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  1. Kelly

    Barsoom - Edgar Rice Burrough's Mars books

    I've started reading ERB's classic Mars books. There are 11 in total, I believe. It's quite entertaining pulp scifi. They follow the exploits of Earthling John Carter who served in the civil war as a confederate captain. After the war he is a gold miner out west and hiding out from indians...
  2. Kelly

    [Tabletop] 4E D&D Eberron

    I picked up the Seekers of the Ashen Crown, the published adventure for 4th Edition Eberron a few weeks ago. I thought if anything was going to debunk the grognard claim that 4E is only good for dungeon crawl, an Eberron adventure would. After all, Eberron is a land of pulp intrigue, secret...
  3. Kelly

    Tabletop folks, where do we go now, Hobbies?

    They blew our subforum up. Do we stay here amid the flood of "Should a Christian play Diablo?" type threads?
  4. Kelly

    Congregational gathering place or 'cut and paste' ministry soapbox?

    What is the purpose of this forum? A place for non-denom Christians to gather and share stuff/ask questions or a place to come in, hit the CTRL V and prophecy about how wrong everyone else's interpretation of true Christianity is? I don't feel this subforum is inhabited by actual people anymore.
  5. Kelly

    City of Ember

    With the film coming out, I picked up the first of the trilogy to read to my kids before bed. It's been ok so far but without spoiling anything the residents of the city who call themselves ' the believers' are written as out of touch, detached, non-thinkers. The lead character, a young girl...
  6. Kelly

    Helpful tutorial for those who know they are "real" Christians

    For those who like to subtly put into question the true faith of others using quotes around things like "christian" and "testimony" and "believer" and "salvation". This is quite easily done through forums and blogs with the use of your quotation mark key...but how can you show your discernment...
  7. Kelly

    Weight Watchers

    My manager at work has lost 50-60lbs on Weight Watchers and she gave me all of her extra materials (the introductory booklet, a little points calculator, etc). I want to lose 100 lbs and my wife wants to drop 40, so we are giving it a shot. We're in our first week and it's going good so...
  8. Kelly

    Beth Moore?

    OK, lately, everybody and their grandma has been singing the praises of speaker Beth Moore and her series of devotionals. My wife and I have been looking for some sort of study activity to do together in the evenings so I decided to pick one up. We got "Jesus. 90 Days With the One and Only"...
  9. Kelly

    Revelation 6:6

    Revelation 6:6 And I heard a voice from among the four living beings say, “A loaf of wheat bread or three loaves of barley will cost a day’s pay." http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23604249-2,00.html?from=public_rss
  10. Kelly

    Should there even be a non-denom forum?

    There's so much variation in worship and scriptural understanding here I wonder if there should even be a congregational forum for non-denoms. We certainly don't behave like a body here. I think most of the threads could easily fit in other theological areas of the website. Thoughts?
  11. Kelly

    How to process the OT treatment of Canaan

    I think this is a topic that may come up when witnessing or discussing the Bible with a non-beliver. I think it's something that we should be able to answer with some biblical authority. In light of the typical reaction today of how terrible islamic extremism can be, how can we say anything...
  12. Kelly

    LOTR / Psalms Wallpaper

    I am in the process of cleaning/archiving my hard drive and came across these I made when the LOTR DVDs came out. Enjoy..
  13. Kelly

    My wife's Love Language - Not Working

    I have discovered the only thing that will make my wife happy with her life/our marriage. Not working anymore. We cannot survive on my income alone, we make equal amounts right now. We have a mortgage, car payments, want to save for our kids' college bills. I am non-degreed and doing...
  14. Kelly

    Does Christ-like love for wife include taking verbal abuse?

    I am the emotional punching bag for my wife. When work's got her down, or circumstances turn bad, I am most often than not, the person she takes it out on. It's wearing me down. I try and try to encourage her, to stay positive, but I'm tired. What can I do to stop her from doing this to me?
  15. Kelly

    Leaving one church for another

    Can anyone give me (experience or scripturally supported) help in this touchy subject. We've been members of a church for about 5 years. It's a non-denom that had a slight charismatic bent when we first attended. The church made the switch to the Purpose Driven model a few years ago and thus has...
  16. Kelly

    Bed and Breakfast Healing

    My wife and I were BLESSED by her mom and dad watching our 2 kids for 3 days/2 nights. We went to a lakeside bed and breakfast. It was a wonderful time. We were both sort of weary and at the end of our respective ropes as both mom and dad and husband & wife. The weekend vacation really...
  17. Kelly

    Pause

    I've had a really sickened feeling coming here lately and I don't want to feel that @ CF. Please take a pause from the debates in here of late, if just for a minute, and give us some scripture to help build each other up. :groupray: :hug: :wave: :kiss: Therefore, as God's chosen people...
  18. Kelly

    [Michigan] Christ the King Church Oxford?

    Anybody up in here go to my church?
  19. Kelly

    Apocrypha/extra-biblical text

    I'm reading the Gospel of Thomas, really just a collection of sayings attributed to Jesus, and having a very difficult time comprehending some of the sayings. I can recognize a lot of the parables that made it into the NT gospels, but others totally confuse me. Has anyone else tried to study it?
  20. Kelly

    Ananias and Sapphira

    I've always thought that this portion of Acts stands out against the rest of the New Testament. To the point where I sometimes question it's legitimacy or intent. Was it intended to show us the danger of lying and doing things 'for show' instead of for God - or was it a tool to scare people...