I know that we all feel that we often have too much to do and not enough time to do it in. I feel that way lately but I feel energized by the Holy Spirit.
Last night I spent 5 1/2 hours studying the first 12 words of 2 Timothy. I was truly blessed in my study and praise God for His perseverance that lives in and through me.
I worked last night on some work for "One Step Further" my study with Pastor Wayne on Wednesdays. I told the group that I would give them a list of "Word Faith Prosperity Teachers". I went a step further to define their doctrine. For the sake of those who might be interested I'll cut and paste my document here.
God bless,
Pastor Eric
One Step Further(A study with Pastor Wayne Barber)
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Hs. Eric S. HighlandBirch Tree Fellowship
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Studies in 2 John and 3 John
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Notes on Prosperity Teachers:
Also known as, “Prosperity Doctrine,” “Health and Wealth,” “Name It and Claim It,” or “Blab It and Grab It” (the latter term tends to be used by those who criticize the teaching).
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The prosperity teaching is an aberrant doctrine, largely promoted by the Word Faith movement.
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Here’s how it is sold: God wants you to be rich (and/or healthy), but He cannot bless you unless you first send money (also known as a “seed-faith offering”) to whichever televangelist or teacher tells you about this scheme.
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The teaching is part and parcel of “Positive Confession”, one of the doctrinal pillars of Word-Faith theology:
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1) Positive Confession: The Theology of the Spoken Word (Rhematology), or thought actualization, is commonly known as positive confession. It stresses the inherent power of words and thoughts. Each person predestines his own future by what he says verbally and by how well he uses spiritual laws. As such, it is as if we live in a mechanistic universe instead of a personal one (see, Kenneth Copeland, Laws of Prosperity, p. 15; Charles Capps, The Tongue A Creative Force, pp. 117-118; Releasing the Ability of God, pp. 98-99, 101-104).
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2) The Gospel of Health: Isaiah 53 is used to justify blanket coverage for the physical healing of every Christian who has enough faith. “…it is the plan of our Father God in His great love and His great mercy that no believer should ever be sick, that every believer should live his life full span down here on earth and that every believer should finally just fall asleep in Jesus” (Hagin, Seven Things You Should Know About Divine Healing, p. 21). Hagin also denies having a headache for forty-five years, labeling such as “simply symptoms rather than any indication of a headache” (In the Name of Jesus, p. 44).
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3) The Gospel of Wealth: A central tenet of the prosperity gospel is that God wills the financial prosperity of every Christian. If a believer lives in poverty, he/she is living outside God’s intended will. “You must realize that it is God’s will for you to prosper” (Copeland, Laws of Prosperity, p. 51).- Source: Word-Faith Movement, “Other Doctrines”, a Watchman Fellowship profile.
In brief, the teachings of these men and women may be summarized as follows:
1. God created man in “God’s class” (or as “little gods”), with the potential to exercise the “God kind of faith” in calling things into existence and living in prosperity and success as sovereign beings.
2. We forfeited this opportunity, however, by rebelling against God in the Garden of Eden and taking upon ourselves Satan’s nature.
3. To correct this situation, Jesus Christ became a man, died spiritually (thus taking upon Himself Satan’s nature), went to Hell, was “born again”, rose from the dead with God’s nature again, and then sent the Holy Spirit so that the Incarnation could be duplicated in believers, thus fulfilling their calling to be little gods.
4. Since we are called to experience this kind of life now, we should be successful in every area of our lives.
5. To be in debt, then, or be sick, or (as is often taught) be left by one’s spouse, and not to have these problems solved by “claiming” God’s promises, shows a lack of faith.
While certain aspects of the above doctrine may vary from teacher to teacher, the general outline remains the same in each case. – Source: Robert Bowman, “Christian Research Institute speaks out on the errors of the Word-Faith movement” (as related to prosperity teachers)
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There are countless Word-Faith Prosperity Teachers. Commonly they deny the uniqueness of the Christ and they teach a false prosperous message.
