Okay, so I'm a day or two late on the Steak & Shake fun. I'll just pretend I'm eating pizza.😂
Q. 33. What is justification?
A. Justification is an act of God’s free grace, wherein he pardoneth all our sins, and accepteth us as righteous in his sight, only for the righteousness of Christ imputed to us, and received by faith alone.
Rom. 3:24-25; Rom. 4:6-8; 2 Cor. 5:19, 21; Rom. 5:17-19; Gal. 2:16; Phil. 3:9.
"Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching." - Thomas Jefferson
I don'tunderstand why anyone still voluntarily uses Windoze, tbh.
"A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today."
– Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." - Robert F. Kennedy
Good got it to work, thanks.
And, thanks for the insight. Stoll new to this and knowing that (about Primal) helps in the decision making process.
Q. 32. What benefits do they that are effectually called partake of in this life?
A. They that are effectually called do in this life partake of justification, adoption, sanctification, and the several benefits which, in this life, do either accompany or flow from them.
Rom. 8:30; Eph. 1:5; 1 Cor. 1:26, 30.
No particular reason, except that I'm enjoying the options. I was using Amethyst, which I don't have a problem with and, with the addition of my npub/nsec, I can try Primal.
My only beef so far with Primal is that, in the web version of Primal, I can zap sats, but not in the Android version, even though I have my Alby node correctly configured and connected. It always wants me to use the Primal wallet.
Maybe after a few months, I'll move on to "the next big client" and give it a go.
Back to Primal on Android, for now.
"The Ungoverned," by Vernor Vinge, is a sci-fi novella that started me down the anarcho-capitalist path many years ago. Many of VInge's works explore anarcho-capitalism, agorism, and "The Singularity".
The full text of "The Ungoverned" is available for free here. It's worth the hour or so to read it.
Retirement is such a 20th century concept. More of a Boomer concept (full disclosure, I was born at the end of the Boomer era, but don't consider myself one).
Changing your focus from a career/job to something more low-key as you reach whatever age is appropriate and significant for you, that's "retirement", to me.
"No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!"
– Ronald Reagan
Why not? It'd go well with the rest of the circus decor...
"Every noble work is at first impossible." - Thomas Carlyle
Q. 31. What is effectual calling?
A. Effectual calling is the work of God’s Spirit, whereby convincing us of our sin and misery, enlightening our minds in the knowledge of Christ, and renewing our wills, he doth persuade and enable us to embrace Jesus Christ, freely offered to us in the gospel.
2 Tim. 1:9; 2 Thess. 2:13-14; Acts 2:37; Acts 26:18; Ezek. 36:26-27; John 6:44-45; Phil. 2:13.
Q. 30. How doth the Spirit apply to us the redemption purchased by Christ?
A. The Spirit applieth to us the redemption purchased by Christ, by working faith in us, and thereby uniting us to Christ in our effectual calling.
Eph. 1:13-14; John 6:37, 39; Eph. 2:8; Eph. 3:17; 1 Cor. 1:9.
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldon Emerson
“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”
—Theodore Roosevelt
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910
"No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or get the credit for doing it." - Andrew Carnegie
Are they good burgers? There's an S&S locally but we've not tried it, yet.