| Stories from the Frontlines |
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As you may have noticed, I haven’t posted anything for the past two months. My time has been taken up with leading the Way of the Master (www.wayofthemaster.com) Basic Training Course at our church for the past 8 weeks. For those of you who are not familiar with it, it’s a course that provides a biblical pattern and methodology for personal evangelism. It was developed by Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron (of Growing Pains & Left Behind fame) and uses the law to help people see their need for a Savior.
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Sanctification or Compromise:
Preparing for Battle or Coasting Into Defeat? |
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Are you pulling in your loose ends and preparing for battle or are you seeking terms with the Enemy?
We all grow weary and that’s why it’s imperative that we “put on the whole armor of God” and pull in all the loose ends of our life so that we don’t give the Enemy an opportunity.
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| "The Cross" Movie: Is This The Old Cross? |
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I just finished watching “The Cross” and I’m not sure what I feel. Maybe it’s just me, but I feel sort of numb and sad. It’s a weird mixture of emotions sort of like spaghetti with grape jelly sauce.
Is this the old cross?
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| A Call To Arms |
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2 Samuel 22:38,35,36 I pursued my enemies and destroyed them, and I did not turn back until they were consumed. He trains my hands for battle, so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze. You have also given me the shield of Your salvation, and Your help makes me great.
It has often been said that the best defense is a good offense. It has never been truer than today.
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Arthur Blessitt: “The Cross” movie
Please Finish Well, Brother |
| A movie has been made about Arthur Blessitt who physically carried a cross into every nation on the face of the earth. I have admired God’s work through him all of my Christian life. I have a great respect for him and I look forward to seeing the film. But I fear that the merchants of the “prosperity gospel” may be getting to him...
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| Naked Church - A New Low |
| This week I was drawn to the cover of one of our local magazines. The cover showed a naked man and woman with their backs to the camera and all of the sensitive parts covered with the blaring title “XXX Church – GETS NAKED” (I’m substituting XXX for the name of the church...I don’t want to give them any more publicity than I have to).
These sorts of caricatures of the church will continue and grow even more bizarre as we go further down the path of focusing on effective marketing instead of the integrity of God’s message.
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| Secret Missionaries Redux |
| Recently, I once again found myself grieved beyond words as I sat and listened to a missionary in an Islamic country who has no intention of ever directly preaching the gospel there make fun of people who do from the pulpit.
How did we ever get to the place where we support missionaries all over the world who never preach the gospel?
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| Israel / Gaza |
| Over the last few years, Israel has pursued the unbiblical policy of giving away parcels of the land that God had declared His own and which He had reserved for the Jews to the Palestinians in exchange for peace. The arrangement has basically been “we’ll give you a place to live and govern yourselves and we hope you’ll stop trying to drive us into the sea.” This “land for peace” policy has definitely failed.
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| STAND |
| Know this...if you’re suffering and overwhelmed you are not alone. Christians around the world are enduring attacks of unprecedented intensity. Satan knows that his time is short and he intends to destroy as many as possible before his time is at an end.
Secretly, every Christian I know today is reeling like a prize fighter in the last rounds of the most grueling match of his life. They’re bleeding and wounded and broken and can’t seem to catch their breath before the next devastating blow lands. They’re like a soldier who has fought one battle after another until it’s a struggle to simply put one foot in front of another. As they fight their way up the next hill they reach the top only to find themselves surrounded on all sides by a vast army with victory being a virtual impossibility.
But there is a real and living hope...
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Jim Pruitt's Interview on
Mornings with Lorri & Larry |
"A very dramatic and poignant story…a great book…a great ending… will certainly spark a lot of interest and a lot of controversy...
you had me hooked from the beginning..."
-Mornings with Lorri & Larry
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The Surrender of the West - Part 3
Death Knell of the Last Christian Nation |
| As of today, the United States of America is being led by Barack Obama, Henry Reid, and Nancy Pelosi. The American people have demanded change and now change has come, indeed. Beware of what you ask for…
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The Surrender of the West - Part 2
The Election and the Economy |
| The judgments of God continue as we experience a unprecedented global economic meltdown and the Presidential election is unlike any this nation has faced
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Lakeland Outpouring:
Following Signs Instead of the Truth |
| I have heard from several Christian brothers and sisters about how excited they are about revival having broken out in Lakeland and other cities visited by those from Lakeland. Beloved, it is with a grieved soul that I must warn you about the Lakeland Outpouring and Todd Bentley. This is a “different spirit” and not the Holy Spirit.
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