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It was a long time ago but I have been there too. My wife also has been there for a few months after having our children. So, I am convinced that depression has a chemical / hormonal component. My experience with it convinces me that there is also a spiritual component. And knowing others...

I realize I missed something in my post above. I said to invest in something that will make money. I should have added: something like an S&P 500 or NASDAQ 100 mutual fund. Simple. Every week. Never touch it. Be rich 45 years later. Those who know about this stuff recommend investing...

Investing in an S&P 500 mutual fund (or just about any other common mtual fund) would have beat gold by 5x in the last 50 years. Gold fluctuates wildly but in the long run does not beat inflation. That means that in inflation adjusted "real dollars" gold loses money. During the great...

I attend a small country church and my wife and I started a teen youth group about 4 years ago. I was the teen Sunday School teacher and our church closed for COVID. During the shut down, invited my class out for a day of crabbing on the water and before we left the dock, my boat broke down...

At 80 hours a week, she's been abandoned. I understand her resentment. Marriage is hard. She needs less stuff and vacations and more attention and time. We also wanted my wife to be home to raise our kids and we were able to do it. I worked a job and a part time job, sometimes I had a small...

And in Jesus time, many of those who heard the gospel from Jesus himself rejected the message. Spiritual is not our measure of success. Our measure of success is whether we are teaching the correct message. God handles the outcome. Mark 4:26-29. Qualifications to be a pastor is more than just...

It was part government overreach but mostly poor planning and poor execution of what could have been a nothing investigation. Big screw up, innocent people were killed. But I don't think it was more than that - just some run-of-the-mill government incompetence and overreaction.

And...when something shows up in the Bible in only one place that is not supported anywhere else and that seems inconsistent with the rest of the Bible (God's overwhelming grace and mercy so big that he would send his son to die vs. someone being locked out of salvation) - I am comfortable that...

I think the Bible is obvious that Giant's existed. We read about Og king of Bashan who's bed was 9 cubits long. There are several references to the Rafiates who seem to be a family line of giants. The reports of the Hebrew spies about Canaan tells of giants. Goliath and his brother Lahmi...

The same Greek word translated as "impossible" in Hebrews 6:4 (adunatos) is used in Acts 14:8-10 to describe the helpless condition of the crippled man's feet just before he "sprang up and began to walk." You're good. No worries.

There is no requirement that you must feel a specific level of emotion for salvation to be real. Repentance is not a feeling. Repentance is a decision. Repentance is the decision not to allow sin into your life any more. You might feel emotion when you repent but feeling bad enough isn't a...