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CF has always been a site that welcomes people from different backgrounds and beliefs to participate in discussion and even debate. That is the nature of its ministry. In view of recent events emotions are running very high. We need to remind people of some basic principles in debating on this site. We need to be civil when we express differences in opinion. No personal attacks. Avoid you, your statements. Don't characterize an entire political party with comparisons to Fascism or Communism or other extreme movements that committed atrocities. CF is not the place for broad brush or blanket statements about groups and political parties. Put the broad brushes and blankets away when you come to CF, better yet, put them in the incinerator. Debate had no place for them. We need to remember that people that commit acts of violence represent themselves or a small extreme faction.
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If They Say, "Come With Us"SJL, Thank you for your time in response. Mine was not a wolf in sheep's clothing but my own father, who knew the real Truth. Yet, I am still...
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If They Say, "Come With Us"Jim, thank you for reading and for responding and for sharing your thoughts on this subject. It would take a book to share it all with you, and...
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If They Say, "Come With Us"Dear Christsfreeservant, Thank you for sharing your spiritual insight. Your topic is very timely, personally speaking, as I have struggled with...
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Learn to EndureYou are loved by God and nothing will change that. There will be more in the future. Jesus knows all of it, yet loves you with an eternal heart...
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People point fingers, often labelling someone as a false religious messenger. However, the message should be first and foremost in this discernment. It exposes the messenger as false (not the other way around) if it deviates from the original Gospel of the Kingdom. This of course, would also...
“Do all things without grumbling or disputing; so that you will prove yourselves to be blameless and innocent, children of God above reproach in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you appear as lights in the world, holding fast the word of life, so that in the day of...
“For this reason it says,
‘Awake, sleeper,
And arise from the dead,
And Christ will shine on you.’
“Therefore be careful how you walk, not as unwise men but as wise, making the most of your time, because the days are evil. So then do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord...
“Who among you is wise and understanding? Let him show by his good behavior his deeds in the gentleness of wisdom. But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and so lie against the truth. This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is...
“Five centuries later, the nailed parchment still asks the church: ‘Reforming back to Scripture, or revising to fit the age?’”
Is the church called to update the gospel for each new generation, or to recover it when culture has drifted? In this short essay I examine the New Perspective on...
“Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love. By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live...
Hebrews 12:1-2 (NKJV)
12 Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith...
“Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. Being found in appearance as a...
Charlie Kirk was shot this week. He didn't deserve it. He had a right to say what he thought. But a gunman took his life.
The initial response from most folks on the left was that it was terrible. Obama, Biden, Clinton, Jefferies and other big name Democrats expressed sorry at the event...
The S&P 500 is about one percent from 6666. Following, I will share why that level has got my attention. Note that in my last blog entry I used a mix of spiritual and philosophical insght as to what might lie ahead. In this entry blog I am going to speculate sort of for fun on the S&P 500 and...
The will of the Father has always been put His will ahead of our own, the self-serving brats that we be. He said to love all as self, not self. People like to look at Jesus but ignore how He lived and what He taught, celebrating Him but not the message nor the lifestyle. That is our will, once...
"Albared and his family found a home by a lake. A few others made their homes there. The homes faced the lake, protective walls were built behind them. Early on it was a dozen homes, with space between them. The children among them grew up in their time, they would marry among each other, and...
Every church movement, every local church, has their challenges. Left to purely human reasoning, there are things that can feel restricting, too slow to bloom to fruit—and dare we say it (?), too slow to conform to our expectations...however close our impatient convictions might accurately...
Have you ever felt like your own thoughts were a prison? Like the voice inside your head wasn’t really yours, but a cruel imitation?
The Accuser Silenced by Blood
“In reality the lock is on the inside, but the key is also on the inside: ‘He who is in you is greater than he who is in the...
I am now reading in Acts 9, some of which I will summarize, and some of which I will quote in the NASB1995.
Saul, who later became the apostle Paul, was still on a rampage against the followers of Jesus Christ, and he was on his way to Damascus to persecute even more followers of The Way...
Becoming Like Little Children (Chapter Talk)
When Jesus says we must become like little children to enter the kingdom of heaven, could He be revealing what we already are? We are children. What we call “mature adulthood” is often just a more sophisticated childishness: seeking control, always...
Scared Jonah afoot, *
Suites stare over crosswalk lights.
Shadows stomp below.
New York City, whale
Swall’wing whole his soul, all day. *
So small—”Going up!"
At his flat, spat out,
Splat! Over dry carpet, doubt. ^
God knocks at his door. ^^
Behold, by his heart,
Ready to befriend, to dine...
Twenty-one years ago, in 2004, my husband Rick and I were training to be church planters with the Christian and Missionary Alliance (The Alliance), the church denomination I grew up under. Rick was going for his ordination, and I was going for my consecration. So there was a district prayer...
“For this reason also, since the day we heard of it, we have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so that you will walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit...