When I started this blog I just wanted to be able to post some essays on my family website. My family had just left an incredibly dysfunctional church and I wanted to post an essay or two on some things that were wrong specifically with that congregation and more generally with the movement they were claiming to be a part of. I desperately wanted to get the word out to the church that there was a true Gospel and it was worth proclaiming.
As time went on, I soon realized that the Church was just fine. The problem was the congregation that I left. Since the group I left shunned me like Jehavah’s Witness clones, there was no chance for them to even read my blog. In the end, I wrote this post and went on with my life. I was part of that church plant. I was a leader in it. I watched it grow. I watched it wither to a shell of what it once was and a mockery of what it could have been. I dusted off my boots and went on with my life.
While the original purpose of my blog was no more, I enjoyed it and continued to post articles. Like all the big guys I posted lengthy articles about theological issues. The only problem was that nobody cared about my views. I would enter debates on other blogs with links back to mine but nobody followed. I even tried to antagonize some people in the hopes of some blog action but all I got was convicted by the Holy Ghost for being mean spirited and had to delete them. So instead I started to comb the web for neat testimonies and when I found them I would reprint them with a link. I like testimonies. I figured since I am paying for the hosting I might as well post something I want to read.
Continue reading ‘What I Learned in My Year of Blogging.’
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Here is stuff that I found interesting. some of this is interesting for good reasons, others for not so good and yet more that is to be determined later. If you need something to look at, have a gander.
- stuff i think: Reason enough not to emerge. –
The fact that these folks want to be considered sincere thinkers and authoratiative leaders yet refuse to address these real issues astounds me.
- stuff i think: Justin Rizzo is out to get me. –
Of course, the reporter couldn’t help but ask how Dennis reconciled his injury with his faith in God. Dennis lifted his his head slightly off the pillow, looked past the reporter, right in to the camera, and with his back broken and muscles already starting to atrophy, gave the best statement on perspective I’ve ever heard.“For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed in us…Romans 8:18.
- the evangelical outpost: Know Your Evangelicals: T.D. Jakes –
I am not a real big fan of this site but I loved this sentence:
I’m “Sola Scriptura” as far as that being all that is required for salvation. But if you mean that would exclude any meaningful religious experiences as an important part of faith, then that is not me.
- Apostolic Passion.pdf (application/pdf Object) –
You can get into heaven my friend, without a lot of prayer. You can have a one-minute quiet time every day, and God will still love you, but you won’t hear a “Well done, good and faithful servant” on one-minute conversations with God. And you certainly can’t make it on that kind of prayer life in the hard places where Jesus is not known or worshipped.
These are links that I found interesting. Just because I found it interesting does not mean I agree with it. I find the workings of cults interesting, but only so I can help their members come to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. You know what I mean.
Since almost nobody reads this blog it may really not matter.
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There is this church that is having nightly revival meetings. A kid got saved in it and started seeing a healing gift begin to manifest so he started praying for the sick in his school. They made him stop so he crossed the street.
Kyle Lubbers, 16, said principal Sean Keane suspended him for a day when a crowd of about 100 students gathered Wednesday to watch Lubbers perform a healing service across the street from the school.
The whole story is here.
That is a disciplinary call from school I would love to get! More Lord!
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Situation for Iris in Pemba (link to original post)
Hi everyone…
I’m in a conference in a town in Gaza Province in southern Mozambique while Heidi is in Pemba… I just got a call from her about a very serious situation for Iris that erupted today in Pemba.
As you may imagine, Moslem leaders and the more Marxist and anti-foreign elements in Mozambique are very agitated about our growth and influence in this country. Such leaders in Pemba have actually expressed their outrage at Iris when they cannot even prevent their own children from coming to church and getting filled with the Spirit.
You may remember how we were evicted from our center in 1997 by Marxists, and had everything taken from us. Something similar is being attempted now in Pemba.
Today a major story appeared on the front page of Pemba’s newspaper, apparently instigated by people anxious for our removal from Mozambique. It was blatantly reported for the whole city to read, among many other things, that we are using North American religion to subvert the government, that we are anti-Frelimo (the political party now in power), that all our contacts with leaders are designed to undermine the party, we’re anti-black and anti-Africa, etc., etc.
Heidi has spent ten years becoming Mozambican in heart and soul, and has a permanent Mozambican visa. Everything she does is for “her” country, Mozambique. But the article is describing her as deceptive and treacherous. She feels so attacked and devastated… The threat is real. Last year the government very nearly tore down our center with its buildings at our expense.
We are meeting with the editor, and want to write an article in response together with a Mozambican lawyer. Meanwhile, we are asking you our friends to have your networks pray for us… This is yet another critical hour…
On we go in Jesus… –Much love, Rolland and Heidi
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