No matter what you think about the guy, this really says something. It is a pic from a rally at American University in DC. I don’t see any of the other candidates getting a reaction like this.
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This has nothing to do with Revival or anything else spiritual for that matter. I just thought it was funny.
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This is not a political post, it is a revival post.
I had a man tell me on Sunday that we Christians have to vote because if the Democrats win and they allow gay marriage, God will judge this country. Couple of thoughts straight off the top of my head:
The Bible talks about God’s judgment, at times, begins with delusion. Lets look at a few things:
Iraq
- Do you think that we are winning in Iraq? Put aside your political views and honestly answer if you think that there will be a stable, non-Islamic government in Iraq in the next couple years.
- I think there could be a stable Islamic government there but if God ordained this, as I have heard conjectured, was it His intention to transform Iraq from secular Islam to radical Islam?
- Can you give me one biblical account of a war ordained by God that resulted in defeat not attributable to the sin of its leaders? If we are going to look at this war from a biblical perspective, lets look at it with a biblical perspective.
Leaders of the Political Right
- The leading talk show guy on the right just got busted for illegally having sexual enhancing drugs on his flight into the country. The problem with that? He is not married and has a recent history of drug abuse. Yet most of the Christian Right consider him an ideological leader and little was spoken of this sin. How can Christians have the same viewpoint as this man?
- One of the new up and coming leaders of the right got divorced and remarried while his wife was battling cancer. Christians did not bat an eye. He is still a leader on the right.
Repentance
- The U.S. went to the U.N. and told the world that there definitely were weapons of mass destruction and that Iraq was trying to amass nukes.
- There were no weapons of mass destruction. There was no Al Queda link.
- Should we repent?
- Can God bless this country if we refuse to repent?
- What would repentance look like?
Abortion
- Many Christians voted for President Bush on the belief that he would end abortion. Do you believe he has tried to do that?
- Do you think God is expecting less from the lost who do not fight abortion than He does for the Christian leader who knows it is wrong and does nothing? (i understand the SC nominations but that is far short of sponsoring legislation / making a national mandate)
Finances
- Do you think God is for or against astronomical (national) debt?
Self Righteousness
- Do you get angry when someone poses these questions?
- Is questioning the political right akin to supporting abortion and gay marriage to you? Is that in the bible? Might you have been sold a bill of goods?
It would seem to me that Christian leaders have gotten a little too comfy with politicians. Christian friend, they are not on our side. They are on the side of their political career. Do not put your hope in democracy. Do not put your hope in elections. There is no political party that can hold back the hand of God in either blessings or judgement.
There is one hope for this country and that is Jesus Christ. If more churches realized that the only way this country is going to be transformed for His glory is by open revival there would be more fasting and less glad handing.
Preacher, your church needs less voter guides and more prayer meetings. We don’t need to learn more about the founding fathers, we need to learn more about tarrying at the altar.
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This post is a little on the long side but it is the most exciting post I have made on this blog. Read and be blessed!
We had a regional youth rally at my church this past Saturday night. It was the goal of the organizers to have a salvation orientated rally and not a revival tent meeting. I tried to be a good boy but the Holy Ghost decided to come to church with me and you know how He likes to get His way!
At the end of service many of the people had left the sanctuary to the food outside. There were about 40 to 50 people left at the altar. I got on the mic and called for those who wanted more to come to the left side of the altar area. Almost the entire crowd moved over. What could I do?
My friend and I began to lay hands on the youth and believe God that He would meet their needs. The anointing began to get think in the room when I came back and laid hands on a certain 15 year old girl for the second time. I had seen her before and had prayed for her in the past but I did not know her. I knew she had a call on her life but had no idea of her spiritual condition or her background.
As I began to pray for her a tremendous anointing came over me. I began to prophesy a healing gift over her life and commanded it to be activated. I kept quoting Matt 10:8 over and over again. she was crying and twitching and jerking all over the place but I could not stop praying for her. I prophesied about her call and the call of the lost, I compelled her to “choose ye this day” and kept calling forth the anointing. As she was crying she kept telling God that He can have complete control of her life. It really was quite awesome. After a while she hit the ground sobbing and I moved on.
