• 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.

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No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier ( 2 Timothy 2:4)

Detachment, Disentanglement, Simplicity; are there any sweeter words? Come to those fortresses and all the powers of hell will no longer be able to move you. You will enter the world of the divine. When you no longer need anything from the world you can no longer be destroyed by the world. You will have disarmed it of all of its weapons at the cross. See Colossians 2:15. Where self-seeking ends Peace begins.

These words were on my heart this morning. I hope they will be a blessing to you. There is a pure love for God and the things of God in a heart like that. To me they are the mark of the overcomer mentioned in Revelation chapter 2 and 3. God seems to have a special place for His Simple ones. His overcoming ones. There is freedom there. There is life. There is nothing that so quickly frees us of the tyranny of self, the clutches of evil, and the seduction of this world than the simplicity of Loving God with all of our heart and living purely for what is for Him.