Christianity - Servants of God

In three days your soul is all you have..

2009-03-16T00:07:26Z

I went to my best friends birthday party while sitting a demon/devil looking thing came and sat next to me. It was asking me about relationships such questions as, Are you looking for a relationship or just a one night stand. Every answer I gave to this devil was no a relationship in my heart is something I have with myself and God I am satisfied with that. The devil asked why, I said it was because I have morals and live my life trying to avoid the 3 sins greed, lust, and envy. Soon after all the children entered the room and the devil vanished. Call it a hallucination or what ever but I see angles I hear things they say to me when no one is around.

Well that was 3 days ago, that night my best friends cousin told me how she felt about me i was able after 15 years to open up and share my true feelings to her. Thing is that night i heard a voice telling me to tell her everything will be okay. I told her and asked her to believe in what I said. Two days down the road she calls me up and we spend one night together. I have given my body and soul to God and in one night I allowed lust to overwhelm me. I committed a sin that night and now find myself praying every night for the Lord to forgive me as I seek redemption.

On the 3rd day I get a call from her and she begins to tell me that shes getting her daughter back which is something I never even knew. I didnt know that her ex husband even took custody of her daughter. Was this the message the angle gave to me as to everything will be okay? I opened myself up only to get sucker punched and sin in a way I never wanted. 19 years I was virgin and then I married we split and for 5 years I was once again a born again virgin. All in one night my chasity all that makes me pure and eternal was taken from me I just pray I dont lose my soul.

I find myself still praying for the world for that is how I care about others. I still wait for the day I can sacrifice my soul to save you all. This is why my soul is so important to me without my soul the destiny God has laid out for me can not be achieved and I fight daily to repel all that is evil in this world. Im praying tonight that she finds her eternal happiness in all that she does to better her life. But I know before I am done there will not be enough hail Mary's to save my soul. I ask for forgiveness for falling victim to the devils plan and keep hope still that one day I can follow Gods rules and do as is needed.

Hillsong United Conference tickets!!!

2008-08-13T05:54:48Z

I am selling my Hillsong United Conference tickets, for August 22-23 in Houston, Texas.

The rates on the website are getting high, but I'm willing to sell my two tickets for 150 altogether, and I won't charge you for shipping or anything like that. Please let me know if you're interested in attending the conference!

Thanks,
♥Hali

ATTENTION!!!

2007-09-03T16:51:32Z

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Living for Him,
Cristina

calvary @ 2007-06-11T16:06:00

2007-06-11T21:08:39Z

Suit to decide workplace 'hate speech'
By Julia Duin
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Published June 11, 2007

The words "natural family," "marriage" and "union of a man and a woman" can be punished as "hate speech" in government workplaces, according to a lawsuit that is being appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Briefs for Good News Employee Association vs. Hicks, which were filed June 5 with the nation's highest court, lists D.C. school board President Robert C. Bobb as one of two plaintiffs. The case originated five years ago in Oakland, Calif., during his tenure there as city manager.
The dispute began in January 2003, when the two Oakland employees created a subgroup at their workplace called the "Good News Employee Association." It was partly in response to a group of homosexual employees having formed their own group 10 months before and being given access to the city e-mail system. One e-mail, dated Oct. 11, 2002, invited city employees to participate in "National Coming-Out Day."
When several employees asked whether such a posting was legitimate city business, they got an e-mail from City Council member Danny Wan, reminding them that a "celebration of the gay/lesbian culture and movement" was part of the city's role to "celebrate diversity."
In response, the Good News employees posted an introductory flier on the employee bulletin board Jan. 3.
It said: "Preserve Our Workplace With Integrity: Good News Employee Association is a forum for people of faith to express their views on the contemporary issues of the day." It said it opposed "all views which seek to redefine the natural family and marriage," which it defined as "a union of a man and a woman, according to California state law."
Anyone who wanted to help preserve "integrity in the workplace" was invited to contact the two employees: Regina Rederford and Robin Christy.
A lesbian co-worker, Judith Jennings, spotted the flier and complained to the city attorney's office that it made her feel "targeted" and "excluded," according to a deposition. The flier was removed by a supervisor because it violated the city's anti-discrimination rules.
A U.S. District Court for Northern California ruling said the words "natural family" and "marriage" had "anti-homosexual import."
However, Miss Rederford was told she could announce the group's presence on the city's e-mail system if she removed "verbiage that could be offensive to gay people."
In late February 2003, Joyce Hicks, a city deputy executive director and the other defendant in the suit, sent out a memo to city employees. It cited recent incidents where "fliers were placed in public view which contained statements of a homophobic nature" and warned employees they could be fired for posting such material.
Miss Rederford and Miss Christy sued the city, claiming their First Amendment rights had been violated. According to court documents, employees had posted bulletin announcements on everything from terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden to local sporting events, yet those had not been removed.
The district court disagreed, saying the women had other venues in which to proclaim their message. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said employees' freedom of speech takes a back seat to employers' "legitimate administrative interests." They were allowed to submit a new flier, subject to "certain editorial constraints."
"This incredible and devastating ruling has had the practical effect of silencing hundreds, if not thousands, of City of Oakland employees who simply wish to talk about marriage and family values," said a statement from the Pro-Family Law Center in Temecula, Calif., which represents the plaintiffs.
"To the extent that this ruling has been shared by Oakland with other cities, there is a huge risk that these rulings are being treated as precedent by other cities across the nation," the statement continued.

source: http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20070610-111445-6957r.htm

It's been so long.

2007-06-11T00:08:50Z

Does anyone continue to view this? I hope so. I have been to another "Christian" community and found more arguing and slamming than anything else. I hope to come here and be refreshed once again.
I want to share something with you all. Something short and simple. And I will try to add more as the days go on. :)

The Unruly Houseguests

by Jeremy Archer

Issue #139 January/February 2004 Discipleship Journal

I'll admit that it seemed quite harmless at the time. However, looking back, it was probably a mistake.

No, let me be honest: it was a mistake.

It started so innocently. I really needed some rest and relaxation. There comes a time in everyone's day, week, month – whatever – when we need some down time, some time for fun. That's when I decided to invite them into my home for the evening.

I'll admit their behavior was a little questionable (but they weren't believers, so I felt I should make allowances). Nevertheless. I enjoyed their company and found them entertaining, so I saw little harm in continuing the relationships. As often happens, their friends and acquaintances also started to join us for the evening.

Many would say I shouldn't have associated with such people. However, those same individuals ignore the fact that Jesus associated with tax collectors and sinners; He came to “seek and save the lost.” After all, each of us has a responsibility to those within our sphere of influence. I must admit that affecting change wasn't my intention when I first invited them over, but it did later cross my mind. It soon became apparent, however, that the influencing was quite strictly one way: them influencing me.

