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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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Wondering about Mary and the KingdomGod begins with what seems tiny or hidden, and that small start grows into His full purpose. -
Walking in ObedienceThank you so much for sharing this part of your testimony. It is hard when we see those we love bound by the chains of sin, and it does take God... -
Walking in ObedienceWhat a wonderful post. I have a friend who got into drugs pretty bad. He didn't really care about "Yielding Himself" a servant to obey God, and...
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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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Marco, a good friend of mine thinks along different lines than I do. Also, our belief system is different. Yet, he has helped me a great deal in learning to listen to others who, for the most part, think very differently than I do on Pro-Life issues. Below is a response I gave to one of the...
There was still need for the group to wake up as the shadow of the stone moved to avoid where it was getting much warmer, and they only had so much water to carry with them across this dry country. They then slept further, and when one, Alverten, woke up first, it was already late, as the sun...
“The elder to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not only I, but also all who know the truth, because of the truth that abides in us and will be with us forever:
“Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father and from Jesus Christ the Father's Son, in...
God’s Gaze
“Don’t you feel full of Me? Don’t you see how your physical trials drew Me to you? And your heartbeats that you were able to count tonight—didn’t My own heart beat to the same rhythm? ‘It’s His heart,’ you thought. And right away your faith was enriched and your soul became like a...
“I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. For the time is coming when people...
“This is he who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ; not by the water only but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. For there are three that testify: the Spirit and the water and the blood; and these three agree. If we receive the...
“So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world” (1 John...
Being of the law simply means putting God's will ahead of our own. This of course goes against mankind's natural tendency to put our self interests first, our original sin. No wonder so many deny it, wanting both the ways of the world and the Kingdom. God says simply, we can't have both and...
Fearing God is to respect Him. For the other version, it is man we must fear for any evil that comes is at our own hands. That is why God commands us to love our enemies, not just our own or ourselves. In doing good to all we can lessen their anger, hence our fears will be decreased. Of course...
December 14, 2022
Eighteen years ago from this past September 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 (same church denomination as A.W. Tozer was under). Rick was going for his...
Absence of hope is war.
Absence of justice is life.
Absence of death is suffering.
and absence of love is darkness.”
― Swaraj Bhatia, Our Days :A Survival Odyssey
As humans, we do have ideals. I do, but I can say that I very seldom live up to my ideals in a persistent manner. Justice for...
“For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's righteous. Do not be surprised, brothers...
“Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness. You know that he appeared in order to take away sins, and in him there is no sin. No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him. Little children...
“Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness. Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling. But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the...
Jesus told mankind the good news (gospel) was the good news of the Kingdom of God, coming to take away authority of man over fellow man. Life as we know it would be reversed. See Sermon on the Mount. What many Christians today speak of with their grace doctrine was a part of that, not the other...
“But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be burned up.
“Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, what sort of people ought you to be in...
“But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day. The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to...
What I Would Wish Away
I do not believe that wishes come true. They are something we long for and would wish things were different. However, reality can be harsh so as much as we would love for things to be different, well, it won’t happen. Not because it is impossible, but well, we are not...