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Recent content by DaveMiller

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    I had a prophetic dream last week

    Hi Wick, This is good input. But the Accuser can take even the sweetest strength and make it appear as brokenness. And the Advocate can take even the worst broken situation and bring healing and wholeness from it. ITs not so much about transference of responsibility, as it is about...
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    I had a prophetic dream last week

    That's a good question. I think I actually tried, I was trying to politely get them to listen, i.e. become involved in, the service of worship. That could be said of any traditional church setting, most protestants go to church to be preached at. One has to go to a Black church, or Mennonite...
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    I had a prophetic dream last week

    Here is the meaning I received: Some of the youth may have been gay, but that wasn’t the point. They were all, we all are, part of a broken world. We all hold brokenness within us. We cannot shed this brokenness, we cannot find healing until we accept who we are. It is the...
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    I had a prophetic dream last week

    I don't think so... I try not to impose standards on others.
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    I had a prophetic dream last week

    Hi Wick, Thanx for the kind response. You are right, there are some personal things to consider in this, but there are some more universal meanings to get from this as well, I hope. Our church doesn't even have a youth group, so its not about anyone in particular, and you know I have no...
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    I had a prophetic dream last week

    Tal, I love what you say. Its not exactly what I get from it, but its not too far, either. I'm not exactly liberal myself, though I am labeled as such by many who know me. Hoping to get a few more responses before I share my own interpretation, which, by the way, grew from and through a...
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    I had a prophetic dream last week

    I had a dream last week, which I believe to be prophetic. Last time I had such a dream was about 10 years ago, but that's a different story. I was sitting in a church service, surrounded by youth. The youth around me were murmering to each other, as kids do, and I was trying to hush them and...
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    Hijacking Jesus?

    First of all, happy birthday Wick! Celebrate your unique selfhood with great joy!!! It is a gift, as are you... On to the subject of the thread, Balder, as a Christian I celebrate Jesus Christ's unique relationship with God, through God, and in God. In fact, I celebrate the uniqueness of...
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    God: The Active Absence?

    Hi Balder, I'm glad we're talking in the context of healing, because this is where I struggle with the damage done through religion inspired exclusivist arrogance. I've long been of the opinion that "knowing God as wholly Other" is the remedy, born of humility in accepting this. However...
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    God: The Active Absence?

    Hey Balder, Is the "Whole" the entire universe, of which all things play a part, or is God the "Whole," through whom all things were created? Dave
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    Difference Between Liberal and Fundamental Christians: A though

    I was thinking something similar when I heard about Radio America being unable to get it together enough to pay their staff for awhile there. Being liberal is nice (and I are one too,) but sometimes it takes some solid conservative fundamentals to balance the checkbook...
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    The Ultimate Moral Dilemna, or the Gerstein Paradox

    Fortunately, all things being reconciled through Christ, we can trust and hope in ultimate good prevailing, no matter what choices are made... Dave
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    The "New" Universalists

    Hey Redfin, great to see you. (Though I'm still riding the Universalist - annihilist border ;) ) Dave
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    The "New" Universalists

    Thanx Balder, I wonder if you would comment on your understanding of nonDualism as compared to Maverick's description of Dualism. Hope this doesn't take us too far off topic... thanx, Dave with Maverick's
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    Difference Between Liberal and Fundamental Christians: A though

    Not within God's Grace, but able to recognize God's Grace... I thought you were going to say Grace vs Judgement, but that's another discussion... Dave