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Saturday, January 1st, 2011 Rethinking the Apostles' Creed
Keyword: Christian Doctrine
Why is it that you never find the so called "Apostles Creed" On ChristianPatriot.com? I have wrestled with trying to answer this for many years, now, thanks to Rev. Clifton R. Loucks, I believe I ahve found a suitable manner to explain why ChristianPatriot.com has never posted either the so called "Apostles Creed" or said anything positive about it. ...
Wednesday, January 5, 2011 Speaking in tongues
1 Corinthians 14:1-33
First I want to tell you my definition of sin. Sin is anything I say, do, think, or even dream that offends God, for anything that offends God is sin. That said, the reason I try to prevent myself from speaking in or singing in tongues is that I don't know what I am saying or singing. I don't know if I am singing or speaking praise to God or blaspheming Him. My other reason is that if I am speaking in a language that is not known to those listening, what good can it do them? Have you ever been to a Roman Catholic High Mass such as a funeral where the priest spoke in Latin? Did you have any idea what he was saying? That Priest doing the mass, my friends, is speaking in tongues. ...
Saturday, January 8, 2011 Tithing
1 Corinthians 16:2
First let us look at a couple of things. At the top of the list is the simple fact that God does not need your money. God neither needs your money nor really wants your money. What God does want is your loyalty to Him. In Haggai 2:8 we read that God said "The silver is mine, and the gold is mine ...
Thursday, January 13, 2011 Yes, there are some who choose to ignore the Old Testament
Luke 24:25-27
No, I'm not talking about Jews. Muslims, and others who, while they should know better, don't, I talking about those who call themselves, amongst other things, new testament churches. Folks the how can you explain why Christ came to earth as a babe in the womb of a young girl without the Old Testament prophecy? ...
Sunday, January 16, 2011 THOU SHALT NOT!
Exodus 20:7
First listen to the song, pay attention, then read the brief below.
We live in a society today that has so forgotten the Ten Commandments that taking the name of God in vain has become so common place that even in the churches and amongst Christians we here "Oh my God" so often that it now simply referred to as OMG. ...
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Once upon a time, before 33 AD, it was so easy
Acts 1:15-26
Towards the end of his first letter to the Thessalonians, Paul says "Pray without ceasing". Today that is exactly what we do when trying to make a decision, we pray without ceasing. As I write this I am pondering two very important things, well more than two, but two that I am prepared to speak about openly today. First of the two things is; there is a car in the Bangor area that I am thinking about buying, it is a 1997 VW Passat diesel four door sedan with 230,000 miles on it. The seller is asking $2900 and I can afford maybe $2200 at tops. So I keep praying asking for wisdom on whether I should buy it or not. Back before 33 AD it would have been a lot easier, first there were no cars and the second reason will be apparent at the end of the thought. ...
Monday February 7th, 2011
Adult Sunday School
Colossians Chapter One With Exhortation for 14-29, Cornerstone Gospel Church, Naples, Maine Sunday 2/6/2011
1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, 2 To the
saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colosse: ...
Monday February 13th, 2011
Adult Sunday School
first Thessalonians 4&5 Cornerstone Gospel Church, Naples, Maine Sunday 2/6/2011
1 Furthermore, we beseech you brethren, and we exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received, by us, how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound (grow and increase in the knowledge of God) more and more. 2 For ye know what commandments we gave you by (by, of, and from) the Lord Jesus. ...
Sunday, February 22, 2011
Cornerstone Gospel Church of Naples, Maine Sunday School study
"Just as false prophets of old fraudulently forecast a bright future, in spite of the imminence of God's judgment so they will again in future days just before the final Day of the Lord destruction." John MacArthur
We can assume that at the end of the seven years of tribulation, nobody will be saying "peace and safety" for it will be a horrible time. So this bold statement of "peace and safety", would seem to apply to either immediately before or after the rapture. ...
Friday, February 25, 2011 And they cried out "Teach us to
pray"
Luke 11:1
Oft times we wonder what we should pray for, for the half brother of Jesus, a man who grew up living with the Lord God of Creation tell us in his very short letter to the Jewish Christians at the time: "Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss."
