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181 | A bible split up into separate volumes!! | Bible general Archive 2 | khuck | 103184 | ||
Hi marksofJesus.com, I got this link from Makarios' profile (and I might add that the resources that he has are GRRREAT!) I have downloaded this online Bible software and find it to be pretty neat. It may serve your exact purpose. It allows you to add your own notes and commentary. There is quite a nice library and it also includes dictionary and Hebrew text. Try it and see if it meets your needs. http://www.onlinebible.org Peace and goodwill to you, -khuck And thanks Markarios :) |
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182 | khuck ... thanks for your answers .. | Gal 6:17 | khuck | 103183 | ||
Hi CDBJ: Not to be rude or anything, but have you read the entire thread? Or did you just see my post and jump on it. If you did you have taken the whole thing out of context and your post is wated on me. Since the very questions that you are asking me are pretty much the same ones that I posed to the original poster. Have you read the entire thread? I was responding to someone else. One of the first things that I said in my response was that I was very skeptical of the latest stigmata phemoenon. And my post tend to explain why. Maybe your questions would be better served if they were posted to the original poster. You have a nice day too... and may God bless you in it. -khuck |
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183 | Must we be Baptized to enter Heaven | John 4:14 | khuck | 103145 | ||
Hey Ray :) If this all being so then I see no disagreement in what we believe. And as I said before, the capitalizations are really not my greatest consideration when reading the Bible. Maybe I am missing the point. It feels like you are saying, POE-TAY-TOE" and I say POE-TAH-TOE" LOL! John 6:63 "It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the "words" that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life." Even in the verse above that you wrote, it only causes me to stand on my belief that the words are life giving. The very Godhead is Life. (IMHO) God created breathed life into man and he became a living soul. Jesus died that we may have life. And the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of life. Remind me... Why are we having this conversation again? -khuck |
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184 | Pologomy Allowed? | Ex 21:10 | khuck | 103143 | ||
Dear Headdoc5, I love the idea of Christian Psychology, one of my good friends is a an Associate Church Pastor and Christian psychologist and when I had gone through the processes of grieving, anger and depression, he was able through his own Bible knowledge and as a Doctor to shed real 'Light' on these circumstances. He taught me to take advantage of what Christ has given me to overcome them. I commend you on 33 years of marriage (geez, most marriages do not last after 7 years) let alone having love that exponentiates each day. But it does happen and I commend you. My intention was to bring fact to the thread, but if in anyway my answer was harsh or it seemed judgemental. Please accept my sincerest apologies. Charge it to my "head" lol and not to my heart:) Growing in Him, -khuck |
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185 | EXPLAIM CHAPTER 3 VERSE 5 | John | khuck | 103133 | ||
Just to add a footnote: I found it interesting that in Lev 14 there are many representations of baptism written in the Levitical law. Verse one is regarding the cleansing From infectious diseases of the flesh. It bring to my mind sin. But this verse calls for blood and water to be used among other things for cleansing to take place. Sorry to interject... I just found it interesting. -khuck |
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186 | khuck ... thanks for your answers .. | Gal 6:17 | khuck | 103131 | ||
Hi Joel, The marks of Jesus (Galatians 6:17): slaves were often branded by marks (stigmata) burned into their flesh to show to whom they belonged; so also were devotees of pagan gods. Paul implies that instead of outdated circumcision, his body bears the scars of his apostolic labors (2 Cor 11:22-31), such as floggings (Acts 16:22; 2 Cor 11:25) and stonings (Acts 14:19), that mark him as belonging to the Christ who suffered (cf Romans 6:3; 2 Cor 4:10; Col 1:24) and will protect his own. -khuck |
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187 | khuck ... thanks for your answers .. | Gal 6:17 | khuck | 103132 | ||
Hi Joel, The marks of Jesus (Galatians 6:17): slaves were often branded by marks (stigmata) burned into their flesh to show to whom they belonged; so also were devotees of pagan gods. Paul implies that instead of outdated circumcision, his body bears the scars of his apostolic labors (2 Cor 11:22-31), such as floggings (Acts 16:22; 2 Cor 11:25) and stonings (Acts 14:19), that mark him as belonging to the Christ who suffered (cf Romans 6:3; 2 Cor 4:10; Col 1:24) and will protect his own. -khuck |
