Found on there was an attempt, no hate just please explain if you think this is acceptable behavior for you, I want to know how you think.

Me (female 30) and my fiancé (male 31) are getting married in September. We have had multiple conversations about how him watching porn before in the past (while we were together) it hurts me and doesn’t make me feel valued. He vowed to work on it and not do it when he gets tempted. AND he promised that he would tell me if he watched it, had a temptation, etc…but he also said he doesn’t see anything wrong with it. 😕

Last month I questioned him about a hand towel in our guest bathroom that was missing , I had just hung it up…It was clean. It went missing on a morning after my fiance had stayed up til 5am in his game room. My mother was coming over the next day and I wanted to make sure I had everything ready for her in the guest bathroom. When I asked, he said he used it to clean “something” up. I asked him what and he stated a stain on his floor in his game room. He has stressed to me before that he tried everything to remove that stain and it wouldn’t come off… and that he ultimately gave up. Why would he use a hand towel to try to clean it up again? Also why was it missing the night he stayed up until 5am by himself? I cried that night and knew what he could have been up to… (he never admitted anything to me)

Fast forward to 4 days ago… he leaves on a work trip, we haven’t had sex in about 6 days because I was on my period, I knew for sure he would be watching again while he was gone…. He came back from his trip, hasn’t said anything about it to me even though I suspect he had been watching it behind my back on his trip. He changes after watching it, our intimacy changes from emotionally based to physically based. Like he is viewing me as a body, not a soul. I haven’t said anything to him about how I’m feeling because I don’t know how to communicate with him without upsetting him. But he clearly sees something is wrong with me and I am having a hard time of getting it out. This is really bothering me, I really want to work this out with him but I know he doesn’t feel like watching porn is a big deal. He is violating my boundaries and most importantly not being honest with me when it happens….i know he loves me and wants to work things out. But im worried I bring it up and he will deny it because I don’t have credible proof. This is destroying our relationship. What should I do?….

(Also our Christian faith could be a lot stronger. We are not devoted to praying together as much as we should. I have stronger faith than he does. I have been away from the church for years but grew up Christian. We have started going to church 1-2 times a month. I didn’t know what other Reddit page to post this on without being judged)

I know and have read the parts in the Bible that show you should not be trans, gay, etc. but I love everyone and one of my sisters friends is trans so I try to ignore it as much as possible. Is this a problem?

I want to be rid of sexual immorality. I don't want to look at pornography ever again. I have done it before; I have lasted a month without it, and now I seem to be clinging back to it. I am thinking of God. While watching, I have disappointed him greatly. I want to be with God, yet I struggle to follow him. Please, I need help!. Pray for me! I am losing control. I know I can't do it myself. I need God and your prayers. I want to strengthen my faith.

I added myself to the national protest today, which was the first time I've ever got off my butt to protest anything. My sign simply read "Hands off my" and then a picture of the Cross of Christ.

I gotta say, it was not exactly my crowd, but it didn't matter. Everybody there was there for different things that were important to them, and after everything else this administration has fumbled, this at least was what was top of mind for me.

If you want to run a government, run a government. At the point you want to say God wants you to do it, and start waving a bible around, that should engender more mistrust against politicians, not less. It's not for nothing that Jesus told us to be wary of false teachers. Beloved of Christ: did you forget to be wary?

You might remember, Satan tempted Jesus Christ Himself with scripture. If you don't think Satan carries a bible around, think again.

I hope it matters that there were widespread protests today. I'm skeptical that it matters, because I don't know what power there is in being ticked off in a group with no political power at all to reinforce your will. I hope it matters.

Why even be Christian if you go against every teaching? Asking as an atheist

I am Christian who didn’t vote because neither Candidate represented my beliefs

My best friend gave it to me as a giftfor my birthday bc she knows I want to convert! I'm so happy!!

Life is difficult and food is scarce. I need your prayers to get through this difficult month. I know god helps in our time of need.