Yet we continued our relationship. In fact, we spent more and more time together and became quite close. I say “we” because my family also started to join in our gatherings.

Sometimes our interactions included such ungodliness that it embarrasses me now to remember it, to remember that I let my own children, in my own house, be part of such things. It's regrettable that so many conversations revolved around drinking, violence, drugs, the occult, sex, theft, lying – you name it. But they were discussed in such an entertaining and justifying manner that I even began to question if they were really wrong.

My house guests' world view also became increasingly influential in our family. They didn't use fancy philosophical words – my friends weren't big on intellectual discussions – but their views on pragmatism, secularism, materialism, and hedonism seemed to grasp my family and me, Before long, I could identify those beliefs in us too.

As time passed, their behavior got worse – much worse. Drug use, obscene gestures, sexual innuendos, partying... more than once, people actually started having sex right in front of us! Of course, I usually put a stop to it before we could see anything. I wish the same were true for the colorful language; you can't stop that until after the damage is done. The more time I spent with them, the more their influence took root in my life. I became so insensitive to their sin that I failed to recognize it for what it was.

Finally, after much soul-searching, I realized it was time to ask my guests to leave. No longer would such behavior be tolerated in my home. I explained the decision to my family. Naturally, they were upset. I assured them that it was for their best and that such things have no benefit for the Christian's life. Hesitantly, they agreed.

Together we turned off the television.

Merry Christmas to you all.

2006-12-24T03:42:13Z

I plan to pray for all of humanity the next few days and I have been fasting for about 3 days and have 4 to go.

May your holidays be blessed with cheer, laughter, and smiles, Merry Christmas and have a great new year

-Maurice

A prayer

2006-09-25T14:33:18Z

Heavenly Father I pray to you to bring bread where bread is needed and water to those who thirst. I pray that each day those who do not understand what thy will be that the wisdom of the greatest divine lights shine down on them without passing judgment, Oh Lord.

I pray to you on my knees with my faith fully in my heart and the tears that fall from my face. I pray dear Lord to say That I would die for each soul on this earth and there after. These are troubling times Oh Lord and I ask as many has prayed before me that you our Lord will shine the greatest of divine lights down on us and show us all the way.

In the name of Father, amen

calvary @ 2006-09-09T19:25:00

2006-09-10T00:25:59Z

There is this family in A LOT of finanical trouble from around the New Orleans area, around the areas hardest hit by Hurricane Katrina. Please if you are able, click below and send a small donation.

This family has nothing, and is a really good family, husband, wife, and 9 year old. They barely have money to put food on the table and often go to bed hungry.

Treasure!

2006-08-13T18:01:31Z

Clay Balls

A man was exploring caves by the seashore. In one of the caves he found a canvas bag with a bunch of hardened clay balls. It was like someone had rolled clay balls and left them out in the sun to bake.

They didn't look like much, but they intrigued the man, so he took the bag out of the cave with him As he strolled along the beach, he would throw the clay balls one at a time out into the ocean as far as he could.

He
thought little about it, until he dropped one of the clay balls and it cracked open on a rock. Inside was a beautiful, precious stone!

Excited, the man started breaking open the remaining clay balls. Each contained a similar treasure. He found thousands of dollars worth of jewels in the 20 or so clay balls he had left. Then it struck him.

He had been on the beach a long time. He had thrown maybe 50 or 60 of the clay balls with their hidden treasure into the ocean waves. Instead of thousands of dollars in treasure, he could have taken home tens of thousands, but he had just thrown it away!

It's like that with people. We look at someone, maybe even ourselves, and we see the external clay vessel. It doesn't look like much from the outside. It isn't always beautiful or sparkling, so we discount
it.

We see that person as less important than someone more beautiful or stylish or well known or wealthy but we have not taken the time to find the treasure hidden inside that person.

There is a treasure in each and every one of us. If we take the time to get to know that person, and if we ask God to show us t hat person the way He sees them, then the clay begins to peel away and the brilliant gem begins to shine forth.

May we not come to the end of our lives and find out that we have thrown away a fortune in friendships because the gems were hidden in bits of clay. May we see the people in our world as God sees them.

I am so blessed by the gems of friendship I have with each of you. Thank you for looking beyond my clay vessel.

A religious influence around the world.

2006-08-01T20:53:53Z

Religion has great influence on world events, so many people do not realize how religion is factored in with the war in the Middle East to world events the can be found in the book of revaluations.

I must ask all of you if we are soldiers of God, then how will these world events affect your daily lives?

Have you all witnessed the miracles of influence in the Middle East?

So many may not believe in Jesus or believe in a false religion. How ever no one can deny that Religion has a great influence in the world in the here and now.

So I say watch the miracles the lord has placed on this earth. If we are to pray then let us pray for a victory over the demonic forces pushing their way to destruction.

"If I could save just one, then I would choose to save them all."

I need a prayer for a smaller life.

2006-07-15T06:09:46Z

My Kitten is near death I found her limp and not breathing so I put my mouth to hers and began to blow. She is breathing right now but I do not know if she will make the night.

Please pray for my Kitten Lady she has given me life and without her that life will fade with her.

I need some prayer.

2006-06-09T17:22:04Z

I need some prayer. On Tuesday (June 13th), I'll be going in for a semi-monor operation. I'm having some stents put in via a catheterization. What that means is, I'll be under anestesia while a cut is made in the top of my leg to access the main vein (de-oxygenated blood goes to the heart here). A tube will be inserted with the stent on the end of it. The tube will go all the way up into the branches of my pulmonary artery. Then they'll attemtp to put a few stents in. A stent is just a device that holds the artery open wider because of a narrowing.

Anyway it's supposed to increase blood flow to my lungs.

Even with minor operations, things can go wrong.

I'd be happy to recieve prayer for this procedure. Pray how you want, or how you think is best. I pray that God will be done and that my lungs might improve on their own.

LivePrayer.com: 22 April 2006

2006-04-22T13:00:39Z

Don't let anyone or anything steal your JOY! I realize that as many of you wake up and read this message today, you have allowed people or the circumstances in your life to steal your joy. DON'T LET ANYONE OR ANYTHING STEAL YOUR JOY!!! If you know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, you have the assurance that when this brief journey here is over you will be forever with the Lord. That fact alone is the reason you should always have joy.

Do you know how many people are waking up this morning who will die and spend eternity in hell because they have rejected Jesus Christ? Many of those people have been deceived into following a false religion, many have simply chosen to live their lives acting like God doesn't exist, and sadly, many simply don't care. Let me assure you that no matter how deeply someone believes in a false religion, how great the material possessions a person may have, without knowing Jesus Christ by faith there can be no real joy in this life.

