-
Member Statistics
6,096
Total Members2,124
Most Online
Relationships/Family
This is the place talk about raising kids, marriage, relationships and family.
455 topics in this forum
-
- 2 followers
- 7 replies
- 495 views
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.
Last reply by BrotherTony, -
-
- Administrators
- 1 follower
- 12 replies
- 657 views
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…
Last reply by HappyChristian, -
-
-
- Administrators
- 3 followers
- 4 replies
- 768 views
Just wondering, how many of you have taken a stand for God and nearly lost your children as a result?
Last reply by BrotherTony, -
-
- 1 follower
- 0 replies
- 370 views
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…
Last reply by BrotherTony, -
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.
Last reply by Martyr_4_FutureJoy, -
- 0 replies
- 410 views
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.
Last reply by Bouncing Bill, -
- 1 reply
- 941 views
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:
Last reply by Martyr_4_FutureJoy, -
- 2 replies
- 405 views
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
Last reply by Bouncing Bill, -
-
- Administrators
- 1 follower
- 7 replies
- 2.4k views
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.
Last reply by 1Timothy115, -
-
-
- Administrators
- 1 follower
- 18 replies
- 8.7k views
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.
Last reply by Pastor Matt, -
-
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…
Last reply by Gud4U, -
-
-
- Administrators
- 1 follower
- 8 replies
- 1.4k views
This topic has been edited cause opinions have changed. At peace with being single and having no interest in marriage.
Last reply by HappyChristian, -
-
-
- Administrators
- 1 follower
- 7 replies
- 2.6k views
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 …
Last reply by Hugh_Flower, -
-
-
- Administrators
- 2 replies
- 887 views
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…
Last reply by swathdiver, -
-
- 2 followers
- 46 replies
- 8.1k views
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…
Last reply by farouk, -
- 7 replies
- 2.4k views
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…
Last reply by swathdiver, -
- 1 follower
- 8 replies
- 3.1k views
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.
Last reply by Saved41199, -
- 3 replies
- 2k views
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…
Last reply by Ronda, -
- 2 replies
- 1.5k views
I wrote this a while back to address some misconceptions that I see Christian families often have concerning discipline and children. I'm not talking off of the top of my head here, I have raised 7 children, they are currently ranging from ages 15 -25, and all are born-again believers who are Godly assets in their church and fit testimonies to Christ. I hope it is a blessing, and I welcome discussion and feedback... Now or Later? A two-year-old child is nothing more than a twenty-year-old adult in training. After watching various parents raising their children over the years, and spending the last several years raising children of my own, I have come …
Last reply by 1Timothy115, -
So here's the problem. My fiancé and I want to get married but no Baptist minister in this area will marry Because different times in our life's we were married to other people and got divorced. We don't think this is right. One minister who is a family friend said we could be married by him but we would have to be members of his church which we don't want to do. Not a personal issue with him we just don't want a church home that size. Does anyone have a biblical solution to this problem that would push our current pastor to perform the ceremony regardless of the prior circumstances?
