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![]() Now a worldwide symbol, the Bell's message of liberty remains just as relevant and powerful today: Proclaim LIBERTY Throughout All the Land Unto All the Inhabitants thereof. In the 20th Century, movements from Women's Suffrage to Civil Rights have embraced the Liberty Bell as a symbol for both protest and celebration. In 1847, "Ring, Grandfather, Ring," a fictional story by George Lippard, made millions of Americans familiar with the Bell, and it came to symbolize pride in a new nation. But by the 19th century, this inscription became a herald of liberty, and provided a rallying cry for abolitionists, who first referred to the bell as the "Liberty Bell" in 1835, years before that name was widely adopted. During stage 2 you need to open the chest puzzle by using the key found in the safe. The Liberty Bell’s inscription, "Proclaim LIBERTY Throughout All the Land Unto All the Inhabitants thereof" (Leviticus 25:10), went unnoticed during the Revolutionary War. Inscryption Clock Puzzle Solution To unlock stage 1 you need to set the clock to 11 and at that point, you should hear the clock make sounds and offer up a Golden Ring. During the early days of mental health treatment, asylums often restrained people who had mental illnesses with iron chains and shackles around their ankles and wrists. ![]() Here, millions of visitors a year come to see the Bell, positioned in a glass chamber with a view of Independence Hall in the background. Cast from shackles which bound them, this bell shall ring out hope for the mentally ill and victory over mental illness. This fish-themed boss will steal a player's creatures and flood his side of the board with. Since 2003, the Liberty Bell has been on display in a building in front of Independence Hall, The Liberty Bell Center. The Angler is a ramp-up in difficulty from the Prospector. ![]() Inscryption gives players a lot of freedom with regard to their cards, and, with plenty of opportunities to solve escape-room-style puzzles and enhance their creatures throughout the game, no two playthroughs of Inscryption will be the same.The Liberty Bell originally rang in the tower of Independence Hall (then known as Pennsylvania State House) in 1753. Some cards also have multiple hidden abilities, so players can get creative by setting up different combos to make the most of the unique advantages they grant. ![]() Not every hidden ability in Inscryption is unique, and some cards will share hidden abilities with other cards, giving each one different advantages with their unique stats and sigils. Inscription includes a pseudo-'gathering' skill, Milling, allowing scribes to create base materials from herbs in a similar way to Enchantings Disenchant and Jewelcraftings &32. Related: Inscryption Review: A Horror Deckbuilder Like No Other Inscription is a profession that allows players to create glyphs, scrolls, and enchantments, as well as various items such as Darkmoon Cards and off-hand tomes. While some of these abilities are easier to find than others, they add depth to Inscryption’s gameplay, and some even allow players to set up potentially game-winning combos when used with some clever strategy. However, several of the game’s rare and common cards also have hidden abilities that are only revealed when specific conditions are met. Each card in Inscryption displays its attack power and hit points, as well as any sigils it has, which indicate the abilities it’s able to use in combat. ![]() It introduced a few new characters but it didn't have a storyline. The following game, Rayman M (known as Rayman Arena in the US), was a multiplayer-focused game consisting of racing and battle segments. This was followed by Rayman 2: Revolution, a PlayStation 2 exclusive remake of Rayman 2, which made several significant changes to the level design and featured improved graphics. In order to defeat the pirates and restore the Heart of the World, Rayman must gather four legendary masks, which will summon Polokus, who created Rayman's world. Darker and Edgier, although still wacky and cartoony, it features an evil group of sinister Robo-Pirates, lead by the Admiral Razorbeard, who enslave the people of the Glade of Dreams and split the Heart of the World - the planet's Primordial Core - into 1000 beads of light, the Yellow Lums. ![]() The second game, Rayman 2: The Great Escape, is his first 3D title, and the most popular among fans. Along the way, Rayman must rescue the many Electoons, who have been held captive by Mr. Dark, a sinister individual who has stolen the Great Protoon. The first game in the series, simply titled Rayman, is a 2D platformer, in which Rayman must defeat the evil Mr. While nominally a platformer series, the games are known for never sticking to a gameplay style or setting for more than a game or so, with each title reinventing the series in some major way. Rayman is a strange, limbless individual of various origins, who fights to save the Glade of Dreams from a variety of antagonists. Rayman is a video game series created by Michel