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- Sat Dec 19, 2009 9:50 am
- Forum: General Discussion & Introductions
- Topic: Church friends and longevity
- Replies: 25
- Views: 5866
Re: Church friends and longevity
Be careful you don't read in what isn't there. For example, the New Testament was not influenced by ancient pagan mystery religions or even pagan thought as modern neo-pagans and ani-christ liberal professors like to falsely assert. Be sure to read Nash's 'The Gospel and the Greeks' paying special a...
- Fri Dec 18, 2009 11:26 pm
- Forum: General Discussion & Introductions
- Topic: Church friends and longevity
- Replies: 25
- Views: 5866
Re: Church friends and longevity
I have a few friends I maintain in prior churches but they are mostly by facebook. While there's something to be said about the transcience of society, maybe it says something about the way institutional churches function. Fellowship is primarily in the halls, before and after a service and we spen...
- Fri Dec 18, 2009 1:57 pm
- Forum: General Discussion & Introductions
- Topic: Church friends and longevity
- Replies: 25
- Views: 5866
Re: Church friends and longevity
You are not a member of an evangelical church though are you? I thought you were Eastern Orthodox. I am differentiating between the megachurch evangelical Christian communities and more cloistered communities which have certain ethnic and language makeups, ritualisms, and unique beliefs that tend t...
- Fri Dec 18, 2009 10:28 am
- Forum: General Discussion & Introductions
- Topic: Church friends and longevity
- Replies: 25
- Views: 5866
Re: Church friends and longevity
While I've had many "friends" in churches with whom I've lost contact, most of the dearest friends I have today come directly from my involvement with past churches. In fact, all my closest and longest running friendships are former-fellow worshipers (that date back to my single days). Ma...
- Thu Dec 17, 2009 4:37 pm
- Forum: General Discussion & Introductions
- Topic: Church friends and longevity
- Replies: 25
- Views: 5866
Re: Church friends and longevity
This thread is revealing a common trend in more urban modern churches that most people wouldn't have a clue about looking in from the outside. Despite all the hugging and talk of great love for each other, few evangelical Christians in urban environments actually develop long term close relationship...
- Wed Dec 16, 2009 10:54 pm
- Forum: General Discussion & Introductions
- Topic: Church friends and longevity
- Replies: 25
- Views: 5866
Re: Church friends and longevity
Agree, age, many of the friends made in churches of long ago have not kept in contact. For me, the friends issue correlates with the married/single state. especially in the 30's. Most of my female friends have been llong since married and while I tried to keep in contact, family life and married li...
- Wed Dec 16, 2009 12:32 pm
- Forum: General Discussion & Introductions
- Topic: Church friends and longevity
- Replies: 25
- Views: 5866
Church friends and longevity
I realized that after 22 years of being a Christian, I don't have a single friend from any of the many churches I attended in the past except for the church I go to now. It's as if I went to church for 22 years and after the hugging is over with not a single one of them I am in contact with today. C...
- Tue Dec 15, 2009 4:58 pm
- Forum: Prayer Requests
- Topic: When Thanksgiving goes wrong...
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3240
Re: When Thanksgiving goes wrong...
Yes I did. The police are trigger happy in Southern California. A lot of them want a kill for the prestige it brings. A guy I know named Alex who runs a famous streetgangs site was in Los Angeles a year or two ago and video taped the police shooting an unarmed black man who crashed his car into a tr...
- Tue Dec 15, 2009 12:07 pm
- Forum: Prayer Requests
- Topic: When Thanksgiving goes wrong...
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3240
Re: When Thanksgiving goes wrong...
Even though I'm sick with severe arthritis and severe reflux that keeps me feeling like crapola 24 hours a day, I'm going to an interview with the state EDD department. Apparently my high scores and veteran's preference points kicked in. I'll have to work around a bunch of homosexuals, feminists, an...
- Mon Dec 14, 2009 9:39 pm
- Forum: Prayer Requests
- Topic: When Thanksgiving goes wrong...
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3240
Re: When Thanksgiving goes wrong...
Well somehow everything worked out. Not sure how though. My paperwork for Remecade is going through at this time. If I get approved, I'll be able to get off methotrexate onto something better. I bought 6 tickets for the lottery but my numbers didn't work. The pot is up to $118 million dollars and I ...
- Mon Dec 14, 2009 4:16 pm
- Forum: Christian Chit-chat
- Topic: Christian Music
- Replies: 117
- Views: 25617
Re: Christian Music
Hmm.. cool. Thank you cslewis.
- Mon Dec 14, 2009 9:31 am
- Forum: Philosophical Discussions
- Topic: Speck of dust
- Replies: 142
- Views: 41393
Re: Speck of dust
Very true Jac.
- Sun Dec 13, 2009 11:17 pm
- Forum: Christian Chit-chat
- Topic: English Gematria: Integrates with AKJV Bible
- Replies: 43
- Views: 11881
Re: English Gematria: Integrates with AKJV Bible
Thank you. I have it and will need time to read, research, and consider. Peace Ed.
- Sun Dec 13, 2009 10:18 pm
- Forum: Questions for Christians
- Topic: Morals without god/the bible
- Replies: 448
- Views: 78233
Re: Morals without god/the bible
Age: I don't believe the gamblers fallacy is relevant to this point. There is a large difference between a statistical impossibility and an absolute impossibility. Especially if one believes in a God for whom nothing is impossible, or simply for me who believes we cannot predict future events with ...
- Sun Dec 13, 2009 10:09 pm
- Forum: Christian Chit-chat
- Topic: Christian Music
- Replies: 117
- Views: 25617
Re: Christian Music
But where is all the best Christmas music??????????????????????????????