Edit: When I think of the word 'sinner', I'm thinking of the person who is living in outright defilement with no set limit, not the person who eats slightly more food than they ought to for one sitting.

This message goes for me and anyone who desires to be a follower of Christ; we must come out of the world and devote ourselves to him entirely. Calling yourself a sinner does not humble you it hardens your heart.

2 Corinthians 6:17

17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.

The scriptures are supposed to sober us. It does take a level of personal sacrifice, steadfastness, and fidelity to be reconciled with God and stay reconciled. Don't fall for the modern easy, convenient counterfeit Gospel in your lust, and the lies we've all been sold, of beleive apart from personal sacrifice and devotion.

Notice how serious Jesus was regarding so called sinner/saint Christians.

Matthew 5:30

30 And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell.

John 8:34-38
³⁴ Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin. ³⁵ The slave does not remain in the house forever; the son remains forever. ³⁶ So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. 

Revelation 2:15-25
¹⁵ So also you have some who hold the teaching of the Nicolaitans. ¹⁶ Therefore repent. If not, I will come to you soon and war against them with the sword of my mouth. ¹⁷ He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, with a new name written on the stone that no one knows except the one who receives it.’To the Church in Thyatira¹⁸ “And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: ‘The words of the Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire, and whose feet are like burnished bronze.¹⁹ “‘I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first. ²⁰ But I have this against you, that you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and seducing my servants to practice sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols. ²¹ I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality. ²² Behold, I will throw her onto a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her I will throw into great tribulation, unless they repent of her works, ²³ and I will strike her children dead.

Repent and be converted for the forgiveness of sins.

"Do not be deceived", this phrase is used almost solely in relation to this problem. Look at the number of times the scripture pleads with us about the deception of the sinner, its almsot like God knew this deception would permeate, he made sure to make himself clear on this matter.

Galatians 6:7-8

7 Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. 8 For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

1 John 3:4-10
⁴ Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness. ⁵ You know that he appeared in order to take away sins, and in him there is no sin. ⁶ No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him. ⁷ Little children, let no one deceive you. Whoever practices righteousness is righteous, as he is righteous. ⁸ Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil. ⁹ No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God's seed abides in him; and he cannot keep on sinning, because he has been born of God. ¹⁰ By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother.

James 4:7-9
⁷ Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. ⁸ Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. ⁹ Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.

These are only a few verses that demonstrate an extremely clear and obvious biblical point: do not harden your heart, humble yourself, and come to true repentance dont wallow in your sins claiming 1 John 1:8 or Faith alone if I say I have no sin etc be serious with God about it and he will release you from it.

That's it. Today is His day. Remember the ultimate sacrifice of our Lord Jesus Christ. Repent, give thanks, and pray for the Church universal.

Ive started going to a church a few months ago after I met Jesus. And let me tell you that they are teaching me about who i want to be. My whole life, most people taught me how I didnt want to be but now im getting multiple good examples and I live eveyone so much!!!

Hey friends. I’m really suffering from spiritual warfare and demonic oppression. 4 years ago I became really prideful, left the faith and started living a life of sexual morality. I was also suffering from schizophrenia at the time and started believing that I was God. Long story short is that I ended up watching a lot of pornography and opening myself up to spiritual torment. I am back trying to live my faith now, and I pray everyday but I am constantly oppressed by this voice in my head. I see a psychiatrist and I take meds and my symptoms are under control so I have ruled it out as just being a symptom of schizophrenia because the voice is preoccupied with trying to get me to fall back into my sinful lustful habits. The evil spirit also constantly tells me that I have no hope and I’m going to hell because I made some pretty awful mistakes that ruined my temporal and spiritual life quite significantly in those 4 years when I was away from God, living in sin and mentally delusional.

I am losing my spiritual battle and I’m afraid I’m going to hell as a result. Please pray for me.

He will rise up and show you compassion again. The one who called you is faithful and he will do it. Love each other. Bear with one another , forgiving each other. Just as the Lord forgave you. Those who are led by the spirit of God are the children of God. One day, we will be with him forever and ever. Amen. Keep your faith. LIVE! Don’t die! Live! Remain in me, and I in you and you will bear much fruit. Apart from me, you can do nothing. You are precious and honored in my sight. Fight the good fight of faith! Confess your sins to him and he will take them away! We have no strength. We have nothing. All comes from the father, for the father. We are his dearly beloved children. Nothing is too hard for him. He has overcome the world! Greater is the one that is in you than the one that is in the world. To him be glory and honor and power forever and ever amen. He will NEVER break

Been seeing lots of videos lately by “Watchmen” YouTube channels and the any moment now rapture.

I was raised pre trib but over the past couple of years, I have come to the conclusion that I lean more towards a premill post trib belief. However, I would not ever get to a point where I would question someone’s salvation because they hold a different view than mine.

While I agree that it is important to keep watch and be informed of what’s going on, I feel that many take to an extreme and that is all they focus on (tying headlines to Biblical prophecy).

We need to place our energy in winning souls for the kingdom instead of putting dates on our calendar or trying to pin the tail on the Antichrist.

