Unless you are living under a rock, I am sure you heard about the awful Earthquake in Haiti that took place Jan 12, 2010 at 4:57 pm est.

From the Ambassador of Haiti..

Haiti was ‘catastrophe waiting to happen’

Haiti’s infrastructure was among the world’s worst even in the best of times, the country’s ambassador to the United States said Tuesday.

“It was a catastrophe waiting to happen,” Raymond Alcide Joseph told CNN from Washington shortly after a 7.0 earthquake leveled parts of his home country, cutting power and phone lines in the capital city of Port-au-Prince. “Sadly, it has happened.”

He called the result “a catastrophe of major proportions.” The capital city is surrounded by hills to which “little flimsy houses” were struggling to hold on, he said.

Frank Williams of World Vision Haiti told CNN from the Petionville section of the capital that the building in which his organization is based shook for about 35 seconds and did not weather it well.

(From http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/01/12/haiti.earthquake.infrastructure/  )

Tonight my heart is heavy with the great earthquake in Haiti. The capital
of this extremely poor nation, one of the poorest in the world is now
in ruins and rubble.

This happened just before dark and now as darkness fell, the cries of people
caught in the rubble ushered out into the dusty clould that hung over the
city from the crumbled concrete.

When the sun comes up, the darkest hour in Haiti’s hurrendous history will
be unvield and we that partake in noticing will shudder at the loss of life.

Who will take notice? Who will grieve with the Haitians? Who will help?
Who will Care?

I am sad ..so sad as I close my eyes tonight I do not look forward to
the day tomorrow as the light shines on Port au prince in Haiti. I have
never been to haiti, but my wife has…tonight when the showed the worst
of the worst slums in the world, a place so decrepit and filled with
violence and gangs that even police won’t go in, my heart cried out
as many many people will be dead by morning. They may already be dead
for all I know. But we are unable to see or know as there is no
electricity, no cell service in all of port au prince.

My wife was mentioning that at the time of the earthquake was typically
a time where all the children would be out bringing back water from
the wells…Wells that took them a long time to build that most likely
will all be gone by morning. The earth swallowed up port au prince..

And who will really care come a week or 2 removed from this awful
tragedy…

Who will be there for the Haitians to help them back on their feet?

We shall see…

I think this is a cross roads time in our history and my gut tells
me that most will ignore or turn their backs. For God’s sake and for
all of humanity, I hope this is not the case and we see a world come
together as one to help these desperate people who have so little
except the unity of their people who have been in peril for most
of their existence.

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Welcome to the word of God online

January 1, 2010

Well here we are at the beginning of a new year. I’ve always liked the beginning of new years as we have the opportunity to begin again. Kind of like a new beginning of sorts.

Over the last couple weeks have been reflecting on the previous year and looking at different areas in my life. It’s been a great year for the word of God online as many milestones were made. Additionally I suffered 2  attacks on this website that caused me to have to rebuild the site a couple of times. Luckily the data that I had on the site was secure, and it wasn’t too difficult to fix. Although, the last attack was much more severe and the site was down for several days as I tried to figure out how to fix it.

But today is January 1, 2010 and it’s a new year. I’m looking forward to another great year here on the word of God online and to deepen my relationship with Christ. This is certainly a year of some transitions happening in my life as for the first time in 18 years I’ll have a empty nest. As a matter of fact I’m going to be leaving in about an hour and a half to take my daughter to the airport as she heads off to Boise Idaho to participate in the Vineyard school of missions.

So this is going to leave some additional time for me to do some other things. One of the things I wanted to do for a long time is to work locally volunteering my time in the local soup kitchen or something of the sorts. I’ve looked into this several times and have come away with a feeling of less than excitement let’s say, as I was rather discouraged by the fact that I was unable to allow my love of Christ to be shared in practical ways. But, recently a new organization to our town has opened up in a building here locally. It’s called the root cellar and the foundation of this organization is 100% Christian-based. A lot of people don’t know this but the city I live in which is Lewiston and Auburn, has a area and it that covers about a square mile it is the poorest square-mile north of Boston.

So I’m looking forward at volunteering some time at the root cellar this year.

Additionally, on the word of God online you be able to look forward to spending time in the book of Romans. As I’ve recently picked up a book that is just on the book of Romans which happens to be my favorite book. So we will have an in-depth Bible study within the book of Romans. Additionally my wife got me a new daily devotional by Henry Blackaby. Henry is also the author of experiencing God which is another book that I’m going to spend time in. I went through about half of the experiencing God workbook and absolutely loved it but as it happens a lot I fell away towards the end half of this book.

For the past couple years my daily devotion has been my Smith Wigglesworth book, and it has been fantastic for me because it is really helped me understand the power of healing through Christ. I can’t think of another more powerful man of God who was able to create so much healing of others throughout his life as Smith Wigglesworth. Smith Wigglesworth is dead but I am sure he can hear me and I’m thinking them publicly now for really helping me better understand the power of healing and the acceptance of that because that was an area for me in my Christian walk that I found to be very difficult to accept.

But as it is a new year I’m announcing here on the word of God online tonight, that I will be going in some different directions this year although I will still be using the living Bible as the basis for Bible scripture. I will be expanding in using other Bibles as well for the year 2010.

So there’s lots to look forward to hearing the year 2010 at the word of God online. Something else I’m looking forward to doing and hopefully by the middle of the year I’ll begin to start putting this in play is a daily online Bible study that will be inside a life webinar Room. This is been something I’ve wanted to do for a long time, but the time commitment to do it would require that I have an income that frees up more of my time to be able to hold daily online Bible studies with you.

I’m also going to be adding a donation button so if you feel this ministry is helping you I would appreciate if you can help support it by making a small but regular donation. The more view that donate on a regular basis, the quicker how be able to move towards my objective of starting a daily online Bible study.

One of the things I’m going to do and I hope you will too is listen to worship music much more. There’s lots of free time in our days that we could be filling our ears with a beautiful sounds of worship music. Someone I challenge you to do which you can to fill your ears with more of God’s word to the wonderful music that’s out there.

I am excited about the upcoming year and I hope you are too and I hope you’ll feel free to respond on here and share in the conversations and that we could develop here.

Happy new year and I’ll talk soon to you.

At our Christmas Eve Service tonight, a woman sang a song that really touched all of us. How would we know that 1 Baby would change everything for ever and ever.

Millions of people around the world today, 2000 years later are celebrating the Birth of Christ.

Our calendars are based on the chronological calender of Before Christ and After…

Lives of millions and millions have been changed and saved due to this one baby. A baby born in a manger so long ago that is still as close to our hearts as it was to the shepards who witnessed it so long ago.

The Great I Am came to save you and me.

My wife and I went out eat after the service and we saw a family celebrating the togetherness of the season. Is it not the people getting together that means so much at christmas? If there is peace in your family then these gatherings are awesome. For years I sought and longed for these gatherings, but they have not happened much as I have 2 Jehovah Witnesses in my family including my Mother. Then 2 other members are thousands of miles away and getting together at Christmas is just not important for them.

Anyways, this family that we saw was just having a great time and we noticed that a baby was with them an apparently asleep even though the noice of this family rose with laughter and love.

When they got ready to leave, the baby woke and I immediately thought about the message at church and the baby that changed everything. I struck up a conversation with the mother of the baby, and she invited us over to see this 2 week old baby. And we all agreed that a baby changes everything in our own lives, but baby Jesus changed the lives of millions and millions of people.

Hebrews 11:1

Faith is not mind science…its not tony robbins

Faith is active confidence in Gods Word…

Faith is believing the Word of God. Hebrews 11 1 says faith is substance.

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