Last reply by swathdiver, -
-
-
- Administrators
- 1 follower
- 9 replies
- 4.1k views
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…
Last reply by Jim_Alaska, -
-
- 15 replies
- 3.8k views
I hope someone on here can help shed some light on this for me since I have heard so many different answers to this that I'm honestly very confused about this. No one in my family believes in Jesus Christ, does that mean I must cut ties with them? It doesn't really make sense that one of the ten commandments would be "Honour thy father and thy mother" and then God would then tell us to not associate with them anymore because they don't believe. I am 26 and had to move back in with my parents because I don't make enough to move out again yet. I don't engage with their sinful behavior, and talk to them about Christ all the time ( they are not interested ). After I first b…
Last reply by Old-Pilgrim, -
Amen Kirk. 1 2
by heartstrings- 1 follower
- 21 replies
- 3k views
"Wives are to honor and respect and follow their husband's lead, not to tell their husband how he ought to be a better husband," he says. "When each person gets their part right, regardless of how their spouse is treating them, there is hope for real change in their marriage." http://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/celebrity/kirk-cameron-says-wives-should-honor-husbands-not-tell-them-how-to-be-better/ar-BBsqSil?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=DELLDHP
Last reply by swathdiver, -
- 1 follower
- 14 replies
- 2.9k views
Made this rocking horse when my son was small. I made another just like it, for our grandson's 2nd birthday. The only difference was that I put an extra board between the rockers with his name on it. On the bottom side of the board, I engraved "from Papa". I just learned that our Daughter in law later sold it at a yard sale. I had also made him a little pulpit because he had gotten into pretending to "preach" and she sold that too. She has consistently restricted our access to our grandson for years and on the few times he got to stay with us, he never wanted to go back home.. But now that she is divorcing our son, she wants us to keep the children for free while she work…
Last reply by Ronda, -
- 1 follower
- 5 replies
- 2.2k views
Any of you who have children and have gone through a move, I would sincerely appreciate any input you might have on this one... We just moved to Las Vegas about 3 weeks ago and are still getting settled a little bit. One of my biggest challenges is my 3-yr-old. In San Antonio he absolutely loved going to church and being in his Sunday School class and Mother's Day Out class. Since we moved it is an absolute fight (with massive tears and screaming) to get him to go. He doesn't want to make new friends here because Las Vegas isn't San Antonio and he has decided he's not going to like it. It's heartbreaking and frustrating at the same time. On the one hand …
Last reply by wretched,
(1).png)
-
My Clubs
-
Music Composition Group
Open Club · 2 members
-
The Ministry
Closed Club · 5 members
-
Ladies Private Room
Closed Club · 3 members
-
-
Members Online
No members to show
-
Recent Topics
-
-
Recent Posts
-
Dinosaurs on the ark never made sense to me. Why save the dinosaurs if they were just gonna die right away due to climate change. Either they were an abomination created in Genesis 6 or perhaps prior between Genesis 1:1-2 and were wiped out during Lucifer's rebellion. Incidentally, Satan is compared to a dragon aka dinosaur. -
The Bible teaches by man came death. At the end of creation week, there was no evil in the universe. God declared all He had made very good. All the angels rejoiced on day three - when the foundations of the earth were laid - Job 38:7 - which meant none had fallen yet. You can also see the same order of events of creation week (as shown in Job 38) presented the same way in Psalm 104. Satan walked in Eden before he fell - Ezekiel 28:13 - and Eden was not created until day 6. Nowhere does the Bible state Adam and Eve fully understood how death would affect things, only that it was promised as a judgement if they sinned. Satan fell sometime after creation week, then he later tempted Eve and Adam; and their sin resulted in death, the curse, etc. being brought on creation, including all biological life. Romans 5 is very clear on that. -
What did the grape do when someone sat on it? It gave out a little whine. What do you call people who really like tractors? Protractors. A rancher had 97 cows in his field. When he rounded them up, he had a hundred! Why did the man name his dogs Rolex and Timex? They were watch dogs. -
By heartstrings · Posted
replenish (v.) mid-14c., replenishen, "provide" with food or drink, also riches, beauty, etc., from Old French repleniss-, extended present-participle stem of replenir "to fill up," from re-, here perhaps an intensive prefix based on the notion of "fill repeatedly," thus "fill completely" (see re-), + -plenir, from Latin plenus "full" (from PIE root *pele- (1) "to fill"). Specifically as "to fill up again, restore to a former amount or condition" by 1610s. Related: Replenished; replenishing; replenishment. And here's the link to the prefix "re" https://www.etymonline.com/word/re- I'm not convinced either way. Evil did exist before man sinned, otherwise God would not have "known good and evil" and the serpent would not have been an evil entity to have tempted Eve. And "death" was a known concept, otherwise the serpent and Eve would not have discussed it. The Bible says that death passed upon Adam and Eve.. I don't recall reading where it says that animals had not yet died. I'm just curious as to what happened to all them "dinosaurs". Except for crocodilians, they were completely annihilated long ago and I don't believe any of them were on the ark. -
This man started his own cult. Unless you love being deceived, I recommend staying a million miles away from this dangerous heretic.
-
-
Popular Now
-
-
Sermon Entries
-
