2012 No Shortage The Year Of Vindication?!?!?

I've wondered how people can followed the word of faith movement? The word-of-faith doctrine promises you goods and when you fail to attain to them they say you the problem. I just can't embrace this thinking.

Paula White Does Not Endorse Rabbi Ralph Messer????

Thanks to Bartholomew's Notes on Religion for pic.

In the clip I have posted below it's showing at the 2:13 mark of Pastor Paula White being wrapped by Rabbi Ralph Messer.  In a statement Paula White handles have issued stating that Paula White do not endorse Rabbi Ralph Messer in any kinda of way. Now  if that is true why did she allow Rabbi Ralph Messer to wrap the Torah around her as he did Bishop Eddie Long?

Bishop Eddie Long Has Apologized To Those Whom He Have Offended!

Bishop Eddie Long has apologized for last Sunday's service at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church that drew the ire of Jewish groups and religious scholars.   Source Here!

The New York Giants Have Already Claim and Declared Themselves Super Bowl Champions???

What does it mean to call thing that be not as though they were? Prophesy your future.  I'm  guessing  that's what The New York Giants did Saturday.  The giants  website briefly displayed congratulations to the team for winning Super Bowl XLVI.  They went so far as to have provided links to purchase Super Bowl championship gear and a special championship “badge” for fans to put on Facebook or Twitter. Source Here

Darrell Gilyard Is Preaching Again!!

I know this is going to rub some folks the wrong way. But according to Florida Time Union, former Jacksonville megachurch pastor Darrell Gilyard is back in the pulpit after less than two months after being release from prison.  Gilyard, 49, said he accepted the late January offer to preach at Christ Tabernacle Baptist Church because he needed money and felt God calling him back into ministry. Being a registered sex offender was making it hard for him to get jobs in prison ministries or working with ex-offenders, he added.    The church have agreed to bar minors from the services and accepted his refusal to perform any kind of marriage counseling or other pastoral work. Source!

There Are Somethings That Can Only Be Found At A Black Church???( celebrating black history month)

Back in the day a choir swaying and singing praises to God as it enters the sanctuary on a Sunday morning,  was a beautiful and  wonderful  thing to behold.  Below I have  posted a clip of a choir in Africa  marching into the sanctuary.  

"First Ladies" of Atlanta!

There are “Real Housewives,” “Mob Wives,” “Basketball Wives” and even “Sister Wives.” TLC the network announced on Tuesday that it’s partnering with True Entertainment, the production company behind The Real Housewives of Atlanta, for a new reality series with the working title Preacher Wives. It will follow the "First Ladies" of Atlanta area churches.

Any Christian woman who's a preacher wife that agree to take part in this kinda foolishness should not be expected to be a leader nor to be respected in her church. Article here!

Don Cornelius Have Moved From Time To Eternity!

Soul Train creator Don Cornelius was found dead in his Sherman Oaks home at 4 a.m. Wednesday morning.  Law enforcement officials say Cornelius was discovered with a gunshot wound to the head and TMZ is reporting that his death is being investigated as an apparent suicide.

New Birth Crowns Eddie Long King Of ......

Listen up people Eddie Long is not a king! This is ridiculous on so many levels! In a service on January 29th 2012, Eddie Long who is the pastor at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church invited Ralph Messer who claims to be a Rabbi bringing torah truth to Christians.

There Are Somethings That Can Only Be Found At A Black Church???( celebrating black history month)

Hats!

There Are Somethings That Can Only Be Found At A Black Church???( celebrating black history month)

 Back in the day the church fan was a big part of the black church construct.   Most of the black church fans would have a picture of MLK, Jr. ,Mahalia Jackson or a beautiful black family on the front. On the back you could find advertising for the community funeral home.

Was Racism The Elephant In The Room At The Elephant Room 2 Conference?

The ER2 controversy is now pitting black evangelicals against white evangelicals, and against each other with T.D. Jakes as the centerpiece.   Pastor Voddie Baucham, have responded in a new post to why he refuse to participate in a conference that had featured  Bishop T.D. Jake's.    Some are saying  Pastor Voddie and others have  played the race card  here when it's not about race but about  false doctrine.  Article here. 