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188 | khuck ... thanks for your answers .. | Gal 6:17 | khuck | 103130 | ||
Hi Joel :) I can not dispute or confirm what has happened in your life. Although in all earnest I will admit to you that I am skeptical of stigmata. There are many who trust these incidents and others who are detractors of them. May I ask you please for the sake of my sincere curiosity, 1. What do you equate this phenomena to in your life? 2. Why do you think that God is relating to you in this way? 3. Do you know of any Spiritual benefit of this phenomena to yourself or others? Stigmata: In Imitation of Christ. -Author: Joe Nickell Of reputed miraculous powers, perhaps none is more popularly equated with saintliness than stigmata, the wounds of Christ's crucifixion allegedly duplicated spontaneously upon the body of a Christian. Indeed one historical survey indicated that about a fifth of all stigmatics are eventually beatified or canonized (Biot 1962, 23). The year 1999 brought renewed interest in the alleged phenomenon. Among the offerings were the movie Stigmata (which even contained a brief shot of my book, Looking for a Miracle -Radford 1999); a Fox television pseudodocumentary, Signs from God, which featured a major segment on stigmata (Willesee 1999); and the Vatican's beatification of the Italian stigmatic Padre Pio (CNN / Time 1999). For an in-progress television documentary, I took a new look at the subject. Evolving Phenomenon From the death of Jesus, about A.D. 29 or 30, nearly twelve centuries would pass before stigmata began to appear-unless one counts a cryptic Biblical reference by St. Paul. In Galatians 6:17 he wrote, "I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus." Many scholars believe Paul was speaking figuratively, but in any case the statement may have been sufficient to prompt imitation. St. Francis of Assisi (1182-1226) is credited with being the first stigmatic-- or at least the first "true" one, his affliction occurring just two years after that of a man from Oxford who had exhibited the five crucifixion wounds in 1222. That man claimed to be the son of God and the redeemer of mankind, but he was arrested for imposture, his wounds presumed to have been self-inflicted. In 1224 St. Francis went with some of his "disciples" up Mount Alverno in the Apennines. After forty days of fasting and prayer he had a vision of Christ on the cross, whereafter he received the four nail wounds and a pierced side. Francis appears to have sparked a copycat phenomenon, since publication of his reputed miracle was followed by occurrences of stigmata "even among people who were much lower than St. Francis in religious stature, and have continued to occur without intermission ever since," according to Catholic scholar Herbert Thurston (1952, 122-123). He continues: What I infer is that the example of St. Francis created what I have called the "crucifixion complex." Once it had been brought home to contemplatives that it was possible to be physically conformed to the sufferings of Christ by bearing His wound-marks in the hands, feet and side, then the idea of this form of union with their Divine Master took shape in the minds of many. It became in fact a pious obsession; so much so that in a few exceptionally sensitive individuals the idea conceived in the mind was realized in the flesh. Thurston believed stigmatization was due to the effects of suggestion, but experimental attempts to duplicate the phenomenon, for example by using hypnosis, have been unsuccessful--except for a related case which appears to have been a hoax. (The psychiatrist reported that bloody tears welled inside the subject's eyelids, but a photograph shows rivulets originating outside the eyes.) |
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189 | Must we be Baptized to enter Heaven | John 4:14 | khuck | 103119 | ||
Greetings Ray On the subject of Living Water vs living water I catch your drift. I understand exactly where you are coming from, and I have no qualm with it. you said in the spirit of grace or it's attributes if I am correct. Yet I still have the same thoughts... that even the Spirit of Grace is whereby we receive such attributes. :) Kathy |
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190 | Must we be Baptized to enter Heaven | John 4:14 | khuck | 103118 | ||
Bullseye! it did :) -Kathy |
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191 | Altar calls. Biblical references? | 2 Sam 24:25 | khuck | 103117 | ||
