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• To All my Christian Friends
  by Maximus

  Hey guys, / I may well be telling many of you old news, if I am, sorry. I have just finished my second read of a GREAT book – The Shack ...

  Hey guys, / I may well be telling many of you old news, if I am, sorry. I have just finished my second read of a GREAT book – The Shack by William Young. If you, or you know anyone who struggles with the God as Father thing, then give them this book. Also, if you have not yet read it do so. As a theologian I have to say that I think this book is spot on & a very important insipired novel. / Max :)

• FEATURED IN LIVING CHRISTIANITY
  by Sally Omar

  TO ALL THE HOSTS OF LIVING CHRISTIANITY: THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR FEATURING “HIS DIVINE LOVE” .... AND THANK YOU TAINIA FINLAY FO…

  TO ALL THE HOSTS OF LIVING CHRISTIANITY: THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR FEATURING “HIS DIVINE LOVE” .... AND THANK YOU TAINIA FINLAY FOR YOUR AWESOME PHOTOGRAPH / WHICH INSPIRED MY POEM… HUGS, SALLY xxxxxxxxxxxxxooooooooooo

• Another Feature!! :)
  by Rebecca Barksdale

  I am so humbled to find that I had another writing featured within the same group as last time,Living Christianity...

  I am so humbled to find that I had another writing featured within the same group as last time,Living Christianity The piece is, Dry Land Thanks again to everyone! This has made my day! RebeccaLee

• Arables - Grounds for Growing Faith - My First Book!!!!!
  by lightsmith

  Well, I’ve done it. My first book! Not of images, but stories. Arables Short stories aimed …

  Well, I’ve done it. My first book! Not of images, but stories. Arables Short stories aimed at developing (and sometimes challenging) your Christian faith. They are funny, they are sad. They will amaze, they will suprise. As with most of my works, they are very, very different. Look at your beliefs from a different perspective….. and deepen them. Arables

• my letter to pilgrim re: 'living christianity'
  by mister khan

  i decided to post my letter to pilgrim as i believe the topics in hand are serious enough to demand public debate. if you wish to join in…

  i decided to post my letter to pilgrim as i believe the topics in hand are serious enough to demand public debate. if you wish to join in, please have the decency to read the entri text thoroughly, and not to skim-read or jump to the end halfway through. thankyou. mister pilgrim, i’m writing to you as a representative of big bubble, as it has been you in the past that i have in the main had communication with. i’m not normally one to take issue, but i’m afraid i have an issue. i recently tried to join a group called ‘living christianity’. they kicked me off. they didn’t even write to tell me why, i think i lasted four minutes. slightly put out, i tried to engage the moderators in dialogue, both through bubble mail and an open letter- again no reply, no explanation. the thing that made me rather angry was that i was subjected to clear prejudice. i hadn’t even submitted any work. they just decided they didn’t like me. any way you look at that, it’s just plain wrong. thus my issue with the self appointed leaders of this expression of christianity is twofold- i understand that the general tone of my output is probably not to their taste, but they could have said- ‘welcome rabbitollah; although we welcome your input with the warmest of hearts, we do feel obliged to warn you that the general tone of your output is not to our liking, and we’d basically like our group to be kept free of anything that might be considered either offensive, or not really suitable for kids- we’re a family oriented group of guys, and though we appreciate the fifth amendment and all that, we’d like to keep things clean! in short, to use your own language, we’re basically into ‘bumper stickers’, and one offensive word and you’re out. we look forward to your contribution…..’ and the rules would have been set. but no. they just blanked me. i bubble mailed the group moderators- no reply. no explanation. not even an acknowedgement of communication. that- in my book is not on, regardless of sensibilities. i joined again., three minutes later, kicked out again. this ‘closed book’ nature alerted my second concern was seeded by this response. if i remember correctly, redbubble is an artistic community (although at times it does seem to resemble an online asyslum for the insane involved in some sort of creative therapy)- i believe religious belief is as valid a binding interest for a group as ‘llamas’ or ‘fugilicious’, but the wholesale- ‘my way or the highway’ attitude shown does suggest a tone of religious bigotory- i began to think… if i was a roman catholic and started posting shit hot shots of the pope on the phone, would they allow them? is it the ‘right kind’ of christianity? oh, hang on a minute, we’re already not judging on ‘artistic criteteria- we’re judging on affiliation to a narrow channel of belief- what the fuck has that got to do with making pretty pictures out of pixels….?’ basically what it looks like is a closed private online church, and the continued lack of communication from it’s leaders, doesn’t instill one with confidence to the contrary. the group is called ‘living christianity’. not ‘living evangelicism’, or ‘half dead protestantism’. and christianity is big. if it was an islamic group run by sunnis, who were rejecting the membership of shi’ia, would that be tolerated? (in this respect i regard myself somewhat as a sufi, finding the concepts of art, beauty, mysticism and universal love at the heart of god, and god to be found in my heart) as it happens i believe in jesus. although my belief’s aren’t entirely conformist with any single branch of popular church, i was baptised into the orthodox faith (the oldest, most mystrical and unadulterated of the popular variants), i own a crucifix, more than one book on jesus, and like to get stoned and go to ancient churches and monastaries pretty to meditate. i have a wide interest in religious art, and am fascinated by the influence of spirituality in the history of art as a whole, though not so much by bumper stickers. however- why the hell am i defending my credentials as a christian? do i need to be a christian to join the living christianity group? what’s next? groups for white people? groups for black people? surely it is the theme or topic of the art displayed in the group that merits inclusion, not that you belong to this or that religion, denomination, race etc. could i not join the ‘adelaide’ group if i wanted to post pictures of adelaide, just becasue i live, for instance, in melbourne? i will not patronise you by continuing. you clearly know what i’m talking about. thus i would be interested to know bigbubble’s policy on the use of groups primarily for progeneration of specific political or religious attitudes, as opposed to theme or topic specific art- for thus it would appear that this is exactly what this particular group is involved in, consciously or not- and i’m not entirely sure that’s healthy, opn any level in my opinion, if the group moderators are autonomous in this respect, and have the final word in the respect of who and who cannot join their group without having to justify their decisions (as this group has done) then this group in partuicular must change it’s name to something a little more specific like ‘north american living christianity’ to clarify exactly who is allowed to join, for if it discriminates so, it cannot singularly claim to represent the embodiment of the range of worship practiced in the world’s largest religion. i’m quite ragged about this. the word communication has the same root as the word community. one does not exist without the other. i think that the fragmentation of red bubble into a a host of seperate self-interest mini bubbles was not the vision that you and your folks had when you conceived this remarkable parallel universe. by insisting on communication, i do not mean that i wish to engage in theological debate, but rather that i want to make and post some positive stuff on jesus, and get it to the right audience- an audience with whom i would otherwise have very little contact with- neither in daily life, nor on the bubble- and the title of the group ‘living christianity’ thus fits my purpose, which is why i want to join it. generally i try to make a difference with my pictures; some of them are crass statements, others absolute fucking cliches, but they are all done with the best of intentions. first there was anti-facist stuff, then the anti-american colonialism series, more recently the pro-whale anti-whalers stuff. my core messages are clear, love and peace in a global context. i want to move onto jesus, who you can’t really argue with as a banner waver for being nice to everyone and everything, though i can’t help but feel he’s been a little misrepresented in the east recently, in much the same way as muhammed has been in the west. i’d just like to add that in my opinion neither my current tendancy to name myself ridiculously nor have a comedy avatar should count against me as i am clearly just entertaining myself and various other members (nobody has told me that they are offended if they are) nor the nature of any of my other writing or work affiliated to other groups (namely the eponymous parody and lampoon group) should prejudice my right to join any other group. regardless of the treatment i’ve suffered at the hands of the moderators in question, i am still keen on joining the group and getting on with my jesus stuff, because as i said, it’s the best place for my jesus stuff to be. i would appreciate your counsel, opinion, and arbitration respectively on these matters. yours sincerely mister khan.

