“Do something different. Sure, your child likes it when you take him out for pizza. But how about getting a slice at a nearby college town and then surprising him with tickets to a game?”
This paternal interaction sets the tone for respect and discernment in her dating years. If Dad is interested in you it will be feel natural for a guy to be deeply interested in you. One will expect nothing less.
HOW SHOULD A GUY CRACK THE GIRL CODE?:
“Does she go out of her way to be near you? You know, like when you u’re sitting with the guys at youth group . . . and she just happens to be in a seat right behind you (on more than one occasion!). Do you sense that she’s making an effort to talk to you? I don’t mean the Glad you’re here-type of small talk. Is she trying to get to know you through conversation? Is she genuinely interested in your life? Is she flirting with you? Whether we realize it or not, girls and guys flirt the same way: awkward body movements, goofy grins, dreamy stares. Bottom line: Don’t try to force romance. Keep your cool, muster up the courage and make an effort to befriend a lot of girls. You’ll know when the right one likes you.”
This are some good guidelines and discernment tools to help determine if a guy/girl will be interested in you romantically.
In his classic book Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis describes “the real snag” in creating a Christian society: “Most of us are not really approaching the subject in order to find out what Christianity says: We are approaching it in the hope of finding support from Christianity for the views of our own party . . . . A Christian society is not going to arrive until most of us really want it: and most of us are not going to want it until we become fully Christian.” This will not happen until enough individuals choose to become Christians. Even then, while our social ills may abate, they will not disappear.
“Now hold on there, Newman,” you are saying. “Wait just a cottonpickin’ minute. Aren’t you cherry picking from Christianity to find support for the views of your party.” Well, my party is unique among political parties in that it is consistent in its commitment to a philosophy which says, among other things, that government cannot solve problems, and that we should therefore not count on it to do so. Jesus, likewise, never suggested that we look to the government to solve our problems.
Paul stated many times that the law existed to teach us about how broken we are as people. It was a schoolmaster, to teach us what it was to be good — and how poor we are at such. The law was simply there to be some sort of standard while we were not yet ready for anything else.
The Law never died. Paul is very clear that we died to the law and that the law is still very much alive to those who are or chose to be under such. It exists for those who have not yet embraced grace.Those who still need such based on their old heart and their lack of ability to hear God which is a direct result of the presence of that old heart.
Libertarianism postulates a society that is largely governed by an extremely limited set of rules — the constitution and the associated violations of person and property. The rest is left up to the person/company as the Government has just walked away. Presumably, in the absence of government control, the public will vote to walk away from the products of abusive companies, band together in unions to fight them and generally orchestrate their lives in the most effective ways possible. There is a lot of truth there for it at least admits that the government is remarkably poor at solving anything other then wars — often not even those. (Reality is that whenever the Church goes looking for the law to assist in the eradication of evil, she always receives a law bent upon controlling her.)
However, Libertarianism is not some postulation of an endless class struggle. It also includes an assumption of the natural goodness of people for it assumes that the poor will be taken care of by private charity etc. It assumes that our delinquent churches will step up and resume their natural and long abdicated role in ministering to the broken — using the funds the now de-taxed society will have to give them for this purpose.
To be sure, the strength of the Libertarian case largely rests on the failure of other forms of government — not it’s own merits… It’s own merits rest on some critical assumptions (the goodness of other people for example) that may or may not be real. Its purpose is the very well justified counter balancing of Big-Brother style thought policing that both Republican and Democrat governments have aggressively pursued — not any reasonable chance of undoing +200yrs of federalism. However, it still begs the question: Would it work better?
My suspicion is that, if Paul was correct in his assessment of the law being a necessary schoolmaster, then Libertarianism is, as it’s proponents assume, the most effective form of government — but only for a society of believers. (The rest still need to be under the law for their hearts are bent upon destruction.)
