The book “The Shack” has been a hot topic with many for a while now.  But people need deeper knowledge and see through deceptions such as these.  What may seem good to some, does not line up with Scripture.  People need to spend more time reading the True Book the Bible and less time on works such as these.

Here are a few Scriptural problems with the book:

Interview with Author of the book “The Shack”:

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3:

Part 4:

Part 5:

Part 6:

Here is a brief from another radio show:

Full audio show:

http://www.crosstalkamerica.com/shows/2008/07/the_shack_in_light_of_the_bibl.php 

You might also check out Michael Youssef's video at:

http://www.leadingtheway.org/site/PageServer?pagename=sto_TheShack_13heresies

Do you want to FEEL the presence of God?  Do you need a little touch from the Comforter?  If you will only take some of your time and spend it in worship, you will RECEIVE!

Here is a series of songs that should bring you into a place of worship with the King of Kings.  Try to follow in order as they kind of flow from one to another.  There are a couple that do not have lyrics with them, but most do.  Be sure to sing songs to Jesus, pay attention to the words, it is all about the words not the music or backgrounds. 

This music varies in style and age, some are more modern and some have been around for more than a century, give the a try.  Put your heart into singing them as a prayer to God and you will be touched by God!

Keep track of the songs that you can get into the worship.  You can buy most of them at Amazon or other MP3 music sites and burn them to a CD or put them on an MP3 player so you can have them anywhere.  You can also save the links to the videos and put them on a folder on your desktop (computer desktop that is) and bring them up and listen to them when you want.  The point is to find music you can tenderly worship Jesus with and do so often!  Let the songs be in your mind all day, every day.  Remember the Scriptures:

Col 3:16  Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

Eph 5:17-18  Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.  And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;

How?  He says How to be filled with the Spirit if you continue:

Eph 5:19-21  Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;  Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of Go

The first few are just get our minds upon Him and open the door, but the rest are to take us in to that place.  Let’s enter in:

Look what the Lord has done:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GHNKF9i8tU

Trading my sorrows
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KsfwvpcQhY&feature=related

Went to the enemy's camp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYa6SGWRAW0&feature=related

Paul Wilbur - Days of Elijah (lyrics)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3kPjbsp4yQ

Strong Tower
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqL_zcig9Is&feature=related

Come Now is the Time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2CWdTv997M&feature=related

Mighty to Save
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Syn_0c39TOM&feature=related

Shout to the Lord
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I71XhjqoHvs&feature=related

Take me in
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vG9Cx767mc

Lord I lift your name on high
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COQ6cni_TG8&feature=related

Carman - Bless God - No Lyrics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQSpSSBLgBE

Jesus Paid it all
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3o3DiMVdOI&feature=related

Hillsong - At the Cross (not the hymn version)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOY0mjjmx8Y

You are my all in all
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC617kE1maU&feature=related

Open the eyes of our heart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1Fz1rviXFU&feature=related

You are my all in all
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC617kE1maU&feature=related

Here I am to Worship
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5hN_m55uoM&feature=related

I will bless your name
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVyI-H2f2eg

There is a fountain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-cY5vO0W0M

Turn your eyes upon Jesus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yfr5rOfimnU

How Great Thou Art
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQeAJYC-1Sk

Let me ask you this my fellow Christians, are you ready for the work?  Are you ready to stand firm and not have church as normal again?  It is time for the Body of the Christ to rise from its slumber and take on this world at large and bring the harvest into the Kingdom. We are not weak without hope, we are the Sons of God!

Do you know God?  Are you saved?  What is the message of the cross?

Are you prepared to give a reason for the hope that is within you?

Paul Washer points out clearly that Salvation is enough:

Here is a video you need to watch.  Ken Ham brings people up-to-date about what is going on in our nation in our Christian Faith.  It is amazing the extremes those that do not believe in our God and those that say they do but clearly have no knowledge of Him, are attacking our faith directly.  Often in your local college!

The video is about an hour long, but with the time!

http://www.answerslive.org/?utm_source=AiGHomepage&utm_medium=banner&utm_content=rewatch&utm_campaign=sotn2

It is a new year, 2010 has arrived!  How many more years do we have?  I like to make up little sayings for each year.  I could not settle on just one this year :)

1. “2010, the year to bring them in”
   
   Or..
   
2. "2010, the year Jesus to return again”

I like them both ;)

Anyway, to get our mindset going for this new year, how about some video’s. 

Let’s get our hearts in the right place.  We will start with a video that tries to give us a glimpse at heart of God and the sacrifice for us.  The video is “The Bridge Master”:

You heart should be in the right place to take a change on this next message, “A Letter From Hell”:

Maybe time to lighten up just a bit, but still go down this road, try out Carman’s “Witches Invitation" video:

Okay, we are awake with all of that.  Here is one of a audio sermon everyone should here “WHO ARE CHRISTIANS” or at least we “believe” we are, this is titled “Examine Yourself”.  It is a little lengthy and if you cannot get watch it at one time, do it in sections, it is worth hearing!

