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  • Learn to Endure
    You 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...
  • Learn to Endure
    Hey there, I'm going through a difficult time right now myself. In 2024 I was hospitalized 15 days for psychosis. I was told it was from many...
  • Is Our Salvation Conditional Upon Our Obedience?
    Did you read the whole devotion? Or are you just responding to the title? Our salvation from sin is not something that takes place once in our...
  • Is Our Salvation Conditional Upon Our Obedience?
    Actually our obedience is conditioned upon our salvation, Christ must author our Salvation so we will be obedient Heb 5:9 9 And being made...
  • How do you respond to a legalist?
    But in response, always respond with love and as the Lord leads, but i hear ya and great stuff.

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Greg Merrill
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The Url above shows news coverage of me and my wife in the crowd at President Trump's rally in Las Vegas on 9-20-18. You can find me at the 1:04:09 mark by looking down from the "Promises Kept" sign to the white haired man with beard (me) wearing the black shirt and white flowers across the...
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Most Bibles render 2Co 5:1 as saying we have a "house FROM God" when we die and go to Heaven. Teachings on this have always seemed vague to me. Recently I saw it in a new light and wrote the following Bible Study for my church's newsletter. I would like to get some feedback from people on CF...
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Seeing and hearing a recorded prayer on this site regarding bullying, responding to it, and both fearing my response may be deleted, and also wanting others to see my response, I copy it to this blog. Father, after listening to the recording of the prayer above, THIS IS ONE OF THE WORST PRAYERS...
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Human, Christian fellowship and church are important, but when we "have to" temporarily do without them, it is not always a bad thing. Some people at these times will say they are still close to God, but complain of being lonely or feeling spiritually non-productive. They may be on a "good"...
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AMERICAN KING JAMES VERSION & HOLMAN BIBLE COMPARED TO KING JAMES VERSION Using 37 Key Test Passages for Modern Bibles: Ps 12:6,7; Pr 18:24; Isa 40:3; Mt 18:4; 19:9; 23:14; 25:13; Mk 1:1; 2:17; 6:11; 9:44,46; 11:26; 16:9-20; Lk 2:33; 4:4,8; 24:40; Jn 3:7,15; 5:4; 7:53-8:11; 16:16; Ac 2:30...
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Seeing I just found out why the Christian Forum program/website doesn't highlight verse addresses for Acts as it does the other books of the Bible, (the English: America Standard Version being used calls that book "Acts of the Apostles") I thought I would write this blog for my own sake to test...
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I woke up this morning thinking along a particular line, and so wrote it down in the back of my Bible, and thought I would also share it here. Live the Christian life and read the Bible, not just to endure the troubles in this life, not just to get by, not just to obtain blessings in this...
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As I think of all the passwords that I have been asked to create for various things since I started using computers, I wish I had known I would have been running into this need to keep thinking up new passwords from the start. "Different" passwords are hard to remember, and somewhat unsafe to...
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Can anyone direct me to a place on the Christian Forum website that states the purposes behind having "Given and Received Ratings"? These are the ratings such as "Winner", "Informative", "Prayers", "Optimistic", "Like", "Agree", etc. I can think of some good purposes in having these...
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Motionless "Aircraft" in Sky Before I research this, I wanted to know if anybody on Christian Forums knows anything about the motionless aircraft in the sky people have seen, like my wife and I saw on the west side of the 15 Fwy between the Las Vegas Strip and the Ca. border. I first noticed...
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"He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood dwelleth in me and I in him." John 6:56 What a blessing it is for the Christian, living on this earth, to realize that they are not alone in this world, or distant from God and Christ, but that Christ (along with the rest of the Trinity) lives...
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As I was reading Proverbs 29:18 (Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepth the law, happy is he.) I created this picture in my mind as this verse could be applied to those news stories of removing/wanting to remove the display of the 10 commandments from public sites...
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Below is what I just copied from an Internet news article: Miami Congressional Candidate Says She's Been on Alien Spacecraft Miami Congressional Candidate Says She's Been on Alien Spacecraft she says "I personally am a Christian and have a strong belief in God, I join the majority of...
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I just tried to start a conversation with Mr. O, a prolific writer here on CF, and got an error message saying I wasn't allowed to do that. Don't know why, but CF has it's rules and procedures and standards. Anyway, I thought I would post my intended message here as a tribute to Mr. O, and...
Greg Merrill
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Can anybody tell me why some names are in green in the "Members currently on line" column here on CF. It probably is given elsewhere, but I am not sure where to look. I figure some of you that are staff, or have been on this site for years, or someone who has recently learned the answer to...
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Anyone need some CF blessings? I have 3,000 I want to give away. If you need less than that to get upgrades, just ask for what you need. If you want them all, I will give them to the first one to ask for them. I have about 3,700 total right now, and just want to give them to someone that...
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I thought I would share a brief email correspondence that I and my pastor, Dan, recently had. On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 8:25 PM, Pastor Merrill <pastormerrill@sbcglobal.net> wrote: Hi Pastor. Last Sunday I copied down in my Bible the three faiths you gave us from James 2; dead faith, demonic...
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I don't usually back Catholics, but I thought I would pass this along for those on CF. This is an excellent video made by high school students who don’t say a word ... From a Catholic High School (Archdiocese of Hartford, CT) in response to a Senator's remark about "Where is God in all the...
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My CF alerts now tell me there are over 320 blogs I have not read. Well I just read one, and it stimulated me to write this one entitled "So Who is to Say Who is Right or Wrong?" Someone writes about "the five solas". They talk about Catholics, they talk about Protestants, and say they are...
Greg Merrill
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Genesis 4:7. I have never liked how this verse is written in the KJV Bible, and have never liked how modern versions, some pastors, and other writers have tried to explain it. The KJV wording is hard to understand, but the modern versions haven't satisfied me to being good interpreters of...