It would, in either case, certainly bring a level of honesty to society: You would either have a society of class struggle or you will have a society that looks a lot like Acts 2:42-45 which describes First Century Christians who “devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship of the breaking of the bread and to prayer . . . . All the believers were together and had everything in common. Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to everyone as they had need.”
If Paul was correct, then Libertarianism will likely succeed to the degree that the society governed by such is Christian enough to cope with total freedom and fail to the degree that we are still bound up in avarice and control. Which one are we?
How Do People Get Saved if They Are Not Permitted to Attend Our Church?
If an unsaved person thinks they can spend the whole year having fun at God’s expense and tiptoe into our Bible believing church on Easter Sunday morning thinking that everything is just a-ok with Jesus, they are in for a big surprise! If our Deacons don’t smack ‘em upside their hell bound heads, they’ll at least call the police and have them arrested for trespassing and trying to break an entering into God’s Holy House! Praise Jesus! Friends, You and I both know that modernism has crept into almost every single church in this country except for ours. We put our foot down in 1952 and said NO! to the foolish modern idea of allowing the enemies of the cross – the unsaved – to fellowship with us. It’s unbiblical, anti-Christian, and downright dangerous to allow unsaved people into God’s house. God doesn’t allow it in Heaven, and as it is in Heaven, SO BE IT ON EARTH! Amen!”
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Landoverbaptist is a well deserved parody of a fictitious church.
Ok, yes I know I’m totally evil for posting anything from this guy/site — but I can’t resist — it’s just too true for so many churches.
Think about it:
What would happen tomorrow morning at your church’s 11:00am service if your local wino/street person decided to attend? He walks in the door and manages to offend at least one little old lady by telling her that she, “Surrr is Purdy,” in his overly loud and slurred voice. He stumbles his way into the sanctuary and collapses in the tenth pew from the front where he begins to hum some old hymn in an out of tune manner. The service starts and he decides to move closer to the front. Half way there, he stumbles, falls face first in the aisle and passes out there for the remainder of the service — snoring loudly.
Ok, what’s the likelihood that the police would be called to remove him — thus adding another Drunk and Disorderly charge to his rap sheet?
Matt 25:40 “Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me.”
I think he summarizes it best himself on a banner ad on the bottom of one of his pages where he states:
“The real Jesus forgives your jesus for being a greedy Republican warmonger.”
“New American Standard Bible®, The Lockman Foundation Used by permission.”
Convert the world to Christianity — kill gays and Catholics???
Imagine: you are a foot soldier in a paramilitary group whose purpose is to remake America as a Christian theocracy, and establish its worldly vision of the dominion of Christ over all aspects of life. You are issued high-tech military weaponry, and instructed to engage the infidel on the streets of New York City. You are on a mission – both a religious mission and a military mission — to convert or kill Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, gays, and anyone who advocates the separation of church and state – especially moderate, mainstream Christians. Your mission is “to conduct physical and spiritual warfare”; all who resist must be taken out with extreme prejudice. You have never felt so powerful, so driven by a purpose: you are 13 years old.
Isn’t it interesting how fundamentalist railing against the evils of your local video game retailer can so suddenly turn to embrace the same when it fits their self righteousness??? These same people would rise up en mass to decry the Palestinian’s video game which trains suicide bombers to kill the most — then Left Behind publishes this???
Let’s convert the world this weekend — by killing people who don’t agree with us.
U2 LYRICS
“Pride (In The Name Of Love)”
One man come in the name of love
One man come and go
One man come, he to justify
One man to overthrow
In the name of love
What more in the name of love
In the name of love
What more in the name of love
One man caught on a barbed wire fence
One man he resist
One man washed on an empty beach.
One man betrayed with a kiss
In the name of love
What more in the name of love
In the name of love
What more in the name of love
(nobody like you…)
Early morning, April 4
Shot rings out in the Memphis sky
Free at last, they took your life
They could not take your pride
In the name of love
What more in the name of love
In the name of love
What more in the name of love
In the name of love
What more in the name of love…
Bono had it so right…
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