• WOW !!!! What a Week !!
  by Phil Thomson IPA

  What a week on redbubble !! I’d just like to express my overwhelming joy and thanks to ALL in the RB community. / My week has been full …

  What a week on redbubble !! I’d just like to express my overwhelming joy and thanks to ALL in the RB community. / My week has been full of highlights and Blessings firstly with “The Covenant”being featured on the Art page. Secondly the sale of two cards of ‘The Covenant’ and ‘Blades on the Locks’, then my image ” The Broken Vessel” being chosen as the avatar for Living Christianity. To top it all off, I opened up redbubble to find that “The Covenant”had made the Home Page!! / I would like to offer my very sincere thanks to everybody who took the time to view “The Covenant” and make ALL those wonderful comments, it really is very overwhelming and somewhat humbling to have such beautiful and genuine comments from a community of very talented people, here on RB !!! / I would also like to express my thanks to those who voted for “The Broken Vessel”, it is real joy to be able to represent the group, like that !! / In regard to “The Covenant” it really was one of those Divine appointments where i was in the right place at the right time to capture “The Magic of the Moment” / The image was taken just after a rainstorm, towards sunset at the close of a rather hot, humid, stormy summer’s day near Geelong, Australia. / Once again thankyou for your wonderful support, / Phil T.

• Another Sale!!!!!
  by Phil Thomson IPA

  I would like to express my heartfelt appreciation to the wonderful person who purchased a mounted print of my image “The Covenant” / I d…

  I would like to express my heartfelt appreciation to the wonderful person who purchased a mounted print of my image “The Covenant” / I do hope and pray that you enjoy viewing it and share some of the Blessing, enjoyment and excitement that I experienced as I stood there in awe and had the utmost pleasure in capturing that “special moment” in time. / Again, Blessings and thanks, / Phil

• *JESUS CALLED MY NAME*
  by TREVOR IRWIN

  Jesus He called my name. / For all who are Christian, those who have been born again and received Jesus as lord and Saviour, there was a…

