Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

Prophetess Juanita Bynum

An Interesting Story:  Here is an interesting story I found on Dr. Jaunita Bynum's website.  I was kind of amused by it, so I thought I would share.  There are links below to her website and other quotations.

A Memorable Moment with Prophetess Juanita Bynum

Juanita Bynum warns other women that there will be hurts and disappointments in ministry. She stresses the importance of allowing the Holy Spirit to purify their hearts to survive. Wounded by a church leader after a preaching engagement, Bynum says the Lord prompted her to purchase a dog to teach her a lesson about love. "I went to the store and found a rather reserved red-pepper poodle, and the Spirit said, 'That's your dog. "The Lord explained to me that the dog was feeling what I was feeling, which was rejection. He said the poodle is thinking: What's the use in going to the window and barking? She's not going to choose me anyway.' Not knowing much about dogs, Bynum says she later read that if a dog licks you once, that is a sign of love. But if he licks you many times, it's because he knows there is sickness in the body, and the dog is actually healing it. "One of the most precious gifts that I can give is forgiveness," she concludes.

Juanita's Website

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Larry King & the 25 Evangelicals

Larry King had on some of Time Magazines top rated most influencial evangelicals in America this week.  Good news is that Brian McLaren was in the list.  Bad news is ......well, I'll let you figure it out.  This is a very difficult topic for me, the whole evangelical - let's take a stand - down with gays - anti-abortion - keep "under God" in the pledge - don't take away my Ten Commandments statue - Tinky Winky is gay - Sponge Bob has a gay agenda - Janet Jackson showed her boob - VInce Neil said the "F" word on New Years - kinda' thing.

Maybe the Black-Eyed Peas said it well when they released the song, Where is the Love, last year.  Where is the Love?  I'm asking.  Or have evangelicals just turned into a nationwide precinct of morality police?

I have posted a link below to the transcript from the other night.  You may also want to check out Steve Argue's Blog on this same subject.

Larry King transcript Tuesday Night [ McLaren, Jakes, LaHaye, Graham]

Read the transcript for yourself, but here's my thoughts:

It really seemed that McLaren came across most graciously....One of the callers agreed and pointed out that Jakes and McLaren spoke with a bit more grace than the rest. Although, I think Franklin Graham usually comes across well. I just get tired of the "Oh my God!!! It's the last days, we're in the end times." stuff.

I guess what frustrates me is this lack of Love that seemed to go out over the airwaves. These opportunities ought to be moments for the body of Christ, I mean "evangelicals" to shine. You know, light in dark places. Aren't we supposed to carry the message of hope, grace and renewal?  I feel like someone disconnected the tap from the keg of Living Water.

From LaHaye, I just seemed to hear a bunch of scary, monster like, boogeyman babble. This may sound critical of me because you cannot hear my tone nor see my face, but LaHaye and his wife sit there with plastic faces and gold rings and talk about all of their long years in ministry. It appears the LaHayes believe ministry is about starting anti-gay, anti- abortion women's movements and writing scary, violent, horrifying, bloody, and quite possibly untrue depictions of the end of the world. Granted, if I had the LaHaye's money, I might have the plastic face and the gold rings, too. But I sure wouldn't write crappy novels.

I want to see us be about carrying the message of hope, grace, and renewal. I want to do the message....and I am still trying to prayerfully figure out how.

I would love to hear any of your thoughts.......

James