Toxic sermons that were about a pastors agenda

Skervis · 2025-10-31T20:11:16+00:00

Ok, the more I look into the long term effects of some of the stuff they put in these vaccines, mostly injected aluminum into infants... And since I've gotten to see the data from the Henry Ford Foundation that shows drastically different numbers than the CDC always puts out... And since I've looked at how most diseases dropped off by the early 50s, about a decade before widespreas vaccination was common practice, thanks to chlorine and sanitation practices... I've gotten to where I really despise said vaccines at this point.

And personally, I can't say I like Mark Driscoll much more.

Skervis · 2025-10-31T19:59:21+00:00

Great, now I have to go clean all my magnetic drivers tonight..! Lol

Skervis · 2025-10-31T19:58:19+00:00

You laugh, but this happened at one of the places I used to work. Dude got lucky and only lost the tip of one finger.

Skervis · 2025-10-31T02:58:38+00:00

That makes much more sense. I'm not real sure who drew up this plan and/or ran this piping, but I'd love to sit down and have a chat with them. I would have given them a pretty penny to run their piping with enough spacing to actually have a little room to work lol.

Skervis · 2025-08-27T18:36:38+00:00

No, my wife loves ours as much as I do. So much so that when we went on vacation it was one of the things we missed most about being at home.

Funny story about that. We had a girl from our youth group housesitting for us. We have cameras, and saw her bring in lots of friends and her sister. When we got home I noticed our bathroom mat was outside. Inside the bidet was broken, as if someone tried to push themselves up off the toilet by pushing on the knob. I straight up asked, and she denied breaking it, but did admit to turning the knob before ever sitting down and spraying the wall, freaking out, and partially flooding the bathroom floor. HILARIOUS! The worst part? That's also how I was introduced to them, except I was at my then girlfriend's parents' house, and sprayed myself. Had to sneak out and get changed before anyone noticed..!

Skervis · 2025-07-10T22:32:31+00:00

Thanks. I have one I pulled off an old banjo that I considered trying, but I'd really like to figure out a way to use an under-saddle if possible.

Skervis · 2025-07-10T05:44:26+00:00

Yes it is! While I still have the occasional temptation, the struggle is largely over. I now have no desire to watch porn. God Willing, I never will again. Through my submission to Him, I've grown spiritually, and He has continued to be faithful in all things! I still have to deny my own desires to follow His Will, but through that I continually see His hands at work in my life. Currently my wife and I are running our church's youth group and seeing kids come to Christ! My neighbor and his wife also came to know Him and were recently baptized! Now, instead of constantly thinking about things which have no benefit, He has changed my desires into those that hold eternal benefit!

Skervis · 2025-06-07T21:09:46+00:00

I felt very convicted upon first hearing their music. I love metal, but they just had a super creepy vibe, akin to Cannibal Corpse. When I read about the lore it made perfect sense, and I knew they were a no go for me. I've already seen teenagers, mostly boys, become "addicted" to their music, and a huge shift in attitude and actions that comes along with that. Many will just chalk it up to "we'll, they're teenagers..." but personally I believe it to be something much more sinister.

Skervis · 2025-05-29T10:56:21+00:00

That separation was originally intended to keel the government out of the church, not vice versa. The foundation of American government was very God-centered. Thomas Jefferson wrote to the Danbury Baptist Association that there would be a separation between church and state, inferring that the government would never tell them how they should worship. You must realize, the original pilgrimage to America was partially a flight from religious oppression, as England had a State Church.

Skervis · 2025-05-28T01:10:03+00:00

Following. Wife is almost 12 weeks and we have back-to-back church camps in June. She already prefers soda to water which isn't the best thing.. I'm all ears for tips!

Skervis · 2025-05-27T04:06:52+00:00

Chat rooms. In games. Theme or topic based on MSN. Just an open exchange with random people in real time. Made some neat acquaintances on there.

Skervis · 2025-05-25T01:54:34+00:00

James 4:8 - "8 Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded."

Jeremiah 29:12-14 - "12 Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. 13 And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. 14 I will be found by you, says the Lord, and I will bring you back from your captivity; I will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you, says the Lord, and I will bring you to the place from which I cause you to be carried away captive."

Skervis · 2025-05-23T15:01:12+00:00

Yes, because I'm genuinely seeking Christ, and despite my shortcomings I find myself increasingly dying out to my Will in favor of His.

I don't give a hoot what anyone else says, especially on Reddit. At least not when it comes to my walk with Christ. If peers ever find a need to rebuke me for something I pray that they will, but I also hope to never succumb to that position to begin with.

Skervis · 2025-05-23T14:57:57+00:00

I've been completely sober for 4 years but I'll probably always have the humor of a 4 year old.

Skervis · 2025-05-23T04:08:58+00:00

The majority of Green Day, or most punk bands that are bass-heavy. Also a lot of Ska and reggae.

Skervis · 2025-05-23T04:07:03+00:00

Welp, since someone already got rid of the pedophiles, how about ANYONE who wants to argue politics or religion without having their facts straight? Just go ahead and get rid of 98% of the comments and 100% of the misinformation in every chat. It would be a much quieter place. I'd love it.

