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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2016 22:24:21 GMT -5
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Post by darktippedrose on Mar 26, 2016 2:30:25 GMT -5
thanx for the link
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2016 18:41:17 GMT -5
I think you've probably seen my blog, EP in Exile. I started it after EP took away the blog function. |
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Post by greatcoastal on Mar 26, 2016 19:34:27 GMT -5
I read, and consumed every word of your entire Blog! As a father of 6 ( 3 adopted from abandonment ) talked into homeschool, father in law living with us, giving up my career for children, wife's career excelled, constant belittlement, and rejection,put the cherry of Christianity on top, and we are hanging on to the same life raft.!
You would like studying Ruth. There kind of love was not a give and expect nothing in return, but a give to receive relationship. A covenant, an agreement, and ...believe it or not... I actually heard this from my pastors pulpit!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2016 17:45:47 GMT -5
thank you so much for reading. I really do appreciate it.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2016 18:50:22 GMT -5
I think you've probably seen my blog, EP in Exile. I started it after EP took away the blog function. I will find it. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2016 19:01:26 GMT -5
Could you please put a link to it?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2016 21:13:47 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2016 16:31:43 GMT -5
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Post by misssunnybunny on Apr 1, 2016 17:52:20 GMT -5
Thank you both for sharing your blogs. Been reading through them.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2016 16:24:32 GMT -5
Well, I updated today. I had a nice conversation with a friend at lunch
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2016 2:24:18 GMT -5
Your blog gives me hope, flashjohn. Thanks for being so incredibly open and honest. I'm truly amazed and awed by your candor.
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Post by mariposa43 on Apr 15, 2016 5:55:08 GMT -5
Your blog gives me hope, flashjohn. Thanks for being so incredibly open and honest. I'm truly amazed and awed by your candor. Same here! From the Christian angle, since that's what your latest post and many of the others are about--one of the things I dread the most is how my friends at church and other Christian friends are going to react. Our congregation is tiny and has been struggling to stay afloat for a number of years. They are wonderful people and have the best of intentions, but this upcoming divorce could well end up causing a major rift and be what causes them to finally close their doors. They will want to know why he and I are divorcing. And why didn't we come to one of them for help? I will not want to tell and he won't either. Even those with the best of intentions will likely end up taking sides. The truth is the one thing that would shut *some* of them up. Others, not so much, and you've talked about that at length because they just don't understand, flashjohn. And don't you know "God hates divorce"? Mind you the context of that passage is God using marriage as a metaphor for his relationship to Israel and there were actually provisions for divorce in the Bible, but I digress.... My kids and I will need to seek out another church. It may very well be what finally does this little congregation in and makes us dissolve. The dying breath of a church that has a 135 year tradition. A Christian friend of mine online who still struggles with guilt over her first husband killing himself after she left him (and she left him for very valid reasons), said about this (the church possibly dissolving) when I confided in her, "Oh, wouldn't Satan love that?" Great, yet another Christian friend who has bought into the Marriage Saving Industrial Complex (TM). Pressure, anyone? Lololol |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2016 10:44:17 GMT -5
Your blog gives me hope, flashjohn. Thanks for being so incredibly open and honest. I'm truly amazed and awed by your candor. Same here! From the Christian angle, since that's what your latest post and many of the others are about--one of the things I dread the most is how my friends at church and other Christian friends are going to react. Our congregation is tiny and has been struggling to stay afloat for a number of years. They are wonderful people and have the best of intentions, but this upcoming divorce could well end up causing a major rift and be what causes them to finally close their doors. They will want to know why he and I are divorcing. And why didn't we come to one of them for help? I will not want to tell and he won't either. Even those with the best of intentions will likely end up taking sides. The truth is the one thing that would shut *some* of them up. Others, not so much, and you've talked about that at length because they just don't understand, flashjohn. And don't you know "God hates divorce"? Mind you the context of that passage is God using marriage as a metaphor for his relationship to Israel and there were actually provisions for divorce in the Bible, but I digress.... My kids and I will need to seek out another church. It may very well be what finally does this little congregation in and makes us dissolve. The dying breath of a church that has a 135 year tradition. A Christian friend of mine online who still struggles with guilt over her first husband killing himself after she left him (and she left him for very valid reasons), said about this (the church possibly dissolving) when I confided in her, "Oh, wouldn't Satan love that?" Great, yet another Christian friend who has bought into the Marriage Saving Industrial Complex (TM). Pressure, anyone? Lololol I am sorry to hear that someone is trying to use the Bible to guilt you into staying with an unfaithful husband. I really hate it when people use Christianity to try to manipulate others. And yes, it is sad if this might end up dissolving the congregation. However, if this church had been teaching that sexual refusal is a sin, this might not have happened. And yes, God does hate divorce. However, God really hates it when people try to appear to be really good Christians, but do not live that way. I remember a verse that states, "They worship me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me." Frankly, my wife broke her marriage vows on the wedding night, so I had scriptural cause to leave her that day. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2016 17:25:03 GMT -5
I updated today...
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