confessions of a Christian Baal Worshipper

Apparently, we are revisiting the Jesus had a wife story.  Can we simply say, NO! Chris Rosebrough on Pirate Christian Radio does and excellent examination of this resurgent topic.  Listen to his September 20, 2012 broadcast.  You may have to right click on the listen banner and save it to your computer as an mp3 file.  This is well worth the listen.  Enjoy. http://www.fightingforthefaith.com/ Jesus is who He says He is -- Jesus having a wife is just another fairytale! ps - the only wife Jesus has is the Bride of Christ and He has not collected us yet!!  Come quickly Lord Jesus.

I am sure that Rob Pattinson felt like our car looked after the tree limb came crashing through our sunroof.  Learning that Kirsten Stewart had sex with a married man surely crushed his heart.  But like our car the damage to his heart will eventually heal. Since I don't personally know either of them you might ask what business do I have to comment?  Therefore, before I analyze their personal life together I want to take the litmus test of morality.  There are 10 points.  I am scoring those points worth 10 points for a total possible score of 100 percent. 1.  Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 0 points 2.  Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: thou shalt not bow down thyself to them nor serve them:  for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the childre...

Words are so interesting, especially when you begin to research them.  I am thankful to Webster for his dictionary.  When we were children my mother had a huge unabridged dictionary.  The youngest son in our family was surrounded by girls.  There were nine children in our family.  The oldest was a boy followed by five girls then another boy followed by two more girls.  In order to get what he wanted my brother often resorted to his physically superior power over us girls.  My brother is over 6 feet tall.  Most of the girls are 5' 2" or shorter but I am almost 5' 9".  One afternoon he wanted to watch "Combat" but my short sister who was older than him was watching something else and would not cede the TV to my brother.  Soon a wrestling match ensued and the baby sister and I jumped in on my older sister's behalf.  Realizing quickly that even the three of us could not subdue my brother I reached for the unabridged dictionary...

This link will lead you to a sermon by Paul Washer.  It will challenge you to examine your heart in light of the Word of God to see if you are truly saved. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEYe_1C03gQ&feature=related

Summer is winding away here on the Gulf Coast of Texas.  We are blessed with summer breezes flowing in from the Gulf of Mexico.  It is never quite as hot near open waters as it is further inland.  It's funny that I have spent my life along the I-10 corridor from Mississippi to Texas to Louisiana to Mississippi and back to Texas again. Being raised in the Bible Belt doesn't mean you were raised in church but the chances are pretty good.  Yes, I was raised in church.  In church you are taught the Roman Road to Salvation, but I never memorized that plan.  So, I had to look it up on the internet. Here's the plan of Salvation - Romans 1:20-21: "For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: 21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became...

The story of Gideon is found in the Book of Judges, chapters 6-8.  Gideon lived between the time spanning the death of Joshua and the beginning of kings in Israel.  The people were supposed to follow God but they followed the idols of the land God had given them.  God used the surrounding peoples to bring discipline and judgment to His people Israel.  God then used the judges to rescue them. When Gideon's time came to be the designated rescuer and judge of Israel an angel of the Lord came and sat under and oak in Ophrah by the winepress where Gideon and his father threshed their wheat. It should be noted that Gideon's father had an altar to Baal.  Gideon's family were Baal worshippers, idolaters.  Read the account of the destruction of Baal's altar and the grove by Gideon in Judges 6:25-32. When Gideon assembled his army to fight against the Midianites he started with 32,000 men.  God purged Gideon's army two times before He was satis...

The last seven verses of the Book of Acts are some of the saddest to me and yet it was the most significant for me.  Specifically, these three verses Acts 28:26-28  Saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive: 27 For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them. 28 Be it known therefore unto you, that the salvation of God is sent unto the Gentiles, and that they will hear it. This was the day that the nation of Israel was condemned from the mouth of Isaiah the prophet (Isaiah 6:9-13).  Paul repeated the words of Isaiah and blindness and deafness came upon the nation of Israel for the prescribed time.  The majority of the Jews would be unable to understand the Gospel of Jesu...