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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.
One of the most well known parts of the Bible to Christian and non-Christian alike, is the Lord's Prayer. Yet it seems to me many Christians for some odd and unknown reason, fail to listen to and follow the words they mindlessly repeat out of habit/tradition. The prayer speaks to the Father and...
Jesus and His early followers were as organic and giving as the food and resources that God gave us to freely partake of in order to live. Along comes entrepreneurs who take that food and resources and call it their own and sell it to the people, in order that they may live in man's image. Now...
So many people go through life feeling like failures in the sight of God. Similar to the broken individuals that leave school or childhood, believing they don't have what it takes. Failures in the sight of man. They have been properly prepared to follow rather than to lead, to do as they are...
Jesus brought us a culture of the Kingdom counter to the culture of man. To accept one is to give up the other. For most people brainwashed since birth to accept the culture of man, the choice is not often an easy one, especially for those who fail to see the wisdom of one over the other. It is...
Whether in religion or the world, once people put themselves in a box, the only thing left to do is lash out at everything outside the box. Why? Because they have backed themselves into a corner and rather than associating freely with others, they become defensive. Self wins out over...
We often hear of how people have fallen under the influence of others where it seems nothing good can come of it. Lock up your sons and daughters folks.
At the same time we hear how difficult it can be to 'bring them to the light'. Of how these individuals stubbornly maintain their ways while...
Carnal thinking can cause not only Christians, but Christianity to be mislead into following, not what is supposed to be the new ways of the spirit, but ways designed to keep even Christianity worldly. It seems to me nothing man touches can end up being free of contamination of our old inherent...
When did social justice switch from poverty, health and oppression to abortion, immigration and same-sex marriage? It seems followers of Jesus, if indeed they ever were, have crossed the line of living in the ways of the Kingdom (rather than of the world) and are not only acting as judges but...
Isn't it interesting that the distance is soooooo wide between world and Kingdom, yet it is just a short hop from world to Kingdom for anyone wanting to make the leap.
Worldly Christians avoid going through the gate into the sheepfold because they know to do so would mean they would have to...
It seems to me there would be more actual followers of Jesus if they first stopped seeing Him through the eyes of their political leanings, then stop seeing Him through the eyes of their particular faiths within Christianity. Eliminating these worldly leaning 'middlemen' can remove a lot of...
The great commission according to Jesus, is to spread the Gospel of the Kingdom. We have heard many variations since.
Matthew 24: 11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. 12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. 13 But he that shall endure...
With spiritual awareness comes a rebirth, seeing the world of man through new eyes and not being one bit pleased with who we are. We started as animal in nature with a dash of the spirit of God, becoming dual in nature with the ultimate goal of becoming spirit in nature, the goal of the Kingdom...
There is a dual nature in man. Thus, there is a dual nature in Christianity. There will always be those who wish to oppress and those who wish to set free.
Consider that for roughly a tad less than 1700 years, man has followed the dictates of the Gentile church using basic rules that man has...
It seems to me there is something overlooked by people. People long lead by the blind who carry on a tradition, while forgetting the earliest followers.
The world of man became a penal colony after the Garden. Mankind built a world based on self determination rather than God's will, built upon...
When life deals blows to the heart or spirit, do you pick up and carry on with renewed strength? Are you proud to have overcome that hurdle, wearing that triumph as a personal badge of honour?
Seems to me God is more interested in our letting go of pride and humbling ourselves in order to be...
Nobody likes to discover they have been following tradition more so than truth. Consider that to be the reaction of a blind person lead by centuries of the previously blind feeling their way along, only to suddenly be able to see Jesus' truth over the tradition of religion, thus discovering the...
Since the beginning of our time outside the Garden, mankind has lived to serve itself and it's own purposes, this clearly seen throughout history and even in the Bible itself. Nothing, as the Bible also shows, goes without being corrupted by mankind, right down to the Pharisees of the time that...
With all the talk of evil causing all sorts of distress for mankind, perhaps a proper light should be shone on that idea. In effect addressing the log that is in mankind's eyes in refusing to accept responsibility for it.
Regardless of how some wish to blame an outside source, anyone who is of...
I first wrote this a few days after Sept. 11th, 2001. It still holds true on the 18th anniversary of the attack.
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Amid images of the destruction on September 11, one set of headlines proclaims "What kind of God would let this happen!" Once again God is being used as a scapegoat for...
When it came to the downfall of man, free will was never the issue. All forms of life make choices. Self awareness was the issue. Keep that thought in mind.
There is talk of physically connecting man to computers. Cyborgs of information. The ability to open a book or even use a computerized...