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You are now on my prayer list, Grailhunter. God delivered me from seven years of major depression 14 years after Keith's death with a type of prayer that David, Job, and Jeremiah used but that is not in our culture, the lament. Seventy-three out of the 150 Psalms are at least part lament. After...

I invite you to watch our pastors' sermons online at chapel-pointe.org and see thoroughly-biblical preaching and application of the Word of God. I would say that other people who profess Jesus have their responsibility before God and will answer to him, while you have yours. It's between you and...

2) and 3) Job is described as "blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil" (1:1). In other words, he was a true believer who looked forward to the coming of his Redeemer, the CHRIST (Job_19:25--"For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the...

Enlightenment in that verse does not mean salvation in all of those people's lives, as the context shows. In verses 16-18, the passage says that people who reject Jesus are going to "perish," a way of saying that they will, sadly, be separated from God forever. Thus, Calvinism is biblical, since...

Answers from the Bible: 1) No. 2) Yes (Job 1 and 2, where he stops Satan from taking Job's life). 3) No, he doesn't "approve" of anything Satan does, but he permits Satan to attack Christians in order to enable us to grow in our faith. 4) Yes, put on God's armor and pray persistently (Ephesians...

Dear Behold: Do you believe that God is three Persons, though one God; that Jesus is fully-God and fully-man; that we are guilty until God's grace accepts us because of Jesus' death; and that we are empowered to live grateful lives by his resurrection? Do you believe that God inspired the...

Yes, God called me to be a Calvinist at Calvin Seminary with a semester course on the Institutes taught by a Calvinism expert. That is the Calvinism that I consider to be biblical that I have shared with you. God allowed me to be christened a Methodist, grow up in and join a...

Yes, this passage is in the "already" part of Romans (chapters 1-11), whereas Paul commands us to make spiritual progress in replacing the old sinful nature (flesh) with the new righteous nature that he has given us in chapters 12-16. For example, are you joyful, prayerful, and thankful all the...

But what I'm trying to share with you is that we need to keep seeking spiritual progress that Paul calls us to do.

I give up trying to share with you the true Calvinism instead of the hyper-Calvinism that is really fatalism. Believe what you want about Calvinism that might characterize a few fatalistic Calvinists, but please don't generalize about all of us. That's very unfair and unloving to most...

The "already" of the gospel: Col 2:11 In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, Col 2:12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the...

Well, sister, I sit corrected. I'm Christ-centered too, all by God's grace, but I also have a sinful nature within me that Satan tries to tempt and attack, the way Paul describes in Romans 7. You also have a sinful nature as well as all true Christians. I invite you to look at the...

With my sincere respect, brother, you say that it makes no sense to you. I submit that you are trusting in your own reasoning rather than in the teachings of Scripture to guide your rationality. The basic sin in human life is to be defined as self-centeredness, which we all have until we die...

Friend, you are twisting Scripture to fit only part of the Good News, that we are already declared right with God and guilt-free because of Jesus' death on the cross, which is very true; but you don't have a grasp of the "already" and "not-yet" aspects of the gospel. Look at the first two...

Context is 1 John 1: 1Jn 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. 1Jn 1:8 If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 1Jn 1:9 If we confess our sins...

Yes, all of those and for Christians' fight against the devil and the gospel's spread. And according to Paul in Ephesians 6:18-20 and Colossians 3, prayer is the key to our victory with Jesus' triumph through his death and resurrection. We need to claim his victory to be worked out in our...

All of the so-called "universalist" passages have a limited definition of the "all" because of their contexts, and there are many passages that describe outer darkness or burning fire, where there will be "weeping and gnashing of teeth" forever (Gospel of Matthew). That's why I take the...

What God Has Done: My True, Dramatic God-Biography (Amazon).

I really don't know how Michigan will go. I guess it depends on how many Detroit people turn out for Kamala. I hope that Trump wins because of the reasons I stated at the beginning of this thread. Then, I hope Ron DeSantis is President for eight years for the good of the USA.