Proverbs 8 is Christ speaking to you and I!!!

Did you know some people claim that the Old Testament is not for today; they hate it and try their best to discard and discredit it.

However did you know that proverbs chapter 8 is actually Christ speaking to us? He is giving us an account of himself before time itself existed. This is in support of the genesis creation story by the Trinity, and lays foundation down for John 1:1-5 to be built on.

The Old Testament and the New Testament work hand n’ Glove with one-another. If you take one out, the other loses power and meaning…..

God put them both together for us; let us not then try to take them apart!

A Video Of My Mission Trips To Panama & How You Can Help!!!

This Youtube video is comprised of several photos I have taken on my mission trips to Panama. I go there all the time, but I need your help and so does the orphans!

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ggHkFyleG8&feature=youtu.be

Casts and Shadows = Parallels Between Moses and Jesus

Parallels Between Moses and Jesus

1. Both Moses and Jesus were born in a period when Israel was under foreign rule.
– Exodus 1:8, 11
– Luke 2:1-5

2. Cruel kings decided that both Moses and Jesus should be killed as infants.
– Exodus 1:15-17
– Matthew 2:16

3. The faith of both Moses’ and Jesus’ parents saved their lives.
– Exodus 2:2-4
– Matthew 2:13-14

4. Both Moses and Jesus found protection for a time with the people of Egypt.
– Exodus 2:10
– Matthew 2:14-15

5. Both Moses and Jesus displayed unusual wisdom and understanding.
– Acts 7:22
– Luke 2:46-47

6. Both Moses’ and Jesus’ characters were marked by meekness and humility.
– Numbers 12:3
– Matthew 11:28-30

7. Both Moses and Jesus were completely faithful to God.
– Numbers 12:7
– Hebrews 3:1-6

8. Both Moses and Jesus were rejected by Israel for a time.
– Exodus 32:1
– Matthew 27:21-22

9. Both Moses and Jesus were criticized by their brothers and sisters.
– Numbers 12:1
– John 7:5

10. Both Moses and Jesus were received by Gentiles after being rejected by Israel.
– Exodus 2:15, 21
– Acts 13:44-48

11. Both Moses and Jesus prayed asking forgiveness for God’s people.
– Exodus 32:31-32
– Luke 23:34

12. Both Moses and Jesus were willing to bear the punishment of God’s people.
– Exodus 32:31-32
– 1 Peter 3:18

13. Both Moses and Jesus spoke with God face-to-face.
– Numbers 12:7-8
– John 1:18

14. Both Moses and Jesus went up into a high mountain to have communion with God, taking some of their closest followers with them.
– Exodus 24:9-10
– Matthew 17:1, 5

15. After their mountaintop experiences, both Moses’ and Jesus’ faces shone with supernatural glory.
– Exodus 34:34-35
– Matthew 17:2

16. God spoke audibly from heaven to both Moses and Jesus.
– Exodus 19:19-20
– John 12:23,28

17. Both Moses’ and Jesus’ places of burial were attended by angels.
– Jude 9
– Matthew 28:2, 5-6

18. Both Moses and Jesus appeared alive after their deaths.
– Matthew 17:3
– John 20:19-20

These are a few of the scriptural comparisons of Moses and Jesus as God’s appointed vessels to the nation of Israel. It is evident that God gave promises to the children of Israel and that those promises were kept.

From the Pages of 134-140 of Jerusalem Countdown : A Warning To The World by John Hagee

Can a good Muslim be a good American?

 

Can a good Muslim be a good American?

I sent that question to a friend who worked in Saudi Arabia for 20 years.

The following is his reply:

Theologically – no. Because his allegiance is to Allah, the moon god of Arabia .

Religiously – no. Because no other religion is accepted by his Allah except
Islam (Quran, 2:256)

Scripturally – no. Because his allegiance is to the five pillars of Islam
and the Quran (Koran).

Geographically – no. Because his allegiance is to Mecca , to which he turns
in prayer five times a day.

Socially – no. Because his allegiance to Islam forbids him to make friends
with Christians or Jews.

