Josheb said:

Of course you are.

You are not perfect, so you are, simply as a matter of inevitability, doing something wrong.

Therefore, stop asking that question and start asking a more fruitful question(s). For example, the word "wrong" can have to meanings, one more and one efficacious. The question, "Have I done something that is immoral?" is a MUCH different question than, "Have I done something that is ineffective?" The first question is going to bring on guilt and shame and guilt and shame rarely help anyone solve a problem objectively or effectively. The second question can facilitate a goal-oriented response and that might contribute to improving the many problems existing within you and your marriage. Your wife's problems are not yours to solve. Thinking you can or should solve her problems may be one of the things you've done wrong . That's not a moral wrong, though. That is an ineffective wrong, not a moral wrong.

Think of it this way: the popular tele-counselor Dr. Phil often asks his victim's a very simple question. He asks them a bunch of questions and lets them tell their stories, and as they do so the audience increasingly sees the inanity of the game show participant's life. When the obviousness of the inanity reaches a critical point Dr. Phil springs the infamous question, "Why's that working for you?" And, of course, the other person has that momentary introspective look and answers, "I guess it's not."

In all the many years I was a counselor I rarely happened upon a client who did not already know if and when their behavior was immoral. No one needs to be told yelling epithets at a spouse is morally wrong. No one needs to be told rape, battery, theft, etc. are morally wrong. A few, occasionally, need that explained to them but most of counseling has absolutely nothing to do with morality. They better question is always "How is what you are currently doing helping you achieve your goals?" or "How is what you are currently doing help you achieve the life you would like to obtain?"

The answers to those questions mean you must first know what your goals are.

If you do not know where you are going, then you most definitely will not get there . It's not rocket science, but the simplicity and value of that principle often escapes people. If you're moralizing, then stop it. On the occasion that you do err morally the prescription is very plain and already known: apologize! Or, if you're interested in a more thorough response the confess the wrongdoing, purpose not to repeat the behavior and replace it with more godly alternatives, make amends wherever possible and ask for forgiveness (and receive it when given). You already know this. On the occasion you try something that does not work then, again, the prescription is readily available: chalk it up to an ineffective action, something that didn't get you where you wanted to go and try something else.

Guard your mind against "Nothing I do will ever make a difference!" and train yourself to say, "Well, that didn't work as well as I thought i might so let me try something else."

1 Corinthians 10:23
All things are permitted, but not all things are of benefit. All things are permitted, but not all things build people up.

Moralizing yourself into guilt, shame, and remorse is permitted, but it is not very beneficial and does not edify you. Accepting the fact that you, me, your wife, Ricky, Lucy, Bert, Ernie, and everyone else is a sinner is a reality that everyone should accept. Once accepted, the power the Christian has facing sin to overcome it in the otherwise ordinary circumstances of life can be enormously empowering.

Set some goals. Set a few easily accomplished ones that prospectively will move you toward solving the problems alluded to in the op OR moving you, personally, toward a position where you are better able to do so. Set some moderately distant goals and set some goals that are more over-arching and will take time to accomplish. Work them all a little at a time. Review them periodically to 1) measure progress and 2) make adjustments wherever needed (because mistakes will be made).

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thank you

J_B_ said:

I'm curious to hear what people have to say about the things they are devoted to: sports, family, job, hobby, etc. I'd also be curious to hear what motivates that devotion.

Of course, there are similarities and dissimilarities between such devotion and Christian faith, and yes, we can discuss those as well. But I'm not interested in arguments striving to claim that such similarities prove a subconscious desire for the spiritual.

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Me? Devoted. Devoted. What does that mean? ... whatever it actually means in degree and application, I'd say I'm devoted to my family and my books, and a daily dose of motivational music. Sometimes, I watch a bit of sports or a favorite sci-fi t.v. show.

I'm just a simple, analytically oriented nerd who loves his family. And who strives to follow Jesus as best I can...

... What about you, J.B. ?? What's your locus of interests and devotion?

Joseph G said:

Question. What does plurality mean?

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It means more than one.

Joseph G said:

Successive ages or unique concurrent ages?

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Successive.

Joseph G said:

Or both somehow?

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Could be.

