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    How can we continue our ministry

    Make sure you're charging enough money for what your husband produces to cover all of your costs and add a little more. It's nice to be able to share the gospels with others, but it has to be done with the sensibility that you must be able to sustain the effort. You're on these forums and yet I...
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    does the hillsong church believe in sex before marriage?

    This is a question that would best be asked of someone who is actually a leader in the Hillsong Church. To have anyone else opine or guess as to what the church's official stance on any particular matter is a gamble at best. It's hard for me to imagine that any Christian church would in any...
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    church planting?

    I'm not altogether aware of your circumstances or situation, so I'll offer some generic advice that has been passed to me over the past year. I'm certain that others here will be able to contribute more and better-detailed information for you: If you're a member of a denomination, church, or...
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    Mixed Martial Arts fans?

    I'm a pretty big fan of Georges St. Pierre and Ronda Rousey.
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    Tim Tebow

    Tim Tebow did exceptionally well in an offensive scheme (in Denver) that was modeled for a right-handed pocket passer. While he didn't deliver a Super Bowl for Denver, he hasn't really been given a fair chance to demonstrate his skill set either. Taking over from the backup QB position, he...
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    I was raped...now struggling

    Do not think that you need forgiveness for the sins of another. While you feel that your "impurity" somehow makes you unworthy of God's love, you are mistaken. Your purity of flesh was not given away by your choice, but stolen from you by another. It is his sin and he will answer to God for what...
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    Censorship

    Censorship of any kind is wrong. As Christians, we are finding ourselves more and more "muted" by the law every day and in more places. We should be affirmed to the ideal that censorship is a suppression of speech and beliefs and stand strong against it. A free-thinking world in which people...
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    why do you think some Christians have so much problems with gay rights?

    Hate the sin, but love the sinner. Temptation reveals itself in countless ways, but righteousness remains true in the face of all of them. Being attracted to a person of the same gender is temptation; acting upon that attraction is sin. Married people are tempted to stray from their spouses...
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    Talents - Does God take them away?

    I don't mean this to sound rude or unsympathetic, but simply to speak to you straightforwardly, in plain terms, because I'm detecting a little bit of a pattern here. I think you have a misguided or skewed view of what God's role in your life is and what God should "be responsible for." I've...
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    Trusting God

    Don't even try to compare your relationship with God with any relationships you've had with people. It's just not the same thing. God hasn't failed you - people have. People often make the mistake of "blaming God" when bad things happen in the world because they mistakenly believe that the...
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    Dealing with my own unforgiveness for someone who has died

    Dale's final judgment rests not in your hands, but in the hands of the Almighty. Warning someone of the potential consequences of a sin is not a sin of its own. And there is no "unforgivable sin" that any man can identify because it is not our place as men to grant such forgiveness. The gift...
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    Contemporary: What are you listening to now? (4)

    "Bring The Rain" by MercyMe "I Can Only Imagine" by MercyMe "Who Am I" by Casting Crowns "Reach" by Peter Furler "The Great Divide" by Scott Stapp "Whatever You're Doing (Something Heavenly)" by Sanctus Real "What Faith Can Do" by Kutless
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