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@kps2014 @Vicar1973 Paul calls it a participation in the altar “are not those who eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?” “we proclaim the lords death until he comes.” it suggests that we are proclaiming the promise (and our participation in it) until the fulfillment.

Except Paul also calls it a participation in and proclamation of the Lord’s death. So we aren’t so much appealing to God to remember His covenant so that He will forgive us and bless us as we are proclaiming to each other our fellowship with the Lord in his sufferings and thereby our hope to also attain to His resurrection at His coming.

Jesus’ words at the last supper, “Do this in remembrance of me” should really be translated, “Do this as my memorial.” The Lord’s Supper is a covenant memorial. It is not about our act of remembering, but calling on God to remember his promises. At the table, we are memorializing the new covenant before God. Like the rainbow, another covenant memorial, the Supper is a way of calling on God to make good on his Word. When we eat and drink the bread and wine, we are proclaiming Jesus’ death to the Father. God sees and remembers his covenant, to forgive us and bless us.

@redeemed_zoomer Some places don’t have jurisdiction. Western Canada was settled by a smorgasbord of denominations. This is a cool concept but not always practical.

Fun fact: The Church of Scotland was presbyterian but they saw English presbyterians as schismatic, and the Church of England was episcopal but they saw the Scottish episcopals as schismatic Why? Because both of them took JURISDICTION seriously

@lutheranpeasant One issue we had is that we lacked Reformed Christianity. The east was lesbiterian or weak Anglican loyalists, they founded a nation on not becoming American with no vision. The west filled up with a smorgasbord of apolitical immigrants, mostly Mennonites/Lutherans/Catholics.

Canada’s story is actually quite sad. They are a once great nation that committed cultural suicide under Trudeau. When they had the chance to recover some pride, they decided to elect Carney because the orange man hurt their feelings. They basically euthanized themselves to stick it to Trump. And that’s not much of an exaggeration. Carney clearly wants to make them a vassal state of China. Their hatred of the Stars and Stripes is just misdirected anger. The whole thing reeks of childishness unbecoming to a once great people. But when you choose decline, you will hate every nation that doesn’t decline with you.

What frustrates me is the narrative — heavily promoted by liberals in both Canada and the US — that Canada was somehow this boundless reserve of goodwill for America before Trump. No. Anti-Americanism, blaming America, and smug righteousness at "not being America" is a defining problem with the psychology of this country, and Trump is just the latest excuse for indulging in it. One of the big problems with Trump, in fact, is that he makes bog-standard Canadian anti-Americanism seem righteous and principled at a time when the future of Canada-US relations are actually at stake in very real, tangible ways that will have a tremendous impact on the Canadian economy, and thus Canadians' lives. In other words, Canadians are not dealing with a crisis in a clear-eyed or pragmatic way, we are just mashing the same old AMERICA BAD button we bash all the time, in every context, always.

@JustBins Regina hate from saskatoon

Com to Regina they said. Start a small business they said. 🤬

If science class explained everything with Midwest emo music, we would have a lot more people paying attention. Nuclear power explained. It’s just a fancy way to heat water and make electricity. 🔊

Boomers celebrating sticking it to Trump while Canada's economy collapses

@DrJoeBoot Write something on Alberta Separatism

Well said Danny.

@JJ_McCullough 56,000 people. If Red Deer’s population moved into Greenland it would triple its population. It’s negligible.

In the old days, kings could “buy” colonies from each other because no one cared about the people who lived in the colonies. But how do you “buy” a self-governing place like Greenland without its consent? Denmark would first have to put it under some sort of dictatorship.

If Canada wants to preserve its sovereignty as the American Empire embraces naked assertion of national interest unbound from international lawl, courting China is just about the most retarded thing you could do. The theory behind this is that expanded trade with China will insulate the Canadian economy from US tariffs. This is stupid. China accounts for 4% of Canadian exports; the US accounts for around 70-75%. That all makes sense if you look at a map. Canada doesn't have the port facilities to ship energy to China in any appreciable quantity. Canada isn't going to build those facilities in a timely fashion, not without walking all over the First Nations and the climate lunatics, both of whom Carney and his Liberal Party are enthusiastically beholden to. Even assuming we did build those facilities and start shipping oil to China in vast quantities, it would be the easiest thing in the world for the US Navy to interdict those tankers, and there would be precisely nothing the all but nonexistent Royal Canadian Navy could do about that but cry. Meanwhile, Turbo-America is reasserting the Monroe Doctrine, specifically in order to eliminate Chinese influence from the Western hemisphere. Cozying up to Beijing at this point is a bad look, and really not worth whatever value we get from a few thousand shitty Chinese EVs no one wants. The best strategy for Canada to preserve its sovereignty during this crisis is the same strategy that it has successfully used since the War of 1812: 1) be well-defended, 2) be friendly. There is no possibility of Canada actually winning a war with the US, but it IS possible to make such a war difficult enough that the blood isn't worth the prize. At the same time, if the country is a well-governed, cooperative, reliable ally, then there's no particular advantage to annexation. Instead, Ottawa has settled on the most retarded of all possible strategies: being 1) defenceless and 2) belligerent. The Canadian Armed Forces is a joke, and while Carney has made noises about building them up again, this effort is sabotaged by DEI bullshit, and the modest increase in budget is nowhere near the tripling that would be required to match US Department of War spending on a per capita, GDP-adjusted basis. Especially when you're starting from way, way, WAY behind. Meanwhile, Ottawa takes every opportunity to antagonize the Yanks: courting foreign adversaries Washington wants out of the hemisphere; flooding the country with third-world biotrash; letting the real estate market be used as a massive money laundering scheme; winking at fentanyl labs; shrugging at foreign influence penetrating every level of government. The Trump administration looks at this mess, and concludes that 1) Canada would be very easily annexed and 2) the country is so poorly run that it would probably be more profitable to govern directly. Oh and as all of this is going on the Laurentians lose no opportunity to remind anyone who will listen that Canada Is Built On Stolen Native Land, from which it follows that our official national position is that our sovereignty is completely illegitimate. The country is in the hands of delusional traitorous clowns at precisely the worst possible historical moment, and to make it all the more absurd, they've successfully wrapped themselves in the flag to such a degree that any criticism of their suicidal policies is called unpatriotic Maple MAGA by the legions of trained clapping seals comprising the country's delirious overburden of CBC-addled baby boomers.