People choose to live every day without Christ and deal with the trials and tribulations of life on their own. Deep down they know something is missing. Deep down they know there has to be more to this life. No matter how wonderful your family may be, no matter how much wealth you can amass, no matter how successful you may become, the fact is living your life without Christ leaves you empty and void of true joy.

This is a simple yet very profound message for you today. Don't let anyone or anyhting steal your joy. No matter how much someone you care about may hurt you, you can still have joy. No matter what someone you work with or go to school with does to you, you can still have joy. If you are fighting a health battle today, you can still have joy. If you are hurting financially, you can still have joy. If your marriage is in trouble, you can still have joy. If you need a job, you can still have joy. If you are battling an addiction, you can still have joy. DON'T LET ANY PERSON OR ANY CIRCUMSTANCE STEAL YOUR JOY!

I love you and care about you so much. I realize many of you are dealing with serious issues with people in your life today. I am fully aware that many of you are fighting great battles in your life today. The message that I want you to hear loud and clear is that no person or no circumstance can take away your joy. That joy comes from the promise Jesus gave His disciples and us just a few hours before His death. He said that in this world we would have trials and tribulations, but to be of good cheer, for HE HAS OVERCOME THIS WORLD.

That my friend is where our joy comes from. From that precious promise that no matter who or what may be going on in our life, because we know Jesus Christ by faith, we not only have the assurance of eternity with Him, but the promise of His strength, His peace, and HIS JOY during this brief journey! Because you know Jesus, you have the Holy Spirit that supplies you with God's power. Because you know Jesus, you have the peace that passes all human understanding. Because you know Jesus, you have unspeakable JOY!

I will be praying for you today. As a child of God, a follower of Jesus Christ, that joy is yours always. It is like if someone gives you a car and adds on a top of the line stereo system. If you don't play that stereo system it is YOUR FAULT. If you don't have the joy of the Lord in your life today, it is YOUR FAULT. For those who know Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior you should always have joy in your life. Don't ever let anyone or anything steal your joy!!!

In his love and service,
Your friend and brother in Christ,
Bill Keller

***If I can help you in any way you can contact me through my personal email at bkeller@liveprayer.com

***ARE YOU 100% CERTAIN WHERE YOU WILL SPEND ETERNITY? The fact is you will die one day. At that moment, you will either spend eternity with the Lord or be cast into everlasting darkness forever separated from God your creator. To know for certain you will be forever with Jesus, go to: http://www.liveprayer.com/bdy_salvatn.html

Three Minute Message: 15 March 2006

2006-03-15T10:35:46Z

"Instead you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that." James 4:15

The Apostle Paul was traveling from his last mission trip to Jerusalem. Two times he received prophecy that he would be bound in chains in Jerusalem. Two times people encouraged him to not go to Jerusalem. He went anyway. When He reached that holy city, he went to the holiest place of all -- the Temple -- where he fulfilled a vow he had previously made.

Then he was arrested, bound in chains and cast into prison. Why? Why did Paul not listen to the prophets? Why did he not stop somewhere else until the prophets said it was OK to proceed. Why didn't he return to Galatia, or Corinth, or . . . any where but Jerusalem?

Paul had learned a lesson. The Lord told Him to go to Jerusalem -- and so he would. The Lord told him he would go to Rome -- and so he did . . . from Jerusalem . . . in chains . . . with Rome picking up the travel expenses! But the prophets? Wasn't their word valid? Yes, they were right. Paul was bound in chains. But why didn't Paul stay away? Because God told him to go.

You see, Paul's lesson was that he was in the hands of God. Whatever God wanted, Paul wanted. Whatever God said, Paul did. If God said, "Go to Jerusalem." To Jerusalem he went. If God said, "You will be bound in chains." That didn't bother Paul. It had happened before. It would probably happen again. James says that we should not say "I will do this and that." (my paraphrase.) Instead he says, "If the Lord wills, we shall live and also do this or that." Note the difference . . . it's found in four little, single syllable words, "if the Lord wills . . ." If the Lord wills, I will become a millionaire. If the Lord wills, I will be a teacher. If the Lord wills, I will be healed. If the Lord wills, I will marry. If the Lord wills, I will . . . be bound in chains and cast into prison.

That was Paul's attitude. It should be ours. I fear that we think entirely too much of our selves and our ability. How often to we presume to tell God how to run our lives -- or the lives of others? What if His will is different? Is it any wonder that some of our prayers go unanswered? How can God answer our prayer if it is in direct opposition to His will? Why do we ever think that we know more than the God of the Universe -- the God of Creation? When God speaks, we need to respond with the words of "Jean Luke Piccard" Captain of the "USS Enterprise," "Make it so," Lord "Make it so,". Hallelujah, Amen.

calvary @ 2006-03-04T20:10:00

2006-03-05T02:19:34Z

February 21, 2006...i wished it was the last day of my life...
my dad gave me a hundred bucks...so i would go get checked up with the doctor...
i decided to use those a $100 dollars to buy pills.. all kinds of sleeping pills..extra strenght..
i was tired of all the pain i was having to take...
i felt i let the Lord down when my marriage promise was broken by him
I felt defeated...destroyed
I went to Baylor Garland
I took about 80 pills around 12:30
Waited......about 30 minutes in the car @ 1:00
then I notice I start getting very sleepy
i decided to go in to the ER
i signed in
i felt dizzy
they call me to take my vital signs
the lady said "OMG!" called someone else
in about a minute
a doctor came with a wheel chair
took me
sat me in a room
asked me what was wrong i said "I feel dizzy and very sleepy"
they took me in to another room
I saw a black shadow that had been following me for the past two weeks
this time he said "this time you are mine"
he moved in the room all around me
i started to feel scared
then a doctor comes in
starts asking me questions
then i hear him shouting
we are loosing this patient
i tought it was all over
i lost myself
i dont know what happened for the rest of the time
i woke up on February 23, 2005 aound 3:00 pm
I hear a doctor
"the ambulance will be hear to pick her up at 5:00"
they took me to a mental hospital
I was let out on Friday March 3,2005
I felt like i was crazy
they kept asking me if i was still feeling suicidal...
i lied, to get out
i felt like i was in jail in there
i hated it there

pray for me please

calvary @ 2006-02-20T08:20:00

2006-02-20T14:30:00Z

I CANT CONTINUE...
I FEEL DEAD ALIVE...
IF GOD COULD TAKE ME WITH HIM
I DONT WANNA STAY IN THIS WORLD ANYLONGER
I AM DYING
I WANT TO DIE...
I REFUSE TO TAKE ANY MORE PAIN....
I LOVE HIM TO MUCH
AND I CAN NOT SEE HIM LEAVE ME
PLEASE

