A great sadness and shame started coming over me during that second year and I would sometimes cry right there in church; not the audible kind but just a silent flow of shirt collar wetting grief because God was so good and I was so bad and because beautiful Jesus had paid such a horrible price for my sorry, useless hide. It got worse. (2Cor. 7:10) I didn't know it at the time but I was learning about "Godly sorrow". I cried almost every service as the weeks dragged [...]

Back when I first got saved: The superintendent of the non-union mine, mentioned in article two, where I worked was a pastor. I got saved on a Sunday night. Nobody knew it but my wife. The next day, Monday afternoon, I went to the underground coal mine where I worked afternoon shift, went into the mine office, a beat up, dirty, smelly, ancient trailer filled with tools, tracked in mine mud, oil and grease stains, equipment parts and supplies, the battered superintendent's desk and a couple of rusty file [...]

Old Testament Conscience Programming for the Future of Present Day Christians There are preachers, teachers and lay Christians who say the OT prophecies are about Israel and Jesus and do not apply to the Church. I call them the naysayers (the no people). Before the naysayers can work up a head of steam and start arguing; "This is about the Old Testament (O.T.) covenant of blood sacrifice people and it don't apply to Christians who are under the New Testament (N.T.) covenant of grace." Please see this N.T. scripture [...]

Conscience programming by the physical path my life takes when I relate my life experience as an allegory of my spiritual walk on my path for God, JUST LIKE YOU (Eccl. 8:5, 1Cor. 2:14-16 & 12:10 and Heb. 5:14 keyword: discern) if you permit the Holy Spirit to let you spiritually see. (Jer. 6:16) There is a path called the old path. First, I'd like to discuss glaciers. Science says glaciers carved these mountains where I live, the KY part of the Appalachian mountain range. Science says the glaciers traveled [...]

(1Pet. 1:24) Pressing on up that gentle grade I'm so thankful I can walk. About twenty of my high school friends are dead, ten or twelve out of my class. The running back on our football team tied the KY state record for most touchdowns scored in a single game, went to college, became a doctor, he lives down south and he's on a walker now. Several of the men I grew up with, up my holler (mountain slang: the hollow between two ridges or points), are dead too. [...]

God, The Eden Curses, Cancer and Me Throughout this article the human conscience, and how society tinkers with it, is very obvious so the word conscience will not be mentioned. When I finished Sin in church: Growth as a Christian: Part 6 at the beginning of last year, 2012, I did not know God had an astonishing Part 7 in which He would demonstrate His glorious power, kindness, mercy and love for an unworthy, unprofitable servant like me. Three curses: God actually placed three curses on mankind when man fell from grace [...]

(John 15:14) God's ultimate goal is to develop a loving friendship, a personal relationship, with each individual Christian. The four stages of spiritual growth given in scripture are listed as #1 baby, #2 child, #3 young man and #4 old father. These well-known stages of physical growth are used in the scripture to illustrate the stages of spiritual growth in a Christian’s life. These stages of spiritual growth have nothing to do with a person’s chronological age because common sense tells us a fifty year old man who has [...]

Satan uses (Matt. 15:7-9) secular politics, social political correctness, civil law and (Rom. 1:18, Col. 2:8 & 1Pet. 2:1-6) false teachers in Church leadership positions to corrupt Church doctrine (teaching) and bring about REBELLION, DECEPTION, RECRUITMENT, AND SEDUCTION. The first part of this offering scripturally describes how Satan uses false teachers to try to destroy God's Church. The middle part scripturally investigates homosexuality, a contemporary, 2/26/12, source of discord and conflict that is causing a rift in the Protestant Church in America. The last part scripturally shows the proper [...]

NOTE: The first part of this part gets a little "teachy" concerning prayer. The closer you are living to God the less these scriptural instructions concerning prayer will mean to you because you will already be doing them. BUT: They must of necessity be included so new Christians and weak Christians can learn to develop a more ‘pleasing to God’ prayer life. At the end of this part is an astonishing, scriptural creation sequence. These three parts are an amazing trip through the Christian experience into the heart of God. [...]