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Thursday, March 10, 2011 By which also ye are saved
This life is short my brothers and sisters, let not the cares of this world ever take from you the truth ...
Friday, March 11, 2011 Words Have Meanings
Yes, words have meanings, we, here at ChristianPatriot.com use the word "homosexual" when we are describing same sex, sex because words have meanings and gay does not mean one man sodomizing another. We use the word "Patriot" to describe those who understand that the US is a Constitutional Republic and are willing to both abide by it and defend it. We use the word "traitor" to describe the Congress of the US, the Supreme Court of the US, the police of the US, and the media because they are all responsible for allowing an illegal alien to take over the office of president of the US, for that is what they are,
traitors. ...
Saturday, March 12, 2011 All those dead
Romans 10:14
Yesterday a tidal wave hit Japan, in a matter of minutes, God did to or allow to happen to Japan what man could not do in years of planned devastation. Estimates, and one can only estimate, of deaths is in the tens of thousands, the dollar value of cleaning, repairing, fixing and replacing is in the hundreds of billions of dollars, some say maybe a trillion. ...
Monday, March 14, 2011
Fishers of men
Mark 1:17
Jesus said, "Come ye after Me, and I will make you to become fishers of men."Back in the late forties and early fifties, when I was but a lad, working men made, on average, about $80 a week. I remember hearing about the man who came to our neck of the woods, to fish, from the big city, carrying about a hundred dollars worth of fishing gear. The story was told with wonder, wondering how anyone could spend that much on fishing gear and a bit of sarcasm, because the guy couldn't fish. We kids, with or hand lines and ninety cent poles from the Five and Ten, caught more than him. ...
Tuesday, March 15, 2011 The devil means it for evil, but God makes it turn out well.
Genesis 50:20
First Japan suffered a 9.0 earthquake and then within minutes a 30 foot high tidal wave swept inland some 10 miles or more. Now they have nuclear reactors on the verge of melting down and it is starting to appear that the death toll may reach 100,000, maybe more. The dollar cost by the time all is said in done could easily top $1,000,000,000. Satan, his minions, his ilk and those who serve him laugh, oh not in public, but in private. They laugh and make jokes, for death and mayhem are a trade mark of the devil and his. ...
Thursday, March 17, 2011 Pride goeth before destruction,
The single most incorrectly quoted verse of Scripture is "Judge not, that ye be not judged." Matthew 7:1 Not far behind is "Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall." Proverbs 16:18 ...
How Important is the Old Testament?
Luke 24
To fully understand this thought, you will want to read Luke chapter 24 in the KJV. If you do not have a KJV with you, you can go to ChristianPatriot.com/luke.htm God's Holy Word, the Bible, tells us how after Jesus was arrested, tortured, murdered, crucified and buried, many of His followers became discouraged. The account of two men walking home to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs, truly brings to light just how discouraged, bewildered and disappointed they were. ...
Monday March 21, 2011 Imagine what they saw
Matthew 28
Imagine if you will that you are a member of an elite Roman Unit back 1,978 years ago. The year is 33 AD, another group of Legionnaires has just, in conjunction withe the high ranking Jews, crucified a man many believed to be the Jewish Messiah. You and fifteen others have just been assigned to guard His grave. Your orders are clear, put the governors seal on the tomb and make sure no one, but no one get's near enough to touch it. All this because there has been a rumor that His followers might come to get His body. ...
Tuesday March 22, 2011
So what do we do about Japan?
Or better put; What do we, as followers of Christ, do about Japan? Well, first we put our emotions aside and use the word of God as our guideline. ...
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 Stand your ground.
1 Corinthians 16:13
Gentlemen, we live in very perilous times. Yesterday Glenn Beck revealed that there is a group of very powerful union leaders who have plans to overthrow the US and change it's government by getting union employees to stop paying their mortgages and I'm sure use union thugs to intimidate all who stand in their way and maybe even play sniper. ...
