CHARISMATICA

(Ted Haggard by feastoffun via Flickr)

Here’s an interview that J. Lee Grady did with Ted and Gayle Haggard: Words of Repentance From Ted Haggard
Response: This was a devastating episode for many Christians, particularly for their church in Colorado. I have always been unhappy with the way that many in the church ‘shoot our wounded’, [...]

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US out of wedlock births now exceed 40%. A real indicator that the nation and the dominant culture is headed at full steam away from Biblical Christianity or so it would seem. Unfortunately, I would imagine that the statistics for the American Church are only slightly better.
It is amazing to [...]

QUOTE: “I feel like I was born again. I will live my life, fixing my eyes only on Jesus on the cross.”—70-year-old Lee Keun-ahn
Lee Keun-ahn who was known as the “Torture Master” in the 1980s because of the inhumane ways he used in extracting information for the North Korean military regime.
Lee went into hiding [...]

I am headed out today to go to TheCall in San Diego. It starts at 10 am and goes to 10 pm. It will be a 12 hour day of prayer, fasting, and worship among thousands of Christians from all over California. I’ll blog on it later.

According to a Charisma report, there has been an ongoing outpouring of the Holy Spirit experienced at a church in Kansas City, Mo. Since May 2, hundreds have gathered at World Revival Center to experience the miraculous power of God.
Senior pastor Steve Gray said that he began to know that something was different in [...]

Christians across the U.S. are being summoned to a time of prayer and repentance to be held on Saturday April 26 at the National Mall in Washington, D.C.  Also, the services will be shown at satellite venues in 31 states. Participants will worship, pray, and be encouraged to repent of their own sins. Organizers [...]

Here’s a good blog to read to end the year.  Mark Hadfield wrote about repentance today on his blog madetopraisehim:
Many people coming into churches are taught to tell Jesus that they’re sorry for their past so that their mistakes can be blotted out. Now personally, I don’t think that’s the repentance Jesus talked about [...]

400 years ago English settlers landed on Virginia Beach and planted a cross, dedicating their new land to God. That was the beginning of the Jamestown settlement but also the beginning of this Nation under God (USA).
4000 Christians gathered Sunday (4/29) on the same beach marking the anniversary of the original event and placed hundreds [...]

A continuing series reflecting on the book: “What Jesus Demands from the World”, By John Piper (Wheaton, Ill: Crossway Books, 2006, 400 pgs.)
Jesus began his public ministry with the declaration: “Repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand.” (Matt. 4:17) What is repentance? What does it mean, and more important, what did [...]

I recently read three prophetic words that started me thinking, and praying. The first one was in Charisma Magazine (Oct. 2006) by James Robison: Humility…or Humiliation? He brings a warning to America and the church which may be summarized:
“We have a choice. God is calling the American church to repentance and… [...]