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Be a good servant! God bless you -- :)

Obviously, some are called to be teachers; it sounds as if you are one of them. For me, teaching can be a pitfall which keeps me from fellowship; it's too easy for me to get lost in books, semantics, and knowledge and sort of idolize academia. It doesn't sound as if that's the case with you...

...much like your reaction toward "prophet," it seems "evangelism" has very negative connotations for you; yet, you outline evangelism just fine by saying that one should let actions speak. I think it's a combination of the two, but, like James, I also think faith without works is dead, and so...

Self-appointed prophets, perhaps -- but "vindictive prophet" is a phrase that shouldn't really being operative under a genuine prophetic anointing. Jonah nothwithstanding. :)

It's not like the refusal couldn't be made lovingly and with discretion.... but I could imagine God using someone in the stern-prophet mode also, rebuking the homosexual couple. I believe strongly in relational evangelism, but I think there is evangelism in just putting one's foot down as...

...I found my notes, if you or anyone else is interested. From early on, God intimates that the world will end Gen 3:14 - Gen 3:15 (NIV) 14 So the LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, "Cursed are you above all the livestock and all the wild animals! You will crawl on...

If you believe scripture is authority, there are plenty of places where you can read what sins are against God. I compiled a huge list one time when I was researching things like judgment and judgment day, and there's tons of stuff. I was leading a Bible study, and the guys wanted to study...

I still think it comes down to the heart, and that delicate balance of living freely in the Spirit and not causing others to stumble. For instance: some of the piercings these days... well, to me, it's a violent act toward the self, and also against society (deliberately trying to make those...

I forgot "Holy and Anointed One"! That became a favorite one Christmas. I was in the church by myself on Christmas Day, at the altar, askinging God what He'd like for His birthday. I thought he wanted me to sing Happy Birthday, so I did, and then it went straight into the chorus for Holy and...

I have to go with Bach. But, yes -- Beethoven is a close second. His late quartets alone are incomparable. I also really like Greig and Mahler.

Boy... there are so many songs to choose from! The ones that I sing in the Spirit most easily, whatever my condition, are probably Let Your Glory Fall Shout to the Lord Holy, Holy, Holy Power of Your Love It is Well ...my all-time favorite is probably Amazing Grace.

...for some reason I've been really enjoying Indian classical music. There's a great album called Gathering Rain Clouds by Vishwa Mohan Bhatt that's really blowing me away, and I got a CD by U. Srinivas that's very good. I'm not noticing any funky-bad spirit about this stuff (I know some CDs...

I was going to be clever and say Mozart's Jupiter symphony. :)

Yes, yes -- pray and be very certain where you are being led. Your boyfriend may well need to honor his mother by attending her church; that's something else for you both to pray about. Very important, and how you encourage him to honor his mother (perhaps even by attending a church which...

Absolutely. Sometimes I get blindsided by my own prejudice: tatoos kind of bother me, but so do people who are just entirely too coiffed (I think that's the word I want). I have to set my heart right as soon as I feel a knee-jerk response. A fellow was brought to me last week for counseling...

In the entire context of the thing, you need to look also at when Saul was chosen king by the people. They clearly chose him because of how he looked; he was tall, so people found him imposing! God sort of sighed and let them have Saul, although God didn't really want them to have a king at...

I absolutely agree. Just as how we're supposed to obey our government, but also know when to disobey if we must. If I had been a Christian in Nazi-era Germany, for instance, I think I would have known what to do. I have to say I really admire you, Sharp, for saying you felt you were wrong...

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...I call Him "God." :)

I pulled the following quotes regarding appearances... food for thought: 1Samuel 16:7 But the LORD said to Samuel, "Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD...