When I have expressed a new idea in a blog or on paper, sometimes I like to wait awhile, let it perk and then come back to see if my thoughts have changed or evolved in any way.

It’s been over a year now, since my sister died of brain cancer,  I reread my Jan. 11, 2011 post about her death to see if I was only writing out of grief and if time had changed  my mind.  The result is that I can see that my opinion has not changed.  I still believe that Nancy’s belief that signs and wonders are not for today played a role in her death. John 10:10 says, “The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy.” This thief is satan, also known as the devil.  When satan can’t prevent a person from having eternal life by receiving Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, the next thing he tries to do is to steal the blessing of the believer’s full and vibrant walk with the Lord. Satan is a truth stealer.  He steals from the church by telling believers that signs and wonders, miracles, speaking in tongues etc. are not for today. Read more…

My sister died of brain cancer in May of 2010.  It was a swift illness and her death shook all of us because she was only 63 years old.

She and I were two believers out of 6 children in our family and as things went we were at opposite ends of the believing spectrum. Nancy was a dispesationalist.  Among the many things she believed, she did not believe that signs and wonders are for today.  She believed that they died out with the Apostles.  She was a staunch follower of John MacArthur. Read more…

There are teachers who teach that the Holy Spirit is not as active today as He was in the days of Paul and the disciples. They have come to these conclusions by way of assumption as they categorize and label the journey of man with God through the Old and New Testaments. They label the journey with  ‘dispensations’ – periods of time for which they believe God acted differently than other times.  Read more…

When I let the dogs outside at 5:00 AM, the doves were cooing and the birds were chirping; the sun had already done a good share of rising and it looked like the day would be beautiful.  I hoped my dogs, 2 in the back yard and 3 in the front, would be quiet, not waking the  neighbors at this early hour on Sunday morning. Read more…

Why do so many Christians try to put God in a box? They make rules. They decide which parts of the Bible are for today and which ones are used up and only applied to the past. They use their rules as a way to decide which gifts Jesus gives to believers to use in our current generation.  They decide which way is OK to hear form the Lord. They cut away at the Bible and remove any part they don’t want to acknowledge.

What kind of people would do this to God’s word? IMHO I believe they’re people who have a need to control God and the people around them.  They believe they are intellectuals and they try to prove their theories with books outside of the Bible.  They use books written in the flesh to prove their thought about the inspired word of God. They use the ideas of other people to prove their ideas to the folk around them but the real person they are trying to prove right or wrong is God. Read more…

What a mess the church is in. For quite some time now, satan has been living up to his name “the destroyer” by getting Christians to turn on one another, . It’s nothing new but all of this terrific modern technology makes it happen fast and easily.

I love to read my Bible.  It answers all of the important questions in life.  And I believe everything it says. For instance, in John 8:31-32 my Bible says, -  Jesus therefore was saying to those Jews who had believed Him, “If you abide in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” Read more…