Thank you

Family member left this hymn to be played at the funeral, however we can’t seem to find this anywhere. Is anyone familiar with it

I asked a while back for prayers for my dog but she's gotten slightly worse, her kidney isn't producing a certain chemical and it's dangerously high right now and it's very expensive to keep her at the vet at up to 4000 a day. We gave the vet until Monday and then we're going to pull the plug if she hasn't gotten better. It's been really rough for me because she's been my childhood dog and I ask you all please pray hard for her.

I'm not trying to get attention but right now our cost is 38k dollars and we CANNOT afford this, we have a go fund me if you want to donate https://www.gofundme.com/f/reys-recovery-a-family-in-need

Hello, I'm just curious why and how people accept Christianity. Was your faith affected by crisis situations, culture, family or personal experience (like some miracles or signs)? I would also be wonderful if you could add something about: 1) your denomination and why do you have chosen it? 2) have you ever had like atheistic life period or ever been to another religion? 3) do you believe in all of things in bible literally? Like the world was created literally in 7 days (our, normal 7 days) and so on. Or do you seek some compromises between bible and scientific theories (evolutional theory or big bang theory) - coexistence of bible and this theories? 4) what's the main point of Christianity in a nutshell?

About me: I'm interested in religions (and especially in Christianity as the closest in both spirit and culture for me from all religions), so I'm reading the bible and other, I'd call it, essays on theme, despite doing my math major. I'd say that baptists sympathizes me more than other confessions (but I'm strongly believe that no any other denominations are any worse). I can say that I had atheistic period in my life, but it was caused mostly by lack of interest in religion. Also, I just can' believe in some things in bible literally, I seek some compromises... Just can't believe that world was created in 7 days, but I can believe that day could mean some long period of time. Sorry for my english, I'm not native or even fluent.

Was talking to a more (much more) conservative Christian about what's going on and how rich oligarchs seem to think they deserve to be in charge and I was a bit taken aback when they justified it by quoting Ecclesiastes 10:5-7: 5There is an evil I have seen under the sun—an error that proceeds from the ruler: 6Folly is appointed to great heights, but the rich sit in lowly positions. 7I have seen slaves on horseback, while princes go on foot like slaves.

Is this a widespread view in American Evangelicalism now?

How to counter this kind of thinking?

i say i have time

i say i can wait

but then i hear the chime

then i see a flash of fate

on the ground i lay

body still awake

maybe it'll be all okay

maybe all this is fake

i see a hand

reaching for me

raising me from the sand

man am i lucky

to his house he led

where he and his father live

a place where love is spread

a gift he came to give

i wipe my glasses lens

wait whos that i see

is that my friends

is that my family

its me its me

i shout and run

they don't even see

not even one

separating me and them

there lies a gate

one side eternal love

the other eternal hate

banging and crying

it would not budge 

trying and trying

but the son already came down to judge

he has love for everyone

even lent you a hand

you disregarded the glory of my son

even when he picked you up from the sand 

life for eternity

living in fires hue

He said - 

depart from me

for i never knew you

Growing up my dad was always an angry and violent man. I watched as he would abuse my family in many ways (mentally, physically, finically). I am now at a point in my life where I do not want a relationship with him anymore nor does he want any relationship with me. Anytime I have tried to talk to him about the hurt he has caused and try to build a relationship, he is adamant that he never did anything wrong and the conversation's would end in me being hurt. He even said that he is happy that I am no longer wanting a relationship with him.

I am trying to get closer to God now. My dad has made this point in my life incredibly stressful. I am in a very depressed mindset and I have turned to God after years of being lukewarm. Ive been reading my Bible more often and the "Honor thy mother and father" is stuck in my brain. How do I truly forgive him? I feel guilty for wanting to forgive him after all he has put my mom and siblings through.

Hi everyone, this is my first post in this community. I want to stare my confession feeling of yesterday, along with some of the episodes that happened in my life converting back to Christianity.

