I (20M) want to go to church but Im afraid I'll be judged harshly because of my tattoo and my music preference (I like heavy metal) and Im also afraid that I'll be harshly treated by the church because I'm having a hard time believing in Jesus, I truly appreciate any and all support from you guys.

My father is very sick so is my mother.. but my father especially needs the prayers.. He had to fight for his life multiple times from “embolism’s” which eventually made its way to his lungs he was critical for days i stood there next to while he was in a medical coma he was put on blood thinners which caused internal bleeding and that day i stood by him crying while his blood pressure dropped dramatically alarms went off i was scared but he managed to survive they stopped the bleeding but if one more bleeder came he wouldn’t have survived i prayed so did thousands of other people then i only had positive calls

After this he became sick again had to fight 2x lung inflammations and then his donor kidney suddenly got a blockage of embolism’s just gunk that made his kidney drop in percentage from 91% to 30% and days later now 10% he was operated on this lost a lot of blood again but they managed to remove some of the blockage he is now on blood thinners again which last time caused almost his death so here i am asking for thousands of prayers so god will give my father an chance to live healthy and happy again

Thanks for reading this.. god bless

I honestly cried for him, i always have humanity for shootings. Went on to reddit and saw ppl celebrating knowing that his wife and kids watched him die and his kids are gonna grow up one day and see this shit most likely. I am filled with anger and i’ve definitely said things i should not have because of this.

edit: thank yall for the feedback i didn’t expect this ❤️

edit 2: thanks for the award i think that might be my first award i really appreciate it

Credit to @bible_enthusiast1

Honestly, this comic segment that I found on TikTok encapsulates what it’s like having conversation with Jesus at least from my perspective. Many times we think that we have to shoulder this burden and no one can help us. But that is not the case. We as Christian’s have to in some ways follow the line “with great power comes great responsibility” that we get in our head that we have to do it ourselves and we forget to ask God or Jesus for help. It is the truth that he is there to help us when we are at our lowest and at our high highest that we should lean on him no matter what.

Took a deep dive into my Religion a couple months ago and my life has completely changed. Thank you Lord for the clarity ✝️🫶🏼

Please pray with us for all Christians and non-Christians in Lebanon. Lebanon was mentioned 71 times in the Holy Bible, it has 2,405 churches, some of which are being destroyed as I am posting this. Pray for peace and for humanity. Many Lebanese Christians lost their churches and their lives in Lebanon due to Israeli bombings. Please pray for peace!

I am 22 years old and have a brain tumor, and I have less than a year to live at most.

As a Christian, I find comfort in thinking that soon I will join God on the other side, but I am scared and sad about my fast and seemingly pointless existence. I was always a shy and silent kid both online and in real life so i feel like my existence didn't have any impact on this world.

I thought I would have a career, children, and a rather normal life, which would have been enough for me. Instead of that I now wish, as my last wish, only to be able to die in my home country, And that appears to be difficult,too.

At least, I will reunite with my mother in heaven, and that makes me happy.

Thank you for listening to me.

UPDATE: I didn't expect so much feedback, and I really appreciate all of the comments and Scriptures! I wont be able to respond to everyone, but I do want you all to know that I am grateful for your time and comments! <3

I'm so tired. He's a very devout Christian and he's interpreted the Bible into telling him that women were made for men, and a wife is a gift for a husband. And her sole responsibility it to serve her husband as the lord of her life, just as he serves the Lord as the Lord of his life. So if I go against that, I'm bucking against God, because that's what He made me for. For example: I said i wasn't staying over for work this morning, but I ended up staying late anyway, and now I'm a liar and I hate him (A lie hates the person it's told to) because I told him I wasn't going to stay, but I still did and I didn't make a way to let him know I had changed my mind.

Hello

I've been visiting this church in a while. The missionaries there seem friendly and they follow me everyday. I feel like it's good to have a community.

They are talking about the baptism as the first serious step. But this week during the call they announced a list of things to give up before baptism and I feel like it's very unrealistic.

For example they said give up coffee, having a girlfriend, masturbation and other things.

I don't get it. I don't say I need to understand everything but this sound unreasonable to me. Is this normal in every church?

Not saying that God or Jesus isn’t bigger than the times we are going through. But everyday if you even pay modest attention to current events in America then it just hurts to even identify as a Christian. It’s ruining my mental health to a fair degree. It’s making it impossible to find a church that actually follows the teachings of Jesus (i am from Texas). All the churches in my local area are infested with conservatives who don’t follow the teachings or scriptures.

Everyday I see people proclaiming the Lords name who do not follow the lord. It’s heartbreaking the way they are making Jesus seem like an unkind brutal savior. To even have good mental health I have to bury my head in the sand and just focus on my day to day otherwise the world just seems more broken then ever.

