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  1. Matthias

    What books are you currently reading?

    * How high is ”your” TBR mountain? *
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    Reason for The Crusades explained

    https://www.militarytimes.com/veterans/military-history/2024/12/25/christmas-truce-the-western-front-in-1914/
  3. Matthias

    The happy thread was dead. Long live the happy thread!

    * Spellcheck is a fickle friend. *
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    The happy thread

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    Reason for The Crusades explained

    What is the estimated global population of Christians today? A commonly accepted ballpark figure is 2.4 billion. Let’s work with that. “Christian” has been grotesquely defined as an “armed, ready to kill” follower of Jesus. * Please pause a moment to think about that before proceeding. * Are...
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    Reason for The Crusades explained

    Yes. Someone quoted a few of them early in the thread. (See post #6.) Someone quoted him specifically early in the thread. (See again post #6.) They stand as early witnesses against the “you are not a follower of Jesus if you aren’t armed, ready to kill” teaching, but that hasn’t persuaded...
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    Reason for The Crusades explained

    Enemies of Jesus waging war on Jesus and his followers, his brothers and sisters, isn’t a difficult concept to imagine. The concept of brothers and sisters of Jesus - “I have called you friends“ (John 15:15) - waging war on Jesus and his brothers and sisters: easy to imagine or difficult to...
  8. Matthias

    QUOTE for the day

    “Self-sufficiency is incompatible with the work of God in any age.”- Allen P. Ross
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    Reason for The Crusades explained

    As I was thinking about your question, Matthew 25:40 came to mind. ”Then the king will answer them, ‘I‘m telling you the truth: when you did it to one of the least significant of my brothers and sisters here, you did it to me’” (NTFE). The general principle is what I’m looking at in the...
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    The happy thread

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    The happy thread

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    The happy thread