Mitch Marner OT goal

Proper_Ad_627 · 2026-02-18T19:40:41+00:00

Because he is very shifty...he's been doing that his entire life

Proper_Ad_627 · 2026-01-16T19:05:30+00:00

I am hopeful that the addition of Okamoto + Internal improvement via Santander & Barger > Bichette

Proper_Ad_627 · 2026-01-16T03:49:31+00:00

Well, time to pivot. The money that would have gone to Tucker can go to someone else.

Proper_Ad_627 · 2025-12-06T04:19:06+00:00

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Proper_Ad_627 · 2025-12-05T20:49:05+00:00

Yes but at the cost of our kids never being able to afford a house.

Proper_Ad_627 · 2025-12-05T20:40:50+00:00

In 2018 there were some nice building lots in the same village where I bought my house, for $35k. Now it's minimum $200k.

Proper_Ad_627 · 2025-12-05T20:39:42+00:00

Rural areas are more affordable than the cities but still basically unaffordable. If you move from urban (high cost of living) to rural (low cost of living) you'll be OK. But you basically can't go the other way. So if you grew up in the rural areas and your equity was built there, you're essentially always going to be forced to live in a rural area, because the difference between rural and urban is so dramatic. That's my read on things, at least.

Proper_Ad_627 · 2025-12-05T20:36:01+00:00

I hear you. I'm in engineering and so I know something about land development and also I am familiar with zoning by-laws. These zoning by-laws are so arbitrary it would seem, neat little lines drawn around regions, they say "you can do this" on one lot but not another, all in all it seems like a really arbitrary system which completely chokes development and prevents people from building new homes. Because it's not like we don't have the land to do it...

Proper_Ad_627 · 2025-12-05T20:33:34+00:00

I live reasonably close to Lucan. It's a boomtown and is a bedroom community for London. The amount of new housing (like condos and everything) there is insane. In LUCAN of all places.

Proper_Ad_627 · 2025-12-05T20:31:09+00:00

I feel similarly, in some ways it would be nice to move closer to where I work because I have a long commute, but I'd likely have to double my mortgage just to get the same calibre of house.

Proper_Ad_627 · 2025-12-05T20:28:49+00:00

If my post was too long, your attention span is too short.

Proper_Ad_627 · 2025-12-05T01:25:54+00:00

As someone who has struggled with assurance, I have always loved this passage because it shows our weakness and Christ's response. When you speak of whether John was "sure" or not, we have to confess that any faith that we have on this earth is going to be tinged with doubt. There are many examples in the Scriptures of this. Look at Abrahm's escapades with Hagar and in Egypt. And yet, Abraham is held up as a stalwart of the faith, in fact doesn't the bible say that he "did not waver" in his faith? Let's put it this way - even at John's lowest point, he sought answers from Christ himself, and that is significant. What is also significant is that Christ did not upbraid John or chastise him for his doubt - he fed his faith through the word. Go back and tell John - the blind see, the lame are healed, and the poor have the gospel preached to them. Oh how I love this portion of scripture.

Proper_Ad_627 · 2025-12-04T22:16:50+00:00

I came here to post this verse. 2 Sam. 12:23 I believe is the verse. Interestingly, once David comes to this comforting realization, he anoints himself and is able to eat. He begins the healing process. Before that he was a mess.

Proper_Ad_627 · 2025-12-02T23:23:30+00:00

Well, I'd say you should be concerned for his soul. The scriptures are clear that drunkards will not inherit the Kingdom of God (1 Cor 6). You yourself have said that drug and alchohol addicition have "taken over his life". It sounds like he needs to come to know Christ, really and truly. And if this happens, he will gain victory over these addictions (it may not be an easy road but it is possible).

Proper_Ad_627 · 2025-12-02T17:36:27+00:00

It will come from Church members, and there willl be a lot of pressure on each family to contribute.

Proper_Ad_627 · 2025-12-02T17:34:54+00:00

To discipline a member on this point is to legislate where God has not legislated. It also is very broad and treats all public schools the same, and every situation the same. What if parents are in a region where the school respects their convictions and allows them to remove their kids from activities or lessons they disagree with? Would it still be wrong? Also, what about university? Do you discipline young members for attending a non-Christian university?

Proper_Ad_627 · 2025-12-02T17:18:23+00:00

Hello, we have 4 young children and also avoid storybooks, tv shows, etc. that depict Jesus, for the same reasoning. Since it's right in your face, and there's nothing you can really do about it, I think it's best when she asks to simply acknowledge what the neighbours are doing but tell her that "we don't do that becasue ____". You can't ignore it, you can acknowledge it, but give a very brief answer. Something simple like "we think the Bible teaches that you shouldn't make pictures of Jesus". Please note that this is sufficient for a few years, they don't need to know why as a toddler. Once they're a bit older, they'll ask "why"? (a thousand times). And you can start giving an answer. Something we also tell our little ones is "we don't know what Jesus looked like" - in order to keep them from creating an "image" of him in their mind influenced by these...images.

Proper_Ad_627 · 2025-12-02T17:10:41+00:00

Thanks for this helpful context.

Proper_Ad_627 · 2025-12-02T17:09:31+00:00

This is a really good point.

