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Desire Runs Deep

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Char replied to Addai's discussion Pastoral Care Litmus Test
"Sounds like it's just a modified preceptorship.  I actually think it should exist for every profession, so that you learn what it's really like. I learned more in my first preceptorship than in the previous three years combined. Plus…"
53 minutes ago
JRKH replied to Maurice Edwards's discussion Spirit Led VS Emotions
"Alex has expressed the matter very well above.  Emotions tend to be the result of some stimuli - a reaction - but how we react is often based on something deeper...on what we often call our character.  One person angers easily while…"
53 minutes ago
Addai replied to Addai's discussion Pastoral Care Litmus Test
"  A few thought Daniel.... 1) It's possible to have that problem.   I did but most of my classmates, were folks going to small to medium churches where that wasn't the issue. (Pastoring is often one of the most flexible…"
5 hours ago
Addai replied to Maurice Edwards's discussion Spirit Led VS Emotions
"Ugh.. Rene that's an urban legend.     http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/10percent.asp"
5 hours ago
Rene Linzay replied to Maurice Edwards's discussion Spirit Led VS Emotions
"Maurice; God's ways are higher than our ways and His thoughts higher than our thoughts.  Isaiah 55:8-9 We must stop being impressed by our own intellect.  And take hold of His way of thinking.  We are to be conformed daily. …"
8 hours ago
David Oldham replied to Maurice Edwards's discussion Spirit Led VS Emotions
"Maurice, Possibly. I still believe that as the Bible states our flesh wars against our spirit. What we want to do frequently isn't aligned with what we should do is it? Even our fleshly logic can get in the way. Many times what our spirit is…"
8 hours ago
Rene Linzay replied to Maurice Edwards's discussion Spirit Led VS Emotions
"A few rules will help in discernment in some situations.  The Spirit will never direct you do anything contrary to the Bible. Hebrews 4:12 I'm going to use this very poor illustration, but it is the one that comes to mind. …"
8 hours ago
Frank P. Spinella Jr. replied to Frank P. Spinella Jr.'s discussion "God has made him both Lord and Messiah"
"Regardless of how one interprets Exodus 23:20-23, let's not assume too quickly that the Pentecost Jews jumped from “Jesus is Lord” to “Jesus is God" or "Jesus is the angel of Exodus 23" or anything…"
9 hours ago
Rene Linzay replied to Addai's discussion Pastoral Care Litmus Test
"What is the question? "
9 hours ago
Rene Linzay replied to Cherylu's discussion Biblical Support for Parental Authority over Adult Unmarried Daughters?
"I'd like to use an example.  My husband of 30 years asked me to marry him.  I said yes,,....if my father gives his blessing.  My husband, then an almost fiance' asked what if he does not give his blessing?  I told my…"
9 hours ago
Rene Linzay left a comment for Daniel
"I have reviewed the rules and agree to abide by them."
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Addai replied to Addai's discussion Pastoral Care Litmus Test
":)   It's not that unusual if you consider other professions,  especially how the various mental health professions train their folks.   (nce they have a psychology program at Fuller I have to assume that they lifted it from…"
11 hours ago
George Harris replied to Frank P. Spinella Jr.'s discussion "God has made him both Lord and Messiah"
"Also, to add more weight to what I pointed out earlier of the Jews understanding of Jesus as Lord (Ex 23: 20-23) is, as I was reminded by a blog post here, that the first Pentecost was at the giving of the law at Mount Sinai. So the Jews would be…"
11 hours ago
Alex Guggenheim commented on Scott's blog post The Church Did Not Begin at Pentecost
"God's people have always existed from Adam, onward. So are we to say Israel was really not Israel but Adam? They are, in one sense, but that one sense (Romans - all being Adam's offspring) does not negate its special or unique distinction…"
12 hours ago
Alex Guggenheim replied to Maurice Edwards's discussion Spirit Led VS Emotions
"Emotions are physiological responses, they have no thought behind them, in and of themselves. Now in general, the design or intent of emotions is that they follow thought, that is they animate us in some manner physiologically as a result of a…"
12 hours ago
George Harris replied to Frank P. Spinella Jr.'s discussion "God has made him both Lord and Messiah"
"It seems from what is written that those Jews believed Jesus to be Lord before they were given the gift of the Holy Spirit.  The Jews who came to Pentecost witnessed the outpouring of the Holy Spirit and heard the preaching of…"
12 hours ago
Addai commented on Scott's blog post The Church Did Not Begin at Pentecost
"I still like the traditional Classical Christian way of interpretting it better.... I think not using it you actually loose the signicance of the types and shadows etc.   It's also a bit of a trueism to say that event X…"
12 hours ago
Addai replied to Maurice Edwards's discussion Spirit Led VS Emotions
"I might disagree with this.   I will just say that in my earlier days with Pentacostals etc. I was put on the defensive because of my more cerebral personality and nature.    They didnot like it and sometimes even sermons…"
13 hours ago
Robert Atwood replied to Peter John Ellway's discussion William Lane Craig
"Quite honestly. Peter, I am not inclined to offer a moral defense of the Hebrew treatment of the Canaanites.  I think an even stronger case is made in the person of Ivan, in the Dostojevski novel The Brothers Karamazov.  How…"
13 hours ago

