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Which is why, on our potluck days, we don't have dessert until after the last service. People save room, and don't get the zzz feeling from the sugar.  As to that, folks need to be responsible and not eat so much they'll get sleepy. ?

I believe i is an exegesis of Ephesians 6...yes. I haven't had a chance to read much of it yet, but, I should be able to take more time this next few days. This is a newer "revision" of the copies of old. I've read them before, but that was long ago.

@E MoralesWell, what about neckties? I would have thought that earrings are in a similar category as neckties. Policing earrings doesn't make sense in my humble view.
 
PS: Someone mentioned hair; having it quite long at the top and trimmed at the sides can be an option for professional women; very broadly this is the kind of cut that my wife has had for many years; her dyed colour has varied over the years.
 

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It's good also to remember that some believers in other countries who operate simple dispensaries in rather basic conditions will often have to make decisions on the basis of limited availability about items for ingestion based on herbs and plants, in places where there is little regulatory regime at all.
It would be unwise to try to hold such believers - sometimes veteran missionaries - to what is supposedly "correct and proper" in very conservative local church circles in North America, when the situations they have faced for years are markedly different.

@E MoralesInteresting post! In Philippians 4.3 Paul says: "And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellowlabourers, whose names are in the book of life." The example you gave of course predates that of Philippians and relates to the Lord Jesus Himself.
@E MoralesPF: Effecitve gif there...

Invicta, my old friend, please, for your own sake, PLEASE don't wait to use the device the doctors gave you. I had to wear something like that for several weeks so the doctors could take continuously monitored readings on my heart. It's important, and we don't need to lose another brother to heart problems. 
I don't know what Pods liver is either, and I've got many friends over in the UK. Maybe you could expound a bit. We here in the States use calves liver, beef liver, chicken liver, and in my family, some of the time deer liver. I've only seen lambs liver when I lived in Wisconsin nearly 40 years ago, except for the one time I did see it in Georgia when my wife and I lived there over 30 years ago. I tried some, and it was delicious! 

Thanks, @BrotherTony!
Hymns can indeed encourage; especially if the content has good, Biblical content!

Thank you!

@trapperhoneySome helpful thoughts there indeed!

Come Thou Fount or There WIthin My Heart.
I also have a site at https://CountryHymns.com where I have hundreds of hymns, scores, audio and video.

I can't name just one but here are a few:
Give Me the Wings to Rise (Isaac Watts)
Glorious Things of Thee are Spoken (Isaac Watts)
Behold, the Throne of Grace (John Newton)
One There is Above All Others (John Newton)
I Am His, and He is Mine (George W. Robinson)

that is awesome!

Our church is currently working through Psalm 119 as our Bible study on Wednesday evenings. 
Psalm 119:44
So shall I keep thy law continually for ever and ever.

It pays to look up every word! I work my way through each word in the verse, checking the Hebrew words to see what they mean. In English we use the phrase "forever and ever" to just mean ongoing, to just emphasize that we mean "always." So, I went to look up the first "ever" and assumed they would both be the same Hebrew word. They weren't.
ever = H5769 "olam" properly, concealed; that is, the vanishing point
ever = H5703 "ad" (as in ad infinitum) properly a (peremptory) terminus; that is (by implication) duration,  in the sense of perpetuity
 
So when I looked up both words it indicates that the distance/time period talked about here it to the point that can no longer be seen, and past that, it keeps going, which immediately brought to mind Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story where his call to arms is "To Infinity and Beyond!"

I will always see "for ever and ever" in scripture now as "To Infinity and Beyond" lol. 
It's the little things that make scripture meaningful and memorable.

I have also used the term, but in reference to asking God to give one a sign to confirm something, much like Gideon did.

There are other options, such as CBD oil or tinctures, many without the concerning THC, and still gives excellent pain relieving benefits. My husband has a serious degenerative arthritis and the VA wants to give him narcotics for the pain. He does not want to become dependent or an addict so he has refused. He has had success with CBD that does not contain the THC that gives the typical side effects.

Ms. trapperhoney: Yes, it's a pity that for years before it was widely legalized some of the huge pharmaceutical companies were raking in enormous profits for patent monopolies of conventional meds, when, altenatives, if safely researched, based on cannabis resin could have cut the costs greatly for those who were ill. (Remarkable that along the border with Mexico and Canada, seniors would cross the border to buy the same conventional meds sometimes for 1/20th of the cost.)
There was a video of a lady in Vancouver, Canada using a vending machine from the Vancouver Pain Society and becoming the first vending machine customer for marijuana: if the person is a genuine patient, I think like you that it can be a positive thing.
Probably baking cookies into which very carefully measured cannabis resin has been added is a better way of ingesting it medicinally rather than smoking it, isn't it?
(An added advantage to its open market availability is that it puts dealers out of business.)
These issues have proven to be rather searching for some Christians, but people should be able to get genuine medical benefit with a clear conscience, imho.
Yes, Peter's vision in Acts is a very significant passage, I think.

God put plants/herbs here for our benefit. If there is a legitimate health/medical benefit from ANY herb I support it. There is always a danger of abuse, so it needs to be handled carefully. I do not support "recreational" use of any herb/drug. As to specific herbs, that is up to the individual's judgment and conscience to use responsibly.

Ms. trapperhoney: Thank-you!

...if you think, while living in Key West, Florida, the nearest likeminded believer with whom you can enjoy proper fellowship lives in Yukon...

Amen!

"For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall." (Isaiah 25.4)

It was that way when i lived in Alaska.

We did. Seems like so long ago now. I'm ready to go on another one. ?

Tell your wife happy birthday for me! 

Hi HappyChristian, My wife had a b-day recently and we have been thinking about how blessed we are to have had the Lord lead us over the years. It's wonderful... ?