Politically – no. Because he must submit to the mullah (spiritual leaders),
who teach annihilation of Israel and Destruction of America, the great Satan.

Domestically – no. Because he is instructed to marry four women and beat
and scourge his wife when she disobeys him (Quran 4:34 ).

Intellectually – no. Because he cannot accept the American Constitution
since it is based on Biblical principles and he believes the Bible to be
corrupt.

Philosophically – no. Because Islam, Muhammad, and the Quran do not allow
freedom of religion and expression. Democracy and Islam cannot co-exist.

Every Muslim government is either dictatorial or autocratic.

Spiritually – no. Because when we declare “one nation under God,” the
Christian’s God is loving and kind, while Allah is NEVER referred to as
heavenly father, nor is he ever called love in The Quran’s 99 excellent names.

Therefore after much study and deliberation….perhaps we should be very
suspicious of ALL MUSLIMS in this country. They obviously cannot be both
“good” Muslims and good Americans.

Call it what you wish….it’s still the truth.

Perhaps you will share this with your friends. The more who understand this, the better it will be for our country and our future. The religious war is bigger than we know or understand.

Abortion months 1-7

Abortion

 

 

Month One
Mommy, I am only 8 inches long, but I have all my organs. I love the sound of your voice. Every time I hear it, I wave my arms and legs. The sound of your heart beat is my favorite lullaby.

Month Two
Mommy, today I learned how to suck my thumb. If you could see me, you could definitely tell that I am a baby. I’m not big enough to survive outside my home though. It is so nice and warm in here.

Month Three
You know what Mommy, I’m a boy!! I hope that makes you happy. I always want you to be happy. I don’t like it when you cry. You sound so sad. It makes me sad too, and I cry with you even though you can’t hear me.

Month Four
Mommy, my hair is starting to grow. It is very short and fine, but I will have a lot of it. I spend a lot of my time exercising. I can turn my head and curl my fingers and toes, and stretch my arms and legs. I am becoming quite good at it too.

Month Five
You went to the doctor today. Mommy, he lied to you. He said that I’m not a baby. I am a baby Mommy, your baby. I think and feel. Mommy, what’s abortion?

Month Six
I can hear that doctor again. I don’t like him. He seems cold and heartless. Something is intruding my home. The doctor called it a needle. Mommy what is it? It burns! Please make him stop! I can’t get away from it! Mommy! HELP me!

Month Seven
Mommy, I am okay. I am in Jesus’s arms. He is holding me. He told me about abortion. Why didn’t you want me Mommy?

Every Abortion Is Just . . .
One more heart that was stopped. Two more eyes that will never
see. Two more hands that will never touch. Two more legs that will never run. One more mouth that will never speak

Send a thank you card to a soldier for Christmas!

Send a thank you card to a soldier for Christmas!

 

 

If you go to this web site, www.LetsSayThanks.com, you can pick out a thank you card, Xerox will print it, and it will be sent to a soldier that is currently serving in Iraq. You can’t pick out who gets it, but it will go to a member of the armed services.

How AMAZING it would be if we could get everyone we know to send one!!!   It is FREE and it only takes a second.

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the soldiers received a bunch of these?    Whether you are for or against the war, our soldiers over there need to know we are behind them.

This takes just 10 seconds and it’s a wonderful way to say thank you.    Please take the time and please take the time to pass it on for others to do.  We can never say enough thank yous.

Thanks for taking to time to support our military!

Tell the ACLU Merry CHRISTmas!

I LOVE THIS IDEA 🙂

Merry Christmas, Everybody!!

Yes, Christmas cards. This is coming early so that you can get ready to include an important address on your list.

Want to have some fun this CHRISTMAS? Send the ACLU a CHRISTMAS CARD this year.

As they are working so very hard to get rid of the CHRISTMAS part of this holiday, we should all send them a nice, CHRISTIAN card to brighten up their dark, sad, little world.

Make sure it says “Merry Christmas” on it.

Here’s the address, please don’t be rude or crude:
ACLU
125 Broad Street
18th Floor
New York , NY 10004

Two tons of Christmas cards would freeze their operations because they wouldn’t know if any were regular mail containing contributions.  So spend 44 cents and tell the ACLU to leave Christmas alone. Also tell them that there is no such thing as a “Holiday Tree”. . .  It’s always been called a CHRISTMAS TREE!

