SON OF GOD the MOVIE

Jesus is the Son of God, and this movie proclaims it! It's what Muslims need to know, and the rock they stumble over. I'm a little upset that they seem to be making this stuff up as they go and they forgot to mention that Peter first let Jesus use his boat so He could pull away from shore and preach to the multitudes. If you are going to put it on the big screen, why not tell it like it is? I see they were trying to make a correlation between the stone that the devil tempted Jesus to turn into bread and the multiplying of the fishes, but the facts are that Jesus came down from the 40 day fast and began preaching in the synagogues. Luke chapter 4.
What would Jesus think of it? He has patience with everyone who seeks him, coming to God as a little child. I think the producers accomplished that. But it wasn't necessary to stray from the facts of the Word to do it. Everybody can be shouting, "Oh, wonderful, wonderful!" because it's an emotional response to the great and awesome things Jesus did, but it's not alright to make it up as you go and use that kind of poetic license with the scripture lest you find yourself at odds with the Word Himself; Jesus is the Word made flesh, you can't rearrange that. How hard would it be to show that Jesus preached from Peter's boat first and then he told him to go out into the deep and let down his nets for a draught?

WEATHER WARNING!

Mr. President, here is your peace accord: "The towns from Ekron to Gath that the Philistines had captured from Israel were restored to Israel, and Israel delivered the neighboring territory from the hands of the Philistines. And there was peace between Israel and the Amorites." 1 Samuel 7:14
The 1st picture is Israel today; the 2nd picture is Israel as God intended.
Do you want peace? Obey God! Weather Warning! Do you want the earth to be at peace with you? Obey God!

Israel today. Picture below: Israel as designated by God.

I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat. Then I will enter into judgment with them there on behalf of My people and My inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations; and they have divided up My land. Joel 3:2

Muslim vs Christian

Muslim extremist: kill the Christian, kill the Jew.
How to become a Muslim extremist: believe the Quran; follow Mohammad.
Christian extremist: Love God with all your heart; love your neighbor as yourself; forgive your enemies.
How to become a Christian extremist: believe the Bible; follow Jesus.

Follow Jesus.

DEAD MAN DOWN

I thought Dead Man Down was going to be a war movie about heroism in battle, and when I saw that it was turning out to be a kind of ‘thug movie’ I almost quit it because they rarely have a happy ending and I love a movie with a happy ending, especially a love story. Colin Farrell plays a hit man void of reason to live other than to have his vengeance on a group of men that killed his wife and little girl. He is distracted by a woman, played by Noom Rapace, who blackmails him into killing the man who maimed her for life and got off scot free. They can’t fix their own lives and they can’t let the pain go, but miraculously, they begin to care about helping each other overcome theirs. Slowly, tumultuously, almost unnoticeably, their own healing begins. If you don’t watch movies with shooting, fighting and killing or that show how despicable life can be, you might want to avoid this one. It has so many twists and turns I don’t want to ruin it for you. All I can say is you will not be sorry you gave this one a chance. All things considered, in the end it actually does turn out to be a very good kind of war movie, and an awesome example of the miracle transforming power of love. When he comes to rescue her, it can be seen that the classical ‘Jesus plot’ is still alive and well in Hollywood. Praise God from whom all blessings flow. Hallelujah!

