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  1. 18 hours ago, Southern McButterpants. said:

    Where in SC? The Bills Backers of the Midlands (Columbia area) is organizing tickets + busses for both the Carolina and Atlanta games. i might take advantage of the ATL bus and save a hotel room.

     

    For the Panthers game, we have friends in Fort Mill, just south of the city, so we're going up on Saturday to "pre-game." 

    She's in Greenwood ... we joined a group for the Washington game a couple of years ago and that was definitely the way to attend an away game. Simplified the ticket purchasing process for us. I would love to have info for the Columbia group!

  2. I live in Northern NY, but our daughter lives in SC. We are planning on going to visit her and attend the Carolina game. Are there any Carolina Bills Backers groups that do a group of tickets? That would save us watching prices, etc. Plus we'd be sitting with other Bills fans. Any advice is great ... thanks!

  3. On 4/17/2024 at 3:34 PM, Ponch said:

    What do you mean by that? 

    I mean that "Jehovah" was contrived from the consonants of YHWH and the vowels of Adonai (and dragged through a couple languages other than English). It's now a "word" ... but it literally does not appear in the original languages.

  4. 2 hours ago, Dan Darragh said:

    Having been raised in the Jewish faith this name never fails to crack me up.  "Adonai" is Hebrew for "God" and religious Jews are so careful of observing the commandment of not taking God's name in vain, they actually won't say this word unless engaged in formal prayer.  In other cases they substitute the word Hashem which means "the name."

     

    I can't wait until he catches a Hail Mary pass.

    Adonai is actually not the formal name of God that the Jewish faith refuses to say, out of respect for His name. Adonai is actually the name for the Lord that the Jewish faith substitutes for the name revealed to Moses at the burning bush. What we have in the book of Exodus is simply the Hebrew letters that transliterate as YHWH (often anglicized as Yahweh, but we literally aren't sure how it would have been pronounced as the vowel points have been lost to time). Another word, Jehovah, was the rough mixing of the consonants from YHWH (JHVH) and the vowels from Adonai. Jehovah is not a "real" word but has been used as the "name" of the Lord.

     

    Y'all are all good using Adonai.

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  5. Let me address a couple of points, since I am an ordained pastor in the Wesleyan Church (the same denomination as Eastern Hills Wesleyan).

     

    First, Kim (Kerr) Pegula's family has a long history in the Wesleyan Church denomination, especially in WNY. Her dad has served in lay leadership positions for many years and Kim graduated from Houghton College (now University) which is one the five Wesleyan Church denomination schools for higher Ed. Yes, it is from the Methodist line of churches, definitely not prosperity gospel or super charismatic. While some larger churches have more revenue, typically our denomination sets the basic budget for pastoral salary, and it is not exorbitant (typically think around $600-700/week). I don't know any Wesleyan pastors that are rich according to American standards. Now relative to the rest of the world, we're all extremely wealthy ...

     

    Secondly, it is not common, but also not unheard of, to hold a prayer service for those in serious health conditions. My church held one for a member who was intubated during the worst of COVID. She recovered and the family was supported through that time because of that service.

     

    Lastly, why would we assume we pray for someone after they pass? From a Christian standpoint, the time that God could typically intervene is before they pass. King David, in 2 Samuel, fasts and prays fervently for his newborn son. When his son passed away, he got up, washed and ate some food. His servants asked why he was no longer "mourning" (by fasting and praying) ... David's response was essentially while the boy was living there was still a chance that God would show his grace and heal his son. Once he died, the matter was settled.

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  6. In one of the games this weekend (can't remember which one), there was a no call on delay of game (clock showed zero) but they called encroachment. The defensive player jumped once the clock hit zero, timing his rush to the play clock. I couldn't believe that they ignored the delay of game in that instance. 

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  7. 2 minutes ago, Mark Vader said:

    Why did the officials blow the play dead while the play was still going on?

     

    1 minute ago, TheFunPolice said:

     

    I wondered too... Dude was still going forward 

    All I could think is that the sideline called a TO? Can you do that to stop a play?

  8. 40 minutes ago, Deadstroke said:

    X is a hell of a thing to substitute for the name Christ.👎

    Speaking as a theologian (pastor for 30 years), using X in words such as Xmas and Xian (or Xtian) is historically acceptable as it is using the Greek letter Chi which looks nearly identical to the English X. This has been done historically by theologians for probably at least a millennium. This is not the culture removing Christian things from society.
     

    Now back to Tua ...

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