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    heartstrings got a reaction from Joe Chandler in The Husband's Role in Proverbs 31   
    I cannot do this passage of scripture justice in this thread, nor in the time I have today, but I would point out a few observations about the husband's role in Proverbs 31. 
    #1 He found a good wife.
    10 Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
    #2 He trusts his wife implicitly and for everything.
    11The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.
    #3 He gives her the full freedom to purchase and own property and start a business.
    16She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.
    #4 He's an important man in the community and participates in civic duties.
    23 Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.
    #5 Again he gives her the freedom to be an entrepreneur,
    24She maketh fine linen, and selleth it; and delivereth girdles unto the merchant.
    #6 He loves and appreciates his wife and compliments her frequently.
    28Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.
    #7 Bonus, because of the happy home life, fostered by both Mom and Dad, the kids Love and appreciate Mom as well.
    This passage shows what a home life can be, when both Mom and Dad love, honor and appreciate each other. It causes them to build one another up instead of living with stress and turmoil in the home. It brings love, honour and prosperity. The Virtuous Woman, in the passage, is quite well off financially, and even has servants. Dad is happy, Mom is happy, the kids are happy. But if our spouse were to falter in their particular role, that is no time to quit doing our part. Dad is to continue loving or Mom is to continue loving until everything gets back on track again.
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    heartstrings reacted to Pastor Scott Markle in Men stopped being leaders...Women took over   
    Having posted above, my ponderings on the matter continued.  Thus I present some further thoughts:
    We often teach our men that some of the most important phrases for a happy home are - Yes, dear; I was wrong, dear; whatever you want, dear. Then we wonder why we have no male leadership in our homes.
    We say things like - Happy wife, happy life.  But is this universally true.  What if making my wife happy makes my God unhappy?  Will that result in a happy life?  Well, it might in the short term; but it definitely will not in the long term.  Adam made his wife "happy" when he chose to eat the fruit with her.  Did it result in a "happy life?"  Not for him, nor for the rest humanity either.  Abraham made his wife "happy" when he took her advise to beget a child by Hagar.  Did it result in a "happy life?"  Not really for him, for her, or for the Middle East unto the present day.  
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    heartstrings got a reaction from Pastor Scott Markle in Men stopped being leaders...Women took over   
    You know, we live in a rural area too. I always went to work, worked 2 jobs and built a house on the side while my Wife was a stay at home Mom. She homeschooled our children. But you wouldn't believe the talk and the peer pressure that came even from other members of our IFB church whose wives worked and believed kids should go to public school. They believed that our kids wouldn't know how to get along socially and these busybodies didn't keep those beliefs to themselves either. I could relate other things they did to undermine me in raising my kids but I won't. But I can say, despite the homeschooling, all three of our kids have good jobs, none of them are socially inept and have way more friends than I could count.
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    heartstrings got a reaction from SureWord in Will Christians Still Vote For Trump… ??   
    I'm sure.
    This man has endured more push-back from the communist, totalitarians, LGBT's, the murdering baby killers than any politician I've ever seen. They have tried every dirty trick they can dream up to keep him from being president. It's because he loves and appreciates our country and way of life which is contrary to the desires of our enemies who want to destroy it. Yet some Christians expect him to be perfect. He's not going to be perfect. I wish he was. I wish I was. Even fine men in the Bible weren't perfect. Moses got angry. Noah got drunk and cursed his own grandson. Abraham took another wife. Jacob was a cheater. Solomon was basically an idolater and adulterer. David was an adulterer and murderer.  Saul was an unsavory character as well. Yet all these men were believers.. No president we put in there is going to be a saint. So, Trump still isn't my first choice and I think we could have better., But he's a far better choice than what we have now. Yes, I would vote for him if he's the best choice we have. Or I may vote for DeSantis if he is running and nominated. But, in this case,  if you "vote your conscience" for an underdog who has no chance of winning, you waste your vote. Just my opinion.
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    heartstrings got a reaction from TheGloryLand in Men stopped being leaders...Women took over   
    You know, we live in a rural area too. I always went to work, worked 2 jobs and built a house on the side while my Wife was a stay at home Mom. She homeschooled our children. But you wouldn't believe the talk and the peer pressure that came even from other members of our IFB church whose wives worked and believed kids should go to public school. They believed that our kids wouldn't know how to get along socially and these busybodies didn't keep those beliefs to themselves either. I could relate other things they did to undermine me in raising my kids but I won't. But I can say, despite the homeschooling, all three of our kids have good jobs, none of them are socially inept and have way more friends than I could count.
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    heartstrings reacted to BrotherTony in Men stopped being leaders...Women took over   
    City or country has nothing to do with it. I know many, many Godly families in the largest cities in this country, and I know of many who are lecherous, ungodly people in the country. Blanket statements don't help find solutions, and the best solution is for a man to take his role as the leader, and the wife to be in Godly submission to her husband, and on down the line to the children. 
    I was raised with a father who wouldn't lead, and a mother who, at times, was overbearing. She FORCED the Bible, God, and church on us, a spiritually abusive church, and now has one atheist son, one who is in a church that preaches the Gospel but is very much off on other things, and me, two daughters who are still living, one who is serving the Lord and one who is getting divorced for the second time and in politics. Often when the wife steps up the family suffers.
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    heartstrings reacted to Salyan in Men stopped being leaders...Women took over   
    Wives are to submit to the husband. Let's be specific here. ? 
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    I was speaking a little in jest before, but to give a serious response to the OP in the area of why pastors don't speak hard to women like they do men -  My observation in the churches here that the women are preached to a little more than the men, and by and large, I see the wives working harder at submitting than the men do leading. If that was the case in the churches with pastors like those mentioned above, I can see why they wouldn't place a harder burden on those actively trying to obey than those that aren't.  Perhaps this is something that varies greatly by region and church.  
    I think my response here is also colored by what may be a different issue, and that is that I have heard of church leadership advising wives to submit through extended, unrepentant abuse as the only option for moving forward. That is neither Biblical nor helpful (nor actually legal).  So maybe I'm applying my distaste for this mentality to this discussion in a way it doesn't belong. I totally agree that if pastors truly are failing to teach the wives their part, that is a grave problem, and that the wives are responsible to obey God's commands for them within marriage. 
    I don't really see how someone can truly submit to someone who is not leading - because decisions have to be made, and as nature abhors a vacuum, someone will have to step up and make them.  One can't just stop moving forward. But maybe that's why God still has me single. ?

