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I really think although I love God, yet I also hate Him for giving such a strong desire to me yet saying NO to it, every time I plead for an answer in Jesus’ Name. Because this request mean so much to me I now don’t know if I can ask of God anything as for intercession for others stopped about 10 days ago because I feel if I pray for others God will punish them. I think now I even hate God more than I love Him. I once was a Theophilus, but now am quickly becoming a misotheism. Perhaps I happen to be one of the three bad ground the seed/word fell on.
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I come from a broken home. My parents had me and divorced 10 months later. My father moved away from our hometown a year or so later and remarried. My mother remarried 18 months after the divorce. My step-father raised me as his own because my own father wasn't there. My father, not wanting me to experince what he had experienced in his childhood years, being shipped off from mother to father, and later to other relatives because the kids had all been removed by the state, decided that he would let my step-father adopt me. It was the best thing he could have done. He was divorced from his second wife by that time, and was almost ready to marry his third wife. So, my stepd…
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My wife and I have been married going on 38 years. Her parents were married for over 35 years, and my mothers second marriage lasted 35 years. My late sister was married for 35 years, and another sister has been married just at 35 years. Nobody else outside of my great aunts and uncles and grandparents have had marriages that long. Some were very spiritually oriented, and those marriages seemed to thrive, whereas the ones who had left God on the sidelines, or left him out altogether have floundered off and on. What makes a marriage special? What Scriptural advice would you pass along to people who have been married a long while who seem to drift apart? I've counsell…
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Many point to this passage to teach divorce and marriage in the case of adultery: Matthew 19:9 And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery. similar wording is also found in Matthew 5 I believe the exception clause refers to 1. Incestuous marriages (See Leviticus 18) (I also believe all sodomite "marriages" and sad that I have to say in our time and age but beastiality "marriages" would also be invalid as well, though I realize our passage in question relates to husband putting away a wife) 2. Betrot…
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Today as I was thinking which isn't good because I haven't been feeling well I was thinking about all the guys I "liked" in my past and how I left God out of them. I am so tired of looking back in the past and have been seeing just pain. I have had nothing but pain because I haven't been going to God and making him the center. There is only one guy I have been giving to God and letting God pick what he wants to do. God should be my main focus but he hasn't been lately and well all that is gonna change because the only thing I am gonna focus on is making God happy. God being happy and pleased is all that matters. People may get hurt but that doesn't matter I am not here to…
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Hello, I'm new here. Literally 10 minutes new. I'll just jump right into the reason I signed up, and decided to post. I'm hoping there's hope for guys like me. I got married before I was saved, and divorced before I was saved, and that was 17 or 18 years ago. I'm older, but by no means old (40), and have a lot of life left in me if The Lord permits me to live a long life, or doesn't come back first. Everything I've seen says I cannot remarry, and since my original wife was unsaved, and is now remarried there's no hope of reconcilliation. Some Christians do go on to marry again regardless, but it doesn't look like that's something that God's going to permit. Feeling pr…
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Matthew 7:7-11 says "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: for every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?" The first thing to note as we read this passage is the command to ask. God does not assume our willingness to ask him for things. He knows that we are prid…
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Ok I have a question that a young lady asked me. Her mother is divorced and remarried, and her father is still living. She asked if she has to obey the step-father, she doesn't think she does because he is in no way related to her and is not her father. My husband and I agree because her father is still alive and God says divorce and remarriage is wrong therefore it is a wrong structure and he is not in authority, just the young lady's mother and real father. The problem is, she very respectfully asked her parents (real parents) if she could do something, and both of them told her to wait. A few months later they talked again and both parents said that she may do …
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In my 19 months with the Bible studies in the Cowpunchers Cowboy Church of Shelbyville, TN (I attend a Baptist Church, but went to these Bible studies for fellowship and support) I discovered that they had a marriage and partnership class that met on Thursday nights. My friend, who took a floundering Cumberland Methodist Church for the time being, to try to convince them to leave the Methodists and become more Baptistic in nature and practice, teaches this Thursday night class for married couples through the Cowboy Church movement. They work in cooperation with a Mexican SBC church in our area, renting a building from them for services. The resources they use are from man…
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Ekklesia. Set apart (holy) lives. As told in all Scripture, this is all who are born not of the flesh, nor of the will of man, nor of blood, but are born by the Will of the Father in Heaven. Not any doing or effort or accomplishment of any man (or woman). Jesus always says "You must be born again". Not religious. Not join the assembly like joining a club. Born Again. There's no way to be Born Again other than the Father Does This - man cannot make himself Born Again.
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I have some strong feelings about this especially in the context of females seeing a male ob/gyn. That said I would even have to think twice about my wife having a GP (general practioner) who is male. I am looking for specific verses or verses that teach the precept of not being naked in front of the opposite sex that is not your spouse.
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A very interesting video on the meeting of two strangers five times. There are lessons in this short video for all people, Christian and otherwise.