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Some of the more commonly known Word-Faith Prosperity Teachers are:
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Rod Parsley: “Poverty is a sin, because God told you to multiply”. Poverty is a curse because God wants you to be rich and very rich.” “Jesus is not sick, I don’t have to be sick.” (Rod Parsley has back problems and has been kept out of the pulpit weeks at a time)
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Oral Roberts: In a 1987 fund raising campaign, Oral Roberts claimed that if he did not raise 8 million dollars by March of that year God would kill him. The money was supposed to provide scholarships for medical students who attend Oral Roberts University. (The medical college was closed due to financial troubles and no medical scholarships were distributed from these monies. He did in fact raise the 8 million dollars.)
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Kenneth Copeland: “Adam in the Garden of Eden was God manifested in the flesh.”
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Marilyn Hickey: “What do you need? Start creating it, start speaking about it.” “Speak to your billfold, say ‘You big thick billfold full of money.’”
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Benny Hinn: “Christians are ‘Little Messiahs’ and ‘Little gods’ on the Earth. Thus [Encouraging the audience] say ‘I am a God-man’” “God will begin to prosper you; for money always follows righteousness.”
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Mike Murdock: “If you take that into your spirit you will reach millionaire status in three years.”
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Kenneth Hagin: “The believer is as much an Incarnation as was Jesus of Nazareth.”
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Creflo Dollar: “You are gods because you came from God you are not just human.” “Money is trying to get into your hands even as I speak.” “Somebody said ‘Oh I didn’t come here because I need some money, I need peace!’ Well honey you need some money or you ain’t never gonna know no peace.” “I didn’t come to preach this message today to get nothing from you. I didn’t come here on Delta today, I came here on my own plane you understand what I’m saying? I came here to get this message to you.”
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Joel Osteen: “I believe one of the main ways that we grow in favor is by declaring it. It’s not enough to just read it it’s not enough to just believe it. You’ve got to speak it out. Your words have creative power. And one of the primary ways we release our faith is through our words. And there is a divine connection between you declaring God’s favor and you seeing God’s favor manifest in your life…. You’ve got to give life to your faith by speaking it out.”
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Fred Price: “God has to be given permission to work in this earth realm on behalf of man....Yes! You are in control! So if man has control, who no longer has it? God.....When God gave Adam dominion, that meant God no longer had dominion. So God cannot do anything in this earth unless we let Him. And the way we let Him or give Him permission is through prayer.” (Frederick Price Quoted from - “Christianity in Crisis” by H. Hanegraaff, 1993)
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Joyce Meyer: Meyer, in her own book, writes, “Words are containers for power” (The Name, The Word, The Blood, p. 37). This is typical Copeland/ Hagin faith talk. She has promoted this as well on her TV broadcast. “Prov.18:21 this could be a life hanging scripture “death and life are in the power of the tongue. And they who indulge in it shall eat the fruit of it for death or life.” The ad following for her audio series “Is your mouth saved.” The advertisement says we all have the ability to speak life or death to not only other people but to ourselves as well.
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“Will help you to take inventory of what you’ve been saying and begin speaking faith filled words that will bring to pass God's good plan for your life.” (May 14, 2000 LeSea broadcasting)
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“But you cannot throw out positive confession, and you cannot throw out all the faith teachers, and you cannot throw out positive thinking. And you cannot get rid of those kinds of things because they're in the Bible from one end of it to the other.” (Joyce Meyer, PFO Quarterly Journal, April-June 2002, p. 6. Withcraft and Related Spirits, pt. 1, sides 1 and 2)
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She makes her position clear by saying “words are containers for power they carry creative or destructive power positive or negative power so we need to be speaking right things over our lives and about our futures if we expect to have good things happen because what you say then is what you probably end up having tomorrow. We need to warfare with words. I believe that praise and worship is warfare. We talked about this last night, how when we are praising and worshipping God that there's actually a, an odor that comes off of us that is offensive to the enemy. And I don’t know if you ever had the opportunity to smell a demon possessed person but I have, and I tell you it is a stench; and I was saying about that this morning and I thought you know people that are demon possessed have an offensive odor to me and I’m glad because I am holy ghost possessed that I’ve got an offensive odor to the devil.” (broadcasted on the Bible Answerman Jan.2003)
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Her appeal to money to be given to her ministry is from the prosperity teaching that originated with Oral Roberts. “Sowing and reaping is a spiritual law...Sow generously and you will reap generously.” (Joyce Meyer, “What Does Your Future Hold” May 21, 2004)
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“We need to claim as much of that inheritance as we possibly can...One of the things you can do right now is speak positive things about your future right now.” (ibid.)
