A New Creature. . . an Apostolic Pentecostal blog

Someone from Perth, Australia sent me the book 'Prophecy Speaks' by E.A. Rowell.  I can only guess that it was someone who had read my blog about my atheistic past. I very much enjoyed the book.  Thank you very much for sending it to me.  Though it was written in 1933, I found it very powerful in its, what to me were new arguments for the divine nature of the Bible and Jesus. I would highly recommend the book to others and indeed have passed the book along to others. Again Thank you very much for sending the book to me. Yours in the love of Christ, Dave Stokely

I was going to do a little Bible word study this lunch hour on the word ‘ignore’. It was a quick study. In neither the KJV Old Testament nor in the KJV New Testament is the word ignore or any form thereof found.  In short, is your desire to be Godlike?. . .want to be Christlike?. . . Jesus never ignored. . . I cannot find that God is ever recorded as ignoring a person or a situation. Jesus was about engaging everyone He could. . . in every manner that He could. It wasn’t always pleasant, as when he drove the money changers from the temple. Sometimes He was in your face confrontational, as in the numerous times that He confronted the hypocrisy of the Pharisees. . . but. . . but. . . BUT He is never recorded to have walked by. . . ignoring someone in need. . . the priest and the Levite are used as illustrations of what not to do. The Samaritan is given as the model of how we are to behave. Jesus was all about engagement and never about shutting someone out. He was about te...

In the perfect silky darkness of the womb. . . no hope was required. No need went unfilled. No sharp edges. . . No dimension of cold. . . No hunger. . . No lack in any measure. . . till fullness of term burst upon us in an inky magnitude 10 rupture of our universe. . .once a velvet vault. . . now a velvet vise. . . an amniotic tsunami carryied us forth. . .our first breath, a lung filled scream at the injustice. . harsh sterile lights. . .sudden lack. . . spawned in hunger. . . cold. . .and fear. . . We live a lifetime of yearning for return to that maternal garden of Eden. . . Compounding needs. . .hunger. . . loneliness. . . pain. . . fear. . .grasping our fading memory of perfection. . . believing against all evidence that that one day we can return to that secret garden. . . our personal Eden. . . this is the mother of hope. To hope is the oxygen of our soul. . . to draw breath is to hope. . .To look forward then to the other boundary of our earthly life. . .to the aching ...

I'm doing a Bible study on hope.  Here are all the occurrences of the word hope in the King James Version: (Ruth 1:12) Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have an husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should have an husband also to night, and should also bear sons; (Ezra 10:2) And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing. (Esther 9:1) Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them;) (Job 4:6) Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways? (Jo...

Doing a Bible word study on verses containing the phrase: according to . . . word. (Genesis 30:34)  And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy word . (Genesis 39:17)  And she spake unto him according to these words , saying, The Hebrew servant, which thou hast brought unto us, came in unto me to mock me: (Genesis 41:40)  Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou. (Genesis 43:7)  And they said, The man asked us straitly of our state, and of our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye another brother? and we told him according to the tenor of these words : could we certainly know that he would say, Bring your brother down? (Genesis 44:2)  And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, and his corn money. And he did according to the word that Joseph had spoken. (Genesis 44:10)  And he said, Now also let it ...