Joseph G said:

What is the point of the Lord building our character here?

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Good question.

Joseph G said:

We are destined for Heaven anyways. Well one of the obvious reasons is to become more Christ-like, which I would imagine enables us to bear greater fruit for the Kingdom, which gives us satisfaction in our work. Who doesn't appreciate incremental promotions to a closer walk with God and resulting responsibilities to love others? Otherwise, WE become stagnant and bored. And incidentally in that process, God's pruning is incredibly effective.

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Right. That's the process of sanctification. Check out How to grow in faith

Joseph G said:

Already, in photos and videos and what-not, we can't believe everything we see. No worries though, WE won't be deceived, because we continually fix our gaze upon the Truth Himself.

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Amen.

Joseph G said:

I sincerely agree that the possibilities of advancement in all aspects of existence in the next life, are gonna blow our minds - especially as God is pleased to reveal a wee bit at a time to motivate us. Who needs man's forms of entertainment when we have His? Perpetual joy indeed.

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Amen, brother

I think of Ezra 9:1-12 and repentance to God, who alone judges us by our ancestors actions, from ancestral sin.

Hi Forum!

I am looking for a devotional resource I can use with my family. I have 2 grade-school kids so it would have to be age appropriate. Ideally, I would like a scripture verse, and a short commentary about it. This would be something we could do at the dinner table before having our meals.

Any thoughts?

loveofourlord said:

you call it a delusion, but as in other topic, it's not one, they are literally the opposite gender with the brain, many show the signs of their brain functionally more female then male, wich is caused by hormones and such. It be little different then if you could attatch a male head to a female body, the heads image of the body wouldn't fit. Just as boys who are given surgery at birth to be given female genitals, still grow up attracted to girls, and know something is wrong.

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I think its more complex than that. Put it this way around 85% of children who think they are trans realign naturally with their body. Some come to realise they are actually gay or lesbian and not trans. So if such a large % thinking they are opposite sex and end up realigning with their nate sex then they were deluded about being trans due to other reasons.

Then you have a fair % of people who think they are trans but have Autism and other psychological disorders who are not trans. There are also those mostly males who suffer Autogynephilia. They derive a sexual safisfaction from being a women.

Then there are those who suffer o0ther body dysmorphia who may mistakenly think they are trans when it was more than they were rejecting their bodies for other reasons due to emotional problems.

Put all these together and there are a lot of false positives that can potentially happen which are not screened for and end up being mistaken as trans. Add to this that there is no objective test and that acceptance of being trans only requires saying so we than have potential for a lot of confusion and false positives and potential harm.

I agree that there is a certain % with persistent gender incongruence where there is a chemical imbalance in the sex hormones of the brain. During fetal development the development of physical sex is a seperate process to the sexing of the brain. Under normal development the brain should match physical sex but something goes wrong.

Though this is an influencing factor its not consistent nor a complete reversal of the brain. They still retain other nate sex and gender traits. For example a trans women who is a biological male can still be attracted to a female. They will identify as a lesbian rather than have a traditional opposite sex partner to retain their nate sexual orientation.

They may also retain nate features. Transwomen can still have male like behaviour. Be more aggressive, engage more in male type behaviour like crime and violence. So its not 100% opposite and this is an areas that is still being understood.

A complete remodelling of the body into the opposite sex doesn't solve the problem for most long term. There is still a degree of inconguence and dysmorphia. The other problem is in remodelling the body this creates a different kind of dysmorphia of not feeling authentic in a artifically created body.

It also brings up an important dilemma. If as you say some have opposite sex brains due to developmental issues, which is still a disorder and not a normal human variation of development. But does this mean we could and should find ways to realign the persons brain chemicals to their physical sex during early pregnancy. Thus avoiding the prblem altogether.

Sort of the other way around. Instead of altering the body to match the brain we make the brain match the body the way it was meant to be. Surely modern medicine can ac hieve this or will in the future.

Or would this be too much for the Trans activists who insist this is a normal variation of being human like there are 3rd and 4th sexes and gender identity is the true measure of human sex and not biology. So trying to change trans is abuse.

