…God has made us for each other, and it is His will and desire that Christian believers should understand and appreciate one another.
- A.W. Tozer Who Put Jesus On The Cross 1975

PUBLICK MINISTRY

Acts 20:20
20 "how I kept back nothing that
was helpful, but proclaimed it to
you, and taught you publicly and
from house to house,

Jer. 11:6
6 Then the LORD said to me, "Proclaim all these
words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem,
saying: 'Hear the words of this covenant and do them.

Luke 14:21-23
21 "So that servant came and reported these things to his master. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, 'Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in here the poor and the maimed and the lame and the blind.'
22 "And the servant said, 'Master, it is done as you commanded, and still there is room.'
23 "Then the master said to the servant, 'Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.


Acts 18:28
28 for he vigorously refuted the Jews publicly, showing from the Scriptures that Jesus is the Christ.

I affirm the divine inspiration, truthfulness and authority of both Old and New Testament Scriptures in their entirety as the only written word of God, without error in all that it affirms, and the only infallible rule of faith and practice. I also affirm the power of God's word to accomplish his purpose of salvation. The message of the Bible is addressed to all men and women. For God's revelation in Christ and in Scripture is unchangeable. Through it the Holy Spirit still speaks today. He illumines the minds of God's people in every culture to perceive its truth freshly through their own eyes and thus discloses to the whole Church ever more of the many-colored wisdom of God.

Would love to hear you comments on this please tell me what you think.

2 Timothy 3:16 All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,

2 Peter 1:21 for prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.

Isaiah 55:11 So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.

1 Corinthians 1:21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe.

Romans 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.

Matthew 5:17-18 "Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill.
"For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled.

Jude 3 Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

Ephesians 1:17-18 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him,
the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,

Ephesians 3:10-19 to the intent that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places,
according to the eternal purpose which He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord,
in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through faith in Him.
Therefore I ask that you do not lose heart at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.
For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,
that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man,
that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height--
to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

Please PRAY Delhi, India is a city in crisis — with 500,000 immigrants annually; over half of the population living in slums, massive pollution and related diseases and a crime wave. Pray that in this turmoil many might seek after the Lord Jesus Christ.

GRADUATION!!!

I wanted to post this picture of the first graduating class from VISOM (Victory International School of Ministry).
Praise Jesus, it took 3 years to complete these classes and these students were faithful and showed a great amount of perseverance.
God has big things in store for this group.

Four of Them

We caught the Raccoons. There were 4 of them running around the crawl space. Allison and I did not want to let them go, but we found some wildlife people who take care of such babies so we gave them to them. Aren't they cute.


Pronunciation: ra-'kün also r&-
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural raccoon or raccoons
Etymology: Virginia Algonquian raugroughcun, arocoun
1 a : a small nocturnal carnivore (Procyon lotor) of No. America that is chiefly gray, has a black mask and bushy ringed tail, lives chiefly in trees, and has a varied diet including small animals, fruits, and nuts b : the pelt of this animal
2 : any of several animals resembling or related to the raccoon

Raccoons in the news:

Raccoon saves students life
http://www.loomcom.com/raccoons/news/raccoon-saves-life.html

Airborne Rabies Vaccine
http://www.loomcom.com/raccoons/news/vaccine.html


Good people, cheer God! Right-living people sound best when praising.
Use guitars to reinforce your Hallelujahs!
Play his praise on a grand piano!
Invent your own new song to him;
give him a trumpet fanfare.
Psalm 33 The MESSAGE

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¿Si el Dios es para nosotros, quién puede estar contra nosotros?

Life is Good

Jesus is so Good to me I am rejoicing in this life and my friends and family. I have my tomatoes Planted and the opportunity to spend time with my daughter playing catch and this afternoon I get to mow the lawn, WOW, life is amazing. The other day I was able to explain the Gospel to a few people, can life get any better. Oh yea, I caught a Raccoon in our attic yesterday and today I get to try and get her babies, do the blessings never end.