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She says “I've got to keep the anointing on my life. I can't keep it on my life unless I'm a giver” (May 14, 2000) (insinuating money and other things). Clearly this is a word faith view.
Speaking about trials she apologizes and states “that’s not a negative confession, I’m not cursing your life” (Life in the Word Mar.6 2003 Lesea Broadcasting)” This shows her word faith influence of not speaking negatively.
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Brian Houston: “Why would the Scripture say, ‘Let the poor say I am rich’ if it wasn’t the will of God to break the power of poverty out of people’s life.”
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In the interest of trees I’ll stop there, you can do your homework. A place to start might be by taking a look at other known prosperity teachers active or formally active in ministry:
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John Bevere, Markus Bishop, Juanita Bynum, Morris Cerullo, Kim Clement, Paul and Jan Crouch, Jesse Duplantis, Rodney Howard-Browne, Larry Huch, T.D. Jakes, Bishop Eddie L. Long, Clarence McClendon, Joyce Meyer, Myles Munroe, Steve Munsey, Peter Popoff, R.W. Shambach, Robert Schuller, Karl Strader, Paula White, Ed Young, John Alexander Dowie, Maria Beulah Woodworth-Etter, Charles Parham, Frank Sandford, Azusa Street Mission, William Branham, Franklin Hall, Kathryn Kuhlman, Aimee Semple McPherson (Foursquare church/gospel), A.J. Tomlinson, A.A. Allen, Jack Coe, Charles Price, David Duplessis, Smith Wigglesworth, Morris Cerullo, John Wimber, Charles and Frances Hunter, Jamie Buckingham, Laughing Revival and many others.
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Greek and the fullness of God's perfect timing
My brothers and sisters of Birch Tree...
There are two passages that refer to "the fullness of time": Galatians 4:4 and Ephesians 1:10. The expression literally means "when the time was ripe". The reference in Galatians is the one I'd like to discuss today.
Paul is basically saying that Jesus came at a point in the history of humanity when the time was ripe and He released humanity from bondage to the law.
Theologians cite many reasons that exemplify the "fullness of time" indicating just how it was perfect in its measure of "ripeness" all having to do with the historical circumstances of His day
Two of the main reasons cited are:
Today in my meeting with my mentor Pastor Wayne, we went over 3 John 1-4. Once again, as with all of his instruction, Pastor focused on the original Greek language of the New Testament. I praise God for blessing Wayne with a heart for the work involved to truly study the Scripture in its original language. Is there any other way?
I made a commitment to go out today and buy hard copies of two indispensable works by Spiros Zodhiates Th.D.. AlthoughI have these works on my Libronix software, I am a hard copy kind of person.
The Greek language is so very specific and to not know it as a teacher of the Word of God is to be careless with our greatest tangible treasure.. God's revealed will through His Word.
I cannot emphasize enough how imperative it is to have completed your original language homework prior to discussing any passage of Scripture. For many things that are studied only in the English lose so much or even distort the meaning of the original language.
Thank you Lord once again for taking the time with me your servant to put on my own heart a heart of study.
