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  1. carp614

    For my Wife, Marriage, and Family

    My wife is disconnecting herself from everyone who cares for her. Everything I say and do makes it worse. She will not listen to me in any way. She will not allow me to bring a counselor or pastor into the situation and if I do she will perceive it as a fatal marriage ending breech of trust that...
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    Career Conundrum

    I am so incredibly blessed to have an excellent job in a rewarding career field. I have been able to care for my family better than anyone ever thought possible. I'm so grateful to the Lord for His provision! But I find myself feeling restless. It's not even clear exactly why. After 7 years...
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    Prayer for Career and Family

    I have a great job that I enjoy and that pays well, and I have some sort of confident future in this company, but I have to travel 45-50 weeks per year. I am missing a lot of my teenage daughters growing up and it is difficult for my wonderful wife, who is essentially a single parent 3-4 days a...
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    The Lord is Dealing with Me...

    Please pray for my wife and children. That the Lord in his infinite wisdom will spare them from having to reap what I have sown. My whole life I have been motivated to correct the mistakes my father made. My parents divorced so we would stay together. Dad worked too much, so I spend more time...
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    How do I honor my parents?

    What do I do? How do I honor my parents? How do I forgive them? How do I let them go? Please understand it is nearly impossible to succinctly summarize this situation. There are of course details I'm leaving out. I'm asking for advice, not writing a book. Putting this together was exceedingly...
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    14 Years Sober

    I hope this encourages someone who needs to know there is a way out. June 16th 2005 was my first sober day. I've stayed that way for the last 14 years. That was also the day I accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior...at the end of my first AA meeting. No big speeches, no unsolicited...
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    Kids Going to Beach Camp...

    My daughters are going to beach camp with our church. My wife and I humbly ask for prayer that God would reach them and their peers while there. They are such good young ladies. We are so proud of them both. We fervently desire for them to receive Christ. This will be the first time they are...
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    Hope for the Hopeless

    God has done a lot of work on me recently. I have been working hard to make my life point to Jesus. I volunteer with my daughters and work hard to show anyone who is paying attention that God saved me and changed me. God has beaten addictions and selfishness out of me and I am so on fire with...
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    Lost a Friend

    My friend took his own life last Saturday. His memorial is today. I don't know whether or not he was a Christian. He may not have been. He lived for years in constant pain as a result of a motorcycle accident in which he flat lined for several minutes. He almost lost his leg and did lose a...
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    Brother is Damaging His Witness. What Would You Do?

    This morning a man who is a deeply respected and admired elder in my church posted something really revolting on social media. It’s a picture of Martin Luther King Jr. with the caption “I had a dream… and Barack Obama turned it into a Nightmare.” I’m a conservative at heart. There was a time...
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    Prayer for a Friend

    I have a friend named Jamie Evans. He is a good, good man who loves his family. Jamie is struggling with God right now, unsure of what to believe after going through some very difficult, traumatic events in his personal life. He is not sure God loves him. He is blessed to be married to a good...
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    Closing the Distance

    I grew up in what looked like a normal suburban middle class home. It was not... My Mom invited young people to skip school and stay at our house to get drunk or high and paid for their drugs and alcohol. My mother introduced me to witch craft, spell casting, Ouija boards, and tarot cards and...
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    How to Create a Ministry Around an Activity

    I have to get this across without telling the whole story: I have a ministry idea I need help developing. If you think you can do something with it, go with God. God healed me through experiences working with rescue horses. I was a Christian already, but my conscience was seared and I was not...
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    Friend Requests on Facebook

    I think this is a simple matter, but I have a challenge and I could use some council: As a married man, my rule has been no Facebook friend requests to women. The only exception I have made is with women I have personally met, who know that I am married and that I am a Christian, and who are...
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    Looking for answers

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