TO CATHOLICS EVERYWHERE

I belonged to the Catholic Church when I made Jesus Christ the LORD of my life. I resisted the promptings of the Holy Spirit to come out of it because I was steeped in Catholic tradition from the day I was born. I used everything I knew about scripture (which wasn't much) to defend the Catholic Church and explain away its tenacious flaws. I received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues at Riverside Christian Center, where my new found brothers and sisters in the Lord took turns questioning my Catholic membership. One little lady just wouldn't leave me alone. She was a head shorter than me, which is short, since I'm only 5'6". I dreaded to see her coming! She got in my face in front of everyone, saying things like "What about, 'Call no man your Father?' What about bowing down to idols and graven images, and burning incense to statues of dead saints?" I resisted because I found value in faithfulness even though I had no answers for her. Catholics all over the world are being prompted with answers for those questions now by the enemy of their soul. They quickly change the subject behind a great wall of offense I call, What Did You Say About My Mama?! They say to me, 'You could have never been Catholic, or you would understand how we love our Mama Mary.' They pray to her asking and pleading for protection, for themselves and for their loved ones; they 'come and sit in her kitchen'. They think they are exempt from Jesus' command to pray to our Father in heaven because Jesus will do what his mother tells him to do. They use the water to wine miracle at Cana to justify their confidence. But Mary didn't tell Jesus what to do; she told them, "Do what he says." Still Catholics all over the world aspire to control the kingdom of heaven by establishing a relationship with Mary, by worshipping the 'Queen of Heaven' and by 'pouring out drink oblations to her' (Jeremiah 44:17) in the form of the blood of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world for their sins, which they despise and count as nothing: they don't need it, they have Mary to plead their case. She is their advocate; they choose her over Jesus the Wonderful Counselor, Lover of your soul. Why? So they can do what they want and God will have to be okay with it. It is the greatest deception perpetrated upon man since Eve saw that the forbidden fruit was desirable for wisdom. Now come I in the name of the Lord, to get in the face of Catholics everywhere, honor bound to challenge you with the same questions presented to me in 1983 when a little lady had the intestinal fortitude to get in my face more than once and ask, 'What about, call no man your Father?'! Jesus is your friend. Jesus is your deliver. He is the Alpha and the Omega! The beginning and the end! The Lover of your soul! He is the answer to every question you have! He alone loves you unconditionally. He died for you; he felt the nails and the stripes and the rejection. He alone will come again to receive you unto himself! The best news of all is, you don't need anyone else! hey! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! We praise you LORD God Almighty! We give you glory! We give you all the glory for your Unspeakable Gift to us in your beloved only begotten Son, Jesus Christ! O Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! We celebrate you now and always! And if it's alright with you, Father God, we celebrate his birth in a manger about this time every year. Praise God! Praise God! Praise God! And we thank you Holy Spirit, O how you are welcome here! Hallelujah!

Merry Christmas everyone! May your New Year be filled to overflowing with the knowledge of our LORD, in Jesus' name. Amen.

Balance is a Beautiful Thing!

Writing takes diligence and willingness to carve out a place for yourself among all the distractions of life. People who rely on you seem to suddenly have more emergencies than ever. And your kids, even the grown ones, suddenly hang themselves off a cliff and you're the only one who notices. You need to develop an acute sense of balance, but balance in itself is a beautiful thing. In God's world everything is balanced. A balanced life is a godly life. I'm still learning about balance. Here at the apartment building we have dryers downstairs but I save tons of quarters by hanging clothes outside. I put up clothes lines behind the building and I had to stretch them across 50 feet of open space. I use sticks to prop them up in the center. It’s a slap-shod system but I like it because it’s mine. I can have it all perfect until Jackson, a 6 year old hurricane, comes along and uses it for his monkey bars. I love my neighbors and there isn't much for kids to do in an apartment building, so I'm not going to tell him not to climb on the old gas lines and hang form my clothes lines. Jackson likes to help me with everything he sees me doing. We have an understanding. Instead of telling him to leave my stuff alone and behave, I put him in charge of security, so to speak, and he watches to make sure things like outside doors don't get left open and drain-spouts don't mysteriously fall off the building. hey! It's all part of balance like hanging the clothes, which need to be evenly distributed on both sides of the sticks with just the right amount of weight between the old gas lines and a big old oak tree so as not to have things such as white T-shirts touching the ground at any time. But when I've hanged up 3 or 4 loads of laundry and I have everything all propped up correctly, and the wind is picking up the garments and they are all blowing nicely in the breeze, it is truly a beautiful sight! I see God as the wind in my sails! And this is what I've learned: balance is worth the effort it takes to achieve and it is really the only way many things can be accomplished. Hallelujah!

Lord, you are the wind in my sails!

HOW TO BE A 'BLESSED WIFE'

Being married for more than 36 years has given me a few insights. Men, unwittingly, put you through sneaky little underhanded 'Tests' to determine your worth, which is measured in what they consider to be 'faithfulness', the same as they do a fine car. Ladies, you are not capable of passing those tests without Jesus in your heart, giving you wisdom and telling you what to do next. The Bible says that the "faithful will abound with blessings" (Proverbs 28:20) which is the ultimate end of the faithful wife. If you are having troubled relationships, you don't need more of anything but Jesus! Jesus in your heart in great abundance = a blessed life for all. May the LORD bless you and keep you and cause His face to shine upon you and give you His peace. Shalom!