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swimming hole

This weekend I got the awesome pleasure to preach at Calvary in Chambersburg, PA. And apart from just the usual preaching feeling. Another strange feeling arose, the feeling of being home again. You see alot of people like to jump to the big pond where things might seem to be a little nicer, but I enjoyed my little swimming hole, where I feel God se me to make a difference. It is a weird feeling, perhaps one day God will make a little tributrary for me back to my little swimming hole.

Thoughts from a Hotel Room

It is funny How God makes you realize the grass isn't always greener on the other side. A lesson I wish I could have learned that years ago.

My relationships with the kids are strong, and I realize now, how much God is using me in the Church and in their lives, and who knows what He has in store for me next.

I am just going to focus on where He is working and using me now, and not worry about the next horra... And actually let God use me. And everything will fall into place.
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I can't wait to get married.... Come quickly! I truly have found my soulmate!!
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Do I become mature enough not to make a wake up call for my friends room in the middle of night.
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God Rocks!
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YOHO let me know when you are going to call me out on the road trip!

My New Ride

So I have a new ride, finally. It is also my first car that is actually nice..lol. Anyway i dont know what to name it so any help would be nice.... I will post pics tomorrow.

The ABA

As many of you all might know, I have spent the past year in an SBC church. While I have been there God has renewed my vigor for ministry, and I have totally turned my life over to Him, whoever He leads. As much as I treasure my time in the convention, I am praying for God's will in my life. I really am feeling led in the direction back to the ABA, where I feel like I belong more. I would love for some input from my fellow brothers in Christ.

Tim Cheshire

God is Moving

I must say I have never been in such an event, in such a movement of the Spirit as what is going on now. Anyone who has the opportunity to make it down to martinsburg, before Sunday, should really get down here, and experience such a great prayer conference where God is moving, and truly showing his presence. If you have any free time, you need to come down, if you have the time and you are just sitting and playing video games I will be praying for you, that the Lord works through you, moves your spirit and breaks you to come to where you need to be at Broken Before The Throne, it is free so you have no excuses!!!

God is working on me... allow Him to work on you.

Here is a copy of the Journal interview...

MARTINSBURG — The leader of one of the nation’s largest church organizations issued a bleak diagnosis of America’s spiritual condition in a message Wednesday.“This nation is in need of spiritual heart surgery,” said the Rev. Frank Page, president of the Southern Baptist Convention. Page spoke at Westview Baptist church as part of Prayer Conference 2007. The event featured Page and other nationally known speakers, and attracted hundreds of participants from throughout the region. The Rev. Dan Biser, pastor of a Hampshire County church, said he organized this year’s prayer conference, and that the eight-day event took 18 months to organize. The conference started on Sunday, and several more speakers are scheduled before the conference concludes next Sunday.Biser said the goals of the conference were simple.“It’s all about prayer, praying for the nation, our families, and our churches,” he said. “We need a change and only God can do it,” he added. A theme continued in Page’s talk.While there’s a lot of spiritual talk around, Page said, genuine spirituality was the prescription for the nation’s ills.“We have developed to an art form the ability to put on a super-spiritual front,” he said.The nation needs a religious revival and evangelism based on true repentance, Page said, which in the end, will bring people closer to God.Page’s talk touched many topics, from the spirit of revival and what it might look like, to what he said must be done to bring about a nationwide revival. “We can only speculate academically what it would be like, what it would look like,” said Page.“Evangelism should be natural, we should all feel the excitement of the Lord,” he said.To reach the goal of a nationwide revival, Page said, repentance for sins people may not even realize they are committing is necessary. Many things in today’s society distract us from religion, and the nation has fallen into idolatry, he said.“I believe it is time to shed tears of regret for what we have done,” he said.Repentance is a hard thing to face up to, he said, and in many cases the easier thing is to feel unfairly treated or judged instead of accepting sins as sins. Unconfessed sin, he said, keeps people separated from God.“We are patting each other on the back as the world is going to Hell all around us,” he said. Rejoicing will be the result of a life free from sin, since it will allow an individual to be closer to God, he said.He said these are moments God presents to people, in which they have one chance to do the right thing, or it will slip away forever. Page also discussed Christian unity and the way Christians should interact with the world.Christians must stand together, he said, and make no excuses for their beliefs, presenting a united front to the world around them. Page said his visit was “truly a joy,” and that people in Martinsburg were particularly welcoming.“It’s really an honor to be amongst the people of West Virginia,” he said.

Neo Fundamentalism

In the past few weeks I have been speaking with Bryan Dugger, about Fundamentalism vs. Emerging Church Post Modernism. I must say I would much rather be associated with the aforementioned rather than the latter.

The main problems with Fundamentalists is the premise of the KJV is the only inspired translation (I could get into it, but that would be a whole nother blog) and the anti-CCM feelings that tends to be a vast belief among almost all fundamentlist.

The Five Fundamentals of Fundamentalist I have absolutly no problem with, and full heartily agree with them. For those who don't know they are...

1. InErrancy of the Word of God
2. Virgin Birth and Deity of Jesus Christ
3. The doctrine of substitutionary atonement through God's grace and human faith
4. The bodily resurrection of Jesus
5. The authenticity of Christ's miracles (or, alternatively, his pre-millennial second coming)

I also stand with them on doctrinal purity...Along with many other things. ... (to be continued)