OLD fashioned preacher

On 12/22/2017 at 10:34 AM, Pastorj said:

I would agree that KJVO and OKJV are both rooted within the IFB churches. The false churches have moved away from the Word of God as Revelation 3 says they would. Church today are about entertainment and feel good, rather than solid Bible Preaching. As IFB churches fall away from the Word of God, they cease being "Good" churches.

There are 100 IFB churches in a 30 min radius of me. None preach the Word of God. Most use the KJV when they use Scripture, but that is far from what good churches were 30 years ago.

On 12/26/2017 at 9:52 AM, Pastorj said:

I have not visited Berean. We visited over 50 churches in Winston, but that one was south of where we lived at the time.

I have been shocked since moving to NC in 2010. A lot of the churches follow what I call "Camp style" preaching. This style has no substance and rarely opens the Bible. When they do, it is just to grab a verse that sounds good, but is almost always taken out of context.

Much of what is said is not "Unbiblical", but it does not meat Paul's definition of Preaching. Preaching must include "The Word".

A perfect example was this last Sunday. The pastor spoke about Christmas for 40 minutes. Nothing he said was wrong. But he quoted 1 verse and the passage he used did not support the 4 points he had. I am completely disgusted with what I have found for preaching in NC.

On 12/28/2017 at 6:42 AM, Pastorj said:

Gospel Light Baptist Church in Walkertown.

They are conservative with good music. The bus ministry overpowers the church 1700 on the buses and only 2500 total attendance.
I love the pastor as a pastor, but his messages are nothing but stories. I call it story time with Bro. Bobby. He makes a great conference speaker, but quite frankly, I haven't heard a "Message" in any visit I have made, which has been many since the church was 2 miles from my house and my kids went to the school.

The assistant is a really good preacher.

Understand that I'm Southern born and Southern bred --- and when I die I'll be Southern dead!! BUT, far too many Southern IB preachers are cotton candy  preachers -- all fluff, no substance. Southern folk (as a whole) like it that way, unfortunately. Most campmeetings will have messages that the other preachers can shout about. Am I against shouting? Not when it's real. Does shouting make the service more (or less) real? No. Is "putting on the dog" carnal? Yep! There used to be a good campmeeting in Boomer, N.C. but, alas, it is no more.

My wife and the family we're staying with are teaching each other different things in the kitchen. They have taught her how to make gallo pinto, she taught true Southern fried chicken. She's learning how to make tortillas from scratch, Monday she will teach them to make biscuits from scratch.

This is a VERY Catholic family, please pray we have an open door for effective witness in spite of the language difficulty.

So far we have had some interesting adventures and misadventures in Matagalpa. Have been overcharged a couple of times (gringo tax). Made a couple of good contacts in town including a national pastor (Ivis Calindres of Calvary Baptist, Matagalpa) who may be able to help us get our feet on the ground when we move here (they have been instrumental in establishing six churches in the country). Our sending church will be Old Paths Baptist Church in Ruidoso, N.M. (Pastor Joshua de los Santos) and they will be helping our linguistic studies as we seek to raise support. The owner of the house we are staying in is keeping our feet to the fire by forcing us to use Spanish ---- which is good.

When I can later, I will get a multimedia presentation sent to you. I know that prayer support is vital for the missionary AND the congregation. Christians need missions always before them lest it become "out of sight, out of mind". There's something about "the missionary we pray for" or if a youth group or Sunday School class has "OUR missionary".

Though I've never met Bro. Dayton personally, I'm quite familiar with him. He originally went to Costa Rica to learn Spanish, one year later went to Managua. One of my national pastor contacts (Her. Ramon Gonzalez Sequeria, Pastor of Iglesia Bautista Renacer since 1974) is a product of Bro. Dayton's ministry. Between 26 known mission boards in the U.S. (there's no way to count the number of missionaries not through boards) there are only 12 missionaries in Nicaragua (6 are BIMI). There are only 188 known IB churches in the country (in comparison there are over 600 in NC and over 800 in TX) and some of them (such as the one in Jinotega) have become Charismatic. 

My wife and have used Thompsons since 1978. 

Calfskin, Lambskin, Large print, Handy size --- you can find them at the KJV store.

https://www.thekjvstore.com/kjv-bibles/study-bibles/thompson-chain.html

On ‎11‎/‎27‎/‎2017 at 1:42 PM, JesusLivesInUs said:

Isn't it interesting how ppl are so averse to discussing certain topics such as Evolution without being rude and dismissive of the plain facts.  It's the same ignorance that Nazi sympathizers held on to, stating the Holocaust never occurred or the same prejudice of those in Salem in the 1600's who thought the lady who acted just a bit peculiar, needed to be burned. God gave us the ability through millions of years of existence, to rationalize and understand God's creation. Does the notion of evolution understate the beauty of God's creation? Anyway, I think Bill Nye destroyed Hamm's argument. He has yet to make a valid argument against the facts. 

