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Pond Landscape

Ideas for a sizable, modern, backyard stone pond that receives full sun.

Hi, Dirty American Here doing my due for the imaginary Europeans. Make sure to get your disgusting EU citizen friends on this shit!

Time to shout out my most active mutuals in order to gain more reblogs from my biggest fans list:

@loverboyxbutch (thank you, please be a EU citizen for this)

@melda0m3 (I can't wait to do some more requests from you :3)

@blargh-500 (You are a reoccuring entity, please interact more)

@expected-unexpected (The secret underdog)

Special Shout Outs Who Should Reblog If They Want TO Be Apart Of The Club:

@madmadhuman (welcome to the family, you get pats if you want)

@differentnighttale (you are very very very special to me :3)

@12-cluh (love you, why don't you have the underline?)

@lavenillrose , @creatrakers and @procrazedfan (for being my first true mutuals)

(Ps. Thank you to literally everyone else for all the support, I trust that you can give these people support as well)

Hey, if you have half a minute and care about the LGTBQIA+ community in the EU, I'd suggest you take a look at this initiative to ban conversion therapies in the EU.

1 million people are required to sign, but there's barely 100k. The form takes less than a minute, it only requires your ID, name and surname.

Please, help spread the initiative so that it can reach the goal ASAP!

Hi, once more I am rebloging this since I want to and you can't make me stop >:)

We could turn this into a reblog challenge if we wanted to? Does anyone have any ideas?

I'm just going to copy-and-paste my old shit real quick:

Time to shout out my most favorite mutuals in order to gain more reblogs from my biggest fans list:

@loverboyxbutch , @melda0m3, @blargh-500 , @expected-unexpected , @madmadhuman , @differentnighttale , @12-cluh , @lavenillrose , @creatrakers and @procrazedfan

P.s: If You Don't Reblog This, You Are Homophobic :)

Hey, if you have half a minute and care about the LGTBQIA+ community in the EU, I'd suggest you take a look at this initiative to ban conversion therapies in the EU.

1 million people are required to sign, but there's barely 100k. The form takes less than a minute, it only requires your ID, name and surname.

Please, help spread the initiative so that it can reach the goal ASAP!

Gravel Landscape picture of a sizable modern full-sun gravel landscaping in the summer.

Deck - Backyard

Deck: A medium-sized, classic backyard deck design

Please pray for the conversion of your friends & family to faith, no matter what their age or state of life is.

My grandparents were lifelong Catholics, and out of their seven children, only my dad is still practicing. I’m not sure about everyone’s timeline, but my impression is that most of his siblings have spent the better part of 40-50 years away from faith completely.

It’s a bit sad seeing them so aged & frail when we do our Zoom reunions, and I can’t help but wonder if they will find their way back to Christ with less & less time left. That is not a cause for despair, but a cause to foster greater devotion in praying for them and to trust in God. There is always time for him to return a lost sheep to his fold and thwart the forces of hell.

So many people in your life need your prayers, people who might not embrace Christ without those prayers. So please pray for your loved ones & their conversion. (And please pray especially for my uncle David, I don’t know why but for some reason I feel a special responsibility to pray for him in particular)

Is Free Grace Theology Biblical?

By Award-Winning Author & Bible Researcher Eli Kittim

Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ,

he is none of his.

(Romans 8.9 KJV)

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Sola fide

Sola fide (meaning “faith alone”) is a theological doctrine which holds that believers are justified by faith alone. Originally, the purpose of this doctrine was to distinguish the Protestants from the Catholic & Orthodox Churches that relied on sacraments (such as the Sacrament of Penance, aka Confession) and “works” for salvation. By contrast, Sola fide maintained that it is on the basis of faith alone that believers are justified (pardoned) and saved.

However, the original doctrine of Sola fide (faith alone) didn’t mean to imply that nothing happened to the believer existentially, psychologically, or supernaturally *after* they were saved. On the contrary, many reformers emphatically stressed that *regeneration* should produce verifiable evidence of the spiritual life. As 2 Pet. 1.10 warns (cf. 2 Cor. 13.5), make sure your faith is real:

Wherefore the rather, brethren, give

diligence to make your calling and election

sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never

fall.

