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Yes my mother grew up in Oklahoma during the dust bowl and the great depression. They never had any money but they always had a large garden in order to survive and turnips always did well...

The secret I learned when eating liver at my mother's table was to cover each small bite with catsup prior to putting it in my mouth. At my wife's table the problem has never occurred as she also hates liver and turnips.

Whipped cream!

The mixture doesn't sound appetizing. I really have never tried it...

There several things my mother fixed routinely that turned my stomach and she was normally a great cook. I ate what she fixed but with some things it was a struggle. I never struggled with home made cream puffs or doughnuts or hot fruit pies. But leave out the rutabagas and the liver...

But not ice cream!

I hear you my friend. I have many tales I could tell of my drinking experiences over years before I changed life styles to serve God in 1976 [age 32]. Some of them were friendly and fun. Others were pretty bad. In addition to my once a years beer, my wife and I periodically will buy a small...

Amen! During my whole history as a practicing Catholic I only regularly attended one. I personally never disagreed with what I was taught when they were teaching it to me. On the contrary I was blessed and both the priests and nuns involved never gave me reason to disagree with what they were...

Yuck! (never did like them LOL)

I hope that any who really loves God will hold back going 'all the way' prior to marriage. For lesser involvements I really believe that it will vary from person to person and from couple to couple. God can judge you and you may be able to judge yourself, but anyone else can only offer advice...

Well I have never owned a gun and at my age it is unlikely that I will, but every year or so I partake in a good dark beer. One bottle is usually my limit.

Giant!

Zhivago

And then also... "Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man." Matt 15:11

The level of faith, yes... and when any of us is quenching the Holy Spirit, our faith has dropped essentially then to zero or...? What a mighty God we serve? Let us not quench the Spirit of God in us!

Yes our dear missing sister here @Miss Hepburn manifested to me by her posts the importance of listening carefully to God. When it is time to pray it must also be time to listen... to God!

Apt

Praying for you brother!

If you really do not, then it probably is not. Does not the fact of sin come from our own hearts? God is not just looking at the physical things we do which other people can see. God is looking at our hearts. Are we trying to pull a 'fast one' on God or anyone else or are we really striving...

Then let us leave it in God's capable hands! Give God the glory!