http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/faith/ en-us Sat, 2 Jan 2010 13:26:21 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2419441/posts Have we remembered that one of the ways of leveling the whole situation is forgiving the enemy? Jesus admonished His children: “Pray for those who persecute you, despitefully use you.” Jesus followed through with His own counsel: “Father, forgive them for they do not know what they are doing.” ZenithMax http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2419441/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 13:26:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2419439/posts Georgetown was full of mingling human bodies going and coming. Only God knew where. But no one appeared to be hurrying--just going and coming. jgrantswankjr http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2419439/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 13:21:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2419294/posts Think back ten years. What pressure was upon you then? Think back fifteen years. What were you doing on that day? jgrantswankjr http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2419294/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 02:20:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2418988/posts A friend said to me the other day: “If you want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans.” Allvoices http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2418988/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 16:28:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2418984/posts Humility, Bill knew, is understanding one's place before Creator God. It is recognizing the biblical definition of the mortal to be fact — that we are indeed as dust, cracked clay, or a wheat strand blowing in the wind. Townhall http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2418984/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 16:22:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2418980/posts In Maine's Lakes Region, I ponder the waiting season. It is the waiting on winter-into-spring. There are the snow mounds and then the glimpses of what-is-next-to-be. Naturally, in this annual exercise there are the delights and the dilemmas. We are all players in this drama. jgrantswankjr http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2418980/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 16:19:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2417886/posts "I’m not troubled in my heart about your self-esteem. I’m not troubled in my heart about whether or not you feel good about yourself, whether or not life is turning out like you want it to turn out, or whether or not your checkbook is balanced. There’s only one thing that gave me a sleepless night. There’s only one thing that troubled me all throughout the morning..." "Do you realize how much love it takes for me to stand before 5,000 people and tell you that that American Christianity is almost totally wrong?" You Tube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2417886/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:56:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2417361/posts When was the last time you felt God was really doing something new in your life? How many of us have our testimony as an historical narrative but have no current revelation of the Spirit’s work in our lives? Is there a momentum carrying you into whatever buffer zone still remains between you and Jesus? Do you think I am speaking of something mystical, something that God is doing specifically to bring you to a greater level of obedience, trust, and worship? Are you living in yourself or in Him, and is your spirit soaring over all your problems or... Following Judah's Lion http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2417361/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 02:08:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2414361/posts GREAT FALLS (AP) — A Great Falls man who found a $6,000 diamond ring at the mall has returned it to its owner and wouldn't even accept the reward. Chandria Murphy of San Antonio, Texas, was helping her mother at her chair massage business at a Great Falls mall earlier this month. She was getting ready to close up on Dec. 10 when a last-minute customer arrived. She took off her three-diamond ring and placed it on a table. She usually puts it in her pocket. Murphy finished up and went home before she panicked and realized she didn't have... Montana Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2414361/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 10:38:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414352/posts We're following up on a story tonight that shows one good turn deserves another. Sunday night, we told you about a missing backpack in Kalispell. It contained a laptop and $6,000 that belonged to the former president of Burger King. Russ Klein thought he put it in his rental car. As it turns out, the vehicle was someone else's. We ran the story Sunday night. The next morning, the car's owner took the bag, the laptop and the cash to Kalispell Police. Klein offered a reward, but the good samaritan turned it down. So, Klein and his wife gave the... KECI Missoula http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414352/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 09:18:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2413863/posts “I fell to my knees. I cried out, ‘If there is a God, help me. My life is over.’” That was the agonizing prayer of the young, white felon. Allvoices http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2413863/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:42:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2413859/posts Holly recounted how she became quite worried about it all, realizing that the deadline for her rent payment would be past due if she delayed. Further, how would she get to and from work on an empty tank? TruthInConviction http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2413859/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:39:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2413855/posts Now it's Christmas. We have numerous nativity sets we've collected over the years - one special one we bartered for outside Bethlehem in the mid-60s. There's another one given us by Tanzanian missionaries - soapstone figurines. And so forth and so forth. The Magic City Morning Star