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  1. Joshua_Belyeu

    Timing of the Second Coming

    I get very nervous (and to be honest, pretty irritated) when people keep bringing this subject up. Jesus Himself said, "No one knows the day nor the hour. Not the angels in heaven, nor even the Son. Only the Father knows." With that in mind, why on Earth do people insist on repeated attempts...
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    Appropriate church attire

    My legalistic uncle used to crack down on me a fair bit, for wearing baseball caps in church. They didn't have evil symbols or anything like that, either...mostly just sports teams or movie characters. But he just would not get off my back about it, so I finally spoke to my pastor. He said he...
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    The fear of attraction

    Since I wish to preserve and respect certain people's privacy, I won't go into the full details of my own past in this regard. But suffice it to say that after I made a lot of very bad mistakes, there was a span of several years where I didn't trust the "attraction" aspect of my personality at...
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    Share Your Interests, Hobbies, Collections

    My handle on YouTube is Moviefan2k4, and as that would imply I am a film buff all the way. I've become much more selective in recent years, because Hollywood has put out so much total crap...but there's many movies and TV shows I still like. I have over 300 Blu-Rays at the moment: mostly action...
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    Just Give It Up!

    When I was with my prior relationship in 2005, the biggest disparity (aside from neither of us following God properly at the time), was that I was and still am a fan of Michael Jackson and his music. She was convinced that he hurt kids, and no amount of evidence I gave her would sway her...
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    Would you date yourself?

    Given all I know about my truly messed-up history, I'd be pretty skeptical if I was a woman, approached by another like me. That's why I'm truly grateful, for the basic idea that "opposites attract". I want a wife who loves, trusts, and places her ultimate faith in God and Jesus Christ, just...
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    Star Trek Thread

    Yeah, my cousin has said, "Your bed looks like an Amazon truck dumped all over it." Given how many purchases I've made from them in the past six years, she might have a point.
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    Star Trek Thread

    Sadly, this is about as clean as I can get it at the moment. I've been renting the same spot in my roommate's house since 2018, and when I moved in I had many boxes of stuff from when I lived in Dallas. Now, after all this time, most of that stuff is still boxed up - I just don't have the space...
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    Star Trek Thread

    I made this pretty short video, giving my basic philosophy about the franchise. I hope you all get something out of it.
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    Should a Christian watch stand-up comedy

    There's an evangelist from Louisiana that I've sometimes watched, named Jesse Duplantis; he's been in full-time ministry for 42 years. Anyway, I remember in one of his messages, he had this to offer... "You know, the Lord has a sense of humor - look at some of the people He created. I've seen...
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    Should a Christian watch stand-up comedy

    Well from my limited experience, when asked if they believe in God, the more honest agnostics will simply reply, "I don't know", and leave it at that. A few may occasionally go psycho, but its far from the norm.
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    Can people tell you are a Christian?

    I've heard that phrase myself, many times...and have even used it a few as well. I'm grateful for God's immense love and grace, but I will admit I still struggle with patience.
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    Contemporary Christian Music

    I grew up listening to early CCM pioneers like Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith, Steven Curtis Chapman, and Carman. I still like all of them, but my tastes have changed to where I also like Christian rock...and no, its not a contradiction in terms. The one band in this genre that I have truly deemed...
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    Can people tell you are a Christian?

    I would personally hope that most of this applies to my life, at least in part. Even though my walk with God has been better over the past few years, its been a very hard struggle for me to get here. I had to deal with legalistic and hypocritical elders, largely-absent parents, childhood...
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    Has anyone else been a victim of “Church Hurt”?

    Yeah, it was absolutely insane in those days. One of the clearest memories I have from that time, was of my aunt seriously insisting that the 1990s "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" cartoons were Satanic (no joke - she literally said that). As such, I was forbidden to watch the program in her home...
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    Should a Christian watch stand-up comedy

    This is where I draw a very important distinction, between the term "atheist", and "anti-theist". Generally speaking, most of your casual atheists are pretty peaceful; they just want to have their views and be left alone. I may not agree with them spiritually, but our conversations won't...
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    Has anyone else been a victim of “Church Hurt”?

    As I said in my intro thread, I was raised primarily in my younger years, by my extremely legalistic aunt and uncle. So much of their worldview was based in fear - if I did anything they didn't approve of (even if it wasn't against Scripture), they had no problem telling me that I was going...
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    Does This Site Have Video Chat?

    I'm just curious about this, because one way I found this place was by typing "Christian webcam chat rooms" into Google. If there's not, that's fine; I don't mind sticking with standard posts. I'd just really like to know about this, as soon as possible. Thanks for your time.
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    Should a Christian watch stand-up comedy

    I think it depends on the type of comedy you want to watch. For example, I used to really enjoy George Carlin, but eventually his repeated swearing and attacks on religion got to me. Thankfully, not all comics are like that now. All you have to do is look up phrases like "clean comedy" or...
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    Greetings To All...

    Hello, to all my fellow believers. I'm a 43-year-old Texan, primarily raised in the Dallas area (though I left in 2015 after my Mom passed away). I first said the "sinner's prayer" when I was 9, but my aunt and uncle's extremely legalistic ways drove me away from God during my teens. It wasn't...