Friday, March 25, 2011
Believe or not, you will pay your taxes
Philippians 2:10&11
So many people seem to think that just because they deny the Lord Jesus, they will not have to face Him. They could not be more wrong. Oft times I get criticized for saying that when it comes to the unsaved, for some I have pity, for others I feel pain and sorrow, and for a few I have nothing but contempt. ...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 Do not underestimate satan
Luke 11:17
Over the last few weeks, I have time and time again, heard how wonderful the new crop of Republicans are, and what wonderful work they are doing, turning this nation back to God. In both Luke four and Matthew four we read how satan told Christ that he owned all the governments of the world. Jesus does not argue that point with him, therefore, in essence, Jesus is confirming that satan does indeed control the governments. ...
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Think for yourself
2Timothy 3:16
Men, times are tough. Things are winding down at an incredibly horrifying rate. It is time for you to stop relying upon the commentary and exhortations of others and go to the Word of God and do your own research. ...
Saturday, April 2, 2011
How can you possibly turn the other cheek?
Philippians 2:15/A>
Jesus has told us that we are to turn the other cheek. He has further told us that if we abide by His word we will receive a joint inheritance with Him. How would you know if I am accurately quoting the LORD or taking His words out of context to serve my own purpose? There is but one way to find out, and that way is for you to get your head out of the televison and into the Bible, the KJV Bible, for all the others are nothing more than man's feeble attempt to take your need to seek God's help in understanding out of His book the Holy Scriptures. ...
Friday, April 8, 2011
Gen. David Petraeus proves God's
word is truth
Leviticus 26 & Deuteronomy 28
General Petraeus ordered Christian Bibles burnt so as to not offend his enemies, the very ones attacking and killing his troops. General Petraeus commands some 100,000 US Military fighting men and women, he has at his disposal ships, planes, aircraft carriers and missiles on submarines hide under the sea, yet General Petraeus is a coward. He is afraid that somehow a lone preacher in Florida, burning one lousy koran, will make his enemies so mad they will get past his troops and hurt him. ...
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Do you have a Joe in your life?
You just do the best you can, let God worry about your treatment
2 Thessalonians 1:6
More and more a Christian finds himself or herself troubled at work for being a Christian. It seems that as time goes on more and more non Christians want to simply get under the skin of their Christian fellow workers. The jokes and language are getting fouler, the behavior more satan like, promotions and raises are fewer and fewer between, and we oft times get the worst work assignments. I know folks, I am not exempt from this behavior either. ...
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Soft living breeds soft men
Job 40:7a
"Gird up thy loins now like a man" Job 40:7a
What has happened to the men? A 37 year old has to revert to lies to get rid of a 67 year old, teen boys fight like girls flaying their arms like a man who can not swim does when drowning, and then comfort each other with tears the instant one or the other draws blood. Police chiefs hire girls to protect men from criminals, their wives, and dogs. The US military needs to put girls in combat positions, aboard war ships, and use them as MP's because there are not enough men to fight and do the job. ...
Saturday April 23, 2011
An Easter Message from Rich Christiano
Just wanted to share with our ChristianMovies.com supporters a short Easter message. Hopefully this will encourage you about the power of prayer. James 5:16 that says, "The effectual, fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much." This is an interesting verse. I wonder, do we see such power in our prayer lives? Perhaps it's because we aren't fervent or earnest in our prayers. Let me illustrate. ...
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Do you understand?
Ephesians 4:17-32
Do you understand what Christ, through the pen of Paul is telling us in Ephesians 4:17-32? Guys, in these, the last days, we Christians are living in very perilous times. Our behavior, our speech, our every action is being watched and used by the forces of satan to discourage others from giving their lives to Christ. Ephesians 4:17-32 is key to understanding how we must behave, or at the very minimum, strive to behave. For on the shoulder of every seeker, is a devil sitting, pointing out every non Christian action, we as Christians make, saying to him or her, "See he is a Christian, and he loses his temper" or "See he is a Christian, and he laughs at dirty jokes" or "see He is a Christian and he doesn't say grace before eating, or he stares at those girls, or he bets on the games, or he watched that TV show last night, or he ..." ...
Monday, May 9, 2011
What was it like?
Matthew 24:37
In Matthew 24:37 Jesus says: "But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. Many have read that as meaning that Christ will return to either rapture His church or return as the Lion King at the end of the seven years of tribulation when things parallel the times of Noah. I agree with that assessment. What I am not going to do is get into which time frame it is, before rapture or just before the Lord returns in Revelation 19:11-21. ...
