Apostle David Johndrow - Fire And Grace

Have you ever sat in front of your PC and gotten some eternal hourglass, or blue screen of death? You restart and the same thing happens?!??! You just want to kill the kids for picking up some spyware on MySpace or Facebook. After three restarts you know you are in trouble. Didn't you hear the salesman when he said, "there are two types of people on this earth, those that are going to lose data, and those that have!" Whatever happened to point-and-click? Windows was supposed to be plug-and-play, yet, was better know as plug-and-pray. Years have gone by and Windows '95 (Macintosh '86) has had 13 years of development and upgrades to become the best operating system in the world. "VISTA." This is the mountain top computer experience, right? No! This is hell on the big screen. Nearly a year after its release, we are no better off then we were the day of the release. The carnival in Redmond, better known as Microsoft, has suckered the public into beta testin...

By the President of the United States of America. A Proclamation. The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fie...

Are you tired of the church being in the news, public debate by politicians as to how you get to heaven and being picked on by folks like Bill Maher? Conversely, have you really thought about what you believe, why you believe it and "is it working for you?" What is your worldview? Your religious paradigm? Is it denominational, experiential, media made, or though the lens of "Americanism"? Recently, possibly due to the election, I have had heard an escalation of very intense Christian rhetoric. Some from hard-line Christians, some from nominal Christians and even some from main-line pastors. On the other side we have had some violent protesting of California's passage of Proposition 8 banning gay marriage and Al-Queda's name calling of president elect Obama. The conflict between darkness and light appears to be intensifying. Christianity is blamed for so many things, but especially intolerance. One of the problems here is the mixed message that we can give in...

In 1998 I decided to do a little study on Jesus (God) and His names and attributes. I was inspired by a speaker that I heard and a poster that I saw in Brazil which had about 15 names. Understanding the nature of God is essential for becoming what God meant for us to be. Here are 650+ that I was able to find. I once preached a sermon on "He is Everything," and for the last 20 minutes I simply read this list out loud. I found it very powerful. abounding in goodness and truth (Ex. 34:6) acquainted with grief (Isa. 53:3) Adam, the last (1 Cor. 15:45) Advocate with the Father (1 John 2:1) all (Col. 3:11) Almighty, the (Job 5:17; 1:8) Alpha (Rev. 1:8; 21:6) Amen, the (Rev. 3:14) Ancient of Days, the (Dan. 7:22) anointed (Ps. 2:2; Acts 4:27) Apostle and High Priest of our confession (Heb. 3:1) author and finisher of our faith, the (Heb. 12:2) author of eternal salvation, the (Heb. 5:9) banner to the people, a (Isa. 11:10) Beginning of the creation of God, the (Rev...

"Have you ever been saved," a wide-eyed young fellow questioned me as we walked toward the bus. He handed me a booklet with the picture of hell on the front. "Sure," I responded. "Once when I was 9, I was swimming at Jones' beach on Long Island, and a strong undertow began to drag me out to sea. My uncle heard my call and ?.." "No, no, no," he interruped. "I mean redeemed. Have you ever been redeemed? You know, reborn? Washed in the blood?" "What," I inquired, "in the world are you talking about?" "Convicted," I mean. "Have you ever felt convicted?" "Well, of course not. I've never been in trouble with the law." He looked at me square in the eye and said, "I think you need to be delivered." "Delivered? I was just waiting for the bus home. I think I'll stick to that, but thank you very much." He looked at me as though I were speaking another language. ...

God's will, what is it for you? For the church? For the world? The basic plan is to bring salvation to all mankind so they can share in God's love for Jesus. We were created to witness, and participate in this amazing love. The church has been chosen for this task. (Ephesians 4) But what about us? How do we fit in the church in such a way that we fall into God's will and bear fruit? How is it that we do the do work of God, be led ourselves by the Holy Spirit, and stay humble at the same time? I am sure that you get your fair share of forwarded emails. I got one the other day linking to a pastoral sermon about what we could do for the pastor; how we could pray to make him a better servant of Christ. Now don't get me wrong, I want every pastor to be awesome, but I was bothered by the tone of how we could serve him. I do think we need to pray for our pastors-- bless them, but again, the tone of this sermon was almost pastor worship, which I am totally against. Before you...

The results are in, the president of the United States will be Barack Obama for the next 4 years. What can we glean from this historic event? As Christians we need to measure what is going on in the world against the measure of the Word of God. 1 Corinthians 2:15-16 "The spiritual man makes judgments about all things." He does not judge others in such a way that we curse them. However; we do need to measure things against the commands of Scripture. My view is that many biblical principals were at work in this election. First, regardless of how we voted, God is sovereign and uses everything to accomplish His will to bring the age of salvation to those that have faith, while judging those that don't. That is the the reality of the Gospel in a nut shell. The work of the Gospel in a nut shell is, love one another as I have loved you. Romans 13:1 Let EVERY person be loyally subject to the governing (civil) authorities. For there is no authority except from God [by His permissi...