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Re: On Affairs: A Prayer

In His Service — Fri, 11 May 2012 09:56:09 -0000

When we talk to people who are coming to an awareness of their sin before God, and the consequences they've suffered for that sin, I agree that we must show them from God's word that how they have engaged in sin, and that sin pays a wage. Coming to a knowledge of the Savior and being saved involves coming to a knowledge of our sin, owning it, and turning (repenting) of it. While none of that can earn our salvation, God has said it's part of the process. Just look at what Jesus does with the woman at the well (Jn 4:17). He confronts her with her sin, facing her with breaking God's law. Then he identifies himself as the Messiah. The one she should be trusting to save her.

Having said that, I also believe that communicating the gospel to people can be done in a humble way. That doesn't mean I don't like to listen to an earnest, and even vehement preacher - I do. But even in that, a godly man knows what he has been saved from. He has seen his own sin and need of a savior. When people are fleeing a life of sin, kicking them to the curb and telling them they got what they deserved seems to lack the kind of humility Paul had when he identified himself as the chief of sinners (1Tim 1:15). We all deserve the wrath of God, in fact, we are born under his wrath (Eph 2:1-3). It is only by the grace of God that he has worked salvation in any of us.

Re: "What Doesn't Kill Us Makes Us Stronger"

Paul — Thu, 10 May 2012 11:30:03 -0000

I like this very much. Praise the lord for your honesty. I just read this for the first time. Im struggling with sin and love the lord so its hard. But im couraged by your words. So thank-you . Im from holland BTW. My name is paul.

Re: Conversations with a Former Prostitute

Someone who is praying for you — Thu, 03 May 2012 16:20:44 -0000

Dear SHE--Jesus loves you beyond all measure. I know He is with you as you heal, and I pray that everything will be completely cleansed and made whole again in Him. God bless you--and keep going in Jesus!

Re: Conversations with a Former Prostitute

Ashley Moreno — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 01:56:25 -0000

Dear She, I'd be proud to introduce you to my daughter. So glad your voice was found! With much love---

Re: Speaking in Little Rock, Arkansas Last Weekend

Ashley Moreno — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 01:53:14 -0000

You were here and I missed it!!! I'd have loved to have brought my children to hear you. Sorry I didn't know you were coming.

Re: Conversations with a Former Prostitute

Bill — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 09:50:03 -0000

Dear "She,"
What amazing courage to allow your story to be shared. And let me say that you are an EXCELLENT writer. I want you to know that these experiences do not define you. They are part of your story, but they are not your core, and they do not make up your identity. You are not who those men said you are. You are not who your employers said you are. You are who God in heaven, the father of Jesus Christ, says you are. He says you are beautiful, cleansed, accepted, redeemed, set free, cherished, valued, and worthy of respect, honor, and praise. Keep on your journey toward becoming all that God has in mind for you. Blessings and prayers.
Bill

Re: Conversations with a Former Prostitute

AJ Daltorio — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 01:23:43 -0000

Wow. Thanks for sharing. This makes me want to be a more respectful man of God. To quote a song, "I don't want to be the father who has to watch his daughter be conned and stripped bare by a monster like me."
God bless both of you.

Re: Dear @JohnCMayer – Re: Producing Porn

I. M. High — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 21:28:35 -0000

Thank you for trying. If you turn even one person around it'll be worth it. As the former wife of a porn addict, I still feel dirty, knowing he preferred THAT over the pure love I had for him.

Re: Barack's In Office: How Many of You are Getting Abortions?

DonnyPauling — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:27:34 -0000

You completely missed the point. I am totally anti-abortion. The point of that article is that Barack Obama has nothing to do with abortion in America. That is an issue that will be settled far above his pay grade.

Re: Speaking in Little Rock, Arkansas Last Weekend

Donny Pauling — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:23:55 -0000

"There Is a God: How the World's Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind" by Antony Flew

Re: Barack's In Office: How Many of You are Getting Abortions?