  Jesus He called my name. / For all who are Christian, those who have been born again and received Jesus as lord and Saviour, there was a time when you heard Jesus Call your name. A time when you knew that The Lord loved you and wanted your heart. This is what I mean when I say He called my name. for those who have read my personal testimony, you will know that he called my name. When I was a chronic Alcoholic, gambler and one who practiced witchcraft. *. Due to the requests of friends I have met via Redbubble, I have decided to share with you, how the lord called me to serve him in Africa. A call to service. [As the Lord lives and is true and holy, I certify that what you are about to read is a true account of how Jesus called me into Missionary Service. This is still as fresh in my memory today as it was when this incredible event took place in my life] On Friday 26th August 1994, I was troubled in my spirit all day. I sat and watched Television and read a book, but yet I felt God wanted to speak to me, but I did not know what he wanted. So my wife said to me that I should just go to the park and pray. It was 6.05pm in the evening when I arrived at the park, and I parked my car and started to walk around the park. / I was walking and looking at the swans on the pond and praying at the same time. Then with not warning at all, I became aware that someone was walking close behind me. I did not look back, but knew someone was behind me. I continued walking along a narrow footpath and as I did I felt a person’s hand holding mine. There was no fear or indeed nay desire to look to see who this was that was holding my right hand. / It was very strange looking back now to why I did not want to see who it was. This would have been anyone’s reaction at the time. I felt warm and at peace, not knowing that It was *Jesus who was the one actually holding my hand. I was Praying in the Spirit [speaking to God in the gift of tongues]. Then Jesus said my name, Trevor. It was the softness and Love in his voice that caused me to look and as I say my Masters face, I knew that It was him. He did not need to tell me it was Jesus. When Jesus comes to you my friend, you won’t need any introduction or explanation, for you will know it is the King of kings that has called your name. In an instant tears my friend flowed down my face, and I was crying like I have never cried before. My emotions were overwhelmed with sadness and sorrow, because his eyes were filled with tears also and he was quietly weeping. Here was my Jesus holding my hand and he was crying. I could not understand why I was not jubilant with Joy. His sorrow pierced my very fibre of my being. By now, I was transported away from all consciousness of being in the park on a bright summer evening and we were in a dark place. The Only way I can describe this pace is to use a well as an example. Imagine a deep round stone well, empty, and you are at the bottom of it. It is very round and very wide. So can hardly see the other side of it, and you can just make out the huge stones that form the round sides of it. It’s dark at the bottom and you cannot see any light, except the light that emanates from Jesus Garments. This is how it seemed at that point. As I Gazed into his face, he spoke these words to me. / “Trevor, My Son, I want to show you something, do not be afraid my son for I am with you”. There was a short silence as these words took hold of me. He gently squeezed my hand and began to walk forward in this dark place. As we went forward, he was still weeping, and I could hear voices in the distance and different kinds of noises, like doors opening and closing, and A smell that I had never experienced before. I was crying as the Passion and sorrow of Jesus seemed to flow into my heart. It was so hard to carry such sadness and I have never experienced this before or after. Then I began to see people at my left side and all were chained to the walls and terrible sores were all over them, and all were shouting things at Jesus. I could not make out what they were saying, but Jesus was crying and weeping. The smell was terrible and there were some that when they say him cried as well. As we went forward the light that was so white lit up the side and a little ahead. The place was so big and wide I could not see the other ends. Then he again spoke to me “Trevor my Son, Do not be afraid”. I was scared, but his words just melted away any fears I had. We then came to a place where I saw am Casket alone and as we walked pass, a man spoke and said “Jesus, Why have you let me come here?. Jesus with tears answered him and said “Judgement has been set”. Again the man shouted at him and started to explain to Jesus that he was a pastor and that all his life he served Jesus and Preached and give to those in need. Jesus said again to him, “Judgement has been set”. All the time Jesus was weeping and I was looking at Jesus all the time, and I never did see te man, but knew he was a man, because of his voice. Again the man pleaded with Jesus and told him many other good things he had done and as he was talking, Jesus raised his other hand and stopped the man from speaking. Then Jesus said to the man, “ I sent you warnings, I sent messengers to warn you and you did not repent, for the woman you slept with was not the wife I had given you, and you died in your sins, therefore Judgement has been set”. Jesus was very sad, and began to lead me further into this dark and cold place. Then we came to another place like a very large open place with walls so thick and wide and there were like empty prison cells all around. One cell stacked upon another and I could not see where they ended, and they were so high. The Jesus knelt down on his knees and was now crying and I could feel his body shaking. All this time he was still holding my right hand. I stood beside him with tears flowing down my face and my heart was breaking with compassion and sadness for my Lovely Lord Jesus. I then knelt down beside him and wanted to hold him close, but I was so troubled to see My Lord cry like this. Then I asked him the only question I asked through all of this. “Lord, why are you crying, there is nobody here?. In what seemed like a long time we both cried and cried. Then still kneeling, Jesus looked deep into my eyes and said, / “This Place is prepared for all those who do not know my name”. / As I looked all around, I now could hear screams and fluttering wings and rustlings above our heads high above where we were. I saw in the darkness shadows of what I can only describe as winged demons, hellish beings flying about. Jesus was weeping so hard and as he stood up, I was still on my knees. He looked into my face and said to me “My Son, Go to Africa, to the villages and proclaim my name among the people, Go tell them who I am and that I love them, and I will be with you each step you take” Then Again suddenly, as if no time passed, I was back in the park. The first thing I became aware of was that I could not feel his hand in mine. I cried and begged him to come back again, and I remember saying Lord there is so much I want to ask you. The Holy Spirit then opened the eyes of my understanding and I realised that God had allowed me to have a vision where Jesus came and called my name. Where he had appeared to me and called me for service. I was deeply shaken and all they way back to my car, I was worshipping my lord in tongues [heavenly Language]. How I drove home, I do not know, and as I told my wife and we both just praised God and give thanks. I told my pastor the following day Saturday 27th August 1994, and the response are you sure it was Jesus. I was upset and few in the church the following day had any encouragement. So On Monday 27th August 1994 I went to my local travel agent and asked how much a ticket would be for Uganda. As a boy in School we had a visiting teacher from Uganda. I marvelled at the little round huts they lived in and the photographs she showed us was amazing. So I settled it that Uganda was the place God wanted me to go. The ticket was £530.00. I had no money so I sold my car. I was determined to get to where Jesus sent me and do what he told me to do. All this time and even now. I still see my Lord and the love in his beautiful eyes. Yes I still cry and know someday I will be with him forever. I Got the exact money from the sale of my car. It was then that the Church saw that I was committed to following my lords Commission. A Little money came in and I went to Africa on Saturday 24th September 1994. I arrived in a country where I knew nobody. I asked the taxi driver at Entebbe airport to take to a Christian Guesthouse. He took me to marimba Guest house. That evening as I lay alone in my little room, a house girl knocked my door. She asked if I would like to attend a church. I was so happy. The following Day I who knew nobody was preaching to a Church of Over 2000 people. That evening I was speaking at Chief of Police Wedding anniversary, and in that audience were Government officials, and others. The following week I was given a small house to live in free of charge, a Vehicle and driver, and the mission to extreme poo and isolated villages was born. Since that time I have dedicated my whole life to Preaching the Gospel in remote areas of Africa, South India and have never had a salary. I have trusted and depended on God to meet my needs and that of my family. There have been and still are difficulties in rising the cost of Travel, But God always blesses me with Good people whom he has given a passion and heart to pray for these precious children and to sow financially into his work. This is how the Lord called me to service. I pray It will bless and inspire you. Thank you to all who have asked me how God called me to be a missionary without having a job to fund it. * [COMMON ENGLISH BIBLE] Even before I was born, the LORD God chose me to serve him and to lead back the people So the LORD has honoured me and made me strong. Evangelist Trevor Irwin. Please visit Charity mission website by clicking link below. / http://www.philadelphia33.org/ / http://www.redbubble.com/people/joshuatree1*

• The great sin of the Christian church
  by Daniel Rarela

  _This quality of restraint in Jesus – one could almost call it a divine shyness – took me by surprise. I realized, as I absorbed the sto…

  This quality of restraint in Jesus – one could almost call it a divine shyness – took me by surprise. I realized, as I absorbed the story of Jesus in the Gospels, that I had expected from him the same qualities I had met in the southern fundamentalist church of my childhood. There, I often felt the victim of emotional pressures. Doctrine was dished out in a “Believe, and don’t ask questions!” style. Wielding the power of miracle, mystery, and authority, the church left no place for doubt. I also learned the manipulative techniques for “soul-winning,” some of which involved misrepresenting myself to the person I was talking to. Yet now I am unable to find any of these qualities in the life of Jesus. If I read church history correctly, many other followers of Jesus have yielded to the very temptations he resisted. Dostoevsky shrewdly replayed the Temptation scene in a torture cell of the Grand Inquisition. How could a church founded by the One who withstood the Temptation carry out an Inquisition of forced belief that lasted half a millennium? Meanwhile, in a milder Protestant version in the city of Geneva, officials were making attendance at church compulsory and refusal to take the Eucharist a crime. Heretics there, too, were burned at the stake. To its shame, Christian history reveals unrelieved attempts to improve on the way of Christ. Sometimes the church joins hands with a government that offers a shortcut to power. “The worship of success is generally THE form of idol worship which the devil cultivates most assiduously,” wrote Helmut Thielicke about the German church’s early infatuation with Adolf Hitler. “We could observe in the first years after 1933 the almost suggestive compulsion that emanates from great successes and how, under the influence of these successes, men, even Christians, stopped asking in whose name and at what price…” Sometimes the church grows its own mini-Hitlers, men with names like Jim Jones and David Koresh, who understand all too well the power represented in miracle, mystery, and authority. And sometimes the church simply borrows the tools of manipulation perfected by politicians, salesmen, and advertising copyrighters. – excerpt from The Jesus I Never Knew, by Philip Yancey it is for this reason that, even though I am a Christ follower, I can only be so offended when people like Bill Maher (whose show is extremely insightful, entertaining, and funny) are quick to bash Christianity. If you listen very closely, insults like Maher’s are nearly always directed at Christians, but hardly ever Jesus himself. If anything, it sheds a light on how much we need God’s grace: believer or not, nobody does a good job of walking in the same footsteps of Christ, and every time we try to pave that road into something that’s a little easier on our feet, we do such a lousy job of it that it should come as no surprise that so many people roll their eyes at Christians. Ghandi said it best: “I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” And Margaret Cho put it a little more bluntly: “Many of my contemporaries are atheists, and for good reason. God isn’t really the problem; some of His followers are big assholes.” That being said, I kind of feel the need to let people know that JESUS is the true face of Christianity, not other Christians, not Jerry Falwell, not the misguided believers (that’s pretty much all of us) who get the most media attention when you turn on the news. So, to my atheist friends, I won’t fault you for sniping or rolling your eyes at Christians in general – in truth, we deserve it, more often than not. But, if whatever doubt you have in your heart is really that strong, I hope it motivates you to find some answers – I hope it motivates you guys to study the Man whom I find it difficult to stop listening to/ thinking/ praising/ writing/ singing/ talking about. And if you really take a good look at Him, read about him, who He was, and what He did, from all viewpoints and perspectives, then I hope you’ll understand why I call myself a follower of Jesus Christ, why the most anyone can be is a poor reflection of Him, and why I keep trying to be a little more like Him in spite of the fact that I seem to fail at every single attempt.

