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Oh wow. Tough decision. It still sounds like it might be tough though 4 days a week and depending on how far away the city is, that may be wearisome after some time. Sounds like they really want him. Will pray for God to give him wisdom in this.

It sounds like he made the right choice. Praise God that he was given discernment.

Yes, that appears to be when you were saved. And I wasn't seeking God either when he found me. I'm a skeptic, don't trust hardly anyone and don't believe it unless I see it. Only an absolutely sovereign God can give me the ability to believe upon him. There's just no way I have that ability in...

When I talk about my born again experience, it's to glorify God in his amazing sovereignty, to highlight how it's nothing that I would have done on my own. Sometimes you have a great testimony when you're older and can define the moment God saved you, but I feel it can come with it's...

Yeah, it really is. Very rewarding.

Thank you. That is my favorite, and D.H. Hill liked that one too. I was writing a historical fiction biography about his life and that's what I was going to title it: "Though he slay me, yet will I trust him". I figure though, since it's the only book I've ever been able to come up with a title...

Thank you. It is good to remember when everything seems out of control and to be going badly that our Heavenly Father is in control of all things and is working it for our ultimate good, even though at times it just sure doesn't seem that way. I was listening to a sermon where the pastor was...

You can love your neighbor and judge what they are doing is wrong and let them know that God will condemn them if they continue to embrace their sin and not repent. Jesus did not say "Believe in the Gospel". He said "Repent and believe in the Gospel". Christo says some harsh things, but so did...

I am too. And I'm not saying it's easy to love your enemies. If someone had murdered my husband, I would be called to love them and I would really struggle with that to the point where I don't know if I could do that. But I would definitely say that I am supposed to do that. Same as if someone...

And specifically what Jesus commanded us to do as well. There isn't anyway to deny that he said to "love your enemies". And he gave several descriptions of how to do that: one involves letting others belittle you, shame you, not lashing out when you are attacked; the other two involved giving of...

What we do in our church is should any member or teaching elder be found living in gross sin (like homosexuality, adultery, stealing, murder; of course some of those involve notifying civil authorities) and not repenting of it, they are called before a council (if a talk one on one with an elder...

Agree with all this. We love God because he first loved us. We in our sinful rebellion against him prior to our conversion was way more disgusting to him than any homosexual can ever be to anyone of us (should we view homosexuality in that way, though we actually should view all sin as abhorrent...

Exactly. You can be loving to your enemies and not support what they are doing. I in no way agree with anyone who says we are to hate those who sin (who are identified by their sin and are enslaved to it because they do not know Jesus--these are our enemies because they live in open rebellion...

Thank you for sharing such a wonderful story. I've been struggling with depression a lot today and it has helped to read what you've written.

I think the answer may be to wait on the Lord. His ways are not our ways. We can't understand why he wouldn't want us to see him more clearly, as clearly we can in this world. I imagine many of us would like to have the kind of walk with God as Moses did, but God may not have called us to that...

Nice to meet you. Welcome!

Oh, that's nice. Glad to see that's out there.

"Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you" (John 14:27). He also brings division: “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword" (Matthew 10:34). The question is how to reconcile these seemingly contradictory verses. He gives peace...

Very much so.

Well that's nice that he has some Christian values, but the whole war promotion is a big no-no according to God's revelation. But they often appear as angels of light, those who are in league with Satan; which, it's about as concrete as concrete as you can get outside of knowing the mind of God...