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Valerie Reads & Writes

@StoryandSpirit

I like to read. I write here occasionally. I want a unicorn, but I own dogs and cats. I believe in the Oxford comma when I remember it. I like truth tellers.

Vancouver, WA Katılım Aralık 2016
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Athenaeum Book Club
Athenaeum Book Club@athenaeumbc·
G. K. Chesterton explains that reading gives a man more lives than he was born with: “A man who has read a thousand books is armed for life; a man who has read none is easy prey. The man who has read a thousand books has lived a thousand lives. He has seen cities he has never visited, spoken to men who died centuries ago, and walked in worlds that no longer exist. Reading does not merely inform him; it enlarges him. It stretches the boundaries of his own experience until he becomes something more than himself.”
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Benjamin L. Gladd
Benjamin L. Gladd@DrGladd·
“The blood of the Lamb silences the accuser!” One of my all-time favorite lines from D. A. Carson. 🩸🐑🤫 I’ve watched this 100x and it never gets old.
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““Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was thrown into the sea and gathered fish of every kind. When it was full, men drew it ashore and sat down and sorted the good into containers but threw away the bad. So it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come out and separate the evil from the righteous and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” Matthew 13:47-50 ESV - Jesus speaking of judgment on those who do evil
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greg cantwell
greg cantwell@gregmcantwell·
@JohnCleese MAGA people like the fire and brimstone of the Old Testament much better than all the woke stuff about forgiveness and love and caring for the poor in the New one.
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Valerie Reads & Writes@StoryandSpirit·
@JohnCleese What are you even talking about. Christ is foreshadowed from the beginning. We can love the grace and mercy shown in both - and yes, judgment is God’s mercy.
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@jonharris1989 One of the most clear outlines I have read for the unconditional promises to Israel and still understand that we can still be critical of Israel.
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Jon Harris 🌲
Jon Harris 🌲@jonharris1989·
If you're more of a reader, I wrote an article on the subject of yesterday's podcast:
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Hitler Hated Christ
Hitler Hated Christ@not_our_guy·
Meet Mitsuo Fuchida: an Imperial Japanese Captain (the architect of the Pearl Harbor attack), who came to Christ because of the deeply Christian doctrine of forgiveness exhibited by Christians
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Valerie Reads & Writes@StoryandSpirit·
@SissyLarue @future42org @costanza007 Totally nuts. The cost for City of Vancouver water has jumped crazily in the last few years. I only noticed at my house downtown and our business is on well right now but that is completely nuts.
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Sissy Larue
Sissy Larue@SissyLarue·
@StoryandSpirit @future42org @costanza007 My business has 2 buildings. A small one for office staff, on city water. Another building, much larger, is on a well. My over $3000 bill is for the small building. Only 8 people work in that building. So I pay over $3000 for 8 people to use the toilet.
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Future 42
Future 42@future42org·
Lynnwood discovered Alderwood Water had not only failed to pay its taxes for a decade; it wasn't even collecting them from customers. But then to make matters worse, Alderwood Water decided to collect the ten years of back taxes from customers... All at once. As you might imagine, people are not happy. @EricWilkinson | @KING5Seattle Article: king5.com/article/news/l…
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Valerie Reads & Writes@StoryandSpirit·
Maybe consider that this bridge won't even stop the backups and traffic since the Rose Quarter I-5 area goes down to TWO yes TWO lanes. The bridge could be 15 lanes but we still have a bottleneck going South. And since most of the people using the bridge daily are Clark County residents, this ridiculous bridge is a slap in our face since we have voted down light rail multiple times. Put a bridge somewhere else and try fixing the infrastructure with new bridges first.
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Christine Drazan
Christine Drazan@ChristineDrazan·
A functioning bridge on I-5 shouldn't be too much to ask for. Instead, we get a bloated project, filled with bells and whistles, that is now expected to cost nearly $15 billion. Oregon taxpayers deserve better. As Governor I'll improve our infrastructure and do it without wasting your money. kgw.com/article/news/p…
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Sissy Larue
Sissy Larue@SissyLarue·
@future42org @costanza007 City of Vancouver water and sewer bill went up 143% in January this year. My business usually pays around 1300.00 every other month. It's now well over $3000. The kicker? I'm on a well!
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John Cleese
John Cleese@JohnCleese·
Does this silly little man not understand that Islam is a very aggressive belief system, threatening death to anyone who does not convert to Islam The Buddhists, the Taoists, the Scottish Presbyterians, the Hindus and the Sikhs and the Confucians and the Catholics don't go around shouting about beheading people they disagree with Is this too much for your tiny little brain to take in ? Oh. The doorbell rang. The police I assume...
Gad Saad@GadSaad

Indeed. Whenever Jews are attacked (typically by Muslims), it is important to redouble our efforts to fight against Islamophobia.