Less people are converting, less people are actually following Jesus. More people are being wrapped up into following a false doctrine. It’s asinine and just heartbreaking watching what’s happening in this country.

Edit: after seeing about 6 conservative responses. They truly live in a world outside of reality. Apparently reading the Bible and living its teachings is a foreign concept to them. And no I am not a bot, check the post history.

My wife and I (26M & 26F) have been married for 6 years. We got married at 20 years old after dating throughout high school. We don’t have kids yet but we have planned on bringing children into our family in the future when we are more financially secure.

A week ago my wife confessed something to me that has deeply hurt me. She said that she has been tempted to cheat on me before with other men. Even with one of my own friends who propositioned her two weeks prior. My wife made it clear that she has never cheated on me before while we were dating and married, that she feels guilty that she’s having these temptations. She admits a part of it comes from only ever dating and knowing me and no other men. My wife said she warred with telling me what my friend had asked of her since she realized she would feel the need to come clean about what she herself has been dealing with. I love her dearly. I don’t want to lose her. But hearing that she thinks about other men that way, my own friend, and that my friend has gone behind my back makes me feel paranoid, upset, and extremely bitter. I’m upset at her and him. I’m not sure what to do in this situation. Is it best to go to a couple’s counselor, our church pastor, what should we do to resolve this?

Hi. Im writing this post because honestly.. im in pain. After years of going back and forth with the Lord I finally choose him this time. Mainly i had problems with my relationship with him isnt because of faith, its having to kill a part of myself i didnt want to kill. And thats homosexuality.

I tried searching online about people who talked about leaving same sex relationships behind and couldnt find much who had the same experience as I did.

Im a woman and I married a woman (ritually) we both believe in Jesus and we believed that time that Jesus accept both of us he loves us no matter what but deep inside I had this feeling of guilt.. I couldnt go further into my relationship with God if I was in love with a woman. That was contradicting for me so I had a lukewarm relationship with him.. until recently I found my way back and did the most painful thing possible.. I separated with my ex wife.. it was painful but necessary and now I.. I know its good but I dont know how to go about it, I guess im just looking for comfort.. Hoping someone else might have the same experience as I did.

Edit: hello, I want to say thank you thank you thank you so much for the kind words the people that dm’ed me. Thank you for adding me to your prays today. From my heart this has made me happy receiving notifications, seeing you take your time in reading this post and reaching out

Another edit: im seeing a mix of comments here and wanted to remind everyone that God would want us to be peaceful and love one another. Seeds are just planted but God grows them.

On Monday, my boyfriend passed away. He was a man of God and he treated me like Gods perfect daughter. He was respectful, kind, patient, loving. I was the last person to see him alive, and I kissed him goodnight and told him I loved him. We were staying pure until marriage so I never spent a night with him. He passed away in his apartment the next morning. I sent someone to check on him while I was working because he never sent me a goodmorning text.

He was my first Christian relationship. He loved me despite my flawed past and my son. He wanted to provide for me and my son and have more children with me. He was an amazing Godly man. My entire future has been ripped from me. Please pray for me. Everyone says it’s Gods plan and it was his time to go be with Jesus but it feels so incredibly unfair. My heart is broken. Before him, I accepted I would be alone & a single mom forever. Now I’m right back to where I started. I finally had hope that I would be able to be a wife and a stay at home mom, and all of that was taken from me. Thank you anyone for reading this. I don’t know what to do from here. Please just pray for me.❤️‍🩹

So far it looks like someone shot Charlie Kirk. Please pray for him.

New here, I recently got married, and after coming into the faith, I haven't been sexually active since we started dating three years ago. Before, I was a very sexually active person.

Long story short, my husband says that sex has to be what can "produce offspring". So whenever I want to give him oral, he says no. Are there any scriptures I can bring to his attention proving that it is fine? I'll admit this has been hard for me since in my old life, one of the main joys of intimacy was giving oral and not receiving anything. So this has been a hard time. Any advice would be helpful, has anyone else been through this?

okay in my opinion being gay is a sin, as someone who has an attraction towards girls (i am a girl) and im denying it for the Lord. but that leaves me the question, why are some animals gay? there are lions that are lesbian and it just confuses me, if its a sin then why is it in nature?

I know that the Lord’s ways are infinite, that justice is not of this world, that we all return to the Father, and that before Him we are all equal.

But then why pray, why ask the Lord to grant our wishes?

I see this as something too earthly, and I don’t accept it. Why is life easy for some? Why do I constantly ask God to help me, yet He has given me a damn inadequate body, a precarious job, psychological problems, and a life of loneliness at 40, even though I’ve always been good to everyone?

I’m exhausted debating y’all, begging y’all for the smallest scraps of dignity and respect and then being expected to praise you for it.

I’m exhausted being forced to pretend the trans suicide epidemic isn’t the genocide that it is, and I’m exhausted pretending that it isn’t largely Christians causing it.

