I go to a non-denominational church.  We place emphasis on studying the bible and teaching the scriptures, since it is only God's Word that can edify and make you grow spiritually.  We always have praise and worship sessions before the actual study / sermon starts.  We sing from modern worship songs (Jeremy Camp, Matt Redman, Paul Baloche etc.) to hymns.  I am blessed to be part of the worship "team"  - we don't just choose any random old song.  We make sure it lines up with scripture, because there's a lot of artists out there producing "Christian songs" and claiming to be Christian.  We also focus a lot on prayer and fellowship.  Of course none of the decisions in the church are made without praying about it first and waiting to hear from the Lord, after all, it is God who plant churches.  It should never be the other way around. Unfortunately there are "churches" that have a big "show", like a rock concert, to draw the people and where the bible is hardly opened or studied.  It's a nice "experience", but you can't build your life on an experience.

Soon and very soon there will be peace on earth, but a few "other" events must still take place...

Singelli:  The early stuff of Kutless were hard rock, but it seems like they've mellowed a lot and focusing now more on worship songs, which is cool.

alsonic:  It says right there, 7 days.  If God said 7 days it's 7 days.  Not 1 day = millions of years as many would like you to believe.

Approximately 6000 years old.  This is one of those subjects that have the potential to turn into a heated debate (hopefully it won’t get to
that), due to two groups that always stand in direct opposite of each other.  On the one side you get the Young-Earth proponents who believe in the biblical age of the earth of about 6000 years and then there are the Old-earth proponents who believe in the secular age of the earth of about 4.5 billion years.  I see that almost everyone that posted here (except for mrfe ) falls into the latter group, agreeing that the earth is a gazillion years old.  I on the other hand, as you already derived from my opening sentence, think otherwise. Check this out:

It’s amazing what you can find if you take the time to do a little bit of "research".  What I’m sharing below is not my own original work or opinion (although I fully agree with it and it makes a lot of sense to me after I have checked it out myself).  I got most of the info from answersingenesis.com.   So kudos to the site.  I could have just copied and pasted all the info here, but that would be against forum policy and I would be guilty of plagiarism and laziness. So I have taken the time to cut through a lot of the jargon and detail and summarize in my own words, as best as possible, what I have found.  So don’t just take my word for it.  Go check it out yourselves and yes, it’s a
Christian website.  

TheYoung-Earth worldview simply came from the Bible.  So this means if you stand with this view, you of course have to believe that the Bible is the divinely inspired, authoritative, trustworthy Word of God.  If you believe this, then you must be a Christian, which I am (I can
almost hear the facepalms already ).  
Of course the Bible does not say explicitly anywhere that the earth is 6000 years old.  If it did, then it would be out of date the following year and one would expect that an allmighty God who possess all knowledge in the universe, wouldn’t make that kind of mistake .  What
God did is give a starting point or “point of birth” for the creation of earth.  If you know when someone was born, you can easily calculate their age at any point in time, right?  So, according to Genesis 1 in the Bible, the earth was created on the first day of creation. So doing a rough calculation:
Adam was created on day 6.  If you take into account all the genealogies from Adam and Abraham using the Masoretic Hebrew text (where most of the English translations came from) of Genesis 5 and 11 and add up all the dates, we get about 2000 years.  Apparently most Christians and secular scholars agree that Abraham lived 2000 B.C., that is about 4000 years ago.  So, Adam to Abraham (2000 years) +
Abraham to now (4000 years) = 6000 years.
Two of the most popular works that calculated and arrived at this date, was by Dr. Floyd Nolan James (The Chronology of the Old Testament, A.D. 1993) and Archbishop James Ussher (The Annals of the World, A.D. 1658).  They were not the only ones and Jones
listed several chronologists who calculated the age of the earth based on the Bible who’s calculations ranged from 5501 to 3836 B.C. (remember to add the 2000 years A.D. – that is up to now).  
The amazing thing is that these calculations were not only done by people studying the Bible, but there are also EXTRA-biblical calculations, done meticulously by many historians for the Age of the Earth where more or less the same figure of 6000 years has been calculated.  Young’s Analytical Concordance to the Bible (Peadoby, MA:  Hendrickson,  1996) lists William Hales’s accumulation of
dates of creation from many cultures. Their dates of only thousands of years are good support for the biblical date of about 6000 years, but not for billions of years.

