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    Is Smoking and Drinking Sin?

    I believe drunkeness is a sin... but I do not think having a glass of wine or 2 (or a mixed drink, or a beer, or even one shot of whisky for that matter, if that's what you like) with a meal or in celebration is a sin. If one knows they cannot have even one glass without going beyond that to the...
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    question on Paul's letters...

    OK... another board I have a Jewish/agnostic guy asking me the following... I have no idea what to tell him... so, if anyone is willing and has a comment... please feel free... THANKS :) ------------------------------------------------------------------ quote: Hopefully someone can clear...
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    Baptism (questions about scriptures dealing with)

    Hi all... I had a question thrown out to me by a Mormon about Baptism. (originally we were talking about baptising the dead, which of course I do not believe in). Then she asked how I could not believe you have to be baptised to be saved and gave me these scripture references. Mark...
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    Found a new church to try out

    First... thanks to all who responded to my other threads about trying to find a church and being asked to leave due to my husbands smoking habit. ---------------------- We went Sunday and last Wednesday to a new church. We had actually visited it last year, but we just weren't where we felt...
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    Found a new church to try out

    First... thanks to all who responded to my other threads about trying to find a church and being asked to leave due to my husbands smoking habit. ---------------------- We went Sunday and last Wednesday to a new church. We had actually visited it last year, but we just weren't where we felt...
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    Need good recipes for Macaroons and Meringue Cookies

    We are going to an early Seder celebration on Saturday at the Messianic Fellowship 30 minutes away. This year they aren't having it catered (which they do if they host a large Seder and sle tickets), it's a bring-a-dish (potluck, but not really potluck... everythings from a list of Passover...
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    Not sure where we fit... (same as)

    We thought he had, but I guess there was another purpose in it (see Protestant board). We were going to a church and active there in the childrens ministry... until the discovered (we weren't hiding it) that my husband smokes (like we were supposed to go , "Hi were the so-n-so family and by the...
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    songs in church...hymns or rock???

    Have you guys heard these two CD's that came out recently.... Both are predominately old hymns... but with a more modern sound (most of the time not changing the melody at all). They are wonderful... One is "Next Door Savior" and came out to kinda go along with Max Lucado's recent book of...
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    Not sure where we fit... (same as)

    Godz Marine.... We also desire to cause no offence. And we've also never had a problem going to a non-charismatic church. We are human and of course have our preferences, but we have visited churches that were out of what we might have according to "the list"... we've visited churches with...
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    Not sure where we fit... (same as)

    Thanks for the suggestion. We have tried this one, and may revisit it later. However, they are smaller than what we'd like and don't have much of a childrens ministry going. Also... they do not really have any Sunday school groups for adults on Sunday mornings and they don't have cell groups for...
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    Not sure where we fit... (same as)

    We're not expecting the "perfect" church... it doesn't exist (not until Christ's return). Of course we have been praying through this whole process. I guess a better way of saying we haven't found where we "fit" would be that we haven't found where God wants us to be. We aren't really surprised...
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    Must I speak in tongues to be Baptised in the Holy Spirit?

    I do not believe you HAVE to speak in tongues to prove you are Baptised/filled with the Holy Spirit. Many that are spirit-filled do speak in tongues (mainly in prayer language only)... but not all do, and those who do not aren't any less spirit-filled.
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    Well... looks like we got our answer about whether to stay or go....

    My husband spoke to one of the churches Pastors today. They had a lengthy discussion where they were each able to share their beliefs. And even though the Pastor was in agreement with my husbands views and saw that he was pretty solid theologically (and even though they were very happy with the...
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    Not sure where we fit... (same as)

    We have tried more non-denoms than I can count. I think the problem in part is the area we live in. There are a large number of Pentecostals here... which is fine... but... the non-denoms we've been to lean heavily on the name-it-claim it stuff... that and at this one church we visited they...