    Heartstrings, I am so sorry over what's happening in your son's marriage - what an awful thing to have to witness in your own family. 
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    heartstrings reacted to HappyChristian in Anniversary Trip   
    So this is the third year in a row that we've been able to take a trip  for our anniversary. First year we took an extended trip around the Olympic Peninsula (an 8 hour drive stretched over 4 days). Last year we were able to go to CA to see the Redwoods. The drive down the  Pacific Coast Highway was beautiful.
    This year, we are going to north central WA, to Okanogan County. There is a church there that is hosting a fellowship  meeting for the independent Baptist churches of WA. We thought we'd go and then head to one of the ghost towns in that area. Then back this way to spend the night in a town we stayed in on our move out here. Then on to church at a friend's church and home. Gonna be kind of busy, but we're looking forward to it.
    However, there is a fire burning in that area. So I don't know what's going to happen once we get there.
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    heartstrings reacted to HappyChristian in Just one more reason   
    God said it's not wise. That's enough for me to stay completely away.  Foolishness to look for reasons to "be allowed" to imbibe.
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    heartstrings got a reaction from DaveW in Just one more reason   
    Just one more reason I don't believe the Lord Jesus made the water into alcoholic wine...
    Habakkuk 2:15 Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!  
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    heartstrings got a reaction from Martyr_4_FutureJoy in Just one more reason   
    Just one more reason I don't believe the Lord Jesus made the water into alcoholic wine...
    Habakkuk 2:15 Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!  
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    heartstrings got a reaction from BrotherTony in The Weight of Sins   
    If you look at some of the punishments God prescribed for various sins, in the OT, I would conclude that the ones to be punished by "stoning" etc. would be the "bigger" sins. But as far as being worthy of ultimate death and separation from God, all sins would qualify.
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    heartstrings reacted to HappyChristian in The Weight of Sins   
    There are things God calls abominations to Him...which would make some sins "bigger" than others, IMO. And I don't think anyone would argue that all sins are forgiven upon salvation, TGL.
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    heartstrings reacted to Joe Chandler in What Makes God Repent?   
    Thank you for your input. God is a constant and His word is a constant. Man is the variable. God lives outside of time, but we live inside time. I think the times that God "repents" is the only way we can understand it. I assume you read the whole thread. God repents because of intercessory prayer, and because men change their behavior, for mercy sake, and for the sake of other men that God made a covenant with. All in all, it is good news for us that He accepts us when we repent.
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    heartstrings got a reaction from HappyChristian in Acapella, four part harmony, by one man   
    Excellent!
    This guy does a good jobat that too.
     
