Here is an idea I have been working on for awhile, and I am not sure I am finished with it yet. I was thinking that holiness is somewhat like a three-legged stool. The three legs would be doctrine, experience, and lifestyle. I believe that holiness must first start as a doctrine. One cannot experience God without first having the right concept of God. For instance if we believe God is a hard taskmaster, then we will experience Him as a taskmaster, even if He really is trying to show us otherwise. It is vital in any Christian experience to have a right conception of God. The same is true about holiness. When people believe in holiness as God has taught it in the Bible, then they can experience God correctly. Our experience of an encounter with the holiness of God, then changes everything about us, or our lifestyle. It is foolish to think that an encounter with the holiness of God does not change us in the way we live at all. We might me able to meet the President of the United States, and it not really effect the way we live, but not so with God. C.S. Lewis said something like we go to God like we go to the dentist. We just want a tooth pulled to alleviate the pain, when God want us to do surgery. Often we want God to fix some hurt, when He is asking to do major open heart surgery. Specifically Lewis said, "If you give Him an inch, He will take an ell." These three element must always come in this order, or holiness is not effective. I did not mean a person must have a theological degree to experience holiness, but they do have to understand what God wants and who God is. And certainly a lifestyle of holiness with out the holiness of God indwelling is mockery and only our own righteousness. Not only do these three elements have to be in order, but they have to all be there, or we will be as useless as a three-legged stool. 

Hi everyone! I see it has been some time since I updated the blog, so I thought I would take the advantage of the day off to catch up. A couple of weeks ago now I bought a pair of Boston Terrier pups to sell. One is a female, and one is a male. This has been a new endeavor for me in learning how to raise dogs. There are doing really well, but do take quite a bit of attention to take care of. So far the responses of interested buyers has been a little slow, so if you are interested in buying, or know someone who is, please email me.

I had a most interesting trip Monday. I have a family named the Streets that I am friends with down here. Bro Street is a teacher at KMBC. The Street's have a daughter, Alisha, that gradated from GBS this past spring. The missions director at GBS, Daniel Glick, wife had been in Florida for neck surgery. Because of the process there was some doubt as to when she would be able to return to Cincinnati, possibly not until Christmas. Anyway when Sis Street was there for the missions convention, she offered to take the three youngest kids back here to relive Bro. Glick some. They have stayed here with the Streets the past two weeks. Sunday, Bro. Glick came down to possible pick up the children and take them back with him. I enjoyed meeting him Sunday night, and taking missions with him. I found out that he know several people I did. Well, Monday he came over and sat at my table at noon. After lunch he invited me to go with him, Alisha, and Elizabeth (his secretary) to Red River Gorge. I was able to arrange my schedule last minute to go with them. It was absolutely gorgeous. Red River Gorge is in the Daniel Boone National Forest about 40 minutes from here. There is steep cliffs that drop straight down into the gorge, beautiful scenery, natural stone arches, and wonderful hiking trails. To top it off the weather was in the 70's which is unusual for November. The fall colors were indescribable. Of course like a dummy I forgot to take my camera. I did find some pictures on the internet that I have below, but they really don't do justice. So if you want a beautiful relaxing vacation, come visit me and I'll take you to Red River Gorge, providing you'll buy lunch of course!

Over two thousand miles!

Four states!

Six service!

Eleven days!



This was the story of my whirlwind deputation trip. I had the privilege if getting to see many of my dear friends on this trip, and meeting many new and wonderful people. I also enjoyed spending a short - too short- time with my sister Brenda and her new husband, Tim. The churches I had services in were Joplin, MO; Miltonvale, KS; Beaver City, NE; Watertown, SD; Sioux City, IA; and Mitchell, SD. I thank God for His help in the services, for helping me speak, and his keeping my antiquated car from having any major problems. I also am thankful for the good offering that were given in each service. This is especially important as times are hard for everyone. Thanks to all who participated in this. This was a quick trip this time, but perhaps I will have time later on to have more deputation services in some of the eastern states.

Greetings Friends,

I see I havn't updated the blog for awhile. That is partly due to not haveing anything interesting to say, partly due to not having consistent internet access, and partly because I am probably too lazy to take the time. Anyway I want to add a few items as I have internet access, I made time, and I have something to write about. I want to put up my prayer card for those of you that havn't seen it yet. If you care to have one, please email me at rcflyer30@gmail.com, and I will try to send you one. Please continue to pray for me as I leave for Kentucky on October the 13th. There are many challenges ahead, but I know God will meet all of them, if I trust Him. Thanks to each one of you who do pray for me, and take time to check the blog.

