@EhzNow Everyone knew who he was but no-one gave him hassle because he was local himself. I smoked at the time, and at some point he asked my group for a light… and I was the one who had one. You could smoke indoors back then. A minor brush with rock royalty. whatpub.com/pubs/TEL/288/r…
@EhzNow Seriously! Christmas break, early 90’s. I grew up about 8 miles from a village called Shatterford where Robert had a place. The Red Lion was his local, and we’d go there for a change sometimes. My friends and I ended up sat opposite him and his friends. It was crowded and busy.
@Carpet16100850 @ruzickajorose @itzruhama Actual Christians.
@shemaiahng One day I will 😀
@shemaiahng I didn’t stop during the pandemic. It was pretty frantic TBH. I was very jealous of all those people learning how to play the piano or trying new hobbies.
I’ll never play the piano now 🥲
@Stuartall1977 @LloydLegalist You are far more holy than me. I saw it in about 2 seconds. I’m still very much of the world, clearly!
@Curi_Christian @robertjforrest I feel uncomfortable calling them works. I prefer the term fruits. That changed life and what we do as a result of our ongoing regeneration are the fruit of our faith. What we do doesn’t buy us salvation, it is the result of our salvation.
@men_like_trees This is so true. Pollarding looks brutal but results in far stronger and healthier growth in the long term. It’s interesting that as a tree husbandry practice goes back to times well before Christ.
@JesseDornfeld I’m looking forward to that. Will you be doing a big reveal on who you’ve really been working for all this time?! t.co/4kT3qEeWM…
@CSLCHSnMore Yes indeed, It’s not even natural! t.co/5SrL2XjTn…
@johncalia That I’ve been born again.
@EhzNow I’m certainly not a puritan by the way… I’m just finding myself more convicted of late. Reevalutating things I was fine with for a long while. I guess I’m that ‘weaker Christian’ that Paul talks about!
@EhzNow For me I’m happy to live with flawed character, but I find it difficult when people actively cross the line into heretical evangelism. Page’s passion was atypical even for his peers. He had an Occult bookshop, owned and restored Crowley’s Scottish home, etc. Quite an investment!
@deadtosin610 Totally agree, can you imagine what kind of people they are like in real life?
People who really need to open their hearts, let go of their hurt, and accept Jesus' once and for all sacrifice, and free gift of salvation.
@SaltwaterBrains @itzruhama It took 4000 years for Him to come the first time, so I’m happy to wait a while yet.
With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. 2 Peter 3:8
@CSLCHSnMore Interesting guy. He was a travelling missionary well into his late 80’s!
@CSLCHSnMore I’ve only recently come to understand George Müller’s impact on modern Christianity. My local church was one that he planted, and his orphanage (which held 2000+ children at any one time, up until the late 50’s) overlooked our allotment. A founder of the Plymouth Brethen too.
@Carpet16100850 @itzruhama Totally.
@JesseDornfeld @ferrismattic We’d all be happy farmers in paradise. My kind of job.
@virginia_garret I hate how normalised alcohol is in our culture. It is everywhere. You can’t turn the TV on without seeing people drinking, all the time. And the consequences are like an epidemic. It’s the last thing you’d legalise if it’s use weren’t already so engrained.
@virginia_garret “We don’t even think of sugar as a drug, unless we’re very highly sensitised to these issues. But you know if you have small children you just might as well lay out railers of blow, if you’re gonna turn them loose with those Pepperidge Farm chocolate chip cookies, I mean…!”
@virginia_garret He includes sugar, coffee, cocoa, and alcohol in his list of psychoactives, amongst others.
@virginia_garret Broad classification then. If you are interested in the subject, I have to recommend this book by Terence McKenna. I don’t share his worldview, but he does have an interesting view on the symbiosis between psychoactives and the human brain. smile.amazon.co.uk/Food-Gods-Orig…