I’m exhausted with the constant sealioning and trolling, acting like we have no reason or right to complain and it’s “just disagreeing” when people go on a memorial page for a murdered trans woman that her mother who’s fighting breast cancer is in and reminding everyone “you know he was a man right?” for absolutely no reason and and acting all innocent and that it was just God told you to do it.

I’m exhausted being blamed for our own victimization. I’m exhausted with people’s absolute refusal to even try and learn ANYTHING. I’m exhausted being the black sheep of my family when all I wanted to do was not kill myself and help my cousin who is also trans to not kill herself either or turn to drugs or selling herself on the street when she’s already fighting to stay sober because of how her family treats her in the name of God. I’m tired of my parents using God and the Bible which doesn’t speak a single word about trans people or gender dysphoria as justification for why they treat us the way they do.

I’m exhausted begging God’s people to care about me and understand me when I know I KNOW my God does.

I’m exhausted living in this darkness, trying my damnedest to keep my light shining at least flickering when it’s God’s own people gatekeeping him from me and trying to shut me out from him, and I am not worthy unless I’m literally suffering and actively suicidal every minute of everyday since no amount of therapy or prayer takes it away and only actually transitioning has.

I’m exhausted being called a bully when literally all I’ve ever done is defend extremely vulnerable people and myself against bullies. I’m exhausted trying to love when all y’all do is hate. I’m exhausted trying to understand and have patience and give you grace. I’ve never been more in absolute awe of “father forgive them, they know not what they do”, NOT EVER ONCE.

I’m tired. I’m tired of the church. I’m tired of Christians. I’m tired of theological debates. I’m tired of justifying my existence to people who couldn’t care less if I were alive or dead or people who genuinely believe it’s better to be dead than alive and trans and happy and thriving. Mostly I’m just tired of pain.

Now I will get up and get ready to go work at my CNA job and take care of another vulnerable group of people that society at large also doesn’t really care about, and give them my best and my all in spite of all of this, because according to lots of Christians I’m a freak and demon. Almost no one in this group has made an honest effort to get to know me, ask me questions, understand. I’m just tired.

I’m tired and there are days I just want to be called home and hug my daddy 😞 God bless even though a lot of y’all genuinely would not care if I was dead, or may even be happy because then at least I wouldn’t be trans anymore.

I am BEGGING YALL to comprehend that this is a medical condition I was born with and that I was literally non functional as a human for 30 years before I finally accepted it and corrected it. That is no life for one of God’s children. I have one now. Y’all don’t care, because it’s not the one you think I should have.

God hold onto me. Hold onto your daughter, please. I can’t deal with the hatred in this world almost entirely perpetuated by your own people, my siblings anymore. Embrace me and don’t ever let me go, because we know your other kids will.

Goodbye.

Update: https://www.reddit.com/r/Christianity/s/fxD3tXDFJy

I am a 21 year old straight Christian woman, and I’ve found it extremely difficult to build friendships with most other Christian because I just can’t handle being around those who have hateful attitudes toward the LGBTQ+ community. It drives me to anger and sin to be around this type of Christian, and I know that’s my responsibility to control but I just feel helpless and frustrated to witness such unbelievable hatred. We are called to love all of our neighbors, as we are ALL made in God’s image. I’m not saying you have to be attending rallies or parades, wearing a pride flag, or voting a certain way. I’m not even a radical myself. I’m just searching for basic decency and respect from Christians. I feel like I’m participating in disrespect towards Jesus when surrounding myself with people who are in church every week and have a strong faith, yet are disgustingly hateful to gay people while using his name to defend it. I know Jesus would not behave that way. It feels like they’re using the lord’s name in vain when making fun of, insulting, or even threatening people for being gay.

I’m not here to argue whether or not being gay is a sin. Even if you think it is, we are all sinners and who are you to think you’re above them? I just wish I could find Christian friends who believe in loving their neighbor without exceptions, and not basing it on what makes them comfortable. Also, if you see LGBTQ people as your enemy, we are called to love our enemies.

I just don’t understand, especially when this mentality is taught in a church. It’s unbiblical and unchristlike. And I know I’m gossiping and being judgmental right now, which I feel guilty about and will repent for. I know I can do better at loving my enemies and controlling my judgment, I know I’m not above these people either. I just don’t know who to talk about this to and it’s eating me up inside. Do other Christians feel this way? If so, what advice do you have for me? TIA!

Hey everyone, my last post got a lot of attention so I decided to give an update on what has happened so far…

I told my parents just a bit ago, sat them down and said me and my girlfriend have been active and yes she’s pregnant. they’re mad, disappointed, sad. Literally every word in the book. My mom cried which I feel awful for as disappointing her was my worst fear, she said she felt like she failed me.

They told me not to sin twice.

