• Starting today August 7th, 2024, in order to post in the Married Couples, Courting Couples, or Singles forums, you will not be allowed to post if you have your Marital status designated as private. Announcements will be made in the respective forums as well but please note that if yours is currently listed as Private, you will need to submit a ticket in the Support Area to have yours changed.

  • CF has always been a site that welcomes people from different backgrounds and beliefs to participate in discussion and even debate. That is the nature of its ministry. In view of recent events emotions are running very high. We need to remind people of some basic principles in debating on this site. We need to be civil when we express differences in opinion. No personal attacks. Avoid you, your statements. Don't characterize an entire political party with comparisons to Fascism or Communism or other extreme movements that committed atrocities. CF is not the place for broad brush or blanket statements about groups and political parties. Put the broad brushes and blankets away when you come to CF, better yet, put them in the incinerator. Debate had no place for them. We need to remember that people that commit acts of violence represent themselves or a small extreme faction.

Feeling a bit judged...

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God doesn't waste anything.
That is a fair portion of the message I like to carry. I've seen so many used up and broken people, light up and have life breathed back into them when they realize the truth of it. The stuff that broke them before can be used to bring others to redemption, what once was meaningless suffering can be transformed into an instrument of inspiration. It is like when Jesus healed a certain man, He told the man to pick up his mat and go . . . if the man had left his mat no one would know he was once lame, by carrying the mat he declares to the world that he once was lame & that gives the opportunity to speak to others about the healing and the Lord who provides it. Scars on the inside or scars on the outside, when we carry our (figurative) mats, we are more able to speak of God's grace . . . it isn't theory and it isn't metaphor, God really does transform lives, there is redemption, Glory be to God.
 
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