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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.
Hebrews 12:1-2 (NKJV)
12 Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith...
“Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. Being found in appearance as a...
The S&P 500 is about one percent from 6666. Following, I will share why that level has got my attention. Note that in my last blog entry I used a mix of spiritual and philosophical insght as to what might lie ahead. In this entry blog I am going to speculate sort of for fun on the S&P 500 and...
Every church movement, every local church, has their challenges. Left to purely human reasoning, there are things that can feel restricting, too slow to bloom to fruit—and dare we say it (?), too slow to conform to our expectations...however close our impatient convictions might accurately...
I am now reading in Acts 9, some of which I will summarize, and some of which I will quote in the NASB1995.
Saul, who later became the apostle Paul, was still on a rampage against the followers of Jesus Christ, and he was on his way to Damascus to persecute even more followers of The Way...
Scared Jonah afoot, *
Suites stare over crosswalk lights.
Shadows stomp below.
New York City, whale
Swall’wing whole his soul, all day. *
So small—”Going up!"
At his flat, spat out,
Splat! Over dry carpet, doubt. ^
God knocks at his door. ^^
Behold, by his heart,
Ready to befriend, to dine...
Twenty-one years ago, in 2004, my husband Rick and I were training to be church planters with the Christian and Missionary Alliance (The Alliance), the church denomination I grew up under. Rick was going for his ordination, and I was going for my consecration. So there was a district prayer...
“For this reason also, since the day we heard of it, we have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so that you will walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit...
Therefore I did not even think myself worthy to come to You. But say the word, and my
servant will be healed (from Luke 7:7 NKJV, bold is mine)
There are a string of Bible verses, here, that I mention or allude to...for a short
Gospel song. I use ditties like this to hum by during the day...
“If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.” “Jesus answered and said to him, ‘If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him. He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine...
What is The Church?
My name is Sue Love. I am 75 years old, less than four months away from turning 76. I believed in Jesus Christ to be my Lord and Savior at our church’s summer camp in Beaulah Beach, Ohio, at age 7. The church I was a part of from birth was affiliated with the Christian &...
In Luke Chapter 4 (bold is mine, as well as wording within brackets. NKJV):
16 So He [Messiah Jesus] came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. And as His custom was, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read.
17 And He was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah...
“Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, according to the promise of life in Christ Jesus, to Timothy, my beloved son: Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
“I thank God, whom I serve with a clear conscience the way my forefathers did, as I...
“You have not heard, you have not known.
Even from long ago your ear has not been open,
Because I knew that you would deal very treacherously;
And you have been called a rebel from birth.
For the sake of My name I delay My wrath,
And for My praise I restrain it for you,
In order not to cut you...
“It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father's wife. And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you.
“For though absent in body, I am...
“Come, let us worship and bow down,
Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker.
For He is our God,
And we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of His hand.
Today, if you would hear His voice,
Do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah,
As in the day of Massah in the wilderness,
‘When your...
“Therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth and called ‘uncircumcised’ by those who call themselves ‘the circumcision’ (which is done in the body by human hands)— remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to...
“However at that time, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those which by nature are no gods. But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how is it that you turn back again to the weak and worthless elemental things, to which you desire to be enslaved all over...