Hey Guys, I am a Christian Ministry major at Abilene Christian University. I have been growing and learning a lot these past few years here, and I would love to help anyone that wants advice with a God centered focus. People are at the center of my life, and I beleive community is something that God wants for us all. We should always remember to treat all people as neighbors and never turn the other way when people are in need.
E-mail: dtw03a@acu.edu
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Age: 21
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I found your advice colum through a friends!
16/f with a question
A year ago my dad passed away from a brief illness(cancer) during his sickness i became very faithful to God, because my dad loved him and inspired me to God! After he passed away it seems like i`m not as close to God. I became angry at him for taking my dad. I miss my dad alot, and i want to go back to being strong in faith with God. I don't go to church as much, and i wish i can. I want to find other ways to be closer with God? Can you give me some ideas.
thanks.
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Sorry for not answering quicker, I haven't checked my inbox in quite a while. Well, I know church is not the only place we can go for becoming closer to God, although it is a very great place to go if you know the people well enough to be open to them. Personally I like reading other things than the bible to find encouragement. A great book I would suggest would be "Blue Like Jazz", or "Searching for God Knows What", they are both written by Donald Miller. The first one I have read, and I guess is geared more for non-christians, and I really want to read the second one, because it sounds like it is more for people who want a deeper relationship with God. If you want, we can read through it together, and we can post thoughts about it to each other. As well as reading If you have someone that will be real with you about life, they are great people to go to. I know it is tough for girls to find deep relationships sometimes. Just talking about life in a non shallow way really helps shape who we are in Christ. Being honest with what is going on in life with the people around you is not something found very often, so when you are open and honest people see that and they know you are a person that they can talk to about serious things, Which is what i believe we are called to do. That is what being a true person is about.
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why do you think religion is important? (link)
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It is not religion that is important, I think what you are asking is why is believing in something important... and If i am correct than there is a much to be explored. Following Christ is a way of seeing how God intended us to live. If we can see that God created, everything that we experience, we will be able to see that life is not meant just for us to do well in life. With joining a community of believers, we are signing on to a bigger cause. We are here to travel through life with people in the hard times and the great times. Either way, doing it together is better than alone. God is among us and interacting with us in every aspect, we just have to realize His presence sometimes. And being around others who want to discover him more makes life like it was supposed to be. The tension is that we will never fully arrive there, that is why many problems and arguments occur within "Religion". We have made religion more important than living as we were intended to. This is just an attempt to explain what I am trying to lean myself about God and why I am here on this earth.
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First of all, let me clear the air. Im a sexually active 20 year old, Ive never been married, and I personally see nothing wrong with premarital sex, or sex in general.
But.
I have many friends who are Christian or Catholic, and they are (in my opinion) anywhere from sexually repressed at best, to afraid of and disgusted by sex at worst.
I cant really talk to most of them about it, simply because its a very uncomfortable subject.So I pose the question to the masses. For those of you who are religious, what are your views on sex, and why?
Thought provoking answers might get my screen name for further discussion, if you like. Any answers that sound something like
"ur crazy! Sex is uber cool! I LOVE SEX AND THERS NOTHIN WRONG WITH IT!! hope I helped plz rate"
or outright flames will get a 1. (link)
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Hey, Well this seems like a very good question to ask since many people today do not even think twice about it. The emotions that are attached to having sex with someone are very strong. If the two people in the relationship know that they want to have sex someday, they should be wise enough to know that having sex so early on in a relationship is not really loving the person. We are being selfish when we want to have sex, all we want is temporary pleasure, when if we are learning and understanding Gods word, we will find greater joy in following what he wants for our life. We should always put the other person in the relationship first, as hard as it is, we must. That is love. Sex will harm a person if it is not at the right time. When your commitment to the other person is matched up to how you want to express your love, then it is fine, after marriage. And when we finally understand God, it's not trying to resist the temptation of having sex, it is simply saying Yes to something greater, something that only God can offer.
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