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 Dear Andrea, Since leaving a church some months ago, I have stopped praying and reading the bible. I feel slightly guilty about this, but the feeling of freedom is much greater! For years I forced myself to do these things, because that’s just what Christians do. In fact I’m pretty sure I have read the whole bible about 15 times through in my life. Recently though, I can’t handle pressure of any kind. I have not abandoned faith – on the inside it’s as real as ever and I have this sense of sharing my life with God as it moves along – but theseRead More →

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Hi, I was just wondering if you were a born again, spirit filled believer. –brittjer Dear Brittjer, Absolutely, though my sister’s not too happy about it. At times, she’s complained quite vocally about the born again part, “You’ve changed!” I’d answer, “I wish you would be changed, too,” except that would get me disowned again for another two weeks or so. She’s a faithful adherent of the Sin-all-you-please-and-go-to-Heaven-anyway gospel. The main problem with that understanding is, were it true, either Heaven would cease to be Heaven, or else such believers would be most unhappy there, as sin and Heaven mix like oil and water (thatRead More →

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Andrea– A friend’s twenty-year-old daughter has made a series of terrible choices. Always headstrong, she began sneaking out of their Christian home in her early teens. First pregnant at fifteen, she’s now carrying her third child. All three children share the same father, but she divorced from, was jailed because of, and now lives with this absentee father. While in jail she swore she’d change her ways, but now it’s back to business as usual, depending on extended family to support her ex-husband, herself, and their children. Should the family temporarily cut her off and force real-world consequences for her actions, or allow her toRead More →

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Gentle readers, I got a question in the course of correspondance too private to post publicly that I thought others might be wondering about as well. The basic gist of it was, “What is Heaven like?” Here’s what I said: John saw Heaven in his Revelation, and was so awestruck by the beauty, he had a very diffcult time describing the experience for us. While the bible doesn’t say much on Heaven’s appearance, without corruption there, we can rest assured Heaven’s beauty puts this earth to shame. And there’s only one way in: “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and theRead More →

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A Soulful Question How do you explain what your soul is to a new Christian? –Larry It’s sad this is a necessary question in this day and age. The biggest reason we have trouble with it is even most of christiandom doesn’t really get it. The first thing is, you don’t HAVE a soul… you ARE a soul. The soul is the essence of who you are. Without the soul, you are just what you ate for breakfast this morning broken down and repackaged. The soul is the you that views the world through the windows of your eyes, the part of you that willRead More →