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    CALL TO HELP start a new ministry..artistic, technical, writers, web dev, ALL others

    I COULD SURELY USE YOUR HELP !:help: NO telethons, NO pleas for money, NO commercial schemes! We all have been blessed with many gifts and talents! These are among the many very special blessings that the LORD freely gives us. True stewardship, from a sincere heart to serve through faith, is...
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    VICTORY IN JESUS

    :clap: :D SEE THIS!!! IT means HAPPY! It is time to put on that new face, some prayer and praise, celebration, and KNOW...It doesn't have to be like this!!! NO matter HOW BAD things are...through GOD, ALL THINGS are possible. When I first met you good folks I was truly "lonely and...
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    Trial Wednesday

    After waiting since early December and the many months in between, that which I have most dreaded finally takes place on Wednesday morning. Your thoughts and prayers would be appreciated. My hope is that I can report back on Wednesday evening with great praise reports. I know that God's hand is...
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    Repentance and a request for amens and prayerful support

    :pray: Dear lord jesus, I thank you for the many blessings that you have brought into my life and your continued love in times of extreme trials that has brought me ever closer to you. You, Jesus, are the lord of my life and the source of my strength. And yet, Lord, I know that I have...
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    URGENT prayer request

    Well, with my situation ready to be resolved one way or another within the next couple of weeks the enemy has taken a new approach. My brother had been married for 33 years and now that has fallen apart. Upon hearing that he became suicidal and was checked into a hopital. Released a week later...
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    Prayer needed

    Evee, You helped to save my life when I really needed HELP and I will consider it a great honor and privilege to pray for you and your mother! Larry
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    PRAISE, THANKS...and a bit of witnessing

    NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE, WHO YOU ARE, OR HOW BAD YOUR CURRENT SITUATION GOD CAN BLESS YOU! I first discovered the Christian Forums shortly after received the shock of separation from my wife. Had it not been for the victory of Christ's intervention through the intercession and support of the...
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    Marriage and Relationship Building Skills: Divorce Proofing! Request for Input

    Regarding your comment,"what it becomes because of what you put into it." I guess this is what I am searching for; what do you have to put into it to make it work..and continue to work. I too was married for 27 years the first time and at the end still saw it change when the children left...
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    Marriage and Relationship Building Skills: Divorce Proofing! Request for Input

    I have spent the past few days in reading the various references to marriage and divorce in the bible, researching books on Amazon that deal with the broad topic of marriage, divorce, and marriage counseling, as well as looking through the more secular web sites regarding divorce busting and...
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    Did Jesus have a brother???

    For those with inquiring minds... http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/
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    I Could Surely Use Your Prayer Support Tonight!

    Thank you and bless you ALL for the prayers, the support and just being there. Today I rose early and drove through the snow to a meeting with the attorney in Virginia and then back to the NC mountains...an all day trip. On the way back the pain, the saddness and the regret overwhelmed me and I...
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    I Could Surely Use Your Prayer Support Tonight!

    News and highlight of the day..... I got a call from my lawyer saying my wife talked with the District Attorney so that I can no longer send any emails rtying to save our marriage. Ain't love grand! I guess THAT answers any doubts I might have had. Tonight I am both SUPER frustrated...
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    For my marriage in the coming week

    The coming week will probably determine the outcome of our marriage as critical decisions and alternatives will likely be addressed. This is all now in my wife's hands...and GOD'S. Is there a real love still present? Is there the power to forgive? Is there the strength to keep the holy vows we...
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    Where does the idea of Purgatory come from?

    My brother is Catholic and I am Episcopalian. The Episcopal tradition is 99.9% Catholic. But, in Jesus there is only one church, one baptism, and all who come to Him in faith are justified and sanctified..totally, once and forever. THAT is the whole message of the bible's message and the very...
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    Where does the idea of Purgatory come from?

    Jesus the Christ is the foundation and the very rock upon which the CHRISTIAN places their faith. This doesn't mean Catholic, Protestant or ANY other human, worldly group, label or division. There is one faith, one church, one baptism and THAT is in the sanctifying, justifying name of JESUS...
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    Where does the idea of Purgatory come from?

    On CHRIST the solid rock I'll stand, all other ground is sinking sand... you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. To deny the salvation, sanctification, and justification of Jesus' atoneing blood...
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    Separation/divorce Thoughts

    I have spent a while today researching the whole range of feelings and emotions associated with the shock of separation and preparing for divorce. If anything, in our American culture the swapping of values for materialism is having HUGE impact upon those institutions such as family and marriage...
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    Help Prayer needed in worst way!!!

    My greatest thanks to all who have so kindly prayed for my wife and I tonight. I REALLY needed the help of some strong Christian warriors to do some battle in the heavenlies. The gift of discernment is not always one to be wished for, but tonight there was that overwhelmingly strong sense of a...