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Over the years I have heard several different explanations of what makes a Christian. Many people suggest that it happens when someone sincerely says the “sinners prayer” of repentance and commitment. Other possibilities that believers have told me include: A real Christian speaks in tongues...

The parable of the sower describes four different ways of responding to the gospel message. I am asking about those who are rocky ground, accepting the message but unable to sustain it because they are not rooted, and those who are thorny ground, who also accept the message but lose faith when...

I am reading the book “Standing firm in the faith” by James L Morrisson. As I read each chapter I will comment on it. Christians, please feel free to respond. You may help me to find the God I have been searching for most of my life. It can be found on line at Standing Firm in the Faith...

In various Bible passages, for example John 16:8, it says that the Holy Spirit will convict people of sin. Many Christians believe that until a person is convicted of sin by the Holy Spirit, they will not have a real awareness of being a sinner, and therefore will not be ready to ask for...

On 4 January, doubtingmerle asked this question: I am looking for a Christian forum on the web that encourages open debate between Christians and skeptics. Does anybody know of a site like that? There were many replies posted, but none answered the original question. Therefore I am asking...

Some Christians that I know or who have responded to me through Christian Forums tell me about their firm conviction in the Bible as the word of God. Their faith is based on trust. Other Christians tell me about their personal relationship with God. Their faith is based on experience...

For all of my life I have had no spiritual awareness of any kind. The Bible and Christians tell me that we all have a spirit, that our spirit lives on after death, that God has a spiritual nature, and the need to be open to the influence of the Holy Spirit. But how can I do this when as far as I...

In February this year I posted a question in this forum, asking if anyone could help me to find hope and find God. I wrote of spending two years as a Christian in the 1970s, without ever receiving any kind of response from God. After two years of receiving nothing from God my hope and my faith...

Just out of interest, I have endocrine problems caused by a pituitary gland tumour. Are there any other pituitary gland sufferers out there? Of course I get my treatment at a diabetes centre because that is where the endocrinologists are. My blood sugar regulation is fine, but some of my other...

I thought I became a Christian but still I did not know God. Many Christians have tried to help and failed. Do you know anyone who can help me? Many years ago I asked forgiveness through Jesus for my sins and invited God to take control of my life. I joined a church, prayed, read the Bible...

This is the way I sometimes describe myself. I never had any type of spiritual experience, even during the two years that I spent as a born again Christian. Perhaps I am not spiritually dead, but spiritually deaf, spiritually blind and generally spiritually unaware. Is this why I have failed to...

Is this how to become a Christian? Pray to God, repenting of sin, for taking my own way instead of God’s way. Ask forgiveness from God, claiming the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross. Invite God to be the lord of my life from now on. Give thanks for what has been done for me. Then go out...

In Romans 8 verse 16 Paul writes that the (Holy) Spirit will testify with our spirit. Also in verse 10, again Paul implies that people have a spirit. In both of these verses he mentions people’s spirit only for those who have the Holy Spirit. Similarly Mary speaks of her spirit in Luke chapter 1...

As a non-Christian husband married to a Christian wife, is it true of me that her “unbelieving husband has been sanctified through his wife”? (1 Corinthians 7 verse 14 – NIV). Other translations spell it out even more clearly. Good News Bible: “the unbelieving husband is made acceptable to...

Hello everyone. I describe myself as an ex-Christian, and that may worry some people. I became a Christian at the age of 27, and continued as a Christian for two years. During those two years I never at any time had an answered prayer, never felt the presence of God, never "knew something in my...