What If Jesus Had Never Been Born? The Truth of the Blessings of Followers of Jesus Christ

"I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the very center of history. Jesus Christ is easily the most dominant figure in all history."

~ H.G. Wells ~



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One of my favorite vocal artists - from Kansas even - is Jennifer Knapp. This is a song that comes to mind when I begin to get discouraged about the state of the Church in America. The visible state of the Body of Christ. Oh, His great love for us! Glory!

Listen to the lyrics. Brings tears to my eyes even now....

HOLD ME NOW by Jennifer Knapp




From glass alabaster she poured out the depth of her soul
O foot of Christ would you wait if her harlotries known?
Falls a tear to darken the dirt
Of humblest offerings to forgive the hurt
She is strong enough to stand in your love
I can hear her say....

I'm weak
I'm poor
I'm broken, Lord
But I'm your's
Hold me now, hold me now

Let he without sin cast the first stone if you will
To say that my bride isn't worth half the blood that I've spilled
Point your finger and laugh if you choose
To say my beloved is borrowed and used
She is strong enough to stand in My love
I can hear her say.... (King Jesus)

I'm weak
I'm poor
I'm broken, Lord
But I'm your's
Hold me now, hold me now

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Isn't it humbling to be reminded of His great love for His bride? Isn't is encouraging to know that even with a bride who is broken, a bride who fails so often, a bride who is so often faithless - He can cause her to stand and walk in His ways and bring glory to Him - for the good of the world! We see evidence of this all around.

Read Ezekiel 36: 26-27

A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.

And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them. (God)


THANK YOU JESUS FOR ALLOWING ME TO BE A PART OF YOUR STORY! THANK YOU FOR ORDANINING ME TO BELIEVE, AND FOR APPOINTING ME TO THIS TIME AND TO THIS PARTICULAR PLACE. I LOVE YOU SO!

EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed DVD Releast Oct. 21

Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed Trailer:




Beloved, Just to let you know - this important film will be released on DVD October 21st.

Right now, you can pre-buy it through either Answers in Genesis (www.answersingenesis.org) or through your local Family Christian Bookstore at a significant discount. I encourage that.

I believe this DVD should be in every Christian family library. It is so important to expose the agenda to squash any dissent that deviates from Darwinian Evolution. Dialogue is not acceptable. This is always a bad sign. Typically, when people don't want to engage in conversation - resorting to name-calling, yelling, firing, or 'shut-up'ing; it is because they are not confident in their preheld suppositions. We need not fear them. We need not retreat from the conversation. They are on shakey ground. Our Armor - which includes the breastplate of righteousness - doesn't indicate protection for our backside! Turning tail and running, isn't in the battleplan. Walking off the field isn't our calling....

After an intense battle to get EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed to release here in Wichita on opening day, we had a poor showing of people to demonstrate to the Warren management and to the NorthRock management it was worth it. (Our family attended the opening evening showing at the Warren East. I have no idea how many people attended at the Warren West or the Warren Downtown, or even at NorthRock.)

Now we have an opportunity to gather people to see this again. Let's be creative about this. Perhaps we could approach our local Pastor to see if he would be willing to set aside one Sunday evening for a full-length 'movie night'. Perhaps we could show this within our small groups. Perhaps we could invite families over to our homes to have a movie night complete with discussion and prayer for our nation.

LET'S DO SOMETHING TO ENCOURAGE CHRISTIANS TO SEE THIS FILM!

Let's not put it off. Let's not get discouraged when we meet rejection after rejection. Let's not be quitters. Let's pray and let's invite and let's discuss.

Here is a letter I wrote to our pastor to encourage him go see it on opening day and to encourage our congregation to see EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed when it was to be released in local theaters months ago.

(You know we can write letters of personal testimony and encouragement to our Pastors and elders, don't you?)


Here's the letter from this past Winter:


"If people think God is interesting, the onus is on them to show that there is anything to talk about. Otherwise, they should just shut up about it."~ Richard Dawkins ~Rabid Contemporary Atheist - Evolutionary Biologist, Oxford University



Dear Pastor,

I am thrilled, thrilled, thrilled you are teaching on Genesis on Sunday mornings! I believe the very foundations of credibility and integrity within the American church are in Genesis chapters 1-11.