DISCLAIMER: I do not believe in “Eternal Security”  doctrine or as some call “Once Saved, Always Saved”, which clearly the minister in this video does, but I still think the message he has would go far in cleaning up the church if it were preached everywhere Eternal Security is preached, and that is something that is needed in this hour of the Apostate Church!

Okay, you might be thinking, “so that all is great, but what a heavy load I feel”, but there is good news.  Here is a quick music video to remember what’s important and the “GOOD NEWS” we have the privilege to share:

There will be posts about we are “The Body of the Christ”, “Who we are in the Christ” and “The Joy of the Lord”.  All coming soon to this site.  We need to walk in the Joy as the Body of the Christ and declare to the world around us the Goodness of our God!

Yep, GodTube for those that have not heard of it before, stated a short time ago as a type of YouTube but supposedly for the Christian community.  It then started to morph into a type of MySpace for the Christian community.   The problem I have had with the site is that it is not really just for Christians and you often find those that clearly do not even believe in God flaming comments on videos (or at least, the last time I visited there).  They are commercial for-profit company and run advertisements to support the project.  Kind of a secular-Christian site?

Anyway, I went to check today for videos and noticed that some time in the recent past they have changed their name to Tangle.  Yeah, right..  Okay..  Tanlge..  So, GodTube is no more now it is Tangle.com and has a different look to the site although it seems to be the same site with a different name.

Here is a great video of the song Creation Calls by Brian Doerksen!  It is hard to comprehend that people claim they do not believe in God when you see His mighty work all around you!

Casting Crowns has a number of great songs.  One that of such truth is Slow Fade.  My pastor mentioned at church yesterday how there is usually a path before we come to sin.  I am reminded of the passage:

Jas 1:13-15 ~ Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

We may not always notice the path, but we open the doors in our lives to evil by the little things as much as the big ones.  Everyone of us need to watch out for the signs of that “Slow Fade” and reverse its course before it comes to fruition.

In the song, it says “It's the second glance that ties your hands as darkness pulls the strings”, that is the point where you have opened a door because you have given over your will to the tempter.  The first glance may not require your will, but the second time, it is your will to look.

In another line it says “For it's the little feet behind you that are sure to follow”.  You are an example to those around you including your own family of loved ones.  What path are you leading them down?

One key sign that you are sliding down that path is shown in the line “It's a slow fade when black and white have turned to gray”.  Do you still see things clearly or are things of righteousness becoming hazy, not so easy to discern anymore?  Often, this is due to us ignoring what the Spirit is saying to us and allowing our own will to take control.  The Spirit of God will become more and more quiet if we do not listen!  Another reason is lack of God’s Word, we much take in God’s Word every day to remain strong and alert. 

While there are many more points in the song, the primary one is, as the song says in “When you give yourself away, people never crumble in a day”, it is by “Thoughts invade, choices are made, a price will be paid”.  It is a step-by-step process and every step of the way, we make the choices, as God has already said:

1Co 10:13 ~ There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

We ALWAYS have a way of escape, but we must notice the escape and follow that path.  That ball is always in our court.

What is real Revival or an Awakening?  Is it just meeting at church than runs several days or a week and then we return to services as normal?   NO, it is a move of God powered by the Holy Spirit flowing through believers, driving them to prayer, fasting, hungering for more of God.

Here is a little glimpse, if you dare take a small trip into the past to fuel our future:

Here is another link that has many resources:

http://www.revivalhymn.com (then go to download page)

 Also, a poem to help stir something within to break out of our slumber:

While searching around YouTube the other day for a song, I ran into a work by John Waller that caught my attention and quickly was added to my wall of favorite songs. 

If you are not one to enjoy this style of music, here are the lyrics to read:

http://www.onlylyrics.com/hits.php?grid=11&id=1013371

The passion in this song, the hunger for more of God stirs my soul.  There are a few songs like this that really help draw me into the presence of God.  Much like the song I wrote about recently, “Sculpture of my heart” by Craig Smith.

Another song is “We Bow Down”.  The person that threw the images together for this one did a great job:

Then I move it along a bit with Paul Wilbur – Days of Elijah:

Back a week or two ago, I was looking for a good performance of one of my top five songs of all time, “How Great Thou Art”.  Digging around YouTube, I found it sung by Newsong.  It is hard to imagine I missed this one for these years.  Their performance is the best one I have every heard for this wonderful song and made me chase down many of the albums and now have a good collection of their music and truly enjoy them.  This song though is their best :)

Another one of their songs I really could feel the passion in is “Rescue”:

The words in this song really show a hunger. 

Music / Worship is a tool by which we prepare our hearts to come into the presence of God, by which we allow the Holy Spirit to invade our entire being.  Remember the passages in the Bible:

Col 3:16 ~ Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

Many people quote the first part of the passage “And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;”, but most of the time do not include the rest which tells us HOW to be filled with the Spirit:

Eph 5:18-21 ~  And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

If you are a believe, Music of God should be a HUGE part of your walk.  Simply get by yourself, play the music and sing along, from deep within your heart not just singing words, but direct those words to God you would pray to Him.  As the title of this post, He, The Lord God Almighty will send you a Flood with streams of Living Water flowing from deep within you!