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  1. I have listened to Christian rock my entire life and it has never been a factor in poor choices I have made in life, in the contrary it has always help lift me up.. Especially those who are not afraid to sing the gospel just with more grinding guitars
  2. Getting past insecurites from being abused as a child can be a hard thing to do, it can lead to insecurities and issues within relationships as an adult. As a young man I would cover them up with muscles and playing football. But that does not fix things and I am now 36 and on my second marriage, which is all but failing. I can be selfish, inconsistent, and disrespectful. I want to be the man that God wants me to be and the father and husband my family needs. I begged to God on way to work after an argument asking why he has left me, I begged for him to please help me... 30 secs later the phone rang and the Christian College called for a 2nd interview with the VP. That opened my eyes. My wife and I are on the verge of divorce and I have been praying and asking people to pray, but I have not been praying with my "ENTIRE heart" I don't want a flame, I want an inferno in my life, I want to have such a desire to change things in my life and for my wife to become saved and for the marriage to be healed! I would like some input on things about being a Godly man and a better husband... Please be upfront and honest as I will honestly answer any questions I can. I desire to fix this marriage and Jesus I desire to draw close to you and I pray for your strength in this. Thank you
  3. Thank you for the wonderful insight and information. My problem is that my mind wonders Product of ADHD, or so the doctor says. it makes it hard to remain focused on the prayer at hand and my mind tends to wonder and I lose focus.
  4. Jeremiah 29:13 You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all of your heart How do we get to the point we are seeking him with our "entire heart"? I am trying to seek him with things but I am having a hard time understanding the "entire heart". Let me clarify I know what it means in theory but how do you know that is what you are doing? I mean how can you be sure you are using your "entire heart"? I want so much for my wife to accept Christ but am I seeking him enough? I pray but am I praying with my entire heart?
  5. ‘I feel my whole body burning,’ says Oklahoma death row inmate during execution Published January 10, 2014Associated Press FILE: Michael Lee Wilson was convicted of first-degree murder in the death of Richard Yost during a robbery at the convenience store where Yost worked as the night clerk.AP A man has been executed by lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary almost 20 years after orchestrating the brutal assault and robbery of his co-worker at a Tulsa convenience store. Michael Lee Wilson, 38, was convicted in the killing of Richard Yost, 30, who aspired to one day manage the Quiktrip store. Wilson, who was convicted of first-degree murder, was the third person executed for the February 25, 1995, crime; the fourth defendant is serving a life term. 'Love my daughters for me. I'm going to miss you always.' - Michael Lee Wilson Prison spokesman Jerry Massie said Wilson's time of death was 6:06 p.m. Wilson gave brief remarks twice - at first saying, 'I love everybody,' then speaking up again after Warden Anita Trammel ordered the execution to begin. 'I love the world,' he said. 'Love my daughters for me. I'm going to miss you always.' Within 20 seconds of the execution starting, Wilson's final words were, 'I feel my whole body burning.' He showed no physical signs of distress. Wilson's sister, Staci Wilson, sang a hymn throughout the execution, including the line, 'His soul is resting and it's a blessing.' When he was pronounced dead, she recited Psalm 23. After the execution, Wilson's mother, Patricia Taylor, stood to capture a final look at her son on the gurney as a curtain began to close, blocking her view. Wilson's fiancee sobbed beside her. Earlier in the day, he ate his last meal, which consisted of a stuffed-crust pizza with parmesan cheese as a final meal, along with a Cherry Dr Pepper, a pomegranate and cherry mash candy. Yost's family denied an interview request but issued a statement noting the third of three executions was behind them. 'Closure will be not hearing this on the news and reading about it in the paper,' the family said in a statement issued by Angela Houser-Yost, Yost's widow. 