Break Break
Last night at work, Kolan had an opportunity to share the Gospel of Jesus with a man who had an aortic anurism. The man had about a 20% chance to live and was crying out that he needed forgiveness, he was faced with his own mortality and realized that he was in great need of a Savior. Kolan had an oppotunity to share the story of the thief on the cross with this man and the man accepted the forgiveness of the Christ! Praise be to the Holy Spirit for His work of conviction and conversion! Praise be to God for giving Kolan the Spirit in great measure and giving him the words to say.
Break Break
Today I went to Bibles Plus a store in Albuquerque, one of only a handful of Christian book stores in town. I went to purchase the work by Dr. Zodhiates, and in doing so I met a woman named Lydia.
I have to say it is such an amazing blessing to meet Christians wherever we may go. Lydia and I both share a passion for God's Word. I think we could have talked for hours had we allowed ourselves. Interestingly enough, there is a connection between Lydia and Mike (from the airplane) again.. a small small world and one where the believers in a city can encourage and assist one another.
Lydia offered to lend me a book that will be useful to me in ministry. She, as a sister in the faith, took a concerned effort to help me be obedient to God's continued call upon my life. Thank you Lydia for your faithfulness and your passion for the work of the Kingdom. May Almighty God bless you and continue to reveal Himself to you.
Well folks, I have a lot of work to do. Please continue to pray for BTF. He is already using us in the lives of those around us. Please pray that we will continue to be faithful to His call upon our lives and that we will submit and be able to discern His perfect will.
God bless,
Pastor Eric
There are two passages that refer to "the fullness of time": Galatians 4:4 and Ephesians 1:10. The expression literally means "when the time was ripe". The reference in Galatians is the one I'd like to discuss today.
Paul is basically saying that Jesus came at a point in the history of humanity when the time was ripe and He released humanity from bondage to the law.
Theologians cite many reasons that exemplify the "fullness of time" indicating just how it was perfect in its measure of "ripeness" all having to do with the historical circumstances of His day
Two of the main reasons cited are:
- Pax Romana (The forced peace of the Roman Empire) which made travel both easy and safe.
- The influence of Alexander the Great whose expansion from Greece to Egypt and onto India left in its wake the Hellenistic or Greek language and culture.
Today in my meeting with my mentor Pastor Wayne, we went over 3 John 1-4. Once again, as with all of his instruction, Pastor focused on the original Greek language of the New Testament. I praise God for blessing Wayne with a heart for the work involved to truly study the Scripture in its original language. Is there any other way?
I made a commitment to go out today and buy hard copies of two indispensable works by Spiros Zodhiates Th.D.. AlthoughI have these works on my Libronix software, I am a hard copy kind of person.
The Greek language is so very specific and to not know it as a teacher of the Word of God is to be careless with our greatest tangible treasure.. God's revealed will through His Word.
I cannot emphasize enough how imperative it is to have completed your original language homework prior to discussing any passage of Scripture. For many things that are studied only in the English lose so much or even distort the meaning of the original language.
Thank you Lord once again for taking the time with me your servant to put on my own heart a heart of study.
Break Break
Last night at work, Kolan had an opportunity to share the Gospel of Jesus with a man who had an aortic anurism. The man had about a 20% chance to live and was crying out that he needed forgiveness, he was faced with his own mortality and realized that he was in great need of a Savior. Kolan had an oppotunity to share the story of the thief on the cross with this man and the man accepted the forgiveness of the Christ! Praise be to the Holy Spirit for His work of conviction and conversion! Praise be to God for giving Kolan the Spirit in great measure and giving him the words to say.
Break Break
Today I went to Bibles Plus a store in Albuquerque, one of only a handful of Christian book stores in town. I went to purchase the work by Dr. Zodhiates, and in doing so I met a woman named Lydia.
I have to say it is such an amazing blessing to meet Christians wherever we may go. Lydia and I both share a passion for God's Word. I think we could have talked for hours had we allowed ourselves. Interestingly enough, there is a connection between Lydia and Mike (from the airplane) again.. a small small world and one where the believers in a city can encourage and assist one another.
