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? saved by hope Rom 8:24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?

5 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Honest Abe_2 On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected as the 16th president of the United States. See if you know these five lesser-known facts about the 16th President of the United States... He Towered Over Everyone Else Those who are elected president of the United States are often tall, but Lincoln ties with Lyndon Johnson as the tallest at 6’4”. Lincoln almost always wore his stovepipe hat, which was between 7” and 8” high, so fully dressed, he would have appeared to be about seven feet tall. Since the average man during the period of the Civil war was between 5’6” and 5’7”, Lincoln would have appeared to be a towering presence in comparison. A Medium Warned Lincoln About the Assassination Charles J. Colchester worked as a medium and held seances for Mary Lincoln, who was grieving for the loss of Lincoln’s son, Willie, who died of typhoid fever in 1862 at age 11. Colchester warned the president of an assassination attempt even though Lincoln barely knew the man. This warning may have been given because the medium was a friend of John Wilkes Booth. By April 1865, Booth had abandoned plans to kidnap Lincoln and decided to kill him, which he announced to some of his friends. Perhaps Colchester was one of the people who learned of the plot. Those Who Enjoy Celebrating Thanksgiving Should Thank Abraham Lincoln It was President George Washington who announced that November 26, 1789, a Thursday, would be a day of public thanksgiving and prayer. However, in 1863, Abraham Lincoln was the president who made it a federal holiday. The new federal holiday was to be celebrated the last Thursday in the month of November. Grave Robbers Attempted to Steal His Body A group of counterfeiters in the 1870s had problems when their master engraver, Ben Boyd, was caught and sent to prison. They devised a scheme to steal Lincoln’s body and hold it for ransom until Boyd was freed and they were paid $200,000. Their plans were foiled when one of the counterfeiters let the plot slip to someone, so they fled to Chicago where they decided to try again. Unfortunately for them, a new recruit brought in on the kidnapping scheme was a secret service agent, and they were sentenced to prison. Lincoln Never Slept in the Lincoln Bedroom What is now the Lincoln bedroom in the White House served as Lincoln’s office during his term as president, not as his bedroom. It was here that he signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. However, the furniture in the room that became known as the Lincoln bedroom was purchased in 1861 by Mary Todd Lincoln, including the eight-foot by nine-foot rosewood bed.

Can you explain it a little more for me please! I think in this case; I would have to respectfully disagree with your comment here. IMO Kevin's post gained much value, after he explained it. It then made sense to me. While I can appreciate your diligence in wanting to follow God's Word and to avoid "leaven," I personally do not see any leaven in the post concerned. I think Kevin was just trying to say that some people will get out a list of what they call "sins" that they think the church is doing, and then they will call that listing of those supposed "sins" Good news. I think we can all agree that while it is sometimes God's will that we "call sin by its right name;" it does not follow that that is the good news, for only Christ Jesus is the good news, not the supposed sins of the church. The only "Good News" is Jesus: (see John 1:29) Jesus is left out of the "naming of sin" because that is not the "good news." Even when we are "right" we are often wrong.