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  1. jameshjr

    Matthew 5:42 and UK law

    Hello all, I wanted to get some points of view, regarding something which happened to me today. I am in the habit of standing in my town centre and handing out gospel tracts. i was doing this today. During this time, a man, whom is (kind of) homeless, came and spoke to me. After he left, a...
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    Speaking to the Lord.

    Hello all, i wanted to get your experience of praying. I know that we are told to pray constantly, however, being a man, i do not do this. I wondered how often you all speak with the Lord. I.e. when walking down the street are you speaking with the Lord and saying thank you for my ability to...
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    Elders

    Hello all, So the focus of my church at the moment is on growing our church. I have thought about this a lot and i believe that the primary way to do this is to follow Gods word as best as we are able. However, my church does not seem concerned with this. One obvious example is that we have...
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    Not keeping (sunday) sabbath

    Hello all you saints, I have been away for a while, and i am back with a quandary. I am currently employed as a care worker, and this means that i am almost always working on a Sunday. I have been doing this job for around one year now, and have never had any conscionable objections to...
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    My brothers wedding

    Hello, I hope that you are all well. My brothers wedding is coming up and I have been asked to read something for the wedding. I will be the only Christian in attendance and I would like to get the gospel message out. Which biblical passages do you think would be best/most suitable and...
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    Resisting evil

    Hello all, I hope that you are well, I'm used to being disrespected, and have gotten pretty good at ignoring insults- or not retaliating to them. However, yesterday, at work, a horrible young woman was doing her best to sabotage, slander and upset me. This culminated in her asking me to do...
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    Selling secular Stuff

    Hey all, i hope that you are well. I am trying to be A) neater and B) a better steward. So i've been routing around my wardbrobes and cupboards and have come across a lot of stuff, which i bought before Jesus became my Lord and saviour. They are items like James brown albums, Rolling...
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    Leaving a church

    Hello all, I hope that you are well, On Sunday, during the sermon, my vicar committed serious blasphemy, i cannot say what he said here, so you will have to take my word for it. If he were to defend himself he, i think, would do it under the pretense of love meaning accepting everyone and...
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    Different before receiving the Holy spirit?

    Hello all, i hope that you are well. Firstly i would like to say thank you to all those whom participated in my last post. Before accepting (knowingly) the holy spirit and accepting Jesus as my Lord and saviour i had always felt different ( i still do, but in a good way) to those around me...
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    problems from my church

    Hello all, its been a while, i hope that you are well. At my church there is a man whom i have gotten close to. I was out walking with him the other day and we got around to talking about God and i asked him if he believed that Jesus is the son of God and he replied that he thought He was "of...
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    presents for colleagues- need help

    Hello all, I have thought and prayed over this issue, but have no clear direction and was hoping some counsel from fellow beleivers could make the decision easier/clearer. I will need to give you a little background for contexty (sorry) it was my birthday aboutr a month ago and i did...
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    isolation troubles.

    Hello all, So i am really struggling at the moment. i tested positive for covid ( i feel fine though) on Tuesday and have been isolating at my house (on my own) til now. yesterday wasn't too bad, but today has been bad. i feel guilty because i dont want to do anything i.e. going outside and...
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    pre-destination

    o. Yesterday i was watching some of RC Sproul's video series about love on youtube. He mentioned a new idea to me about (calvinist) predestination (that God has elected people before time to be saved). To make a long story short. This has really affected me. i have spent a number of hours...
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    Predestination

    So. Yesterday i was watching some of RC Sproul's video series about love on youtube. He mentioned a new idea to me about (calvinist) predestination (that God has elected people before time to be saved). To make a long story short. This has really affected me. i have spent a number of hours...
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    saved by grace or by works

    So I went for a walk with someone I know from my church for the first time. We eventually got around to talking about Jesus. He asked me how i came to the faith, and I informed him that i had spent most of my life looking for truth and that i finally came to christianity and found it to be...
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    Forgiveness

    On Friday I was deceived by my co-workers. It is too long a story and you’d need to know details about the company I work for to understand it: But the crux is: three of my co-workers plotted between them to lie about being in traffic so that we did not have to load a van, so that they could go...
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    Materialism

    I have been wondering, vaguely about materialism recently; and my wandering increased after reading part of the imitation of Christ yesterday, wherein the author mentions this subject frequently. I had never considered myself materialistic, and, in fact, even before being a Christian, I...
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    The England game tomorrow.

    Am I righteous? I heard a sermon which said that we are not righteous but that righteousness is imputed to us, because of what Jesus did for us. If we believe in God and have the Holy spirit inside of us, then He is righteous, and, as a result, if we are able to act upon His righteousness...
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    Depth of sin

    Hello all, i was hoping to get some opinions from more experienced Christians on something that i have been thinking a lot about recently: that being, the depth of our sins. Every moment we could be doing more; we could always love a neighbor more than we do; we're never going to be as good...
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    Movies, books and video games.

    Hello all, This is something i have thought about a lot and wanted to get other peoples opinions about it: When you read about characters in books or watch them on the T.V. which ones do you identify with most? Is it the whole character or little traits they have? i was wondering if...