How I could go on and on about my own confusion trying to reconcile what I was taught in Sunday school as a child and what I was taught for 12 years in Wichita Public Schools – not to mention State universities I attended.

Interestingly enough, I believe I represented the vast majority of professing Christians who desperately try to ‘believe both’ in that it wasn’t until a few years ago I came face to face with the need to research and make some conclusions as to the age of the earth and Creation. I was setting out to teach Ancient History and was told I needed to decide from which ‘angle’ I would be teaching – Old Earth or Young Earth. I had never heard of Young Earth…I had grown up believing God used the process of evolution and massive amounts of time to make what we know today. I didn’t agree with Carl Sagan who screamed volumes of ideology when he made his claim: “The Cosmos is all there ever was, all there ever is, and all there ever will be.” I believed God used the Big Bang to create and start the process, but that He ordained evolution to complete the process. Much assumption followed….

Then I was faced with teaching Ancient History. I had to make a decision… a thoughtful and informed decision. We set out to do some research on the subject. We drove from Flower Mound, TX to Glen Rose, TX to tour the Creation Evidence Museum. A road trip that changed my life!

http://www.creationevidence.org/

I remember clearly walking INTO that humble museum a Christian (my particular flavor of Theism) Evolutionist and walking OUT a confident and excited YE Creationist.

Glory!

We are living in an increasingly pagan America where people have no concept of God and why He matters and this drastically effects and limits our evangelism. Peter was talking to people who ‘knew’ and feared God. He told them to repent and be baptized. Paul, however, was talking with people who had no clue about the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. On Mars Hill, he had to start at the BEGINNING! Sadly, that is where we are today, but most Christians don’t know it. We are usually Peter talking to the men of Athens! It is worthy to spend corporate time teaching on the essential doctrines of the Genesis Record.

Surely you are aware, but in case you are not, there is a wonderful movie coming out this Friday and it will be playing at the Warren East and Warren West Movie Theaters.

EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed is an important film and – believe me – it was a battle to get it to show here on Opening Day in the Box Offices.

I’ve attached a Leaders Guide and a Press Packet. Perhaps these will give you some added material to use in your sermons. PERHAPS YOU WILL GO SEE THE FILM ON OPENING DAY.



“If you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane.”

~ Richard Dawkins ~



"I think religion is a deadly threat to the survival of the species and to the continued evolution of the brain."

~ Christopher Hitchens ~



"The fact that 40% of American scientists believe in God indicates that 60% of scientists aren't doing their jobs."

~ Sam Harris ~




The Warren Theaters East and West will be showing Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed this Friday (Opening Day in the Box Office)! Praise the Lord.

Tickets go on sale Wednesday, April 16th.

West side show times for Opening Day are: 1:45; 4:20; 6:50; and 9:20



"THE FOOL SAYS IN HIS HEART, 'THERE IS NO GOD.'"

~ Psalm 14:1 ~



Serving His Kingdom Here and Now ~

Truth Project Veritology - Lesson One

"What is truth" is the most important question we can ask - and many of us do.

What is the truth?

Last week, I taught our first session of the 13 week biblical world-and-life-view class The Truth Project for the interested women at our church. What a thrill! What a privilege!

So last Thursday, the first topic in the curriculum was the issue of Veritology. Veritas is Latin for 'Truth", and 'ology' indicates the study of something. Biology. Zoology. Embryology. Theology.

VERITOLOGY. What is Truth?

We scoured Old Testament and New Testament and I came away with two key points to ponder:

1.) In Jesus' own words, stating why it is He came to earth: "Jesus answered, 'You are right in saying I am a king. In fact, for this reason I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me." (John 18:37 niv)

I'd like to make a couple observations here in this seemingly simple statement.

a.) From Christ's lips Himself, He stated the reason He came to earth was to TESTIFY TO THE TRUTH.

Evidently, truth is critical. Evidently, truth is important. We, as Christians, should care what truth is; and as we, as Christians, are ultimately called to become Christ-like - shouldn't we be duty-bound and obligated to do the same - namely, to testify to the truth.