And pass this on to your email lists. We really want to communicate this message to the ACLU!!!

Christ in Rudolph! As Christ Loved us, so did Bob for his daughter!

** True Story of Rudolph**

A man named Robert L. May, depressed and brokenhearted, stared out his drafty apartment window into the chilling December night. His 4-year-old daughter Barbara sat on his lap quietly sobbing. Bobs wife, Evelyn, was dying of cancer.

Little Barbara couldn’t understand why her mommy could never come home. Barbara looked up into her dad’s eyes and asked, “Why isn’t Mommy just like everybody else’s Mommy?” Bob’s jaw tightened and his eyes welled with tears.

Her question brought waves of grief, but also of anger. It had been the story of Bob’s life. Life always had to be different for Bob. Small when he was a kid, Bob was often bullied by other boys.

He was too little at the time to compete in sports. He was often called names he’d rather not remember. From childhood, Bob was different and never seemed to fit in.

Bob did complete college, married his loving wife and was grateful to get his job as a copywriter at Montgomery Ward during the Great Depression. Then he was blessed with his little girl. But it was all short-lived. Evelyn’s bout with cancer stripped them of all their savings and now Bob and his daughter were forced to live in a two-room apartment in the Chicago slums. Evelyn died just days before Christmas in 1938.

Bob struggled to give hope to his child, for whom he couldn’t even afford to buy a Christmas gift. But if he couldn’t buy a gift, he was determined a make one – a storybook!

Bob had created an animal character in his own mind and told the animal’s story to little Barbara to give her comfort and hope.

Again and again, Bob told the story, embellishing it more with each telling. Who was the character? What was the story all about?

The story Bob May created was his own autobiography in fable form. The character he created was a misfit outcast like he was. The name of the character? A little reindeer named Rudolph, with a big shiny nose. Bob finished the book just in time to give it to his little girl on Christmas Day.

But the story doesn’t end there.

The general manager of Montgomery Ward caught wind of the little storybook and offered Bob May a nominal fee to purchase the rights to print the book. Wards went on to print, “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” and distribute it to children visiting Santa Claus in their stores.

By 1946, Wards had printed and distributed more than six million copies of Rudolph. That same year, a major publisher wanted to purchase the rights from Wards to print an updated version of the book.

In an unprecedented gesture of kindness, the CEO of Wards returned all rights back to Bob May. The book became a best seller. Many toy and marketing deals followed and Bob May, now remarried with a growing family, became wealthy from the story he created to comfort his grieving daughter.

But the story doesn’t end there either.

Bob’s brother-in-law, Johnny Marks, made a song adaptation to Rudolph.

Though the song was turned down by such popular vocalists as Bing Crosby and Dinah Shore , it was recorded by the singing cowboy, Gene Autry.

“Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” was released in 1949 and became a phenomenal success, selling more records than any other Christmas song, with the exception of “White Christmas.”

The gift of love that Bob May created for his daughter so long ago kept on returning back to bless him again and again. And Bob May learned the lesson, just like his dear friend Rudolph, that being different isn’t so bad. In fact, being different can be a blessing.

The Detailed Description of the DEATH OF JESUS

The Detailed Description of the DEATH OF JESUS

Author Unknown

 

At the age of 33, Jesus was condemned to the death …

The Crucifixion is the “worst” death. Only the worst Criminals were condemned to be crucified. Yet it was even more dreadful for Jesus, unlike Other criminals condemned to death by Crucifixion Jesus was to be nailed to the Cross by His hands and feet.

Each nail Was 6 to 8 inches long. The nails Were driven into His wrist. Not Into His palms as is commonly Portrayed in paintings and art. There’s a tendon in the wrist that Extends to the shoulder. The Roman guards knew That when the nails were being hammered into the Wrist that tendon would tear and Break, forcing Jesus to use His back Muscles to support himself so that He could Breath.

