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Dear all - How wonderful to see all this discussion of classical music! I love it when Psalms are set to music that bring them alive. Well, my father wrote this beautiful piece a while ago when my mother was very ill. She defied death, and I helped him to record it and set it to his...

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It is very sad that people are so keen to argue that the many clear, vivid warnings against judging others (especially other Christians) by Jesus, Paul and James don't really mean what they say. I know the scriptures about exposing false teaching. But there is an endemic of Christians who ignore...

Haha, that's an interesting take on what I wrote! :)...A launderette! I like it. :D Well, gentleness, softness and quietness are my favourite things in a Church service - especially when the Holy Spirit is working. It tends to give Him a lot more room than lots of noise and shouting and...

This is true. And it's a shame, because from (limited) experience I can say that many nonbelievers nowadays are often much more open to (and convicted by) the supernatural manifestation of the Spirit and thoughtful theology than they are a slick, polite, entertaining show. It seems like the...

That's a crying shame that that is happening. Church should be a place of extreme love, extreme joy and laughter, extreme repentance and weeping, extreme exhortation and extreme challenge - all in the fire-like, gentle, wild, beautiful, fierce, actual, authentic supernatural presence of the Holy...

On principle my mind would be closed to these kinds of things. I mean, they sound ridiculous! And I can't comment on what spirit is behind them in general, because I've never been in a meeting where they were happening. Except one... One time during a charismatic gathering there was lots of...

Thank you for those answers, Biblicist and SpiritPsalmist. Very helpful responses. :)

Why are you asking this question? I'm not WoF. But it doesn't take much of step from the accumulative information we have in Scripture (about Satan, demons, the effects of what we say and the effects what we believe and of our faith or lack of faith, etc.) to understand that the Enemy lies to...

Thank you for the replies - many of them were very, very helpful. I think 'spiritualising' psalms like these for use today is a good idea; after all, we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, and we may as well make use of such scriptures. As for God's justice... Yes, I understand He is a...

Thanks, that verse is really beautiful. Sometimes, I wonder if it would be better He take me now - but not in a suicidal way. I just don't want to sin and disgrace His name to those I've shared with...Perhaps this sounds hopeless, but the more time you spend on Earth, the more time there is to...

Recently, I set out to go through the Psalms again. I was hoping for an inspiring journey - but it seems there are a good many more psalms where David (or whoever wrote the particular psalm) calls for severe punishments against his enemies and/or the wicked than I used to notice. Reading them...

Recently, I set out to go through the Psalms again. I was hoping for an inspiring journey - but it seems there are a good many more psalms where David (or whoever wrote the particular psalm) calls for severe punishments against his enemies and/or the wicked than I used to notice. Reading them...

That's very true. People can say His presence is always with us and dismiss the idea there's levels of awareness of His presence (and levels of yieldedness and degrees of the His glory in a place), but I've been through a spiritually hellish few days the last few days and I know there's...

I used to try and read Derek Prince's books, but found I got a 'heavy' feeling and couldn't get into them. It didn't give me life. Now, however, I've come back to his materials and find many of them very helpful. I guess I wasn't ready for his stuff before, but I am more ready now. I know his...

I know the scriptures about exposing false teaching. But there is an endemic of Christians who ignore the numerous, clear, vivid teachings about judging others - in Jesus' teaching, in Paul's letters, and in the book of James. They love to judge, and justify it by meditating on and continually...

One of my hands often feels hot or 'electric' or pressured while I am in a posture of worship/receiving or while in prayer. It's hard to describe the feeling. This hasn't been as intense recently, but a number of times a while ago it was so extreme...in fact, the fire and pain was almost...

I appreciate your openness and vulnerability. Thank you for sharing. I too want more of what you are saying - more death to my old life and more of His life instead. I want what He hates to be hated by me, an what He loves to be loved by me. But - and maybe I've just been lucky - I've rarely...

I'm no expert (though I do have an interest in revival history and have read extensively on early pentecostalism), but it seems what you're criticising has always been part of the pentecostal and charismatic movements. Seeking to experience God's presence, tarrying for the baptism of the Holy...

Pastors need more hedgehogs, and it's a darn shame they're going extinct!