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I think given that one of the gifts is "faith" we can say that the evidence of the Holy Spirit is the perseverance of faith in Christ Jesus. Unfortunately many Christians forget the more standard or less sensational fruits, such as faith, knowledge, patience, kindness, and wisdom and elevate the...

My wife bought me a atlas published the year and with facts from the year I was born.....I looked through it when I got it but haven't much since. I should look again.

Pastor says words of institution then the elements are distributed by trained members of the church. The elements are (strangely) Hawaiian bread and grape juice (normal in Methodist church). Nearly everyone (probably 99%) does intinction.

Usually goodwill as they are the most convenient.

Indeed. This is one of my main issues with these matters, the attributing of miracles due to some intervention of a Christian who passed away in these instances is nonsense.

I have been an active member at several churches, and nobody has ever reached out from any of them when I left. Several of them I was very active in, one a member of the Knights of Columbus (third degree) and a member for nearly 10 years. I never left in a contentious manner or anything like...

I think the way the Roman Catholic Church decides who is a saint is deeply flawed. While it is a tragedy how this young person died, I can't see how his chaste life is better than so many young Christians and I have deep reservations attributing any miracle to a "saint".

I feel they are building for a 25th amendment or they will threaten him with it privately and he will resign. He does not want to resign and is incredibly inflexible with that option, they will have to force his hand. Broadly the press has turned against him and every few hours something new...

Only three times in my life - two of which were right after I got separated before my divorce. I am not proud of any of those times, I hate feeling that way when I drank too much.

I rent pretty frequently. Last time in May and then next week I will again. I have never experienced any fees other than airports cost more to rent from than off site due to airport charges. Also Avis will charge you for gas if you drive less than 75 miles, even if you bring it in full, so best...

This could come back to haunt me, but I believe the Democrats have backed themselves into a corner with the race games and DEI so as to preclude Newsom being a realistic Presidential candidate - another white male. IF Biden is replaced my money would be on Gov. Whitmer, Governor Moore, or Vice...

HSR is not really intended for long distances. Yes there are some people that take a series of high speed trains from Madrid to London, but they are rare, and it is not a single seat on one train. HSR is really a point to point short-medium distance solution. Routes where a flight is 1-3 hours...

Unfortunately no, that is one of the things I love about the RCC. Having the option of going to a service daily is wonderful.

I disagree, if anything following it "line by line" is how the Pharisees ended up in the strict and human-centric thought of the 1st century and in the Rabbinic law we have today. I am certainly not saying to skip line by line study, I am advocating to study line by line to understand the...

I agree, perhaps I was not being clear. I don't think that teaching line by line or verse by verse is the best way to teach the meaning of the text. When I said that our pastor teaches on a "few verses" I meant the natural starting and ending point for a subject in a chapter or divides the...

Not in the Sunday sermon, but usually the teaching is based on a few verses at a time. The Bible was not intended to be divided up between verses, so teaching line by line, verse by verse can be misleading to the intent of the author, sometimes. It is better taken in larger chunks or in context...

I think it depends on the age, but a nice Bible is pretty much always appropriate, even for babies. Babies can receive those white Precious Moments NKJV Bibles, adults you have a lot more choices. It may also depend on the denomination, Lutherans may like a nice leather bound Small Catechism...

Usually no. Only very rarely have I seen anyone change their point of view on a given topic online. The best we can generally aim for is understanding, which is not often how people aim to interact online.

My copy is 755 pages (not including the index). I suspect they can vary in length based on a number of factors. Suffice to say that it is LONG. I find the length to be a strength as it covers most questions the laity may have. Not my RCIA, it may have been mentioned a few times, but were not...

Slip of the tongue, it follows several words that start with "w" in his statement just prior. "I cannot wait for the day we win, we will, we're white..." like him or not I think anyone stopping to think for a moment can see how it would happen.