Streams of Consciousness & Thoughts~~~

  • Christian Chat is a moderated online Christian community allowing Christians around the world to fellowship with each other in real time chat via webcam, voice, and text, with the Christian Chat app. You can also start or participate in a Bible-based discussion here in the Christian Chat Forums, where members can also share with each other their own videos, pictures, or favorite Christian music.

    If you are a Christian and need encouragement and fellowship, we're here for you! If you are not a Christian but interested in knowing more about Jesus our Lord, you're also welcome! Want to know what the Bible says, and how you can apply it to your life? Join us!

    To make new Christian friends now around the world, click here to join Christian Chat.
ATSTD

ATSTD

Well-known member
#63,561
Feb 21, 2025
1,035
386
83
37
Long Beach, California
www.lnk.bio
#63,561
seoulsearch said:
ATSTD,

May I ask what's going on? I am in no way trying to belittle your situation, but this seems to be a very regular pattern for you.

For a few days, you'll seem like you're spiritually and emotionally flying high, and a crash comes in the form of a post like this. Over and over...

Is there something we can do to help? 🥺
Click to expand...
I had a conversation with someone in the Bible discussion app that just kept fighting tooth and nail with me, and decided he just wasn’t going to believe anything I have to say. Why do we have non believers on here who swear they are Christians?

It’s just really freaking annoying.

Plus, right after that, I listened to a sermon about tithing, after I listened to someone for years tell me that I didn’t have to tithe. I even went on Christian sites that said you don’t have to tithe.

Now I have a criitical spirit because I listened to a human. I don’t like what I’ve become. And now I have to give to build up financially?

They also said that I can give my time towards something.

I’ve literally been working my *ss off.

I used to earn over 20 times than I earn right now.

It’s just really frustrating why that happened and why God allows these things to happen.
 
Lynx

Lynx

Folksy yet erudite
#63,562
Aug 13, 2014
28,965
10,426
113
#63,562
ATSTD said:
I had a conversation with someone in the Bible discussion app that just kept fighting tooth and nail with me, and decided he just wasn’t going to believe anything I have to say. Why do we have non believers on here who swear they are Christians?

It’s just really freaking annoying.

Plus, right after that, I listened to a sermon about tithing, after I listened to someone for years tell me that I didn’t have to tithe. I even went on Christian sites that said you don’t have to tithe.

Now I have a criitical spirit because I listened to a human. I don’t like what I’ve become. And now I have to give to build up financially?

They also said that I can give my time towards something.

I’ve literally been working my *ss off.

I used to earn over 20 times than I earn right now.

It’s just really frustrating why that happened and why God allows these things to happen.
Click to expand...
Tithing can be, and has been, debated for decades. Everybody has his own favorite verses to prove why we are or are not required to pay tithes.

I ignore it all.

I pay tithes to my church because I like what my church does and I want my church to continue doing it. My church helps a lot of people (and I don't mean with the electric bill, although we help people "in need" too.) I want my church to pay the electric bill and put gas in the church bus and all the stuff that keeps a church running so it can keep helping people.

Once upon a time a storm came through with a lot of strong straight-line wind. It knocked down a LOT of trees and big chunks of west and middle Tennessee were just a spaghetti bowl mess of power lines. After about half a week of no power in most of the area, our pastor's wife said she felt like we should go to a certain neighborhood and give some people a pizza and a coke. Not invite them to church or anything, just go door-to-door handing out a medium pizza and a two liter coke.

First door I knocked on with a pizza and a coke, a guy looked like in his 60s started crying because someone cared enough to bring them a pizza and a coke. It's not what we gave, it was just that we were telling people there was still someone who cared out there.

That was MY money helped pay for that. :cool:

Yeah I'll pay tithes. Not because someone proved I had to or proved I didn't have to. Because I want to be part of that.
 
LifelongLearner

LifelongLearner

Active member
#63,563
Sep 29, 2024
571
170
43
#63,563
Think it's fair enough to say there's very little the UK has been first in for some decades, sadly, these two *firsts* make me wish we stayed that way. :cry:

First up, Bitchute, a British company, has discontinued video hosting for other Brits, due to the Online "Safety" Act:

https://dailysceptic.org/2025/04/09...g-service-in-the-uk-blames-online-safety-act/

I seriously recommend browsing through the Daily Sceptic whether you're British or not. They largely focus on the UK angle but have many interesting, pertinent articles on Global events too. Also, their podcast episodes are well worth browsing through.

