The Faith of DEMONS.

God's Boys will be good boys!

The Scriptures state that the demons believe and tremble. I can just imagine that Judas had just that sort of faith. He knew that Jesus was a miracle worker and it seemed that he tried to speed up the process of Jesus delivering himself by provoking a direct conflict with the authorities. He did not understand the spiritual battle that they were in and died in disgrace and sadness because the story wasn't playing out the way he had planned it. The demons tremble at the power of God, the demons tremble even at the goodness of God, but they can only enter into the wrath of God and the hard providences of God.
I have seen that when we go through grief we are as close to the devil to accuse God of evil. Sometimes we do and sometimes we don't, but Job's response was the godly response that God has good things for us and hard things for us for some reason and we cannot know that.
Let us beware that our faith imitates Jesus faith and not the devil's faith trembling and responding out of fear alone. Come near to Jesus and He will show himself a friend and a lover of your soul.

Thrilled at Thankfulness

God's Boys will be good boys!

No personal interaction is easy. It cannot be put into a video and imitated in every instance. This is the danger of every generation.
My Dad's grandmother was concerned about the movie generation, not being able to relate and when tv came out and they gave him 20 minute limits a day, so that he would not forget how to communicate with people. We are surely in danger of just such a circumstance. People take the videos that they watch and inject the theorem from them into all of their relationships.
I was wondering what was up with everybody and every preacher man getting into scaring the pants off of everybody trying to scare them into a relationship with them or with God.
I could name 10 or 12 preachers that routinely use some sort of scare tactic in their evangelism attempts. It might work for some people, but I fear that they have been "THRILLERIZED". That video has become so pervasive an influence on the world that people go in and out of churches and marriages and relationship when the THRILL is gone.
God is so far above that type of single resource relating style. We live in a country where we are exposed to so many relating styles that no one need be monolythic.
God give us grace to use the gifts that He has given us richly to enjoy for His glory and for the enjoyment of our relationships. God is love.
I am thankful that we can learn to be thrilled in love and at the goodness of one another and not just away from the torments outside of our relationships.

Thankfulness in Thriller

God's Boys will be good boys!

I am grateful that God is the Lord of the Universe and the Lord of the dance also. Dance is a beautiful way to communicate to one another and to God. David, as a man after God's own heart danced before the Lord in rejoicing for a victory. His love for God was profound and passionate. Dance is not just an end in itself. It is a tool and an art. I love the depth that Thriller has taken me to, in seeing the genius of communication of the reality of the consequences of relating and the beauty of human relationship as well as the complexity. Something is lurking in all of our minds which will be rewarding to the relationships that we are engaged in or which are destructive. God created human relationships and we can grow in them or live in a curmudgeon life of death. We are not doomed to follow in the wicked steps of the generations prior to us in helpless shackles to unhappy relationships. We must and can learn skills to give us joy in our relationships and homes and it starts with, just what Michael highlighted, the mouth and the hands of the corpses spewing gunk or good.

It's Close to Midnight---

God's Boys will be good boys!


We have the promise that God is coming to judge the earth and to redeem His church from the world and the flesh and the devil. The devil and the wicked have the same testimony as we have. When God came in judgement on the earth, it is awesome to see that the names of the people in the godly line were very much the same as the names of the people in the wicked line of people. The meanings of their names were readying the world and warning the earth that God had intentions of destroying it with a flood. Noah wasn't the only person to hear the message. He was the only person to believe the report of the Lord. He who has ears to hear, it often says.
When God came to judge Ninevah, every family in that city had someone who had met the angels and been blinded by the angels for their wicked intentions. They repented not. They all met the angels and God spared only the people who believed that they were angels. How could someone who were not an angel blind a city? We are blinded by humor and blinded by sin. These are not mystical things, they are perspectives that are spun without God. Sometimes, as Christians, we seem to rather see people blind than enlighten their thinking and take their issues to task.
Noah took his world to task and was ridiculed.
Michael Jackson stated in the song it is close to midnight. They all know judgement is coming and God throughout eternity will play those words in judgement in the ears of torment and there will be no comfort, if there is no repentance. Echoing down the halls of eternity, the tormented soul will find no rest from the fact that he knew that the judgement was coming and he continued on in his sins. Even their enjoyments include a message of life to the spiritually alive and a message of torment to those who are spiritually dead.
The trumpet shall sound...and the dead shall be raised. Dead thoughts shall be raised, dead in body but alive in spirit shall be raised, INCORRUPTIBLE!

Forcing the need for a hero by scaring the girl into needing a hug is one way to initiate physical contact, but not the best way. Learning skills that will lead to healthy relationships is delicate. We all have a need for physical touch. Healthy touch is good and life giving, unhealthy touch is sin and sinful. Love means learning to communicate effectively in every relationship and put the appropriate communication with the right person. What did you learn from THRILLER that helps your communication style and what did you learn that will hamper your relationships?

Dancing to the beat of a different Drummer...

