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I could use Scripture instead of generalizing, I just feel like people disengage if I use too much. I do think we need effort to overcome sin. But it's not just about willing yourself to stop sinning. It's about staying in the Bible till you know it and it sets you free. It's about love---a...

A friend praised my writing too. I told her Im interested in Christian allegories.

Ive been prickly in the past myself. I definitely took my frustration at others in my past out on people with similar beliefs at times. But having those prickly posts aimed at me became opportunities to slow down, pray, learn meekness. We respond to harshness with our own 99 percent of the...

Thank you so much for your thoughts and compliments. It means a lot that you got into the story! I would clarify the intent of the story but my creative side really likes that there are different interpretations that people can get. So Ill hold off for a time.

American media portrays being good as boring and heaven as hopelessly boring. I made up a day in the life of a college student with mature Christian faith to prove the opposite. She is based on me but with the maturity and self-control I wish I had had back when I was a student. ...

Thank you. I plan to do a deep dive on both

I get why people say that. I just see multiple Scriptures that contradict that idea. Is this one talking about people who were never saved? 2 Peter 2:20-21 King James Version 20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus...

So you're saying that if a believer chooses not to abide, than they were never saved to begin with?

Abide in Christ. Keep hearing Scripture out loud in your ears until it transforms you and sets you free. Jesus said if His words abide in us, we can stop being slaves to sin. I was addicted to porn. I was only able to stop by listening to 1 John, 1 Peter, and James until that sinful stronghold...

It saddens me that you consider my posts promoting this. I never said this. I did not write the Bible that I abide in. I did not die to erase my own sin debt. I'm not anyone's Holy Spirit. But this idea that "faith plus nothing equals everything" as I was taught...it's not true. We must...

Thanks, I sent a message. I'm not against all public criticism of people. But I don't feel led to do it now, personally.

With respect, I disagree. Jesus wanted us to do greater things than He, since He went to the Father. In 1 John, it says that those who say they know Him must wak as He walked. In Christ, it is not out of reach. Not if we abide in Him. I don't think sin works that way either. Repentance is only...

Christian standard of conduct. IThe first time I chose a church, I joined a Baptist youth group. Most of them made out with each other in the back of the church van. Youd think the group activities would be more learning about how to be functioning members of the church or Jesus' teachings...

Can I pm it? It's not too long or crazy. Im sure you can handle public criticism but it doesn't feel like a good precedent or respectful to criticize a single person in view of everyone.

I appreciate this. If for others, the bar was too high in an incorrect way, for me, it was way way wayyy too low.

I want to respond. I do have a critical angle. But I don't know how. Praying about it.

I believed what I was taught. I was taught to deal with my sin by just "resting in the finished work of the cross" and reveling in my position as a beloved child of God that could never be unloved again. That sounded really good to me as a porn addict. But I didn't just want to keep being...

As a teenage Christian, I couldn't always buy books. So I looked up the authors online. I found sermons by the late Dr. Tim Keller on line. His apologetics were very helpful to me as a new Christian. The calvinist flavor of his theology made sense to me too. I began to listen to more "New...

When I believed in eternal security and listening to those who taught it, I thought my works would come from "resting in the finished work of the cross". I thought they were automatic the way many people describe them today. They aren't. You have to actively abide in Christ to do them and...

Luke 9:23-24 King James Version 23 And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. 24 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.