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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.

Re: God Can't Look On Sin, Right? Why Not?

Matthew Foutch — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 06:41:42 -0000

Thank you for posting on this topic. The following comments are centered around the statement in bold text: “Hey Wendy, marry me (again) or I’ll send you to a place of eternal torment!”

The key to our relationship with God is choice. God doesn't send us anywhere. He has already set in place the path to life and the path to destruction and has set us upon the intersection. In every interaction, he gives us choice. It is our choice to seek and find his love, peace and joy. It is equally our choice to shun Him. Jesus offers us the path to life. When we choose not to follow it, we send ourselves to the place of eternal torment. Since we are all his children who He loves. It is with agony that he watches us destroy ourselves. However, He will not take away His gift to us - choice.

May God please bless us on our walks and guide
us into His life.

Re: Bethel Is A Really Weird Church

MJ — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:53:36 -0000

That is concerning. (not sure if I already replied to this...)
All you can really do is pray- which will help a lot! And gently confront him and remind him what the Bible says...

Re: Re: Porn Sites I Owned

Susanne — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 17:56:09 -0000

Even God cannot change the past. When it comes to digital content and old business associations it is true these things linger for far longer than we'd like, especially since there is a financial incentive for people to keep your name in the game. I am sorry, I deal with this issue too. God knows your heart and that is what counts the most.

Re: For Those Who Missed It Last Time: "Constance" Video (with Lyrics)

DonnyPauling — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:08:37 -0000

Emma,

I love your comment, but PLEASE don't get a tattoo. Yuck.

Re: For Those Who Missed It Last Time: "Constance" Video (with Lyrics)

emma — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:02:12 -0000

When I first heard this song I was able to connect with it right away. Im getting a tattoo next week (my first one): "In His arms she fell..." this means to me that what I have been through I can give it all up to God knowing that he understands and everything is going to be alright :)

Re: A Literal 6 Day Creation? I Don’t Think So (An Example of My Daily Reading Plan)

PH8TH — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 19:50:51 -0000

How Long Is A Day?
There is a theory that says each of God's days in Genesis were actually millions of years for us. Is this true? Maybe we need to ask what does the word "day" mean in Genesis?
The Hebrew word "yom" is translated as day in Genesis. Just as our word "day" can have different meanings based on its context, so can the word "yom". For example, in the Old Testament "yom" is translated to mean a 24 hour day 1109 times. It means a long, long period of time--such as an age--about nine times.
However, every time the word "yom" is used with the term evening or morning in the Bible, it means a regular 24 hour day.
Every time the word "yom" is used with a number, such as "40 yom" (40 days), it means a regular 24 hour day.
What we now see is that in Genesis chapter one God is going out of His way to emphasize that each day is a normal 24 hour day. For example in verse five He says:
"And there was evening and there was morning, one day."
Verse 8: "And there was evening and there was morning, a second day."
Verse 13: "There was evening and there was morning, a third day."
For each day of creation the pattern is the same: evening, morning, number, day. Just part of that pattern, for example using the words "evening" and "day" together, tell us it was a 24 hour day. But God tells us in three ways -- evening, morning, number -- that the word day means... an ordinary 24 hour day.
God is making it very clear: He created everything in six ordinary days.

God does nothing in secret. God did not create the bible for just the well versed to understand. God is not a mystery that you should figure Him out. He is God who reveals Him self to those who seek Him as He choses to be sought.

The one thing God can't do is lie.

He said 6 days

PH8TH

Re: A Literal 6 Day Creation? I Don’t Think So (An Example of My Daily Reading Plan)

PH8TH — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 11:10:58 -0000

Hi folks,
I have done a lot of study on creation I got this off the net......... it covers it

I have done a lot of study on creation I got this off the net......... it covers it