• Special Literature
  by coffeetea

  The best English literature I met is Bibble. I read some pages; it goes deep and it is so interesting to me. Sometimes I go to local ch…

  The best English literature I met is Bibble. I read some pages; it goes deep and it is so interesting to me. Sometimes I go to local church to hear those stories or just take the ceremony and atmostphere. It is fancinating listening the theory and stories about love, faith, comfort and patience…etc. It is enlightening when they talk about the father, the son and the holy ghost . There are themes about ghost too here in the cyber world. I dont think they can handle; that is God’s job, but they do that anyway, funny thing ! Spring is coming,a good time to get in touch with God more. And it is time to be more industrious! Have a lovely new season and start ! anyone who by chance saw this page. / A lot of peace and growth!

• Is it a cure, or a curse? Is it even real?
  by Daniel Rarela

  “Is it true?! They can cure us?” _“No, Rogue… they can’t cure you. Do you know why? There’s nothing to cure. Nothing’s wrong with…

  “Is it true?! They can cure us?” “No, Rogue… they can’t cure you. Do you know why? There’s nothing to cure. Nothing’s wrong with you… or any of us, for that matter.” X3: The Last Stand might very well have been the worst movie out of the X Men movie trilogy, but some of the underlying social/ ethical issues throughout the movie really did hit home for me. The biggest of these was the issue concerning whether or not Rogue ought to have taken the “mutant cure” and become a normal human being. First, let me provide a bit of background information for those of you who might not be familiar with what I’m talking about – X Men started out as a very popular comic book series that eventually made its way onto the big screen, featuring people who were born with special traits/ abilities/ powers that made them different from others. These people were called mutants, and were feared by the rest of the human race because of what made them different. Eventually, however, that fear began to melt away, and was instead replaced with (misguided?) compassion – in X3: The Last Stand, a medical company develops a serum that, when taken by injection, removes the mutant gene from the body, and turns the mutant into an ordinary human being, without any of the different traits/ abilities/ powers they had been born with. This, of course, sparks a fierce controversy in the mutant population – for some mutants, their special abilities (ranging from telepathy, fast reflexes, the ability to manipulate the elements, etc.) are something to be celebrated, and any attempt to remove that or take it away is a huge insult to everything they are. For other mutants, this cure is viewed as an opportunity to finally be free of oppression, exclusion, and prejudice – an opportunity to finally be accepted by the mainstream society that has given them the cold shoulder for so long. This is especially true for a mutant named Rogue, whose special ability is that she can inflict intense, even life-threatening, pain on somebody just by touching them. Some might think it to be amazing, but for Rogue, it is a curse, as she feels condemned to live for the rest of her life without ever coming into contact with another human being. Her powers prevent her from being able to touch her boyfriend, Bobby, and prevent her from being able to even kiss him without putting his life in danger. As a result, she is eager to get a dose of the mutant cure, in spite of the fact that a lot of her peers and friends advise her not to, or at least think it over instead of just rushing into it. The question that I would like to ask the RedBubble community, particularly the gay and the Christian community on RedBubble, is: what if there was a way to cure homosexuality? What if it was possible for a gay person to change his or her sexuality and become a heterosexual? How many of us in the gay community would take that cure? I don’t care if you believe your sexuality cannot be changed. Assume, for a minute, that what I’m asking you right now is actually common knowledge and you really did have a choice. The reason I am asking you this question, is because this is a path that I have recently wondered if I am capable of walking on. As I said in a previous journal entry- , yes, I am gay… I also became a Christian four years ago, and have been trying to live my life in tune with the message of Jesus Christ ever since. I can’t say I left behind a life of promiscuity, since I’ve only had sex twice in my entire life… but the fact remains that my sexual desires are still directed towards other men, and even going beyond sex, I find it virtually impossible to even imagine myself married to and in love with a woman, with biological children of my own. Now this probably isn’t a problem at all for the gay man who doesn’t believe in God, and recklessly acts on his sexual desires every chance he gets, but for someone like me… it’s tough to call yourself a true follower of Christ when you find yourself getting really uncomfortable with verses in the Bible like Romans 1:27 and 1 Corinthians 6:9-10. Promiscuity no longer feels like freedom… instead, I only feel like a slave to my own body, which is humiliating, considering that I’d like to be seen as an intelligent human being that’s above bowing to every single request made by the area between my legs. In terms of love… I’d like to imagine that there’s a man out there who sees past whatever he witnesses with his own two eyes. I’d like to imagine that there’s a man out there who sees kindness and graciousness before he even notices muscles or good looks… a man who knows and loves Christ more than he could ever love me, and at the same time, be willing to make a commitment so that my lips would be the only lips he would ever kiss for as long as we both would live. And then I wonder… am I wishing for an impossibility, hoping that there’s a good Christian man out there that I could love with all my heart? Is it even more outrageous to hope that God would look down from Heaven at the two of us and smile? Is it like holding an apple in your outstretched hand, and hoping that it’ll fly up into the sky, instead of falling down to the ground when you let it go? I ask all this because I just get so tired of being at war with myself. The worst fight is over, mind you – I feel that it’s important to let you all know that I’m NOT struggling with this because I’ve got this intense fear that God is going to send me to hell. If it’s true that whosoever believes in the divinity of Christ Jesus will have everlasting life, then there’s no need for me to be afraid of the future. But if it’s also true that real Christianity transcends mere religion, and is instead a relationship with God, then I see my homosexuality as a barrier preventing my relationship with God from becoming more wonderful than it is as of today. Think of it this way – imagine a man who has the perfect wife… a wife who loves him wholly, unconditionally… and constantly forgives him in spite of the fact that he’s constantly cheating on her. The man sees how much his wife loves him and feels an intense wave of guilt over the fact that he feels so unworthy of her love because of his unfaithfulness to her. The husband knows that his wife’s love for him is so pure that she would never divorce him, but instead of seeing that as an incentive to keep cheating, the man is now inspired to stop, in hopes of becoming at least a little more worthy of the love that his wife gives so freely. That’s kind of the way it feels between me and God. I know, of course, that salvation is given by grace, and that even if I was as good of a person