Part of the ideology is that human behaviour is a social construction and not based on nature or anything objective. Just like we can socially reconstruct the reality for society with say families we can do the same with sex and gender. Or reality itself. This stems from Postmodernism where there is no truth and objective reality but only relative and self referential truths and realities.

So the problem is because its such a subjective and relative idea that people can easily be fooled and believe they are something they are not. I think whats happened is that the ideology has been created much bigger than the reality. Yes there are people who have some basis for feeling and believing they are the opposite sex.

But the idea has morphed into people using feelings and beliefs as the basis for who they are and what reality is rather than objective reality. Its mortphed into a delusion based on feelings and not facts.

We know that feelings and belief are very supceptible to manipulation, to cognitive errors in thinking and often wrong. So to make the only measure of reality self identification will inherently have a big chance of having a high degree of false positives.

That is why is vital to be checking, not assuming, and taking things on face vale. Investigating the facts, alternative reasons why this is happening.

The problem is its like a self reinforcing loop. Trans activists don't want a bar of any talk about investigating alternative reasons. To them its only one reason and any talk of underlying or alternative reasons is transphobic and conversion therapy because its not affirming the person on face value.

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CHAPTER 1


5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. 6 But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. 7 For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; 8 he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

WISDOM NEEDED NOW

Wisdom is a great gift from God, Solomon asked for it and received it.

In Proverbs 1, it says:

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge;
fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Psalm 111 says:


The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; all those who practice it have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!

God graciously gives us wisdom to deal with everyday circumstances, we are told later in James 3, what true wisdom is:

17 But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.

How do we endure and handle trials? When trying times come, how do we handle them?

We ask for wisdom from God and he will give us the wisdom to get through these things. But we ask in faith, we have to have a complete and utter trust in God and this must come with no doubt.

Sometimes when faced with a situation, we ask for God's wisdom, but then we try to figure it out through the world's wisdom, this is being caught between two minds, we cannot be two minds. We cannot afford to have one foot in both camps.

Christians need to completely and totally trusting in the Lord. Otherwise, we will be like a wave on the sea, God cannot give wisdom to us, unless we trust him 100%, God's wisdom and man's wisdom, do not mix.

For the believer, it is either one or the other and I know what kind of wisdom I want, and that is God's wisdom.

Ask God for his wisdom, act in faith and believe that he will give it to you.

God's wisdom, will enable you to overcome trials and to see them in the right perspective, it clears the mist and allows you to see them in the divine perspective, but man's wisdom, only sees them from man's perspective

God bless you

Keith



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As followers of Christ,
We can’t live by our feelings.
Must use wisdom and logic
In all of our dealings.

Not let others upset us
And get the best of us.
We must pray through each matter,
And heed not their chatter.

We must follow our Savior
And live in His Favor,
And must walk in His wisdom
And follow His vision.

For now Satan would have us,
His will to destroy us.
So, do not give in to him,
But God worship. And sing a hymn.

An Original Work / March 16, 2023

As followers of Jesus Christ, we are all going to have trying times and circumstances in our lives which will challenge the legitimacy of our faith in the Lord Jesus, and which may bring us to tears, but which should draw us closer to the Lord as we learn more and more to rely on God and not on ourselves. For we have an enemy, Satan, who wants nothing more than to destroy us and to break us down so that we will run from God instead of running to God. So, we must draw on the strength of the Lord.

For it is in these darkest times in our lives when we need the Lord more than ever before. So especially in times like these we must call on the Lord for help, and we must bring to memory all that the Lord has done in our lives throughout our lives so that we don’t give way to the enemy’s lies and begin to think that God has forgotten and forsaken us. And if you can keep a journal of your quiet times with the Lord, this is a good way to go back and to see all the ways God has worked miracles in your life previously.

And, yes, there will be those times when our spirits fail us, and our emotions give way to tears and perhaps to doubts and so we need those reassurances from our Lord and from his word to comfort our hearts and minds. For Satan loves to try to fill our minds with all sorts of fears and doubts which we then must reject while we claim the promises of God over our lives. But let me say here that all of God’s promises have conditions (stipulations), and so we must guard against claiming promises which may not apply to us.

