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Samuel Ade
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Samuel Ade
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Founder @DESCUK & @Ilanaafrica | Trustee @fastlondon1. Heart of servant, mind of a King. Changing attitudes, shifting cultures.
Green Pastures เข้าร่วม Aralık 2009
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Samuel Ade รีทวีตแล้ว
There is no version of Christianity that permits you to continue sinning just because of God's love for you.
True love inspires true obedience.👌🏻
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Samuel Ade รีทวีตแล้ว
@TJiMTS @mabintou @jononabowu Didn't watch the video but it says on Google that Brett won this competition by a unanimous decision, going to check it out though.
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There was actually a good video on this. Founder of lovable vs Brett from Design Joy. Brett was very anti AI until he lost the clash 😂
There’s also a massive skill gap / learning curve required to properly use AI, that obviously comes with time. Someone very skilled with it can overcome most of the objections most people have.
I think at the absolute extremes (no experience with AI and the top 1-5% of design), humans win. For the entire middle ground AI wins.
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I feel very strongly about the fact that AI cannot design better than an actual, seasoned designer. It’s just not good enough.
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Samuel Ade รีทวีตแล้ว
There’s nothing valuable that comes from being “highly promiscuous” and I think it’s abhorrent that this discussion is being framed that way.
You don’t need to live a high-risk lifestyle in order to tell others “that’s a bad idea, don’t do that”.
You don’t need to make a lot of bad decisions in life in order to be humble.
Your formerly degenerate lifestyle doesn’t make you a better person than someone who abstained.
The truth that many on this app seem reticent to suggest is that bad decisions leave scars. And yes, you can absolutely be forgiven, but the scars remain.
Forgiveness doesn’t undo consequence.
The entire reason you don’t want others to repeat your mistakes is so that they can lead an OBJECTIVELY better life than you did.
It’s insulting and harmful to suggest otherwise.
Trevor Sheatz@TrevorSheatz
My wife was formerly promiscuous. I was a virgin. She was then radically born-again. Committed to church, evangelized constantly, Puritan books in her bedroom, prayer journals, grief over past sexual sin, etc. We got to know each other well for over a year, dated for four months, engaged for two and a half, and didn't sin sexually with one another. Our first kiss with each other was at the altar on our wedding day (reaction pic attached!). We've been married for over five years now, and she's been the most wonderful and godly wife, mother to our three children, and homemaker you could imagine. She's more pure than most virgins, as biblical purity has less to with past sins (though they certainly matter) and more to do with one's current posture of the heart and daily decisions to honor the Lord (Matt. 5:8). We're far too quick to forget the story of the woman labeled as a known "sinner" (likely a prostitute) in Luke 7:36-50 who was washing Jesus' feet with her tears while kissing them too. The Pharisees were shocked that Jesus let a public sinner do this. Jesus responded with a parable about debts being forgiven and ended with this powerful conclusion: "Her many sins have been forgiven; that’s why she loved much. But the one who is forgiven little, loves little" (Luke 7:47). Everyone seems to highlight the benefits of virginity, and it certainly is a blessing. But we forget to highlight the benefits of being forgiven much as well. My wife knows the depths of Jesus' forgiveness more than most people, enabling her to more easily live out a life of passionate love for her Savior. A woman or man's past sexual sin matters. But what matters far more when it comes to deciding who to marry is if the person is truly born again, if their repentance is real, if they truly have a heart for Christ, if they truly follow Jesus and obey his commands. "God has chosen what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen what is weak in the world to shame the strong. God has chosen what is insignificant and despised in the world — what is viewed as nothing — to bring to nothing what is viewed as something, so that no one may boast in his presence. It is from him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became wisdom from God for us — our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption, — in order that, as it is written: 'Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.'" (1 Cor. 1:27-31) "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come!" (2 Cor. 5:17)
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Samuel Ade รีทวีตแล้ว
The issue is that sin can be forgiven, but it still has real-world consequences.
What sort of memories does she have?
What happens when exes hit her up?
What happens if you have kids and they find her content, or their friends do?
Does she have a dormant STD?
(2/3)
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The part that is right is that they should see her as full forgiven.
But not wanting to marry her isn't a rejection of the gospel.
It's an acknowledgement that sin, even when forgiven, often has temporal consequences.
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Samuel Ade รีทวีตแล้ว
The gap between Christians who study their Bible personally and Christians who only hear it when they go to church on Sundays is deeper than it looks.
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Samuel Ade รีทวีตแล้ว
I believe in God after 40 years of ardent lifelong atheism because I found evidence.
Very much against my will and inclination, logic proved to me that the Christian worldview is coherent and atheism incoherent.
So I experimentally prayed, demanding God show Himself
He did
D_Preacher@D_Preacher_1
Do people believe in God because they found evidence, or because they were taught to believe as children?
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Meta ruined the Instagram app, you can be in the middle of commenting on a post and it will still automatically refresh the feed without no way of locating the post you interacted with if you didn't like it.
