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Recent content by xaris

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    Why it's hard to make friends!

    Sometimes it's in the very efforts themselves to gain friends that repels them.
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    I'm afraid to pray. :( What should I do??

    @Animelover93 When things get bad enough you won't worry about how 'silly' your prayer appears to God. Besides, He knows your motives and even your prayers before you pray. If worse comes to worse, you can always pray about it. :prayer:
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    I am not happy and joyful?

    Not sure of happiness but joy is a deep down settled elation anchored in the redemptive work of Christ (fruit of the Spirit). This joy is not dependent on circumstances (good or bad) but is dependent on an eternal work done in our stead. OTOH, I would suspect that 'happy' is an emotional state...
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    Think U.S. Evangelicals Are Dying Out? Depends How You Define Evangelicalism

    Why the category 'Evangelicals'?, especially without a definition of the term. One could just as easily say (and be correct), "those believing the Bible as truly God's Word are diminishing'. In any case it has nothing to do with whiteness/Republicanism and Trump (that's a silly Woke...
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    Is Christianity Just a Crutch?

    When being accused of a deadly crime, is having your own lawyer representing you before a judge, a crutch? 1 John 2:1 (KJV) My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
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    Is it wrong for me to be searching for my purpose in life?

    I'll try tp PM you later tonight with the unedited version (provided it also isn't tampered with).
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    Is it wrong for me to be searching for my purpose in life?

    Reminds me of a poem I wrote once upon a time... Stuck in Neutral Stuck in neutral going nowhere fast, Always running ahead but only seeing the past. Stuck in neutral immobile as a gimp, Heading for the finish line... last with a limp. Stuck in neutral with nothing really to show...
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    Is it wrong for me to be searching for my purpose in life?

    What would you do with the knowledge of His purpose for your life? In the meantime, He has revealed much in His Word for us to believe and do.
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    how can I say I don't want marriage?

    Is it marriage you don't want or the person thatwould be your life-long spouse?
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    Georgia has opened (ETA: criminal) investigation into Trump's election meddling and 'find me votes'

    Now, who's into conspiracy theories? They'll need to do better than that.
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    I'm pregnant and my husband doesn't want it

    In post #5, I gave her the biblical answer in the case of an unbeliever.
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    Do All Dogs Go To Heaven?

    Boxers don't go to heaven...they bite. Scottys do...they are adorable love bugs. :sorry:
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    I'm pregnant and my husband doesn't want it

    (Mat 5:32) But I say to you that whoever divorces his wife for any reason except sexual immorality causes her to commit adultery; and whoever marries a woman who is divorced commits adultery. But you'd best seek out a pastor for such advice.
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    I'm pregnant and my husband doesn't want it

    Remarriage would be the issue that I wasn't willing to counsel on, not being a pastor.
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    Does God provide specific guidance/wisdom?

    I believe it takes both God's Spirit and His written Word. One confirms the other, otherwise we get led astray by lying spirits as well as our flesh.