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Do any of you consistently tithe when you can't? Do you tithe when you don't even have the money to meet your bills month after month? Please spare me advice on how to improve my situation financially. That's not what I want to hear. I want to know what God has done for those of you who have...

I have a friend who escaped from her abusive husband about 18 years ago. She has gone through a lot of counseling - still has some to go. My question is, why would someone who escaped from a wife beater choose to watch every movie that comes along that is about these kind of sick...

It seems I have more "Job's friends" than anything else. I have more friends that go their own way than wait upon God. I have more friends that believe "God helps those who help themselves" than those who stand on scripture. I get more un-scriptural advice than scriptural. So this is what I...

Our guy quit and I can't, and won't, go into why because I'm just a member of the orchestra so I know nothing. We need someone who can direct both instrumental/choral and contemporary. We use K-Love music arranged for orchestra and choir and as well as contemporary arrangements of hymns (think...

It has always seemed to me that someone with a testimony such as mine, and someone who has been "worked over" by the Lord for as many years as I have, is called to some sort of ministry. That hasn't happened with me and I find it puzzling. It would have made sense for me to have felt driven...

It has always seemed to me that someone with a testimony such as mine, and someone who has been "worked over" by the Lord for as many years as I have is in some sort of ministry. That hasn't happened with me and I find it puzzling. I maybe should have felt driven to become a counselor or...

A Christian employer I worked for in Phoenix is refusing to pay me my last commission check. It is overdue by a month. This delay is ruining my credit, jeopardizing my home (can't make the mortgage payment) and is ruining me. The amount they owe me is $14620.00 I probably made a mistake in...

I was working in –––––– for a man who was illegally working under another man's contracting license. Both men broke ––––– law to do this. One is Christian, I don't know about the other. My question is, what does God require of...

Every time I hope for a paycheck (I work straight commission) something happens and pay gets delayed yet again. I haven't had a paycheck for over a month now. I'm down to minus-I-don't-want-to-know-how-much in my checking account and have $3.30 to my name. That $3.30 has to go to buy a couple of...

I have had a pretty miserable life. Mentally ill (healed for around 20 years now), many, many trials and tribulations... and the latest round has shown me that I am a failure at everything - my job, family relationships, and even (in some ways) in my relationship with God. I have come to...

I've been in a trial for 2 1/2 years now and the one weird thing I often experience is feelings of disconnection, maybe disassociation, from life. It seems I get so distracted by circumstances from the path I try to stay on that when I get back to something remotely "normal" it feels like I have...

A friend sent this link to me. Times are tough and many of us are struggling – I hope this blesses you as much as I was blessed by it. The Seasons In Life

I keep wanting the comfortable life, the happy life, but my own prayers keep taking that away from me. I envy the life of some of the Christians that I know – raised in the church, attended one church the majority of their lives, have lifelong relationships at that church, able to say “I’ve had...

Read this, vote, then tell everyone what you would have done and why: It is my habit to talk to the Lord late in the evening, often after dark. (I stay focused in prayer far better when I’m on my feet – the dog gets to go along, she loves it.) One night I needed to talk to the Lord about...

This is a dream I had in the fall of 1983. Scene 1 There is a lush green pasture with a small flock of sheep. Of them, I was the lead sheep. The flock had to leave that pasture and go through a enemy village. We had to get through without being seen by the enemy who lived there and had to...

I started playing with my church's orchestra three years ago. During that time, the music pastor was led somewhere else, we had an interim for over a year, I lost my 30 year career (which was a day job) and God put me in a sales job where I must work up until dark. The new pastor came on three...

I've never been a parent. Maybe I should have known better because I'm 58, but I took in a teenager two months ago – she's now moving out by my request. C is from a fairly dysfunctional immediate family and told me her grandma (whom she and her family were living with) didn't like her, her...

Have any of you been through this? I was put through a major period of conviction and repentance about a year ago over things in my possession that I didn't purchase: CDs that friends had gifted me off their recordings (who knows where they got them), copied sheet music, mp3's that I didn't...

We have a new music pastor who will be starting in August. He has made it quite clear that one of his goals is that we strive to achieve the highest standard of musicianship that we can possibly attain when we lead Sunday worship. He said (paraphrasing here) that to present excellence in the...

I'm feeling as spiritually dry as an old dessicated leaf that falls apart at the lightest touch. The past 2 years have been one continuous trial since losing my 30 year graphic design career. (Now I'm doing straight commission roof sales - of all things - which is weirder than I know how to...