Recent content by dhoenisch

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Good morning all. I just wanted to share a little excitement with my fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. As some of you may have read, my first post about a month ago included me thinking about leaving my church because of details I don't want to go into. Though, one of the issues...

Darktipper, I am also a single man, and I get a lot of flack for being single. I feel that God want's me to remain single. I am truly happy being this way too. In the past, even knowing that I should remain single, I did try dating, and it never worked. I would be the one aggravated with the...

I'm pretty much strictly a bluegrass lover. I do listen to other stuff from time to time, but it's almost always bluegrass. It's what I love, what I play and what I listen to. I can't get into listening to contemporary Christian music at all, though won't get into why so as not to offend...

I use a few translations, but my go-to translation is definitely NKJV. I have a Nelson NKJV Study Bible. It's kind of my Cadillac Bible :) Dan

Thank you both again for your views on this. I've been praying about this for some time, and I believe God answered my prayers earlier today. Shortly before I left work today, my pastor sent me an e-mail. Without giving details, it seems he gave our talk some thought, and it looks like...

I agree with you on this, however, do we truly know what the original tempo of the hymn is? In some hymnals, for some songs, there is a notation for how fast the tempo should be, so in that case, I agree with you, and have no problems having it or playing it at that speed. However, a lot of...

Thanks for your views all. And, I will try to answer some of the questions or thoughts you have provided. My church leadership is made up of just the pastor and two deacons. Problem is, the deacons are hardly there. The two Sunday School teachers aren't viewed as leaders, as far as I can...

Hey All, I was hoping to see what advice this Christian community could offer to me. I am currently active in the church I have been going to for about 5-years. At one point, I was in the music ministry, a Sunday School teacher and a volunteer at Kids Club, as well as being a VBS leader...

I agree with the original post. Hymns do seem to be played too slowly. I'm a bluegrass musician, so of course, I tend to play everything fast. When I was in a church bluegrass group, we'd speed up some of the hymns and it would breathe new life into them. There's one problem though, and...

That's funny. One of my Kids Club kids one time was completely ignoring my instruction, had her back turned to me and was talking to one of her friends. Since calling her name wasn't getting her attention, I walked right up to her and tapped her on the head. She turned around, facing my...

I'm new to this forum, and just started reading these posts. I read the lottery one, and was thinking to myself that after giving a lot of the money away, I'd go broke buying cars and motorcycles, and would end up selling them because I'd be in the hole trying to pay for insurance, upkeep...

Good morning all. I just wanted to introduce myself. My name is Dan, and I live in the Chicagoland suburbs. I am a non-denominational Christian and have been earnestly following the Lord for the past 12 years. I am a current member at a Bible Church and I teach Primary Sunday School and...