With so many different 'truth'-claims floating around professing Christian communities, shouldn't we be more concerned to flush them out, research them, and studiously investigate, and then articulate which ones are legitimate? I have come to the conviction that the answer to this question is a hearty YES!

I'm going to list a couple I tend to tangle with on a regular basis.

- "What's right for you may not be right for me."

- "God is sovereign, but man still has to choose to be 'saved'."

- "The Kingdom of God is in the near-but-not-yet future."

- "There is a difference between Israel and the Church."

- "God allows, but does not decree bad things to happen to good people."

- "Jesus died for all the sins of all men."

- "The lordship of Jesus Christ is optional, but not required for the Christian." (Put another way, "You can accept Jesus as your personal savior without bending knee to Him as LORD of all.")

- "God wills all people go to Heaven."

- "Our kids are salt and light in public schools."

- "We live under the New Covenant... Old Covenant law does not apply."

- "There is a difference between secular and sacred."

- "Times have changed, to be successful in this day and age, this (a college degree, a six-figure income, separate bedrooms for each child, etc...) is required."

b.) Further, and what I find to be most profound in this claim, Jesus adds, 'Everyone on the side of truth listens to me." This implies there are SIDES. A right side (Jesus'), and a wrong side (opposed to Jesus). Now that's quite a statement!

So I wonder, if we read the same Bible and come to different conclusions - for example, as in God's sovereignty + Man's 'free will' = heaven or hell destination - isn't at least one of the conclusions wrong? Both obviously can't be 'right'. Both can be wrong, but both cannot be right!
Arminians claim coming to Christ is a free-will choice; that God bids everyone 'come' and Jesus died for all the sins for all men - with the exception of unbelief and gospel rebelion. if one is intellectually honest and logical, they would see this claim as making man ultimately and finally sovereign - hence, negating the notion of 'the sovereignty of God.'

Calvinists claim coming to Christ is a spiritual-state resurrection. A 100% doing of God. As in the word-picture of Lazarus, when Christ bid him 'arise' and he appeared, after being stinky-dead all wrapped up in his burial cloths. Lazarus did not 'choose' to be brought back to life. He did not 'seek' Christ while in his state of corruption, death, and decay. HE WAS DEAD. DEAD MEN DON'T REFUSE OR CHOOSE LIFE. THEY ARE ... D-E-A-D! When the Holy Spirit resurrects our 'dead in transgressions' spirit and breathes life into it and quickens us unto spiritual life, we will come. We are only so thankful to come to life. Satan's truth-claim in the garden to Eve, 'You will not surely die', was a half-truth presented as a whole truth --- which is a lie! She did not die physically or cognitively, but indeed she and Adam partook of the forbidden fruit and did die spiritually. (Hence, regeneration is literally a spiritual resurrection.)

Isn't stake on truth-claims within the professing body of Christ worthy of a wrestle?!

Jesus, in His own words said 'Everyone on the side of truth listen to me.'

Do we second-guess or manipulate the Word of God to fit our presuppositional impressions and beliefs? Do we BELIEVE GOD, or just believe in God? There is a big difference! Do we fall into moral relativism when we come against a professing Sister or Brother who disagrees with biblical truth, and copout by saying 'what's right for you may not be right for me.'? I wonder....

The second key point to ponder after listening to the Truth Project lesson on Veritology is this:

2.) God equates lies with idols!

In the book of Isaiah, chapter 44 it states that work can be an idol (v.12), people can be an idol (v.13), and a lie can be an idol (v. 15-20). Let's focus on Isaiah 44:15-20.

"He cut down cedars,
or perhaps took a cypress or oak.
He let it grow among the trees of the forest, or he planted a pine, and the rain made it grow.

It is man's fuel for burning;
some of it he takes and warms himself,
he kindles a fire and bakes bread.

but he also fashions a god and worships it;
he makes an idol and bows down to it.

Half of the wood he burns in the fire;
over it he prepares his meal,
he roasts his meat and eats his fill.
He also warms himself and says,
'Ah! I am warm; I see the fire."
From the rest he makes a god, his idol;
he bows down to it and worships.

He prays to it and says,
"Save me; you are my god."
They know nothing, they understand nothing; their eyes are plastered over so they cannot see,
and their minds are closed so they cannot understand.

