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  1. It's not just scriptures I have trouble reading. I can barely get on the forums and read an entire post anymore.
  2. Anyone here ever have times where you do not feel like reading? Not necessarily scriptures, although that would impact such, but just books in general? i am having the hardest time picking up any book right now. How do you work through such times? Is it by reading less? Or by just gutting it out and grinding through?
  3. Good responses thus far. Something that has always intrigued me is the next verse in the passage, v16 in which Jesus seems to indicate if we love him and keep his commands in v15, then he will give the Holy Spirit. The giving of the Spirit seems to be dependent upon our keeping these "commands". So that begs the question again, what commands can we keep apart from the Holy Spirit being given? I have always been taught we need the Holy Spirit to keep Gods commands, yet Jesus says you have to keep commands to get the Holy Spirit, as Peter does too in Acts 5:32. My view is this: the commands Jesus speaks of are to 1) Believe & 2) Love. Even heathens are capable of "love" so that is not dependent upon the Holy Spirit and believing is necessary to receive new life. These are the two main teachings of John's gospel, believing and loving. So in essence Jesus was saying to me: if you love me, believe in me and love one another then I will give you the Holy Spirit, again and again.
  4. Jesus said, "If you love me, keep my commands." What are these commands he speaks of? Jesus seems to indicate in this passage our receiving the Holy Spirit is dependent upon our keeping his commands (v16). I have always been taught we need the Holy Spirit to keep Gods commands, yet Jesus says you have to keep commands to get the Holy Spirit, as does Peter in Acts 5:32. So what commands can we keep apart from having the Holy Spirit?
  5. Ah but we should expect his return as eagerly as people expect this eclipse.
  6. well we have a wonderful place to meet here
  7. I only said NW to SE in reference to the path the eclipse will take. It enters the US in the NW and exits in the SE. I didn't mean the country would be split along such lines. Just that the eclipse splits the country right through the middle
  8. I actually feel as though God has told me the eclipse is a sign of trouble in america. That the country is divided and will be progressively so (as the eclipse will cut the country in half from NW to SE). Civil War perhaps?
  9. So in essence fulfill the ministry God has given you?
  10. How do we reconcile ideas in Christianity that are seemingly opposed and yet necessary for each other? A big one I hear all the time is resting in Jesus while simultaneously working for Jesus. How does one rest and work at the same time?
  11. What do the scriptures mean by saying to train ourselves in godliness and how do we as believers train ourselves to be godly? 1 Timothy 4:7
  12. We will be condemned openly in the name of social progress. Forced by law to conform to modernism or face fines or jail. It will become acceptable to openly oppose and be violent against us as it currently is to be so against more acceptable hate groups like Neo-Nazis and such
  13. There is only one way the current political/social atmosphere ends in American society. The open persecution of Christians. We already see it in the dark recesses of society. People suing Christians for not catering to their sinful lifestyles. Groups condemning christians as "hate groups" for their stance on moral issues. The current movement to denounce and expunge American historical figures and anti-conservatism will only end one way: The open persecution of Christians. Eventually these people will run out of American patriarchs to topple, or the shift will become one of "White Christian men" were the cause for slavery and injustice, or both. But mark my words, society will come for blood in america, sooner or later. Watch & Pray.
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