Lydia offered to lend me a book that will be useful to me in ministry. She, as a sister in the faith, took a concerned effort to help me be obedient to God's continued call upon my life. Thank you Lydia for your faithfulness and your passion for the work of the Kingdom. May Almighty God bless you and continue to reveal Himself to you.
Well folks, I have a lot of work to do. Please continue to pray for BTF. He is already using us in the lives of those around us. Please pray that we will continue to be faithful to His call upon our lives and that we will submit and be able to discern His perfect will.
God bless,
Pastor Eric
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Web behind the scenes / My distant brother
I've been working diligently on our BTF website behind the scenes. The website when eventually published will be www.birchtreefellowship.org and we will also have www.birchtreefellowship.com pointing to the same site.
A little over a week ago, Kolan introduced me to myflock.com and I was impressed with the work Steve and company at Myflock had done to assist ministries in getting a website up and running. They allow for nested menus and editing of the site that seems fairly straight forward. In addition they have a ton of other features that I haven't even begun to explore.
Kolan went through the process of obtaining the site from Rick and putting it into BTF's name, I'm excited that we can finally get the ball rolling on web publication and emails. Praise God!
So many people have been asking me to see the site... well it is coming soon folks! Keep praying for us in that!
Break Break
It seems as though my brother Ricky has decided to remain physically distant in Corpus and not return to Albuquerque. Although it breaks my heart that he does not plan to join us here in Albuquerque, if he really believes that remaining in Corpus is what God is calling him to do then I of course fully support him. I love Rick with all my heart and miss him greatly. I pray that God will continue to illuminate him with His Holy Spirit and that Ricky will draw closer and closer to God each day. If you are reading this Rick, know that I love you and miss you and have you in my daily prayers!
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I met a lady (Tracy) and her daughter (Natalie) today, and thoroughly enjoyed the conversation I had with Tracy. Turns out she is a small business owner and she is a fellow Christian. It is such an amazing blessing to continously run into Christian brothers and sisters in New Mexico. She gave me her card and I gave her my contact info for BTF. I'm excited about what God is doing in her life and the life of her family. Tracy, if you are reading this, know that you are in my prayers!
God bless,
Pastor Eric
A little over a week ago, Kolan introduced me to myflock.com and I was impressed with the work Steve and company at Myflock had done to assist ministries in getting a website up and running. They allow for nested menus and editing of the site that seems fairly straight forward. In addition they have a ton of other features that I haven't even begun to explore.
Kolan went through the process of obtaining the site from Rick and putting it into BTF's name, I'm excited that we can finally get the ball rolling on web publication and emails. Praise God!
So many people have been asking me to see the site... well it is coming soon folks! Keep praying for us in that!
Break Break
It seems as though my brother Ricky has decided to remain physically distant in Corpus and not return to Albuquerque. Although it breaks my heart that he does not plan to join us here in Albuquerque, if he really believes that remaining in Corpus is what God is calling him to do then I of course fully support him. I love Rick with all my heart and miss him greatly. I pray that God will continue to illuminate him with His Holy Spirit and that Ricky will draw closer and closer to God each day. If you are reading this Rick, know that I love you and miss you and have you in my daily prayers!
Break Break
I met a lady (Tracy) and her daughter (Natalie) today, and thoroughly enjoyed the conversation I had with Tracy. Turns out she is a small business owner and she is a fellow Christian. It is such an amazing blessing to continously run into Christian brothers and sisters in New Mexico. She gave me her card and I gave her my contact info for BTF. I'm excited about what God is doing in her life and the life of her family. Tracy, if you are reading this, know that you are in my prayers!
God bless,
Pastor Eric
Some thoughts on BTF Financials
We received our checks for BTF yesterday and our deposit slips earlier last week. The receipt of these items made me realize that I hadn't ever posted my thoughts regarding our financials.
Financials are important to any local church body, but more important than the financials themselves is the level of the church's financial accountability.
It is paramount that as a fellowship we stay completely accountable to God and one another as a fellowship when it comes to our finances.