No one stops to think,
no one has the knowledge or understanding to say,
"Half of it I used for fuel;
I even baked bread over its coals,
I roasted meat and I ate.

Shall I make a detestable thing from what is left?
Shall I bow down to a block of wood?"
He feeds on ashes, a deluded heart misleads him;
he cannot save himself, or say,
"It not this thing in my right hand a lie?"

Is this not remarkable! Scripture equates a lie with an idol! If we are living a lie - because we believe a lie, and we indeed live what we truly believe - we are idol worshippers. God has quite a judgement for idol worshippers! Read the book of Galatians!

"So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature. For the sinful nature desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the sinful nature. They are in conflict with each other, so that you do not do what you want. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealously, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God." (Galatians 5:16-21 niv)

So here we can see: God equates idol worship with intentionally and naively living out lies - whether we are cognisant of the lie or not. Evidently, the issue of true Truth and salvation are connected. Truth has eternal consequences!

We ar wise to do the hard work to discover and bend knee to the truth of Scripture. Polar 'opinions' don't jive in the Body of Christ!

Whew! This is just the first week of study in the Truth Project!

Next week - philosophy and ethics. Can't wait!

The Truth Project

"See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according too the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ."

Did you know this caution is addressed to THE CHURCH! To the regenerate believers?! It is! Christians can be captivated by false ideology, empty and deceptive philosophies and practices. Christian!... see to it no one takes you captive.





The Truth Project is all about transformation...transformed living based on THINKING CHRISTIANLY.

We are commanded to be transformed BY the renewing of our mind.

British philosopher Bertrand Russell declared, "Most Christians would rather die than think, in fact they do."

I couldn't agree more. Only 9% of professing born-again Christians think as Christians. There is a huge difference between thinking Christianly and knowing bible stories. Paul's clarion call to believers is to 'demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God and take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.' However, our marching orders are full circle - - orders are to advance, not just demolish; Jesus commissions us to 'make disciples...teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.' This is how we are salt and light. The Truth Project is an effort to fortify Christian thinking - which will fortify Christian living - so we can be the blessing we are created to be.

I'm very excited to have the opportunity this Fall to take women through The Truth Project. My husband and I were one of the first in Kansas to travel for Truth Project training in Colorado Springs when this worldview course first came out. That was the summer of 2006. Since that time, we have led two family-integrated groups through this course in the comfort of our home. Last year, we had to step back from family ministry as we were neck-deep in the process of purchasing, demolishing, and restoring another home. We've had a year off of leading others through The Truth Project.

Beginning Thursday August 28th, I will have the privilege of teaching The Truth Project through the Women's Ministry at our church. We will offer a morning class for at-home mom's and an evening class for students and working mom's. I am so thankful for this opportunity. I never thought I'd be able to use my spiritual gifting to edify our local body. I am thankful and everso humbled by how God brought this about. THANK YOU JESUS! May God be glorified and magnified by this course.

PRAISE GOD FROM WHOM ALL BLESSINGS FLOW!

Out of Africa

I Saw What I Saw
by Sarah Groves
Tell Me What You Know CD


Last week our family attended The Rebelution Conference in Dallas with our best friends from Texas (now living in New York) and my parents and my older brother and his sons. What a grand time of exhortation and learning!

We attended my brother's church in Keller on Sunday and went to his home to change clothes and grab a quick lunch before heading back to Wichita. There, I saw an interesting photograph on his living room table. It was a photo of children in Africa...I'll come back to this in a moment. Many of you probably don't know, but my heart has been drawn to Africa ever since a missionary from the UK serving in Sudan came to admonish our church in Phoenix. Actually, he was admonishing the enitre American Church for her lethargy, apathy, and lukewarm spirit. He told of families in Sudan being butchered because they met in the bush with other Saints to take Holy Communion. They are not ignorant of this risk, yet gathering together for fellowship and communion is worthy. They treasured Christ and His Bride to the point of death! He rebuked us for thinking it was a big deal to get to church on Sundays faithfully. He rebuked us for allowing garbage to enter into God's Holy temple by the music we listen to, the literature we read, and the way we spend our time, the amount of pointless leisure we assume is due us - how we squander the time. I've never been the same. This was before Nicholas was born. I believe it was even before I was pregnant with him. I repented that Sunday. I've not been the same. From that Sunday, I longed to go to Africa and serve in any way I could....

