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  1. Joshua_Belyeu

    Star Trek Thread

    I made this pretty short video, giving my basic philosophy about the franchise. I hope you all get something out of it.
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    Should a Christian watch stand-up comedy

    There's an evangelist from Louisiana that I've sometimes watched, named Jesse Duplantis; he's been in full-time ministry for 42 years. Anyway, I remember in one of his messages, he had this to offer... "You know, the Lord has a sense of humor - look at some of the people He created. I've seen...
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    Should a Christian watch stand-up comedy

    Well from my limited experience, when asked if they believe in God, the more honest agnostics will simply reply, "I don't know", and leave it at that. A few may occasionally go psycho, but its far from the norm.
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    Can people tell you are a Christian?

    I've heard that phrase myself, many times...and have even used it a few as well. I'm grateful for God's immense love and grace, but I will admit I still struggle with patience.
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    Contemporary Christian Music

    I grew up listening to early CCM pioneers like Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith, Steven Curtis Chapman, and Carman. I still like all of them, but my tastes have changed to where I also like Christian rock...and no, its not a contradiction in terms. The one band in this genre that I have truly deemed...
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    Can people tell you are a Christian?

    I would personally hope that most of this applies to my life, at least in part. Even though my walk with God has been better over the past few years, its been a very hard struggle for me to get here. I had to deal with legalistic and hypocritical elders, largely-absent parents, childhood...
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    Has anyone else been a victim of “Church Hurt”?

    Yeah, it was absolutely insane in those days. One of the clearest memories I have from that time, was of my aunt seriously insisting that the 1990s "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" cartoons were Satanic (no joke - she literally said that). As such, I was forbidden to watch the program in her home...
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    Should a Christian watch stand-up comedy

    This is where I draw a very important distinction, between the term "atheist", and "anti-theist". Generally speaking, most of your casual atheists are pretty peaceful; they just want to have their views and be left alone. I may not agree with them spiritually, but our conversations won't...
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    Has anyone else been a victim of “Church Hurt”?

    As I said in my intro thread, I was raised primarily in my younger years, by my extremely legalistic aunt and uncle. So much of their worldview was based in fear - if I did anything they didn't approve of (even if it wasn't against Scripture), they had no problem telling me that I was going...
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    Does This Site Have Video Chat?

    I'm just curious about this, because one way I found this place was by typing "Christian webcam chat rooms" into Google. If there's not, that's fine; I don't mind sticking with standard posts. I'd just really like to know about this, as soon as possible. Thanks for your time.
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    Should a Christian watch stand-up comedy

    I think it depends on the type of comedy you want to watch. For example, I used to really enjoy George Carlin, but eventually his repeated swearing and attacks on religion got to me. Thankfully, not all comics are like that now. All you have to do is look up phrases like "clean comedy" or...
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    Greetings To All...

    Hello, to all my fellow believers. I'm a 43-year-old Texan, primarily raised in the Dallas area (though I left in 2015 after my Mom passed away). I first said the "sinner's prayer" when I was 9, but my aunt and uncle's extremely legalistic ways drove me away from God during my teens. It wasn't...
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    Speak Your Mind.

    Hey, all. I will be brutally honest here, and admit that even though I've been reading my One Year Bible, every night, I'm skipping the Old Testament parts. The main reason is that in all truth, I just find a lot of the OT to be extremely boring (hey, at least I'm not trying to hide my...