I have created a new website/blog for the purpose of fostering spiritual growth among believers. You can now view and comment at www.crossangle.com

I now have officially become a dog sitter! I am babysitting a dog for some people who are gone to Honduras on a short missions trip. "Baby Ruffy" - not my choice for a name- is staying with me for approximately two months. He like to sit on the bottom shelf of my desk as you can see above. He is a Yorkie terrier. Note: You can see that even he is a Mac lover!

I have been working on a new website for Mountain Gospel. I finally put it up last week, even though some bugs and things need to be worked out. Check it out at www.mountaingospel.org, and let me know what you think!

All week I have been working on a new dog pen for my puppies. I was quite pleased with the results considering I am NOT a builder. It is made out of 2x4s and some chicken wire. God also supplied several of the materials I needed, so I didn't have to even spend much on it! It measures 4 ft. long by 2 ft. wide. I think it will work very well, and give me a place to keep them at night. 

Hi friends! I can't believe that I haven't blogged since Thanksgiving, and then again I can. So much has happened in the last two months in my life as I am sure it has in yours. I hope that you and your families have had a wonderful blessed Christmas. I was able to go home to my parents in New Jersey for a week, which was a nice break.  Two weeks before Christmas I was busy working on a little recording project for someone. It was a whole new learning curve for me. I wish it would have come out better, but did not really have the time to do that. I hope you have a wonderful new year; we don't know what will happen with the economy and all, but God has all that in control. I think like Charles Dickens said, "It was the best of time; it was the worst of times".  Here's to a great 2009!

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.