BTF takes our financial accountability very seriously. Among many other checks, some of the more notable accountability practices we have in place are:
1. All checks signed by BTF must be signed by an elder of the church and a member of the Board of Directors. (The senior pastor may sign solo, but this is an exception and not the normal procedure)
2. The senior pastor may not be on the Board of Directors and may not be involved in the setting of his own compensation.
3. There will be a bookkeeper and accounting professional who is seperate from BTF that will report on all BTF Financials to the Board of Directors and Board of Elders.
4. A comprehensive Standard Operating Procedure for Inventory Control is in place for BTF, this Inventory Control requires BTF to keep track of all BTF Inventory items as defined by the Standard Operating Procedure.
Some of you might think that this is a little excessive, but it really isn't. In today's world where so many ministries have made headlines for their lack of accountability, it is our prayer that we will continue to review our policies and procedures to ensure that BTF remains above reproach.
It is our drive at BTF to ensure the highest levels of ethics and accountability.
May Almighty God continue to bless us in this ministry.
God bless,
Pastor Eric
Financials are important to any local church body, but more important than the financials themselves is the level of the church's financial accountability.
It is paramount that as a fellowship we stay completely accountable to God and one another as a fellowship when it comes to our finances.
BTF takes our financial accountability very seriously. Among many other checks, some of the more notable accountability practices we have in place are:
1. All checks signed by BTF must be signed by an elder of the church and a member of the Board of Directors. (The senior pastor may sign solo, but this is an exception and not the normal procedure)
2. The senior pastor may not be on the Board of Directors and may not be involved in the setting of his own compensation.
3. There will be a bookkeeper and accounting professional who is seperate from BTF that will report on all BTF Financials to the Board of Directors and Board of Elders.
4. A comprehensive Standard Operating Procedure for Inventory Control is in place for BTF, this Inventory Control requires BTF to keep track of all BTF Inventory items as defined by the Standard Operating Procedure.
Some of you might think that this is a little excessive, but it really isn't. In today's world where so many ministries have made headlines for their lack of accountability, it is our prayer that we will continue to review our policies and procedures to ensure that BTF remains above reproach.
It is our drive at BTF to ensure the highest levels of ethics and accountability.
May Almighty God continue to bless us in this ministry.
God bless,
Pastor Eric
Sunday, February 3, 2008
Dinner at my favorite place
Today we went to Hoffmantown Baptist Church, started with Sunday school where we covered Titus 1:1-10 in general terms. Our Sunday School teacher is a lover of God and blessed in his teaching. I really feel a brotherhood with the saints at HBC.
At church I introduced my wife to Pastor Wayne, who embraced me like a longtime friend when he saw me. I'm encouraged by the relationship we are developing. I have so many questions for him. I wish that I could sit under his instruction for hours upon hours. I have so much to learn and I praise God for the mentor that He has provided in Pastor Wayne.
Today I'm doing dinner at my favorite place... what is my favorite place? Any place where my brothers and sisters in the faith gather. Today we gather at Kolan and Lisa's house. So I have to run they are waiting on me, I might post again later today.
God bless!
Pastor Eric
At church I introduced my wife to Pastor Wayne, who embraced me like a longtime friend when he saw me. I'm encouraged by the relationship we are developing. I have so many questions for him. I wish that I could sit under his instruction for hours upon hours. I have so much to learn and I praise God for the mentor that He has provided in Pastor Wayne.
Today I'm doing dinner at my favorite place... what is my favorite place? Any place where my brothers and sisters in the faith gather. Today we gather at Kolan and Lisa's house. So I have to run they are waiting on me, I might post again later today.
God bless!
Pastor Eric
Exhaustion
Ricky... where were you this last week. Why couldn't you see when God hit the "go" key. Brother, you would have been amazed at His hand, His leading, His work. Can I tell you that I miss you?