And even though the Scriptures teach us that if we resist Satan that he will flee from us, he may not flee at the first resistance, or he may come back at us with a different approach, because his goal is to wear us down so that he can conquer us. So we have to keep resisting and eventually he will flee, but he will come back and try again at another time, perhaps when we are the most vulnerable or when we are physically weak, and when he feels he will have a better chance at getting us to crack. But we must keep resisting!

But resisting alone is not enough. We must draw on the strength of the Lord. We must be in his word daily, seeking his face, listening to his voice, and following him in obedience to his commands. We must remain steadfast in our walks of faith and obedience to the Lord, and keep on pressing forward even when our emotions or our minds or our bodies might be weak and tired. We cannot and should not go by our emotions, for our emotions will fail us. We have to press forward even when we don’t feel up to it.

And, yes, we should pray to the Lord for deliverance from all enemies, for if we are following Jesus Christ with our lives in wholehearted devotion to him, we are going to have enemies. And those enemies could be our closest friends or companions or family members or others who profess faith in Jesus Christ. And they could be “pastors” and “elders” of “churches,” who are following after the ways of the flesh and the ways of the world and who are being trained to reject those who have seriousness of faith in Christ.

And no matter what we are up against, or whom, we must be those who are seeking after the Lord and his ways, and who are desirous to be taught to do the will of God for our lives. And his will for our lives goes way beyond just making a profession of faith in him. But his will for us is to do his will and to surrender our lives to him, to submit to him as Lord, to die daily to sin, and to walk daily in obedience to his commands. And it is to learn what his plan is for our lives and then for us to submit to that plan and to do it.

[Matthew 7:21-23; Matthew 24:9-14; Matthew 28:19-20; Luke 9:23-26; John 1:12-13; John 6:35-58; John 8:31-32; John 10:27-30; John 14:15,21,23-24; John 15:1-11; Acts 26:18; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 12:1-2; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; 1 John 1:5-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10; 1 Peter 2:24; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 12:1-2]

Oh, to Be Like Thee, Blessed Redeemer

Lyrics by Thomas O. Chisholm, 1897
Music by W. J. Kirkpatrick, 1897

Oh, to be like Thee! blessèd Redeemer,
This is my constant longing and prayer;
Gladly I’ll forfeit all of earth’s treasures,
Jesus, Thy perfect likeness to wear.

Oh, to be like Thee! full of compassion,
Loving, forgiving, tender and kind,
Helping the helpless, cheering the fainting,
Seeking the wandering sinner to find.

O to be like Thee! lowly in spirit,
Holy and harmless, patient and brave;
Meekly enduring cruel reproaches,
Willing to suffer others to save.

O to be like Thee! while I am pleading,
Pour out Thy Spirit, fill with Thy love;
Make me a temple meet for Thy dwelling,
Fit me for life and Heaven above.

Oh, to be like Thee! Oh, to be like Thee,
Blessèd Redeemer, pure as Thou art;
Come in Thy sweetness, come in Thy fullness;
Stamp Thine own image deep on my heart.

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realdeliverance said:

9/6 have people's minds thinking all kinds of ways. Specifically "the women".

How inappropriate. Takes a certain individual to have that kind of mindset in them. Or just Dirty-Minded always


That's all.

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What is "9/6"? A date, perhaps 6th September or 9th June? How does 9/6 have people's minds thinking all kinds of ways?

realdeliverance said:

To know all gossip of me, I see through the mind.

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Sorry, but I don't understand what you mean. Are you simply saying that in order to know all that is being gossiped about you, you need to be a mind-reader?

Light and fluffy, they are feeding
What the people think they’re needing.
Feel good messages are their shelter,
But now they are helter-skelter.

Life with frolic is a plenty,
But the truth, now who’s got any?
Lies galore and misplaced feelings,
Have them on the line they’re reeling.

Keep it light, now pitter-patter,
So they know not what’s the matter.
Make excuses, feed their habits,
So their noses in their tablets.

Tell a joke, and tell a story,
Make it light or make it gory.
Entertain them, keep distracted,
So to sin they are attracted.

Keep them laughing, roll in aisles,
Keep them grinning, see those smiles.
Don’t get serious, no not ever,
Keep it light and keep it clever.

