Pirates in the Pulpit

Pirates in the pulpit It is 9:30 July 1st 2011 and I had a thought while doing a study on the “Golden Rule.” The thought was “Pirates in the pulpit.” I had never heard that before but it was ringing in my ears. I put the phrase in Google and pulled up 4 hits all [...]

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The If’s of Jesus through the eyes of Matthew

I was asked to preach this last Sunday at the BARN at 8000 Oldham road in Kansas city Missouri. It is our Home church and it’s actually an old horse barn converted first to a large living room to be somewhat of a house Church. No one wanted to multiply into other houses so it just [...]

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Overcompensation : Danger Will Robinson

Overcompensation : excessive or exaggerated corrections Like so may others I have lost  friends to automobile accidents. Several caused by something as simple as a tire dropping off the edge of the road. A sudden jerk of the steering wheel to gain control actually ended in the loss of all control. On the same measure I have a friend who  was worried [...]

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If Your Friends Jumped Off A Cliff…..would you?

Matthew 15:12-14 12 Then the disciples came to him and asked, “Do you realize you offended the Pharisees by what you just said?” 13 Jesus replied, “Every plant not planted by my heavenly Father will be rooted up, 14 so ignore them. They are blind guides leading the blind, and if one blind person guides [...]

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Show Me Orphan Train : Dream

January 13th early in the morning my wife Dianna woke me up and told me “you sure are sleeping loud” I knew it was true I had been dreaming I was back in Africa and I had been dropped into the middle of devastation. I was working to get orphans into homes. It was overwhelming, one minute I [...]

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Fear has torment : Perfect Love cast out fear

Dianna and I just got back from seeing Bucket List. I feel asleep not because it was boring but because I had been up since 3 am and had worked until noon. It definitely was not a christian movie with some strong language and a soft message that implied all roads lead to heaven. There was however a [...]

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As Goes Israel so goes the Church

I have been a student of Church history for some time. I, like many others have noticed a parallel between natural Israel and the Church in the last 100 years. I may not be able to prove this by multiple scriptural texts however there is shown below the idea that Adam was the first natural man [...]

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Israel : its borders should not shrink

 As Christians we know that we should pray for the peace of Jerusalem but what about the borders of Jewish state of Israel. We in America certainly have a history of getting involved in things that are questionable. But there is nothing questionable about putting pressure on Israel to give up it’s God given borders it’s just [...]

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Fighting Fingers

Psalms 144:1 Blessed be the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight: King David understands The Lord is His strength and His teacher and that He taught His hands to war. But come on now His fingers to fight that sounds like a three stooges episode with a finger poke to the eyes. [...]

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Paralyzed at 22 : prophetic picture of the Church

Let me introduce to you Susie Jones. I was introduced to Her by my Friend Joanne Norton. Susie has great insight for and about the body of Christ. After taking an honest look at the church, world wide we would have to say it is sick and weak and I would add paralyzed. As you read [...]

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