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From my X / Twitter “For you” feed this morning - “God has you just where he wants you. Sometimes it’s hard to face, but God really does determine exactly where you live, who you live with, the exact period of time in which you live, and the exact length of your life.” (Paul David Tripp)...

There’s a thread in one of the “Christians Only” forums asking if Christians should have non-Christian friends. I thought it might be interesting to approach and explore the question from the opposite direction: Should a non-Christian have Christian friends?

“No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.” (John 1:18, NKJV) @RLT63 you asked me a question this evening (thank you) about this passage in a thread and forum where I don’t have posting privileges. Your question: ”Was John...

William Lane Craig offers his opinion on what the strongest argument for atheism is in this 4 minute video. Why should theists care about arguments for atheism? Is there a stronger argument for atheism than the one identified by Dr. Craig?

“Our gentleness is a witness to unbelievers. They are watching us all the time to see if we are different when we are under stress. When we respond to pressure with gentleness, it is an incredible testimony to the world. ’to speak evil of no one, to be peaceable, gentle, showing all humility to...

“Pastors convinced Jesus will return in just days as ‘ancient Biblical promise hints at imminent rapture’” https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15077269/Jesus-return-just-Biblical-promise-rapture.html On September 24 we’ll have another example in the books of the folly that is...

From my X / Twitter “For you” feed this afternoon - “Vatican releases first St. Carlo Acutis prayer card” https://x.com/catholicpat/status/1965043392913490362?s=61

“Jesus called out to them, ‘Come, follow me, and I will show you how to fish for people!’” (Matthew 4:19, NLT)

“A decades-old cold case investigation has concluded with shocking findings about one of Tennessee’s most famous lawmen: legendary McNairy County Sheriff Buford Pusser likely murdered his wife in 1967, investigators say. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and a local District Attorney‘s...

“And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overpower it.” (Matthew 16:18, NET) ”There can be no higher tribute than to call a man a rock.” (William Barclay, The Mind of Jesus, p. 173)

I did something yesterday which I seldom do: I watched a movie “based” on the Bible. ”The fabulous story of a wise king and the beautiful queen who tried to conquer his young nation!” The story, as depicted in the movie, is virtually entirely false. The movie is entertaining but truth in...

“The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet.” (Romans 16:20, NASB)

“Even when a man discovers the task for which God has sent him into the world, he has still another problem to solve, the problem of when to begin it. If he begins too soon, he will begin without the necessary preparation and equipment for the task. If he waits until too late, he may never begin...

“The devil and the demons aren’t real.” There’s a lot of that talk going on around the forum these days. With that in mind … “Question: A friend of mine has used a Ouija board on several occasions. I have advised him against using it, but he insists it is used just for fun and that it is...

“Micaiah said, ‘Therefore hear Yahweh’s word, I saw Yahweh sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left. Yahweh said, ‘Who will entice Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth Gilead?’ One said one thing, and another said another. A...

I think most people who believe God exists would say without hesitation that God loves human beings and God wants human beings to love him. God doesn’t force us to love him. The question I would like to ask in this thread is: Does God love the angels and does God want the angels to love him...

“How does he try to take it from those who hear? When Jesus interprets the parable of the soils in Mark 4:14-20, he only refers to Satan once. He says in verse 14 that the sower is sowing the Word, and then in verse 15 he says, ‘These are the ones along the path, where the word is sown; when...

“When are our names written in the Book of Life ... and can they be removed? When we are conceived! Anyone who has ever ‘received the breath of life’ (Genesis 2:7) - including those who are living now - has their name written in the Book of Life. However, it is possible to have your name...

“If Christ declares himself to be the way of salvation, the grace and truth, and affirms that in him alone, and only to souls believing in him, is the way of return to God, what has become of the men who lived in the many centuries before Christ came?” What do you say to this ancient (3rd...