Hello Headdoc5 I agree with Markarios here, and I would like to add that though there may be no Biblical history of the early church having such Alter Calls, they are a good thing. One of the core values of the Church that I happened to attend is "CREATIVITY. And though some means of reaching a lost and dying world may not be scriptural, We are willing to use every means afforded to us to share God's Salvation plan for mankind without compromising the Gospel. If this be through dramatizations, skits, passing out tracks, websites such as this or the even a skateboard exhibition, we will do it. The Alter Call may not be a Biblical practice of the NT Church, but it's purpose, which is to win souls to Christ is very much Biblical. For many denominations, in particular some Protestant and Baptist Churches it is a regular invitaion that is offered to those who are seeking answers and deliverance through Jesus. Yet even so these denominations are a part of the Body as a whole. Mark 9: 38- 41 John said to Him, "Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us." But Jesus said, "Do not hinder him, for there is no one who will perform a miracle in My name, and be able soon afterward to speak evil of Me. For he who is not against us is for us."For whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because of your name as followers of Christ, truly I say to you, he will not lose his reward. In Matthew 11:12 Jesus says, "From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and violent men take it by force." Paul expresses that he will go to the lengths necessary without compromising the gospel, to win souls to Christ in 1 Cor 9:19-22; "For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a slave to all, so that I may win more. To the Jews I became as a Jew, so that I might win Jews; to those who are under the Law, as under the Law though not being myself under the Law, so that I might win those who are under the Law; to those who are without law, as without law, though not being without the law of God but under the law of Christ, so that I might win those who are without law. To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak; I have become all things to all men, so that I may by all means save some." God's Blessings be upon you! -khuck |
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192 | Do we believe IN God or believe God? | Bible general Archive 2 | khuck | 103094 | ||
I'd say yes if by believing you mean believing His Word to be true and by believing IN; to believe there is a God. There are those who believe that there is a God, they believe He exist, but they feel the Word is a fallacy contaminated by men. On the other hand for a deeply grounded Christian, I think they should mean the same. Believing IN what He says, does, and promises would equate to believing Him and that He Is! (We therefore we put our trust IN Him as we trust and believe Him.) God's Peace to you! -khuck |
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193 | What were the "marks of the Lord Jesus"? | Gal 6:17 | khuck | 103090 | ||
Stigmata - a archaic : a scar left by a hot iron : BRAND b : a mark of shame or discredit : STAIN c : an identifying mark or characteristic; specifically : a specific diagnostic sign of a disease ***Coffman- Galatians V17 Henceforth let no man trouble me; for I bear branded on my body the marks of Jesus. This is doubtless a reference to the scars of such suffering as Paul's stoning at Lystra, among these very Galatians, on the first tour; and he considered such "marks" as positive and undeniable evidence of the genuineness of his apostleship. Any interpretation of this passage as a statement that nail-prints had appeared in Paul's hand and feet in some supernatural manifestations of the Stigmata belongs to the Dark Ages. Nothing like that is in the passage. There might be, however, some comparison intended with certain practices among the heathen. "The mark of the pagan god Dionysus was that of an ivy leaf burned into the flesh with a branding iron," and such a practice widely known to the Galatians might have suggested Paul's using the term "branded" here; but beyond that, there could have been no connection. As Ramsay eloquently declared, "The marks that branded Paul as a slave of Jesus were the deep cuts of the lictor's rods of Pisidian Antioch and the stones of Lystra!" *** ***Darby Finally, let no one trouble him with regard to his ministry. He bore the stigmata of the Lord. It is known that marks were printed on a slave with a hot iron to indicate the person to whom he belonged. The wounds which the apostle had received, fully shewed who was his Master. Let his right then to call himself the servant of Christ be no more questioned. Touching appeal from one whose heart was wounded at finding his service to the Master whom he had loved called in question! Moreover, Satan, who imprinted those marks, ought indeed to recognise them-those beautiful initials of Jesus.*** -khuck |