JESUS IF YOU LOVE ME TAKE ME

I HAVE NO MORE STRENGHT...
I HAVE NO MORE WILL FOR LIFE..
I FEEL DEFEATED....
I AM ALL DONE...I HAD MORE THAN ENOUGHT
LIFE HAS ONLY OFFERED ME SADNESS...DISSAPOINTMENT...PAIN
MY GIRLS ARE ALL I HAVE GOOD
AND JESUS

MY LORD JESUS

calvary @ 2006-02-17T12:47:00

2006-02-17T18:56:47Z

HI MY NAME IS RACHEL
I AM 23.... AND STAY IN GARLAND, TEXAS

I NEED FRIENDS..
TRUE FRIENDS ONLY
NOT THE ONES THAT COME THAT DECIDE THEY DONT WANNA BE FRIENDS ANYMORE AND LEAVE YOU.
I NEED FRIENS THAT ARE WILLING TO BE THERE IN GOOD TIMES AND BAD TIMES.
I WANT LASTING FRIENDS
NOT DISPOSABLE FRIENDS
I WANT TO KNOW THAT MY FRIENDSHIP IS APPRECIATED..

IF YOU THINK YOU ARE MATURE....
YOU LIKE LASTING FRIENDS
YOU LIKE TO BE A FRIEND IN THE GOOD AND BAD TIMES
I AM HERE

GOD BLESS YOU ALL

What is Forgiveness?

2006-02-09T11:03:11Z

With so much hate in the world right now I need to know can we find a way to forgive those who would use any God's name in vain? Yes I am a Mormon but I still read the holy bible, and have given myself to God. With Muslims wanting death to so many who would make fun of or make bad cartoons of Islam. I want to know does the Koran teach Forgiveness or Murder? I know the answer to that, what would God say would he pray for us, because I know I have been.

Will you all pray or watch the world burn in sin?

words

2006-01-12T18:08:59Z

I am working on an art project and I need some help – I am looking for words, phrases, song lyrics, verses, any sort of verbal picture of God ... Please comment with any that you like, if it is more than just a word or two please tell me where it is from.

Thanks so much!

Tongues

2005-12-16T00:55:58Z

I've been in this community for while now, but this is my first time posting. I have reason to.

I want to share what happened to me today after school at a prayer meeting in room 111. A group of us at the high school often meet there for Bible Study and Worship. Today was completely...spiritual. That's the best word I can think of to describe it. I'll put it under a cut for convenience sake.

Ok, so I'm a fifteen year old Sophmore girl who's Christian and trying to get deeper into the faith. With all the temptation, especially directed towards my age group, it's not easy. That's why this small collection of kids at Bible Study are so important to me. We are like a chain in our school, adding other to it, fixing the ones that have broken. We're a support group.

Well, today we got together for a short prayer meeting. None of us expected it to go where it did. We started off holding hands in a circle, popcorn praying. Some of us began singing to the background worship music that was playing. I don't remember much, just singing and holding hands with my best friend Kara and a boy from the group, Caleb. Caleb's brother and pres. of our little band, Josh, had brought his pastor from his church to worship with us. Two youth pastors had also come. The main pastor (Pastor Darrell, P. Diddy is his nickname ^_^) started praying individually to people, placing his hands upon them and anointing them.

Caleb had switched places with my other friend, Talisha, (about everyone was dispersing and going to other people to pray). Talisha and Kara started singing. I got really dizzy, my heart started pounding, and I began shaking. I closed my eyes really tight and pretty much black out. I felt someone take my arms gently, talking to me. It was Pastor Darrell. He asked me something really strange. He asked if I had bad dreams. I replied him with a yes and he starts to pray for my friends and myself. I black out again.

I felt Kara squeezing my hand, so I looked up at her. She had a questioning smile on her face. She asks me something odder than what the pastor did.

"When did you learn to speak French?"

True, I had been taking french for two years, but I didn't know nearly enough to try and speak it. Besides, I don't even remember saying anything to begin with. She told me I had been speaking for ten minutes, but she couldn't understand me. I look across the room where Pastor Darrell is anointing Josh (whom falls to the ground, praying: many were doing this) and he eyed me for a minute, then motions for me to come. I asked him something about what Kara had told me. He replied in a nonchalant tone, "You were speaking in Tongues, it's alright."

I was confused...and a bit scared. I go over to him and he positions the two youth pastors and Josh around me. Then he takes my hands. I go though the whole dizzy thing again, but I did hear him mention something of freedom. I later found out from Kara's boyfriend, Josh (another Josh), that immediately after Pastor Darrell touched me, I started speaking a different language. Everyone even said I almost fell over, but never stopped talking. Josh also said that when I was talking, he felt something pushing him. Like the words were forcing him back. When I opened my eyes again, he was on the ground praying.

Pastor Darrell asked me how I felt. I was dizzy and confused...but mostly dizzy. He told me to go sit down with Kara at a desk. I sat on the seat, she sat on the desk. She hugged me and I thought I heard her crying. Talisha was sitting on the floor next to us, watching me and smiling.

After all was said and done, everyone was talking about what happened, what they felt, what they did, and what happened to me. I couldn't remember it. Josh, the president of our club (it's not an official club b/c of the separation of state and church), said I wasn't meant to remember, that you shouldn't know what your saying.

I'm not scared of it now, but I'm still a bit shaken. That was our most spiritual meeting ever with my speaking Tongues and other breaking out into deep prayer and song. It was wonderful.

It's a bit long, but that's what happened. I have never even seen someone speak Tongues, so it was a bit hard for me to grasp the concept of it at first. When I blacked out, I could still feel things. I felt almost the presence of the people around me without touching them. I could hear my own thoughts and what I wanted to pray for or say, but I had no idea I was physically saying anything. My faith has nearly doubled just in this one day. I feel...joy now. I want more of it. I somehow just understand things that I didn't before...it's amazing what the Lord can do for you in the course of a day.

Love, Rachel

That's Our King

2005-12-12T21:50:04Z

This is the most awesome video clip I have ever seen. Someone shared it with me and I would like to pass it on. Click on the link and scroll down to "That's My King". Click on view...You will be beautifully blessed.

http://www.imagevine.com/l-videoclips-top.aspx

LivePrayer.com: 11 November 2005

2005-11-11T10:55:57Z

Bringing Christ to the masses through the secular media. Fifty years ago, if you wanted to preach the Gospel on TV or radio, if you wanted to create Christian music, if you wanted to write a Christian book, if you wanted to make a film with a Christian message, you did so through the existing media outlets of the day that everyone else used. There was no such thing as Christian TV or radio, Christian record labels, Christian publishers, Christian film companies. There was simply the existing media vehicles that everyone used to reach the people of the day.

