Recent content by alphanoodle

What I mean, for example, is that I’ve heard people say that ‘well, we can’t always talk about the bible.’ It’s true that we have things to do other than worship in this earth, and yet Paul says that whatever we do in word or deed, do all in the name of Christ. Whatever we do, whether eating or...

There are two sayings in the Christian community that don’t come from the bible, and I hate hearing them, personally. One is ‘Too heavenly minded to be of any earthly good.’ Who could have been more heavenly minded than our Lord, and yet he was of the most earthly good. People who use this...

When Richard Wurmbrand wrote his book, ‘Tortured for Christ’, warning the free world of the coming horrors of Marxist persecution, he testified that ‘I never saw a lukewarm Christian in Russia. False Christians, yes, but never lukewarm.’ It’s really hard to be ‘hot’ for the Lord, or ‘on fire’...

When I was first saved, I was so on fire for the Lord. It was a total interruption to my life. Finding God was the last thing in the world that I or anyone who knew me would have expected. So I spent long, long hours alone talking to my new Dad, whom I called Grampa. I would write the things...

I knew you were going to say that...

Thank you for redeeming my story! Maybe I should just send them to you for editing before I post them from now on! Don't worry, I'm just kidding. Oh, and what a beautiful image you painted there with the grandpa.

I always feel guilty about something. I spend hour upon hour dwelling on all the suffering in the world; imagining nightmarish images of someone weeping in the darkness, or screaming with no end. I dwell on the fact that someone hasn't seen the sun in years, or that no longer has the limbs to...

Paul exhorted: Look at your calling brethren... God chose the despised things and things that were nothing by human standards, to bring to nothing the things that the world considers to be of value. This means that we should expect the church to be filled with dysfunctional and defective and...

If I had written a criticism of people in the church I could easily agree with you, but I didn't. It is the systematic form of worship, the universal definitions of church, worship, service, and the forms and methods we have become familiar with. I don't have anything to say against the sheep...

Really? You'd think I would have caught that over all the years I've been telling the story; but now that I remember it, it was a preacher's sermon that gave me that bad information in the first place. Maybe I misunderstood. I have to stop being so lazy and hasty in my research. Yes, accuracy is...

Thank God for you. Someone else sees what I see. You don't see me disagreeing, do you? No matter what I say, it is always wrong in the eyes of my brother in every single post I make. This is becoming too frustrating, so I have to let him go. When someone agrees with you, and you still are...

If no one else is going to answer, I can tell you. No, it's extrabiblical history. But the information about these two is plentiful. You have to do a google. Youtube has a lot of stuff on them. I'll give you a couple of tidbits briefly though. Have you heard of the Epic of Gilgamesh? It is...

God knows. All I can do is pray for individuals anymore, till persecution comes. I think we're just surrounded by too many advertisements and pretty lights to resist for now. Remember, though, Jesus said that the fruit we'd produce would be 100 fold in some, but only 60 and 30 in others; just...

Thanks, I can use that.

We were drunk. So drunk that we couldn't speak, couldn't care, couldn't feel. There was momma - for me a foster mom, but momma to us four teenage boys, just a hair beneath manhood. She was a probation officer, and this was probably doubly painful for that reason. I was the reason we got caught...