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It might be a bit of a stretch, but I sometimes meditate on the following passage in order to seek guidance from The Holy Spirit so that I do Not sound Overly Sanctimonious/Preachy/Lofty/Holier-Than-Art-Thou:

Matthew 7:1-5
New American Standard Bible 1995
Judging Others
7 “Do not judge so that you will not be judged. 2 For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and [a]by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you. 3 Why do you look at the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? 4 Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ and behold, the log is in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.

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In other words, If I am trying to correct someone whom I think is doing wrong, I do Not want to sound Overly Sanctimonious/Preachy/Lofty/Holier-Than-Art-Thou. The point is to correct others but Not inflate my own ego.



Could someone please also mention some other Bible verses/passages/stories/parables that would emphasize the same?

For those who follow tradition - regardless of age.

How do you know the traditions are accurate? of even from God?

So many fly in the face of Scripture and there have been so many errors through the almost 2,000 years of tradition, how do you determine which are of God and which are not?

Could there be anything more creepy?

Last weekend, the "second gentleman" of the United States, Douglass Emhoff, took to X to post his personal support of child killing for convenience.

An Irish teacher at the center of a transgender pronoun controversy was jailed for the third time on Monday after defying a court order to stay away from the school that dismissed him.

The High Court in Dublin ordered Enoch Burke’s committal for contempt after he persisted in appearing at Wilson’s Hospital School in County Westmeath, violating an injunction barring him from the premises, the Irish Times reported.

Burke is an evangelical Christian. He was suspended in August 2022 for refusing to use a transgender student’s preferred pronouns. Though later dismissed, he has appealed the termination and — according to media reports — remains on the school’s payroll pending the outcome.

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Mounce says:
If the primary definition is stake why don't bible translations use it?

Hello, I started reading the Bible and trying to get to know Jesus for a few weeks now.
Wanting to find Jesus and get to know him did not start because of an encounter, because he saved me from a particular situation or anything like that like other testimonies I have heard. It has not been a nice process or a finding of peace at all.

I was not Christian but I knew God is real, just I had a different conception of it. I decided to start this path because I needed answers, but as I searched and learned more, everything led me to answers that I couldn't understand. Because my concerns were linked to other people and not myself, the promise of eternal life in heaven, etc.; didn't reach my heart, since I was thinking about others and not myself.

Because the answers I got did not really answer what I wanted to know and since everyone said that the best way to talk to God directly was through reading the Bible and praying, I decided to do it.
But as I read the Bible I felt more angry, frustrated, and sad with the answers I found. While on the one hand, I began to understand Jesus and his sacrifice better, and I began to feel that I wouldn't mind surrendering to him, I also began to make a huge difference between God the Father and God Jesus, and when faced with the command to surrender to the Father, I simply can't.

On the other side, the answer to my questions was not pleasant, even if I am saved, what about those I love? What about the other billions of souls? , literally, the Bible answered me saying that the vast majority would go to hell, regardless of my wishes, my prayers, or my love for others, those who will be saved are already counted and predestined.
I also began to understand that in the end none of the answers I got mattered, because the truth is that we are all just small and insignificant souls created by God, and as our creator we belong to him, and we are destined to go through this kind of "game" that he created, under his rules, in which we have no power other than to decide between two options: to serve God and go to heaven when we die or to serve the Devil and go to hell. In other words, our only true will is to choose which owner we will belong to.

Of course, if I have no other options than those two, I choose God.
But my feelings of anger, frustration, and sadness don't go away. Not only do they remain, but I also feel that I am not choosing to serve God out of love and gratitude, but in a state of resignation.

Although at times I also have pleasant feelings towards God and I want to feel that peace and love that other Christians feel when I listen to their testimonies, in one way or another I always return to my negative, confused feelings and sadness for others.
In the end, I feel that I have a toxic relationship with him of the type "I can't completely surrender to you but I don't want to leave you either."

I wonder if others have gone through or felt something similar, and if they have any advice to give me.
How can I forget about others and only think about my salvation?
How can I fully trust God knowing this?

Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign is going on defense as former President Donald Trump gains steam in blue states after Harris’s failure to achieve a post-convention bump, which most modern campaigns take for granted.​

First using Niki Haley’s name and image.

Now this.

‘My mother would say, ‘The only reason you’re here is because the hanger didn’t work’,’ Sylvester Stallone recalled – and according to the Abortion Survivor’s Network, there have been more than 85,000 babies like him in the US alone.​

On a recent episode of the podcast “Unwaxed with Sophia & Sistine Stallone,” Hollywood action star Sylvester Stallone dropped a bombshell: He is an abortion survivor.

His daughters were interviewing him about his autobiographical Netflix documentary, Sly, which covers the Stallone story from his underdog days to celebrity fame. His daughters asked him about his mother, Jackie Stallone. “You had said that your mom was nervous to have you,” said Sistine. “She didn’t want you, right?”

“Not at all,” replied Stallone. “My mother would say, ‘The only reason you’re here is because the hanger didn’t work’ or ‘bouncing down those steps didn’t cause you to get lost.’ And she said that, ‘You know, truthfully, Sylvester… you know, if there was something really wrong with your brain, I would have definitely opened up the window and put you on the windowsill and let you freeze because I’d be doing you a favor.’”

As Nancy Flanders of Live Action News noted: “Based on these remarks, it sounds as if Stallone’s mother had tried to kill him in at least one, perhaps multiple, DIY abortion attempts.” Stallone’s story clearly seemed to stun his daughters – Sistine’s jaw dropped. “What type of mother says that to their child?” Sophia asked him.

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When will backsliding stop! This has to be the 7th time since I came to CHRIST!

I might have to get this book.

Göbekli Tepe is interesting for a lot of different reasons. They believe this was built in 9000BC. This would have been 5000 years before Adam and Eve. This seems to be an advanced structure compared to the Tower of Babel that we read about in our Bible. Still the art and archecture does fit in with the way man has developed and evolved. It is another piece in the puzzle.

People get upset because Science challenges their beliefs about the Bible. They never stop to think perhaps they need to be challenged to come to a better understanding. Because God clearly wants us to know what He has done. He give us tons of evidence to examine so we can know He is God and He created us.

Nothing in Science contradicts the Bible. God gives us science and the Bible and He is not even able to contradict Himself.

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Some people want to live
Within the sound of chapel bells
But I want to run a mission
A yard from the gates of hell

And with everyone you meet
I'll take them the gospel and share it well
And look around you as you hesitate
For another soul just fell, let's run to the battle
Run to the battle

Do you have your armor on?
We're in the middle of a raging war
We've been training for so long
Have we learned to use his sword?

We may not be ready but we serve a mighty lord
And he's made us more than conquerors
So what are you waiting for? Let's run to the battle
We got to run, run to the battle

He has trampled down the enemy
And has given us the victory
When we pray we learn to see that his army
We are marching on our knees

There'll be times when we grow weak
Let's keep our faith alive
Let your faces shine with glory
For he's helped us to survive

And in that final hour when you feel like you're ready to die
Will you hear the trumpet sound
Will you hear the warrior cry, run to the battle
We got to run, run to the battle

Some people want to live
Within the sound of chapel bells
But I want to run a mission
A yard from the gates of hell

And with everyone you meet
I'll take them the gospel and share it well
And look around you as you hesitate
For another soul just fell, let's run to the battle
Run to the battle

Now the context of this, which begins in Romans 9, and concludes with Romans 11, I believe, is of Paul’s concern for his own people, the Jews, that they would believe in Jesus Christ and so be saved from their sins and have eternal life with God in heaven. But this does not have to be limited to just the salvation of the Jews, but includes the salvation of all people, for the message is the same for either one. All people, Jew or Gentile by birth, need to believe in Jesus Christ to be saved and to have eternal life with God.

But in order for people to believe in Jesus Christ, and to be saved from their sins, they need to hear the message of the gospel taught to them, but the true gospel, not the altered and diluted one which has gained so much popularity today. They need to hear Jesus’ words which teach us that to come after him we must deny self, die daily to sin, and follow him in obedience to his commands. For if we hold on to our sinful lifestyles, we will lose our lives for eternity. But if we deny self, die to sin daily, and follow him (our Lord) in obedience to his commands, then we have eternal life in him.