How Long Is A Day?
There is a theory that says each of God's days in Genesis were actually millions of years for us. Is this true? Maybe we need to ask what does the word "day" mean in Genesis?
The Hebrew word "yom" is translated as day in Genesis. Just as our word "day" can have different meanings based on its context, so can the word "yom". For example, in the Old Testament "yom" is translated to mean a 24 hour day 1109 times. It means a long, long period of time--such as an age--about nine times.
However, every time the word "yom" is used with the term evening or morning in the Bible, it means a regular 24 hour day.
Every time the word "yom" is used with a number, such as "40 yom" (40 days), it means a regular 24 hour day.
What we now see is that in Genesis chapter one God is going out of His way to emphasize that each day is a normal 24 hour day. For example in verse five He says:
"And there was evening and there was morning, one day."
Verse 8: "And there was evening and there was morning, a second day."
Verse 13: "There was evening and there was morning, a third day."
For each day of creation the pattern is the same: evening, morning, number, day. Just part of that pattern, for example using the words "evening" and "day" together, tell us it was a 24 hour day. But God tells us in three ways -- evening, morning, number -- that the word day means... an ordinary 24 hour day.
God is making it very clear: He created everything in six ordinary days.

I think God did as he said. Do you question wheather time was an issue for Him to pull it off. remember He is God. God does nothing in secret, God did not create His bible to be understood by only people of higher learning He reveals Himself to those who seek Him as He chooses to be sought. God is not going to be figured out He reveals Himself as He wills.
There is one thing God can't do .........................LIE

blessings

Re: When I Let It Hit Me, Folks, This Is Gonna Be Incredibly Hard

Kgrt — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:34:51 -0000

There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus

Re: Private: Weight Watch

Carrie — Mon, 30 May 2011 16:23:35 -0000

How's this going? 2009 is so 2009!

Re: Featured on the 700 Club This Morning

Carrie — Mon, 30 May 2011 16:23:04 -0000

I'm not with ya on the God bits, but it was nice to see your story. =)

Re: Bethel Is A Really Weird Church

THEBLUNTBible — Sun, 29 May 2011 02:09:44 -0000

Philippians 3:8
8Yea doubtless, and I
count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ
Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do
count them but DUNG, that I may win Christ...

You do know what Dung is right? Dung= "SHIT".

Re: Bethel Is A Really Weird Church

DeborahzSong — Sun, 29 May 2011 02:04:09 -0000

I went to Bethel a for a few years. They assisted in kidnapping my child for the CIA. Then they had an operative try to set me and my father up for drug dealing when we never been involved in it. When me and my dad caught them they made all kinds of excuses. There is very little true love in that church. Here is part of my story: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

Re: You’re Invited to One Heckuva Party!

Stuart Blessman — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 00:04:23 -0000

Amen, Donny...Amen.

Re: You’re Invited to One Heckuva Party!

Amy F. — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 18:11:43 -0000

Good stuff, Donny.
In 2005, I went to an HIV/AIDS conference at a church in CA. We heard from folks from HIV-riddles nations, like Africa and the like, but we also heard from many folks in the United States living with the disease. Some were innocent bystanders -- a nursing mother infected during a post-partum blood transfusion who passed it on to her nursing newborn. And some had been part of the homosexual community before coming to Christ, already infected with the disease. I am so grateful to those precious folks who were so willing to share - unabashedly - their struggles and victories in their walks with Christ. The Church has had it so wrong, for the most part, in handling the homosexual community ... complete rejection at the worst and silence at the least. I think your description hit the nail on the head and I just love it. The whole "hate the sin, love the sinner" mentality is not something we are equipped to handle -- in our anger we sin. We are called to love God and to love our neighbor as we love ourselves. It is His kindness that leads to repentance. I was allowed to sit on the pew, steeped in my sin and discover who Christ was. He drew me ... He gently and faithfully rooted out the portions of my life that needed to go -- and changed my heart accordingly. Would I have been afforded that same opportunity if I had been an openly gay person truly seeking the Lord? Or a transvestite? Or a prostitute? It's a tough topic, but one, I believe, that needs to be talked about. If your pastor decides to welcome homosexuals into the congregation and folks get offended and splinter off in anger, let them. Jesus hung out with the hurting and afflicted of that time and was criticized for it -- we are all the same in God's eyes. Our sins -- though they may carry different degrees of consequences -- are equal in the Lord's economy and are all, if not under the blood of Christ, punishable by death. We would do well to remember that.