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194 | fact or fiction STIGMATA | Gal 6:17 | khuck | 103083 | ||
Offer it up: Stigmatas, Suffering and the Catholic Church -By Jackie Alnor (Posted March 2, 2003) The Roman Catholic Church is full of traditions that seem so bizarre to those raised Protestant. One of the hardest things for Bible-based Christians to understand is the concept of self-induced suffering. This is seen most often during the season of Lent, approaching Easter. EWTN, the Catholic television network, airs footage of processions of the Catholic faithful walking up cobblestone stairs on their knees until they are bloody. Also in the processions are monks with their backs bared who lash themselves with leather whips while keeping in step with the crowds who are following behind a liter carrying an ornate and decked out statue of Mary. In some extreme cases, men present themselves every Good Friday, particularly in the Philippines, to be literally nailed to wooden crosses while the crowds gather around and look upon them with awe and approval. Some of these self-afflicted sufferers come back year after year to compete with each other to see who can stay nailed to their cross the longest. A well-known monastic practice is the wearing of hair shirts designed to make a penitent monk very uncomfortable. The wearers of the burlap attire would take vows to not satisfy the urge to scratch even as the itching became unbearable. They were to offer it up to God for merit in heaven. Bible-believing Christians look at this and get sick to their stomachs. It is obvious to them that these activities have no spiritual merit whatsoever. The Bible backs up that assessment. The Apostle Paul wrote of the spirit of this sort of thing when he said: "These are matters which have, to be sure, the appearance of wisdom in self-made religion and self-abasement and severe treatment of the body, but are of no value against fleshly indulgence" (Col 2:23). Stigmata Origins Historically, these sorts of traditions came out of the monastic practices of the Middle Ages. The Franciscan order of monks were known for their vows of poverty, strict rules, and harsh treatment of their bodies. The founder St. Francis of Assisi is the first known person to ever have the ultimate in pain piety -- the stigmata. The Catholic Encyclopedia describes this paranormal phenomena this way: "Many ecstatics bear on hands, feet, side, or brow the marks of the Passion of Christ with corresponding and intense sufferings. These are called visible stigmata. Others only have the sufferings, without any outward marks, and these phenomena are called invisible stigmata." for more on this Stigmata you can read the entire article at: http://cultlink.com/CathAnswers/Stigmata.htm -khuck |
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195 | Must we be Baptized to enter Heaven | John 4:14 | khuck | 103072 | ||
Hi Ray :) Quoting you, "For example, I would want to talk to you about why you would put in caps the word baptism and spiritual baptism. Also, I would have talked about Nicodemus and spiritual things and spiritual baptism. That is just my interest and don't let it bother you if I go overboard sometime." LOL Sometimes we all get passionate about the Word that we love so dearly, after all it gives Life :) Like Nicodemuswe we'll still find those today who are convinced of the outward miracles the Lord performs and of the history that the Word reveals, but they have not received the very thing that would make them acceptable to God's Devine Presence whereby He could receive them into the Kingdom. Not accepting God on earth, how could these pharisees be prepared to receive of the Spiritual God in heaven. Are these not one in the same God? Therefore the natural man can not be reborn of the flesh, but the spirit of a man can be renewed and must be to receive what is from God. There being many things spiritual, it would stand to reason in my heart, that this must not be just any spiritual rebirth, but the only Spirit that could regenerate a man's spirit, giving him reconcilliation to God would be God's Own Spirit of Grace. So truly the words Jesus spoke, "to be Baptized of water and spirit", was of a total rengeration of the spirit of a man. (A spiritual rebirth, if you will) If I would look at the fact that neither the words "spirit or water" are capitalized, then I look at this verse in the natural sense, and deem that Christ is telling Nicodemus that in order to be born again, that his spirit (Nicodemus') must be cleansed or washed. Therefore to be born again or to become "NEW" there must be a New baptizing with a "NEW WATER" which I believe is The Spirit of Grace, and then the old spirit must be baptized in this LIVING WATER, to be regenerated, thus