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“Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.” ― G.K. Chesterton

Surround yourself with the kind of people who are proud to have a library card.

Thanks Mrs Cumberbutch of Junior High school for teaching me that punctuation is important...maybe even will save lives

Pope Nuzzles the Nap-Loving

Expressing appreciation for milk

@BBCNews And it looks awful. How the mighty have fallen.

Ferrari unveils first fully electric car bbc.in/3Pru62m

@MaxAbrahms @bigredmatt1011 Iran has been controlling the Hormuz for years and years.

It was a bad decision. Don’t forget there was loads of pressure by Groypers for Israel to stop destroying Iran’s nuclear program last June. This was before Iran controlled the Hormuz, was attacking the region, and the international economy got wobbly.

George Floyd’s death resulted in over 500 BLM riots:

@GrageDustin @ian_mckelvey @GovTimWalz Tampon Tim thinks doesn't know that we've read the autopsy report. According to that report, his death was not due to injury, but to drugs.

@GovTimWalz George Floyd pointed a loaded gun at a pregnant woman and died of a fentanyl overdose, Tim.

Six years ago today, George Floyd’s murder started a global movement for change. Let us continue working to build a society that lives up to its democratic ideals of liberty and justice for all.

@ksorbs Destroying ourselves.

Miss Wayne County. This is America. What are we doing?

@GrammarUpdates I thought everybody could figure that one out. Then again, a lot of people today have never read a Bible.

@AJEnglish If it was a genocide, it would be over by now. See the children in the video? They wouldn't be alive.

Protesters in Naples, Italy have unfurled a giant shroud bearing the names of 18,457 Palestinian children killed by Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.

@TNTJohn1717 This is very good. I don't know that many Christians in our country think about this seriously. I grapple with it and try to separate out stuff I just don't like as opposed to what goes against God. Just because I don't like something doesn't necessarily mean it's ungodly.😄

So the truest application of Acts 5:29 is not that every Christian should become a political revolutionary. The truest application is that no authority, no institution, no council, no culture, no denomination, no employer, no academy, no mob, no social pressure, and no religious system has the right to command silence concerning Jesus Christ. The believer must preach Him, confess Him, name Him, defend Him, and obey Him. If men permit it, preach. If men mock it, preach. If men forbid it, preach. If men punish it, preach. That is Acts 5. Not lawless rebellion, but Christ-centered obedience. Not fleshly defiance, but doctrinal courage. Not rebellion against every ordinance, but refusal to let any ordinance become lord over the Lord. Conclusion Acts 5:29 is a necessary verse in any age where men try to silence the word of God. “We ought to obey God rather than men” is not a slogan for chaos; it is a settled principle for obedience when human authority directly contradicts divine authority. The apostles were commanded to stop preaching Jesus Christ, and they refused because Christ had commanded them to bear witness. That is the heart of the passage. It is not about personal inconvenience. It is not about rejecting all government. It is not about baptizing a rebellious personality. It is about obeying God when men command disobedience to God. Rightly divided, the verse stands in harmony with Romans 13, Titus 3, and 1 Peter 2. The Christian’s normal posture toward civil authority is submission, lawful conduct, quietness, honesty, and respect. The Christian’s exceptional duty is disobedience when obedience to man would be sin against God. That is the Bible line. When rulers command what God forbids, obey God. When rulers forbid what God commands, obey God. But when rulers enforce lawful order that does not require sin, do not pretend you are Peter before the council. A Bible-believer should have enough discernment to know the difference between persecution and inconvenience, between courage and carnality, between conviction and stubbornness. The apostles obeyed God, suffered shame, and kept preaching Christ. That is the example. They did not use Acts 5:29 to create disorder. They used it to keep preaching the name of Jesus. That is where the verse should drive us. Not into reckless rebellion, not into cowardly silence, but into clean, bold, doctrinal obedience. The world can command silence. Religion can command compromise. Governments can overstep. Councils can threaten. Culture can rage. But when the command of man collides with the command of God, the Bible-believer does not need a committee to explain his duty. The answer is already written: “We ought to obey God rather than men.”

