I just finished reading Andrew Murray’s book Divine Healing, one of those classics that is put on the discount rack at the local soft-core Christian Bookstore- you know, the store with Jesus pillows and action dolls that idolizes the family over Christ for the most part. It’s ironic that while discount grace is sold for retail price, The books that promote costly grace are usually on the discount rack. Somethings changing though, I recently saw Dr Kings book (a costly grace book) on the retail shelves. I was happy.

I dont get it, I guess that I am fortunate that when I lived heavily in sin I was “hardcore”-you know, Acid, Cocaine, whiskey, even the pornography I watched- nothing mild about any of it. Now I do not glamorize it or reflect fondly back in any way, all Im saying is that something carried over once I really got saved. I thought I was saved even before I was, but it was soft salvation. Its good that I like my salvation harder now. I didnt like soft core porn, didnt see the sense in non-alcoholic beer, and find it ironic that the bookstores that are almost non-existent today are hardcore Christian ones- Finney, Whitefield, Murray, A.B. Simpson.

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I wonder if Nancy Pelosi will now wake up to herself and realize that she doesn’t have a clue what she is talking about and that the democrats stance on the War on Terror is fundementally and utterly flawed becasue they have no idea of the depths of hatred that the muslims have towards Christians and Jews.

read whole article here.

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3 killed in Turkey Bible attack

By BENJAMIN HARVEY
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

	An injured man lies on the ground outside a publishing house in Malatya, southeastern Turkey, Wednesday, April 18, 2007. Assailants killed three people Wednesday at a publishing house that distributed Bibles, in the latest attack apparently targeting Turkey’s tiny Christian minority. (AP Photo/Burhan Karaduman, Ihlas News Agency)

ISTANBUL, Turkey — Assailants on Wednesday slit the throats of three employees of a publishing house that distributes Bibles, the latest in a series of attacks targeting Turkey’s small Christian minority.

The attack added to concerns in Europe about whether the predominantly Muslim country - which is bidding for EU membership - can protect its religious minorities. It also underlined concerns about rising Turkish nationalism and hostility toward non-Muslims.

The three victims - a German and two Turks - were found with their hands and legs bound and their throats slit at the Zirve publishing house in the central city of Malatya.

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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14

This is a covenant from God. God promises to forgive sins and heal the land of His people, but we must keep out end.

We Must Humble Ourselves

Our pride is usually the one thing that keeps us from admitting we are wrong, sibmitting to authority, and asking for help. If we are to seek God, we must humble ourselves and be willing to submit to God.

We Must Pray

I’m not talking about the everyday quiet time prayer. If we want revival, we must travail in prayer. We must pray past the point of exaustion. Every revival that has broken upon the face of the earth has been preceded by the people of God upon their knees travailing before God.

We Must Turn From Our SinÂ

Take this passage from Psalm 24:

“Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? Or who shall stand in His holy place? He that hath clean hands and a pure heart—he shall receive the blessings of the Lord.”

Are our hearts clean? We must search our hearts, confess our sin, repent from our sin, and travail in prayer once more.

We Must Not Quit

Winners aren’t those who never fail, but those who never quit. Is God going to pour out revival after we quit praying? I don’t think so. You may get discouraged, but don’t quit. There may not be someone who will pick up the slack after you. Keep praying until God comes, and then pray some more.

When God Comes…

God will hear our prayers, and He will forgive our sin, and He will touch and heal our land.

Revival Is Not About Us, It’s About Them

Why do we pray for revival? Is it so God can touch us and show us who He is? I doubt it. It’s to touch and change the world. It’s to save souls. It’s to save a dying people from a very real eternity without God. It’s about God revealing Himself to the sinner. Rev Owen Murphy siad it this way in his book When God Stepped Down Form Heaven,

When men in the streets are afraid to open their mouths and utter godless words lest the judgments of God should fall; when sinners, overawed by the Presence of God tremble in the streets and cry for mercy; when, without special meetings and sensational advertising, the Holy Ghost sweeps across cities and towns in Supernatural Power and holds men in the grip of terrifying Conviction; when “every shop becomes a pulpit, every heart an altar, every home a sanctuary” and people walk softly before God-This is Revival!

That is what we should be praying for, and how we should do it.

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“If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.”

P.D. James Children of Men

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We just floated the new website for the church, getting great feedback.

www.clctx.org

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Regardless of where you stand on the issue of U.S. involvement in Iraq,
Here is an interesting statistic:

There has been a monthly average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq theatre
of operations during the last 22 months, and a total of 2,112 deaths.
That gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000 soldiers.

The firearm death rate in Washington D.C. is 80.6 per 100,000 persons
for the same period.

That means that you are about 25% more likely to be shot and killed in
the U.S. Capital than you are in Iraq.

According to current prevailing wisdom (I use the term loosely):
The U.S. should pull out of Washington.

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The Boston Globe published an article on February 7, 1999 which was reprinted by permission in the April 1999 NARTH Bulletin. It is an important article because it contributes to the growing body of evidence that homosexuality is not simply “genetic.” Serious scientists have long known that a simply “genetic” cause for homosexuality was highly unlikely, but the mass media conveyed the misimpression of genetic causation to the general public. In the Globe article, prominent researchers admit the distinct limitations of the “born that way” theory.

“Gay gene” researcher Dean Hamer comments, “It is the same for every human behavior–environment matters for extroversion, smoking cigarettes, just about anything you can name.”

Interestingly, Dr. Hamer–himself a gay man–adds that science remains “just as clueless” as ever about the environmental influences on homosexuality. Dr. Hamer’s statement is consistent with a position taken by most gay advocates, who flatly deny the existence of evidence that points to certain family and social influences on homosexuality. (Gay advocates almost invariably either say “I was born that way,” or “How I became gay doesn’t matter.”) Only prominent gay writer Andrew Sullivan has publicly given credence to the Freudian model of homosexual development.

Said the Globe:

“The research project in 1993 that indicated many gay men shared a common genetic marker in the X chromosome was hailed as a momentous scientific discovery.

“The idea of a ‘gay gene’ offered an ironclad defense of homosexuality; if it was genetically predetermined, then being gay could not be cast as ‘deviant’ behavior, something ‘correctable.’

“Six years later, however, the gene still has not been found, and interest in–and enthusiasm for–the ‘gay gene’ research has waned among activists and scientists alike. And there is a growing consensus that sexual orientation is much more complicated than a matter of genes.

“Dr. Richard Pillard, a professor of psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine who was involved in a study of twins and sexual orientation, has done research showing that sexuality is greatly influenced by environment, and that the role of genetics is, in the end, limited.”

The Globe article goes on to quote Ruth Hubbard, a board member of The Council for Responsible Genetics, and the author of Exploding the Gene Myth, who says that searching for a gay gene “is not even a worthwhile pursuit…Let me be very clear: I don’t think there is any single gene that governs any complex human behavior. There are genetic components in everything we do, and it is foolish to say genes are not involved, but I don’t think they are decisive.”

In the Globe story, a gay advocate speaks of the “immense malleability of human sexuality.” Interestingly, this observation seems to have been lost on the American Psychological and Psychiatric Associations–which both claim that there is no evidence that homosexuals can change.

Article found on http://www.narth.com/docs/fading.html

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