After she laid on the ground doing this laughing crying thing for the better part of 20 minutes she started to get up. I had been praying for a hard case right next to where she was so when she stood up I had her lay hands and pray for this other person. As soon as she did it was lights out. I don’t mean the peaceful kind of falling backwards into the gentle arms of Jesus, I mean as soon as she touched this person they utterly collapsed. I called another person and the same thing, “BAM!” Straight down. The budding prophetess was sitting on a pew so I had the girl lay hands on her. Immediately she began to weep. I had her lay hands on someone else and after they hit the ground I had her pray for that person some more.
Just then I noticed a middle aged woman sitting in the middle of the sanctuary and something in my spirit was stirred. I knew we could not let this woman leave. Not knowing if she was saved I walked over to her to ask if I could pray for her. She said I could so I began to bring her to the front of the church.
Now sometimes I am a little slow so I did not immediately see what God was doing. But suddenly it dawned on me so I asked the lady, “Would you happen to need a healing?” In fact she did. She did not want to get specific but she had pain in her female areas. I said, “There is a young woman with a healing gift down here and I am going to have her pray for you.”
Mind you, this girl has not stopped the laughing crying thing since I first laid hands on her a good 45 minutes earlier.
She prayed for the woman, woman hit the ground, I instructed the girl to keep praying (trying to shorten this long post). After about five minutes I have the girl pray for a couple of people and they went lights out.
After a while I had the woman get up. There were about 10 youth still around and I really wanted them to leave having a clear understanding what God did and what He did not do. I talked to her and she said that she has fibroid type tumors on her ovaries and that they were very painful. I asked her to poke around and look for the pain. She said that it felt about 50% better. I told her that means Jesus is in the building and that we would pray some more. (girl prayed, woman fell, girl laugh-cry prayed some more)
A young girl I know walked in the back of the sanctuary. I called her over and had the girl pray for her. When she went to get off the ground five minutes later she did not know how she had gotten there. I am talking lights out!
note: If you have read this far don’t get weary! The best part is still coming!
While the girl was praying for the woman the anointing began to get really thick in the room again and the presence began to get tangible. I was just waiting so see what was going to happen next when the keyboard player from the youth group band walked in. This 15 year-old boy has the sweetest spirit and comes from a family that is red hot for Jesus. I later found out that he was eating with everyone else when he heard that we were praying in the sanctuary and wanted to come play the keyboard in the background while we prayed.
One thing I have not told you about him (and that he had only told one other youth leader) is that he has muscular dystrophy. His sickness was advancing to the point that his muscles were constricting all over his body. He could only walk on his tippy toes because he could not get his heel to the ground. He could not stand up without holding on to things because his balance was so bad. He did not know what had been happening in the sanctuary but the Holy Ghost did and it was this boy’s day for a miracle.
I called him to the front and had the girl pray for him, she cry-laughed, he fell and she continued to pray for him. After a while I gave my first checkup and asked him what he was experiencing. He said that he felt strength entering his body. Here is how MD is described in wikipedia:
The main symptom of Duchenne muscular dystrophy is rapidly progressive muscle weakness associated with muscle wasting with the proximal muscles being first affected, especially the pelvis and calf muscles. Muscle weakness also occurs in the arms, neck, and other areas, but not as severely or as early as in the lower half of the body.
I knew that he had described his condition as a “weakness all over his body” so strength had to be good. Laugh-cry girl continued. A while later I asked him what was happening and he said he felt something happening to his legs. We got him on his feet and he could stand upright without holding onto anything! He was shocked. I had him walk here and there lifting his knees as he did. He walked back, laugh-cry girl prayed and he fell.
Somewhere in the midst of this the woman got up and could not find the pain in her abdomen no matter how hard she pressed.
We did the fall down get up pray fall down thing with the boy about 10 times in a row. On the next walking adventure he was shocked and amazed that his heels were touching the ground!!! He could walk flat footed, heel-toe like the rest of us. The group of kids in the sanctuary had gone to children’s church, and youth group with this boy for years and they had never seen him walk like this. There were tears of joy and amazement all over the place.
