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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.
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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.
(suggestion: read Hebrews 4, which is about entering into God's Sabbath rest)
Let me rest from all considerations
Which come knocking on the door of peace.
Sabbath Day reflects emancipation
From the cares this world may bring.
Breaking bread, op’ning the Word
With the Brethren, and family...
“You are near, O Lord,
And all Your commandments are truth.
Of old I have known from Your testimonies
That You have founded them forever.” (Psalm 119:151-152 NASB)
I was part of the gatherings of the church from infancy on up. My parents were part of that same church fellowship all 86 years of...
Judges 7:4-7 (NKJV - bold text is mine)
4 But the Lord said to Gideon, “The people are still too many; bring them down to the water, and I will test them for you there. Then it will be, that of whom I say to you, ‘This one shall go with you,’ the same shall go with you; and of whomever I say to...
“To sum up, all of you be harmonious, sympathetic, brotherly, kindhearted, and humble in spirit; not returning evil for evil or insult for insult, but giving a blessing instead; for you were called for the very purpose that you might inherit a blessing. For,
“The one who desires life, to love...
A Gospel song, written after reading these Scripture passages this morning...
2 Timothy 2:10 “ I endure everything for the sake of God’s chosen” (The Voice)
2 Timothy 2:15 “Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of...
“Therefore, putting aside all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander, like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation, if you have tasted the kindness of the Lord.
“And coming to Him as to a living stone which has...
“One Census. 70,000 Dead. Pride Kills.” (2 Samuel 24:15)
Self-Reliance: David’s Census Cost 70,000 Lives—Yours? (2 Samuel 24)
Self-reliance sounds strong. Yet Scripture exposes self-reliance as deadly pride. King David—God’s chosen, Spirit-filled leader—fell to self-reliance. His census...
(all Scriptures cited in this matrix are from the NKJV; the bold, underlining
and italicizing are mine)
“Jude, a bond-servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are the called, beloved in God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ: May mercy and peace and love be multiplied to you.
“Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation, I felt the...
“Zion will be redeemed with justice
And her repentant ones with righteousness.
But transgressors and sinners will be crushed together,
And those who forsake the Lord will come to an end.” (Isaiah 1:27-28 NASB1995)
Zion, under the New Covenant, is in reference to the city of God, the people of...
I am still reading in Joshua 24. Joshua had just given the children of Israel a word from the Lord. And then he told them, therefore, that they were now to fear (honor, respect, obey) the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in truth (no fakery, no lies). They were to put away all their idols and...
“Test everything; hold fast what is good.” (1 Thessalonians 5:21) – A quiet moment to measure every calling against Scripture.
Introduction: The Heartfelt Claim That Reshapes the Church
In countless church meetings and seminary interviews, a familiar phrase echoes: “I feel called.” It carries...
Psalm 34:1-2
(1) I will bless Adonai at all times;
his praise will always be in my mouth.
(2) When I boast, it will be about Adonai;
the humble will hear of it and be glad. (CJB)
Are there styles of music in the church that make us wary? How about the mannerisms of some as they praise or sing...
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love He predestined us to adoption as sons...
A stranger’s wonder
at the shame of Jeshurun,*
bare stare at the Cross.
At a Friend’s stretched arms,
Wracked hands that once clapped with joy.
Convulsions from pain. (1)
At a brother’s brow,
Blood and carpenter’s sweat mix.
Father, Joseph, spared.** (2)
Feet like his mother’s,
Once swaddled...
“Every person is to be in subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God. Therefore whoever resists authority has opposed the ordinance of God; and they who have opposed will receive condemnation upon themselves.”...
“Such confidence we have through Christ toward God. Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God, who also made us adequate as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the...
“In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to His purpose who works all things after the counsel of His will, to the end that we who were the first to hope in Christ would be to the praise of His glory.” (Ephesians 1:11-12 NASB1995)
The subject matter is the...