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Rest awhile in our Lounge / Re: Happy Posting
« Last post by Dave on Today at 03:07:36 pm »
Mike isn’t this THE DAY, anyway A HAPPY BIRTHDAY from Your equally old mucker from Calgary, have one for the stomachs sake for me. 🎉🎉🎂🎂🎉🎉 ,thanks for the time spent on site management, sometimes leaving school early has it’s benefits 🤣🤣🤣, So have a good day you are in our prayers Romans 8-18.
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Members' Corners and forum updates / Re: A Reminder
« Last post by Rita on Today at 06:48:38 am »
Thanks for sharing your memories, Mike and Dave.
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Members' Corners and forum updates / Re: A Reminder
« Last post by Dave on Yesterday at 04:05:00 pm »
Mike that was a fun read, I don't think many have had a 'Damascus road' experiences, writing books in prison never appealed to me.
When we first came to Edmonton we were having meetings in an old disused Catholic school, so every meeting time we used to have to drive past a church that had a large sign saying "First United Church".
We had a talented but a bit sarky young guy who wrote songs which he would sing at church, I was always expecting one on the 'First United Church' that had the great split.
'Happy' paganism brought me my first wife and a quirky christian father in law and his friend, plus Helen praying for me led me to Jesus.

Implosions have been an integral part of our Christian life and throw in the odd explosion, it has made for quite a journey and the best is yet to come.

Last week two saints we knew had the pin pulled and died within 36 hours of each other, I thought now that's timing!!!!!
We met them in an open air meeting in 1973 in Thirsk Yorkshire, his wife had a megaphone and was belting out a song for all and sundry in the market square, such was the effect the Sally Ann ladies had their bonnets off and were twirling them round and round, as the old song says," those were the days my friend"
Interspersed with holidays at Herne bay Christian Court, a pot pourri of christians all together with a guest speaker and the lady asking me at lunch, how long it took Noah to catch the animals.

And the story never ends, thanks for the walk down memory lane Mike.
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Members' Corners and forum updates / A Reminder
« Last post by Mike Waters on Yesterday at 10:52:48 am »
I just happened upon this old testimony (from another forum) and surprised myself by realising that my feelings still remain much the same.
So I thought I would give it another airing.

"For my part (at 89) "I've been everywhere man" and been a lot of things.
I've never had a 'road to Damascus experience' but feel sure that I have never not believed in God in a very real way.
Nevertheless I have to confess that I first got into 'evangelical fundamentalism' at around 12-13 years of age simply by joining the little suburban Chapel opposite our house, for the purpose of getting closer to Jean, who had been my childhood sweetheart since the age of 10.
I joined the chapel's young men's group and everything grew from that.
We had such a thriving 'young people's group' that we completely filled two rows of 'pews' at adult services, morning and evenings every Sunday, every Tuesday evening for prayer, every Thursday for Bible Study, and every Saturday evening at the Young People's Fellowship held at the much larger City Chapel from which ours had sprung.
Otherwise we always did everything together, including holidays at Christin guest houses and camp fellowship.
Those were the most fantastic years of my life, culminating in my marriage to Jean at the age of 23.
A few years later everything changed when our Chapel suddenly imploded in fierce three party controversy over who should succeed its aging Pastor.
I found myself unable to take sides and became so disillusioned that I withdrew completely and threw myself into a long study of how Christianity began and developed through the ages up to the time of my beloved Chapels implosion.
Everything that I now am derives from my ever developing convictions, based on complete rejection of preconception and the search for real 'truth' which I became more and more convinced lays within an unbiased study of Matthew chapter 13."
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Rest awhile in our Lounge / Re: Happy Posting
« Last post by Rita on Yesterday at 03:37:50 am »
Quote from: Dave on March 21, 2026, 06:50:54 pm
Thanks Kerry, a good Word, plenty for my feed bag.

Mike I'll leave the techno stuff in your capable hands but I can send you my old computers for dummies book if needed  :)  :)  :)

Rita, "How's our hockey team" a moot point at the moment, the 'management' changed our old porous goalie for a more expensive one, who has proved that he is even a greater porous one.

Glad spring has sprung for you, our spring greeting has been another snowy day this morning.
Fortunately my son in law is the garden maintenance man and his approach and mine are poles apart.
Made me smile about' washing on the line', during the war my dad would be away and I would have to pass mum wooden pegs for pinning the laundry.