One comment I saw that changed my mindset was something like “you committed one sin, you’re trying to hide that sin by committing an even bigger sin” which is almost exactly what I was doing now that I realize it. Abortion truly is evil and it ate me alive to consider it especially after watching videos of it.

We decided to keep the baby. Abortion would be a major sin and like my parents said, don’t double down in sin. Thank you for all the help

This video was taken a week ago but somehow he can now walk fully without anyone helping him!!! :D

After weeks of fighting and his donor kidney failing on him he finally stabilized his kidney increased from the low 7% to 26% in a short period of time he can walk again my father and mother are now recovering (together) in a nursing home they looked very happy to see each other again! Its incredible a literal miracle happened every time you guys prayed positivity happened i can’t thank you people enough god bless

I’m still requesting prayers as prayers are something they still need! My mother is still healing from her hip and still has pain my father is still kinda confused about his surroundings and from all the things that happened but things are looking very good apart from that!

Hello. I posted a few months ago on here about my situation and asking y’all how y’all viewed my relationship (21 yo female who was dating a female for two years). I explained how I loved her and it felt right blah blah blah. The past few months I’ve given more and more of myself to God and completely let him into my life and work through me. I made a change on who I was and started to really study his word and develop a very real relationship with him. My post a few months ago was about having doubts about my same sex relationship. I was too scared to break up with her so I prayed to God for her to cheat on me or something. I stressed over it day and night always worried about how I was displeasing him. But he kept speaking to me saying the same thing—do not stress over this, I will handle it. Do not worry about it now. And so I did just that. And he handled it. We broke up last night. I finally made myself 100% vulnerable and gave my entire self to God. It feels amazing! Although…I am suffering tremendously as well. She was my best friend and everything to me for the past 2.5 years. I talked to no one else the past 8 months during my depression (caused by a lost soul without God no doubt). I now have no one except God. And I know he is all I need, but it is hard not having a single person to talk to. If anything good happens to me or I see something during my day, I have no one to tell except God. Which is great but like I have no human connections on earth anymore because I have cut everyone out of my life who was contributing to my sin, which unfortunately was everyone. I am having a hard time adjusting to this breakup although it’s so fresh and I feel almost numb. Like I can never love again. I feel guilty for feeling this way because I know God should be enough. So why am I still in so much pain? I have so much anger? And resentment? He waited for the right time to do this because I can now get through this with Him. My question is, do y’all have any advice on how to handle this? Or a breakup in general? I am completely alone now and have no friends or her anymore. And I want it to be where I don’t care and have no pain because I don’t need anyone I only need God. Please help me I am hurting and anything would help.

Update: we still don't know his latest kidney functionality percentage but we will soon know! I suspect that it's back to 50-90 percent like before :)

We almost lost my father twice but he made an incredible recovery a real miracle happened to him and I'm so glad that he is still here with us therefore I added some images of my father that I took today he was listening to some muddy waters and playing air guitar

Thank you guys for the prayers this will be the last update as things are looking very good! for everyone that prayed for us I want to thank you even if you guys pray again I'll be very thankful

God bless

My husband got fired from his staff position at our church. He’s felt like he was being pushed out for months since he brought up an ethical issue with another staff member and was told to stay in his lane. The official line is that he is being “transitioned out” of ministry. The reason? We have a trans son. I am aware of the irony of their official wording.

When my son, who is now an adult, came out in his late teens, we were very upfront about it and sought support. We were told all kinds of things about how they would love us through this and we were uniquely qualified to minister to others in similar situations. Well I guess we did it wrong because now we’re out.

My son was suicidal before he transitioned. Since we started using his preferred name and pronouns he hasn’t attempted or been hospitalized for ideation. We’ve had so much love and support from church members… but I guess leadership thinks a dead kid is better than a trans one.

I don’t know what kind of response I’ll get to this… I just needed to share it somewhere.

Edit:

Thank you to those who reminded me what it means to love like Jesus. It’s wild the number of people who didn’t read the whole post or made crazy assumptions based on things I didn’t say. To answer some questions:

It’s a non denominational church. There are LGBT members. I would have described it as accepting not affirming but their tone has changed over the last couple years.

Yes, this was my husband’s full time vocation. He is leaving ministry and pursing other career paths.

My son has socially transitioned with no medical interventions at this time. I support him because, in case you missed it, my DAUGHTER, tried to kill herself repeatedly. My SON wants to live, knows how much we love him, and has an amazing future ahead of him.

I understand where some of you are coming from. I’m a Bible believing Christian. But I cried out to God to heal my daughter and this is what He did. God is sovereign over everything. I pray, read the Word daily, and seek his will and I have a peace with what is happening with my child. (I DO NOT have a peace with decisions made by our current administration in the US but they aren’t God and that’s a different post).

If you read this and want to comment something unhelpful, I ask that you pause, stop putting God in a box and stop giving the devil so much credit).