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Re: Hurricane Irma

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Every so often, nature reminds us of how insignificant we can be in the face if its power.
It also reminds us how we RISE to the occasion and take care of one another, even people that normally don't get along.
That is the definition of the greatest example and expressions of love, Compassion: To Suffer (passion) with ( com) others.
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Kurieuo wrote:
RickD wrote:
Kurieuo wrote:
RickD wrote:
Kurieuo wrote:I think America should invest in building a few more Arks like in Kentucky.
Make fun of Americans all you want, but just remember, Ken Ham is an Aussie!
:lol:
Where do you think we send our rejects? :P We need to make Australia great again!
Rejects? Then how come you're still there?
:mrgreen:
America refused to take me in. :esad: I wasn't left enough or right enough to fit in.
I doubt that. If you've seen some of our immigrants, we take anyone!
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RickD wrote:
Kurieuo wrote:
RickD wrote:
Kurieuo wrote:
RickD wrote: Make fun of Americans all you want, but just remember, Ken Ham is an Aussie!
:lol:
Where do you think we send our rejects? :P We need to make Australia great again!
Rejects? Then how come you're still there?
:mrgreen:
America refused to take me in. :esad: I wasn't left enough or right enough to fit in.
I doubt that. If you've seen some of our immigrants, we take anyone!
Gee thanks. :ebiggrin:
Let us proclaim the mystery of our faith: Christ has died, Christ is risen, Christ will come again.

Lord I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof, but only say the word and my soul shall be healed.
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Re: Hurricane Irma

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Byblos wrote:
RickD wrote:
Kurieuo wrote:
RickD wrote:
Kurieuo wrote: Where do you think we send our rejects? :P We need to make Australia great again!
Rejects? Then how come you're still there?
:mrgreen:
America refused to take me in. :esad: I wasn't left enough or right enough to fit in.
I doubt that. If you've seen some of our immigrants, we take anyone!
Gee thanks. :ebiggrin:
I didn't mean you. You're "special". :shock:
John 5:24
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-Edward R Murrow




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RickD wrote:
Byblos wrote:
RickD wrote:
Kurieuo wrote:
RickD wrote: Rejects? Then how come you're still there?
:mrgreen:
America refused to take me in. :esad: I wasn't left enough or right enough to fit in.
I doubt that. If you've seen some of our immigrants, we take anyone!
Gee thanks. :ebiggrin:
I didn't mean you. You're "special". :shock:
y>:D< I'm warm and fuzzy.
Let us proclaim the mystery of our faith: Christ has died, Christ is risen, Christ will come again.

Lord I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof, but only say the word and my soul shall be healed.
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Byblos wrote:
RickD wrote:
Byblos wrote:
RickD wrote:
Kurieuo wrote: America refused to take me in. :esad: I wasn't left enough or right enough to fit in.
I doubt that. If you've seen some of our immigrants, we take anyone!
Gee thanks. :ebiggrin:
I didn't mean you. You're "special". :shock:
y>:D< I'm warm and fuzzy.
Is that a nice way of saying, "fat and hairy"?
John 5:24
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RickD wrote:
Byblos wrote:
RickD wrote:
Byblos wrote:
RickD wrote: I doubt that. If you've seen some of our immigrants, we take anyone!
Gee thanks. :ebiggrin:
I didn't mean you. You're "special". :shock:
y>:D< I'm warm and fuzzy.
Is that a nice way of saying, "fat and hairy"?
Well 1 out 2 ain't bad.

How're the preps going Rick? It's looking like the entire state will be greatly impacted.
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Byblos wrote:
RickD wrote:
Byblos wrote:
RickD wrote:
Byblos wrote:
Gee thanks. :ebiggrin:
I didn't mean you. You're "special". :shock:
y>:D< I'm warm and fuzzy.
Is that a nice way of saying, "fat and hairy"?
Well 1 out 2 ain't bad.

How're the preps going Rick? It's looking like the entire state will be greatly impacted.
Is there a hurricane coming? I forgot. I'm watching the Super Bowl champs.
John 5:24
24 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.


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-Edward R Murrow




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Re: Hurricane Irma

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RickD wrote:
Byblos wrote:
RickD wrote:
Byblos wrote:
RickD wrote: I didn't mean you. You're "special". :shock:
y>:D< I'm warm and fuzzy.
Is that a nice way of saying, "fat and hairy"?
Well 1 out 2 ain't bad.

How're the preps going Rick? It's looking like the entire state will be greatly impacted.
Is there a hurricane coming? I forgot. I'm watching the Super Bowl champs.
Getting their asses kicked?
:pound:
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Re: Hurricane Irma

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PaulSacramento wrote:
RickD wrote:
Byblos wrote:
RickD wrote:
Byblos wrote:
y>:D< I'm warm and fuzzy.
Is that a nice way of saying, "fat and hairy"?
Well 1 out 2 ain't bad.

How're the preps going Rick? It's looking like the entire state will be greatly impacted.
Is there a hurricane coming? I forgot. I'm watching the Super Bowl champs.
Getting their asses kicked?
:pound:
Yes. They have no defense.
John 5:24
24 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.


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Re: Hurricane Irma

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Totally unhelpful comments / Kirk Cameron on Hurricane Irma: http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/20 ... tance.html
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Philip wrote:Totally unhelpful comments / Kirk Cameron on Hurricane Irma: http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/20 ... tance.html
I just read that too. My first thoughts were, "What an ass!"

I really liked him as an actor in Growing Pains. Not so much as the act he's putting on lately.
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Well, there IS Scriptural support for God sending calamity, but typically with clarity as to why (OT). But calamity can just be random. See Jesus' comment upon disaster in https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?s ... ersion=ESV. Thing is, Kirk has no idea how or even whether God might be using the hurricane. So, as people are scared, have their lives turned upside down, perhaps already doubting God's love, it sure doesn't help that some high-profile Christian asserts to know why, with some clueless, pat answer. A better answer: We don't know why God allows certain things, but we do know He loves us and that we can trust Him, and in our troubles, we should reach to Him. And God Himself, in the form of Jesus, submitted Himself to the very same cruelties of this world - He personally knows great suffering, and did not avoid it.

Main thing is, when people are hurting, you sure don't pile on with unhelpful conjecture or speculation - it's sure not going to help evangelism efforts, not to mention their individual situations, feelings or despair! And I say that as a person who realizes that Kirk's heart is in the right place, he means well, but was exceptionally clumsy in response. Course, there's the question as to whether he was accurately quoted.




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Rick, I see that new track (just saw it), shows a CAT 4 level storm, just west of you - which could go right over you. :shock:
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Philip wrote:Rick, I see that new track (just saw it), shows a CAT 4 level storm, just west of you - which could go right over you. :shock:
Shouldn't be a 4 when it gets to me. They're predicting a 1 or 2, by the time it hits north Florida.
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