We must do something about the cross, and one of two things only we can do
—flee it or die upon it.
-A.W. Tozer "The Root of the RIghteous"

¿Si el Dios es para nosotros, quién puede estar contra nosotros?

if you are a CHRISTian you need to click on this link and read it. If you LOVE
JESUS with more than just your words then you must read this article.
Click on the Link below.
http://www.lastdaysministries.org/nations/whyyoushouldgo.html


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DaVinci's Code is Cracked

There is much about the DaVinci Code that people are intrigued by and the Fictional Novel raises many questions for some about the authenticity of the Bible. Below are some Links that answer many questions.

Crash goes the DaVinci Code
http://www.leaderu.com/theology/crashdavincicode.html

Josh McDowell Answers Questions about the New Testament
http://www.leaderu.com/theology/mcdowell_davinci.html

Mary, Mary Extraordinary
http://www.leaderu.com/theology/maryandjesus.html

Was Jesus Married?
http://www.leaderu.com/theology/wasjesusmarried.html

Why you should go

I want to post this link, and just say if you are a CHRISTian you need to click on this link and read it. If you LOVE JESUS with more than just your words then you must read this article.

http://www.lastdaysministries.org/nations/whyyoushouldgo.html


Sing praises to the LORD, who dwells in Zion! Declare His deeds among the people.
Psalm 9:11

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Get Paid

"We shall have all eternity in which to celebrate our victories, but we have only one swift hour before the sunset in which to win them."
-Robert Moffat

Let's not waste the time that God has given us and go out and preach the Gospel. Jesus paid the price for all to be saved.

I hate it when I go to a store and buy something, bring it home and find out that it is a cheap thing, and was misrepresented in it's advertisement. I feel like I did not get what I paid for.
Jesus Died on the cross to pay for the sins of the world, And HE deserves to get what He paid for. Let's Go Preach the Gospel.

"Lord, make me a crisis man. Let me not be a mile-post on a single road, but make me a fork that men must turn one way or another in facing Christ in me." - Jim Elliot

Our Great Honor

Our great honor lies in being just what Jesus was and is. To be accepted by those who accept Him, rejected by all who reject Him, loved by those who love Him and hated by everyone that hates Him. What greater glory could come to any man! - A.W. Tozer

That is something to ponder.

http://www.intouch.org/myintouch/mighty/portraits/aw_tozer_213610.html

http://www.sendrevival.com/pioneers/awtozer/short_biography.htm

Street Preaching

Before I let anyone start thinking I am normal or main stream I have another entry that will tell you I am not.

There is so much teaching today that talks of how the Christian must strive at building relationships before they even begin to think about sharing the gospel with someone.
My question is where do you see this in the Bible?
Is this a strategy taught in Scripture?
How long did Jesus and the woman at the well know eachother before He shared the Gospel with her?
If our teaching is not based on the Bible what are we basing it on?

What bothers me the most about this relational evangelism method taught by so many is that the people advocating it feel it necessary to come against people who have been called of God to proclaim the Gospel in the streets to complete strangers. I believe that the gospel should be proclaimed radically in the streets of America, and here is why.

"What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light, and what ye hear in the ear,that preach ye upon the housetops." Matthew 10:27

When Noah Webster defined the word "PREACH" this is what he said........"Preach" comes from a Latin word meaning to "proclaim publicly"… a message"urging acceptance or abandonment of an idea or course of action."

Jesus told us in Mark 16:15 to Go into all the world and PREACH the Gospel to every creature.
I truly do not mean to run down another persons ministry, but where do Christians get the idea that if some guy is Preaching on a street corner that he is way off base. The scriptures seem to be full of encouragement for us to do just that.

Here are a couple of verses in Proverbs chapter one that encourage people to Proclaim the Gospel as well as the counsel of God in the town square and the market places

Proverbs 1:20-21
20 Wisdom calls aloud outside; She raises her voice in the open squares.
21 She cries out in the chief concourses, At the openings of the gates in the city She speaks her words:

The next time you see a person in pulic, proclaiming the Gospel pray for God's anointing to be strong on him as he is ministering. It takes great courage to obey God in this way and most public preachers will testify to the hassle they get from other believers.

Old testament prophets often preached at the gates of the city. The gates were the busiest place in town and it was here that all kinds of activity took place:Preaching at the gate would reach large crowds without much expense.