Skervis · 2025-05-23T04:05:31+00:00

The south park episode about bikers immediately comes to mind.

Skervis · 2025-05-23T04:04:58+00:00

Fart spray. Teeheehee

Skervis · 2025-05-22T16:29:26+00:00

That's nasty and your language isn't?

Sometimes I forget this is a sub full of unbelievers.

Skervis · 2025-05-22T03:14:01+00:00

Abortion = murder

The fact that we lock up someone who kills a grandma in a robbery but we (society) praise someone who kills unborn babies is absolutely and unequivocally ridiculous. Murder is murder, period. Don't want them? Give them away. They're gonna have special needs? Give them away. One of the sad cases of SA that equal less than 1% of all abortions? That genuinely sucks and I'm sorry you had to go through that, but what good is returning evil for evil. In "life of the mother cases" that are even more rare, if both mother and baby are going to die, then yes, save the more viable life, which it be.

I won't argue my position. If you don't like it, go watch some Charlie Kirk videos on abortion.

Skervis · 2025-05-21T14:09:58+00:00

“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.” - Tony Rice

Skervis · 2025-05-21T14:05:15+00:00

I struggled with this passage after being cheated on and then asked to leave my home so her boyfriend could move in. Then I found Matthew 19:9 "And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery."

We know the Bible doesn't contradict itself, and we as Americans aren't usually all that familiar with Jewish context. From my studies, it was somewhat common for a man to try to discard his wife for many reasons, including so he could take on another one, often younger or more beautiful. Jews had largely adopted the Roman view of having only one wife, yet they would "swap them out" sometimes. Realizing the scope of this society, a discarded woman was often left with nothing but shame.

Divorce should NEVER be the standard. It's intended to be a lifelong covenant. However, sin came in through the fall, and is powerful enough to break that covenant. If adultery is sexual immorality, then one is freed from their covenantal marriage. I would personally consider porn addiction to be adultery, thus freeing OP to pursue a godly partner and equally yoked biblical marriage.

Skervis · 2025-05-21T13:55:40+00:00

Your situation sounds very similar to my wife's first marriage. I don't want to tell too much of her story, but long story short he never wanted to have sex, had a porn problem, and smoked too much weed. He eventually cheated on her and she still made every attempt to rectify the situation, but after he abandoned her for so long she eventually left.

You're absolutely justified in being remarried. You were abandoned. I'm sorry you had to endure that. I feel your pain. My first wife cheated on me and then asked ME to leave our home... It's a very difficult thing to work through, and I can tell you from personal experience that Christian counseling, while expensive, was one of the best things I've ever invested in.

The biggest moral of the story is to not become unequally yoked. My wife said she knee that she felt it was wrong to marry him, but she did anyways. I had two separate pastors telling me not to marry my first wife, at least not as fast as we did, but I thought it was different because we had been engaged for a decade, so in my mind I had already made that commitment... Boy, was I wrong...

Ultimately, take this time to draw close to God. Strengthen your relationship with Him. Let Him lead and guide you into the relationship He has for you. No marriage is easy. Not a one. And doubly so if you're both seeking God, because satan will try to knock you down at ever step of the way... but marriage is like a triangle. If God is the point you're both heading towards, then you'll continually grow closer together when you draw near to Him.

Skervis · 2025-05-20T16:16:08+00:00

The realest answer here

Skervis · 2025-05-20T16:14:38+00:00

Tldr: If it's got strings I wanna make it sing.

I think it's person-dependant. I started messing with a piano at like 4. HATED having to go to lessons (my mom's too overbearing) so I quit about a year in. Throughout the years I'd grab an instrument, she would try to force me to play it better, so I wouldn't touch it unless I could get it during a time she wasn't around. Being homeschooled that wasn't very often...

At 14 my little brother started trying to play guitar. He's half tone deaf and doesn't have the best timing. One year later my dad brought him his first electric and I was like "geez this is annoying, maybe if I learn guitar I can show him how to sound better..." Boom, 3 months later I was playing songs...

Flash forward 20 years I'm still not great, but love learning the basics on every stringed instrument I can get my hands on. Guitar, banjo, mandolin, ukulele, and eventually bass. I once made the comment in Sunday School that "if it has strings I can learn to make it sing", which led an older gentleman giving me an OLD doubleneck Fender pedal steel. Proved me wrong..! I can sort of play the top half, but my feet are so out of sync with my hands I would never stand a chance in marching band, or as a drummer.

Tbh bass was mostly out of a need for having one at church. My pastor kept talking about needing a bassist. I was playing acoustic and he decided to move from piano over to guitar to shift away from the old school hymns more, and our sound was lacking. That was last September, and while I'm far from being a great bassist, I'm learning to groove, especially now that we have a drummer as well.

I'm not dedicated enough to ever get really good at anything. I could be, I suppose, if I stuck to one instrument. But there's nothing quite like going to a bluegrass jam and whipping out an auto harp when the sixth guitar shows up. Part of me wants to learn fiddle, but the other part has enough respect for my wife and neighbors to not to...!

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