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mjrhealth, I don't want this to become a versus-type argument, but I have one question of such a perspective? Doesn't it kind of presume to limit the Holy Spirit if one maintains that he cannot work through other authors? While we must avoid the temptation of making the footnotes the...

Life is most definitely a marathon! I hope you find the encouragement you need here and I hope you'll share what you've learned and experienced along the way. Welcome!

Please don't take this as any sort of criticism towards you, but I think this statement is one with the wrong focus. I see this a ton in the faith, and I have been guilty of it myself. However, I think this statement comes from a me-centric (or us-centric) point of view as Christians. Recall...

Thank ya'll for the corrections; we proofed it but missed that one! It should read "Christian beliefs..." - which is what the intention originally was.

Yes, there is a 5 post threshold to create a blog. :)

Absolutely pompadour! The vast majority of readers are not members! This site averages 15,000+ unique visitors every month, and a we served around half a million pages, so you can see that we have a number of lurkers who don't even have accounts, but they read the boards pretty heavily. I...

I have both. I did a review on my blog for Fresh Air by Chris Hodges. I have not yet finished Perry Noble's Unleash! but I read a good bit of it; I still will publish a review. They are both excellent books and written from a very common-language perspective that I think is fresh. If the...

Pride. One of the things that hit me when reading a number of the gospel accounts is how the Pharisees would ignore the actual work of Jesus - such as healing a man - because he simply did it on the Sabbath. They could not stand him breaking the Sabbath rule, so much so they were willing to...

And my other gripe is that when you do get one of those 1/5 people who are truly searching or new to something (usually the faith), it's probably not the time to present them with your 49 point exposition on Revelation 9 when they are asking about finding a church. I am guilty of this myself at...

Well, as an Administrator, this is something I want to say Amen! to! At the onset, we must realize that the vast majority of people who frequent Christian forums already have formed an opinion on the subject. This means that when you're debating, you are a foreign army marching into enemy...

Andy, I have a AD33 copy of the KJV in Elizabethan English that's much older than yours. I know it's authentic because it's called the King James Bible and the back cover is signed by Jesus in red ink. :D (Tongue-in-cheek disclaimer.)

^ Funny. I've got a good one. How do you tell the difference between a Baptist and a Presbyterian? ..... ..... ..... A Presbyterian will wave at you in the liquor store. :lol:

Thanks for the alert; we performed an upgrade last night and some changes in the software affected the quote display. I believe this to now be fixed, although for the moment it won't scroll. Quotes are pretty important on a forum. ;)

Well, we go a little overboard on a tree as far as my wife and child, but we enjoy the lights and the meaning behind the tree in recognition of our ultimate Tree of Life. Beyond that, it's an always fun candlelight church service, and time well spent with the family on both sides.

I don't ever foresee the KJV dropping by the wayside until the return of our Savior. I think that it's poetical value alone will ensure that it sticks around simply because there will never be a more beautiful version of the English Bible. All of our current translation trends are for simplified...

Welcome to the community, Blair! We have a couple of people in your shoes. I'm all about some sort of involvement in a local church, but I am also aware of the demanding jobs and schedules out there that make it difficult or impossible to be involved. I hope CB can be a place that you can learn...

I'm the church media guy at our local congregation. We range from 50-80 believers on any given week. I wanted to give you that background because I come from a relatively "average" church in the sense of size and composition. [/font][/color] Generally speaking, yes. My only concern is the...

Article: http://www.guardian....in-christianity Interesting.

The NASB is a good translation of a good text - if you're using the Bible primarily for study, then I'd use the NASB. However, the great downside to the NASB is that since it seeks to be so [almost] absolute in its translation of the Hebrew and Greek, it makes for a difficult read due to the...