So what about radioisotope dating?  Well there are massive amounts of info available on this, there’s first of all a lengthy explanation on what it is and how it works.  Things like Uranium and Parent and Daughter half-lives are mentioned and a whole bunch of other stuff which you guys can check out for yourselves.  It’s just too much to mention here.  I’ll get straight to the facts.  
Radioisotope dating is not that reliable, because we can test it on rocks of a known age.  In 1997 a bunch of scientists called RATE (Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth) investigated assumptions commonly made using radioisotope dating.  Their findings were quite significant and it had a direct impact on evolutionary dates of millions of years (REFERENCE - L. Vardiman, A.A. Snelling and E.F.
Chaffin (Eds.),Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth: Results of a Young-Earth Creationist Research Initiative, Institute for Creation Research, Santee, California, and Creation Research Society, St. Joseph, Missouri, 2000.)
They took eleven samples (solidified lava) from an active volcano, Mount Ngauruhoe, which is located on the north island of New Zealand. They of course used radioisotope dating on the samples.  These rocks are known to have formed from eruptions in 1949, 1954 and 1975.
They sent the rock samples to a respected commercial laboratory – Geochron Labs in Cambridge, Massachusetts – and the ages of the rocks ranged from 0.27 to 3.5 million years old (REFERENCE - A.A. Snelling, The cause of anomalous potassium-argon “ages” for
recent andesite flows at Mt Ngauruhoe, New Zealand, and the implications for potassium-argon “dating,” in R.E. Walsh (Ed.),Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Creationism, Creation Science Fellowship, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pp. 503–525, 1998.).
These rocks are known to be less than 70 years old and it is thus apparent that the first assumption made was false.  This is just one example.  So how can radioisotope dating be trusted on rocks of unknown age, when it fails to give accurate dates on rocks of known
age?  Think about it.

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"I have a plan:  Attack!"
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"Good morning"
"What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it to be or not or that you feel good this morning or that it is a morning to be good on?"
"All of them at once."
(Bilbo Baggins and Gandalf in THE HOBBIT)

As a parent and a Christian, I am taught by the bible - God's Word - to raise my boy with love, discipline and how to follow God's way.  I can never force it on him.  I can just instruct, teach, lead - the way God is showing me through His word and the way my parents showed me.  As Ephesians 6:4 say: "Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord." More than that I cannot do. I trust God for the rest and pray and believe that He will lead Him on the right path.

Proverbs 22:6 - "Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it."

If my child decides to follow a religion and "rebel" and go another way, then something is seriously wrong in my household and I have only myself to blame.  I am by no means perfect and I still fail, a lot, but I think (and I see) a lot of parents these days, especially these days, have lost that sense of responsibility towards their kids (and God).  Love and discipline is minimal to non-existent.  We forget how closely our kids watch us.  If there's no love, respect and honor between husband and wife, why should you care??  Kids don't always do what you tell them to do - they do what you do.  Am I right? (yeah I'm looking at the young forumites )  Also, here's a verse for all of us that still have parents

"Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.  'Honor your father and mother (this is the first commandment with a promise), that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land." - Ephesians 6:1-3

I see the original post was made way back in the beginning of last year already, but the topic popped up at (almost) the top of the list again, so I'll contribute I absolutely believe the bible is the divinely inspired, authoritative, trustworthy Word of God, which was written by men yes, but who were led by the Holy Spirit to write the words they wrote.  I'm not going to comment again on previous posts since it was made "ages" ago and play4fun has basically done most of the work for me  Nice job.  Here, have some virtual Viz.
A bit OT but I just want to throw a comment out there which was made by an ex-atheist.  As a true believer in Christ, this made a lot of sense to me and gave me some insight on why a non-believer in Christ / atheist have such a hostile reaction towards God / bible / Christianity in general. I quote:
"Can I tell you why I think that you deny God?  I think that the freedom to believe and live the way that you want, is so important to you that the thought of someone being in charge of this whole thing and having a standard that He is going to hold you accountable to, is just way too much for you to want to submit yourself to, because that means it might put a wet blanket on some of the things that you want to do."

