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    What are the best Psalms for Praise?

    I like where David runs from dispair over sin to praise.....God inhabits our praise, and what better way to have audience than to enter His courts with praise. Psalms 22:1-3 My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me? Why are You so far from helping Me, And from the words of My groaning? 2 O My...
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    Question on Scripture in Matthew and Ephesians

    There are two resurrections - the first to everlasting life, and the second to the Great White Throne judgment of the unrighteous who died without the covering of Jesus' blood. Re 20:5 But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first...
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    Three days on the Cross??

    Check the link given earlier. Friday evening to Sunday morning just doesn't add up to three days buried in the tomb which is what Jesus prophecied of Himself. http://centuryone.com/crucifixion.html Mt 12:40 For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son...
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    The More You Grow....

    That sounds wonderful to me. :clap:
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    Oneness Theology

    The article given at Carm.org is a good one. The Trinity is shown from the very begining of the Bible that God is plural with Genesis 1:26: Genesis 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of...
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    robert tilton and paying vows?

    Money talks with the networks, I guess. I always thought there were laws against scams, but buying religious time from networks undoubtedly falls under a different set of rules that can be taken advantage of by those that would make merchandise of the flock. From the way the world is shaping up...
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    When is it ok to kill?

    This verse hits the nail on the head, but goes even better with the context. Without the civil authorities, chaos and anarchy would reign. There would be no justice or protection for the helpless and needy from the wicked ravening wolves of this world. Would it be right to see a child being...
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    He's too smart for me..

    Charlie and the rest are right. You may have to wait on the Holy Spirit to soften your father's heart and you can relax and see this in time if you have faith and continue in prayer. The Bible speaks of us as being living letters to the world, as a witness to the truth of Jesus just by the way...
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    Persicution is good...really!

    The devil hates for any man or woman to have faith in Jesus and he works to destroy that faith by deception and through others that are led or influenced by him. Having trials and troubles in the world isn't necessarily persecution from the devil. We are born into a troubled world and into sin...
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    show me how to forgive

    The thing tha helps me forgive is just remembering that I must do it in order to receive it. The minister who has wronged you - "pray for those that despitefully use you", and "bless them that curse you" - the words of Jesus. This is what He did for us. Also you might want to think of the devil...
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    Divorced, re-married and confused

    Not really, and I don't propose to judge a persons salvation, but I know that a person can forfeit blessings in life by unrepentance and living sinfully - sowing and reaping. A penalty, a price comes with sin. Legalizing that verse binds woman to abusers that offer lip service about being...
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    IF we love God why do we sin

    Galatians 5:17 The old sinful nature loves to do evil, which is just opposite from what the Holy Spirit wants. And the Spirit gives us desires that are opposite from what the sinful nature desires. These two forces are constantly fighting each other, and your choices are never free from this...
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    Television: Blessing or curse?

    I've always been curious how much TV is controlled by the prince of the power of the air, and how the cycles per second the images come at us from TV closely match the human brains function. Hw many thousands of graven images do we process when they come sixty per second and become almost...
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    Divorced, re-married and confused

    Ditto, this is good advice. It is good that your former husband is coming around and showing more fruits of faith, but before, when he was not behaving as a Christian and not repentant, he forfeited the companionship of a Christian wife by not obeying God and now suffers the consequences of...
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    Divorced, re-married and confused

    There is one other way out of a marriage other than the adultry issue. It is the being yoked with an unbeliever that is not pleased to dwell with the believer and then leaves. The Bible says that the believing wife is not bound. Now it gets down to defining what a believer is and what does...
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