'That is my closure - not to relive his death over and over but to remember the good times.' Before the crime, the men loitered nearly an hour while waiting for customers to leave. Once they were gone, they struck Yost with an aluminum baseball bat 54 times in 131 seconds. They jostled a safe while removing it, but Wilson posed as Yost when a security company called to check an alarm. And to dampen suspicions among middle-of-the-night customers, Wilson put on Yost's uniform and worked the cash register as Yost lay dying in a pool of blood, beer and milk behind the cooler doors. The state Board of Pardon and Parole last month rejected Wilson's clemency request on a four to one vote. Ahead of the hearing, Assistant Attorney General Jennifer Miller told the panel that Wilson knew Yost had to die so he couldn't identify his robbers. Police trailed Wilson after he didn't show up for work later that day and stopped all four men in a car about 14 hours after the crime. They carried multiple rolls of $5 bills and had pairs of Nike Air tennis shoes with the price tags still attached. Wilson told officers that the four had planned for two weeks to rob and kill Yost, and a week before the killing even Yost knew something was up: He asked a police officer to increase patrols in the area because he believed Wilson and his friends intended to rob him The assault was captured on the store's surveillance system - video of Wilson stuffing money in his pockets and audio of the bat striking Yost as he pleaded for mercy. 'The repeated sounds of the baseball bat striking Mr Yost and Mr Yost's screams will never leave my mind,' Tulsa Assistant District Attorney James D. Dunn wrote to the parole board. Dunn was a bailiff during the defendants' preliminary hearings in 1995. Yost, 30, had worked at the store three months. In small talk 14 minutes before the assault began, Wilson asked Yost what kind of future he thought he had with the company. According to a summary of the case by the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Yost told Wilson of his desire to manage the store some day. Wilson, who was 19 at the time of the killing, laughed at Yost's answer, and then replied, 'For real?' Darwin Brown, 32, was executed in January 2009, and Billy Don Alverson, 39, was executed in January 2011. The fourth defendant, Richard Harjo, who was 16 at the time of the crime and is now 35, was sentenced to life in prison. Wilson will be the 192nd person executed by the state of Oklahoma since statehood; 52 will remain on death row after Wilson's death. He is the first to be executed in the state in 2014.
  6. This song always seems to speak to me.. thank you for putting up the correct links
  7. As many as 80 people were publicly executed in North Korea earlier this month, some for offenses as minor as watching South Korean movies or possessing a Bible. South Korean newspaper JoongAng Ilbo reported that the so-called criminals were put to death in seven cities across North Korea on Nov. 3, in the first known large-scale public executions by the Kim Jong-un regime. A source, who is familiar with internal affairs in the North and who recently visited the country, told the paper that about 10 people were killed in each city. Eight people -- their heads covered with white bags -- were tied to stakes at a local stadium in the city of Wonsan, before authorities shot them with a machine gun, according to the source. Wonsan authorities gathered a crowd of 10,000 people, including children, at Shinpoong Stadium and forced them to watch the killings. “I heard from the residents that they watched in terror as the corpses were (so) riddled by machine-gun fire that they were hard to identify afterward,” the JoongAng Ilbo source said. Most of the Wonsan victims were charged with watching or illegally trafficking South Korean videos, involvement in prostitution, or possessing a Bible. Relatives or accomplices of the execution victims implicated in their alleged crimes were sent to prison camps. There is no clear reason for the executions. One government official noted they occurred in cities that are centers of economic development. Wonsan is a port city that Kim is reportedly planning to make a tourist destination by building an airport, hotels and a ski resort on Mount Masik. Simultaneous executions in seven cities could suggest an extreme measure by the North Korean government to quell public unrest or any capitalistic inclinations that may accompany its development projects. The common theme of the persecution was crimes related to South Korea -- like watching South Korean films -- or corruption of public morals, especially sexual misconduct. North Korean law permits executions for conspiring to overthrow the government, treason and terrorism. But the country has also been known to order public executions for minor infractions such as religious activism, cellphone use and stealing food, in an effort to intimidate the public. Some experts questioned whether the executions were related to earlier executions of members of the Unhasu Orchestra, a state-run orchestra that First Lady Ri Sol-ju used to participate in, according to the report. “As the news that people were brutally killed in public executions spread in the countryside, the people have been spreading rumors that say that Kim Jong-un has started a terror campaign in response to the Ri Sol-ju’s pornography scandal,” the source told JoongAng Ilbo. There were no executions in the capital of Pyongyang, where Kim depends on the support of the country’s elite. The young leader continues to build luxury and recreational facilities in the capital, including a new water park.