Both of His feet Were nailed together. Thus He was forced to Support Himself on the single nail that Impaled His feet to the cross. Jesus could Not support himself with His legs because of the pain So He was forced to alternate between arching His Back then using his legs just to continue to Breath. Imagine if you can the struggle, the pain, the Suffering, because of our sins.

Jesus endured this Reality for over 3 hours! A few minutes before He died, Jesus stopped bleeding. He was simply pouring water From his wounds.

From common images We see wounds to His hands and feet and even the spear wound To His side… But do we realize His wounds that were actually made in and to his body? A hammer driving large nails through the wrist, the feet overlapped and an even large nail hammered through the arches, then a Roman guard piercing His side with a spear. But before the nails and the spear Jesus was whipped and beaten.

The whipping was so severe that it tore the flesh off His body. The beating so horrific that His face was torn and his beard was literally ripped from His face. The crown of thorns cut deeply into and through His scalp. Most men never survived the torture of the whippings.

He had no more blood to bleed out, only water poured from His wounds. The human adult body contains about 3.5 liters (just less than a gallon) of blood. Jesus poured all 3.5 liters of his blood; He had three nails hammered into His limbs; a crown of thorns on His head and, beyond that, a Roman soldier who stabbed a spear into the side of His Chest..

All these without mentioning the humiliation He suffered after carrying His own cross for almost 2 kilometers, while the crowd spat in his face and threw stones (the cross was almost 30 kg of weight.)

Jesus endured this torture and death willingly for you so that you could have your sins “washed” away. All of them, with no exception!

 

Don’t ignore this Gift that He gives to you freely. You pay nothing for it, because He paid for it all!

Holy Spirit In-Depth Study

Holy Spirit In-Depth Study

By : Evangelist Joe Collins

 

In Christianity, the Holy Spirit (or Holy Ghost) is the Spirit of God. In mainstream (Trinitarian) Christian beliefs he is the third person of the Trinity. As part of the Godhead, the Holy Spirit is equal with God the Father and with God the Son.

 

(Student – We believe in the Trinity, so therefore the theological study word for what we call people who believe in the Trinity is Trinitarian) [ Trin-it-Air-e-an]

 

The Christian theology of the Holy Spirit was the last piece of Trinitarian theology to be fully developed. There is also greater (study of) diversity in Christian theology of the Spirit (Pneumatology – the study of the Holy Spirit) than there is in the theology of the Son (Christology – the study of Jesus Christ) or of the Father.

 

Christian Doctrine

 

Within mainstream Christianity the Holy Spirit is one of the three persons of the Trinity. As such he is personal and also fully God, co-equal and co-eternal with God the Father and God the Son. He is different from the Father and the Son in that he proceeds from the Father (or from the Father and the Son) as described in the Nicene Creed. His sacredness is reflected in the New Testament gospels which proclaim blasphemy against the Holy Spirit as unforgivable.

 

The Holy Spirit is believed to perform specific divine functions in the life of the Christian or the church. These include:

 

1 – Conviction of sin.   The Holy Spirit acts to convince the unredeemed person both of the sinfulness of their actions, and of their moral standing as sinners before God.

 

2 – Bringing to conversion. The action of the Holy Spirit is seen as an essential part of the bringing of the person to the Christian faith. The new believer is “born again of the Spirit”.

 

3 – Enabling the Christian life. The Holy Spirit is believed to dwell in the individual believers and enable them to live a righteous and faithful life. As a comforter or Paraclete (one who intercedes), or supports or acts as an advocate, particularly in times of trial.

 

4 – Inspiration and interpretation of scripture. The Holy Spirit both inspires the writing of the scriptures and interprets them to the Christian and/or church.

 

The Holy Spirit is also believed to be active especially in the life of Jesus Christ, enabling him to fulfill his work on earth. Particular actions of the Holy Spirit include:

 

5 – Cause of His birth. According to the gospel accounts of the birth of Jesus, the “beginning of His incarnate existence (physical body)“, was due to the Holy Spirit.

 

6 – Anointing him at his baptism.

 

7 – Empowerment of his ministry. The ministry of Jesus following his baptism (in which the Holy Spirit is described in the gospels as “descending on Him like a dove”) is conducted in the power and at the direction of the Holy Spirit.

