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  1. StrugglingTilMyReward

    Best Christian Books You Have Read....(other than the Bible)

    I just finished reading CS Lewis' 'The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe' to my 6 year old yesterday, and reading it again inspired me to order 'Mere Christianity' which should be in any day now. I recently read 'Slaying Giants, Walking on Water and Loving the Bible Again' which was...
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    Andrew Scheer steps down as Canada's Conservative leader - Is Harper coming back?

    We have differing views, and that is at it should be.....nobody has a monopoly on truth in the political realm, as time goes on we're becoming more and more tribal, forgiving all the failings of OUR candidate while castigating ALL the failings of others. As for Bernier, he did in just one year...
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    Andrew Scheer steps down as Canada's Conservative leader - Is Harper coming back?

    Fair comment....the point I'm making is that simply because the party calls itself conservative, doesn't necessarily mean they're in point of fact a conservative party. I already cited the case in point about the conservative party being opposed to the free market, instead preferring a...
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    Andrew Scheer steps down as Canada's Conservative leader - Is Harper coming back?

    I loved your comment about clapping during a sermon at an Orthodox service and some thinking you need counseling, that's hilarious. I'm not a big Trudeau fan but I did vote for his Liberal party in the 2015 election....in point of fact I actually met him briefly just before that 2015 election...
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    What happened to blue and pink names?

    Yes, although its not used now as much as it used to be....its pronounced with a long A sound as in Ay like Day. We borrowed it from Scotland.
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    What happened to blue and pink names?

    Zare, rhymes with dare, care, bear, fair....at least I believe it does, I haven't actually used it yet except to mock the new dumb law our government passed: https://nationalpost.com/opinion/bruce-pardy-meet-the-new-human-rights-where-you-are-forced-by-law-to-use-reasonable-pronouns-like-ze-and-zer
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    Faith and Politics in Canada - The Abortion Debate

    Continuing my thoughts from earlier this morning..... So Canada joins only 3 other countries in the world in having no regulations whatsoever with regard to abortion. The other 3 are China, North Korea and Vietnam....all communist. How did we get here? I think part of the blame lies with...
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    What happened to blue and pink names?

    Now we have to use the gender neutral term "sibling" or the thought police will come after us. Seriously, in Canada a law was passed within the past year or so that requires people to use requested pronouns for people with gender identity issues. For example, someone who doesn't identify as...
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    Why I choose to be Catholic

    My wife was raised Roman Catholic...I usually preface Catholic with the word Catholic with Roman because the word Catholic at its root simply means universal. My baptismal certificate from a Canadian Protestant Church (United) says that I was baptized into the Holy Catholic Church. But that...
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    Faith and Politics in Canada - The Abortion Debate

    According to a poll done a few years back by Angus Reid something like 80% of respondents were not aware of the fact that there are no laws whatsoever concerning abortion in Canada. What that means is that, in this country, an abortion can legally take place for any reason right up until birth...
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    What happened to blue and pink names?

    Channeling my inner Millennial, I guess we're all now part of the global community and we won't have gender constructs imposed on us by any authority.....excuse me while I go and empty the contents of my stomach.
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    Strictly Over 50s Thread

    So true, now a week until Christmas seems to go by in 15 minutes....too much to do and not enough time.
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    Hello from the Pacific NW

    Its a local call to heaven because Washington State is God's country.
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    Hello from the Pacific NW

    I'm reminded of a story I once heard about a world traveler. This gentleman was fascinated with churches, and so wherever he went in the world he'd always go and visit the local church no matter where he was. And in many churches he found a golden phone that had a sign on it that said $500...
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    Hello from the Pacific NW

    Beaverton is a suburb of Portland and the birth place of Nike....when we moved there in 1977 I was the only kid who didn't own a pair of Nikes. On top of that I didn't call them the right thing....growing up in NJ they were called sneakers or sneaks, then we moved back to Canada when I was in...
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    What happened to blue and pink names?

    I didn't notice that, oh please no....I don't know if I can handle any more wokeness garbage.
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    Hello from the Pacific NW

    Welecome, former resident of Portland Oregon here...well Beaverton but our address was Portland. I was only there 1 year in from 1977 to 1978 but it made quite the impression.
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    Connecting with my home church more

    Its a different world than 35 years ago isn't it. Let's see, 2019 - 35 so the year was 1984.....big changes were in full swing. I'm in Canada and we didn't even have Sunday shopping in 1984, that came in 1990....most jobs were Monday to Friday nine to five, in fact that was the title of a...
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    Andrew Scheer steps down as Canada's Conservative leader - Is Harper coming back?

    What does it mean beyond Canada? I don't think Canada's reach extends much beyond our own borders, Canada is not really a world leader....I don't believe other nations ask, "what is Canada doing" before making any decisions. What it means in Canada is that we're likely looking at 18 to 30...
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    Andrew Scheer steps down as Canada's Conservative leader - Is Harper coming back?

    The only true Conservative option for Canadians in the 2019 election was Bernier's People's Party....however too many people decided to vote for Scheer's Fake Conservatives because they didn't mind electing another Liberal gov't, they just wanted to get rid of Trudeau...I know lots of...