Jennifer Frye, associate director of Democracy North Carolina, helps Michael Corbitt with his registration form.
"Only reading the headline I’m going to guess that this is a Democrat initiative(?)"
You guessed it.
Posted on 07/20/2008 6:10:29 AM PDT by DJ Taylor
Anybody know a good community activist to assist in this change?
Jennifer Frye, associate director of Democracy North Carolina, helps Michael Corbitt with his registration form.
"Only reading the headline I’m going to guess that this is a Democrat initiative(?)"
You guessed it.
Ah, stars and levitating balls!
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Yup
I could not find my bouncing basketball
Not sure how Obama’s “touching the star” shows up
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That .gif was well ahead of the news!
Before it’s time, huh? I had some reason for thinking of it at the time.
Is this a protestant concept, or is it shared by the catholic and orthodox?
But playing the elder brother boosts one's ego like little else.
“Is this a protestant concept, or is it shared by the catholic and orthodox?”
We need to continually repent for our sins. In fact, the Desert Fathers taught that in their entire lives, despite having spent them in faithful prayer, they hadn’t even made a beginning of repentance. One of the most respected saints in Orthodoxy, +Symeon the New Theologian, wrote
“...it is good to repent every day, as the commandment demands. For the words: ‘Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand’ impose upon us a practice not limited to a definite time but for always.”
Is this a protestant concept, or is it shared by the catholic and orthodox?
I cannot make a generalization on protestantism on this question, but certainly, it would seem to be consistent with what is taught at some protestant churches and is clearly a core element of the gospel according to Joel Osteen. As you know, a traditional catholic/orthodox view is that such sufferings are a gift from God, that through our ordeal, we may strengthen our faith and learn to more fully rely on Him and not ourselves.
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