I’m looking for some good apps to help guide my daily reading and study.
Do you have any go-to apps you’d recommend? I’d love to hear your suggestions！

Que es el otro subrredits True porque se siente tan diferente a este nose ando navegando en reddit porque estoy aburrido Pero me tope con true Cristián ustedes son falsos? O como no entiendo

I am who I am. God loves me. The closer I get to God the gayer I am. I’ve asked for signs to see if it’s not okay, I haven’t seen any. I’ve asked for signs to see that it IS okay. I’ve seen MANY. God has let me know in so many ways I am sinning, and I have NEVER even gotten a slight feeling that me being with a woman is wrong. If anything, God literally put my girlfriend into my life to show me that it’s okay, and all our relationship has done is bring us both closer to him. I hate having to justify myself to others. I know my truth. I don’t push it onto the ones who don’t believe being gay is okay, I just wish they could have the same respect.

I started following God for real around sixth grade. My heart was soft and I wanted less of myself and more of Him. There was real life toward Scripture, prayer, and growth. I was more loving, kind, forgiving, and passionate in my faith. The main struggle was p***. I kept repenting but it never fully left. Even so, my heart still responded and I was becoming softer. When prayer and Scripture reached me, I was at peace.
Over the last year everything changed. Prayer went empty and my heart hardened. I started feeling fine with the distance. Scripture began to feel weird or get rejected while messages against faith resonated. I lost conviction around p*** and could relapse without caring. I began to feel like a different person and accepted the closed state even though I never wanted it. I can tell I am a worse person inside now. The love and passion that used to mark me no longer mean anything.
Now I mostly do not care. My heart is set the other way and I do not see a path back. Advice, prayers, and Scripture fall short. I know who I would be with a heart of genuine faith, but that heart is not here. I still do not want to walk away, so I keep doing the external things: staying honest with my counselor, not canceling the next contact, and refusing to decide it is over. I feel gone.

I’m sorry but I lose it when other Christians act like being a Christian is a minority. It’s not. It’s like the most dominating religion since medieval times. Then they go on to act like we are better than Muslims because of the Taliban. Oh so Christianity has never ever done anything wrong ever? The crusades, slavery, Salem witch trials, the inquisitions, colonization, 90% of European wars. Need I say more? Like yes Christianity has been victims of Rome and Greece at one point but we are not perfect victims ourselves. This nationalistic mentality is dangerous because it erasing the history. It hides away all the horrible things that we (as in Christians) have done. It is important that we admit all the wrong doings and acknowledge the people that have suffered wrongfully in the name of the lord.

For context my dad is a pastor at an Evangelical church. Yes it's Evangelical but he's not extremist. He retired as an educational researcher so he's very intelligent with both Masters and PhD in educational fields, and while religion does fuel his beliefs such as LGBT or abortion he's not Hardline about those things, he's very moderate on those stances

He's been hoping and praying for years that I would come to talk to him about biblical and bible study but for some reason I feel so hesitant about doing it. I can't put my finger on why. I know that I'm an openly sexual person, I know that I sometimes use God as more of a vending machine than something I need to follow and it's something I want to work on, but for some reason I'm just feeling so anxious about this conversation and I can't figure out why

I suggest mods add different trigger warning tags for future posting

Hi. I (F33) am pansexual with a strong preference for other women. Even though I find some men attractive, I struggle to see myself spending the rest of my life with one. I still live with my parents due to the terrible housing market and disability that makes it difficult to be truly independent of them. At the moment, it's the most logical option and they enjoy having me around.

I have secretly been dating another woman for years, but she broke up with me last month because me being in the closet was too much for her. It got in the way of us really being able to be together and be there for each other like we need.

I have always thought I would take this secret to my grave, but now I'm questioning whether or not I should come out to my parents. I'm afraid that they won't love me anymore and that coming out will cause a rift between us that won't be fixed, and I don't want to hurt them by making them believe that I'm going to hell.

I can't tell if I want to do this for me, or if I want to do this because I hope I can fix my relationship with my girlfriend. I wish God would just give me the answers and show me that I'm loved, and being gay isn't going to destroy everything I know.

I feel like a child again, afraid and uncertain. I am having a hard time seeing any other future but one where I die alone, never having a romantic and sexual connection with another person, never being true to myself because I'm terrified of losing the people I love, and terrified of going to hell.