The evidence of conversion is a believer’s *new self* in Christ (his new identity cf. Gal. 2.20; Eph. 4.24), with proof of ongoing fruit in their life. Many people mistakenly think they are converted or born again but they show no evidence of a personality change (a recreation) nor any fruit of the Spirit (love, joy, peace). Alas, despite what they say publicly, they have not been converted; they have not been reborn! Read Jonathan Edwards’ sermon, “Sudden Conversions Are Very Often False.”

The reformers knew the importance of John 3.7: “Ye must be born again.” This Biblical concept doesn’t refer to the time when, during a crusade, you decided to make a spiritual commitment to Christ, or to the time when you made a sincere profession of faith during an altar call at a Jimmy Swaggart rally, or when you decided to give your life to Jesus, in your living room one night, while watching Billy Graham or Joel Osteen. This “decision” is characterized under the category of “works” (since you decided the outcome by yourself), and it has absolutely nothing to do with Biblical regeneration or with God. Why? Because God had nothing to do with it, nor is there any evidence of a supernatural work of the Holy Spirit in your life. That’s why 2 Corinthians 5.17 declares:

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a

new creature: old things are passed away;

behold, all things are become new.

Unfortunately, the sinner’s prayer doesn’t save anyone. It doesn’t change your carnal nature into a new creature. Your sin nature remains the same and dominates your mind and heart. So how, then, are you saved? A saved person is dominated by God, not by his passions.

That’s why the reformers spoke of irresistible grace (monergism). Regardless of whether we agree with it or not, the point is that this soteriological doctrine teaches that God’s grace is effectually applied to the believer in order to save them, and that God overcomes their resistance and *changes* them from *within.* In other words, a transformation takes place on the inside. It’s not just faith alone. If they cannot deny it or resist it, then that means that God’s grace has a direct cause-effect influence in their lives. That’s why scripture emphasizes the need for a baptism of the Spirit (Matthew 3.11): “He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved” (Mark 16.16)!

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Free Grace Theology

Free Grace (aka Easy-believism) is a Christian soteriological position which holds that anyone can be saved and receive eternal life simply by believing that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God (John 20:31). The only condition for receiving the grace of eternal life is *faith.* Nothing else is required. In fact, one is not even required to stop sinning. They have completely removed Sola fide (faith alone) from its original Biblical and soteriological context, thereby isolating and distorting it to mean something entirely different.

By contrast, *Lordship Salvation* requires obedience to Christ. And this is the actual teaching of Scripture! The free Grace movement apparently forgot Jesus’ teaching which states: “repent ye, and believe the gospel” (Mark 1.15). Grace is free, but it’s not cheap. Christ says in Mt 16.24:

If any man will come after me, let him deny

himself, and take up his cross, and follow

me.

Here are Jesus’ own words in John 14.15:

If ye love me, keep my commandments.

Besides, how can *mere belief* ALONE be sufficient for *salvation* if the demons believe just as much? (James 2.19):

Thou believest that there is one God; thou

doest well: the devils also believe, and

tremble.

In fact, 1 John 2.3-4 would call proponents of Free Grace “liars”:

And hereby we do know that we know him

[Christ], if we keep his commandments. He

that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his

commandments, is a liar, and the truth is

not in him.

And yet, *free grace theology* is constantly mocking Lordship Salvation, calling it evil and unbiblical. Therefore, we should take heed of Isaiah’s (5.20) stern warning:

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good

evil; that put darkness for light, and light for

darkness.

In this paper, I’m only talking about the *regenerated* or *born-again believer,* and what their salvation consists of. I’m trying to demonstrate that a rebirth entails a new identity, a new creation, and a constant outflow of the fruit of the spirit. Just to be clear, Christian salvation is not based on the *works* of the law. Obeying the commandments of Moses doesn’t save anyone. We are not saved because we obey; we obey because we are saved! Nor is salvation an intellectual assent to the truths of Christianity (see Wayne Grudem’s “Free Grace” Theology). You don’t simply look at the facts, weigh the evidence, and conclude that Jesus must be the Messiah. Salvation is NOT an intellectual exercise. Rather, it’s an experience! In Paul’s “Participationist” model of salvation, we don’t merely stand afar off and believe in the person and work of Jesus Christ. No! Rather, we *participate* “in Christ.” We share in his baptism (Rom. 6.3), death (Gal. 2.20), and resurrection (Rom. 6.8). Psalm 34.8 says:

O taste and see that the LORD is good.