AMOS WAS A "GATE" PREACHER:
"They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly. (Amos 5:10)

ISAIAH WAS A "GATE" PREACHER:
They "lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate…" (Isaiah 29:21)

JEREMIAH WAS A "GATE" PREACHER:
"Thus said the Lord unto me, Go and stand in the GATE of the children of the people, whereby the kings of Judah come in, and by the which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem; and say unto them, Hear ye the word of the Lord, ye kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem that enter in by these gates: Thus saith the Lord…" (Jeremiah 17:19-20)

These men of the Old Testament did not use nice gentle friendly approaches. There were no literature tables, tract distributions, invitations to religious meetings, traveling Gospel singing teams, puppet shows, barbecue's, motorcycle jumps or drama teams. They simply stood up publically with the clear message of God's mind and preached it!
Preaching the Gospel in Public to crowds who do not want to hear it and are even opposed to the message can be very easily supported using scripture. It makes me wonder why more Christians are not doing it.



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Don't leave this out

“Some people do not like to hear much of repentance; but I think it is so necessary that if I should die in the pulpit, I would desire to die preaching repentance, and if out of the pulpit I would desire to die practicing it.” -Matthew Henry

REPENT

What is it about this 6 letter word that makes so many Christians uncomfortable.
Jesus started His three year public ministry with the words in Matthew Chapter 4:17 "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." Many Christian ministers today avoid this topic, forgetting that those who followed Jesus went out and proclaimed the same message, "…they went out and preached that people should repent" Mark 6:12


Don't leave out Repentance when you are sharing the Gospel.
Luke 24
46 Then He said to them, "Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,
47 "and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

Acts 3
19 "Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,

Acts 3
26 "To you first, God, having raised up His Servant Jesus, sent Him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your iniquities."

Acts 14
15 and saying, "Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men with the same nature as you, and preach to you that you should turn from these useless things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all things that are in them,

Acts 17
30 "Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent,
31 "because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead."

Acts 19
26 "Moreover you see and hear that not only at Ephesus, but throughout almost all Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away many people, saying that they are not gods which are made with hands.

Acts 20
20 "how I kept back nothing that was helpful, but proclaimed it to you, and taught you publicly and from house to house,
21 "testifying to Jews, and also to Greeks, repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

Acts 26
20 "but declared first to those in Damascus and in Jerusalem, and throughout all the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent, turn to God, and do works befitting repentance.

The Gospels and the Book of Acts give us a clear History and mandate for the Preaching of Repentance. So I declare once again When we proclaim the Gospel we dare not leave out Repentance.

101

"But the soul renounced shall abide in the boundlessness of God's life. This is liberty, this is prosperity. The more we lose, the more we gain."
- Watchman Nee

The crucified life is little seen in the Christianity often lived out by those who call themselves believers in the USA. However the Bible speaks much about it. God help us to truly surrender to You and Your will for our lives.

Luke 9
23 Then He said to them all, "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.
24 "For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it.

2 Timothy 2 4 No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier.

Luke 14 33 "So likewise, whoever of you does not forsake all that he has cannot be My disciple.

Galatians 5
24 And those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another

Galatians 6 14 But God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

John 3 30 "He must increase, but I must decrease .

That is not a exhaustive list on the topic but is certainly a few verses that it would not hurt us to meditate on.
Father God Have mercy on us.


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Expect and Attempt

"Expect great things from God. Attempt great things for God." -William Carey


William Carey (August 17, 1761 – June 9, 1834) was an English missionary, known as the "father of modern missions." As a missionary in Serampore, India, he translated the Bible into Bengali, Sanskrit, and numerous other languages and dialects.
http://www.wholesomewords.org/missions/biocarey.html
http://chi.gospelcom.net/GLIMPSEF/Glimpses/glmps045.shtml

The Great Exchange

Jesus Is Risen!!! He came to die for our sins and was buried and in three days He rose from the Dead to make the great exchange. Let's Look at this.

2 Corinthians 5:21
For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

Jesus became sin for us so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. Jesus Died, was buried, and came back to life to take our sins upon Himself and give us His righteousness. That is awesome.