Hide the truth so they not knowing
That their lives they’re surely blowing –
Walk in sin, no life in Jesus,
If obey not God who feeds us.

An Original Work / August 27, 2022

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness’” (Matthew 7:21-23 ESV).

The love that we are to have for Jesus Christ, for God, is agape love, which prefers what God prefers. And God prefers all that is holy, righteous, godly, morally pure, upright, honest, faithful, and obedient to his commands. And for the believer in Jesus Christ this means preferring to live through Christ, embracing God’s will, choosing his choices, and obeying them through his power. It means we are actively doing what the Lord prefers rather than us doing what our flesh prefers. So love for God/Christ = obedience to God.

And this is not optional. We can’t just make a profession of faith in Jesus Christ and then go on living in sin and for self and presume that God is going to let us into his heaven. For this love is not the mushy gushy kind that is based in our emotions and in how we feel at any given moment. Will we feel love for God? We should, yes! But a feeling of love is not what this is all about. This is love in action shown by our obedience to our Lord and to his commands, whether or not we feel like obeying at any particular time.

Many people today, though, are not teaching this. Many are teaching the opposite of this. They are teaching that no works are required of us at all, and that we don’t have to obey God, and that we don’t have to repent of our sins, for those are works. And even if some do teach that we should obey the Lord and his commandments, many do not teach obedience as critical to our salvation and eternal life with God, which is what Jesus was definitely teaching here, and which the NT apostles taught, too.

And then notice the progression of the conversation here. If we love Jesus, we will keep (obey) his commandments (New Covenant). Whoever keeps (obeys) his commandments, he it is who loves Jesus/God. And he who loves Jesus will be loved by God the Father, and they will come to him and make their home with him. But whoever does not agape love Jesus does not keep (obey) his words, (and so he will not be loved by God the Father, and they will not come to him and make their home with him – understood).

[John 8:31-32; John 10:27-30; John 14:15-24; John 15:10; Luke 9:23-26]

And Paul and the other apostles taught the same thing. John taught that if we say that we are in fellowship with God, but while we still walk (in conduct, in practice) in darkness (sin, wickedness), we are liars. And if we claim that we know God but while we do not obey his commandments, in practice, we are liars. For whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil. But whoever practices righteousness is righteous, as God is righteous. So, whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God.

[1 John 1:5-10; 1 John 2:3-6,15,24-25; 1 John 3:4-10,24; 1 John 4:19-20]

And Paul taught that if sin is what we obey, it leads to death, but if obedience to God is what we obey, it leads to righteousness and to sanctification, and its end is eternal life with God. For if we are slaves of sin, the end of those things is death. And the righteous requirement of the law is fulfilled in us who walk (in conduct, in practice) not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For if we live according to the flesh, and not according to the Spirit, its end is death, not life eternal with God.

[Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10; 1 Corinthians 15:2; Galatians 5:16-21; Galatians 6:7-8; Ephesians 5:3-6; Colossians 1:21-23]

And, as a side note to all of this, lately I have been hearing of very large crowds of people “worshiping Jesus Christ.” But worship of Jesus Christ, which is biblical and true worship of God, begins with us dying with Christ to sin and being raised to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but as slaves to God and to his righteousness. True worship of God is in the surrender of our lives to him to do his will, the forsaking of our sins, and walks of obedience to his commands in daily living, in practice.

True worship of God, which is acceptable to him, is in the giving of our lives to him as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to him, no longer conformed to the ways of this sinful world, but transformed of God in the renewing of our minds so that, by how we live, we prove what is the good and acceptable will of God for our lives. It is in us daily denying self and dying to sin, by the Spirit, and walking in the ways of the Lord in obedience to his commands in holy living. Music can be a part of worship, but alone it is not worship.

[Romans 12:1-2; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Luke 9:23-26]

Oh, to Be Like Thee, Blessed Redeemer

Lyrics by Thomas O. Chisholm, 1897
Music by W. J. Kirkpatrick, 1897

Oh, to be like Thee! blessèd Redeemer,
This is my constant longing and prayer;
Gladly I’ll forfeit all of earth’s treasures,
Jesus, Thy perfect likeness to wear.