I finally saw the "Thriller" video. The original, by Michael Jackson and the new one by Adam Savani. What an amazing genius was that Michael Jackson to put those thoughts and words and dance steps and costumes together. I must be the very last person in the world to have seen it. He won numerous awards. My sister imitated it in her High School musical contest and I ran to try to see it and missed it then and I never did see it.
The Scriptures say that he who sows to the flesh shall reap of the flesh corruption. Michael (on purpose, or by accident) re-enacted this spiritual truth perfectly.
Here he is, with the girl that he loves and asking her to be his girl and he is turning into the picture of corruption, from a hug. We can't seem to help it. We intend to do good to this person, for the rest of our lives and our passions get the best of us and we destroy every intention that we have had toward this relationship and toward this person. Death and destruction ensues..."The Funk of the AGES"...
"How can a YOUNG MAN keep himself pure?" says the Psalmist in Psalm 119;9 That is the question in THRILLER. How do I not mess this up? How can I keep this relationship for the rest of my life when every wicked impulse within me is urging me to mess it up? The Psalmist doesn't leave us at the question. Michael doesn't answer the question.
Incorruptible?
Do we want to reap corruption of the flesh, or do we want to consume one another in our relationship? NO! What does the Psalmist mean-By taking heed according to your Word. How can a Word keep me from festering up all of the FUNK of a thousand generations and all of the disability of fathers and forefather and mothers before me? That is the question we raise. I love how he (Michael) had pieces of their bodies' fall off and gunk coming out of their mouths and festering sores on their faces and bodies as they danced to the beat of generation after generation before. This is LOVE? I asked you to be my girl and I get this? and you get this? Where do we go to find help and peace and the solace that God intended in our households?

I met some boys who seemed to feel alone in the

world. I cannot even imagine the sadness of not knowing the man who is leading your mother. There were some boys I met who expressed that sentiment to me. The sense of violation and challenge, as though one must defend the honor of his mother and his home, were very strong in the room. How can a man find peace in his heart, when he is distressed with such cares? I asked God in prayer and in my scripture searching. I thought of King David, who endured the violation of forgottenness and minimization in a large family and he reminded me in the Psalms, "When my father and my MOTHER forsake me...then, the Lord will take me up." It was as though God himself takes the hand of such a young one; the fatherless, the widows, the oppressed, the brokenhearted and carries those weakened states of heart in his own bosom, like the shepherd. David said to God, in a sense, if I died, it would be to my parents' as though one of these sheep had died, that's how much they care about me. God let him know, that might be the case...but I am the Shepherd of the sheep and I care and would never eat you. God is good. He knows our frame and we can find peace in our saddest condition, because of the care and concern of our creator and more than this, in Christ we have a heavenly advocate--lawyer, to plead our case to the heavenly Judge of the universe.


































from an email sent Nov 2007?
favorite recent quote, share w/ Enoch
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My Favorite recent quote:





In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope? John Kerry calls on us to hope. John Edwards calls on us to hope. I'm not talking about blind optimism here -- the almost willful ignorance that thinks unemployment will go away if we just don't talk about it, or the health care crisis will solve itself if we just ignore it. No, I'm talking about something more substantial. It's the hope of slaves sitting around a fire singing freedom songs; the hope of immigrants setting out for distant shores; the hope of a young naval lieutenant bravely patrolling the Mekong Delta; the hope of a millworker's son who dares to defy the odds; the hope of a skinny kid with a funny name who believes that America has a place for him, too. The audacity of hope![7]





The Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama

This was a brilliant canvassing of American examples of struggle against odds. We rarely find people that are willing to put aside their own peevish sense of paternal loyalty to acknowledge the universal and important lessons from the human struggle on varied levels and vicissitudes. In my opinion he could have delved deeper into the reality of struggle and overcoming but in a synopsis, this was superb.





Rudy is still my favorite! He is a lover and a fighter and he helps me understand why there is a long way to go for this human race in terms of what is leadership. The passion to lead and the passion to win and the passion to unify is necessary for the growth of the nation. I am afraid that this sublime and waiting on the world to change generation will deteriorate into a live and let live world of everyone defending his own feudal rights and exempt us all from the responsibility of change. That is what is dangerous in Hope being the campaign slogan. Hope is a passive word. Hope is a let it happen word. Fight and make it happen. Fight and unify and grow us up is what we need. Nothing happens sitting and hoping. Letting the powers that be continue on their merry way is the way the bullies maintain their lots. Lot was one who gave in a capitulated to the perverse and ultimately it ate him and his family up, even though they were spared the ultimate judgment. Abraham was prevailing in prayer and he was active in moving and forbearing with youngers ( he allowed Lot the first choice of preference in where to set up camp. Meaning that Abraham had respect for his inferiors as well as superiors. I am reminding myself today to give due respect to my children in descending or ascending order based on age and to give them times of equality and even preference in areas where they are far more excellent than I am. This is difficult and humbling. To actually attribute to them the respect due to their character and maintain authority as a parent. Listen to the transparency message by Chanski to remind yourself of the right of passage to your 21 year old and to stop stifling her spirit. Holy Spirit help me to treat my children with due respect!

Am I My Brother's Keeper?

Read the Passage in Scripture of Cain and Abel in Genesis. Where do we get that question, am I my brother's keeper? In what way am I my brother's keeper and in what way am I not my brother's keeper?


I am made in the image of God. I am made to learn about the God who made me and imitate Him. I am made to do good and shun evil. Not just to react to the circumstances around me. I am made to see God in my human relationships and to see God above my human relationships. The difference between aggression and righteous indignation is who are we fighting for. Fighting for anything but God's principles and purposes is the wrath of man. King David could see his parents and his king as under God, to be honored, but only God to be defended and life to be defended and preserved. 2 questions to ask yourself before you fight, am I defending my life or the life of some one that I love? Am I defending the real and disputed honor of God? otherwise leave it alone.