I'm 30 and been agnostic for many years (like 15), with an interest towards Buddhism, and then Judaism. After much time, in 2023,I entered a church again, regretful of my sins, and with a need to have a better soul. As I entered the church, I started having a feeling of a strong, pure light inside me, radiating joy and love. During the same week I've started reading the Bible again (getting coincidences in my life when I read some particular chapter/verses..For example, reading an event being described in the Bible, only to have it happening late), going to Mass, although still having doubts, especially on the figure of Jesus. Starting from this period, I felt a great amount of love, and care for me. In a similar way to other believers, one of the things that motivated, and still motivates me, me to follow the commandments, was the constant feeling that the most powerful Being in the Universe was treating me with gloves. There's no more direct explanation for what I started to feel, and it is much the opposite of the idea I always had of Him (for example being a person forcing you to do something you don't want, which was one of the reasons I tried to always stay away from religion). I've felt called to do something, but always in a kind way,and having help, tenderness, and providence in another path I choose, at least from my experience.There was a place from a homily which I still repeat to myself : the Lord never says "if you don't do this, you don't go to heaven". He only asks us to love. At the same time I have been reading much about philosophical arguments for the existence of a Creator. Math can be a strong argument in itself: it would be difficult to prove that something so ordered and, as we know, without errors,could start spontaneously. There are of course other arguments, but this was the one I found the most convincing. It's true that Deism can explain the fact of a a Creator of a universe,and then of something perfect like math as well, the difference with religion being the fact that there's no intervention in deism. This is actually the conclusion to which many atheist philosophers come after years. However, for me it doesn't make sense to create something, and not to interact with it. So I didn't give Deism much consideration, and I found religion a much better explanation. I started to agree with the affirmation that a bit of philosophy leads to atheism, a lot of philosophy brings to religion. If I had to convert to something, though, it would have been Judaism, due to a wrong interpretation I had of some New Testament passages. I started to consider Christianity after personal experiences (for example homilies which were personally being directed to me, in a period in which I was finding the Creator, the final message in these being an invitation to accept the Son) and reading about the historical truth of some events in His life. Something of great help in this process has also been the "Jews for Jesus" website, where they describe the experience of conversion to Christianity from a Jewish perspective. For example, in a page they descrive the 40 messianic prophecies in the Old testament, and being fulfilled in the New Testament. Someone could ask :"why would you say that these homilies were directed to you?" . They had precise details of my situation, that only me knew, and they were in the same period I had a particular question.

After time, I felt like a calling to go to confession. As for myself, I never considered it being something of particular importance, as long as one repents from sins, but I was wrong. I also discovered how Padre Pio was particularly insistent on this sacrament. Today I confessed my sins after many years, and the feeling was like something really heavy has been taken off my shoulder. Just wanted to share my experience, although common, and the importance of confession.

I mean, the one and only forgivable sin requires someone to not even care for forgiveness to begin with. I understand that we’re only human, and applying human logic or morals to someone of god’s character wouldn’t work, but it’s so strange to picture, how someone can be so loving, so forgiving, and so caring. God’s generosity and grace is something I can really marvel about man.

So I have some questions and I know no one has the definitive answer but I'm just curious to what people think.

What do you think happens after we die? Obviously most belive heaven or hell but as far as I know the Bible never mentions heaven in detail I could be wrong.

Theirs a lot of NDE experiences and I'll say although a lot sound similar I don't know if they're true. Obviously God knows of your really gonna die he's not going to show you heaven or hell if it's not really your time. Plus theirs lots of talk about chemicals in the brain and perhaps people hallucinate.

Some say they feel happy, warm, and theirs no sense of time yet I'm not saying there lying as someone who has taken mushrooms before I will say they make you feel this way so maybe it is an increase in brain chemicals and activity.

I one heard a women who was grew up religious say she was in an accident and she was in and out of consciousness and she remembers the paramedics arriving and then everything went black and she was declared dead for brief amount of time. She said she saw nothing just darkness and since then she has her doubts.

Theirs also people who claim to be mediums and can talk to the other side and I have to say I have heard some conversations where they do seem to know things they shouldn't but who knows maybe they're good at guessing. My mom spoke to one after her dad and brother died and she did seem to know alot about them but again who knows.