as Mother Teresa, it could never match the kind of love that God has for me. That being said, I also feel it important to mention that I’m not looking to destroy my sexuality in order to earn God’s love. There’s no point in trying to earn something that was already given to me freely. The reason why I’m trying to do this is because it tortures me to know that God is so madly in love with somebody like me, and I feel as if He deserves so much better than me. So even if I could never be “good enough” to God, I feel as if I should at least try to be good enough, so I can feel a little less guilt over the fact that I’ve received an incredible blessing that I know I don’t deserve. Think about the last time you deeply hurt somebody you love. Then think about how good it felt to be forgiven…to have that person hug you, look into your eyes and say, “It’s okay. I forgive you. I love you and will always love you.” I think about God’s forgiveness, and I as much as I am filled with relief and happiness… there’s another voice that points a finger at me and says, “You’re such a fucking asshole! If you really understood the weight of what you had done, you would’ve jumped into a tub of acid, because a person as bad as you doesn’t deserve to even look into the face of the person you wronged.” I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s felt this… more often than not, even though we wish to be forgiven… a lot of us sometimes wish that the person we hurt would stop loving us altogether, because we know that punishment is what we actually deserve, as opposed to having that person look us in the eye and say “I love you still, and I don’t love you any less than I did yesterday, or the day before.” To have God say that makes you all the more aware of how unworthy you really are… it makes you feel bad about yourself… it makes you want to hold God at arms length and wail “Look, God – just don’t_… STOP IT, okay?! I know You love me, and I love You too…but You’re too good for me, and I love You too much to let you settle for less than what You actually deserve… so let me just jump off this bridge, so You’ll have room in Your life to actually find someone who’s _GOOD ENOUGH for You, because that person isn’t me, as much as I wish it was!” So, going back to homosexuality… what if there really was a way to become straight? What if there really was a way to be at least a_little_ bit less ashamed of yourself when you look into God’s face for the first time? Why would anyone turn down the opportunity to make life a little easier, Christian or not? And if the opportunity is truly there, what am I supposed to do? Watch lesbian porn for weeks on end until I finally get turned on by it? Ask a random girl out on a date and pretend that I’m sincere enough times, hoping that by the end of the date I really will be sincere about it? It’s obviously not enough to argue the point that one should turn away from homosexuality because the Bible commands you to… if that was all it took, then nobody on this planet would be gay because nearly everybody on this earth has heard a pastor say those words at least once! So having a valid point in an argument clearly doesn’t do the job… So to my fellow brothers/ sisters in Christ, I ask you, how exactly does one deal with and fix homosexuality after letting God into their lives? I’ve prayed about it more than once, believe me, and my prayers have not been halfhearted either… yet I woke up the next morning and was still gay, so if “former” homosexuals are the real deal, it’d be nice to know what it is they did that I am obviously forgetting to do. I’m not even leading a homosexual “lifestyle” – been celibate for four years, don’t go to gay clubs/ bars/ events, don’t go around looking for hookups with other guys – check, check… checking everything off my list and I still know quite clearly in my heart that I’m gay. So what exactly am I missing? And to my gay friends/ family… if there really was a way to turn yourself around, if there truly exists out there a way for you to no longer be a homosexual, would you take the opportunity? And if you wouldn’t, why not? I sincerely hope you’ll try to give me more than the “I was born this way/ love yourself for who you are” cliché. There are serial killers and pedophiles out there that could probably make that same argument (keep in mind that I’m not equating my fellow gay brothers/ sisters with serial killers and pedophiles – I’m just saying that clichés heard a thousand times will not justify you in the eyes of the rest of the world when worse people than you will say the same things). Just because you’re born a certain way doesn’t mean you need to stay that way. If a person is born blind, would it be wrong for him to accept a doctor’s offer to give him a new set of eyes? Would the rest of his blind friends tell him there’s no need, and that he’s fine the way he is? And is that just because none of them have ever known what it’s like to have sight, therefore they just don’t know any better? Again, I say all this because I want to at least try. For all anyone knows, I might fall flat on my face and fail. I might never get married or fall in love for the rest of my life. I might even fall deeply in love with a man and stay married to him for the rest of my life. At this point, I hardly know what to pray for anymore. I might show up in Heaven one day just to have the angels say, “We’re letting you in, but just make sure you know that you were fooling yourself when you thought being in a loving monogamous relationship with another man would erase what the Bible said about homosexuality. Doesn’t matter if you sincerely loved him and weren’t having one-night stands all over the place.” I might hang my head in shame (I’m going to be humbled in the presence of God regardless), but I want to at least be able to say, “Yes, I failed at being able to live completely by Your word, God… but I can tell You, if nothing else, that at least it wasn’t for the lack of trying.”

• Pay Careful Attention Featured On Home Page Today!
  by Ruth Palmer

  Just want to say thanks to whoever is doing the featuring today for the home page! THANK YOU!

  Just want to say thanks to whoever is doing the featuring today for the home page! THANK YOU!

• For The Bible Tells Me So
  by Daniel Rarela

  Below are the links to the documentary entitled “For The Bible Tells Me So,” dealing with homosexuals who came from conservative Christi…

  Below are the links to the documentary entitled “For The Bible Tells Me So,” dealing with homosexuals who came from conservative Christian families. Your thoughts? Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 Part 9 Part 10 Part 11 Part 12 Part 13

• Hiiiii so happy...........Thank you to Living Christianity & Bits and Pieces groups Moderators
  by cheetaah

  I am so happy, my art Jesus on the Water (2) is featured on Living Christianity Group, / I listed it 13 days ago….....and an hour later …

  I am so happy, my art Jesus on the Water (2) is featured on Living Christianity Group, / I listed it 13 days ago….....and an hour later I was notified it was featured….. I wasn’t on the computer too much…. and I was kind of did not noticed it, when I figured it out I was surprised and happy, it is still in the featured page. Thank you so much Living Christianity group moderators for featuring it. It’s my first art that’s been featured…....... Also I take this opportunity to thank Bits and Pieces group for adding me as featured aritst I appreciate and I love you all. Hugs and kisses to all / Hasmig

• Dejected Christian
  by Maximus

  This entry is in no way artistic – so you have been warned. Yes I am unashamedly a Christian, I find no other even slightly reasonab…