What did you do over Labor Day weekend? I hope you truly had an enjoyable weekend. I had a fabulous three days at my friend Martin Barnard family's house. Martin's father is pastor at Victory Chapel in Frankfort, In. I had met the Barnards several times before, and was in school with Martin one year at Bible College. However his family was not as acquainted with me. We really had a nice time getting better acquainted. There are six children in the family, with one girl (Mildred) married. One Labor day we went to a small town were part of the Erie canal was still intact. There is a small historic park there. We took a short boat ride up the canal and then toured an old Victorian house. It was interesting to learn how the canal was so important in that period of history, and how the canal system worked. After that we had an enjoyable picnic outside. Suprisingly there were hardly any people there, so it was nice to have the place mostly to ourselves. Other than that we just visited and rested. In my haste to leave, I forgot to take my camera. I real wanted to get a picture of their family for the blog. If I can get one, I'll put it up. Well that's what I did, why don't you write me and tell me about your Labor Day.

Greetings to all!

As I've noted in the title above, I have some significant decisions recently, and some major changes in the near future. God has graciously moved and opened a door of oppertunity to minister again in radio ministry. About 8 months or so ago, I was contacted by radio station WMTC in Kentucky about helping them out at their station in Vancleve, KY. I didn't really think that was what I should do, but put it in the back of my mind. After some discussion, they wanted me to at least pay a visit and tour their facilities. Since they offered to pay for it, I thought I could hardly refuse. That was over Memorial Day weekend. All summer I have carefully and prayerfully deliberated about working there full time. To make a long story short, I everything seems to be pointing in the direction of moving ahead. WMTC is a radio station operated under the Kentucky Mountain Holiness Association. This is a faith work meaning each worker is responsible for raising his own support. This will of course be a very different financial move for me as well. However I am very excited about this new opportunity. This is much work to be done and I have some ideas I hope I can develop while there. One idea is to create a new teaching/preaching broadcast with a holiness emphasis. The leadership there feels the need for this as well, so hopefully something can be done in that area. Of course this is a different change from what I am doing now, but I feel like God has given me the desire and talents for this ministry. Please pray for me in the days ahead. More details and some pictures coming later on. Regards, Seth

Why should it matter to us about an conflict in an obscure county half- way around the world? I don't know if you have been following this in the news, but I have been following it fairly closely. On the surface this may seem unimportant, but is it should matter to us. Here's why. Russia under the oppressive leadership of Vladimire Putin has been trying to expand and rebuild the old Russian empire for quite some time now. Now it seems he is ready and willing to carry out his ambitions. Not only has is he trying to regain a country that was a part of the old Soviet Union, but he has another good reason for capturing Georgia. A major oil pipeline runs through Georgia to the sea. According to initial reports, Russia was endeavoring to bomb these pipelines event though they were well outside of the disputed area. Russia, I believe, is playing a carefully calculated chess game. They are trying to get all the energy reserves they can lay there hands on, which will allow them to hand an county over the barrel that gets in their way. Either play by our rules or we'll cut your energy supplies. Last month Russia was the sixth biggest exporter of petroleum to the U.S. with over 700 million barrels a day. (http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/company_level_imports/current/import.html)
Also Russia has been actively working to supply nuclear technology and weapons to Iran for years. Although with seemingly very different motives in mind, this Russia-Iran alliance is beneficial for both countries. Iran need weapons and technology that Russia has; Russia needed quick cash to fund it's expansionistic goals. You can see how maybe this all plays into end time prophecy at www.joelrosenberg.com, even though we don't know how everything plays out in the end. Also I post this video from Georgian President Mikheil Saakasvhii, which gives a good indication about what is happening there now. I hope you'll take time to read it. Whatever happens is in God's hands, but I think it is a good time to pray for the Georgian people in this crisis. Most of all they need to know of God's redemption through salvation.

A week from last Saturday, I went to the airshow/exbition at EAA Air Venture in Oshkosh, WI. This is probably the biggest airshow event in this country. There is hundreds of planes and booth on display as well as a daily airshow. It was an awsome event, if you like this kind of thing. Here are some pictures I took. I wish some of them were better. I guess I will not describe them all since it probably wouldn't  matter to most of you all. I also spent some time in the mission aviation tent, which was really neat. Hobe Sound Bible College had a table there to represent their aviation program, so I spent quite a bit of time talking to them. It was hard to believe someone from Hobe Sound would be in Wisconsin, but I guess it really is a small world after all! If you want to know more about the airshow, shoot me an email and I would be happy to reply. God bless and have a great day!!!

Here are some pictures from my trip to Colorado for my sister's wedding. On Thursday night before the wedding, some friends and I went climb in the beautiful hills of Red Feather Lake, Colorado. My friend Brent Susan, his dad James Susan, Tim's brother Jeffrey and Randy, and another friend David Graf, made up the crew. Also Randy's wife Joy went along. The scenery was beautiful and we had a great time. Hope you enjoy!!!

Last week my sister Brenda, and Tim Albertson were married in Red Feather Lake, Co. at Chapel in the Pines. It was a very nice, beautiful wedding. Here are a few various pictures I selected for the blog. Sorry about the randomness of them. You can see they are not in order. You can see more pics at http://www.johnstownalbertsons.blogspot.com/. Brenda and Tim are making their new home in Joplin, Mo.