Guest — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:15:47 -0000

I find it ironic that you talk about the dignity of a woman through Jesus Christ, but do not see the dignity of a child in another's womb. I love what you have to say about how porn harms, but am puzzled as to why you believe we shouldn't be doing something to protect the child in a mother's womb. In addition, the woman (just as in porn) doesn't realize what they are doing to themselves emotionally or physically, and just as you knew the girls you worked with would have these images/videos out there for the rest of her life, so will this woman have to scars of their abortion on their heart. A very similar injustice to women and the society. I agree we need to love these women and I do, my heart goes out to them, but there are three victims in the crime of abortion: mother, baby, and community.

Re: How My Head Ended Up Cue-Ball Bald

David Baird — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 20:51:33 -0000

Hi Donny. Just listened to your talk in Halifax. I was the guy that asked you the only question from the audience. "What do you do now?" I want to send you a book I wrote. (No, it's not porn.) It is about Planet Earth quantum-leaping into the future -- (Comet Strike -- the Evolution of a SuperWorld) a world with a functioning "SuperHub" and a "United Global Space Force". I'm sure you would like it. When you get this message, just email me cometx@eastlink.ca and I'll send you a copy. Or you can check out the "SuperPackage" any time you want at www.spacemonster.biz. Did you ever stop to realize that, as we all go about our daily walks of life, there is a comet coming with our name on it and the technology to do something about the problem is sitting idle on the shelf? (Extinction, like the dinosaurs!!! Is that what we are heading towards?) No: We just build ourselves a "Comet Shield". We'll get our SuperBuddy, Bill Gates, to spark off the SuperHub and we'll be well on our way to superworlds status...
Dave

Re: Speaking in Little Rock, Arkansas Last Weekend

Tre2487 — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 03:39:11 -0000

Donny what is the name of the book you referred to that is written by an atheist proving god?

Re: Dear @JohnCMayer – Re: Producing Porn

Kirsten — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:08:39 -0000

AMAZING!! Your experiences can teach many. Please stick with it, Mr. Pauling!!

Re: Bethel Is A Really Weird Church

Diana — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:17:47 -0000

Can I just say one thing here? I have been going to Bethel for 6 months and I've NEVER seen any girls dressed like you describe, doing what you say they do. Yes, there are plenty of young people, but my experience is that they are modest in what they wear and how they behave. Maybe it's changed since you posted this, or maybe it's an issue of the heart. In any case, it's not an accurate portrayal of the church or its people..

Re: Dear @JohnCMayer – Re: Producing Porn

guest — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:11:42 -0000

news flash... your an idiot.

Re: About Donny Pauling

Grizzly5501 — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:24:57 -0000

Thank you. Someone must be praying for me.

Re: You’re Invited to One Heckuva Party!

Leigh Kennedy — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 03:17:02 -0000

Brother, you never cease to impress!

This post really makes us as Christians think and hopefully analyse hearts to see if we are for real.

Anyone who brews in hatred or offence is a bad representation of who Jesus is. Period.

Re: Speaking Engagements

Photo237 — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 15:19:55 -0000

My wife is celebrate and I was addicted to Porn for five years or so...I became a Christian two years ago...I was Baptized this year...I fight Porn every day of my life....living with a non Christian and celebrate wife is a hard road to go....I fought suicide...I have chronic depression from child abuse in a Lutheran School for over 7 years...my Parents lived a Martini glass in a plush suburb...but now I commit my life to Jesus Christ...Santan's attacks continue daily and I do work with women on a regular basis...it is rough...but I can do all things thru Jesus Christ.

Re: Bethel Is A Really Weird Church

Becca Gumm — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:56:08 -0000

God knew who it was. It was Donny's decision to respond to that. And He did and he was healed. I'm not always sure why God does certain miracles and not others, but I will take whatever he has for me! And anyone else!

Re: Bethel Is A Really Weird Church

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Re: On Affairs: A Prayer

Urban Chaos — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 08:50:54 -0000

"Oh how I was abused as a porn actress, how they ****ed me in a manner I had not agreed to, oh how I was abused," etc...

