Recent content by FlatpickingJD

Bridgit, I am so sorry for your loss. Your family is in my prayers.

Of course you are welcome. So, welcome! :wave: I hope you're blessed in your time here.

Welcome to all you newbies (and not-so-newbies) who have posted here! You are all welcome, please do not be shy. We have never marrieds, divorced, widows/widowers, those gifted with singleness . . . all are welcome.

I agree that women are not supposed to be pastors. Scripture seems pretty clear on that. As for whether women can be teachers, I had to dig around to find the Scripture for this. Check out Acts 18:25-26, where Priscilla and Aquila heard Apollos speaking in the temple. Verse 26 reads "they...

I didn't know and I'm so sorry to hear you're going through this. My answer will be lame but have you been reading through the Psalms? Whenever I'm down that's where I turn. I don't know if they will help, but I do hope that these specific verses will be somehow meaningful to you: Ps...

Isaiah 6:5 (ESV) And I said: "Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts!"

Amos 7:1 (ESV) This is what the Lord God showed me: behold, he was forming locusts when the latter growth was just beginning to sprout, and behold, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings.

Amos 6:14 (ESV) "For behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel," declares the LORD, the God of hosts; and they shall oppress you from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of the Arabah."

Amos 6:13 (ESV) you who rejoice in Lo-debar, who say "Have we not by our own strength captured Karnaim for ourselves?"

Hi Lethargic and welcome to CF :wave: You can find some Bibles geared specifically towards military members (or even members of other professions, like nurses, etc.) on some of the usual shopping sites like Amazon. For example, there's an HCSB Sailor's Bible (or Soldier's, Airman's or Coast...

[/COLOR][/COLOR] We shouldn't compare ourselves to others because, unless we have pretty big egos, we'll never match up. And I suspect that we usually do - especially when they look at us. [I] [/COLOR] Sounds like some pretty good accomplishments to me. Personally I feel that sometimes...

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I recall reading once a dialogue between one of the sages and an asetic (an Essene if memory serves and it probably doesn't). The sage said "is not enough denied to you that you want to add to it?" He was speaking specifically with respect to not drinking wine or eating meat. Makes sense to...