My heart is in Africa.

Not a year goes by that I don't long to go to Africa. Lately, I've been even more encouraged to go because of a man in South Africa named Dr. Peter Hammond of FrontLine Fellowship. His ministry is powerful! I also have friends from our Southern Baptist church in Lewisville, TX who served in Senegal, West Africa. They are home on furlough, but will be going back as soon as possible. Lastly, a dear friend (who used to be a sixth grade Littleton, Colorado student of mine when I was a public school teacher) is headed to Zimbabwe to be a chiropractor. She will be a missionary who happens to serve people by chiropractic medicine. Incarnational ministry - not just drop and run Jesus Film blip. Then there is the picture atop my brother's living room table. A picture of children from Uganda. My brother supports a missionary who serves in Uganda. She used to be the children's ministry director at his church in Keller, TX. He told me she could get me to Uganda....

I don't know how God is going to get me to Africa, but I believe He will. I believe God is working out the details even now. I should not be discouraged but have hopeful expectation for what He is going to do.

Our family makes it a habit to listen to conference CD's when we take a road trip anywhere. Redeem the time! During the trip to Dallas, we were working our way through American Vision's Worldview Training for the 21st Century. While listening to Putting Your Faith into Action by Janet Folger, I was rebuked, humbled, and inspired. (By the way, if you've not 'met' Janet Folger, I encourage you to get acquainted with her!)

In the Putting Your Faith into Action CD, she shared how we Christians think little thoughts and expect little things of God. CHRISTian, this should not be! We hold God in contempt and despise Him because we are fearful and defeated by the 'giants' in the land. So true! Do you know God equates unbelief and retreat and withdrawl with holding Him in contempt? With despising Him? He does! WoW!

I have been guilty lately of little thinking and little belief and little faith. I've been guilty of ungodly fear and unbelief. I've been guilty of retreat! God, forgive me! Beloved, forgive me!

Janet told of the account in Scripture where the spies were sent to Canaan in Numbers 13 and Numbers 14. The first account of spies being set to scope things out. How only Joshua and Caleb believed God and sought to ready the people for victorious battle. How the other spies were fearful of 'the giants' and prompted the people to retreat, to even want to go back to Egypt (bondage) rather than risk dying by the sword. Let me share with you a portion of this text:

14:1 "Then all the congregation raised a loud cry, and the people wept that night.
2 And all the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would that we had died in this wilderness! 3 Why is the Lord bringing us into this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become a prey. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?”
4 And they said to one another, “Let us choose a leader and go back to Egypt.” 5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the people of Israel. 6 And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes 7 and said to all the congregation of the people of Israel, “The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceedingly good land. 8 If the Lord delights in us, he will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land that flows with milk and honey. 9 Only do not rebel against the Lord. And do not fear the people of the land, for they are bread for us. Their protection is removed from them, and the Lord is with us; do not fear them.” 10 Then all the congregation said to stone them with stones. But the glory of the Lord appeared at the tent of meeting to all the people of Israel. 11 And the Lord said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? And how long will they not believe in me, in spite of all the signs that I have done among them? (ESV)

The NIV puts it this way: The LORD said to Moses, "How long will these people treat me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in me, in spite of all the miraculous signs I have performed among them?

The NASB puts it this way: The LORD said to Moses, "How long will this people spurn Me? And how long will they not believe in Me, despite all the signs which I have performed in their midst?

The NKJV puts it this way: Then the LORD said to Moses: “How long will these people reject Me? And how long will they not believe Me, with all the signs which I have performed among them?

The KJV puts it this way: And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?

What a rebuke! What a charge! I am praying I will not be guilty any longer of holding God in contempt. I have seen, time and time again, His wonderous works and His faithfulness. His mighty hand. He has not kept me from seeing His glory! I should not fear!

GOD IS WHO HE SAYS HE IS!
GOD CAN DO WHAT HE SAYS HE CAN DO.
I AM WHO GOD SAYS I AM.
I CAN DO ALL THINGS - THROUGH CHRIST WHO STRENGTHENS ME.
GOD'S WORD IS ALIVE AND LIVING IN ME.

