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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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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...

I can't grasp Christianity very well with my mind, but I know the Spirit within understands it. Some of Jesus' and the prophets' words offend and confuse my mind, but thankfully the Spirit resonates to them within me. Some of the prophetic actions I see in scripture shock my tastes, and many...

Something jumped out to me as I re-read through the Gospels today: Luke 13:24 "Work hard to enter the narrow door to God's Kingdom, for many will try to enter but will fail." [New Living Translation] "Strive to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will seek to enter and...

This might sound blasphemous, but I sometimes find it hard to agree wholeheartedly in my mind with the idea of being conformed to the image of Christ. When in step with the Spirit and in worship, prayer or service, the reality of being changed to be like Jesus is a wonderful thing to me. But...

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Though I was initially fearful of doing so, I recently went through books from the Old Testament that I hadn't immersed myself in in a while, like Deuteronomy, Numbers, Judges, Chronicles 1&2, and Samuel 1 & 2. I felt drawn to do this, though I must admit that what I have read has shaken, upset...

Hi friends, I'm in Pakistan at the moment - but I've just been reading Facebook statuses and the news. There are riots across London - but not riots about anything important. These riots are sheer criminality... moronic, animal-like, crazed, greedy and utterly destructive. I also believe they...

Hello! I was doing a search at Biblegateway.com for 'heal' to find Scriptures about God healing. I have been aware of (and struggled with) the many, many passages in the O.T where God strikes people groups (including even the Hebrews) with sicknesses and death, but I didn't expect my search...

Like Leonard Ravenhill, Gareth Evans, and many others, I believe Jackie Pullinger to be very anointed and greatly used of God. You can read her story in 'Chasing the Dragon'. I visited her church in Hong Kong and was blown away by her ministry, teaching and the presence of God there. This...

Why do you think David was granted special favour in spite of what he did, while Saul was cut off at the first hint of disobedience? King Saul is told to attack the Amalekites: "And utterly destroy all that they have, and do not spare them...But kill both man and woman, infant and nursing...

How many times have we been told to eat the woman? Far too many times. If we could only get the jungle sorted out, there would be no need to eat more women. We could dance under the leaves and fish in the rivers of muck. There's a kind of insane simplicity to the materialist worldview, but that...

This Saturday is the Eurovision Song Contest 2011, staged in Düsseldorf. I for one am as excited as a banana or a joyful pine nut about what's in store for us Ukers and Europeans on the 14th. Who knows what wonders will grace our eye-balls and ears? Will anyone else be watching it live?

Genuine question: How am I to understand the Biblical idea of God's wrath being put on Jesus instead of us? The idea of us being rescued from God's judgement? The concept of Penal Substitution? First, here are two quotes that have challenged me from other Christians I know: -How could Jesus...

I am still struggling with some of the things Jesus taught in the synoptic Gospels, as He seems to imply that our obedience to His words are what will save us on judgement day. I know this cannot be so, considering our righteousness is as filthy rags and the fact we are saved by His blood. We...

Dear forum, Please pray for a member of a youth group that I am co-leading. Her name is Zoe and she is sixteen years old and could die. This youth group has gone from a fairly dry meeting place of mostly nominal church-going kids to an intense support network full of brotherly and sisterly...

I've heard it said on various Christian Charismatic forums that Charismatics and Pentecostals are a particularly proud breed of Christian and that they look down on other primarily cessationist Christian groups. I've not been alive particularly long, and I'm not as experienced in as many varied...

Proof texts to demonstrate that God hates some sinners: Psalms 5:5-6 "The boastful shall not stand before your eyes; you hate all evildoers. You destroy those who speak lies; the LORD abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man." Proverbs 6:16-19 "There are six things that the LORD hates, seven...