Sadly, over these past 50 years we have created a Christian subculture of TV stations and networks, radio stations and networks, record labels, publishers, and film studios. Regardless of whether their stated goals are, the reality is, those in the Christian subculture market to and target people who are already Christians. Preaching to the choir has become a several billion dollar a year industry and the allure of big money has caused those who have the message this lost and hurting world desperately needs to simply package, market, and sell that message to those who already are part of the family of God.

The effect of this has been that the "salt" and the "light" has been removed from the marketplace, and we have left the lost masses to satan. It is like what sadly happens in many major metropolitan areas where a church that has been in the inner city for decades, decides to move to the suburbs where more affluent people live, build a new million dollar building, and abandon the very people that need that church the most. The void left by that church leaving is quickly filled by the drug dealers, the pimps, the scam artists, and those who can now operate without any competition from God to destroy the lives of the people in that area.

We have done the same thing over these past 50 years by abandoning the secular media to create our own Christian media fiefdoms, so all that the hurting and lost masses get 24/7 are the lies of satan. We left secular TV that is now overrun by "Desperate Housewives," MTV, and programming that promotes perverted lifestyles, sexual sin, and mocks God, Jesus and the Bible! We left secular radio that is now taken over by Howard Stern and music of every kind that glorifies a people in complete rebellion to God and His Word.

We left the secular record labels to the artists of the world, but amazingly in recent years those same secular labels have now bought most of the major Christian labels so that they could make the hundreds of millions of dollars to be gained by selling Christian music to other Christians. We left the secular book and magazine publishers so that now all they produce are books and magazines that promote the world's view of living in rebellion to God and the Truth. Major Hollywood movie studios that used to turn out wonderful family-friendly movies in addition to Biblical classics like the "Ten Commandments" and "Jesus of Nazareth" to name a few, now mostly turn out violent, sex-laced movies that glorify every sin known to man.

My friend, unless I am not reading my Bible correctly, the Great Commission doesn't say to "separate yourself from the world and preach to each other," but it says to go out into the world and make disciples of ALL men! Jesus didn't take His disciples and keep to themselves, He went TO the people of His day who were hurting and looking for hope and sent His disciples out to spread the Good News. Paul didn't help start churches and then sit back and simply preach to those who were saved, but he continued to go out and preach the Gospel to the lost of the world of his day.

Jesus said, "Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven." (Matthew 5:14-16 KJV)

Now more than ever this world needs to hear the TRUTH of God's Word. Now more than ever this world needs the people of God to be the "salt" and "light" God has called us to be. Now more than ever this lost and hurting world needs the one and only answer there is...JESUS CHRIST! If we, the people who know Christ as our Savior won't take His hope and love to this world that needs Him so desperately, WHO WILL???

I love you and care about you so much. I want to encourage you today in your daily life to be that "salt" and "light" God has called you to be. It is no accident you live where you do, work or go to school where you do, recreate where you do, shop where you do, or any of your other activities during the course of the day. God is always bringing people into your life that are hurting and lost, who are simply looking for hope. These are people who are never going to church, never going to read a Bible, never going to watch Christian TV, listen to Christian radio or music, or read Christian books or magazines. YOU ARE THEIR ONLY CONNECTION TO GOD!

I want to challenge you that God has placed you where you are for this season for a PURPOSE. Part of that purpose is to be a witness for Him. Never forget that I tell you often your greatest witness for the Lord is not what you say, but how you live your life each day. People notice! You are His ambassador. As a son or daughter of the Lord, God has commanded you to share your faith in Christ with those you meet along your journey. Your most effective witness to others will always be what Jesus has done in your life. People are hungry for the Truth, looking for answers, searching for hope. YOU possess the truth they want, have the answers they seek, and can
give them the hope they need. I pray that you will boldly proclaim that Jesus Christ is "the way, the truth and the life" and that nobody comes to the Father except through Him!

Please be praying with me for God to raise up men and women that are not ashamed of the Gospel, that have a vision to reach the lost and hurting masses with the message of Christ. Men and women of God who instead of simply becoming part of the current Christian subculture that preaches to the choir, will have a hunger to take the message of Christ through the same secular media vehicles the world uses every day to lie to people and destroy their lives.

We need more people who will follow the lead of Liveprayer and take the message of Christ to the masses on secular TV. Not the same old recycled preaching/teaching programs, but programming that will attract a secular audience and bring them the Truth of God's Word and lead people to faith in Christ. We need Christian music artists who will create music that can reach the masses through secular radio stations and record labels. We need authors who will write for a secular audience that can be published by the major publishing houses of the day and marketed to the world at large. We need movie makers that will use Hollywood as a vehicle to create God-honoring films that can bring Truth and the hope of Christ into people's lives.

Will it be easy? NO WAY! Since we have abandoned the secular media for so many decades now, getting back in will be very difficult. BUT NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR GOD! I'm on major secular TV stations like WPLG-ABC10 in Miami "live" for an hour 5 nights a week proclaiming the Truth of God's Word and the hope and love of Christ without compromise, the very same station garbage like "Desperate Housewives" is on! So it can be done. There are wonderful Christian musicians that are taking their music that glorifies Christ and the Word directly to the lost and hurting. Great authors who are writing. books that can compete with any of the secular books on the market. People like my friend Ted Baehr of Movieguide that are working tirelessly to help get great movies made and distributed through the same channels Hollywood is currently using.

IT CAN BE DONE, IT MUST BE DONE BECAUSE THIS IS WHAT GOD HAS CALLED US TO DO!

For too long we have abandoned our culture, have taken the Truth out of the marketplace because it was more comfortable and profitable to tell and sell the Truth to those who already knew it. That is NOT Biblical. As we are in the last days, now more than ever we are living in a world that desperately needs that Truth, desperately needs the hope that is only found in Jesus Christ. May we rise up and use the secular media that is in place to reach the masses worldwide and bring those lost and hurting masses the Truth found in God's Word and everlasting life through faith in Jesus Christ!

In His love and service,
Your friend and brother in Christ,
Bill Keller

***If I can help you in any way you can contact me through my personal email at bkeller@liveprayer.com

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HUMANISM vs CHRISTIANITY--YOU HAVE TO READ THIS!!!

2005-11-07T08:27:28Z

Jdges 17:10-11:
"And there was a young man out of Bethlehem-judah of the family of Judah, and he was a Levite. And he stayed there. And the man went out of the city from Bethlehem-judah to live where he could find a place. And he came to Mount Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he journeyed. And Micah said to him, 'Live with me and be a father and a priest to me, and I will give you ten shekels of silver by the year, and a suit of clothes, and your food.' And the Levite went in. And the Levite was content to live with the man, and the young man was to him as one of his sons."