There Are Somethings That Can Only Be Found At A Black Church???( celebrating black history month)

Back in the day the church bulletin was a wonderful tool that was used to inform the church and  the community of what was happening in and around the community. Inside  a  church bulletin you could find information about the sick-n-shut-in  as well as  were the pastor would be preaching at during the up coming week.

If A Person Denies The Trinity But Believes In The Deity of Jesus Christ,Can They Still Be Saved?

I have refrained from commenting thus far on the much debated Elephant Room conference put on by Pastor James MacDonald last week.  The Elephant room conference is a concept birth out and developed by Pastor James MacDonald.  The whole  idea of the conference is to get Christians together who agree on the Gospel but have major methodological differences, and thrash out those differences in a no holds barred public conversation.

Christina Aguilera Screaming At Etta James Funeral Yesterday!

Personally I hate  Christina Aguilera performance yesterday at Etta James home going service. Don't get me wrong I think  Christina Aguilera have one of the greatest voices out there in the secular music world today. But for this somber dark gloomy event she was in over kill.  There's a time and place for everything under the sun. But Baring your cleavage and screaming at a funeral isn't one of them.

There Are Somethings That Can Only Be Found At A Black Church???( celebrating black history month)

 

In celebrations of the up coming Black History Month in February.  The old Black Church will be doing it own posting and acknowledging of our history via the church. I will be  posting things that are and once was  apart of the construct of the black church.

Should Pastors Endorsed a Presidential Candidate Via The Church’s Website or The Church Pulpit?

Rev. Voddie Baucham of Houston-area Grace Family Baptist Church recently posted a lengthy, detailed endorsement of Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul on the church’s website. Rev. Voddie Baucham is one of the most well-known African-Americans in the Southern Baptist Convention and perhaps the most prominent African-American Baptist Calvinist. Article here!

Shout Out To The First Students To Graduate From Oprah Winfrey’s School In South Africa

On January 14 Oprah Winfrey attended the inaugural graduation at her Leadership Academy for Girls at Henley on Klip, South Africa.

                                “I’m one proud momma today”

Wednesday In The Word With Pastor E.Dewey Smith Jr.

Join "The Greater Travelers Rest Baptist Church" in February for Wednesday in the Word with a different guest speaker every Wednesday night. Love the teaching and preaching of Pastor E.Dewey Smith, Jr.

The No Compromise Movement!

Holiness is still right!  I Love the idea.

Red Hook Summer A Spike Lee Joint!

In his new Brooklyn-set drama Red Hook Summer, director/co-writer Spike Lee tackles the complex topics of religion and redemption within the modern African American experience, as filtered through the eyes of a spoiled Atlanta teenager (Jules Brown) forced to spend one hot, explosive summer with his preacher grandfather in the projects of Red Hook, Brooklyn. It’s a richly conceived portrait of the Brooklyn neighborhood as microcosm for the black community at large, very much a Lee joint through and through. But, as the filmmaker reminded audiences this week at Sundance, where he railed against the Hollywood system, “it’s not a sequel to Do the Right Thing!” Article and Review of the movie here!

Side Eye Post: Did Mark Driscoll Deny Haiti Relief Because of a Female Pastor?!?!?

Yvonne Trimble is reporting that Mark Driscoll Acts 29 deny Haiti some much needed relief because of a female pastor.  Joel and Yvonne Trimble live in Haiti where two of their four children and one of their nine grandchildren were born. They came to Haiti in 1975 and minister the gospel through television, crusade and church evangelism. Joel and Yvonne are soul winners. They founded Haiti for Christ in 1979 and dedicated themselves to prayer and the ministry of the word Acts 6:4. Haiti for Christ is a non profit, 501(c)(3) dependent on the monthly donations of mission minded Christians. All donations are acknowledged and tax deductible. Article Here!

Today's Atheists, Agnostics and Humanists Are Coming Out of The Closet?!

