Archive for June, 2009

Good News from the Mission Fields, and Some Bad.

I am encouraged by the news I get from the different Missions fields. The Baptist Standard tells me that Jimmy and Rosalynn Center Offering for Religious Liberty has been successful in training young women to start home Churches in Iran. In Thailand, I hear that the children that were run out of Burma [...]

A Life Changing Question

Yesterday I received a email from a friend that was forwarded from prayerandprophesy.wordpress.com. It was titled, The Question that Changed My Life, by David Ryser. I want to quote from the article; “Christianity started as a fellowship; moved to Greece and became a philosophy; it moved to Italy and became an institution; it moved [...]

Give of Your Body, Life for Others!

“Honor the LORD with your wealth and the firstfruits of all your produce, then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will be bursting with wine.” I looked through out the Bible for a verse that would be appropiate with the topic I want to broach upon now. Every [...]

Getting Older is a Blessing.

I cry out to God Most High,
to God Who fulfills His Purpose for me.
…..
My heart is steadfast, O God
my heart is steadfast!
I will sing and make melody!
Psalm 57:2,7
Today I am older! June 15 is my birthday and I made it through another year. and today at church, I sang praises to my Father [...]

Isaiah 58:5-11 True Fasting is Hard Work

Isaiah 58:5,
Is such a fast that I choose,
a day for a person to humble himself?
Is it to bow down his head like a reed,
and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him?
Will you call this a fast,
and a day acceptable to the LORD?
READ ISAIAH 58:6-11
Thus begins the lesson from God on what is really an acceptable [...]

Religious Laws in Azerbaijan: Are they an attack on Christians?

There is concerns that the new Religion Reform Laws of the small Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan are really an attack on the freedoms of the minority Christian religions of the country. While religious freedom is guaranteed in the Constitution of the nation, the new laws give the government more control over who can worship and [...]

My Running Battle with DSL

For the last six months I have been arguing with my DSL provider, the Computer Work Shop and the billing department about the speed of my service. I have been paying for 3Mb speed and getting .75Mb service. In fact, in the end I bought new computers for my wife and myself and [...]