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The Art Of Excuses

Thursday’s Column: Captain’s Blog Carl Pollard   Someone once said, “Excuses are tools of the incompetent, and those who specialize in them seldom go far.” Ben Franklin is quoted saying, “He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.”   Jeremiah had a complete list of excuses ready when God called on him to be a prophet to the people of Israel. Many times the excuses of…

Rom 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

"Whom he did foreknow." In this place the word "foreknow" assumes a particular and explicit meaning. In its wider and more general application it must be regarded as referring not simply to the divine prescience, but more especially to the divine prearrangement. For God to foreknow is, in the strict meaning of the phrase, for God to foreordain. There are no guesses, conjectures, or contingencies with God as to the future. Not only does He know all, but He has fixed, appointed, and ordered "all things after the counsel of his own will." In this view there exists not a creature, and there transpires not an event, which was not as real and palpable to the divine mind from eternity as it is at the present moment. Indeed, it would seem that there were no future with God. An eternal Being, there can be nothing prospective in His looking on all things....

But the word "foreknow," as it occurs in the text, adds to this yet another, a more definite, and, to the saints, a more precious signification. The foreknowledge here spoken of, it will be observed, is limited to a particular class of persons who are said to be "conformed to the image of God's Son...."

THE Nxtion Family, also known as SPAC Nation, the United Kingdom’s fastest growing pentecostal ministry has resumed physical services after the COVID-19 occasioned lockdown which prevented large physical gatherings all over the world. Speaking during the service, Pastor Tobi Adegboyega, the ministry’s Global Lead Pastor charged Nationals and other believers to yield themselves to God’s control by…

Titus 1:5-9

5 For this reason I left you in Crete, that you should set in order the things that are lacking, and appoint elders in every city as I commanded you—6 if a man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of dissipation or insubordination. 7 For a bishop must be blameless, as a steward of God, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not given to wine,…

the bishops ask the pope to ordain priests of the deacons permanent married

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From our special envoy to Rome,

The Catholic Church opens the door to the priestly ordination of married men for "The most remote places" from the Amazon but it restricts this perspective which is only "Synodal proposal" at present only "Permanent deacons"already existing. That is, to married men who have been ordained permanent deacons and thus able to preach, baptize, marry but not…