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Name: Charlie
Birthday: 3/12/1987
Gender: Male
Interests: Growing more like Jesus, knowing God more,
Missions, Chiapas, Mexico, Peru, Indonesia, the Komering people, unreached people groups,witnessing, bringing glory to God, the Bible,The
persecuted Church, The War of Northern Aggression , history books, westerns, runing, Old radio shows, poetry, Religion, farming, Small Town USA, the South, reading, writing, play acting, walking in the woods, politics, dogs, old movies, food, people,Tintin, Sherlock Holmes, culture, math.
Expertise: None really, only gifts of God. Reading, runing, eating.
Occupation: Student
Industry: Land care, brush remover
Message: message me
Member Since:
4/11/2006
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| I am in Pucallpa, Peru right now. It is a city of great spiritual need. We did a children program last night and every night we are here. today we visited a prision for boys and young men and a church. tomorrow we will pass out tracts. Please keep us in your prayers and prayer that God will be glorifed.
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| Remember the Chinese students whose peaceful protest of the communist government’s denial of democracy and freedom to their people resulted in their deaths in Tiananmen Square 20 years ago today | | |
| I am going to Peru June 21 to July 12 with Global Encounters, please keep me in you're prayers. Please keep the spiritual and physical health of the team, spiritual fruit and that the Lord will provide the means for the whole team to go in your prayers. | | |
| Stop with the pathetic testimonies and start glorifying ChristA typical testimony given in a typical church today, if given at all, would sound like this When I was five I decide I didn’t want to go to hell so I asked my mother/teacher to read the gospel story to me and I accepted Jesus. Later I raised my hand/walk to the front and signed the card. At youth camp I rededicated my life. Now I am happy all the time and I have many blessings from God, including a suburban house, I have a high paying job, my dream car and two honor roll kids. You know what is completely missing from this? The joyful acknowledgement of the glory of Christ and the frightening awareness of the wretchedness of sin, two important pillars in the Gospel message. Sadly these aspects are completely missing from today’s preaching and few Christians can point to when they became knowledgeable of them. Where in our testimonies were we suddenly overcome with guilt and remorse that we had offend, spit in the face, cursed, crucified, blasphemed, mocked the Holy God Who had created us and was sustaining us with the very breath in our lungs. When did the power and holy of God make you cry out “Woe is me, for I am a man of unclean lips!”? When did you suddenly realize that it was your sins that drove the nails into the bone and flesh of Jesus’ wrists? When was your spirit burden down by not the punishment of sin but the awfulness of sin in sin itself? When did reading in the Bible where it says “The Lord hates the sinful man”, “Cursed is the man”, or “the man will be cut off” did you realized that it was talking about you? Did you not want to read the Bible in its entirety because it filled you with fear and dread? Can you explain how the law became the schoolmaster driving you toward Christ? When did we strike our chests and cry out “God be merciful to me a sinner!”? Or when did we contrite our hearts like the Prodigal son, saying “Father, I have sinned before Your sight and am not worthy to be called Your child?” When did Christ become glorious, precious, beautiful to us? When were you filled with joy unspeakable at the thought of Christ work of redemption? When was your heart filled with gladness at the very name of Jesus? When were you knocked off your horse and trod in the dust by the presence of the glory of Christ coming into your life? When did you joyfully want to confess Jesus not so your sins would be forgiven but because of His work they had been forgiven? Do we long for the multiplied bread and fishes or do we long for the Multiplier? Are we satisfied in our “free ticket” to heaven or do we continue to long for satisfaction in a relationship with Jesus? When did you realize that Christ was now your Perfect Prophet, Priest and King? When did you stop struggling with working for your salvation and trust totally and completely in Christ Jesus? And now are things always wonderful and happy, like a Disney music video, or are we in a constant struggle to know God more? Are you dieing daily in order to be more satisfied in Jesus and be conformed to His image? Do you clash with the old flash every hour? Are you persecuted because you desire to live godly in Christ Jesus? Are you plagued with nagging doubts about your salvation? And do you overcome them with “rededicating” your life or do you look to the Cross where Christ Jesus once for all accomplished redemption and secured salvation for His people (1 Peter 3:18)? Have you had to given up a good job so you could worship on Sunday, put away certain things because they hindered your walk, or gone without luxury so you could send money to missions? Or in some case have you lost your family, house, and health for not renouncing the truth of the Gospel? Despite all the hardships, many brought by remaining sin, is Jesus still precious to you? Can we truly say this? Amazing grace, how sweet the sound that save a wretch like me I once was lost but now am found was blind but now I see Or do we just singing automatically as we listing to preachers give prep-talks-passing-as-sermons that lack six important Biblical points 1. The Holiness of God 2. The Awfulness of Sin as rebellion against God 3. The Justices of God in punishment of sinners 4. The Glory of Christ in Himself 5. The accomplishment of redemption and securing of salvation by Christ for His people 6. The continual struggle of the Christian life to live holy and as a witness solely for the glory of God | | |
| What if…had been aborted?What if George Washington had been aborted? What if Martin Luther had been aborted? What if Gandhi had been aborted? What if Nelson Mandela had been aborted? What if Martin Luther King, Jr. had been aborted? What if Mother Teresa had been aborted? What if Shakespeare had been aborted? What if Boch had been aborted? What if Beethoven had been aborted? What if Mozart had been aborted? What if Da Vinci had been aborted? What if Michael Angelo had been aborted? What if David Livingstone had been aborted? What if Charles Dickens had been aborted? What if Helen Keller had been aborted? What if Albert Einstein had been aborted? What if Albert Schweitzer had been aborted? What if (fill in the blank) had been aborted? These and a host of other questions are ones that should be asked when discussing abortion. And if someone asks “what if Hitler had been aborted”, replay “what if he had not, yet Corrie Tin Boon, Ann Frank, Churchill, Schindler, and the thousands that join the resistance against him had been aborted.” _------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Yes, you can change Ahmadinejad by having a little talk with him if it’s about the redemption from sin found in the glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ. Iran should be big prayer concern for Christians, not because of military politics, but because it has many large unreached people groups in need of the Gospel. We should not join the “destroy Iran” chorus, but declare spiritual warfare on Iran with prayers, mission support to those working there, and maybe our lives. Let’s pray for peace, not so much peace between Iran and US, but the eternal peace between Iranians and the One True Holy God that is found in Jesus Christ | | |
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