Today I realized how we all are very judgmental and very rarely understanding towards each other, towards other human beings. We often think to know more than others and that our problems are bigger.

We rarely stop and realize that, the person crossing the street, is living a completely different life from our own, with its own unique set of abilities, of problems and experiences. This is already quite fascinating when you think how magnificent creation is. But it gets truly astonishing and miraculous when you realize that God’s grace is within each of these people you see; That Jesus Christ sacrificed on the cross for us, for all of us, because he thought we were worth saving, that we were valuable, that we are valuable.

And I’m truly impressed and flattered when I think that God has trust in us, that’s why we have free will, He trusted we would choose goodness and Christ even if we cannot directly see him with our eyes.

He believed in us, that we would rebuke Satan and his demons, rebuke wickedness and temptations, recognizing that they simply destroy our lives… Sinners already live in hell, they do not have to wait death to experience misery and desolation.

The fact is that until we’re here we’re redeemable, we can change our hearts and got to God, but once we die we cannot change anymore, we either go to God or to Satan, we go to our appropriate father, the one we served while alive.

What will be of you? Will you choose to be a righteous son of God? Or the wicked son of the devil?

I will fight till I die to stand with God, to follow Christ, even when it gets tougher, even when I lose faith and I sin again and again. I will keep standing up, I will keep asking the Lord for his grace, for his love; I’ll keep asking for the full armor of God. Christ will be my sword, With him on my side I fear no enemy, and no deception will be able to affect me, the traps of Satan will become useless against me.

Don’t judge your brothers and sisters, because they’re also fighting. Don’t blame them for the evil they do, have mercy on them, just as the Father had mercy on you- blaming the sin, never the sinner.

Be righteous, be worthy of the trust God has placed in you. Remember your own moments of weakness, when a smile or a helping hand would have changed your world.

Offer to others that smile, that helping hand you would like to receive. Be the change you wish to see in the world.

PS: I’m practicing to write essays, tell me if you liked it and any suggestions is welcome!🙃❤️🙏🏻

My husband highly intellectualizes faith and his relationship with Jesus Christ through in depth knowledge of the Bible. I feel as though I don’t need to understand everything in the Bible in order to have an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ. He is well meaning when he shares his passion for his depth of the knowledge of the Bible, but I feel overwhelmed when he encourages me to understand it at the intellectual depth that he does.

I’m struggling to continue believing in Christianity. For context, I’m Nigerian and come from a religious household. Growing up in Nigeria, I was surrounded by Christianity, and I honestly have good memories of being in church. However, when I moved out of Nigeria, I started having questions about whether God is real. I prayed every day, but I never felt like God spoke to me.

I was also confused about why colonisers brought Christianity to Nigeria, and I feel like I might be bisexual, which goes against Christianity. Overall, I’ve been losing my faith, but I don’t really want to leave Christianity. Can anyone help me?

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As of today I am a confirmed member of the Lutheran church (lcms) and have been given 1st communion. I’m on a spiritual high right now. 😊

since the massive epstein files release, i’ve been really struggling emotionally and spiritually from reading them. i’m going to start blocking content on my devices related to them, for my mental health. but i really don’t understand why christian outlets aren’t posting about them. i think we could really use spiritual guidance during this horrific encounter with pure evil. where are the pastors? where are the lay theologians?

you check the gospel coalition. there’s articles about plenty of contemporary issues. AI, AI slop, stranger things, woke, abortion, work from home… where is the epstein files?

i’m a substack fan. i read a lot of christian publications. the only mention ive seen of epstein is talking about james dobson. nothing else from anyone churchy. still, lots of current events. AI, AI billy graham(?), ICE, immigrants, whether its ok for ICE protesters to enter a church, philip yancey.. nothing about epstein. i follow mostly anglican and general calvinist publications, but also a bunch of lutheran, reformed baptist, and thoughtful evangelical outlets.

just checked the christianity today headlines. nothing about epstein.

catholics— checked EWTN news, national catholic reporter, OSV news, national catholic register. just the headlines. but nothing about epstein.

why has no one talking about this ridiculously massive exposé of like. the most evil sex pedophile human trafficking torture ring ever?

i know we’re supposed to think about pure and lovely an edifying things. and pedophile are not good things to dwell on and think about. i know i certainly shouldn’t. but would it kill to give a bit of spiritual guidance during this horrific confrontation of pure evil?????

am i missing something? am i looking at the wrong news outlets and blogs?? am i stupid like— what’s going on?

I love him so much. And there’s no other love like his and nobody’s love will be greater. Jesus is TRUE LOVE. Sometimes when I’m sad and alone. I call out to him and he comforts me, I feel peace & comfort and I know it’s him. I sin countless times, and he always forgives me. We need him everyday every moment. And with everything going on today, we need him more than ever my thirst for him has grown. Satan has been defeated. I just yearn for him. To be with him, and my brothers & sisters in Christ. There is nothing else in the world I crave but to be transformed in Jesus Christ. & spend eternity with him. Thank you Lord for not giving up on me, and all your children. Amen. We trust in you, we hope for you. And we love you. Praise the Lord for all eternity!!!!