Ancel. ![]() ![]() Fixed an issue where The Morrigan's Item Build would be missing when she uses her Ultimate.Fixed an issue where Ra's model would turn strange directions while moving and basic attacking.Ne Zha's Armillary Sash will no longer go on cooldown if interrupted before it has any gameplay effect.Fixed an issue where bird bomb combo would not work as intended if he had Evolved Hide of the Urchin.Fixed an issue where lobby animations sometimes did not play correctly.Fixed an issue where Kali passive meter wouldn't let her choose a new target after respawning.Fixed an issue where Chernobog could reveal enemies for longer than intended if he died while using his ultimate.Fixed the missing FX on the Cursed King Cernunnos skin.Fixed an issue where Life of the Party couldn't be used while Crippled.Fixed an issue where Baron Samedi gained an additional 10% of his Magical Power while consuming Baron's Brew.Fixed an issue where viewing the adventures leaderboard could crash the game.Fixed an issue where the End of Match Lobby would show incorrect information or not enough players.If a god's pet gets the last hit on an enemy god, the pet's owner will now properly get the power buff reward.Fixed an issue where sometimes players couldn't see their allied gods or their pedestals.The Following Voice Packs have been remastered for more consistent volume.Increased Senpai Da Ji's abilities volume.Increased Polar Vortex Kukulkan's Ultimate volume.Fixed an issue where players could get stuck in the tutorial.Fixed an issue where players got no UI feedback when trying to buy/rent a god they could not afford.Fixed an issue where you could not scroll through all items in the item builder.Fixed an issue where gold fury and fire giant UI looked incomplete until they spawned the first time.Fixed an issue where spectator would see 2x bottom bars overlapping upon loading into the game.Particle FX for which team killed a neutral camp show be more visible now.Fire Giant UI Icon should now properly appear on gods who are buffed by it.Fixed an issue where all kills appeared as red team kills. ![]() Fixed an issue where god tooltips would remain on screen too long, covering UI on new screens.Fixed an issue where party leaders would get an incorrect "invite declined" popup after invites were accepted.Fixed an issue where daily bundle prices didn't visually update when coupons applied to them.Fixed an issue where Janus could ult out of bounds on the Clash map.\.Fixed an issue where stance changers passive meter cooldowns didn't match their actual cooldowns.Now gods should find the closest safe position and be placed there if they somehow do end up in a wall. Gods should no longer fly into the air and die if they become stuck inside walls. The low-res Donkey Kong is fixed by using EFB to Texture. Graphics: Garbled text is fixed by enabling Safe Texture Cache (fast). Update: Since r6480, the sound cutouts are mostly gone! Also XAudio2 doesn't crash the game anymore. Sometimes they reappear again, but it seems very random. Other than that, sound effects tend to cut off randomly. This noise can be gotten rid of, though, by pressing the HOME-button on the wiimote (so be sure you have that one bound to some button if you use a controller). Sound: This is the most problematic part of the emulation of this game.music and sound effects DO work, however, there's annoying noise being produced when 1. This doesn't seem to happen if "lock threads to core" is enabled (which however, can slow things down for some (especially those with Hyper-Threading CPUs)). Especially when the world map is being loaded (that diving-through-the-clouds-sequence doesn't even start). Core: The game has been broken between revision 5699 and r6460, has been fixed by skid in r6461, so use a revision earlier than 5699 or after r6461.Īnother issue is that the game randomly freezes. (Since with the horizontal wiimote style the only wiimote-typical movement necessary is a bit of shaking, I'm sure this could be easily configured to work with a Controller, too) The game is can played with Wiimote and Nunchuk or Wiimote (horizontal) only. (that won't fix the issues, but it seems to be to make it a bit better) However, DTK sound doesn't seem to be needed for this game, so you might want to disable it due to the sound issues. However, if you don't know what you're doing, don't fiddle around with the other settings, you you might get issues and later not know anymore how to get rid of them.