I'M BELIEVING GOD!

Thanking God that He is faithful when I am faithless.

What If ... I'm Pretending?

"Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?' Then I will tell them plainly, 'I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!"

~ Matthew 7:21-23 ~
NIV



Beloved in Christ,

The boys and I just finished watching a new Ray Comfort DVD published by Vision Forum Ministries titled: We Cannot But Speak - How to gain a Passion for Evangelism. It is very good. If you've not 'met' Ray Comfort, I encourage you to 'introduce yourself to him' as soon as you can type in www.livingwaters.com I have become convinced tracts are an excellent witnessing tool (books are as well, just w-a-y more expensive). There is a great custom tract site where one can purchase Mark Cahill's tract based on his latest book: One Heartbeat Away. The book One Heartbeat Away is EXCELLENT and can be purchased from Mark Cahill Ministries at a bulk rate of $150.00 for a box of 18.

I was looking to purchase the One Heartbeat Away tract when I stumbled across a tract titled: What If... I'm Pretending. (There is also a tract titled: What If.... that is excellent as well, but targeted towards agnostics or those disinterested in Christ.) The tract What If... I'm Pretending speaks to my heart, as it is talking about me (my testimony) - and, according to Barna Research Group - between 49% and 51% of all professing born again Christians faithfully sitting in our pews each and every week - in Evangelical churches.

The tract concludes with a website: http://www.whatifimpretending.com/

Please visit it!

I LOVE how God works! How He orchestrates things in His perfect timing. The GodTube "Shocking Message" from Paul David Washer is something I stumbled across on Mother's Day Sunday after church. It is RIGHT ON! I pray you will take time to listen to it. I am delighted to see this same message on the What If... I'm Pretending website!

NOTE: The other GodTube message titled Revival - a Wake Up Call is long and at times, melodramatic...I haven't listened to the entire thing yet.

The resources listed on the Resources page include excellent video presentations from Ray Comfort/Kirk Cameron and the Living Waters Ministry. The best resource to impress on urgency of true and false conversions is available here, titled - you guessed it - True and False Conversions.

*You may purchase a copy of True and False Conversions from CrossTV. The free video presentation is from a series of programs called Word Pictures. www.crosstv.com

Do yourself a favor and review CrossTV's statement of faith! It will knock your socks off!!!!! Great stuff! (Can you tell I get excited about CrossTV and their Word Picture programs?!) NOTE: Satan hates CrossTV and some evil people have the domain name of crosstv.org - DO NOT GO TO IT! Often times we associate .com with commerce and .org with ministry, but the .org site is pornographic. Warfare!

I know this has been a lot of information, but digest it and may it bless your spirit and help to ignite a holy zeal for opening your mouth with a biblical gospel and a determination to set captives free!

Remember, there are sincere and deceived captives in our church! I used to be one!

I love you.

Serving His Kingdom Here and Now ~

Jilly

How Could I Ask For More?

This is the most powerful song by Cindy Morgan. I sang this song as a solo when our quartet was active in Phoenix. I could barely get through it - the lyrics are so right and true.

I sang it in Phoenix for the wedding anniversary for the parents of one of the gals in our quartet. I want it sung at my funeral....

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There's nothing like the warmth of a summer afternoon
Waking to the sunlight, and being cradled by the moon
Catching fireflies at night
Building castles in the sand
Kissing Mama's face goodnight
Holding Daddy's hand
Thank you Lord, how could I ask for more

Running barefoot through the grass
A little hide and go seek
Being so in love, that you can hardly eat
Dancing in the dark, when there's no one else around
Being bundled 'neath the covers, watching snow
Fall to the ground
Thank you Lord, how could I ask for more

So many things I thought would bring me happiness
Some dreams that are realities today
Such an irony the things that mean the most to me
Are the memories that I've made along the way

So if there's anything I've learned
From this journey I am on
Simple truths will keep you going
Simple love will keep you strong
Cause there are questions without answers
Flames that never die
Heartaches we go through are often blessings in disguise
So thank you Lord, oh thank you Lord
How could I ask for more

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I am brought to tears again. THANK YOU LORD - how could I ask for more.