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    heartstrings got a reaction from TheGloryLand in Now there’s a movement to bar women as worship leaders in churches   
    IF there are no men present, in any meeting, then yes a woman, an "aged woman"(mature) should teach and certainly moderate. But in a church, under no circumstances are women given any Biblical authority to teach or preach to men. We don't have lady song leaders at our church and, I believe, because of authority or "leadership" concerns, that's the way it should be......and I'm not against women; I'm happily married to one.
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    heartstrings got a reaction from Napsterdad in Acapella, four part harmony, by one man   
    Excellent!
    This guy does a good jobat that too.
     
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    heartstrings reacted to BrotherTony in Now there’s a movement to bar women as worship leaders in churches   
    Personally I wish the pastor's wife would step down as "worship" leader. I mean, what is that anyway? In most of the Baptist churches I was ever in as a member or visitor up until the early 1990s, there was a proper song leader. I never did like the changeover to a "worship ' leader. I always believed that to be the pastors job, and we should have our hearts in condition to worship and praise God. 
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    heartstrings got a reaction from BrotherTony in Acapella, four part harmony, by one man   
    Excellent!
    This guy does a good jobat that too.
     
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    heartstrings got a reaction from Pastor Matt in Acapella, four part harmony, by one man   
    Excellent!
    This guy does a good jobat that too.
     
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    heartstrings got a reaction from TheGloryLand in Acapella, four part harmony, by one man   
    Excellent!
    This guy does a good jobat that too.
     
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    heartstrings reacted to Jim_Alaska in Acapella, four part harmony, by one man   
    This is one of my favorite channels to subscribe to for hymns. This brother does a wonderful job.
    Acapeldridge
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    heartstrings reacted to BrotherTony in "REPLENISH" the earth.....   
    I've had many college professors (secular mostly, but a few "Christian" colleges and universities) tell me that this is one of the 'contradictions' in the Bible. I don't believe that to be the case.
    Sometimes I have to wrack my brain as well. But, there's got to be an answer.
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    heartstrings got a reaction from SureWord in "REPLENISH" the earth.....   
    https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=replenish
    The command, in verse 28, was evidently given to the human beings.  But look just six verses back and you see the word "fill". I don't know, man, I still wonder what happened to them dinosaurs but, I try not to think about it too much; it hurts my brain.

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    heartstrings got a reaction from BrotherTony in "REPLENISH" the earth.....   
    https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=replenish
    The command, in verse 28, was evidently given to the human beings.  But look just six verses back and you see the word "fill". I don't know, man, I still wonder what happened to them dinosaurs but, I try not to think about it too much; it hurts my brain.

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