Ĭonfigure to your liking. One more setting that seems to give some extra speed is Enable Block Merging in the game properties (right-click on the game in Dolphin's game browser). Gaining speed in exchange for some visual quality is also achieved by setting EFB scale to x2 or x1. if you're struggling for speed, you can try disabling Fog, Native Mips, Pixel Lighting and CPU->EFB Access, as these don't seem to be needed for the game. VSync can also help against scroll jerkiness. for better image quality you can also check "Force Bi-/Trilinear Filtering" (especially for 2D stuff), "EFB scaled Copy", 16x Anisotropic Filtering and, if you have a strong machine, SSAA 4x or 9x. Pretty much everything at default is fine for this game, but have EFB Copy to Texture and Safe Texture Cache set to Fast! Lock threads to core: Enabled (disabled can be faster, however, it can make the game freeze when loading the world map) CPU Emulator Engine: JIT Recompiler or JITIL experimental Recompiler (try what works best for you it seems that on 32bit, JITIL is faster while on 64bit JIT is faster) TIRED Unnecessary motion controls disappointing boss battles.Donkey Kong Country Returns (tested version: NTSC-U) WIRED Staggering attention to detail imaginative level design constant introduction of new gameplay elements high level of difficulty that doesn't frustrate. Retro Studios can add another feather to its cap. Its level design meets the gold standard set by the 2-D Mario games. Most require the standard three hits to take down, but they don't change up their patterns in any significant way after you get in the first couple of hits.ĭespite these issues, Donkey Kong Country Returns is the best 2-D platform game I've played in ages. Given Retro Studios' penchant for big, bombastic boss battles, I would have liked to see the same in Donkey Kong Country Returns. It would have been nice if Retro Studios had included an option to use the Wii's Classic Controller, because the motion controls add nothing to the game beyond gimmickry. ![]() I got used to it eventually, but until I did, I would sometimes accidentally roll forward into bottomless pits. ![]() It feels completely unnecessary, and shaking the remote takes longer than just pressing a button. The button-based controls are great they feel responsive, and Donkey Kong himself has a sense of weight that makes every action feel satisfying.īut one of the gorilla's main moves – rolling forward – is activated with a shake of the Wii remote. The one big problem with Donkey Kong Country Returns is the motion controls. Even that time when I lost more than 20 lives on a single level. It's challenging but fair every death felt like it was my own fault. There is never a point where the game suddenly becomes nearly impossible. Like most everything else in Returns, the difficulty is carefully crafted. Donkey Kong Country Returns is not quite as hard to master as the Donkey Kong Country games on the Super NES, but it's close. ![]() However, Group Transcribe could be used in online meetings, but the changes in the app's efficacy can be easily noticed. Microsoft’s latest Garage app is for recording group. see Everyone has a transcript of their dialogue directly on their device. Microsoft’s latest Garage app is for recording group transcriptions. Sometime in 2021, Microsoft will release information and tools to allow existing Stream users to start to migrate their Stream (Classic) video content to the new Stream. Ng was a co-founder and head of Google Brain and was the former chief scientist at Baidu, building the companys Artificial Intelligence Group into a team. The new Group Transcribe of Microsoft Garage can now replace meeting notes. The new application, Group Transcribe, launched by the Microsoft Garage team. Stream video content will now be stored and managed with the same compliance, governance, permissions, external sharing, and other settings as traditional SharePoint content. This change means that video content will now work like any other content type for sharing and collaborating within Microsoft 365. ![]() Instead, Stream is being fully integrated into SharePoint, recognizing video as a content type that's now on equal footing with all other content types within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. One of the most significant changes in the vision for Stream is moving away from the independent video hub that characterized Stream (Classic). If you need to update any documents, select the trash can icon at the end of the line to delete the document and then upload a new one. Microsoft is being quite transparent about this roadmap, which you can see in detail on the Microsoft website. Microsoft has not yet set a retirement date for the original version of Stream, or "Stream (Classic)," because the new Stream is rolling out slowly with a lengthy roadmap of features and capabilities under development. You can see who said what in real time, in your own language and from your own phone. Our tutorial shows how you can use this helpful feature.While the original version of Stream is still currently available, Microsoft introduced a new version of Stream in September 2020. A free multi-device transcription app for in-person meetings. Group Transcribe provides high-quality, real-time transcription and translation. You can learn more about Microsoft Garage’s interesting new app in Microsoft’s FAQ.