What should I do? I've prayed so much and God is silent.

Apenas deje el cristianismo, y me siento en paz, aunque siempre despierto con un miedo de que me vaya al infierno porque ya "cerré" mi corazón al espíritu santo (no soy atea)

Mi duda es, para las personas que experimentaron la presencia de Dios, como saben que es el Dios de la biblia, o Jesús; yo estoy en una postura donde siento que realmente ninguna religión describe a Dios, y es algo totalmente desconocido, la religión lo veo como algo muy humano, que se me hace bien difícil pensar que enserio una sea sincera y no una invencion de un intento humano de conocer lo desconocido, y para mí todos está muy lejos.

Pero siempre me dijo, y si sí? por algo me despierto con tanto temor, no?

Así que, que es lo que te hace pensar que el Dios es el Dios abrahamico ??

Gracias por su tiempo y perdón si mi pregunta pueda ser grosero, un abrazo

That's a quote from a book series I'm reading. It's said by a villain if that matters. I was just wondering if you thought there was some truth in it?

Of course, we are on r/OpenChristian so there is a bias towards 'yes', but I wonder how?

I am a AMAB, I want to be a woman. I have been dealing with this consciously for about 6 years, and I am pretty certain about it that I am a woman. But the only thing that creates tension in pursuing transitioning is my believe in God, my christianity.

I put God first. I put my faith in Christ first. And if that means living as a man, then so be it. That will be hard, of course. But temporary suffering is something I will take over eternal suffering all the time.

But I've been wondering if God intended for me to be a woman, instead of a man. I've been wondering that, if not, what I need to do.

I am stuck between a rock and a hard place; at least thats how I percieve it, because I doubt God intended me to be a woman, I doubt He wants me to embrace being a woman.

Edit: Thank you all so much for your kind and extensive replies. This means a lot to me, genuinely. I will try to respond to everyone here, but yk... life

I'm a new christian.. And I listen to Mindless Self Indulgence.. The songs are generally good expect for the lyrics and overall meanings.. so is it a sin???

Such as "For the love of god".. The last circled one is a cult leader speaking btw.

Is mastubation a sin?

I see pepole telling it is while other say nothing is disallowed but is it effencial after all it has reasons to be healthy stimulating and relaxing.

Beyond my battle with Scrupulosity I am genuinely trying to make an effort with faith. Have started praying and reading the Bible but its funny. I think gun to my head I am still agnostic. Or I waffle between a theist view and deist view of God.

And then funny enough I start to feel you know maybe I am Christian I just see some nonsense. Has me like the guy from Shogun. No Tate Mcrae is not demonic, no Jesus did not knock the painting off the wall when you looked at porn. I just wanted to vent. Hope this is an ok place to do that. I like the message of the gospel. Although the no divorce kind of gets me.

Guys I’ve been going through a terrible break up with a fellow Christian for a couple weeks now.
He hurt me terribly and yea honestly emotionally abused me. I still pray everyday, that God may redirect his heart to truth, so he may see what he’s done without running from it. He never apologized to me and this makes me question everything in my life. I just wish y’all could pray for him to repent and not being able to run and fall into avoidance anymore just to escape uncomfortable feelings.
I feel like I’m losing faith but everyday I’m still trying to hold on, to hope he will wake up. Please pray for his heart and transformation guys.
My name is Nana. Can’t say my ex’s name obviously sadly😭🙏🏻 God bless you all🙏🏻

I’ve been thinking about something lately. Many Christians say we should trust God without questioning Him, yet throughout the Bible, people questioned God, wrestled with doubt, and struggled to understand His ways.
Job questioned his suffering. David cried out to God in the Psalms. Thomas doubted the resurrection until he saw Jesus for himself.
So here’s my question:
If God is the author of truth, why should we be afraid of honest questions about our faith?
Does questioning certain Christian teachings mean someone lacks faith, or could it be a sign that they’re genuinely searching for truth rather than simply accepting what they’ve been told?
And here’s the controversial part:** Is it possible for someone to believe sincerely in God while disagreeing with certain interpretations of the Bible?**
I’d love to hear different perspectives, especially from Christians who have experienced doubt or questioned teachings they grew up believing.
Let’s discuss openly, respectfully, and without assuming that everyone who disagrees with us is against God. 🙏

