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Here’s a nugget
- Thread starter steve
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First! I didn’t watch it though.
That’s the part that seemed strained to me also
There might be more, but I could not watch any further. This video may be the best evidence I have ever seen to support the idea that women should be silent in church.
I think that you are throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Chew the meat and spit out the bones is the principle that I go by.
Excellent imagery, @steve. What I hear as I listen to Mrs. Leaf is a tremendously powerful narrative that is based on a set of general scientific and spiritual principles that have their foundation in a legitimate set of postulates, the central one of which is that God is the Source of Everything. Yes, I think Mrs. Leaf extrapolates often out into hypotheticals for which no one has provided evidence, but I consider her analysis of how the brain empowers our in-God's-image spirit to be brilliant. Also, she does seem to very consistently identify the distinctions between what among what she asserts are facts and what among what she asserts are instead her theories.
I think Mrs. Leaf's presentation emphasizes just how important it is to recognize that the manner in which we choose to worship God directly impacts the manner in which we will tend to experience life, because the principle of self-fulfilling prophecies combines with the degree to which we align ourselves with the Spirit and Love of God to produce results in our lives that reflect our particular outlooks on life. [We become who we believe ourselves to be, as long as we're not delusional about it.] The more we choose Go(o)d over (D)evil, the more our lives will resonate with love and joy, and the more we will more easily identify examples of how we are not living life in the way we claim to want to be living it. The concepts she asserts about counseling approaches properly aligning with God applies just as surely to how we counsel ourselves as it does to counseling others.
I also like how she turns on its head two fallacies that we were regularly programmed with half a century ago: that we don't learn much after the age of 25; and that, when a brain cell is damaged, it's damaged or dead forever. God's brilliant Design includes a brain that is capable of ongoing regeneration, throughout life. The implications of this knowledge reward approaching the rest of one's life with hope and possibility, combined with ongoing adoration of our LORD for having blessed us with such magnificence -- as opposed to choosing to see life as just one steady march toward death.
Identify with Christ and His Resurrection, rather than identifying with The Grave.
And, @cnystrom, while it is a bit of a stretch to assert that all hearts synced up while engaging in worship singing, research results really do exist demonstrating that, while engaged in collective musical endeavors, the heartbeats of participants do tend to begin beating in sync to the music. Given that everyone was previously singing the same song, they would have therefore tended to have gravitated collectively toward the same heart rate. Such mathematical/musical overlap truisms also explain why certain bpm's tend to inspire group dancing.
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