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Imagine Catholic saints as modern Christian music artists—what would their signature song sound like?

“When conversion does take place the process of revelation occurs in a very simple way: a person is in need, he suffers, and then somehow the other world opens up. The more you are in suffering and difficulties and are desperate for God, the more He is going to come to your aid, reveal Who He is, and show you the way to get out.”

-Fr. Seraphim Rose-

The turret has moved from virtual to reality (Yay for the future!)

in the process: my first exposure to judaism was the beliefs and teachings of reform jews specifically. added to the fact that i’m very queer (incl crossdressing and hopefully one day marrying someone of the same gender) in a very conservative area and the reform synagogue near me is the only one with a formal conversion class, that’s what i picked! i probably walk the line more towards conservative judaism, but i’m still happily converting to reform. in the future i might convert conservative as well.

if you converted to judaism or are in the process of doing so, how did you choose a denomination?

Gods have mercy, but I think My tongue tripped over itself today. Between the spark of thought And glitch of grammar My voice shorted out Like the bark of a hammer Against a sore thumb, And what's worse is the manner. See, sometimes my words Trickle out like a river In crystalline rivulets Of claret wine. And sometimes my home-grown Amber waves Upbringing Wellspring of sand-dune soft whispers And sandhill plum prickles Sprouts off of my tongue in the shape of dust devils Forged in the prairie fires Of a hail-blasted Southern church. I breathe the name of a god incarnate King substitute sacrifice When I stub my toe, And groan the name of a lord Who is no master mine. What do I do, when colloquialisms Have colonized my throat? Do I swallow them down, Do I drown them out, Do I let them run unchecked? It might be far more trivial Than it seems right now, for me, But as of yet I cannot tell If it's... feasible or not, to be Knocking down the walls of my well-founded Jericho And replacing them with the ziggurats Of Eresh and Nippur. I know the home of my heart And my soul has ceased its wrenching, But still I breathe the name of God From habit And catch my fists clenching. The field is grown stale and tired, And so the crops are rotated. The land of dust and burial Gives rise to a steadfast windbreak. May I be as strong as the juniper, Half blasted and leaning But proud in solidarity. May the line hold. May my fellows never falter, Stark against the searing blue And waves of amber-gold. Nisaba has erected her house in your precinct, O hall of the god of my mothers, And has taken her seat upon your dais.

Just Some Measurements...Quantities...?

1 ounce = 28.35 grams

1 pound = 453.592 grams

1 pound = 16 ounces

After making a few candles and wax melts I could this information to be helpful when ordering supplies. Since Fragrance oils are often sold in ounces and waxes being sold in pounds. Knowing how much wax and FO goes into your candles can help you know...well...how much to buy. Like if 1 pound of wax and 28g of FO can make you 7 wax melts. Then you know buying 11 pounds of wax and a 16-ounce bottle of FO can make you 77 wax melts with about 5 ounces of FO left over!

Powder Room - Transitional Powder Room

Small transitional powder room photo with a two-piece toilet and gray walls

Coach slipped those supplements to all his players. None had been able to control it and took out their urges on him. Coach got a team of absolute BEASTS and was getting absolute cum drunk on their muscle juice. He'd taken in so much muscle juice Coach hadn't noticed he was slowly starting to grow too

“Coach, what is in those supplements you gave me?? I’m getting freakishly huge! My dick even lengthened out! I need more right fuckin now! I’ve never felt this good in my life! I’m so fuckin horny! I’ve been fucking everyone! Speaking of, don’t think you’re getting out of here without at least sucking me off! Hahaha!!”

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Medium in Wilmington Inspiration for a mid-sized modern ceramic tile sunroom remodel with a standard ceiling

Rustic Family Room

Family room - large rustic open concept light wood floor and beige floor family room idea with a standard fireplace and a stone fireplace

Home Bar London

Example of a large, modern, open-concept living room with a light wood floor, a bar, and white walls.