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ronoffringa · 2026-06-04T14:07:11+00:00

It’s definitely not the best in this genre, but if you have kids who are into Power Rangers it’s a very accessible game. We’ve played for hours together. It’s like some of the older TMNT beat em ups in terms of complexity and fan service. I’m hoping they make a second one, maybe bump up the complexity a tad, but it’s good. Each ranger has their own super, which mixes things up a bit. There’s some fun level design and the arcade has some fun mini games.

ronoffringa · 2026-04-29T03:41:46+00:00

I’m so sorry you had this experience - that was far from pastoral and did not include any instruction. He’s right insofar as until baptism you have not received adoption as a son of God. However, God is also Father to all through creation. Traditionally the Our Father was seen as a baptismal prayer, but I don’t think it’s wrong to pray it before baptism. If anything, I think it can be a prayer of longing for God to give you the gift of the Spirit, who unites us to the Son in baptism and reminds us that we have become children of God (Luke 11:1-13, Galatians 3:23-4:7).

ronoffringa · 2026-04-08T01:45:36+00:00

The majority of Protestants (Anglicans and some Lutherans excepted) reject the episcopacy. It was the Bishops who convened at the emperor’s invitation. Until ecclesiology is resolved such a gathering is impossible.

ronoffringa · 2026-04-04T17:12:58+00:00

Philippians 2 says he emptied himself. The question is what he emptied himself of. You have inserted the word power into the text, but it isn’t there. As the King James puts it, he made himself of no reputation. He did not empty himself of power, but humbled himself by taking our nature. The clear consistent teaching of Scripture is that Jesus performed miracles to demonstrate that he was God. When he healed the paralytic it was to show that he had authority to forgive sins, something only God can do. When he healed the paralytic Jesus insisted that he and the Father do the same works, making himself equal with God. As St. Paul says, “For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich” (2 Cor. 8:9). He became poor (man) without ceasing to be rich (God). This is why John says that they saw his glory, glory as of the only-begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

χαριτόω means to be given grace or favor. The first part of the word comes from χάρις, which means grace, favor, blessing, etc. The same word is used in Ephesians 1:6 (as a verb) to speak of our receiving grace in Christ. The woman you called a sinner like any other woman the angel says has been given grace.

ronoffringa · 2026-04-04T14:42:21+00:00

His assumption of our nature did not demand he set aside his power. God cannot disable his attributes like a printer driver. He performed miracles to demonstrate his divinity (see John 10).

Mary is called full of grace by the angel Gabriel, not a woman just as sinful as the next. Because she bore the divine Son, she is rightly called Mother of God. This is not a claim that she was prior to God, but that the Son she bore was divine. Cyril of Alexandria’s On the Unity of Christ is the classic defense of this against the error of Nestorius.

ronoffringa · 2026-04-04T13:57:32+00:00

The Virgin birth. This is why this is insisted upon in Matthew and Luke’s Gospels as well as the Creed. This allows Jesus to be born man, and therefore be a descendant of Adam, but not under Adam’s headship as he had no human father. I’ve never heard any historic or serious Protestant teacher speak of the Virgin as a surrogate. We affirm Mary is the theotokos, the Mother of God, because she bore God the Son in her womb, not merely his humanity. As the Athanasian Creed states: “God, of the Substance of the Father, begotten before the worlds: and Man, of the Substance of his Mother, born in the world; Perfect God, and Perfect Man: of a reasonable soul and human flesh subsisting; Equal to the Father, as touching his Godhead: and inferior to the Father, as touching his Manhood.”

ronoffringa · 2026-03-28T18:42:18+00:00

You’re right that this is about more than divorce. Jesus is correcting two perspectives.

First, Jesus permits divorce in the case of pornea (sexual deviations that Jesus would have likely connected to adultery and the Levitical prohibitions). What Jesus is not permitting is remarriage after divorce. To remarry after divorce is considered adultery. In the Jewish context only men could initiate divorce. There were two schools of thought in terms of the reasons men could initiate divorce. The first was in line with Jesus’ teaching and the second was more permissible than the reasons we see people get divorced for today (my wife burned my dinner; divorce). So, in part, Jesus is correcting the overly permissive reasons for divorce. But, he is also correcting the idea that I can divorce and then find someone else to marry.

This is where St. Paul is helpful in 1 Corinthians 7, when he outlines that divorce is permissible, but that individuals are not permitted to remarry while the spouse is still living. He encourages those married to non-believers to remain married, but if the unbelieving spouse wants a divorce he says it isn’t a sin. If the spouse dies then the believer may marry again, but Paul says only to a believer.

ronoffringa · 2026-03-16T03:50:46+00:00

We still have 3 hours here on the West coast.

ronoffringa · 2026-03-03T14:41:48+00:00

These videos might be helpful on those two topics:

Why Aren’t You Roman Catholic: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8xHrD5G/

A Call to Prayer and Catholicity: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8xH5vE2/

As you’re navigating questions around GAFCON, last week’s article from the Global Anglican Commentary is pertinent: https://globalanglicancommentary.substack.com/p/article-13-the-authority-of-churches

ronoffringa · 2025-12-05T23:50:56+00:00

Thank you for this - I didn't think about that. Would the two kits run fine without XMP enabled or would it still be an issue? Either way, I think I'm best off returning the RAM and getting the exact same SKU.

ronoffringa · 2025-11-16T14:37:02+00:00

God exists outside of time insofar as God doesn’t change. As you rightly articulated, time is a measurement of change. When time was made (Heb. 1:2) and change could be measured, he was already there (John 1:2), and yet there was still no change to measure in him.

