Do not use Rabroker Heating/AC out of Waco/Temple/Killeen. They “serviced” my mom’s heater yesterday, and now it’s not working. So she’s an 82-year old woman in a 63 degree house, and apparently they’re fine with that.
When we use the word spiritual to describe abuse, we are talking about using that which is sacred—including God’s Word—to control, misuse, deceive, or damage a person created in His image. The pairing of those two words is diabolical.
East of Eden!
Lol
That looks so peaceful! Beautiful.
This is why it’s more discouraging to see all the people going along with him. It’s so blindingly obvious that he has no moral character whatsoever, so where are the people who do, or why do they line up behind him? The ends never justify the means…
I do seem to remember that, yeah.
A sign on a metal bookshelf that says "Apocalyptic Fiction has been moved to Current Affairs"
little library gallows humor for ya :'D
This morning’s sermon:
How We Behave
Our current series looks at how church communities used to follow the believe-behave-belong approach... but what does Jesus say about this?
In Jesus' loving life and ministry, He always followed a belong-behave-believe approach instead.
One of the benefits of reading a lot of history is that you realize how many people who were ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN they were doing a lot of good were, in fact, doing a lot of harm.
Certainty is a hell of a drug. Certainty combined with fame/power is especially dangerous.
Tag yourself: I'm "made daily with food"
I switched a while back and find DuckDuckGo to be how Google used to be before it stopped caring about actually showing the search results I was asking for. I haven’t figured out how to get rid of Gmail yet, but I got rid of Google calendar and use the Apple one instead.
This was always my problem with PSA as it was presented in the churches I attended - it seemed to make an abstract idea of “Justice” more important than God Himself, as though God was beholden to the principle Justice even if it contradicted another of His characteristics, such as mercy.
I have believed since high school that you can’t legislate morality; you can control people through laws, but if your goal is people coming to know Christ, then enacting laws around trying to compel “Christian” behavior will give you the exact opposite of what you want. My mom thinks I’m a heretic!
My son got sick constantly as a kid until we did a tonsillectomy/ear tubes. No more nebulizer, no more pneumonia, no more ear infections! They were a lifesaver.
Yes. The extremism and fundamentalist rigidity is the same on both ends of the spectrum, I’ve found. We have to be able to allow for complexity and nuance, like life…
Lol
The scene in the Money Pit where Tom Hanks walks into the room and sinks into the floor… just thinking about it starts me giggling!
Study begun pre-COVID finds remote work increased sleep by 1/2 hr/night, decreased commute by 4.5 hr/week replaced with work, family & leisure and led to healthier eating. Remote and hybrid employees report higher job satisfaction and well-being. farmingdale-observer.com/2025/05/16/s...
One advantage of having narcissistic people in your family is you recognize them when they show up outside your family as well.
I suspect there's something being said in Genesis 3 about the instinct for humanity to think that it is the peak of creation, yet it is so easily deceived by an animal.
Perhaps the "animal" in the story is also a statement about our most basic and biological impulses.
What the heck.
That’s beautiful!
"I thought so!" snapped Worldly-wiseman, "and it has happened unto you as to other weak men—who, meddling with things too high for them—do suddenly fall into the same bewilderment that you now suffer. In this perplexing state, they undertake dangerous ventures, to obtain—they know not what." "I know what I want to obtain," asserted Christian, "ease from my heavy burden!" "But why do you seek for ease in this perilous way," asked Worldlywiseman, "seeing that so many dangers attend it? Especially since, had you but sense to listen to me—I could direct you how to obtain what you desire, without all these dangers! Yes, and with my remedy, you shall gain much safety, friendship, and happiness!" "Please, Sir—reveal this secret to me!" begged Christian. Worldly-wiseman began, "Why, in yonder village named Morality—there dwells a gentleman whose name is Legality. He is a very sensible man, having a good reputation—who has ability to help remove such burdens like yours. Yes, to my knowledge, he has done a great deal of good this way—and besides, he has skill to cure those who are somewhat crazed in their minds, because of their burdens. To him you may go, and be helped in a very short while. His house is not quite a mile from here; and if he should not be at home himself—his handsome young son, whose name is Civility, can help you as well as the old gentleman himself! "There, I say, you may be eased of your heavy burden; and if you do not want to return to the City of Destruction, and I encourage you not to return—you may send for your wife and children to join you in this village. In the town of Morality, there are many vacant houses—one of which you may have at a reasonable rate. It is inexpensive to live there— and all the neighbors are honest and fashionable. To be sure—this will
Then Evangelist proceeded, saying, "Give more earnest attention to the things I shall tell you. I will now show you who deluded you—and to whom he sent you. The man whom you met is one named Mr. Worldlywiseman, and he is rightly called; partly, because he delights in worldly thinking, and partly because he loves worldly teaching—for it saves him from the doctrine of the Cross of Christ. Therefore he always goes to the Town of Morality to church. And because he is of this worldly temper— he seeks to oppose the way of the Cross. Now there are three things in this man's counsel, that you must utterly abhor: First, his turning you out of the right way. Secondly, his laboring to render the Cross odious to you. Thirdly, his setting your feet in that way which leads unto eternal death. "First, You must abhor his turning you out of the right way—and your consenting to his false guidance. This is to reject the counsel of God—for the sake of the counsel of the world. The Lord says, 'Make every effort to enter through the narrow-gate,' the gate to which I sent you. 'For narrow is the gate and straight is the way that leads to life, and only a few find it!' From this little narrow-gate, and from the narrow way—this wicked man has turned you, and has brought you almost to destruction! You must hate, therefore, his turning you out of the narrow way—and abhor yourself for hearkening to him. "Secondly, You must abhor his laboring to render the Cross odious unto you; for you are to prefer it 'before the treasures of Egypt!' Besides, Jesus, the King of glory has told you, that he who 'will save his life—shall lose it!' And, 'If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple!' Therefore I say, if any man labors to persuade you that the Lord's counsel will lead to your death—you must completely abhor his false doctrine. "Thirdly, You must hate his turning your feet into the way …
Christian Nationalism is another guise of the old charlatan Worldly Wiseman.
It abandons the journey to Celestial City under the guise of trying to renovate the City of Destruction by force. But even if it accomplishes all it sets out to do, the City of Destruction will still be Apollyon's domain.
Since we’re in a golden age of new Star Wars tv shows, I’ll again pitch “David Attenborough style nature documentaries but of fictional Star Wars creatures.”
No empire. No Jedi. Like, what the Jedi would watch on tv to relax after a stressful mission.
Try 5-13, the current Braves standings. 🤮
God isn't like people tell you. God is love.
Just because Elon Musk doesn't go on dates or pay taxes doesn't make it true of all autistic people.