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Samuel Ade รีทวีตแล้ว
My wife was sexually harassed by her boss last month
She was brave enough to report him and went to court
Everything seemed fine until I noticed a problem
Her boss is a person of color, a man from Nigeria
And the jury was entirely white
I had no choice but to raise an objection
"This trial cannot proceed" I said
"A white jury cannot fairly judge a man of color"
The trial has been postponed 5 months pending a diversity review of the jury pool
"You betrayed me" my wife said
"No honey, I protected a man from institutional racism"
This is why the rest of the world looks up to Europe
We protect everyone
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Samuel Ade รีทวีตแล้ว
When someone identified as a Christian in the days of the early Apostles, it meant a lot.
Neighbors knew it was beyond a religious tag, it was an allegiance and imitation of Jesus even to the point of death.
Today, being a Christian means very little.
Aside from church vibes and bible names, what else is unique to the average Christian.
And once you advocate for true Christian values and practices, it is fellow professing Christians that will come and say you're doing too much and being too judgemental.
False preachers, false converts, and false gospels have seemingly made Christianity very "popular," but Christ is very largely unknown amongst many people.
We need to preach more, teach more, and disciple more
Just because our concerts and conferences are full doesn't mean we have achieved much.
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Samuel Ade รีทวีตแล้ว
I regret having premarital sex.
For many years, I didn’t think I would ever say those words. When I was younger, it didn’t look like something to regret. In fact, in the environment I grew up in, it almost felt like something to celebrate. Among my friends, experiences with women were treated like achievements. People compared stories, laughed about them, and sometimes even competed over them as if they were collecting trophies.
At that time, nobody talked about consequences. Nobody talked about the emotional weight those experiences could carry into the future. Nobody talked about what would happen when you eventually met the woman you truly loved.
Then I got married.
And that was when I began to understand something I wish someone had explained to me earlier.
You see, when you share that level of intimacy with multiple people before marriage, your mind sometimes carries memories you cannot easily erase. Moments that seemed harmless at the time suddenly become mental comparisons that you never asked for and never wanted.
There were times when I found myself battling thoughts I hated. Not because I didn’t love my wife—far from it. I loved her deeply. But I realized something painful: my past had introduced unnecessary struggles into something that was meant to be pure and peaceful.
My wife deserved better than that.
She deserved to be the only story in that area of my life. She deserved a man who was discovering everything about intimacy, connection, and vulnerability with her alone. Instead, I had to fight through memories that should never have existed in the first place.
And that is where the regret comes from.
Not because pleasure existed in the past, but because those choices followed me into my future.
People often think sexual discipline before marriage is just about rules or religious expectations. But I’ve come to realize it’s actually about something much deeper: it is about protecting the peace of your future marriage.
When you guard yourself before marriage, you are not just obeying a principle—you are preserving something beautiful for the person you will spend the rest of your life with.
You give them something rare in today’s world: a heart that has been kept, a mind that is free from comparisons, and a love story that begins with them and them alone.
Looking back now, if I could speak to my younger self, I would tell him this:
What feels like freedom today may become a burden tomorrow.
And what feels like restraint today may actually be the greatest gift you give to your future spouse.
Because the truth is, the greatest gift you can give the person you marry is not wealth, success, or even romance.
It is a heart that chose faithfulness before they ever arrived.
PST Dolapo shared this message and I crafted it into a content; sharing some lessons
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Samuel Ade รีทวีตแล้ว
I’ve been a barber for 20 years. Most guys just want a fade and to talk about football.
Yesterday, a young man walked in. He looked rough. Grease under his fingernails, work boots covered in dust.
"I need a shave," he said. "And a cut. Make me look... respectable."
I draped the cape over him. As I raised the scissors, I noticed he was trembling. The chair was actually vibrating.
I put the scissors down.
"You okay, son?" I asked. "Nervous about a date?"
He looked at me in the mirror. His eyes were bloodshot.
"No, sir," he whispered. "My little brother died on Tuesday. The funeral is in an hour. I want to look like the big brother he looked up to."
The shop went silent. The other customers stopped talking.
I didn't rush. I gave him the works. I used the hot towel. I used the straight razor. I trimmed every stray hair. I even polished his boots while the hot towel was on his face.
When I spun the chair around, he looked like a new man. He stood taller.
He reached for his wallet.
"Put that away," I said.
"I can pay," he argued. "I work hard."
"I know you do," I told him. "But your money is no good here today. Go be with your family. Go make him proud."
He choked up. He grabbed my hand and held it tight. "Thank you," he said. "I felt like I was falling apart. I feel ready now."
He walked out with his head held high.
A haircut can't fix a broken heart. But sometimes, it gives you the dignity you need to carry it.
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The common thread in all great movements is valuing and respecting people. -Jim Blanchard
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Samuel Ade รีทวีตแล้ว
God didn't call you to be liked, He called you to be light. And light, by its very nature, makes darkness uncomfortable.
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Samuel Ade รีทวีตแล้ว
@ronkelawal The Telegraph published the story during the pandemic of the guy who died by suicide.
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