hermanj04

I've started this five times and changed my mind four times over the last 2 days (under various titles and bodies).
It's a fairly well established 'fact' that everyone knows how to run the business better than the owner, the county commission has only idiots on the board, any one of us can pastor better than our pastor, everything either gets done too soon, to late or not at all, etc.
 
Some things on OB work themselves out, some get ironed out by OB members, some are only temporary frustration, some get discussed behind the scenes. Sometimes the rebuke is public, sometimes via warning, sometimes via PM. Some are done by Bro Matt, some are done without Bro Matt's knowledge subject to his reversal, some may even be done in spite of Bro. Matt (at the mod's own potential peril).
 
I had an incident on the school bus once involving children from 3 families being written up. One of the mothers was LIVID!! She demanded to know if her child was the only one that got in trouble. I explained that the write-up that her son received was for his misbehavior, she persisted to ask if her child was somehow the only one in trouble. I explained to her that if anyone else had a disciplined child, they would not know of hers (as she would not know of theirs) unless either parent or child said something to another parent or child.
What does that have to do with this? Sometimes, no one knows what goes on except staff and offender (sometimes not all of the mods know, unless it's fairly serious or we are asking advice). In this case 2 of the affected people came back to inform that they were being banned - Covenanter and Leonard. Others may or may not have been affected in one form or another. If an individual chooses to tell of a disciplinary action that's their prerogative, everybody here are adults. Just realize that MANY times the staff doesn't disclose every time we sneeze.

Unfortunately, some (perhaps even most) Christians are too lazy to take the time to understand why they believe something, and they end up being swayed by smooth-talking people who come along with false doctrine.

Unfortunately, some (perhaps even most) Christians are too lazy to take the time to understand why they believe something, and they end up being swayed by smooth-talking people who come along with false doctrine.

Unfortunately, some (perhaps even most) Christians are too lazy to take the time to understand why they believe something, and they end up being swayed by smooth-talking people who come along with false doctrine.

I've actually watched the news since I was a young child and there is nothing radically different going on today that wasn't going on in the late 60s, the 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s.
My assurance comes from being in Christ, not what is or isn't on the TV news.

Don't all, or at least most Baptists teach penal substitution and unconditional eternal security (or as most Baptists put it, once saved, always saved)?
I fully agree with Pastor Markle regarding predestination being biblical whether someone has a right interpretation of it or not.
I don't understand how that pastor gets the idea these three doctrines all come from Calvin and how he believes they are not found in Scripture. Nor do I understand how he believes most all churches are being misled in these areas.

Praying for your mom!

Praying for your brother's health and salvation, and for you and your family.

ban 5d@h for being soft-skinned in the chat room.

I received an evaluation copy of Windows 10 pretty early on in the process (before it was officially announced).  I have been using it on my desktop for a little under a year now, and I've loved it (much better than Windows 8, and I think it is probably even better than Windows 7.)
However, the upgrade process has been nothing but a pain.  Ever since it was released, I have received numerous requests for help to fix problems that have come up.  If you are going to upgrade, make sure you back up all your information before you begin.  Also, I have been recommending using the media creator tool to create a flash drive and do a fresh installation instead of going through the upgrade process.  (This will wipe all your files and programs, so make sure you have backups before doing this.)  It seems like the computers with a fresh install are usually completely stable, and most of the ones that I have upgraded end up coming back in for problems within a week or two.
Most of the privacy issues are presented as options when you install it.  If you read through and turn all of the sharing off, then you shouldn't have too many issues.  If you just click next to be done with it, then it will share a lot of data.

Praying for your family.