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Pastoral Care Litmus Test

Started by Addai in Theology (General). Last reply by Char 53 minutes ago. 6 Replies

I was going to make this part of the ongoing Mega church discussion but decided to open it up to anyone else that wanted to answer it.  Around 96-98 I was enrolled in a program at Fuller Theological…Continue

Spirit Led VS Emotions

Started by Maurice Edwards in Theology (General). Last reply by JRKH 53 minutes ago. 14 Replies

Many Christians quote, "don't be led by your emotions, be led by the spirit". How do you separate the two? Keep Galatians 5 in mind!

"God has made him both Lord and Messiah"

Started by Frank P. Spinella Jr. in Theology (General). Last reply by Frank P. Spinella Jr. 9 hours ago. 25 Replies

Pentecost has me thinking of Simon Peter’s proclamation that “God has made him both Lord and Messiah, this Jesus whom you crucified.”  I wonder how the Jews who were converted that day understood his…Continue

Biblical Support for Parental Authority over Adult Unmarried Daughters?

Started by Cherylu in Theology (General). Last reply by Rene Linzay 9 hours ago. 11 Replies

The current discussion on the Purity Ball concept has brought another question to my mind.  A few years ago I knew some familes that believed that a young lady was to be completely under her parent's…Continue

William Lane Craig

Started by Peter John Ellway in Theology (General). Last reply by Robert Atwood 13 hours ago. 194 Replies

Is anyone else interested in Craig, the Xian philosopher whom Richard Dawkins seems to avoid? Craig's Divine Command Theory leads him to justify the slaughter of the Canaanites by the Israelites, and…Continue

Do You "Know" Jesus?

Started by Maurice Edwards in Theology (General). Last reply by Maurice Edwards 15 hours ago. 12 Replies

Inspired by my last discussion. We're called by the gospel to believe in and on the Lord Jesus. We're called "believers". But many Christians claim to "know" Jesus. Elaborate!

Foxe's Book of Martyrs

Started by David Oldham in Church History. Last reply by David Oldham 15 hours ago. 75 Replies

How many have read even the small edition of John Foxe's Acts and Monuments or more commonly known as the Book of Martyrs? I have only read a few selections of the small edition. I have heard…Continue

Tags: faith, persecution, church, early, martyrs

Why does bad things happen to good people

Started by Ann Sam in Misc. Last reply by Peter John Ellway yesterday. 55 Replies

We see scores of people living their life out there in immorality and lust, yet they do not seem to be suffering.However people who stick on to God, people who are helpless and needy are seen to be…Continue

Tags: good, people, to, happen, things

Megachurch Message

Started by Dave Z in Theology (General). Last reply by JRKH on Tuesday. 8 Replies

Comments in my previous thread ""Fixing the Megachurch Problem" are prompting this new one. Here is a link to the…Continue

Tags: megachurch

"Why Do We Argue With People About Things We Can Only Believe?"

Started by Maurice Edwards in Theology (General). Last reply by David Oldham on Tuesday. 14 Replies

I've had the pleasure of participating in many discussions, debates, and down right arguments over things I or anyone else could "prove". History, religion, theology... etc. Many of the things we…Continue

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