Did check to see if this video was posted on April Fools Day but sadly it wasn't, so assume it's another possible first which i so wish didn't originate here. You might not be able to watch it through, it's gross along with spiritually offensive:

Watch This Professional Wrestling-Themed Church Service -
 
LifelongLearner

LifelongLearner

Active member
#63,564
Sep 29, 2024
571
170
43
#63,564
ATSTD said:
I had a conversation with someone in the Bible discussion app that just kept fighting tooth and nail with me, and decided he just wasn’t going to believe anything I have to say. Why do we have non believers on here who swear they are Christians?

It’s just really freaking annoying.

Plus, right after that, I listened to a sermon about tithing, after I listened to someone for years tell me that I didn’t have to tithe. I even went on Christian sites that said you don’t have to tithe.

Now I have a criitical spirit because I listened to a human. I don’t like what I’ve become. And now I have to give to build up financially?

They also said that I can give my time towards something.

I’ve literally been working my *ss off.

I used to earn over 20 times than I earn right now.

It’s just really frustrating why that happened and why God allows these things to happen.
Click to expand...
Bless you friend, i too was pretty surprised when i realised some here seemed short on Godly devotion let alone were true to its power.

Don't let it affect your walk with the Lord in any way, sadly, i'm sure some of them would love to make you doubt if possible. Also, when i thought about it, i realised it seems logical Satan would love to throw a spanner in the works of the great good sites like this offer.
 
LifelongLearner

LifelongLearner

Active member
#63,565
Sep 29, 2024
571
170
43
#63,565
This is a truly glorious, blessed day, a beautiful beacon in these dark, evil times. Think it's also the first time i really understand just how momentous an event it was, so posting a link to a hd version of The Gospel of John:

It's the Lumo Project version, not the Visual Bible one. I love the Visual Bible version too but like how this version uses an average looking guy to play Jesus, rather than a gorgeous looking guy like in so many productions. Have heard that Jesus appeared among us as a very ordinary looking dude, this version feels that bit more realistic to me, different strokes for different folks etc.
 
LifelongLearner

LifelongLearner

Active member
#63,566
Sep 29, 2024
571
170
43
#63,566
Lynx

Lynx

Folksy yet erudite
#63,567
Aug 13, 2014
28,965
10,426
113
#63,567
The singers were singing a song at church, and I started thinking about my job.

Actually they were singing "we will understand it better by and by" and I started thinking about how I train new people.

I always start by explaining that there is official procedure and there is the wrong way. I demonstrate how to do something, and I tell them that any other way aside from the official way to do this task is objectively wrong.

"You know why?"

"No. Why?"

"Beats me. But there's a guy who signs my paycheck and he says to do it this way, so whatever. There's some stuff I could do easier and faster, but I'm not losing anything by doing it the official way. I still get paid. It may take longer this way and I may be able to prove that I could do it better my way, but at the end of the day I'm still getting my paycheck so I'm not losing a dime. If there's any loss it's my employer who is losing it, and he's the one who said to do it this way."

Some things I just don't understand. Sometimes it seems pointless to try to talk to some people. Sometimes being nice to people get your hand bit off. Sometimes people take advantage of your kindness. Sometimes I wish God would warn me to not bother being nice to certain people. Sometimes I wish some people didn't have to die so soon. Sometimes I wish I had something I don't have, because it seems like it would be a really useful to do something I think God would really want me to do.

But I'm still getting something I don't deserve at the end of this. If I never understand it, I'm still getting paid.
 
E

Edith

Active member
#63,568
Apr 21, 2025
139
46
28
#63,568
i was ju
zeroturbulence said:
My creepy dream..

I had this crazy dream last night that I was in this huge dark room like a cavern and I was surrounded by these tribal looking people. Just like something out of an Indiana Jones movie. I felt like I was trapped there even though I wasn't tied up or anything. These people just kept looking at me with this crazy wild stare in their eyes and then they slowly started to do this weird dance. They like bounced up and down while pushing their hands in the air, sort of like when people go "whoop! whoop!".

They still had that crazy look in their eyes as they danced but now they were looking all around themselves as if they were in fear. Something told me that I should start doing the dance too if I wanted to survive so I started doing it. Then they focused their attention to the back of the huge room/cavern and it was dark so I couldn't see what they were seeing. Then it emerged from the darkness.. a giant cartoon bug. Yes it was like a 3D animated toy bug but it was huge, like over 10 ft tall and it had this smiley green face but the weird thing is that the bug was walking on its hind two legs and it was doing the same dance that the people were doing except it looked like it was the bug's natural way of moving.

It started to make its way across the room and through the middle of the crowd and I could tell that these people were really frightened and they dared not stop dancing because somehow I knew that if anyone stopped dancing they would be eaten by this thing. I woke up before anything else happened. :p

This little guy actually looks a lot like the bug in my dream except the one in my dream had 2 more pairs of legs.
Click to expand...
st going to share may own dream when I saw yours
 
You must log in or register to reply here.