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So it is with the flesh, but at 74 I feel blessed because I can still do many things I enjoy in spite of necessarily slower pace. I used to love to play tennis. I wish I still could. I could hit the ball I am sure, but I would get out of breath walking slowly across the court. It's OK! Give God...

Well I am still the one with the cast iron stomach. Usually my wife shares in the left overs, but her system wasn't up to it so she heated the pizza for me alone and she had something less stimulating. My problem lately has been is that while my taste buds were once able to handle anything but...

Every person who has not already overcome as Jesus overcame in His world makes mistakes in his walk with God. Do you want perfection in us? So do we, but who is able to recognize the flaws and fix them? All I can say is pray for us and we will pray for you so that God will increase us all as we...

I have really read your posts carefully, not just the ones on this thread addressed to me. I have prayed for you and your concerns and not only in tongues. You cannot take me as I am so then let it lie where it is. I am what I am in God. When He sees fits if I am pliable He will change me...

Now my meditation is usually done in the morning during my prayer and reading of scripture time. I will focus on one word or short phrase often in the Book of Psalms. Other times I will simply look up from my book and think on something of God, or of this forum, or of some other thing, or as one...

Yes, I remember when I was young in California and most of the beaches were always complete empty. It was easy to relax while watching the water move. When I went to visit my mother in Oregon the last time before her death I found a similar restful possibility on the beach there. In Oklahoma I...

Thank you for your concern about this. It depends on the font you use as well as the size. I use 6 for Times New Roman, but on some other fonts that comes out too big. If you use another font just compare the resulting size with my posts. For very short posts I have little real problem with...

Amen!

Give God the glory!

Hmmm! I was wondering if anyone noticed when I read what was said about flooding the forum and posting the whole of a theology instead of chunks small enough for most people to easily read and discuss.

Who is dead? Everyone is dead who has not encountered and received the Life which Jesus is. Most people walking around us remain zombies, walking dead men. Those who have received Life often remain babies on milk. They have more knowledge perhaps than the average zombie, but what kind of a...

Absolutely! This is why while God does provide apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers [see Eph 4:11] for our edification, we cannot presume that they are all always where they should be.

And anyone who would easily be swayed probably was either very weak or his position or already on the verge of heading that direction anyway. I am very much a person of the scriptures, but even on those I have changed my position or belief over the years. Consider what Apostle Paul writes here...

Absolutely this is one of the ways in which God convinced me on where I am. At first I thought that over the centuries they [Catholics] as a church group had been confronted by nearly every question a protestor or doubter might come up with and studied the scriptures to find answers to cover the...

All of mine that I would defend could be supported by scripture, but does that mean that I am always right and the other guys opposed to me are wrong? I really do not believe I am always right even if I use scriptures to support my case. Over the years that I have served God I know that my...

If you really do this every time, you are likely a rare bird here. Some might say it, but how many would really do it? "But what think ye? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my vineyard. He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he...

I don't know if this is what you did before, but this works nicely. Thanks for the effort.

For me the starting place is with God and what He is and what He is not. If we ever once understand Him then we simply take all of the scriptures that are seemingly unrelated and determine how they fit Him. The problem is of course getting the starting place right... God created people without...

Thanks for that Willie. We all need encouragement, believe me. Sometimes I get tired, as Paul called it, "weary in well doing", but when I am doing right hopefully I will reach out to the Lord so that He will take hold of my hand. I don't want to sink beneath the waves.

Do you really think I sit back and worry about being seen as a deceiver? LOL, do you think this conversation is a contest of some kind? For me it is not. I would not be in it if I did not really care. Even in this are you expecting me to line my response up with your way of thinking? It seems...