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Just a suggestion: for an established member, remove required review for posts before they go public. My suggestion: if they have 10 approved posts, allow them to be public when the member hits "Post thread".

"But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of...

I originally wrote this as a reply in another thread, but I did not want it to derail the discussion. So, I gave it its own thread. John 14:1-5 is often read a funerals. I believe this practice misses the meaning of the scripture. John 14:2-6 In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were...

Ephesians 6:4 “Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.” What we've allowed, in the present framework of church, is the surrender of the role of a father to church leadership. Nowhere in the Scriptures is there even a hint...

For believers who have abandoned entertainment media as their source of information, this will be redundant... During deposition (yesterday) in Dominion's defamation lawsuit (for $1.6 Billion), Sean Hannity said that he "did not believe for a second" that widespread fraud had taken place in the...

Why do you suppose that historic church groups have insisted for a long time on speaking a dead language, Latin? Why do you suppose they couch biblical inquiries in these impossible-to-pronounce words? Would you ever see Jesus doing that in His sermons? Like His Sermon on the Mount,1 can you...

It is written of the men of Issachar that they "understood the times and knew what Israel ought to do". I was just reflecting on the droughts that are affecting various parts of the world and how long hidden things are being revealed by the absence of water. And then, on the other side of the...

The common point of view in religious circles is that you are, and you will always be, no more than a “sinner saved by grace.” That point of view is designed to motivate you to feel grateful for the salvation that you once received and motivated by the sense of guilt that so much was given to...

Before the creation of the world, God saw that man would be reconciled to God in Christ. In the fullness of time, God reconciled mankind to Himself in Christ. We are, therefore, members of His body, parts of a spiritual Man. The body is corporate, but the spiritual Man is one—one body, many...

If the early church had been arranged much like it is today (meeting in buildings; public, centralized governing bodies; always on Sundays) it would have likely been eradicated. Yet, because they met where it was safe, away from persecution, the church, in a little less than 300 years, conquered...

Religion is transactional: you do for God therefore He must do for you. By this, men hold God to account. Sonship, knowing that you are a son of God, is relational: God is your Father, therefore you are led by His Spirit to do anything. In Christ, saints become the Word made flesh; living...

If the body of Christ is not institutional but organic, how does it actually function then? We've been so used to institutional functioning that it's difficult to conceive of any other form of functionality. The box of our thinking - with respect to where the church operates - is that it's...

The following verses are thick with information, but I only want to focus on the Woman. This is Revelation 12 verse 1: “1 Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a garland of twelve stars. 2 Then being with child, she...

Hebrews 8:3-6 "For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore it is necessary that this One also have something to offer. For if He were on earth, He would not be a priest, since there are priests who offer the gifts according to the law; who serve the copy and...

“They devoted themselves to the apostles teaching...” The apostles have a special and particular place within the church. Contemporary churches attempt to feed themselves. We've largely become consumers and preachers have largely become marketers, and all the more so if they, themselves...

Hebrews 5:13,14 "For everyone who lives on milk is still an infant, inexperienced in the message of righteousness. But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained their senses to distinguish good from evil." Hebrews 6:1,2 "Therefore let us leave the elementary teachings...

Any celebration about the advent of our Lord and Savior in the earth should pivot on the fact that without God's love for the people of the world His Son would not have been sent. Without the love for people, the baby is never born and the Son is never given. We cannot add to God's majesty by...

The relationship between politics and the Kingdom has always been tenuous. What you find, throughout history, is that men have always created a convolution of spiritual things and natural things. It came about when the church began to seek and to gain the approval of the state. The church law...

Rest is not the cessation of activity. Rest is operating from a position of legitimately delegated authority and doing nothin in your own strength. You are free to function according to the terms and condition of your authority because the One whose authority was delegated to you guarantees the...

Sometimes there is quite a long delay. When approved, the system uses the timestamp of when the post was written to publish the new thread. This has cause some threads to fall onto the second page. Is it possible to remedy this with an "Approved" post in the thread? Or, perhaps after so many...