At this point I was tired. I had the kids call their parents and I talked to the girl. She did not remember much that had happened but it turns out her father is the pastor of a small Brazilian church. Her parents showed up to get her and I tried to explain what happened because every time she would start to talk about it the laugh cry thing would start again.
The next day at church I saw the boy and he was walking fine. All the symptoms are not gone. He does not have full range of motion and he is still weaker than an average 15 year old but he is walking flatfooted and in fact can lift his foot up so only the heel touches the ground. Remember, he could only get the balls of his feet on the ground in the past. I was overjoyed watching him give his testimony in the Jr. High service.
He told me that when he got home he told him mom who began screaming. His dad and sister came down stairs and he repeated the story and his sister began screaming. This family is so close and loving that it is almost weird so I can believe it. His father quickly said,
“I am the priest and prophet of this home and I will determine if you are healed. Walk across the room!”
Once he did the father declared,
“This is the work of the Lord!”
Maranatha!
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I expect to see this on every christian blog in the next week but I will post it anyway.
There is a small budget movie out called “Facing the Giants” that was produced by a couple guys who head up the media department of a Baptist church. After reviewing the movie the Motion Picture Association of America gave it a PG rating. Are those cursing, sex driven Baptists you ask? No.
The scene that caught the MPAA’s attention may have been the chat between football coach Grant Taylor — played by Alex Kendrick — and a rich brat named Matt Prader. The coach says that he needs to stop bad-mouthing his bossy father and get right with God.
The boy replies: “You really believe in all that honoring God and following Jesus stuff? … Well, I ain’t trying to be disrespectful, but not everybody believes in that.”
The coach says: “Matt, nobody’s forcing anything on you. Following Jesus Christ is the decision that you’re going to have to make for yourself. You may not want to accept it, because it’ll change your life. You’ll never be the same.”
So there you have it. If you want to bring your kids to a G rated movie, you better love magic because that’s all there is. Appearantly witchcraft ok, Christianity, not so ok.
UPDATE: I bootlegged a copy of the trailer. Here it is.
In my book, if you take your kids to watch this, you are giving parental guidance.
ht:GetReligion
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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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Since we are still paying for our University of Florida education I am a fan of Gator Sports. I did stay up last night and watch the game. I am wearing a Gator t-shirt to work today.
Throughout the game I kept thinking of Jason Ma. He made a correlation between the UCLA squad and the cycle of revival in LA. I played along with the joke and made reference to revival in Florida being indicated by a Florida win.
I don’t know Jason. I never met him, never saw him minister. But I would dare to say that if revival broke out in Florida he would be happy, just as I would if it broke out in LA (which I indeed think will happen in the next couple years). Truth be told I would rather it happen here so I could save money on airfare but that is about all.
Florida and UCLA were rivals last night but the chances are that some of those same men could be on the same team one day at which time this game will not matter. I have a rival, he is the devil. Those washed by the blood are on my team and the competition is for souls.
I can celebrate the victory of Florida but the fact is that I did not play a single second of that game. I did not coach, nor put together game plans. There is a contest that I am in and it is over the eternal state of a fallen creation that does not know its purpose. I have a part to play in that contest and I plan to show up to the game.
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With the news that John and Carrol are moving on from being senior pastors at TACF and the fact that they are no longer having nightly meetings can it be said that the revival is over?
This is pretty much the same thing that happened to the leaders of the Brownesville Revival at its end.
I was in a really religous church during the revival in Brownesville Assembly of God and I missed it. I am really glad that I was able to receive from Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship.
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I have heard preachers declare that you will reap in fields you have not sown. I have heard messages about inheritance. I have heard about blessings overtaking you. And indeed we are seeing that come to pass in the life of Joel Osteen. His latest book contract is going to make him a lot of money.
You would think most charasmatic preachers would love him because he is proof of the prosterity gospel. But they don’t. They hate him. Why?
Like Joseph’s brothers they don’t really like the one that God chose to bless so they make swipes at him in their messages and toss pebbles at what they perceive to be his doctrine. But rarely do you hear them tell the truth. They covet what he has.
Many men think it is they who should have the giga church and the best selling book. They should be on Larry King. They should have the pretty wife and the happy kids. They went to seminary. They labored in the miserable little churches. They put up with the nasty Deacon Board. What did he do to deserve this?