It might seem a little long, but you guys HAVE to read this!!! This is an amazing sermon by Paris Redihead, called "Ten Shekels and a Shirt." I've taken some parts of it. If you want to listen to it, go to sermonindex.net.
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Would I be out of line in order if I were to talk to you for a little while about utilitarian religion?
An expedient Christianity?
And the question that you are going to ask yourself is: “Is God an end or is He a means?”
You have to decide very early in your Christian life whether you are viewing God as an end or a means.

The philosophy of the day became humanism. And you can define humanism this way: Humanism, is a philosophical statement that declares the end of all being is the happiness of man. The reason for existence is man's happiness. Now according to humanism, salvation is simply a matter of getting all the happiness you can out of life.

This group of my people the fundamentalists that say:
"We believe in the inspiration of the Bible"
"We believe in the deity of Jesus Christ"
"We believe in hell, we believe in Heaven"
"We believe in the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ"

And remember the atmosphere is that of humanism.
Humanism says the chief end of being is the happiness of man. And so it wasn't long until we had this; the fundamentalists knew each other because they said 'We believe these things.' They were men for the most part that had met God. But you see it wasn't long until having said 'these are the things that establish us as fundamentalists', the second generation said, "This is how we become a fundamentalist:

"Believe in the inspiration of the Bible."
"Believe in the deity of Christ."
"Believe in His death, burial, and resurrection,
and thereby become a fundamentalist."

And so it wasn't long until it got to our generation where the whole plan of salvation was to give intellectual assent to a few statements of doctrine.
And a person was considered a Christian because he could say "Uh-huh" at 4 or 5 places that he was asked to. And if he knew where to say "Uh-huh," someone would pat him on the back, shake his hand, smile broadly, and say, "Brother, you're saved."

And so it had gotten down to the place where salvation was nothing more than an assent to a scheme or a formula. And the end of this salvation was the happiness of man, because humanism has penetrated. And so if you were to analyze the fundamentalism in contrast to liberalism of a hundred years ago, as it developed, it’d be like this:

The liberal says the end of religion is to make man happy while he's alive.
And the fundamentalist says the end of religion is to make man happy when he dies.

Until we find it something like this;
"Accept Jesus so you can go to Heaven. You don't want to go to that old, filthy, nasty, burning hell when there's a beautiful Heaven up there! Now come to Jesus so that you can go to Heaven."
And the appeal could be as much to selfishness as a couple of men sitting in a coffee shop deciding they are going to rob a bank to get something for nothing.

It becomes so subtle ... it goes everywhere. What is it?
In essence it is this: that this philosophical postulate at the end of all being is the happiness of man has been...covered over with evangelical terms and Biblical doctrine until God reigns in Heaven for the happiness of man, Jesus Christ was incarnate for the happiness of man, all the Angels exist for the happiness of man... Everything is for the happiness of man! And I submit to you that this is un-Christian!

Christianity says, "The end of all being is the glory of God."
Humanism says, "The end of all being is the happiness of man." This is the betrayal of the ages!! And it's the betrayal in which we live, and I don't see how God can revive us!
Until we come back to Christianity.

Isn't man happy?
And did God intend to make you happy? But as a byproduct, and not a prime product.

Now I ask you, what is the philosophy of mission? What is the philosophy of evangelism? What is the philosophy of a Christian? If you’ll ask me why I went to Africa, I’ll tell you I went primarily, to improve on the justice of God. I didn’t think it was right for anybody to go to hell without a chance to be saved. And so I went to give poor sinners a chance to go to Heaven.

No, I hadn’t put it in so many words. But if you’ll analyze what I just told you, do you know what it is? It’s humanism. But I was simply using the provisions of Jesus Christ as a means to improve upon human conditions of suffering and misery.

And when I got to Africa, I discovered that they weren’t poor, ignorant, little heathen running around in the woods, waiting for, looking for someone to tell them how to go to Heaven. They were monsters of iniquity!! They were living in utter and total defiance, of far more knowledge of God than I ever dreamed they had. They deserved hell, because they utterly refused to walk in the light of their conscience, and the light of the law written upon their heart, and the testimony of nature, and the truth they knew.

And when I found that out, I assure you, I was so angry with God that on one occasion in prayer, I told him that it was a mighty, little thing He’d done, sending me out there to reach these people that were waiting to be told how to go to Heaven. When I got there I found out they knew about Heaven and didn’t wanna go there. And they loved their sin and wanted to stay in it. I went out there motivated by humanism. I’d seen pictures of lepers. I’d seen pictures of ulcers. I’d see pictures of native funerals. And I didn’t want my fellow human beings to suffer in hell eternally, after such a miserable existence on earth. But it was there in Africa that God began to tear through the overlay of this humanism.

And it was that day in my bedroom, with the door locked, that I wrestled with God. For here was I, coming to grips with the fact that the people I thought were ignorant and wanted to know how to go to Heaven, and were saying “someone come and teach us” actually didn’t wanna take time to talk with me or anybody else. They had no interest in the bible and no interest in Christ. And they loved their sin and wanted to continue in it. And I was to the place at that time where I felt the whole thing was a sham and a mockery and I’d been sold a bill of goods. And I wanted to come home.

And there alone in my bedroom as I faced God honestly with what my heart felt, it seemed to me I heard Him say, “Yes, will not the Judge of all the earth do right? The heathen are lost and they’re going to go to hell--not because they haven’t heard the gospel; they’re going to go to hell because they are sinners who loved... their...sin...and because they deserved hell. But, I didn’t send you out there for them. I didn't send you out there for their sakes..."

And I heard as clearly as I’ve ever heard, though it wasn’t with physical voice but it was the echo of truth of the ages finding its way into an open heart. I heard God say to my heart that day something like this:

“I didn’t send you to Africa for the sake of the heathen. I sent you to Africa for My sake. They deserved hell but I love them, and I endured the agonies of hell for them!! I didn’t send you out there for them. I sent you out there for Me!! Do I not deserve the reward of My suffering? Don't I deserve those for whom I died?”

And it reversed it all, it changed it all and righted it all! And I wasn't any longer working for my cup and ten shekels and a shirt...but I was serving the living God!

Why did you repent? I’d like to see some people repent on biblical terms again. You see the difference? You see the difference? The difference is here’s somebody trembling because he’s gonna be hurt in hell. And he has no sense of the enormity of his guilt, and no sense of the enormity of his crimes, and no sense of his insult against Deity! He’s only trembling because his skin is about to be singed.