  This entry is in no way artistic – so you have been warned. Yes I am unashamedly a Christian, I find no other even slightly reasonable answer to the great questions of life; but do not misunderstand me. I am NOT pro church; in fact I think 99.9% of the time church sucks. But Jesus rocks. I am totally fed up with what most churches are on about – maintaining the institution. Christ centred Christianity is about relationship Jesus and each other. These things I am very pro. This is not an uneducated nor and inexperienced voice. I have been a part of the beast called the church for over 50 years & I have two degrees in theology. Most of what is talked about in church is concerned with building the institution, something we are NEVER charged to do, or maintaining the institution, something which takes too much energy, corruption, manipulation and money. Even the churches that say outwardly that they are not about buildings and programs, eventually get around to being about building and maintaining something. What about relationships? People do not know each other nearly well enough, let alone care about one another. E.g. I had a few days away (a very rare treat) which went over a weekend, so we missed church two weeks in a row & 6-7 days of RB. I did NOT receive any communication from church folks, but quite a number of fellow RBers asked if all was OK? So pat yourselves on the back & if you are a church member try to take that caring into that community too, or else what future does the church have… not much. Regards & blessings to all / Max :)

• Careful!!!! You might be listening to Christian Rock :O
  by Kenny Gulley Jr.

  You know in my last journal a few sundays ago, i wrote concerning the bible and its take on homosexuality, and how it is NOT a hate crime…

  You know in my last journal a few sundays ago, i wrote concerning the bible and its take on homosexuality, and how it is NOT a hate crime but simply the truth…the whole thing went to heck afterwords..but i remember comments like “christians and their religion have caused more war / more hate and more evil than anything in the filthy / book they so call the word of god, taught by sneaky…” ...i beg to differ. / But tell me this, if you were stuck in a deep dark alley with a flat tire, and there were a group of 12 shaved headed males with tattoos, white t-shirts and baggy jeans headed towards you…I am absolutely 100% sure that you would be scared to death and maybe even flee your car. But if you KNEW that they were all walking home from a Bible study…you would most likely feel safe and ask them for help! no doubt.. but anyway where was a i headed. Oh yes!!! / Christian Rock ..today..isnt what it used to be. But i LOVE it. / You might be listening toit and not notice at all!!! The reason? Bands (whom i will name below) from certain labels like Tooth&Nail, Facedown, Sparrow, or other Independent Labels have taken on mainstream radio by NOT LABELING themselves as a Christian Band… are they denying God before men? No no. Ask them personally and most all will tell you that indeed they are Christian and Confess Christ and that their faith is intrinsically apart of their music. So why not label themselves Christian Rock? Exclusivity. If they label themselves Christian Rock, they close out the awesome messages they contain in their music to those that need it most. / They do not throw God in your face (some songs now and then) / but this is in order to reach the non-christian world but also allowing themselves to be available to christian listeners as well! With that said, are you listening to Christian rock and not know it? BAND LIST- As I Lay Dying [Quote: “I’m not sure what the difference is between five Christians playing in a band and a Christian band.”] Anberlin [“[My faith] affects every single aspect of my life, but I’m not a preacher, I’m an entertainer.”] Switchfoot [“For us, it’s a faith, not a genre”...”[Calling us ‘Christian rock’ tends to be a box that closes some people out and excludes them.]” Lifehouse [“My music is spiritually based, but we don’t want to be labeled as a ‘Christian band,’ because all of a sudden people’s walls come up and they won’t listen to your music and what you have to say.”] Underoath [Christianity is the “backbone of our lives, especially in the way that we handle certain things, but it’s not so much the backbone of our lyrics. It’s not like every song is a lesson from the Bible or something. It’s just normal life struggles.”] Paramore [“Our faith is very important to us. It’s obviously going to come out in our music because if someone believes something then their worldview is going to come out in anything they do. But we’re not out here to preach to kids, we’re out here because we love music.”] Relient K / Jars of Clay / Hawk Nelson / Norma Jean / The Fray / Mat Kearney / Delirious? / P.O.D. / FM Static (and Thousand Foot Krutch -their side band) / GRITS / MxPx / Stellar Kart / Remedy Drive / Sanctus Real / Skillet / Sixpence none the Richer (There She Goes Again, Kiss Me) / Flyleaf / Superchic[k] / kutless / planetshakers These are simply Christian Bands Found in the Mainstream today, and do not include a giant amount of Exclusively Christian bands / i suppose we are sneaky :)

• Charasmatic Christian Community Life
  by Chris Jaeger

  Everything has its place and the telephone’s is just inside the front door, on its own Tasmanian-Oak side table. A white doily with tin…