Romans 6:23

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

The Bible is delcaring Here that Jesus did all this to exchange the Death you and I deserve for Eternal Life. Once again that is AMAZING!!

Galatians 3:13 Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree"),

2 Corinthians 8:9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich.

These two verses show me that what Jesus did on the cross was that he exchanged my curse for his blessing. He took my curse and gave me a blessing. That is so CRAZY. WOW!!!

Is it any wonder why I love RESSURECTION DAY.
Sing with me.....

I’m forgiven because you were forsaken
I’m accepted you were condemned
I’m alive and well Your Spirit lives within me
Because You died and Rose again

Amazing Love how can it be
That You my king would die for me
Amazing love I know it’s true
And it’s my joy to honor you
In all I do I honor You

You are my King Jesus
You are my King

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My Cross

Took my cross out yesterday morning, as I do every good friday and stood on the busiest corner in town. My daughter drove by and smiled at my friend Dave and I. The sun was out the weather was nice. Several friends stopped by to talk, Bob, Richard, Matthew, Rick and Walter just to name a few. Several people waved as they drove by and many gave us the thumbs up. Others just glared at us and still others actually gave us very negative hand gestures. But all and all it was a very profitable time.

Lord we pray for this city, we ask for mercy here and lord I know you love this city, O father draw them near.

The cross is an amazing thing.

Luke 9:23-24
23 Then He said to them all, "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.
24 "For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it.
25 "For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and is himself destroyed or lost?

Matthew 10:38
"And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me.

Philippians 1:21
For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

Galatians 6:14
But God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.




Nothing in my hand I bring, simply to Thy Cross I cling.
-Toplady


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Becoming

Deuteronomy 27
9 Then Moses and the priests, the Levites, spoke to all Israel, saying, "Take heed and listen, O Israel: This day you have become the people of the LORD your God.
10 "Therefore you shall obey the voice of the LORD your God, and observe His commandments and His statutes which I command you today."

Leaving Egypt where the people of God were slaves for 400 years they had a slave mentality. These poor people had a hard time trusting God.
The next generation spent 40 years in the wilderness learning to trust this Awesome God who delivered them out of the hand of Pharoah. During this 40 year time period they learned to Trust God as he led them in the desert. some of the lessons were hard, but little by little they became the people of God.
When we turn from our sins toward Jesus and place our faith in Him "old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new." 2 Corinthians 5:17
Our sins are seperated from us as far as the east is from the west in an instant.
Spiritual transformation, that is reflected in our physical life, takes time. Don't be discouraged when you realize you have a long way to go. Just rejoice that God has brought you this far and know that He will not stop working with you to bring you into the very image of Jesus.

Hebrews 12
1 Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
2 looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

1 Corinthians 9
24 Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it.

Philippians 3
13 Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead,
14 I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

"A pharisee is hard on others and easy on himself,
but a spiritual man is easy on others and hard on himself."
-A.W. Tozer,

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ONLY JESUS SAVES

John 14:6
Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

1 Timothy 2:5
For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus,

Acts 4:12
"Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved."

On the Authority of God's own word, Only JESUS can save you from the judgment to come. Not Mohammed, Not Buhda, Not The Watchtower Tract Society, Not Joseph Smith or Brigham Young, Not good deeds or religious sacrements. Only Jesus can seperate your sins from you as far as the east is from the west.

I want to say it Loud and Clear "THE CHOICE IS YOURS JESUS OR HELL"

Go today and warn your loved ones that they must turn to Jesus and give Him their lives.

"If sinners be dammed, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies. If they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees. Let no one GO there UNWARNED and UNPRAYED for." - Charles Spurgeon

"Upon a life I did not live, upon a death I did not die; another’s life, another’s death, I stake my whole eternity." - Horatius Bonar

It is all about Jesus and not about us at all. Praise God I hope you to will put your eternity in His hands. Only Jesus Can Save You.

Quote

"Answering a student's question,
'Will the heathen who have not heard the Gospel be saved?' thus, 'It is more a question with me whether we, who have the Gospel and fail to give it to those who have not, can be saved." -Charles Spurgeon


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