Very sad....

[walla299]

22 minutes ago, Tammy Roesch said:

Coffee:

1. raises your blood pressure

2. is a major cause of depression

3. flushes calcium out of the bones and causes osteoporosis

4. causes ulcers & hiatal hernias

5. is addictive....it's a drug, same as street drugs

6. is a factor in breast cancer as well as prostate cancer.

7. NOTHING good about it, except the smell

 

Blanket statements are a really bad idea. I used to do street drugs before I believed, and the two are apples and oranges. Just about everything causes cancer or some other disease these days - at least in California if you read the labels.

Oddly enough the Bible does not condemn alcohol - intoxication, though, is roundly condemned throughout scripture. When I became a believer the Lord lead me away from the booze, dope, and cigarettes. Those three things would've killed me the quickest. That's an ongoing process called sanctification.

If someone feels the Lord is leading them to abstain from certain foods/drinks they should follow what the Lord wants them to do - that does not make it a moral imperative for every believer, only that individual.

 

[Ozarkbound]

44 minutes ago, Tammy Roesch said:

Coffee:

1. raises your blood pressure

2. is a major cause of depression

3. flushes calcium out of the bones and causes osteoporosis

4. causes ulcers & hiatal hernias

5. is addictive....it's a drug, same as street drugs

6. is a factor in breast cancer as well as prostate cancer.

7. NOTHING good about it, except the smell

 

If you drink it excessively.

Many things are harmful if overindulged, even water.

One or two cups a day is beneficial.

[Ozarkbound]

56 minutes ago, Tammy Roesch said:

 

7. NOTHING good about it, except the smell

 

I developed eczema at the age of 60. One of the recommendations of my dermatologist is to drink 2 cups of coffee daily. So yes, there IS something good about coffee. I found an article about it for you. P.S. I am over 60 and on no medication, including blood pressure meds.

 

https://www.skinhealthinfo.org.uk/caffeine-can-reduce-inflammation-in-patients-with-eczema-and-psoriasis/

[teddyv]

This thread took a pretty weird turn considering the OP.

 

[Tammy Roesch]

5 hours ago, teddyv said:

This thread took a pretty weird turn considering the OP.

 

You can say that again

[appy]

7 hours ago, teddyv said:

This thread took a pretty weird turn considering the OP.

 

 

1 hour ago, Tammy Roesch said:

You can say that again

It happens. The nature of message boards.

[appy]

On 8/13/2021 at 2:15 AM, Tammy Roesch said:

He was doing some stunt on the motorcycle, standing up on it while it was going down the road

First, sorry to hear about the accident.  Condolences to all who knew him.

People see this stunt on t.v or online, and then they want to do it too.  The scary part is where they choose to try it for the first time.  Guess where they do this the most often?

On a highway, and in the middle of traffic.  There is no shortage  of video's of people doing this.  Please folks, don't try this, especially on a public street or highway, if you fall; you take a chance on getting run over by a car that is behind you. Or you may end up in a traffic lane of oncoming cars.

[Tammy Roesch]

27 minutes ago, appy said:

First, sorry to hear about the accident.  Condolences to all who knew him.

People see this stunt on t.v or online, and then they want to do it too.  The scary part is where they choose to try it for the first time.  Guess where they do this the most often?

On a highway, and in the middle of traffic.  There is no shortage  of video's of people doing this.  Please folks, don't try this, especially on a public street or highway, if you fall; you take a chance on getting run over by a car that is behind you. Or you may end up in a traffic lane of oncoming cars.

Thank you, Appy.  You are right! I was talking with a customer this week about this and she said a couple weeks ago, she was driving on the interstate in Cleveland, OH, and like 40-50 of these bikers went by her, all doing stunts....

I always told my kids, if you are going to die early, do it risking something for the Lord...not showing off!  My husband and I had friends years ago who smuggled Bibles into Communist Countries....that is something work risking your life for.

Edited August 14, 2021 by Tammy Roesch

[Leonardo Von]

On 8/13/2021 at 6:15 AM, Tammy Roesch said:

It's been a rough week.  Sunday morning our son came to our house to help us get ready for Winter.  We heat with wood and he hauled a big tractor trailer around the back of the house for us, so we have something dry to store our firewood in....

Well, before he started, he told my husband and I he had to tell us something...I could sense it was something very bad.  Our son is a tough man and I don't believe I've seen him tear up in years. He said the night before, two of the guys who work for him in his tree business were coming over to he and his wife house to play some games with them after Sabbath....on their motorcycles.  The one boy was 18.  He had had 2 beers. He was doing some stunt on the motorcycle, standing up on it while it was going down the road...lost control and hit a tree. Broke his spine in 5 places and all kinds of bone fragments in his brain.  The other guy on the other motorcycle watched it all happen, called 9-1-1....  And night before last, he died.  He was only 18, an only child of his mother. Just makes us so, so sad. He was not a Christian. Our son is taking it very hard...this is the first time he's had someone close to him die.

So many times young people think they are invincible...and they find out too late, that they are not.

I so long for Jesus to come, to bring an end to all the sad things happening in our world.  

Indeed, it is a tragedy when people thinks that they need to show up in order to prove that they are important.

[appy]

The thing about coffee, chocolate and nicotine, is that neither causes a person to lose their ability to make sound decisions. Neither causes people to have automobile accidents. There are no scriptures against drinking alcohol. What is does repeatedly say is …. don't get drunk. A person is to be in control of their senses.

Telling people what they can or can not eat or drink, as well as attempting to make others feel guilty for eating or drinking certain foods, amounts to legalism verbatim.

Colossians 2:16
Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink,

Colossians 2:20-23
Since you died with Christ to the elemental spiritual forces of this world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its rules:  “Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!”?  These rules, which have to do with things that are all destined to perish with use, are based on merely human commands and teachings.  Such regulations indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-imposed worship, their false humility and their harsh treatment of the body, but they lack any value in restraining sensual indulgence.