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I am currently looking for full-time work and also talking to a couple of local pastors about this and seeing where that leads. If nothing else maybe I can be a weekend warrior? We shall see what God will do.

I agree with everything except the last line, but that's a topic for a different thread. I went from a very fundamentalist baptist upbringing to a very individual-focused spirit-filled church when I moved out on my own. Somewhere in the middle of all of that I ended up with a dead theology. It's...

I have known since I was very young that I was called into the ministry. It has been reiterated again and again and at the same time, it has been put off again and again. Now I am at a crossroads. A few weeks ago I was terminated from the fourth job in as many years for the same old stuff. I...

It's a serious condition and we've all seen it in our own lives or know someone who lives with it every day. No matter how well off we are, no matter how blessed, how much money we have, how beautiful our family life, no matter. how. perfect. our lives are...it's never enough. Even though we are...

This reminds me of an exercise that I learned when I was a summer camp counselor. First, you put down a long rope, probably 20 feet or so. Then, you get everyone to divide into two groups of equal number and stand on opposite sides of the rope facing each other. If there is an odd number then...

Thank you. I don't recognize your username. It's been 4-5 years since I posted here, perhaps you had a different name then? Rebel Prophet is from an old home-study seminary book that I found in my father's library. The author stated that calling Jeremiah "The Weeping Prophet" is inaccurate and...

Hi everyone, I'm back. At least for now, anyway. It's been four years since I've posted here and I've stayed away for good reason. Got a sound and well-deserved tongue-lashing last time I posted here. But that is done now and I'm on a new mission. No. More. Complaining. Being a Christian is not...

This is a true "First World Problem" to me...but it is the defining struggle of my life. I can only remember a handful of times in my life when I felt that it was okay for me to just be myself. That all of my flaws, my quirks, my idiosyncrasies, and my weirdness would be accepted in spite of how...

How? I never knew anything could hurt as bad as this does. This isn't like being stabbed or set on fire or crushed...it's just this unsettling emptiness. It's an emptiness that aches and you can hear it, can hear your every action echoing in that dark chasm. How do you rebuild that? I'm not...

So what happens to the person who is wounded, angry, and feels betrayed by God? How do you get back to the point of surrender when you know that surrendering will only net you more suffering and disappointment?

Everything, actually.

I have never heard a Baptist church (which I grew up in) teach that you have to give 10%. I have also never had anywhere NEAR as much pressure put on me to give as I did when I went to a WoF church. And I went to a church that was only once removed from the founder of WoF. As in, my old pastor...

Cute, but if I recall, there is no real ending to Jonah's story. Where did he go from the place of rebellion and pain? How do you go about dying to self when you feel that it will lead you nowhere?

So then what happens when "living for God" leads you, truly, down a path you do not wish to travel? What happens when you are rebelling against what God wants because you know how it will end, but you are bound to obey? What then? And what do you do when the inevitable end happens and you are...

If there were no sin, then Socialism would work just fine. After all, the First Church practised something nearly like Socialism and it seemed to work okay until they all started fighting with each other. Just my two cents.

Wow. Straight from the mouth of Kenneth Hagin and his ilk. "Tithing" as it is taught (in most WoF churches, at least) is unBiblical, destructive, and totally against God. Paul said we weren't to give "grudgingly or of necessity". Why would Paul tell us not to give "of necessity" or, as another...

What do you do when you know you're in rebellion against God, but you still don't want to submit to His plan or way or whatever? I've been "saved" and have followed God as best as I could for awhile now (most of my life and I'm nearly 30) but for about the last year or so I have just been burned...

I haven't seen a doctor about it, but I was diagnosed with clinical depression in high school and after taking a battery of tests was told that I scored "two standard deviations" above normal levels of depression. It was one of the highest scores my counselor had ever seen. :( I am learning to...

I don't know why I keep coming back...I don't know what I'm looking for...and I don't know what else to tell you or anyone else. I suck at life. Sorry it's all I ever talk about on here anymore. :(

You and Catherineanne have some serious man issues or something. I don't know what your deal is, but I really wish that both of you would knock it off. She immediately jumped to me abandoning my wife and son (which I never said I wanted to do, it was just how I felt at the moment) and you are...