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Hang on a second …. As an alcoholic in recovery myself, I’ll just bet you were drinking last night when you posted this. I get it. I know exactly how you feel. It feels hopeless. But you can’t give up. Pray all you want (I did too) but God is not going to flip the alcohol off switch without...

What is obedience and how do YOU know you are obedient enough?

According to the Pew Research Center, Christianity is growing (as is Islam. Islam is growing faster due to the birth rate in Muslim cultures). Theologically liberal churches in the West have been dying in the vine for decades. It’s easy to see why. When the Gospel gets watered down to please...

I am not offended/annoyed by the concept of Christian Universalism at all. In fact, I want it to be true. Unfortunately, I don’t believe it’s true nor biblical. The vast majority of non-believers don’t want to have anything to do with God. Many who claim not to believe, I think, are...

I agree with what you’re saying, but I don’t think that invalidates the intent of Sola Scriptura. I believe that Luther intended Sola Scriptura to mean that we need God’s word as the basis of our beliefs and to be wary of extra-biblical church doctrine. That being said, some Christians and all...

Yes. Yep, I know I’m in the minority here and will undoubtedly receive backlash, but hear me out. I have spent a majority of my adult life living and working outside the USA in many non-Christian countries. I always thought, “How can (most of) these people possibly respond to the Good News...

It probably was just a prank. However, in today’s hypersensitivity to anything race related, anyone making racial jokes in a work environment, ESPECIALLY a person in a leadership position, shows an incredible, almost unbelievable, lack of judgement. If the mayor of that town didn’t fire the...

I am a Lutheran. Like most people, I want black and white answers to all my questions. But I was (and still am to some degree) plagued by why some people, and some family members in particular, won’t respond to Christ’s call. It truly makes the most sense to me that they simply cannot. Though...

Sure! I wish everyone who actually sought to serve “god” would eventually spend eternity with God. More than that, I wish everyone would be saved because those who reject Christ simply CANNOT understand what they are missing. I emphasize the word “cannot”. I used to believe that everyone who...

It sounds like you’ll only accept Jesus as long as you understand everything perfectly. Unfortunately, biblical scholars (Christian and non-Christian) who have dedicated their entire lives to the study of the Bible haven’t been able to agree 100% on everything in over 2,000 years. It’s human...

Biblical scholars smarter than me have debated this topic for centuries and atheists love to point out the “scientific” impossibly of OT stories. Getting wrapped up in the literal/figurative debate over OT stories without consideration that it’s the meaning, not the account, is what’s...

Think about this. Two people. One born into a Christian home in Africa, one born into a atheist home in North Korea. Clearly, they both don’t have an equal opportunity to be saved .... if that opportunity is up to man. Now, just consider the west. One born into a Christian home, one born into...

If it was too late, you wouldn’t bother posting this here. Instead you could post it on Medium and get a whole host of cheerleaders telling you to continue with your intentional defiance of the pulling of the Holy Spirit. Or you wouldn’t post it at all if you didn’t care. Clearly, you do care...

Thank you for your answer.

This is an honest question, I’m really trying to understand your perspective: Would you then say that the pastors who have remarried divorced people, as well as the the couples themselves, are ignorantly praising, worshipping, and dedicating their lives to God in vain because they are in a...

Neither one of you answered the question. Is a pastor who remarried previously divorced people guilty of perpetuating adultery and is a pastor who advocates the divorce of remarried people correct?

Yes, we all agree that divorce is not part of God’s plan. However, I’ve seen a few videos where some pastors say you MUST get another divorce if you have been remarried and your first spouse is still alive, otherwise you’re in an unforgivable and perpetual state of adultery, even if you have a...

That’s a very good question! Some would. Some wouldn’t. In my case, a complete reversal of fortune changed me from a casual believer into a new relationship with Christ I had never had. My personal belief is that God used that circumstance to make me see that trusting HIM was the most important...

According to the Pew Research Center, Christianity (and Islam) is actually growing. Christianity is growing in Africa and Asia and Islam is growing especially fast in Europe. The world is actually getting more religious, not less, but provincial westerners aren’t counting those numbers outside...

I am an alcoholic. That’s right, a Christian alcoholic. There are others on this forum and I know dozens of other Christian alcoholics. Before some of your furious fingers start typing, “You can’t be a Christian and an alcoholic!!!!”, just wait ..... I haven’t had a drink in 12 years. I have...