Christian Hymns - The Old Rugged Cross

Man....I may be young but I love to hear some of the old Christian Hymns that the elder saints sung....Praise the Lord Jesus Christ

Suffering For Christ

and when they had called in the apostles, they beat them and charged them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go. Then they left the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for the name.
(Acts 5:40-41 ESV)

GETTING REAL: BLACK GOSPEL MOVIES DON’T DEFINE WHO GOD IS

Are you sickened by the movies that come out to represent the Lord according to black people? I am, and when I saw the original movie trailer above for Preacher’s Kid(there is a final trailer on YouTube as well), I was even more sickened. It’s annoying enough we already laugh at a man dressed as a woman; who quietly tries to expose Christianity to the world. He makes believe God is a joke by pointing guns at folks to making black Christian men look like chumps and Christian normality to be a bunch of singing and dancing but no real obedience to the bible. We do not need another movie to explain to America what Christianity looks like for the Afro-American Christian. The Scripture alone is enough to explain what biblical Christianity looks like. It says:

For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. (John 3:17-21)

So is this new movie, Preachers kid going to finally explain to us who the Lord Jesus Christ is? From the clip alone, we are supposed to derive that God waits for us to come back because of the foolish decisions we make. This play is geared to make you laugh, shed a few tears, send a tingle up your spine, and finally expose the truth behind real Christianity from the black side of church! HOGWASH!!!!!

Preacher’s Kid maybe attempting to explain a watered down interpretation of Luke 15. In fact, watching this movie, some people may say they have found a new relationship with God now because of this movie. HOGWASH!!! Why so harsh Karsten? The scriptures are enough to teach us and bring us to repentance (2 Timothy 3:16-17), not some movie that gives a worldly representation of who Jesus Christ is. I know, I have not seen it and trust me I desire not to see it.

To understand the context of Luke 15, where Jesus Christ gives the Pharisees and scribes three parables to attest to them why the tax collectors and sinners drew near to Jesus Christ, look at verse 10.

Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth. (Luke 15:10)

Repentance is the key to understanding the context of Luke 15. REPENT in the Greek transliteration – metanoeō - to change one's mind for better, heartily to amend with abhorrence of one's past sins. F.F Bruce says: "Repentance (metanoia, 'change of mind') involves a turning with contrition from sin to God; the repentant sinner is in the proper condition to accept the divine forgiveness." (F. F. Bruce. The Acts of the Apostles [Greek Text Commentary], London: Tyndale, 1952, p. 97.)

Will you see this in Preacher’s Kid? NO. Why? Because the real message is to place the label of “okay” on the sinful or worldly lifestyles the so-called professing Christian have. Basically the movie may tell you, it is okay to be in sin, you make the decision to come back to God when you’re ready, or when you see things didn’t work out for you.

Now some of you may go and see this movie to come up with something to refute what I am saying here, but then you missed the point. You don’t have to go to a single movie to figure out what the Lord desires, or who the Lord Jesus Christ truly is. OPEN YOUR BIBLE, and let the Word of God lead you to true repentance. OPEN YOUR BIBLE and by the direction of the Holy Spirit, apply His Word to your life. STOP trusting in these stupid movies to tell you how to live the Christian life. STOP trusting these so-called Christian plays to make you laugh and feel good about the sin your in. So gently I say to you because I love you:

I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. (Luke 13:5)

Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord; (Acts 3:19)

And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: (Acts 17:30)

Dancing For Christ????

I have seen some foolishness in my time, but this surpasses all that I have seen so far. I can't laugh at this, I weep for the many who are trapped into things such things bring glory to the Lord Jesus Christ. Don't get me wrong I think praising God is awesome, shouting to the Lord is great, but this goes way out there. Again the scripture says:

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another. (Galatians 5:22-26)

The Prosperity Gospel is not just destroying the U.S

The Prosperity Gospel from The Global Conversation on Vimeo.

The Holy Spirit's Working In Us

Just listen.......

The Bible wins.

Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away. (Mark 13:31)

I'm A Christian. And I'm A Christian

Interesting little skit here, check it out. God bless

Holy tongues and speaking in laughter...

When the crowds were increasing, he began to say, "This generation is an evil generation. It seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah. For as Jonah became a sign to the people of Nineveh, so will the Son of Man be to this generation. The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with the men of this generation and condemn them, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something greater than Solomon is here. The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.
(Luke 11:29-32 ESV)

MUSIC: Trip Lee- To Live Is Christ

For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. (Philippians 1:21 NASB)

"The Gift Of Faith Conclusion"

Are you going to let the lost out run you? - Tim Conway

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset [us], and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of [our] faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected [us], and we gave [them] reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? For they verily for a few days chastened [us] after their own pleasure; but he for [our] profit, that [we] might be partakers of his holiness. Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby. Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees; And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed. Follow peace with all [men], and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble [you], and thereby many be defiled; Lest there [be] any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears. For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which [voice] they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more: (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart: And so terrible was the sight, [that] Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:) But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than [that of] Abel. See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more [shall not] we [escape], if we turn away from him that [speaketh] from heaven: Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. And this [word], Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: For our God [is] a consuming fire. (Hebrews 12:1-29)

"The Gift Of Faith Part 5"

Here is the rest of the series on "The Gift Of Faith" by Pastor John Coleman. Enjoy. If there is a part six, I will add it here. God bless.

New Website added

Please check Pastor Saiko Woods as he begins preaching and teaching God's flock out in Houston, Texas.  Pray for Saiko's continue faithfulness to the Word and to the people of God out there in Houston.  Here's the link to the site: http://www.hiswordhisway.org/ Enjoy

Karsten L. Miller

 

Isaiah 53....