Mark Cahill - Pride Goes Before Destruction!

I am embedding a video of Mark Cahill at the Atlanta Gay Pride Festival.

Warning...this video may be very triggering. It may step on your toes. It may convict you. There is a lost world out there that will never come through the doors of the church to hear a message of truth in love about their situation with God.

And why should they? Why would they go to a place where so many point their fingers at them and spit out hateful messages? Why would they go to a place that is frequented by people who shout at them and call them vile things? I sure as heck wouldn't go...nor would I listen!

We are called to be salt and light. We are called to go and reach out to the very people who need God the most. We are called to love them...and to share God's love and mercy with them. Are we doing that? Are we following the Great Commission? Or are we waiting for the lost to come to us? That is very unlikely to happen. We must go to them...any way that we can.

The first 13 and half minutes of the video give you an idea of what kinds of things you will see at the parade. The rest of the almost three hour video shows how Mark reaches out to the people there. He has a friend of his video tape several conversations.

I love how he lovingly tries to find a common ground with these people. They have real discussions and some of these people open their hearts up to him, enabling him to plant the seeds of the Gospel. They know that he truly cares about them.

It is heartrending to hear of the deep struggles that some of these people go through. One young man had an understanding of scripture and the gospel that was better than a lot of Christians, yet he was also deceived in some areas. I could see Mark praying about what to say to this young man to try and help him.

At the end of the discussions, Mark gives a little bit of a wrap up and shares how it ended. He shares where he has been able to give a book or a DVD that might help the person better understand their need for Yeshua/Jesus. He also shares some of the other people's comments about the discussion. Many of them were very grateful that he took the time to talk WITH them instead of AT them. They were grateful that he expressed an interest in them and a willingness to dialog and find out more about them. He did not write them off because of their appearance or lifestyle. Instead, he reached out with a love that they could see was real.

Here is the video:



Pride Goes Before Destruction


I have so much to learn about loving others. People like Mark Cahill and Paul Washer and others help me a lot.

ReignDown USA & Paul Washer!

Wow! First I heard about the vision that Shawn-Marie Cole had. Then I found the website and watched the video about it. Now, I am watching the ReignDownUSA event that took place in Washington D.C. on April 26th. I am half way through it and sit here amazed...and so encouraged...and so convicted.

All I can say is "wow!"

If you have never seen this or heard of it, you can find information here:

http://www.reigndownusa.com/

The video of the actual event is found here:

ReignDownUSA on demand

It is incredible.

I also found Paul Washer. Phew! Does this man tell it like it is, or what? For years, Dave and I have been concerned about the direction we have been seeing the "Christian" church in America going. Yet, when we saw the videos by Paul Washer, boy were we convicted. Almost everything he said were things we had been feeling and saying to each other for a long time. Yet, we could also see within ourselves how much we have been letting the world creep into our own spirituality.

If you want to check out what he is saying, I would suggest you start with these:
This is his testimony. It is very short...only about 4 minutes.
He Saved Me

This is a message he gave at an Alabama youth conference in 2002:

You can watch it here:


There was interview done by Kirk Cameron and Todd Friel. It is divided into two parts. Paul actually comes on board in the second half; but the first half has such a powerful message that I am including it, too.

Part 1



Part 2



Our country has been going downhill for a long time. We claim the blessings of God and give Him lipservice, but how do we live our lives...seeing as we are supposedly the children of a holy God? Are we living lives that reflect His holiness? Or are we living for ourselves?

We are doing a lot of self-examination. Are we living for Yahweh according to His true nature and holiness? Or are we living according to how we wish Yahweh to be? Hmmm...a lot of food for thought there.

From our little RV on the hillside to you in your home...we hope that these messages will give you a message of true hope...real hope.