  Everything has its place and the telephone’s is just inside the front door, on its own Tasmanian-Oak side table. A white doily with tiny embroidered flowers, a Christmas gift from one of the congregation, ensures that the wood remains in pristine condition. Roland, like any self righteous man in his place would do, insists on inventing a use for every gift that finds it’s way into his outstretched palms. So every surface of his…their house… bears the personal touch of a closet disenchanted housewife whose mother taught them a thing or two about needlework. / “You’re right there it’s been a fairly quiet week.” I agree, hastily restoring my end of the conversation with the most general comment imaginable. / “Of course it has, Roland loves nothing more than good conversation…except your good self of course!” Sally laughs, curling the phone cord around her wrist. / “Naturally…we took the vows he steadfastly believes in.” / “You did indeed…and you’re all the better for it.” / “Sometimes…I’m not sure…I catch myself wondering, well, where would I be without him?” / “A dark place hon, shadows everywhere…he really pulled you out of it didn’t he?” / “Yeah I spose he did…that’s the latest in back-fence talk been bandied about anyway.” / “Come on hon I know the feeling of such a big community can be a little daunting, especially for a younger woman like yourself, but be grateful for it: at least you know everyone really cares about you.” / “There’s always that angle.” / “There is indeed! So just try and focus in on that, and any ‘negativity’ you’re feeling will dissipate, I promise! We’re all here to help you hon, me especially, so the sooner you start believing that, the better!” / “I know…you’ve been a great help, you all have…” / “And we’re going to continue to be hon, every step of the way and that includes coffee at 11 tomorrow.” / “Looking forward to it,” I assure her, then replace the receiver in it’s cradle before the closest thing I have to companionship can think of anything else to proclaim and promise. / / / More than ample provisions were made for his materialisation. A makeshift stage was assembled on the patchwork lawn. In the centre was a chipped lectern, whose very existence the Caringbah Bible Chapel were forced to deny after it’s sprawled legs claimed a third victim, this time a visiting evangelist who, before appointing Jesus as his true Lord and Saviour, tore after ambulances and trawled hospitals for expiring accident victims and their families. If it wasn’t for the bonfire in his throat, Roland Walker would have had something worthwhile and weighted to say at his daughter Catherine’s farewell dinner. But, as Jeremiah 30:17 so perfectly spells out; “I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord.” Roland took immeasurable comfort from this passage; if it was God’s will that his chronic laryngitis should depart, then it indeed would. He sipped honey-lemon tea, took warm showers as required and even went as far as to swallow two ibuprofen tablets in addition to the recommended dosage of aspirin. Yet, in spite of these determined efforts, God had chosen for Roland not to speak and as unfair as this seemed at the time, he knew not to trouble the Messiah with so much as a raised eyebrow. / Even when Roland is detained beneath a duck feather eiderdown and a mountain of pillows, crocheted blankets and wilting flowers, I can’t break the habit of knocking on our bedroom door. I stand outside, running my bare feet nervously across the mohair carpet until I realise that permission to enter wont be granted anytime soon, given his absent voice. / Propped up in our vast bed by two royal blue banana pillows, his eyes abandon the leather bound King James and follow me across the room. / “When you’re ready.” I offer, setting the Tupperware container on his bedside table. / A motion of his head grants me sanction and I ease the Bible from his hairless hands and rest it at the foot of the bed. / “Sally suggested this remedy when I was over at her place for coffee this morning” I explained, motioning to the container on the table. / His eyes light up at the mention of one of the most cherished and trusted members of his congregation. I know now that whatever remedy I’m offering, he will take without a moment’s hesitation. / “All you’ve got to do is inhale the steam. I spose it soothes or something I’m not sure, she didn’t say…I’ll hold the bowl for you.” I offer, prying the lid off the container of boiling water. / He takes bottomless, down-reaching breaths as I steady the container beneath his stubbled chin. The urge to tip it all down the front of his blue flannelette pyjama top creeps in through an ever stretching hole. The container trembles a little as I force this vision back into the rain soaked trenches of my perception. / “…I…I hope…I really hope it’s working ok…” I manage, a reemergence of sorts. / He shrugs his shoulders, motioning for the bowl to be removed from his sight. / “I guess only time will tell” I answer helplessly, setting the container just outside the door then returning to plant the Bible back in his outstretched hands. / “Your congregation they…they miss you… guess you figured that with all the gifts…the fill-in pastor isn’t fit to sew the hem of your garment, they all agree…well I’ll…I’ll let you get some rest anyway, sooner you recover the better really…” I ramble as I collect his washing and head towards the door. / A smile edges it’s way to his thin lips as I pull it closed; he must be turning my ramblings over in his head, letting the fact that he is sorely missed at church hand feed his ego. / There are only so many times you can squeegee piss stains off the bathroom floor before your mind turns to batter. Roland takes great care in every function of his life, and judging by this and the lack of crusted droplets on our en-suite floor, the three shake rule applies when he’s pissing. The same can’t be said for Jessica Barton’s husband George or her three sons. / As part of the ‘Live the Gospel and Get to Know Your Neighbour’ campaign, developed by Sally and approved by Roland with a flourish of his Parker Pen, I am doing chores for the Barton’s this week. Sally sits at the breakfast bar in their newly renovated kitchen, sipping a cup of percolated coffee and offering shouts of encouragement. / “Hon, come out here a minute, I’d say you’re nearly done anyway.” / Rinsing the squeegee in the Barton’s oversized shower and leaving it there to dry, I come out to the kitchen. / “How’s it going?” Sally asks enthusiastically. / “Ah great now that’s done,” I return weakly. / “You’re right; it gives you a fantastic feeling inside when you help out your fellow man,” Sally asserts, reassured and oddly satisfied. / With her hair is up in a tight bun that contorts her usually delicate features, she appears more authoritative and less of a companion today. / “I’ve been emailing Roland a fair bit while he’s been unwell, to give him a bit of an outlet and obviously keep the lines of communication open, he is the Pastor after all…” Sally began, her hands dancing on the Formica bench top as she spoke. / “Anyway, what I’m saying is, what we both are saying is…it’s been nearly five months since you and Roland married. I can understand you wanting to find your feet in this community and so on: but we’re getting a little impatient now hon, the whole congregation is…” / Her words all melt into one, like butter when you leave the fry pan on, and I rock the kitchen chair on and off my foot in bid to stay alert. / “You know, it’s been great getting to know you hon, it really has, both before you and Roland married and since…but did you ever think that I was doing it for a reason?” She asks, her rust coloured eyes rifling through me for an answer. / I tilt the chair back and bring it back down again, half intending it to topple onto the cream tiles below, sending me sprawling and distracting Sally from the question that lay in wait. / “Well, ah no…not really…I left all my old friends behind when I moved here and started dating Roland…I just thought that we were similar people in some ways and maybe you saw that …” / “Yes yes you’re partially right but there’s more to it…I know Roland hasn’t told you anything at all about loosing his first wife, Marilyn, and I’m not going to, that’s up to him. But let me just say this; it just about destroyed him hon. So many changes, we barely knew him anymore, but we stuck close by him, hanging out for something to happen, for the Lord to intervene: and that’s when he met and married you. I can’t tell you how good it was to see the old Roland again, and it still is but…” / “But what…” I ask, captivated and repelled by the sight of my husband’s grief unearthed. / “But you’re not fully involved in church life hon: there’s whole lot of hesitation to you that no one, least of all Roland, would’ve picked.” / “I know it’s just that…” I begin, overcome with a bizarre sense of emotional responsibility. / “Look, enough with the ‘it’s just that’ excuse, ok hon? I’ve tried to be sympathetic but we’re not asking for much. Listen, Dan’s taking the kids up to see his mother this weekend, so I’ve got the house free. Why don’t you come over, stay the weekend if you like and I’ll show you what it really means to accept Jesus into your heart!” / Sally’s face shines with conviction as she finishes her sentence and a fleck of spittle flies from her mouth and lands on my arm, a Baptism of sorts.

• Angel--Cross My Heart Featured in Living Christianity
  by Sally Omar

  I want to thank the Hosts of Living Christianity..for featuring my poem / Angel—Cross My Heart…It is a very special honor to me be…

  I want to thank the Hosts of Living Christianity..for featuring my poem / Angel—Cross My Heart…It is a very special honor to me because of my / love for the Angels that surround us…. And thank you Judi Taylor for your beautiful photo which was my inspiration / for this writing.. Hugs to All, Sally xxxxxxxxxxxooooooooo

• God Bless You Olga!
  by Ruth Palmer

  Olga, Thank you Olga! May you be richly blessed! !http://images-2.redbubble.net/img/art/...

