geomagnetic storm hitting the Earth today, the result of a coronal mass ejection. These usually create the light show called Aurora borealis visible in the night skies at locations closer to the Earth's magnetic poles. You might want to unplug your...

NOAA is predicting a geomagnetic storm today and other possible contact with a CME tomorrow, so I guess this puts your theory to the test. We're expecting clear skies tonight, so I plan on doing a little sky watching tonight. Maybe I'll finally see the Aurora borealis.

People tend to miss a lot when they dismiss reading the Old Testament because of Christ's fulfillment of the law, and focus upon the New Testament as though God "changed His mind." The Old Testament describes all of redemptive history, not just prophetically, but through the foreshadowing of...

Thus says the Lord who made you And formed you from the womb, who will help you: ‘Fear not, O Jacob My servant; And you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen. Isaiah 44:2

I worked for the builders. We maintained the Port Authority's police, maintenance, and operations radio, public address, and CCTV systems. The control point for our police radio primary systems were on the top floor of one of the towers. Our radiax antenna systems ran through the buildings...

I became a recreational user as a teenager and just enjoyed the experience, but realized much later that I was self medicating for a combination of physical ailments and psychological problems. I managed to breeze through University even though smoking pretty much nonstop for the last two...