He served faithfully under his father as unto the Lord and did not covet what his father had. Appearantly that was enough. Appearantly the first commandment with promise is still in effect.
Not only do they not have it, they don’t want him to have it either.
I personally would not want to go to church in an arena. But if you do, why whould I care. I hope his church doubles again!
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Ever wonder why the Catholic chruch survives in the midst of such unbiblical practices? They actually fulfill the word of Jesus, Jesus said to Simon Peter,
“Simon, son of Jonah, do you love Me more than these?”
He said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know that I love You.”
He said to him, “Feed My lambs.”
He said to him again a second time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love Me?”
He said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know that I love You.”
He said to him, “Tend My sheep.”
He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love Me?” Peter was grieved because He said to him the third time, “Do you love Me?”
And he said to Him, “Lord, You know all things; You know that I love You.”
Jesus said to him, “Feed My sheep.”
Under this newly proposed law, to do that without making sure has proper American documentation would be agains the law.
The Gospel vs. H.R. 4437 - New York Times
Editorial in the NYT
Published: March 3, 2006It has been a long time since this country heard a call to organized lawbreaking on this big a scale. Cardinal Roger Mahony of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, the nation’s largest, urged parishioners on Ash Wednesday to devote the 40 days of Lent to fasting, prayer and reflection on the need for humane reform of immigration laws. If current efforts in Congress make it a felony to shield or offer support to illegal immigrants, Cardinal Mahony said, he will instruct his priests — and faithful lay Catholics — to defy the law.
The cardinal’s focus of concern is H.R. 4437, a bill sponsored by James Sensenbrenner Jr. of Wisconsin and Peter King of New York. This grab bag legislation, which was recently passed by the House, would expand the definition of “alien smuggling” in a way that could theoretically include working in a soup kitchen, driving a friend to a bus stop or caring for a neighbor’s baby. Similar language appears in legislation being considered by the Senate this week.
The enormous influx of illegal immigrants and the lack of a coherent federal policy to handle it have prompted a jumble of responses by state and local governments, stirred the passions of the nativist fringe, and reinforced anxieties since 9/11. Cardinal Mahony’s defiance adds a moral dimension to what has largely been a debate about politics and economics. “As his disciples, we are called to attend to the last, littlest, lowest and least in society and in the church,” he said.
The cardinal is right to argue that the government has no place criminalizing the charitable impulses of private institutions like his, whose mission is to help people with no questions asked. The Los Angeles Archdiocese, like other religious organizations across the country, runs a vast network of social service programs offering food and emergency shelter, child care, aid to immigrants and refugees, counseling services, and computer and job training. Through Catholic Charities and local parishes, the church is frequently the help of last resort for illegal immigrants in need. It should not be made an arm of the immigration police as well.
Cardinal Mahony’s declaration of solidarity with illegal immigrants, for whom Lent is every day, is a startling call to civil disobedience, as courageous as it is timely. We hope it forestalls the day when works of mercy become a federal crime.
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This is among the most disturbing articles I have read in a long time.
A mother is hoping to win £250,000 in compensation after her twin daughter survived an abortion four years ago.
I can’t even begin to comment on the mind of this woman. I wonder what the conversation will be like when the daughter asks why her mom killed her sister. I would gladly aadopt this child and relieve the mom of all financial “burden.”
These are the kinds of things that you don’t talk about in civil society. This woman should be shamed into quiet for the sake of her daughter.
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So this is my second post in a row that has nothing to do with revival. I know. I got home from school last night and watched John Stewart who was zinging a litney of jokes about the Cheney gun mishap. Slightly irreverant but hilarious none the less. Here is a really funny snippet that the nyt recaped.
The shooting was fertile ground for Jon Stewart, the host of “The Daily Show,” the popular fake news program on Comedy Central. On Monday night one of the show’s correspondents, Rob Corddry, introduced as a “vice-presidential firearms mishap analyst,” said that “according to the best intelligence available, there were quail hidden in the brush,” and “everyone believed there were quail in the brush,” and “while the quail turned out to be a 78-year-old man, even knowing that today, Mr. Cheney insists he would still have shot Mr. Whittington in the face.”
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