Where will your cruise be taking you and B- cake with your bro' what is not to like!!!!

Sorry to hear about the friendship thing, it does take the wind out of ones sails but He is with us in these storm, I just read this morning, 'pray for those who despitefully use you' easy for me to write.

WAAAAAAAY back when, we knew a family who the Lord miraculously healed their baby of Meningitis, a bunch of nurses prayed around it's cot through the night.
Authenticated by amazed doctors.
Oh sorry about the new goalie - maybe he will improve with time. Must be a lot of pressure on someone you have paid a lot more for, they are expected to be better which must impact how they perform. Happens all the time in football as well !!!!!
The cruise leaves Southampton and heads to Portugal and the Canary Islands , 14 nights

I pray for my friend every day, she is not a Christian, I learned the “ pray for those who despitefully use you ‘ when the Lord asked me to pray for my ex - my first reaction was to have a tantrum !! ( same reaction I had when he told me to forgive him for everything, threw the book I was reading on forgiveness across the room. I did succumb and do it His way in the end.


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Rest awhile in our Lounge / Re: Happy Posting
« Last post by Mike Waters on Yesterday at 01:30:48 am »
Here is an example of the 'Pop-up' limitation that unregistered searchers can get if looking for our 'non domain based' site.

"This site can’t provide a secure connection
https://unitedindiversity.createaforum.com/ uses an unsupported protocol.
ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH"
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Rest awhile in our Lounge / Re: Happy Posting
« Last post by Mike Waters on March 21, 2026, 08:35:55 pm »
Quote from: Dave on March 21, 2026, 06:50:54 pm

Mike I'll leave the techno stuff in your capable hands but I can send you my old computers for dummies book if needed  :)  :) 

Thanks Dave, I've got one of those but its too high tec for me. My need is for a 'dummies for dummies' book.
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Rest awhile in our Lounge / Re: Happy Posting
« Last post by Dave on March 21, 2026, 06:50:54 pm »
Thanks Kerry, a good Word, plenty for my feed bag.

Mike I'll leave the techno stuff in your capable hands but I can send you my old computers for dummies book if needed  :)  :)  :)

Rita, "How's our hockey team" a moot point at the moment, the 'management' changed our old porous goalie for a more expensive one, who has proved that he is even a greater porous one.

Glad spring has sprung for you, our spring greeting has been another snowy day this morning.
Fortunately my son in law is the garden maintenance man and his approach and mine are poles apart.
Made me smile about' washing on the line', during the war my dad would be away and I would have to pass mum wooden pegs for pinning the laundry.

Where will your cruise be taking you and B- cake with your bro' what is not to like!!!!

Sorry to hear about the friendship thing, it does take the wind out of ones sails but He is with us in these storm, I just read this morning, 'pray for those who despitefully use you' easy for me to write.

WAAAAAAAY back when, we knew a family who the Lord miraculously healed their baby of Meningitis, a bunch of nurses prayed around it's cot through the night.
Authenticated by amazed doctors.
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Rest awhile in our Lounge / Re: Happy Posting
« Last post by KerryD on March 21, 2026, 03:41:15 pm »
Quote from: Mike Waters on March 21, 2026, 10:11:14 am
Thanks Rita It may well prove to have been just as much "over my head" as it is over yours.
I'm living in the shadow of someone knowledgeable telling me I've got it all wrong.
I thought of asking Nicky but that would be unfair even though she never declines to help.

Thanks for asking if myself and Christine were OK.
Considering her cancer Christine is quite remarkable, and as for me its an age factor.
Many fail to reach 91 (my milestone in three day's time) whereas several pass 100.
I just have to be thankful for each additional day.
Please don't feel obligated to fix the problem on my account.  It's a very minor inconvenience.  Happy birthday, by the way!
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Rest awhile in our Lounge / Re: Happy Posting
« Last post by KerryD on March 21, 2026, 03:39:16 pm »
Quote from: Mike Waters on March 21, 2026, 10:19:51 am
Brilliant insightful stuff, Kerry.
Your contributions are so greatly appreciated by me.
Let me go on a bit then.  We have read that the woman was taken from the side of the man; and we read that blood and water came from the side of Jesus on the Cross.  The parallel is stunning to me.  That was the future Bride of Christ, the Church being separated from him. 

I say he overcame the curse of the thorns and thistles.  They put a crown of thorns on his head; but he changed that into the Crown of Life by reversing the curse.
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