I like to think we go to heaven and we reunite with loved ones because if not I just see it as very depressing. Reincarnation or just fade to black doesn't seem all that great..

What's your thoughts.

St. Maximilian, amidst the hate and lonely misery of Auschwitz, you brought love into the lives of fellow captives, and sowed the seeds of hope amidst despair. You bore witness to the world, by word and deed, that only 'Love alone creates.

Saint Maximilian was a Catholic priest from Poland. He spent much of his time preaching the word of God and calling the nonbelievers to convert through radio, newspaper, and television. He founded the Militia of the Immaculata, a movement that promotes consecration to the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1922, which still stands today. In 1939 he was arrested by the Gestapo for this evangelization.

Saint Maximilian was arrested again in 1941 for housing those trying to escape the Nazis, including many Jewish refugees and for supporting Polish rebels. He was eventually sent to Auschwitz.

During his time in Auschwitz, a fellow prisoner had escaped without being caught. As punishment, the Nazi prison guards selected ten other prisoners to be starved to death. This form of punishment was used to deter others from trying to escape.

One of the men who was selected pleaded with the guards to let him live. He stated that he had a wife and children who needed him. Hearing this, Maximilian stepped out of line (which could have gotten himself killed) and volunteered to take this man’s place. The guard asked, “Why?”. Maximilian responded, “I am a Catholic priest.”

The ten men were taken to a dark chamber in the camp. Maximilian did not want these men to despair or fear. For weeks the priest lead them all in prayer. They prayed and sang to the Lord, even as they suffered starvation.

Weeks later, the guards entered the chamber. Inside they found Saint Maximilian alive.

Saint Maximilian held out his arm for the guards to give him their lethal injection. His last words on earth were:

“Ave Maria”

The Nazis created death and evil in Auschwitz. Maximilian, through his devotion, brought love and faith into it.

The man who Maximilian took the place of, Franciszek Gajowniczek, survived the Holocaust and reunited with his family.

Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. John 15:13.

Painting by D Majerski.

Let’s talk about that moment when your dreams lie in ruins, when you’ve prayed and fasted and still ended up heartbroken, disappointed, blindsided. You know the moment—when Satan doesn’t just whisper lies; he comes with a megaphone, dragging up every fear you’ve ever tried to silence.

And what does the Word say to do? Praise.

I know, it sounds counterintuitive. You’re supposed to lift your hands when you’re too weak to raise your head? You're supposed to sing when your soul feels like it’s suffocating?

Yes.

Not because it feels good. Not because it makes logical sense. But because praise is a spiritual declaration that we still believe God is who He says He is—even when our circumstances scream otherwise.

Psalm 34:1 says, “I will bless the Lord at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth.” All times means when the diagnosis comes. When the job is lost. When the prodigal still hasn’t come home. That kind of praise is warfare. It’s not passive—it’s a fight.

Because Satan is a liar. Jesus called him “the father of lies” (John 8:44, NKJV). And one of his favorite tactics is convincing us that we’re spiritual orphans—that we have no right to expect victory, peace, or breakthrough. That we’re paupers when we’re actually heirs.

But here’s the truth: you are a child of the King. Romans 8:17 says, “and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ.” So lift up that mighty shield of praise—not after the battle, but during it.

Because something happens in the spiritual realm when we praise. Chains start to rattle. Walls start to shake. Not because we’re strong—but because our praise invites the presence of the One who is. The lyric says, “Praise the Lord, for our God inhabits praise.” That comes straight from Psalm 22:3, where God literally dwells in the praises of His people.

Here’s the kicker: the battle you’re fighting? It’s already won. Jesus rose from the grave. The enemy has already been defeated. You’re not fighting for victory—you’re standing in it.

So the next time Satan tries to crush your hope with one of his schemes, don’t let your faith slip away quietly. Lift your voice. Raise your hands. Declare with every fiber of your being: Praise the Lord.

Let’s talk—have you ever seen breakthrough after choosing to praise when it didn’t make sense? Drop your story below.