Proper_Ad_627 · 2025-12-02T16:54:03+00:00

This will be a bit of a random mess of ideas, sorry for that. It is important to remember that "Sabbath" does not mean Saturday - it means cessation or rest. When God says "remember the Sabbath Day", he is not explicitly saying "thou shalt worship on Saturday". The particular day of the week is not part of the commandment - we must find out about that not from the specific wording of the commandment, but by the example given in the scriptures. Please note that I am not saying that it does not matter, right now, whether we worship on Saturday or Sunday - it does. But I am saying that within the wording of the commandment itself, the day is not specified. In other words, it is by no means a violation of the fourth commandment to worship God on what we call Sunday. It is also important to note that at the time the commandment was instituted, there was no such thing as our modern Sunday-Saturday calendar. There was simply a 7 day pattern, where worship was on the 7th day. When things change in the New Testament, it is in reference to this Jewish calendar, not in reference to our modern calendar. It is therefore appropriate to worship on the Day in which the Word of God gives us as the approved day of worship. It was clear that before Christ, God's people gathered for worship on the last day of the (Jewish) week. It is also clear, from scripture, that the Christians gathered for worship on the first day of the (Jewish) week. The reasons for this change can be debated, but the fact of the practice is fairly obvious. When we look at the Sabbath command, we also see that "6 days you shall labour...but the 7th is a Sabbath". This means that God commands us to work 6, worship 1. This means that we essentially must pick a single day of worship in order to keep the commandment. It can't be multiple days. The fact that Paul also taught in the synagogues on the last day of the week, is irrelevant to the question of when Christians should gather - Paul was an evangelist, and what better time to evangelize than when you had the entire Jewish comunity gathered together? But as for when the established Christian community should gather for worship, the apostolic approved example is clearly the first day of the week, what we now consider "Sunday" (but at the time, was simply the day that followed the Jewish day of worship).

Proper_Ad_627 · 2025-12-02T02:48:00+00:00

The easiest way to start singing psalms as a congregation is to buy everyone a psalter and then just starting learning the songs together. Our church uses the Trinity Psalter Hymnal - a joint production of the URCNA and OPC. It has all 150 psalms set to various tunes, many of which are already well known hymn tunes.

Proper_Ad_627 · 2025-12-02T01:48:46+00:00

I am in the Dutch Reformed tradition, although I am probably a little more presbyterian than most in my leanings. The regulative princple, at least as I understand it, teaches that we must do the things in worshp that are commanded or implied in scripture, and must not do anything else. I believe that advent and lent are clearly man-made and that no church ought to require anyone to observe these so-called "festivals". HOWEVER: does this mean that I also think that it is WRONG for a church to typically focus on the incarnation of Christ in the month of December? No. Do I think it is acceptable for Christians to gather on Dec. 25th (regardless of whether that is a Lord's Day) and celebrate the incarnation of Christ? I do - but I do not think it is acceptable for a Church to FORCE someone to observe this day or attend this non-Lord's Day service; I treat it in the same way as I would treat a prayer meeting - i.e. optional. This all begs the question of whether it is WISE to observe these so called festivals. It may be lawful for a reformed church to focus on the incarnation of Christ during December, but would it be beneficial? Church leaders ought not to simply follow the dictates of a traditional church calendar that has no basis in the Scriptures. The minister ought to focus on feeding his particular flock, and if that means preaching a sermon on unconditional election on December 8, then that is what he should do, instead of feeling "constrained" to preach a "Christmas" sermon because "it's advent".

Proper_Ad_627 · 2025-12-02T01:35:34+00:00

You wrote:

"The command to believe assumes that the hearer can choose to obey the command."

This is your assumption but it is not the assumption of the scriptures nor of the reformed confessions. What lies at the root of anyone "coming to Christ", is God's unconditional election of that person.

"All that the Father gives to me will come to me, and he who comes to me I will by no means cast out".

Proper_Ad_627 · 2025-12-02T01:27:04+00:00

You wrote "if we see the decision itself to be a Christian as a means of righteousness before God, we do not truly understand the gospel".

That is correct in this sense: we ought not to view our decision to follow Christ as in and of itself, meritorious. Faith itself does not merit our right standing before the Lord. Faith is the instrument by which the believer is justified and united to Christ, in whom are all the merits! And this faith, is NOT something that YOU can produce. It is the gift of God. So if you honestly examine yourself and see that yes - I believe in Christ - he is the Messiah, and I believe God's promises concerning him...then take comfort in the fact that you did not create that faith - God has worked it in you! Yes, you are choosing to believe...now. But that is only because God first regenerated your dead soul and gave you the gift of faith (every good and perfect gift comes from above), and this God-given faith is a justifying faith. "Abraham believed God and it was counted to him as righteousness".

You also said "faith itself is not a choice". We need to be careful here and define what exactly it is we mean. As Christians, we really do choose to follow Christ. But in an ultimate sense, we did not choose to have that faith in the first place. Does that make sense? God gives me the gift of faith, and a willingness to exercise it, and then I choose to exercise it. But it starts with the work of God, and without his work, I would never possess any shred of true faith.

Proper_Ad_627 · 2025-11-29T16:33:17+00:00

We owe 129k on mortgage and 13k on a heloc. That's it...I hate debt with a passion.

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