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Melissa the Hopeful🏠Homemaker
Melissa the Hopeful🏠Homemaker@BiblicalBeauty·
During an interview in 1974, Corrie ten Boom shared how she once encouraged fellow believers in Africa with one of her father's memorable lessons on why Christians need not fear being strong enough to endure suffering: "I once said to my father (I was still a little girl), 'Daddy, I will never be strong enough to suffer for Jesus.' And Father said, 'When you go to travel with a train to Amsterdam, when do I give you the train ticket? Three weeks before?' I said, 'No, Daddy, the day that I go to travel.' And Father said, 'That's what God does. Today, you do not need to have strength to suffer for Jesus, but the moment you will have the honor to suffer for Him, He will give you all the strength.' And then I was confident. And I said to these people, 'When you have to suffer for Jesus, the Lord will give you the train ticket.'"
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Braxton McCoy
Braxton McCoy@braxton_mccoy·
Cartels are operating on almost every rez in the western US. Seeing as there's a few with people groups that cross international borders it was always going to be an obvious play. Serious issue that needs to be addressed soon.
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Shareaware Canada@ShareawareCdn

MONTANA TRIBE OVERWHELMED WITH MEXICAN CARTELS -- Tribal leaders in Montana issued an urgent plea to Congress, saying they are overwhelmed and outmatched as Mexican drug cartels exploit jurisdictional loopholes to embed themselves on Native American reservations with devastating effects. Jeffrey Stiffarm, president of the Fort Belknap Indian Community, testified that the Sinaloa Cartel operates with near impunity in his region, capitalizing on chronic underfunding of law enforcement on the 652,000-acre reservation patrolled by just nine officers. “We are fighting a losing battle. The cartels are winning, the drug dealers are winning,” Stiffarm told Congress. “We are left alone to fight this battle against them.” Stiffarm told “NewsNation Prime” that up to hundreds of thousands of cartel operatives have infiltrated reservations across the American West, using the isolated lands as havens to traffic fentanyl pills and other drugs into the United States without scrutiny from federal authorities. “They know we’re short-staffed, underfunded, under-trained and outnumbered,” said Stiffarm, a former law enforcement officer for two decades. “They’re preying on our people, our children, our women. They get a foothold in and they’re here.” The Fort Belknap leader described cartel tactics like staging fake emergencies to divert the limited police presence, then quickly shuttling narcotics across other parts of the reservation undercover. But the devastation transcends drug running, as cartel operatives deeply embed themselves in tribal communities grappling with 70% unemployment rates and that are hours from urban centers. Stiffarm said rapes and murders committed by cartels have become tragically commonplace. Link to articles below 👇

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@hegelpill @BiblicalBeauty No. What made my life possible is God. What made my redemption possible is Jesus. If the Fall never happened I could still have existed. Death in no way was a part of my existence.
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Melissa the Hopeful🏠Homemaker
Melissa the Hopeful🏠Homemaker@BiblicalBeauty·
Wow, wow, wow. Prominent atheist, Richard Dawkins, explaining how he came to believe that God didn't exist: "By far the most important, I suppose was understanding evolution. I think the evangelical Christians have really sort of got it right in a way in seeing evolution as the enemy. Whereas, the more, what shall we say, sophisticated theologians are quite happy to live with evolution. I think they're deluded. I think the evangelicals have got it right in that there really is a deep incompatibility between evolution and Christianity, and I think I realized that at the age of about 16."
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@chickensubject @BiblicalBeauty If you can’t see the difference…. Death to create? Or death of the Perfect Lamb to redeem us who are under a death sentence because of sin? Totally different. Death entered the world because of SIN. There was NO death before the fall. None.
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Cats
Cats@chickensubject·
@StoryandSpirit @BiblicalBeauty Death of the perfect Son of God defeated death. God used death to defeat death. So, death is something God uses. Why would evolutionary death be different?
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@chickensubject @BiblicalBeauty When did death enter the world? Before sin? Or after the fall? Death doesn’t create. Death destroys. Sin brought death and only the death of the perfect Son of God could defeat it.
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Rabbi Brian Samuel
Rabbi Brian Samuel@rabbriansamuel·
This I love. 👇️ Every passage in Scripture that describes Yeshua at the right hand of God presents Him as seated. For example, in Colossians 3:1: “…where Messiah is, sitting at the right hand of God.” Yet there is one, and only one, place where He is seen as not seated. At the martyrdom of Stephen, Yeshua is "standing" at God’s right hand. Acts 7:56: “And he said, ‘Look, I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!’” Stephen's martyrdom moved Yeshua, literally. For that moment, it changed His heavenly posture.
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