***************
WHATEVER!!!
***************

Listen, I am well aware that there are women who have been forced into pornography, and made to engage in these acts illegally, etc. But you see this is an almost negligible point. The fact is, if you were stupid enough to want to do pornography then you deserve all the "mistreatment" you got. Every single act of "cruelty" is justly afforded to you, for you were naive and foolish even considering that industry. Don't say to me: "But I needed the money", for even hitmen and credit-card criminals "need the money". If you're going to venture into anything, be prepared and take responsibility, for the consequences-- regardless of your reasons!
If you are a woman who has indeed been wronged and "raped" into such an industry, I truly am sorry and hope justice finds the purportrators. As for the rest of you, who went into the industry and are now complaining, you can go cry elsewhere...

Re: She’s Not Mine

Phg — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:57:59 -0000

Wow! This was just what I needed to hear today! I just got out of a devastating marriage of 17 years. I stayed in it because that it what God called me to do. He was refining me and teaching me the process of dying to self and living for Christ. And even though I came through the fire more Christ like than before, and would never trade the afflictions, I still carried the lie that I learned as a child.

I was molested by my brother and brother in law. My father abandoned us for another woman when I was 13. I was raped at 17. I was raised in a "Christian home" but the message be talked was not being "walked." I gave myself away to a man who wasn't "mine" and regretted it knowing that wasn't God's plan for me. I remained pure until I married at 21. Then spent 17 years with a man who was unfaithful in every way. He's now serving a 75 year sentence in prison for 3 felonies against a minor.

I finally opened myself up to dating again and went out with a man on our worship team. He knew God's Word, could quote scripture all day, sang praises to God every Sunday ... What a dream right? By the fourth date I was so tired of pulling his hands off me I broke up with him.

Is this really all there is I thought? Is every man only after one thing? Am I not capable of having a man love me like Jesus does? I carried this with me to the next date ... He had all the right words, did all the right things, had a dark past but never missed the opportunity to share his testimony how God saved him from the gutter 6 years ago and made him a new creation! I wasn't ready for marriage so quickly but he gave me an ultimatum and told me not to be double minded. He told me he KNEW he was the one God appointed to father my son, to love me, and to serve in ministry together. I failed to believer that God was enough... My ex went to prison, my child support and alimony stopped, I ha just gotten laid off due to the economy and my fiancé told me I couldn't survive on my own, it's now or never. I let God down and took the plunge. Three months later my husband has kicked my sin and I out and has threatened annulment or divorce. No biblical grounds, just that he's unhappy and he's NOT going to spend the rest of his life miserable. Since then he's assassinated my character with lies that not even my ex could imagine.

So where am I now? I moved back to my home town, God provided a great place for us to live, a job that I couldn't have even imagined, we're back in fellowship with our home church, Awanas, and I'm surrounded by believers who have wrapped their arms around me and are praying for my husband.

I share this in hopes that someone will learn from my mistake. God IS enough. I AM a daughter of the King and deserve to be treated as so, He IS meeting ALL of my needs above and beyond what I could imagine!

No matter what your circumstances, trust GOD and God alone. Love like he loves you, expect to be treated with respect, and keep HIS ways! Don't let anyone tell you anything different. The Word of Gid is alive, real, true and able to keep you on the narrow path!

Pray for my husband and I. I'm headed out today for a meeting with our Pastor tomorrow. I'm under the authority of the church and we'll go through Matthew 18 tomorrow. Pray that God will do a work and bring conviction. We are not called to live happy lives, we're called to give up our lives to save them! Pray I continue to seek God's will and not my own!

Thanks!

Re: She’s Not Mine

Bill Giovannetti — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:39:41 -0000

Really good stuff Donny. Thank you for shining the light of grace into the dark places in our souls.

Re: One of the Most Difficult Years of My Life

Shoe — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:18:04 -0000

False modesty FTW.