 

Symbols of the Holy Spirit

 

The Holy Spirit is frequently referred to by metaphors and symbols, both doctrinally and Biblically. Theologically speaking, these symbols are a key to understanding of the Holy Spirit and his actions, and are not mere artistic representations.

 

(Student – Because we can NOT know anything about God unless He reveals it to us, like the Bible, we can not understand anything about Him, unless He reveals it to us. Since God can NOT be completely understood by our mere wimpy physical minds, He will use examples, like the ones below, to show us how He is and what HE thinks about what we do and say and such. Below are examples in the Bible, God used to help us try to understand Him (Holy Spirit) better.)

 

Water – signifies the Holy Spirit’s action in Baptism, such that in the manner that “by one Spirit [believers] were all baptized”, so they are “made to drink of one Spirit”. Thus the Spirit is also personally the living water welling up from Christ crucified as its source and welling up in Christians to eternal life.

 

Anointing / Oil – The symbolism of anointing with oil also signifies the Holy Spirit, to the point of becoming a synonym for the Holy Spirit. The coming of the Spirit is referred to as his “anointing”. Its full force can be grasped only in relation to the primary anointing accomplished by the Holy Spirit, that of Jesus. Christ (in Hebrew Christ means messiah) means the one “anointed” by God’s Spirit.

 

Fire – symbolizes the transforming energy of the Holy Spirit’s actions. In the form of tongues “as of fire”, the Holy Spirit rested on the disciples on the morning of Pentecost.

 

Cloud and light – The Spirit comes upon the Virgin Mary and “overshadows” her, so that she might conceive and give birth to Jesus. On the mountain of transfiguration, the Spirit in the “cloud came and overshadowed” Jesus, Moses and Elijah, Peter, James and John, and “a voice came out of the cloud, saying, ‘This is my Son, my Chosen; listen to him!'”

 

The dove – When Christ comes up from the water of his baptism, the Holy Spirit, in the form of a dove, comes down upon him and remains with him.

 

Wind – The Spirit is likened to the “wind that blows where it will” (John 3:8), and described as “a sound from heaven like the rush of a mighty wind” (Acts 2:2-4).

 

Differences in Doctrine

 

Catholicism– what Catholics believe –

According to Roman Catholic theology the primary work of the Holy Spirit is through the church. According to the Catechism: “The mission of Christ and the Holy Spirit is brought to completion in the Church, which is the Body of Christ and the Temple of the Holy Spirit. […] Through the Church’s sacraments, Christ communicates his Holy and sanctifying Spirit to the members of his Body.”

 

Protestantism– those who are christians & are not Catholic are called this –

The majority of mainstream Protestantism hold similar views on the theology of the Holy Spirit as the Roman Catholic Church, as described above. The chiefdifference is the belief that the Holy Spirit interacts with the individual Christian and through the church, instead of just the church and its leaders (Pope and Priests). There are significant variations in belief within the Protestant movement, especially between Pentecostalism and the rest of Protestantism.

 

Pentecostalism

While the Holy Spirit is acknowledged as God in all mainstream denominations, he is given particular emphasis in Pentecostal churches. In those churches he is seen as the giver of natural and supernatural gifts, such as tongues and prophecy, to Christians.

 

The Christian movement called Pentecostalism derives its name from the event of Pentecost, the coming of the Holy Spirit when Jesus’ disciples were gathered in Jerusalem (see Acts 2). Pentecostals believe that when a believer is “baptized in the Holy Spirit”, the gifts of the Spirit (also called the charismata) are activated in the recipient to edify the body of Christ, the church. Some of these gifts are listed in 1 Corinthians 12.

 

The Pentecostal movement places special emphasis on the work of the Holy Spirit, and especially on the gifts mentioned above in 1 Corinthians 12, believing that they are still given today. Mainstream Pentecostals believe that the “baptism of the Holy Spirit” is different and are not the same as the action of Salvation, which the Holy Spirit gives through the Blood of Christ from His death and resurrection from the dead! They consider it a usually distinct experience in which the Spirit’s power is received by the Christian in a new way, with the belief that the Christian can be more readily used to perform signs, miracles, and wonders for the sake of evangelism or for ministry within and without the walls of the church.

