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    IS IT OBLIGATORY FOR CHRISTIANS TO BE GOING TO CHURCH?

    Following God, He has taken me from a weekly church to a house church with a somewhat unpredictable schedule and a membership spread over 300 miles. In this, I have come to believe that 'church' is anywhere two or more believers are gathered (Matthew 18:20). Also, God has talked to my new...
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    WHAT FOOD DON'T YOU LIKE THAT THE WORLD LIKES!

    Actually, it is for sale, though I think in pounds.
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    WHAT FOOD DON'T YOU LIKE THAT THE WORLD LIKES!

    Red licorice. Yuck! Give me black every time. I suspect coconut water was invented as a torture device. And I can't say I'm against the whole world on this, but no pineapple on the pizza for me, please.
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    How do you relate to God?

    For me, at one point things being said about God at church had me overwhelmed and unsure how to relate to Him, so I asked Him for a way. He drew my attention to the sky. No, the sky isn't itself God, nor is God limited to the sky, but the metaphor works because there is an interface point...
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    What Color Is This Owl?

    Turquoise for me but it reminds me of the bathroom floor. A few years back my roommate and I went floor shopping for our bathroom. Blissfully (and probably due to prayer) we both were drawn to the same flooring, which also 'happened' to be on sale. Putting it down was a Covid project of mine...
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    Christian related movies

    I loved the movie Amazing Grace. It's the true story of William Wilberforce and the outlawing of the slave trade in Briton.
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    Could You Spend 3 Years on a Cruise Ship?

    Having voted to stick to my bathtub, my real issue isn't the water. Although trying to burn the candle at both ends didn't help, I felt like I was going out of my mind on my week-long Alaskan cruise a few years back because I'm prophetic and I couldn't handle the spiritual mess of the company or...
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    God and Time

    What? You find it confusing that I played pool until I could go in the pool? I had actually considered saying "swimming pool" on the latter but I think I thought (probably wrongly) that it would be more artful this way.
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    Just say NO to easter!

    I was hoping for peace between us, but that cannot be had when you turn a difference of beliefs into an unfounded personal attack on my character. You really have no idea of the path I have walked, or even where I am now, and you are really in no place to judge.
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    everything is predestined?

    A good question to be asking. I was actually putting into my own words the teaching of a prophetic elder that I tested over a significant period of time even though God very quicky started confirming the authenticity of this man's gift and calling to me. There is no way for me or anyone else to...
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    God and Time

    Thanks, I will keep that in mind but I guess I tend to have a different purpose with being here. Funny you should mention pool, though, since I had an opportunity to play a game of it yesterday while I waited for the pool to become available (weather delay for my aqua aerobics class), and...
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    What was your fave cartoon as a kid and why?

    I forgot about Recess, that was indeed a good one.
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    What was your fave cartoon as a kid and why?

    For me it was the Anamaniacs. I can't remember many specifics, just that it had me laughing a lot. Honestly it might have been a bit snarky but also just silly. For example, the girl character's name is Dot, so I remember an episode where they would periodically speak of a pattern of polka dot...
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    God and Time

    Incorrect. I am a teacher called by God. It is a burden in my soul to help others in understanding to encourage spiritual health. It comes from the same place that makes me want to get my seedlings in my garden off on a healthy path. Further, my goal in this is to glorify God and help others to...
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    Just say NO to easter!

    Dear JohnDB, I'm not sure we are communicating. If I misunderstood you, I Apologize. What I heard in your earlier post was a suggestion that people who don't want to observe Christmas and Easter are less generous people than those that do observe them - an absurd suggestion considering that...
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    Just say NO to easter!

    I think you missed the point. It isn't that some of us don't like to give, but the spirit of how it comes about with Christmas and Easter is off.
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    Just say NO to easter!

    Reminds me of way back, my first job at McDonald's, working on Easter. I didn't care that it was Easter because I'm a Christian and Easter has too much paganism mixed in. My coworker beside me was there working Easter too because he was a pagan and it has too much Christianity mixed in for him...
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    Are only those who are born-again saved?

    Depends how you mean it. Ultimately yes, but just because someone doesn't get there in this life doesn't mean they won't in the next.
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    The tree of knowledge of good and evil

    Not sure what to make of that but do understand that what the Knowledge of Good and Evil means (via prophecy) is deception - a mixture that keeps you from being able to see the truth.