The Narrow Path Ministries

You, on the other hand... :-) I wonder if demonic oppression occurs more against us as Christians than we in the west think, and we just think it is caused by our own minds. . I would agree with you on that. Or a person may believe that what happened is just life and passes it off without a thought...

Willow: Excellent words. Are these your original words or a famous quote? :-) These are not a quote as far as I recall. But thanks. I remember puzzling over scripture that states that God does not tempt anyone yet seeing that God tested people like Abraham - as in asking him to offer up his son as ...

I read the restriction that John writes about as being on governments and ruling authorities, and shudder to think how things will/may become if we individually were cut off from benefits by evil legislation that had no respect at all for values we considered sacred. I fear it is already starting t...

My eschatology is unsettled except that I am' not a Full Preterist so it seems to me todays times are the craziest I have ever seen or read about. I know other times have had great fear and evil but today the evil is done in the name of God on a regular basis and perversion today is glorified as vi...

Paidion wrote:

What is the difference between testing and temptation?

Temptation is invitation to do something that is wrong.

Testing is the challenge to do something that is right.

Graeme

Imagine the fallout and chaos there would be if Jesus showed up visibly at your church one Sunday morning! The congregation would immediately be divided between believers, skeptics, deniers and fence sitters. The likes of Peter would want to build a memorial, the Pentecostals would be listening to d...

How do you guys reconcile that the first two martyr's of the church (Christ & Stephen) - I place Christ loosely as a martyr, one who died for the church cause - both petitioned that their persecutors be forgiven, yet Revelation sees impatient martyrs hungry for vindication, instead of interceding f...

Thanks Jaydam for raising this discussion. I too, have looked at it the last few days, and have enjoyed what I have read. Here are a couple of random thoughts that have come to my mind. In the record of Jesus' one on one discussions with people (Nicodemus, Samaritan woman et al), Jesus does not hard...

John6809 wrote:
By the way, hello to a fellow British Columbian!
Regards, John

Hello to you as well. I hadn't noticed where you are from until I replied to your post.
Greetings
Graeme

If you can't explain why your prayers are sometimes answered but sometimes not, from whence do you get your faith? I read this last week and it reminded me of how I see faith working: 'This is the confidence we have in approaching God : that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. An...