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You are not the only one, but I started a bit earlier than you. The only things I knew at age 32 were the few things the nuns had showed us in catechism or the priest mentioned at mass. The nuns never mentioned which book or chapter things came from or even if they came from the Bible. That was...

But surely we cannot condemn every single member even though we may disagree with the official stance in some areas. When I was Catholic, I was sincere in my beliefs, even though I was ignorant of many things. I certainly did love God with what I had at the time. If you have been paying...

@kepha31 So many terrible things in the minds of men these days. More prayer is needed to be certain.

But... I have seen it Helen in you. You are perhaps looking in the wrong places and with the wrong eyes. Sometimes I believe God will keep the blinders on us for His purposes. Maybe it is for your own good. Many people focus on a time soon coming when people will be healing regularly physical...

Amen to that! Even those who have seen some of this will still act at times as if they did not. Yours truly will likely also be guilty. We have a preconceived notion at least in part as to what is good, but we really do not know. While the old man lives at all in us, we can quench the Holy...

Without a doubt. People may realize that an overlapping or shadow effect or whatever that exists between our carnal life of flesh and bone versus the new Life that Jesus brought. But often it seems that they want to draw too sharp of a line between here [present time & place of the flesh] and...

You should talk to my wife about it sometime. She is really our family doctor for her and me. She really should have gone to medical school except it probably would have ruined her. She can diagnose better than most of the medical doctors available from what I have been able to see unless it is...

If God is doing the scattering or at least using the scattering, there indeed should be no "seemingly". God has the whole plan in mind. If He cannot use you [or you won't allow yourself to be used] for the Right Hand, He may find a use for you with the Left.

The dying daily as per Paul is likely the same thing in effect as starting at the lowest room as per Jesus. When we climb on our own it is for our glory and not God's. It is death for us in the things of God. That self-starter stuff using our abilities and our gifts to accomplish our purposes is...

They were scattered seemingly without destination or purpose. That would be me if I was just going as I once did before I married. I saw Viet Nam and the Dominican Republic (military) first and then as a civilian not serving God I went to Bogotá, Mexico City, West Berlin and London. I still have...

I don't recall anything in Revelation at the moment, but see these words from Isaiah: "Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts. Then flew one of the...

Indeed, I find it impossible to exhaust the messages that God has enclosed in scripture for us. Sometimes it just jumps right out at you and for others you have to dig and research in to just begin to understand them. I did not look up the leeks and garlic separately as you did, but was struck...

It is a breathing technique used by women during labor to endure pain without anesthesia. My wife used it successfully as I said for the birth of our little girl. I remember at the time that I was her breathing coach, but I have forgotten whatever I learned at the time. She does not need as...

@pia Thanks for your kind words. May God richly bless you and yours as walk on with Him.

Before we were Christians, when my wife was pregnant with our second child she learned Lamaze. After screaming with pain with the first child, for the second used her Lamaze and the difference was like night and day. Any time to this day when she is in pain, she uses that same Lamaze...

I am dangerous to them when God's Word Alive is in me and cutting off the evil in people. I am then also dangerous to anything left of the old man in me. The battles still rage in me. The good thing is that God never loses battles. The bad thing is that people, including me, do lose battles...

Finding the real thing of anything positive [God's positive] may indeed be a difficult thing. God can do it: Eight in from a world covered by water; two from 600,000 Hebrews without counting women and children. Few there be that find it... Hey at present my trips to the congregation really...

@bbyrd009 In the OT we see people going in and out of the outer court to bring their sin offerings to the priests. How many of them stopped committing the same old sins down the road as they became aware that this was getting to be an old thing. Did any of them repent of their continuous...

And what a revelation it was, or...?

@bbyrd009 Yes, I also believe it. To go to the natural grave with a final victory would leave a person on the outside where there is death and/or darkness. You are not faking any time you are really seeking. How often is that happening? Was David really seeking God when he was looking at...