For an entirely out of context answer (I couldn't even find mention of a Birdie, so had to wing it, if you know what I mean) and in hope of bringing brief comic relief interlude to taco stands everywhere, let us turn to the legendary Three;
Posted on 05/04/2015 3:26:20 PM PDT by NYer
So...why do you continue to attend?
For the same reason we send missionaries to heathen lands.
So you are a missionary to your Pastor....
One never knows!! Ha!!
I used to be a soprano in our choir at my previous parish. One of the nicest times in my life. That was half a lifetime ago: with the way I sound now, if God weren’t omniscient, He’d think there was a scared chicken in the pew! Lol!
Catholic Ted Kennedy: an oxymoron! Funny, but actually very very sad when you think about it.
One who loves God the Trinity, as well as his own neighbor; follows the Ten Commandments; follows the Precepts of the Church; receives and attends the Sacraments, attends Mass (noteworthy fact, if one is late for Mass and misses the Scriptural readings, he or she is not considered as having actually attended Mass in Its fullness.); prays regularly, that’s some of it...
Sorry, forgot courtesy ping on my last post!
We send missionaries to heathen lands because we are more concerned about what He does than what they do.
Good luck with your Pastor...
I believe faith, being a Fruit of the Holy Spirit is indeed a gift from God: yet is it not, in part, an act of the will? That man begged Jesus for more faith because he desired it, that his son could be saved. His submission to Jesus was an act of will. Just a thought...
The church has a core group of conservatives that make his life miserable, as we did his predecessor. I sense a disturbance in the force as the church comes head-to-head with same sex marriage. If the UMC General Conference votes in favor of it, the church will become a ghost town.
My wife recently attended service at the PCA church in town and they are running out of seats whereas our numbers are decreasing.
You’re right. Some people wait a long time for the gift of faith to develop. It’s not for lack of effort that they are in a “spiritual desert” period of life.
Ward and June Cleaver always dressed like they were going to church, even when June was vacuuming or Ward was cleaning the garage. Dirt never stuck to them. They also didn’t sweat, lol
I so love that show!
Sprain of old TV shows, Ann B. Davis said on an interview that there was a "God-shaped" opening in every person that only God is able to fit. I thought that was a nice way to put it...
I enjoyed reading your story. I have a question, what is a”Birdie”? I know you wouldn’t take offense at my asking, and I didn’t quite get it from the context... Thank you, and thank you for sharing you story with us!
I can’t speak for anyone else, but Catholics believe in one God in Three Divine Persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Thus, while separate, they are coequal and One God. Jesus, in addition to His Divine Nature, assumed also our human nature, by the Power of the Holy Spirit, through the Blessed Virgin Mary, His mother and ours.
You appear to be sorely confused.
Moohammud was an evil, pedophile follower of satan, aka "allah".
Jesus/Christ IS God...and is the "Word".
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
For an entirely out of context answer (I couldn't even find mention of a Birdie, so had to wing it, if you know what I mean) and in hope of bringing brief comic relief interlude to taco stands everywhere, let us turn to the legendary Three;
A “Birdie” is a reference to the “Birdie” Law at Bethany, and “Linnie Bird Sage” at First Christian Church (DOC) that I grew up in. Thus two ladies named “Birdie,” one where I grew up and one where I began attending in 1987.
Both ladies are deceased.
See my post 38 for explanation of “Birdie.” :-)
You referenced: “Every Disciple Church must be required to have a [lady] nicknamed Birdie,”
I left out a word, either “person” or “lady” that I just inserted as the adjective before ‘nicknamed.’
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