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I don't recall ever staying after the meal except maybe once, which was long enough ago I don't really remember. From what I recall my last church had a simple progression from receiving line to service to meal, and at the end of the meal people went home. Anyone particularly close to the family...

A different kind of workout. Breaking my house was a lot of work these last two days, as I took down the bottom half of a chimney stack. Breaking it all apart is easy enough with a rotary hammer - a nice fat chisel bit slams into the mortar seams until they give, then a big wrecking bar pulls...

If you have a watch and you're pushing something along the ground it may not register, as your wrist isn't making the movements typically associated with steps. The same can happen when pushing a shopping cart or a lawnmower or similar. The old Fitbit One was a handy unit - long battery life...

Maybe, but if your $14,000,000 mansion is destroyed by fire maybe the first port of call would be to look for a cheaper property before asking your fan base to help you fund another mansion. If you can afford the downpayment on a mortgage for a mansion that price the chances are you can buy a...

My suggested workout today was sprint repeats. The suggested intervals my watch throws at me are much too easy - it gives me long enough to recover between short intervals that they aren't much of a challenge. I didn't want to do sprints today so decided to take a gentle run, with walk breaks as...

It can be pretty intense, depending on how deep it is and what area you're clearing. Sometimes my wife and I have chalked up several thousand steps just clearing snow from our driveway. When it's deep and heavy, and we need to walk back and forth working with partial shovel widths at a time...

Also true in the winter, although the people who attend the gym regularly are more likely to be the more healthy ones. Yesterday I finally got a run in, for the first time in a week. Today I walked because we had snow and wind. For much of the walk there was no wind and I thought I could have...

If people want to give to someone who has unimaginably more than they have, they are free to do so. It seems a bit tone deaf to ask for money to replace your third mansion when others have literally nothing left, but that seems to sum up a lot of celebrity culture. It's all about me, after all...

I'd probably tell my wife to grab anything that was specifically important to her, while I gathered up things like my laptop and a few practical items. I'd need my laptop to do things like get online and make sure bills were paid, and I have digital copies of documents that are important. We...

Fair call, the difference between Calvinists and the ones you called hyper-Calvinists (not unreasonably, IMO) is a good distinction to repeat here.

They aren't the worst I've walked in. Sometimes I've had to lean hard into the wind, and times it's been hard enough to make me stumble sideways a step or two when a gust catches me. I wish there was a gym nearer me, the trouble is that when the weather is nasty and I don't really want to be...

Hard to say in many ways. I moved from the city to the country and really enjoy having lots of space and a house big enough to have space for things, but at the same time I miss being able to go out for the evening without considering driving home again. It's really handy meeting a friend at the...

Given how liberal Canada is compared to the US I can't imagine a Republican president would want more liberals in the Senate. That alone would suggest he's not serious about Canada. Controlling the Panama Canal might have its advantages but would also come with a lot of costs. Is he proposing...

That's OK, I can collect if that's the only reason not to do it. Just let me know where to collect it :)

Exactly. The original post talked about Calvinists and the view that God is responsible for people going to hell, a view that I think leads into some of these questions.

Wow, this thread went quiet for a while. It's not much fun exercising outdoors for me either, I've only been for one run this month because of the cold and the wind (the wind is more of a problem). Today looks like it's going to be another case of bundling up and going for a walk. I'm tired of...

I don't honestly think it makes any difference. Some people wear crosses because they are committed Christians, others wear crosses because it's a cool piece of jewelry. If you're wearing a piece of jewelry that's clearly at odds with the message you're trying to convey that potentially changes...

A shiny black Lamborghini Aventador Roadster shipped to my home address in recognition of my numerous erudite posts would be nice. (I suspect that's not the kind of suggestion you were seeking :P )

Sure, but it requires that we have the ability to choose between the two. If Adam and Eve had no choice but to eat the forbidden fruit how can we say it was their fault that they did eat it?

One trouble with predestination is that it opens up huge cans of worms every which way. If Adam and Eve were preordained to eat the forbidden fruit then can we say it was their fault?