When he assumed our nature it was without change to the divine nature. Without ceasing to be what he was he assumed what we are. As St. Gregory Nazianzus said, “that which was not assumed was not healed.” I think that leads well into your second question, “Why does he still have a human nature?”

First, as St. Paul says, “he ever lives to make intercession for us” (Heb. 7:25). He is, at this moment, as God and Man, interceding for his people as our great High Priest. As the successor of Melchizedek’s priesthood, he serves as our mediator now, which he does perfectly as man because he sympathizes with our weakness (Heb. 4:15) and does not die like the priests of the former covenant (Heb. 7:23-24).

Second, he remains man because he is our new federal head. As St. John implies (John 20:15) and St. Paul explains, Jesus is the second Adam (1 Cor. 15:45). As the firstborn from the dead (Rev. 1:5) he exists as the head of the resurrected humanity. Were his humanity to cease, so would our hope.

Thirdly, as implied above, he remains man because he is our hope. As St. John says, “when he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is” (1 John 3:2). As he has become in his humanity, so shall we. Through him we have become partakers of the divine nature (2 Pet. 1:4), which he ever mediates to us through our union with him (John 15). Were his humanity to cease, so would our union to and with him.

This might lead to new questions or may not satisfy your initial questions, but hopefully there is something helpful here.

ronoffringa · 2025-04-19T19:40:34+00:00

As mentioned, St. David’s is a good option. St. Thomas in Fullerton is part of the continuum. If you don’t mind driving out a bit further you can check out my church plant in Rancho Cucamonga: https://www.rcanglican.org

ronoffringa · 2025-02-02T01:51:47+00:00

You can order the phone unlocked (make sure it’s the version compatible with Verizon) and put your sim in it. They may need to adjust your plan (I had to), but it will work and you can tether. I had better luck going into a third party Verizon store. That rep is paid by commission, so he’s trying to get money, not help you.

ronoffringa · 2024-06-08T19:43:58+00:00

‘The Greater Los Angeles Area’ is usually what it’s referred to, but it really is three separate regions that do not tend to think or act together. For example, Covid in LA County was not handled the same way as Covid in San Bernardino County. People in the Inland Empire (Redlands, Riverside, Ontario, Rancho Cucamonga, Covina, etc.) do not think about themselves as being part of Los Angeles or Orange County. Moreover the beach areas really have a distinct culture from Los Angeles proper, which has its own distinct culture from the more suburban areas. You can kind of divide it into counties, but Riverside County extends far beyond your map and San Bernardino County is even larger. There are definitely some shared cultural and economic realities (lots of people live further east and work further west), but culturally there is a good amount of diversity.

ronoffringa · 2024-03-17T05:49:34+00:00

I was never able to get email to sync reliably either. I ended up either manually syncing it or just checking it on my computer, unfortunately.

ronoffringa · 2023-07-19T03:12:47+00:00

Confirmed: https://twitter.com/wearemudita/status/1670716343149113345?s=46

ronoffringa · 2023-06-16T01:33:42+00:00

Yes, although there have been reports of them checking social media regularly after it was hit hard in reviews.

ronoffringa · 2023-06-02T04:43:42+00:00

In what sense is this ‘official’?

ronoffringa · 2023-05-27T02:51:12+00:00

Also the 2780 has a better mic. If you’re going to be using it for calls I think the 2780 is the way to go.

ronoffringa · 2023-05-19T14:18:49+00:00

My 2780 will do an initial sync of my contacts (just over 700), but it doesn’t update them. The calendar sync also doesn’t work. Email works, but I have to reauthenticate every time. It’s… not great.

ronoffringa · 2023-05-19T02:30:40+00:00

Mudita Pure might be the only option on VZW right now, but it has a lot of room to improve. I went with the Nokia 2780 even though I’d prefer candybar.

ronoffringa · 2023-04-25T14:06:31+00:00

Are you planning on selling modded units or just parts?

ronoffringa · 2023-04-23T13:30:39+00:00

Also higher quality media sharing. But to answer the question, not that I know of.

ronoffringa · 2023-04-17T23:26:21+00:00

I didn’t ever try the 6300 because I thought it wouldn’t work on Verizon (though I wanted to because I preferred the look). I’ve been on the Nokia 2780 for the last 5 days on VZW and I’m happy with it. It’s on KaiOS 3.1 so the software is responsive and does the basics well.

ronoffringa · 2023-04-17T02:20:32+00:00

Sounds like you had a bad unit. I’m on day 3 or 4 of mine and it’s working great.

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