Obey God Rather Than Men - But Rightly Divided Acts 5:29 Introduction Acts 5:29 is one of the great thunderclaps of apostolic boldness in the book of Acts. The verse says, “Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men” (Acts 5:29). That is not soft religion. That is not compromise. That is not diplomatic church speech. That is not the language of men trying to preserve a respectable place at the religious table. That is a Bible-believing line in the sand. The apostles had been commanded by the Jewish authorities not to teach in the name of Jesus Christ, and they refused. They did not refuse because they were anarchists. They did not refuse because they hated authority. They did not refuse because they had a rebellious spirit. They refused because an earthly authority directly commanded them to disobey a heavenly command. Christ had told them to be witnesses. The rulers told them to stop witnessing. At that point the issue was settled. When man’s command crosses God’s command, the saint is not confused. “We ought to obey God rather than men.” But this verse has been abused by every religious hothead, anti-government crank, self-appointed prophet, lawless rebel, and fleshly troublemaker who wants to baptize rebellion in Bible language. Some people quote Acts 5:29 as though it cancels Romans 13, 1 Peter 2, Titus 3, and every other passage that commands lawful submission to civil authority. That is not rightly dividing the word of truth. The same Bible that says, “We ought to obey God rather than men” also says, “Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers” (Romans 13:1). The same Bible that records Peter defying the council in Acts 5 also records Peter writing, “Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake” (1 Peter 2:13). The same Holy Ghost who gave Acts 5:29 also gave Titus 3:1, “Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates.” So no, Acts 5:29 is not a blank check for rebellion against every law, every ruler, every court, every officer, every employer, every church order, and every authority that irritates your flesh. That is not Bible Christianity. That is spiritualized lawlessness. The verse must be preached hard, but it must be preached clean. It must be defended, but it must be rightly divided. Acts 5:29 applies when men command what God forbids or forbid what God commands. That is the line. If the government commands you to stop preaching Christ, you obey God. If religious authorities command you to deny the resurrection, you obey God. If a council commands you to quit speaking in the name of Jesus, you obey God. If an employer commands you to lie, cheat, steal, promote wickedness, or deny conscience toward God, you obey God. But if the law says stop at the red light, pay what is lawfully owed, do not steal, do not trespass, do not threaten, do not slander, do not commit violence, and do not disturb the peace, you do not get to quote Acts 5:29 and pretend you are Peter before the Sanhedrin. Peter was not fighting a traffic ticket. Peter was not avoiding lawful responsibility. Peter was not organizing chaos. Peter was standing under direct orders from the risen Christ against rulers who commanded silence about Christ. That is the difference between Bible courage and religious stupidity. Chapter 1: The Immediate Context Is Apostolic Witness, Not Political Rebellion The first thing to see is the context. Acts 5:29 does not occur in a vacuum. The apostles had been preaching Jesus Christ in Jerusalem after His resurrection. The Jewish rulers had already warned them in Acts 4 not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus. Peter and John answered in Acts 4:19-20, “Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.” That sets the stage for Acts 5. The apostles were not disobeying a minor civil

Honestly Ferraris have always been targeted at rich douchebags. The traditional rich Ferrari douchebag enjoyed a loud high revving V12 and driving way faster than their skill level. Apparently Ferrari now wants to target rich douchebags who hate cars altogether

@iowahawkblog Apparently!

"I want a Ferrari." That's cool "but with no shifter." Whut "Make it a 4 door that sets up high." I'm sorry ma'am but "And electric. And self-driving." I think that we "And in Crayola colors. Like a Fisher-Price toy." How about you buy a Ferrari decal and put in on a Zoox

Dropping F bombs is a huge turn off. I get so sick of hearing politicians swear, it's not even funny. Less is more.

This was take two. The Democrats deleted this, no apology.

@ElaineCox11 But what about ticks?

Uncut grass keeps the ground at around 19.5°C Grass cut to 10 cm raises the ground temperature to about 24.5°C Bare ground in the middle of summer rises to over 40°C It's important to raise awareness #NoMowMay

The United States is a greater good for the world than all other countries combined.

Anthony C. Acevedo Corporal 275th Infantry Regiment, 70th Infantry Division July 31, 1924 – February 11, 2018 He is one of the very few American POWs who were deliberately sent into a Nazi concentration camp system and forced to live among the horrors being inflicted on Jewish prisoners. Captured during the Battle of the Bulge in January 1945. Initially held at Stalag IX-B, then selected (along with ~350 other American POWs) for transfer to Berga an der Elster, a brutal subcamp of Buchenwald concentration camp. Berga was a slave-labor camp where Jewish prisoners and selected “undesirable” POWs (including those the Nazis wrongly classified as Jewish) endured starvation, torture, beatings, forced labor in underground tunnels, and executions. Conditions were among the worst in the entire camp system. Acevedo: Kept a secret diary (now at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum) that documented daily deaths, torture, and atrocities — one of the most important firsthand American records of the Holocaust. Witnessed mass starvation, disease, beatings, and the systematic murder of Jewish and other prisoners. Was himself tortured (including sexual assault) and nearly died on a death march in April 1945 before being liberated by American forces. Became the first Mexican American recognized by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum as a Holocaust survivor/victim.