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Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:59:28 GMT

Just came from a commissioning service for IMB missionaries. It was very inspiring, especially the deaf people who have answered God's Call better then those of us who can hear physical well.

Please pray for me. I have a SAT on Dec. 5. Really need the Lord's help.

Friday, September 18, 2009

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:22:03 GMT

Sorry I haven't updated this since Peru! I really miss Peru and feel God strongly calling me back.

Just wanted to let you know of a good movie coming out tomorrow by Rich Christiano called the Secrets of Jonathan Sperry. Please Go see it and send a massage to the media this is the kind of movie we want to.

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:25:24 GMT

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.

Thursday, June 04, 2009

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:27:17 GMT

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

Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 02:14:04 GMT

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 Christ

Wed, 13 May 2009 12:02:13 GMT

A 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?

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:39:30 GMT

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.”

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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

Why knowing if Obama is truly a citizen of the United States is important to me as a Christian

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:37:58 GMT

Regardless of whether you agree with President Obama’s policies or not, we must all be concerned about if he is a truthful man. The Constitution of the United States says only someone born in the US can become president, but there has emerged much evidence that Mr. Obama was born in Kenya. I have absolutely nothing against Kenyans, they are made in the image of God and by His grace many have been redeemed by the death of Christ and I look forward today, if not on earth, then in heaven that we can both worship the Lamb Who was slain for all nations, but I have a problem when President Obama holds an honorable office which demands high integrity remains silence when asked if he is acting in accordance with the law. Yes I believe it was part of the sovereign plan of God that Mr. Obama become president and his heart is in God’s Hand like a river to be turned, but I also believe that when wicked men rule, the people cry and that God does not bless nations ruled by sinful men. If President Obama is lying about his birth place, not only is he braking Constitutional law, but the moral and holy law of God as seen in the Ten Commandments, then the greatest danger America faces does not come from Mr. Obama’s policies but the judgment of God for allowing a wicked man to bear rule. Please join with the thousands of Americans who are using the means which God has sovereignty placed in our legal system to keep our rulers accountable to God’s Law.

Go to WorldNetDaily and Obamacrimes to learn more.

The word of the Lord says, “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and heal their land” (2Chronicles 7:14 KJV).

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:13:46 GMT

Please pray for our church’s Spanish Bible study tonight and that the ESL classes will bear much spiritual fruit.

I am a nonconformist to nonconformity (look at it: those who encourage nonconformity are trying to make you conform to their conformity of the opposite of the current conformity. Like if the current conformity says God is real and rules us all the nonconformist will try to make you conform to (none)conformity atheism as the new conformity, so in that case I will be a nonconformist to the old nonconformity which is now the new conformity and rebelling claim the truth of God’s sovereign existence.)

Wednesday, April 01, 2009

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:20:19 GMT

I am going to Germany today for a little while to visit family, but I do want to share the Gospel over there so please pray.