Monny

Here's the story. I woke up and I was really tired from studying all night long... So I decided I wouldn't go to school and take all 5 tests on one day. I remembered I had to pick up one of my friends today and so I called her to let her know that I wasn't going to school. When she picks up she tells me she wasn't either. Her and someone in her family got into an argument. Needless to say this is wrong. However she's no angel but the person that hit her was an adult and someone who should be responsible. They've always gone at it WITH WORDS it's never gotten to this point before. The worst part about all this is that the person that hit her is a "Christian" that spends a lot of her time worshipping praying and telling others of the word. I stayed on the phone and let her just talk. I started to say some things to her about the Devil and how he trys to steal your happiness and destroy your family. But she's heard all that before. She knows the Lord too but for some reason decides not to turn to him on continually ignores him. I don't know what to tell her. I said I was gonna go over and be there for her. But when I get there I don't know what to do. What do I say? I don't know I think the reason that she hasn't come to Christ is because she sees what this person does and maybe says, "What's the difference?" if that's what a Christian is then why even turn to Christ I can be like that on my own. You knwo what I mean? She's a very proud person one of those people that if you do something she'll do something back you know? What can I do?

Thanks, keep them coming. I'm usually really good with music. Worship is my soft spot. Lol P.s. to Pearl Butterfly I love his "Grace Like Rain" P.p.s Wow.I just heard My Jesus and it was amazing. Lately I've been struggling a bit in my walk with Christ and the very first verses just hit me like a stone. This song is amazing. I LOVE IT. Thank you. Glory to his name.

Man... hmm it all really depends on what kind of music you like and your age. However, I'm 16 and I've found that regardless of the type of music I love it because of the lyrics. I'll try to do my best and sort it out for you. Worship: Casting Crowns -All of their songs Michael W. Smith - "Open the eye's of my heart" "Above All" Building 429 - "I Believe" "No One Else Knows" Just to listen to: Jeremy Camp - "Let it fade" "Lay down my pride" "I'll Take You Back" (all his songs) TobyMac - "Gone" "Burn for you" Dc Talk - "Jesus Freak" Lifehouse - "Everything" "Hanging by a moment" From Hard rock to regular stuff: Seventh Day Slumber - "Awake" "Every Saturday" Disciple - "More Than a Man" "After the world" (these guys have a wide range of style) Relient K - "Forgiven" "Who I am Hates Who I've Been" "High of 75" Switchfoot - pretty much all of there songs these guys are awesome. Try "I Dare You To Move" "This Is Your Life" "Meant To Live" Upbeat: Newsboys - "Something Beautiful" "He Reigns" Hillsong - "Break Free" "Take It All" There are thousands more. Just let me know Message me if you want. Music is my specialty =]

Hello fellow brothers =]. How are we all today? Good I trust. Welll I'm looking for some good worship songs. NEW worship songs. I really havn't been able to find any new songs with that deep conncection like most of Michael W. Smith's songs. They kind of speak directly to you, ya know? Anywho I was just trying to find some good songs that the youth would like to listen to as well as some adults. I've heard names such as Chris Tomlin. Any suggestions? P.S. Sorry I didn't know where to post this. I'd be glad if you moved it to the right place.

Thanks Dave for clearing that up. It helped clear some things up. I was beginning to think I was making stuff up and being blashemous. I appreciate all your help a long with the others that helped. BTW is your name Matthew in Hebrew?

So let me see if I get this right. 1. Marriage between husband and wife should be like the marriage of Christ to the Church. 2. When it talks about becoming one in the flesh, this is what I understand. a.The people(church) should love and be loyal to Christ. Christ undoubtedly loved and was loyal to the Church. a1. A wife should love and be loyal their husband, husband should love and be loyal to wife 3. You should be One in spirit. Have the same beliefs and morals. (Or did you mean soemthing else?) Matthitjah: "Yes, in the Spirit, I find that you were rather correct that God does have and does desire for us to have the right mate, the chosen mate that He has made us for. My wife and I were chosen for each other, we were indeed made for each other." "This other person can never make you complete in the sense of Marriage yet it is God's Highest Good for you should it be His desire that you Marry" Is there some type of scripture on this. I've always heard that God has the desire for you to have the right person, and I remember someone once saying that "God's Highest Good" for you to be married or have a wife and kids. But I can't find that in the bible. Matthitjah: "This other person can never make you complete in the sense of Marriage yet it is God's Highest Good for you should it be His desire that you Marry. I believe that what you spoke of was that relationship you saw in Christ. That He is indeed that half of us or rather the whole that we have been missing. He is the only One that can make us whole and we must be joined to Him in our death and subsequent Life. For our Marriages to be complete we must be found in Christ first then we will not rely on the other party to complete us. We will be complete and satisfaction will not come from our spouse yet she/he will be a Joy in the knowledge that God has indeed secured us." 1. Your spouse can never make you complete, because it is God who makes us complete. 2. For our marriages to be complete Christ and the Father must be our main focus, then us. Please feel free to correct any of my mistakes and further explain anything. I need to learn these things correctly before I teach them to anyone else.

I read Matthew 19... 19:22 to be specific (thanks Conundrum) and it says : For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother's womb, there are eunuchs who were made by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves that way because of the kingdom of heaven. Let anyone accept this who can. But I don't see where it says that there are some chosen specificaly by God to be eunuch. Can you help me a little further. I'm not trying to argue, just trying to learn a little more. Thank you.

