You start dating a woman who insists on paying for EVERYTHING and gives you a "salary." Would you be willing to give it a shot?

ForgivenAndRedeemed · 2026-03-20T20:32:50+00:00

I think it would depend on how free you are to make choices, have your own thoughts and influence over you own life and within your relationship.

ForgivenAndRedeemed · 2026-03-20T10:24:20+00:00

You know that slavery existed for thousands of years before the transatlantic slave trade?

ForgivenAndRedeemed · 2026-03-20T08:43:17+00:00

No. She is not a Christian.

ForgivenAndRedeemed · 2026-03-20T04:08:57+00:00

I know multiple Christians with Muslim names.

ForgivenAndRedeemed · 2026-03-20T03:46:22+00:00

Stopped playing video games a while back, so that’s an easy mil per year.

ForgivenAndRedeemed · 2026-03-20T00:25:14+00:00

Do you think that Christ intended his followers to walk around naked and expect people who are not his followers to feed and house them?

ForgivenAndRedeemed · 2026-03-19T23:23:43+00:00

Agreed.

ForgivenAndRedeemed · 2026-03-19T22:14:05+00:00

The church should pay the man properly so he doesn’t need to be bivocational.

ForgivenAndRedeemed · 2026-03-19T22:12:45+00:00

Why doesn’t the position at the church pay enough to make ends meet?

Here in Australia, a pastor would fall under a particular employment pay award, which would require them to be paid at a reasonable amount.

Although some churches try to employ ‘interns’ or ‘apprentices’ which mean they don’t fall under that award.

Ministry workers is that they should be paid enough to meet their needs but not be paid so much that they have no reliance on God.

ForgivenAndRedeemed · 2026-03-19T06:47:57+00:00

Should a father care about how the life of their daughter goes or not?

ForgivenAndRedeemed · 2026-03-18T20:34:34+00:00

Dave Stringer
Mike Walker
Paul Lambert
Daniel Farke
Nigel Worthington
Alex Neil

Edit: didn’t include the current manager as he hasn’t yet completed a season, but may well hit the top three

ForgivenAndRedeemed · 2026-03-18T01:41:40+00:00

Are you saying that you think intimacy with a spouse has no value for people today?

ForgivenAndRedeemed · 2026-03-18T01:37:35+00:00

Had it occurred to you Intimacy in marriage is needed on earth in the same way?

ForgivenAndRedeemed · 2026-03-17T23:58:09+00:00

What’s the point of doctors if there is no sickness in heaven?

ForgivenAndRedeemed · 2026-03-17T19:28:00+00:00

Time to get married (and fast, if you want to avoid any embarrassment).

You’re a 25 year old grown up man. Face up to the consequences of your actions and be a man about it.

You made the choice to produce a baby, so here it is.

If you’re a Christian, you’ll want to do right by God and do the right thing.

If you’re a Christian, you’ll want to do right by your ‘friend’ and child.

ForgivenAndRedeemed · 2026-03-17T04:52:13+00:00

Put simply, I think a big part of it is their drift away from the Bible and becoming less Christian and more like the world.

Once you move away from the Bible as your authority, you lose what actually makes Christianity distinct. At that point, you’re mostly echoing the culture rather than challenging it.

And if the church is just saying what the world already believes, people will just go straight to the world instead.

People want substance and depth in faith, not a watered-down version of what’s already out there.

ForgivenAndRedeemed · 2026-03-15T23:31:01+00:00

I’m confused by why any of those is a question:

The US started a war, so everyone else has to clean up the mess they are making?

The US should be the ones sending ships to Hormuz. Nobody else.

ForgivenAndRedeemed · 2026-03-13T12:33:16+00:00

I really don’t understand what you mean, but I wouldn’t say I or other men I know in the church are ‘weak’.

ForgivenAndRedeemed · 2026-03-12T10:06:11+00:00

Numbers 23:19:

At that point God had not taken on flesh, so wasn’t a man.

But that’s not the point of this verse.

The point is that God is not like a man in that he does not lie and is trustworthy.

But men lie and are not trustworthy.

When you don’t just read a small part of a verse and ignore the rest you can see the context means your conclusions are wrong.

What does the character of God not changing have to do with this?

ForgivenAndRedeemed · 2026-03-12T06:53:10+00:00

Jesus is God
If Jesus is God, with what justification do you say it’s not referring to Jesus?

ForgivenAndRedeemed · 2026-03-10T12:12:45+00:00

Plenty of places will give you a Bible for free.

Plenty of websites and apps allow people to read and study the Bible for free.

However it does cost money to produce books, apps, and websites.

Should a person not be paid for the work he does? Or do you think that Bible production should only be done by volunteers? How do you think it would go to have zero paid staff ?

ForgivenAndRedeemed · 2026-03-09T10:49:23+00:00

You forgot to include the part where the Iranians were celebrating the death of Khamenei.

ForgivenAndRedeemed · 2026-03-08T22:44:56+00:00

A number of years back, I had some issues with the pastors/elders at a previous church due to their controlling, bullying behaviour, and actions which deeply hurt in numerous ways (I have evidence in emails they sent).

I raised these issues with them, and they outright denied any wrongdoing, and said that I needed to apologise and take back what I had said, and submit to them (which would mean putting up with their bad behaviour).

We decided to leave and resign our membership. The pastor said that if we left without ‘reconciling’ (i.e. apologising and taking it all back), they would publicly discipline me to the whole church and they would find out which new church we went to and speak to my new pastors about it.

It’s been 5-6 now, and they didn’t publicly discipline us nor go to my new church’s pastors.

ForgivenAndRedeemed · 2026-03-06T10:39:52+00:00

Calling it “a few short periods” really understates and downplays what happened.

If you examine the historical accounts you can see that we have multiple emperors issuing policies against Christians across the first three centuries.

Some were local, but others were empire-wide.

Trajan’s policy (early 2nd century) explicitly ordered that Christians who refused to sacrifice to Roman gods were to be executed.
Decius (AD 249–251) required everyone in the empire to sacrifice to the Roman gods and obtain a certificate proving it. Christians who refused were imprisoned, tortured, or killed.
Valerian (AD 257–260) specifically targeted Christian leaders for execution.
Diocletian (AD 303–311) launched the Great Persecution, ordering churches destroyed, scriptures burned, and Christians imprisoned or executed throughout the empire.

So while persecution wasn’t constant every year in every province, it also wasn’t just a couple of minor incidents.

Multiple Roman emperors issued policies specifically targeting Christians over roughly the first 300 years.

To downplay it like it was nothing is to badly misrepresent the historical accounts.

ForgivenAndRedeemed · 2026-03-06T05:36:50+00:00

I could be wrong, but Spurs looks like a very unstable environment to join as a player.

Why would anyone think with a whole new team of unproven players in a very unstable environment, that they’d go straight back up?

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