ĭid you know that Windows 10´s Task Manager lets you set CPU affinity to claw back some resources from running apps and give selected apps higher priority. ![]() Group Transcribe offers real-time transcription and translation for meetings and other conversations. The State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn-better. The app supports 'several languages.' Microsoft today announced a new iPhone app that makes it easier for people to deal with multiple languages. Tak Method GuyTag and assign conversations to members of your team and ensure. The company says the only purpose of data is to help improve speech services. Microsoft's new Group Transcribe app helps people with transcription and translation in real-time. Users can choose whether they want to share this information with Microsoft. The permit application and their company materials must list the license number. Microsoft says the app sends cloud data as part of speaker identification. Get all required applications and forms for carport permits, garage. Furthermore, there is not sign-up requirement to use the app other than using the code to join a transcription. In other words, it’s not just for Microsoft Teams and will also work on Zoom and Google Meet. What’s interesting about Group Transcribe is it seems to work for any meeting app. All transcriptions are automatically saved for later review or use. When transcribing, the app takes note of all relevant conversations and also records who says what. Microsoft says a five-letter conversation code, or a QR code, gives those invitees access. Microsofts newest Garage app, the companys brand for more experimental apps, is Group Transcribe, which offers real-time collective meeting transcriptions. While today there are a number of real-time transcription apps to use. One person begins the transcription and other join as invitees. A new project from Microsoft’s in-house incubator, Microsoft Garage, introduces a different take on meeting transcriptions. ![]() For those who decide to join in, they will also need the Group Transcribe application. “This app uses a multi-device approach to provide real-time, high quality transcription and translation, so users can be more present and productive during in-person meetings and conversations,” Microsoft’s Lainie Huston said in a blog post.ĭuring a meeting, participants can opt into the group transcription. They may go ahead and grant you a refund or credit. I'm thinking that even if it is there it probably won't work as most of those kinds of apps are just clients that rely on remote servers maintained by the vendor.Īll that being said, if you bought it from the Apple App Store fairly recently it couldn't hurt to call or email them and ask for a refund, providing them with the information you can find showing that you purchased the app after it was defunct. You may be able to find the app in your "Purchased" section under "Updates" as often even apps that have been removed from the store are still available there, at least for some time. It offers the ability to isolate specific guitar tracks, loop sections, play with or without a metronome, and. I find it odd that the app would disappear from your iPad, I've never heard of such a thing. Jammit is an app that was first released in 2011. If you buy a product from Target or Best Buy or whatever and then find out the company that produced that product went out of business 2 years ago you generally don't have much recourse with/against the store you bought it from. As with any retail exchange it really is a "buyer beware" situation. With regards to the above quote I doubt it very seriously, unless you can prove that the app was already unsupported when you bought it and that Apple was aware of that fact and should have pulled the app from their store. A quick google indicates that it has been unsupported for quite awhile it appears. I am unfamiliar with the app in question. Now recently I have read of others saying they have shut the app down, does anyone know anything about this and what happened? And what happens to the money people spent on it? Isn't Apple responsible for this since my money was paid thru them? Anyway, I don't know if this is something that's already been discussed here, I tried to look up old threads on it, through the archives but had no luck. But eventually the icon for the Jammit app disappeared off of my older I pad and I tried to get it back on thru apples apps, it was no longer there. I purchased the new I pad from because I thought there was a problem with it. I set it up with an account and was able to use it on my old I pad a couple times but I could never log in on my new I pad. I ended up putting the app on both I pads, was really surprised when my old I pad accepted it. So I also purchased the line 6 adapter to run the guitar through it. It would tell you there wasn't enough room on it, that your storage was full, even though there was nothing on the I pad except the mandatory apps that come with it. The simple fact (borne out by hundreds of user testimonials) is that people tell me that Crammit is the best option out there for everything but Android, a platform I've chosen to ignore because their audio architecture is pretty weak IMHO.