GSTexas wrote:
Steve
I also agree that the Beatles have had a tremendous anti Christian influence on this present generation, and Ill even go a step further and say that Aliester Crowley has had the most anti Christian influence upon the present generations,for he influenced the Beatles (youll find a picture of him on the Beatle's sgt peppers album) and his famous quote "Do what though wilt shall be the whole of the law" basically defines the attitude of the western world. In studying the evil influence of rock music, and studying the satanic roots of the modern UFO phenomenom, I was led to this one man.

The situation: I was sitting with another woman and her daughter after church while we were eating together, and the little girl was saying to her mother that she was feeling hot (she didn't look well and her skin was flushed). When the retired pastor heard what the little girl had told her mother he said: "The ladies do tend to get a little hot when I enter a room!" I was very offended that he would say this of the nine year old girl's remarks, and the jest that any women or girl would have any sort of sexual arousal over him even jokingly was sickeningly to me.

The change in fashion trends is part of an industry money maker often referred to in sociology as 'perceived obsolescence'; the change in fashion most often causes the consumer to acquire the perception that there is something wrong with their clothing because it is no longer 'in style'. Thus, the consumer will discard useable clothing and purchase alternate goods which they believe will cause them to fit in socially.

I used to work at a thrift-shop when I was young and was disheartened to see dumpster upon dumpster full of women's clothing sent to the garbage dump (often two a week) as the clothing was not perceived as stylish. As women, I believe we need to stop being victims of the fashion industry, by spending countless dollars and wearing fashions which may ruin the reputation.

In essence, as women we need to pay special attention that we do not conform to this world, in areas such as fashion and behaviours.

MG wrote:
Jessica, you wondered how pastors are going to help women who come into churches with sexual sins that need dealing with. Well, can I ask: do they need to, and should they?
I think it would be unwise for them to "minister" to these women. Surely there would be some Godly women who could guide these other women! We've been reading of men falling after trying to deal with some of these issues by themselves. It's dangerous and foolish from my perspective. There is an enemy trying to catch anyone like this unawares.

Dolores wrote:
Jessica, glad you are posting also. Your posts do bless me and I know God does not expect to do more than we are able. I, too, have had to slow down a lot because of health issues and I post here as one thing I can do. If you have RA then you do have a very hard time. My sister-in-law has that same disease and Lupus. She still can get around but never knows what will happen in the future. She was in a trial study to test a new drug and did so well, she believes she taking the real thing and not a sugar pill. Blessings and prayers dear sister. Please keep posting.Btw sometimes I post as Ginger

"The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? And he answered and said unto them, 'Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,' And said, 'For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?'"

Matthew 19:3-5 KJV

"And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called."

penny wrote:
I agree ladies. Amy Carmichael was a real servant of the Lord! Jessica, glad you posted today, good to hear from you.

Dolores wrote:
As a reminder, a woman does not have to be married and a beautiful actress to be a fulfilled woman. Sometimes, God calls a christian woman into the mission fields as He did Amy Carmichal that went to India to minister to Indian children. Even as she was bedridden in pain after an accident, she was still a blessing in her writings. I am blessed every morning by reading her little book of devotionals. This is only one example of an unmarried woman that God used, Corrie ten Boom was another. Both of these and many more were fufilled, Christian women in God's will for their lives.

Jim Lincoln wrote:
But, physical presence of the congregation is expected
Hebrews 10
24 and let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds,
25 not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more, as you see the day drawing near.---[URL=http://www.lockman.org/nasb/nasbcmp.php]]]NASB[/URL]
A church member presence is expected on a regular basis for church services.

Jesus said, "I was sick, and ye visited me," and also He said, "[W]here two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them."

Moreover, if people visited the sick, and assembled together with them (where the sick reside); the assembling being in Jesus' Name; the chronically ill who are shut-in in their homes, nursing homes, and hospitals... then the scriptures of assembling together, and visiting the sick would be fulfilled. Until there are men to carry the sick to church as did the men who lowered the sick man through the roof lowering him unto Jesus ~ I believe that it cannot be required for the chronically ill to attend Church services.

I have been willing to be carried into services, and have had no one to help me!

In addition, I also believe pastors need to advocate their congregations to visit and help people who are shut-in!

"Indeed the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth."

"Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves." ~ Matthew 10:16 KJV

truthvscomfort wrote:
As they "blast" Hollywood, hopefully Comfort/Ham documented the refrigeration equipment required to keep the penguins, polar bears, etc alive while aboard the ark and walking to the ark/from the poles. A worldwide flood, by definition, would kill all land-based animals.