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Can Christians Enjoy Things Like Movies, Games, and TV?

Can Christians enjoy things like movies? TV? Games? Video games? Dancing? Drinking a beer once in a while? Are these activities forbidden to Christians? If I like engaging in these sorts of activities, can I still call myself a Christian?

Find out some of Tim’s thoughts here.

Yes, I still have a few articles in the archives from Tim. Enjoy.

Shannon’s Testimony

Looking back through the archives I found this story. It was from 2012.

In 2020 I wrote to Shannon to ask her how it was going. She responded with this.

Wow, can’t believe it’s been 8 years since I wrote that, my journey is still going, I have this really awesome & deep relationship with God now and he has done so many amazing things that last eight years!

Shannon

Check out her testimony.

Getting To Know God

Here’s something sent to us by a site viewer:

My life is falling apart! Everything goes wrong in my life. I fight with my family and friends. Everything I touch ends up as a problem. It seems like God is punishing me! I want God to hear me. Can you give me a prayer so that He will listen? I want Him to show me what I’m doing wrong. I want to know why I can’t move forward. 

Tim asks seven reasonable questions in order to help us focus our thoughts on Christ. Read the questions. Answer them honestly. And see if implementing them helps you as you seek to know God more.

Jeremiah 17:9 – Some Thoughts

Jeremiah 17:9 – lost in translation?

Jeremiah 17:9 is one of those verses that seems to have been “lost in translation” over the centuries.

For a person not versed in the Hebrew language, the multiplicity of translations into English tends to throw doubt on the reliability of Scriptures. I suppose, at some point, we must all wrestle with the fact that our English versions are translations by men of what God originally wrote in other languages.

Some will state that the God has preserved His word perfectly in English. But why would God favor English over other languages? And if God did not preserve His word perfectly in Chinese, why would we think He did so in English? And if He perfectly preserved His word in all languages in which it is translated, then what do we do with the differences between the translations going into the different languages?

We think the better view is that God has preserved His word in the original languages.