Īnyway, thanks for the kind words.A couple months ago, I came across the jammit app so I set it up and purchased several songs, I had just purchased a refurbished I-pad and I had an older I-pad that was not in great shape and had problems with not allowing you to add anything to it. The happy and grateful messages far outnumber the cranky ones! Haters gonna hate. Jammit was one of the very best apps for playing the most authentic guitar parts of some select songs on their playlist. I get a lot of messages from users who are really grateful that they can play their Jammit files again. Creating and maintaining this thing for all those platforms is a lot of work, and there's developer accounts, domains and hosting to pay for on an annual basis, not to mention ongoing customer support. I've heard some pretty cranky and disparaging comments from developers who have tried to make similar apps about how the Crammit apps should be free, but I guess they have the luxury of not having to make a living. ![]() ![]() Some people think that Crammit actually charges for the song files, but that's not true. Apple is very stringent about copyright and legality, and they have approved Crammit every time I submit, so the app isn't doing anything that violates copyright. Crammit doesn't actually sell the content, it just provides a very effective means of downloading, playing, and exporting the aggregated crowdsourced files. The Jammit app gives guitarists a uniquely inspiring way to do what theyve. There's several repositories on the web containing all the raw Jammit files. Celebrated guitar tones and a superior digital interface integrate with the. All the content (about 2000 files) was basically released into the wild several years back. The cost of creating new content is prohibitive for a single person operation, so unfortunately no new content. From the above mentioned ExifTool-site download the Windows Executable. This would all break if I allowed user-specified namespaces. On my system Im renaming MOV and MP4 files with it. The -X option output is very specific so that ExifTool can import tags from this option for writing to files. X respects -G (and the lack of, meaning that -X is also possible to generate no group names) Maybe it is even possible to refactor that to behave uniformly. Thinking more about that, it currently is not possible to specify the grouping in the -X option, it is always equivalent to -G1. The ExifTool family 1 group names are used as the namespaces in the XML output.īy default it would be nice if -G and -X would produce the same group names (without being more specific with -G1). Had to implement this manually in our Exiftool JSON parser for MP4 videos only. This doesn't help as it's technically still a local time and not UTC. I'll add something like this to the -X option documentation: As it turned out, the exiftool -api QuickTimeUTC parameter converts CreateDate to local time using the server's time zone. MP4, Motion Picture Experts Group version 4. E.g in the -X option could be documented that the group names equal to 1 (specific location) ExifTool is a program by Phil Harvey () distributed with Advanced Renamer. using the freeware ExifTool in order to rename those Cxxxx.mp4 files automatically. It would be nice, if this could be documented somewhere. Day with running index would be the most useful (20180527-0001.mp4). Quote from: derMart on August 24, 2021, 03:50:26 AMĪh thank you very much, yes that does the trick. ExifTool by Phil Harvey (philharvey66 at ) - ExifTool is a customizable set of Perl modules plus a full-featured command-line application for reading and writing meta information in a wide variety of files, including the maker note information of many digital cameras by various manufacturers such as Canon, Casio, DJI, FLIR, FujiFilm, GE, HP, JVC/Victor, Kodak, Leaf, Minolta/Konica. Similarly, this happens when generating JSON output: ![]() One can see, that tags of 'Track1' and 'Keys' groups are removed from the output. Since then, exiftool has become the go-to tool for working with metadata at the command line due to the vast array of file formats and types of metadata it supports. Thanks a lot in advance for all kinds of insights and hints.įfmpeg version N-87824-g25bd2f4 Copyright (c) 2000-2017 the FFmpeg developersīuilt with Apple LLVM version 9.0.0 (clang-900.0.Code Select Expand ExifTool Version Number : 12.30įile Modification Date/Time : 2021:08:22 12:48:23+02:00įile Access Date/Time : 2021:08:22 17:53:44+02:00įile Inode Change Date/Time : 2021:08:22 17:53:06+02:00Ĭode Select Expand ExifTool Version Number : 12.30 Exiftool is a command-line utility, technically a Perl library written by Phil Harvey first released in 2003. I have also tried 'exiftool -tagsFromFile MIRU.mp4 4', to no avail.ĭoes anyone have an idea, how I can transfer all the metadata from the originals to the converted movie files?Įspecially date of recording, GPS, camera info. (Below you'll find the output of exiftool) files with exiftool, including but not limited to mp4, mov, 3gp, jpg, png, gif, pdf. I tried to display the tags for both files using exiftool, and from that output it looks like all metadata has been copied over all right.