one's spirit is renewed through a baptism of the spirit, that takes place through the Living Waters. (I hope that made sense) This I agree with when I use it in the context of a man and what he is and what he needs. No caps would be needed because we are only speaking in terms that a man's "spirit needs" to be "cleansed". Yet on the other hand it is by "God's Cleansing Spirit" that it takes place. Darby ***Seeing Jesus, and hearing His testimony, had produced a sense of need in the heart of Nicodemus. It is not the knowledge of grace, but it is with respect to man's condition a total change. He knows nothing of the truth, but he has seen that it is in Jesus, and he desires it. He has also at once an instinctive sense that the world will be against him; and he comes by night. The heart fears the world as soon as it has to do with God; for the world is opposed to Him. The friendship of the world is enmity against God. This sense of need made the difference in the case of Nicodemus. He had been convinced like the others. And the source of this conviction was the miracles. But Jesus stops him short; and on account of the true need felt in the heart of Nicodemus. The work of blessing was not to be wrought by teaching the old man. Man needed to be renewed in the source of his nature, without which he could not see the kingdom. The things of God are spiritually discerned; and man is carnal, he has not the Spirit. The Lord does not go beyond the kingdom-which, moreover, was not the law-for Nicodemus ought to have known something about the kingdom. But He does not begin to teach the Jews as a prophet under the law. He presents the kingdom itself; but to see it, according to His testimony, a man must be born again. But the kingdom as thus come in the carpenter's Son could not be seen without a wholly new nature, it struck no chord of man's comprehension or Jews' expectation, though testimony to it was amply given in word and work: as to entering and having a part in it there is more development as to the how. Nicodemus sees no farther than the flesh.*** Isn't God Awesome?!! -Kathy |
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196 | Matt 7:1-2 ESV | Matt 7:4 | khuck | 103067 | ||
Greetings Jlpangilnan, I wrote some brief comments from this article in another thread. But there is a certain order that should be followed before we castigate, rebuff or expel a fellow Church member. And though I do not disagree with any verse or scripture that you have posted here to substantiate your beliefs, I would say that there are many others on how we are to judge, when we judge, and the actions that the Church should take when these judgements are made. Therefore I will not crowd the message board with this entire article, but if you sincerely seek this information, I would earnestly suggest that you read: Church Discipline http://www.bible.org/docs/theology/eccles/churdisc.htm All things done in the Body should be done decently and in order. The Word does entreat us to follow a certain order in these matters. Your fellow Truth seeker, -khuck |
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197 | Must we be Baptized to enter Heaven | John 4:14 | khuck | 103060 | ||
Hi Ray, Capitalizations do not really mean much to me when I am studying the word or Word (smile). I find that I tend to research the content of the verse and the context of the words. Especially since some words have multiple meanings and may mean one thing in english while meaning another in hebrew or greek. Therefore I compare commentaries and use resources that translate the language that was being used and the context in which the words were used. I will do my best to explain what and why I believe. in this post. I will start with John 4:10 (Living water) When the Lord was at the well with the woman... This commentary and of course my additional thoughts are the reasonings that makes my belief that this living water, is truly the Spirit. Jesus answered and said to her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, 'Give Me a drink,' you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water." When the Lord made the remark "If you knew the gift of God", should not gift be capitalized, since we know that Christ is the Gift of God and that He is the very Life or life that He is speaking about. *** By this living water is meant the Spirit of Grace, "Who" is not like the water he asked for in the bottom of the well, but He is like living or running water, which was much more valuable. The Spirit of grace is as living water. Under this similarity the blessings of the Messiah had been promised in the Old Testament, Isa. 12:3; 35:7; 44:3; 55:1; Zec. 14:8. The graces of the Spirit, and His comforts, satisfy the thirsting soul, that knows its own nature and needs. Jesus Christ can and will