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Does your personal physical or mental suffering harm you spiritually? Can it increase or decrease your faith in God? What trials of sickness, injury, anxiety, or other misery are you going through now, or have you endured in your past? Right before Christmas Eve, I slipped on black ice in my...

I founded an experimental electronic music band as a teenager. We performed all over NYC during the 1980s. I owned tons of worldly music CDs, tapes, and vinyl. I had a 3rd spiritual awakening 2 years ago. I got rid of my TV and all movies. I sold my synthesizers. I was burned out on music. I...

I always wear a sport coat and tie to church. It is a habit ingrained in me over the years. In some churches, only one or two other men do the same. In other churches, many men and ladies are dressed up. It is just my way of showing respect and honor to the house of God. When I see an older...

The health of a church seems to measured by a good mix of ages. Youth has the freshness of faith plus invincible exuberance, middle age people have deeper scriptural application and the stability of maturity, elders have settled serenity and hard won wisdom. I too feel sorry for churches that...

Then why did John the Baptist, Jesus, and Peter go around telling people to repent and believe the gospel? If nobody can do this, the command is an impossibility to obey. Why did Jesus act perturbed and accuse His disciples as having so little faith? Why did He tell individuals their faith has...

There is no punctuation in the ancient texts. So commas are editorial additions. Ancient Hebrew and Greek Bible manuscripts were written without punctuation, spaces between words, or lowercase letters, appearing as continuous, all-caps text (scriptio continua). This format, standard in...

But perhaps Jesus did not say that He and the thief would be in paradise that day, He instead may have said “Verily, I say to you today, you will be with me in paradise.” Meaning in the future, not that very day. If paradise means the New Jerusalem, the New Heaven and New Earth, that does not...

Native Americans were genocided, re-educated / brainwashed, deceived by broken treaties, poisoned with alcohol, relocated to distant reservations, and forced to severely limit self-sufficient hunting and fishing.

I received salvation when I responded enthusiastically to the gospel, as it was fully explained to me by a pastor at a Mennonite church camp, when I was 15 years old. I repented of my sins, though I did not have a mature understanding of sin or repentance, and begged Jesus to come into my heart...

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Not sure why these videos are being posted, so many, yet not one of them is a Christian song….???

Some scholars say that Luke 23:43 And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise. Should move the comma to read: And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee today, thou shalt be with me in paradise. Because Jesus did not enter paradise the day...

I Corinthians 10:12 Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. II Corinthians 13:5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. I Timothy 1:19 Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made...

Where in the Bible does it say that no musical instruments should be used in churches? Some say, if the New Testament does not command something, it should not be done. But I see no command that men must wear clothes in church. Long ago, I saw information about how when poor Reformed churches...

I have contacted local churches by mail and email. None have ever responded. I have informed several of them about a local ministry doing something I felt was wrong. The ministry had a thrift store selling various things. A certain man shopped there every day, buying used bras and panties. I...

@Alex2165 says: “…the greed for sordid gain remains one of the worse transgressions that is common to all churches throughout the ages.” AND “ It is common in every church the establishment of their own customs, traditions, and doctrines that goes against GOD Commandments and His true Word.”...

I know of no one who is “right about all theological things.” You speak of the Separatists of the 1600s. Philpot resigned from the Church of England in 1835 and became a Strict & Particular Baptist. John Smyth and Thomas Helwys, former Anglican priests, are credited with initiating the...

Cultural accommodations can result in making church as worldly as possible, even to the point of performing completely secular music in the sanctuary. A compromise might be having half contemporary music and half hymns, so all ages in the congregation can be satisfied. Often churches have two...

Joseph Charles Philpot (1802 – 1869) was known as “The Seceder”. He resigned from the Church of England in 1835 and became a Strict & Particular Baptist. After becoming a Strict & Particular Baptist, he became the Editor of the Gospel Standard magazine and served in that capacity for twenty...