Looking at your screen name (Jesus Lives in us) leads me to the question -- how much of (which parts of) the Bible do you believe to be the Word of God? (If it is the Word of God it will be inerrant. If those portions are errant, they are not the Word of God)

If the church and the pastor don't already know what the man teaches and believes and hasn't seen a pattern in faithfulness before the ordination is scheduled ---- they shouldn't even be scheduling an ordination for him.

On ‎10‎/‎25‎/‎2016 at 5:31 PM, OLD fashioned preacher said:

State of Arkansas is as narrow as I have for a location.

On ‎10‎/‎25‎/‎2016 at 5:46 PM, HappyChristian said:

Hmm - Arkansas? I know Jerry#s lives in Arkansas. I thought John lived elsewhere. But I'm not sure. (I thought he was actually closer to Indiana, for some reason, based on comments about storms, etc., at times.)

I may have crossed John and Jerry up, I've gotten them mixed up before. So, he may not be in AR.

I know a church that had a triple-wide mobile home as their first building. After 8 years they moved and sold that building to an HVAC company.

I was assistant pastor in a one church that bought the old Elks Lodge building and again in another one that bought an old Redneck bar. Our building where I pastor used to be the RLDS building.

I also know a church whose first building was a 40 y.o. barn and the parsonage was a single-wide mobile home.

42 minutes ago, DaveW said:

 

What's with you being part of the "House Church" movement?????

 

(Jk - look in the top ledt corner of the pic.... I assume it is half of the "Lighthouse Baptist church" sign.... 

Now that's just too funny!

2 hours ago, WellWithMySoul said:

I have a little Canon 25x Digital camera that I use.  After I get pictures downloaded to the computer, I edit them a tad to try to enhance the colors...but that's all.  

 

Okay, photo editing, I not just a dinosaur but an old-school dino. I was thinking in terms of darkroom techniques I used with my Canon AE-1 (which I sold - with all accessories) to a young lady who was starting in photography about 12 yrs ago. She had a digital SLR but wanted a mirrored (real - sorry, couldn't resist) one, too.

3 hours ago, WellWithMySoul said:

We were driving out in the woods one day and came upon these free range sheep...guided by a shepherd and sheep dogs.

 

Looking at the texture softening (like a painting vs a photo), did you use a little over exposure?

11 minutes ago, Alan said:

I've been hesitant to vote for several personal reasons. I cannot sing well, the only instrument I can play is the CD player (and I even have problems with that technology sometimes due to all of the options), and my time is limited in learning other subjects (my plate is full of other  subjects I am learning. 

Please indulge my story telling. It was around 2000 or 2001, another electrician and I were working on the new baseball stadium buildings and he had his CD player outside the building playing. He says, Hey Cliff, would you flip that CD over when this song ends? Reluctantly, I dropped what I was doing (after all, I was on the ground level devices and he was working on ceiling fixtures) and headed out there. Halfway there I hear him start to cackle, "Just messing with you man, they only have one side!"  Hmmn, maybe I oughtta crawl out from under my rock more often.

27 minutes ago, Alan said:

Alan (one of the two witnesses from Revelation 11:3)

Wow!! A Real Live Rev 11 witness? That's even better than meeting a Real, Live missionary. Cool, wait till my FacePlace friends hear about this. I mean, like, Dude, Dude!!

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Nothing I've ever played with.

Must be a Yankee (U.S. usage of the word, not Commonwealth usage) bug.

 Limestone formations and birds nests on one of them at "Monuments Rocks" in NW Kansas.

Nichols Lake, E. Milton, FL

1 minute ago, No Nicolaitans said:

Sorry...didn't mean to give the wrong impression. I'm glad it wasn't copper...I've never messed with it before.

Proper term, just my assumption.

Threaded galvanized can be a headache, too. I'd much rather mess with PVC.

When you said hard piped, I thought you meant copper pipe with sweated joints or galvanized rigid. PVC's definitely easier to modify. Yep, the flex will improve somebody's life in follow-up work.

Also district of Copan, Honduras

Vulture in the yard near chicken enclosure -- outside of Dulce Nombre, Copan, Honduras.

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