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No, worship does not necessarily mean rituals. Singing, dancing, reading, acting - all can be forms of worship. Even sitting in quiet contemplation can be worship. Generally, worship must start in the heart.

As many entire villages and families that Saddam killed, with his different chemical and biological weapons, gassing entire towns, and they DID have WMD, the satellite feed shows them shipping out only days before America invaded. Someone tipped them off, and they took all those weapons to Iran...

I wanted opinions on this. It's a story I wrote a while back. THE SEA There’s a raging sea in front of me. I’ve splashed in it my whole life, even waded as far as chest-deep. Those are the special times, the ones where I am so close to God, I can almost see Him. It’s not an easy place to...

Sure. I'll send it this weekend.

Did you receive my release?

I would LOVE to have horses. If God ever lets me win a multi=million dollar something, I'm buying a giant house with a horse farm, and adopting every kid I can find. Maybe open a school for kids who need extra attention. I want to adopt siblings and teenagers and drug babies. All the ones that...

Divorce is not an unforgivable sin. If he is abusive, ditch him. I had to do the same with my first husband, because he was abusing our baby. I do not feel at all as if I sinned in divorcing him. I went back to school, then got a good job. And I waited. I became aware, one day, that I was...

Try some Steven Curtis Chapman; or Newsboys. Modern Christian music is wonderful to dance to.

One word - DANCE!! God created music and dance. Put on some faster paced Christian music, and dance around. Enjoy yourself. Enjoy God. Over and over again, God says through Paul, "Rejoice. And again I say, rejoice." God doesn't want us slaving over reading times and forcing ourselves to "be...

Fasting is a spiritual exercise that is so drastic to many people I decided to try it once. The first two or three days was miserable. I didn't understand WHY would God want me miserable. Then I woke up the 4th day, and wow, what a difference. Once your body adjusts, there is an amazing...

That guilt is Satan. I know it well. God gave you the gift of art. Why would he make you feel bad for using the gift? Unless you are actively sinning, God will not make you feel guilty, and He NEVER condemns us once we've been washed by His blood. You're not drawing witchcraft stuff, or occult...

Fasting is important. BUT sometimes, God IS quiet. It could be because He wants you to seek out answers in His Word. Or because He wants to teach you persistence. It is highly doubtful you are just "missing" him. We can also get close to Him, so that His voice begins to sound like our own...

It is very hard for a skeptic to anger me. They try. But when you dig out the question that is there, and ignore the insults, you can answer them honestly. Sometimes, you have to say, "Ya know, I don't really understand that, either." I sat up one night for four hours, with an atheist insulting...

It is so important to understand that in order to hear from God, you must study His Word. 95% of the time, He speaks to you through His Word. As you become familiar with the Bible, you will understand His direction better. Sometimes, it's hard to tell "Is that God? Or is it me?" I know that He...

It's a control thing. If he can control your emotions, he can manipulate you into doing what he wants. Unfortunately, it's not all that uncommon. These are narcissistic personalities, and everything has to revolve around them. You must come to THEM for advice, to THEM for direction. No one else...

"Baptism in the Holy Spirit" is the descriptive phrase given to the imparting of power as shown in Acts, chapter 2, and other places in the New Testament.

Tongues given as some kind of secret language, so that the devil can't snatch our prayers before they get to God? I've been an ordained minister in the Church of God (Pentecostal) for years. I've never heard of this

Groaning is definitely a form of communication. Yes, it is praying in the Spirit and speaking in tongues - same thing. "I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with understanding also; I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with understanding also. That statement is talking about...

And I thank you graciously for the advice on "Nebbies." I will watch better from now on.

Yeah, well I'm not advising that someone go against God's Word in order to make my life easier, either. Scripture says we are not to judge those outside the brethren. But we are to judge the brethren rightly. I came here for support, CHRISTIAN support. Not someone telling me that going against...