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My understanding is the "Universal Hand Sign for Help" was developed in Canada during the pandemic shutdown. Domestic violence was discovered to be on the rise. The hand sign is not restricted to home violence, but can be used in other situations. Here is a link to a video of the sign:
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Hello, I am a recently divorced 38 year old man. My exwife had an affair, refused to reconcile, and became physically abusive towards me. I'm ready to move on after much prayer, fasting, and good Biblical Counseling with my pastor. Our church runs about 150 on Sunday morning. There is a 28 year old woman that has caught my eye so to speak and I would like to pursue a relationship. I have NO IDEA how to court, as I was unsaved when I began dating my exwife. I want to do things the right way now. For those of you that have adult daughters in the church, do you want the man to ask for your permission to date her before they begin dating? How do you …
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It seems to me that the final test of any civilization is why type of husbands and wives and mothers and fathers does it turn out? Besides the austere simplicity of such a question, every other achievement of civilization -- art, philosophy, literature, and material living -- pales into insignificance. Lin Yutang The Importance of Living p. 166
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I'm looking for suggestions for a daily devotional for my husband and I. We don't have children so that's not a priority in the devotional. I want a devotional that we read a passage or scenario and it has questions for us to both answer to each other. To help better our communication with each other.
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I am a 20 young christian electrical engineer (studying at a Polytechnic University + working in Electrical Power Systems) from Europe, and I want to ask you for some godly advice concerning marriage, more exactly arranged marriages. First of all, before I say something about this, I want to ask if God has picked a spouse for everyone. The idea for me is that there is no specific Bible verse or passage that speaks of God picking specific persons for us to marry. There are four examples, Adam, Isaac, Hosea and Joseph, concerning God arranging marriages but all of these were special circumstances and I don't see how can we build a doctrine on special interventios of Go…
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Greetings, i hope you are all doing well and the Lord and the world is smiling at you with mercy. i have got a huge problem, i have had it for many years but it has gotten worse and now it is getting very intolerable. i live in China, but i am not Chinese, i am from Persia (Iran), i moved here 13 years ago and married a Chinese lady and we have been together since. She has been my guardian angel all the while and i love and respect her so much. Unfortunately because of my birth and passport, i am not allowed to enjoy many things one expects to have after 13 years of living here. i have not a work permit, nor a resident's visa yet! i get a vi…
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This topic has been edited cause opinions have changed. At peace with being single and having no interest in marriage.
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25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; 26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, 27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. 28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. When we married, my wife tried to change me, and I tried to change her. To make a long story short, the truth of those verses finally dawned on me. After I gave up my own desires and accepted her for who she was, life was much bett…
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A shinny new car can't say daddy catch me!
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I need some help on this. I have cut my kids out of my life. Between the three of them they have stolen over 30 thousand dollars from me, antique jewelry (including both my grandmothers' wedding rings and my mother's engagement ring). They constantly tell me what a horrid mother I was to them when the two who have children have abandoned their children (one decided that drugs and partying were more important than her two little girls and the other and his "wife" also decided that being responsible was more than they wanted to do).I know I was not perfect, we had some pretty hard times and maybe I didn't handle things as well as I should have...BUT...all three were taken t…
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I have a need for some brain storming. Since you listened to the 7 habits, I appreciate the ideals but am having a hard time figuring out how to apply some, which i feel we need to do to build the team that is our small church. Some here are familiar with a subject I brought up recently and got some flak for. Here's my question: when this 25 yr old comes to church ( first one there usually, way early for I don't know what reason) in either a proper skirt but with cleavage ballooning out, or , alternatively, a proper top but with too tight pants or shorts. Or too tight all over, how do I word it to be edifying? My example I just looked at in the 7 habits of highly effectiv…
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When I get married and have children they will be made to toe the mark. When they are told to be quiet they will instantly comply or they will be subjected to corporal punishment in the form of spanking or a whipping with a leather belt or with time out.
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My 5 year old son wanted a mohawk. My wife and I are not lovers of the hairstyle. We have 2 girls and 2 boys. While they are living at home, we are rearing the girls to have long hair and the boys short hair. The mohawk is definately short. We wanted to say no, but didn't. Why didn't we? Our children are very good at hearing the word "no" and obeying with very little whining. The problem is, we say "no" alot. Just going to Wal-mart, our children see alot of the "world" and we have to frequently say "no" and usually give an explaination. So when it came to the mohawk, we didn't just blurt out a "no" because I wanted a Biblical explanation as to why I was saying n…
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I hope I did not imply that the translators were inspired; they did not say anything like that of themselves. I would like to know if some of the members of this forum consider the KJV as the word of God in English, as I do. If anyone claims that the KJV is the word of God, then it is (for them, at the least) inspired. All scripture is given by inspiration of God, 2 Timothy 3:16a "We know where God's word is now..." does not make that clear to me. -
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Yet, when taken out of context they breed the likes of Ruckman. We know where God's word is now... apparently you're being intentionally obtuse considering you quoted from it. -
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Thank you for responding. I did not catch that part. That brought to mind a two part question. These verses: Isaiah 40:8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand forever. and Matthew 24:35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. If you think these words are true and that His word is for ever, where is it now?
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So .he believes not only in the "preservation" of the Bible for the English speaking people to be the KJV, but that it's also "inspired?" He apparently believes in the double inspiration theory put forth by the likes of Peter Ruckman. Sorry, but you'll NEVER get me to buy into that position.
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