/christian/ - christian

>>27369 (OP) 
based, I hope he uses his platform to promote the gospel. Like how many more interviews about secular degenerations can be profitable for his soul

>>27371
Same. I just want him to take a careful approach. Like I would love to see more apologists on the show, but I wouldn't want him to go full fanatic and drive his audience away before they can be Christpilled.

>>27382
>Forgiveness is the ultimate get out of jail card.   
You seem to have a skewed view of redemption. For the person who sins, simply asking for forgiveness does not bring about redemption, but the act of repentance with a contrite heart can. Everyone sins, and so it is important that we continuously repent and always draw closer to Christ. We forgive others because just as we sin and deserve destruction, Christ says that if we truly forgive others, God the Father with forgive us. Forgiveness of others is a form of repentance.

>>27374
I don't remember where Paul said "you know what I don't want to mention that Jesus rose from the dead because I don't want to go full fanatic and drive away the areopagus". What brings people to the Lord is the preaching of the gospel and the power of the Spirit, you don't make Christians by stealth.

>>27505
Nah, it would be better if he allowed other Christians on to preach the gospel. Joe is no Paul.

>>26674
Good on you, hope you're feeling better. You may want to take a look at a Daily Walk Bible, or find an outline online for reading it over the course of a year, it helped me tremendously.

>>24554 (OP) 
My Bible schedule:
1 Day's work
1 Chapter 
1 Long Prayer
1 Night of rest

How it came to be:
"I should read my bible more now that I'm starting to think about Christianity more seriously, I'll start in Proverbs because I want to be wiser" - ~2 years ago 
(went on to Ecclesiastes, then Job, then Psalms, then all the prophets, wrapped around, went through the Pentateuch, continued on, and am now reading through 2 Samuel (I'll be reading Chapter 22 tonight).

As well as that, around the same time I decided to bring back the nightly prayers my parents used to pray for me before bed. It started off as a short and simple thing with a thanks-asks-thanks model I came up with from the Lord's prayer, now it has become a long chain of [thanks]-[asks]-[thanks]-[requests]-[thanks]-[pleas]-[thanks]-[request]-[thanks]-[asks]-thanks that I use to make sure 
I stay grateful for what I have and do not become conceited.

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>>27411
I try to follow this little devotional that takes you two years to get through OT and every year through NT. I have slacked off a lot and I need to get back into it.

>>27413
Keep up the good work Anon. 
Sometimes I can't get through my Bible reading schedule in the evening, but whenever I do that, I make sure to catch up with it in the morning. The main point is to keep on going. I have been sick for 1 month now, and it has forced me to go to sleep early sometimes, but I keep up my Bible study efforts in the morning whenever I miss a day like this.
Also, on the prayer part, I think I have now officially overextended myself in prayer. The whole point was to craft a genuine prayer I could pray before bed earnestly, but now I have come to reciting it as a chore. It's a shame because, otherwise, the prayer meets all the elements I wanted it to meet originally. Now I think I shall have to restart and see what else I can come up with, using that sandwich model or maybe something else entirely.

>>26665
>I'm happy /christian/ is still around, it took some time to find it again. Have a good day Christanons
What previous /christian/ boards have you frequented? Are there other christian communities like this online?

Thomas Müntzer (1959) English Subs
East German film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNUMRCiVcW0

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The Pope's Exorcist is based loosely on the memoirs of Fr. Amorth, so does it count as an outlier of Christian cinema, or is it resigned to the hollywood horror bin?

>>27445 (OP) 
Blessed Feast!

Had a child born to me on this day of Holy Pentecost a few years ago. Blessed beyond words, but sharing anyway. Praise be to God.

>>27464
Glory to God!

>>25507
>to be ignorant of occult powers
There are no occult powers. Show me an occultist with powers and I will show you a fraud. Modern occultists are frauds and pimp out book after book to gullible idiots. They are no better than the self-help crowd. If you had occult powers, you wouldn't be here that is for sure.

"Satanist" is a politically correct term for a Jew or a wannabe Jew (freemason, left-hand-path occultist, whatever) anyway.

>There are no occult powers.
There exists one, and it's a terrible power. It is called Deception. Occultists (and Jews, since an Occultist is basically a Gentile who desperately wants to be a Jew) are people who are really good at swindling, lying, and cheating, which certainly does help them to get ahead in the society of liars, cheaters and swindlers.

Another good video by Jeem exposing the real origins of Jewish Kabbalah. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUOgvV3o0YU

>>25435
Which means it was satanic. Their gods were fallen angles.

>>27469
Satan was not quoting scripture in the temptations, he was challenging Jesus's self avowed role as Christ. In other words, Satan was arguing against revelation, insisting on hard proof, not unlike you.

>>27471
You sound like a false prophet

>>27472
You sound like a coward. What does it say about Christians that they would rather incessantly recite scripture, perhaps go to Church for the millionth time, for centuries, and do nothing about the injustices Jesus himself confronted millennia ago? It trivializes faith by risking nothing. It is the absence of faith. They all just wanted to have their little parking lot in Heaven after death. That is the sum of "Christianity" since Muntzer. Luther and the Protestants are the most massive hypocrites in history. I have more respect for Catholics. They don't pretend to have a fuller fidelity to Jesus's teachings.