Oh, to be like Thee! full of compassion,
Loving, forgiving, tender and kind,
Helping the helpless, cheering the fainting,
Seeking the wandering sinner to find.

O to be like Thee! lowly in spirit,
Holy and harmless, patient and brave;
Meekly enduring cruel reproaches,
Willing to suffer others to save.

O to be like Thee! while I am pleading,
Pour out Thy Spirit, fill with Thy love;
Make me a temple meet for Thy dwelling,
Fit me for life and Heaven above.

Oh, to be like Thee! Oh, to be like Thee,
Blessèd Redeemer, pure as Thou art;
Come in Thy sweetness, come in Thy fullness;
Stamp Thine own image deep on my heart.

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AlexB23 said:

Do you have any updates on your farm, @HARK! ? When will the harvesting period begin, as autumn is quickly approaching?

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I've done some preliminary harvest of my sorghum crop. I pressed the stalks with my sorghum press: Sorghum Press Build

I boiled down the extract until it reached a temperature of 227 degrees F. Making syrup shares similarities to making candy. I even got a little sorghum caramel on the edges of the pot.

This year the syrup is delicious! I bought Red Top this spring. Last year I bought Milo. The Milo has bigger seeds; but the syrup had a bitter aftertaste.

I've been gathering firewood for the winter; and as much as I hate to do it; I've been cutting down mesquite trees around my tank (pond) so that I can dig it out wider and deeper. (Mesquite beans are sweet, high in protein, and can be ground into flour.) It sometimes goes almost dry, in dry summers; so I want to ensure that it won't go dry before I start my fish farm. I'll start digging it out soon after I completely harvest the sorghum; and I'll spread the soil out over that field. Once I get the footprint of the tank finalized; I'll build a greenhouse nearby, and use solar power to run the pumps for hydroponics. Always something going on.

Diamond72 said:

Where does He say that? He talks about a garbage dump where they burn the garbage. We read about that even during the Kingdom age in the book of Isaiah.

geenna: Gehenna, a valley W. and South of Jer., also a symbolic name for the final place of punishment of the ungodly
Original Word: γέεννα, ης, ἡ
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: geenna
Phonetic Spelling: (gheh'-en-nah)
Definition: Gehenna, a valley west and South of Jerusalem, also a symbolic name for the final place of punishment of the ungodly

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the garbage dump was a place of eternal fire. Always fire there.

He told the story of the rich man and Lazarus. That was hell there. And where the fire is not quenched and the worm does not die. Don’t you believe Him? Yes the definition is right.

Oompa Loompa said:

Yes. It takes courage to step in the world of politics, or being a judge, knowing that you could be assassinated. I hope that answers your question. Otherwise, should we stop honoring the death of MKL Jr because he was not in combat when he was shot?

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Seems to me we honor Martin Luther King Jr's life, and what he did during it, more than we do his death.

-- A2SG, probably why we focus more on things like the "I have a dream" speech than that single day in April.....

Your story really moved me. I am sorry you was put in this bondage by your own family member. It is very sad. You do though deserve to break free from this bondage Galatians 5:1 and I hope that you can as God is there to release people from bondages as well. We all have our own unique situations though, but I hope life is treating you well today. I have read of people who recovered from Bulimia in their 50's after decades, I wish you well.

The 9/11 devotional is out. It discusses the hard work of the EMTs, first responders and volunteers who saved lives, even if it meant risking their own lives.

Roughly 340+ firefighters lost their lives on 9/11 in an attempt to save as many lives possible (EMS news source):

9/11 Devotional:

Our Lady of China, pray for us.

WarriorAngel said:

The scarier the darkness is, the more you seek the Lord.
Till your absolute faith and love are alllllllllllllll about Him.

Hand it to the Lord, and let Him mold you into His servant.

It's just darkness unless you want only His will.

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Well said.

Vambram said:

I ask my fellow Americans and all of the Christians to never forget what happened on 9/11/2001 and also never forget that "United We Stand, but Divided we shall surely fall."
Let us all remain united together on the ideals that should never divide us.

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Amen

I knew a JW who said they didn’t even believe in God.

Also, we tend to have more Bible readings in mass compared to Protestant services.