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If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I...

God spoke. That is not nothing. The Universe was created from the very energy of the utterance of God Himself.

I know what you are saying. I've tried it all and things have only got worse. People have talked about eternity, but that just makes me wish it was all over so that the next thing I know would be that. As it is I don't believe in taking the life that I have given to Him, so for now I am stuck...

Defends them against a Bible wielding man, no less! Which part of "Love your neighbour" does this clown not understand?

I am going through suffering related to being a believer and have gone through this for most of my life, so don't get me wrong I hate it, and it doesn't get any easier (in fact I have found that it tends to get ever harder as time goes on). In fact over the last couple of days it has been...

I hear you, and what you have been through sounds much harder than what I am experiencing. The kingdom doesn't look very attractive at the moment, and if I am honest the only time it has ever looked attractive was during 3 months in 1997 and another 2 weeks in 2014. If I walk the other way I...

He created a Universe, He defeated sin and death. He has the power to change things.

I have spent most of my life in the company of men and did not have a mother present while I was growing up. The idea of a band of brothers ashore frankly turns me cold. I am with all my colleagues on this one. The very last thing a guy wants to do when he gets off a ship is hang around with...

Thanks for your encouragement. I also would and do take whatever fellowship I can get. Unfortunately it isn't all that available. I have considered a change of career, tried to move while I was still with my wife. Unfortunately because of the financial burden of being a father the path did not...

I think this is the problem. How can the herald be expected to speak when he himself is oppressed, down trodden and unwanted?

The thing is that the people who have embraced this thinking all seem to be isolationists and mostly men. They are reacting to exactly the sort of abandonment and loneliness that I have encountered and am encountering in the best way they know how, by hardening up and making the Church the...

Been giving away fish flat out, cost me dearly.

Thanks @Aussie Pete. Working up the other end, in the Timor sea, and off to NZ for the kids when I'm not. You are blessed that you had good friends to come and pray. I have been left on my own to deal with a wrecked family. The lack of Love is not with the unbelievers. They have been...

I have tried to belong to Church for over 30 years, but what I have to offer is not what they want. I live and work at sea most of the time, and now I have children to care for as a solo Dad while I am not at sea (before that I was a husband to a wife who wasn't interested in Church). Not much...

Nice, so where is it? I have lived like this and continue to aspire to it, laying down my life for my family and the people that come into my life. It has cost me friends and it contributed to the breakdown of my marriage, not to mention the financial cost. But I seem to be alone in that. Now...

Yes he did say those things. The word "gospel" means "good news". So what good news can we bring? If a person has had a bad run at the hands of religious people and is skeptical of the hand of a Loving God within the Church, or even on the Earth in general; what good news can I give them?

I agree, so where is this way of life? Where is the supernatural intervention of a Loving God for His children. He says that if we ask for a fish He won't give us a snake. I have been praying for that fish for over 30 years and needed it for 9 years before that. All I have received is not the fish.

But a hospital is supposed to be a place full of people that can help with the healing. Not an isolating place where one is supposed to pick up your own stretcher before anybody will take any notice.

Unfortunately I don't know how. All I find there is an empty place devoid of the Love that is promised and there is never anybody that can actually help.

I agree, and it isn't achieved by organizing and attending ever more pew perching services.