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Recent content by jimfish

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    Greetings

    I've been gone from here a couple years but currently enjoying some sabbatical time with the Lord and, well, now all of you.
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    Bill Bright's Guide to Fasting and Prayer

    Umm...well... I hate to start by confessing I have not read the suggested book by Bright, but in my defense Ive been a student of fasting for decades, read many of the oldtime textbooks, worked at a fasting resort.... Adding to the above the decades of walking with Jesus: It is mostly all about...
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    Where are our church leaders?

    This may be true in God's eyes, but of course people, generally and apart from further Grace, see differently. I, too, thank God. I also thank God for all Christian leaders and all.... God commands all Christians to meet regularly with other like-minded believers, and isn't it a wonderful act...
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    all those underage go to heaven?

    Consider the parable of the tares vs. wheat (Mt. Chap. 13).
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    all those underage go to heaven?

    Jesus was making an analogy, not teaching about those of young age. I always wonder why people fret or even debate over this issue (I, btw, am the father of a stillborn son so I know, to some degree....). God is a perfect God, perfect in all His ways and all His judgments, so we can simply...
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    The root of all evil

    We as humans live in a body of flesh that by its natures craves/"love[s]" to be warmed, comforted, touched, proud, lusting and lusted, not hungry, etc., etc.; all of which is obtained via money and its equivalents. If we read 1Tim6:10 ("...the love of money....") in its context, we find it...
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    speaking in tongues as evidence?

    Excellent point. Up to that time, based on tradition and history, the Hebraic Christians could not have fathomed the possibilty of a Gentile having a personal relationship with God. So God had to go to some extraordinary and dramatic measures to prove such was not only possible, but His will...
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    To him that overcometh

    If the above Scripture is read within its context, however, it should be viable to see how some might believe this was not a promise made to, and to be used by, all Christians, but was that which was bestowed upon the Apostles for establishing the doctrines and/or disciplinary actions of the...
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    Help on ideas for becoming a better Christian?

    One cannot. So God must do it for us, through us, supernaturally. God is not a hypocrite: He would not command us to Love others more than we love our own selves if it were not possible. And I do not find in the Holy Scriptures it being an option. "A new Commandment I give unto you, that you...
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    mennonite view

    Last I checked (I'm being facetious, as a literary tool) the Mennonite Church is, or still should be, an evangelical one. (With your extensive history on this forum, R., I'm surprised you do not already know the answer to your question; are you being Socratic?) As evangelicals, we view...
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    Help on ideas for becoming a better Christian?

    Ummmm...welllllll.....ehhhhhhh...... ...."sorry" to be a wet blanket of sorts, but what you quoted concerning loving others is incorrect under the New Covenant. You're quoting an Old Cov. commandment. Under the New Cov. we are to Love others MORE THAN we love our own selves: "A New Commandment...
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    Single Mom

    Hi HW. I read your post with great compassion. I, as does our Heavenly Father, have a large place in my heart for single moms. I was disappointed with the responses thus far, so would like to point out some things from God's Word. I was impressed by your referring to your "spiritual family."...
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    loving one another

    Amen. If we are to arrive at the correct theology regarding loving others, we must assemble the whole counsel of God regarding it, and then add.... Jesus was our example in this case. Certainly we should all agree that He was perfected in God's Love, walking in Love, walking by the Spirit and...
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    WOF Explained.

    Good advice, but not the whole story, and the reason for such left out. The purpose of the denominational section of this forum is to provide for the same situation as we also experience by us as Christians usually going to a church where their beliefs are like-minded to our own. There are...
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    A purpose for suffering

    In the church I attend, after the service we have classes, our choice of more than a dozen. The vast majority who go to church service also attend one of the classes. And at the end of each class, for the last 10 or 15 minutes each class further breaks down into care groups. The care group can...
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