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Recent content by Sonsservant

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    A Few Prayer Requests

    Thanks everyone!
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    A Few Prayer Requests

    For the family and friends of Will Dalgard who died of alcoholism last night. For the salvation of my father and brother. For Christ's aid to my mother, who I believe to be saved. Pray as the Spirit moves you, that's just the basic idea.
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    A Partial Poem

    Thanks for the compliment! Maybe I'll figure out the rest of the poem, no?
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    A Partial Poem

    This is the end of a poem that doesn't have a middle and a beginning yet, out of my diary. The thorns have bowed many branches; The thorns have covered the flowers; The thorns have bloodied my hands, and they have crowned my Savior with thorns.
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    Birth Control: Against God's Plan

    I don't rightly know what will happen. What I guess needs to be said is that there are a lot of extenuating circumstances. If God blesses me with a wife, I'm not saying "no." I just have this gut feeling he won't. There are people who stay single all their lives, and I'm certainly not miserable...
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    Birth Control: Against God's Plan

    There is a point to God controlling opening the womb. I have known more wicked people that use contraception outside of marriage (that's fornication and boy the Lord doesn't like that, no protest from me there) and ended up pregnant. I've known a few that have ended up pregnant using birth...
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    My thoughts on dispensationalism

    It might be my translation, or it might be faulty memory. I believe you. That confuses things for me a bit more. I will say that there is definitely a kernel of truth in dispensationalism, and Covenant theology is obviously flawed. I'll keep reading and praying and going to Church and talking to...
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    What makes a Methodist a Methodist?

    I see where Wesley is going with this and it makes sense. There is a definite conflict between salvation by faith and predestination, both of which I believe in, but not in the sense of a doctrine of predestination mde by men. What Wesley is saying is that once one has gained faith, then he is...
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    Birth Control: Against God's Plan

    I'm definitely not ready for marriage. I quiver in fear around single women my age. There is an excitement at the possibility: I would like to get married and bear children; there is also a fear of the mess I know I will be getting myself into. My parents are divorced and I've seen a lot of the...
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    What is your favorite Ramen Noodle?

    With bologna and cheese? Bologna scares me. Cheese and cauliflower and broccoli sound good, I love cauliflower raw, and broccoli cooked tender with butter. There is a BBQ place nearby that has the best broccoli. Strange thing to go to a BBQ place for but it's great!
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    Birth Control: Against God's Plan

    Look, if you put Onan in context, what you will see is that his sin, and it is clearly stated, is not spilling his seed, but disobeying the commandment of his God. You can't go from A to B on that one. Obviously, if looking at a woman lustfully is wrong, then using images to stimulate one's self...
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    My thoughts on dispensationalism

    Well first off, after some confusion I read the wiki at wikipedia on dispensationalism, and I really like what I saw there. The basic idea is that there were different "dispensations" given to different people throughout history, and that there is more than just the two covenants of Moses and...
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    Birth Control: Against God's Plan

    To further rock the boat, while the Scriptures are clear that children are a blessing, and that marriage and children go hand in hand (I believed that when I was 4, dinks have always shocked me) what is the Biblical basis for the radical view that a woman must bear children to her entire...
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    Birth Control: Against God's Plan

    This I think will sound odd to both Protestants and Catholics, but although there is no specific mention of the use of contraception in the Bible (there is indirect talk about conception but none direct about contraception) I have decided two things: One I will not use contraception in my...
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    Early Morning Prayer

    It's funny, but every day almost, I get up between 4 and 6, and the hours until around nine or ten are my most productive. I take a nap usually, but that seems to be the way. I started doing this naturally as I aged. When I was a teenager I slept till noon, and now I just happily get up every...
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