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Gotcha. Yes, He's given a lot time for more people to repent, and whether it's 7,000 years or more I can't say. As for the last verse you posted, the darkness is referring to an unbeliever's moral state and separation from God, but as Christians we don't have to worry about the darkness because we'll be with God. God calls for us to be alert and sober (self-disciplined), and while we don't know exactly when the tribulation will happen, it's not going to take us by surprise when it does.

I think I can answer these fairly well. In the previous verse (6), Peter was saying that God demonstrates the truthfulness of His word, and that He has intervened in dramatic ways in the past. God said that he would destroy the world with a flood, and He did. In verse 7, God will keep to His word and destroy the world, but this time with fire. In verse 8, Peter is talking about the delay of Christ's second coming (and the eventual judgment and destruction of the world). The bit about the thousand years shows that God does not view time the same way humans do. It's hard to wrap our minds around that concept, but time is a natural law and God is outside of those laws, so time doesn't apply to him. God is also delaying Christ's second coming because he wants more people to repent. I think it's reasonable to draw parallels to the two events, but you have to keep in mind there will be no warning of when Christ's second coming happens. In 1 Thessalonians 5:2, Paul says "For you yourselves know full well that the day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night." As for the time thing, I'd have to look deeper into that. Most of the time (depending on the passage), when time is mentioned it is meant literally. When you get to verses like "that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day” the writer is trying to illustrate something, in this case that God does not view time the say way we do. Sometimes you have to look at the context of the verse and dig a little to understand what's going on.

http://blog.lakers.com/lakers/2011/01/08/barnes-suffers-tear-of-lateral-meniscus/ Great. Juuuuuuuuust great.

Awful, awful news to hear. Thoughts and prayers go out to those who were injured and killed.

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Travel is the biggest issue here. Playing 7 or 8 games in two weeks around Europe would be exhausting. From what I've read and heard, teams who played pre-season games over seas did not enjoy it. Sure, they enjoyed the experience of playing in another country and seeing the international fans and stuff, but it's a huge hassle for coaching and training staff. And I'm pretty sure European fans like their own leagues plenty. Would they like to play against NBA teams? Yeah probably, but they're not depressed because they're not.

It would work, and there would certainly be enough interest and revenue for them to be successful there. Be nice to see another state and city get a franchise, though.

Just watched an interview with him and a TV station, and man that just about brought a tear to my eye. Dude is so thankful to God, and was STILL thankful to Him during his hard times. Great story, couldn't be happier for him.

Most of his shots were inside the three point arc during that third quarter stint though. And they weren't working inside out because Pau was too busy getting owned by his brother and Randolph.

Really guys, really? Pathetic. -_-

I'm in the high desert, but from Santa Clarita on up it's snowing.

It's snowing! In Southern California! And it's sticking! IT'S A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE.

Hahaha, nah. I seriously thought you were messed there. Almost changed the title of this thread to Hungover Thread 2011 just for today.

You're bombed after two drinks? Hahaha.

You know the drill...

Time to put ole Besty to rest. She did good, she did good.

Erick is tearing this thread up. Just turned the game on, Magic are up by a nice chunk of points going into the half.

That was NUTS. Grizzlies thought it was over and didn't bother to play any inbound defense. What a shot by Evans.

I still have my GeForce 9800 GTX+ I got a year ago.

Man, some of you guys got a lot of stuff, haha. Motherboard AMD 3.1GHz Dual Core CPU 2 gigs of DDR3 RAM Inception Blu-ray Scott Pilgram Vs The World Blu-ray Toy Story 2 Blu-ray World of Warcraft: Cataclysm $40 cash I got a lot more than I expected to get, so I think I made out pretty well today.

Yes, this will be a monthly feature. November didn't get a newsletter because well...my schedule was kinda insane. October had a newsletter, but it was still pretty raw. This month's version is much improved. There is a button linking back to the homepage, it's Aaron's logo right next to the YouTube logo. Some of those logos don't look the greatest because PDFs don't handle transparent graphics well. That's why eventually I'd like to make these HTML files. And thanks guys. As I work on these month to month, you should see them improve each time.

http://www.otrbasketball.com/newsletter/December_2010.pdf Revamped it a bit to match the new forum skin, and put it some new features. Eventually this will be an html file instead of a pdf, but for the moment this will do. Enjoy guys.

Been trying to upload this podcast all day, but it keeps stalling because my internet is so spotty. Blargh, stupid weather. -_-

Been raining for a week straight, and it's so cloudy/foggy out I can't even see my neighbor's house, let alone the sky. Figures.

The Greek word Χριστιανός means "follower of Christ" , and the first recorded use of the term can be found in Acts.