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Hi from San Diego!

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cherokee:
Hey Don,

Welcome to the forum.

Blessings,
Suzie

acomplishedartis:

--- Quote from: SDDiver on August 18, 2010, 01:29:53 PM ---It’s funny how you can develop a mental image of people through this medium even through you’ve never met them in person. Speaking of meeting in person – if any of you are in the San Diego area, please speak up. It’d be great to have some like-minded (like-believing) people nearby.


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Hi Don.
I am not close to your area, but I understand your enthusiasm for sharing with like-minded (believing) people. At list an occasional deep personal conversation is of much encourage and inspiration, I talk from experience, but still I don't make less the greatness of online communication.

And yes ''It’s funny how you can develop a mental image of people through this medium even through you’ve never met them in person'' I agree. However I also have had the opportunity to met a few people from these forum in person, for witch I am very grateful.

SDDiver:
Thanks everyone for the warm welcome!  :)

SDDiver:

--- Quote from: Shawn on August 18, 2010, 01:52:38 PM ---Welcome to the forum Don

Speaking of Israel.. I've been wanting to take Mediterranean cruise for awhile now, and visit Israel especially. I'm such a huge history buff anyways, and would love checking all the historical sites. When was the last time you went?

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Hey Shawn!

Yes, definitely – if the Lord has put the desire on your heart to visit and you have the funds, then you should go. The last time I went was in 2007. I understand there’s much controversy surrounding the country's legitimacy. But I do believe that the way it was reborn (through the “birth pangs” of the Holocaust [in which many of my family members perished]), and that an otherwise dead language has been preserved and made alive again, and that they weren’t destroyed and devoured by their neighboring enemies within the first few hours of establishing the nation, is nothing short of a miracle. I have a great love for the people there, as well as the culture (not to mention the food!), and as you, I also love the history. Seems you can’t stick a shovel in the ground without digging up something of historical value.

SDDiver:

--- Quote from: zee325 on August 19, 2010, 04:45:41 PM ---
--- Quote from: SDDiver on August 18, 2010, 01:29:53 PM ---...practices the book-by-book/verse-by-verse kind of teaching. The pastor is a down-to-earth guy. No emphasis is made on giving money or on hell. I don’t think in the years that we’ve been going there I’ve heard the pastor preach about money or tithing even once. I have heard hell mentioned when it was in (seeming) context with the scripture.
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Welcome to the forum! I came from a very similar church back ground. The biggest problem with their teaching was the "human free will", this thick veil blocks the true light from God, and has become the greatest idol of the heart. Yesterday I went online to listen to one of their Bible study meetings just to find out what is been taught now, all I heard was "if only you are willing..." "if you allow God to...otherwise even though God is willing He still can't because He respects your free will..." "You have to be obedient... then God can do this and that" "You have to be pure in heart first then you can see God..." "you have to be this and that first then God can do this and that..."

How I wish God would open the eyes of my friends as He had opened mine! Then they would stop trying to trust in their own "free will" for salvation and trust God and find rest. I am happy for you. Jesus knows who are His.

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Thanks for the welcome! I agree 100%. God is sovereign and we are totally and absolutely depended on Him and on His will. I can see and accept this now, but for so many years I believed exactly the way you described it so well.

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