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@Mayflower Special prayer for your daughter!

And should a person quench the Holy Spirit in order to avoid animosity or in order to please the majority? Did Jesus do that?

Yes, it is closing in on him now. When his wife died in 2012 my wife and I were certain it would not be long, but God had some things for him to go through... There was an inkling of the situation before she passed on, but while she lived she was always working behind the scenes for God and for...

I do not routinely discount communion as people practice it in church settings, but how important can the shadow be when we fail to access the real thing which is available? It reminds me of that blind lady who was able to recognize friends and family by the silhouettes she was able to see. She...

While I like the overhead screen displays of the words to songs and verses from scriptures, but I rarely return a place that regularly turns down the lights so that I cannot read things from my paper Bible. I guess I am old-fashioned that way.

My advice for what it's worth is to never stop working with God for it is still day. Night may be coming, but it has not arrived yet, at least not to you. Hold onto that Bible that you did not burn.

Without a doubt. I thought I would always be in concrete, but God had something else in mind for me. Praise His name!

Off my beaten path from Oklahoma these days, but then again, who knows? I've never been to a Mennonite meeting. Unfortunately a person cannot tell much about how people by reading the name on the door or on top of the building. We do need to led by God and sometimes He uses people as...

While your take on Nehushtan is certainly correct, perhaps may be seen more clearly in that sense than what I described. But... consider also that the written Bible may indeed be quite similar to the brazen serpent. When those dead words are digested by a person with the Holy Spirit as directed...

Oh yeah, it's closed and locked fast. This is hard me for as I really loved those people.

I hear you. I will be looking around and asking God to help me in this. Thanks for your input.

You are certainly on the right track again here my friend. Communion as practiced in churches where a bit or bread or cracker is consumed along with wine or grape juice may be OK, but when the partaker fails to really partake of the Word and the Holy Spirit, that natural communion stuff is a...

Well I wouldn't want to define the difference, but I do see such a difference. As you said, a pastor is a tender or caretaker or nurturer. Not every minister [servant] is a pastor nor is every pastor a preacher and although all five according to Eph 4:11 are ministers, not all ministers are...

A preacher or a teacher perhaps, but not a pastor... at least not like any pastor I have ever known. All of the ones I've known have been the boss, and a pastor should never in that sense be a boss. I could be a pastor according to the scripture if God were to point me that way, but not like a...

You may be right on this and I have thought of this. This is not my home town so I don't know a lot a people, but there are a lot of people to meet. I had already planned to quit that church when my pastor died. His wife died 7 years ago and I really did not expect him to live this long nor did...

Now this last of yours is something to consider. I had tried a blog for a while in connection with one forum a number of years ago, but the forum itself has diminished to nothing. My only real thoughts lately had been on live audiences as in physical church groups. I used to like visiting the...

"To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:" Ecc 3:1 "...a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;" Ecc 3:7 Who but God knows when it is time?

Or... "their rebellion" Mariva Maria (mar-ee'-ah); Word Origin: Hebrew, Noun Feminine, Strong #: 3137 Mary or Miriam = "their rebellion"

@bbyrd009 "And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?" He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given." Matt 13:10-11 To whom is it given to know? Perhaps the...