@DanielWoodward @Eric_Conn @Brian_Sauve Where is our Creed cover @Brian_Sauve

Early morning squat workout (hit a PR!) then I jump in the car and head to work and hear this legendary cold open, followed by @Eric_Conn talking about Creed (which by the way, where is my Creed cover @Brian_Sauve) Epic episode all the way around. We are so back. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

@DefiantBaptist If someone asks you on a date, you can still go on dates Kissing is a weird gold standard but not that far off. If you aren’t “courting,” you are both on the open field and you have no right over the other.

Lila Rose recently hosted a panel called “Men Chase, Women Choose: Mastering the Dance of Dating.” Once again, she discussed her own dating history with her husband. I guess the poor guy hasn’t been embarrassed enough already. Lila revealed that she was put off by the fact that he scheduled their first date 5-6 weeks after he asked her out, so much so that she continued to see other men in the interim. The crazy part is that Lila was so impressed with him for being so serious and not just scheduling a coffee date (pick a lane!). Instead, he planned a formal dinner and a trip to the opera. She also noted that Joe did NOT date other women after asking Lila out. For Lila Rose, exclusivity only occurs ONLY when there is kissing, which is a bizarre standard. Conceivably, she could have kept on dating other men after the opera as long as she didn’t kiss Joe. CONCLUSION: It’s very frustrating to see the state of the modern dating scene, even in a Christian context. Women like Lila demand exclusivity and commitment from men while keeping their own options open. I simply don’t believe Lila that she was ultimately the most interested in Joe over these other guys. That might be true in retrospect, but you don’t play the field if you’re head over heels for someone. (All I cut out were clips of the weird dude talking. I did not selectively edit Lila to make her sound worse.)

@RevZekveld @dhasbrouck29 What? Define your terms. Carney has said Canada is a European country and wants to become more global. His predecessor said Canada finds their identity in not being American. The left lacks a positive vision as the nation.

@dhasbrouck29 Mark Carney is a nationalist. That is the steam he is running on.

I love Christendom, i labour for Christian nations, but nationalism is a morally bankrupt philosophy of the last 200 years.

@DrJordanBCooper Need context

For the record, I think generational polemics are stupid. Everyone wants to find someone to blame for their problems, whether it's a previous generation, a younger one, or some other group. So, I don't want to do the whole "Gen Z is bad" thing. But, standards of morality (including speech) are not arbitrarily decided from generation to generation. So stop using your generation as an excuse to be nasty.

Yes, I get it. Gen Z has a different sense of humor than any other generation in history. Quite obviously, this means, therefore, that any and all standards of propriety, sense, or morality do not apply to them. They aren't *like* other generations. They invented edgy humor.

@crwiley1962 Wow that’s old.

63 years old today. Feeling pretty good, all things considered.

Church will be the last place with real music.

@thepantlaloon I thought he was dead!

sometimes you don’t know it’s the best day of your life until you open Facebook

@RevZekveld Catholic?

We must not miss the beauty of a steeple rising over downtown Grande Prairie as the sun sets over the glowing orange of Fall. Such beauty has not often been known in the world, nor is the last beauty we will see as we seek a better city, a heavenly home.

A man’s true colours are revealed when you get hit by a intergalactic meteor. Are you truly there for better or for worse? In sickness and in health? In being regular sized or monstrously gigantic? Makes you think.

@NattyPOriginal All Hallows doesn’t seem like it deserves an eve. Only Christmas has an eve. So do reformation day and hallows day the next day. Or be a man and just work.

To be frank “Reformation Day” has always struck me as something people who think Halloween is evil celebrate. I’d rather celebrate All Saints Day/ All Hallows Eve. More rooted in the Christian tradition.