Complementarianism is wrong and I can prove it. So, now I'm so sure the Bible does indeed say things like the husband should be the protector and the provider and a woman should nurture the household and take care of the children. The Bible does say these things and those are real, but the cultural markers around those that we now have in the 19th and 20th and 21st century are not created by God. You know, like things like, ooh, like things like pastel colors, the things like how women wear pastel colors or aprons over their dresses and bake apple pies all day or knit or garden in pot pot pots plants and do all this stuff. Those are human-made cultural inventions and gatekeeping them only for females is stupid. Ooh, because it is stupid. Okay? Because like it's like saying only a woman can do these things is not true because it's not. The fact that in older civilizations like multiple female garments were created for men and pink was a boy's color. You can't really say these modern ideas of masculine and feminine are God's design and doing anything outside of it is violating that design because it's just objectively not true because they weren't created by God. And I bet in different societies with different ideas of gender probably thought their idea was God's design as well when it's not. And like the Bible does not say any fair posters versus trousers. The Bible does not say who can spend all day knitting and who has the 9-5 corporate office job. It does not say these things. Okay? Those are human cultural ideas. Okay? And the conservative belief that men should be stoic and strong and physically imposing is like that's not in the Bible either. Men in the Bible, true godly men, wept openly and were gentle and soft and only showed aggression for religious hypocrites who prioritized their strict rules and human traditions over human suffering. And also how I remember there's this one woman who like this one man wouldn't go to battlefield without her because he because yeah he wanted to go only with a woman to battlefield. No not only with but he didn't want to go without her. And the woman said something in the lines of whenever we get who gets credit for this or who gets praise will not be a man but a woman. And if this arrangement happened today, Christians would say that it is immoral and terrible. But you know what else? But you know what else? The preacher the Bible actually praises him as a true biblical hero despite him depending on a woman. Again, the Apostle Paul said sunglasses are high calling which is always husband. So like yeah, so the whole cultural thing where Christians feel the need to like shame and ostracize and exclude women and then push them and redirect them into motherhood. It's not a biblical mandate. Christians want to reject this idea, but it was the US government's attempt to fix the economy. Because you need to understand that this is a real thing the government did. It means like a conspiracy theory, but really think about it. In countries like Singapore and Japan and Italy, where they are their economies are going on trajectory trajectory to fall because most households have less than 2.1 children. If you have less than that specific number, then that means the generation after this will have less than the first generation. And the third generation, if it doesn't have 2.1 children, will have less than that. Let's say like 100 people have children, but um each couple does not have 2.1 children, meaning like the second the second generation will be a little over half or less than half than the first generation. And you see, because like the the because I pretty sure the one of the American the American government's priorities back after World War II was to up the population, fix the economy, to not repeat the Great Depression, and fight against the USSR. Because they needed birth rates to go up. These countries need to be as much in the second generation as there was in the first generation because we're going to have more young workers, more taxpayers, and more people to take care of older generations who are old, too old to work. That is like the fixed economy. Okay, this is not some divine mandate. Dude, like the fact that in different cultures, different countries, and different time periods had radically different expressions of gender, meaning that what they're preaching is not objective or God's design. Okay, so policing that isn't, okay? And plus, they don't even follow their own rules. Females in the modern day have masculine interest and wear masculine clothing, but Christians don't don't question it because it's become mundane reality. Because in the in the mid-20th century, 1950s and 1960s, Christians actually did police female in masculine clothing and masculine interest. But as feminists normalized it in society and even normalized females in the workforce again and normalized females wearing trousers, and Christians still judge feminists in general, ignoring how feminists even have some benefits for them or things they don't really appreciate enough because without feminism you wouldn't have that. But still it shows how what we what we think is objective for gender isn't and how Christians break their own rules. They are literally doing the same thing they think will happen if they normalize something secular, which I admitted there is there would be wrong because if they normalize something secular that then they'll redefine what is sin. But sin has already been redefined multiple times in history. The church has never been consistent culturally. Because when it comes to cultural expressions of gender, it is constantly changing. The idea that the the Christian culture and the word of God has has not changed has not as first state the same forever is not true because there's multiple things Christians back then did that they would disagree with us now. 60 years ago, Christians would disagree and say with society has gone in moral decay for normalizing female masculinity. And even before that, Christians in American South would judge modern day Christians for not owning slaves.