 

Pentecostal Cults – There are also some Pentecostals who believe that Spirit baptism is a necessary element in salvation, not a “second blessing”. These Pentecostals believe that in the baptism in the Holy Spirit, the power of the Spirit is released in their lives. (Student- These ‘so-called’ pentecostals teach a FALSE idea of Salvation. They teach you need more then just Christ to be Saved, and therefore, even though they call themselves christians and pentecostals, they are actually a cult.)

 

Many Pentecostals believe that the initial evidence of this infilling (baptism) of the Holy Spirit is the ability to speak in other tongues (glossolalia – Theology Study Word for speaking in tongues), and that tongues are one of several spiritual manifestations of the presence of the Holy Spirit in an individual believer’s life.

 

Non-Trinitarian Views –

Those who do not believe in the Trinity

 

Non-Trinitarian views about the Holy Spirit generally fall into one of two categories. Some groups believe that the Holy Spirit is a separate being from God the Father and God the Son, and is ‘one’ with them in some other sense than of being one substance; Latter Day Saint (Mormons) beliefs fall within this category. Others believe that the Holy Spirit refers to some aspect or action of God (i.e., Modalism); Jehovah’s Witness, Christadelphian, Unity Church, and Oneness Pentecostalism beliefs fall within this category.

 

Latter Day Saints (Mormons)   CULT

In the Latter-day Saint movement, the Holy Ghost (usually synonymous with Holy Spirit.) is considered the third distinct member of the Godhead (Father, Son and Holy Ghost). The Holy Ghost is considered to be a son of God the Father,  and to have a body of “spirit,” which makes him unlike the Father and the Son who are said to have bodies “as tangible as man’s

 

Jehovah’s Witnesses     CULT

Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that the Holy Spirit is God’s active force, and do not typically capitalize the term. A Jehovah’s Witness brochure quotes Alvan Lamson: “…the Father, Son, and… Holy Spirit [are] not as co-equal, not as one numerical essence, not as Three in One… The very reverse is the fact

 

Christadelphians          CULT

Christadelphians believe that the phrase Holy Spirit refers to God’s character or mind, depending on the context.

 

Unity Church  CULT

The Unity Church interprets the religious terms Father, Son, and Holy Spirit metaphysically, as three aspects of mind action: mind, idea, and expression. They believe this is the process through which all manifestation takes place. God does not exist, only except in metaphor form.

(Student– Just like the Mormons calling their false places of worship ‘churches’, don’t let the word ‘church’ in the name confuse you. They believe that God DOES NOT EXIST. That God is nothing more then an idea that man came-up with to try to encourage others to be more better then they already are. That God is an idea of ours, our mind is God and that when we do good we are being God, since God is nothing more then an idea.)

 

Oneness Pentecostalism      – REAL CHRISTIANS, JUST CONFUSED ONES –

Oneness Pentecostalism, and with other Modalist groups, teach that the Holy Spirit is a mode of God, rather than a distinct individual, and that there is no distinction between God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

 

(Student – Basically they believe God is only one, not trintiy {three-in-one} and that in man’s history, God choose to have different names. Father being the first name He wanted, Christ being the second and Holy Spirit as the last name He wanted for Himself – they are greatly confused!)

 

 

Fruit of the Spirit

 

Christians believe the “Fruit of the Spirit” consists of virtuous characteristics carved in the Christian by the action of the Holy Spirit. They are those listed in Galatians 5:22-23: “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.”

 

Gifts of the Spirit

 

Christians believe that the Holy Spirit gives ‘gifts’ to Christians. These gifts consist of specific abilities granted to the individual Christian. They are frequently known by the Greek word for gift, Charisma, from which the term charismatic derives. The New Testament provides three different lists of such gifts which range from the supernatural (healing, prophecy, tongues) through those associated with specific callings (teaching) to those expected of all Christians in some degree (faith). Most consider these lists not to be exhaustive, and other have compiled their own lists.