But for those who have never heard of Jesus Christ, we should tell them that Jesus was and is God, the second person of our triune God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. He left his throne in heaven, and he came to earth, and he was born as a human baby to a human mother, but conceived of the Holy Spirit and not of man. So when he walked this earth he was fully God and fully human (God incarnate), but without sin.

And while he lived on this earth he performed many miracles. He raised the dead, gave sight to the blind, healed people’s infirmities, delivered people from demons, and miraculously fed thousands of people with little food. And he preached forgiveness of sins and eternal life with God for the truly repentant who were obedient to God and to his word. And he taught that not everyone who calls him, “Lord,” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING the will of God the Father who is in heaven.

Although he had some followers, and even though large crowds followed him wherever he went, he had many enemies, too. Those enemies were mainly the religious rulers among the Jews. They hated him because he claimed to be God, and he is God. And they hated him, too, because he pointed out to them their sins and their hypocrisy of religious performance. And they feared him because of his popularity among the people, and they were threatened by him for fear they would lose their own positions of power over the people.

So, they plotted his death. They falsely accused him, and they arranged for him to be arrested, and they were party to giving him a mock trial, and to having him beat beyond recognition, and to being mocked and spat upon. And they turned the masses against him and called for his crucifixion, although he was not guilty of doing anything wrong. And so he hung on a cross and died. But in his death he who knew no sin became sin for us so that when he died our sins died with him so that by faith in him we might die to sin and live with him to righteousness, for he was resurrected from death.

And notice with me here, when it says, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!”, that this is followed by, “But they have not all obeyed the gospel.” For the gospel requires obedience. Obedience is part of believing faith. And this faith comes from God, is authored by Christ, is persuaded of God, and is gifted to us by God, and it is not of our own doing – not of the will nor of the flesh of man. And God persuades us as to his holiness and righteousness, and of our sinfulness, and of our need to repent of our sins and to follow him in obedience to his commands.

But many people who profess to know God are obstinate, rebellious, contrary, and disobedient to God and to the teachings of the Scriptures, with regard to Jesus Christ and his gospel message, whether Jew or Gentile by physical birth. And many who profess faith in Jesus Christ are believing in a false half-truth gospel which is not requiring death to sin and living to God and to his righteousness in obedience to his commands. And if they continue on that course, and they do not surrender their lives to Jesus Christ, they will not be saved from their sins nor have eternal life with God.

[Isaiah 53:1-12; Matt 7:21-23; Matt 26:26-29; Lu 9:23-26; Lu 17:25; Jn 1:1-36; Jn 6:35-58; Jn 8:24,58; Jn 10:27-33; Jn 20:28-29; Rom 5:8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14; Rom 9:5; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Co 11:23-32; 1 Co 15:1-8; 2 Co 5:15,21; Eph 4:17-24; Php 2:5-11; Col 2:9; Tit 2:11-14; Heb 1:8-9; Heb 2:14-15; Heb 4:15; 1 Pet 2:24; 2 Pet 1:1; 1 John 3:4-10]

Should I Not Preach Jesus

An Original Work / July 4, 2013
Based off 1 Corinthians 9:16-10:13

Woe to me should I not preach Jesus.
I’m compelled to preach the full gospel.
I make myself a slave to ev’ryone
To win their hearts to Christ.
All this I do for my Lord Jesus,
And for the sake of His Name;
Do it for the sake of His gospel,
So that I, its blessings gain.

Scripture notates the sins of others;
Written down for us as examples
To keep us from setting our hearts
On evil as did those of old.
Do not worship other gods of man;
Do not give your hearts to them;
Not partake in immorality.
Do not test your Lord and King.

So, be careful if you think you are
Standing firm in your faith in Jesus.
God has given his word to warn us,
So through faith we will not fall.
No temptation has o’ertaken you
Except what is commonplace.
God is faithful to not let you be
Tempted past what you can bear.
He gives the way of escape.

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Hi everyone.