http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2413855/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:33:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412957/posts By William D Smith (to hear it read click the play button) Paul W Smith WJR http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412957/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:11:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2412286/posts My new son, Jeff, is out of jail, as of last February. Now this Christmas he put up the tree with his two children—Haley and Jeff Jr. I saw them last evening. When I walked into the house, there the three of them were sprawled across the living room floor playing a board game. Haley is 8. Jr. is 11. Jeff Sr. is 35. jgrantswankjr http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2412286/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:32:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2412275/posts Their fingers bleed. If they don’t see through their day’s quota — 5,000 bulbs, they are beaten. The next day they report to duty under guards’ eyes. They thread the fine wire through plastic frames for Christmas lights to be strung for selling around the world. But their Christmas celebration is confined to being imprisoned. Their crime? Preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ. This past year, 600 pastors alone were put behind Chinese bars. Their families? Left to fend for themselves. CanadaFreePress http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2412275/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:07:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2412095/posts Mason's 4-year-old sister, Brooke, told her worried grandma, "It's okay, John 14:14 will help you. Ask anything in His name and it shall be done." --- Debbie and Steve Ikirt were concerned when their then 2-year-old son, Mason caught his sister's cold and his fever spiked to 106 degrees, causing convulsions which prompted a rush to the emergency room. It was the beginning of Mason's extraordinary fight for life, as another trip to the hospital days later, revealed that the little boy's blood platelet count was less than a tenth what it should've been. His kidneys were beginning to show... BCN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2412095/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:47:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2408390/posts The man sitting in the White House is a Marxist Muslim. He thereby is not my President. The Magic City Morning Star http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2408390/posts#comment Wed, 16 Dec 2009 02:20:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2408310/posts Somewhere in my peripheral vision there was a young girl pushing a load of shopping carts toward the grocery store. There must have been twenty to thirty of those huge metal carriers locked into one another. Zenithmax http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2408310/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:55:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2408121/posts Problems with Evolutionary Theory Why is there a problem with evolution in the first place? Someone once asked you, "What should I believe?" Remember what you told them? Basically I said you should only believe what there is evidence for. After spending years studying evolution in bachelor's, master's, and doctoral programs, I can tell you that, first of all, there is evidence for small changes in organisms as they adapt to small environmental fluctuations. Second, there is evidence that new species do arise. We see new species of fruit flies, rodents, and even birds. But when the original species is... probe.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2408121/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:35:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2407913/posts Today's divine mercies are keeping the globe spinning upon its axis. God loves this globe. "For God so loved the world. . ." The Magic City Morning Star http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2407913/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:01:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407231/posts It's been almost a year since St.-Sgt. Dvir Emanuelof became the first casualty of Operation Cast Lead, losing his life to Hamas mortar fire just as he entered Gaza early in the offensive. But sitting with his mother, Dalia, in her living room last week, I was struck not by loss, but by life. And not by grief, but by fervent belief. And by a more recent story about Dvir that simply needs to be told, especially now at Hanukka, our season of miracles. This past summer, Dalia and some friends planned to go to Hutzot Hayotzer, the artists' colony... Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407231/posts#comment Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:52:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2407212/posts God forbid that the Christian bodies should mess up the ground where a woman accused of adultery is to be earth-pitted up to her chin, then stoned till dead, village children watching. jgrantswankjr http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2407212/posts#comment Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:28:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2407095/posts A lot of devilment goes on on this spiritually fallen planet; but lastly every human will meet up with the Judge Christ. He is the Word. He is also the Last Word. That why the Bible pronounces Christ as the "Alpha and Omega" — the start and the finish. Michnews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2407095/posts#comment Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:32:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2406906/posts "So many people are satisfied with knowing Christ as their Savior on a theological level and to be honest accepting that as your final Spiritual destination may in fact indicate you may well need to examine yourself..." * Pursuing the Christ * When a sinner by faith embraces the Lord and Savior Jesus the Christ he begins a brand new journey that has no parallel this side of heaven’s glory. The born again experience happens in a time and place setting, but the pursuit of knowing, pleasing, and glorifying Jesus is life long journey. What are the necessary commitments that... Following Judah's Lion http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2406906/posts#comment Mon, 14 Dec 2009 03:00:35 GMT