Another false prophet

Local Pastor on YouTube has this video about Dr Faith. Dr Faith is one of the staff of River IHOP (International House of Prayer, web site: riverihop.com or drfaith.org). She has on her site "An anointed speaker and author, Faith walks in complete humility in her gifts of faith, healing and the prophetic." Too bad. First she supports Todd Bentley then disowns him. Real prophetic gift, huh?

Images, belief, and faith

Images, belief, and faith



People believe what they want to believe. Some make their own "reality". Some have delusions, hallucinations, and weird dreams.

Some believe in atheism, Hinduism, Islam, and Christianity. Some believe anything they read or see in the media. It may be a lie (anything from a full-blown lie to a little-twisting-of-the-truth). It may be real.

Is seeing believing? Most, if not all, atheists are empiricists and/or philosophic naturalists. The only reality is what our senses sense. Sense may be extended with instruments as a microscope, telescope, or computer.

Is the person in the video real or imaginary? You probably know it IS imaginary, but it is close to the real thing isn't it? I'm sure improvements will happen in the future.

What is truth? It has to be measured not by what works, what our senses sense, or what somebody tells us is truth. It has to be measured by a standard. That standard can be identified by a person. An objective look at the Lord Jesus Christ will tell you that He is that person. You can read the evidence here.

Holy Is The Lamb

Do you like Coffey? Here he sings a song he wrote Holy is the Lamb. God is truly holy, that is, without fault.

Praying With Your Family

Do you pray for your family? How important is your family? Can you really do it all yourself? Will the government be the one who helps and cares about your family? Who really loves your family? Who is willing to sacrifice time for your family--the government, friends, school officials, society?

Take time to pray together. Take time to pray for your family. Pray for each child. Pray for your spouse.

He was a religious man; he and his whole family worshiped God. He also did much to help the Jewish poor people and was constantly praying to God. (Acts 10:2)

Prayer At The Family Table @ Yahoo! Video

Is God Evil?

From A.S.A. Jones

I'm always surprised, therefore, when atheists attack Christianity using moral indignation over the slaughter that took place in Numbers 31. Let's examine the issue from a strictly logical, non-emotional perspective.

She has a good answer. We need to be ready to give a reason why we believe. Has anyone ever challenged your faith this way? You can read the rest here.

Atheism

James Orr in his book Christian View of God and the World on lecture note II. Note J. on page 57--found on ccel. org--has an interesting comment on atheism. Seems things haven't changed much.

Note J.—P. 57.
MATERIALISM IN GERMANY.
The descent from an overstrained idealistic Pantheism to materialistic Atheism in Germany—through Feuerbach, Stirner, lingo, etc.—is matter of notoriety. The following extract from an able article on “Lotze’s Theistic Philosophy,” in the Presbyterian Review, vol. vi. (1885), will illustrate the length to which things went in that direction:—“The one-sided opposition of Empiricism to Idealism developed into dogmatic Materialism. From the 18th September 1854, when Rudolf Wagner delivered at Göttingen his famous address on ‘The Creation of Man and the Substance of the Soul,’ the Materialistic conflict raged in Germany for a couple of decades with unabated vigour. Taking up the gauntlet which Wagner had thrown down Karl Vogt entered the lists with ‘Kohlerglaube und Wissenschaft,’ flaunting, amidst satire and ridicule, in the face of his opponent, who had declared himself content with the simple religious faith of the collier, the new famous sentence that ‘thought stands in about the same relation to the brain, as gall to the liver or urine to the kidneys.’ A flood of writings, more or less popular in style, followed, and a sort of religious propaganda was made of the gospel of Materialism, while a fierce crusade was waged against everything claiming to be superior to matter, or a ‘function ‘ of matter. The hostility against religion was pronounced and bitter. The creed preached was Atheism, naked and unashamed. Matter is held to be eternal; physical and chemical forces are the only ultimate agents; the world exists, Vogt tells us, ‘ without organic substance, without a known Creator, nay, without a leading idea.’ Hellwald expressly announces that the task of science is ‘to destroy all ideals, to manifest their hollowness and nothingness, to show that belief in God and religion is deception’; while Buchner, who is ever, if possible, a little more audacious than the rest, sums up the matter as follows: ‘Theism, or belief in a personal God, leads, as all history shows, to monachism, and the rule of priests; Pantheism, or belief in an all-pervading God, leads, where it is in the ascendancy, to contempt of the senses, denial of the Ego , to absorption in God, and to a state of stagnation. Atheism, or philosophical Monism, alone leads to freedom, to intelligence, to progress, to due recognition of man—in a word, to Humanism.’ . . . The progress of Materialism was rapid. Buchner’s Force and Matter, the ‘Bible of German Materialism,’ passed, within twenty years from its first appearance (1858), through no less than fourteen editions, and was translated into almost every language in Europe. The scientific camp was said to be materialistic almost to a man. The common people, among whom this way of thinking was frequently allied with the political tenets of social democracy, were, and are still to-day largely leavened by the infection. The philosophical chairs in the Universities were feeble to resist it. . . . Materialism in Germany is no longer as strong as it was; good authorities express it as their opinion that, as it grew, so also is it waning ‘rapidly ‘” (pp. 652–655).

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There's just something about atheism. It is always at the front to do away with God and any thoughts about Him. Why do they work so hard against Christians? Many have said "because I'm sick and tired of Christians forcing God down my throat." But it seems to me they just want God out of the picture, so their worldview, morality, and life can be without conscience, without guilt, without judgment. I also read something to the effect that humanity needs to get together, and with our minds we can solve its problems. lol

Will be YOU be changed?

If you're not challenged, changed, moved, motivated by this message, something is wrong with your hard, cold heart. O, God have mercy on me; I don't want to be anything but what you want for me.