Thanks Nathele and Conundrum. I realized that I was making up things that aren't true. I have to go correct that. I don't know where I came up with this. Thank you all for your help. What I do know however is that the Bible teaches that marriage is a good thing and that being married and bearing kids is one of the most beautiful and rewarding things. I don't know how I transformed that into soemthing else. I'm so sorry. Thank you for correcting me before I did something REALLY WRONG. Thanks again.

Hmm I just found the book and the verse, it was 1 Cor 6. It seems that what I said was wrong. I unknowingly transformed what I read into something else. I don't know where I came up with the whole you having another half made just for you thing. Can somone correct me. Because it seems that I'm wayy off.

Sorry, I didn't know where to ask this so I'm asking it here. Today in lunch we somehow got into the subject of marriage and the Word. I said "God created you and created someone perfect for you. Right now you're a half. You're not meant to be alone. You have another half out there and when you get married and have sex (should have probably worded it a bit different...) you become one whole. Just how he said it was meant to be... Then she asked me, "Is that in the bible" I said "yeah"."In fact I had it on my Myspace a while ago" . . . now the only problem is . . . I CAN'T FIND IT in the Bible. I KNOW it's there though, can any of you help me? P.S. I remember I first read about it in a Jesus Freak book by Dc Talk . . . I don't know if that helps at all.

I didn't want to bunch it all up on one post so I have some more questions about the things I do and stuff. I'm going to post a lot of different questions and things I go through and Think about I'll try to sort them out for you guys. Alright well to begin with. Like my Christian friends (Pastors and other elderly church leaders) think of me as such a great person this and that. Like just today my Pastor came over (I'm the only christian in my family) and was talking to my mom and I caught a part about how she was saying I was different from the kids like I actually wake up in the mornings to go to church and stuff. And sometimes the pastors and stuff talk about how good I am. But I don't know. I don't see myself like that. I have so many struggles and stuff. Sometimes it's really hard for me to wake up. Sometimes I don't even pray or read the word. It's been confirmed that my calling is to be a Pastor. I can't even imagine that happening. I'm ONLY 16. I'm a terrible public speaker, I studder and what not, and everytime I speak most of the people don't pay attention. But like I was saying I sin a lot and ask the Lord for forgivness A LOT I sometimes feel like I'm not even really asking for it, just repeating the words. I don't know I just don't see myself like that, I don't know how to give any more examples. Another thing. It feels like I'm just doing the routine thing. Going to church, praying at night etc. However I do get those moments where I'm like driving somewhere I hear a song and he touches me and I'm thinking, "Wow how can I doubt you". But a lot of the time I find myself not even thinking about him. Sometimes I don't want to pray at night because I feel like I have to pray for every single person I know. I'll begin with praying for myself and then peoples faces pop in my head and if I don't pray for them I feel guilty. What do I do about that. I'm one of those people that love to wear Christian things like I have some shirts with scriptures on them my car has the "Jesus Fish" which believers used to identify themselves with and all those sorts of things. But I sometimes find it hard to speak about him. Most of the time I don't but with people that I don't know... it's really hard. Sometimes I think like a worldy person and not a Christian. Like I want Christ to be the main thing in my life. For example, On my myspace it's mainly about Christ . . . however in school we had to do a bio poem . . . and we had to talk aobut things we loved wanted to see and those kinds of things... and then I was on my friends myspace (a believer) and she had some of her things where "A lover of God" and In need of "God's patience" when I did this same poem I didn't even THINK of God. I thought wow how could I have not thought about him. Last thing (I think) I tend to evaluate myself and I tend to think about what people think about me A LOT... Sometimes I do something and I'm there like... hmm I wonder what they thought aobut what I just did... or I wonder if there thinking of something I said. I also tend to look at myself in a negative light... I don't know how to explain this. I think about things too much in depth. I don't want to be another superficial Christian. I know God loves me, He loves me so much that I haven't completely left him. He hasn't let me. I sometimes pray that he helps me feel his love and his presence and not just hear about it. I pray aobut those kinds of things. I want to havew that awsome connection with him. I sometimes smile and feel this warmth, I tell my friends I love them and they look at me like.... why, what did I do. I know.... that's God's love. I'm sorry for making you guys read that, I don't even know if it all came out right, but I tried my best. I don't know exactly what I'm looking for... Advise, Answers(only to the things that you can answer, some things only God himself can answer). Once again I apologize for the length of this post.

Hello all I have a simple question. I am a follower a Christ. I'm one of those guys that loves reading Romances and watching Romance movies and such. I'm not afraid to say things that may seem... femenine. I'm not really "manly" in modern terms by any means. I'm not into the whole fixing cars thing. I don't know how to do a lot of those things. You know, I like looking at the stars at night, it's so awsome and relaxing I'm already thinking of my future wife and kids. How much I want to have a beautiful family and a wife that loves me . . . but loves God more. A lot of my friends, even the Christian ones don't think about theses kinds of things. Whenever I think about it I find myself smiling. I notice that in the bible the men are so strong and I don't know. I don't see any similarity between me and them. Is it okay to be the way I am? Btw, I'm only 16. Oh and I have more questiosn about myself and such, should I ask them in here or in a different post. I don't want to have 284 questions in one post. P.S I've been looking for a good Romance/Love movie but most of the ones I find are very contreversial. For example I loved The Notebook, but it had some very unchristian things in it. I enjoyed A Walk To Remember, and I loved the fact that the main character was Christian. Are there any good movies out there tthat has sort of a positive Christian element . . . Lol thanks in advance.