Glad to see there's a Christian forum group that's still alive, some of the ones I used to haunt seem to be dying down...

Does anyone know if you're allow to promote local Christian groups here? And if so, which forum(s) should I post in? I'm trying to jumpstart a small social group called CIYA (Christian Introverted Young Adults), hence my username, and I'm trying to give some exposure to it. It's a group in the Central MI area.

Thank you, and may the Lord guide and keep you.

~ Lauren

Vice President Kamala Harris was accused Monday of using a “fake accent” in her remarks to teachers union members in Michigan.


Harris, speaking at a Detroit high school, appeared to alter her tone of voice in moments where she became particularly animated and when interacting with supporters in the crowd.


She made a similar speech to union workers in Pittsburgh.

See if you can spot the difference: Clicky

My God will keep me justified.

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Or is there a period where God no longer loves me? Im just curious.

Servant of God Sealed

Rev 7:3 Saying, hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.

Rev 7:3a Saying (participating authority), Hurt (damage) not the (tribulation) earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, Rev 4:6-8, 6:1, 3, 5, 7, Rev 7:1, 2

Power given to the Four Angels

Rev 7:1 And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree. Rev 7:2 And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea,

Sealing the Servants of God

Rev 7:3b till we (righteous angels) have sealed the servants (Rev 7:4-8, 14:1-5, 144,000 Virgin Jew Men) of our God in their foreheads.

Servants of the Living God

The 5th Trumpet: Rev 9:4 And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.

144,000 Servants of God

Rev 7:4 And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed a hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.

Rev 7:4 And I (John) heard the number of them (servants of God Rev 7:3) were sealed: and there were sealed a hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel. 144,000 Virgin Jew Men

Servants of the Living God

Isa 63:16 Doubtless you are our (Virgin Jew Men) father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: you, O Lord, are our father, our redeemer; your name is from everlasting.

Rev 7:4 continues

Rev 7:1-3 And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree. Rev 7:2 And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, Rev 7:3 Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.

Rev 14:1 And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him a hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads. Rev 14:2 And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps: Rev 14:3 And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth. Rev 14:4 These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goes. These were redeemed from among men, being the first-fruits unto God and to the Lamb. Rev 14:5 And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.

My mother, aunt and sister are witches. They sometimes use spells to punish and hurt, and they certainly believe that psychic attack is a task thing.

Have any of you felt you might have been under psychic attack from a demon, or a person, even a witch!?

I would say that witchcraft and paganism are making a massive revival, and in a very open way.

Would you agree? Why do you think this is happening?

Even though the Bible says to kill witches, that seems a bit extreme to me..
But why kill? Why not just pray? Jesus cast out demons etc., but didn't kill them.

Are witches more dangerous and warrant killing?

How should modern Christians relate to Pitches and Pagans?

What about interfaith gatherings? Would you let witches into your church and pray and chant together?

Republicans are divided on fertility treatments such as IVF, with many hailing them as a boost to American families.​

Johnstown, United States:
Republican White House nominee Donald Trump sought Friday to contain the blast radius of a fierce backlash over his remarks publicly backing away from right-wing positions on reproductive rights.

The ex-president has been under fire from conservatives over an announcement that in a second term, he would ensure free in vitro fertilization (IVF) -- an expensive fertility procedure that many in the anti-abortion movement want to see curbed.

The rift widened as he hit out at his home state Florida's six-week abortion ban, calling it too restrictive and suggesting he planned to vote for an upcoming ballot measure that would make the procedure legal until a fetus becomes viable.

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Trump is getting scared. He's resorting to his fall back plan: sowing doubt in the election process. Shocking.

“It’s so crazy, that my poll numbers go up. Whoever heard you get indicted for interfering with a presidential election, where you have every right to do it, you get indicted, and your poll numbers go up. When people get indicted your poll numbers go down,” Trump said in an interview on Fox News’s “Life, Liberty and Levin.”

“Well, this is the worst case of election interference that anyone’s ever seen, certainly in our country,” Trump said during the Fox News interview. “They do this in Third World countries, they have some of it in South America, they don’t do it a lot, believe it or not. But they do it.”