give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him; (remember He answered the woman, "you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.") because He received that He might give. Here are additional commentary notes that prove to "me" what I believe. ***Living water: is a reference to the water of life, the spiritual realities that lead to overlasting life in the presence of God. ***Living water: pardoning and justifying grace, every branch of sanctifying grace, and all the supplies of it; called Living Water, because his grace quickens sinners dead in sin, and dead in law, and in, their own apprehensions; and causes them to live in themselves, and before God; and because it refreshes and comforts, revives and cheers, and is like rivers of water in a dry land; and because it maintains and supports spiritual life in their souls; and it ever abides, and continues, and springs up unto everlasting life: for the allusion is to spring water, that bubbles up in a fountain, and is ever running; for such water the Jews call "living water"; see (Genesis 26:19) ; where in the Hebrew text it is "living water"; which we, and also the Chaldee paraphrase, render "springing water". So living waters with them, are said to be always flowing, and never cease. ***Living water:This everlasting water, that is to say, the exceeding love of God, is called "living" or "of life", to make a difference between it and the water that should be drawn out of a well: and these metaphors are frequently used by the Jews. ***Living water: that Christ gives--spiritual life--is struck out of the very depths of our being, making the soul not a vessel, for holding water poured into it from outside of it, but a "fountain" (the word use, to distinguish it from the word used "well" in John 4:11), springing, gushing, bubbling up and flowing forth inside of us, ever fresh, ever living. The indwelling of the Holy Ghost as the Spirit of Christ is the secret of this life with all its enduring energies and satisfactions, as is expressly said (John 7:37-39). "Never thirsting," then, means simply that such souls have the supplies at home, into everlasting life. I will research further the rest of your note and respond accordingly May Gods Peace always remain upon us -Kathy |
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198 | What would Jesus have you do? | John 4:14 | khuck | 103008 | ||
Hello Radioman, And thank you for the warm welcome. It helps me to feel less like I have just bogarded my way into the forum. LOL I love this forum. It causes me to study my beliefs deeper, and to research with more more depth the reasons that I believe as I do. Because of this website I have re-thought some issues, in others my belief has been solidified, and some I have had new avenues of learning and understanding opened to me. I have been studying and using Christian resources that I have saved, stored and marked on this little laptop like nobody's business. I will confess that I had to knock the dust and cobwebs off of a few. (grin) This forum has been a great help to me and I appreciate all of you who participate in it. AND I DO MEAN EVERYONE :) -kathy P.S. One day I will have the audacity to ask my little question. |
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199 | Must we be Baptized to enter Heaven | John 4:14 | khuck | 103005 | ||
Misunderstanding?? I do not believe that anyone here has stated that we reject baptism, obviously most if not all of us have been baptized in material water. The point we are responding to is Stevens "ORIGINAL" question in this thread which was, "Must we be baptized (in material water)to enter into Heaven.?" We were responding as to why it was not necessary to ensure one's salvation or enter into the Kingdom of God. We also listed the instances when it is impossible to be baptized (and still there is no danger of salvation lost or Heaven's doors being shut in your face). All these being true if you have received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. God's Peace be upon us! -khuck |
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200 | Matt 7:1-2 ESV | Matt 7:4 | khuck | 103000 | ||
If in my past before receiving Christ, I was in a drug addict, I feel it would be my duty to speak with my brother and encourage him by sharing my testimony of how I was delivered from the addiction. I believe there is strength that can be gained for others who seek it, when we share our testimonies. To abandon my brother in a time when encouragement and love is truly needed is so not cool from where I sit. And if I chose to speak with him in love and sound encouragement about a problem that I had, is that not sound judgement? (If I am missing your point... charge it to my head and not my heart) I Love Him Today! -khuck |
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