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Celebrity Christianity Crashes

More than ever genuine believers and the genuine church of Jesus Christ need to exercise discernment. Do not forget the sober, dire, and heart-breaking warning given in Matthew 7:21-23. Genuine believers are known by their fruit not by their claims.

The church has lost sight of the fact that not everyone who says they are a "Christian" is one. I have preached for years, you can sit in the garage all night long but you will not wake up a Buick. It doesn't matter what you feel, nor does your feelings trump the nature and character of God revealed in his infallible, inspired, and inerrant word of God.


Carrie Underwood is an outspoken Christian and is a role model for many religious girls and boys out there. So why is she saying that the bible is lying? Why is she actively working against what our faith stands for? Well she has an explanation, but I am not buying into it.

Recently Carrie Underwood performed at Pastor Louie Giglio’s Passion Movement in Atlanta. Over 55,000 Christian Youths attended the event. The event featured renowned Christian speakers, such as Christine Caine, Beth Moore, John Piper, Levi Lusko and Francis Chan, among others. Artists who led worship included the Passion Band, Chris Tomlin, Crowder, Matt Redman, Christy Nockels and Hillsong UNITED. Carrie was one of the performers.

“The controversy is why would Louie Giglio put someone in front of millennials, who are struggling with this issue, who is basically saying that the Bible is not true in what it says about homosexuality,” Vitagliano said, warning that there is a “growing strain within the evangelical community that is denying the truth of Scripture.” Carrie has openly spoken out about this topic. She is against the church in many regards.

“As a married person myself, I don’t know what it’s like to be told I can’t marry somebody I love, and want to marry. I can’t imagine how that must feel. I definitely think we should all have the right to love, and love publicly, the people that we want to love.” 

 “The Word of God is not a preference, but principles God has spoken. God is right about marriage and Carrie Underwood is wrong,” Wildmon said. Are you still a fan?

 (This article was copied from godfitting.com) (Used w/o permission)

Read more: http://godfitting.com/2017/01/12/breaking-carrie-underwood-separating-church/#ixzz4zeecBx8T

I Don't Want to be that Man!

You must read the text to understand the meaning or the point to this meme. And yes, it is not so cool to be "the man" when a "Nathan" points to you and says...

Happy Post-Thanksgiving Friday!

I hope all my family and friends had a great Thanksgiving Day with all of your family and friends. Mine was fantastic!

We had dinner at my second oldest daughter's new home in Vancouver, WA (Sonja A. Abramson) She bought a beautiful home just two (2) miles from us a couple of months ago. She decorated it for Christmas beautifully.





We had the traditional Thanksgiving meal:

• delicious brine soaked Butterball turkey
• home made mashed potatoes
• brown gravy
• Stove-top Stuffing
• dinner rolls
• pumpkin pie with whipped cream
• cinnamon flavored hot apple cider
• Champagne

Even though I have given up on the NFL this year, I did cave and watch my traditional Dallas Cowboys football game. It would have been nice had they showed up with the idea of, oh I don't know, actually trying to win the game. But oh well.

Happy, Happy, Happy Thanksgiving Weekend!

Happy Thanksgiving to all My Family & Friends!

The Blessing & Benefits of Chastisment

"For whom the Lord loves He chastens,

And scourges every son whom He receives.” (Hebrews 12:6-11, NKJV)

7 If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten? 8 But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons. 9 Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live? 10 For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness. 11 Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

Chastening is never fun, but we are brought to know just how necessary and beneficial chastening is for us. The trouble is that most believers do not recognize the chastening hand of God nor do they learn from it. Often God finds it necessary to chasten us repeatedly until we "wise up" and learn His intended lessons for us. 

Allow me to share with you at least eight (8) major benefits and blessings from experiencing and learning from chastisement. For the record this list is in no particular order of importance.

• It teaches us compassion for others
• It teaches us to properly value "things"
• It teaches us how to continue to conform to Christ
• I teaches us to pray 
• It teaches us to search the Scriptures for help
• It teaches us to weep over our sin
• It teaches us to long for heaven
• It teaches us to redeem time wisely

Shai Linne - Mission Accomplished

I have desired not to enter the building "fray" around the death of Charles Manson. To comment would force a complete education of the Arminians concerning for whom Christ died. So my response to the onslaught of comments is this...enjoy and learn!