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Shooting Stars and Hearing God Speak

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Star Gazing for Shooting Meteorites   As I write this I am stargazing, or more precisely meteor gazing.  I am thankful for the time I took to take a blanket outside to lie upon my lawn to look up and stare into the skies. It is impossible for me to do this without hearing God's intimate voice overwhelmingly speak to me so many wonderful thoughts. It is true that he is constantly speaking to us and we are simply too distracted and not listening. I recalled the summer I was in Kenya  on a missionary trip and the first night I arrived I went outside and was in awe of HOW MANY stars were actually in the sky. Coming from a rural area of TN, which is not so rural anymore, I have seen stars but never it the brilliance and as numerous as in the Kenya Bush area sky. I am sure it was because we were actually closer to the equator but also because there is not electrical light in the bush of Africa. The sky was filled, every spot covered in shining little diamond like

Can a Christian be Gay? Can a Vegetarian eat Steak?

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This question "Can a Christian be Gay?" is very easy to ask, but (and isn't there always a "but") following it out to the end takes a little more willingness to take an honestly intelligent look at the words of the Bible. Let me pose some questions: Can a Christian be a murderer? Can a Christian steal? Can a Christian be an adulterer? Can a Christian be a liar? The answer is certainly YES! But what does that solve. It is shallow, because it does not ask the real question... though it might suggest it. "To be gay" is to have sex with someone of the same sex, to choose to be sexually active with someone  and have a relationship with this person in the most intimate way possible. The Bible says the two shall become one, meaning obviously one man and one woman.  The physical sexual organs of the male and female body align (fit) most naturally together. A simpleton can clearly tell that this is not so for two woman or two men, h