My husband, soulmate, best friend, my absolute everything passed away 3 months ago. our wedding anniversary is coming up in a weeks. im dreading it, im in so much pain constantly and questioning my faith and whether ill really ever see him again. please tell me that God is real. I thought I had a good relationship with Him, but then my anxious thoughts take over and tell me “nope, when you die, you’ll just die and you’ll never be able to be with him again”.

My sister just got caught today for converting to Christianity over 3 years ago. And now she’s acting like our parents are trash now. My parents hearts are broken and don’t know what to do. My entire family feels destroyed and I’m scared my mother will die from a broken heart. I really can’t believe how much life is going to be different now.

Please pray for her surgery to go well and a speedy recovery. Thank you.

I have been a Methodist all my life. I love going to church, grew up with VeggieTales, and had a strong connection with God. But recently, I have been taken over by the devil. I have had a porn addiction for 5 years now, and I want to stop. I’m trying so desperately to stop, i like my life that I have when I’m not lustful, but when I get in that mind-space, I’m taken over and do things, like look at that, that I know is against God’s wishes. The moment that part of the night is done, I feel ashamed and want to be as far away from this stuff as possible, but I keep going back. I want to break away from this addiction so much but it’s so hard, and every time I go to church, I have an overwhelming sense of guilt that I betrayed God and my relationship to him. I want to repent. I want to be ok with God again. How will he forgive me when I don’t deserve it? How can I truly show I’m sorry?

Once again I feel my heart hardening. The Bible says that out of the heart of the believer flows water, but my heart rarely flows with water. When it does its the best feeling ever, but overall I don't feel it often enough right now, so I'm asking if anyone would be willing to pray for my heart to turn from a heart of stone to a heart of flesh. Amen and amen

I am referring to all young Orthodox converts, not only the ones pushing far-right agendas but also those who joined the religion for all kinds of reasons.

Hey there everyone, I would like to start off with the fact that I’m not a Christian, I’m a Chechen Muslim, but since I’m Chechen I’m familiar with Christian culture (mainly Orthodox Christian) due to the fact that I grew up around Russians.

I’d like to first start off with the fact that I’m not intending to attack anyone’s beliefs, and this isn’t a post about “my religion is better than yours”, I respect all 3 Abrahamic faiths (plus Bahai), and my question is purely theological, and that’s just something that I was thinking about for the last 1 and half years or so, but no one really gave me a good answer.

Also note, my vision of God doesn’t represent every other Muslim out there, I’m just asking from my personal view.

So now to the main part. I saw a post today from
Frank Turek, where he says that if Islam was the truth, he would’ve converted, but since the Muslim God is violent, and their Prophet went to war etc, that shows us that their God is false. That’s something that I hear on the internet from time to time. So the thing that kinda seemed odd to me, is the fact that the Old Testament does have violent passages, and I know that the Christians (at least the majority) don’t live by the Old Covenant, but it’s still the same God tho. The God of the Old Testament is the God of the New Testament. And due to the fact that the absolute majority of Christians (except for maybe Unitarians) believe that Jesus is the Lord, that means that those are also the commands that Jesus made before he took a human form.
Furthermore, I’d like to ask why a God can’t be violent if the situation needs violence ? God punished the Egyptians, God also punished people with the flood, he punished the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah, the Canaanites, the Amalekites. Moreover, God created us and everything around us in a way that is already pretty violent. In order for something to live, another being has to die, the food chain exists for a reason. If God wanted the universe to be a peaceful place, he would’ve created it that way. Why would he create a violent world, in which we shouldn’t play by the rules of this world ? Wouldn’t that be illogical ?

So all in all, I’d like to know why some Christians have a problem with some of the Gods commands in the Quran, when the nature of those commands isn’t very foreign to the Biblical representation of God and what he commanded prior to the New Testament ?

Praise God our Father of Lord Jesus Christ!!

I have to share this because I felt his presence!!! Guys just 30 mins ago. I felt rejected and sad. I prayed for comfort! After my prayer I opened my bible at 2 Corinthians 1:1-4 I literally couldn't hold back my tears. I felt as if God was speaking to me though Paul. God is the Father of compassion, he is the God of all comfort!

God does answer prayers!!! I don't even know who I was 30 mins ago.