Tonight has been a really long night. Kolan and I have been pouring over the some 50 hours of ministry work that has been done behind the scenes. There is still so much ahead of us. It is 1:27 in the morning and I really need to go to sleep.
Sunday school comes awful early for us and I really get so much out of my time investment at Hoffmantown. I really can't wait to go.
I wonder if Pastor Wayne listened to the Walter Martin CD before he preaches tomorrow.. today rather.. wow it is late.
Can I just tell you all that I love the Lord Jesus the Christ with all of my heart, I'm amazed by His grace and His love.
I'm truly exhausted.. so I'm gonna cut things short tonight.. pray for BTF please folks.. God is blessing us... and that means the enemy will attack...
I believe in Spiritual Warfare. It is outlined in Scripture. Do you?
God bless,
Pastor Eric
Tonight has been a really long night. Kolan and I have been pouring over the some 50 hours of ministry work that has been done behind the scenes. There is still so much ahead of us. It is 1:27 in the morning and I really need to go to sleep.
Sunday school comes awful early for us and I really get so much out of my time investment at Hoffmantown. I really can't wait to go.
I wonder if Pastor Wayne listened to the Walter Martin CD before he preaches tomorrow.. today rather.. wow it is late.
Can I just tell you all that I love the Lord Jesus the Christ with all of my heart, I'm amazed by His grace and His love.
I'm truly exhausted.. so I'm gonna cut things short tonight.. pray for BTF please folks.. God is blessing us... and that means the enemy will attack...
I believe in Spiritual Warfare. It is outlined in Scripture. Do you?
God bless,
Pastor Eric
Friday, February 1, 2008
Blessed meetings
Today at lunch I went to Hoffmantown Baptist Church to drop off my Walter Martin CD on the "Cult of Liberalism". Out of the 500 messages or so of Dr. Martin's that I have on CD, it has to be one of my top 10 favorites.
Pastor Wayne is going over 2 John and I believe this will bless him in his sermon preparation. Anyhow, while I was there, I got to meet Becky (Pastor Wayne's secretary) she was a very nice lady and I'm glad I got to meet her, she seemed genuinely interested in BTF.
I left the CD with her and suggested to her that she listen to it before she gives it to Pastor Wayne. Also Barbara from our Sunday School class was in the office and apparently she works on the staff as well. I'm always encouraged when I run into Barbara she is very sweet and also seems genuinely interested in what God is doing with BTF.
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Chris and I once again had a great discussion at work and it is a huge praise to see the quick and deep work that the Lord is continuing to do in his life.
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In my Coast Guard office today I had a couple with a newborn that were interested in joining the Coast Guard, come to find out they were Christian and we had a great conversation. It looks as though the wife is looking to join and she is thankful to have a Christian person to deal with from the Coast Guard.
All in all, I have to say that God's hand has been clearly evident as of late. I thank Him and praise Him for His work and love Him beyond measure.
God bless,
Pastor Eric
Pastor Wayne is going over 2 John and I believe this will bless him in his sermon preparation. Anyhow, while I was there, I got to meet Becky (Pastor Wayne's secretary) she was a very nice lady and I'm glad I got to meet her, she seemed genuinely interested in BTF.
I left the CD with her and suggested to her that she listen to it before she gives it to Pastor Wayne. Also Barbara from our Sunday School class was in the office and apparently she works on the staff as well. I'm always encouraged when I run into Barbara she is very sweet and also seems genuinely interested in what God is doing with BTF.
BREAK BREAK
Chris and I once again had a great discussion at work and it is a huge praise to see the quick and deep work that the Lord is continuing to do in his life.
BREAK BREAK
In my Coast Guard office today I had a couple with a newborn that were interested in joining the Coast Guard, come to find out they were Christian and we had a great conversation. It looks as though the wife is looking to join and she is thankful to have a Christian person to deal with from the Coast Guard.
All in all, I have to say that God's hand has been clearly evident as of late. I thank Him and praise Him for His work and love Him beyond measure.
God bless,
Pastor Eric
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