The Prosperity Gospel is crap.

So I do not know about you but I am sick and tiered of churches in america preach a message like" you want a better car,job,etc well God will give it to so ask for it because you deserve it".

Ladies and gents we dont deserve anything but hell and wrath and God gives us mercy and grace and yet we have the guts to go to him and say thanks for the job that I have but I deserve a better one so give it to me. If you belive this crap you are fooling yourself. God wants you to be satisfied in him and him only not the junk of this world but Him. THe king of Kings, Lord of Lords. Our Saviour. NOT OUR STUFF BUT HIM.

Please if you believe in this prosperity gospel please fall to your knees and repent of the idolatry that you are in and run to cross of Christ and be made new.

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Thirsty People

As I preach I pray that people to become fans of me but I pray ,as I hope you do fellow pastor/elder,that the church will become fans and thirsty for the living water from God. Do not entertain your church with funny jokes but instead give them passion, the passion for more of God.

We all need to become like a deer, thirsty for more of the stream.

What a Day.

So today was such a cool day. Kim and I went to the doctors and heard baby Hampel's heart beat. WOW you wanna talk about being amazing by God just do that. I am really looking forward to the day that I get to hold my child in my arms. June 16th 2011 that should happen but until then all I can do is pray for my child and keep kissing it through Kim's belly. :) I like that part just don't tell her LOL.

There is one more thing that I am doing and wow it is so cool. This past February I went to the desiring God pastors retreat and they gave us a book with a bunch of blank pages in it and it says romans down the side. We are suppose to write out the book of romans for us to study but I am writing the whole book of Romans and one day give it to our first born. On days that I write and something happens, like today, I write at the top of the page the date and what happened. So I am really looking forward to leading my son or daughter to know the Lord Jesus Christ.

The Spirit is not dead

Over the years that I have been following Jesus Christ I have heard and seen a lot of things. I have seen people that where had demons in them be healed. I have seen people speak in tongues the way that the bible talks about. My list can go on and on. One thing that I have seen as being reformed in my theology that there are many reformers that are afraid of the gifts. I saw John Piper talk about his thoughts here. I would agree and disagree with him on this. Some of the gifts you really do want to have them where everyone can see them and give God the full glory for what has happened.

If you have known me at all you may know that ,because of Benny Hinn and others, I never was very big on the gifts of the spirit. But after the last few months I have been turning around and God has been opening me up to the gifts. I will post more on this but here is what I would say to help you. one pray as Paul says in 1 Corinthians 12:27-30 seeking it and if God wants you to have it He will give it. The second is study what God's word says about some of the gifts and start to understand it more. I hope that this may help and remember that this is just some of my thoughts on this.

Piper on Suffering

Some thoughts on Video.