Monday, May 16, 2011
How, my Jewish friends, enemies, and others will he prove it?
Genesis 49:8-10 and Jeremiah 23:5
The Tanakh, the Hebrew Bible, is the Old Testament in the Christian Bible. The Tanakh tells us that the Messiah shall come from the tribe of Judah: Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow down before thee. Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up? The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh (The Messiah) come; and unto Him shall the gathering of the people be. Genesis 49:8-10 ...
Monday, May 23, 2011
Good bye Article Four
Keyword: Predestination
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. Article Four of the US Bill of Rights ...
Friday, July 1, 2011
To those who wish to restore the Republic
Deuteronomy 12:2&3
How can anyone say the "land of the free, the home of the brave", when referring to the
United States of America anymore? Freedom in the US is now defined as allowing
homosexuals to ply their perversions in the open, women allowed and encouraged to offer
their babies, trapped in their wombs to satan as little human blood sacrifices, politicians to
make themselves exempt from the laws they yoke the rest of us with, and borders that no
longer mean anything. Freedom in the US today means allowing men and women who do
not meet the qualifications of the office they seek, to hold that office with immunity from
prosecution. Freedom in the US today is defined as the right of school teachers and text
books to lie to children about evolution, sexually transmitted diseases, and US history. And
the list goes on. No folks, we are no long "the land of the free and the home of the brave",
quite the opposite. Today, we the subjects, are at best, serfs. ...
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
So, you think things are bad now?
Deuteronomy 28
So, with the fires devastating the west, the floods devastating the middle of the country, the leftist communist devastating our Constitution and rights as free men, you think things are bad now. Well men, I'll tell you, if you would get your noses out of the televison, sports, penthouse magazine, and the wall street journal for a while and into the word of God, you would know that you haven't seen anything yet. ...
Monday, July 11, 2011
Yes, I am a jealous preacher
2 Corinthians 11:3 Keyword: cults
Do you know what the word jealous, when used, as it is used in the title and in Scripture means? Jealous, in the Greek is the word zeloo, it is pronounced dzay-lo'-o and it means to have a warm feeling for or against something. To have a desire to be with, to protect, to shelter and to feel real and deep hurt when anything bad happens to the one you are zeloo over. Do you understand? No? Perhaps if I put it in the context of Scripture you will. ...
Friday, September 2, 2011
Thursday, September 1, 2011 I believe that Jesus is the Christ, Jesus is God
John and Luke 23 What I believe
In this "What I believe" series I am going to articulate Scripturally just what I believe and therefore what positions are taken on ChristianPatriot.com. Today, the first day of the series I am going to discuss Jesus. Scripture is very clear the Jesus is God, that there is God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit (Ghost). Therefore I believe that Jesus is God and that the Trinity is absolute 100% fact. ...
Friday, September 2, 2011
Friday, September 2, 2011
I believe we are commanded to pray for the salvation of every man, woman, and child on
planet earth
In this "What I believe" series I am going to articulate Scripturally just what I believe and therefore what positions are taken on ChristianPatriot.com. Today, why I believe we are commanded to pray for the salvation of every man, woman and child on the earth. While I am convinced that there is nothing wrong with praying for the salvation of specific individuals, I believe that Christ has commanded us to pray for the salvation of every man, woman and child on earth. Read Carefully what Jesus said in John 3: 15-17. ...
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
I believe That God created all of the heavens,earth, man, and every creature in six literal and consecutive 24 hour days.
Genesis one and Exodus twenty; What I believe And ChristianPatriot.com stands for part three. In this "What I believe" series I am going to articulate Scripturally just what I believe and therefore what positions are taken on ChristianPatriot.com. I believe that God created all of the heavens, earth, man, and every creature in six literal consecutive 24 hour days. In Genesis chapter one we see God declaring the completion of each and everyday. ...
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
I believe That 6,432 years ago God evicted Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden
Genesis: three What I believe And ChristianPatriot.com stands for part four.
In this "What I believe" series I am going to articulate Scripturally just what I believe and therefore what positions are taken on ChristianPatriot.com. I believe that 6,432 years ago God evicted Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. In Genesis chapter three we read how the man and his wife turned from God and harkened unto the voice of the evil one. And how God confronted them and then punished them. Giving, in verse 15, the promise that God would come to earth later and give man a way back to God through Himself. ...
