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  1. Confessional Lutheran

    Age of Discovery ( inspired from Happy Columbus Day! Thread)

    Which itself was a gift from Mediterranean Europe to the New World, wasn't it?
  2. Confessional Lutheran

    Age of Discovery ( inspired from Happy Columbus Day! Thread)

    Christopher Columbus ushered in a new era for Europeans as a result of his voyages to the Americas in the 1490s. This era, known today as the Age of Discovery, began with Columbus' voyages and closed in the eighteenth century. It brought about the Columbian Exchange...
  3. Confessional Lutheran

    Happy Columbus Day!

    Christopher Columbus was a primary reason that we had the trans- Atlantic food exchange, but I did start a thread regarding international food. :) I started a thread about the Age of Discovery elsewhere.. I'm wondering if the Columbian Exchange could just be subsumed as part of that, or if it...
  4. Confessional Lutheran

    International Food

    I haven't been overseas, ever, but I have had the opportunity to try all kinds of fairly decent food from different parts of my own country. I've enjoyed Cajun food in Acadiana, Tex- Mex in Texas, Chinese, Japanese and Thai food in Northern Virginia. I'm not too crazy about French food and I've...
  5. Confessional Lutheran

    So... What are YOU doing? - Part 4

    I'm getting ready for my therapist appointment.
  6. Confessional Lutheran

    Happy Columbus Day!

    Nice. Unfortunately, while I love Cajun food, I'm not too keen on French food. :)
  7. Confessional Lutheran

    What are your views on the 2nd coming?

    Green, with a literal belief in the Second Coming of Christ and the establishment of the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth. I think the " first resurrection" has already happened, with our baptism and salvation assured in Jesus Christ.
  8. Confessional Lutheran

    Happy Columbus Day!

    Perhaps, but that mutual hostility does have historical precedent. You can even see that rivalry when you consider the Anglo- Americans who migrated down to Louisiana to teach in the mid- twentieth century. Apparently, the local Cajun children were forbidden to use French while they were in...
  9. Confessional Lutheran

    What Good is Prayer?

    When I prayed for healing, I trusted God to work to answer my prayer and He did, but He did not do so without means, namely, not without the doctor and the medications he prescribed. So also do we discern God's will for us in the Holy Scriptures. What applies to us collectively as Christ's...
  10. Confessional Lutheran

    Happy Columbus Day!

    Thank you! I learned something new today. I thought that England and France still cordially hated each other.
  11. Confessional Lutheran

    What Good is Prayer?

    I pray because I like to keep the lines of communication open between myself and the Almighty. God's not a genie. He's the Creator, Sovereign and Savior of the Universe. To pray merely for gain misses the whole point of prayer, which ought to include confession and praise as well as petitions...
  12. Confessional Lutheran

    Happy Columbus Day!

    Nice, isn't it? The British Empire needed some place to send the overflow of convicted felons since 1783.
  13. Confessional Lutheran

    Happy Columbus Day!

    The Polynesians tended to be rather late in their discoveries, yes. I understand that the Australian Aborigines are said to be the oldest " out of Africa" peoples and that the ancestors of the Native Americans came out of Northeast Asia when the Bering Land Bridge still existed. In the United...
  14. Confessional Lutheran

    Happy Columbus Day!

    I am sorry that things are that way where you are, Josiah. I wouldn't be opposed to an Indigenous People's Day, either, but I think that Columbus Day ought to be retained. In many ways, his little jaunt prevented the starvation and endless poverty of millions of people in Europe and provided...
  15. Confessional Lutheran

    Happy Columbus Day!

    When I was a kid, Columbus Day was regarded as a holiday for someone who heroically braved a vast, unknown sea to find a western passage to China and the Orient. Unbeknownst to him and the three ships he was leading ( Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria), when they first sighted land, it was land in a...
  16. Confessional Lutheran

    So... What are YOU doing? - Part 4

    Now I'm frying up some hamburger patties before I go to work.
  17. Confessional Lutheran

    So... What are YOU doing? - Part 4

    I came back from Church and Sunday School about forty- five minutes ago. The 8:00 Divine Service had Holy Communion, so I attended that. We finished watching that Luther movie in Sunday School ( " it's still all about Jesus!") at 9:15 and now, I'm back home, drinking the rest of the coffee. I'm...
  18. Confessional Lutheran

    So... What are YOU doing? - Part 4

    I got home from work nearly two hours ago and I'm winding down for bed.
  19. Confessional Lutheran

    USA "EVANGELICALS" - What's Behind the Huge Support of Trump?

    Despite the strong temptation to segue into what I might think other countries' problems are ( and they are many and manifold), I'll just stick to topic ( respect being another American trait). No, Americans don't generally vote their moral convictions because each individual might have several...
  20. Confessional Lutheran

    How Faith Blesses Our Lives on Earth

    I call myself a " Confessional Lutheran," for that is what I am, but I am a Christian first. For me, the Lord's Presence is in fact a given, here and now, most fully in Word and Sacrament. Jesus Christ is my Lord as well as my Savior. That means that I am bound to obey His Commandments, which...
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