Happy Easter Weekend!
Never forget how much Jesus loves you and what He went through for you, for everyone, so that anyone who believes in Him would be saved (and anyone can!):
Formerly "Heather's Garden and Home" - but it's been less about the garden lately and more about my thoughts on just about everything else.
Happy Easter Weekend!
Never forget how much Jesus loves you and what He went through for you, for everyone, so that anyone who believes in Him would be saved (and anyone can!):
[This is from my other blogs, but I figured I'd put it here too. Just to heavy things up a bit. It's my tiniest version of my "But predestination!" post. The short version with more memes and quotes and information can be found here, and the longest version (a series of posts full of many more Calvinist comments, my Calvinist ex-pastor's sermons, and my replies to them, written for my own amusement and for my ex-church) can be found by starting here. But this tiny version includes only the most basic parts you need to know, with a few memes and quotes thrown in to spice it up.]
At the heart of Calvinism is predestination and God's sovereignty (among other things, like "total depravity"), which according to Calvinism essentially amounts to: "God preplans and controls everything, even sin and evil and all our decisions, and so He pre-picks who goes to heaven and who goes to hell. He causes the 'elect' to believe in Him and be saved, but He made sure the 'non-elect' have no chance or ability to believe and be saved because He predetermined they'd go to hell (and so Jesus never died for them anyway), all for His glory."
There's a YouTube channel I just found - More Noble Berean - that you might like. I've only watched a few videos (so I don't know all her beliefs, which means there may be things I disagree with her about), but this woman - Patti - warns against a lot of the same things I've warned about, such as:
During the pandemic and lockdown - Ahh, remember that! Good times!😒 - many people started making sourdough as a way to pass the time. But I was too busy watching/reading Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit and reading many biographies on C.S. Lewis. (Love it!)
But I have recently jumped on the sourdough bandwagon too, and I'm totally loving it!
Years ago, I tried to start a sourdough starter from scratch but totally failed (I realize now that I was adding way too much water, drowning it). And so I gave up for years. But then after hearing a friend rave about how much she loves her sourdough starter (named Calico the Wonder Horse) and loves making sourdough bread, I decided to try again this past January...