Monthly Archives: February 2024

Journal of the Week

Posted on February 29, 2024 by timlyg

3/8/2024 What a bummer that I didn't care about the stock market for a while. NVIDIA went from $60 in 2020 to $900 at the beginning of this month. That's about 15 times bullish increase. It's all because of this … Continue reading →

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The Easy Definitions on the subject of the Doctrine of Predestination for terms like Reformed, Calvinism, Arminianism, Molinism, Pelagianism, etc.

Posted on February 25, 2024 by timlyg

By using the right, simple to the point definition for Predestination vs. Arminianism when someone asked "What is Calvinist/Arminian" on Facebook which she later was convinced that she held to the Calvinist's view and I replied "God be praised". I … Continue reading →

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Sunday Service 2/18/2024

Posted on February 23, 2024 by timlyg

GCC Sermon on: I Corinthians 7:25-40 "Watch and Pray" Sermon question #1: How much of what you feel you need to accomplish in life comes from people? How much from God? How can you calibrate correctly?Ans: I think the form … Continue reading →

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Journal of the Week

Posted on February 15, 2024 by timlyg

2/28/2024 I asked about quality Xun 埙 (ancient chinese ocarina) before on youtube a while back. The one I have from Ebay back in 2019 was $6 (8-hole clay) after watching 鹿晗's series: 择天记. I believe it was out of … Continue reading →

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Comparing the Westminster Confession of Faith (1646) against the London Baptist Confession of Faith (1689)

Posted on February 13, 2024 by timlyg

Looks like someone beat me to it. This will help me venture further, what else the "Reformed" Baptists got wrong, apart from Christology (they would usually say that Christ's human nature is uncreated), and Paedobaptism (a flawed understanding of covenant … Continue reading →

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Sunday Service 2/11/2024

Posted on February 11, 2024 by timlyg

Sermon: Godliness and Contentment 1 Corinthians 7:17-24 I'm glad that the pastor brought up the topic of activeness. He coined "Active Contentment", which is also used by other religions but it is fine and a good thing. Against stagnation. Though … Continue reading →

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Bible Study: 1 Peter

Posted on February 10, 2024 by timlyg

Chapter 1 - a reminder of who we are. "Be ye holy for I am holy" v.16 Chapter 2 - How men in general behave in public Chapter 3 - How family: wives and husbands behave in general. Chapter 4 … Continue reading →

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Vocabulary: Voluminous, Credence, Proviso

Posted on February 6, 2024 by timlyg

Thanks to extensions on Chrome, I can easily double click on a word in say, the email newsletters from Classical Archives on Tchaikovsky to learn words I either don't know or don't know how to pronounce. Voluminous: large volume Credence: … Continue reading →

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Pride is not the root of all evil

Posted on February 4, 2024 by timlyg

It seems that may Christians fall for the quote: Pride is the root of all evil. It's a famous quote. It's in Hollywood, it's what our American Christians seem to love saying or using. They would conflate every bad thing … Continue reading →

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Bible Study: The Gospel of Matthew

Posted on February 3, 2024 by timlyg

This is started because of the Beatitudes series done by GCC's pastor on Thursday nights' Bible Study. I think it is very good that we do this in person rather than on Zoom. More people were participating, discussing. Even though … Continue reading →

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