Onward, Forward, Toward…

This past week was a very beautiful and affirming week. Starting last Sunday with the ‘Men’s service’ at church that really encouraged me to e-mails that came from people I haven’t heard from in a long time, to complements from fellow co-workers, to seeing a great friend I haven’t seen in five years yesterday, and a response from a local woman who noticed that I read her profile at a Christian dating site who very politely told me that she had signed on only to modify her new city she …

“…open the floodgates of heaven…”
Yes, this was the lyrics from the Michael W Smith Worship CD (volume one) referring to an outpouring of God’s blessings in the spiritual realm.
Now, Smith is praying for rain to appear physically in Tennessee and has gone as far as to record a public announcement that was made available to Tennessee radio stations this past Friday.
Not knowing when the drought ‘officially started’, I am wondering if it is a sign from God as a judgment because Nashville, Tennessee was the site for ‘The Call’ prayer …

They say that ‘things come in threes’. That was so true in Christian circles this past week as we saw the bizarre, the frivolous, and the outright greed manifest.

Anti-Christ of the week ending 8-25-07 is:

I’m waiting for some church to take the rap “Walk It Out” by rapper “Unk” and cut the chorus (not the verse lyrics) and make a praise video or a spiritual warfare encouragement video and try to convince us that ‘this will save everyone’ because it’s ‘current’
In Pentecostal circles, the term ‘Walk It Out’ was a heavily used cliche used to describe what one did when trials came in their midst.
I’m very surprised some Christian church or youth group hasn’t done this yet and posted it on YouTube…..

I don’t wanna marry you…… (obscure ’sarcastic’ reference to a lyric from a 1950’s song with my emphasis added)
However, In my blog post Turmoil, Trouble, or Tsunami In Tampa,I bought up a serious question when I asked this hard question:

Today at church, the ‘men’s ministry’ was responsible for the service.