D'Souza, Hitchens, and Prager Debate

Dinesh D'Souza writes in his article "Christian God? Jewish God? Or No God?"I suspect heaven is full of people who chose God and prayed to Him, "Thy will be done." Hell is reserved for those who by their own free choice refused God and to whom God eventually said, "Thy will be done."

Couldn't be said any better. It truely is "God's will be done" or "our will be done".

I truely say to God, "Your will be done." What about you?

You can find a link to the debates in that article.

God, a hypocrite?

Often a skeptic or atheist will mock the Christian by saying something like this:

It says in your holy book, "For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them. But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth." (Colossians 3:6-8). So, it is a sin to be angry, and look your god does it himself. What a hypocrite! He's nothing but a being that hates and kills..."

Well now, is it so?

Some thoughts:

1. God is the Judge.

"Let them worship the LORD! He is coming to judge everyone on the earth, and he will be honest and fair," (Psalms 98:9).

2. God wrote the rules.

"When God had finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two flat stones on which he had written all of his laws with his own hand," (Exodus 31:18).

3. Breaking law

"If you obey every law except one, you are still guilty of breaking them all," (James 2:10).

4. Anger for a reason

"But I say to you, anyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be subject to punishment. And whoever says to his brother 'Raka!' will be subject to the Council. And whoever says 'You fool!' will be subject to hell fire," (Matthew 5:22).

The thought being this: God is the lawgiver and judge. When His law is broken, it is OK for Him to be angry. When I am angry, then I am setting myself up as God. My laws, standards, personal space, whatever has been violated, but I am not God and have no right to be angry.

There is the thought that we can be angry at the things that angers God, but we cannot sin. "Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger," (Ephesians 4:26).

An example would be abortion. God hates the killing of the innocent. "There are seven things that the LORD hates and cannot tolerate: A proud look, a lying tongue, hands that kill innocent people, a mind that thinks up wicked plans, feet that hurry off to do evil, a witness who tells one lie after another, and someone who stirs up trouble among friends," (Proverbs 6:16). So to become angry at abortion would be OK, but to bomb an abortion clinic or kill an abortionist is sin; it IS absolutely wrong, evil.

A false prophet continues to prove it.

Todd Bentley, one of the world's premier false prophets, proves it again by filing for separation from his wife. My prayer, and yours should be, too, is for the Bentleys to start believing the Bible and living it.

Bentley's web site, Fresh Fire Ministries, on 13 August, states "...that Todd and Shonnah Bentley are presently experiencing significant friction in their relationship and are currently separated."

Are you a young-earth creationist?

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Guilty, but forgiven

Guilt is a heavy burden.

Guilt is defined as "Remorse caused by feeling responsible for some offense" and "The state of having committed an offense" (WordWeb).

Offense against what? Is is offense against the constitution, our own (changeable) standard, or some other authority? It is the offenses against a Holy God--the Christian God, as taught in the Bible.

"Respect your father and your mother, so that you may live a long time in the land that I am giving you. "Do not commit murder. "Do not commit adultery. "Do not steal. "Do not accuse anyone falsely. "Do not desire another man's house; do not desire his wife, his slaves, his cattle, his donkeys, or anything else that he owns." (Exodus 20:12-17)

We have done these things. We have disrespected our parents, hated (thus murder in our heart), adultery (lusted in our hearts), stolen, lied, and wanted what someone else had.

What is the punishment for these things? Is we do break a nation's laws, we will be punished. Someone has to pay. If I break my neighbor's window, someone has to pay, and you know it will be ME.

Who pays for these other offenses? It is ME. What hope is there? Christ died for us at a time when we were helpless and sinful. (Romans 5:6). God awaits for our cry, "And the tax collector, standing afar off, would not so much as raise his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me a sinner!' "(Luke 18:13).

Some Good Poetry

A friend of mine passed this on to me, so I pass it to you. I take it that it was done in 2007 sometime.

"Allow me to reintroduce the Christ"

Four Days Late

So things are goin' too slow for ya? Been prayin' for a long time and wonder where the answer is?
Well, consider Mary and Martha ... and Lazarus. Four days late and still on time. Here's a song that will bless you.

The False Teachers

I found this comment on a One News Now report. Somebody might wonder where the proof that what this commenter says is true but from the many teachings on-line and in print, I believe it is true. If you want to know more about the Emergent Church read here.

I was a member of Brian McLaren's church for 10 years before he was famous. The only folks he ever criticized were what he called Fundamentalists. Most of the rest of us would probably call them committed Christians. I left after 10 years when I found my faith in Christ was destroyed. There was a big controversy at the church a while back when some of my friends insisted they put the name "Jesus" in the church's mission statement, but McLaren wouldn't allow it; said it would offend people. McClaren once told me he wished James Dobson weren't so political; an objection that apparently doesn't apply to himself. I wouldn't compare McLaren and Rick Warren. It's not fair to Warren. But please don't waste any thought on McLaren or the Emergent Church fad. No lasting movement ever came from a man telling people what he DOESN'T believe.

MacDonald Family Singers

The MacDonald Family Singers are great. Here is a sample of their music. What is the cross of Jesus Christ to you? If you're not sure click here.

Forgiveness

But if we confess our sins to God, he will keep his promise and do what is right: he will forgive us our sins and purify us from all our wrongdoing. (1 John 1:9)

Likewise, David also speaks of the blessedness of the person whom God regards as righteous apart from works: "How blessed are those whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered! How blessed is the person whose sins the Lord will never charge against him!" (Romans 4:6-8)

Some people brought him a paralyzed man on a stretcher. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the man, "Cheer up, friend! Your sins are forgiven." (Matthew 9:2)