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Archive for August, 2007

You’re a Good Man, T2T

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 [...]

Let It Rain…Let It Rain

“…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 [...]

The Failure of Self-Empowerment Theology

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

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

Now “Walk It Out”

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 [...]

Hey, Hey, Paula….

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:

Juanita Bynum Needs Our Prayers

Even though I am not a real fan of her, what has happened to her is very serious and I wish it on no one. According to the myFoxAtlanta web page article and the Atlanta Journal Constitution , the well-known (No More Sheets) and controversial (previously divorced, $1000.00 piece of prayer shawl for TBN, [...]