Onward, Forward, Toward…

At church today and doing the worship, we sang the modern hymn ‘In Christ Alone’. After reading and singing the last verse

No guilt in life, no fear in death—
This is the pow’r of Christ in me;
From life’s first cry to final breath,
Jesus commands my destiny.
No pow’r of hell, no scheme of man,
Can ever pluck me from His hand;
Till He returns or calls me home—
Here in the pow’r of Christ I’ll stand.

It was so liberating to read, sing, and actually feel that truth in light of a ‘pediatric pentecostal’ still within …

Hearing and reading the news the past couple of weeks about Sarah Palin and her ‘Christian’ viewpoints ranging from the Assemblies of God to some ‘quazi domionalist, word of faith, New Apostolic Reformation’ slant (the slice is reporting that they received e-mails from people claiming that the foolishness of “demons being barfed up on towels” was practiced there), I started thinking about something that we hear about quite regularly in a sermon on Sunday morning…..
Culture
One of the many definitions of culture as defined by Webster’s Dictionary is:

the customary beliefs, …

Anti-Christ of the week 9-13-08 is:
The big oil companies..
Using a hurricane as an excuse to raise gas prices. I saw gas prices go from $3.65 a gallon up to $4.09 to $4.25 a gallon with limit cutoffs at 10 gallons max.

Note: THIS IS NOT THE OFFICIAL WEB PAGE OF THE JEREMIAH CIRCLE GOLD KEY !!!
I get numerous e-mails a week asking for the gold key as if I am the official site. To those who asked for prayer, I did say a prayer for you.
I thought that the televangelists on T.B.N.; I.N.S.P; and God(less) TV were bad enough. There is another network that has a lower and more degrading group of televangelists
B.E.T.
Just watch from 3AM to 7 AM EST weekdays or on the weekends especially the Sunday Night / …

I received a link to this article by Julie Neidlinger that talked about a recent visit to a church that she ended up leaving in the middle of the service because she already saw that she could not fit in….
In her article, she discussed every demographic from the trendy hip youth pastor to the starched-collar christian to the pastor turned infomercial salesman (sermon about children turned into pleas for children’s ministry workers) to the corporate business atmosphere of being demographed and flow-charted.
I identify with you
I am the square peg in …

I went to LoriKate’s page to thank her for talking about my satirical prophecies of 2009. At the bottom of the page, her “School Name Generator” is more hilarious!!!! Go check it out

Hanna is getting ready to hit the Carolinas late tonight / early Saturday morning. Like most every person who lives in “Hurricane Alley” (the area of the Carolina coast between Charleston, S.C., and Hatteras, on the Outer Banks of North Carolina), I have my batteries, water, ropes, tarps, portable radio, bread, gas in the truck, flashlights and duct tape ready if needed.