On March 24, the National Mall in Washington D.C. will be the site of the largest gathering of atheists, agnostics, and secular humanists in history.The Reason Rally organizers hope that by holding this gathering, it will give "closeted" atheists the confidence to "come out" and to show the religious majority that atheism is alive and well in America.  The rally is being sponsored by several atheist organizations, including the Freedom From Religion Foundation, the Center for Inquiry, the American Humanist Association, and the American Atheists, which is holding its annual convention in D.C. the very same weekend. Article Here!

A couple of years ago I listen to a atheist speak on a program I can't remember which program it was.   But the atheist said something that I have never been able to for get: Christians have had over two thousand years to make the case for why they believe and they have fail miserable at doing so.  Now it's our time to make our case and we will not fail.

Will Black Christians Vote For A Mormon?

Is there any evidence to support the idea that ones  religious faith makes a person a better politician president?  Why does a person’s religious belief or lack of religious belief make them better at being president of ALL the people? Is there historically,any evidence that religious leaders have done better than non-religious leaders? If so, I haven't seen it.

 According to Rev. O'Neal Dozier black folks will not vote for a Mormon, they just wont. It look like Mr. O'Neal must have poll all the Christians in the African American community to  come up with that idea.   Mr. O'Neal made that claim while Rick Santorum was making  his first Florida campaign stop at the pastor church yesterday.   Rev. O'Neal is the conservative pastor of Pompano Beach’s Worldwide Christian Center in Palm Beach Fl.  The good old Rev.  told the Palm Beach Post Sunday:

 "that Mitt Romney cannot win the presidency because Americans won’t vote for a Mormon president.  And that blacks are not going to vote for anyone of the Mormon faith and that the book of Mormon says the Negro skin is cursed. ”

 Rick Santorum made his  stop at Dozier’s church, where he gave a faith-based sermon. Dozier has been an outspoken critic of homosexuality and radical Islam. Article Here!

I Would Like This Truck For My Birthday In Aug So, I'm Naming and Claming It Right Now!!

Question:  Do you who are reading this believe in the "Name It And Claim It Gospel?" Can A person name and claim something that's not part of God's sovereign will? Will God ever over rule His Sovereign Will for the will of man?

Joe Paterno Dead At 85!

Joe have enter the place call eternity were all our secrets and things in our hearts are laid out for the final judgment. R.I.P Joe!  

Etta James Has Moved From Time To Eternity.

Take your rest sister. Article Here!

Secular Artist Rick Ross Have Pissed Off Some In The Christian Community!!

Some in the Christian community are upset with top selling secular rapper Rick Ross for the recent release of his song entitled “Holy Ghost.”   Rick Ross is been criticized for twisting scriptures and degrading the Holy Spirit by using Him as a consultant that helps lead him further into sin.

The first verse of the song depicts Ross, a self proclaimed Christian, relishing in the riches of sitting in his expensive Bugatti as he makes a drug deal. Proclaiming that being “dead broke” is the “root of all evil” instead of the love of money, he is attempting to dodge cops and asks for the Holy Ghost to intervene.

 Personally, I am not upset or offend with the action of the unsaved like Rick Ross.  The unsaved are  liable to do and say anything and it's expected of them.  So this foolishness of Mr. Ross  doesn't surprise me at all and it should not surprise other Christians. Article Here!

R.I.P Brother Schambach!

Brother Schambach, as he liked to be called, died from heart failure Tuesday morning.  RW Schamback began his life ministry during divine military mission on a destroyer off the coast of Japan during WWII. That mission turned into ministry. He and his wife Winn shared the bible's lessons for more than 60 years, traveling around the world.

Monster Energy Drinks Exposed!

I find this info about Monster Energy Drinks to be some what very interesting.  Once upon a time monsters were to be feared and to run away from, no one had the desire to be like one, times have changed. Why does society now entertain and embrace the idea of being monsters? Why do so many adopt the concept of evil being redefined as good? How could this be? The answer; Indoctrination AKA brainwashing through use of propaganda and other means of media to influence mankind and to reshape thinking. To a few the method used to market products such as Energy Drinks and various items to the public is done in a clever way to further an agenda. Monster drink logo are everywhere. Article here  and here.