Just got Jeremy Camp's new RECKLESS album from iTunes.  Couldn't listen to all the songs as I was on my way to work, but man, so far a couple of awesome powerful songs on there.

BluemageKyle:  Hey man!  I don't know if I'll call myself a "guitarist".  I'm not that good .  I play on an entry level Ibanez - the SA series.  Really good guitar and serious value for money.  I've played on an Ibanez acoustic as well (can't remember the model) - awesome sound!  I just love Ibanez guitars in general.  KoRn and Breaking Benjamin you say?  You kids like playing with fire don't you  

Wow there's so many I don't know where to begin.  Here's a few of my personal favourite "powerful" songs:

Kutless - Carry me to the cross
Kutless - Strong Tower
Kutless - Better is one day 
Pillar - Smiling down
Lincoln Brewster - Everlasting God
Matthew West - Strong enough
RED - Not alone
RED - Pieces

That's enough for now... 

*EDIT*  Sorry, I thought I attached links to the text.  Apparently not .  Just check them out on Youtube.

Hi guys/gals.  I know I'm new here - yes I've done the
test and the self introduction - but I would like to throw in my 2
cents. To first of all answer the question:  No, I will not take the mark
of the beast.  It is unfortunately not as simple as that.  I'll try
to keep this as short as possible.  There is a definite time line in the
bible of end time events.  This is a whole separate topic, so PM me if
you're interested in details .  I believe the rapture of God's church
will take place before this time.  There is evidence in the bible of this
and when (of course not a specific date - not even the Son of God knows this)
in the time line this will occur (again PM if you're interested).  After
the rapture, a 7 year tribulation period will follow, where horrible events
will occur to the world in general and to those who have rejected Christ.
However, there will still be those in this terrible tribulation period
who will realise that Christ is their only salvation and will repent and
believe.  Confessing that you follow Christ in this time will surely
result in torture and ultimate death.  Taking the mark of the beast then,
is a sure way of saying to God that you reject Him and you accept the authority
of the antichrist and Satan.  That's why it's so important to get right
with Christ NOW and not wait until that terrible time. You won't have to choose
then

You guessed right!  I've heard of Lecrae.  R&B right?  I'm more of a rock / hard rock / alternative rock fan.  Pillar, Fireflight, Thousand Foot Krutch etc. but I also love the music of Jeremy Camp, Chris Tomlin, Paul Baloche and my personal favourite, Lincoln Brewster!  I'll check out your bible study, thanks and thanks for the welcome!

Hi everyone 

I've scoured the internet, looking for retro games and finally!  Here I am.  Without giving my age away (which you could check out on my profile anyway , I grew up in the era when most of these games were in their prime.  So it's with a huge sense of nostalgia that I'm browsing through the list of games that's featuring here.  
I used to be a serious gamer, online (Call of Duty - Modern Warfare series) and offline (too many to mention), but not anymore. That's why this site is perfect if your time is limited and you just want to play a quick game of whatever.
Hobbies:  Reading my Bible (not a hobby, it's a lifestyle!); Playing guitar; Listening to music; Daily contemplating and mentally burdening myself on starting some kind of physical exercise and the benefits thereof, until I retire to my living room couch and I start feeling better
I also enjoy, of course, spending quality time with my dear wife and my 2 year old son!
Games I enjoy on this site:  Gladiator aka Golden Castle (hard as nails);  POW;  Double Dragon; Mario; Golden Axe and a couple more.
That's it for now.  Thanks for this site!  Awesome job    I can see a lot of effort went into it.  See you guys around.
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But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you - Matt. 6:33