And this is the difference between 20th century preaching and the preaching of John Wesley. Wesley was a preacher of righteousness that exalted the holiness of God. And when he would stand there with the two to three-hour sermons that he was accustomed to deliver in the open air and he would exalt the holiness of God, and the law of God, and the righteousness of God, and the justice of God, and the wisdom of His requirements, and the justice of His wrath, and His anger. and then he would turn to sinners and tell them of the enormity of their crimes and their open rebellion and the treason and their anarchy. The power of God would so descend upon the company that on one occasion it is reliably reported that when the people dispersed, there were 1,800 people lying on the ground utterly unconscious because they’d had a revelation of the holiness of God and in the light of that, they’d seen the enormity of their sin. And God had so penetrated their minds and hearts that they had fallen to the ground.

It wasn’t trying to convince a good man that he was in trouble with a bad God. But that it was to convince bad men that they deserved the wrath and anger of a good God.

I have talked with people that have no assurance of sins forgiven. They wanna feel saved before they’re willing to commit themselves to Christ. But I believe that the only ones whom God actually witnesses by His Spirit are born of Him, are the people who, whether they say it or not, that come to Jesus Christ and say something like this: “Lord Jesus, I’m gonna obey You and love You and serve You and do what You want me to do as long as I live even if I go to hell at the end of the road simply because You are worthy to be loved, obeyed and served. And I’m not trying to make a deal with You.”

But oh I know so many people that are trying to know the fullness of God, so that they can use God. A young preacher came to me down in West Virginia, Huntington, West Virginia. And he said “Brother Reidhead, I’ve got a great church. We’ve got a wonderful Sunday school program...got a radio ministry...growing. But I feel a personal need and a personal lack, I need to be baptized of the Holy Ghost, I need to be filled with the Spirit, and someone told me God done something for you. And I wanted you to help me.”

I looked at the fellow and you know what he looked like? Me. Just looked like me. I just saw in him everything that was in me. You thought I was going to say "me before." No, listen to your heart. If you’ve ever seen yourself you’ll know that you’re never gonna be anything else than you were. For in me in my flesh, there is no good thing. But like me.

He's like a fellow driving up in a big Cadillac you know, to someone standing at a filling station saying “Fill her up, Bud, with the highest octane you got.” Well, that’s the way it looked; he wanted power for his program. And God is not going to be a means to anyone’s end.

I said, “I’m awfully sorry, I don’t think I can help you." He said, “Why?” "I don’t think you’re ready. Well suppose, you consider yourself coming up with a Cadillac, you’ve talked about your program, you’ve talked about your radio, you’ve talked about your Sunday school and church. Very good. You’ve done wonderfully well without the power of the Holy Spirit.” That’s what the Chinese Christian said, you know, when he got back to China. “What impressed you most about America?” He said, “The great things Americans can accomplish without God.” And he’d accomplished a great deal, admittedly, without God. And now he wanted something--power, to accomplish his end even further. I said “No......No. You're sitting behind the wheel and you’re saying to God, 'Give me power so I can go.' You won't work, you gotta slide over." But I knew that rascal, 'cause I knew me. I said, “No it’ll never do. You gotta get in the back seat.” And I could see him leaning over and grabbing the wheel. “No,” I said. “It’ll never do in the back seat.” I said “Before God’ll do anything for you, you know what you gotta do?” And he said, “What?” I said, “You gotta get out of the car, take the keys around, open up the trunk lid, hand the keys to the Lord Jesus, get inside the trunk, slam the lid down, whisper through the keyhole, ‘Lord, look, fill her up with anything You want and You drive, it’s up to You from now on.’”

That’s why so many people, you know, do not enter into the fullness of Christ; because they want to become a Levite with ten shekels and a shirt. They’ve been serving Micah but they think if they had the power of the Holy Ghost they could serve the tribe of Dan. It will never work, never work. There’s only one reason for God meeting you, and that’s to bring you to the place where, in repentance.

You’ve been pardoned for His glory, and in victory, you’ve been brought to the place of death that He might reign and in His fullness Jesus Christ is able to live and walk in you. And your attitude is the attitude of the Lord Himself, who said, “I could do nothing of Myself." I can’t speak of myself. I don’t make plans for myself. My only reason for being is the glory of God in Jesus Christ.

If I were to say to you: “Come, to be saved so you can go to Heaven; Come to the cross so that you can have joy and victory. Come for the fullness of the Spirit so that you can be satisfied,” I’d be falling into the trap of humanism.

I’m going to say to you, dear friend, if you are out here without Christ, you come to Jesus Christ and serve Him as long as you live whether you go to hell at the end of the way because He’s worthy. I say to you, Christian friend, you come to the cross and join Him in union and death and enter into all the meaning of death to self, in order that He can have glory. I say to you, dear Christian, if you do not know the fullness of the Holy Ghost, come and present your body a living sacrifice and let Him fill you so that He can have the purpose for His coming fulfilled in you and get glory through your life.

It’s not what you’re going to get out of God. It’s what He is going to get out of you. Let’s be done once and for all with utilitarian Christianity that makes God a means, instead of the glorious end that He is. Let’s resign. Let’s tell Micah we’re through. We’re no longer gonna be as priests serving for ten shekels and a shirt. Let’s tell the tribe of Dan we’re through. And let’s come and cast ourselves at the feet of the nail-pierced Son of God and tell Him that we’re gonna obey Him, and love Him and serve Him as long as we live because He is worthy.

Two young Moravians heard of an island in the West Indies, where an atheist British owner had 2,000 to 3,000 slaves. And the owner had said, “No preacher, no clergyman will ever stay on this island. If he’s shipwrecked, we’ll keep him in a separate house until he has to leave but he’s never gonna talk to any of us about God. I’m through with all that nonsense.”
Three thousand slaves from the jungles of Africa brought to an island in the Atlantic and there to live and die without hearing of Christ.
Two young Moravians heard about it. They sold themselves to the British planter then used the money they received from the sale, for he paid no more than he would for any slave, to pay their passage out to his island for he wouldn’t even transport them.And as the ship left the river at Hamburg, left it's pier at the river at Hamburg and was going out to the North Sea, carried with the tide. The Moravians had come from Herrnhut to see these two lads off, in their early twenties, never to return again. For this wasn’t a four-year term, they’d sold themselves into lifetime of slavery. Simply that as slaves they could be as Christians where these others were.

The families were there weeping, for they knew they’d never see them again. And they wondered why they’re going and questioned the wisdom of it. And as the gap widened and the houses had been cast off and were being curled up there on the pier...and the young boys saw the widening gap, one lad, with his arm linked through the arm of his fellow, raised his hand and shouted across the gap the last words that were heard from them.

They were these:

“May the Lamb that was slain receive the reward of His suffering.”

