In all honesty, Unleashed has helped keep me sane this year, between child graduating from high school, a chaotic move and finding a new place to fellowship. (and a few other chaotic events related to moving - I hate moving - but not as much as the NIH! - This is why it took us 20 years to do it :P )
One More reason I hate my current government! NIH is another of those agencies that just needs to end, and be prosecuted for cruelty to animals !They started it! We're Hissing Back! Cat Lovers, UNITE!
Presbyterian Church of America (the non - woke Presbyterians :)
I'm working on some special ones for Christmas Eve and Christmas day... Also, ashlanddog has been trying to contact you for Christmas Eve and Day restart of Unleashed...Check your messages, please...
That makes good sense, and I agree with " we like our favorite preacher s, so we don't need to pray or read for ourselves" observation. However, some denominations, like the PCA, do encourage their members and visitors to read the Scriptures for themselves.
Are you referring to the United Council of Churches, or the actual believers in Jesus?
Thank you for these, especially the Bonus, which I hadn't heard before!:
Correction To Jim Babka's Senator Coburn Placement: Tom Coburn was the Dr. No of The Senate before Rand, and is from the great state of Oklahoma. (RIP, He is missed)
Thanks for this! The last one gave me a huge grin.
Skip the gifts, yes, Skip celebrating Jesus, no. (And I'm not even sure He was born this time of year!)
I used Downsize DC for years, and they at one time had a 'Deny Consent to Government Criminality' option. (Boy do I miss that!) Any way , in my case, they have been given plenty of warning!....
IMHO, This should have started in Obama's first term....
I'm sorry to hear about your loss. Pets give us so much love...
I apologize, The Downsize DC Link cannot be found in a secure link. (I've been trying!)
Here's the link on omnibus bills: https://downsizedc.org/ominous-omnibus-spending-bills/
Downsize DC has been leading the choir on this since 2005: (Jim Babka) One Subject at a Time: Stop the Annual Spring Spending Spree
Quotes of the Day:
“Designating war spending as an unforeseen emergency year after year is a farce that is designed to help politicians avoid hard budget choices.” Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Texas)
“I do not believe we can continue to bring up bills under the justification of emergency legislation that violate the spirit if not the letter of PAYGO (pay as you go).” – Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA)
Every year, Congress considers “emergency” funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and then loads the bill with pork and unrelated legislation – such as the union legislation we wrote about yesterday.
Then they cover for their fiscal recklessness by claiming opponents don’t “support the troops.” This happens EVERY year.
And in addition to the $84 billion (or more) bill, the House is also considering a separate “emergency” $200 billion so-called “jobs” bill with several unrelated provisions.
The good news, however, is that some in the majority party are concerned about how these bills will add to the deficit.
Let’s encourage them to fight! Tell Congress to oppose these bills and pass DownsizeDC.org’s One Subject At A Time Act (OSTA) instead.
How about Thomas Massie? He's part of the Liberty Caucus in the House, and is already there. (Not Rand - Rand needs to stay in the Senate to Filibuster.)
True.....
So then the Downsize DC Trifecta gets an shout out?:
https://downsizedc.org/?s=Read+The+Bills
https://futurism.com/elon-musk-teachings-christ
Once one starts affirming the teachings of Jesus, one has only two directions to go: Leave everything and follow Him (or at least be willing to) and affirm the Resurrection or leave sorrowfully. (see the Rich Young Ruler) C.S. Lewis stated it like this:
"“I am trying to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: “I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept His claim to be God.” That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic–on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg–or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronising nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.
We are faced, then, with a frightening alternative. This man we are talking about either was (and is) just what He said or else a lunatic, or something worse.. I have to accept the view that He was and is God.” (p. 55-56)
Legend is now offered as a 'viable' alternative to the trilemma, but with the dating of the earliest copies of the gospels, it is highly unlikely, and the Gospels also do not read like legends, especially Luke!
I sure hope so. He needs to show some spine.
National Institute of HEalth