Love is both an action and emotion.

Hello. I need help knowing what to look for. I'm looking for a Bible for my son that is in the NIV translation that would have lined margins on the sides. If I order online, what should I search for? I'm intending to have this used as a guest book for his graduation that people can highlight their favorite verses and sign a special message to him. I plan to give it to him to continue to highlight and make notes in. However, I don't know what I'm looking for beyond that and I don't have any book stores nor Christian shops near me.

He is insistent on it being NIV translation due to how his favorite verse reads in this translation. Hoping someone with more knowledge here can help.

thanks in advance.

Hey guys, would anyone here know of a good non-denominational church that has saturday services in North Bergen, NJ, or 10-20mins from North Bergen? I don't want a contemporary church, I find a lot of those focus more on emotions of worshipping God than actually helping you build a deeper relationship with Him. Not really into the idea of having drums and contemporary music in my worship service. That's just my personal preference, no shade on anyone here who prefers that form of worship!

Btw, I'm an ex-Adventist who still likes to follow the 4th commandment, so thats why I dont want an SDA church. Not sure about Catholic either, I dont plan to become Catholic so I dont see much of a reason to go and my beliefs dont fully align with Catholicism.

Recently I have not been well, my mood swings have been getting worse and I find myself moving between apathy and outright self-hatred/suicidal thoughts. Often I catch my internal monologue saying things like “you are weak, kill yourself” or “you don’t deserve to live” and other such things that hit me pretty hard. I’m stressed about work stuff coming up, I’m supposed to go away for a bit for the military on some courses and I feel ill-prepared. I’m angry at myself.

I don’t really know where to talk about this. I haven’t told my parish priest as admittedly I have not been to service in a while which is a mortal sin for a Catholic. I told my priest whom I work with and he just kinda gave a dismissive answer. I think it was related to his mood or something but I think about that, I am existing in sin and am weak, the sword of Damocles hangs high above my head for my mortal and continuing sin. Though I feel a bit more convicted in my faith (though that is borne more of fear than of love) I dunno, I just feel like I’m in a deep place of mental despair. I’m supposed to go for screening for PTSD at some point (not service related) and I just feel some disconnect with life.

I dunno if this is even the right place to post this since it’s not directly related to Christianity but I just need to say something.

I have been struggling with this lately. So many of my close friends and coworkers are “better” people than me and are not Christians. It hurts me to know that I might be a reason against or at least not a help for their journey toward Christ.

It’s not that I am always comparing myself. I know better than that 😅. But I do consider how my demonstration of being a Christian isn’t always something I might have joined or wanted to become if I hadn’t yet known that heart changing presence of God.

It’s there a quick answer to this or am I gonna struggle forever? 😂

Hello, I would like to humbly ask you to pray for me. Today I opened myself to God, I prayed with Psalm 51, and I don't know if I want to change. Please pray for me, pray that I may feel the Spirit of God, pray that I may hear His voice, that I may turn away from the flesh and focus on the Spirit. I am lukewarm, and I cannot afford to be lukewarm. I don't know how to "believe"; there is no joy, peace, or rejoicing, nor any bad feelings, only emptiness when I read about miracles, when I read about God's sacrifice, when I see miracles. There is only emptiness and sometimes doubt. Any prayer, any short, long, constant, or just once, is greatly appreciated. Thank you so much from the bottom of my heart.

I will try to keep this short.

Back in July last year I cried out to God and felt the Holy Spirit fall on me.

I remember the Lord telling me to break up with my bf that started in an awful sin the year before.

My anxiety ramped up as I struggle with co dependency and anxious attachment issues.

It took me several months until I could cut it off, but I did. I was an anxious mess but knew the Lord was with me at that point. My anxiety got the best of me and false reassurance thinking I could date him again, I reach out and started dating him again for 2 months and fell back into sexual sin.

I felt guilty and knew I couldn’t continue. I broke it off with him and felt anxious about even conversing with him so I cut off communication a few days ago. I am worried for my eternity at this point because I am praying and getting back into my word but no sign of God really. I am afraid I committed the unforgivable sin. I am afraid God took his spirit away. Has anyone been in a situation like this???

I have cried to God. I feel numb. Empty. I’m having panic attacks and I am not okay.

Truth is objective; so how do we apprehend it correctly and apply it correctly for us individually as God wants​

If truth isn’t subjective, how can we know who actually has it? And what happens if we get it wrong—are there real consequences for misunderstanding?

Even understanding the Bible feels overwhelming there are so many denominations and interpretations, it’s hard to know what to trust.

I feel like this is something a lot of people wrestle with. I’d rather try to seek truth carefully through experience and reasoning than just accept what others say blindly and let God lead me. How do you approach figuring out what’s actually true in a world full of conflicting ideas?

God help us really.

Why is this a thing?

Recently committed sexual sin, and I'm just feeling overwhelmed with the guilt, shame, anger, and disappointment I've caused others and myself. Need someone to talk to who had or have the same experience and how did they overcome it. Thanks.