  Olga, Thank you Olga! May you be richly blessed! Love Always In Christ, Ruthie

• FEATURED IN LIVING CHRISTIANITY
  by Sally Omar

  Thank you Hosts of Living Christianity for Featuring “Heaven Is My Home” and I must / thank Thelma (Webbie) whose beautiful artwork was my…

  Thank you Hosts of Living Christianity for Featuring “Heaven Is My Home” and I must / thank Thelma (Webbie) whose beautiful artwork was my inspiration…. Love & Hugs, Sally xxxxxxxoooooooo

• Featured
  by trwphotography

  Thank you so much to the Host of Living Christianity for featuring “Approaching Twiligh…

  Thank you so much to the Host of Living Christianity for featuring Approaching Twilight This is one of my favorites and for it to be featured is such an honor. Thank you!!!

• The rock, ripples and ramblings.
  by Elaine Farmer

  Tim was the rock, and my thoughts are the ripples. After he posted his art…...the American Flag and Eagle…that made me stop and thi…

  Tim was the rock, and my thoughts are the ripples. After he posted his art…...the American Flag and Eagle…that made me stop and think. / How many people know WHERE they are going….and who they are, what their purpose is? How many people have something to hold on to, besides them selves…or another person? What are YOUR roots? What are your morals…..goals? Who provides for you? I would be in a sad condition if I thought I had to depend on myself, for anything….as I can not. People come and go in your life, so how can you depend on anyone to ALWAYS be there for you? Why are people SO offended by this country? Why do SOME make GOVERNMENT their god? Why are people SO offended by Christianity? Could it be a total lack of understanding of both, God and our Country? I think a great deal of all the misunderstandings….ARE from NOT KNOWING WHO the GOD IS that we worship…and WHAT this country really stands for. It is the NEW thing to do…to dis Christianity and Christians. It’s an even BIGGER thing to dis this country, I have not heard one word that makes sense to me, about the “why” of any of this…. I am from the generation….like Tim, who have seen just about all….. Now, we see this great land, slowly but surely disintegrate, deteriorate, be destroyed, and we are the frog in the pot. We don’t KNOW we are slowly being boiled to death…..as the heat is so slowly being turned up…..then, all of a sudden….it will be TOO late…..we will be “frog stew”.. Why do people WANT to cut their nose off to spite their face?? Now, that is an old expression. WHY??? Are we all too rich and increased with material things and in need of NOTHING? Not even God! EXCEPT God says that we are poor and naked and needy…whoa!! Yep…..that’s right! Who am I to argue with God? I have NO argument with God…..He is always right.

• *I need your Prayers. 17th July 2008*.
  by TREVOR IRWIN

  Greetings my precious Brothers and Sisters in Christ. / I am touched by the way the Holy Ghost has filled your heart and led you to inter…

  Greetings my precious Brothers and Sisters in Christ. / I am touched by the way the Holy Ghost has filled your heart and led you to intercede and pray for me and the Mission in Rural and Isolated villages in Africa. / I perceive you are brethren who knows who you are in Christ, and the power you have received and now lives in you. You like me, know that the Lord God lives in us. Zoë [Greek for Life of God] We are born again, Holy Ghost Baptised and we know that whatsoever we bind on earth, is bind in heaven, as is what we loose on earth is loosed in heaven. When we pray, we don’t beg God, because we both know that / (1Co 3:21) all things are yours. (2Co 4:7) But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the Excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. / We cannot ever lack. Psalm 23:1 “The Lord is our Shepherd, we shall not want”. We bind the devils, Cast them Out, Pull down satanic strongholds!!!. Praise God. Mark 16:15-18. You and I are Kings and Priests, Now, not in the world to come. / (Rev 1:6) * And *hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father, to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. Kings don’t beg. That’s why many Christians live all of their life praying and not receiving what The Lord has already made ours. They do not understand when Jesus Cried out on the Cross, It is finished that he not only paid the price for our sins, and the beating at the whipping post so we can live disease free!. Not only did he do this, but because of this great work, God has adopted us now through his son, and made us Heirs, Joint heirs, Equal with Christ. / * And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. Now beloved, we as his sons and daughters have be brought into our Fathers Inheritance. *All that belongs to our Father is now ours through Jesus Christ. We have God given rights to enjoy all his wealth today, NOW, in this world. That Is why my Friend, I value your Prayers, and I know that You pray with The spirit and with Understanding. You are a real part of the Lords work in tunga/Zuga and Ungwa/fada villages in remote Nigeria. You are part of the October Mission to reach the Lots and needy, To heal the sick, raise the dead, and to help the suffering and extreme poor. You are part of putting Cloths on their bodies, food in their bellies and clean water for them to drink! You may not have money to make a donation towards the Mission, or for whatever reason you won’t sow a seed into the Lords work. But your prayers are vital. I would rather have 10 anointed people who, KNOW WHO THEY ARE IN CHRIST, WHO KNOW WHAT THEY HAVE IN CHRIST AND KNOW WHAT THEY CAN DO IN CHRIST, THAN 10.000 WHO PRAY AND DO NOT KNOW HOW TO RECEIVE ANSWERS. So if you sow a financial seed or not, you will be blessed because you pray for his minsiters, his work and the poor. You are part of te Lords work. Job 22:30. [Amplified Bible] i WILL CHANGE ALL THOSE FOR WHOM YOU INTERCEDE”. Please Pray. I have several needs that I wouod like you to pray towards. 1*. Finance. We need *£1,500 – $3,000 for Medicines to treat Intestinal worms, Skin disorders and multivitamins to treat the effects of Gross Malnutrition in both Children and adults. This will be enough, as we will have the Tractor and machinery running in late February-Early March. This will enable them to grow good quality food, and thus eliminate many diseases and sicknesses, as their immune systems will become strong. 2* The kambari Tribe, Faluni [Muslim] and others. the Lord has indeed blessed me with His Grace and Favour, in winning souls from all tribes to Christ, Even three witch doctors] yet many are still in darkness. Please pray that God our Father will draw many more to Jesus his son on this Octobers Mission. 3* That I will walk and live in the fullness of God and his power. 4* That God will continue to build an army of Spirit filled people, with a heart of Love and Compassion for the poor, both physically and Spiritually. Add to me and Philadelphia Mission people that know how to sow, Pray and make a real impact in reaching the poor with his gospel, and to work towards meeting their needs. Please pray also according to what the Holy Spirit and Gods word reveals to you. Please feel free to contact me anytime. You can do this by the following: Email: irwin141@msn.com. / trevor@philadelphia33.org / Website: www.philadelphia33.org. or bubblemail. (Deu 1:11)* (The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!) Trevor

• Psalm 23 calendar
  by budrfli

  I created a new calendar with Psalms 28. It is available if anyone is interested. / Thank you, / and Happy new Year! / Sandy !http://imag…

  I created a new calendar with Psalms 28. It is available if anyone is interested. / Thank you, / and Happy new Year! / Sandy / / / / / / / / / / / / /