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    How has God changed your life?

    Life has been filled with storm after storm for me (one of the reasons of why I'm here on this site), but at the same time there was always blessing and the assurance that God is Emmanuel and He can bring me through - if only I'd trust Him. It's even tougher when I am naturally a head rather...
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    Giving up on church?

    Edit: Just realized op meant to ask if anyone is not going to church but is still keeping up with their faith. Do ignore if it's not relevant. Inaccurate teachings aside, entering into a community of believers (like attending a church) will never be easy. Because humans aren't easy. Everyone...
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    Overwhelmed by marriage, new job, education, and newborn

    Just realized I messed up the quote syntax big time. Oh well. Super interesting, fellow marketplace Christian! I can imagine faith being interwoven in imagery and texts but your value proposition seems to be so much deeper than superficial design, and there seems to be a market for it! But...
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    Overwhelmed by marriage, new job, education, and newborn

    For me, it an acknowledgement of the centrality of God in our relationship. It’s like a “corporate” prayer session but for the family and supplements our personal prayer life. Haha this is interesting indeed - and thanks for summarizing! I find it hard to read a full book these days but I do...
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    Overwhelmed by marriage, new job, education, and newborn

    Once again, thanks for the suggestions bella. Before the child, we actually established a family altar but somehow it's gone. First order of business is to bring that back. And unfortunately I'm not close to any mature Christian couples except maybe my wife's pastor and his wife. The people I...
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    Overwhelmed by marriage, new job, education, and newborn

    Thanks for the advice bella. Yeah, it wasn't the best thing to forgo the earlier program which had funding. It made me anxious about finances since I need to pay for the current one. Thanks. I've recently tried to do 2 sessions of quiet time each day just to centre and calm myself down before...
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    Overwhelmed by marriage, new job, education, and newborn

    Thanks for the advice. I did have a sit down and initially she was defensive in saying she did a lot of things for me. Like getting gifts, nice food etc. I told her that she was conflating what she wanted with what I wanted and asked her if any of the things I truly wanted (it's not like I have...
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    Overwhelmed by marriage, new job, education, and newborn

    The first thing you might think about is what sort of fool was able to get himself entangled into the above all at once. In short, I was just trying to keep my promises to my (now) wife. When we were still bf/gf, I had big dreams and was admitted into an ivy league program, but that would mean...
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