05/06/2009 13:13:54

prisonchaplain wrote: Thanks for dropping by my page.  I pray that God will take your ashes and turn them into something powerful and important.  Peace and strength to you!  PC

PC, thanks so much. Aaron

05/05/2009 15:33:46

Hey, PC. How are you? It has been a while.

04/21/2009 16:42:01

prisonchaplain wrote: All is well...we've even added to the family...a puppy.  Very traumatic for mommy--not a dog person, but loves the kids enough to agree.  Easter was fantastic, and we saw seven women baptized this past Sunday.  Life is full and good.  Blessings to you, hermano.

  That is great!  I'm glad to hear that you life is going well, that you have a new puppy, and stoked about the 7 baptisms

04/21/2009 11:57:44

Hello Brother!  How's it going?  I hope all is well with you and your family. 

04/12/2009 19:58:38

Blessed Resurrection Day to you, too!

I enjoyed reading your impressions of Joseph Smith. Your thoughts on Grace were wonderful, too. I'm learning to focus more on Grace, it is amazing!

02/18/2009 03:59:38

PC,

 

Sorry to not have responded sooner. Have been studying for work.

 

I have two Hillsong albums but I'm not huge into recorded worship music, do quite enjoy the live version. Hillsong as church is a wee bit controversial in Australia. They are a bit "faith/word" prosperty doctrine for me personally although a lot of people at my church think they are great. My wife was raised AOG so she is a bit more of a fan. (She was also a worship leader/psalmist for a number of years.)

 

Have you got a link to good answer to my question on "me glossalalia"? I presume someone has come up with an answer by now. If you ever get a chance to hear a guy called Rikki Watts at your local AOG don't miss it, he was my fav AOG preacher/bible lecturer.

 

Thanks for your great witness to the love of Jesus on this board. It is so easy for people to be so zealous in defending truth (or more usually there own opinions of the truth, myself included) that they forget those who they are addressing are people Jesus loved so much he died for them. 

02/06/2009 19:05:36

lol yes we do - lots of friends! the buttons are white on white and I can figure out how to chg that!

01/07/2009 17:04:14

No, the first time I heard the story of Joseph Smith, I thought that Mormons thought people were dumb if they thought they could put a story like that over on us.  lol   I was about 15.

What happened was that I asked God if there was one Church here that was more His than any other and He brought me to the LDS Church, not once, but twice.  The first time I rejected it, actually it was the second, because I rejected it when I first heard the story as a teen.  But the second time I had prayed to find it.  I was visiting at my parents home when I first met missionaries.  It was before the blacks received the priesthood.  My Dad said, "You draw color lines and God doesn't and therefore, you are not God's".  I concurred.  But we never asked God. 

The next time they showed up at my own door.   It took much struggle and pain to pray them there, again.  I wanted to know the truth, but then again, I didn't, because the truth was very difficult.  I certainly didn't want it to be the Mormons who answered my prayers.  The Church I was going to at that time was mildly anti, with a few members who were much more than mild.  But the missionaries came in the middle of Levititcus, within minutes after such a prayer.  And they began to answer my questions. 

What finally happened was that God took me to the top of the mountain and showed me the battles of the Old Testament.  He showed me the truth.  The God of the Universe took time out of all of His "worlds without end" to answer my questions by giving me the answers in vision.  I had to face down the falsehoods I had been taught about God to be able to hear His voice and accept His answers.  Probably the most difficulty for me was the blacks and the priesthood.  My husband and therefore sons, are black.   I had to accept that there was reason and that it belonged to God, without understanding it myself.  Then, I had to take the years it took to be able to receive those reasons and understand them.

I have had to face extreme prejudices from within and without the Church.  I have had to face the rejection and persecution of my own birth family.  I have had to face rejection and ill treatment from some of the members, those less studious and submissive.  I have had to stand up for truth against just about every kind of naysayer there is. 

And I have had His help in facing a divorce, cancer, all the trials the world has had to offer.  My heart is full of joy and peace, even staring and recognizing the New World Order for what it is and knowing what is happening in the political and physical world around me. 

I even have to stand for truth to teach the members of the Church the politics that the prophets have tried to teach them, but for the most part, they have rejected.  I teach the principles of the Constitution which were taken from the Bible and Christianity. 

I know the Church of Jesus Christ has more to offer every Christian, that the Book of Mormon is true, that the Doctrine and Covenants is more directly from God, Christ, than any other book I have in English.  I understand the Bible, because I have a second witness which makes the understanding clear, not from some council of ministers, but because there is only one truth that can be drawn from all the scriptures together.  Knowing that truth, makes the Bible come alive, be more understandable, make sense. 

There are many places, where, to Protestant thought, at least to the Protestants that I grew up around, the Bible seems to contradict itself!  Now those fall into place. 

Most importantly, I don't have to wait, until I get there, to know what truth is and what God expects of me, here.  I have personal revelation.  I can know today what God wants me to do today. 

It was the Doctrine and Covenants which was most instrumental in my conversion.  I barely read the Book of Mormon.  But when reading the Docrtrine and Covenants, I could feel the countenance of Christ and nearly hear His voice.  It was Doctrine & Covenants 9 that began opeing my eyes and ears so that I could see and hear. 

And now I even know the Book of Mormon is true!  Now I have read it many times.  And I finally finished the entire Bible, after joining the Church!  It was so much more joyous studying it in light and knowledge than in darkness wondering about so many of the passages.

How about Isaiah 2:2.  You didn't try that one.  It is repeated several times in the Bible, giving it more importance.   What is a "mountain of the Lord's House"?  What mountains will it be established in the tops of?  Why such a redundant phrase in the Bible?  Why are we given such an unclear sign of the last days?!  Aren't we supposed to recognize the signs we are given?  When do you think this one will be fulfilled? 

Sue

01/04/2009 08:27:52

You have been quite the last few weeks. The holidays and work keeping you busy?

12/29/2008 13:57:38

tnx! i sincerely hope the same with you! have a blessed new year! take care.....