And this became the call of Moravian missions. And this is the only reason for being: that the Lamb that was slain may receive the

reward of His suffering.
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AMEN TO THAT!!!!!!

LivePrayer.com: 6 November 2005

2005-11-06T12:24:01Z

***IN OCTOBER 2004, actor Christopher Reeve died. His death led me to write one of the most powerful Devotionals I have written in over 6 years on knowing Christ as your Savior by faith and that HE is the only way to Heaven. The brutal Biblical truth that there is only ONE WAY to be saved, dispelling the common lie that "there are many roads to Heaven," upset many people. I am re-airing this message today because the eternal souls of people are at stake. Those who reject Christ for whatever reasons will spend all of eternity separated from God their Creator in a place that was created for satan and his fallen angels, not man. Please forward this important message to everyone that you know who is not saved, regardless of how upset they may be with you since it could be the difference in someone you know spending eternity in Heaven, or in Hell.

"As a kid, religion seemed to be a bit scary, that you were kind of guilty while going into church. And it sort of sometimes made you feel bad. But...I have become a Unitarian. And we embrace that because it's all inclusive and it's about the goodness in people. That God, you know, loves us and that he assumes that we are good. And also it just assumes that we have a moral compass inside us. And we kind of know what's right." "Clearly, the spirit and body are two different things. And beyond that, I'm still searching for the meaning of it all." Christopher Reeve from "What Hollywood Believes" by Ray Comfort

Is Superman in Hell? Sadly, actor Christopher Reeve died in October of 2004 at the age of 52 of complications from an infection caused by a bedsore. Famous for his role in the Superman movies, Reeve will be remembered for his courage and desire to walk again after a devastating horse riding accident left him a quadriplegic nine years ago. He also became a driving force for spinal cord research, including a strong advocate for stem cell research. The purpose of this Devotional today is NOT to deal with that issue, since it is not even debatable. Killing a life that came from God is never an option no matter how noble the cause may be, the ends never justify the means.

Our prayers continue to be with Christopher Reeve's wife, children, and family in their loss. I pray that those in his family who know Christ as their Savior will find His comfort, and those who do not may have their hearts opened to Christ's love. The question I want to pose today is a legitimate one and one that needs to be discussed since death is a very real part of our life, and something each person reading these words today will experience.

The Bible clearly tells us that tomorrow is promised to none of us. The fact is, the moment we take our last breath we will stand before God. At that instant, there is only one thing that will matter and that is whether you have accepted Jesus Christ into your heart and life by faith. At that moment, those who have accepted Him will be forever with God their Creator, those who have rejected Him will be forever separated from God their Creator. It is impossible for us with our finite minds to even begin to comprehend the glory of Heaven, being with God our Creator for eternity. Likewise, it is impossible for us to even begin to imagine the horrors of Hell, being separated from God our Creator for eternity.

HELL IS NOT A BAD VACATION, IT IS ETERNAL SEPARATION FROM GOD YOUR CREATOR AND THERE ARE NO WORDS THAT COULD EVER DESCRIBE THAT HORROR!!!

The Bible, which is our final authority in ALL matters is very clear on death. It is final. There is no such thing as reincarnation, we are not coming back as a petunia. We don't die and go to some special place where people can pray us into Heaven over time. The moment we die our body is no longer of any use and our soul lives on for eternity, either forever with God, or forever separated from Him. That eternal destination is determined by only ONE THING, our relationship with Jesus Christ.

Being a member of a certain church CANNOT save you. Being baptized as a baby CANNOT save you. The faith of your parents CANNOT save you. Good works CANNOT save you. A pastor or priest simply praying over you while you are dying CANNOT save you. The ONLY THING that can save you is putting your faith in Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior. It is a choice, a conscious choice, that YOU and YOU ALONE have to make BEFORE you die.

Sadly, based on his own words, Christopher Reeve rejected Jesus Christ and bought into a great lie from the pits of hell that "all good people will go to Heaven." That lie is clearly exposed by God's Word since we are told point blank that "there are no good people, no not one." The Bible also tells us that "all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." As wonderful as the lie the Unitarian Church that Reeve and millions of others have bought into sounds, it conveniently leaves out one important thing....SIN. You see my friend, it is our SIN that separates us from a Holy and Righteous God, and why only faith in Jesus Christ, who paid for our sins can allow us to be reconciled to God.

I am sure Christopher Reeve did many good works throughout his life. However, the Bible tells us in Ephesians 2:8,9 that good works will not save you. No doubt a man as well traveled as Reeve had to come across many people over the years that shared with him that faith in Jesus Christ is the only way to Heaven. Only God knows our heart, and only God knows if at some point at the very end of his life Christopher made a commitment to Christ. But let me reiterate, as great of a life as he had, as loved as he was, it all meant nothing the moment he died. ***If Christopher Reeve died without confessing Jesus Christ as his personal Lord and Savior, he is lost for eternity and in Hell!

I have no doubt that somewhere in the world, within a few minutes of the passing of Christopher Reeve, a man that had accepted Jesus Christ as his Savior also died. This man was not known by the world, he did not have great wealth, but death is the great equalizer. If Reeve died without Christ, this man that was known and loved by the world, this man that had all the wealth this world could offer, was instantly cast into eternal darkness. At the same time, the man who DID know Jesus, who had no fame or fortune in this life, was instantly ushered into the presence of Almighty God for eternity. "What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, but lose his soul?" (Luke 16:19-31)

I love you and care about you so much. Being a famous person in this life does NOT guarantee you anything when this brief journey is over. Each person is responsible for their own eternal destination by their choice in regard to Jesus Christ. You see, it was Jesus that died on a cross 2,000 years ago for your sins and mine. That is why ONLY faith in Jesus can save you.

If right now, this very moment, you do not have the assurance that when your life is over, you will be forever with God, the Bible says that TODAY is the day of salvation. You never have to doubt or wonder again, Bow your head right now, ask God to open your heart, and read the words at this following link: www.liveprayer.com/bdy_salvatn.html . I will be praying for you as you make the most important decision that you will make in this life, where you will spend eternity.

In His love and service,
Your friend and brother in Christ,
Bill Keller

***If I can help you in any way you can contact me through my personal email at bkeller@liveprayer.com

***ARE YOU 100% CERTAIN WHERE YOU WILL SPEND ETERNITY? The fact is you will die one day. At that moment, you will either spend eternity with the Lord or be cast into everlasting darkness forever separated from God your creator. To know for certain you will be forever with Jesus, go to: http://www.liveprayer.com/bdy_salvatn.html

calvary @ 2005-11-01T22:23:00

2005-11-02T03:22:46Z

Does anyone know of a calvary chapel in/near Matthews,North Carolina? If you do please comment :)