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Welcome to The Forge!

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Welcome to The Forge! This page is all about God, our faith in Him, and finding our way back to the truths and principles found in His Word. As I'm sure many of you have noticed, the world is losing its mind. Sin is celebrated. Wrongs are viewed as right. What's right is out the window and seldom considered. Popularity is the driving force behind many actions. Being politically correct is the norm and anything else is just not acceptable.  Well, none of that nonsense flies in The Forge. We are stronger t han the pressures of the world around us. We are tougher than the pull of sin. We are called to rise above the fog of this hate-fueled judgment that the world is covered in. God didn't create us as timid little beings that need to be led around by our noses. He designed us to do better than simply go with the flow. No, He made us much different than that. He made us to be leaders, He created us to go against the grain, live outside the lines, and stand tall and hold firm to...

Day 4127 of the 7 day Bible verse challenge.

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Romans 7:16 NIV cuts through a courageous confession As, well, such is simply the one and only direction in which everything better still awaits. It’s in that place in which we’re not, both as of now and too what we are. And this is entirely a strange place for us to consider, this idea of everything better. And that’s because for our to become something better in what hope tells us is a place better too, we’ve to then lose our usual agreement as to the appeasement found both where and in who we are. Which are both what and where we usually mind not imagining our staying put. Because staying has always proven easier. And it will always prove easier. Staying who we are doing then what we’re doing wherever we’re doing it and for whyever it’s being done, this is to be consistently the easiest thing to do under the sun. Which is why there is nothing new under the sun but rather we walk still inside the replication of what’s now a longstanding rebellion. Indeed, that which has been done wil...

Day 4126 of the 7 day Bible verse challenge.

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Romans 7:15 NIV continues ahead through confusion Simply because that’s what life’s become. It’s a confusion. It’s a delusion. It’s nothing but a daily decision to make as many things as complicated and confusing as we can somehow convince ourselves we need to confuse. It’s this pattern we repeat in which we choose to lose what is the violent simplicity of all such things as honesty and humility for what are their ongoing and warm-welcoming counterparts. Indeed, it’s as if every single day anymore all but starts with our minds convinced that it’s all falling apart and that because we’ve become entirely convinced that we’re the ones meant to hold it all together. How can this be my sister, my brother? How can we be the ones who hold our lives, our minds, ourselves, our souls together? How can those who’ve proven time and again that we have no idea what we’re doing be then the same as they who somehow manage to at some point prove able to manage that which they’ve only messed up, mistake...

Day 4125 of the 7 day Bible verse challenge.

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Galatians 5:17 NIV heads left for lessons learned And rather harrowingly those learned most often through what is humility doing its intended task of leading us back to seeing where we went wrong in what’s long been a fight that we knew not we were meant to fight nor then how. For the common approach unto a life is to live it seeking within it only matters of comfort, not competition. Granted, we’ve ended up arriving well within the latter as anymore all that seems to matter is whether we look like, sound like, seem like another, comparing ourselves daily unto those who simply aren’t us. But I guess that kind of only adds to the point. It’s that we’ve all so confused life that anymore all of our time is given unto doing all these things that do nothing for us in return. Indeed, it seems as if nearly our every waking moment is spent lost within this mental debasement in which we seek incessantly our placement in what we then apparently consider a race of sorts, and sadly one in which we...

Day 4124 of the 7 day Bible verse challenge.

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Romans 7:5 NIV takes a right through wrongs On the surface it seems a considerable counter productivity to have had the law given which would thereby outline all the ways in which we’ve all fallen out of line in what’s long been a life in which we’re all falling behind in terms of following He who is the Life. I mean, doesn’t it seem the least bit strange that God would bestow this thing upon His children that would cause said children to realize they’d grown into what’s really nothing short of heathenistic, hedonistic criminals who, having broken literally every law we’d be given, would then so too opt for a life spent hiding from Him? Truly, why would He do such a grievous thing unto we who were created in His image and therein meant to be His loving children? Well, because the simple reality is that we’ve all long since forgotten that we were made in His image having obviously opted instead to brazenly fulfill that part in Scripture where it’s said that in the last times there would...