Here lie new beginnings for me.  Some denominations call them Church Starters, but somehow that terminology just doesn’t seem to fit.  I guess I have always seen God as the real Church Starter being that the church is not a building or location, but rather, God’s people apart or together.  His people often gather at a local place, so I guess I could call myself –the gatherer.

There are those individuals from the local church I attended that congratulated me on my move.  Somehow they got the idea that my ministry was to a pre-existing local church.  They were shocked to learn that I was going to gather a church or start a church.  “You mean there is no building, facilities, no income, no nothing,” they would exclaim.  “There is no nothing.  Just God and me (my wife),” I would answer.

 One individual that is familiar with the denomination told me, “You must be out of your mind!”  “There is no way!  “You’re crazy”!  “Let the very young guys do it. 

 “Just call me Noah,” I told him.  “They thought he was nuts too.”  He also gathered not only God’s People, but animals.

 So, what do I need to do?  The first thing is for me to ask you to pray.  I have been praying about this for some time.  Pray that I will hear clearly His instructions and let Him guide me accordingly.  I need prayer and lots of it from those who know Him –men, women, youth and children.

The first thing I will do is ________________?  What do you think I should do first other than prayer?

Not too long ago, I remember sitting in a room of mostly educators, many having their doctor degrees in various subjects. After finishing our first topic of discussion, the subject of believing in God came up. Then a request of the showing of hands was made? (more…)

I looked at the security monitor only to see the June bugs…(What? June bugs in August?) bang themselves into the garage door near the lights. Ahhh, a neighbor attempts to leave for work. He attempts to get into his wife’s car instead of his. (more…)

Man is stumbling blindly through a spiritual darkness while toying with the precarious secrets of life and death. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours, is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.–Gen. Omar Bradley

Not everyone can smell the odor of death. I guess I am a person who is very sensitive to the odor. When I lived in New York City for three months in 2002, I made my way through the streets towards Ground Zero. A sick feeling came over me as I smelt that odor once more and I ask the guy I went with, “Do you smell that”? His response was, “Well, I didn’t do it”! “No, Mark, do you smell death? (more…)

Parents and step-parents need to understand that the most powerful learning tool is what they (parents and step-parents) do and say in their role as an authority–that is not only the speaking of words, but by their actions and attitudes. A driver cuts in front of you (more…)

Yes, we may have a deed or a receipt, but God holds us responsible for that property He has given us to use and also how we treat the property of other caretakers.

When I was a boy we rented a lot of houses and we always, always, upon vacating the houses put them in much better shape than when we moved in– even if they were filthy and poorly kept upon our original entrance.

I ask my dad about this one day after spending hours of working on and cleaning a rental house that was a shambles when we move in to it. He told me that this house did not belong to the so called owner, but rather to God and then explained what I call the “truth of ownership act”.

When people disrespect the property of others it also shows a disrespect for God the owner of all things. I know of a person who borrowed several items from a neighbor and later became angry at the neighbor. He threw a heavy item over the fence instead of taking it to him. The item could have been easily damaged. He was also seen doing other things to the neighbors house and property.

It was not long when a person driving through the neighborhood saw one of the children of that man. The child was seen disrespecting the property of another homeowner. I guess children do learn what they see and quickly pickup the attitudes of adults. I wonder in five or ten years if that man’s children will disrespect the property that he is the caretaker of–if no, they learned it from him.

God owns it all! At best we are only caretakers! I guess some people never ask themselves the question, “Am what I am about to do right or wrong?”

It was considered the most shameful and disgraceful form of capital punishment by the Romans and was reserved for assassins, rebels, and slaves that turned criminal.

There were three types of crosses. There was one that was in the form of an X another was built like a capital T. The other type which is mostly seen today looks more like a non-capital t or t.

Surprisingly most crosses were only a about ten feet in length. This meant that the criminal’s feet were less than two feet from the ground. Paintings and movies that show Jesus hung high in the air gives the wrong idea of reality.

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Paranormal State (PS), Ghost Hunters (GH) as well as other groups need to read scripture (the Bible). Even though they have tidbits of scripture here and there, they fail to look at what scripture says related to the world of the spiritual and how that world works. Instead they use a great variety of what they think might be spiritual. They use American Indian, Mystic, Wicker, Readers, Mediums, etc in coming up with things that are spiritual. I am surprised that they haven’t used more animals—perhaps mice or toads.

PS still cannot understand that when people die there are two places prepared for them, one good and one not so good. One place is prepared for those who have a personal relationship with Jesus, the Messiah, also known as the Christ. The other place is prepared for those whose who have rejected the Love of Jesus and His Sacrifice on Calvary.

PS as well as Ghost Hunters (GH) also continue failure to understand that spiritual beings are eternal, intelligent and have wills. Since God (God, His Son being Jesus, the Messiah) created humans a little less than the angels, it is an obvious step that that they are eternal and intelligent. PS and GH act as if spiritual beings are ignorant and somewhat limited entities. Whereas they do have certain limitations based on what God and Satan place on them however, they are still above man who is tragically flawed by his sinful condition.

The spiritual entities that they attempt to gather research material on, is worthless due to the fact that they fail to understand the very nature who they are dealing. The demonic spiritual beings, who imitate individuals that have passed on, lead these so called investigators along as they desire.

PS and GH continue to fail to understand that these entities are eternal. They have seen from their creation the history of heaven and the universe. They are intelligent and communicate with one another. They have seen the history of individuals such as a parents, grand parents, and great grandparents and beyond. These entities not only have watched and watch people, but can understand and locate physical/material locations/items. They can be very accurate if they so desire about the pasts of others if allowed by their chain-of-command.

They are intelligent. They (collectively) know every language, read and gather information (technical and otherwise) and use it to their advantage. They can understand cameras, recorders, digital voice recorders, motion detectors, electronics as well as computers—even read over one shoulder and learn what one reads or writes. The entities lead PS and GH as well as other groups around. And being that they hate mankind and are masters of deceit as well as drama they use anyone they can. These spiritual entities continue to manipulate people to include those on PS and GH and those these groups attempt to help.

One must understand that knowing Jesus Christ, being reconciled to Him by the blood he shed on Calvary is not a religion—it is a relationship. Rejecting His or and the failure to give oneself to Him is saying “no” to God. Doing nothing towards having a relationship with God is the same as saying “no” to God. God seeks to know you personally through His Son, not through religion. Jesus Himself said, “I am the way the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father but by me.” Jesus was either a lunatic, a liar or who he claimed to be, “Lord.” To me He is Lord!

Who is He to you? See http://www.needhim.org/