>>27473
Injustices existed in Roman Judea. Which of these did Jesus teach his followers to 'violently' oppose? The One who raised the dead could've killed any tyrant or oppressor with a word from His lips - yet He did not.
>"And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did? But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them. And they went to another village." Luke 9:54-56 KJV
If you care for the poor, no one is stopping you from giving your money to the poor. The visible Kingdom of God will come at the appointed time, and all these wrongs will be righted. Until then, live as an ambassador for Christ - preaching the good news of what Jesus has accomplished for us. Be an ambassador, not a hit squad.

>>27471
2 Peter 1:20-21
1 John 4:1

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>>27261
Enhanced version

Calling it "literature" might be a bit of a stretch, but I finally sat down and read the Rule of St. Benedict. There's definitely a lot of good advice that can be extracted from it even for a layman, though a lot of it just deals with the practical arrangement of a monastery. I did like how it ended with the message that if you want to learn more about being a good monk you should read the Bible and the lives of the saints.

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I ordered the collection of the Pendragon Cycle by Stephen Lawhead to get ahead of the release of the series by the Daily Wire. It is supposed to have a lot of strong Christian themes. Hope to start it here soon.

Christisking dot see see might be worth a visit, although it is anonymous-message-board-adjacent with a similar posting culture. It's less dead than this board, though. Main focus is Western Orthodoxy but they accept all denominations (and even non-Christians as long as they're not Jews or Muslims and treat others respectfully).

>>27243

See >>27137
If it requires a sign up to post, then by definition it is not an anonymous message board and expect to be swept up by the jannies as soon as you try to banter or have any fun that we take for granted here.

>>27251
TL;DR: avoid chobitsu as they do nothing but abusing mod privileges.

Did everyone move over to our chan /r/? The site is more dead than zzzchan but the religion board is more active than here.

>>27370
I also lurk ourchan, but notice that they had to call it /r/ for ((( religion ))) instead of making their own /christian/. That's how you know that they aren't on the same page as this place is. Anathema!

Love this one
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>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qaa__yqCsP8
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU0OF8s4Qbc

>>20860 (OP) 
I like Martin Luther's hymns. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZnbOj_r8LQ

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It's a little out-of-season right now, but I've always been fond of the Vidi Aquam. I'm not sure what my least favorite hymn would be without going for the very low-hanging fruit of contemporary music, such as that of Hillsong.

My favorite hymn:
Silent Night, I can't find my favorite version, but that's probably for the best right now so I can get things done other than listening to it. That one version I listened to so many years ago as a child has carried me through countless years of poorly done renditions. It captured the essence of the song and I still have not forgotten it. 
Kind of like this, I'm sure you can get the picture:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6O5rZbgD4A

For least favorite hymn I'll go for the ground-touchingly low fruit of Bethel Music's heretical abomination of worship: Reckless Love
As you may be able to tell, I have had the misfortune of having to listen to this blasphemy over and over again over radio and in churches that did not have enough thought put into song selection. The trouble is how close it is to being slightly above average contemporary music when it all of a sudden switches to lying about and slandering the very God they proclaimed to worship. 

I guess I have too much time to form adjectives with.

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i need a wife
it's no longer a matter of i want one, i NEED one. paul says that a life of chastity is not meant for everyone, and most men cannot stop themselves from fornicating, and therefore it is best that he find a wife as soon as possible. the problem is i have no idea where to find a worthwhile one. dating apps are useless. all the women at my church are either underage or already married. i truly don't know where to turn at this point.

Sometimes I wonder if I even want to be free... Please pray for me. Whenever you read this message, please spare a prayer.

I'm so sick of this crap and, at the same time, lack any kind of drive or motivation to change. "My grace is sufficient", and yet, I keep fugging it up.

>>26721
I pray that God answers your prayers, Anon.

Porn sucks and I hate being a degenerate. I _hate_ myself. I started watching it when I was 11 and I'm nearly 30 now. If I could get rid of one vice forever it'd be porn. Lord help me.

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>>27307
I just turned 30 and I stopped because I got really angry about the state of the world and my life and how Satan is ruining everything for everyone and wasting my time and energy with nonsense so that I'm not in a position to oppose him, and also because it just feels wrong when the women being trafficked by pornographers are 10 years younger than you now. It's like there was a decade where the world could have been improved and these vices should have retreated but instead because we fooled ourselves into thinking that the devil doesn't exist evil has only spread further and increased its grip on our society. I went and ran 10k every day for a week straight and I doubled my productivity at work and I had a long talk with my pastor about getting more involved in church. I have a feeling that there is a big wave of conversions and reversions of those who've fallen out of the faith coming and like in Matthew 9:37 the harvest is plentiful but the workers are few, and the Lord will be sending us out to the world to witness soon in these last days. I don't even know why I used to want porn or masturbation so badly now, it's just sad and it was a crutch to fill in holes in my life where I felt badly about myself, and even when I was doing well secularly before my conversion it was something that I kept turning to even though it brought no actual value to my life. I was also worried in the past rounds when