Įxcept that those data does not contain the desired information. Convert webm data streams containing h.264 video to fragmented mp4. exifmetadataimagevideo durationimage type. Problem is: after importing the new movie into Photos, all meta info is gone, especially the GPS location, date of recording, etc. Extracting metadata from media files with exiftool, including but not limited to mp4, mov, 3gp, jpg, png, gif, pdf. usr/local/bin/ffmpeg -loglevel error -hide_banner -nostats -nostdin -i MIRU.mp4 -map 0 -c:s copy -map_metadata 0 -map_metadata:s:v 0:s:v -map_metadata:s:a 0:s:a -c:a aac -b:a 128k -f mp4 -codec:v hevc -tag:v hvc1 -preset faster -crf 25 -x265-params profile=main:me=umh:subme=5:ref=4:aq-mode=2:aq-strength=1.0:psy-rd=2.0:psy-rdoq=1.0:rd=6 4 This is the ffmpeg command I use (version is attached below): So, I export the movies from Photos, then convert them using ffmpeg, then import them back into Photos. I need to convert a number of movies that I have stored in the Photos app on my mac (OSX 10.13, high sierra). ![]() Next message (by thread): non-monotonous DTS in output stream This file contains routines used by ExifTool to write XMP metadata to QuickTime-based file formats like MOV and MP4.Previous message (by thread): comfigure error on bananapi: cannot find vdpau. ![]() How to copy Photos.app metadata over? Gabriel Zachmann zach at cs. ![]() In this one, you can play with Donald & Goofy, and use Drives and Summons! Anything goes! Believe me when I say, "You'll need them." You will fight difficult combinations of Heartless and Nobodies. Review the different episodes, and at the bottom of the list, will be the GOF Cup. A new episode is added to Olympus Coliseum. Increases drop rate of MP, Hp and munny orbs! (JACKPOT!)Īfter Riku joins your party in The World That Never Was, save and exit the world. Increses MP restoration speed, greatly?! (MP Hastega)///1! (Thunder Boost)Īllows ending combo moves to be used successfully. Increases defense in a tight situation.(Defender) Increase MP relative to the amount of damage sustained.(MP Rage) ![]() Gains more experience when defeating an enmy in a tight situation. Increases damage of Reaction Commands.(REaction Boost!) (Berserk Charge) When MP is consumed, you can use unlimited combos!ĭespite its strength & magic, it decreases combos by 1 while n the ground and in mid-air!!! (Negative Combo) Increases damge of finishing combo move relative to the number of hits in the combo. ![]() Restores MP more quicly after it's all consumed. Here are the abilities for each Keyblade: Unlockable: After that, you may use the Moogle Shops to synthesize the keychain. Obtain the Ultima Recipe in the basement of the mansion in Twilight Town. Obtain Valor Form at The Mysterious Tower.Ĭomplete the 'Spooky Cave' Mini-Game in The Hundred-Acre Wood. Speak to Beast after returning to Beast's Castle. 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So does the above soundbite capture the teaching of these Scriptures? Should we look only to the heart and remain indifferent toward issues of dress, grooming, and adornment? I think the answer to this question is decidedly negative. So Paul posed the rhetorical question, “Do you look on things after the outward appearance?” He then followed this question with an assertion of his authority and of his determination to employ it when he arrived in Corinth. Gauging Paul’s true stature by his unimposing bearing, they had decided to discount both his teachings and his threats. In this context, many of the Corinthians were dismissing Paul because of his unimpressive appearance (probably squat, homely, with pus gathering in his eyes). ![]() Perhaps a subsidiary reference is 2 Corinthians 10:7. At that moment, however, the Lord interrupted to say, “Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.” Something about the oldest son’s height and bearing impressed Samuel, who took Eliab as the Lord’s choice. In this text, the Lord has sent Samuel to Jesse’s house to anoint a king to replace Saul. So does God say what the above speaker said He says? Does God mean what the speaker takes Him to mean? The above soundbite refers to 1 Samuel 16:7. But once one accepts this line of reasoning, where does one stop? For example, the speaker who delivered these remarks has been known to preach while wearing a “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” tee-shirt-and then to draw attention to it, ironically inviting the audience to look at his outward appearance. Eruptions of this sort are typically meant as objections to the “suit and tie” culture that has been traditional in much of American Christianity. What’s God’s Word teach about worship?… My God says, “You look at the heart, not the outward appearance. Take the following as an example, drawn from a real sermon delivered by a real preacher. They are also bad for theology and church order. They resist examination and exclude careful thought. ![]() Soundbites, however, admit no qualifications or nuancing. In any political campaign, some politicians would like to reduce policy statements to slogans and soundbites. |
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