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@BBGreatMoments I liked Hank Greenwald with the Giants. Easy listening, like we were having a beer and watching a ballgame on tv.

Most ICONIC broadcasters.

@TheSports_Shift @FCIty24604 John Hiller.

@Travis1 Tom Haller

Without googling, name a past or present Los Angeles Dodger. I’ll start. Mookie Betts

@birdchadlouis Thank you for that. I’ve been wrestling with this myself. I practice this in my prayer time, not ready to do so at church yet!

As young children, many of us were told to bow our heads, close our eyes, and fold our hands during prayer. I find it ironic that the 2nd and 3rd items in this list are not found in the Bible. Most of the occurrences are the exact opposite! The closest biblical occurrence to someone closing their eyes in prayer is the tax collector in the parable who “would not even lift his eyes to heaven” (Luke 18:13). But “eyes closed” is not the point here. Rather, he directs his eyes downward, away from heaven in repentance and confession. Lifting one’s eyes to heaven during prayer is mentioned in the Bible. *Jesus “lifted his eyes to heaven” when he prayed (John 17:1). *He looked up to heaven and said a blessing when feeding the 5000 (Luke 9:16). *The psalmist says, “To you I lift up my eyes” (Ps. 123:1). The common posture for the hands in biblical prayer is not folded but held out to God. It is the posture of reception, waiting to be filled. *At the dedication of the temple, Solomon “spread out his hands toward heaven” (1 Kings 8:22). *Moses “stretched out his hands” to God (Exod. 9:33). *Ezra fell upon his knees and “spread out [his] hands” to God (Ezra 9:5). *The psalmist says “Every day I call upon you, O Lord; I spread out my hands to you” (Ps. 88:9). Of course, this is nothing to be dogmatic about. You can lift your hands, fold your hands, or put them behind your back. You can close your eyes or lift them to heaven. God does not care; he just wants you to pray. It is a reminder, however, that our bodies are involved in prayer. We are not “brains of a stick.” We are embodied creatures. So, just as we pray with our hearts, minds, and souls, we pray with our hands and eyes. All of who we are looks to Christ for all of what we need.

@kyoung375124 @PastorBunge @birdchadlouis The Old Testament looks forward to Messiah in every book.

@PastorBunge @birdchadlouis So you’re saying it’s unacceptable to preach the OT and the stories of a faithful God and His people? (Genuinely asking) How can people understand the Jewish messiah without a framework or the entire Jewish story?

Is there a place in the church for sermons that don’t make Christ and his work the central message? Yes. That place is the trash can. Preach Christ and his work or sit down and shut up till you are ready to do so.

@farmingandJesus I love being brought to tears by Scripture, I hate being manipulated!

Just because a pastor’s voice gets louder or he is theatrical and it makes you feel a certain way doesn’t mean it’s correct. We aren’t led by feelings and emotions being stirred, we are led by the scriptures. Check the scriptures, always.

@Truth_matters20 I understand your point, HOWEVER…when motivated by saving faith, church attendance is a highlight, rituals are fraught with meaning, sacraments are magnificent encounters with God, icons are creepy, works flow, and prayer is an unceasing conversation with the Almighty!

False religion lulls people into a spiritual slumber by making them feel holy through church attendance, rituals, sacraments, icons, works, and prayer—without a real relationship with Jesus. That's why the hardest people to reach are those who believe themselves saved.

@churchtalkative 2 Corinthians 2:15:-But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one.

“Do not judge” in Matthew 7 was about hypocritical judgment. Not the cancellation of discernment. Jesus literally continues teaching people how to judge rightly afterward.

@AttorneyF_ I once told a friend, “You think YOU’RE going to be in charge in hell?”

People joke that hell will be ‘lit’ because all the famous people will be there. It is one of the most theologically illiterate things a human being can say, and almost nobody stops to explain why. The joke assumes enjoyment exists independently of God. That pleasure is something humans discovered and God merely watches from a distance. That we are having fun he is not privy to. But that is completely backwards. God did not observe sex and decide to permit it. He invented it. He did not stumble upon music. He is the source from which music flows. No human musician in their current state walks into heaven’s choir without being exposed. The least of them will put our greatest to shame. Every good thing we have ever experienced is derivative. A trickle from a reservoir we have never seen. This is why the incarnation is such a devastating argument. God puts on flesh. He enters the world with full access to everything we spend our lives chasing. Wealth. Fame. Sex. Power. And he is conspicuously unimpressed. Not because he came to perform suffering, he went to weddings, he ate, he wept, he loved people fiercely. But none of it could compete with what he already knew was real. A man who has eaten the actual meal is not tormented by the photograph of it. Then he meets a rich man, a man who had maximized human enjoyment by every available metric, and he says: sell everything and come. Nobody says that unless they know exactly what is on the other side. That is not the language of sacrifice. That is the language of an outrageously favorable trade. As for hell, the joke gets it completely wrong. Hell is not a party for rebels. Hell is what happens when a being built to find its fullness in God is permanently severed from the source of every good thing they ever enjoyed. The music does not continue without him. The laughter does not continue without him. The connection does not continue without him. Because all of those were on loan from the one they are now cut off from. It is not pleasure without God. It is the final and total collapse of everything that ever made pleasure possible. You are not enjoying something God is missing out on. You are enjoying God already, dimly, through everything he made. Heaven is not a different category of experience. It is the same thing with the glass finally removed.

@Travis1 Rich Morales.

Without googling, name a past or present San Diego Padres player. I’ll start. Jake Peavy

@holybible______ Hey! That’s just the first part!

@_iamlougotti John Rabb.

Name a forgotten MLB catcher

@_iamlougotti Dave Ricketts.

@_iamlougotti Jerry Zimmerman!

@KingdomDefTrain @soundpwn @JoshuaBarzon Could you share your manual?

We have two deacons in charge of the team. And a manual that was written for the team and approved by the pastors. The majority of oversight is covered internally that way. If something falls outside the scope of the manual or the deacons then we go to a pastor. In most cases, they trust our judgment.

Should a church have an armed security team?

@oliverburdick “I follow God” is a creed.

I don't follow creeds, sacraments, traditions, or people. I follow God.

@churchtalkative 1 Corinthians 2:15 “But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one.”

“Judge not” does not mean “never speak truth.” Correction done in love is biblical.

@FCIty24604 @VinnysCorner1 The first name I thought of!

@VinnysCorner1 Willie McCovey

Who was the most INTIMIDATING batter in baseball when you were a kid?

@Travis1 Paul Popovich

Without googling, name a past or present Chicago Cubs player. I’ll start. Jason Hayward

@GiantHotTakes He should have got sat down last night.

Willy Adames should sit today. That stuff can’t happen. I don’t think it will happen again, but at any level you are benched the next day. Also a good time for an off day anyways. Casey Schmitt does not need to spend any days out of this lineup.