🚨Best rebuttal with the truth I have heard against reparations.

T.G.I.F. - Today God is First E.D.G.S.B.F. - Every Day God Should Be First Humility in Relationships "All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, 'God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.'" - 1 Peter 5:5b I'll never forget the first time I discovered what a feeling was. It was in my early forties. "Surely not!" you may be thinking. Yes, it is true. Since then, I have discovered many men still live in this condition. It took an older mentor to help me understand the difference between information and a feeling. Wives are frustrated because their husbands share information, but not their feelings. They want to know what is going on inside their man. The fact is, most men have not been taught to identify feelings, much less how to share them. It is something that men must learn to do because it is not a natural trait. If they do share their feelings, society often portrays them as weak. No man willingly wants to be portrayed as weak. In order to become an effective friend and leader, one must learn to be vulnerable with others and develop an ability to share feelings. It is a vital step to becoming a real person with whom others can connect emotionally. This is not easy to do if your parents did not teach you to share your emotional life with others. Emotional vulnerability is especially hard for men. Author Dr. Larry Crabb states, Men who as boys felt neglected by their dads often remain distant from their own children. The sins of fathers are passed on to children, often through the dynamic of self-protection. It hurts to be neglected, and it creates questions about our value to others. So to avoid feeling the sting of further rejection, we refuse to give that part of ourselves we fear might once again be received with indifference. When our approach to life revolves around discipline, commitment, and knowledge [which the Greek influence teaches us] but runs from feeling the hurt of unmet longings that come from a lack of deeper relationships, then our efforts to love will be marked more by required action than by liberating passion. We will be known as reliable, but not involved. Honest friends will report that they enjoy being with us, but have trouble feeling close. Even our best friends (including spouses) will feel guarded around us, a little tense and vaguely distant. It's not uncommon for Christian leaders to have no real friends. [Larry Crabb, Inside Out (Colorado Springs, Colorado: Navpress, n.d.), 98-99.] If this describes you, why not begin on a new journey of opening up your life to others in a way that others can see who you really are? It might be scary at first, but as you grow in this area, you will find new freedom in your life. Then, others will more readily connect with you.

Tabletalk Devotions with R.C. Sproul Duration: 365 days A Glorious Future Matthew 13:36–43 “Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear” (v. 43). Today’s passage contains Jesus’ interpretation of the parable of the wheat and the tares (Matt. 13:36–43), which presents problems for the twenty-first century Bible student. Simply put, it is difficult to discern whether or not this parable teaches that unbelievers will exist alongside believers in the visible covenant community until the return of Christ. Many godly scholars teach that the parable in question is concerned mainly with the church and the authenticity of the faith of its professing members. Scripture, of course, teaches that we will often be unable to distinguish those who profess faith falsely from the true believers in the institutional church until Judgment Day. Yet this point is probably not the emphasis of the parable of the wheat and the tares. Christ says the field represents the “world,” not the “kingdom” or the “church” (v. 38). Most likely, Jesus is focusing on the work of the Son of Man and Satan within the world in general, not the church particularly. What then is the parable’s purpose? Because today’s passage follows the parables of the mustard seed and the leaven (vv. 31–33), Jesus seems to be dealing with the apparent delay of the kingdom’s consummation. Look at things from the disciples’ viewpoint. This Nazarene is doing messianic miracles (11:1–6) and claiming absolute authority (12:1–14); yet, the kingdom He inaugurates is not crushing its human opposition (vv. 22–24). As one author has said, the disciples want to know how the kingdom could allow its enemies to go unchecked. Jesus does not give a full answer in Matthew 13:36–43, but He does say the apparent delay of final judgment does not mean it has been cancelled. As Christ plants the Gospel in the hearts of His people, the Devil works against Him. Satan is ever present, striving to put out the Light of the world. The Adversary craftily disguises his plans as good things, much as darnel plants (the weed) look like wheat in the earliest stages of growth. Pulling up the darnel cannot be done without pulling up the wheat, and the wheat cannot be harvested until it has all matured. Until then, the Son of Man allows wheat and darnel to grow together lest the kingdom’s harvest come before all of His grain is ready. Coram deo: Living before the face of God Gloriously, at the time of God’s harvest we who have suffered the onslaught of the Devil and the scorn of the world will shine brightly, just like the Lord Himself (Matt. 13:43). John Calvin comments, “What a remarkable consolation! The sons of God, who now lie covered with dust, or are held in no estimation, or even are loaded with reproaches, will then shine in full brightness, as when the sky is serene, and every cloud has been dispelled.”

Piss on his head. I believe it is about time that Americans show these Muslims whose country this is. Libtard Leftists are exempt from doing the right thing because, you are pussies anyway.

Piss on his head.

Well, one thing is for sure, if ANYBODY thinks that a moronic or any song will dissuade a rapist from raping you are severely deluded. If a man/woman is going to rape, there is nothing short of a weapon which will stop him/her.

Case For Christ Bible Duration: 365 days Why Is Archaeology Important? Deuteronomy 29:22–24 If we can trust the Bible when it tells us about straightforward earthly things that can be verified, then we are more likely to trust it in areas where we can’t directly verify it in an empirical way. There have been thousands—not hundreds—of archaeological finds in the Middle East that support the picture presented in the Biblical record. There was a discovery not long ago confirming King David. The patriarchs—the narratives about Abraham, Isaac and Jacob—were once considered legendary, but as more becomes known, these stories are increasingly corroborated. The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah was thought to be mythological until evidence was uncovered that all five of the cities mentioned in Genesis were, in fact, situated just as the Old Testament said. As far as their destruction goes, archaeologist Clifford Wilson says there is “permanent evidence of the great conflagration that took place in the long distant past.” Adapted from interview with Dr. Norman Geisler

T.G.I.F. - Today God is First E.D.G.S.B.F. - Every Day God Should Be First When Planting Yields No Fruit "You have planted much, but have harvested little...." - Haggai 1:6 Have you ever worked and worked only to yield very little from your efforts? Such was the case for the workplace believers during the time of the prophet Haggai. Finally, God spoke through the prophet Haggai to inform the people why their efforts were not yielding any fruit. There was a specific reason this was happening. "You expected much, but see, it turned out to be little. What you brought home, I blew away. Why?" declares the Lord Almighty. "Because of My house, which remains a ruin, while each of you is busy with his own house. Therefore, because of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth its crops. I called for a drought on the fields and the mountains, on the grain, the new wine, the oil and whatever the ground produces, on men and cattle, and on the labor of your hands" (Haggai 1:9-11). God had finally had enough. His priorities were not His people's priorities. So, He withheld in order to get their attention. Zerubbabel was governor of Judah at the time. He was a godly man who sought to do God's will. He listened as the prophet gave these words; then he responded. Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the whole remnant of the people obeyed the voice of the Lord their God and the message of the prophet Haggai, because the Lord their God had sent him. And the people feared the Lord (Haggai 1:12). Sometimes God has to stir up the spirit of one man to initiate needed change. Zerubbabel was that man. Scriptures say, "The Lord stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel" (Hag. 1:14). God is stirring up the spirit of a remnant of workplace believers throughout the world today. They are seeing what breaks God's heart, and they're responding. Has God placed the spirit of Zerubbabel in you? Are you one who will make a difference for the Kingdom, or are you concerned about building bigger and better barns? The Lord is calling forth His people in these last days to make a difference. Ask Him what He wants to do through you.