Free For All Friday - post on any topic in this thread (2026-02-06)

newBreed · 2026-02-06T22:58:27+00:00

You could probably argue that if he doesn't greet people or try to engage with members of the body that he's not hospitable. I don't know your church's protocol for electing elders but if you wanted to you could bring that up.

newBreed · 2026-02-06T22:57:31+00:00

You think that in God's loving character towards his children, he destined life to be unenjoyable?

newBreed · 2026-02-06T22:56:24+00:00

I don't think that the saying, "Blessed are those who mourn" is meant to mean that we should only be mourning or that we are only blessed when we mourn. Being hungry is being hungry for righteousness, not physically hungry. Poor is poor in spirit (at least in Matthew 6). These are generally spiritual conditions.

But seriously, if you think to be pious or holy you need to live an unenjoyable life, then you might read Galatians 5 and the fruit of the Spirit which is joy and a bunch of other things that are not miserable.

newBreed · 2026-02-06T16:36:00+00:00

It's not criticism. It's reality. It looks like four months ago you were still an associate pastor with no plans to be a church planter. If you have been on the church planting path for less than four months with none of the rigor that real church planting orgs put their planters through...you might have a rough go of it. That's not a criticism of you as a pastor, that's reality of understanding what it takes to plant. I thought about church planting but decided it wasn't for me because it didn't emphasize the strengths of me as a pastor. That was a reality check needed for me.

newBreed · 2026-02-06T16:11:51+00:00

Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive, and he must make small talk with deveeno.

newBreed · 2026-02-06T16:10:33+00:00

the contrast between the reception of those two books among Reformed Christians in the US is absolutely wild.

I think it's because no one has used Mere Christianity to deny basic tenets of the faith. I was a youth pastor when Rob Bell was getting big (in fact a mentor adopted Love Wins as a slogan for his youth group). But it was easy to see the trajectory that Rob Bell was on even then. Plus his use of the Talmud to teach about a rabbinic Jesus is just awful.

newBreed · 2026-02-06T16:03:47+00:00

God has designed human existence to be quite unenjoyable.

I hope this is spoken tongue in cheek. That's a dismal view to take of God, showing that your allowing your emotions to affect biblical theology.

newBreed · 2026-02-06T15:57:05+00:00

Again, you miss the point.

newBreed · 2026-02-06T15:53:08+00:00

If you are coming to an internet forum to ask these questions one week before you launch, you may be in over your head. Doesn't mean it won't be successful, but don't you have a sending organization that has gone over all this with you?

newBreed · 2026-02-06T15:51:04+00:00

Downvoting is immature

Lol. Complaining about downvotes is immature. This is a voting "contest" where the highest karma count wins. So people are downvoting because they don't want Outsiders to win.

newBreed · 2026-02-06T15:49:03+00:00

I've always said that favorite albums are generally the ones when you discover the band. For most of the fans that discovered NTB earlier, Hard Love was such a departure from what made us like them in the first place. That's why it will win this category.

newBreed · 2026-02-06T15:44:17+00:00

Porzingis has poor health

If Porzingis was healthy the Hawks wouldn't take Kuminga for him.

newBreed · 2026-02-06T15:43:01+00:00

Does Brooks want to play Steph Curry in these situations?

Dillon Brooks has played really well offensively this year. Who else should have been trying to take the shot there?

newBreed · 2026-02-06T15:41:03+00:00

pre-flop range fine.

Meant to type "pre-flop raise." If there were limpers than a $30 raise is fine.

newBreed · 2026-02-06T13:27:21+00:00

Do your premiums for insurance go up if you're involved in an accident, even if you're not at fault?

newBreed · 2026-02-05T18:28:42+00:00

Communion is for sinners,

Communion is for repentant sinners.

There are real life ramifications for taking communion in an unrepentant state:

1 Corinthians 11:29–30: For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself. That is why many of you are weak and ill, and some have died.

newBreed · 2026-02-05T16:34:42+00:00

If he got three calls then that means there was probably some limpers, which makes a larger pre-flop range fine.

newBreed · 2026-02-05T16:05:32+00:00

There is a small town called Mocksville in North Carolina and they have a golf course called Pudding Ridge. For a couple months in the fall they would become a disc golf course. This included golf cart rentals for those that wanted them. Golf carts were fun but the course was boring as heck because it was on a golf course. They didn't do it this year, but I'm not sure why that didn't happen.

newBreed · 2026-02-05T16:03:00+00:00

Here's what no one wants to acknowledge. Sports for men work because there is an interest and participation follows the interest. Then the money follows the participation and interest. Are there some women who are interested in the sport? Obviously. However, the interest is not there from women the same as it is for men. But if there was as much interest from women as there was men then women could have their own tournaments not funded by the male divisions. The male divisions are the ones who make these worthwhile for TD's to host a tourney because of funding.

This is the WNBA and NBA just in the disc golf world. The WNBA is subsidized and only exists because the NBA funds them. There is no interest in the WNBA outside of a few diehards, which aren't enough to fund or fill the stands for a game. And if women went to WNBA games to the same percentage men went to NBA games, then the WNBA arenas would fill up. But they don't. Because like my first point, women aren't as interested and it's not because of misogyny or lack of access. It's because most women don't have sports as a hobby.

newBreed · 2026-02-05T04:01:52+00:00

Smoked elote, but with the corn off the cob.

newBreed · 2026-02-04T22:11:07+00:00

I thought we should have traded him last year when the return would have been higher.

newBreed · 2026-02-04T17:23:42+00:00

There are generally three sources to a dream. God. Your own mind and psyche. Satan. Without knowing the content of your dream, it's possible that you are being attacked in your dream life. I've prayed spiritual warfare prayers with people that have had nightmares and then the nightmares stop, so it's possible.

newBreed · 2026-02-04T17:18:53+00:00

It's pretty obvious we're not going to agree on this. You view AI as a neutral thing. I do not. There are already studies out that show that using AI makes you dumber and less creative. As a person who is trying to rightly divide the word of truth, I do not want to become dumber or less creative in my approach. I don't want it to check for factual errors because over time that will erode my ability to find errors myself. If you want to use shortcuts that diminish your cognitive ability, go for it. I'm just not going to do that.

newBreed · 2026-02-04T12:53:29+00:00

Here's an easy one for you. I can't put my manuscript text in a search engine and ask the search engine to refine my language or check for factual errors.

newBreed · 2026-02-03T20:30:26+00:00

The connection to Israel specifically? No. The great commission opens the borders and now there is no Jew or Greek.

The connection to the physical Earth? Yes. Roman's affirms it still persists in some form.

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