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12+ min ago (627+ words) Starting today August 7th, 2024, in order to post in the Married Couples, Courting Couples, or Singles forums, you will not be allowed to post if you have your Marital status designated as private. Announcements will be made in the respective forums as well but please note that if yours is currently listed as Private, you will need to submit a ticket in the Support Area to have yours changed. - /account/dismiss-notice?notice_id=118 CF has always been a site that welcomes people from different backgrounds and beliefs to participate in discussion and even debate. That is the nature of its ministry. In view of recent events emotions are running very high. We need to remind people of some basic principles in debating on this site. We need to be civil when we express differences in opinion. No personal attacks. Avoid you, your statements....

29+ min ago (321+ words) Nigeria (MNN) " The Nigerian government says 100 more children have been released after a mass kidnapping in northern Nigeria last month. More than 300 children and teachers were taken from a Catholic school on Friday, November 21. Fifty children escaped soon after the attack, which means that today more than half of the victims remain in captivity. "It's unclear how involved the government negotiations were," says Greg Kelley with Unknown Nations, "but there was definitely some pressure that was put on these kidnappers." Kelley says the November 21 abduction is "an example of constant disruption of the gospel, because we regularly get calls [from indigenous missionary partners]where we have to emergency evacuate or pull people from one place to another." Despite the release of these 100 kidnapped children, the big-picture pattern in Nigeria remains the same. Groups like Boko Haram and Fulani militants attack…...

29+ min ago (434+ words) India (MNN) " A crayon-colored manger scene might seem like a small thing. But for one 10-year-old girl in India, it represents a miracle " and a new life of hope in Christ. Sarani grew up battling serious heart problems that made her very weak and sapped her energy. Life was difficult for Sarani and her parents. Raina Miller with Mission India says, "The family spent every rupee they had on her treatments, and nothing was working. Her mom tried going to temples and praying to their gods, desperate for help " and of course, none of it worked." Then Sarani was invited to a Children's Bible Club run by Mission India. There, she heard stories about Jesus, and especially how He healed the sick. Those stories stayed with her. "So her Bible Club leader'encouraged her to pray, and Sarani prayed her very…...

59+ min ago (648+ words) Reading 1 Jeremiah 23:5-8 Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will raise up a righteous shoot to David; As king he shall reign and govern wisely, he shall do what is just and right in the land. In his days Judah shall be saved, Israel shall dwell in security. This is the name they give him: "The LORD our justice." Therefore, the days will come, says the LORD, when they shall no longer say, "As the LORD lives, who brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt"; but rather, "As the LORD lives, who brought the descendants of the house of Israel up from the land of the north" and from all the lands to which I banished them; they shall again live on their own land. Responsorial Psalm Psalm 72:1-2, 12-13, 18-19 R. (see 7) Justice shall flourish in…...

1+ hour, 12+ min ago (195+ words) Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts, and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those... "Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts, and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God "Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ…...

1+ hour, 25+ min ago (279+ words) Here is Day One of the devotional'the first half written by me; the second half written by Eden. The whole devotional is designed that way: encouragement from a pastor to a teenager, followed by encouragement from a teenager to a teenager. You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother's womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous'how well I know it. (Psalm 139:13-14) In a similar way, your incredibly intricate body points to a much greater Designer. It didn't come into existence by chance. Just think about the complexity of a car versus the complexity of the human body: The car: 30,000 parts Your body: 30,000,000,000,000 (30 trillion) cells The car: 35 hours (on the high end) You: 6,570 hours (or nine months) God spoke the world into existence and created everything…...

1+ hour, 46+ min ago (81+ words) As Christians throughout the world prepared to celebrate the Nativity of our Lord, Archbishop Nikitas of Thyateira and Great Britain offered a profound and pastoral Christmas Message for 2025. Rejoice and celebrate for the Sun of Righteousness brings a message of hope to each and everyone. May the great Feasts of Christmas, the New Year and the Theophany be filled with all the love Christ brings to all. With paternal blessings and wishes, + NIKITAS Archbishop of Thyateira and Great Britain...

1+ hour, 57+ min ago (381+ words) It's that time of year when we sing Christmas carols, and our hearts turn to the amazing eternal gift of God's son sent to Bethlehem's manger to redeem all who will receive and believe on His name. This year, instead of singing the Twelve Days of Christmas, let's expand it to include The 365 Days of Christmas (plus one more during Leap Year.) Similarly, we look back over our year to thank Him for many things. We look forward like Moses and say, "If Your Presence does not go with us, do not send us up from here, Wonderfully if we ask Him, His presence does go with us! In fact, Hebrews 13:5, promises "I will never leave you nor forsake you. The truth is, instead of Him going with us, we seek to find His path and follow closely after Him....

2+ hour, 3+ min ago (843+ words) Channel 4 News said his name was included in a dossier - known as The Two Cities Report - "compiled in secret" by a former head of operations in the London Diocese, and that the information in the document was a mix of criminal convictions, serious safeguarding concerns, and "tittle tattle". The head of operations left his post soon after Mullally became Bishop of London. Fr Griffin's close friend Nicholas Sabine told Channel 4 News that "the lies that were spread within the Church about [Fr Griffin] would have been devastating to him", and that Griffin had been "crushed" by the "institution" of the Church of England." "Large institutions put the institution first," he told Newman." Some clergy do not believe that she did not read the report, but another London priest, the Rev Robert Thompson, told Channel 4 News that either way would be…...

2+ hour, 36+ min ago (57+ words) And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Spirit, and prophesied, saying: "Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, For He has visited us and accomplished redemption for His people, And has raised up a horn of salvation for us In the house of David His servant" As He spoke by the mouth of His......