  8. Thousand Foot Krutch - "So Far Gone" [media=] http://youtu.be/7-sigUxXsAA Amazing song!
  9. We need to remember to pray for these persecuted believers!!!! On a rainy afternoon last Spring, American pastor Eric Foley and his wife stood in a muddy field near the North Korea border and prayed – their hands clasped to a 40-foot homemade balloon that would carry Bibles to the communist dictatorship's underground Christians. "I get choked up, every time, as I let go and watch it take off," Foley told FoxNews.com. "They are the most persecuted believers on earth." - The Rev. Eric Foley, Seoul USA The balloons, made from a large sheet of "farm plastic," said Foley, are filled with hydrogen before the Bibles and "tracts" – testimonials written by other North Korean Christians – are attached at the bottom inside a sack or box. Timers are then used to release the materials in stages, dispersing them at high altitudes across North Korea. Foley and members of his Christian mission group, Seoul USA, use GPS technology to help direct where the Bibles land. Around 50,000 of them have dropped from the skies in the last year. "They are the most persecuted believers on earth," Foley said of North Korea’s estimated 100,000 Christians – 30,000 of whom are believed to be locked inside concentration camps, where they are overworked, starved, tortured, and killed. Other activist groups, like Open Doors USA, estimate that number to be even higher, reporting that the secretive nation has about 400,000 Christians. In North Korea, the practice of Christianity is illegal. Owning a Bible is a crime, and any person caught with one is sent – along with three generations of his or her family – to prison. Foley said despite the risks, demand for Bibles is strong within North Korea. His group targets rural areas where they might be picked up discreetly, he said. North Koreans are forced to embrace Juche ideology, which mixes Marxism with worship of the late "Great Leader" Kim Il Sung and his family – a warped version of Christianity, says Foley, because Kim took concepts from Christianity, like the Trinity and church hymns, to create a religion in which he is worshipped. Foley said that if North Koreans learned about Christ, they would realize "this is all a fraud." "It's a distortion of Christianity," Foley said. "And the best way to reach them [North Koreans] is through mindset and knowledge." Foley, who is in his late 40s, founded Colorado-based Seoul USA in 2003 with his wife, a South Korean who immigrated to the U.S. in 1984. The two, along with other members of their group, launched their first balloon -- strapped with Bibles -- from South Korea in 2006. Foley said the balloons are typically sent out overnight from a muddy field at a high altitude between May and October. He said the best conditions are during a "rain storm or really bad weather because of the currents." "We are constantly monitoring the wind conditions as we're launching," he said, "And the North Korean border is always within the sight line." The balloons also include tracts, or testimonies, written by other North Korean Christians -- some of whom managed to flee to South Korea -- about Christ. "The North Koreans respond very well to story," Foley explained, "Because all are required to memorize 100 stories" related to Kim's ideology. In addition to supplying religious materials by air, Foley's group produces short-wave radio programs with North Korean defectors reading the Bible. He said about 20 percent of North Koreans own radios, which are illegal. Foley and his group won the legal rights to conduct the balloon launches from South Korea, but officials there "don't make it easy," he said, noting that they often try to force hydrogen suppliers not to sell the group hydrogen. "Every time we fill up one of these balloons, we hold it and we pray together in English, North Korean and South Korean," Foley said. "We pray loudly and always with tears."
  10. This is an amazing song and really touches one's soul! Thousand Foot Krutch "So far gone"
  11. Jesus has given me so many reasons to believe in him! One that stands out: I was dating a girl in college and her friend brought over a ouija board I refused to touch the cursed thing... I began to silently pray against it and rebuke the demonic use of it. The girl's friends sat there in utter disbelief that it did not move at ALL! So the girl says, well that has never done that before, but I have another one that always works. So she brought that into the room and once again I prayed as hard as I could against it... Guess what... It didnt move either! In that moment I knew without any doubt what so ever how powerful prayer was!!
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