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    What comes next?

    At the church I go to, every sermon seems geared to saying "we are saved" but no detail is given on Sundays or in the rare home groups about what comes next. Is prayer not needed and if it is needed why can it not be explained and discussed. Did God abolish contingency and providence and the...
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    Two speed christianity

    A new couple at "home group" (with two smallish children) exclaimed how supportive the church is. But one of the elders and his wife and several children are obviously being neglected. I have (gingerly) probed what thedoctrines are and I don't think they have generally much idea of providence...
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    Family with a depressed child

    A couple who are immigrants had three sons since they were in Britain. The middle one, now aged 15 is depressed. Please pray that wrong kinds of treatment will not be imposed on him.
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    Disused restaurants, and dwelling rooms with smashed windows

    Early this morning dream: As one proceeded south from the (railway) station (point of hopeful but uninformed entry into the church) there were restaurants, tatty looking and no longer doing business. Choice foods were still listed on their outsides (this reminds me of the last 21 verses of...
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    That bad plans would become non events

    O God may bad plans of any kinds wherever, become non events. Amen
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    a family in a crash

    A family were in a crash and were deemed to have walked away but are in a severe state of shock and are being neglected by others
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    for some young people

    For certain young people of great potential in wisdom. That they themselves may thirst and call for their parents and reliable friends to help catalyse opportunities for them to share Scripture insights and lots of prayer intentions (and thereby show those parents and friends how to help).
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    For lost children

    including any twin that didn't survive, in any circumstance
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    For just government in the UK

    Please ask Our Lord to cause just government to occur in the UK Thank you. Glory Be's said.
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    What does Wayne Grudem teach (in practice) about supplication?

    A question to those who, rather than considering yourselves "Wayne Grudem experts", have simply found yourselves on the receiving end of teachings based on his, and have been figuring out the impact of that on and implications - in your lives and the life of your churches - for the whole area of...
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    What does God intend to be the main work of Christians?

    What does God intend to be the main work of Christians? Please explain your answers in your own words only. I may ask follow up questions. Wishing you God's blessings.
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    Trigger ( overlap with another section ) nasty tricks

    TRIGGER Normalising bad boundaries by telling us we should have been having sex with somebody And, before that, after babysitting duty, they slip a selfie into the slide show when w e go to visit. To see whether it gets a reaction no. 1 were statutory authority no. 2 were from a religious...
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    Please may we have these in the display

    Please may we have in the display: - the full listing of the names and links of all the sub-sub-sub-forums? - link to the latest thread active in each section? - clearer and less confusing names? - less overlap? These ideas will give us an idea of what different sections are for. Thank you.
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    UK broadband plus home phone that's not fixed term?

    I need broadband plus home phone that's not fixed term and doesn't have predatory pricing clauses. otherwise I'l have no phone at all for the first time since 1982 and I'm frailer than then and there aren't the boxes on the corner to feed 10p's into. And shan't be able to get groceries delivered.
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    people at old church have my keys

    rather than abandon old keys with people that aren't interested, the building management want me to collect them to pass onto someone else. I don't have relative s able to hold this role. One of the men, M, is nice but doesn't want to do it because he is a family man and prominent in emergency...
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    is it OK to run a "home group" this way?

    At home group it is almost all one of couples (either husband or wife attends), plus me, plus a couple older than me. I've not been offered membership yet which is either because I don't understand the web page wording that I am supposed to send an E-mail assenting to and don't understand...
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    Be My witnesses

    To witness is to see what God sees. To bear witness is to tell it how it is. This is not to be relegated to "mental health". I was healthful in noting that I was witnessing. I was healthful in noting that I was bearing witness.
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    Is the faith saying "it'll work out"?

    Does the current version of the teachings of Calvin forbid commending one's peers (individually, when in need) to the providence of Christ and Holy Spirit? Wasn't Calvin reputed to be laissez faire? That when there is a prayer request one ought to just say, "it'll work out"? Are one's peers...
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    Do members get disciplined for abstaining from an "ordinance"?

    In a congregational or presbyterian church once having become a "member" would one be "disciplined" for sitting out from "communion" or do they leave you free? (I'm not familiar with "memberships".) I posted this question in the "denominational" section but now I've discovered there is an...
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    Sort-of believer

    Religious belief: sort of believer Religious history: vague mixture, on and off I'm not too sure what kind of church I'm looking for. HTH ;-)