Thursday, September 8, 2011
I believe That God said Be Born Again or go to
hell.
John 3:3 What I believe And ChristianPatriot.com stands for part five.
In this "What I believe" series I am going to articulate Scripturally just what I believe and therefore what positions are taken on ChristianPatriot.com. I believe that in John 3:3, God said, be born again or you will spend eternity in the lake of fire.
Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. John 3:3 ACP/KJV ...
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Are today's politicians any different than Judas Iscariot
John 12:6
As you look at members of Congress today, the US government as a whole today, as you watch what the illegal unconstitutional administration of obama is doing today, don't you wonder where they learned to be such liars and thieves? Did you know that Generals and Admirals in the US Pentagon call in Bible prophecy scholars to explain Bible prophecy to them so that they can prepare for the next war? Yes, those very same US Generals that ordered the burning of the New Testaments in Afghanistan, call upon Bible prophecy scholars to help them figure out when and where the next war(s) will be. Doesn't that tell you that men and women in our own government do study the Bible, but not for the good of mankind, but for the simple and selfish reasons of greed? ...
Monday, September 19, 2011
Why won't God move that mountain for you?
Matthew 6:14&15
God tells us many times that if we ask in His name it will be done, yet, many times we ask and nothing seems to happen. Why? I believe after much thought, prayer and pondering, God has enlightened me on that very question. I believe it is because we go
to Him asking while ignoring what He has told us to do, "forgive so that you can be forgiven". ...
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Palm 11 verse 3
If the foundations (shathah) be destroyed (harac), what can the righteous (tsaddiyq) do?The Hebrew word for foundations is; shathah, it means political or moral support ie foundation or purpose. ...
Monday, October 3, 2011
I am tired of the whining
2 Thessalonians 3:10
God tells us through the pen of His Apostle Paul, that if one will not work, he should not eat. Teach a man to fish and he will eat forever, give a man a fish and he will eat a meal.
God Himself, has said, through the pen of His faithful Apostle Paul, "For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, 'that if any would not work, neither should he eat.'" 2 Thessalonians 3:10 ...
Monday, October 31, 2011
Thy will be done
Matthew 6:9b&10
Like so many, do you just say these words or do you, as so few do, actually take them in and ponder them in your heart?
...
Monday, November 7, 2011
Why won't you believe what Jesus says?
God vs mammon
This thought is only for those of you who profess to be Born Again Washed in the Blood of the Lamb Christians. It is the beginning of a series, a series that will not be day after day, but one that I will do as Christ lays it on my heart to do. First let me make this perfectly clear, I am not trying to claim you are not saved, nor am I trying to get you to doubt your salvation. What I am trying to get you to do is to work harder to further the agenda of Christ.
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Monday, November 14, 2011
Once upon a time...
aphiemi
Keyword: forgive
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Once upon a time, in what seems to be, a long, long time ago, with a people far different than Christians today, Christians said "God said it, I believe it, that settles it." That, sadly is no longer the way of Christians in the USA and the other 'civilized' countries of the west, the east, the north and the south today. Today, we seem to put all the forgiveness upon the shoulders of Christ, taking little or no responsibility for it ourselves. Yet God Himself has said to us many things that we must take literally, for He has also told us that not all that say "Lord, Lord", will enter into the kingdom of heaven....
Monday, November 28, 2011
So, you think you have plenty of time?
Isaiah 19
So, you think you have plenty of time? Let's take a quick look at things that have happened in Egypt over the past year. Revolution. Bloodshed, brother against brother, city against city, kingdom against kingdom, muslim against muslim. Now why does that make me think the end is near? Why would that make me think that maybe, just maybe, Jesus is seeing to the final touches to the wedding feast? ...
Saturday, December 24th, 2011
We need to help.
There is a joke going around, now while it may, on the face of it, appear racist, I believe it forces us to look at a very serious problem. The very real problem of intermarriage of half brothers and half sisters, children sharing the same, unknown father, but different mothers. ...
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Revelation Chapter Six corrected
At the very end of Revelation we read a dire warning given by no less than God Almighty Himself. ...
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